Bugaboo Freebie Friday

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Welcome to Freebie Friday with Bugaboo Stamps!!!
Every Friday Jodie has a freebie digital image to share with you (sometimes there are 2!!) and that image is free in the Bugaboo Store for 1 week. This week we have a very cute Birthday Turtle for you.

The Card I made with this adorable image is also for 2 challenges.
The 1st challenge is a sketch from the team at A Crafty Little Place, the new home/blog for Die Cuts R Us.

I changed up the sketch just a little so it would work with the stamps and size card I chose to work with.





The second challenge I am entering this card in is a NEW challenge site and this is their 1st challenge. It is called Party Time Tuesdays and their theme is always birthday cards. With a goal of having us create and have more birthday cards, which we all need to have on hand.







For my card I started by pulling out my Taylored Expressions May Key Ingredients for all of the supplies, along with coordinating Copic Markers, except the small postage Happy Birthday Stamp and the red rhinestones(& the Bugaboo digital image, of course), both of these are from CTMH. The large scalloped square dies are Spellbinders. I also used a fiskars corner rounder and border punch to finish off the card.

I hope you like my little turtle birthday card, to see what the rest of the design team has done today head over to the Bugaboo Catch the Bug Challenge Blog. I'm sure you will find some inspiration there!!!

For those of you faithful Bugaboo followers....and anyone else interested, our next Challenge for you will be next Saturday June 12th. The winner will receive an AMAZING 7 digital images. So, go pick up your freebie before it is too late and check out what else is new at the Bugaboo Store (link is above).

THANK YOU for your visit today and I hope you have a great weekend!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

Bugaboo Flower Power Challenge

Hello and welcome to another Bugaboo Stamps Challenge!!
This week our theme is Flower Power.....however you would like to interpret that.
If you did not arrive here from the Catch The Bug Challenge Blog you should definitely go there for all of the Official rules and to find some AMAZING inspiration from my fellow very talented Design Team members.

Oh, and before I forget..... I want to remind you about Freebie Fridays at Bugaboo. Every Friday Jodie has some brand new stamps to preview....and she lets you "try before you buy" at the Bugaboo Store. This weeks freebies are some VERY CUTE sock monkeys that are very much worth trying as a freebie!!! I have seen some sock monkey stamps recently, but I must say I am partial to the cute ones Jodie has come up with. You will find some Friday Freebie Design Team examples at the Catch the Bug Challenge link above too.


For my Challenge Card today I chose to use the Bugaboo Brat Sean, I think he is so cute holding that flower behind him!!! I didn't want the card to be too girly with a boy stamp. But as I was coloring Sean I was reminded of a little boy named AJ I was a Nanny for for 6 1/2 years (I miss him SO MUCH!!! :( ) AJ new I loved flowers, and he would pick them and draw them for me. With that in mind, I didn't think this was too much....even if it was coming from a little boy.


The sentiment is from Unity and I LOVE it, but it is kind of hard to read. It says "may flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day". ALL papers and the flower center are from CTMH. All 3 die sets.... the ovals, the flowers and the tags are Spellbinders and Sean is colored with Copics.

This is definitely a challenge you should enter because Jodie is very generous to the winners....1st place receiving 7 bugaboo images!!! 2nd and 3rd place also receive images!! This time of year we can usually all come up with a Flower Power Card!!!

I'm so glad you came to visit today!!! As you can tell I love talking about (and creating with) Bugaboo stamps.
Hope to see you again soon!!
Have a wonderful weekend and HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the Moms out there!!!
{{HUGZ}}
-Jodi

New Release Tuesday!!!

Hello and Happy Tuesday!!!
It is a very happy Tuesday here because the weather is going to be gorgeous AND today is New Release day at Bugaboo Stamps!!! It is not just any NR day today, Jodie has 4 sets of New Releases today. Not just 4 stamps BUT 4 GROUPS of stamps. The cards The Team have to show you are just the beginning. When you go to the Bugaboo store and click on the images you like, you find a whole series of similar images to chose from.

