The Lucky Clucker

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Good morning! It is once again time for our Sentimental Sundays challenge! This week our challenge to you is to use dry embossing!

Another wonderful challenge - and don't forget to put a sentiment on your creation!!

This week we are being sponsored by Heather Ellis Digital stamps! She is the brains behind those cute little Pure Innocence stamps, and she has offered us a couple of new digi stamps to work with- so cute!!

I chose to use this sweet little thing and inked her up with my copics marker, plus a little paper piecing!

My dry embossing comes in the shape of my favorite embossing folder right now from Crafts Too - called Hearts (imagine that!!)

I used Sweet Stop sketch challenge #141 and an Authentic Papers 6x6 pad for my card.

The dies are from My Favorite Things and are the Die-namics Mini Tabs Foursome and the Die-namics Upsy Daisy!

My Martha Stewart Heart punch plus a bit of sewing on my Janome Mini Sewing machine makes it a perfect ending!

IC321, I Love You

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:25:00 +0000

Boy, Today's Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoaststampers had me in heaven!- The store is Called Everything Turquoise and it is just loaded with every shade of beautiful turquoise you can imagine!

The point of an inspiration challenge is to see a photo and be inspired by it - I actually was inspired to pretty much copy the Thank You cards that you see in this photo here!

I sewed around my edge and added hearts to the nest instead of eggs - I thought it was pretty clever hah! and besides, it also meets The Cat's Pajamas challenge which is called Hearts Have It and Susan has challenged us to use TCP stamps and Cutups with hearts in/on it!

Come and join in today at Splitcoaststampers AND The Cat's Pajamas!

Stamps: (Simply Said, Nesting) The Cat's Pajamas
Ink: (Brown Sugar) Jenni Bowlin
Cardstock: (Hawaiian Shores, Kraft, Soft Stone) Papertrey Ink
Accessories: (Rolled Nest Cutups, Sunflower Rosette Cutups) The Cat's Pajamas, Janome Mini Sewing Machine, Woodgrain Sizzix Embossing folder, I want to Scrap bling

Be Mine....

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:02:00 +0000

Today it Friday and that means another Scrapmaster's Paradise blog post!

Remember when Friday was a big deal? haha...

Today I am using Artsy Heartsy .....again....because I love it and it is close to Valentine's Day - two perfect reasons!

My background is the beautiful Scripty Scripts backgrounder and it has three gorgeous stamps included, each in a Spanish script - I LOVE it!

Thanks for coming around today - I am off to get a new hair-doodoodoo! woohoo!

Totally Classy!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:08:00 +0000

Good Morning! Today is my day to post at the SP and Company blog!

Take a stroll over and see the tutorial on how I put together this little gem!

Absolutely NO Peeking!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:41:00 +0000

Just a cute little number from The Cat's Pajamas stockpile of stamps that I own!

Using "Peeking" I entered last week's challenge from Lori Techler via TCP which was a pretty colour challenge!

I think that might be a Stamping Up! Melon which I don't have, so I went with more of a peachy melon - like a muskmelon!

Using Kaisercraft and Cosmo Cricket designer papers, I paper pieced the little present, colouring and cutting out his little hands to pop up onto the gift!

I used my Janome Mini sewing machine to sew around the edges and then zig zagged the straight border.

This sketch is from My Favorite Things - one of my favorite sketches to use - a keeper for sure!

Have a good day!

Merci!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Good morning! It is once again time for our Sentimental Sundays challenge! This week our challenge to you is to use diecuts! Easy peasy - and don't forget to put a sentiment on your creation!!

This week we are being sponsored by The Paper Shelter!

"If you are looking for fun, cute and lovely digi stamps for

your paper-crafting or web design projects, The Paper Shelter is your one-stop boutique! This growing catalog of high-quality digi

stamps with many different kind of options offers a multitude of

themes such as everyday items, holidays, special occasions,

children, adorable characters and creatures.

Stamps are available in standard black and white line art, as well as in pre-colored format. Images are wonderful for

coloring and make perfect additions to greeting cards and

scrapbook albums. In "The Paper Shelter" you'll also find great other

resources for all crafts (or digital) projects, like Paper Packs,

Printables, Accessory sheet, etc."

So I chose to use "In the Twenties" digital stamp - it comes two ways - black and white outline and already coloured!

