Hope is Faith Blog Hop

Hello!
I am very excited to be participating in a special CSS DT inspirational blog hop tonight for Gina K Designs.

Feelings of Hope
Gina challenged the CenterStage Spotlight team to make a card with the new Hope is Faith stamp set using the photo above for inspiration. Check out Gina's blog for all the details on this special stamp set.

Be sure to visit the rest of the CSS designer's that are participating in the hop tonight:

Jessica Fick

Diana S. Queen

Tina Gilliland

Pam Imholz

Carla Suto

Cheri Weston

Jennie Harper

Joy Hadden

Shannon Bracken

Karen Knegten

JenMarie Taylor

Brenda Turner

Giovanna Smith

Sue Morris

Melissa Shultz

Peggy Wainman

Sharri Seffens

Carolina Buchting

Geri Utterback

Melissa Cash

Betty Neville

Sue Van deVusse

Janice Melton

Jen Charboneau

DeeMarie Kelemen

Linda Payne

Lori McAree

Kay Simmons

Shelly Wilson

Selma Stevenson

Vicki Dutcher

Sue Walsh

My first card was inspired by the above photo. As soon as I saw the photo, I knew that I wanted to use my brayer to create a scene card. I love the butterfly in the Hope is Faith Stamp Set. The flowers and leaf branches are from the Tropical Flowers and Framed flowers Stamp set.

I also made a couple more cards using the Hope is Faith stamp set and Theresa Momber's new Wings of Hope Digital Papers that she created just for the Hope is Faith stamp set.

I wanted the butterfly to look like it was fluttering on the card so I was stamped it twice on vellum and heat embossed on with Bridal ep and the other with pink ep. The "Hope is" is just a portion of the sentiment included in the Hope is Faith stamp set. Both the background dp and the dp in the circle are included in Theresa's Wings of Hope digi paper.
My last card shows the complete sentiment and I paired it with the Hand in Hand stamp set.
The purples in the Wings of Hope digi paper match Gina's Vibrant Violet and Lovely Lavender papers perfectly.
Enjoy the rest of the hop! I know I can't wait to see what the other CSS Designer's have to share with us.

Hugs,

Butterfly Scene Card:
Stamps: Hope is Faith, Tropical Flowers, Framed Flowers -Ink: Barely Banana, Summer Sun, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Dusty Durango, Tuxedo Black, New Sprout, Bambo Leaves, Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie, Copics(E19, YR0000, YR04, YR15, YR18) -Paper: Sweet Corn, Fresh Asparagus, Pumpkin Spice, White Pl -Other: Ribbon, Brads, Butterfly Snap, EK Border Punch

Hope is...Card - Stamps: Hope is Faith -Ink: Versamark, London Fog -Paper: Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette, Vellum, Wings of Hope Digital Paper -Other: Ribbon, Pearls, Lace, EK Border Punch, Circle Nestibilities, Bridal EP, Pink EP

Purple Faithful Hands Card - Stamps: Hand in Hand Hope is Faith -Ink: Angel Pink, Lulu Lavender, Grape Jelly, Elegant Eggplant, Copics(E0000, E000, E00, E11) -Paper: Vibrant Violet, Lovely Lavender, White PL, Wings of Hope Digi Paper, Pink Pirouette -Other: Spellbinders (Labels 9), Oval Nestibilities, EK Border Punch, Rhinestones

Bookmark

Good evening!

I hope you all are having a great weekend so far. I spent a good portion of my afternoon cleaning and re-arranging my crafting corner. I had bought some new shelves and drawer a few months ago and I was struggling with how I had them arranged so we'll see this is better.

Thursday night I was working on a project and wanted to stitch on it so I dug out my sewing machine and started sewing only to find out my tension was way off. The tension has been very touchy lately and I thought I had got it set right...well I guess not. I was so frustrated because I had worked on this template for the card for a few days and I don't think I can save this one after the sewing fiasco. So guess what I did after work yesterday? I headed off the Hancock Fabrics and bought myself a Janome Sew Mini! They are on sale there right now...pretty good deal too. Now I can try to remake the the card.

