July SOTM Blog Hop!

Thank you for stopping by to enjoy our July Stamp of the Month Blog Hop featuring this month's SOTM - Live Out Loud S1207! If you've just arrived here from Georgia's Blog then you are on the correct path.

 

Standard size card (above) features the Superhero papers X7152B and white daisy die-cut cards and envelopes Z1473. Image was stamped with Versamark, heat embossed with clear detail embossing powder, then highlighted with an Outdoor Denim marker, and sponged with Moonstruck ink (embossing resist technique)!

 

  

 The next standard size card (above) features the Superhero papers X7152B again. Some images were stamped with Outdoor Denim ink and other parts were stamped with Versamark, heat embossed with clear detail embossing powder, then highlighted with an Outdoor Denim marker, and sponged with Moonstruck ink
(embossing resist technique again)! 

Finally...here is a view of all of the images in this stamp set full of fun phrases: 

Now you can continue on with our Blog Hop and be inspired by more creativity with this stamp set by visiting Angel's Blog next! Enjoy!!

Hand-stitched Teacher card for H2H!

 
Here's a standard-size card that I created for the Heart 2 Heart blog challenge this week. The challenge was to include stitching of some kind on your creation. I chose to use some hand-stitching with black waxy flax. I didn't use a ruler or a guide of any kind to help me with the spacing of my stitching because I wanted it to look like it was really sewn by hand (and thus, not look too perfect, lol). The stamp set I used is School Rocks B1396 with the Typeset paper pack X7139B. Ink pad colors I used include Black, Cocoa, and Juniper (with Bamboo, Parchment, and Vineyard Berry markers for the coloring in of the school house). Teacher appreciation week is coming up in a few weeks, and because I know so many teachers (and am married to one!), I have been trying to think up some card ideas for them. I hope to come up with a few more "teacher appreciation" ideas that I can post and share again soon!

Finding my "Mojo" again!

Standard size card to celebrate the first week of Spring!!

Featuring the Pemberley papers X7148B, Love Clusters C1484 stamp set, Paradise Paper Flowers Z1710, and Color-Ready Seam Binding Ribbon Z1732 (dyed with Indian Corn Blue re-inker mixed with water in a spray pen),

design inspired by Mojo Monday 233!

This has been an especially difficult week for me. On Sunday morning my oldest child woke up with the stomach flu. There were no signs, symptoms, or warning that this was coming (no fever or headaches), just sudden vomiting. By Sunday evening I had another child starting to get sick also. Then Monday morning I woke up sick and felt so horrible for two days. At first I was thinking that maybe we had food poisoning, but because of the way it progressed (and the fact that we had all been eating different things on Saturday) I realized that we definitely had some kind of flu and unfortunately this was THE WORST stomach flu I can remember having hit my family ever. This illness struck us very suddenly one person at a time and messed up all the plans I had made to accomplish most of the things I had wanted to this week.

By Wednesday evening, I was so sick and tired of cleaning up throw up and doing laundry and feeling bad about all the things on my "to do" list that I couldn't handle this week, that I just couldn't wait to get my hands on some paper finally! (lol). When the stresses of life overwhelm me, I find that the thing I look forward to the most is some stamping and creative therapy to make me feel normal again! Usually I have no trouble designing something, but for two days I just couldn't seem to stamp anything that I was happy with. So this morning I turned to the Mojo Monday blog for inspiration, created the card shown above, and feel like I finally got my "mojo" back!! Yeaay! Now I can go on to enjoy this weekend I've been looking forward to so much (gonna go see "The Hunger Games" with my family tomorrow - can't wait)!!