Bugaboo Freebie Friday!!!! CUTE Summertime Peekers

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Hello and Happy Freebie Friday from Bugaboo Stamps!!!
This week Jodie has come up with some FABULOUS freebies for you to try out!! They are called Summertime Peekers, there is an entire set of these little cuties and TWO of them are freebies for a week.......so you can try out her wonderful stamps!!!!


I also made this card for the Taylored Expressions Sketch #114 Below.




So, this little sweetie is called Summertime Peeker Flowerpot. There is also another peeker freebie that is a boy. They can both be found here in the Bugaboo Store. This Peeker series is another of Jodie's many creations that have me saying...."how does she do this?" 2 new sets released a week that are AMAZING!!!!





For my card today I used my little peeker along with elements from the Taylored Expressions April Key Ingredients which includes papers and elements from the Cosmo Cricket Material Girl Line. She is colored with Copics, the circle die is from Quickutz and the large scalloped square die is from Spellbinders. The paper buttons were punched with the Marvy Uchida embossed button punch. The one thing that doesn't show up in the photo is her blue eyes, they look much better IRL!!

I hope you liked my combo of Bugaboo Stamps and Taylored Expressions....Two of my very favorites. I really hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!! THANK YOU for visiting!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

How can you resist this ADORABLE Bugaboo Freebie???

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Hello and welcome to Freebie Friday at Bugaboo Stamps. Every Friday Jodie has 2 freebies to share in the Bugaboo Store (they will be available after 12:00-noon if they are not there when you go). The one I chose to share with you is this adorable little one named Boo, I LOVE her!!! She is so sweet with her teddy bear!!! I colored her skin and hair as best I could to resemble my daughter. You will also want to go to the Catch The Bug Blog to check out the other freebie and to get some great inspiration from the rest of the Design Team.



I really wanted Boo to stand out and be the center of attention on this card, so that is why I used so much white. She is colored with copics and spica markers, cut out with a spellbinders tag die, then matted with Doodlebug cardstock. The large flower die is from Quickutz to be used with the Epic 6, that piece was then embossed with a cuttlebug folder and then matted. The polka dot paper is Doodlebug also and the sentiment stamp is from Heidi Grace.

THANKS for stopping to see this sweet new Bugaboo image, don't forget to go grab her!!!
I hope you have a fabulous weekend with much better weather than we have been having. Hope to see you again soon!!
{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

Happy Day Amelia!!

Hello fellow stamping bloggers!! Today I have a card for the Challenge over at DIE CUTS R US, one of my very favorite online stores, they have a great blog with some great challenges too....just in case you've never been there. This week their challenge is a recipe challenge and here it is.....

1 stamped image
2 die cuts
3 buttons/jewels
ribbon

I used the Amelia stamp from The Greeting Farms Happy Day set. The sentiment Happy Day is very appropriate for me this week!! I have some wonderful news that I will be able to share with you at the end of the week, YAY!!! So, you'll have to wait just a little bit for it.



Here's how I used the recipe challenge. 1 stamp already mentioned. The large circle and scalloped circle die cuts are Quickutz Cookie Cutter dies. The 2 pink jewels are Kaisercraft and the yellow is from Doodlebug. Ribbon from my craft supply.

Hope you like Amelia, she looks pretty happy don't you think??

supplies not already mentioned
patterned paper-Basic Grey June Bug
cardstock-Bazzill
color mediums-Copic and AtyouSpica Markers

The Sugar Bowl

This week I decided to do a Challenge on The Sugar Bowl Sugar Nellie Challenge Blog for the first time. I saw this image a few months ago and just fell in love with it. So, when I saw their challenge this week I thought it would be perfect for this amazing stamp (DAISY). You can get to their challenge blog by clicking here. Here is the sketch for this challenge and it is to be used along with making a Shabby Chic style project.



So, here is my card....what do you think?? I LOVE making this kind of card and would like to do it every day, but they take me so long!! I am not the fastest cardmaker to begin with so I did this in 2 steps. I colored the image yesterday and put it all together today. The Dp here are the Prima Indeed line (love it!). I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist on every part of the card except the stamped image. On the purple areas I used timeless lilac and on the rest I used dazzling diamonds(my 2 favorites). It is very hard to see any glimmer on this very cloudy day here.I also used 2 different things on the edges to soften/distress. Some areas have white pigment ink and for some I used my BV08 Copic marker.

I am so happy you stopped in to see my card with this beautiful image from Sugar Nellie, a Scottish Rubber Stamp Company.....they have a lot of adorable images that are only available here .
Hope to see you again soon!!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

card supplies
cardstock-Bazzill
Design Paper-Prima Indeed
glitter paper-DCWV
stamp-Sugar Nellie Daisy
Ink-Memento
2 tag dies-Spellbinders
circle scallop die-Quickutz
border punch-Fiskars
coloring medium-Copic Markers, White Smooch
glimmer mist-Tattered Angels
bling(square)-Bazzill
flowers and flower bling-CTMH
lace trim-craft supply

Happy Friday Full of Friends with Flair!!!

