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Ketto Bella- Lucy Ketto and Blog candy alert for High Hopes stamps

Hello all, hope you are enjoying your Friday getting ready for a great weekend. Just wanted to share a card I made back in May that I realized I hadn't posted yet. This is Miss Lucy Ketto and she is super amazing to colour with. I love adding sparkle to her wings. I used some dragon fly paper and made this card for one of my nieces- yes I have lots of them so I have a niece stash of cards at all times LOL.

Blog candy alert: I also wanted to share a friend of mine Crissy (who is the illustrator of High Hopes stamps- love her and her astonishing work!) has a massive give away of goodies and lots of them are High Hopes stamps!!! Get on over there if you love High Hopes like I do for your chance to win! Just click on Crissy's name :)

 

Hope you enjoy your day!

Andi

The Angry Stamper stamps AGAIN....and it's beautiful

So this fabulous card was made at my house by "The Angry Stamper" last night and I love it!!! She came over wanting to use High Hopes Leo the Lion stamp as their friend Len was getting married and his nickname that they all call him is Lion. So she needed to make a Lion wedding card- uh huh. Exactly- wuhaaat. Well we rose to the challenge and since she had her image picked out we went from there to take it from wild jungle cat to tamed loving kitty. I think she did a fabulous job! We used this paper I had left over from Valentine's day and some wedding flowers from Michael's, dew drops and then I made a bow tie for her out of black grosgrain ribbon, a black brad and a real austrian crystal to give it some sparkle. I don't have what copics she used but she wanted to give him a cleaned up groomed look. I love love love the quote she made up to put on the card- Welcome to the Lion's Den- too funny! We used the 'feltpoint' font for the cool lettering.

I have to say- not a lot of angry stamping tonight from my fave angry stamper. Mind you we enjoyed a FULL bottle of her blueberry merlot homemade wine....hard to be angry while sipping that.

Today's enabler alert is that SGD is having their once a week huge sale with items up to 50% off. There are tons of new items in too...I am not going to tell you what I am going for so it's not sold out before I get there tee hee! I will tell you it's green though......any guesses?

QKD sketch challenge

This Wed's blog hop is based on a sketch challenge. I have to admit the actual layout of my cards is what I find the most challenging so using sketches is a great way to get my mojo flowing and get some actual cards made instead of just colouring images lol! This stamp is a background stamp called butterfly writings.

Here's the sketch used today:

Now hop on over to Anessa's blog and if you feel like joining us today why don't you make a card with the layout and share with us, we'd love to see it! Now hop on over to QKD's blog if you just joined and enjoy your day!

come and see me over at Whimsical Ink Sorority today

Come and see me here to read more about this creation .....

Andrea

CC Designs- Gingersnaps celebrate card!

One of my nieces has a birthday coming up- she will be 6!!! She loves cupcakes so I made this card for her using CC Designs Celebrate from the Gingersnaps line I got from SGD. Click hereif you want to check it out! If you are near Petrolia the Town Scrapper also carries them so I am surrounded by CC Designs goodness LOL.

My card base is 6x6 pink Bazzil and I used paper left over from one of the card kits Kimmie and I have done. I am such a hoarder!!!! Let's see if I can remember who it's from...................Bo Bunny!!!! Okay, that took a bit. Basically I was sitting here then thought- hmmm why not look at the paper itself dummy! So it's from the Alissa line tee hee.

Here are the copics I used (thankfully I left them out and didn't put them away so I can share today) E000, E00, E01, E25, E27, E29, E34, E35, BG11, BG13, YG03, R37, R21, RV29, R22, R11 and W-3 to shade.

Well I hope my niecey-poo loves her card- off to pop it into the mail for her- hope it gets there in time! Love you S.C.!!!

Kitty card from The Character Cafe

This cute image is called Bad KittE from The Character Cafe. When I saw this image it made me laugh so hard and I had ideas swimming around in my mind as to a cool layout so I couldn't wait to get it done! I used Ranger glossy accents to add clear dimension to the water and it did take awhile to dry but it looks so good in person! I am starting to really enjoy the instant gratification of digi downloads- shopping in  your pj's is always cool by me!

So the reason I wanted to work with this image is we have sadly had many fish pass through our doors in the last few years till we gave up. We love Beta fish and their pretty colours and the girls each had their own aquarium in their rooms and they loved loved loved their fishes!. They were named 'Sexy' and 'The chosen one'. Don't ask..I have no idea where they came up with these names.... So we also have a cat called JellyBean (he came with that name, yes I said HE, weird name for a boy) and our worry was that he would scoop out the fish and eat them so we made sure we had covers for our fishies. Well, turns out that JellyBean with his head of steel prefers to push the whole aquarium off where it is resting, and they were heavy! So we would come home to a sopping wet carpet and a dead fish. Yep, he didn't' even eat the fish- he just wanted to tip over the water. We tried keeping the door closed but he would lie in wait till that one time you would run for the bathroom and forget to shut the door and he was in there like a flash! We had a few sexy's and the chosen one's until we gave up. He was too stealthy for us.... This is also the same cat that pushed out the bottom of my screen door so we can't leave the sliding doors open- we fix it he pushes it- we are at a loss! His head is like steel! BTW- he wakes me up in the morning by headbutting me till I pet him. He's a bully but I love him.

