CCEE Features IMAMUTTNUT

One of my favorite challenges that I participate in, is when our CCEE group picks a unique user name to feature from Splitcoaststampers. This week Deb picked IMAMUTTNUT (Laurie). Our requirements were to make a card with a dog on it. So I chose to use this sweet Our Craft Lounge troublemaker Pat The Bad Dog, and Pat the Dawg House. I hand drew the fence and colored it all with copics.

The sketch is from the SFYTT sketch, except I moved my sentiment medallion to the right.
To see what the other mutts the girls used today, stop by the CCEE Stampers blog. We'd love to have you participate too.

Well, hope you all had a wonderful weekend!!
Happy Stamping!
Tosh

Supplies:
Stamps - Pat the Bad Dog and Pat the Dawg House (Our Craft Lounge)
Paper - Sassafrass, Prism
Ink - Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories - Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Cuttlebug, Copics, Cranberry Stitched Ribbon (Stampin' UP!)

I missed your birthday...

I started making this card yesterday for SCS's sketch challenge found HERE. But I went to the foothills to photograph wildflowers with my son (he's taking a photography class in college) before I could finish it. Then life just got too busy to get back to it until this morning.

I stamped this cute beaver image from the Bubs The Beaver set (Our Craft Lounge) with Tuxedo Black (Memento) onto Simply Smooth (Prism) cs, and colored it with copics. I then stamped and cut out the frog and placed him on the logs. Isn't he just the cutest? Notice the heart? Sweet!!

The rest is pretty straight forward. Hope you're having a fabulous week!
Happy Stamping!
Tosh

Supplies:
Stamps - Bub's the Beaver (OCL)
Paper - Stormy Medium , White, Simply Smooth (Prismatic)
Ink - Tuxedo Black (Memento), Milled Lavender (Ranger Distress Ink)
Accessories - Flower Punches - SU, Carl CarlaCraft, EK Success, Flora Doodles Brad (Petaloo), Leaf punches (Martha Stewart), Celery Grossgrain Ribbon (SU), Tag Corner punch (SU), Sewing Machine, Dimensional Tape, Distressing Tool

Fishin' for Ed and a Blog Candy winner...

It's my husband Ed's birthday next week. In fact, he's a St. Patrick's Day baby. Well, he loves to go deep sea fishing, and always comes back with a load of fish...but, if he lake fishes, he always, and I mean always, catches everything but fish. Thus the sneaker in this card. Isn't this Bear-ly Fishing (Our Craft Lounge) bear the cutest? I thought he was perfect for my DH.

I stamped him with Versamark onto watercolor paper and embossed him with Detail Black ep (Judikins). I then colored him with Adirondack Dye Ink Reinkers (listed below in the supplies).
I added stickles to the water, ink distressed the edges with Frayed Burlap (Ranger Distress Ink)...which Michelle now carries in her store!! Woo-Hoo!! You really should go check out all the Distress Inks...I ADORE working them. I use them on the majority of my cards.

The sketch was the challenge on SCS this past Wednesday, found HERE.

Supplies:
Stamps - Bearly Fishing (Our Craft Lounge)
Paper -Crate, Spring Willow Medium, Watercolor
Ink - Tuxedo Black (Memento), Black Onyx (Versafine), Versamark, Latte, Ginger, Espresso, Lettuce, Denim, Cranberry, Stonewashed (Adirondack Dye Ink Reinkers)
Accessories - Square Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Copics, Sewing Machine, Distressing Tool (SU), Candy Dots (Pebbles, Inc.), Dimensional tape, Stickles

Now, onto the winner of the Blog Candy I offered earlier this week.
Random.org picked this number:

Here are your random numbers:

20 

Timestamp: 2009-03-13 18:08:55 UTC

Congratulations to: Kari

who said:

Congratulations on getting 100,000 hits! Your card is beautiful, So delicate and elegant. Thank you for the chance to win your blog candy. My favorite flower have to be roses, because they are elegant and in different colours.

Kari :-)

Email me with your address info Kari, and I'll get these stamping supplies out to ya ASAP. If I don't here from you within 48 hours, I'll be picking a new number.

Congrats!!

What's the dirt?

I just got these Our Craft Lounge images in the mail, and set right to work. They are adorable and so much fun to work with. I used images from 4 different sets. And Michelle is carrying quite the variety of OCL sets! Check them out HERE!!

I first stamped this *Pat the bad dog* image onto Neenah Solar White, masked him and made the wall with the stone image from the*Whispy Patterns* set and Slate (Adirondack Dye Ink). The little dog bones are from the *Pat the good dog* set, and the chewed up shoe and tipped dog dish are from the *Pat the Dawg House* set. See how wonderfully they all work together? Such fun.

They're all colored with copics, and the sign and main image were diecut and embossed with the Long Rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinders) and my Cuttlebug.

All the edges were ink distressed with Walnut Stain, (Ranger Distress Ink) and the dp is Old World (Kaisercraft)

The dots? My favorite!! They're called Candy Dots (Pebbles, Inc.), and they're sticky...no holes need to be punched!! And they have a nice matte finish.

The curvy border on my brown panel was cut out with the largest Curved Rectangles Nestabilities (Spellbinders), but unfortunately most of it got covered with my vertical panel...*grin*.

All the panels are matted with Black Prismatics, and the card base is Suede Brown Light (Prismatics)...Prismatic papers are my paper of choice. I LOVE the texture, and it distresses beautifully with light or dark inks!!