Hi to my fellow Unity Addicts full of Flair and to anyone else that is just stopping by. If you did not get a chance to check out the Unity blog yesterday, you REALLY should head on over there to check out the new look. Angela also made a few additions to the new blog and they are AWESOME!! You can get there by clicking here.

Next, I need to send out a BIG THANK YOU to Jen from Jen's Cup of Creations. I was lucky enough to win her Blogaversary Blog candy and the package she sent me was AMAZING!!!! Jen is an {ippity} chick and she included the {ippity} SET Just Wanted To Say.....in the blog candy. If you would like to check out her blog or her {ippity} stamps for sale, click on the link above. THANK YOU Jen, it will be so much fun creating with all of the goodies!!

I hope you have had a GREAT week and that you have been able to get some fun stamping time in. I am a very excited stamper this week because yesterday I found out I won the Artful INKables think INK Challenge. So, I won some of their stamps, YEAH!!! Winning stamps is always great, I have 3 of their sets that I LOVE, can't wait to get more!!

My card I have to share with you today is definitely related to my mood this week, but I didn't really realize it until it was done. Do you ever do that?? I picked the paper and stamps, put everything together and went WOW!! That's how I've felt this week. Here it is....




I have been REALLY wanting spring to come along, just like always at this time of the year, but this week has been bad. That explains the papers and all of the butterflies. I have also had some things happen that have reminded how important my family really is to me, they (especially my mom) have helped me through some very tough times and are always there for me. That explains the sentiment. Another wonderful family thing has been watching my cousin play on the USA Olympic Hockey team this week. My brother was in 3 summer Olympics and I was lucky enough to go to 2 of them. It is such an AMAZING thing, there is nothing like the Olympics. I LOVE seeing all of the different countries coming together peacefully. OK, sorry for my rambling today when there are so many fabulous stampers to visit. Here is the recipe for my card, THANK YOU SO MUCH for visiting today....hope to see you again soon!!!

Making Memories- papers, ribbon and butterfly shaped paper from journaling notebook- all Flower Patch Line
Unity Stamps- circle sentiment from Birdie Inspiration, 3 butterflies from Bevy of Butterflies
Martha Stewart- border punch
Quickutz-scalloped circle die
Versafine black ink and Memento Summer Sky ink

{{HUGZ}}
-Jodi

Another Unity Friday Full of Flair!!!

Welcome to my friends with Flair and other fellow stampers, Thanks so much for visiting today. I have one card to share with you today that has some beautiful Unity stamps on it. I also used the sketch from this weeks Taylored Expressions sketch Challenge.


To create my card I used Taylored Expressions January Key Ingredients for all of my papers. Included in that kit are the Basic Grey Nook & Pantry Dp. The sentiment and image stamps used are from Unity's The Artist In You set by Donna Downey. Here is how it turned out.


I took this image at night with my Ott Light and just couldn't get a great picture. I usually have the problem of my sparkle not showing but here I have the opposite. I heat embossed the image by stamping first with Versamark Dazzle in Champagne, Then I used Chocolate Sparkle embossing powder by Sparkle & Sprinkle. As you can tell it has LOTS of sparkle....which I love, but it does look much better in person. I also used spellbinders dies for the large rectangles, and a quickutz die for the scalloped circle. On the bottom of the striped paper I used a Martha Stewart border punch.
If you haven't been to the Unity blog yet you should start there to see the list of all of the friends with flair, click here to get there.
One of the blogs will have a special blinkie and if you leave a comment there you could win 25 random Unity stamps, so be sure to visit all of the participants.

Thank you for visiting today, I hope you liked my creation. I will be back tomorrow as a part of the Stamping Bella LOVE ME DO blog hop. It should be lots of fun so be sure to stop back again.
Have an awesome weekend!!!
{{HUGZ}}
-Jodi

Pure Innocence Valentine

Hello Stampers,
Today I am sharing a card with you that I made for some challenges, the sketch I used is from the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.
This is the 1st time I have done this challenge and I thought it was a great sketch. Here is my card.....


