Baseball Birthday

Happy hump day everyone!  Hope your week is going well whether it be working or crafting or both.

Just a quick post before I'm off to putz around for the day.

This handsome guy is from MayzyArt and is called Baseball.  You can find him and the rest of his pals in MayzyArt Etsy Shop. I've paired him up with some papers from Basic Grey called Life of the Party.  The baseball brads I picked up from Archivers.  The baseball stamp is from My Favorite Things from a die and stamp set called Have a Ball.

The sentiment on the inside of the card is from PTI from a set called Say it with Style.

I've used copics, as always, to color him up.  Skin E13, 11, 00; reds R59, 39, 14, 12; bat E25, 23, 21.

Thanks for stopping by today!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly:  Sketch 

Tuesday Throwdown:  Masculine

Here Come the Boys:  Anything Goes

2 Sisters:  Bring on the Boys

Little Claire's:  Male Themed

One Stop Craft:  For the Boys

Fairy Tale:  men/Boys

S J Crafts:  All about the Boys + something from old from stash (brads)

Simon Says Stamp:  Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Designs...Anything Goes

It's time for another weekly challenge at Crafty Sentiments Designs!  It's Team A's turn and it seems to be everyone's fav...Anything Goes.

You can use any image you'd like to play along with us though we sure do love seeing CSD stamps or digis!

 

This wonderfully cute image is called Annabel-Sweet Treats and you can find her in the store HERE...

I've paired her up with some MME papers which I think are called Dolled Up.  The pearls are from the Crafty Sentiments Store

She was all dressed up in her copics.  The shirt was done with BG75, 72, 10, 70; the pants in Y06, 02, 0000; her hair E49, 59, 25, 53, 110; and her skin E11, 00, 000.

Here is the inside of the card.  The butterfly die is from Cheery Lynn.  The sentiment was stamped in black versafine and is from a Technique Tuesday set called Bring on the Sun.

Thanks for stopping by today to visit, and I hope you enjoyed Sweet Treats.  Don't forget to join us this week at Crafty Sentiments Designs for our Anything Goes challenge.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Crafty Boots:  Anything Goes

Fashionista Challenge:  simply Summer

Kaboodle Doodles:  Anything Goes

Ooh La La Creations:  Make it Girly

Cutie Pie:  dies/Punches

Totally Stampalicious:  Summertime

The Garden Walk

Welcome back to another Monday Inspiration showing off another fantastic Little Miss Muffet Stamp.

This gorgeous girl is called La Promenade au Jardin...translated...The Garden Walk. She's now only available in foam mounted rubber.  The sidewalk is an element from Make it Crafty's Paris collection.  Isn't she beautiful and all ready for a stroll on a gorgeous sunny day?  If she used that umbrella out here in Colorado the last couple of days with our 50+mph winds, she'd have been turned into Mary Poppins and flown away with it.  I've paired her up with some older Prima papers.  The die cut border is called Meridian border from Memory Box.  The tab die cut is from MFT and the sentiment stamped in versafine is from Technique Tuesday.  The pearl swirls were from my stash that I picked up from Archiver's.

She was colored up with copics with the blues being done in B02, 00, 000; the peaches in YR02, 00, 0000.

Little Miss Muffet's current challenge of Anything Goes is still open, and we'd love to see your beautiful designs. 

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Crafting When we Can:  Fashion and Bling (C5)

Joanna Sheen:  Remember When
Sugar Creek Hollow:  Vintage Fashion

Watcha Doing

I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!  I believe I've reach a new low in my crafting hoarding.  I knew I had purchased the MFT Pretty Pocket Die and Stamp set about a year ago and had used it a total of one time.  That in and of itself is pretty pathetic.  But I had seen the digi I'm using today from Tiddly Inks and thought, hey I could use her with this pocket set.  So I went ahead and bought her, downloaded into the Tiddly Inks folder and OMG...there were digis I had purchased from Tiddly Inks and hadn't even unzipped the file!  Now that is a new low even for me.  

I can say for this Wryn I've used her within a couple of days of purchase!  It's a small step, but a step none the less.

