Double Joy

Hello everyone - I was so happy when I got my new Stampavie stamps in the mail last week. I have had them on pre-order since July!! It was worth the wait though - I just love them - this is one of my new Stampavie Stamps (Laurence Design). If you follow my blog you would know that I love dogs and any type of "cute" doggie stamps. This one was no exception. I colored these two dogs with my copic markers - I had initially wanted them more white than gray but I started off with too dark of a gray and by the time I faded to the lightest gray I realized that these two doggies were not going to be white anymore. I added a bit of W5 to the gray to soften the tone somewhat. I colored this image at crop night last night at our local scrapbooking store and then put away my copics so again I do not have a list of colors - sorry. I used my sizzix die cuts for the Joy sentiment and the holly leaves. I added a MS garland border on the bottom and glued some bright red polka dot ribbon on top. I layered some dp from my paper stash and added a few red brads in the corners. I used my white gel pen for highlights and my fine black felt pen for some faux stitching. Thanks for stopping by for a visit. The weekend is going by fast - I managed to get a few things done that I wanted today so that makes me feel good. I am looking forward to seeing all the kids in their costumes tomorrow night - we get about 60 kids or so every year and then we watch the fireworks from our house - we are overlooking the fire hall where they have the firework display so we always enjoy that. Happy Halloween to all!!

Your stamping friend
Debbie

My very first Halloween card

Hello everyone - well we made it back safe and sound and we did go through a bit of fog and snow - but all and all it was not so bad - I am just glad we drove back in daylight - it would have been way worse had it been night-time. My card today is made with a new Penny Black Slapstick stamp. I think I only own 2 halloween stamps - the other one I haven't ever inked and I bought it last year - just may have to ink that one up before Halloween - I had no intention of buying this Halloween stamp but when I saw it at our local scrapbooking store - I thought this witch was too cute to pass up!! I didn't have any "Halloween" paper so I just looked for any paper with orange/green or black and I did find a bit of it in my stash pile. This image is fairly large so there was not too much more to do other than color her with my copics (sorry didn't keep track of the colors this time), I layered the papers and added some black pre-cut borders - I like them because they have a bit of glitter to them. I had a package of sizzix halloween die-cuts that I have never used either so it was fun to use the Boo and the pumpkin for this card. I added a few corners using my SU corner punch. I added my own doodles black border around the image and also used some Tim Holtz Black Soot distress ink for around the image. Thank you for stopping by to visit - I have a very busy week once again - I am already looking forward to the weekend - I guess we are almost half way there. Have a great Wednesday!!

Bye for now
Your stamping friend, Debbie

Magic in the Air again - Paper Cupcake challenge - Die Cuts

Hello everyone - another busy week and weekend - we were away in Vancouver visiting our son and his lovely girlfriend. As I am posting this I am sitting in the hotel room - I thought I had better do it now as I am not sure what time we will get home tomorrow night - we are supposed to have snow on the pass tomorrow and apparantly lots of it - so that kind of makes me nervous - I may not be in any mood to post a card tomorrow night - anyways the challenge this week is to use die cuts and any acquired image from Paper Cupcakes digi stamps. The challenge is over at There's Magic in the Air - you just may want to play along for a chance to win a prize. Even if you don't get a chance to play along you may just want to check out some of the other cards made by the very talented design team. My card uses the adorable Love Penguins illustrated by the very talented Nina May. I used my cricut to cut out the snowflakes and my sizzix die cut for the "Brrr" word. I colored the image using my copic markers and the blue and purple paper is all from christmas stash pile. I added some white netting to the background and it just didn't jump out the way I wanted it to so I added some lace overtop and I found that was what it had needed. I also used my MS garland border punch for the background - I really do love this cute penguin image. Thank you so much for stopping by to visit my blog - your comments are really appreciated! I hope you have a great week and by the time this post is up I hope I am home safe and sound and back in my craft room - I really do miss playing in my craft room when we go away - I always am so happy to be back home - I don't travel well - I don't sleep well in any other bed but my own - I am a real homebody - I love my crafts and I love to cook and clean my house - I know I actually said "I love to clean my house" - but really I do - I love the satisfaction I get when it is all done. Well enough rambling - hope your Monday is fantastic!!!