Supplies:
Stamps - Pat the Good Dog, Pat the bad dog, Pat the dawg house, Whispy Patterns
Paper - Suede Brown Light, Black (Prismatics), Old World (Kaisercraft), Neenah Solar White
Ink - Tuxedo Black (Memento), Walnut Stain (Ranger Distress Ink), Slate (Adirondack Dye Ink)
Accessories - Nestabilities, Copics, Candy Dots, Cuttlebug, Gingham Ribbon, Dimensional Tape

Thanks for visiting!!
Happy Stamping!
Tosh

Non-traditional Love

The 20th of each month, the Dirty Dozen Alumni host a challenge. Here are the guidelines for this month.

Challenge Focus: A Valentine's Day/Love-y Dove-y card!!

Required Element: Texture!! Anything you can *feel* (ie: Fun Flock, Crystal Effects, Embossing/Debossing, velvet ribbon...and I am sure there are a million more things that I cannot think about!!)

Restricted Element: No RED!! Pink is ok...but no red...let's see what other colors we can use for Valentine's Day!

Well, I thought this "For the Love of Birds" (Our Craft Lounge) image would be perfect for this non-traditional "lovey-dovey" card.

The image is colored with copics, and the birds are popped up for dimension. My texture you ask? Well, the cs is textured, the card is very dimensional, and the filigree brads are textured. Hope this qualifies.


Supplies:
Stamps - For the love of Birds (OCL)
Paper - Wild Asparagus (MME), Tawny Light and Medium, White, Baby Blue Light (Prismatics), Neenah Solar White
Ink - Tuxedo Black (Memento), Brushed Corduroy (Ranger Distress)
Accessories - Nestabilities, Copics, Ribbon, Filigree Brads (SU), Pearls (Kaisercraft), Corner Tag Punch (SU), Flower Punch (Carlcraft), dimensional tape

Going Gourmet with Our Craft Lounge

If you haven't discovered the new Stamp Company "Our Craft Lounge", you should really go check out their site. They have some darling images, they're deeply etched and stamp beautifully.

I thought this coffee mug with biscotti from the "Going Gourmet" set was just darling, so I decided to make a small 4x4 card.

The image is colored with copics, and I framed it with the Nestabilities (Spellbinders) frame Labels II. All the edges are ink Distressed with Mushroom (Adirondack Dye Ink), and the main panel is popped up with dimensionals. The mug is actually 3 layers.

I didn't have any brown Candy Dots ( I love their texture), so I colored white ones with my copics. You can get these fun dots from Taylor at her Taylored Expressions store, among other fun embellishments, alterables, and stamps.

Supplies:
Stamps - Going Gourmet (Our Craft Lounge)
Paper - Heritage (HOTP), Mystic Medium, Baby Blue Light (Prismatics)
Ink - Smokey Gray (Versafine), Mushroom (Adirondack Dye Ink)
Accessories - Nestabilities Labels II, Copics, Felt Ribbon (Stampin' UP!), Candy Dots (Pebbles, Inc), fibers, piercing tool, Tim Holtz Ruler, Dimensional Tape

Tree-mendous Love

I'm a little excited about this card. It looks pretty simple, but I love what happened with the lacy border. I punched the border out with my Martha Stewart border punch and added Frosted Lace stickles to it. When it dried, it warped a bit (which is a good thing....*grin*). It gave it a more realistic look. What fun!! For the top of the card, I just punched slots on both sides of the circles and weaved SU's Gingham ribbon through them.

This sweet giraffe image is from a the set "Treemendous Love" by a new stamp company called Our Craft Lounge. Isn't he/she adorable? I stamped him/her with Smokey Gray (Versafine) onto Neenah Solar White, along with the little heart flowers, and colored them with my copics. I added some Ultrafine Transparent Glitter to the dots on the giraffe and on the sides of the heart flowers. I then cut them out with my Labels I diecut (Spellbinders). The sentiment was stamped onto Baby Pink Medium with the same Smokey Gray ink. Finally, I just added an Adornit gem and popped the image panels up with dimensional tape. The card is a standard A2. That's it.

Supplies: Stamps - Our Craft Lounge Paper - Baby Pink Medium, Crabapple Medium (Prismatics), DCWV Sweet Pack, Neenah Solar White Ink - Smokey Gray (Versafine) Accessories - Copics, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Martha Stewart border punch, Frosted Lace Stickles, Slot Punch, Gingham Ribbon, Adornit gem, dimensional tape

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you had a fabulous week and are looking forward to a wonderful weekend!
Happy Stamping!
Tosh

TC's Birthday

It's one of my nephew's birthday today, and I thought this Pat the Good Dog image, by Our Craft Lounge, would be perfect because he loves dogs!!

He's colored with copics and ink distressed with Walnut Stain (Ranger).

The medallion was created with my JustRite Designer Centers and Borders and the Brayton Font.

It's all pretty self explanatory. If you have any questions, feel free to email me.




Supplies:
Stamps - Our Craft Lounge, JustRite
Paper - Kaisercraft, Suede Brown Dark, Sunflower Dark, (Prismatics),Neenah Natural White
Ink - Tuxedo Black (Memento), Walnut Stain (Ranger Distress Ink)
Accessories - Brads, twine, Copics, Nestabilities, sponge, dimensional tape.


I wanted to take a moment to let you know that Michelle is having a fabulous sale at Stamper's Dream.

ALL Holiday stamps are marked down! No coupon code is needed. The price you see in the store is the sale price. She also marked down the Fancy Pants paper pads, as well as the Cuttlebug seasonal embossing folders!

All Doodlebug Designs products are marked down as well. Glitter, Brads, Paper Frills, and Fancy That Adhesive are all included!

If you still need a gift for a special friend, be sure to consider a Stamper's Dream Gift Certificate . It's a wonderful way to let them choose their own gift! New product is coming in weekly, and there are a lot of new things on order.

I hope you're all having a fabulous week! Thanks for stopping by, and
Happy Stamping!!
Tosh