Friendship Served Daily

It's all about the circles today at Top Tip Tuesday and for this challenge I've created a card using my scrap mound of assorted colors and some fun new letter baubles.

Background Dp was designed by layering a border punch with scalloped circle halves. The circle sentiment image was double layered with foam squares, flower assortments glued on, a handmade 'served' lable and some twine with the Tim Holtz letter charms to complete the sentiment. The inside used up some more scraps with a white circle space for writing.

Our newest sponsor for this challenge has some wonderful digital paper that I couldn't wait to use. Here is the card I made using Tickled Pink Paper from Redonkulous Designs.

Love those BIG circles and paired it up with little rounded owls and googly eyes to maintain the circle theme.

There you have it...2 cards that I hope inspire you to join our wonderful challenge at

Top Tip Tuesday. 

Thank you so much for stopping in!

Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

 Challenges For This Card

Supplies Used:

From My Heart Clear Stamp; Friendship- (Stampin' Up!),

Lace Border Punch andScallop Circle Punch (Stampin' Up!)

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles Large Die

Prima Roses

Twine

Tim Holtz Ideology Letter Charms

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink

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Doin' The Happy Dance...

She's sassy, she's feisty and she's doing the happy dance!

Welcome back to my blog and I hope you enjoy looking at

 The Old Gray Mare from the artist Lynne Stansbery

 at Squigglefly.  Isn't she a hoot?! 

If you haven't checked out the challenges at Squigglefly yet, you're going to love this one.  This weeks challenge is to use a....

RECIPE

Here's the skinny...you have to use all three of these items on your card

1) Ribbon or Lace  2) Brad or Eyelet  3) Die Cut - see specifics here.

There are 2 other sentiments that come with this image, but I really needed a congratulations card and so I've used the wonderful sentiment from Create With TLC and one personally generated sentiment on the PC. 

Thank you so much for your visit and all your very kind comments.

Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

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YEE HAW!

Howdy ya'll...

I've been struck with Midwestern inspiration today.

Meet the cutest little gal here called A Girl and Her Overalls!

Ain't she adorable??

Her's all pertified up with copics and a few embellishments.

A hand stamped sentiment using miniature alphabet stamps.

Before ya'll scoot, I'd like ya ta take a gander at this har down right perty

PICK(s) OF THE WEEK!! (I couldn't pick just one!)

Well, I tried, I really did, but narrowing down the choices this week was just too difficult a task for me.  I have three (blushes).  Each so uniquely different and really gave me some great ideas.

#43 Jan Hunnicutt

How wonderful is this for an Anniversary card? It really struck me as such a unique and perfect depiction of a happy couple.  Great card Jan!

#63 Einat

By simply adding a little extension to the regular tag, she's created an even more elegant piece of work. I really liked the innovative thinking on this. Beautiful tag!

#73 Heather A Hudson

Wow! I got lost trying to decipher the intricate and detailed layers of this card. I really love the amazing work on the framing and yet it lends itself perfectly to support this fabulous image.  A beautiful piece of artwork Heather!

If the post wouldn't go on forever, I would have loved to post everyone's work. Thank you so much to everyone who shared the most amazing creative projects with us this week!

I reckon you best be on your way then and headn' over yonder to the best linky party there is in these har parts....

Make It Monday!

And you can get the cutest lil' gal in overalls here at

Meljen Designs

Prize:  4 Single Digis

Thank you for your visit and leavin' some luv on my blog :)
Hugs n' Happy Stamping...
Lisa xx

The Colors of Friendship

Hello, Hello, Hello!

Today I have a card to show you for my first DT post at

Our Creative Corner. 

I am so honored to have been chosen for this privilege and I would like to say a humongous thank you to all the ladies there for giving me this opportunity. 

Okay, so on to the challenge at hand...it's a trio of colors.  Ready for this????

Navy, Pink, and You Pick!!