Here is the always adorable Wryn from Tiddly Inks called Watcha Doing.  I thought she'd go perfectly with the MFT Pretty Pocket die and I've used some various stamps from this set as well.  The papers are from MME. The swirly flowers stems on the side were done in zing EP in Butter as were the swirls on the pocket.  The pocket stitching and sentiments are also from this set and done in versafine in black.  The gems were from my stash as was the pink flower and the teal flower is from Mark Richards.

I've combined Wryn with the Garden of Love digi which is also from Tiddly Inks.  Her skin was done in E11, 00, 000 and her hair with E18, 19, 08, 02.  Some of the flowers received glossy accents with some glamour dust.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Great Impressions:  Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays:  Pocket full of posies

The Squirrel and the Fox:  Best Friends

Totally Gorjuss:  Something New (new digi)

Hotshots:  Die cuts

Southern Girls:  Die cut or punch

Tiddly Inks:  Flowers

Last week was the US Air Force Academy graduation.  There is always a lot of traffic congestion, out of town looky loos acting as if they've never seen a plane before (while driving on an interstate), and of course this year was even worse because the president was in town to give a speech.  But one of the cool things of living right near the Academy are the practice flights the Thunderbirds do prior to graduation.  I was able to snap a couple of pictures, but I have to say those suckers travel so fast and it is hard to capture their true awesomeness.

This first picture is about 3-5 miles away.  In the second picture they've turned North heading towards the house and the last one they are right the backyard.  It took a total of about 6-7 seconds from pic 1 to pic 3.  I wanted to tell these pilots to go a little farther north before they turned in the last picture, but apparently they weren't hearing my telepathic messages!

A quick funny story (at least I cracked myself up with this one).  I saw a car coming into the next door neighbor's driveway (the good State Farm kind of neighbor and not the psychopath on the other side) and thought damn that's a hot car (brand new black Camero) and when did Kim (the neighbor) get this car.  Then this really tall, muscular good looking guy gets out and gets stuff out of the back seat, and I'm like whoaaaa who is this strapping hot guy!  OMG, I've turned into a pedophile when I realized that was Kim's oldest son (who is the same age as mine..22) and wasn't he just 9 years old yesterday?  He is a really good kid and damn good looking.  He also just graduated from Colorado State, was commissioned 1st. Lt and received his pilot slot.  I told Kim...dang what a great catch he'll be for someone and there's hope yet for American youth...and of course I confessed to her what I thought when I didn't recognize him...she laughed and didn't report me:)!!!

Iris May

I have a quick post today to show off another colored version of Iris May Hatter from Little Miss Muffet Stamps.  You can find the always beautiful Iris May HERE in the store.  She comes in foam mounted red rubber.

I've paired her up with some papers from MME.  The ticket sentiment and die cut are from Whimsy Stamps as are the little butterfly stamps.

She has been colored up with copics with just a little bit of stickles on the hem of her dress for some sparkle.

The current challenge at Little Miss Muffet is Anything Goes and you still have plenty of time to play along for a chance to win some wonderful rubber stamps.  The new releases from Thursday are available in the store HERE!

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Fat Pages and Card with Attitude:  Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments:  Any sentiment

Charisma Cards:  No flowers added

Paper Crafting Journey:  Anything for kids

Winner's May 20-24th

A big thank you to everyone who played along this week and wanting to give these poor neglected and underused stamps a home!

So without further babbling on my part here is the list of winners:

Here are your random numbers:

35 6 19 22 42
1 4 17 

Timestamp: 2012-05-24 15:04:32 UTC

IBFS mystery bags winners

Magdalena

Jayne Ainsworth

Chrizette

Whipper Snapper Winner

Cheryl (shestamps)

Magnolia Stamps winner

Isabelle

Christmas Stamps Winners

Lau W 

Lisa Jane

Annelies

Congratulations to all of the winners.  If the winners could shoot me an email (shelbythomas26@yahoo.com) with your mailing address, I'll get your stamps out to you ASAP.