I have been thinking about what kind of Christmas gifts I want to make this year. I remembered seeing a really cute little bookmark and thought that might be fun to make for the kids in Abbi's class.
This was so easy and really quick to make.
The bookmark is make from a 3x7 strip of pattern paper. On the backside, I added a little pencil mark at the half way point and fold one side over to that point. The other side I folded but over lapped it a bit so I could glue the ends. I trimmed off the bottom and decorated it and that was it. Pretty simple huh?

Here is a closer view of it.

The snowman head is from Gina K's Hip to be Square stamp set. The dp is Theresa's Deck the Halls and I a couple of holly leaves from Gina K's Winter Foliage stamp set. I think I will make many more of these and use up some of my scrap dp.

What kind of gifts will you be making for Christmas? I would love to hear about them!
Thank you for visiting me tonight!

hugs,

Supplies:

Stamps: Hip to be Square, Winter Foliage

Ink: Tuxedo Black

Paper: Deck the Halls

Accessories: Memento Markers, Spica Glitter Pens, Rhinestones, Ribbon, Circle punch, MS leaf punch

Christmas topiary

Good morning and Happy Friday! I have a quick post this morning as I am doing this from work...sshhh...don't tell anyone k?

Do any of you have Nina Brackett's new set she illustrated for Gina K? Lord of the Season is the name of the new set. I love this little Christmas topiary and and couldn't wait to make a Christmas card with it.

I stamped the image on white pure luxury paper with tuxedo black ink and colored it with copics. I added some shimmer with spica glitter pens and also added crystal lacquer to the cardinal, heart and star. Red pearls were added for the tree ornaments. I cut it out and layered it on red and silver paper which was cut out using the petite oval nestibilities.

I created shimmer background paper with the Cuttlebug's Victoria's ef and my Sakura Glitter pen. Here is a link for a tutorial on the Shimmering Background Paper.

The dp is Theresa's Deck the Halls Digi paper.

I apologize that the sentiment is blurry. Not sure how I managed that because the rest of the card does not look that blurry. I guess that will teach me for taking photo's at night huh?

Have fabulous Friday!

Hugs,

Card Supplies:

Stamps: Lord of the Season

Ink: Tuxedo Black

Paper: Real Red, Handsome Hunter, Silver, White Pure Luxury, Deck the Halls Digi Paper

Accessories: Copics, Cuttlebug ef, Nestibilities, Spica Glitter Pens, Crystal Lacquer, SU Silver Ribbon, Circle Punches, Sakura Glitter Pen

A Very Merry Christmas Guest Designer

Good evening!

Tonight I have some exciting news to share...Theresa Momber has asked Selma Stevenson and I to be her guest designer's this month for her new A Very Merry Christmas stamp set . OMGosh! I was completely shocked that she would ask me. I absolutely love Theresa's work, she is amazing and an extremely talented artist!! This is such an honor and I can not thank Theresa enough.
Tonight Selma is in the spotlight so be sure to first hop on over to Theresa's blog to see what Selma has created for her to share and then hop to Selma's blog and check out what else she has made with A Very Merry Christmas.

Before you hop away, I want to share a couple of projects I have made with A Very Merry Christmas.
This set is my favorite one of Theresa's so far. It is just gorgeous and I have been having so much fun with it.

First up I have a magazine holder gift set. The magazine holder holds 3x4 inch note cards.

The holly branch was stamped on ivory pure luxury paper with rich cocoa ink and colored with copics. I used the holly branch embossing folder on the cranberry crisp cs and added a bit of silver cord around the top of the note card. I kept the note cards fairly simple because I wanted the focus to be on the holly branch image.

Here is how I finished off the inside of the card.

Next up I want to show you some of Theresa's gorgeous digi paper, Deck the Halls. I love, love, love this paper and know you will too!

All of the images in this set look fantastic whether colored with copics/markers, colored pencils, watercolored or embossed. So I wanted to show you one that was just embossed.

