Handmade Pansy Tutorial

 I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who left such wonderful comments on my pansy flowers the other day.  As promised, I have created a tutorial on how to make them.  I have posted it over at Stamper's Quest, the free online magazine, so if you would like to check it out, you can click the link here and while you're there, you can also see the wonderful projects that we're running for our March Trail Map sketch!

Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

Please scroll down if you are looking for my Make It Monday Post. :)



You Tickle Me...

Hello to you!

I mustache you a question..... ha!

I've seen that phrase so many times and as much as I love it, I wanted to try and come up with a new one for this fantastic mustache.  I know mustaches are extremely popular again and you find them everywhere.  Saw a huge one on a punch bug just yesterday.  

This fantastic one comes from Pamela at Free Vintage Digital Stamps as well as the striped black and white paper and the vintage advertisement paper. 

I figured since it's a man's facial hair, I'd try to go for masculine textures.  The YOU tags are hanging from a scrunched bunch of brown crepe paper that I picked up for 50 cents at the Dollar Store.  The YOU letters and the Scrabble letters free from {Computer}Scrapbook.com.  The word ME are wood letters I tea stained and covered with TH Crackle.  

Sure would love it if you visited and shared your work with us at 

Make It Monday

for our weekly open linky party!

 And our sponsor for this week is 

K 'n K Designs offering the winner

3 digis from their store!

Before you go, I'd like to share my

PICK OF THE WEEK!

Yes! It's true, I've picked this stunning container of Broccoli Cheddar Soup! One, because I do love this sort of soup and two, because I love recycling and third, but most importantly, because you won't believe what Darlene at

Dar's Crafty Creations has done to it! 

No, I'm not showing you here, you'll have to click the link and see for yourself.  I know, I'm a stinker!

Darlene, thank you so much for your creativity and inspiration and for sharing it with us at Make It Monday.

I'll never look at Broccoli Cheddar Soup the same, ever again!

I can't thank you enough for all the amazing inspiration that I gain from all of you from your comments to your blogs and your creativity.  I truly appreciate your visits here.

Hope you have a tremendous week and I look forward to stopping by and visiting your work as well.

Hugs n' Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

Happy Easter Trio

Hello again :)

I have three cards today for the challenge going on over at

Craft Us Crazy

for our theme of

Easter/Religious or Something Sweet

I've used the Always Peter Rabbit images from Nicecrane Designs to make some country shabby Easter cards.

We'd love for you to join us for our challenge at

Craft Us Crazy

 Thank you also to our sponsor The Cutting Cafe for providing the prize to our lucky winner.

Digital Stamp from

Nicecrane Designs

I'm so glad you stopped by for a visit and I look forward to visiting you as well.

Take care and happy stamping!

Lisa xx

Challenges I would like to enter:

Our Creative Corner - Tic Tac Toe (Brads, Pink, Flowers)

Teapot Card and Gift Box...

Hello, heya, howdy, hi!  

I have a picture heavy post for you today, but I hope you are inspired by this project and hop over to 

Top Tip Tuesday for an amazing tutorial by our very own Deneen, where she gives you the template and directions to make this very teapot!

I had an absolute blast making this gift set for our current challenge which is

Make Something For Mother's Day

 or Craft Buddy 

Here is the teapot with the lid lifted where you can see a white piece of paper is attached for a space to journal on.  This slides right inside the teapot.

One of our sponsors for this challenge is Karen's Doodles and we were able to use some wonderful images.  This little lady is called Relax.

I have added her to the inside of the teapot card and stamped the sentiment from Stampin' Up! Friendly Phrases.

The Pansies, purple rose and black and white tiny rose are all handmade.  I've never made pansies before, but I am beyond pleased with the way they turned out.  The large green leaves are also handmade out of white cloth handkerchiefs.  I do plan on making a tutorial for the Pansies and the leaves in the very near future if anyone is interested in seeing how easy they are to make.

I'm also going to be making a tutorial for this origami gift box as well.  So look for those coming up in the near future.  

Here is the gift box opened up and it's the perfect size for a jewelry box to fit inside!  There's no gift in here yet, but there will be!

Teapot card and gift box together again.

