SSS83, Snowman poop!

Happy Thanksgiving to all of the american stampers out there! I am having a wonderful time with my family right now and I hope you are too!

For today’s card I picked The Sweet Shop’s SSS83 sketch. I just had to get out these adorable snowman and create something with them. They are so darn cute! I couldn’t stop there. I also decorated the inside and used the famous snowman poop saying. I didn’t have any white mini marshmallows so I pulled out the green ones from the bag to tie the color into the card. I printed the snowman poop sentiment off of my computer and glittered the ends of the deckled rectangles.

Thanks for looking!

Stamp: Flaky Friends

Paper:

Copics: C1, C3, C4, R 27, R29, YG17, E99

Accessories: Ribbon from my stash, christmas cuttlebug folder, 2-way glue, glitter, mini marshmallows, small bagette

Happy 3rd Birthday, PWCO!!!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday dear PWCO!

Happy Birthday to you!!

This will be the only time or only way you will ever hear me sing any song on pitch. I have been told many times not to sing, even by my choir teacher in the 6th grade (how embarrassing!) Well now, this post isn't about me and my traumatic experiences it's all about PWCO'S 3RD BIRTHDAY!! Here's the scoop

( I stole the text from Steph's blog)

-Watch the PWCO Blog, Facebook & Twitter for special deals throughout the month

- Check out the blogs of the designers and special guests as outlined on the PWCO Blog; make sure you look closely at the project they've shown, because then you've got work to do. Match up the sneak peek to the designer who made it There are lots of great prizes to be had - including three $33 PWCO gift cards!!!

Here's the info about my project:

I created this little container for my cuttlebug folders. I saw it (dare I say it??) at Gina K's store in McFarland, WI. I've had the project filed away in my head for sometime and even went out to buy the square kleenex boxes so I could make one. I thought the birthday bash was a great time to finally craft one. There's no secret in it. Just cut off the top of the box and cover it with papers and decorate to your heart's content.

Stamp: Sugar and Spice

Paper: Cosmo Cricket Cherry Pie and Ribbon Sandwich

Ink: memento tuxedo black

Copics: E 57, 11, 44, 09, 33, 37, 99, 43, 00,,41

C89

Y00, 11

YR 09,21,07

R59, 24

Accessories: square tissue box, oval nestabilities, ribbon

ONE MORE THING!

Here's the sneak peek I am featuring:

Good luck!

Magical Christmas

Here's my take on this adorable stamp. I picked Midnight Madness layout from last week (MMSC73) and used 3 Bugs in a Rug "let it snow" paper. I have some snowflake brads that I am using for my christmas cards this year so I borrowed some of those, punched out another snowflake and put glitter and bling on it. Finally, I added Offray-Galena Opal 3 ribbon.

Although I love this card I think I am going to give it to one lucky winner!! Leave a comment below and you are automatically entered. If I don't know you, you MUST leave some way of me to contact you. It could be your email or your SCS name, otherwise I can't contact you to let you know you've won. The winner will be chosen on Wednesday, November 3. Good luck!

Pretty White Daisies

Stamp: A magical Christmas

Paper: 3 bugs in a rug, "Let it snow"

Snow flake brads and punch

glitter

Copics: y38, e77, e00, e11, e09, y17, yg17, y00, r20, e000, b21, y15, v15

Snowmen

I forgot to post this on Saturday!! This was Saturday's card for PWCO.

The Release is on!!

Tree and Bunny

Cute, Cute, Cute! What a fun image! I picked splitcoast stampers sketch SC301 for my layout. Then I used the 3 Bugs in a Rug patterned paper I got from Peggy's store. I have a snowflake punch that I used first with the same paper as mentioned before and then a glittery paper from my stash.

Stamp:

Ink: Memento Black

Copics: G85, BG95, E11, E13, R27, R20, Y17, B21

Accessories: Stickles, snowflake punch

Angels

Oh, I fell in love with these angels! The whole collection this month is awesome and I wouldn't be surprised if you want to buy the whole collection! I picked the sketch SC257 from splitcoast stampers for my layout and used the snowflakes cuttlebug folder for the large panel then layered white and red for the rest of the card. The triangles had me stumped but I finally decided on the sparkly blue paper. I used C1 or C5 to outline the white choir robes and clouds and then B21 around the image to give it some depth. Finally, I added the stickles to the wings.

