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