Bugaboo New Release Tuesday

Hello and welcome to New Release Tuesday at Bugaboo Stamps!!!

Every Tuesday Jodie has new images in the Bugaboo Store, not just 1 or 2 images, but an entire series and/or bundle of images. This week she has come up with a set of Stella Red Hat Blocks. Stella is quite a character and I think she is perfect for the "hattitude"!!!!....She definitely has it!!!



Each of the Design Team members got 2 images from the new set to play with ahead of time for the preview today. Well, I loved both of these Stellas and her hats, so I decided to make a card with both of them. All of the images include Stella wearing a hat with a sentiment inside of a block. So, for my Stella peeking out in the lower right corner, I cut her out of her "block". All of the papers on the card are from the Taylored Expressions May Key Ingredients (which includes Pebbles Treehouse Dp). They are colored with Copics, and my "peeking" Stella has some Flower Soft on her hat and to try for the look of a fuzzy boa.

Next, you should head on over to the Bugaboo Catch The Bug Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team came up with for Stella and her hats.

THANKS for stopping in today, hope you enjoyed my Stellas!!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

BRAVE GIRLS Friday with FLAIR!!!!

Hello Unity Friends With Flair,
so glad to be here again this week with you!!

I am so happy that I got to ink up this AMAZING BRAVE GIRLS set by Unity to share today!! This is such a fabulous stamp set, there are so many things I have rolling around in my head that I want to do with it.....the #1 being a BRAVE GIRL inspiration journal. I have come to a point in my life where there is no possibility that things can possibly get any worse. I am at a constant right now....things aren't getting better, I'm surviving , I am protecting my soul (one of the sentiments in the set) and this stamp set made me realize I am a BRAVE GIRL!!! It is very odd that a stamp set can teach you something about yourself, but this one has and I am very grateful for that. THANK YOU Unity and Brave Girls!!!!

Today I only had time for a card to share.......



I pulled out some of my old Basic Grey papers & buttons, then used the "background" be brave stamp to make one of the patterned papers. Then I combined the birds and come fly with me for the main image. All of the flowers were cut out of the Dp & the large one was paired with 3 coordinating buttons. I used a large spellbinders tag die, a fiskars border punch and all of the edges were distressed with ink. I hope my project did the set some justice.

If you just happened upon my blog you will want to go over to the Unity blog for the list of blogs with fabulous Unity eye candy. One of them will have a blinkie to find, then leave a comment there and you could win some Unity stamps (25)!!!

Hope you have a fabulous weekend & thanks for visiting!!!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

Tiddly Inks

Today I have a card to share with you that I made quite a while ago. This very cute digital stamp Annie is from Tiddly Inks. If any of you love Stamping Bella you may have some of the great rubber stamps by Christy Croll....My very favorite is Izzie. Well, Christy now has a wonderful digital stamp site also. Her paper craft planet group has 1,000 members in only 7 weeks, that has to be some kind of record....don't you think???

Her Tiddly Inks store, that I linked above, is just getting started but you should really check it out. She will soon be having a big sale and a blog hop. I have a link to her blog on my sidebar where you will find a lot more info, or you could click HERE if you would like info on getting in on the blog hop or checking out the Tuesday Challenge Blog.







I still have some of my Be Loved papers from My Mind's Eye(I am not tired of them yet) that I used here along with some coordinating cardstock. I popped up the book to add some dimension and made my own flower with some spellbinders flower dies. The sentiment is from Unity and Annie is colored with Copics.

Thanks for stopping to see my creation today, hope you have a great week!!!
See you soon!!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

Bugaboo New Release Tuesday

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Hello!!! Today is New Release Tuesday at Bugaboo Stamps!!!
Jodie has come up with some amazing new Earth Day images (I LOVE them all!!) along with some great Molly Moo images too!!! You can check them out here on the Bugaboo Challenge Blog and from there you can go to the store.

I chose this image today because my daughter is going to be holding up an Earth Ball at the end of a song in her spring concert on Friday. So, later I will have to use this image on a scrapbook layout. I also love this sentiment I found when I pulled out these Daisy Bucket, A Wondrous World papers.

This card is also for this weeks Challenge at Die Cuts R Us, where the Challenge is to use an earth or nature related element.



Hope you like it. THANKS for coming to see my New Release today!! See you soon,
{HUGZ}
Jodi

card supplies
digital stamp-Bugaboo Stamps
paper & sentiment-Daisy Bucket Designs
border punch-Fiskars
tag dies-Spellbinders

Beautiful Bugaboo Freebies!!!

Hello Friends!!! I have been gone a while but am VERY glad to be back in stamping land!!! We went on vacation and the beginning was AMAZING (more on that later), but the end was not much fun. Things are finally back to normal and I am very happy to share a card with you today.

You may not know that Bugaboo Stamps has a Freebie Friday every week. Jodie, the owner and artist, offers 2 free images every Friday here on the Catch The Bug Challenge Blog. Yes, I am 1 day late, but I just had to share this cute Bee Bear with you. The images are available for 1 week so be sure to go check out what else is free this week.


Along with the Bugaboo image this card is made with products from the American Crafts Dear Lizzy line (all papers and ribbon). I fell in love with this line of products when I saw it!! Have any of you seen or used the fabric paper from this line?? It looks great. My digital image is colored with copics and the sentiment is from Unity Stamps. The 2 tag dies are Spellbinders and the border punch is from Fiskars.

