Make a Wish

Hi Friends and Stampers,

It's definitely a Holly-Day today, it's the beginning of my holiday weekend and my day to show you some inspiration over at The Loves Rubberstamps Inspiration Blog. Have you seen all the cute Pure Innocents in the store lately? I know Laura has a lot more to add to the store.

This new Pure Innocents is called Make a Wish. I am making a wish that everything turns okay with Laura today bringing her Grandma home to recover. There is a lot to do and I know she has been getting prepared for this all week, so I hope things go perfectly today and this weekend.

I used the Die-namics Insert It - InstaFrame and I love how these look like Polaroid pic's. When I was eleven, in the sixth grade, my Mom had a Polaroid camera that I used to play around with and take pic's of me and my friends. I had so much fun with that and so I really love having this frame to play around with my cute little images. I also used Fishtail Flag Stax and Upsy Daisy. I had to go on a wild goose chase to find this paper. It was, "somewhere" lol, and boy don't I ever need to get organized. lol. I colored her up with my Copic Markers, and used X-press It Blending Card.

I hope you have some great plans this weekend and have a little crafty time to play with us in our Current Challenge - Anything But A Card! It was be a great excuse to get a Christmas or Birthday Tag done and still be in our challenge for a chance to win a prize! But whatever you do, have fun!

Thanks for stopping by today,

Holly

P.S. Archie Bunker update - Well this is the end of the second week of having Archie.  The gal at the Animal Rescue is coming up this weekend again to see how things are going and it will be decision time.  Not that there is any decision to make, he is so already part of the family.  lol.   Even in the Gremlin moments.  We have taken Archie for better or worse and we already love him so.  There have actually only been four Gremlin moments and each time they are less severe and each time, I can pretty much talk him down and divert his attention to other things.  Lucky Day is re-establishing her role as the Alpha slowly but surely and even Krackin Up is starting to become a little more aggressive in his turn for attention and what he wants.  All three are a joy to our family and have brought much love and happiness to us.  So he stays. 

If you have been thinking about getting a dog or a cat lately, I would encourage you to check out all the animal rescues in your area.  Some are better than others, but most will have already taken the dog to the Vet to be checked out, spayed or neutered, shots up to date and home bound ready.  I am amazed at how many pure breeds there are available in these Animal Shelters, so if you are not finding what you are looking for right away, do not give up, keep looking! 

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Happy Wednesday!

I hope everyone is having a great day today.  It's time for a New Challenge over at the All That Scraps Challenge Blog!  And it's my favorite one, anything goes! 

If you decide to play with us here's what you need to know:

• Your project must use a C.C. Designs stamp, including - AmyR, Drozy's Darlings, Mashi's Muffins, Sweet November, Lil Lads & Lolitas & Webbie's Words. It will be deleted if not.
• Link up with Inlinkz by June 4th. This challenge will run two weeks.

Today I am using Sweet November Fairwee Piper and Mia Banner.  My little heart stamp was a bit big for my banner but of course I didn't realize that until it was stamped, lol.   I wrote in the I and U.  This was a lot of fun to color up.  I decided to use my Cutups clouds as a base and sponge my sky and ground.  I did use copics for the ground just under them though. 

I barely got this one in under the wire.  My son has been sick with the flu and it seems like it's been one thing after another.  I am not usually too far ahead but rarely behind.  I must confess though that watching the news took priority  to catch up on the Tornado updates.  I will definitely keep those victims in my thoughts and prayers.  It's going to be a major undertaking to start over.  I was so amazed to learn that this happen in the exact same place a while ago.  I think I might be moving the town over one way or the other and just call this area, "Tornado Way." 

I can see Friday just over the horizon peeps!  Hang in there!  It's a long weekend coming up and that means catch up and get ahead time!  lol. 

Thanks for Looking and for your kind Comments.

Holly

AnyThing But a Card

Hi Stampers and Friends,

It's time for a new Loves Rubberstamps Challenge!  Anything but a card!  Well, this one always stumps me.  It's not that I don't make three D projects, it's just that when pressed to do it, I am always deer in the head lights! lol.   My Sister is embarking on a new adventure in life and I love making her journals because I know she writes every day.  So I used this opportunity to make a journal cover and will work on the inside for next weeks Challenge, lol.  Is that cheating? lol. 

As some of you know, Laura Love from Loves Rubberstamps, has had a few family emergencies and has been really busy with life lately.  She is working on getting emails answered and orders shipped but has time for very little else other than her family, so I wanted to thank you for your patience and let you know that she does think of all of her challenge players and customers as priority right after her family.  

Also I have been so bad at getting back to comments and checking out my readers blogs because I have been double duty on blog posting and so busy lately.  Archie Bunker has kept me busy and I want his first few weeks here to go well, so I have been spending lots of time with the dogs and the family.  I feel like time is on warp speed and unfortunately I am not, lol.  I will get around to seeing your projects and blogs again soon! 

These are the products I have used:

Saturated Canary - Pack Light
MFT Die-namics: Deocorative Doily die, Upsey Daisy, Fishtail Flag Stax, Fishtail Flag Stax Layers,
La La Land - Large Flourish
MME DP
Copic Markers X-press it blending paper
Copic Markers
Best Glue Ever

Thanks for Looking and for your kind Comments!

