Rain Drops Keep falling on my head

Hello and Happy Tuesday!

It's time for a new Challenge over at Loves Rubberstamps!  April Showers -
Think - Rain Showers, Wedding Showers, Bridal Showers, Baby Showers.  I chose a cute image from one of this weeks sponsors,  Paper Nest Dolls.  Thanks so much for providing the Design Team with adorable images to use.  We are also sponsored by Eureka Stamps this week, so we have prizes galore to win! 

Products used:
Paper Nest Dolls - Playing in the rain
Spellbinders - Frame
Copic Markers

I colored up this cute image and scene with my copic markers.  I paper pieced the umbrella and matching hair bow. 

Also, you do not want to miss out on our Sunday Blog Hop and comment to win.  Laura has listed her Design Team favorites on her blog.

I miss the weekend and wish I could go back and do it again.  On Saturday I went for an ALL day workshop with Irina from La La Land Crafts.  OMGosh 11 hours of pure wonderfulness.  She is so artistic and out of the box.  She has the great ideas.  I just love going to her workshops and cannot wait til she comes back again.  If you ever get a chance to go to one, you will not be sorry.  I will be showing you my project soon, I promise! lol.

On Sunday, I hung out with the family.  We went to brunch, then we went to Michael's and shopped for a craft project and then we came home and got started on our shoe-box float of California!  FUN! 

I cannot wait to see your wonderful creations on the Challenge Blog. 

Thanks for Looking and for your kind Comments.

Holly

Sunday Blog Hop

Hi,

Don't forget you have all week to Blog Hop along and Comment for your chance to win for the Sunday Inspiration  at Loves Rubberstamps.

Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links. One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $10 Loves Rubberstamps store gift certificate. So, all you have to do is hop along and see all the creations and leave a little love for the Designers! You have until Saturday, May 4th, at 8pm CST. Have fun and we hope that you enjoy the hop!

Laura - Loves Rubberstamps Inspiration Blog

Dangina
Athina
Shanna
Lydia
Marcy
Ivonne

I hope you can hop along to see what all my fellow Design Team members have done. 

Holly

Tulip Way

Happy Holly-Day Inspirational Friday!  I feel so great this morning.  It's my day off and I got to sleep in.  So I got a little catch up on my sleep and I still feel like I  have a whole day to do what I want!  Whooo Hooo!  I tend to stay up to late and sleep deprive myself all week long, lol.  I know, such a child.
Oh and it's payday!  And I worked extra on this paycheck.  I know where I am going Shopping! 

Actually this is going to be a great weekend.   Guess who is coming to town to the LSS?  Yep, The La La Land Lady herself!  So I'm in workshops all day tomorrow!  Fun!!!  I love these cute little images as well and I love learning how other people put their own spin on creating.  It gets the mojo juices flowing and I love that feeling. 

For today's card, I combined MFT Springtime Wishes with Magnolia Tulip Walkway.  I was not sure if the the scene stamps would work with my MFT gals, but they are PERFECT!  Thank God today is payday so I can pick up a few of them before you all run and grab them all up, lol.  Laura has a few of these scenes in her store, so I am so excited I decided to "try" it out.  When I first saw the tulip walkway scene,  I knew it would go perfectly with the Springtime Wishes Tulip gal. 

Do you know how to put a scene with a stamp image?  First I inked up my Spingtime Wishes gal (with Memento Black Ink) and stamped her onto Copic Paper.  Then I inked her up again and stamped her onto scratch paper.  Where I work, vendors are always coming in and giving us sticky note paper with their logo on it.  So I just use these because they are all various sizes.  Then I fussy cut out the girl.  You don't have to be exact and I did not cut out the flowers or stems.  Then I put removable dotto on the scratch paper cut-out.  And then I inked up my Magnolia Tulip Walkway and stamped it on scratch paper.  And I hold it next to the MFT gal and get an idea where abouts I want to stamp this image over her.  I knew I wanted her feet about center with the walkway.  And then I reink it and ink it on top of the Springtime Wishes gal that is covered with fussy cut scratch paper.  Then I airbrushed and was careful around the ground border.  And then I remove the scratch paper and viola.  I have the perfect Outdoor Scene.  Then I colored with Copics, stamped the image onto paper and fussy cut out the dress and bow and glued them on with the best glue ever. 

I used this weeks sketch from MFT,  Echo Park Paper - Sweet Girl, and MFT Crown Border, that I added some pearls to the tops of the crowns and then added pearls to the top of the card. 

I hope you have a great weekend and have a chance to play in our Challenge - The Great Outdoors.  And go shopping for borders and cute little images!!! 

Thanks for Looking and your kind Comments.

Holly

Mashi Muffin's Dad

Hi Stampers!

Happy Wednesday.  I hope you are having a great week and see that Friday is in sight! lol.   It's time for a New All That Scraps Challenge!  And it's my favorite one, Anything Goes!  I am using the new Mashi Muffin's Dad.  Isn't he great! I love the Mashi Muffin line and Dad is fabulous.  It gives me a chance to stock up on my Man cards which is something I am behind on always, lol. 