I was so excited to find that you can get some of the Pure Innocence stamps as Digis, I just happened upon a blog where someone had used one for a card. Here is where you can find them, they are made by Heather Ellis. I think they are all JUST SO ADORABLE, it is very hard to pick, but I really liked this one for my cards.
supplies used
Digital Stamp by Heather Ellis
Dp by My Mind's Eye Bo Loved
Cardstock by Prism
Sentiment Stamp by Unity (Sending My Love)
Copic Markers- Taylored Expressions Valentine Ingredients
Stickles Glitter Glue
Scalloped Circle and Small Heart die-Quickutz
2Tag dies-Spellbinders

I am also submitting this card for 2 other challenges, and both are to make a Valentine Card.
Crazy 4 Challenges
Die Cuts R Us Design Team Challenge

Thanks so much for coming to visit, I hope you like my Valentine as much as I do. Have a GREAT day.
{{HUGZ}}
-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

H{ippity} Hopping Monday with Some FUN Digi News!!!

Back to the beginning of another week and I'm SO glad to be H{ippity} Hopping with those of you like me, at home wishing I could be at CHA.....someday we will get there if we really want to!!!.
I have done a few of these H{ippity} hops and I am amazed at the versatility of these stamps(though we know I shouldn't be, because they are a division of Unity). I only have 2 of their sets and can find quite a few uses for them AND I haven't even used them on any layouts yet. While looking at my stamps this week, this Valentine idea came to mind, although it really wouldn't have to be a Valentine.


Here I used bazzill cardstock, Heidi Grace and Doodlebug Dp, a Quickutz die cut tag and the embellishments are from my supply. There are 3 {ippity} stamps here. The heart and journaling tag are from Life's Little Moments and the sentiment is from Simply Home. The large polka dot paper is flocked and shimmery but doesn't show well on this picture...I LOVE the feel of it.


Now for my news. Around new years I was thinking that I would like to get into the Design Team world...... after having this blog for quite a while, loving to visit other stamping blogs and leaving lots of comments where I find beauty and inspiration.....I think it is just SO MUCH FUN!!! I also love meeting people with this same passion of mine. I asked Jessica Diedrich, the brand new Unity ROCK STAR, for some advice and soon found myself a digital Design Team. I am SO EXCITED for this new adventure and look forward to meeting many more people with the same addiction and have lots of fun.

I am now a member of The Rusty Pickle Digital Delights Design Team. I have created a list on my sidebar of the wonderful and talented ladies I am joining, be sure to check out their blogs when you have a chance. THANK YOU to Heather, the Design Team Coordinator, for all of your help!!!I have been playing around with digital images and have had lots of fun with sizing and coloring so far. We will be having a challenge every Tuesday called Tart and Tangy Tuesdays and you could win digital images. I will participate in my 1st Tuesday challenge tomorrow, so be sure to come back here and check it out. There are a few freebies on the site that you could use to enter the challenge. We also have some BEAUTIFUL new releases that will be coming out Feb 1st, 2nd,3rd. I hope you are able to follow along to see the wonderful images Michelle has created!!! My VERY FAVORITE part about the digi images is that they are INSTANT, they don't have to be shipped and I don't have to stalk my mail woman (though that will probably continue too!!).

THANKS so much for visiting me today and for reading this LONG post...sorry, hope you can return soon!!
-Jodi

http://rustypickledigis.blogspot.com/

...Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #57 (MTSC57)

This week I decided to try out my first Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. On January 1st I was lucky enough to get one of the limited supply stamp sets Happy Day by The Greeting Farm. Oliver and Amelia are Anya & Ian's new friends that will be officially released in March 2010. Well, my daughter is a HUGE American Girl Doll fan and these stamps look VERY similar to her Bitty Baby twins (actually Quadruplets, 2 boys & 2 girls...thanks to birthday, Grandma & Santa 2 years ago) that she LOVES and plays with ALL THE TIME!!! I decided it was time to go out of my element and make a boy card and I used this sketch as a guide to do that.
Here I used papers from My Mind's Eye, colored the image with Copics, used a Fiskars border punch, the dinosaur is Quickutz and other cutting dies are Spellbinders.
I didn't put a sentiment on the front of the card but thought it would make a nice boy birthday card, with the sentiment on the inside.

I hope you like my contribution to my 1st Mercy's sketch challenge, it was a fun card to make. I LOVE these sweet new friends of Anya and Ian and can't wait to show you how I've colored up Amelia. I also have a layout page in the works with the 4 dolls and 4 images....again, reliving my not-so girly girl childhood.

THANK YOU for checking out my creation and I am curious to know what you think of him.
Until next time,
Jodi

CLUB ANYA & FRIENDS Sketch Challenge

Hello,
I made this card for the Club Anya & Friends Saturday Sketch challenge. Here is the sketch we used.
Here is my card based on the sketch
I used this stamp from the Miss Anya Love collection. I colored her with my favorite combination of copics and atyou Spica markers. The papers, hearts and butterfly are from SEI's Jolie Chocolat collection (I think it is SO pretty). The oval dies are spellbinders, the love die and the scalloped circle are from Quickutz. Isn't she sweet?? Perfect for a Valentine. I just LOVE the incredible "people" stamps from The Greeting Farm!!! They are so much fun to color with copics!!

