Inking Up Witchybella

Whew...I am back...not with full force yet, but I can at least think. That was an insane week, with a cold that came and knocked me on my butt! I lied in bed and did nothing, thank goodness I have older children that don't need everything done for them!



Now on to the good stuff! I got to get some work done today, nothing motivates you more than the fact that you have swaps due! In fact I got one of my swaps done for Splitcoaststampers . It is called Trick or Treat 6 x 6 Pages Swap. Now how coo is that. The recipe I am doing is Witches Brew and who better to use than Witchybella!

I printed out the recipe on the cardstock first. Then I got to ink up my Witchybella stamp from Stamping Bella for the first time and stamped all my witches. I then colored them all. I used various different markers. I first tried green and purple but then settled with black and purple. I then mounted Witchybella on the orange and onto the yellow cardstock. I added the 4 orange eyelets for a little more embellishments and then mounted it all onto the black for the last of the Halloweeny touch! I wused to hate eyelets and just collect them until I bought my Scrapparatus by Karen Foster, and now I am luvin' eyelets almost as much as I love brads!

Well, I have alot to catch up on, especially with what I have got in the mail, I will take some more pics later and post them, and show you all. I am glad to back.

So So Sick....

Hellooooo...I am so sorry I have not been updating anything! I am so sick! My dearest daughter who will be turning 10 tomorrow, has given me the nastiest cold and on top of that I have the flu too! I have not stamped, binded, or played with anything new. You know you are totally sick when you can't even shop! I even have the new Witchybella and I can't even think straight to play with her! I have got a whole bunch of great stuff in the mail this week and I haven't been able to post it or make thank you cards or anything! I feel horrible! I need to get better.

New Goodies!

I got some new goodies the other day and I purposely went and took pics to show but forgot to pst them. I think it is because I have not been feeling the greatest since then! Taylor (my daughter) seemed to give my her flu. > Good enough explaination for no posts lately? I will hopefully have some stuff to show as I have to justify buying this stuff right?

Ah...my Bind-it-all! I put my deposit down on this a couple months ago and it finally come in! Well when it came in I didn't have the money to pay the rest. Murphy's law right? I am totally excited! I started a project with pics of my niece right away and the next day I was right back at the LSS needing help! I guess that is what happens when you don't read the instructions!

New $1 Michaels stamps! (Up here in Canada they are $1.50) I didn't get them all! I really only picked out the ones I liked. I had no Halloween stamps at all! You can't get any cheaper than that!

The Essential Glue Pad >>> must have been essential all right! I have been waiting for eons for this baby! Like I went to 4 or 5 different stores looking for this every couple of months. Can you believe that? Hot item! It just so happened that I was standing in Urban Trends Scrapbooking when the box came in and I got it that way. Good thing I have no life and can loiter around my LSS!

Of course, if your LSS sold Bellas could you walk out without one? I was going to buy a Fella but I compromised and bought Retailfellabella! I even had to call my poor sick Taylor at home and confer with her on this. It was a toss up between this one and Cruisabella! This one is quite cute though! I also got the sayings "you glow girl" and the "priceless" saying I can't remember the whole thing right now!

Last but not least, our LSS now carries My Favorite Things Stamps too! I didn't know which ones to buy! To many choices...so I settled on the set "Simply Said" with all the sayings for now because I never have the right sayings and now I can say I have a set of My Favorite Things Stamps!

Well I guess I should get of the computer and get some stamping done and show you some work!

Which Scrapbooking Supply are You?

I am a pair of SCISSORS!

You're cutting edge, baby! You cut through life with ease, always keeping others on the edge. You have the power to simplify things by just cutting them out. But scissors beware - you may cut some of the important things out of your life without realizing it, in your need to keep trim!

http://www.quizilla.com/users/Prismcat/quizzes/What%20scrapbooking%20item%20are%20you%3F

Leave a comment letting me know what supply you are!

CPS/CardMaker Magazine Card Design Contest!!!

When: Saturday, October 6, 2007

Note: It's time for a new contest at Card Positioning Systems (aka CPS).

We are teaming up with CardMaker Magazine to celebrate the magazine's new "Sketchbook" column that was just launched in the September 07 issue (and will be featuring some of Tami Mayberry's card sketches).

You are invited to join us for the celebration and show us what you can do with the contest sketch!! Entry is simple, just use the CPS/CardMaker Contest sketch (posted on the CPS blog) to create your best card that fits one of the following themes: Patriotic, travel postcards, summer parties, Christmas in July. Look for the special contest entry section and post a link to your creation.

There are LOTS of great prizes to be won, including the chance to have your card published in CardMaker Magazine.

Entry deadline: 11:59pm Saturday October 15, 2007.

See the CPS blog (www.cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com) for official rules and complete list of sponsors.

