Happy Mother's Day

Hi!

**Woohoo, thrilled that this card was chosen as Hand Stamped Sentiments Artist Pick**

I am actually sneaking in with another Mother's Day card that I worked on the end of the week, but never got a chance to post. As stated on Friday, It's proving to be a busy busy, but fun weekend, so I thought I would I would quickly share this card. (no inky time this weekend)

I also want to say thank you and hi to my new followers and email subscribers! It makes my heart smile you like what I share to want to come back and visit me. I appreciate every one of my comments! 

I started with a gray card base (Stampin' UP! ) and pieced together different papers and distressed their edges before adding it to my card base. A length of seam binding was added to the right side of my card and tied in a fussy bow dressed up with a button and some twine. 

A lacy circle was die-cut adding a pretty patterned paper circle to the center which was embellished with some beautiful paper roses. A labels three was die-cut distressing the edges and stamped using Inspired by Stamping Small Fancy Label 3.  The Happy Mother's Day sentiment is from Inspired By Stamping Floral Love.  As a final embellishing touch a linen and crochet bloom was added to the lower left of the sentiment panel.

I found inspiration at Hand Stamped Sentiments. Close to colors as I had.

DYSU - Circles

My Craft Spot - Happy Mother's Day

Krafty Girls - Mother's Day

The Friday Mashup - Mother's Day

Papercraft Star - Mother's Day

I am thrilled to share this card was featured as a Top Mouse at Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge blog and this card was the winner at Stampendous Impressions Recycle Challenge. (Love to make my own painted chipboard) Thank you to everyone who liked my creations enough to give them a shout out! 

Hope you have a fantastic day!

~Tammy~

{Recipe}

Stamps: Inspired By Stamping: Floral Love,  Small Fancy Labels 3

Paper: CS: Stampin' UP!, PP: scraps,

Ink: Palette 
Other: Dies: Spellbinders, Flowers: Michael's, Twine: Joannes, Button: Hobby Lobby, Seam Binding: Etsy

Soar

Hi there!

**Thrilled to share that this card was featured as a Spotlight Artist at The City Crafter Challenge**

Any big plans for the weekend?

I have a card to share with you all today that was fun putting together a mix of things I had on my desk. I love doing this from time to time to see what I come up!  The only thing I had to reach for were my pearls and stick pins.

I started this card with some patterned paper that was just looking to either be used or put away. It was on my desk leftover from another make. I then took a length of sheer ribbon and wrapped the middle of the patterned paper and tied in a fussy bow embellishing with a rose that I touched the edges with Dusty Concord distress inks and some stick pins. 

A hand dyed doily was added to the center.  Followed by the making of my focal image.  I started with a Crafty Secrets Greetings and Sentiment cardstock sticker and added to my trimmed burlap wrapping some twine vertically and horizontally a couple of times. This image seems perfect for spring.

A birdcage was stamped, cut and added to the focal image adding two birds from the Crafty Secret sticker cardstock. A sentiment ticket tab was added to the upper right corner and finishing touches include buttons and a pearl to the top of the bird cage as well as distressing the edges with tea stain.

I am joining in these challenges today. 

City Crafters Challenge - A little Rough Around the Edges

Hand Stamped Sentiments - Spring

The Ribbon Carousel - Anything Goes

Well, I hope you have a goodie!

~Tammy~

{Recipe}

Paper: CS: Stampin' UP!, PP: Scraps

Ink: Versafine: Vintage Sepia, Tea Stain, vintage tea stain, Tim Holtz Dusty Concord
Other: Ribbon: Dollar Tree Stores, Burlap, Crafty Secret Sticker cardstock, twine: Joannes, Flower: Michael's, Buttons: PTI, Doily: Michael's

A True Classic

Hello~

Today I have a masculine birthday card to share. Masculine cards are a close second to sympathy cards when it comes with struggling in the creative process. I love to add buttons, bows or rhinestones, so I have to sit on my hands to make a CAS card for a guy! I have referred to them in the past as the dreaded man card!!!

Here is a man card to share with you today.

