Sweetie Pie

Hi Stampers!

Well since I had my Cutting Cafe project done and shown yesterday...I thought I would just make something for fun today using one of my favorite stamps that I have had for a loooonnng time but have never inked up! Shame on me! Well I am using her now :)

This is the Cheeky Cherry Pie from the Cheeky Cherry Collection from The Greeting Farm. I colored her using mostly copics on her hair and skin. The apron and pie are spectrum noirs and her shoes are colored with the cherry cobbler Stampin Up! Marker. I paper pieced her dress and the pie plate to match the background papers which are from the Love Note paper pack from Fancy Pants Designs. Did you notice I tried sewing again? I tried a different stitch this time and decided to try cornering - LOL, I was a little off, but oh well...have to keep trying :)

The background circle that she is mounted on is stamped with the recipe stamp from the Spice Up Your Day stamp set from Gourmet Rubber Stamps. I stamped this using Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink. This is my absolute FAVORITE color combination too ... kraft, a cherry cobbler style red, chocolate chip, very vanilla! So pretty!

Here is a closer look...

I created this as my entry into the Yumi & Fumi challenge this week which was to case a card that they had on their blog! Hopefully I did it justice :)

If you love The Greeting Farm Stamps as much as I do... one of our Design Team members, Marcy Dangcil made their March Guest Design Team! She has been rocking out some STUNNING projects for their March Release! I am super proud of her and know that she will do amazing! I have seen her first two days of projects and WOW! They are gorgeous! When you get a chance... visit her blog and check them out!

Well I better get going - have to work at my other job from 3pm - 3am  - I would rather stay home and do crafty stuff though LOL!

Have a great day all!
Laura

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Yumi & Fumi Handmade - Challenge #10 Case Sandie
The Greeting Farm - FFF Challenge - Flowers
The Ribbon Carousel - Love Is In The Air
Bunny Zoe - Flowers & Pearls
Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp & Show - Stamp You Love But Don't Use
Tammy's Scrappin Corner - #51 Paper Piecing
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Joanna Sheen - Layer It Up
Lacy Sunshine Challenges - #2 - Favourite Color Combination
Color Me Creative - Girly & Feminine
Sweet Stampin' - Mother's Day or For a Special Lady
Totally Gorjuss - Happy!
Simply Create Too - Mother's Day or Female
Bearly Mine - Anything Goes - 2nd Entry

Easter Eggs For Sale!

Hi Stampers!

Today is a new Loves Rubberstamps Challenge and the theme this week is to create a tag or have a tag somewhere on your project. Well, I also serve on the Design Team for The Cutting Cafe and this week we had a super fun assignment of using Regina's new Little Red Wagon Template. I had a super cute project in mind that creates a little scene with a separate project for each but that are designed to go together...LOL... make sense?

So my post today will be a merge of my Design Team Post for The Cutting Cafe and some details about how I created my project for the Loves Rubberstamps Challenge.

First I will show you a picture of the whole sha-bang...so you can see what I am talking about...

Here is the set together... I created the little Easter Wagon using the Little Red Wagon Template for my project this week for The Cutting Cafe, and the fun Spring card with the homemade tag is for the Loves Rubberstamps challenge. Don't these look adorable together!

Let's start with the cute wagon!

Now...even though the name of this file is "Little Red Wagon" you can make your wagon any color you want - LOL! That is what makes it so much fun because you can change the colors for the seasons or occasions. I am thinking this would look super cute done up in fall colors with leaves and pumpkins in it...you know what I will be making come October :)  This file also comes with three sized boxes that you make and stack inside also, some fun embellishments, and sentiments for your little care packages! You totally need this file...I am telling you!

Because mine is a little Easter Wagon...what better to fill it with than some of my favorite Easter treats... Cadbury CARAMEL Eggs and those yummy, addicting, robins eggs! So good! I decided to make my wagon have wood slats because it's carrying eggs...so I used my new Die-Namics Barbed Wire Fence die from My Favorite Things. It even has the embossed wood details! I LOVE LOVE this die! The upward posts are the posts from the fence and the two strips are actually the strip of paper I had left over after cutting the fence posts out...perfect huh, and no wasted paper :) That cute little bunny is called Bunny Lucy from C.C. Designs! I love her :)

Here is a closer look at Miss Bunny Lucy...

I colored her hair and skin with copics, and then used spectrum noir alcohol ink markers on her outfit.

Now here is a look at my card with the tag all tucked in...

And the Tag Pulled Out...

The Bunny and the Eggs are from the C.C. Designs Spring Has Sprung Stamp Set and the Eggs Sentiment is from their Spring Logos Stamp Set. This bunny is soooo adorable! I colored everything on this with Spectrum Noir Markers except for his little cheeks, that is the copic color R20. I liquid appliqued his tail for "fluff" and added bling to the flower centers and white gel pen designs to the eggs.

Do you notice something new?? YEP... I tried sewing on my card for the FIRST TIME!! EEEKKK! I threaded the machine on my first try too!! Do you notice what is missing? YEP! No fingers attached! I didn't accidentally sew one to my card - LOL!

