DT call for Heart Song Designs

Hey guys!  I just found out that my dear friend, Leah Cornelius, is opening her very own store called Heart Song Designs, and she has a DT call for her first design team.  Read all about it here and if you are interested in being on her design team, send in your application!  I am SO excited for Leah!!!!

I have known Leah for several years, long before I started my "career" on design teams.  Remember Cornish Heritage Farms?  Leah and I would play in the challenges there, and I noticed she would add little things to her cards and I couldn't figure out what stamps she used.  It turned out she had drawn little extras like birds or flowers to accent her cards, and I just loved them!  I kept telling her she should draw more often, and now look at her!!  She's opening her own store with her own designs!  How cool is that???

Congratulations, Miss Leah!!!  This is a wonderful new adventure for you!  :-)

Mark your calendars for March of the Snowmen Blog Hop!

Good morning! I just wanted to pop in and let y'all know that the March of the Snowmen blog hop will be on January 25th. This hop is comprised of several bloggers who just want to have a little fun and feature all different kinds of snowmen. Please join me here on Tuesday, January 25th, and hop on through to see all the great snowmen we will have on display.

Cardabilities Sketch #20

In January of last year, Cardabilities made its debut with sketches designed for cardmakers. We are celebrating Cardabilities's first birthday with lots of fun sketches and some great prizes to give away to some lucky participants.

Every Wednesday this month, there will be a new sketch on the Cardabilities blog. This is in addition to the regular sketches that we will have on the 15th and 30th of January (six sketches in all for this month!). All you have to do is make a card using the sketch as your inspiration and add your link to the appropriate list on the Cardabilities blog. For the second special birthday sketch this month, here is sketch #20:

I wanted to continue with the birthday theme, so I made this into a feminine, flowery, flirty birthday card. I started with some pink Bo Bunny paper and added a white glittery Prima flower. I accented the scallop strip with some tiny white pearls, and I used a flirty, fancy, scripty Happy Birthday stamp from Flourishes.

I hope you participate in the sketches this month, because you don't want to miss out on your chance to win the great prizes being given away. Come on back here every Wednesday this month to see what I've created with the special Cardabilities sketches for the big birthday bash! :-)

Stamps: Flourishes (Kid at Heart set)
Ink: Dark Chocolate (PTI), Antique Linen distress
CS: White, Olive, Bo Bunny Porcelain Dot paper
Other: pearls, Martha Stewart branch punch, Prima flower, scallop edge punch, sponge, Labels 1 dies, Swiss Dot embossing folder

Yellow Crocus

I have some exciting news to share with you today. This is my first post as a member of the Creative Inspirations Paints Design Team. I'm very excited to join these wonderfully creative ladies at Creative Inspirations Paints!

If you haven't seen Creative Inspirations Paints before, you need to check these out. These paints are wonderful, creamy, shimmery, and gorgeous. The colors are so vivid that a single brushstroke delivers plenty of color to cover your medium (cardstock, vellum, acetate, eggshells, etc....). And those of you who know me, know that I love all things shimmery and glittery. Is it any wonder I love these paints?? LOL

For my first post, I decided to use a January flower called the crocus. Since I'm not much of a gardener, I had to look up pictures of crocus to see what colors the different varieties can bloom in. There are several yellow ones, so I painted my crocus with the Sunshine CI paint. Don't you just love the shimmer of these paints?? Ahhhhhhhhh....... it makes me smile to see this pretty yellow shimmery flower.

You can't see the shimmery goodness?

How about now? LOL Isn't that shimmer awesome?? That yellow is straight out of the pot - I did not color underneath it with a Copic marker or anything. That yellow color is all paint.

Take a look at the white background of my card. See the embossed leaves on there? I used a cool technique from Technique Junkies called Faux Embossing Folder.

Want to see more inspiration using these paints? Check out the Creative Inspirations Paint blog and have fun drooling over all the fabulous projects the Design Team has posted. They post challenges each week, and I encourage you to play along. You could win some free paint!