Here he is lying on a blanket we put down on the couch for a min and he's claimed it. Doesn't he look annoyed and pretending not to see me there LOL! I am sure I have shared on here how he beats the daylights out of our dog Molly who is much bigger than him, Jellybean doesn't care- he shows no fear!

Well, hope you enjoy your Sunday. It's after noon and I am still in pj's, love it!!!!!! There are still a few card kits and scrapbook kits by Sheila over at SGD if you are in a shopping mood- they are great deals! Have a great day all! Ciao!

Cards for upcoming Copic Class

Halllloooo, it's Saturday!!!! My fave day of the week. I love Sunday's too of course but Saturday feels better cause you know there is another day off after it. Sunday you have that wee bit of panic all day to make the most of the day as it's back to work the following day....do you feel that way....is it just me...?? Hmmm, I felt like this during school too so maybe it's just me. Mind you my daughters seem to have inherited this from me too. Speaking of my DD's they are off to spend time with family up north for the next week. They got picked up by one of their Aunt and Uncle's yesterday to go to the zoo today. Lucky ducks!!! Every summer they have family fighting to have time with them as we live so far away we don't see them much during the year. And my family doesn't seem to care too much that perhaps their MOM would like to see them too. Forget it they say, I get them most of the year lol. My kids truly feel loved and it's a great way to grow up so we are very blessed! Me I go through empty nest syndrome. As much as they drive me CRAZY I like hearing their noise during the day, it's comforting. The pounding feet, slamming cupboards with yells of 'there's nothing to EAT' and the 'give it back's, I'm telling's, I hate YOU's'....sigh sweet music to my ears.

So...here I am in my craft room on a sunny Saturday cause let's face it. I am stampin while I can! I may head into scrappingreatdeals today to check out their new stock- I seem to go there 2x a week since they get new stuff all the time. I think I may be one of their best customers! I also want to go to drop off the cards you see in this post plus Kimmie'scards for our July copic classes. We are focusing on shading and colouring hair this month by popular demand. There are still spots in the class (July 12th and 16th) but grab them while you can as they tend to fill up in the few days right before each one. When you take the class you make 4 cards plus you get 20% off any copics you buy, incl sets, and 10% of all other purchases exc. clearance.I tend to stock up on my copics those days at those prices! We try to keep the card designs fairly straightforward as we find it that the focus is more on the colouring where it should be to get the most out of these copic classes. The one card has a bookmark in the front and you could also tuck in a gift card for a bookstore- one of my fave gifts to receive!

Speaking of books- what are you all reading right now? I need some new books to dive into. I have read the Sookie Stackhouse series and the newest one is FANTASTIC! I then read some new books that were alright...Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange and Fragile Eternity. I read them to see if my 12yr old would be ok reading the series and I would say the adult content is not at that age level- fyi. So if you have some suggestions that would be great! Well  have a great day and ciao!

July Card Kits by Kimmie and Andrea- Featuring High Hopes stamps!

  

I am sooo pumped to share with you the July card kits Kimmieand I have put together for Scrappingreatdeals this month! There are 2 different High Hopes stamps you can choose from either Tidy Up Tillie which Kimmie has featured on her blog or Rockstar which is the one I chose to work with and feature. Cause I am a Rockstar at heart myself! They are $19.98 and in limited quality so grab em while you can! These kits tend to sell out quickly!

More enabling....it wouldn't be a post from me without enabling lol....SGD is also having a huge sale event right now too! Click hereto see items marked down from 25-50%!!! Suhweet!!!! Don't forget they have world-wide shipping!

I had a great Canada day yesterday, I hope you did too for my fellow Canucks! Kimmie came over and we stamped to our hearts content. Then her hubby came over for dinner and we had a delicious bbq that my hubby cooked. Food tastes so great when you don't make it yourself doesn't it lol!

Well it's off to work I go today. It's so weird to have a day off in the middle of the week but I am not complaining mind you!

Ciao!! Andrea

QKD Stamp release blog hop!

Good Morning!!! First I have to start this post with a Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadian's woot woot!!!!

 

 

 

Today is the day Queen Kat Designs is releasing their July stamps and we are celebrating with a blog hop. If you are following the blog hop already you will have arrived here from Lara's blog and her lovely creation. If you are just joining us please start right at the QKD blog to kick things off!

For the month of July I will be primarily showcasing Verona the mermaid you see on this card. I have soo many cute items to share with you featuring her and I will share at least 1 per week ;) If you want to own some of the great stamps you are seeing in the hop QKD is having a 25% off sale till July 3rd so feel free to shop away!!!

Now to continue on with the hop head on over to Jacquie's cool blog to see more stunning creations!

Ciao!

Fantasy Palm Tree- QKD stamps

Come and join me at the QKD stamps Whimsical Ink Sorority blog to see my post about this card. I would also like to give a huge shout out to my pal Kimmie for this layout- it's borrowed from the card she designed for our June copic class tee hee. I grabbed some leftover pieces and it inspired me- hope she likes it!

Ciao!