Sites of the week

On Thursday, Gina K. is releasing “Wee Tees” as part of the Melanie Muenchinger line. Melanie has been kind enough to ask me if I would like to do a Guest Designer spot for this set. I am such a sucker for baby stamps, so I’m pretty sure that this set was made just for me…LOL! When Ellie was a baby she had a lot of funny onsies, including my fave: “Dr. Pooper” with the Dr. Pepper logo. Tacky, yes, but it was funny for the 2 times that she got to wear it before she grew out of it. Well, there are no stamps like that in this set, but there are a lot cute ones, including the sentiment “My Mommy Rocks!” You can also make it say, “My Daddy Rocks.”

I thought that this one would be cute for announcements…

Want more sneak peeks? Check ‘em out…
Melanie, Carolyn, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika, Gina, Jessica, Joanne, Kurtis, Theresa, Laura Jean and Libby.

Yes, you read correctly ABC THURSDAY. I normally do an ABC {Anything But a Card} project each Friday, but I have one today and one on Sunday, so I am jumbling this week up a little. Hope you don’t mind

First, I want to thank Katharina Frei of Whiff Of Joy for inviting me to be a Guest Designer. I have loved working with these stamps and hope to grow my collection in the future. Today I am bring you a tag that I did after seeing this bottle of wine from CUPCAKE VINEYARDS…how cute is that?!? {the name of the wine co.}

I used the Melinda with Muffin Basket stamp and colored it with Copics and highlighted her wings using my Sakura Stardust pen {spread with rubbing alcohol in an aqua painter}.

For my finishing touches, I used a EK Success punch along edge and then put in yellow Dew Drops/Bellas Baubles. The punch is one that I picked up at Michael’s and I am not sure of the name, but I refer to it as the “scalloped scallop.” I also used some Papertrey red/white polka dot ribbon tied together with SU! white tafetta ribbon.

See you tomorrow when I start showing you some fun sneak peeks at the new stuff coming out from Taylored Expressions.

Thanks so much for all your input regarding your mojo, or lack there of, and what you do to overcome it. It’s interesting for me to see how we are all so alike and so different when it comes to the world of stamping. I think that I slowly regaining my mojo. I worked on a couple of projects yesterday {still to come} and I was happy with the outcome. Today I am prepping for another Copic 1 & 2 class. I really love teaching this class and it has gotten my creative juices flowing…YAY!
Today I have a couple more Whiff of Joy cards to share with you. This first one uses these beautiful, whimsy clouds. This card was actually made at the height of my lack of mojo, but I found a way to overcome it. I started by making an ATC {click HERE for my tutorial on SCS}. I tried to make it as intricate as possible, without overdoing it. Once I was done with the ATC part of it, I designed the card around it and viola…

The punch that is used on the card is a new Fiskars punch that I got on my shopping trip with Susan a few weeks ago. It’s called apron lace…cute, huh? The clouds have a “silver lining” that was created with my Sakura Stardust pen and the letters on the cards are Thickers…love ‘em!

This next card kinda gave me fits because I just wasn’t sure what to do with the bench image. The one thing that kept popping into my head was to do a “Miss You” card because the bench is empty. I brought out the sentiment from one of my MFT sets and used it along with the image.

Just as a reminder, I have THIS Whiff of Joy stamp up for grabs for participants in this week’s SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY. You can see all the details HERE.