I do hope that this has enticed your creative mojo and you'll join us over at the ever fun and creative

Top Tip Tuesday 

for our challenge.

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors who will be providing the winners with amazing prizes!

Okay, I've bored you long enough, so I'll let you go now.

Thank you so much for stopping in and as always,

Hugs n' Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

Challenges I would love to enter:

Crafty Bloggers Network - 17; Floral

There She Goes -147; Hidden Surprise (Journaling area attached to teapot lid)

Dream Valley Challenges - 27; Mother's Day

Pigtail Thank You...

Welcome back to another challenge at Karen's Doodles where the theme this time is...

Something Special!

This little pigtailed cutie is called Thank You! Girl and I've colored her up in Copics.  

I've been really good about immediately going to my scrap box for paper so I apologize that I don't know the origin of the papers.  However, I do know that my scraps are depleting like molasses, but depleting nevertheless!    The ribbon combo are scraps as well.  The diamond flourish is also colored in copics.  

My something special to celebrate is a brand spankin' new computer!  It doesn't take 2 loads of laundry, vacuum the downstairs, run errands and then prep  dinner before a page downloads!  I'm doing virtual back flips at this very moment. :)

We'd love for you to join us at 

Karen's Doodles 

and share with us your creations for the Something Special Theme

and an extra perk...check out the super duper talented DT ladies creations while you're there!

Have a great one!

Hugs n' Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

An Endearing Quality?

It's true, I've been known to dig my heels in a time or two.  So, on the rare occasion that this occurs, I thought it might be nice to have a few "S, ss, ssso, sooor, sorrrrr, sorry" cards on hand.  Honestly, it's so few and far between that I probably only need one. (box full)

This is my DT card for our next open linky party at

Make It Monday where I've used a freebie image from our sponsor Meljen's Designs, called Sweet Little Donkey.

We'd love if you would join us again this week and share your creative projects with us, old or new....we would LOVE to see them!

Here's a quick little post I wanted to share that I thought might be resourceful for those of you, like me, who have been "stubborn" and not purchased a grass punch or die cut.

While making the above card, I cut out this tree using the TH Mini Pine Tree & Holly Movers & Shapers.  

Well, I dropped the tree on the card and it fell sideways and I saw it in a whole new light.  Here's what I made with it.

Just a thought and hopefully helpful.  More bang for your buck!

Now on to the fun part of the post...

My,

PICK OF THE WEEK

How cute is this? It's a spinner card that changes the expressions on her face!  I absolutely love Michelle's creativity here and if you'd like to tell her how much you like it as well, visit her blog Purple Monkey Moments.

 This wonderful open linky party is always hosted by

Make It Monday

 Thank you again to our wonderful Sponsor

Meljen's Designs

For offering up a prize of 4 single digis.  

A warm welcome to my new blog buddy followers as well and thanks ever so much for popping in!

Hope you enjoyed your visit.

Hugs n' Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

MUSHY Stuff...

How the heck are ya? 

 I hope very well and ready to show some love for our next challenge over at

The Squirrel & The Fox

Because our theme for the next two weeks is....

LOVE!

I know we've all probably made enough Valentine cards to choke a horse here lately, but this kind of love doesn't have to be for that holiday.  

Just show us someone you love or something you love to use and explain it in your post.

Some inspiration for you to get the ideas rolling:

4 things I personally love are:  

1.) When it's the middle of the hottest part of summer and the sanitation man arrives to dispose of our waste and the empty trash can isn't filled with maggots.  LOVE when I don't have to scrub that nasty thing out.

2.)  When every article of clothing that comes out of the dryer is right side out and I don't have to spend an extra hour turning everything inside out.  That's almost euphoric love there.

3.)  That little hard chunk of chocolate heaven at the bottom of an ice cream drumstick. YUM!!

4.)  When something strikes me so funny that I literally bowl over and grab my stomach and tears flow from my eyes and I laugh so hard that I start to make the craziest giggle.  That sound sets my kids to laughing hysterically and then before you know it, we're all laying on the floor slapping our hands on the ground from hysterics.  

I love when I laugh so hard that tears roll down my leg.

Those are just a few things that I love, but hopefully they'll get you inspired to share something you just love with us!

