Hand Stamped By Lacey

ABC Christmas Challenge: B is for Bbbbbb...

Hello stamping friends!!

A quick update that yesterday my Father in Law was doing as well as can be after a long surgery. They removed the incubation tube and he is breathing on his own. The prayer request continues to be: No infection or complication, healing of the resection of his bowels, and for the chemo to do it's job.

Today is a new ABC Christmas Challenge: B is for Bears plus Bunting, Banners, Brads, Buttons, Bows, or Blooms! 

Whew! That's a lot! Just make sure your card or project: is a Christmas Project, has a bear, and has at least one of the other options (bunting/banners, brads, buttons, bows, or blooms).

My store Stamp and Create is one of the sponsors this challenge.

We also have a wonderful prize for Bugaboo as well! Make sure to check out the challenge post for details.

Here is my card...

I used the adorable Milton in Hat from Wild Rose Studio. The papers are Winter Park from Echo Park along with Magnolia DooHickey Spruce Die, Whimsy Pennant Banner die, Flowersoft (for snow) and pearls.

I'm sorry for the lighting, It was later in the day when I took these and it's wasn't too bright out.

I added the flowersoft to his hat and spruce die...

The image was stamped in Stampin' Up Basic Brown and watercolored with Twinkling H2Os. I added some texture (although it looks more like stripes than fur, but I'm learning)...

Now it's your turn! Let's see your take on the Bears plus bbbbb challenge!

This card is also for the following challenges:

Clear it out: use up old Holiday stash - Baby it's Cold

Lexi's Creations: Fancy Folds

 

 

High Hopes Challenge: Valentine's Day/Love

Hello stamping friends!!

Thank you all for your prayers for my Father-in-Law. His surgery went well as expected. He now has a long recovery and we pray that he will heal quickly quickly with no complications or infections. Thank you for the prayers. 

Now it's time for a new High Hopes Challenge:

Valentine's Day/Love

Just remember that you MUST use a High Hopes Stamp on your card or project to be entered into the challenge. 

Since I have a few little sweet monkeys (aka kids) on my street, I have a few special Valentine's Day treats I need to make. So I thought it would be a good idea to make another Treat Topper like I made for the tutorial last week.

 This time I use the adorable Kitty's Flutter Friend illustrated by Laurie Furnell. The papers are Fancy Pants Love Story.  

They really are super easy to make. Here are the two of them together - well two so far! I still to make a few more. Not to mention the ones for Ansley and Ryan's class - however, I make them help by coloring their own images! :-)

The images were embossed in black onto watercolor paper and watercolored with Twinkling H2Os...

 The challenge is only open for 1 week this time so make sure to come and play along!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Stamping!

~Lacey

 

Belles n Whistles Product Spotlight Sale

Hello stamping friends!!

I hope you had a lovely weekend. 

I have a prayer request. My Father-in-Law has a rare form of cancer and is having an 8 hour surgery this morning. Please keep him in your prayers that they will be able to remove the cancer cells and that he is able to make it through the long surgery with no complications. 

Thank you so much for those of you who are willing to pray! His name is Harris Stephens.

This week we have a new Product Spotlight Sale and Weekly Candy at Stamp and Create. 

The new candy is...A Set of Basic Grey June Bug Buttons and Brads...

See this post for details on how to enter the candy. 

This week's Product Spotlight Sale is: Belles 'n Whistles Stamps.

All Belles n Whistles Stamps are on sale 25% off this week through Sunday.

We are currently out of stock of a few designs, but a restock order is expected by Thursday. However a few designs are on back order and will not be available during the sale: Patches n Braids, Sweet Apples, and Sweet Summer Days.

For my sample today, I created a card for one of Ansley's Teachers for Valentine's Day...

I used the adorable A Pen Friend with some "splotchy" from The Greeting Farm around the image. She's so sweet and sassy! The papers are Echo Park Yours Truly along with a Basic Grey Button, Bakers Twine, Magnolia Romantic Lace DooHickey, Coconut Mini Bloom, Fairy Floss Bloom, and Star Pins.

The sketch is from The Sketchy Challenges this week.

The image was embossed in black onto watercolor paper and watercolored with Twinkling H2Os...

I finished the inside with a stamped image, some hearts from the Magnolia DooHickey, and scrap DP...

This card is also for the following challenges...

The Corrosive Challenge: I Heart You (Hearts)

Stampin' Sisters in Christ: Make a heart stand out (I've got a lot of hearts on this - I hope it qualifies)

Stamptacular Sunday: Seeing Spots

Just us Girls: Color challenge - Red, Pink, White 

Craft us Crazy: Valentine/Love or Animals

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Stamping!

~Lacey

Turn pictures into Canvas Wall Art

Hello stamping friends!

I'm finally feeling much better. Man, this was a nasty cold! 