The bells were embossed with gold ep on white pure luxury paper.
The papers on this card are All Spruced Up and Good as Gold. The ribbon and button are from the Holiday Assortment.

Thank you for stopping in to visit and letting me share my exciting news with you.
I off to visit Theresa and Selma's blogs, come join me.

Hugs,

Magazine Holder Supplies:

Stamps: Very Merry Christmas

Ink: Memento's Rich Cocoa, SU Cranberry Crisp

Paper: Cranberry Crisp, Wild Wasabi, Ivory Pure Luxury, Basic Grey (Fruit Cake)

Accessories: Nestibilities (Oval, Rectangle, Double Ended Tags), Silver Cord, Silver Pearls, Ivory Ribbon, Cuttlebug Holly EF, Niji Water Brush, Sakura Glitter Pen, Copic (E27, R35, R37, R39, G85, G94, G82)

Embossed Bell Card Supplies:

Stamps: Very Merry Christma

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Deck the Halls, White Pure Luxury, Good As Gold, All Spruced Up

Accessories: Gold EP, SU Gold Cord, Spellbinders (Labels 5 & 6), Holiday Assortment Buttons & Ribbon

Step sitting

Hello!

I had another busy week and was not able to post any projects. I sound like a broken record don't I? lol! The weekend I have been gearing up for has arrived and passed. I spent the past couple of days with Michelle Zindorf...she is a super sweet lady and after seeing her work in person...she is the most talented lady I have had the pleasure of meeting! Wow! If you thought her projects on her blog look great, you should see them in person. I was in total awe! I really enjoyed having her here and getting to know her.
All four of the workshops had a group of wonderful ladies and each groups was so much fun! Over the next few days I will be sharing the cards that we made in the beginning brayering workshop and the advanced workshop. I have not taken any pictures of the cards yet so today you are stuck with one of my own...hee hee...

This one uses a Magnolia Tilda image. The steps she is sitting on is also a Magnolia stamp. I picked up both of these images from 7KidsCollageFund. Both were stamped with Mementos Tuxedo Black ink and colored with copics. I added orange sticklers to Tilda's bow and shirt.

I tried to create a look of a door behind Tilda. The papers all all from

Gina K Designs, Floral Elegance Digital paper, Chocolate Kiss, White Layering Weight Pure Luxury, and a peach colored I got with one of the kits.

Have a great rest of your evening!
Hugs,

Stars and Stripes

Good Evening!

I have another quick post today because I wanted to share a card I finished up this afternoon. I used a few of my new goodies from Gina K's May release along with one of my Magnolia stamps.
All the cs is Gina's pure luxury, In the Navy, Rocket Red, Layering weight White and Stars and Stripes digi paper.
Along with the Tilda with Puppy Magnolia stamp, I used Gina's new free with three stamp set called Lazy Days of Summer.
Tilda was stamped with Mementos Tuxedo Black ink and colored with copics. The larger stars were punched out with the star nestibilities. The blue one was embossed with the distresses embossing folder and heat embossed with iridescent ice embossing powder. The smallest stars were punched with a hand held 1/4 in punch and the medium stars is from the Lazy Days of Summer set and was cut out by hand. The smaller and medium stars were also heat embossed with the iridescent ice embossing powder.
The Celebrate is a stamp from Lazy Days of Summer and was stamped with night of navy ink on the rocket red cs and cut out with one of the spellbinders ribbon labels. The ribbon is from the new Stamp TV kit, Eclectic Summer.

Here is a picture of the inside of the card. Betcha can't guess what set the sentiment is from? Hee hee!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs,

Another elegant flower

Good morning!

It was fun reading what your addictions were. I think we all have good addictions! hee hee!

It's going to be another gorgeous day here today. I always have a hard time being at work when we get our first few warm sunny days.