I chose to use the one that was already coloured - because basically I felt lazy - true story..

My die cuts are My Favorite Things Die-Namics Eiffel Tower and Prima Donna Petals.

Of course I used my beloved Spellbinders oval nestabilities for the main image and my papers are from My Minds Eye - a huge 12 x 12 paper pad that I got at my Local Scrapbook Store The Paper Pickle!

You are Awesome!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:50:00 +0000

Today is Friday, so that means it is my day to show off a Scrapmaster's Paradise creation!

I decided to use a new designer paper (to me!)from My Mind's Eye called Sunshine - I love it and the only place I could find it was at my local scrapbook store, The Paper Pickle. Hi Pickle girls!!

I matched it up with a Scrapmaster's Paradise stamp set called Mix 'n Match Sentiments:Friends, a fabulous set with all sorts of fun sentiments to mix and match!

I used this week's Sketch challenge at Splitcoaststampers - I think it is probably a keeper - I love this sketch!

I added some stitching which I love to do and some diecuts to accentuate the sentiment!

Now for even more inspiration, head over to Sami's blog and make sure to click on the link to go to even MORE INSPIRATION!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Mix 'n Match Sentiments; Friends (Scrapmaster's Paradise)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Paper: MME Sunshine, True Black (Papertrey Ink)
Accessories: Die-Namics Prima Donna Petals, Die-Namics Leafy Flourish, Die-Namics Mini Tabs Foursome

I Love You!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:14:00 +0000

I am feeling much better today and thank you for all of your well wishes! I love the Stamping Community - yay!

I am way behind of The Cat's Pajamas challenges so I combined two of them together - you probably can't legally do that, but it is done and I like it!

The first challenge was the inspiration challenge which included this inspirational photo

absolutely FULL of hearts! The second week's challenge was embossing - any kind so I fulfilled that requirement too!! woohoo!

Anyway....enough of the woohoo's here is my card

Isn't that little penguin the sweetest ever?!! He is just begging to have a huge hug!! The stamp is called "Got Love?" - love the penguins because if you are not up to colouring - then these are the stamps for you - minimal!!

My papers are from a HUGE 12 x 12 paper pad from My Mind's Eye and I bought it at my Local Scrapbook Store - The Paper Pickle - yay Pickle!!

Off to find the next challenge! Have a great day!

Ticket to Love

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:10:00 +0000

Good day! I decided to do the Splitcoaststampers Colour Challenge today since it is a combination of some of my favorite colours - pink, pink and pink!

And you are in for a treat because I even decorated the inside of my card - woo hoo! I wasn't feeling well in the night so I got up and made this card and had lots of time to finish the inside......

I hope you like it! I think I will go and rest....blech....

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I Love you This Much!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Good morning! It is once again time for our Sentimental Sundays challenge! This week our challenge to you is to use Ribbon! Woohoo!

This week we are being sponsored by Fred She Said - the famous home of Emma!! and I have an Emma for your today - I Love You This Much digi!

I printed her off on Copic Xpress cardstock and then waited a couple of days for the image to dry.....sometimes on the computer you can smudge your colouring if you are using copics.....so I prefer to let the digi images dry for a few days.

When I was ready, I coloured the areas I wanted with my copic markers and then printed another image off onto designer paper - Yours Truly by Echo Park to be exact! My new LOVE! and paper pieced the image.

The sentiment was die cut with the My Favorite Things Simply Scallops Die-namics and I highlighted it with some Want 2 Scrap bling!

Then I finished it off with the challenge ingredient - Ribbon!!

Material Girl

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Today's Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoaststampers is a fun one. The store is called Polyvore and it has some fabulous designer items that are well.....inspirational!

Scrapmaster's Paradise has also had a new release, and every month on their release date, they have a colour challenge! This month's colour is white!! and since I am a Design Team Member (yay!) I thought I would make a card to go along with the challenge!!

THE WHITE CHALLENGE:

Use white or cream as a main color on your project. Have SP Stamps? Great!! Use them! If not, any stamps or products will do. Please add a direct link to Sami's Scrapmaster Blog. A winner will be chosen at random to receive one SP stamp set of winner's choice. Entries are due Tuesday, January 17th at 11:59PM EST.

