Our Craft Lounge CHALLENGE!

Wahoo!! Stampinalex over at Splitcoaststampers issued the very FIRST "Our Craft Lounge" Challenge! Here is the sketch she created. I was just about to pack it in for the night when I decided to look at the OCL forum and noticed this challenge. OK - so it is now 1:42am and I am just posting and then heading to bed. But I had FUN, baby!!!

So here's what I came up with. I decided first that I wanted to use the "censored" stamp from the Pat the Dog set by OCL. I think it is SO FUNNY! Well - what would you see near such a "pile" other than the foot prints of the guilty party?! The thought of it just cracked me up.

I pulled out my My Mind's Eye patterned papers from eclectic Paperie - oooh they are DELISH! That is what dictated my color scheme. Then I pulled out my Copic markers and off I went. I even used my turquoise AtYou Spica Glitter pen on the little bugs flying above the "pile". *I can't stop snorting out loud every time I type PILE*

I hope you are able to take some time and stamp today - and heck - why not try out this fantastic challenge!! If you do participate, be sure to post your card on SCS and use the "code" OCLSC01 in your keyword search section.

WOOHOOO!! and Have a Lovely Day

Hello - and WOOHOO!! I'm so excited to be the Eclectic Paperie Friend of the Week!! Thanks Daisy and Joy - you girls ROCK!! Not only are these two girls fantastic, smart, fun, talented, and great business women - but I am lucky enough to call them my FRIENDS!! :)

So I sat down last night to create. I have been really enjoying designing lately. So what did I grab - my new Tree-mendous Love set by Our Craft Lounge. Eclectic Paperie has a fantastic selection of stamps from this new company! I just *adore* the birds that come with this set - and as soon as I saw the tree, I KNEW I had to stick a little birdie in there!! ACK! I love it!

I colored with my Copics. I am still very much a beginner using them (yeah - um -don't click on the card and look too closely at my coloring -eeek) - but am really enjoying the results. I feel like a kid in a candy store when I look at all my markers and all the luscious colors!

I based the colors I used (all colored cardstock is Stampin' Up!) on the patterned paper by My Mind's Eye. Oooh - the colors! YUM!

Have you ever used Cryogen White cardstock????? I love how well images stamp on it - and ooooh-la-la -the shimmer is GORGEOUS!! Yep - that's right - a SHIMMERY cardstock. Imagine stamping your winter images, or punching out snowflakes, using this!!

Although the white cardstock already had a shimmer, can you EVER have enough? Not in my opinion - so I used my Stickles on the hearts and dots of the tree. WOW - in real life, this card is BLINGED OUT, baybee!! Gorgeous! It is amazing - a *tiny* dab of Stickles, and your image really comes to life!

As the card says, I hope you have a lovely day! And I certainly hope that your day involves just a bit of stamping (or heck, all day - LOL)!

Peek-a-boo

Happy Monday! OK - typically I am not a Monday morning girl. LOL - but today I am just so happy to post my peeking giraffe card that I can let that slip for once!! I have been thinking about making this card since I got this set. So I finally made myself sit down and get it out of my head. This was my first time sewing on a card. I am NOT one who sews - believe me - so I was terrified. Now that I've done it - I can see sewing on cards in my future!! It was a lot of fun!! And all the colors of thread - oooooooooh the possibilities!!!! I am finally catching on!! *snort*

I used my fun Tree-mendous Love set from Our Craft Lounge. This giraffe just makes me smile. He/she is SO CUTE! No - the giraffe is not confused - you can just make the giraffe a "him" or a "her" depending on your coloring! HOW FUN IS THAT?! And the DELISH patterned papers by My Mind's Eye that I got at Eclectic Paperie! YUM!

Hope you have a great day and week!!!! Thanks for looking.

Supplies:
Stamps - Treemendous Love (Our Craft Lounge)
Paper - Cardstock: So Saffron and Wild Wasabi (SU!), Georgia Pacific White (Wal*Mart); My Mind's Eye Patterned Paper
Ink - Black Soot Distress Ink (Ranger)
Accessories - Organdy ribbon, Nestabilities, Bling Brad (CK OK), Stampin' Dimensionals, Copic markers, Sewing machine

Tree-mendous baby love

Who doesn't love a sweet baby card? This giraffe just makes me smile! He is from the set Tree-mendous Love by Our Craft Lounge. Have you been Loungin' yet? Their stamp sets are just adorable - and if you click on a stamp set, you can also view samples for each set. And they have MORE FUN STUFF coming our way in the future!!

