I love you

Hi everyone!  Just a quick share today- one of the last remaining Valentine's Day cards.  I made this with some older Cosmo Cricket papers (Hello Sunshine), a chipboard heart button, and some pink ribbon from Target.  I also added some pink dots from Hobby Lobby to balance out the card.


I'm having a bit of a frustrating day... I just spent $40 on supplies to make a light box, and the results are the same or worse than the pictures I've been taking.  Sigh.  I don't know my way around photography, but I want to be able to take clear, bright pictures of my cards.  If anyone has any tips, please feel free to share them!  Here are a couple of pictures of what Chris put together for me:

We got nice lightbulbs, and Chris tried to diffuse the light a bit, then he tried playing with the camera settings, but the pictures are still coming out funky.  I don't know what else to do, but I know trying to think about it while I'm frustrated isn't going to help.  I was hoping to be in a better mood today because I should be excited about my first post with Woodware tomorrow, but even that is a problem- I can't log in to the yahoo group where we post pictures!  I'm feeling like "when it rains, it pours", but hopefully tomorrow will be better.  

Anyway, thanks for stopping by today, I hope you enjoy my plain and simple card.  :)

-Suzanne :O )

Love isn't purrrrfect

Good morning, friends!  Soooo, I lied about this being the last Valentine's Day card I had to share with you.  When I was getting my cards ready for the mail, I realized I had two cards that weren't made for any challenges, and therefore hadn't been photographed yet!  Doh!  :)  I also have some treat bags to show you later in the week.  


For this card, I used more of my DCWV Pet Stack papers and this cute kitty image I received in a swap.  (Isn't her nose just darling?!)  I colored her with my copics and cut and matted her with my Nestabilities.  I added a doily behind her for a Valentine-y touch and some scalloped kraft cardstock.  The sentiment is by Inkadinkado, and the ribbon slider is another Nestability on some pink ribbon from Target.  


Today we're supposed to get more snow, so I'm planning to stay in to work on my very first Woodware USA challenge as a design team member!  I hope you'll check out their blog on Monday for my "introduction" and my first card designed for them!  :)  Thanks for stopping by, have a great Saturday!


-Suzanne :O )  

The Twinery Giveaway

Hi friends!  Sherbert Blossom has the most amazing giveaway, all 11 spools of twine by The Twinery!  I have been drooling over their twine for a while now, so for an extra chance to win, I'm sharing this contest with you!  

Pretty yummy, huh?  Head on over to Sherbert Blossom to enter for yourself.  Good luck!

-Suzanne :O )

TCP Tuesday 144

Hi friends!  I only have one more Valentine's Day card to show you after this one.. I can't believe I'm done so early!  It feels so good to work ahead!  :)  


This card uses the sketch for this week's TCP Tuesday:

If this card looks similar to my last card using PJ, that's because I used the same Doodlebug papers, along with Doodlebug buttons, chipboard, and brads.  I bought the silver ribbon at the dollar store- it picks up the little bit of silver in the patterned paper.  PJ's colored with my copics.. I think he's a little lighter than the last PJ; I'm still trying to get the most out of the limited colors I have.  The buttons aren't part of the sketch, but I made a couple of boo-boos, so rather than start over with the stamping and coloring, I just covered up the marks.  :)

I have to go back to work after having 2 snow days, and I am dreading it because I have SO much work to do, and it's all a priority.  Ugh.  Hopefully I can make it through today and tomorrow and still be smiling!  Hope you have a great Thursday, friends!  :)

-Suzanne :O )

thanks

Hi everyone!  I'm sure many of you already know Kim Hughes' work- she's been published like crazy and was an illustrator for Cornish Heritage Farms.  I've always loved her drawings, but since I don't usually order online and the CHF stamps were rubber, I never bought any.  Kim just announced that she's starting her own stamp company, Paper Smooches (cute name, huh?!), so because the stamps are clear this time, I jumped right in!  She's releasing 3 new stamp sets a month, and they're just so darned cute I had to scoop them all up:

I also signed up for her 12 month subscription, where you get a 10% discount, the 3 stamp sets mailed out to you a little earlier than the release, and free card templates.  I figured since I love her work so much, I might as well save 10%! :)  Anyway, she also has some free digital images, so I made a cute little card for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch:

I flipped the sketch and used only scraps for this card.  I ran the cardstock pieces through my Cuttlebug, and used pink patterned paper by DCWV and green patterned paper by K&Co.  The bird is colored with my Copics and I finished off the card with some Making Memories twine.  I'm really loving the twine trend right now, but I don't have much.  I've been eyeing twine by The Twinery for some time now... I might have to break down and order some.  Anyway, I hope you like my card, thanks for stopping by!

-Suzanne :O )    

My exciting news!!!

Good morning everyone!  I'm back today to share with you my super exciting news... I was invited to join the Woodware USA Design Team, and today is my official start date!!!  You may remember my post gushing about them back in July when I first used their stamps, so I'm just thrilled to be working (for my first design team!) with a company I truly adore.  They have tons of fabulous clear stamps, and of course you know by now my favorite little guy is Teddy!  I should be getting a new Teddy set in a couple of days.. I can't wait to make some spring projects with him! ;)

Although my official start date is today, when I mentioned that I had my entry all ready to go for Monday's challenge to make anything but a card, Nancy told me to send her a picture and she would post it along with the rest of the girls.  It's a terrible picture because I took it late at night, but I'll share it with you for now so you get the idea.  I'll take another picture when it's light out! :)

I knew I wanted to make more address labels, but I had a bit of a tough time figuring out which image to use since the space was only so big.  I kept looking and looking through my Woodware stamp sets, and it finally dawned on me that I should pull out the fruit pieces from Sweet Tooth and use 3 different images (not just 1, like I had originally planned.  Duh!)  :)  I stamped these little guys randomly on some pre-printed Avery labels and colored them with my Copics.  I'm happy to say that the Copics don't tend to bleed on the labels.  This is such a quick and easy project, and I love that you can customize it to whatever you need!  I've been having a blast creating my own labels for holidays, but these juicy gems are perfect for any time of year!  I'm salivating already!  LOL

I hope you'll take some time to play along with us!  We'd love to see your project, and of course you'll be entered in the monthly drawing!  Who doesn't love free stuff!?  If you're interested in ordering, you can check out Woodware's Spring 2011 collection HERE.  I'm also going to ask about the convention schedule, because that's where I stumbled across Woodware.  ;)

I'm off for a snow day today (and probably tomorrow too!), so I'm going to spend the day finishing up my Valentine's Day projects.  I can't believe I'm finishing so early, but I'm loving that tall stack of Valentines waiting to be mailed out!  ;)  Have a GREAT day!!

-Suzanne :O )

You are out of this world

Hi everyone!  Super quick post this morning...  I used more of my Cogsmo papers from Cosmo Cricket, images by Michaels' Reminisce stamps that were colored with my Copics, and a bit of red ribbon from Hobby Lobby.  I had my guy friends in mind when I made this card..  I didn't want it to be a mushy card, but guys should get Valentines too! :)  I'll be back tomorrow with some VERY exciting news! :D


-Suzanne :O )