My 1st card today features Bugaboo Angel Maggie, OH how I LOVE her!!!! Isn't she great??? This Digi comes with the beautiful sentiment too. She is DEFINITELY an all time favorite stamp of mine, and so much fun to color, I can't wait to see more!!!



For this card I colored my angel with Copics, outlined the sentiment with Spica markers and used Glamour Dust on her wings. Then I cut them out with my nesties, along with a mat/background for each. All of the papers here are from Close To My Heart and the border punch is Martha Stewart.


My next AMAZING release to share is from the new WEE One Fairies. I CONTINUE to be amazed with Jodie and how she comes up with all of these fabulous images. Again, not just one, but a whole series at a time. I have a feeling these new Fairies will also be some of my favorite go to to images. I've always loved Fairies and Angels, that is why I have been bursting at the seams to be able to show these off to everyone!!!




My Fairy is colored with Copics, her wings and the stars were colored with Spica markers also, but the sparkle doesn't show up in the picture. The large scalloped square die and scalloped border die are from Spellbinders. The sentiment stamp is CTMH. All papers and embellies are from Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients (either spring or easter??).

I really hope you like these digi stamps as much as I do. There are 2 more New Releases to see so you need to head over to our Catch The Bug Blog to find them and then the fabulous blogs of the rest of the Design Team. They are listed on the Bugaboo blog and on my right sidebar.

THANKS for coming bye today!!!
Don't forget to come back soon for more goodness from Bugaboo, including a new Challenge on Saturday.
{{BIG HUGZ}}
-Jodi

Digital Two For Tuesday

Today I have the honor of being Guest Designer on the great site Digital Two For Tuesday(click here). I found Cora's site some time ago while searching for vintage images. Every Tuesday she has free vintage images. I was very glad to make some cards with these images and took it as a challenge from my "normal" style. I had a hard time deciding what to do with these and instead of doing something new, I think I ended up using the images in my style, which is not what I intended, but is how they turned out. If you like vintage or just want to check out some beautiful images you should really go take a look at the site!!!




On this card I used papers and cardstock from CTMH, tag die is Quickutz, flower dies are Spellbinders and flower diecuts are Melissa Frances.

All supplies here are from Melissa Frances Fresh Twist Line. Tag and flowers dies are Spellbinders and border punch Martha Stewart.

THANKS so much for stopping bye, I will be back very soon with more to share, hope to see you then!!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

I {HEART} Bugaboo Stamps!!!

Hello fellow stampers and Happy Saturday!!!

Today I have a spring card to share with you, I LOVE this cute bunny!!! AND I finally get to tell you my HAPPY news!!! I am one of the new members of the BUGABOO Stamps DESIGN TEAM!!! I can't begin to tell you HOW EXCITED I am to represent and work with their stamps!!! This TOO CUTE bunny is just the very beginning of the AMAZING Digi stamps that Jodie, the owner and designer, has in her store. I couldn't believe the amount of CUTE, BEAUTIFUL and literally LAUGH OUT LOUD funny stamps that I found there. If you have never been there you really have to go to the store and see for yourself (click here).



The team is having a color challenge this week, the colors are coral, kiwi and banana (or similar). This is what those colors inspired me to make. Color Challenges are not always my best and my daughter wasn't too sure about a "coral" easter bunny, but once I found my similar colors and put it all together she thought it was "pretty nice".....which is a good review from her!! If you go to the Bugaboo Catch The Bug Challenge Blog you can find out about this Challenge and pick up one of the great freebies to participate. You could win some amazing images!!!

I want to thank Rae Anne and Tammy for their help and wisdom this week. I am really looking forward to working with everyone on this Design Team!!!
Hope you have an amazing weekend!!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

card supplies
digital stamp-Bugaboo Stamps
cardstock-Doodlebug & CTMH
coloring medium-Copics & Atyou Spica Markers
embossing-Cuttlebug folder
oval die cuts-Spellbinders
border punch-Martha Stewart
waxy flax-CTMH
sassy strands-CTMH
beads & flowers-CTMH

Hello H{ippity} Hoppers

Happy Monday to you, hope you have a nice week ahead.