I am sharing another card today made with Gina K's Elegant Flowers stamp set, her floral frenzy digi paper and the black onyx and ivory pure luxury paper. The green cs is from my scraps.
I stamped the flowers with mementos pear tart ink on the green cs. I used a versamarker pen and traced over the flower stem then dabbed green shimmer pearlescent I Kan'dee chalks on them to give them a bit of a shimmer. I used a glue pen to color in the flowers before adding the flower soft. I used Ivory and Heather flower soft.
The sentiment is also from the Elegant Flower stamp set. I apologize that the sentiment is a bit blurry. It didn't look that way last night when I was editing the photo.
I love the look of the layered border punches. Both of these punches are Martha Stewart.
I finished off the card with ribbon and black pearls.

I hope your day is warm and sunny!
hugs,

My addiction and cards

Good morning!

I have a question for today. How many of you constantly are buying designer or patterned paper? I can not pass up any designer or patterned paper that I like or one that catches me eye. Yes, I admit I have an addiction, hee hee. I even took a picture of some of my stash so you get an idea of how much I have.
I would love to hear what your addiction is!

Now that I have come clean with my addiction, I will get on with today's card, which uses digi paper. I foresee another addiction in my near future. lol!
The dp is from a class kit that I bought at Gina K Designs. The cs is also Gina K's chocolate kiss and ivory pure luxury paper. The flower image is from Gina's Elegant Flowers stamp set.

The sentiment is SU's Oval all and punched out with their new scalloped oval punch. I embellished the card with brads, ribbon and dew drops.
I made a second very similar to the first card. The layout is a bit different and the sentiment is from the Elegant Flowers stamp set.

Have a great day!

hugs,

All glittered up

Good Morning and Happy Wednesday!

Have you been checking out the previews for Gina K's April release? Oh my, there are some awesome sets being released and a new illustrator, Theresa Momber. You definitely want to check out her very first set.

Today's card is one I made for the Friday Pot Luck challenge on StampTV. The challenge was to make a project with the main image all glittered up.
I started out making this as a monochromatic card and as you can see it did not end up as one. That seems to happen to me quite a bit lately. hee hee.

The roses are from the stamp set A year of Flowers. I stamped them with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with copics. Next I covered them with versamark ink and heat embossed using iridescent ice. This made the flowers very sparkly. The picture does not look as sparkly as the flowers do irl. The butterfly is from Gina's Take Flight set and was stamped with versamark on vellum and heat embossed using black sparkle ep.
The cs is basic grey, black and layering weight pure luxury. The designer paper is the digi paper received in the StampTV's first on-line class. The paper is call Springtime. I used the purple burlap paper but changed the color from purple to grey.
I was really happy with the card until I added the green glitter dots for the flower stems. I am not sure I like it and if I had not already glue them down, I probably would have used something else for the stems. At least they are glittery and the challenge was glitter.
I finished off the card with black pearls and ribbon.

Thank you for visiting with me today!
hugs,
Sharri

Miss you so much

Hi!
How was your Monday?
It was rather rainy and dreary here, which makes going to work easier than when it is warm and sunny.
I wanted to share another card I made with the Magnolia stamp of Tilda hugging a bunny. I think this is such an adorable stamp and reminds me of my daughter and her stuffed bunnies.
I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with copics. After shading the wings, I used my quickie glue pen to cover them with glitter. The stitching on her shirt and jeans were accented with blue and pink Atyou Spica glitter pens. The bunny's tail was covered in Doodlebug's white flock.
The cs is SU's Rose Red and Buckaroo Blue. The DP is from one of Emily Giovanni digital pack that was included in Gina K's release in March. It was from the Rich and Shabby Freebie.
The sentiment is from Gina K's Tags Lines stamp set and was cut out using the double ended spellbinder tags.

Have a wonderful rest of your evening!
Sharri


Card details:
Stamps: Tag Lines, Magnolia - tilda hugging bunny.
Paper: Rose Red, Buckaroo Blue. DP is Rich and Shabby Freebie.
Accessories: Copics, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad, Nestibilities (Deckled Rectangles and Double Ended Tags), Corner Punch, Flourishes Corner Punch, Ribbon, Pearls, Flock, Glitter, and Atyou Spica glitter pens.

Today pink is the best...

