Stamping on the Airplane

Here I am stamping and making cards on the airplane. Space was rather tight but I managed to make 2 cards on the 2.5 hour flight to Colorado. I highly recommend making cards when flying. Time flew. . .just like that. Before I knew it, we were landing.

Be sure to drop by my Card Inspired blog site to view a bunch of pictures I took during our drive through Georgetown, Silverthorne, Brekenridge, Dillon, and Leadville.

Here is the card I made while on the airplane on our way to Colorado. I posted the other card on Card Inspired.

Too Funny. . .Look at What I'm Bringing as A Carry-on

We're heading for Colorado tomorrow on an 9 day road trip in Colorado. .we're flying to Colorado then we'll be doing a road trip within Colorado.. . Look what I'm bringing as a carry-on.

Yup, you guessed it. . .a crop-bag. Hilarious. It's amazing what you can fit in this bag! My husband asked me what was in my bag and I opened it and showed it to him and he was like "Why?". . "You're going on a vacation so why are you bringing all that craft stuff." I'm like "don't worry about it, it's not your problem!" Yeah, I'm sick - I'm a stamp and scrap addict! I can't help myself. I can't even go on vacation without my craft stuff. Whoohoo! It'll be fun!


You gotta love clear stamps! I fit so many of them in my bag. I'm hooked up that's for sure. I cut up a bunch of cardstock 4 1/8 x 5 3/8" so I can make a bunch of card fronts. When I get back home, I'll attach them to the base. I didn't want to carry too many heavy cardstock. I also brought a bunch of cut up stamped images, stamped images to color in, my watercolor crayons, embellishments, and a bunch of scrapbook stickers, glue, tape, ribbons, etc.

I probably won't have time to make anything but that's okay, it's better to be safe than sorry. I'll update my blog when I can! Hopefully the many hotels we'll be staying at will have Internet service.

We're planning to visit the South West and South Central side of Colorado including Aspen, Leadville, Durango, Telluride, Mesa Verde, Silverton, Colorado Springs, Denver and a few more towns. Our last stop will be in Denver. We plan to do a city tour as well as the Rocky Mountain tour.

It's my birthday is on the 5th so I told my husband I wanted to eat at Ruth Chris in Denver. I miss eating there. We had a Ruth Chris in Hawaii and I loved eating there. The other choice was the Chop House or Palaminos but I chose Ruth's.

Anyway. . .hope everyone have a wonderful week!

And the Winner Is. . .TIC Day #6 - Crazy for Ribbon

Congratulations Beth!!

I made a list of all the participants of this week's TIC and numbered them. I had my daughter pick out the winner by randomly picking a number!! And the winner is Beth! Thank you everyone for being such wonderful participants of my challenge. You make these challenges fun! I really appreciate y'all taking the time to play along!

Beth can you send me your address so I can send your prize!!

TIC Day #6 - Tuesday's Inspirational Challenge - "Crazy for Ribbon" Submission

Hey Everyone. . .check out Malieta's wonderful purse card! AWESOME! I love all the ribbons that she used. She really made use of her ribbons. I love the hardware and the beautiful pattern paper that she used. They all tie in so well together. Be sure to drop by Malieta's blog site "Life's Simple Pleasures" and say hello. She's been really challenging herself participating in different blog site challenges. Go check it out!!

Hi Everyone! Check out Cheryl's awesome submission! Isn't it fabulous. She did such a wonderful job with her ribbons!! I love the crimped design to the focal point of her card. Cheryl has a great blog site called "Engineered Expressions" filled with lots of wonderful design. Be sure to check out her blog site and say hello. Thank you Cheryl for participating in this week's TIC. I really appreciate it!!

Hey Everyone! Check out Jodene's lovely card submission for this week's TIC. Such a wonderful use of ribbons. Looks like she has 5 cuts of ribbon which is fabulous. I love how she placed the bows to each side of her image! Jodene is "adisneyfreak" on SCS and here is the link to the card shown to the left. Check it out by clicking here. Thank you Jodene for participating in my TIC. I appreciate it!

