NEW EMBOSSING FOLDERS...

are in the house! WOOT WOOT!

Nothing like a stack of embossing folders to get the creative juices flowing. If you had your CHA QK Embossing folders on pre-order from Scrapy Land you will soon be a very happy scrapper. Lots of great patterns in this bundle! And even though the 12" embossing folders have been put on indefinite "hold" - all of the A2 and 2x2 sizes are en route to Dani, and will soon be flying around the country to you.

The first A2 Embossing folder I opened was the Swirls Pattern. LOVE this one...

Supplies Used: QK Swirls Embossing Folder, Spellbinders Labels Eleven Nestabilities, Pink Cat Studios - Enchanted Lily {image and sentiment}, QK Billboard Sign Set {sentiment shape}, Viva Decor Sunny Yellow and a handfull of Copics {shown below}.

Here is how the colors worked out for this coloring job: G21, G94 and G99 {lily pad and frog}, R00, R20 and R22 {fairy dress, wings and flower on her wand}, YR21 and YR24 {large flower}, Y11, Y21 and a touch of YR21 {fairy hair}, E50, E00 and R00 {fairy face & cheeks} and Y28 {fairy crown and base of wand}.

And I'd love for you to take special note of the layered Spellbinders-cut shapes behind my colored image. I used the largest shape for the pink die-cut shape, and the next size down from that to cut the image itself. But I've figured out an easy trick to make an even larger shape...the shape that my striped paper is. I'll teach you this trick, this week during...

Scrapy Land LIVE!

Thursday May 20th - 6pm PDT

{6pm CA/AZ, 7pm CO, 8pm TX, 9pm FL}

"Using Spellbinders - Above & Beyond"

So grab your Spellbinders Nestabilities, along with your Epic Six or your Big Shot, and let's PLAY! I'll teach you a couple of tricks to try with your Nesties! No password, no specific project - just information, answers, demos and witty Thursday night banter!

If you have any specific Spellbinders questions you'd like me to address - go ahead and email me before Thursday {scrapylandsusan@gmail.com} and I'll do my best to get an answer for you during the show.

I'm off to do some more embossing. And some more coloring. And some more die-cutting! Shocker - huh?

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WHILE I SHOULD BE MAKING...

Mother's Day cards, I'm playing with new markers instead.

Not that my new Copics can't be used on Mother's Day cards. Of course they can. But right now I want to color the new stamps that arrived yesterday.

this one

this one

this one

this one

this one

oh, and this one!

and this one too!

{SHHHH - this one too!}

So Mother's Day cards are just going to have to wait another couple of hours. Or I'm going to have to change a couple of sentiments! This morning though - I'm totally in love with this little cutie...

She's call "Soaking up the Joy" from Stampavie. I thought the title of the stamp so aptly fit her that I used it as the sentiment. I imagine her spinning around in circles with her pink tutu on, while she smiles upward at the sky. Pure bliss! Soak it up!

I used my Scalloped Circle Nestabilities to cut out and emboss the circle around the image. My sentiment is made up of the QK Santa's Workshop font and the NEW QK Espresso. I used a handful of Copics to color her, and before you ask...no, I forgot to take a picture of the colors I used. Sorry!

Luckily - I'll be using this colored image in my upcoming Saturday Scrapy Land LIVE! class...

Saturday, May 8th - 8am PDT

{8am CA/AZ, 9am CO, 10am TX, 11am FL}

"Copics for Coloring Hair and Skin"

I will be using lots of new stamps and a couple of new Copics I just received. We'll be going over skin, skin and skin. Which means have any and all EARTH colors you have handy. E00, E02, E11, E21, E29, E33, E35, E37, E43, E47, E49, E50, E51, E53 and E57 are the Earth-colors I have. We'll be moving quickly and talking about lots of things - but it will be recorded to replay at your leisure! 

My stamps are calling my name. I'm treating them like medicine today - treatment and healing. I don't know if my family is buying it or not - but I am feeling better! {wink, wink}

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THANK GOODNESS IT'S...

Friday!

{I've got nineteen 8th grade basketball players coming for dinner in ten hours...so this will be brief!}

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Scrapy Land LIVE! studio last night. A great turn out for a cute little card project.