Today I have another Valentine card to share with you. I know the {ippity} challenge is a birthday card but right now I have my valentine supplies out. My crafting stuff is pretty unorganized and I didn't want to make it worse....I have enough to reorganize as it is. When I started with this card I had a different vision in mind. I wanted a collage type card with an {ippity}/Unity heart tree. Which is what this is, yet I am not very happy with the results. To me it looks more like a card made by a child, oh well. Next time will be much better. Sometimes my crafts mirror how I am feeling and lately my health problems have been REALLY bad. I'm sure checking out all of the H{ippity} Hopping blogs today will help me get my mojo back(I REALLY HOPE!!!).

All of the stamps here are from Unity or {ippity}. The background is Hearts of old, the tree is from Giggle Grove...the original set, wood mounted. The sentiment and small hearts on branches are from Love Grows. The heart on top of the tree is from you + me= happy, and the two hearts on both sides of the tree are cut out from the heart in the {ippity} set Life's Little Moments. Here is how it turned out.....

Supplies
Papers and Embellishments-Making Memories Love Story
Ink- Memento and Brilliance
Cutting Dies-Spellbinders
Ribbon-Close To My Heart
Border Punch- Fiskars
Stickles

Today I will be working on something MUCH BETTER, thanks so much for coming to visit today -Jodi

1st Day of New Releases at Rusty Pickle Digital Delights

Hello and Happy Monday!!
Today I am so glad to show you my creation made with one of the beautiful new releases from The Rusty Pickle Digital Delights.
We are going to have 3 days of new releases and today is only the 1st. We have some wonderful floral images to share with you. I made my card using this new digi



I wanted to do something with this image that I can only do very easily with a digital image. I printed the image out on my cardstock for coloring, then printed it on the green cardstock. After that I resized it so that it was a little smaller than the 1st one and printed a few of those to be colored also. I decided to make a little "bouquet" with the image and cut out three of the smaller flowers after they were colored and added them with pop dots to give them some dimension. Then as I cut the images with my Spellbinders dies I made sure to line them up so the stems would match the way I wanted the dies positioned on the card. Here is my end result

The papers, cardstock, sticker and ribbon are all from Close To My Heart. I colored the flowers with copics, the pearls are Kaisercraft and I used a Martha Stewart border punch.

Remember you still have time to complete a card for our Tart and Tangy Tuesday Challenge from last week. For more info on the challenge OR to get this great new image you can go visit the Rusty Pickle site by clicking on my banner to the right. Be sure to check out the other listed Design Team members that have new releases today also. Thanks for visiting, have a GREAT week and I will be back tomorrow with another New Release.
-Jodi

Heather http://heathersheavinlystampations.blogspot.com/
Rachel http://mycardstockcreations.blogspot.com/
Ali http://craftydragons.blogspot.com/
Dawn http://cherrytreestudio.blogspot.com/
Nancy http://southernyankeecrafter.blogspot.com/

The Greeting Farm CHA Relay Day #2

This is my 2nd post for the day, PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR MY TART & TANGY TUESDAY with RUSTY PICKLE POST, THANK YOU!!!

I'm doing the CHA Relay over on The Greeting Farm this week and their galleria is down because there are SO MANY people making cards with their digi images. So, I needed to post this here today to get the next image.

This is Charlotte and I paired her with some CTMH papers and an old stamp of mine from Leave Memories(the Diva set), I thought it was just perfect for her. Sorry my papers are a little crooked!!! I was doing homework with my daughter and noticed what time it was!!! I jumped up and had to quickly put it together because I lost track of time and I didn't want to miss the next awesome image. Luckily I already had her colored and ready(I used Copics and Atyou Spica markers).
Here is my Charlotte with attitude......
Since I had to post here I thought I would also share my card from the 1st day of the relay, his name is MerIan. He is also colored with copics and atyou spica markers. I found my summertime papers and embellies from CTMH and Me & My Big Ideas. I also used a Fiskars border punch and Spellbinders tag dies.THANKS for stopping by to see my creations, please leave a comment so I know you were here. I will be back tomorrow with more to share, Until then...