So, have you found Pinterest.com yet? Oh my gosh! There are so many wonderful DIY ideas, home decorating ideas, cakes, recipes, scrapbook sketches...everything for us crafty folk! 

I found this pin on turning photos into Canvas Wall Art (tutorial here). It looked easy enough so I thought I would give it a try. 

This was created a few weeks ago (I haven't done much crafting this week since I've been sick).

The large prints are 14" x 16" and the smaller are 8" x 10". Since the larger ones were 16" on the sides, I couldn't add scrapbook paper as it shows in the tutorial since they are only 12" long. So I inked up the edges with Stampin' Up Basic Brown ink instead - it took awhile, but I love the "vintage" feel it gave the edges. 

They were really easy to do and I love how they turned out.

There is a "paint brush" texture on it from the mod podge (not shown in the pictures) so it sort of looks like a painting. 

Here's a picture taken from the kitchen across the hall...

I really love how they turned out. Why don't you give it a try?!

Happy stamping!

~Lacey

High Hopes Tutorial - Easy Treat Topper

Hello stamping friends!

Well, I have just about lost a week of my life being sick! I can't believe it's Friday already! I am just now finally feeling up to my regular self - although I still have a headache from the sinus pressure. But I'm only half way through my antibiotics so hopefully I'll be felling normal next week. 

It's amazing how much energy this cold zapped from me! I honestly couldn't do more than a few things without being utterly exhausted. So, I totally forgot to post this on Tuesday!

It was my turn to do a tutorial for the High Hopes Blog and I created an easy and simple Treat Topper Tutorial - say that 5 times fast!! 

Go check it out here.

~Lacey

 

Been Busy, but now sick!

Hello Stamping Friends!

Sorry I've been quiet this week. I've been a little busy. Over the past month, I have been working on sewing window treatments for the family room/breakfast area downstairs. This is what my room looked like for the past few weeks...

I brought in a 6' table to help with laying out the curtains.

I finally got them finished this week in time for me to host a Bunco party on Friday. But halfway through the party, I got a relapse of my head cold and haven't gotten off the couch since! I've been sick as a dog all weekend. I'm so glad tomorrow is a postal holiday so I don't have to worry about packing up customer orders! 

Anyway, here is the final results...

I had a hard time taking a good picture because of the back light from outside so I have a few closer shots that are more clear. But basically, I made 3 valances for the windows and curtains for the sliding glass doors. I've worked on this on and off for a few weeks - taking off Christmas and New Year. 

The family room...

The kitchen/Breakfast area... (please ignore the recycles on the counter in the kitchen!! hehe)...

Here's a little closer shot of the breakfast area...

I created 3 panels, added a brown border at the bottom and brown inside for the pleats. I promise, I will NEVER do window treatments with 2 toned pleats again!! Not fun!!

Here are the curtains for the doors open...

And closed...

None of the pictures show the colors well since the silky fabric made the flash bounce off it. But it's a tan'ish/Gold'ish silky fabric with embroidered diamonds (in ivory) and ivory and brown velour crosses.

It really helped finish off the decor in this area. We've been in this house for 9 months, so it's really time to make it feel like "home"! 

Next up: Craft Room decor (you can see some of it in the first picture on this post waiting to be hung), Game Room, Laundry Room organization, and finally finishing off Ryan's room - oh, and window treatments for the Master Bedroom! Whew!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy stamping!

~Lacey

ABC Christmas Challenge: A is for Anything Christmas

Hello stamping friends!!

I'm posting this on Tuesday night. My internet was down half of the day so I'm going to make this quick in case it goes down again. 

It's time for a new ABC Christmas Challenge. It's a new year, so that means we are back at the top!

The new challenge is: A is for Anything Christmas

Are you tired of making Christmas cards?! Not me! Since I worked on them all year, I didn't have a mad-rush to finish them at the end of the year!! It's a wonderful feeling - why don't you join along with us and help reduce some of the Christmas stress for this year?!

We have 3 wonderful sponsors this month. Go check them out at the Challenge Post. 

Here is my card...

This is the adorable Tilda Santa's Little Helper from Magnolia. The papers are North Country from Prima Marketing.  I also used the Spruce DooHickey, Starlight Lace DooHickey, Heart Swirl DooHickey, and Silver Rhinestones. 

The sketch is from Deconstructed Sketch.

I stamped on the inside as well. The little stars were cut out when I used the Starlight Lace die...

Tilda was stamped in SU Basic Brown, watercolored with Twinkling H2Os, cut out, and attached with dimensionals...

Now it's your turn! Come join in on the fun!

 

High Hopes Challenge: Winter Wonderland

Hello stamping friends!! 

Did you hear? Tina, owner of High Hopes, has sold the business to the fabulous Diva Karen!! Go check out the High Hopes Challenge Post here to hear all about it. Plus there's a facebook promotion, too!! 