I started with Baja Breeze card base found in my stash. Next I added a panel that I repeat stamped the classic car and sentiment in Not Quite Navy. I die cut the mat stack 1 in Stampin' UP! Kraft (retired) and By The Numbers dies and added to the center panel. Last I completed the card by stamping the Happy Birthday sentiment on Whisper White card stock and trimmed to a banner.

Simple yes, but a classic!

My color inspiration came from: Hand Stamped Sentiments

I am also joining in with Pixie's Crafty Snippet challenge: All pieces and parts came together from the good ol' stash pile! Love it! 

Have a terrific day!

~Tammy~

{Recipe}

Stamps: Crafty Secrets: Car Classics, Sentiment: PTI Enjoy the Ride

Paper: CS: Stampin' UP! PP: Stampin' UP!

Ink: Stampin' UP! Not Quite Navy
Other: Dies: PTI, Dimensionals 

Merry Christmas Vintage Style

Hello~

I have a Christmas card to share today!

The challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments this week is to use the colors: Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, Wild Wasabi and Very Vanilla!  I got as close to the colors as I could. I did have the Real Red and Very Vanilla.  Everything you see was created from scraps YES AGAIN! I have a very large scrap pile, so I try and work with those pieces if possible!  

I started with Very Vanilla card base embossed my Real Red strip and adhered to my card front. I cut a doily from my green patterned paper, and then cut ribbon banner to adhere on top of my hand cut doily.  


I adhered my Christmas Vintage focal point finishing off with a felt snowflake embellishment, fussy bow, button and stamped tag that was created with a DeNami Design tree stamp from the Winter Fun Petit Fours collection.


I am also happy to play along at Really Reasonable Ribbons Christmas Theme Challenge.


I hope you have a great weekend!
~Tammy~
(Edit to note to say I am sorry about the spacing and font changes...something blogger did and I have been unable to correct...it looks fine in my write up....anyone who understands this stuff and has advice I would love the help)

Boo! Happy World Card Making Day!

**Wahoo! This card was chosen by Hand Stamped Sentiments as an Artist Pick**

Happy World Card Making Day to each of you!

I wish I was able to spend today making cards and getting inky, but it's Saturday and that means more house projects, but I couldn't let the day pass without posting something right?

Yay, for making one more Halloween Card!

I started with a Kraft card base and added patterned papers some old and 

some new distressing the edges! :-) Next I wrapped some seam 

binding and made a fluffy bow adding a Boo sentiment tag created using

 DeNami Designs Halloween Stamp set finishing off with

a black button and black twine.

I die cut a circle from cream card stock and created a background 

using the spiderweb from the DeNami Designs Halloween Stamp set.

My focal image is a glittery embellishment from Making Memories. 

A couple of great challenges to get my Halloween mojo

working: The Kraft Journal: Witches, Ghost or Goblins

and Hand Stamped Sentiments: Halloween project.

Some very happy news....

I am delighted to be DeNami Designs Guest

Designer for the month of October! Yay!

I was so honored to be asked to

 join along this month.

(Insert Happy Dance J)

Well, that's it for me!

Happy World Card Making Day and 

Thanks for your visit!

~Tammy~http://handstampedsentiments.blogspot.com/2011/09/hss-halloween-theme-challenge-86.html

Grateful for YOU!

Today is Friends with Flair on the Unity Blog! Make sure you stop by and check out all the participants! You could be the winner for just leaving some love. J

It's that time when you start to see pumpkins saying hello on porches and cooler temps start to creep into our days. This will be my first fall in 10 years.  Living in Hawaii we have warm and sunny 82 degree weather year round, so I welcome the beautiful change of season this year.

Hand Stamped Sentiments has a Fall Theme Challenge this week, so that jumped started my inspiration for todays creation.

I used the Unity Simple Blessings set and lots of various scraps to complete this card.

I hope you have a fantastic Friday!
~Tammy~ 

Hope this day is special as you are...

Hey all!

I was going through card making withdrawals, so I decided to make a little card with one of my scrap bags I just discovered in some things I unpacked. Boy! I have quite a stash of scraps to go through. I just love this pattern paper. I believe it was from The Angel Company.