Just don't look at the bottom right corner because that was where in the instructions it said when you were done to go in reverse to "seal" it or something like that but I am sure I did it wrong because it is blobby. I decided for my first time sewing to use a zig zag stitch so it was harder to tell if I went straight or not - LOL! All in all I am really proud of my first "sewn" card - and I think my blobby corner just adds to the country charm ;)

I do need to study some YouTube videos of how to turn corners and how to stop when your finished but it will be fun to try and learn because I love the look of the sewn cards.

Here is a final look at my two cuties together so you can see the little bunny closer too...

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to play along with us this week in our Loves Rubberstamps Challenge.... AND... Be sure to stop by The Cutting Cafe and purchase the Little Red Wagon Template for yourself! You will seriously love it!

Tomorrow afternoon at The Cutting Cafe's Blog you will get to see what the rest of the Design Team members did with their Little Red Wagons! I can't wait to see them because there is literally so many things you can use it for and decorate it with! It will be a blast!

Have a great day all!
Laura

I will be entering this is the following challenges:

C.C. Designs - Anything Goes
Bearly-Mine Challenges - Anything Goes
Created With Love - Bright & Cheery
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Pretty Pastels
Incy Wincy - Anything But a Card
Stamp and Create - Spring is Coming
Totally Papercrafts - Hope for Spring
Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Tag You're It
Sassy Studio Designs - Use Stitching Real or Faux
Top Tip Tuesday - Tag Your It

Happy Birthday Saturated Canary Style!

Hi Stampers!

Just a super quick post today...I haven't been to sleep yet and I have to work in 4 hours! Not a fun combination! But I had too much stuff to get done today!

Today we get to see a super cute Olivia creation! Take a look at this cutie...

What an adorable Birthday Card! Olivia always does an amazing job coloring her images with bright, pretty color combinations! This adorable stamp is called Ellie's Birthday from Saturated Canary and she is definitely dressed for a party! This is such a fun card! I love it!

If you haven't checked out yesterday's Sensational Sundays Post you should! The Design Team ladies rocked it!

Have a great night all and thnks for stopping by!

Laura

Sensational Sunday Inspirations + Blog Candy!

Hi Stampers!

Sorry for the late post today! I totally got off my "night shifter" schedule and was so busy today that I got to the point that I couldn't even stay awake one second longer and I had to work tonight so I needed to get some sleep and when I woke up I remembered that cruddy! I didn't get this pre-scheduled! GRRR! So I am super sorry about that so we will get right to it!  But first, before we can peek, we need to chose our winner from last week's comments...

Here is our random winner of last week's BLOG CANDY GIVE-AWAY! According to the random.org is...

Here are your random numbers:

1

Timestamp: 2013-02-25 05:26:05 UTC

Comment #1 - Sonia - Passioni di carta who said: Fabulous cards with cute and sweet image and lovely layout^_^ Hugs, Sonia ^_^

Congratulations Sonia! Please send me an email at lovesrubberstamps@yahoo.com by March 2nd and I will send you your code for a $10.00 gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps store!

Remember... EVERY SUNDAY... you will have the chance to win a gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps Store.... just for leaving a comment on the post! Winner will be chose with random.org and will be announced on the following Sunday's post!

To try and win a $5.00 Gift Voucher - Just leave a Comment on this Post - that's it - nothing else!!

To try and win a $10.00 Gift Voucher - (we will check these)
                                       1. Be a FOLLOWER of this Blog
                                       2. Be a FOLLOWER of The Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog
                                       3. Be our fan on Facebook
                                       4. Add our Blog Candy Badge to your blog
                                       5. Leave a Comment on this post to show love to the DT

Now on to today's blast of inspiration from our talented Design Team! Here we go....

Lydia Walker

Whimsy Stamps 'Li'l Montana

Die-namic 'Faux Crochet Border'

Die-namics 'Decorative Doily Duo'

MME 'The Sweetest Thing- Tangerine'

Spectrum Noir Markers

CC Ultra Smooth Card

OMGosh!!! This is soooo cute! I love that Lydia has been trying new things and finding new images to color because these Little Cottage Cuties are the CUTEST!! Her coloring is super gorgeous and I love her choices of paper and accents! This is beyond sweet! Totally love this one!!

Shanna Shands

Bo Bunny papers called Love Letters and I used a Magnolia image called Tilda with Heart Socks and I colored my cheescloth using a Ranger Inkpad called Peacock Feathers

How adorable! Shanna always does the cutest cards with Magnolia stamps! I think this looks so cute with the little key! Check out that flower! Shanna made that with cheesecloth that she dyed with Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Peacock Feathers! That is beautiful! What a cute card that can be used for many occasions!

Dangina Martinez

I used an image from  C.C. Designs HONEY-BEE-TRICE and some Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp her.

