Bucket Full of Cards: SU Pick a Petal

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Verve Stamps Release Party Challenges

Verve Stamps is having another release party on April 18 and so this week they are having challenges so stampers can get in the running for some free Verve Stamps! Some of their contests are very simple, you just go to their website and post a comment by answering a question... Today's question was "What was your favorite song as a kid?" Easy enough. Other contest are more challenging! There is currently 3 Verve Sketches to follow and a color recipe to follow. I did all of these and here they are: (if you would like to see the sketches I had to follow, please go HERE)

VSAPR1

VSAPR2

VSAPR3

VSAPR4

These are also posted on the SplitCoastStampers website, so you can click on the Challenge Title and it is a link to that website. It just has the names of the stamps and the ink colors if you are interested in that.

Thanks for looking!

Hunter Speaks & Card Challenges

First off, let me say sorry that this video is sideways... my camera and I are having some issues that we can hopefully work through before I decide to throw it against the wall...!

Chris, Hunter, & I went to our FAVORITE store... the John Deere store! While there, I found this toddler hat that Hunter is modeling below. I told Chris that Hunter needed it since we hadn't been able to find a hat his size since his Grandpa Andy bought him one just before his first birthday. Chris said "NO" and then the sales rep that sold Chris is newest tractor said he would put it on his tab. So THANK YOU DOUG!!! I thought it was Very Nice of him since JD is usually expensive, especially for little kids stuff.

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On to the challenges. Both challenges I did today were sketch challenges. I did two different cards for these challenges.

Card ONE: CBC Challenge Tuesday

Supplies:
Ink: Stampin' Up Basic Bold's
Stamps: Short & Sweet SU, Polka Dot Punches SU

Card TWO: DivaCoffeeBreakDesigns Challenge 119

I'm not to excited about this card, but it works!

Supplies:
Ink: Stampin' Up Basic Bold's, VersaMark Watermark
Stamps: Congrats SU, Pick a Petal SU
Accessories: Ribbon, Embossing Powder, Staples

Verve Release Sketch Challenge

Honestly, I don't know how they do it... I have seen many sites where people have 'uploaded' their cards, and they turn out just perfect... like they made the card on the computer and so they didn't have to take a photo of it to post it, and so there is no camera glare or extra background or anything, their card just looks the way it was intended to look like, as if you were looking directly at their card and not some crummy picture of their card. What's the secret people, to that perfect card post?
This is the card I made to enter into the verve sketch contest. Hopefully someone likes it! Below is the sketch of what the card is supposed to look like.

It's not a DOLL It's a BABY

Hunter and I were at the dollar store the other day, and of course there are a ton of bouncy balls bouncing around in the aisles. Hunter saw one and kept telling me "ball, ball, ball" until I reached down and got one for him. He played with it for a couple of minutes until we went through a new aisle that has the "babies" in it. As soon as he saw them he started to tell me "baby, baby, BABY!"

So we changed the bouncy ball for a baby.

Hunter kept kissing the little baby and would talk to it very nicely. It was very cute.

I figured we would just leave the baby at the check out since Chris isn't really into his son and "dolls" but when I tried to get rid of the little thing, Hunter got upset and kept asking for the baby and saying "peeze." Since he didn't throw a fit and asked nicely, I went ahead and bought the baby.

Last night, Chris and I were watching a movie and Hunter disappeared and we couldn't hear him playing anywhere close so Chris went to look for him. Chris found our little man laying in our spare bed under the sheet with his "baby" on the pillow next to him. He was working on putting his baby to bed!

We busted him so Hunter got up right after that, but once it was actually time for Hunter to go to bed, he took his little baby and put it into bed with him and even made sure to give the baby a corner of his blankie. He was sharing his blankie... He won't even let me share his blankie with me unless he is sitting on my lap and doesn't realize I am getting warm with the blank too!

I have been working on my crafting skills. Here are a few of my newest cards and creations. Let me know what you think:

This is the card that I made to use for Hunter's Thank You cards for his birthday. It took a LONG time to make them. It has a elephant, lion, and giraffe. I will NEVER make this card again. I only borrowed the stamp set used for the animals and it required a LOT of cutting out each part of the animals.

The next 2 are from an idea I got off the website: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/su. It is a coaster notebook. I made the cover and put the rings in the top of the coaster to make it into a book. I also got this idea from the above website. It is a bunny gift. It holds a candy, like a chocolate mint patty. The back of the bunny is supposed to have some sort of tail, but I haven't figured out what I want to use just yet.

Request Fullfilled

A fellow Blogger asked me to post some of the cards I have made recently... So Here They Are! I also posted some cards before, in October 2008.

The blog Titles are

(1) Just Another Saturday, &

(2) Some More Creativity.

Most of the new ones were not original ideas since I went to some websites that have examples of what other people have done with the stamps I own... So it is a copied original since with doing this stuff, each person rubs off on their work, and I don't have some of the "company" paper & ink colors that many people use because they all match and they don't have to spend time getting the paper and stamp ink and and and and... to look good together! (I think that was a bit of a ramble!)

Hope you all enjoy my crazy hobby!

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This technique is called "black magic" - saw this technique on a demonstrators website and followed her lead, but the stamp used and the look was all my own!