Ugg, wouldn't you know the ribbon would be in the way of the sentiment for the photo. Normally, I would reshoot it, but as luck would have it, my card reader decided to die today, so I had to use hubby's ancient desert worn computer (full of sand), to upload the picture, and then I had to email it to myself so I could use my computer to edit it. Let's just say it took over an hour because I believe his computer has got to be the slowest one out there.  I am really surprised it still works after the abuse it has endured. 

The top and bottom of the card I took two small flourish stamps from two different Crafty Secret stamp collections to create an alternating image for a nice vintage flourish border.  I used VersaMark ink, but still have not found my heat gun, so I couldn't set it with heat and stick powder to really make it pop. (I must add I have not found my heat and stick powder yet either...oh the joys of moving)

I know it's still hard to see, but you can make it out a little. Really wishing the card reader had not bit the dust on me, so I could reshoot this little number.

I also stamped the tag top and bottom with the same flourish stamp, and placed my sentiment in the middle. Since you really can't see, I thought I would tell you! If anyone has some pointers on how to make watermark images photograph well, I am all eyes and ears!

Besides adding the seam binding which I love using on cards, I added a strip of elegant velvet aqua trim. 

I am going to play along with The Ribbon Reel's Chantilly Lace Color Challenge. The challenge colors were inspired by the photo below. Aqua, pink, cream or white. You also had to use ribbon and a flower!

I also thought it would be fun to play along at Stamp Something - Embellished challenge and Jules Crafty Snipped Challenge - #29.  I am still working from scraps as I mentioned earlier.  Hand Stamped Sentments - Flourish Challenge.

Well, I must go back to fixing and sorting and more unpacking....play time is over! Boo! I will be back at the end of the week with a new Off The Wall Craftiness challenge.  There is still time to play in this weeks challenge.

Happy Tuesday!

~Tammy~

OTWC 51 Some Bunny Loves You

Hello! A happy Friday to you!!!  Are you ready for the weekend?

I am here with a new Off The Wall Craftiness Challenge! This week the theme is Easter and it will be here before you know it! May Arts is our sponsor!! I love their ribbon!

Get a look at this story board to draw Inspiration from!

I decided to get my Mojo Monday on this week, so I created a card based on this layout.

The stamps I used were Wilson Designs' Spring Silhouettes.  The paper is an assortment in my scrap pile.  The flowers are from Michael's. I just adore these so much and just like the lace trim I can't seem to stop using them. My sentiment panel was distressed with my new little handy dandy Tim Holtz distress tool. It's so fun to distress things when you are not using your fingernail! :-)

I am also going to play along with Hand Stamped Sentiments- Easter, Creative Inspirations - Easter. Thanks to Heidi who told me about the ABC DT Challenge - Easter Card.

I sure hope you will join in the fun and play along!  Please check out the Off The Wall Craftiness blog for the details.  Be Sure to stop by the rest of the Design Team's blog for some talented inspiration! It just might put a little spring in your step! :-)  Amy, Jaclyn, and Tenia.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

JUGS sketch has gone Pink-a-licious

**Wahoo! This card was chosen by Hand Stamped Sentiments as an Artist Pick**
Good Morning!

Were you able to make your rounds to check out the Design Team for the Wilson Designs' release?  You still have time to leave comments for your chance to win the set free! Who doesn't want free stamps? Just scroll to older post and leave a comment for your chance to win.

I'm joining in the FUN on a couple of challenges. JUGS Sketch 78 and Hand Stamped Sentiments Pink-a-licious color splash! ME loves  ME some PINK! 

I am a stamper at heart, but I love embellishing cards more and more with diecuts and fun little dressings like doilies, buttons and bows! It's hard to see, but at the base of the card, I stamped a delightful decorative stamp from Crafty Secrets French Mail set using Memento Angel Pink. 

Adding some embellishing touches such as beautiful pale pink angel wings from MemrieMare with a resin rosette to the center also adding some Martha Stewart roses in pale pink.  The sentiment diecut is from K & Company. I added some dazzling diamonds glitter (however not showing up in this photograph)

I am also playing along with Flutter By Wednesday: Open.

I'm SO happy you popped in today! Thanks for all your kind comments you have been leaving! It just warms my heart! 

Have a Pink-a-licious Day!