Actually, my Mom usually takes my supply of cards every few months with her.  She loves looking at each one of them and then deciding which lady will like which cards and then she sells them for me, lol.   The one's she can stand to get rid of, that is.  But she has fun doing this and then I am motivated to make more cards to replenish my stock again.  Whatever works huh?

I used this fabulous sketch from Sketch Saturday.  The paper is from Crate Paper 6X6 pad that I picked up fairly recently at the Local Scrapbook Store.  Love this paper and it goes so well with masculine images.   I will definitely be reaching for this pad of paper again.  I colored my man up with Copic Markers.  And he is off to work! lol.

 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 May 7th. This challenge will run two weeks.

Thanks for Looking and for your kind Comments. 

Holly

The Great Outdoors

Hello and Welcome to another great Tuesday and a New Challenge for Loves Rubberstamps - The Great Outdoors - Create an outdoor scene.  This week we have The Paper Shelter sponsoring us and I would like to thank them for the adorable images they provided the Design Team to use. I chose, Adorable Cowgirl.   I printed her out twice.  Once on Copic Paper and once on printer paper.  After I colored her with my Copic Markers on the Copic Paper, I fussy cut out the printer paper image and used my air gun for spraying the clouds and ground.  I also used MFT Die-Namic Fence Die, Grass Die, Blue Prints 1 die and Sun Die.  I also used the Best Glue Ever!

It is definitely Spring time here and feels like Hot Summer weather is right around the corner.  I did not get the planting I wanted to get done this year, but I have lots of other things to keep me busy, lol.  I just love seeing all the green and the blooms and the new life Springing forth.  So I am loving the great outdoors. 

I hope to see your fabulous creations in our new Challenge. 

Thanks for Looking and for your kind Comments!

Holly

Cruising Chloe

Hello and Welcome to my last Design Team Post for Sparkle Creations Rubberstamps.  I would like to thank Sparkle for asking me to be on her team.  I love her stamps, the images are so adorable and the quality is great. 

Time for a new Challenge, this time it's a fabulous sketch design.  I couldn't get enough Washi tape after the last challenge, lol, so I decided to use this Washi tape that I picked up from Michael's.  I had Cruising Chloe in mind when I bought it, lol.  Have you ever done that?  Seen something that would go perfect with this or that image you have?  I do this all the time, lol.  My papers are from MME "Memorable" 6X6 pad.  I colored this image up with my Copics. 

Please stop by and see what the rest of the Design Team has come up with:

Sparkle Design Team

Danielle Lounds
Joni Wilson
Shaela Odd
Simonne Clay
Sparkle Smith
Stephanie Kraft
Holly Flores - That's Me
Sparkle Creations Rubberstamp Blog

Thanks for Looking and for your kind Comments!

Holly

Sunday Blog Hop

Welcome to the Loves Rubberstamps weekly Sensational Sunday Blog Hop! The Design Team has created some gorgeous projects for your Inspiration. Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, each stop will have a full list of links. One of the Design Team posts is the hop's Sensational Sunday Sweet Spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $10 Loves Rubberstamps store gift certificate. So, all you have to do is hop along and see all the creations and leave a little love for the Designers! You have until Saturday, April 13th, at 8pm CST. Have fun and we hope that you enjoy the hop!

Laura - Loves Rubberstamps Inspiration Blog
Dangina
Athina
Shanna
Marcy
Ivonne

So Sorry I missed my Friday Holly-Day.  We had a family emergency.  Our living room wide screen TV went kaplunk.  Like 13 years ago I bought a 55 inch wide screen TV and was huge!  And it finally gave up the ghost.  When I bought that TV, it was delivered and the guys set up the cable and gave me an in service on the remote.  Which was as easy as the one before that I bought, plugged it in and hooked it up to the black cable cord.  Well, times have changed haven't they?  And wide screen TV's range in price like I cannot believe!  We finally settled on an LG at Sam's Club at 8:30 pm, lol.   Yeah, we closed with Sam's, lol.   Then we brought it home and Joe ran out to buy a wall mount.  They we became carpenter's, lol.  I got an in service on the hooks ups and finally at 1:00 a.m. we went to bed....GEEZ!  So much for time to make Friday's card. 

But Friday's card, like nearly everything else on Friday probably would have been ignored.  My mind, heart and prayers were with Boston.  What a day and what a scene that unfolded.  Wow.  From the President, to the FBI, to all the officers involved, I was super impressed.  Even the press was impressive, lol.  I'm so thankful and grateful they caught them and so timely.  This truly is a great country and a lot of people put their lives on the line for our freedom.  I think this sends a strong message to the world. 

Okay, sorry, I digress.  I have used the cute little PI - I wheelie like you, Memento black ink, copic markers, Mix and Match banner Die-namics, Best Glue Ever.  And I found some really cute paper Making Memories - Children at Play.  And I have stayed with this weeks Challenge Theme - Colors of Spring.  I hope you will hop around with us and there is still time to make a card for the Challenge! 

I am the last stop in the hop today, Thank you so much for playing along in our hop today! Be sure to stop back by the Loves Rubberstamps Inspiration Blog and let us know what you thought!

Thanks for Looking and for your kind Comments!

Holly