The Scrappy Chick

Tilda with Hood

Its Monday, again?? Every week it comes again. Sigh.  Well, to make this Monday a little brighter I have a bright and cheery Tilda card for you.  This is one of the cards I am planning for my Magnolia Christmas card class at Enchanted Cottage this month.

This little doll is Tilda with Hood.  (We are still very impatiently awaiting the new Magnolia Christmas images!) Tilda was colored with copics, then cut out and popped up on the other panels.  The gray circle is cut with a circle Nestabilities, the white snowflake looking circle is actually the Contemporary Hearts pendant, also from Spellbinders  (as are the 2 little "snowflakes")  The yummy gorgeous felt paper is from the Anna Griffin new Christmas line.OK, I gotta scoot to work.  Sigh.  Another day in my hamster wheel.  Thanks for stopping by!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• stamps: Tilda with Hood (Magnolia); Christmas wishes (A Muse)
• Paper: pp (Anna Griffin); Gray cs (Bazzill); white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo black
• Accessories: Standard & Scallop circle Nesties, Contemporary Heart Pendant & Border (Spellbinders); ribbon (Bo Bunny); Copic markers

Stampendous Glittery Flowers and Blog Candy!

Its Saturday night and I am watching GI Joe for the 3rd time this week!  and no, my 6 year old son isn't twisting my arm...I love it too!  But I am a bit A.D.D. so I need to do something else at the same time :)  So here are a couple of cards for you.  I made these back over the summer when I was doing the Glitter/Aceteate tutorial for Stampendous.

I realized that these 2 never went on the blog so I am adding them today.  The first is with Mum Messages by Stampendous, using Marigold and Tigerlily glitters.   The pattern paper is from K & Co.

The next one uses the Big Blossom set from Stampendous.  This is the set that I have to give away to you today... I ended up with an extra set!  I also have 3 small bottles of the ultra fine ultra awesome glitter by Stampendous.

So, simply leave me a quick comment this week and I will draw a number on Friday at 9pm EST!  That simple :)  So, thats it for the night.  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great rest of the weekend.  -Cyndi

InStyle Stamps

Good morning!  I am off to work and scheduling the post to hit around noon, but I have news!

I will be joining InStyle Stamps Anime Design Team for the next 3 months!  Virginia had already asked me to do some design work for CHA for her, but I applied to do the Anime team too since I just love InStyle's images!  I will have lots to show you soon!  Thanks Virginia and Melissa!  (Click on the InStyle category to see a few samples I made last month :) )

Here is a list of the other new DT members.  Be sure to go check out their blogs:

Lana Clarke

http://sweetpeaspapercreations.blogspot.com

Cyndi Bundy

http://www.scrappychick.typepad.com/

Jodi Stanisch  
http://jodimommyto4.blogspot.com

Genevieve Samson

Kimberley Blakey

http://poppy-petal-designs.blogspot.com/

Margie Cortina
http://ohbumbleismemargie.blogspot.com/

Julie Gastelum

http://www.creationsbyjulie.blogspot.com/

Janelle Stollfus
http://rainpuddlesdesign.blogspot.com/

Guest Design Team, Nov-Dec

Angélique Nederpel

http://www.scrappin-angel.blogspot.com/

Linda Algodin http://lindaspysselblogg.wordpress.com

This announcement will also be made at the InStyle Stamps blog today, so if you have never been there go check it out too.  There are lots of fun challenges every week!

Toodles!  Have a great Friday!  I am looking forward to stamping tomorrow!

-Cyndi

Scrappy Sunday (well, now its Monday)

Okay chicas, I am bombarding you with a ton of layouts today...none with pics though, sorry.  These are all from classes at Enchanted Cottage or for my peeps in Hickory.

First up, Spooky layout featuring My Minds Eye "Boo to You".  Die cut letters are BossKut ; spiderweb punch is Martha Stewart.

Next up, from the same class is "pick of the Patch", uses same papers, also die cut letters "Metro" from QuicKutz; border punch by EK Success, and some dew drops.

This one was from this month, the first of the boy layouts.  Papers are also from My Minds Eye, Abbey Road Collection.  Title piece was die cut with Spellbinders' Labels 1 Nestie, stamped with Doodle Alphabet LC from Stampendous, then colored with copics.  Same border punch from EK Success.  Brads and buttons are also My Minds Eye.

Other boy layout...same paper collection, circles are cut with Ek Success Curvy Cutter.

