More is More

It’s time for another Anna Wight for Whipper Snapper stamp sets release and this time it’s all about Halloween.  And not just Halloween, but stinkin’ adorable take you back to your childhood Halloween!!  Check out the happy grinning characters in Hocus Pocus and the fun sentiments  and little creatures in Spooky Expressions – click here to see it all on Anna’s blog.

I have to say that I’m really not *into* Halloween and can count on one hand the number of Halloween cards I have ever stamped, but I have been having so much fun playing with these sets.  I mean how can you not smile when you look at those big cheesy grins?

The first two images I was drawn to were the grinning cat and silly ghost.  I’ll share my ghost card later, but here’s my goofy cat Trick-or-Treating as a witch.  He was stamped on shimmer white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copics.  Simply stamp the hat first and mask it, then use a stamp-a-majig to position and stamp the cat.  He’s layered onto Prism Classic Purple cardstock and SU Tangerine Tango.  The Tangerine panel was stamped with small images from the Spooky Expressions set for the look of designer paper.  The sentiment was heat embossed with white craft ink and white powder and then hand cut.  The little finishing touches are several Kaiser Craft black rhinestones along with drops of Crystal Effects on the eyes.

Thanks again to Anna for the opportunity to be a Featured Designer this month.  This kind of purely fun stamping makes me feel like a kid again!  And now to check out what the rest of the team has brewed up! 

Carol Halvorson
Happiness Blooms

Leslie Miller
Running with Scissors

Pam Hooten
Iris Garden

Trudee Sauer
Follow Your Bliss

Remember – Anna’s sets are red rubber on cling foam.  Each set comes as one sheet of rubber in a CD storage case with an index insert.  You just need to trim them and stick onto an acrylic block to stamp.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Hope you have a great week!

Even though I stamped quite a bit yesterday, I didn’t manage to get anything posted.  The good news is that I have several cards now ready to share over the next few days.  For today’s cards I combined two of the DTGD Challenges – Jody’s ribbon challenge and Sharon’s challenge to stamp simply.

I started by going through a bag of velvet ribbon that was a much appreciated and very generous gift from Jody  when she came out to visit California (she does incredible ribbon shares if you haven’t heard!)  I LOVE velvet ribbon, but don’t use it very often I think because it seems so *special*.  So This time it was fun to start by choosing the ribbon.  From there I looked through designer papers and found this beautiful blue and green print in the Basic Grey Two Scoops 6×6 pad.  I knew I  wanted to make something with a simple elegance, not too fussy.  Sharon Johnson makes this style look so easy, but I tend to have a hard time with it.  I reached for Anna Wight’s Whipper Snapper sets Blossoms & Butterflies and Blooming Expressions and I got to work on a very simple card.  Besides the yummy ribbon the only embellishments are clear Taylor Tots at the bottom, white gel pen dots on the scallops and some sparkle with a Spica Glitter Pen on the leaf image.  The dp is layered onto white cardstock and the entire panel is mounted with foam tape to allow for the thickness of the ribbon tied around the panel.

Recipe:

Stamps – Whipper Snapper Blossoms & Butterflies, Blooming Expressions

Cardstock – Wild Wasabi, White, Basic Grey Two Scoops 6×6 pad

Ink – Wild Wasabi, Soft Sky

Other – white gel pen, rectangle nestabilities, blue velvet ribbon, Taylor Tots, foam tape, Spica Glitter pen

 Finished card size is 6.25 x 3.5 – a mini tall card.  I love working with this size card.  So have you been playing DTGD this week?  How many cards have you made?  What has been your favorite challenge so far?

Be sure to join me tomorrow for Cupcake Friday! 🙂

It’s been another busy week and Curt has been out of town yet again.  He comes home tonight and I’m hoping he’s done traveling for awhile.  I’m really glad he’s coming home as I’m feeling just a bit pouty about not going to CHA in Chicago even though it was really all my decision.  It seemed like absolutely everyone was flying out yesterday and I was very much regretting my decision to stay behind.  One of my sweet friends convinced me to just check airfares.  I figured it couldn’t hurt – they would be astromically high and that would be that.  But nooooooooooooooooooooooo….I actually found a very reasonable airfare at a good time.  Well that sent me into a tailspin of trying to evaluate if I could actually manage to leave in less than 24 hours.  I spent almost half the day agonizing and weighing out all the factors that I could think of.  I’ve never been one to fly by the seat of my pants or do much of anything spontaneously, so I was quite proud of myself for even considering such a thing, but in the end here I am at home.  And it’s really ok…I think.

Before I head out for work this morning I wanted to take a minute to share another Anna Wight Whipper Snapper card that I actually made last week using Blossoms and Butterflies and Blooming Expressions.