Holly

Thoughts and Prayers to the Tornado victims in Moore, Oklahoma

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado victims.  Those that lost their homes and everything they own, those that lost a family member, and those who are traumatized by this violent tornado. 

Holly

Teacher Appreciation.....

Hello Friends and Fellow Stampers!

Happy Holly-Day Friday and TGIF to me, because I am off this weekend! What's even sweeter is my guys are headed to L.A. for the weekend to go visit a guy friend, making it an "all guys" weekend and they are headed to see the new Star Trek movie at the IMAX. You know what that means? Whoo Hoo, stampy time for me! lol. What are your weekend plans? Have you had a chance to play in our current Loves Rubberstamps Challenge yet? May flowers! So easy. And there is a prize (actually two) involved!

Today I pulled out a few of My Favorite Things and made a LATE teacher appreciation card. We also got Mrs. Chavez a couple of Apple shaped treats from See's Candy that she is going to love! And we are presenting her with this card and Candy on, "Open House" night, lol. Smart huh? lol

MFT - ALM - An Apple for Teacher

Die-namic Rounded Banner Trio

Die-namic Fishtail Flag Stax

Die-namic Fishtail Flags Layers Stax

Die-namic Open Scallop Doily Duo

Copic X-press paper

Copic Sketch Markers

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Designer Paper

 



Remember, if you see something in the store that is sold, just drop Laura an email and ask her to get it for you, or if she carries a line that you are looking for a particular item from and don't see it, email her. It's just that easy. That is how I started with Laura. I was hoping she would carry a particular Flourishes Stamps set and she ordered it for me....okay, she ordered all three of them for me, lol.

I'm playing in the current sketch Challenge for MFT's.

Anyone ready for an Archie Update?

He stands about 12 inches tall and is about 12 inches long, and he is the new Alpha. lol. He rules the roost, or so he thinks. Everything was going fabulous until I had to put him in his cage at night. At my house, all dogs in at night and each one has their own cage in our room. Once I closed the door he went all Grimlin on me. Snarling and biting at the cage and growling at me. Of course I had to bark and growl back at him, lol, he did not know what to make of that at all. However the next couple nights I have lured him in with a treat and now he happily bounces into the cage and makes himself comfortable for the night. In fact, when the alarm goes off, he can be found laying on his back all stretched out, sleeping like a baby. The second event happened when my husband carried him outside at dinner time. He actually snapped at him and bit him, but not hard. He does not like not being invited to dinner at all, lol. But the last couple nights I have again lured him out with a treat and he is just fine with that. So as long as it's Archies idea and he can freely walk into the situation, he is fine, lol. Otherwise, he is cute, adorable and loves me as much as I love him now. So we are a work in progress on some rules and boundaries, but he is catching on quickly. The other two dogs just don't know what to think of him and they keep looking at me as if to say, "Isn't it time for him to go now?" lol. I'm sure in time they will all work it out.

Thanks for checking in and I hope you get a chance to play in our May flowers Challenge this week!

Holly

Bling it Shaped Card

Hello Stampers!  Another mid week reminder about our Shaped Card Challenge over at All That Scraps!  If you haven't made yours yet, you still have a week....yeah! 

Today I am using Bling Emma, part of the April Release that I hadn't had a chance to ink up yet.  I made this for my co-worker who was recently married.  This time I used my new BluePrint dies from MFT to use as the shape and the frame.  I added some bling to the corners and viola!  I cut out another black panel with my larger frame and scored just at the inside scallop and adhered it to the back. 

I hope you are having a great week and have a chance to play in our Challenge.

Your project must use a C.C. Designs stamp, including - AmyR, Drozy's Darlings, Mashi's Muffins, Sweet November, Lil Lads & Lolitas & Webbie's Words. It will be deleted if not.

Link up with Inlinkz by May 21st. This challenge will run two weeks.

Thanks for looking and for your kind comments!

Holly

Spirit of the flowers

Happy Tuesday!  It's time for another Challenge over at the Loves Rubberstamps Challenge Blog, this time we want to see your May Flowers!  I would like to thank our Sponsor - Birdie Brown for providing all the design team members with her wonderful images. 

Okay, well my little owl gets jealous when it's not posted too, lol.

Today I am showing you, Silhouette Kids.  I managed to get the boy and the field of tulips on Adobe.  From there it went south and so my dear sweet husband put the boy on the flower field for me, lol.  I am so not tricky, but I knew what I wanted to do, so that counts.  I have seen pictures layered one on the other so many times, I just decided that I wanted to try it myself.  Just clean and simple, but layered with dimensional foam.  Now I do like it, but I think in retrospect, I might have added a black layer between the layers.  What do you think?  I layers this up with my MFT Die-namic Blue Print 1.  Now I now Laura has them because she gave me this set!  Wasn't that sweet?!  And of course you know I love it because I have been using it over and over again, lol.

I am keeping this short and sweet today.  I am up an hour past my bedtime and I have to work an extra shift this week.  EEEK!  Is it Friday yet? lol.

Thanks for Looking and for your kind Comments.

Holly