This is one of my favorite lines from C.C. Designs and Dangina colored this one up perfectly!! This is a super sweet card that makes me ready for summer! I love the paper that Dangina chose with the glittery stripes. That flower is gorgeous! I love the unique shape too, makes this extra fun! Love it!

Athina Emory

Make It Crafty - Secret Swing

My Mind's Eye Papers

Memento Tuxedo Black

I love this image! Think of all the fun occasions you can use this for! Athina did an amazing job coloring this cutie up! I love the way she did the grass! Looks awesome! I love the pretty pastel butterflies and the pretty bow! Makes this a pretty, summery card! Love this!!

Marcy Dangcil

Whimsy Stamps Wee Collection - Summer Fairy

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Brushed Corduroy

Best Glue Ever

HOLY WOW!!! Is this a gorgeous card or what?? I love that beautiful background and Marcy colored this so pretty! Matches it perfectly! The flowers are the perfect colors and that trim is gorgeous too!! What a stunning gift this will make for some lucky person! Wouldn't this just totally make your day and make you smile? It did me when I opened my email and saw it the first time! Love it!

WOWZERS!! These ladies totally rocked it today! I love my team and am so thankful for each and everyone of them! AWESOME job ladies!!

Thanks for stopping by today! I apologize again for it being posted so late :( 

Laura & The Loves Rubberstamps Team

Victorian Bunnies

Hi Stampers!

Hope you are having a great Saturday! I have a busy day planned of trying to get taxes finished up to take to the accountant. This is the non-fun part of the business side so I have been dragging my feet about it - LOL! But it has to get done! I am starting to get distracted though because I just had my "AHA" I know exactly what I want to do for my next project come into my brain and now I can't focus because I want to go make it before I forget what my plan was - LOL! I may have to take a creative break just so I can re-focus on work later :) Do you ever do that? Funny how sometimes you can go all week and not have one good idea and you struggle with mojo and then sometimes it is just WHAM - pops into your brain and you can't think of anything else. LOL!

I also just got a new Janome Sew Mini to attempt to sew on my cards. The farthest I have gotten with it is taking it out of the box and putting it on the table. I have been staring at it for a week now. I have to figure out all the technical things of trying to thread bobbins and figuring out how to thread it, get tensions right, and not sewing any body parts to my paper. I am thinking maybe it wasn't such a brilliant idea - LOL! I have never sewn or used a sewing machine before so it is like Greek to me and they freak me out a little - LOL! I am sure once I get over my little morbid fear of sewing my finger to my project I will be fine. But any pointers from those of you that sew would be great! Even better if you have one of these little machines yourself and can tell me how you set it up for sewing on your projects would be super awesome :)

Today being Saturday we have an inspirational piece from Jacqueline Smith! She has created a lovely Easter project to share with you!

She used the image called Victorian Bunnies from Magenta Stamps. She stamped this on acetate with black stazon ink and then covered the back with glitter and then colored that with Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks. How cool! Those bunnies are probably super sparkly and pretty in person! I took Jacqueline's picture and made it large and just cropped the bunnies so you could see this technique closer...

This helps you see all the glitter a little bit better! I bet it looks amazing in person! I also love that she paired this was the soft pastel blues and browns! Makes a really pretty Easter card!

Well... I better get back to work...or maybe I will go play in my stamp room for awhile and let my brain have a mental break from work for a bit :)

Hope you get some crafty time in today! Thanks for stopping by!

Laura

A Gorgeous SNIFF!

Hi Stampers!

Happy Holly Day Friday! Well, our humongous storm ended up being not as bad as predicted -  for us anyway. We didn't get any wind hardly, and only about 6 or 7 inches of snow. No wind = no huge drifts to shovel so... YAY! LOL! Anytime I don't have to shovel is a good thing!

Holly's card today is the exact opposite of a cold, white, snowy winter! It is full of warmth, an adorable little girl, Summer Days, and pretty flowers or "sniffs" as my daughter called them when she was little :)

This has got to be one of the cutest images! For our Loves Rubberstamps Challenge this week our special guest sponsor is Birdie Brown! These digi stamps are created by the amazingly talented Torico. This is one of my many, many, MANY favorites that she has :) LOL!

Holly did such a gorgeous job coloring this cutie! The colors are so pretty and those gorgeous "sniffs" are the perfect accent! Holly created those beautiful flowers using felt and her Mini Royal Roses Die-Namics and the Die-Namics Royal Leaves Set. So pretty! Holly makes me need every Die-Namics Die I see her use on her projects! I think she has turned our entire Design Team into Die-Namics Addicts - LOL!

I love this layout too! Holly is awesome at finding the right layouts for her projects. I agonize and search and search and search some more to find one to use on my projects usually! I think Holly should teach a Picking The Perfect Sketch - 101 class - LOL! I would totally sign up :)

To create some of her accents on her card Holly used the gorgeous Crochet Border Die-Namics and the My Favorite Things Circle Stax. What a super adorable card! Totally love it!