Stamp: Angels

Paper: Real Red and White

Ink: Memento Black

Copics: E000, E00, E11, E13, E 37, E41, E 49, Y 38, Y 17, Y 15, R20, C1, C5, B21

Accessories: snowflake cuttlebug folder, Stickles

SC300, Toucan

This is the card I made using Splitcoast Stampers sketch challenge #300. It was an easy layout and a great way to show off the designer paper from Doodlebug Designs. I did have to throw in the ribbon, which was not part of the sketch, as the card looked to sparse for me.

Stamp: Tiki the Toucan

ink: memento tuxedo black

Paper: Doodlebug Designs

Copics: Y17, Y38, YR 07, YR 09, G85

Accessories: gold ribbon

A day at the beach

My last card to show you using the September card kit. If you haven't tried one of these it is well worth the money. It is nice to have all of the coordinating paper and embellishments all together. It's hard to see here but there are stickles all over the image and it looks really neat in person!

Stamp: A day at the beach

Paper: September papercard kit from Paperworks Co.

Copics: B 21, 23, 24; C00, 5, 8; 100; E 000, 00, 11, 13; V12; YRo4,07; R24, 27

Happy Owl-o-ween, MMSC#73

How could I resist? I had to play along with Midnight Madness this week as it is featuring PWCO stamps!! Isn't this the cutest stamp? I was thinking it would be a great stamp to use long after fall is over. Just cut out the tree and the owl without the moon and bats and viola! you have a multi-purpose stamp!

I know that Peggy just LOVES orange so she just must love halloween themed cards! HA! Peggy, I couldn't resist. I do love this card and love how it came together.

stamps: Happy Owl-o-ween from Paperworks Co.

Paper: Reminisce

copics: y38, Y17, E43, E44,, C8, E11, E13

Leaves are falling!

For today’s post I decided to use PWCO’s sunday sketch. What a nice and easy sketch to use for today and paired with September’s paper card kit you get one WOW card! I used the Faux Silk technique for the oval panel, embossed the brown paper, colored the image and budda-bing-budda-boom! here you go!
Stamp: Autumn Leaves
Paper: September paper card kit
Copics: B23, B24, R27, Y38, Y15, YG95, YR04, YR07, YR09, E77, BV17, E49, YR21
Accessories: oval nestabilities, embossing folder, tissue paper

Sneak Peek!

By now you are well aware that the new Rachel Ann Miller Stamps are being released tonight! Here's my sneak peek for my card. Come on over to PWCO for our chat release tonight at 7:00 PM CST. At that time all of the stamps will be released, one by one, and you can see the awsome work the deign team did with the new goodies!!

Here's Silvia's sneak peek at: http://mabiestampin.blogspot.com/

Hope to see you there!

Hippo Baby Card

I am really loving the paper card kit for this month. I love the ribbon with the little balls hanging off the end. How fun is that?!? I decided with all of the pink that this would be a really good baby card. I don’t have anyone in mind yet, but there is always someone at work who is pregnant so it will be used soon enough.
Stamp: Harriet the Hippo
Paper: September card kit
copics: RV 11, 13; Y13, 15

Silhouette card

I thought I would share with you this very easy technique that I love. This is a silhouette card. I started by using my brayer and coloring in the sky then I did the blue of the water and the mountains. I stamped, “standing beneath a tree” drew in the ground and colored in the image and ground with black marker. I like how it looks like the kids are looking at the sun rise or sun set! My brother in law’s girlfriend, Amber, sketched in the mountains just by shading in with a grey marker. She also drew in the birds. I hope you liked this technique and will give it a try!

