Care for some tea?

This sweet little doormouse I downloaded from Pixie Dust Studio a long while back. I printed him out and he has sat on my desk just waiting for a challenge. Well, a specific one never came along so I just decided that he needed to be colored.

I had pulled out this paper from my Citronella pad for a different project and when I spotted the cute cherries and polka dots I knew what I wanted to use it with! For my layout of the card I used Lori's sketch from this weeks Pink Elephant Challenge blog.

Here he is a bit closer so you can see how precious he is. After I colored hi I cut him out and then layered him on a couple of Nestabilities pieces...one is Labels 4, the other is Labels 10. Other products used include: Copic markers, Creative Impressions ribbon, Prima flowers, Christmas dewdrops, and sentiment from Sassy Studio Designs.

OK, I am off for the night to go watch the second installment in our "Lord of the Rings" marathon. Have a great evening! Thanks for visiting :)

-Cyndi

Welcome Home

Hello Saturday! My first Saturday off from work in a while and I ended up with a headache this afternoon. So, in between laundry and dishes I snuck in a nap. Would have been great had I not had a 7 year old jumping on my bed every 15 minutes wondering if he could go to the pool, go to the park, have a friend, go buy silly bands, go ride his bike....aarrgh! Well, I finally gave up and we attacked his room.

Made a LOT of progress so I caved and let him get more silly bands. Anyway, that was my day. Pool tomorrow for sure...hopefully after it cools down a bit. Daddy will be stuck at work all day since Fathers Day is one of the 4 or 5 busiest days of the year in the restaurant business so I get the kids all by myself.

OK, on to the eye candy. Here's a card I made using the Lizzie Anne Designs set Welcome Home . I lined up the same little house all in a row and added some fence pieces in between. Used up some of the My Minds Eye scraps on my desk and also pulled out my new EK Success border punch...so cool.

Stamped some of the other adorable houses from the set while I was at it and I can't wait to color them in and create something with them too :) Rest of the card is simple, Kraft cardstock as the base and a big polka dot Bo Bunny bow.

OK, check back in tomorrow for more!

-Cyndi

OHDBCGA with InStyle Stamps

Hump day...ho humph. I usually get Wednesdays off, but with everyone at work taking vacations I find that I have to go in extra days this week. No stamping time. But at least its extra hours.

But for this Hump Day at least I have some cute eye candy for you. Its the "Over the Hump Day Blog Candy Giveaway" at InStyle Stamps! Our theme this month is graduation, so if you still have a special someone who needs a quick Congrats card...head over to the ISS blog for lots of inspiration from our Design Team!

For my image I chose Jessica in her cap and gown. I didn't need a card right now so I went with our High School colors, Orange and Black. It seemed a bit too Halloweeny (which I do love mind you, but this was looking cheesy halloweeny) so I found this fun striped pattern in my stash to add a bit of color. Jessica is colored with copics and my sentiment is from an older Verve set calle Starlight, Starbright Remix.

Thats it for me for now..be sure to go check out the rest of the DT's creations and enter for a chance to win an awesome prize this month!

On a personal tangent...I took the girls and Michael to see Prince of Persia this Sunday and we loved it! Who wouldn't enjoy drooling over Jake Gyllenall for 2.5 hours?? He has such dreamy sad eyes. Hurm, anyway...lots of action...non-stop in fact. Well worth the ticket price!

OK, have a great day. Thanks for visiting!

-Cyndi

InStyle Stamps Color Challenge

If you are looking for the Stampendous! Saturday Sketch Challenge, click HERE.

If you are here for the InStyle Stamps Color Challenge then you are in the right place! Our challenge this week was a spectrum of reds, greens, oranges and yellows. I pulled out these colors in my papers from K & Co (Citronella paper pad) and in the shorts on Beach Dude.

I think he is more of Bach Stud, but who asked me? He's a hot new summer digi design from InSTyle Stamps available now! The sentiment is from A Muse. You can check out the other hot eye candy in these bright summer colors from the rest of the DT over at the InStyle Stamps Blog.

So, have a great rest of the weekend! Its supposed to rain here in NC, but no sign of it yet :)

-Cyndi

Stampendous! Sketch Challenge!!

Its that time again...time for the newest edition of the Stampendous Saturday Sketch Challenge! This weeks sketch is brought to us by the fabulous Wendy Price. She added a twist to hers...we're going back to the basics... stamp your background!

For mine I stamped the entire card with one stamp set...the adorable little "Patriotic Pair" fromStampendous! . The background was done with Tim Holtz distress inks in Faded Blue Jeans and Lipstick using the fireworks stamp from the set. Lady Liberty was colored then masked and airbrushed.

OK, check back in a bit for todays InStyle Stamps Color Challenge!

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Patriotic Pair (Stampendous!)
• Paper: Bo Bunny, Neenah
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Tim Holtz distress Worn Lipstock & Faded Blue Jeans (Ranger)
• Supplies: Labels 3 & Standard Circles Nestabilities (Spellbinders); Multi glitter (Stampendous!); brads (Basic Grey); ribon (Bazzill); paper piercing tool & mat

Monstah Bash!

Oh, Happy Day!! Here's a little crew of monsters for you today. This is another card I made for Enchanted Cottage with one of our new Stamping Bella images, "Monstah Bash".