I hope you are having a FANTASTIC weekend!

Supplies:

Stamps - Tree-mendous Love by Our Craft Lounge

Paper - So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Whisper White (SU!) and SU! Designer Series Paper

Ink - Black Soot Distress Ink by Ranger, Chocolate Chip Classic Ink by SU!

Accessories - Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon (SU!), Nestabilities, Copic Markers

It's a Dog's World

Look at how happy Pat the Dog is! Aaaah - to live a dog's life. Ok - well there's no stamping involved in a dog's life - so - uh - forget it! LOL

Our Craft Lounge, a fantastic and FUN new stamp company, opened its doors for business yesterday! That's where you can get Pat the Dog, Pat the Good Dog, and many other HOT new stamp sets!!

I want to say a HUGE Congratulations to the owners of Our Craft Lounge, Cami, Joy, and Kimberly! I also want to say a HUGE Congratulations to Marianne, the artist who drew these sweet sweet stamps!

Be sure to visit OCL - and DON'T FORGET about the DRAWINGS!! If you make a purchase the grand opening weekend of Our Craft Lounge (Friday, Saturday and Sunday ~ November 14, 15 & 16th), you will get one pink ticket included in your order for each stamp set you purchase! Hold on to these tickets because OCL will start choosing winners the following weekend (November 21st to 23rd), and every weekend until December 1st. You never know when a new ticket number winner will show up on the front page of our site so check in to see what the prizes are, but trust me, you won't be disappointed!

Supplies:
Stamps - Pat the Dog by Our Craft Lounge
Paper- Cardstock by SU! (Old Olive, Not Quite Navy, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White); Patterned Paper by My Mind's Eye
Ink- Black Soot Distressed Ink by Ranger, Chocolate Chip by SU!
Accessories - Twill tape, Hodgepodge Hardware (SU!), Nestabilities

Our Craft Lounge - LIVE!!!

Our Craft Lounge - an exciting new company - is LIVE!!!! Go check it out - you are going to *love* their stamps!!

This card is something I just saw in my head (scary - huh?) as soon as I saw this set! It's raining hearts, baby. A few of the hearts were cut out and popped up - and then I added the AtYou Spica Glitter pens to those.

This card was just FUN to make. Who doesn't love GLITTER???? And paper piecing. And those GORGEOUS patterned papers by My Minds Eye! ACK - eye candee for sure!

Both cards were made using the set Lola Love by Our Craft Lounge. OMW - they are FUN FUN FUN - like paper dolls for adults! :) And I don't have girls - I have two boys - so this is my way of being able to play "girlie".

Check out some more fantastic samples using OCL stamps:

Cambria Turnbow at http://www.cambriaturnbow.blogspot.com/

Kisa Peters at http://www.kisaspapercuts.blogspot.com/

Kendra Wietstock at http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/

Pam Hooten at http://www.pamhooten.blogspot.com/

Carol Halvorson at http://www.happinessblooms.blogspot.com/

Bev Barton at http://bevbarton.blogspot.com/

Lila Holgate at http://lilascreativecorner.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

Lisa Zappa at http://shabbychickjunk.blogspot.com/

Lana Lepinski at http://www.lunarlana.typepad.com/

All cardstock - Stampin' Up

Ribbon - May Arts

Coloring done using Copic Markers

Hope you are as excited about this new company as I am!!!!!

Salud! OCL Style

YEP - another *sneak peek* at a fantastic new stamp set by OUR CRAFT LOUNGE!! You are just going to LOVE what they have in store for the stamping world!!

This set is called "Going Gourmet". Very classy - and PERFECT for so many uses. Invitations, gifts, menus, recipe cards - it goes on and on. I *heart* the saying "Salud!" - meaning "to health". If you watched The Sopranos, you've heard it many times.

Here I made a wine ensemble. Forgive the photos - they are not the best, but I was so excited to get the pics taken, I overlooked the lighting a bit.



The card I created as an invitation. The background I stamped with a wonderful "swirl" line stamp that is part of the set. And the best part - THERE IS AN INDIVIDUAL SWIRL - I used it around the "You're Invited" sentiment. :) It's the small things that make me smile!



