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Arte Y Pico Award

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Apr 012008

Well, must to my surprise and astonishment, Julie Buhler has bestowed the Arte Y Pico award to me!

There are 5 rules attached to this and they are:

1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogging community, no matter what language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone. Click on her name above to visit her blog.

3)Each award winner has to show the award that she has been given, by the one aforementioned.

4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5) To show these rules.The 5 blogs that I choose are:

If I have named you and you’ve already been bestowed this honor before – Well, just know that I love your blog and your work. If I didn’t name you and you want to start your own chain, feel free!!

JBWW and the Card that Had to be Made!

Gina K. Designs, JBWW Challenges, Lizzie Anne Designs, MFT Designs 21 Responses »

Nov 032007

Sometimes a card just HAS to be made! This was the predicament I found myself in yesterday – do I make it or do I not? Jeanne sent me her idea for the JBWW Challenge this week – use a sentiment that is not a stamp, one that is either handwritten or computer generated. She opened the door me, and I really couldn’t help myself. The card had to be made!

I’ve had this idea running in my twisted, warped mind ever since I saw the Way to Go set by Gina K. Designs. I even told Kim of My Favorite Things about my idea and she kind of laughed – then said “that’s funny.” So in my attempt to be fair for all the Design Teams I’m on, I even threw in some Lizzie Anne Designs. It really is not my stamping choice to mix companies like this, BUT this card HAD to be made. The sets demand it, there is no other choice, and my mind could not let it go. I give you my sample for the JBWW Challenge – A Swirlin’ Birthday!

I stamped the toilet bowl from Way to Go by Gina K. Designs and the teacher from Back to School by My Favorite Things, and colored them with Copic markers. After layering the toilet bowl image, I cut a small slit in the middle of the seat, and stuck the teacher through to the back. There is a small piece of mounting tape on the back of her skirt, to hold her in place and to add a little dimension. For the background, I printed out my sentiment on a piece of Barely Banana cardstock, cut it to size, and then stamped in Versamark, one of the swirl images from So Swirly by Lizzie Anne Designs. Get it – swirl, so swirly, swirlin’ – BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, oh I slay myself! I added the photo corners, some black doodles and a little bit of ribbon to finish off the card.

Stamps: Way to Go by Gina K. Designs, Back to School by My Favorite Things, So Swirly by Lizzie Anne Designs

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, SU Barely Banana and Buckaroo Blue

Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, Versamark

Accessories: Copic Markers, Photo Corner Punch, Computer to generate sentiment, Mounting Tape, Ribbon, Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen

Now for the JBWW Challenge. As I stated earlier, before I got so carried away with my card, the challenge today is to to make your own phrase using the computer or writing it out yourself. Any image, any theme, just get creative with your phrases and have fun!!! If you upload to your SCS Gallery, please use the keyword JBWW. Please post a link to either your gallery or your blog here on my blog, or on Jeanne’s. Can’t wait to see what you create today!

We're Off to be Pampered

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Oct 122007

Good morning! Well, my house guests have arrived and we’ve chatted well into the night. Actually both nights! We’ve got our stampin’ stuff packed up and will be heading out for the Stampin’ and Pamperin’ Retreat very soon! For those of you attending, we can’t wait to see you! Jeanne and I will have pictures for you on Sunday and Monday. Tuesday Jeanne and I head out for Texas — I’ll be with Jeanne in Texas for a couple of weeks. WOO HOO!!!

A Little Older - A Little Slower

Challenges, Christmas, Holidays, MFT Designs, Techniques, Watercolor 12 Responses »

Oct 102007

I can hardly believe it’s Wednesday already. My first house guest is due in tonight, and I still need to clean. Of course, I could ask them to leave their signatures in the dust – but honestly I’d be a little embarrassed! There are a few things on mind this morning. First, I had a birthday on Monday. My mother is getting older! I received so many cards in the mail and I want to take this opportunity to make a public THANK YOU! I will be sending private messages as well, and I will be showcasing these beautiful cards here on my blog. But first, I have got to pick up and clean this house! I hope you all understand!