The lovely Sharon Wheet is hosting this week and here are a few words about her challenge

"Create a paper craft item and use the challenge colors: Navy, Pink, and whatever other color you decide. You pick the missing color, any color; Kraft, Yellow, River Rock, Gray, Metallic, etc. (Neutrals don't count: black, white, cream, or brown)"

As you can see here, my third color choice was green.  I've white powder embossed the navy background, created a chevron pattern with variations of muted pink, a polka dotted ribbon, two banners, a bow, button, rose, copic colored pearls, and a sentiment; all coordinated in the three specific colors for this challenge. White is my neutral color of choice.

Sharon has also included an inspirational photo collage to tempt your creative senses

We would absolutely LOOOVE for you to take part in this 3 color challenge and for more inspiration check out the other amazing projects from the rest of team here at

Our Creative Corner.

Thank you SO much for stopping in.

Hugs n' Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx



Whole Grain Affection...

Hello and welcome back to my little ink spot in the world. 

It seems as though I'm on a bit of a kitchen kick, but this time, it's not my kitchen.  This card is for a challenge over at Inspired By.  I love cards that have a little play on words so I designed this using the inspiration photo below.

This is the challenge inspiration photo from Inspired By that can be found here.

Initially I was drawn to the strongest colors of green (although this looks blue in the picture), yellow and hot pink. Next I added the subtle color of pink.  White flower centers and sentiments for the cabinets and table and the rosette to symbolize the fold of the cabinet curtain.  The fun part was when I saw the muffins on the table and decided to use the Stampin' Up! Comfort Food stamp set to draw it all together.  The little loaf of bread is paper pieced and I've typed the sentiment on Word.  A couple little additions to complete the card are a trio of toothpicks that have been copic colored for faux hatpins and the mesh behind the rosette is from a bag of oranges that if you look very closely in the inspiration photo, just to the right of the scale, you'll see a little yellow box with chicken wire and this was my attempt to simulate that cute object.

Thanks so much for stopping in and I hope you enjoyed the card.

Have a great week!

Lisa xx



Cupcake Celebration

Hello!
Here's another card for the ever fabulous Linky Party happening over at
Make It Monday.
Using a combination of images from Bugaboo called Girl Cupcakes and Theodore - Birthday Sign as well as a free sentiment from Ginger's House.
With a little fussy cut image, lots of stickles, a slather of copics and some paper balloons and pretty ribbons, scalloped cut edge and you have yourself a birthday celebration card.

 

Before I go, I'd like to show you my...
PICK OF THE WEEK!

#93 Lisa aka Myran

I really love the CAS style here. It's great that she used the DP as part of her focal point and accented the kites with gloss but the addition of the Happy Day die cut really makes the card pop.  Love the large scalloped base that accentuates the clouds in the paper...very pretty card!

Thank you so much for stopping in!

Hugs n' Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

Feel free to stop in and show us your older or newer projects and enjoy the many varieties of inspiration from the very talented ladies at

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Will They Get the Hint?

When your significant other comes through the door and you're not sporting your finest sweats and comfy t-shirt, the kids are out the house, and the aspirin bottle isn't sitting on the counter...will they get the hint?

If not, maybe this little card will do the trick!

The challenge over at

Top Tip Tuesday is to make

One For The Men! 

 Does it need to be suggestive? Absolutely not, just what you perceive to be masculine.  I just thought it would be fun to make a flirty card with earthy masculine textures.

I've embossed Kraft cardstock with a wood textured plate and added green, grey and brown ink. A slathering of Tim Holtz crackle paint and once dry, chipped away pieces with an X-ACTO knife.  A strip of elastic was sewn in the center of some burlap and this flipped and duplicated image of a bunny from Free Vintage Digital Stamps as the focal point along with the sentiment typed on my PC in a little banner.  Some moss was added under the bunnies for a little "manly" greenery.

There are so many wonderful takes on this masculine theme, so be sure to visit and see how the other talented ladies interpreted this challenge.  Also at our mid-week post, enjoy the fabulous tutorial from Katrina on how to make a Bind It All Book!
We have some sad and some happy news also at Top Tip Tuesday happening today.  Our wonderful owner of the blog, Leanne, is stepping down to pursue other interests and has handed over the reigns to Samantha and Carol to co-own.  We will miss Leanne VERY much and wish her the very best in her future!  To soften the sadness of her leaving we are also welcoming two NEW DT's to our little family. Lisa S. and Jennifer Scull are now going to be mesmerizing us all with their incredibly inventive stamping skills.  Welcome aboard ladies!!!