Here is what we made {please excuse the slightly crude joke regarding my card...sometimes my mouth works faster than my brain!}...

Here are a couple of pictures of the project I made ahead of time, and the project I made during the show. I added a few things to the class project this morning...

For the golf card I used: Cookie Cutter Golf Set and the Go-Kreate Rome font {which is out of stock, I'm sorry}.

For the car cards I used: Revolution Convertible, the Rev Journaling Block and the Chicken Noodle font.

Inside I used: Revolution Journaling Quote Block and I did my handwritten sentiments with my fave Black Memory Marker {which is on SALE today!}. And Goldie gets credit for the car card sentiment. She mentioned it in the studio last night - - - CUTE!

Here is a side view of both cards. I just wanted to show you a still shot of how the cards stand up. The journaling block inside the card is what holds the card front on place. But you could also use a die-cut border strip, a ribbon and a knot, or even a couple of small brads {thanks for that idea Phyllis!}. Lots of possibilities, and lots of different ways you could make this work.

I got an email late last night from Katie - who had been working right along with the LIVE! show. She already had a completed card to share with me...

LOVE IT! Rounded corners, handwritten words and just a couple of QK Nesting Hearts! Quick and easy - and totally doable!

Thanks for sharing Katie - keep up the great work!

One final picture to show you - and I haven't even asked her permission yet. But I'll hope that she forgives me {wink, wink}.

I got some mail yesterday, from Sweden. And you just have to love a cute, stamped envelope that has foreign postage on it and a piece of bubble wrap inside.

Bubble wrap? YES...bubble wrap! Because when Veronica makes a birthday card - - - she makes a birthday card!

Meet Superstar Susan Anya! This is one of The Greeting Farm stamps coming super-soon to Scrapy Land...and Veronica's girlfriend let her borrow it. WOWZERS, isn't this a gorgeous card! Perfectly showing how die-cuts and stamps can mix beautifully. QK Lamp Post, QK Heart Speech Bubble, QK 2x2 Brackets and a small QK Nesting Circle.

She's also used some other great supplies on their way to Scrapy Land...Liquid Pearls, Ranger Distress Inks and Mini Misters for the sprayed background.

Throw in some Lime Green Copics for Anya's t-shirt {naturally!} and a Stickles covered scarf...and this card is one for the books. LOVE IT Veronica...thanks for sending me some Sweden-birthday-love! KRAM!

I showed everyone the prizes I will be giving away on Monday. One prize for each day of "Birthday Celebration Week". One comment, per person, on each blog post. And you can only win one prize. Gotta spread the prize-love...it's only fair! So leave your comment on today's post, and be entered for the Friday prize.

Off to order pizzas. Think 12 will be enough for 19 8th graders? LOL

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THE FOURTH DAY OF FEBRUARY...

and we're still celebrating.

{I wasn't sure I had it in me - LOL!}

A great LIVE! DEMO last night, and a LIVE! CLASS on the schedule for tonight.

6pm MST, February 4th

{5pm CA, 7pm TX and 8pm FL}

supplies: one piece of 12x12 cardstock, one coordinating piece

of patterned paper, a generic nesting shape of your choice {circle, square, heart, oval}

your favorite generic border {scallop, dots, flourish}, Scor-Pal and adhesive

We'll be making a card that is so gosh-darn cute. And you won't believe how easy it is! Hope to see you in the studio tonight. NO PASSWORD is necessary, just follow the UStream link in the sidebar.

Okay, I admit, I have stamps and ink on the brain this week. It's the building anticipation I think. Luckily I'm not the only one who is having inky thoughts this week. Look what Jennifer sent me yesterday...

Jennifer has been a fan of "The Greeting Farm" stamps for quite a while. So she was thrilled when Scrapy Land announced that they are "COMING SOON". Holy guacamole are these images adorable.

But this one is my favorite...look at these lime green overalls! {was this intentional JBo?? LOL} So stinkin' cute . Jennifer does a wonderful job with her Copics, and is amassing quite a collection. But then, you can never have too much of a good thing!