If you want a chance at winning some free Birdie Brown digi stamps you need to play along in our Lots of Layers challenge :) You have until Monday night to play along so hopefully over the weekend you have time to get crafty! Also, don't forget to leave your comment on this week's Sensational Sunday Inspirations Post so you are in the drawing for some blog candy! You have until the new post on Sunday to enter :)

Have a great day! May it be full of wonderful "sniffs" because believe me... there are some unpleasant ones...especially when you have a husband and sons - LOL!

Thanks for stopping by!
Laura

Pure Innocence Sweetness

Hi Stampers!

Happy Thursday! We are just now starting to get some snow from the big storm that is supposed to hit. Nothing major yet, only about 1/4" and no winds or nothing so far. Hopefully it stays that way and the weather people blew it way out of proportion  :)

Today's card from Ceal does a little weather forecasting of it's own...I have to say I like the forecast :)

This super cute CAS design uses a Pure Innocence Cutie from My Favorite Things. Those clouds were created using the Die-Namics Cloud Trio and the sentiment is from Flourishes. I love the colors and the cute paper piecing that Ceal did! It is sooo cute!

I just added a few new Pure Innocence stamps and a few new release Die-Namics into the store! Be sure to check them out! I am not done yet but my eyes were crossing because I am so tired. I am going to take a nap and then will be listing more stuff later after I wake up :)

Have a great night all!
Laura

Special Delivery!!

Hi Stampers!

Today is my design team day for The Cutting Cafe and this week we were given the Postage Stamp Shaped Card as our piece to design with.  Now, this is a shaped card and Regina told us we had free reign on how to decorate it! Well, usually that is a great thing EXCEPT...that this whole week my Mojo has been on vacation and no matter what I tried, I just haven't been able to make anything worth a darn! Soooo...I have been pouring over the internet, looking for inspiration and then last night when I still was no closer to figuring out what I wanted to do, I remembered a super gorgeous card that my coloring idol, Alyce from Kit and Clowder had done with the most gorgeous two-tone colored dress...AND... I remembered that she had made a coloring video on how she did it. So I decided to watch it and see if that helped spark some Mojo. Well, when you watch one of Alyce's videos, you are instantly hooked and I ended up watching all 16 of her videos...LOL! Yes, all 16! BUT... I have to say that it was TOTALLY WORTH every minute! I really learned a TON and besides now needing every copic color they make, I was sooo inspired to try some of her technics out!

Now, I only have 12 copics so far, pathetic I know, and they are all skin and hair colors, but I was super excited that I actually had the four colors that Alyce used in her Flynn - hair & skin coloring video, so I could try her hair technique with the same colors!! YAY! I had to compromise on the skin colors because I only had 2 of the 4 that she uses, so I used the blush color I had R20 and in place of her E000 base color I used a Spectrum Noir Color - F2. But I still followed her principles. I had to use Spectrum Noirs on my clothes and also to try out Alyce's Stippling Background Technique also :)

Here is my final result....

EEEEKKKK!!! I still can't believe that I colored this - LOL! I can't stop looking at it :) This image is called Welcome Little One from Crafty Sentiments Designs. That cute little postage stamp saying is one that comes with the Postage Stamp Shaped Card template! I made my first rolled flower (purple one) and placed it on top of a Fancy Flourish Die-Namics. I actually layered the flourish behind my image panel because I didn't want to cover part of the image up.

I decided to make this into an easel card so here is a look at this open...

That cute little postcard was in my Simple Stories paper pack called Baby Steps. I cut it out using die from the My Favorite Things Dies-Namics Postage Stamp Stax, sponged it with Tim Holtz Walnut Stain distress ink, then stamped it with a sentiment from the Hello Baby stamp set from Flourishes.

This card took me F-O-R-E-V-E-R because after I colored my image and was so impressed with myself that I was scared to mess it up - LOL! This image took me about 4 hours to color because I am as slow as molasses since I am learning! I could really tell a difference in how I was able to do the hair with copics and get the super fine feather strokes with them, then when I tried to do the clothing and had to use spectrums. Their nib is not very flexible and doesn't have as fine a tip so I couldn't get the super fine strokes like I could with copics. But, I have to make do with what I have and both types of markers just take practice. After watching Alyce's videos I think my coloring vastly improved already!

Here is a closer look at my Momma-To-Be...

And if you want to see the coloring difference...here is my very last coloring attempt from 2 weeks ago using the same copic hair colors as on my card today....

It's amazing I think!! When you get a chance check out Alyce's videos, she is such a talented lady and a great teacher, they really are an amazing resource if you are just starting out coloring with copics like I am.

But first... be sure to pop over to The Cutting Cafe and get yourself this super cute Postage Stamp Shaped Card! You will love it!

If you want to know the colors I used on my card today...

Skin - Spectrum Noir - F2 - Copics - E00, E11, E13, R20
Hair - Copics - E11, E13, E15, E18
Dress - Spectrum Noirs - IB1, IB2, IB3, BT7
Bow - Spectrum Noirs - LV1, LV2, LV3
Stippling Background - IG1, IG2, IG3, Blender Pen

Thanks for stopping by!
Laura

Challenges I am entering this into:

Crafty Sentiments Designs - Fancy Folds Cards
Divas By Design - Fancy Folds
Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge - Letter "B" - Mine is Baby Bump :)
Bunny Zoe's - Flowers & Pearls

Spring...Where are you?