Your stamping friend, Debbie

Magic In the Air Monday Challenge - Tags

Hello everyone - over at Paper Cupcakes - Magic in the Air - challenge is to make a tag using any image from Paper Cupcakes digi-stamps. I choose this adorable Owls on Candy Cane image. This was something new for me I had not made a tag in a very long time so it was fun to be challenged to make one again. I used my Cricut to cut out the tag template and then I just added an inside background which I layered. I used my copic markers to color in the image. I added a few punched out snowflakes which I added some sparkle to. I also added a small tree embellishment to the background together with some black gingham ribbon. That pretty much does it - you may want to check out all the other entries that the design team have made here. I hope you all have a wonderful Monday and thank you for stopping by to visit.

Your stamping friend, Debbie

Let is Snow - but not yet!!

Hello everyone - it has been a while since my last post - I have had an extremely busy week - with work and now my hubby and myself have committed ourselves to taking Bikram (hot) Yoga 3 times per week. Let me tell you if you want a good work-out and you want to sweat buckets than this is for you - we have gone 4 times now and already I am feeling such a difference in my body - the stretching feels so wonderful - once you get past all the muscle soreness and stiffness than it does really feel good. So with working all week and this new exercise program and now watching our son's hockey games on webcast my time for cardmaking is less than it used to be. This card for today was a week long process - I started making it last Sunday and everyday I would walk by my craft room and add another piece to the card - finally today I have finished it. I used one of my uninked Magnolias and a cricut die for the 2 trees as well as the 3 background snowflakes. I hand cut out the snow on the trees and added some sparkle. The log that Tilda is sitting on is also from Magnolia. I put the snow on the ground through my cuttlebug using swiss dots. I added a few punched out snowflakes on to the trees and the sentiment was cut out of DP. I didn't keep track of my copics this time as this was a week's work in progress. I hope you all had a wonderful week and weekend - as usual my weekend went by way too fast. Thank you for stopping by to have a look.

Your stamping friend Debbie

There's Magic in the Air Monday Challenge

Hello everyone - Happy Thanksgiving to all the Canadians out there - I had a very busy but wonderful Thanksgiving - today I will be able to just relax a bit more as we were out at a family gathering on Saturday and then Sunday I had my parents over for thanksgiving dinner - I am so pleased with myself as I made 2 pumpkin pies for dessert and they were scrumptious - we have lots of left-overs from the dinner so no cooking for me today!! This card was made for this weeks challenge over at There's Magic in the Air - we all had to use this beautiful vase and flower image and stamp it within a frame of some sort - now I will admit to you - I love this image from Paper Cupcakes digi-stamps but I am not happy with my card. I had another vision for this image but I left everything to the last minute and then with Thanksgiving and the extra cooking and family events - I was totally rushed - I started making this card at 10:30 on Saturday night (already a day behind for submission - thank you Nina for your understanding and allowing me to be late) and was so so tired that I just hurried it together - that is so unlike me and I guess that is enough excuses but excuses they may be it is the truth. Anyways this image is illustrated by the very talented Nina May over at Paper Cupcakes digi-stamps. I used my copics to color the image and made the dark frame from my Accent Essentials Circuit cartridge. I then layered it all together and added a SU birthday sentiment and a few sizzix flowers and a couple of prima flowers with brads for the centres. I added a bit of Tim Holtz pumice stone distress ink for the background. I promise my next card will not be a rushed card!!! Thanks for stopping by to visit and I wish you wonderful blessing this Thanksgiving and all year long!!! I am so thankful for my wonderful blog friends and my incredible family!!! Have a great day!!

Your stamping friend
Debbie

My New Mimi's Christmas

Hello - I just purchased this new Penny Black set called Mimi's Christmas and it is so adorable - the other stamps on the set are all just as cute!! I had to play with this set tonight. I colored her with my copic markers and added a bit of sparkle to the snowflakes and her angel wings. I layered on Christmas DP from my paper stash. The sentiment and the tree are from DP. I added a prima flower, a fern punch for the leaves, a few brads, a strip of ribbon and a small "handmade with love" heart. I used my SU oval punch for the little oval Mimi is standing on. I am already up past my bedtime so I will make this post short. Thank you for stopping by to visit and hope you have a great Friday!! Yeah the start of the long weekend - can hardly wait!! - Good night!