Here is the link to my inspiration photo

and here is my card that I made

The stamp set is from Scrapmaster's Paradise and is called Sewing Chic! I stamped the main image (although there are several images) in Smokey Shadow ink and the sentiment also.

The coloured cardstock is Basic Gray by Stamping UP!, Lemon Tart and Fine Linen - Papertrey Ink. I ran them through my Cuttlebug with the Die-Namics Jumbo Ric Rac and layered them together to create my colours.

The little flower is from the Die-namics die called Prima Donna Petals from My Favorite Things!

Ski Fast....Laugh Often!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:36:00 +0000

Tis the season for snow ......so where is it?! Hah!

Today is the day that the weather forecasters have determined that we are finally about to get some snow yay!

I love snow .....for about a minute....but hubby bought a new snowmobile about a month ago and he has been waiting.....and waiting....and waiting......inside the house. So PLEASE let's see some snow!

For this week's My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge I used Ski Bunny, and Lilybee Designs patterened paper Head Over Heels.

Oh rats, I have to keep this short......hubby is wanting to go into the city to get some groceries - we are on a diet so I guess that means eating vegetables!!

All die-cuts are My Favorite Things Die-Namics except for the flags - they are L'il Inkers - I don't have the MFT ones :)

Sentiments are all from Ski Bunny!

Cute as a Button!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:22:00 +0000

I'm on the SP Stamps Blog this morning doing my Fancy Post with this project - take a boo over and see how it's done!

Cocoa!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:28:00 +0000

Good morning! Today I have a card made from a My Favorite Things Wednesday sketch - every Wednesday a new sketch is posted in the Splitcoaststampers Forum and I like to use them - they are great!

I stamped the image from Who's That Girl Gets Cozy with Cocoa! three times......once on white cardstock and twice on patterned paper and then I just began to cut and piece - paper piece!

I have said it before - I love to paper piece - I love to puzzle all those little pieces together and get a real kick when it all comes together!

My designer paper is from Simple Stories and is a 6x6 paper pad called Generations - love those muted colours!

I did a bit of sewing around the edges with my Janome Mini Sewing machine and die cut the Die-namics Let it Snowflake and used the medium and small snowflake for my embellishment, topped with a button and twine.

I must say, I had a bit of difficulty using the Snowflake die-namics when I used my Cuttlebug - but then I brought out the BIG GUN - the Grand Calibur! and it cut perfectly - so I think my poor little Cuttlebug is losing its umph.....

I really would love a Vagabond - my poor arms get tired from all that cranking (yeh.... any excuse for something new! HAH!)

Anyway, I am off to Sarnia today with my daughter to her math class! Have a good one!

Stupid Cupid!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Good morning! It is once again time for our Sentimental Sundays challenge! This week our challenge to you is to use Blue and also glitter or some sort of sparkle!

This week we are being sponsored by Bugaboo Digi Stamps - from fun and quirky to serious and sentimental! and I am going to enter it into their challenge - which is "Anything Goes"!!

I chose to use a Stella Love - Stupid Cupid digi - there are a lot of Stella's and I tell you, I laughed out loud at everyone - boy it was hard to choose!

I used some Lilybee Design papers and paper pieced my little Stella- I coloured her with my copics first and then added some white lines for interest! I glittered up her wings as per the challenge!

A little bit of twine and sewing and it was done! I hope you will join us this week!

Thank you for everything!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Well hello there! It's Friday and that means it is a Scrapmaster's Paradise day!

I have really been using my Lilybee Designer papers A LOT lately, and today is no exception. It can turn an everyday sentiment into an elegant creation!

By using the designer paper with black in it, I think it really plays on the sentiment and pops it right out there! The sentiment is from Bold Sentiments I and that stamp set is FULL of everyday sentiments in that pretty font!

Of course I couldn't leave it without some twine.....twine hog that I am these days! I also did a bit of sewing along the edges of the card.......love it!

The cute-sy flower is from an MFT die that I own and the frames around the SP & Company sentiment is from The Cat's Pajamas! I'm a die hog too!

Please check out the Scrapmaster's Blog and the SP Stamps Blog ! They are full of inspirational tutorials - today and every single day!

Make Every Morning Wonderful...!!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:05:00 +0000

I am loving the new Clearly Sentimental Pearls of Wisdom stamp set from MFT! It was only available as a triple scoop promotion last month, but this month it is available for retail upon tomorrow night's release!

