Happy Summer, Riley!

Well, it's officially summer now and yesterday was nice and warm here. I think the rest of the week is going to be the same, maybe even a little hotter....and then we'll be complaining about the heat! Haha!!

This is a card that I made a couple of weeks ago using a sketch over at Card Positioning Systems. Yes, I'm a little behind in posting it. What's yer point? It's a tall card made with Very Vanilla cardstock and I used some patterned papers that I got from The Town Scrapper (who also carried the Riley stamps). I stamped him on Wausau bright white cardstock and coloured him in with my Copics, rounded the corners, distressed the edges and matted it on Brocade Blue. I stamped the CCDesigns sentiment on So Saffron and pop dotted everything. Then I finished it off by attaching a bunch of different sized buttons across the middle in a wonky line. Adds texture and colour!



I'm off to do some running around this morning and then workin' this afternoon. It's a short day for me, so not too bad. Have a super sunny day!!

Merry Moosemas!!

Okay, this will be my last Christmas card....I promise. I'm really quite tired of making Christmas cards, but I do want to show them all to you.

This one was made using Santa Riley coming out of a chimney! I picked it up over at The Town Scrapper (who has a big Boxing Day Special going on right now) and the sentiment is from the Things Riley Would Say set.

The card base is Real Red along with Soft Sky and Regal Rose for matting. The dp is Be Merry by My Mind's Eye .... guess I have to put that stuff away until next year now, huh? I used my Nestabilities to cut and emboss Riley and I coloured him in with my Copics. Then I added satin ribbon and some rhinestone snowflakes. I gave this one to my boss at work.



Well yesterday was a wonderful day! We drove down to my parents' house in the morning and arrived about noon. We spent quite a while opening Christmas presents, which is always fun! Then we had a wonderful turkey dinner complete with roast potatoes, yorkshire pudding and yummy gravy! Of course there are always delicious desserts for afterwards too! Thanks Mom!! Then we cleared off the table and played HOURS of fun games!! I'm talkin' like, 5 or 6 hours of games! We played Sequence (a great board/card game) and Catch Phrase....the most fun and heart pounding game ever!! Have you ever played it???

Today, I plan to spend most of my time in my craft room, catching up on all my stamping deadlines. There are LOTS of new releases coming up for January, so hold tight to your Christmas money....I'll give you lots of reasons to spend it!!! Heehee!!!

Have a stampin' good Saturday!!!

Dream BIG!!

Well, I'm up early this morning!! I had PLANNED to sleep in today since I don't have to work....but my dog Daisy, had other ideas!! She thought that I needed to get up at 7:15am so that she could go get a drink!! And now I'm up for the day....

Anyhooooo....today's card features my new Sleepytime Riley stamp, which I won at their release party last month! Isn't he cute?? I made this particular card using a sketch they posted in the Hanna Forum over at SCS. It's a fun and simple sketch...which is perfect for me!

I stamped Riley on Wausau bright white cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The dp I used is from the DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy stack, the card base is Blue Bayou and for accents, I used So Saffron and Almost Amethyst. I coloured Riley in using my Copic markers, cut him and embossed him using my Nesties and pop dotted him. The sentiment is by High Hopes and I stamped it on Certainly Celery and then cut it out using my new Double Ended Tag Nesties and attached it with some mini button brads and finished it off by adding some Prima hydrangeas!!




Don't forget that today is your last chance to win some Whiff of Joy blog candy!! Be sure to answer my question in THIS POST!! And I'll post the winner tomorrow!! Have a wonderfully inky day!!

Like My Ride??

Here is my favourite new Riley stamp....at least it is this week! Baaaaaahahahaaa! Gotta love those Rileys.

Well, I used a sketch challenge from a few weeks back on SCS and I think it went perfectly with the image. The patterned paper is all from MFT and the card base is Basic Black. The ribbon is also from MFT, the brads are SU and the punched out bats are from a Martha Stewart punch.

I stamped Riley on Wausau bright white cardstock and coloured him in using my Copic markers. I pop dotted the main layer, doodled around the frame and sparkled up the moon and stars with my Sakura Stardust gel pen. Oh and the sentiment is from CCDesigns! Don'tcha love it??! heehee!



Well, I am working all day today and then headin' out for our vay-kay! We will be staying in Detroit overnight and then flying out to Vegas early on Sunday morning. Please pray for a safe trip for my family....I'm really not looking forward to the flight....I just know I'll get stuck with kicking brats behind me like on our last trip! *sigh* What's with oblivious parents anyway??

I have a post timed to go up on here tomorrow with the High Hopes Challenge but then the rest of the week I probably won't be posting. Sorry. I don't know if I'll be near an internet connection and actually I really just need some time to rest and relax. I'm sure I'll be going nuts by the time we get home though!! If I do get near a computer, maybe I'll post some pictures of our trip!!!

See you soon and have a great week of stampin'!!

Riley's Winter Wishes

Over the weekend I had a chance to play with a couple of my new Riley's! Yay! I love Riley, he's so darn cute and does so many fun things on his stamps!!

The Hanna Stamps forum released some new stamps last week (I won the new Riley in his pyjamas too) and they posted a couple of cool challenges. I played in both of them but today I'll just show you the layers challenge. I really like it when challenges are pretty simple and general so that everyone can play along. I don't usually take part if there's a big technique or a lot of restrictions involved.

Anyway this challenge was to use more than 2 layers on your card, so I decided to use my new Riley with his Christmas tree and some scrap dp from DCWV that was laying on my desk (along with many other scraps). I stamped Riley on Wausau bright white cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured him in using my handy, dandy......Copics!! Oh I had a deja vu of Blue's Clues there for a minute!! haha!




The card base is Certainly Celery, I matted Riley on Soft Sky and stamped the Verve Visual sentiment on So Saffron. I punched a couple of Martha Stewart snowflakes from some turquoise glitter paper and added some matching glitter brads in each of the four corners. I pop dotted the main layer and then added sparkle to the snow with Stardust Stickles!! Ain't he cute???

For those who are interested, yesterday's library trip was actually not as painful as I'd envisioned. We started off very early and made good time travelling to each of our destinations. We picked up a lot of ideas of what to do....and what not to do, when renovating our own library. I went with a fun group of ladies so we did a lot of yakking and laughing. But after a full day and a long drive home, I was whipped! I'm heading in to work the late shift today, so maybe I'll have a little nappy-poo this morning!

Have a great Friday!!!