This little cutie is Skelekinz -You Have My Heart from our Sponsor Bugaboo.

She didn't strike me as the lovey-dovey type, so instead of her professing oozing love all over the place, I made grunge letters that spelled "Mushy."  Often when I end a letter or a conversation on the phone with my kids, I tend to include the salutation of "and mushy stuff" implying, 'I love you, you're a great kid, so proud of you,' yada yada and so forth.

These are just $1 wood letters that I've inked with versamark using textured stamps from Tim Holtz and then covering them with clear embossing powder and heating.  Then I ran a black ink pad over them and wiped off the excess ink.  Thought it matched her appearance fairly well.

Here she is bathed in Copics.

So what do you say?  Will you join us over at

The Squirrel & The Fox for some creative fun and inspirational stamping? Think outside the box and have a blast with it.  Whatever you love, we'll love, but we won't know unless you share it with us!

Thank you also Bugaboo Stamps for letting us use your wonderful images and for offering up a fantastic prize to the winner.

 Mushy stuff...

Lisa xx

Love it! LOL!

I've got cards in the queue to run later, but just had to share this if you haven't seen this email going around yet. 

I love Walmart! Not...

Whoever ordered this told them to write: 

"Best Wishes Suzanne" and underneath that 

"We Will Miss You."

Have a great weekend!

Lisa xx

Now that's hilarious....I love it!

Best Cake EVER. :)

An Irish Toast...

"May the winds of fortune sail you,

May you sail a gentle sea.

May it always be the other guy

who says, 'This drinks on me.' "

Cheers to you my friends!

Here's little JJ March from Bugaboo making her grand appearance for the current open linky party happening over at 

Make It Monday!

I've simply placed a 2" wide strip of shamrock paper to the left of a cream cardstock card and layered a double ribbon to form a line of division.  A simple bow of ribbon and yarn was made to add a little flair behind the copic colored JJ.  The flourishes were stamped on with a very pale pink and then using Platinum and Lime Green stickles, I've alternated dots along the flourish.  These lettered beads were then edged with TH Vintage Photo DI and then hot glued on to the card.  DI applied to the edges of card as well.

I think a rather straight forward wish for good cheer if I say so myself.

It has always been tradition in our home to prepare cornbeef and cabbage with new potatoes.  The aroma that fills the house is amazing while it slow cooks all day and our pallets begin to salivate in anticipation. The aromas later; however, leave me to wonder why on earth do we insist on doing this every year?  

 Then there is the routine inspection to make sure everyone is wearing green. Without fail, the minute your feet hit the ground, you had better be prepared.  The first one up always gets the best dibs on pinching. 

 Except for the year that my husband was adamantly unyielding in his certainty that a green dot from a  Sharpie pen placed on his hand was sufficient enough to avoid any retaliation from his family.  Meanwhile, the kids and myself are standing there looking like a trio of those bright green exotic tree frogs! To this day he stands his ground that it "counted."  Nay, I say, NAY!!!  I think he just panicked and grabbed the first green thing he saw.  Honestly, that's like saying that if you have a piece of spinach stuck in your front teeth that THAT should count too.

I'm putting the vote out there, what say ye?

Anywho....

We all had such a fantastic time admiring the outstanding talent from last weeks linky party and we can't wait to see more!  So come on over for a visit and check out the work from the hilariously fun and creative DT ladies at 

Make It Monday!

And there will be prizes!

Check out who's sponsoring us this week!!

Before you go, I'd like to share my

PICK OF THE WEEK

How fun is this? I just love the layout, the image, the clouds and the fun feeling that this card brought out in me.

Thank you, Billie at Ink On My Fingers, for sharing this card and your talent with us at Make It Monday!

Hugs, Good Cheer, and Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

Spring Into Action

Just a quick post to show you a little card and plaque in one that I designed for our monthly project over at Stamper's Quest. I'm not able to show the tutorial here, but if you'd like to see how I made this and check out the other amazing Artistic Guide's creations, we'd love for you to visit. 

Thank you for stopping in and I hope you've had a great weekend!

Lisa xx

Link to my tutorial: 

Stamper's Quest Online Magazine