Whoohoo! Check out Sandra's awesome and colorful submission for this week's TIC. I love how she tied a knot with the ribbons and how she used 3 different types of ribbon. Very creative. It's great to see the different ideas that other stampers come up with! Very inspirational! Sandra has a blog site "Sandee's Corner". Be sure to drop by her fabulous blog site.

Thank you Sandra for participating in this week's TIC!!

If interested in participating in this week's challenge. . . click here for the details.

Hey Everyone! Check out Sabrina's submission for this week's TIC - Crazy for Ribbon. Wow, Sabrina did a great job at using her ribbons. Looks like she used at least 5 cuts of ribbons including the fibers! Fabulous and very creative. Sabrina said she's new with stamping but by the look of her card, she is doing a fabulous job as a beginner. Thank you Sabrina for participating in this week's TIC. I appreciate it!

TIC Day #6 - Tuesday's Inspirational Challenge - "Crazy For Ribbons"

If interested in this week's TIC - Click here for the details. . .

Good Evening Friends! Here are two cards I created for this week's TIC Day #6 - Crazy for Ribbons. This week's TIC is so easy and so useful. I love the fact that it forces me use my ribbons. I hope you'll take the time to participate! I would really love to see the different cards that everyone make using the same concept. It's interesting to see how many different style of cards can be created by following a single challenge.

You can't really see it but I stippled the background with Lavender Lace, Cool Caribbean and Green Galore mixed with Lumiere. I then rubber stamped and heat embossed the image using gold embossing powder.

I rubber stamped the images and colored them with ink and Lumiere and applied Gold Stickles around the edge of the flowers.





Card Details:

Stamp: In Full Bloom, Doodle This
Ink: Cool Caribbean, Lavender Lace, Green Galore with Lumiere, Sakura gel pen
Paper: Green Galore, Colorbok scrapbook paper
Accessories: Gold Embossing Powder, K&Co sentiment stickers, Making Memories Chipboard, Dots, Dashes & Checks Ribbon

Here is a second card I created for this week's TIC - "Crazy for Ribbons". I, initially, named this week's TIC "Ribbon Fanatic" but I realized I had named it "Crazy for Ribbons" on Card Inspired. Either name is acceptable, it's the same thing. . .to use a minimum of 3 cuts of ribbons to your card.

I created the word "smile" and the scallop circles with my Craft Robo and layered it over scrapbook paper by DCWV.

Card Detail:

Stamp: Doodle This
Ink: Positively Pink with Lumiere, Sakura gel pen
Paper: Pixie Pink, DCWV Glitter stack
Accessories: Craft Robo, Dots Dashes & Checks Ribbon, Making Memories Chipboard

TIC Day #6 - Tuesday's Inspirational Challenge - "Crazy For Ribbon"

Yo! Everyone! It's TIC Day #6 again! Wow, time seem to be FLYING! I can't believe how time is whizzing by so quickly.

This week's TIC is "Crazy for Ribbon". I decided I'll make this week's TIC a little simpler but a useful one!

Do you have a bunch of small scraps of ribbon stashed away? I do. I put all my little scraps into a jar and pull them out if a card calls for me to use them. Unfortunately, I have way too many of them and I need to get rid of them.

This week's challenge is to rid of your left over ribbons or at least use the many rolls of ribbon you hoard. Haha! I hoard my ribbons. . .then I buy more. I think I buy them just to collect them. Well, no more. . .I WILL use my ribbons even if it hurts. I have the same problem with scrapbook paper. They are so pretty, it bothers me to cut them up. I know I'm silly but I'm not sure why I'm this way. My husband thinks I have "issues". He's like "why are you buying more ribbons? You already have a tub full of them." Honestly,I can't explain my behavior. I'm thinking it's because I had so little growing up that now that I can buy them I still have this need to ration what I buy. Who knows???


