Stamping Bella LOVE ME DO Blog Hop

Hello and Happy Saturday!!!
Thanks so much for stopping here on your way through the Stamping Bella LOVE ME DO Blog Hop!!! I am SO HAPPY to be a part of it!! IF you've just happened upon my blog, you can click here to start from the beginning at Bloggabella.
Can you believe that it wasn't until very recently that I got my 1st Stamping Bella stamp?? Well, I love them and am so glad I got them in time for this hop!!! I chose to make my card with Ella Lollipop because I just couldn't wait to color her, and here is what I came up with.





Isn't she Sweet?!? I know you've seen her MANY times...I have too. But she is just so cute!! OK, on to my recipe. All papers and embellishments are from Making Memories Love Story line, Except for the red foil. That is from Spellbinders along with 1 oval and 2 scalloped oval dies and the border punch is Martha Stewart, she is colored with copics.
In addition to the FABULOUS eye candy throughout the hop, Stamping Bella has decided to hide a prize somewhere along the hop. One pre-selected blogger will draw a random winner from the comments on her post, and the winner will receive a $25 gift voucher to Stamping Bella!!! The fun part is...they aren't telling you who it is! So as you hop, make sure you leave comments on every post so you have a chance to win....and who wouldn't want that prize?!?! The winner will be announced on Friday in the Stamping Bella Splitcoast forum.

THANKS so much for your visit, next you get to head over to Jackie's blog and I am sure she will have some AMAZING eye candy, as always!!!
{{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

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

Fluttering By with Unity Friends with FLAIR!!!

Welcome and HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Hello to my Unity Friends and also to any new friends from Flutter By Wednesday, this is my 1st project for their wonderful challenge blog. I used an image and sentiment from Unity's January KOTM ...savor the journey. There are so many wonderful stamps in this kit it's hard to pick what to use. So, I actually picked my papers 1st, which I usually don't do, and went from there. Then, I realized these papers had some beautiful butterflies, and I have been wanting to join in at Flutter By Wednesday. Here is what I came up with.


I have been feeling just a little bit slow lately, so I had to use this sentiment, I love it with the snail and mushrooms!!!

Supplies used
Making Memories Flower Patch Line - papers, ribbon, journal page, butterfly
Martha Stewart - border punch
Prima - flowers
Stickles
Unity - stamps and ink
Copics - color for image
Spellbinders- die cuts
buttons and pearls from craft supply

Thank you for coming to see my creation today, I hope you have a GREAT and RELAXING weekend!!!
{HUGS}
-Jodi

2nd Day of Rusty Pickle Digi New Releases

Hello to my fellow stampers and Happy Tuesday!!!

Today is the 2nd day of our Rusty Pickle Digi's new releases and I have a card to share with you. I chose this beautiful coneflower image to preview, It reminded of the beautiful purple coneflowers I used to have at my old house. It also looks a lot like the Black Eyed Susans I had in that same flower garden. I know different people have different names for some of the same flowers, this is just what I have always called the purple and/or yellow flowers like these in the card.



I pulled out a package of Bazzill monochromatic purples for this. The image is colored with copics and the Atyou Spica markers with the BEST sparkle. Close to the center of the flowers I also used some Smooch Pearlized ink in Grape Soda. Two of the paper pieces are embossed with a Cuttlebug folder, the tag and oval dies are Spellbinders and the border punch is from Martha Stewart. That cute little thank you sentiment stamp with the tiny heart inside the O is from Heidi Grace.

The shine and sparkle of the image does not show well in a picture, but it looks great in person. Some of the other ladies on the Design Team have cards to share with you today, I will be back with that list in a bit. If you want to check now you can click on the names on my Rusty Pickle Design Team list to the right of this post.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for coming to my blog today, please leave a comment so I know you were here. Hope you have a wonderful day and tomorrow I will be back with my last of the new releases.

{{HUGS}},.... 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/