Get Your Wild On!

Shirley is asking the CCEE Stampers to get their "wild" on this week and post something with their favorite zoo animal. I have several favorites, but my heart is especially fond of the penguins. To me, they are just so dang cute, and I love the way they walk.

I chose to make a post-it note pad cover, calling it my Purple Penguin Post-it Pad cover!  I made the big penguin with various Stampin' Up punches (circles, heart, five-petal, modern label, 1/4" circle, pendant).  The the three stamped penguins are from an old Stampin' Up set called Animal Alphabet. 

Here's the back of the post-it note cover, using black and Almost Amethyst cardstock and circle punches.  I used velcro to close it together.

Here's the link to our CCEE Stampers' blog so that you can see all the wild animal creations my friends came up with.  We hope you'll play along with us, too!

Be sure to stop by this Saturday, February 25, for our Stampin' Sisterhood Spring blog hop!!
 

Chillin Out

When I saw these adorable penguins building a snowman image, I knew I needed to add them to my collection of stamps! 

Three of my penguins were stamped twice, cut out, and popped up. I added liquid applique to the falling snow. For the snow beneath the penguins, I sprinkled dazzling diamonds onto the wet liquid applique and then heat set it. Added the falling snowflakes from MS Punch Around The Page snowflake punch. Did some doodling and called it good!

Here's a closer view of the popped-up penguins and the liquid applique snow.

Time 2 Stamp & Penguin Awareness Day

Did you know that today is Penguin Awareness Day?  I must admit that I didn't, and I'm a penguin lover, too!   However, Frances (StampOwl), who is our January CCEE Stampers challenge hostess, knows that is is and chose to use penguins as our CCEE challenge this week in honor of my birthday and my love for penguins.  Thank you, Frances! 
 

I have been wanting a penguin-themed clock for my stamp room, but just haven't gotten around to trying to find one (yes, I can be so lazy at times--hee!) so, for now, I decided to make my own clock where the time is always TIME 2 STAMP!!! 
 

My stamp room walls are very close to the color of Baja Breeze (that's the wall backing my clock in my photo); therefore, that's the color I chose to work into my design. This cute little penguin image is from Denami Design.  I used a piece of grid paper, a ruler, and stamp-a-ma-jig to line up my stamped image at the 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, and 9:00 time slots.  I colored his hat with the Stampin' Up Baja Breeze marker and his body and beak with Copic markers.  I used Fun Flock on the balls of their hats.

I also love polkadots, so I dry embossed the Baja Breeze circular cardstock with my large polkadot embossing folder. The words "Time" and "Stamp" were cut at 1/2" height from my Cricut using the alphabet from my Life's a Beach cartridge. I also cut the numbers for the time from this same cartridge at the same height.  I pierced the seconds between each number.

The clock measures 7" overall. I used the largest setting on my old Creative Memories circle cutter to cut my white piece. I then traced a dessert plate onto black cardstock and VERY SLOWLY cut it so that, hopefully, it wouldn't appear that it was hand cut so I could use that for the outer section of the clock.  I used the Stampin' Up arrow punch for the hands of my clock.  I adhered the hands to the back of a 3/4" brushed gold circle.  I used this darling penguin brad that my friend, Joanne, sent me for the very center on the gold cardstock.  This gold center is popped up with a pop-up glue dot.

This design is now hanging on my stamp room wall where it is always TIME 2 STAMP!

If you'd like to play along with us and see the designs my friends Tosha, Joanne, Shirley, Frances, and Cindy made, please visit our CCEE blog.  We'd love to see what you come up with!

Catching Up

Here are a few cards I've made in the last several days.

I think it's fun to play with punch art in card designs, and I don't do enough of it.  However, I did take the opportunity to create these fishies using the Stampin' Up decorative ornament, trio heart, 1/4" circle and double circle punches.  I made this card as part of the Teapot Tuesday challenge for an eight year old boy who recently underwent a bone marrow transplant.  Details are here if you're interested!

This next card I made in honor of my friend Cindy, aka Mothermark, as she was selected Queen for the Day last Friday on Splitcoaststampers.  Cindy was one of the very first SCSers to befriend me, and I haven't stopped laughing yet. Her imagination, creativity, and talent are like none other.  I had the good fortune to fly out to Colorado about three years ago and meet Cindy, as well as Traci (Tracim) and we all had a riot of a good time!!

Anyhow, the Queen for the Day challenge is where you go into the Queen's gallery, select one of her projects and case it.  Cindy had made this darling tri-shutter card.  My changes are obvious in that I used these adorable trees and penguin image by Rubbernecker for a winter scene.

And another great stamper, Kathy (aka CAKath) was chosen as this week's Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers. Her work is always stellar. I settled on her gorgeous VSN Serigraph card because, not only is it GORGEOUS, but I had never tried the serigraph technique, and I love the looks of it.   It was an easy technique with beautiful results.   I used Rubbernecker's Fall Trilogy set for this design.

Thanks for stopping by!  Sorry I'm not posting as often as I'd like, but there are only so many hours in the day and work continues to claim most of them, and I try to fit some stamping time into my evenings as I can (a huge stress reliever for me).  I know many of you can relate.

Life is Caaaa-rrraaaazy!

Man, oh, man!  Where do the days go?  They just fly by anymore.  I haven't had time to keep my blog updated this past week, so I thought I'd share a few projects I've made but didn't get uploaded starting with the most recent and working back to last Friday.

Tuesday of this week, was Mothermark's Teapot Tuesday and she showcased the cutest crossword puzzle teapot.  I had purchased this birdhouse at one of my local hobby stores quite some time ago and decided it would be perfect for altering for this challenge!  After I painted it with white acrylic paint, I covered it with designer siding using a crossword puzzle  I copied out of my local newspaper.  I used SU's largest oval punch and Cuttlebug embossing folder to create my rooftop.  The little flowers and "for you" sentiment are SU rub-ons.  The bird is a QuickKutz die.

On Sunday, my friend Cathy (aka Mutnik) and fellow Rubbernecker DT member, was chosen as the Featured Stamper on SCS!  Here's the cute I Smell Chocolate card of Cathy's that I cased, obviously changing mine to cows in Cathy's honor of her love of cows.  She is one mega-talented artist!  The cows are SU's Very Punny, and my grass and flowers were created with my Kittie Kits Cause a Scene by Rubbernecker.

MarilynPrestonn was Queen for the Day on SCS.  I cased her adorable bee card changing mine to these hilarious fishies by Rubbernecker.  I colored them with my Twinkling H20s and gave them googlie eyes.

For those of you who know me, and Sheri (ksnurse) obviously does, you know I love penguins!  I just think they are such cute little creatures and just watching them walk their goofy walk makes me giggle.  Sheri sent me these darling penguins she created with her Cricut for my birthday this year.  Stef, over at SCS, had us go to the cutestfood.com website for the Inspiration Challenge on Saturday and I chose the penguin egg for my inspiration piece.

Don't forget that today is the last day of the sale going on over at Rubbernecker (see my post below).  You have until midnight (EST) to place your order!

That's it for now as I'm off to a hair appointment, a little shopping, and then plan to stamp this evening!  I hope you'll stop by tomorrow when I'll have my weekly CCEE challenge card posted!

Happy Hump Day!!