We are back with the High Hopes Challenges!!

The new challenge is: Winter Wonderland

Let's see something wintery and/or snowy!

Remember, you must use a High Hopes Stamp to enter the challenge.

Here's my card...

This is the adorable Homespun Heart Snowy - one of my favorite images from the last release. 

The papers are Echo Park Winter Park paired with the snowflake die from Whimsy, pearls, and spruce die from Magnolia.

The image was embossed in black, watercolored with Twinkling H2Os, cut out, and attached with dimensionals...

Now it's your turn!!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy stamping!

~Lacey

Stamp and Create Challenge & Wags 'n Whiskers Product Spotlight

Hello stamping friends!!

Did you have a nice weekend? Since my kids were only back to school on Thursday, I still have so much to do so I did some work on Saturday. Then I spent the rest of the weekend working on ideas and projects for the house. I had made window valances for our family room/breakfast area, but still needed to make matching curtains for the large sliding glass doors. I am almost finished - I ran out of thread so I had to take a break but will hopefully have them finished by tomorrow. I'll try to take a picture when I can. 

I also discovered the time vortex of "Pinerest"! LOL Oh my gosh! What amazing ideas! Some crazy, gorgeous home decor idea, organizing tips, cleaning tips, and DIY projects! I am waiting for my invitation to pin, but I have copied links in a separate folder for some of my favorite ideas. I hope to work on one of them this week! :-) But, I warn you...you will loose hours on Pinerest!! But the good news is many of the ideas I liked were time-saving ideas - so, although I now have a ton of "honey do" projects, many of them are frugal! Like re-organizing my huge pantry! I was inspired by one organized pantry and decided it was time to go through mine. I'm only part-way through, but it looks so much better already! 

Ok, so it's time for a new Stamp and Create Challenge, Product Spotlight, and Weekly Candy!

First up, we have 2 stamps for the weekly candy!!

See details and enter the candy here. 

Next up, the new Product Spotlight Sale is: 

Wags 'n Whiskers Rubber and Digitals Stamps

On Sale 25% off this week!

We also have a new Monthly Challenge: Anything Goes!!

Here is my card...

I used the adorable Just for You (on sale this week) which was designed after my son Ryan and Bo Bo (his stuffed dog/blanket)! I also used Splotchy by The Greeting Farm around the image. The papers are MME Fly a Kite paired with Brown/Ivory Check Ribbon and a Vintage Button.

I found some corrugated paper at my AC Moore and used some Stampin' Up punches for a fun accent...

The image was stamped in Basic Brown Ink and watercolored with Twinkling H2Os...

Now it's your turn!! Come join the challenge this month!!

This card is also for the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmaker: No Floral Embellishments

Sketch and Stash: Sketch

Thanks for stoping by! Happy stamping!

~Lacey

Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge: White on White

Hello stamping friends!!

Well, it's finally time to get back into the swing of our normal routine! The kids went back to school yesterday after having almost 3 full weeks off! We had a great Holiday season but it is always great to have a quiet house to myself again! :-)

It's crazy, though, that that the post office clerk told me we were about to have another postal holiday! I said "what?!!" Apparently Martin Luther King is earlier than normal this year - or maybe it just seems that way? But on Jan 16th there's no school or mail again! Basically after being off school for almost 3 weeks, they go to school for 2 days, have a weekend off, go back for a week, then have a 3 day weekend! 

Anyway, it's time for a new Wags 'n Whiskers Challenge! It seems like it's been forever that I have been able to have my DT card done on time! I guess it's a good thing that I'm one of the WnW bosses, right?! LOL

The new challenge is: White on White plus one color

One lucky participant will win a free Wags 'n Whiskers Rubber stamp.

You don't have to use a WnW stamp on you card to enter, but if you do, you will be entered into a 2nd drawing for a free WnW Digi!

Here is my card...

Since the Holiday supplies were still out on my desk and I was short a few Christmas cards this year, I decided that it's NEVER too early to make Christmas cards! So I pulled out the adorable Hannah Fairy. And turned her in a little Santa's helper!!

I used mostly white cardstock (the one layer embossed with a cuttle bug snowflake folder), but added some red paper from Echo Park Dots and Stripes. The snowflakes are Layers Snowflake Dies from Whimsy Stamps and covered with Star Dust Stickles. They are paired with some pearls and White Silk ribbon using the Bow Easy. 

Hannah was embossed in black onto watercolor paper, watercolored with Twinkling H2Os, cut out, and attached with dimensionals...

I added liquid pearls to the white part of her dress.

Now it's your turn! The challenge runs through Jan 19th.

This card is also for the following challenges:

Crafting for all Seasons: Fairies

Crafty Creations: Heat Embossing

Creative Belli Challenge: Snowflakes

Divas by Design: Christmas

Flutter by Wednesday: Open - must use a Butterfly, Fairy, or Angel