Baby card, SC294

Here's a card that I didn't intend for it to be what it turned out to be! I was just going for any old card and when I was done I decided to use it as a baby card for a co-worker. I used SCS's SC294 for the layout and 3 bugs in a rug for the paper. The white paper came with embossed swirls on it which matched perfectly with this card. A simple ribbon and flower embellishment and ta-da! here's my card!

Stamp: Paperworks Co, The beary best of friends

paper: 3 bugs in a rug

PWCO's Ultimate Summer Challenge--Colors

Happy Monday, Stampers! I was on the team to do the color challenge found here at Paperworks Co. The theme for this week is animals and our challenge was to use the colors yellow, red, green and blue.

I used stickles for the lion's mane and a sticker above his head and paw print stickers in the lower right corner.

For the inside I decided to make a pop up, which is my favorite 3D card and they are sooo easy to make. This time for the lion's mane I used flock. I drew in and cut out a branch for the bird and the snake in the tree is a sticker. The sentiment was typed out on my computer.

I sure hope you enjoyed my card today and don't forget to leave a comment!

You are my #1

Happy Saturday, Stampers! For today's sketch I picked SCS #291. A very simple but adorable sketch. I was surprised at how well this Basic Grey paper went with the image and the card. The whole sheet of paper, called Liquid Candy, is quite busy, but this small section of it works really well.

I like how I colored Zach's hair. It reminds me of my boys who still don't know what a comb or a brush is. They cringe when I try to comb their hair. Zach looks like he's earned his hair-do through all of his hard work playing soccer.

Image: Zach the soccer player, Bonus Stamp from Sport Series II set

paper: Liquid candy by Basic Grey, Red, black and white

Copics: 100, C00, C5, C8, R59, B21, B95, B97, E44

Accessories: circles cuttlebug folder

Toucan

Happy Saturday, Stampers! For my Saturday Sketch I picked the sketch challenge # 283 from SCS.

I love the toucan and decided to use that stamp again. I didn't want the bird floating in nothingness so I drew in branches and leaves and then sponged in some old artichoke to fill in the background. From this comes my tip for the day, draw in other elements to add to the image as necessary. Don't tell me you can't draw. You have such talent in your fingers and hands, just look at the wonderful creations you make! You can do it!

I decided to color the bird blue instead of green to match the pretty basic grey papers. Finally, I used the cuttlebug folders on the blue and brown panel.

Stamp: Toucan

Paper: Basic Grey Cardamon and blue, Lime Rickey Rob Roy, Orange Coordinations

Copics: E49,77,57; Y17,38; B24; YG93

Accessories: flower sticker, argyle folder, happy birthday folder

Accordion style card box

Happy Thursday, Stampers! This is my last Free for All posting for the month of July. For this week I decided to try the Accordion Style card box found HERE on Splitcoast Stampers. I really like this box! It's so cute. I used 3 Bugs in a Rug designer paper, which happens to be double sided. Then I used RAM's Puddles of fun stamp for the image. Does the image look familiar? Of course it does, silly me! Okay what I am getting at is that I was short on time on getting this project done and wanted to use this stamp for the box. I went back to my debut card for PWCO DT posting and pulled off the image from that card. SHHH! Don't tell the card police. I tried and tried to add embellishments to the box but I kept pulling it off and finally realized less was more and kept the box simple, showing off the paper.

My tip for today is to tell you it is okay to recycle items off of other cards...even other cards that you have received. As much as we would love to keep each and every card we (or I should say "I") don't have enough room for them all. I keep the cards, display them for a time and then recycle embellishments, images, ribbons, etc. Believe it or not the Card Police will not come for you!

Stamp: Puddles of Fun

Paper: 3 bugs in a rug

markers: copics Y08,B21, B95, YG63, YR04

Accessories: cuttlebug and nestabilities

Dig This!

Happy Thursday, Stampers! I again went to SCS to find a project to do and right at the top was this tutorial for a drawer box. I thought I would give it a try and I liked it! I used Zoe the Volleyball player and some left over stickers I had from last month's blog hop release. I made 6 cards. They aren't all quite identical, but pretty close. I didn't have enough of any one embellishment so I used an assortment. Same holds for my solid card stock. I did manage to color each image and not cut it out. Wow! Go Karen Lynn!

