Let's go surfin' now...everybody's learnin' how...come on and safari with me...

Happy Monday, y'all! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

I just have a quick boy card to share with you that I made last week...why is it that my stash is always so short on boy cards, even though I have two??? Anyone out there have the same problem?

I try to buy all the cool boy sets I can find, so when I saw the new Hangin' Loose with Kona set from Our Craft Lounge, I was all over it!! Turtles are always good, but SURFING TURTLES??? Heck yeah! My boys love love love this set, and it's a blast to color (for them and me!).

Kona and the sentiment were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black on Neenah Solar White cardstock and cut with my Oval Nestabilities. Then I colored him with Copic Markers and added some White Liquid Applique to the waves for some foaming action (a great idea I borrowed from my genius friend Carole). The Soft Sky piece was cut with my Long Rectangle Nestabilities and embossed with the D'Vine Swirl Embossing Folder. Then I swiped my White Craft Pad over the raised edges for a nice background piece. After adhering it to my 5" square Kraft panel, I added a strip of Only Orange matted with Basic Black and used a zig-zag stitch along the edges. Some black brads, a black mat, and popping Kona up on dimensionals finished the card off. The finished dimensions of the card are 5 1/4" x 5 1/4".

Now, if you're wanting to have Kona for your very own, remember that he's exclusive to eclectic Paperie, so you can find him HERE. They have tons of other fabulous things that jump right into your cart (isn't it amazing how that works??) if you stay too long. *wink*

Well, that's about it for me today...thanks for coming to visit! Have a fabulous Monday!

Meet George Jetson. His Boy Elroy. Daughter Judy. Jane his wife.

Hi guys! The winner of The Botz Family from Our Craft Lounge is.....Nicole!!

Nicole said...

I love the whispy blooms!! Of course they are all fab, though! LOL!! thanks for the chance to win! I have blog candy each wednesday if you are interested!! Your blog rocks, too, by the way! Hoosier Hugs, Nicole

February 13, 2009 8:32 AM 

Congratulations to Nicole! I will email you shortly. Thanks to all of you who came to visit me...I enjoyed reading each and every one of your comments!

Happy Sunday!

Their house is a museum, where people come to see 'em. They really are a scream...

Hey guys, I'm back with a sample of The Botz Family, which I have up for Blog Candy in -->THIS POST<--click. Last night as I was trying to go to sleep, I was thinking about this card and deciding what to make. Then I decided. It's called the Botz Family, why not make a family portrait! (yes, I'm insane). It really wasn't that hard as it sounds, though! Here's my card:
With a little masking and my handy dandy Stampamajig, this was (almost) a breeze! First I stamped Robbie (that's what I call him) in Memento Tuxedo Black on Neenah Cardstock. Then I masked him and stamped Rosie and Spotz using my Stampamajig to make sure I was stamping them where I wanted them. Finally, I masked Spotz and stamped Roboto Sr., leaving the mask on Robbie as well. Whew! I really like the final outcome though. What do you think?

Then I decided to create a frame with my square Nestabilities...something completely different for me (which is my 1st stretch for today's Limited Supply Challenge). Since I only have the Scalloped Squares, I had to cut the outside one with my trimmer. Then instead of sewing on my card, I did some doodling with my Inkssentials gel pen (Stretch #2). For the sentiment, I stamped the cake in Marigold Morning on Saffron cardstock, then stamped the HB2U (Happy Birthday To You) in Memento Black on top. I cut out a couple of circles with my Classic Circle Nestabilities and adhered those to the frame. A little orange ribbon and Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine paper and I was done!

Well, I hope you've enjoyed this card today as well as the festivities surrounding the Our Craft Lounge release. I know I have! Thanks, Joy & Cami for letting me share it with you!

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, mata ah-oo hima de...

Happy Friday the 13th, peeps! Hope you're ready for a great weekend! I've been busy making Valentines for the boys' classmates for their party later today...fun stuff! They loved coloring the images I stamped for them.

Today I have something really fun for you! To celebrate the ginormous release from Our Craft Lounge today (28 sets!), Cambria recruited some of your favorite bloggers and friends to give away some free stamps! WAHOO!!

I have the super cute The Botz Family Crafty Cling set to give away. It's deeply etched pink rubbah already cut and mounted on EZ Mount for you. Can't get any better than that!

Is that not the CUTEST? Love love love the robot ladybug...

Anywho, I will post another sample with this set later today (you can see another one in my post from Tuesday), but let's go ahead and get this party started, shall we?

All you have to do to get a chance to win The Botz Family is comment on this post and tell me which of the new Our Craft Lounge stamp sets is your FAVORITE. All the new releases can be found HERE. You can enter one time on my blog - between now and Sunday, February 15th at NOON PACIFIC TIME. After that, I'll post the winner!

But wait, Ron...there's MORE!!!! Our Craft Lounge is giving away ONE OF EACH of ALL 28 new stamp sets! Can you believe it?? Just check out the blogs below throughout the day today for your chance to win! OCL is da BOMB, baby!!

Laurie Schmidlin
Kisa Peters
Sharon Harnist
Dianna Gibbs
Beate Johns
Lila Holgate
Charmaine Ikach
Vicki Garrett
Joy Kennedy
Marianne Walker
Nancy Morgan
Kendra Wietstock
Cindy Haffner
Carole Burrage
Jeanne Streiff
Jane Bosi
Pam Hooten
Lisa Zappa
Broni Holcombe
Amber Hillman
Libby Hickson (sorry, girlie!)
Holly McMillen

See you in a bit with a card! MWAH!