I hope you like this card and image as much as I do and also hope you will return often to see more of these amazing Bugaboo Stamps that I will be sharing. There will also be a Challenge next Saturday the 24th.
THANKS for your visit,
{HUGZ}
Jodi

Friday Full Of Flair

Hi,
I am still LOVING this Basic Grey Origins, I just can't get enough!!! Last week I pulled out one of my Unity wood mounted stamps to work with and that really started something. I've been looking at all of them with plans to come. Their large thin wood mounted stamps are actually the entire reason I was drawn to Unity in the first place, along with their unique handles that go along with them. I saw some new wood mounted stamps for sale so if you have never used Unity's you should really try them, they are very different than any other wood mount you will find and you don't have to buy their handles, but they do work better with them. This stamp is Scrappy Flower(I think??...I will check).



I paper pieced the leaves and flower. For the flower I added an extra layer underneath to add a little more dimension and for a little bit of the patterned paper flower look I like so much right now. All papers are Basic Grey Origins except for 2 coordinating pieces of prism cardstock.

If you just happened upon my blog today you should head over to the Unity Blog Here to see a list of all of their participants. One person will have a blinkie on their blog, and if you leave a comment there, you have a chance to win 25 random Unity stamps.

They are saying our nice, nice weather here will be over and we will get cold and maybe some more snow this weekend. I hope you are in a nice and sunny place and have a GREAT weekend. As for me, this is my favorite weekend of the year. The 1st weekend of the big NCAA college basketball tournament. I LOVE to see the under dogs beat the big guys(which has already happened 3 or 4 times yesterday)....except,of course, if it is my team. That's what I'll be doing, so the weather doesn't really matter anyway!!!
See you soon!!
{HUGZ}
Jodi

card supplies
paper-Basic Grey Origins
cardstock-prism
stamp-Unity
border punch-Fiskars
ink-versafine

BUGABOO Stamps Sketch Challenge

Hello, today I have a card for a sketch challenge from Bugaboo Stamps, a digi stamp company with some GREAT stamps.


If you have never visited their store you should check it out here. I used one of their amazing freebie stamps on my card. Can you believe this amazing stamp was a freebie?? I LOVE IT!! I love the big Easter egg and really had fun coloring it.



I love the sketch too, nice and simple. It highlights the great image. Today we actually have LOTS of wonderful sunshine and I love it but it made some little shadows on my picture from all of the trees we have around.....sorry about that.

Thanks for looking, I'll be back soon with another spring card.
{HUGZ}
Jodi

card supplies
cardstock-Bazzill
Digi Stamp- Bugaboo Stamps
color medium-Copics
border punch-Fiskars
glitter paper, paper frills and bling- Doodlebug

Unity Friday Flair with a Sketch

Hello and Happy Friday!!!
I'm so glad you came to visit today. If you just happened upon my blog you should go to the Unity Blog to see the list of participants for Friends with Flair. One of those blogs has a special blinkie, and if you leave a comment there you could win 25 random Unity stamps.

I have a card to share based on Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge( MTSC64) using a classic, wood mounted Unity tree. I never used to use sketches for my cards but lately I've really liked using them.



I am still loving this Basic Grey Origins paper and thought it would be great with this stamp. I was reading my latest PaperCrafts Magazine yesterday and saw so many cards with buttons that I decided to pull out my stash. I colored one of the clear buttons with a yellow copic marker and left the other 3 clear. Then I stamped the tree on 3 different patterned papers to put behind those buttons.



Hope you like it. Hope you have a wonderful weekend!! Mine will be spent watching lots of March Madness College Basketball....I'm a huge fan and have it on already. I will hopefully sneak some crafting in while I watch.
THANKS for the visit, {HUGZ}
Jodi

card supplies
patterned paper- Basic Grey Origins
cardstock-coordinating cardstock pack from DIE CUTS R US
stamp-Unity
ink-versafine
clear buttons-Autumn Leaves
colored buttons-craft supply
pearls-kaisercraft
die tags-spellbinders
border punch-fiskars
color medium-chocolate atyou spica marker(used for outlining)

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

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

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

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/

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.

H{ippity} Hop!!!

Hello and happy H{ippity} Hopping Monday. This is my 1st {ippity} blog hop and I'm so excited to see all of the wonderful creations by all of the incredible {ippity} girls. Sorry if my post is late, I wasn't sure what time things got started and my daughter has a late start at school every Monday (9:15 first bell). If you just happened upon my blog today you should really go to the {ippity} blog to check out where things started and to see the list of creative participants....there is an {ippity} blinkie to your right that will get you there.
Here is my project for today. This quote is an absolute favorite of mine, especially in the last 2 years. We have had to downsize from a 3 bedroom full basement duplex condo home to a 2 bedroom apartment. Though I've worried about my daughter (of course) and how things would affect her....she is still in the same school she has been in since Kindergarten....this quote is SO TRUE for us. There is so much love between us that it really doesn't matter where we live and what we have, or don't have, as long as we are together.

This project includes
stamps from {ippity}
bracket from Life's little moments
tree from Simply Home (LOVE this tree, I think it may be an {ippity} classic)
Papers (piggy tales) and ribbon are left overs from an old kit, not sure where I got it.
house chipboard and bird charms are Maya Road
pearls from Kaisercraft
Fiskars border punch
label dies from spellbinders

I would like to say CONGRATS to Lisa and Michelle for becoming part of the amazing {ippity} design team!!! I can't wait to see what fabulous and inspiring projects you have for us in the future.

THANKS so much for stopping by today, Have a great day!!!
-Jodi