Hi Stampers!

Hope your President's Day was a great one :) I think the government celebrated by raising our gas prices another 10 cents a gallon for the 3rd week in a row. Ridiculous! I wish it was Summer because I would seriously consider timing how long it would take me to ride my bicycle to work - LOL! It would be a haul though about 12 miles or so. Plus what sucks is working the overnight shift it would be scary riding to work in the country with no lights, except on your bicycle, and nothing but boonies around you, with houses at least a mile apart. I would creep myself out - LOL!

After seeing Olivia's gorgeous card today it makes me wish for Spring more. Right now the winds are howling outside about 40 mph and it is bitter cold out :(  and I need to run into town and do a few errands...GAH! I hate leaving my house when it is freezing out - LOL! Later this week around Thursday, they are talking a pretty major snow storm for us. I have heard snow total ranges anywhere from 4 inches to 20 inches. I don't think they know what they are talking about until the day before so I am not going to worry about it until Wednesday - LOL!

Here is Olivia's beautiful masterpiece...




Isn't this adorable? I love the gorgeous blues that she chose! Looks stunning paired with the yellow! One of my favorite color combinations for Spring & Summer projects. It is such a refreshing look! This adorable little Tilda is called Tilda With Little Pockets and this one is from the With Love Collection. I just loaded the Little Easter Collection and the Hoppy Easter Collection into the store last night! Plus...I have a lot more Magnolia stamps getting loaded later tonight too :) Once you get one of these, you need them all - LOL! They are so cute! Olivia did such a beautiful job coloring this image so it matches the colors of the papers and cardstock! Love it!

Those beautiful little flourishes are created using the My Favorite Things Die-Namics Fancy Flourish Die. If you don't have this one, you need it! It is so pretty and you can use it on everything - LOL! AND there three different sizes that you can get too! Those gorgeous papers are from My Mind's Eye and the flowers are prima. The center circle was made with Spellbinders Dies.

I love this card! Such a breath of fresh air! I better scoot to get my crud done so I can get back home and get the new Loves Rubberstamps Challenge posts ready to go and then get busy listing more goodies :)

Thanks for stopping by today!
Laura

Sensational Sunday Inspirations + Blog Candy

Hi Stampers!

Hope you all have had a wonderful, relaxing & stampy filled weekend! I think the perfect way to spend a Sunday Morning is to grab a cup of coffee, tea or whatever your wake up beverage might be (wow, I am a poet - who knew - LOL) and feast your eyes on some beautiful designs from the Design Team! They are always blowing me away with their Sunday projects and definitely put me in the crafting mood!  But first, before we can peek, we need to chose our winner from last week's comments...

Here is our random winner of last week's BLOG CANDY GIVE-AWAY! According to the random.org is...

Here are your random numbers:

1

Timestamp: 2013-02-17 11:56:20 UTC

Comment #1 - PaperDaisies - who said: Just when I think you ladies can't get better. You go and prove me wrong. Thanks again for the fabulous inspiration. Hugs Nina

Congratulations Nina! Please send me an email at lovesrubberstamps@yahoo.com by Feb. 23rd and I will send you your code for a $10.00 gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps store!

Remember... EVERY SUNDAY... you will have the chance to win a gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps Store.... just for leaving a comment on the post! Winner will be chose with random.org and will be announced on the following Sunday's post!

To try and win a $5.00 Gift Voucher - Just leave a Comment on this Post - that's it - nothing else!!

To try and win a $10.00 Gift Voucher - (we will check these)
                                       1. Be a FOLLOWER of this Blog
                                       2. Be a FOLLOWER of The Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog
                                       3. Be our fan on Facebook
                                       4. Add our Blog Candy Badge to your blog
                                       5. Leave a Comment on this post to show love to the DT

Now on to today's blast of inspiration from our talented Design Team! Here we go....

Olivia Marmara

Crafty Sentiments Designs -He Loves Me

Simple Stories-6x6 Paper Pack Harvest Lane

 

YAY! I am always excited when Olivia gets to join us on Sundays too :) This is sooo pretty! I love the rich colors of the papers and Olivia colored her image perfectly to match! One thing that I love about the Simple Stories papers is they have some built in page elements that you can use to decorate with that match the papers perfectly. Like in this case the little acorn tag and the fishtail behind the image panel. Olivia did an awesome job using these elements in her card! I LOVE that flower too - just beautiful! Awesome job Olivia!!

