What's Up Peeps??

I bought this sentiment stamp from Stamping and Scrapbooking Jungle and I actually went there especially to buy some A Muse Artstamps. I just love these stamps and especially this font!!

So then I had the sentiment with no matching stamp.

The way I took this picture you can't really see it but it says " to one of my favorite peeps"! How cute is that??!

But, as luck would have it, when I was at The Town Scrapper the other day, she had in a new supply of Stampendous stamps and this stamp just flew up and hit me in the face! Truly - so I had to buy it!! and good thing because it matches perfectly with the sentiment - go figure!

I bet you have NEVER had that happen.......

This main image is from Stampendous and is from the Calendar Chick collection. I absolutely have to have the little chickie stamps since I am The Lucky Clucker and everything!!

The blue stripey paper is Imaginesce - For Peeps Sake and is the back of the paper. DCWV is the pink patterned paper and it is out of a HUGE paper pack that I bought when I first started scrapbooking - way back when......

The mat is from Papertrey Ink's new line of cardstock called Perfect Match quality cardstock and this one is called Spring Moss! The ribbon is from Papertrey Ink also and is Spring Moss grosgrain!

I added a few brads to match EVERYTHING and then it was done!! TA-DA!!

I would like to wish everybody a Happy Easter and I hope that all of you have a safe holiday!

FS49 Grateful Hearts

Today's featured stamper is Veronica aka I'mVeronica. She has a small, but fabulous gallery on Splitcoast Stampers.!!

You can view her gallery here.

The challenge instructions are here, and the card I chose to case is here.

I chose to keep the same layout, but I changed the stamp set, reason being-- I don't have this stamp set! LOL!

My stamp is called Branch Flight by Stampendous and the hearts in the background are Impression Obsession Inc. - small heart solid.

I love the elegantness of this card. I think it could be interchangeable for birthday, thank you, sympathy - a lot of great cards!

The ink I used was Adirondack dye ink - Lettuce, for the Branch Flight stamp. The hearts were stamped with Paper Salon's Petal, a gorgeous pale pink that was perfect for the image I was going for.

The "grateful" stamp is from Stamping Up's small script. My daughter saw it at a craft sale, and she scooped it up - rather quickly I might add - actually before I even got to see it!

LUCKY HER!

Hats Off!!

I had math class with my daughter, H on Tuesday so no time to play with my card stuff. And yesterday I got to look after my sweet little grandson, and I kind of got the message that grandma should not be making cards when he was eating bits of paper and rolling around in the glitter! (not really, but you know what I mean!!)
This morning I was able to finish this little girl up and she is kind of cute-in a strong sort of way!!

The background is that beautiful paper from Stampin' Up from the Secret Garden Pack. It has gorgeous apricots and olive and a kind of a chartreuse thing happening.

I had scraps of patterned paper that matched the Secret Garden paper, so I cut it into three strips to resemble ribbon and glued them on the end of the paper. I stamped the sentiment with black ink and brushed some green chalk over it to tone down the white. This is another rubber stamp that I purchased from River City Rubber Works last week. It says " "Hats prevent the growth of new brain cells" he said sternly. She nodded & vowed to buy herself an elegant hat with flowers, organza & a veil the very next day"

I have had the hat stamp, which was from Stampendous, for ages and I thought it would go with that. My cool-i-o ticket punch from Stampin' Up was used on it and the background it is glued on. Then I took my paper piercer and pierced holes all around the edges, except for the left edge, just for a different sort of look! I matted that on the coral paper and glued it kind of haphhazardly (?) on the Secret Garden Paper.

I stamped the hat stamp in black ink and punched it out with the Giga Scalloped Paper Punch and coloured it with my Sakura glitter pens (LUV those things!!). Again, I punched around it with my paper piercer and then stamped around it with my little dauber in Olympia Green Versafine Ink. I attached a coral flower and some ribbon which I had to colour with my tombow markers in order to get the right colour!

Today is grocery day, and we are having our wine party tomorrow night, but I think we are going to just have pasta with a ground beef and ground sausage tomato sauce, caesar salad and garlic bread. So that will be easy-peasy!! The easiest part of all is picking out the wine. I go to the liquor store, I tell the clerk what I am serving and she picks out the appropriate wine for me. They are all so well schooled in alcohol!! LUCKY ME!!