Inspired by my precious MIL

I was trying to show my mother-in-law how to stamp on some calendar pages with this stamp set. We wanted the stamping to be light so that it wouldn't cover up the dates on the calendar pages. I inked up the stamp with SU markers in Real Red, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie. I told her we needed to stamp off a couple of times before we put it on the calendar so the first time I did it I stamped off on some scrap paper before I stamped on the calendar. The image on the scrap paper was sooooo pretty so the next few times I stamped off on some white cardstock so that I could use the images for something else. Doesn't it look great on this card? The only down side of doing this technique for a calendar is this image is quite large and it takes a long time to color the stamp with markers 12 times. One calendar would be enough of that for me so I'm not sure I could do that for bunches of calendar gifts. It does look very nice on the calendar though, doesn't it Barb?

I hope your Thanksgiving was marvelous. I know mine was. The good Lord has blessed me tremendously. Thanks for stopping by to check me out.

Pam

SC204 - Christmas Bella

I was in the mood to make a cute girly Christmas card so I pulled out my Christmas Bella stamp from stamping bella. Isn't she cute? I stamped her with Brilliance Black Ink and embossed her with clear embossing powder to make her pop and then colored her with Copics. I used this week's Sketch Challenge SC204 from Splitcoaststampers for the layout. I love the color combination for Christmas that I used on this card too. I used Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, Baja Breeze and White. The Old Olive and Baja Breeze are from the designer pack Ski Slope from SU. Love it!!! I used my paper piercer and mat pack for the piercing on the white panel background piece. I layered two panels using the Scallop Border punch underneath the Olive panel and topped it off with some Riding Hood Red ribbon.

I'm going to spend the day watching SEC football games all day. GO BAMA!!! Hope your weekend is great and thanks for coming to check me out.

Pam

MOJO52 - Friend Cupcakes

This card is for Verve's Mojo Monday Sketch MOJO52. These colors were picked by my precious friend Mercy Kerin during a stamping retreat we went on about 3 weeks ago. I was a little worried that these colors would not look good together but was I ever wrong. They went very well with the fun theme of this birthday card.

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and thanks for coming by to check me out.

Pam

MTSC19 - Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge

Ladies, don't you just love this sketch? This is for Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge MTSC19. I have so much fun with Mercy's sketches. I like lots of layers on my cards and so does she. How about giving her challenge a try and see what you can come up with?

I can't seem to get away from this little snowman stamp from the set Toasty Snowman from Darcie's. I think he is adorable and so much fun to color. The sketch is for a normal size card (4-1/4 x 5-1/2) but I made it into a 5x5 square card to better fit my image. The designer paper is from SU and called Ski Slope. It's my favorite Christmas paper this year. I love the colors they put in it. I colored the main image with Copics. I don't have all the Copic markers to match the SU cardstock and ink but I can usually take 2 or 3 and mix them to come up with a color that is very close. That's one good thing about Copics, the more you color an image the prettier it gets. No smeared ink no matter how many layers you color one image.

Thanks for coming by to check me out and have a great Thanksgiving week.

Pam

SC193 - Bright Cupcakes

This card is for SCS Sketch Challenge SC193. I used the SU Georgia Peach designer paper to make this bright card. The main image is colored with SU markers and the cupcake icing has Diamond Stickles to give it some sparkle. I honestly can't believe I got all 3 bows to tie and look almost just alike. That will probably never happen again.

Thanks for coming by to check me out and have a great Thanksgiving week.

Pam

Happy Penguin

Here's another card using the set Just Chillin from Darcie's. I love the penguins and snowmen sets that they make. So much fun to color. And don't you just love that designer paper from SU called Holiday Treasures.

Thanks for coming by to check me out. Have a great weekend.

Pam

SC195 - Baja Verve Flowers

This card is for SCS Sketch Challenge 195 from a couple of months ago. I used the Petals and Stems stamp set for the focal image from Verve Stamps and the sentiment is from the hostess set Best Yet from SU. I used the designer paper Urban Garden along with Baja Breeze, Old Olive, and Certainly Celery. Pretty combination. Top it off with some Baja Breeze ribbon and faux silver brads and you're done.

It's Wednesday and the work week is over half way over. Woohoo!! Thanks for looking and have a great week!!

Pam

MOJO11 - Precious Snowman

This card is for Verve Visuals Mojo Monday Sketch MOJO11 from November of last year. Verve has some awesome sketches so I have printed out the pdf on Julee Tilman's blog and am trying to do all of them. The Stamp/Scrap Art Tour was in Chattanooga, TN in October and one of the vendors was Darcie's. I got 4 stamp sets from them and used this Snowman Set for the first time this past weekend. I fell in love with him. Isn't he cute? He was so much fun to color. He was stamped and embossed with black embossing powder. I colored him with my Copic markers and then cut him out. He was popped with dimensionals on top of another image of him stamped on the focal panel. That gives him a 3D look.

Thanks for coming by to check me out today. Have a great week!!

Pam