Scooby doo?

A short but sweet post tonite!

The card on the left started out as a Scooby Doo and Shaggy card....I drew a goatee on Mikey with a brown Copic marker. Mikey is from one of the 5 Hanna Stamp sets being released this Friday. The dog is from Hanna's "Best Friends" set, also being released on Friday.

The tower of pups on the left is from the Small Breeds Hanna Stamp set. Papers from Piggy Tales; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater Collection.

Dog-bone frame!

I love Dollar Tree. Somehow they always have the perfect thing that I need for stamping! They had a ton of new pet frames in a few weeks ago, so I grabbed this bone-shaped one because I knew it would be PERFECT with the new Hanna Stamps dog sets that will be released this Friday!

I stamped a bunch of the doggies from the new Large Breed and Small Breed Hanna sets onto white cardstock, and colored them in with various shades of Copic Markers. I attached the cardstock to the frame using glue dots, but you could mod-podge them on if you wanted something more water (or doggie-drool) resistant. I tried to make the bow at the bottom look like a dog collar with a little metal heart embellishment that came from the Target dollar spot AGES ago.

P.S. I hope my sister's Yorkie doesn't mind that I snagged some of her dog treats to stage my photo tonite. I've stopped bleeding, so everyone remain calm....

L.

Splitcoast Hanna Stamps Design team link: HERE

It's Hanna-time!

It's time for another new Hanna Stamps release this Friday, and OOOOOH DOGGIE, you're gonna love the new sets! There are 5 new sets being released, so make sure to head over to Splitcoast and check out all the new samples that will be posted this week! If you click on the link HERE, you'll be able to see all of the team's samples in one view! There will be PLENTY of eye-candy coming at you! This week I'll be posting a new Hanna sample on my blog every night. And tonite, there's a bonus post, too! Check out the Crafty Secrets blog HERE and you'll see more creations with the new bird-lovers set!

I made a trip to the dollar store in search of some pet-friendly items to alter. I scored a cute milk-bone soft toy and some rawhide chews, and set to work making some samples! The soft-toy came with a bone-shaped tag, so I traced the tag onto white cardstock and stamped Eddie here onto the tag. (This little guy reminds me of Eddie from Frazier.) The dogs are SO easy to color, I used 2 contrasting brown shades of Copic markers to color them in. Kristi from Hannastamps is carrying her own line of Copics, with AWESOME color combos! So if you haven't taken the plunge yet and want a great starter set, check them out HERE!

The card was done using a Sassafrass Lass "Blue Boutique" diecut tag. I stamped the dog and hydrant image on white paper, colored it in, and attached the image to the front of the heart tag.

Patterned paper is by My Mind's Eye, "Out & About" Tiny Dots. Ribbon is from Starlit Studio's Ebay store, by May Arts.

The rawhide treat box was done with a $1.00 red Popcorn box from Creative Cuts and More. I took an exacto knife and cut out the center of one of the box sides, and attached a transparency sheet to the inside so that you can view the treats inside. Since the treats are a little bit heavier than candy would be, I used Killer Red Tacky tape to hold the box together. I made a little topper with patterned paper and stamped woof woof across the top of the box.

You will DIE when you see all the dogs that are being released this Friday! There is something for EVERY dog lover! HINT HINT! :)

L.

What's the buzz?

Just checking in to see what everyone is up to tonite! I'm in heaven because I've got an entire weekend to myself! I don't have to be anywhere, do anything, work anywhere, I'm FREE as a bird! I'm coming off of a 12 day stretch of working with NO days off, so I'm not really feeling the need to do anything but sit in my stamp room and create. I love days like this. The only thing that could make it better is stamping with friends, and yakking up a storm. I'm still doing a little speedstamping, using quick layouts with minimal layers and cranking out multiples.

The layout I used was based on an awesome card made by Kittie at Splitcoast. You can see her blog and the card HERE. I LOVE how she framed the card by cutting out a scalloped oval from the Nestabilities dies, and then cut a smaller oval in the center of the scallop to form a frame! I turned mine the other way so it's horizontal to fit the bug images from the new Crafty Secrets "Bugs Life" set. I am dying over this set. I swear I cannot stop using it.

I'm trying to use up old paper in my stash, because it's overflowing the top of my patterned paper bin. It feels good to use stuff up, and I'm always surprised that I can come back to paper I've already used before and it always has a fresh, different look to it. The bugs were colored in using Copic markers.

Patterned paper: Crate Zoom "Stoplight" & Cowgirl Stripe.

Speed-stamping again!

I'm starting the weekend off by speedstamping again. I'm short on wedding cards and when I saw this card posted on Splitcoast by clarhan HERE, I immediately wanted to try a Z-fold card! They work PERFECTLY with the Nestabilities Dies from Spellbinders/Ellen Hutson.

The stamp set is an old Stampin Up Sale-a-Bration set called "Happy Harmony". I can't look at this trio of flowers without thinking of my friend Val Stangle, who does WONDERFUL things with flower stamps. Paper is by K & Company, from the Pink & Green "Peabody" line. Ribbon is from May Arts from Starlit Studio's ebay store.

The luggage is IN the building!

YAY!YAY!YAY! My luggage has returned and I am one happy chick! Except someone filled it with dirty clothes that I now have to wash. Dang, I was hoping that the airport would have taken care of that for me. NOSUCHLUCK! :)

I am doing the multi-task cleaning thing tonite (sorry for saying the "C" word), because I can't stand my pigsty of a house any more. Thankfully I have cards from a month ago in my blog file that I have not gotten around to posting! I found the cutest little birthday cake stamp by "Studio G" at Crafts Direct in St. Cloud, for $1.49! I think it actually is a wedding cake but I cut the 2 little love birdies off the top and replaced it with hearts and jewels.

I had just gotten my Eclectic Paperie order in that weekend, and ripped into my Cosmo Cricket Little Girls Biography Collection paper. I love these paper packs because they come with lots of little embellishments and journaling papers. I used the journaling papers for my focal images and stamped the cake right over the notebook paper lines. I cranked out the birthday cards that weekend with my Copics & my buck stamps!!

Trying not to let Northwest Ruffle my Feathers

I am home! And I am LUGGAGE-LESS! I thought this would be an appropriate card to post tonight, while I'm sitting here waiting for Northwest Airlines to deliver my luggage. Apparently my bag had a different itinerary than I did yesterday when I flew home, & it's now touring the country without me. I hope it brings me back some good souvenirs.

This is one of the brand spanking new Crafty Secrets sets that was just released at CHA, called "Bird Lovers". This set is SO interactive! So many of the stamps in this set coordinate together, so that you can come up with your own fun scenes. I love that it comes with both a small egg and an extra-large ginormous egg, for humorous cards. For this card I used a combination of Copic markers and watercoloring...the bird, egg & nest are colored with Copics, but I used an aquapen and soft sky ink , to give a fading/sky effect to the background. The papers are from Crafty's Radiant paper pad. The corners are punched out using my new SU photo corner punch. I love that thing!

I also wanted to give you a heads up that we have a new guest designer this month over at the Crafty Secrets Gallery! Michelle Kovack (Chelemom) is dazzling us with her beautiful eye candy!

Also, you have to check out the unbelievable box that Pam Hooten just posted to the gallery with the birdlovers set. I'm speechless!