OK, I didn't get this up yesterday, sorry.  Here's the rest for the day...

The next 2 are the girl versions of the previous pages.  Still My Minds Eye papers from the Abbey Road collection.

OK, off to work.  Enjoy! 

Gate Fold card Challenge

OK, so I haven't done a challenge in forever.  and even though I am trying to finish up other stuff I thought I would do the challenge on the InStyle Stamps blog...a Gate fold card.  Haven't done one of those in ages either.

So, I grabbed my Rainy Cynthia image from InStyle Stamps that I started coloring a while back.  I finished coloring her to match this newish paper from Cosmo Cricket.  The mushrooms are just perfect together  !I held the card closed by attaching the flower/button assembly only to the right panel so that the center panel "tucks" underneath and holds it all closed :)

Pretty cool, huh?  I also left the sentiment off cause I couldn't decide what I wanted to do with it, so I will use it as a generic card later when I need one.

OK, back to the design work.  Almost done.  whew.  Thanks for visiting!  -Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Rainy Cynthia digi (InStyle Stamps)
• Paper: pp (Cosmo Cricket); vanilla cs (SU!); white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Pastel Pink, Chestnut Roan cats eye (Clearsnap)
• Accessories: flowers (Prima); button & brown ribbon (Fancy Pants); Linen thread (SU!); copic markers: G21, G24, B00, R00, R02, R05, E000, E00, E79, Y21, Y26, E50; Airbrush system

Ava with Flower

Good Morning!  I am still crazy busy with design work, but its almost ready to send in so I will have more time soon, I promise!  The problem is I have been stamping like crazy, but I can't show you any of it until January!

Luckily I have  a few things I created for work last week so I will share those!  Remember last week that I told you we got in a HUGE shipment of Magnolias at Enchanted Cottage?  Well, I got to stamp out some images to make samples with! 

Today I am showing you "Ava with Flower".  Is she not the cutest?  Ava is from last year's Magnolia Christmas collections.  She is colored in with my copics then cut out and mounted on a  red panel cut out with Labels 1 Nestabilites and then I ran that through my Cuttlebug with a QuicKutz embossing folder.  The paper is from Creative Imaginations.  The layout I cannot take credit for, it was a skecth that I had used before and I cased the layout from the previous card that I made so I don't remember the artist who came up with the sketch, sorry!OK, gotta skedaddle.  Almost time for work!  Have a great Monday :)  

-Cyndi

• Supplies:
• Stamps: Ave with Flower (Magnolia); Christmas wishes (A Muse)
• Paper: pp Creative Imaginations; red cs (Core'dinations); white cs (Neenah)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Cyan, Cardinal, Bamboo (Versacolor)
• Accessories: Labels 1, Classic & scalloped small circles  Nestabilties (Spellbinders); brads (basic Grey); Dots embossing folder (QuicKutz); markers & glitter pens (copic)

Alyssa

Heres another cute Anime digi image for you from InStyle Stamps.  This is Alyssa.  I kept wishing last year that someone would come up with some cute anime stamps...and voila!  InStyle has actually even launched a new kit of the month called Club Anime...go HERE and check it out!  Too totally cool!

For this card I used some old baseball paper from Reminisce.  The colors were pulled from that then colored with my copic markers.  She is cut out with Nestabilites Labels4 and the sentiment (stamps from Hero ARts) is cut with Ribbon Tag Trio, also by Spellbinders.

Thats it for tonight!  I am exhausted.  Nisey is out at work after surgery for a number of weeks.  Of course I volunteered for extra hours (need the money)  But I am soooo not used to working over 40 hours a week!  PLUS I have LOTS of fun top-secret design stuff I have been working on that you can't see for a while.  So, this was a bit of fun stamping tonight and I am off to get the little guy to bed then read a bit.

Thanks for stopping in!  Have a great week :0  -Cyndi

Short Stacks

A quick post for you before I head into work.  I am next door at the coffee shop savoring my Cinnabon Latte and yummy pumpkin muffin.  Looks like the cold weather is finally going to hit us head on.  'Bout time!

Here is a quick card I whipped up with the new "Short Stacks" clear set from Stampendous.  It has the most adorable combo of heads and bodies to mix and match for a bit of winter fun!  I paired these two with papers from My Minds Eye (Colorful  Christmas collection), added a bit of flocking (also by Stampendous) andsome gems.  The snowflakes were cut out with the Snowflakes 2 die from Spellbinders.

OK, off to the cottage :)  Thanks for popping by!   -Cyndi