THANKS for stopping at my tiny little creative place and have a GREAT DAY!!! Hope you like her.
-Jodi

Relax....Friends With Flair!!

Happy Unity Friends with Flair Friday and thanks for visiting. Today I have one card to share with you and it uses Unity's Comfy Cozy ...I LOVE this set!!! First I was going to color the chair but then decided I wanted to make a little scene by paper piecing with Basic Grey's June Bug line.All papers, stickers and die cuts are Basic Grey, all stamps Unity and the cutting dies are from Quickutz.

Hope you have a GREAT weekend {& get to do some fun crafting/stamping} and THANKS for coming to visit!!!
-Jodi

CLUB ANYA & FRIENDS 2010 New Years Black Tie Challenge

Over at the New Club Anya and Friends blog they listed a challenge every hour yesterday, to celebrate the new blog and 5 new releases. I've made 2 cards so far (you have until tomorrow eve) and have one I want to share with you now. It is definitely my favorite card I've made in a while. It might have something to do with Edward being on it but I do like black and white quite a bit also.

The patterned papers and circle die cut are from tinkering ink, the silver paper is DCWV, the bling and die cut scallops are Doodlebug, circle scallop die is Quickutz, oval dies are Spellbinders. He is colored with copics. I used my I {HEART} TWILIGHT set of glimmer mists from Tattered Angels for the rest of the coloring. His background is candy apple red, I used cinder and dazzling diamonds on the colored scallops. Then when it was all done I used dazzling diamonds (named after Edward) to give the entire card some great sparkle.

Thanks for stopping by,
-Jodi

UNITY Friends with FLAIR!!!!

Welcome Unity Friends with Flair and Happy Friday!!! SORRY for this horrible picture but it has been such a bad morning I don't even know where to begin...I'm actually lucky I even got my card onto the computer the way things have been going.!! I actually really like my pink sparkly snowman card and I'm sad I can't get a better picture right now....oh well, maybe(hopefully) later.

Here is a much better photo


I made this card with the beautiful snowman from the Unity November store kit {Believe in fairytales}. The dp, sheer flower, button and ribbon are from the pink Christmas card kit I got from dream designs by iralamija ( I love her designs and her store). I stamped and embossed the snowman but wasn't happy with it yet so then I covered the more solid areas with Pixie Dust Shimmerz Blingz. The tag with border is from Quickutz, the scalloped oval and snowflakes are from spellbinders, embossing folder is cuttlebug, glitter is Martha Stewart and bling is from CTMH.
Thanks so much for stopping by today!! I always really appreciate your comments and encouragement!!
-Jodi

Copic Buzz Challenge

Today I have a card I did for my very first challenge with Copic Buzz, actually my very first card using Copics. I recently found a copic club at the store Paper Maniac, I received my first copics 1 week ago today(there is a paper maniac blinkie to the right). Then I found Copic Buzz, a challenge site, while doing some searching about the markers and different techniques....of course, I love them. We are suppose to make a card using this sketch. The challenge is sponsored by The Pixie Cottage but I do not have any of their images, so I had to choose my own.
So here is mine. The 2 stamps are from Unity's November Store kit {Believe in Fairytales} and the papers are Imaginisce. Of course the markers are copics. The scallop "beads" are Quickutz, the labels are Spellbinders, and I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder.
Thanks for stopping by to see my creation!!! Jodi

Happy Unity Friends with Flair Friday

Hello to all of you friends with flair. Today I made two cards using the Unity November Store kit {Believe in fairytales} that I got from Paper Maniac (I have one of their blinkies to the right if you would like to check out their great store). I LOVE this kit and the reg Unity kit for this month, they are both amazing. Angela also has a great sale going on with 30% off and a new INCREDIBLE set from Donna Downey...check those out with the Unity blinkie to the right.

My first card uses some vintage looking papers from a digital kit called written and printed by Kim De Smet. My sparkling snowman card also uses papers from a digital kit..designing with digital rhonda winter kit.

Thanks so much for stopping by on your way through this inspirational blog hop, I can't wait to see what everyone else has created!! Have a great weekend!! Jodi

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

Happy Unity Hip Hop Hangover

Hey did you check out the Unity Stamp Co website yesterday?? Angela the Rockstar owner has her first stamp set out and it is GREAT!!! They also have some great specials through tonight (Friday).

www.unitystampco.com

Here is a card I made with some of my favorite new stamps, all from Unity. The neighborhood of simplicity and sleigh ride. Paper is from cosmo cricket, embellishments from making memories, snowflake embossing plate from Quickutz and a little bling from stickles. TFL!!!!