Athina Emory

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps - Cheryl Alger Collection - A Cup of Cozy Wishes

Simple Stories - 6x6 Paper Pack Handmade Holiday

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Athina used one of my favorite snowlady stamps! She did an amazing job coloring this to match those gorgeous papers! I love the regal, rich tones of the greens and dark reds paired with the neutral browns. Such a cute, country feel! That snow glitter is so pretty! I love the doily and button accents too! Perfect for this style card! Absolutely adore this one!! ♥

Lydia Walker

My Mind's Eye Stamps - Be Amazing

My Mind's Eye Stamps - Be Happy

My Favorite Things Die-Namics - Decorative Doily

My Favorite Things Die-Namics - Decorative Doily Duo

Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Black Soot

Versamark Ink

Now this is such a beautiful scrapbook page! I think it is even more beautiful because it features a picture of our very own Design Team Member.... LYDIA!! This is such a gorgeous lay out and I love all the flowers and accents that Lydia added! How cool is that name tag?!?! I love how Lydia used the stamps to create interest in the background too and the colors are so pretty!! Lydia creates the most stunning pages! I swear that one of these days I will send her some of my photos to scrap - LOL! Do you think she would notice if I sent her 20 + years of pictures - hee hee!

Also...After you are done leaving your comment...visit Lydia's Blog ... she is giving away an amazing candy prize too!!

Shanna Shands

Magnolia - With Love Collection - Bonny Tilda

Authentique - 6x6 Paper pack Lovely

Copic Markers

This is such an adorable card! I love the layout and the colors that Shanna chose! Those two large hearts are really cool looking! I love the Bonnie Tilda images - their little tushies are so cute - LOL!

I love how Shanna used the image so that it looks like the little cupid is flying rather than standing up too. Awesome job!

 

 

 

 

Dangina Martinez

C.C Designs - BUTTERFLY LUCY Rubber Stamp Swiss Pixies

TUXEDO BLACK MEMENTO

HOLY SPARKLES!! This is beautiful! I am loving that glitter paper :) C.C Designs has some of the cutest images and Dangina colors them up so perfect that you just can't help but love them :) Check out that gorgeous hair! I wish Dangina lived closer to me so she could teach me how to color - LOL! Check out the sparkles in her pig tails and barrette too...♥  Sooooo cute!! Speaking of cute...Dangina just became a proud Grandma to the most precious little baby girl! Congratulations again Dangina!! Check out some pictures on Dangina's blog!

 

Marcy Dangcil

Saturated Canary - Valentine's Petals

Authentique-Lovely Collection

Memento Ink-Black Tuxedo

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Spun Sugar

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Victorian Velvet

 

I love this image! No matter how old you get there are some days that you just feel like doing this - LOL! The colors are so pretty and I love all the flowers and pearl bling that Marcy added! Marcy also does amazing at coloring her images! This looks amazing!

What another week of gorgeous projects from the Design Team! At least now I won't have to take my socks off for bed because they blew them off my feet already - LOL! Can you tell that it is my bedtime and that I am tired because I am starting to get silly :)
Thanks for starting your Sunday out with us! I hope the team inspired you to get some stamping done :) Be sure and leave a comment so you are in this week's drawing!

Happy Stampin!
Laura & The Loves Rubberstamps Design Team

OOOOH LA LAAAAA!

Hi Stampers!

How is your weekend going so far? Mine is flying by much faster than I am getting things done...grrrr! Sometimes you just need more hours in a day! I have asked for a few days off from my other job next week so I hope that they get approved and I can have about a solid week of being able to focus on the store, and getting some organization done - LOL! We will see about THAT! Even when I get things organized, it lasts all of about 5 minutes and then it looks like a tornado went through again - LOL!

Today we get to continue on Jacqueline's travel adventures by visiting Paris through her card :) She did a stunning background technique that I am going to have to try after seeing her beautiful card!

I blew it up large so you can see more of the details in her technique :) For this project she used the JustRite Background stamp Paris which she stamped on acetate using black stazon ink. She added some glitter that she tinted with Tim Holtz alcohol ink in Watermelon. Such a pretty pink!

To create that awesome effect with the Eiffel Tower Die...she used silver mirrored paper (I am gonna NEED some of this stuff!) that she also tinted before running it through a Tim Holtz embossing folder called Postal Set. She then cut it out using the La La Land Eiffel Tower Die. This looks amazing! Can you image how prettier this is in person when you can see all the shine, and glittery bling?

I think Jacqueline's project is gorgeous and if you want to read all the details and tips she has on creating this...please visit her blog post.

I better get back to getting supper dishes down...yuck - hate doing dishes - LOL - or just any house work really :D

Have a great weekend! Be sure to visit tomorrow for our Sensational Sundays Inspirational Post! The Sunday Designers always do such a gorgeous job! Plus there is blog candy too :)

Thanks for stopping by!
Laura

A Tummy Full of ....

BUTTERFLIES!

Hi Stampers!