Jodi

It's Tart & Tangy Tuesday with The Rusty Pickle Digital Delights Design Team!!

Hello and happy Tuesday!! I'm so happy to be doing my 1st Tart and Tangy Tuesday with The Rusty Pickle Digital Delights Design team!! The challenge this week is to make a card with a Rusty Pickle Digital Image and also use the colors Cameo Coral, Certainly Celery and Bashful Blue. These colors are from Stampin Up! and if you don't have them you can use whatever you have that is closest, which is what I needed to do. After my 3 years with Close To My Heart I have cardstock that I tried to match. Here is what I came up with as an example....


My image is called a Castle For Any Princess and I fell in love with it right away!!! It's so different than other stamp image castles I've seen, so I had to have it right away. With the colors this week I decided to make a little scene with a blue sky and a green rolling meadow. The green is actually cut from a Quickutz cloud border die that I flipped and made into grass.
The blue sky is embossed with a cuttlebug folder for texture and the tag is a Quickutz die also. I colored my image with Copics and Atyou Spica glitter markers and some of the parts are paper pieced with the pink paper covered with the glitter markers. It sparkles much better in person.
The two word stamps are Unity, the flocked rub on is Heidi Swapp and the rectangle tags are spellbinders.

THANKS so much for stopping by today!! Be sure to head over to the other Design Team Blogs that I have listed over to the right. You can also go to the Rusty Pickle shop and pick up an image or a freebie so you can compete in this weeks challenge to win an image (there is a Design Team list there too). Click HERE to get to the store.

Hope you will join in with our challenge this week!! I can't wait to see what you create!! If you have any questions you can always email me, I have that link at the top middle of my blog. Have a great day and good luck in the challenge!!!

Jodi

Unity Friends With Flair Friday

Hello and happy Friday to all of my Unity friends out there or anyone else just stopping in!!!
Today I have 2 cards to share with you, made with some of my newer stamps that needed some attention. The first card uses 3 stamps from the Unity December KOTM delightful moments. Isn't that hot air balloon GREAT!!!!??? The papers are all from CTMH, I colored parts of the balloon with Copics, the pearls are Kaisercraft and cutting dies are Spellbinders.


For my second card I used Cardstock, Dp, ribbon and coordinating Copics from Taylored Expressions Valentine Key Ingredients. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this Be Loved paper from My Mind's Eye....as many of you do too....because I have been seeing it all over the place. I have 2 Unity stamps here, the flowers are from Best Wishes & Blooms and the Joy definition is from Treasure To Me. I also used a Fiskars border punch, Spellbinders dies and flower bling from CTMH that I colored with my Copics.

IF you would like to check out more info about Unity stamps and their incredible KOTM's just click on my Unity addict blinkie over on the right side. I promise you will never be disappointed with them, I have loved everything Unity since Aug 2008. That blinkie will also get you to their blog with the list of amazingly talented stampers to visit for more Unity eye candy!!! Have a great weekend and I will be posting again soon with some exciting news!!!

-Jodi C.

Unity Stamp Co and Their incredible friends with Flair

Hello and Happy Friday to all!! Thanks for stopping by today to see my creation. Once again, I used some beautiful images from the incredible Unity November Store Kit. This card gave me more practice with my Copic Club from Paper Maniac "homework".
So the image is colored with Copics and outlined with the beautiful sparkly atyou Spica Pitch black marker (doesn't show the sparkle too well here). All papers are from Close To My Heart's Discovery collection, the die cuts are from spellbinders and my new fav border punch is Martha Stewart.

Being that today is FINALLY the day for NEW MOON....10:30 am here, I wanted to share this picture of my daughter and her new Jacob poster (she liked Taylor before he was cast as Jacob) that she got for her birthday. I have a feeling all of us fans are going to be VERY HAPPY as we walk out of the movie....Have fun all you Twihards!!!

Welcome Unity Friends with Flair!!!

