play ball...

who doesn't love monkeys? i have a few of these little guys. luckily, my stamping friends do too! suzi hosted a swap using monkeys. i'm so ready for summer and sun so i thought i'd use my baseball changito monkey for the swap. play ball!!

play ball
stamps: stampendous
cardstock: kraft-su; candy apple-bazzill; three bugs in a rug pp
ink: night of navy, onyx black
embellishments: prismacolor markers
tools: corner chomper

fly a kite...

it hasn't been good kite flying weather here (it snowed yesterday!) so i have to live vicariously through my stamping. this set of atcs is for chris's tree themed swap. i love these trees from whimsie doodles. they are part of a digital stamp set. and i love this little owl (big shocker, i know) from stampin up. the kite's cute too!

fly a kite
stamps: stampin up, kim hughes-chf
digi stamps: whimsie doodles
cardstock: hot fudge-mft; old olive-su
ink: old olive, baja breeze, onyx black
embellishments: prismacolor markers

everyone's irish...

for a day, that is! i've got irish in me. my grandfather was from donegal. i would love to go there someday. i've been to dublin and cork and it was so neat!! this is an atc for an irish themed swap i'm hosting. i used a technique i haven't used very often, but it works so well. i inked the sentiment with versamark, then inked it again with certainly celery. this way, you can emboss an image using any color and clear embossing powder. it's awesome!

everyone's irish
stamps: studio g, purple onion, viva las vegas stamps
cardstock: certainly celery, garden green, wild wasabi
ink: certainly celery, garden green, old olive, kiwi kiss, wild wasabi, versamark
embellishments: clear embossing powder

hello spring...

i love that as i'm writing this blog post, it's 6pm and the sun is just beginning to set. and when i get to work in the morning (in about 12 1/2 hours), the sun will just be coming up. know what that means? spring is coming!! this card fits into the theme of spring. i made a dozen of these for someone at work (for her card club, isn't that a hoot?)

hello spring
stamps: heidi grace, maryse carrier, stampin up, purple onion, paper salon
cardstock: certainly celery, stampin up pp
ink: baja breeze, old olive, so saffron, wild wasabi, onyx black
embellishments: prima flowers, liquid pearls, prismacolor markers