That is the theme of our Happy Holly-Day Friday Inspirational piece today :) I still feel that way about my hubby after being together for 22 years, that is a good sign :)

It is also the way I feel when we have awesome mail days too with lots of new stamp goodies! The pre-order Saturated Canary stamps arrived today!! Super YAY!!!! I also got in a few new Kraftin Kimmie Stamps...most of which I can not debut until the 17th with the new release :) I also received a huge shipment of Magnolia stamps...the new Easter Collection, and I also ordered a few older collections too...Butterfly Dreams, Turning Leaves and a few surprise ones that you will find out about once they are loaded...since they do take me a little bit to get loaded in the store! Otherwise I tell you about them and then they take me forever to get loaded and that sucks - LOL!  :)

I have loads of customer orders to package and ship this weekend so I will try to do as much as I can and hopefully will get to concentrate on getting things in the store once I get the orders out!

Now on to why you swung by today...to see Holly's gorgeous project!

I think this is a super sweet CAS design that Holly created! Holly always says that CAS is harder for her, I feel the same way myself, but when you pair it with a gorgeous background paper like Holly did...it doesn't feel as much like a CAS design because you don't get that tempting white space that begs to be filled with something- LOL!

That gorgeous sentiment is from the My Favorite Things Clearly Sentimental Collection - You Make My Day. I totally need this stamp set know simply for this saying! I think it is so pretty! Holly paired this sentiment with some Die-Namics Butterflies. She kept her embellishments simple and just added some splashes of color using her Candi Dots Embellishments -  Ritz that she colored up to match using a copic marker. That is the cool thing about the candi is that you can use your markers to color them and get an instant matching embellishment :) The best way to hold them in place is to use the Candi Fix adhesive squares. They are the perfect size!

I hope you have some fun plans for the weekend! Mine will be be busy, busy, busy but I am hoping to squeeze in a little bit of fun crafty time in there somewhere! I hope you get to also!

Thanks for stopping by!
Laura

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hi Stampers -

Sorry for the late post today. It has been a week full of very sad lows and high joys. We have had one of those weeks that when it rains it pours, so I am sorry that I haven't been online much.

To start our week last week we found out that my brother and his wife who were expecting a baby in August were told the sad news at the Dr Appt. to hear the heart beat that there was no baby and that she had what is called a molar pregnancy. This is where there is an abnormal growth of tissue instead of a fetus that grows and causes the same symptoms of a pregnancy but that can have serious health risks, including cancer. So my sister-in-law had to have a D&C yesterday and will have to have blood tests every few months for the next year to make sure the abnormal tissue does not start growing again and that she doesn't develop the form of cancer you can get from having a pregnancy like this.

We also found out that my other brother and his wife are expecting their first baby so that was exciting news!

Then we found out last night that my husband's Dad has lung cancer and has had his first round of chemo and has 6 more sessions. He didn't ask his Dad what type or anything so we don't know anything about prognosis or even if it is a fast or slow growing form. So that is pretty scary news. Plus, he lives in Nevada so it makes you feel even more helpless because you are too far away to really help out if he needs it.

Today, well yesterday now since it is after midnight, being Valentine's Day we did celebrate our 16th Wedding Anniversary so that was exciting :) We just went to dinner Tuesday night and stayed home and had a quiet family dinner tonight, since the restaurants are always so packed - LOL! My husband and I actually dated for 6 years prior to getting married so really we have been together for 22 years this year in June.

So needless to say that this has been a week full of roller coaster emotions and so I didn't get much done on my days off except take some time to be with family and regroup. I just want to let you know that I will be getting caught up in my emails and shipping orders by this weekend. I appreciate your patience as we go through this week of curve balls that life throws at you and smacks you right off course sometimes!

Today we have a super sweet card created by Ceal to share with you. I think it is totally adorable and just the kind of sweetness that I needed to make me smile a bit :)

I love the sweet simplicity of this design! Ceal used two adorable stamp sets from Lawn Fawn called Bee Mine and Interlocking Backdrops. She stamped this using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink so she could color it using copics. I think these little hexagons are adorable and look like the little bee's honeycomb! Super cute! I love the little heart trail behind the bee which is part of the stamped image. This is a really adorable Valentine!

Thanks for stopping by today...hopefully my week coming up will be boring and news free and live by the adage of no news is good news :)

If you get a chance - check out our Sensational Sundays Inspiration post if you haven't yet and leave your comment so you can be in this week's drawing. Also be sure to play along in our All About Love Challenge! We would love to see what you create!

Have a great day and be sure to check back later this morning for your Happy Holly-Day Friday Inspirational project and start your weekend off with some awesome eye candy :)

Hugs -
Laura

Love is in the air...

Hi Stampers!

Hope your week started off on the right foot! I have 4 days off from my other job but loads of stuff to get caught up on crafty wise and store wise so I will be busy busy...but it will be fun busy not UGH busy - LOL!

Monday's are always fun here because we get to see a super cute project from Olivia! YAY!!