This was the last weekly giveaway for a while.  I'm sure I'll be back to doing these in the fall as my stockpile grows and other stamps and supplies get shoved aside.

The month of June will mark my one year blogoversary!  I'll be having a month long link up party for some candies.  There will be some of my favorite crafting supplies such as a Memory Box die bundle and coordinating stamps, paper pads galore, gift certificates (I'll put in both US and European companies so y'all aren't paying an arm and a leg for shipping if you win) and the new Tim Holtz distress markers to name just a few of the ideas I have percolating in my little brain.

The more followers who link up. the more prizes I will be adding which means a better chance for you to win!

Little Miss Muffet...New Releases

It's time for another new release at Little Miss Muffet!  Barbara has been busy designing some new images, and you're going to like these critters:)!  Head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Blog to check out the amazing work from the DT and to the store to pick up your favs!

Today I combined two of the new images...

Buttercup and Daisy Rock.  You can find both of these in the What's New section of the store.   I've used some MME paper called Be Amazed.  I'm amazed that this pad of paper sat in my drawer for a couple of months before I pulled it out to use it...sad state of affairs I tell ya!  Oh and I finally got around to using the MFT rolled flower die which I picked up probably 6-7 months ago.  Oh good heavens, my sausage fingers are crap at coordination with doing these rolled flower bits.  I really wanted to do felt, but those flowers looked hideous.  Well practice practice practice:)  I filled the centers with gold viva decor liquid pearls and then put a Melissa Frances pearl in on top.  the leafy die is from Marianne designs and the cloud dies are from Memory Bo which I ran through an embossing folder.  The sentiment is from the PTI collection called Mixed messages.

Buttercup was colored up with copics in W02, 00; the leaves were done with YG67, 63, 03, G20; the grass in G40, 82, 99.

Thanks for swinging by today.  Don't forget to head on over to the LMMS blog to see the rest of the new release.  We still have our current challenge running which is Anything Goes.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Penny's Paper Crafty:  Anything Goes

Crafts and Me:  Flowers

Bearly Mine:  Anything Goes

Karen's Doodles...Stitching

It's time for another two week challenge at Karen's Doodles.  This is our second to last challenge with our last two week challenge happening on June 4th.  So play along while you can to have your chance of winning some fabulously cute digis.

You don't have to use a Karen's Doodles image to play along and to be entered into the random drawings for second and third place (2 digis and 1 digi respectively), but to win Card of the Week and 3 digi images of your choice, you must use a Karen's Doodles image.

Our challenge for this two week challenge is Stitching real or faux.  Thank goodness for stitched ribbon since I haven't sewn a thing since junior high home economics class!

 I've used this wonderful digi called Backpack Boy who is so happy to get the heck out of school for summer.  I thought the timing was perfect since the last day of school for our district is this Friday.  I've paired him up with some Bo Bunny papers called Cambridge Stripes.  The mesh behind the image is from my stash and the stitched ribbon is from PTI.  The punch is from EK success and the sentiment from a Technique Tuesday collection.  He's been cut out and framed with Spellbinder dies.

His shorts were done in copics in G99, 94, 82; his shirt in B18, 16, 14, 12 and the backpack in YG99, 97, 95, 93.

Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope you'll join us at Karen's Doodles for our two week stitching challenge.

Monday Inspiration with Basil

The project team at Little Miss Muffet Stamps are doing Monday Inspiration posts to show off the wonderful images/stamps available from LMMS.  

Today I'm showing off the ever versatile Basil.  You can find her in cling mounted rubber HERE in the LMMS store.  I've colored her up on numerous occasions and she looks great with different skin tones and different hair colors.

I've paired her up with some Bo Bunny papers from last year, the ribbon was from my stash as was the pin.  The Leafy Flourish die cut is from MFT, the sentiment from Maya Road and I just cut out the banner and attached to the pin to make it look a little like a flag.  The flowers are from Prima.

Her skin was done with E13, 11, 00; pants in G24, 21, 20; blues in B06, 04, 02, 000 and the yellows in Y06, 02, 0000.

The current challenge at LMMS of Anything Goes is still happening so pop on over and play along!