The Greeting Farm stamps will be in very soon...I checked with Dani last night. Soon ladies, and you'll be the first to know, I promise!

I just couldn't let all of the shapes and textures I did up last night go to waste. So this morning I made a few cards with the supplies laying in front of me...

I embossed this cardstock last night with the QK Polka Dots folder {love this one, use it all the time!}. This morning I rounded the corners, added some patterned paper scraps, cut my sentiment from the Chicken Noodle font and grabbed my Scalloped Oval Nestabilities.

This image is from Unity Stamps. And they too are COMING SOON! For reals! A couple of quick swashes with some Copics and I was done.

Here are the colors I used...when I'm flying by the seat of my pants early in the morning I tend to use more colors than I normally do. Only because I don't plan...I just start coloring. So don't be shocked by this row of colors. I probably could have eliminated one or two of these if I'd taken a bit more time.

If you're anxious to start collecting The Greeting Farm stamps, you will definitely want to grab an E00 and an E21. These colors are standards for me when coloring skin {DISCLAIMER - I color almost all faces to match my own skin...pasty white Irish girl skin. If you're looking for a more suntanned, olive skinned or less doughy look we'll have to experiment and find different colors for you!}.

I'm ready to start playing with cards. Card show tonight...at least one. Okay, maybe two. Depends on how things pan out the rest of the afternoon. Comments on today's post still count for prizes...so keep 'em coming. THANKS...and if you've asked a comment-question and I haven't answered, shoot me an email. You'll get a quicker answer this week.

And thanks again to Jennifer for sharing her awesome samples of The Greeting Farm images. GOOD STUFF CHICA...thank you!

EDITED TO ADD: The PDFs are now available for Lara's cute food pages and exercise pages. Click here for the post, and then scroll down to her projects. The links are right there. Thanks a million Lara!

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CHA CRAZINESS...

has come to an end.

The problem with coming home from CHA is all I want to do is play. Because the "mojo" is flowing!

New stamps. New paper. New dies. New ideas. New techniques. New friends. New pictures. OH MY!

{I need all of you all tell my family that clean clothes and food is highly overrated - LOL!}

I spotted this stamp line on Saturday afternoon, during CHA setup. I knew right away that all of my "Copic-lovin'-Scrapy-Land-Divas" would just love it. It's called "The Greeting Farm" and the images are cuter-than-cute.

Here is the link to their company blog...and here is the link to the Anya & Friends blog. {Anya is one of their adorable little characters!}

I met the artist and their head designer...such sweet girls. We chatted for a long time, heard some fun stories and shared ideas. LOVE new companies that are so anxious to know their customers.

When I let the "Fab Four" know that The Greeting Farm was heading to Scrapy Land - Veronica squealed. She already has one of their stamps and can't wait to get more. She whipped up a sample for me to share with you.

Meet Anya and Ian. These little cuties will soon be available in lots of different outfits, settings and activities. And wait until you see the great Scrapy Land prices! {Think single-digits!}

Veronica used her Greeting Farm happy couple stamp and colored it with a handful of Copics. She cut it out with her Spellbinders Labels 1 and layered her ribbon and patterned paper under that shape.

But I think her pop-dots totally put the polish on her card. I just love using pop dots on cards like this. Makes the colored image just scream "look at me"! Adorable, just adorable.

She finished the inside of her card with white cardstock, another stamped image and her handwritten sentiment.

And look how she completes the backs of her favorite cards. A matching hunk of paper, a computer generated tag-line and a shape cut from her QK Nesting Label. What a sweet idea. Do you all "sign" your works of art? I think we all should!

Thanks Veronica, the fact that you already love The Greeting Farm just validates the decision to carry all of the Anya and Ian stamps. WOOT WOOT - I can't wait for them to arrive in a week or so!

Monday is the first day of February. And those of you who were around last February will remember that it's my favorite month.

It's my birthday month.

It's my anniversary month.

It's Valentine's month.

{And pitchers and catchers report month!}

The January craziness is behind us - the Fab Four are in full swing - we've nailed down some schedules and routines - and a great month is in store.

The party starts Monday. Because my birthday means gifts...gifts for YOU! {wink, wink}.

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