Stamps: A Year of Flowers I (Flourishes)
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento
Cardstock: White, Black
Creative Inspirations Paint: Sunshine
Other: Copic marker, ribbon (Michaels), oval punches (SU), frond punch (Martha Stewart)
Technique: Faux Embossing Folder

Belli Challenge #108 - Snow

After you read this post, please scroll down to the next post for today's Cardabilities birthday sketch and my card.

Today's Belli Challenge is all about SNOW. To some of you, this is a four letter word. LOL But since I live in Texas, where we rarely ever see snow, I love this challenge! LOL Not only did I stamp snowflakes on my card, but I also used an adorable snowman from Flourishes.

Isn't that just adorable? I started with this awesome Oval Window A2 Frame with Mat & Card Set from Creative Cuts and More. I stamped the snowflakes with white ink all over the dark blue frame and set that aside. While the snowflakes were drying, I stamped the snowman on the white mat and colored him with Copic markers. To accent the snowy areas, I used a glue pen and adhered some Dazzling Diamonds glitter. All I had to do after that was adhere the white mat to the dark blue card base, and then adhere the dark blue frame (with the snowflakes stamped on it) over the white mat.

Head on over to the Belli Challenge blog and see what the Belli Girls created for this challenge. I hope you will be inspired to create something with snow and join in our challenge.


Die Cut: Oval Window A2 Frame with Mat & Card Set
-- card & frame - Bazzill Canvas Typhoon cardstock
-- mat - white cardstock
--- use coupon code CC&M10Holly to save 10% off your order at Creative Cuts and More

Stamps: Warm Winter Wishes from Flourishes
Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento, Fresh Snow (PTI)
Other: copic markers, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter

Happy Birthday, Cardabilities!!!

In January of last year, Cardabilities made its debut with sketches designed for cardmakers. We are celebrating Cardabilities's first birthday with lots of fun sketches and some great prizes to give away to some lucky participants.

Every Wednesday this month, there will be a new sketch on the Cardabilities blog. This is in addition to the regular sketches that we will have on the 15th and 30th of January (six sketches in all for this month!). All you have to do is make a card using the sketch as your inspiration and add your link to the appropriate list on the Cardabilities blog. To start off our month-long celebration, here is sketch #19:

Here is my take on the sketch:

I found some pretty pink scalloped paper in a little packet from Making Memories, and it is just a wee bit longer than my card. I thought it fit with the sketch pretty well, so I used the pink color as my inspiration point. The carnations from I Brake for Stamps are watercolored with distress inks, and I added a pale hint of green to the white space around the carnations. After I adhered the colored carnations and the sentiment to the card, I used the Splatter technique from Technique Junkies all over the card. The last thing I added was the the three little pink flowers from Prima.

I hope you participate in the sketches this month, because you don't want to miss out on your chance to win the great prizes being given away. Come on back here every Wednesday this month to see what I've created with the special Cardabilities sketches for the big birthday bash! :-)

Stamps: January carnation & Every Day Phrases (I Brake for Stamps) - use coupon code SAVE10HOLLY to save 10% off your order
Ink:Versafine Onyx Black, Worn Lipstick, Bundled Sage, Spun Sugar, Old Paper
CS: watercolor paper, Black
Other: May Arts suede sage ribbon, prima flowers, aquapainter, Making Memories pink scallop paper

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year, everyone! I'm looking forward to seeing what 2011 brings!

To start off this new year, I'm sharing this adorable New Year's Bear from I Brake for Stamps. He is colored with Copic markers, and I used the Wisped Frames technique from Technique Junkies. The papers are from Bo Bunny's Midnight Frost collection, and I added some pearls and some burgundy wrinkled ribbon (May Arts).

When you go shopping at the I Brake for Stamps store, use this coupon code - SAVE10HOLLY - to save 10% off your order. Enjoy this first weekend of 2011! Here's to a great year!