Turtle Spinner Card - Lexi's Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEXI


August first is Tom's niece's 12th birthday. Lexi is a sweetie and loves soccer & sports of all sorts. I couldn't resist the idea of these two cute turtles playing water soccer! I hope she likes her card.

I added a bit of crystal effects to the shells and some gel pen to the turtles eyes to help his eyes pop a bit. The spinner is on pennies and some dimensional tape that I puched out with a hole punch for nice round rollers. I have not done a spinner card in YEARS.

The soccer ball rolls back & forth! How fun! Stamps are of course Our Craft Lounge and the soccer balls is from an old Stampin Up set that I kept because it is timeless.

Happy Birthday Lexi..... looking forward to our shopping day together for your birthday. See you Wednesday!

Jennie

Our Craft Lounge Monthly Sketch Challenge

Free Stamps! Did you know Our Craft Lounge has a sketch challenge every month. One lucky winner will get to pick a OCL stamp set of their choice as their prize...

If you don't have a blog to post it to.. no problem, post it to Splitcoast stampers. SO FUN. I won a few months ago and won the OCL Coastal Wishes set.. I love it!

Each month the challenge card is based on a card made by the last months winner. This month we are doing a challenge done by Etha... oh dear this was by far the hardest for me yet. As you all know I tend to use tons of layers on my cards. Well, this one only had three! Yikes, I tried and tried to go by her sketch and ended up adding a few layers and a ribbon. Sorry Etha, you can do the simple beauty better than me! All in all it was based on Etha's card and that was the idea in the first place. To make my own card, based on Etha's layout! Everyone should try it... who knows you might win a free stamp set.

go here for the instructions & August sketch! Good luck everyone!

http://forum.ourcraftlounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=396

Family Friday (a bit early)

I have promised my family to post some photos of summer each friday. Well, it has been pointed out to me that I have not done that in a few weeks... OOPS.. Hope this makes up for it... I love you all.

Summer went by so fast. Austin visited twice each time for two weeks. I loved every minute of our time together. Of course we had cousins galore especially my sweet niece Amanda. Mom came for 10 days which was wonderful. It was too long since we last saw each other.

Tom's boys raced in several motorcycle races with Wesley getting hurt twice. Ouch. Of course we did the water things like a million trips to the beach and ended summer with a trip to the waterpark.

So here are a few photos of our summer. More next week...

Mom, me and Austin... Doesn't mom look little next to Austin. Austin at Laguna Beach... brrr the water was cold that day. I refused to snorkel in that cold water, but we had to do a bit of boogie boarding (until our skin turned pink from the cold water). Steve at the race track where he won second place (on bike). Wesley at the racetrack between races.

Penquin Parkas! & Class Samples

Here is a cute card I made for one of my next month's card classes. I just love these little Penquins from Our Craft Lounge. The set is called Penquin Parkas... The punch is a Martha Stewart edge punch - it is sooo fun. Of course I added some sparkle fluff to the penquins hats and some glitter for snow! I love Christmas & Winter cards. Come back later in the week for more!

I want to say thanks to everyone who attended one of my classes last week. It feels sooooo good to be be stampin again. As promised I am finally getting a few of the sample cards that we made posted to my blog. Please note that I taught several classes and by the end of the last one, my samples became a bit tattered (some even dissappeared). Next month I will provide a xerox copy of the projects for you to take home incase you dont complete your project. Please also check out my Splitcoaststampers gallery where you will find several other samples.http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=2876

I am currently booking a begining Copic Techniques classes at your several local stamp stores. Instead of completing 4-5 cards, we will work on a Technique book. I have made a 15-20 page booklet with instructions on several different techniques. On each page we will practice coloring images selected specifically for that technique. We will also learn a bit about the Copic colorwheel and how to pick color combinations.

There are lots of extra little tables & goodies included in this booklet. A great reference tool for doing projects later. Dates have not been finalized at all stores, so please ask at the counter or check my postings later next week. (Chino is already scheduled for Sept).

Samples for my September Classes

SETEMBER SAMPLES

FALL CLASS AT COLLECTIVE JOURNEY - Redlands, CA

Call Store for details & registration

Blog Hop Candy Winner #2 - Crafty Cath

Wow!

Can you believe Nicole Anderson of Jasper, I on not only one but two times in the OCL Blog Candy Hop.... Since she was only allowed to win one set, she asked me to give this one to another lucky winner.... that lucky second winner is

Crafty Cath said...
Love your doggie stocking with Believe sentiments. I'm sure my two Rotts would love to get their teeth on that card too! If this showed up on our mantle they would be certain to Believe! Thanks for sharing. This set would be a wonderful addition to accent my holiday cards.

The important thing Cath did was leave her email address.... several entries did not leave a way for me to contact them as instructed in the "how to win" instructions.