3Bugs Gallery Scrap Contest

When: Sunday, September 30, 2007

Note: SCRAP CHALLENGE: For our August/September Gallery Scrap Contest, we challenge you to create a single page layout (either 8.5 x 11 or 12x12) that includes two or more pieces of patterned paper from 3 Bugs as well as 2 other products from 3 Bugs (other products include stickers, tags, monograms, design board, stamps, designer brads or ribbon). To be considered for the contest you must include "August/September Contest" in your title when you upload your layout to the 3Bugs gallery. Layouts MUST include at least 50% 3 Bugs products. Deadline to submit is September 30, 2007. If you have any questions, please email elayne@3bugsinarug.com. We will select one winning layout & send the designer a 3 Bugs in a Rug prize package. The winner will also be featured in our October newsletter!

Make sure to sign-up for our newsletter at www.3bugsinarug.com… to receive information about future contests.

Upload layouts at www.3bugsinarug.com…

Scrapbooks Etc. - Call for Projects

When: Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Note: Scrapbooks, etc. has a new column, and we’re searching for submissions. The column will be called “Etc.” and it is all about using your scrapbook supplies for home décor and gift ideas…projects other than scrapbook pages. As one of our editors (the fabulous Michelle Rubin) said, “This is about getting your supplies off the page and using them in new ways.”

If you have the April 2006 issue of Scrapbooks, etc, this column will be very similar to the ideas featured in our “Deck the Walls” column…wall art, memo boards, keepsake boxes, etc. (hence the name of the column!). We’d love to see your most creative and unique ideas!

Send photos of your projects to us at submissions@meredith.com, and put “Etc.” in the subject line to ensure your samples make it to the right people. Since I will be managing the article, you can also send a duplicate copy to me at etintexas@yahoo.com. Email submissions must be 500k or less. We will have an ongoing need for this type of project, so please send them at any time.

This column will first appear in the August/September issue. If you’d like more information or would just like to keep up-to-date with Scrapbooks, etc. you can always check out our blog at: scrapbooksetc.blogspot.com

Thanks so much—can’t wait to see your ideas! Erin Terrell, SBE Contributing Editor

Owl's it Goin'?

Finally I have somethin' to show you that I made! Thanks to my SCS Anita Kocourek, otherwise know as anitabestampin! She was kind enough to send me some great stamped imagges from the new SU catalogue as I have no stamps from that catalogue yet! Thanks Anita! That seemed to boost my mojo, which I haven't had alot of lately. I am not sure if it has to do with being bored with the images I have or with my depression or what but everything seems overwhelming. So out came the paper today and it really felt great! Stampin' Therapy!

I love this card. I am not sure at first that I liked it with all the browns but it grew on me. I used SCS sketch #97. I seem to stay very monochromatic with my cards, I am surprised I even used patterned paper. I am trying to push myself more to used it as I have tons of it! I guess it will happen a little at a time!

Stamps: SU (don't know which set)

Markers: Martha Stewart, Whispers

DP: from stash

cardstock: SU, bazzill

Brads: DCWV

The Stamper's Bill of Rights

I got this off a Yahoo group I am on and I just had to share with all of you!

The Stamper's Bill of Rights

>A rubber stamper is entrusted with creating works of art to be treasured by family and friends. Creating hand stamped items is an honorable and important task. As a Stamper, you are entitled (but not limited) to the following rights:

>You have the right to take as long as you want to complete one card. This may be five minutes or two weeks.

>You have the right to purchase a certain stamp or stamping supply for no other reason than because a) you like it; b) everyone else is purchasing it; c) you'll never find it again, or; d) you know you'll use it someday.

>You have the right to a workspace of your own. This may be the basement, your college student's old bedroom, or the kitchen table. It's yours.

>You have the right to stamp when inspiration strikes--whether the dishes are done or not.

>You have the right to request peaceful, kid-free, stress free stamp time--without guilt.

>You have the right to create art that reflects and celebrates your spirit, whether anyone else thinks its art or not.

>You have the right to put whatever you want on your card. This includes, branches, rocks, leaves, and anything you deem usable in dumpster dive.

>You have the right to do nothing more than snack and socialize at a rubber stamp club meeting or workshop.

>You have the right to value your personal stamping style to be as important as any famous stamp artist.

>You have the right to create your own style, one card at a time.

I hope you enjoyed it!

Card Sketch Collecter

Among everything else that I collect I happen to collect card sketches. I love them. They are great! I have days that I have no mojo juices flowing, so then I just look around and find a card sketch then tada! I can almost make something that I am proud of! Since I print the sketches of the computer off many websites and blogs I would like to give credit where credit is due. I am sure that the artists that came up with the sketches would appreciate it too! I have come up with a plan, I have devised a little ring of card sketches. I now print them off cut and past them onto cardstock and put them on a binder ring and on the back I can put what blog and/or who the artist is. Also now I have all my card sketches in one spot! They used to be everywhere! Not just a little here and a little there I mean EVERYWHERE! Now too I can also decorate the cards that sketches are on. How crafty is that!

Yellow is just the color I had the most of at the moment. I am also not using totally expensive cardstock either. I got this from the church about a year ago. Now I have all my sketches at my fingertips!

Off to actually make a card!