I used the VERY LAST sketch of the year from My Favorite Things for my card today, plus a couple of other new (to me) stamps...Inspired by Flowers Set 4!

I used two of the flowers from the flower stamp set to make my background on my main image panel. I stamped them in Jenni Bowlin's Stick Candy ink - a beautiful soft green - my favorite colour.....

Then I stamped the sentiment in memento tuxedo black onto the top of the flowers......such a great way to showcase a sentiment!

My papers are from Lilybee Designs 6x6 paper pad This & That.....I have really used a lot of this paper pad lately.....gorgeous colours and designs!

The Die-namics Butterflies came in handy to accent my card and then I used some mini brads as per the sketch!

I hope you like it!

Be Happy......

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:36:00 +0000

Good day!

Every month I enter into the My Favorite Things Guest Designer challenge - where you are eligible to win over $200 worth of stamps and dienamics.....there are always so many fabulous entries that the odds are against me every month....but still I venture on lol!- besides....it's fun!!

The challenge this month is paper piecing! and I love to paper piece - I find it relaxing to cut it up and put it all back together like a colourful puzzle!

The stamp I used is from My Favorite Things and is called May I Have This Dance? The sentiment is from the Triple Scoop Promotion called Clearly Sentimental Pearls of Wisdom that was available if you bought $60 worth of product last month.

This month it is being released on Tuesday night for retail woohoo!

The Die-namics I used across the top of my card were the Star Border Die-namics and Perfect Bracket Edge Die-namics......both match fabulously with this card!

My designer papers are from Lilybee Designs This & That - such pretty papers! A bit of ribbon, silver cord and BLING!! and it is done!

We went dancing last night (New Year's Eve) to a ten piece Chicago Style band.....can you say fab.u.lous!......oh my word, we danced almost every dance - so fun and I LOVE that type of band. We are thinking of becoming groupies LOL!

Sentimental Sundays New Year's Blog Hop!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the Sentimental Sundays “Anything Goes” New Year's blog hop which means that this week our challenge is "anything goes" plus a sentiment! You know you love those ones!

Sunday, January 1 brings the launch of the new Sentimental Sundays Challenge Blog with a new Design Team and we are all excited to start things off with a fun and prize loaded Blog Hop!

You should have arrived here from Janne's fabulous blog! If you didn't arrive from her blog and would like to join in the hop, please start at the Sentimental Sundays Blog!

Our sponsors this week include: Whimsy Stamps, Meljen's Designs, Pink Cat Studio and Digital Delights by Louby Lou.

I have used one of the images from Meljen's Designs that were offered to the Design Team for free - aren't we lucky??!!

This cute little fairy is "just having fun" sprinkling her gold pixie dust all over! I used the digital image called Pixie Dust Fairy and coloured her up with my copic markers.

She was cut out using my Spellbinders Circle Nestabilities and then adhered onto patterned paper - which is from Lily Bee Designs This & That 6 x 6 paper pad.

The sentiment is from October Afternoon and is a rub-on offered in one of their Santa Sacks that I bought in December - awesome deal! And how about those little clouds??! They are a die cut from L'il Inker Designs - love how the stitching is built right in!!

We hope you will join in our “Anything Goes” (plus a sentiment) challenge this week.

Some of our design team members will also be offering prizes on their blogs so be sure to visit each stop along the way and enter your comments.

Your next stop on the hop is Tracey! - She is sure to have a wonderful project for you!!

The hop ends on Saturday, January 7 at midnight EST and the winners will be announced on the Sentimental Sundays challenge blog on Sunday, January 8!

So, hop on over to the next stop and good luck!

Sentimental Sundays Challenge!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:04:00 +0000

Hey there folks! Just a fun announcement that I have joined the Sentimental Sundays Design Team! It is a challenge that focus's on sentiments - which is always fun..!

So to end 2011 on a positive, we are asking that you help us spread the news about our New Year's Day Party.

Some really simple rules:

1) Create a post, include the picture above and invite all your friends

and

2) Link back to your blog post - link to the Sentimental Sundays Blog!

That's it!! Easy right?

The winner will get a $20 Gift Certificate to their favorite online store!!!

For every 100, entries there will be another $20 Gift Certificate added!!