Cath, I will email you directly to ask for your complete mailing address so we can mail you MERRY WISHES! Contratulations!

Your local retailers have already received their new stamps.
Click here http://www.ourcraftlounge.net/Find-Us_ep_41-1.html for retailers in your area.
If your store does not have the set you want..... Please ask them to get it for you.

Our Craft Lounge Blog Candy Give Away - 31 free stamp sets!

For my samples I used the wonderful new OCL release "MERRY WISHES" You can have this set free.... see details below!

This is me and my sweetie aka "Tom" last Christmas. We were high school sweethearts and went our own ways for 30 years. We re-found each other 1 year ago today.... so this was our first Christmas together after 30 years!

31 free stamp sets given away this week!

I cannot wait to hang these cute little stocking on our Christmas Tree. I will have all the little visitors including the 4 legged furry ones pick one from the tree when they visit around the holiday! What Fun! Can you guess which one my furry friend Jazzie will pick... wrong she will eat them all if given the chance. LOL.

HOW TO WIN:

Go through all of my this weeks posts that feature Our Craft Lounge new releases and pick your favorite card that I made. Leave a comment HERE letting me know your favorite. Don't forget to leave your email address so I can contact you if you win. Remember so the candy can be wide spread each person can only win 1 free set. Winners will all be chosen randomly on Sunday at 6pm.

Ok... here is the entire set... Isn't it awesome.

MERRY WISHES.....
If you didn't start there... go to Our Craft Lounge's brand new Blog http://www.blog2.ourcraftlounge.com/

Where you will find a complete list of all 31 blogs offering free OCL stamp sets.

It has been fun! Now that my new stamps are arriving, I hope you will look here often or join as a follower to see my newest creations posted several times a week!

STAMPS NOW AVAILABLE AT

YOUR LOCAL RETAILER:

Click here for retailers carrying OCL. http://www.ourcraftlounge.net/Find-Us_ep_41-1.html

Thanks for blog hoppin with me!

Jennie

OCL Holiday Release - Day 3

This is only day three of Sneek Peeks... You gotta come back tomorrow for a chance at 31 free sets given away to viewers like you (one each of course).... one set will be given away by each designer listed on OCL's new blog. Can you believe 31 free sets! Oh My that is HUGE. Check it out here! http://www.blog2.ourcraftlounge.com/

TWEET WINTER WISHES

You won't believe all of the cute images in this set. Oh my Wow! It is totally awesome. I thought I wanted to do the cute little turtles for my Christmas cards.. but this is soooo cute too. I still have another Christmas card to show on Thursday! The choices we have for such awesome Christmas cards.

HOPPY HOLIDAYS

Here is another super totally cute set. It has froggies doing all sorts of winter fun things... like sleding, Christmas caroling etc. It is soooo cute. I admit the colors are not your traditional Red & Green, I had fun playing with the lime green, pinks and yellows. Of course I used a few of my favorite copics.... YG05/Salad my favorite yellow green, shadowed a bit with YG67/moss, Y19&Y21 are fun yellows, and for pink I used RV34/Dark Pink & lightened it up a bit with R81. Not saying these are the best choices for you... but it is what I had in my collection. This fun folding card opens at the two little tabs made with a slit punch.

HOLIDAY CRUISER

Like I said... there are 31 awesome new sets.... this one is a wonderful set for Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas.... Not only does this cute set have a turkey, it also has a totally wicked witch, and a wonderful Jolly Santa. You could put all sorts of images in this cool car.

I cut the image out and laid on printed paper for the sky background then ran the ribbon under to double as my road. This will be a great image to demo feathering colors. I think I will play some more with those tail feathers. I colored the feathers with YR21/cream then added E33/sand on top by sort of feathering into the cream color.

NOW FOR GRANNY!
Not one but two new sets. She is the coolest Granny ever!

SHOP TILL YOU FLOP
Here she is shopping for her Christmas goods.. Isn't she the coolest? I colored the silk flowers with my copics to match the card... Did you know you could do that? It is sooooo cool because your embellishments then match your card perfectly! I love it! Of course I added platinum sparkly fluff to her hair and added a bit of sparkle to her shoes with a clear copic spica pen. I highlighted her flower centers with a white gel pen to match the polka dot paper I chose.

GRANNY'S POTION

I am not even going to hint at the wonderful things in this set.... I mean just look at this sweet granny making up a Halloween potion. Green sparkle fluff was perfect for her potion - oozing over the side. Again I used the platinum sparkly fluff for her hair! Gotta have that sparkly fluff it is sooooo fun.

SEE YOU TOMORROW... I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT SET I WILL BE GIVING AWAY YET, BUT I CAN HINT THAT IT IS A TOTALLY AWESOME HOLIDAY SET... LOL (they all are!)