Oh my goodness! Did we get alot of rain yesterday, last night and it is still raining this afternoon!
The weather today has me wishing I was sitting at my crafting table at home, stamping away instead of sitting at my desk here at work...and then I remind myself that I am lucky to still have my job the way the economy is. I pray every day for those that have been affected by the economy :-)

Today I am sharing a card I made a couple weeks ago for a color challenge on Stamp TV. The colors we were suppose to use were reds, pinks, black and I used white for my neutral.

I used Pure Luxury Black Onyx, Pure Luxury White Regal Road and a DCWV red. The dp is from Emily's Shabby Chick digi paper.
The sentiment is from Melanie's set The Best Things in Life and is cut out using the wavy rectangle nestibilities and matted on a scalloped rectangle. The border is a Friskar's punch in a leave pattern. I don't know why but using this punch is a challenge for me. One of these days I will be smarter than the punch lol!
I finished off the card with prima flowers and gray taffeta ribbon.

Thank you for visiting me today!
Hugs,
Sharri

Join me for a potluck

Good Morning and happy Friday!

I am hosting this weeks Friday potluck challenge on Stamp TV. I'd love to have you join in on the challenge with me! What is the challenge you ask?
Well, when I think of potluck, I think of food so for this weeks potluck we are heading to one of my favorite rooms in the house, the kitchen. I want to see how creative you can be by using something from your kitchen on your card.
Here is a link that will take you directly to the challenge forum.

This is the sample card I made for the potluck challenge. Can you see my kitchen element on the card? I used aluminum foil.

The shiny strip between the scallop holes border punch is the aluminum. Did you know you can use the polish stone technique on aluminum foil? That is what I did. I found out if you want to use aluminum foil for this technique, alcohol re-inkers work the best. I used the
Adirondack re-inkers in Carmel, Butterscotch and Ginger.
The dp is from Gina's new Floral elegance digital paper pack. The brown cs is from the Floral Frenzy kit, Chocolate Kiss and the Pure White is the Layering Weight Pure Luxury paper.

The sentiment is from Kindred Greeting for Her stamp set and is cutout with the small oval nestibilities. I added a frame of vellum around the sentiment. The vellum was misted with the Memories Mist in Gold to give it a soft shimmer. I really love this stuff!

I used Marvy flower punches to create the flowers on the ribbon bow and the sentiment.

The flower layers are, chocolate kiss, the digi paper and the polished aluminum foil. In the center of the flowers I added a rhinestone.

While scrounging my kitchen for the potluck challenge, I found a few other kitchen elements that would make an interesting addition to a card. Check out your kitchen to see what can be used on a card, then join me over on Stamp TV for the challenge.

May your day be filled with friendship and happiness!

Hugs,

Sharri

It's a Zoo today!

Good morning!

Are you ready for day two of the sneak peeks?

Today Asela Hopkins is in the spotlight with her new stamp set, Zoo Animals! These animals are so darn cute and the sentiments go perfectly with each animal.
When I saw the little panda bear and the elephant I could not resist putting the panda on top of the elephant like he was going for a ride.

The designer paper is a new Digi pack Gina is also releasing this week. It is called Peachy Keen. I used two different sheets for the card, Embossed Peach and Brown & Green Stripe. The elephants body is paper pieced with the Brown & Green Stripe. Any of the animals in this set could be paper pieced or made fluffy by using flock which is what I did with the panda.

I sponged the background scene and if you look closely, you can see clouds in the sky.
I can't wait to see what the rest of the designer have done with Asela's new set, come with me and lets take a peek!
Asela, Carolyn, Donna, Erika, Gina, Jessica, Joanne, Kurtis, Melanie, and Theresa


Hugs,
Sharri

Card Details:
Stamps: Zoo Animals
Cardstock: Kraft, Bording Blue, Close To Cocoa and Ivory Pure Luxury.
Ink: River Rock, Close to Cocoa, Bording blue, Creamy Carmel and Versamark.
Accessories: Nestibilities, Punches, Brads, Doodlebug flock, and Black Embossing Powder.