Second, my mother is getting older! Yep she is. Well at least that is what I tell her every time I have a birthday! My youngest daughter was born one week after my 30th birthday. I was sick on that birthday and was at home. We had run to the hospital countless times. Finally one week later she arrived – a few weeks early but she got here. Anyhoo, when I forget how old I am, she very politely reminds me – *Mom, I’m 19 so you have to be 49!* She never lets me forget! As I start that slide into the big 5 – 0, I remind myself that it is just a number. And it is just a number! I feel young at heart, but I do find that with every five years, my body takes on a different stage. I tire more easily and I have a few more aches and pains, but I look forward to what is coming my way! When I turned 40, my life took a fabulous turn and I had more fun that I had ever had. Now that I am nearing 50 I can’t wait to see what is around the corner. It can only get better!!!!! I live every day to its fullest, and now do what I want to do. I’ve learned to say *no*, and *that really isn’t my problem*! I’m settling into who I am — what a marvelous feeling it is. One of my favorite mottos is LIVE OUT LOUD – and I will continue to do so each and every day!

So enough of my babblings about getting older (or should I say getting better). Let’s talking stamping. Even though I have two house guests arriving in the next two days, and I so need to clean, do laundry, etc., I had to do today’s Sketch Challenge on Splitcoast. If I didn’t, Roxie would come after me and quite frankly, that is not something I want! So here’s the card I put everything aside to do this morning.

I stamped the little tree from the Lizzie Anne Designs’ set, Christmas in the City, on watercolor paper and then water colored with reinkers, my old watercolor brush and a cup of water. My favorite way to watercolor – for the life of me I cannot get used to a blender pen or aqua painter. So I’ve quit trying! I know brown and green are not typical Christmas colors, but to me it just made sense today. I used a piece of watercolor paper for the background panel on the front of the card (I liked the texture), and just tied a ribbon around the bottom. The sign is raised on mounting tape and I’ve sponged all the edges in coordinating colors. The inside of the card is made with SU Whisper White. This is such a fun sketch and I know when I have more time, I will be making another card!

Stamps: Christmas in the City by Lizzie Anne Designs

Paper: Canson 120lb Watercolor Paper, SU Old Olive, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White

Ink: Timber Brown Stazon, SU Old Olive Close to Cocoa and Chocolate Chip

Accessories: May Arts Ribbon, Mounting Tape

A Game of Tag, Sump Pump Woes and Challenges

Her Badness 6 Responses »

Sep 152007

Well I was coming on today to write a post about what I’ve been doing today instead of stamping and found at that I was tagged by Frances (StampOwl on SCS). So let me play along with the tag, and then I’ll share what’s going on.

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) Chadwick Lincoln

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) Peach Oatmeal (somehow I feel this should be switched with the Rock Star Name)

3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) SCHEE

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) Purple Dog

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) Lynn Louisville

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) CheSh

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink put “The”) The Green Coffee

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) Willard Ivy

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne, favorite candy) I don’t wear perfume and don’t have a favorite so I’m gonna go with 2 candys instead: Snickers Almond Joy

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names ) Mardelle Milton

So that just about does the tag game, except that I need to tag a few others. Hmmm I will tag:

Jeanne Streiff at Inky Paws

and for the fun of it, new blogger, Sharon Johnson at No Time to Stamp.

Since the sump pump episode earlier this week, I’ve been on a mission of cleaning. Today I was all set to walk in the studio and stamp all day. Then, Kate’s boyfriend came in and was hanging out until he had to go to work. Little did he know that I was going to put him to work too. Actually, the idea just came to me out of the blue — I had a desk and love-seat in the basement that I have been trying to get rid of for a couple of years now. Thanks to Will’s strong back and brawn, they are now sitting out for the garbage man. WOO HOO! But that has then lead to cleaning and reorganizing the middle of the basement — which I need to get back to now.

I do however, want to remind everyone (and the main reason I came to post) that tomorrow’s Just Because We Wanna blog challenge will be posted here on my blog in the morning. Jeanne and I so enjoyed everyone participating with us last week and the cards submitted have been truly amazing. You girls absolutely rock!