Bedtime Story Challenge

You may be asking why a frog flying with an umbrella. It's my interpretation of Waltzingmouse's Pajama Party Bedtime Story sketch.  It just seemed like it would be a good bedtime story : ).

I stamped the circles from Off Beat Backgrounds on the left of the mat in Versamark and clear embossing powder. The scalloped edge is a leftover painted with Milled Lavender Distress Paint. A circle from Faux Fun Circles is stamped in Papertrey Ink Soft Stone. The frog is a Cricut cut painted with Forest Moss Distress Ink and doodled around the edges. The umbrella is from Papertrey Ink's Scattered Showers stamped with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink and doodled. Hello is from Fiskar's Say It Loud set. The banner is made with handspun silk embroidery thread and Tim Holtz tissue tape.

Umbrella Card

Make It Monday #203: Doodling with Stamps. On the smooth side of a piece of Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper, I stamped the solid large umbrella from Scattered Showers with Harvest Gold, Hibiscus Burst and Limeade Ice, then went over them with an aqua brush. After they had dried I painted the sky with Stormy Sky smooshed on my craft mat and spritzed with water.

When everything had dried I doodled over the umbrellas a couple of times, stamped the handles and sentiment. This is such a fabulous technique.

Simon Says is having a "special lady/girly" challenge so I'm entering it there as well.

Playing with Serenade by Flowerdisco and Friends - Week 1

Hello everyone! I'm one of Flowerdisco's Friends exploring the long-pined for (in my case at least) Serenade cartridge. The image I worked with this week is #7 (1st row, 7th along), which tickled me to bits because this image is one of the reasons I really craved this cartridge.

I used DCWV cardstock for the base and Stamper's Select White Papertrey Ink cardstock for the Clouds and Raindrops. The bottom layer of the cloud was stamped with Niagara Mist Versamagic Chalk Ink, the middle layer was left white but mostly covered with Diamond Stickles (ooooohhh the sparkle), the top layer is lightly inked with BazzInk Splash.  I surrounded each rain drop (and covered them too) with more Diamonds Stickles. The sentiment comes from Papertrey Ink's Scattered Showers stamp set.

Be sure to check out everyone's projects.

1. Abby- http://www.scrapbookaholic.blogspot.com/

2. Agnes- http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/

3. Gaby- http://scrapabookaholic.blogspot.com/

4. Helen- http://craftingcricutmom.blogspot.com/

5. Jessica- http://luvcraftingwithcricut.blogspot.com/

6. Melissa- http://melissaward72.blogspot.com/

Papertrey Ink

I made the card above using the Papertrey Ink Scattered Showers stamp set. How could I resist a stamp set that had a "Cheer Up Buttercup" sentiment and some of the cutest umbrella tops I'd ever seen? There is even a link for tip sheet for ways you can use the stamp set to get maximum benefit and a gallery in case you need visual enabling lol. There is even a supplementary stamp set with more co-ordinating images and sentiments.

OK, honestly, I think I was living under a rock or sailing down the river of denial on a beautiful golden barge or, in a reference to Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I just didn't see the giant spaceship in the middle of the field. Somehow I really didn't know much about Papertrey Ink, except that they had some really lovely ribbons. I didn't know about the smooth, luscious one-color-to-a-packet, reasonably priced card stock. And how did I not know about the stamps???

But then, my oldest younger (I'm the oldest of 4) sister had said to me, "Want to go to CHA?" , and I sealed my fate by replying, "Yes!". So Friday, I was standing in a long line with no idea what I was getting myself into. I was in the check out line and they were handing out large bags so we could shop while we were in the checkout line as the line conveniently wound it's way through everything, and I'm thinking OK, I'll just carry this bag while I look and then hand it back to them. I honestly thought I might buy one stamp set and maybe I'll buy a spool of ribbon. The other people in line were talking enthusiastically about the products. I was still blissfully unaware what I was walking into.

A little over an hour later (it was a long and slow moving line) I was the proud owner of  3 sets of stamps, some spools of thread, ribbon and 11 packs of card stock! And for spending over $100, I got a special set of stamps available only at CHA. Oh, and we "just popped back to see what had sold out" two or three more times over the weekend lol. BTW, at the end of the show, they had very little to pack up and they had people restocking the while time.

I was also unaware of the monthly releases, and a blog count-down to the new releaases (on the 15th of the month)  which starts the 10th. And they show you all sorts of ways you can use them.