SSNOTIME96***LITTLE BLACK DRESS

Time again for Sharon's Stamp Simply challenge!! and it's all about the..............





Little Black Dress - The staple of every women's wardrobe -- or so they say. How many of you actually HAVE a little black dress? Today's challenge is to make a project of understated elegance using black and white. If you need to add in a little pop of another color, that's fine, as long as the project is primarily black and white and its overall feel is that of understated elegance.

I used a Penny Black image embossed with clear embossing powder. I then used Black Soot distress ink to smoosh over the image, wiping clean the flowers. I roughed up the edges of the paper, matted to black cardstock and then to white after adding some black ribbon. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink

Check out Sharon's site HERE for all the details and take a look at all the other little black dresses that our design team has to offer***

Julie - www.outtoimpress.blogspot.com

Tammy - www.stamphappy-tammy.blogspot.com

AJ - www.thewillowgarden.blogspot.com

Jennifer - www.thebuckstampshere.blogspot.com

Deb - www.deborahlynnesdreamincolor.blogspot.com

Jenny - www.onekraftykat.blogspot.com

Barb - www.barspaperpursuits.blogspot.com

RoseAnn - www.paperdelightz.blogspot.com

I am going to be away for a few days but when I return I have a little surprise to share with everyone*** STAY TUNED***

Flower Soft***

I was in Scrappin Great Deals the other day, a fabulous scrapbooking store here in London and Sheila had these ready made cardlets so I picked up a few along with some Flower soft. What a great way to put together a quick and easy AND FAST card.

I sprinkled the Sweet Pea flower soft onto parts of the image, added a sentiment from Papertrey Ink, matted to green, added some ribbon and a button from PTI - whew - and then matted to kraft card stock.

Enjoy*** and thanks soooooooo much for stopping by!!

Fresh Picked for your enjoyment***

All stamps are High Hopes, colored with Copics, cut out and matted and layered and popped up!!

I had such fun with this card.

Have a great evening everyone!!!

Hearts a plenty***

This is a simple anniversary card made from Papertrey Inks "Heart Prints" set. One of the heart images was stamped in Denim Adirondack ink and one in pink chalk ink, cut out and mounted with foam tape.

Easy peasy for a Sunday!!

Relax and enjoy***

SSNOTIME95*** SPARKLE*SPARKLE*SPARKLE

Today's Stamp Simply challenge is to incorporate LOTS of sparkle into your card. When I bought this little Bella stamp in Toronto a while ago I thought she would look wonderful all glittered up...For my nieces...

She is stamped in Memento ink and colored with Lyras and gamsol and then glittered with Hero Art prisma glitter and a quickie glue pen.

I cut her out with an oval scallop nestabilitie and used some glitter paper from my stash.

A prima flower attached to finish the sparkly, glittery ensemble.

Check out Sharon's site HERE for all the glittery details and take a look at what sparkles on the rest of the design teams sites***

Julie - http://www.outtoimpress.blogspot.com/

(Julie is taking this week off but check out her site anyway - it's beeutiful***)

Tammy - http://www.stamphappy-tammy.blogspot.com/

AJ - http://www.thewillowgarden.blogspot.com/

Jennifer - http://www.thebuckstampshere.blogspot.com/

Deb - http://www.deborahlynnesdreamincolor.blogspot.com/

Jenny - http://www.onekraftykat.blogspot.com/

Barb - http://www.barspaperpursuits.blogspot.com/

And RoseAnn - http://www.paperdelightz.blogspot.com/

Have a fabulous weekend!!

Happy Birthday!!

I just love this new Vintage Picnic set from Papertrey Ink... I stamped it and colored it with Copics.

The funky nestabilitie was cut and then before I took it off I used some distress ink around the edges.

I added a big circle nestabilite and some fabulous purple silk ribbon care of Sharon Johnson.

The DP is 29th Street Market and the sentiment is from the same PTI set!!

Enjoy and have a wonderful day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Damask Anniversary***

I had no notion last night what to do so I perused the Papertrey Ink Idea Gallery for their "Damask Design" set and found a card done by Niki Estes...

I loved it so much I recreated it here***

A few minor changes but the colors and placement of ribbons etc. just made me very happy***

Hope you like it!!!

The heart image is also from Papertrey Ink's

"Heart Prints" set...

Have a fab day and thanks for stopping in***

STRAWBERRIES FOR A FRIEND***

Sorry about the crappy photo on the left!! We haven't had sun in three days... I managed to find a good time to get the card on the right.

Anyway. The towel is stitched with a pattern from "Bird Brain Designs" *** A freebie***

Check it out HERE!!!

The image on the card is from Impression Obsession and is stamped with Black Memento ink and colored with gamsol and lyras. I cut it out using my deckle edge nestabilitie and then before I took the die off I used Antique Linen distress ink to make the edges.

The designer paper is K and Company, the ribbon and sentiment from Papertrey Ink and the tag die is a Cuttlebug die.

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks sooooooooooooooooo much for stopping in***

SSNOTIME94***STARS AND STRIPES THE CANADIAN WAY

Sharon's challenge this week was to use Stars and Stripes in your card. Not necessarily a patriotic card but you can do that if you want to.

Canada Day was yesterday... Canada's birthday and Independence Day is Saturday... I am the token Canadian on this design team... Sooo I thought I would make a card in Canadian colors with stars and stripes...Two great countries side by side!!!

The stars in this card are from Verve and the sentiment at the bottom is from Papertrey!!

Red and white cardstock round out this simple card...

This could be used for an invitation, a birthday card, anniversary card or attached to a bottle of bubbly***

Check out Sharon's site HERE for all the details..

Here are all the links for the most wonderful design team there ever was***

Julie - http://www.outtoimpress.blogspot.com/

Tammy - http://www.stamphappy-tammy.blogspot.com/

AJ - http://www.thewillowgarden.blogspot.com/

Jennifer - http://www.thebuckstampshere.blogspot.com/

Deb - http://www.deborahlynnesdreamincolor.blogspot.com/

Jenny - http://www.onekraftykat.blogspot.com/

Barb - http://www.barspaperpursuits.blogspot.com/

AND RoseAnn who is our guest designer for July***

http://www.paperdelightz.blogspot.com/

Celebrate***

Hi everyone!! A good friend of mine's grandson is having a birthday soon so I am sending along this card... The paper is from K and Company.. double sided so used both sides with a little bit of a navy border in between them... ala Sharon Johnson... She loves this!!

The cupcake is from the newly released set from Papertrey Ink.. A whole slew of different bottoms and tops and sprinkles.

I stamped the blue in Adirondack Denim and colored the cupcake top with a Copic marker. The little dots on top of the cupcake had a little sprinkle of glitter added.

The ribbon is from Michael's... The sentiment is also from Papertrey Ink...

Enjoy the card and enjoy your day***