Hello and happy Friday!!! I made 2 cards for today. Both of them use Unity's October Store kit and all other supplies (paper, ink,border sticker) are from Close to My Heart. The snowman card was made with 2 Quickutz dies, the nesting ornaments and the beads borders.That little snowflake stamp fit perfectly on those bead borders, I almost forgot the stickles I used to add a little snowflake bling. I used some Spellbinders nesting dies for the Merry and Bright card.THANK YOU so much for stopping by!! -Jodi

Hi Everyone!!! PLEASE see what I have for sale!!!

I haven't posted any artwork lately because I've been busy trying to reorganize/organize my craft supplies. Because of my need to downsize my living situation I need to sell MANY of my craft supplies. A few years ago I was a consultant for Close To My Heart and during that time I accumulated many of their MY Acrylix stamp sets. I have not been able to work at all for a few months and would like to keep my daughter in the same school that she(we) have loved for the past 3 years. So, I would much rather part with many of my craft supplies in order to be in a stable place. If you or ANYONE you might know would like to check out the stamps I have for sale please go to


http://stampnstufffromjozi.blogspot.com/
Thanks so much for visiting!!! Please pass the word to your crafty friends.
THANK YOU!!!
Jodi

Unity Monochromatic Challenge USGDC02

Here's my layout I did for the Unity Stamp Co. July KOTM Guest Designer Challenge. The rules were to use the April or May Kit and have your project be monochromatic. I thought it would be the perfect time to pull out this picture of my daughter and her friend that I've been wanting to scrap. I used the Unity May Kit...another sweet day for all stamps except for the parenthesis, that is from Unity's Amazing Me! set. I chose to use some of my Close To My Heart papers in Hollyhock (I used cardstock and B&T papers of the same color) and also used CTMH ink in Hollyhock. I stamped the Heidi Swapp chipboard letters with one of the decorative stamps from the May Kit also. The flowers are also from CTMH and I inked them up with some of that matching ink too. Thank you so much for visiting me!! If you just happened upon my blog you can click on the Unity blinkie to the right to find out more about their monthly kits and other incredible stamps. Also be sure to check out their blog where Angela always has some great inspiring quotes.

Happy Hip Hop Hangover!!!

THANK YOU for visiting my blog today. For now I have one card to share since I forgot I had an appointment this morning. I should be back later with more to share. My card has the flower, sentiment stamp and corner flourish from the May kit ...another sweet day, the butterfly is from the Dec kit little reminders. ALL stamps are from Unity, of course. The scallop strip is from Quickutz and the nested ovals are from Spellbinders. All cardstock is from Close To My Heart (watermelon, hydrangea and sunkiss yellow). The images are colored with my new atyouSpica markers, I LOVE them and the sparkle. I let my daughter color in the butterfly because she just had to try them too!!

Enjoy your day!!! Jodi

Unity Hip Hop Thursday

Here are the two cards I did for the Hip Hop Challenges over on the SCS Unity Forum. The May you live all the days of your life card is for the Oh My Word! Challenge and the other card is for the Star challenge. All of the stamps on both cards are Unity, the recipes for both cards are on my gallery at splitcoast stampers here http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=188173

Hip Hop Thursday

Today I made one card for the Unity Hip Hop Challenge. This is for the pink and purple challenge. Stamps are from the new Unity set Everyday Adorable. Papers and ribbon are CTMH.

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!!!!

I would like to wish anyone that may happen upon my blog a very HAPPY NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY!!! I have some cards to share with you....I haven't made a layout in a while, though scrapbooking is what got me started in card making.
My first card uses Bazzill cardstock, pp and diecut from sassafass lass, bling from doodlebug and all stamps are from Unity (distressed dots, becoming butterfly, and the butterfly from fresh beginnings...the April KOTM).
For my 2nd card, bling, papers and ink are from Close To My Heart (groovy blossoms). Both stamps are Unity, the flourish is in the April Kit and Imagine butterfly is from Trifle Sentiments. TFL!!!!

Unity Challenge Cards

Here are two of the cards I did for the Unity Hip Hop challenges this week.TFL!!!!

Merry Christmas

This was a kit from Close To My Heart that I loved. I made my own layout instead of following theirs, and here is the finished product. The Santa pictures are my favorite. Her outfit was perfect and he was the VERY BEST Santa EVER.