And my head I'd be scratchin' while my thoughts were busy hatchin' If I only had a brain...

Holy Pink Robots, Batman! What is that I spy? Yep, I did the SCS Color Challenge for this week! And it's still this week, and I didn't even cheat (much)! *grin* But to make up for it, I have a super secret sneaky sneaky peek at a new set from Our Craft Lounge! Is that a fair trade?

I fell in love with The Botz Family at CHA and couldn't wait to ink this image up. She reminds me of Rosie from The Jetsons for some odd reason. Isn't she cute?
Ok, she's a little skinnier. Maybe she is Rosie in her younger and thinner years? Either way, I decided to make her pink, which went perfectly with the color challenge. I stamped her in Brilliance Graphite Black, and then masked her and stamped some grass and flowers from the Dr. Pea-Nut set. Then I colored the entire thing with Copic Markers and sponged the sky with Soft Sky ink. The rest of the card is pretty self-explanatory...I did my banner a la Anna again, and the embellishments are Strawberry Parfait Dots from Stamping Bella. Yummy, huh?

Anywho, that's about all she wrote for tonight. 2 things...
1. This set will be available on Friday from Our Craft Lounge. You can also find it at eclectic Paperie.
2. Wednesday is the last day for the Free Shipping offer from Stamping Bella. All the details are in THIS POST.

Have a fabulous day!

I'll make you happy baby, just wait and see...For every kiss you give me, I'll give you three...

Welcome to another edition of Sketch for You to Try! February is almost upon us, which means that we're all thinking of what to make for our special someone for Valentine's day. I'm still thinkin...have some ideas brewin, but I did create this card as a possible Valentine card for my hubby. I knew the second I saw this sketch that I had to use my So In Love set from Our Craft Lounge. Doesn't it work just perfectly?

To start the card, I stamped the row of hearts and stripey hearts diagonally onto the Kraft Cardstock in Pixie Dust Versamagic ink. You have to look reaaaaaaaaaaal hard to see it, but it's there! I also swiped the edges of the cardstock with Pixie Dust Versamagic as well.

The hearts became my focal point, so I stamped the love heart first in Real Red onto Pink Pirouette cardstock four times. After those were dry, I stamped the heart outline in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, using my Stampamajig to line it all up just right. I painted the hearts with Pixie Dust Shimmerz, then set them aside to dry.

After doing some crazy stitching on the Kraft panel, I added a red square punched with a scalloped border punch, then layered a piece of white cardstock embossed with my Swiss Dots embossing folder. Then I stamped "Be My Valentine" in Versamark on Black cardstock and embossed it with white embossing powder. I love the fonts in this set! I knew I needed some ribbon somewhere, so I created a tag out of the sentiment strip and created a small blank one for the other side. I threaded some pink organdy ribbon through and tied a little knot. I added a black strip on the top as the sketch called for.

The finishing touch was placing the hearts on the card on dimensionals to make them pop out. I really like how all of the elements came together on this one, do you? I was very tempted to add buttons, but I decided against it. Anyway, I hope you like it!

To see the sketch for yourself, go visit Jen's blog. There you'll also see her sample, as well as our guest Kirsten. And if that's not enough inspiration, hop over to my peeps Amy R, Amy S, Carole, Susan, and Kelly. We'd love for you to play along! Just use the keyword SFYTT so we can see all your fabulous creations.

I still have more CHA stuff to show you, but I'll try to pace the goodness. Hope you have a fabulous day!

They're walking around the bed, On their head, Clippety cloppety...

Happy Thanksgiving, Sistahs! I hope you're enjoying your day. I have to take a second to tell you all how thankful I am for you. Seriously! I find it baffling that some of my greatest friends are ones I've never even seen...I love you all! There are some major changes going on in my life (no, I'm not pregnant, and no, I'm not leaving, and no, it's not THAT kind of change...) and it's nice to have you all there to lean on. HUGS to all of you!!

Ok, so now that the love fest is out of the way, I have something fun to share! Hopefully by now you've heard about the newest stamp company in town, Our Craft Lounge. Owned by some of my dear friends, I'm so excited to support and encourage them in their new venture! So if you haven't, make sure you check out their newest stamps, k?


When I saw the new stamps, I fell head over heels for the Dr. Pea-Nut set. OMG!! His face just cracks me up every time! Totally makes me happy. Check it out:

Isn't he adorable??? One of the things I love about this set is all the accessories that come along with Elfred (no idea what his name is, but I shall call him ELFRED). You can make Get Well cards, Valentine's Day cards, and Thinking of You/Just Because cards...it's all in how you use it.

I knew I wanted to use this sentiment, so I stamped Elfred in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and masked him, then stamped the Peanut bucket and grass around him. Colored him with Copic Markers and Voila! The sketch challenge on SCS was perfect, so I just added a red panel and a strip of felt ribbon and then the sentiment to finish it off. What a perfect card for a friend who has had a rotten day!

Anywho, that's about it for me today...I gotta go finish some laundry. *blech* Hope you have a wonderful Turkey Day!

Stamps: Dr. Pea-Nut (Our Craft Lounge)

Paper: Kraft, Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Neenah Classic Cream

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Close to Cocoa

Accessories: Copic Markers, Sponges, Houndstooth Embossing Folder, Sewing Machine & Thread, Alpine Ribbon Originals, Antique Brass Brads, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack, Pop Dots, Distressor Tool