Here is TIC Day #6 Rules:

• You must use a minimum of 3 cuts of ribbon.
• It can be 3 or more cuts of the same ribbon or they can all be different.
• Any type of ribbon may be used to include rick-racks, embroidery floss, or any other type of ribbon. Sewing thread don't count.
• You can use the ribbons in any fashion you want, tie a bow, lay it out in a row, attach to a clip, use to attach a tag, whatever. . .
• There's no limitation on the theme, design or type of card.
• Card can be stamped, paper-pieced, embellishments only, hand-drawn, etc.
• Card must be submitted by Friday! Send a picture of your card via email to lbmcd66@hotmail.com or comment with your blog address of your submission. Don't forget to include your URL of your blog so I can post a link along with your picture.
• Drawing of the prize which will be on Saturday and the prize will be a Studgio G stamp set.
• Cards made with Stampin' Up image will be posted on Stampin Inspirations and any other images will be posted on Card Inspired.

This is another "Crazy for Ribbon" sample. I attached 3 ribbons in a row. It sort of matches the patterned paper.

I'll be leaving for Colorado on Sunday! We're doing a road trip of Colorado. This is the reason why I need your submission by Friday 12:00 and will be drawing the winner on Saturday.

Okay Everyone. . .Let's Go Crazy for Ribbon!!!

Random Cards and Sketch

Good Evening Everyone! I was able to squeeze some time to make two cards! Whoohoo! It's been awhile since I made 2 cards in one day. I used to be stamp happy up until a few months ago but I've slowed down quite a bit. I'm lucky if I stamp a card in a day.

This was a quick card to make because all the images were already colored and cut out. I had stamped quite a few of the "Doodle This" flower a while back and I had a whole bunch waiting to be used. The rest of the images are scrapbook embellishments so this card was a snap to make.










Card Detail:

Stamp: Doodle This
Ink: Cool Caribbean with Lumiere
Paper: K&Co Designer paper, Ballet Blue, Summer Sun, DCWV Textured cardstock
Accesories: K&Co Chipboard Alphabet, K&Co stickers, American Craft Elements Ribbon, Fiskar "Cloud" Scissors



I like how this card turned out. I was a bit stumped as to what to do with the fishy. . .I didn't have a sentiment to match a fish image so I printed the sentiment from my computer. Hey, sometimes you need to improvise.

I recently bought this bubble looking CB embossing folder and decided to use it. I love this embossing folder. It looks so cool.

I colored the fish using prismacolor pencil with Gamsol. I sort of mixed several colors to give the fish a multi colored effect. You can't see it but the fish is glittery. . .I added Stickles to the fins. In person, it looks pretty nice. I cut the scallop circle using my Craft Robo and to top off the card, I attached a swirl clip and ribbon.


Card Detail:

Stamp: Fishy Friends
Ink: Prismacolor Pencils with Gamsol
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Summer Fun, DCWV Scrapbook paper,
Accesories: Craft Robo (scalloped circles), Swirl Clip from Office Depot, American Craft Element ribbon

Whoohoo! I'm a Rockin' Girl Blogger

Thanks to the following wonderful fellow Rockin' Girl Bloggers: Jan "She's Gone Stampin'", Beth "Sunflowers and Dragonflies", Tracy "Tracy's Happy Place", Jen "Pieces of Me", and Michelle "Come Stamp With Me" for nominating me as "Rockin' Girl Blogger". Wow, how cool is that? I'm not sure I'm very Rockin' but it's just cool that they thought of me. Thanks ladies, you gals are just way sweet! Okay. . .I suppose to post my "Rockin' Girl Blogger" badge somewhere on my blog to show I'm officially "Rockin'". . .and nominate 5 other Rockin' ladies. . .I'm going to choose 5 that I believe don't have their badge yet.

Lissa - "TropiCards - Inked & Ready"
Hulda - "Aunty Scrappy"
Tejal - "Creating New Expressions Everyday"
Paula - "Paula Ponders"
Toni - "Inkyfingers - Everyday Art"

Be sure to drop by all these lovely Rockin' Girls blog site and check out their beautiful creations.