OUR CRAFT LOUNGE SNEAK PEEK DAY 2

SEA-SONS GREETINGS


What could be better than combining several of my favorite things all into one. I love turtles, love bubbles, love Christmas and love OCL stamps.... I get it all with the new SEA-SONS GREETINGS Stamp set. It was first on my wish list (or must have list).








Ever have an image not turn out the way you wanted it to? Well, I was coloring these cute little turtles and added tooooooo much ink. The ink spread further outside the image than I wanted... so I made it a stampers challenge or embellishment opportunity to use the turtles and not waste them. I cut them out and added them to this larger image to create a larger scene. Added crafty sparkle to the tree & sparkle fluff to the santa hats. Do you think that turtle will share his candy?



PEEK-A-BOO
Okay, is it me or are these images getting cuter and cuter? Once I started playing with these monsters I could not put them down... I had to pick two from all the cards I made to show today. This is a tri fold that opens when you untuck the saying from under the ribbon. I am going to add fast food gift cards in these for our teens Halloween gifts (three teen boys 15 - 17).



I wanted to make a card with each image, but that would have taken forever! Instead I included three on one card. What fun... Think I will call it monster sampler! Are they the sweetest monsters or what? This is a must do card for my next month classes.. will give several chances to use the copics...











REINDEER KISSES

What a perfect name for a cute reindeer stamp set. Just wait until you see the whole set. There are some real cute images including this real cute swirly tree. Wish it fit on the card, but couldn't get everything on there. This card was made from the techniques from Splitcoaststampers. Of course I made a boo boo in the scoring and got an extra fold, but what the heck... I like it.

WOWZA! and I said everyday this week gets better... just wait until tomorrow and Thursday! Whew Hew... see ya then. Jennie

PS. My blog is new so I really really appreciate all of your views & comments. Thanks to all of you.

2009 OCL HOLIDAY RELEASE SNEEK PEEK DAY 1

OCL SNEEK PEEK DAY #1- AUTUMN GARDEN

Today I am soooo excited that I get to help out with the Holiday Release Blog Hop! I feel so honored!

You will want to check in everyday this week for exciting new images and tips on how to win one of the 31 new OCL stamp sets!

This is just a sneek peek.. wait until you see all the little images in this cute set! Fence, scarecrow, crow, sunflowers, sayings and more! Whew.. what else could you need for a perfect fall card!

HAVE FUN! All of the sets are sooo cute!

Here is the list of blogs to visit today! Its long and promises exciting projects at each blog.

Holly McMillen ~ http://toyzhaven.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Jennie Black ~ http://jenniebstampin.blogspot.com/
CHEERS
Kendra Wietstock ~ http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/
Jeanne Streiff ~ http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
FORBITTEN
Pam Hooten ~ http://www.pamhooten.blogspot.com/
FRIENDLY FLOWERS
Kisa Peters ~ http://kisaspapercuts.blogspot.com/
FUELED BY CAFFIENE
Lila Holgate ~ http://lilascreativecorner.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Bethany Paull ~ http://bethanypaull.blogspot.com/
Tammy Hershberger ~ http://www.stamphappy-tammy.blogspot.com/
Debbie Fisher ~ http://debbiedee.blogspot.com/
JOLLY ORNAMENTS
Amber Hillman ~ http://www.ambersantics.blogspot.com/
Taylor Usry ~ http://musingsofanaddict.blogspot.com/
MERRY WISHES
Heather McNally ~ http://heathermcnally.blogspot.com/
Kendra Wietstock ~ http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/
NUTS ABOUT YOU
Kendra Wietstock ~ http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/
Taylor Usry ~ http://musingsofanaddict.blogspot.com/
SPOOKY NIGHTS
Debbie Corbari ~ http://www.dbdoodle.com/
Libby Hickson ~ http://stampinlibby.blogspot.com/
Randi Wall ~http://www.thedarkmermaid.blogspot.com/
SWEET TOOTH TERRORS
Val Stangle ~ http://www.valeriestangle.blogspot.com/
Deb Felts ~ http://withastampandasong.blogspot.com/
WITCH TO WEAR
Carol Halvorson ~ http://happinessblooms.blogspot.com/
Joy Kennedy ~ http://joyofstamping.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

Jolly Ornaments

Here is another new one! Called Jolly Ornaments. It is a great set to make your whole Christmas Card or even just tags. These are just a few simple 4" x 4" gift cards that I made real quick.

Coastal Wishes (wish I was there right now)

Awe... don't you love the beach. Austin and I are heading down to Newport this afternoon and going to ride our bikes up to Huntington Beach Pier and back. Should be a nice mom and son thing to do (away from the heat!).

BE SURE TO COME BACK TOMORROW... LOTS OF NEW FUN STUFF ALL WEEK ALONG WITH PRIZES! Whew Hew....