As soon as I saw this particular flower image I wanted to stamp it in a row for some reason.  Don’t ask me where I came up with this crazy color combo – I honestly have no idea.  I cannot remember the last time I used Handsome Hunter, but I wanted to use a different green that what I gravitate toward all the time.  The flowers are stamped on Kraft cardstock and the blossoms are colored with a white gel pen.  The sentiment is embossed with white craft ink and white ep (*Where flowers bloom so does hope*).  Cardstock colors are:  Handsome Hunter, Regal Rose, Black, White, Kraft.  This card is very different for me, which is fun.  These two stamp sets have inspired me to just PLAY which I need to do a lot more often.

I need to get to work now.  Thanks for stopping by.  Be sure to come back tomorrow for Taylor’s Cupcake Friday Sketch Challenge.

Happy Monday!  So are you ready for my big announcement?  I sure hope so because I’m more than ready to share!  I’ve been invited to be a Whipper Snapper Featured Designer for Anna Wight’s (a.k.a. SweetMissDaisy) July and August stamp set releases!  How cool is that?

I’ve been a huge fan of Anna’s from the first time I saw her creations in the SCS gallery.  I was lucky enough to get to work with her in the SCS Dirty Dozen AND I even got to meet her at CHA in January.  She really is a doll!  I’ve always loved the images she has created for Whipper Snapper (her birds, dogs and chickens have especially been favorites) so when she announced that she would be creating sets (as opposed to just single images) I knew they would be adorable.  Imagine my excitement when I got the e-mail asking me to be on the rotating team for the Summer – WooHoo!!!! 

Anna is releasing FOUR new sets today – click here to see details on her blog!  I have two cards to show you utilizing two of those sets – Blossoms & Butterflies and Blooming Expressions.

For my first card I inked up the flower with my SU markers and stamped on white cardstock.  I highlighted the bloom with a Spica Glitter Pen and then I colored around the entire flower with a yellow copic marker softened with the colorless blender.  The safron panel was first stamped with a small single blossom from the set and then run through my Cuttlebug.  The little flower in the lower left corner is a Prima Hydrangea that I trimmed down with scissors to be a better scale for my card.  The flag/banner for the sentiment was inspired by cards created by Anna as well as the amazing JulieHRR.

card deets:

cardstock: Regal Rose, So Saffron, white, Prisma Razzleberry Dark

ink: Old Olive, markers in Old Olive and Rose Red, Spica Glitter Pen, Copic Marker

other: SU ribbon – Regal Rose grosgrain and stitched pomegranate, Prima hydrangea, Adorn it yellow jewel droplet, plum Taylor Tots, Marvy punches, Cuttlebug

For my second card I stamped the poppy in Basic Gray ink on watercolor paper and colored it using an aquapainter with ink from the SU pads squished onto a cd.  I used the new colors Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red and Kiwi Kiss along with Old Olive knowing that I wanted to use some of this yummy new SU Bella Rosa dp.  I was going for a rich and elegant look this time.  The sentiment is actually all on one line, so I just inked one word at a time and used a Stamp-a-majig for placement. (I guess I could have cut the words apart, but I thought of that later *eye roll*) I love that Anna included basic sentiments like Happy Birthday and Thank you in this wonderful set.  Plus she has used really beautiful fonts!  (Do you love fonts as much as I do?)  I doodled around the edge of the image panel and clipped the corners with a ticket corner punch before triple layering onto Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss and Old Olive cardstock. The element in the lower left corner is a rub-on from SU’s Eastern Elegance adorned with Karen Foster adhesive rhinestones in light green.

card deets:

cardstock: Old Olive, Black, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Bella Rosa dp, watercolor paper

ink: SU Basic Gray, Palette Hybrid Noir Black

other:  Old Olive grosgrain, Old Olive brads, ticket corner punch, Eastern Elegance rub ons, Karen Foster rhinestones, foam tape, aquapainter

As if being on the team wasn’t exciting enough, I just about came unglued when I saw who was going to be on the team with me.  I admire every single one of these ladies and couldn’t be happier to work side by side with them (just hoping I can keep up! LOL!).  I’m off to see what each of them has created…wanna come along with me?  This is going to be some fun blog hopping for sure!

Carol Halvorson
Happiness Blooms

Leslie Miller
Running with Scissors

Pam Hooten
Iris Garden

Trudee Sauer
Follow Your Bliss

In all the excitement I almost forgot to mention…at the Carson Rubber Stamp Convention on Saturday, besides almost having dinner with Tim Holtz (oops – did I drop a name?), I won a drawing for $10 worth of free product at Auntie Amy’s booth.  We had just walked up to look at the booth and they asked if we wanted to enter because they were about to draw.  Well of course we wanted to enter!  About 2 minutes later the lady was shouting my name!  Very cool!  I got some Crafty Secrets Cotton Scraps (been wanting some for a long time) and some Kaiser Craft pearls in bright red.  FUN!  Now if I could just win that Spellbinders drawing – I actually managed to enter all 14 days so I have my finger crossed!  Looks like this could be my lucky week!

Thanks for stopping by.  If you have a minute please leave a comment to let me know what you think of all of Anna’s new sets.