Thank you so much for your visit. I always love when you stop by.

Hugs n' Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

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Okay, Let's Bake a Card!

Welcome to my kitchen...

For today's card you will need the following supplies

 Tortilla flour, water, Quinoa, food coloring, fondant paste, sea salt, sprinkles, sesame seeds and flower cookie cutters.

Step 1 - Make a half serving of tortilla dough using 1 cup of flour and 1/4 cup of water.  Mix, roll into a ball, let sit under a cool towel for 15 minutes.  Roll out onto parchment paper and divide into 6 sections.

Step 2 - Roll each section of dough into a different color of the rainbow by dropping drips of food coloring onto parchment paper.  I didn't have red so I had to use the fondant paste. When finished coloring the dough, press your hands into the color blobs and finger paint!

 Step 3 - Cut the flower shapes using the pretty pretty dough you've made!

 Step 4 - Bake your colored tortilla flowers at 350 degrees for about 2 mintues.

 Step 5 - Let tortilla flowers cool.  Remove from pan and place them back on the parchment paper.  Grab your glossy accents and get ready to decorate.

 Step 6 - Now add a drop of glossy accents and then decorate the top your flowers with dark sprinkles, pearl sprinkles, Quinoa, Orange dyed Sea Salt and Sesame Seeds.

Aww, aren't they pretty!  At this point they are no longer made for human consumption so maybe set back a few for the family to snack on before you decorate them!  What fun they would be on top of a salad. 

 Step 7 - Alrighty then, the baking is over and now it's time to assemble them on a card.

Here is an example of what you could make, but the options are endless.  Just adhere them with hot glue and you're done! 

Remember the styrofoam plate, the red solo bowl and the box of tea?  I've even included them as the base of the cake and the two little candles at the top.  The tea bag is peeking out from under the sentiment.  Why is there a strip of my old jeans draped along the side of the card with a denim bow? Well, it all comes together to meet the criteria of 4 AWESOME challenges that I would love to enter this card into and I think you should too! 

Here they are...

Our Creative Corner-

Bakin' Beauties

"You MUST use something you would use IN baking in your creations. Get creative - use food coloring, paper liners, or sprinkles. Know any cool techniques with egg whites, flour or sugar? You need to explain your 'ingredient' in your description of your creation."

Seems A Little Sketchy

I've rotated the sketch so it looks like a cake

Frilly and Funkie

Let's See Some Textures (With a Twist)

One of the textures must be a material or fabric

Yeah for old jeans!!

And last but not least...

Catered Crop

Song of the Rainbow

Use RAINBOWS or The Colors of Rainbows

Thanks so much for stopping by my kitchen!

I really hope you take part in these challenges...the possibilities are endless.

Now, go cook your meal and bake a card. ;)

Hugs n' Happy baking/crafting/stamping...

Lisa xx

Ode to Otis Redding...

"I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay, watchin' the tide roll away..."

Hello!

Here's a little card I've made up for the current linky party at

Make It Monday

 using the peaceful image of

  Digi Doodle Shop, called

Country Pond and the free Love Meanings sentiment.

 Card base measures 3.5" x 3.75" and is decorated up with copics, lace, pearls, handmade hat pins, glittered heart and copic colored flower and a little stand on the back side of the card.

Sentiment says,

"Falling in love: Unites what was once divided."

When I saw the dock reaching out across the water, I thought this sentiment worked so well with it.  From there, the heart shape took place and the rest, well...you see it here. :)

 I had an incredible time looking at ALL of last week's entries; we had OVER 250 entries and WOW, talk about a bombardment of talent and outstanding creativity of everyone who played along with us.  Picking just one was NOT simple, again!  But I did it, so without further ado, here is my...

PICK OF THE WEEK!

#63 Sandra Dry

She made this card for her father who for years worked on repairing and servicing typewriters.  I think it's sensational and perfectly fitted for him.  Very masculine and vintage.

Thank you so much for stopping in. I hope this finds you all well and ready for another fabulous creative week.

Hugs n' Happy Stamping...

Lisa xx

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