Winner(s) will be announced on 12/31 before midnight!

So what are you waiting for....Let's start sharing the LOVE!!

Merry Christmas!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:28:00 +0000

Well, this is surely late but from the bottom of my heart, I wish you a Merry Christmas!

We hosted Christmas this year for Ron's family - 32 people at first, then it was trimmed down to 30......so that was a first for us!

But everything went wonderfully and the gift exchanges are always so fun with people stealing each others gifts - it went on for along time - just long enough for us to be able to sneak away to the kitchen and prepare our meal while the others played!

Everyone brings a dish or two, so all we had to do the turkey, mashed potatoes, a vegetable and a dessert - yummy and awesome and I am so glad I don't have to do it for another 4 years Lol!

Here is another Christmas card that was made this season and not posted. I used The Scrapmaster's Paradise Bold Sentiment II Holidays, and I had a few little note stickers from October Afternoon's Very Merry sticker sheet that I used with the sentiment! Perfect!

I hope to be back tomorrow or the next day.....celebrations are still ongoing!

Merry Fishmas!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:45:00 +0000

Wow! I really was bringing this down to the wire with this card! I love to play in The Cat's Pajamas challenges every week......so yesterday morning I discovered that I was a bit behind and put together this little doo-hickey!

I was thrilled to received my new stamps on Friday, and this little penguin (as are all the little penguin's) is not too much to colour - so double yay!

The challenge was to use one of The Cat's Pajamas images to make a Christmas card and the CutUps die they were pairing it with was the BIG Scallop! I don't own the Big Scallop so I used my EK Success bracket punch.

I also used my new Anywhere Ribbon Slide CutUp - so fun!

I did a bit of sewing, added a button with twine and presto! done!

Now I am off to find out what the new challenge is for this week! -

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:45:00 +0000

Today's card has another sentiment from Scrapmaster's Paradise's Big Sentiment II Holidays - love this set and I have gotten a lot of use from it this year!

I am hosting Christmas this year for my hubby's family - I thought there were 27 of us but someone told me last night to count again!! and there are 32 so what are 5 more? yikes!!

I am also adding this in the

DYSU Challenge Blog - Winter
Crafty Boots challenge - Christmas
My Sheri Crafts - Snowflakes

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Come All Ye Faithful...

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:47:00 +0000

Good Day, I am sitting here eating ketchup potato chips and trying not to get crumbs on/in my keyboard....and since it is the bottom of the bag - I'm not having much luck hehe!

It's a celebration of sorts for me because.....drumroll.....brrrrrrrrrrr..... I am now a Design Team Member for Scrapmaster's Paradise!!!!

Scrapmaster's Paradise is an online store that has their own line of fabulous stamps and also carries other scrap and stamp supplies!!

There are also a 3 Kits of the Month Club that are available - go to this link and scroll to the bottom to see the explanation of the kits that include ECHO PARK designer paper!!!

Now, onto my project!

This month's Scrapmaster's Paradise Release Blog Hop colour is GREEN!! That is - that you need to make a creation with your primary colour being green - think pine green!! Naturally I was a rebel, (plus I had nothing that seemed like pine green).

I have a beautiful small pad of K & Company's Julianne patterned paper and it is full of green's and blue's so I used one of those papers for my designer paper and zig zagged it onto my card base.

My angel die cut was adhered to a panel of Kraft cardstock that was run through a Crafts Too embossing folder.

The sentiment is from Scrapmaster's Paradise Bold Sentiments II Holidays - one sentiment stamp set which I have used all through this season!!

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Happy Holidays!

noreply@blogger.com (Bonnie) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:12:00 +0000

Good day and welcome to another Scrapmaster's Paradise Colour Challenge (SPCC). Colour challenges used to be my bane but lately I think I have done a rather good job at them (listen to me ramble....)

This is this week's Colour Combo:

I chose to do another CAS card - Clean And Simple - and so I did - however.....I did some rather wonky stitching and it turned out a bit wonkier than I would have liked - d'oh......

I used Echo Park's Times & Seasons for my patterned paper and Scrapmaster's Paradise Bold Sentiments II Holidays for my sentiment, and stamped it in Scarlett Jewel.

The mittens are a die cut using Spellbinders Mittens die......and it embosses too - very clever!!

I really need to google how to sew corners.....booo!

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