InStyle Stamps Blog Hop Friday!

Hello everyone,

Today is blog hop Friday and if you are just joining us please start at the beginning with Cyndi. :)

Our theme for this mont's blog hop is Ornaments. I decided to make you drool and sneak peek one of our images that will be available in the store on December 1st. She is our resident praying angel.

Isn't she cute. She is a digi. I embossed her and cut her out. I then colored the rest of her with copics and voila...my praying angel for our tree this year. I'm sorry the photo quality isn't great. I tried 3 times to take a better picture blech.



I'm investing in a light box very soon I promise.

Well now it's time to vote for your favorite DT project. They were all great. I'm so proud of my design team. They are awesome, talented ladies that have been nothing but a blessing to me and an asset to InStyle Stamps.

So make sure you go to InStyle Stamps and vote for your favorite project and then leave a comment on ISS blog so that you could possibly win a great prize along with the DT winner.

TFL, Nenane

Here is a line up of the blog hop just in case you lose your way!

Cyndi
Lana
Piali
Kim
Janelle
Raquel
Melissa
Lysa
Joy
Maylee
Angelique
Linda
Margie
Julie
Jodi S
Mary
Jodi L
Kimmi
Genevieve
ME

Happy Monday!

I need to think of some more greetings. Aren’t you a little tired of the same ol’ same ol’?

Today over on the ISS blog we have a great Method Monday Tutorial. We also have some great articles on What digital stamps are and how to print them. Make sure you check them out.

I have been working on my project for a few weeks now. It took me a long time to color them because I wanted to make sure I did a good job. I love the way they came out.

Initially I was going to create some wall art with them, but I decided to turn them into cards. I want to try to sell some so we will see how they do.

I used Mykai. I paper pieced her with 3 separate papers, colored her with copics and add some rub on’s. I think they came out cute. Mykai is fabulous. These cards are sized 5x7 because I wanted to make sure Mykai’s eyes were very visible when colored so I made her a little bigger.

Here she is:







Cute right?

And for a special treat I have to show off my great niece Alyjanae(pronounced Elijahnay in case you were wondering.) She is the most adorable little girl. I'm going to turn her into an anime.

Alyjanae






I call her Ms. Kerri Baby. If you know who Keri Hilson is for some reason Nae Nae, as we call her, reminds me of her. LOL. Nae Nae's hair is adorable. Bald on the sides and full on top and wavy. Her grandma had the exact same hair when she was born. And those ears are definitely from her mother cause everyone on the paternal side has small ones lol.

Little Chubbitas.

Well there you have it for this glorious Monday. I think tomorrow I will have some blog candy. I've been so busy I haven't been able to figure out what I want to offer. Yeah I have that much stuff. So if not tomorrow definitely before the end of the week.

Happy Monday

I hope you had a great weekend. I sure did. Spent some wonderful time with the family, was able to create a few projects and cleaned and organized the scraproom again. :)

On a sour note, my sewing machine is shot and it is going to cost too much to fix it so I'm in the market for a new one. I do mainly craft sewing but I will be making more purses and such. I'm thinking about getting a Janome. They say they have metal parts and can be cheaper in repairs. My Viking has plastic parts. Can you believe such a good name is made so cheaply? Maybe not all Viking's but mine was blech!

On the ISS blog it's Method Monday. Don't forget to check it out. Then on Wednesday we will have our Wednesday Challenge, stay tuned for that.

Here is my project for today. I call it Magical Love. I have that with my hubby. :)



I used Ava leaning for my project. I experimented with color. :)

TFL, Nenane

Recipe:

Patterned paper-Paper Company, Cardstock- Bazzill, Embellishments-Crystals, Copics.

Club Anime Color Challenge

Today is Color Challenge day over at CA. So make sure you stop by and get the color scheme so you can participate. Here is my entry:



One day I will get the coloring right on my camera. I will have to invest in a light box because it's so frustrating trying to find the right light. :)

See you over at Club Anime...the dt did a great job on these.

Over the Hump Day Blog Candy Give-A-Way

This hump day is special to me because it is also Veteran’s Day. My husband is in the Marine Corps reserves. He served over 6 years active duty. He has about 11 years total so far. He was in Iraq in 2007 and is going to Afghanistan soon. We don’t know the exact date but it is imminent. Yesterday was the Marine Corps birthday. I personally think we should honor and thank our service people year round not just on particular days, but hey, that's just me.

I am so proud of my hubby. When he was in Iraq, we had a very close family member pass away and it was very hard on him being so far away from us all especially during that very stressful time. I know there are a lot of service members that experience far worse than what he did. It is truly a sacrifice to serve our nation and be the defenders of our freedom. For that, I truly thank every man and woman that has enlisted to protect our country. Some may not agree with war. Some may not think the military is important. Whatever your opinion or mindset is, you are entitled to it. But we should still respect and be thankful for those that do serve. Happy Veteran’s Day!!!

And now on to the craft stuff. :)

Go to the Instyle Stamps Blog for all the details. There is too much to type. But I will show you a picture of the blog candy. :)



Nuff said. :)

This month the theme is snow. Here is my project:



If you like blog candy as much as I do...go check it out!!!

TFL,
Nenane

Non-paper related

Hello All,

Happy Tuesday. I made a rag quilted purse and I was so pleased with how it came out. I'm working on 2 more. 1 of them is with one of our anime images. I just finished printing and coloring the image. I am not working on cutting the fabric. I hope it comes out just as nice.

Here is my first rag quilted purse:



Although it is very time consuming (probably will get faster once I get the hang of making them) but the results are so rewarding. I used it for the first time today and got a lot of compliments on the color choices and someone even asked me where I bought it. LOL...can't wait to see what they think of the one with one of the images.

I will be back tomorrow with the Over the Hump day Blog Candy give-away and winner from last month.

:)

New Blog Candy

Hope you had a good Friday. I did. Just got back from seeing the movie Precious. It was very very good. A must see, but bring your Kleenex. :)

2ndly...no one guessed what I used on the bottom of my project...it was a grated sponge and then I added copic ink to. :)

3rdly, I will be having blog candy this coming Monday. I'm swamped for the rest of the weekend so that is when I will be able to post a new project. I finally broke down and bought a compressor and airbrush system so I'm experimenting.

Have a fabulous one!