I really wanted to color Zoe's hair as nicely as Cabio did on her blog hop project. I went to her blog to try and copy it and lo-and-behold she has a whole tutorial on how to color hair! Here's the link to Cabio's tutorial. I am pleased with how I did the coloring especially since this is the first image I colored like that.

What I like about this box is that it holds both the cards and envelopes. I also noticed that it is large enough to hold some copic markers. Great gift idea!!

Stamps: Zoe the Volleyball player by Paperworks Co.

Copics: Y13, 15, 17; E000, 00, 11, 37, 49; YR21; B24

Paper: The paper studio Boy multi-stripes and boy multi-dots

Accessories: volleyball stickers, cuttlebug and folders

July Paperworks Co. Blog Hop!!

Welcome to Karen Lynn's Blog!! If you came here from Stephanie's Blog then you are in the right spot. If not, please start HERE at Paperworks Company.

Woo Hoo! It's that time again when we all get to see some new awesome stamps from Paperworks Co. and Rachel Ann Miller!! Today I have the honor of showing off "A New Adventure". Since I have been doing the Free for All Thursdays and have been in the mode of doing 3D projects I decided to keep going down that avenue. I had an extra tin that I bought eons ago and never used. I felt that the tin and the stamp just went together. I colored the image and sponged in the sky and the grass. I then took the backside of the double sided pattern paper and used the corner rounder to make the scallops. A few extra embellishments and butta-bing, butta-boom! Here it is!

So enough about me and my project and back to the blog hop. Peggy is giving away 8 stamps this blog hop (2 of each design). If you want to jump in and get your hands on the goodies here is what you have to do:

1. Leave a comment at each DT member's blog
2. Become a follower of this blog if you aren't already
3. If your name is Linda look back through my blog and see if you are the Linda that won last month's blog candy and contact me! I can't give goodies away unless you give me contact information.

Finally, there is a sale at PWCO, 10% off all stamps!!! Discount code is: PWCO stamps. Enter this code into the discount section.

So, here's the order of the hop:

PWCO BLOG
Steph S
Cabio
Kelly
Lisa
Silvia
Jenny
Steph J
Karen Lynn <---You are HERE!

Bella
Danielle
Sunghee
PWCO BLOG

So off you go to Bella's blog!!

Got Cash?

Happy Thursday, Stampers!! I wanted to try something new this week so I perused through SCS’s resources and I saw the wallet tutorial and decided that is what I wanted to do. I thought it was going to be a complicated project and was pleasantly surprised when it was rather easy. The solid paper is embossed. I forgot how much fun it is to emboss paper. I have all of the tools to do it but I just don’t think to pull it out. It really gives the paper a leathery look in this instance.

For the inside of the wallet I wanted a wild look so I went with the Basic Grey Lime Rickey paper again. At this point I knew I was giving this to my niece for her 16th birthday and I would put the lipgloss I bought for her inside. Since she’s young she can pull off the wild look. I had some velcro circles in the house and used those as a fastener. The only problem is that the velcro is stronger than the paper and pulled away from the paper and ripped it!! OH NO! I tried different ways of hiding it but eventually just adhered it back in place as best as I could.

Here’s the side view of the wallet. The main image is from the Freckle stamps love collection, “Standing beneath a tree”. The wallet isn’t big enough for the whole image so I just used the girl. I was about 2 minutes away from finishing the project and adhering the girl and circle to the wallet when I placed it face down in adhesive! OH NO, AGAIN! Have no fear I salvaged the image by just reinking her face, coloring it, cutting it out and putting it on top of the ruined face. TA DA! From that comes my tip for today. Do what ever you can to use part of your mistake or cover up your mistake to avoid remaking your project.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

Stamps: “Standing beneath a tree”

Paper: Basic Grey’s Lime Rickey

Copics:R 24, 27; E 000, 00 11 37, 99; RV11, 13, 14; YR 21

Accessories: cuttlebug, folders and nesties, ribbon.

SCS Tutorial: Faux Leather Wallet