Your stamping friend
Debbie

A dog-gone good Birthday

Hello everyone - just a quick post today as I am off early this morning. I have a very busy day ahead of me - thankfully my sore muscles are getting a bit better!! As most of you already may know - anytime I see a dog or dogs on a stamped image I have to have it and this stamp was no exception. My son's girlfriend and I were on a road trip to watch my son play hockey and on the way home we stopped at the local scrapbooking store. When I spotted this adorable Whipper Snapper stamp it was love at first sight. My thoughts changed somewhat once I stamped the image out and then looked at it and thought to myself - now I have to color the whole thing - it was actually a bit of a challenge since I am still trying to perfect my copic coloring skills. Once I finished the coloring everything took on a bit of a orange hue so instead of starting over (even though I felt like I should) I decided to just add orange to the background and give the whole card an orange kind of look! Once I added black to it I was happier - I liked the contrast. There is not much to this card other than the main image, a couple buttons, some black gingham ribbon, a SU sentiment and some white gel pen for highlights. Thanks for stopping by for a visit and hope your day will be wonderful and full of good things!! Oh I will not be listing the copics I used this time as I used so so many of them and didn't really keep track.

Bye for now
Your stamping friend, Debbie

An Old Fashioned Christmas

Hello everyone - this is my 2nd post today - I don't do this very often but I finished this card last night and I was quite happy with the results so I just wanted to get it posted. I purchased this Stampavie stamp a while ago and I had the image stamped and sitting on my craft table for a couple of weeks now - I kept looking at it thinking there is a lot of coloring - my first impulse was to paper piece her clothing - (for me that is my way of cheating sometimes when i don't feel like coloring) however I thought to myself this would be a good challenge for me. I used my copics and just started to color and I actually surprised myself because I like how it turned out - it looked kind of old-fashioned to me so I found some old fashioned type paper to layer in behind. The sentiment was part of the dp. I added a poinsetta flower and a few small buttons and some TH pumice stone distress ink around the image edges and background and that pretty much does it! I hope your Monday is going just fabulous - I am aching all over - for some strange reason i decided I would try taking a "Hot Yoga" class on Saturday morning - there is a new studio in town - I really think it was a mistake - it was the hardest thing I have ever done and I am still exhausted not to mention my muscles are screaming at me!!! I am sure that I over did it - I know that it is a great stretching and toxic removing exercise but I am not sure my body can handle it. I may give it one more try and see what happens but I will have to wait until my body re-coops that is for sure!!! I am probably too old to be getting into something like that even though they say even an 80 year old can do it - I am not too sure about that!!! Well off to work for me in a few minutes - hope you enjoy your day and thank you so much for taking some time from your day to visit my blog!! Oh the copics I used for this card are E40, E43, E00, E11, R20, E30, E33, E37, E04, E07, E09 and G85 and BG75.

Bye for now
Your stamping friend Debbie

Magical Monday and Lots of Snowflakes

It's Magical Monday time again over at There's Magic in the Air. As some of you may know I was guest designer for the Month of September - but Nina has asked me to stay on till the end of December and join the Design Team - I graciously accepted and I am very excited to be working more with some of her fabulous images!! Thank you Nina! This week's challenge is to make a Christmas card using lots of snowflakes with any image from Paper Cupcakes. I choose this adorable Shelly Shell Slidin. I am still having a bit of trouble with digi images and deciding how big or small to print them out - this one ended up a bit bigger than I first envisioned so the card ended up larger than I normally make as well. I colored in the image with my copic markers. The Joy sentiment is cut from a sizzix die cut, the snowflake a MS punch. I added some gingham ribbon and a cute ribbon I had in my ribbon stash with the words warm hands, warm hearts. I did a bunch of layering and added a few brads and a pearl to the centre of the snowflake to finish off. It is hard to believe that in just over 2 months it will be Christmas! I hope you have a wonderful Monday and thanks for stopping by to visit. See you next time!!

Bye for now
Your stamping friend Debbie