The tag above is the same as the focal point on the card. I masked the word "Salud!" so that I could create a "label" on the wine bottle. ACK - CUTE!
I haven't worked with Polyshrink in a LONG time - so this was TONS of fun! Who doesn't love SHRINKY DINKS?! I had to run out and buy some red/burgundy colored beads to match my project - ANY excuse to go shopping. *snort*


You can find some other FABULOUS sneak peeks here:


Cambria Turnbow at http://www.cambriaturnbow.blogspot.com/
Kisa Peters at http://www.kisaspapercuts.blogspot.com/
Kendra Wietstock at http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/
Pam Hooten at http://www.pamhooten.blogspot.com/
Carol Halvorson at http://www.happinessblooms.blogspot.com/
Bev Barton at http://bevbarton.blogspot.com/
Lila Holgate at http://lilascreativecorner.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Lisa Zappa at http://shabbychickjunk.blogspot.com/


Our Craft Lounge is going LIVE - TOMORROW! You won't want to miss it! Check in tomorrow morning for a link - and you can get these FUN-TASTIC stamps for yourself. :)

BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!! Don't miss out on the Grand Opening Prize Drawings!! If you make a purchase the grand opening weekend of Our Craft Lounge (Friday, Saturday and Sunday ~ November 14, 15 & 16th), you will get one pink ticket included in your order for each stamp set you purchase! Hold on to these tickets because OCL will start choosing winners the following weekend (November 21st to 23rd), and every weekend until December 1st. You never know when a new ticket number winner will show up on the front page of our site so check in to see what the prizes are, but trust me, you won't be disappointed!

Stamps - Going Gourmet by Our Craft Lounge
Ink - Black Soot Distress Ink by Ranger
Cardstock - Bravo Burgundy, Certainly Celery, Whisper White - Stampin' Up!
Accessories - Copic Markers, AtYou Spica Glitter Pens, Celery Organdy Ribbon, Gold Cord, Celery Brads (SU!), Ticket Corner Punch (SU!), Polyshrink, Swarovski Crystal Beads, Darice Gold Jump Rings and Wire Rings

Meet Li'l Peanut

Isn't she CUTE?!?! I'm in love with an elephant!! Not something I ever expected to hear myself say . . .

This A-DORABLE little ellie is BRAND NEW - from a BRAND NEW STAMP COMPANY!!! The stamp set is called Li'l Peanut. The company is Our Craft Lounge!! What? NEW??? Yup - BRAND SPANKIN' NEW!! I've got some fun sneak peeks for you coming the rest of this week.

FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FRIDAY! Yes - that is the day you are waiting for. On Friday, I will post a link to Our Craft Lounge - and you can buy this Stinkin' Sweet Li'l Peanut - along with many other FANTASTIC new stamps!! They will "blow" your mind. Seriously - I love them all!!! Gotta have 'em.

Here are some other Sneak Peeks that you won't want to miss out on:

Cambria Turnbow at http://www.cambriaturnbow.blogspot.com/

Kisa Peters at http://www.kisaspapercuts.blogspot.com/

Kendra Wietstock at http://kendrawietstock.blogspot.com/

Pam Hooten at http://www.pamhooten.blogspot.com/

Carol Halvorson at http://www.happinessblooms.blogspot.com/

Bev Barton at http://bevbarton.blogspot.com/

Lila Holgate at http://lilascreativecorner.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/

Lisa Zappa at http://shabbychickjunk.blogspot.com/

BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!! Don't miss out on the Grand Opening Prize Drawings!! If you make a purchase the grand opening weekend of Our Craft Lounge (Friday, Saturday and Sunday ~ November 14, 15 & 16th), you will get one pink ticket included in your order for each stamp set you purchase! Hold on to these tickets because OCL will start choosing winners the following weekend (November 21st to 23rd), and every weekend until December 1st. You never know when a new ticket number winner will show up on the front page of our site so check in to see what the prizes are, but trust me, you won't be disappointed!

Supplies
Stamps: Li'l Peanut (Our Craft Lounge), Polka Dots (SU); Cardstock: SU (Pretty In Pink, Going Grey, Basic Black, Whisper White); Ink: Ranger Distress Ink Black Soot, Going Grey (SU); Markers: Copic; Accessories: Velvet Ribbon (May Arts), Black Brads (SU), Crystal Effects (SU), Spica AtYou Glitter pens, Nestabilities (Spellbinders)