How adorable! This image that Olivia used is the Love is in the Air Tilda from the Magnolia With Love Collection. Olivia also did some paper piecing on her outfit! She always does amazing at that technique! I love the papers that she used! They are from the Authentique Lovely Collection and that is just what they are! The accent pieces are soooo cute! Check out that gorgeous key! Looks perfect with the key designer paper! Totally love that! I also spy some candy! Card Candi Dots that is! These are so fun and easy to use! They are like brads but made of a thin chipboard and have no feet so you just stick them on with foam adhesive. Then you get the look of brads without those bumps from the legs! Love them! This is such a super cute card and Olivia did such an amazing job! Completely love it and it makes my Monday a little brighter :)

Have a wonderful day!
Laura

Sensational Sunday Inspirations + Blog Candy

Hi Stampers!

Are you in for a treat today! The Design Team ladies have each created such GORGEOUS projects! I am super excited to share them with you today! They definitely put me in the crafting mood!  But first, we need to chose our winner from last week's comments...

Here is our random winner of last week's BLOG CANDY GIVE-AWAY! According to the random.org is...

Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2013-02-10 11:25:20 UTC

Comment # - Mary - Mary said: Congrats Heidi! The DT creations are gorgeous! Thanks for the amazing inspiration!!

Congratulations Mary! Please send me an email at lovesrubberstamps@yahoo.com and I will send you your code for a $10.00 gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps store!

Remember... EVERY SUNDAY... you will have the chance to win a gift voucher to the Loves Rubberstamps Store.... just for leaving a comment on the post! Winner will be chose with random.org and will be announced on the following Sunday's post!

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Now on to today's blast of inspiration from our talented Design Team! Here we go....

Athina Emory

Saturated Canary - Little Lady Bug

My Minds Eye Ruby

TUXEDO BLACK MEMENTO INK PAD 
Pumice Stone Distress Ink

Athina did such a gorgeous job! The colors in the image are so deep and rich looking. Check out the folds in her dress! This is the coolest layout also, the trim as the V-Shape is really neat looking!! I really love the designer papers that Athina chose they are so pretty with this image. The embellishments and the stamped ribbon are just perfect too! Absolutely adore this card! Awesome job Athina!!

Dangina Martinez

LOVE IS IN THE AIR TILDA from Magnolia

TUXEDO BLACK MEMENTO INK PAD 
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad BLACK SOOT

Oh My Word!! Total LOVE! I love this country feel with the newsprint paper and that gorgeous red gingham ribbon! I am a total sucker for gingham prints - LOL! Dangina is so amazing at coloring, I wish she would bottle some of her talent and share it with me - LOL! This image is colored up so adorable and I love the added areas of glittery bling. Those roses are so pretty and add the perfect touch! Beautiful job Dangina!!

Shanna Shands

 MME papers, Tuxedo Black Ink Pad,  Tilda Hiding Heart from the 2013 With Love collection.

This is such a fun and funky layout! Shanna always colors her images up so perfectly! What beautiful designer papers to use, I really love the text paper in the background piece. The wide ribbon across the middle is awesome. This would be such a sweet Valentine's Day card to receive so someone will be very lucky :)

Lydia Walker

Whimsy Stamps 'Sunkissed' 
Paper Smooches 'We Connect'
Die-namics 'Decorative Doily'
Die-namics 'Decorative Doily Duo'
Die-namics 'Faux Crochet Border'
Die-namics 'Notebook Edge'
Versa Mark
Distress Ink 'Vintage Photo'
Distress Ink 'Tea Dye'
Spectrum Noir Markers
CC Ultra Smooth Card

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! This is sooooooo darling! I love everything about this and don't even know where to start - LOL! Those soft pretty colors...the COLORING on this image is SUPER CUTE!!! Lydia told me that she just picked up the pastels in the Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and this looks amazing! The background around the image is perfect! I hope Lydia uses her pastels lots and lots because the effect is beautiful! After she colored this cutie I can see why she is "addicted" to Elisabeth Bell images now - LOL! I am an Elisabeth Bell addict myself so I know where she is coming from - LOL! I will not even say how many I have let's just say a few...hee hee! The Die-Namics Doilies and Dies are so beautiful with this too! Stunning Job Lydia!! ♥ Totally LOVE this! ♥

Marcy Dangcil

The Greeting Farm -  Stella

Bo Bunny-Love Letters

Memento Ink-Tuxedo Black
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Frayed Burlap
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Broken China
Best Glue Ever

This has got to be the absolute CUTEST mailbox ever! Marcy is amazing at altering items to make them 1000 times more adorable :) I love the papers that she chose, those love postage stamps are perfect! Check out that turqoise bling ribbon!!! GORGEOUS!! Little Miss Stella is perfectly colored and just pops against that beautiful background! Someone is going to be very luck this Valentine's Day to get this super cute gift! Awesome job Marcy!! Love your stunning, sunny, warm looking views too...way better than cold, blah, muddy, icky, snowy views - LOL!

WOWZERS!! You all did such an amazing job this week - they all look absolutely awesome! I am so blessed to have found such talented, amazing ladies designing for us :) Thank you so much for all you do - it means the world to me :)

I hope our Design Team ladies have inspired you as much as they have me today! Thank you so much for stopping by and be sure to leave them some love and you will be in our drawing for next week's candy!

Have a great day!
Laura & The Loves Rubberstamps Designers