I picked up the colors from the My Minds Eye "So Sophie" paper for the card, using my copic markers. I also got to use one of my newest embossing folders from Tim Holtz...this one is "Retro Circles"...totally cool!! All products are available at the Cottage. (Also used Spellbinders Labels 10 & 11 and sentiment by A Muse)

OK, gotta boogie off to work for the afternoon! Thanks for visiting!

-Cyndi

Ladybug Tilda

Just a quick post for you today...trying to catch up on some projects before awards day at the Middle School then End of the year party at the Elementary. My High schoolers are finishing their last exam this morning.

Here's another card fro my "Going Buggy" class at Enchanted Cottage. For my local readers, his class will be held again next Tuesday morning at 11am. Space is limited so call in now if you are interested!

This is "Ladybug Tilda" from Magnolia Stamps in Sweden. She is one of my absolute all-time favs. Also use: vine & labels 5 from Spellbinders, bo bunny ribbon, tear drops from Robin's Nest, copics & spicas, and sentiment from Hero Arts.

Have a great Thursday! I am off to skedaddle for all the events today before work :) Thanks for visiting!

-Cyndi

Spencer the Bookworm & Fundraiser

Lori Boyd, the artist behind Lollipops, Puddle Jumpers, and Sugar Sticks has started a Mission 4 Macie. Macie is a little girl with a rare disease and you can read about the details HERE. You can donate $5 to Macie's fund and Lori will email you the file for this Macie's Rainbow digi.

Isn't she adorable? OK, so now on to the eye candy. I have a card for you today for 2 challenges.

This week over at The Pink Elephant Challenge Blog, there is a recipe challenge: red, scallops, and a bow. I took on this recipe with a new image at Enchanted Cottage from Stamping Bella, "Spencer the Bookworm". Since it was a card for the Cottage I also used new My Minds Eye papers...SO Sophie collection. Wish we had gotten the whole she-bang, but we only got the 2 patterns. Sigh.

So here is the final card...I used an EK jumbo scallop border punch and Labels 11 Nestabilties. All of the copics I used are shown below...used a lot this time for such a small image! The layout is based on this weeks sketch at the Paper take Weekly Challenge blog.

Thanks for popping by! I'll have quite a bit more for you in the next few days to come!

-Cyndi

Nothing is as it Seems...

Tuesday was June 1st, and do you know what day that was? The release on DVD of Alice on Wonderland. Of course I bought it first thing at Target, while still at a cheap price. So we had family night last night. Daddy starting snoring just a bit in. No surprise he didn't like it.

So, anywho I as all in the mood for a bit of something curiouser and curiouser. Time for the "Oh Alice" Challenge! I used this darling white rabbit from Pixie Dust Studio. So of course I just had to do the Pixie Challenge too. They actually coordinate well together, as the Alice challenge is to incorporate swirls and the Pixie challenge is to use something round.

I picked my papers accordingly too...using this fun Whale line from Sassafras Lass. Picked up the paper pad at Michael's last year. There are swirls on the pattern (which also goes round) and then I got to use my brand new Clockworks Cuttlebug embossing folder on the grey panel...lots of round clocks and gears on that!

Also picked up some old "stuff" from a basket in my stash...buttons, brads and flowers from a scrapbook kit from ages ago...no idea the make of any of that! The pom poms (also round) are from Bazzill, and the black ribbon is I think Creative Impressions. Sentiment was downloaded from Sassy Studio Designs in a set.

OK, off to work this morning! Thanks for stopping in, gimme a hollar!

-Cyndi

Challenge day!

Happy Hump Day! Its also time for this months InStyle Stamps sketch challenge! Our sketch this month was created by our own fearless DT leader, Taylor Usry! We would love for you to play along with us this month...just head over to the ISS blog to check out the details and see more eye candy using this sketch!

For my cards I used the InStyle Stamps digi image "Surfer Girl". Isn't she just hot and sassy? I picked some old papers to pair her with because I was in a bright sort of mood! This weeks challenge over at The Pink Elephant Challenge blog is TPE69: "Gotta Wear Shades!" so bright colors it is!

The sentiment is from a Stampendous! set called "Sun Elements" and for once I didn't hand draw the dots...I stamped them from "Summer Messages, also by Stampendous!

I also added some glitter to her bikini and jewelry and a clear shiny glaze to her lips and glasses. Its easier to see in the close up but you can also see better where its not so perfect on her lips. Geesh. Oh, and I added polka dots to her surfboard, cause what hip chick wouldn't want a polka-dotted board?!

I gave her a bit of a suntan with E00, E11, and E13. The rest of the copics are pictured below. So thanks as always for visiting me! Have a great day, its sunny and hot here in NC. My kids want to hit the pool which makes me shiver just to think about that water...

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Surfer Girl digi (InStyle Stamps); Summer Messages, Sun Elements (Stampendous)
• Paper: Summer Travel paper pad by Marcella; white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko); Crushed Olive & Wild Honey Distress inks (Tim Holtz for Ranger); Aqua Mist (Papertrey Ink)
• Accessories: Tiger Lily & Ocean Spray glitter (Stampendous); quickie glue pen; white gel pen; tab punch (SU!); brads (Basic Grey); Copic markers