Can I just say I am so done with winter? We got 4 more inches Friday, and my pictures are terrible because there is very little sunlight. Ugh.
A pretty quick and easy birthday card for today. I colored the ice cream cone with copics, cut it out, and popped it up on a white scallop. I stamped the sentiment in white craft and choc classic and tied a big old knot on the top. I added CE to the "fudge". 
I am sending this to DBU, get the details here.
I've had this set for awhile, but it just saw ink for the first time yesterday. I stamped the owls on two different sheets of patterned paper and cut and pieced various parts of them. The smaller owl is popped up on dimensionals. I had a question from a reader asking how I attach buttons, and all I use is SU's mini glue dots.
The basic idea of the challenge is to make the elements used on your card spell LOVE. Here's my LOVE:
I thought a card like this was a good way to use patterned paper. So I punched out 3 hearts from Urban Prairie paper and popped them up. The sentiment is from Delectable Delights , embossed in white. An Urban Prairie button dresses up the black/silver reversible ribbon.
Kiki's cupcake is frosted with liquid applique and fruit punch stickles.
Notes: I embossed the gray piece with swiss dots, then ran my ink pad over the top so the raised dots caught some ink. I gave Lily and Billy patent leather shoes with my black glaze pen. The layout is from the new SU catalog. Oh, and the sentiment really isn't crooked like that IRL.
I made Kiki stripe-ity (can you tell we watch Tigger and Pooh in this house? lol). The layout is also from the new SU catalog.
And my sample:
I stamped and colored Q.T. from Q.T. Hooty Owl, stamped the sentiment and popped it up. I made the background using several party/birthday-themed stamps from Limitless Limbs. The buttons are from Basic Grey's Urban Prairie and Offbeat collections.
In other Limelight News:
WHAT'S ON SALE! There are LOTS of stamps in the Weekly Specials category this week! Here are a few of the sales, valid January 19 - January 25:
* ALL Pink Cat Studio stamps - $12.50 * Unity Stamp Company Jolly Little Winter stamp set - $14.50 * Stampendous! Ice Cream Float stamp - $5.00
WHAT'S NEW! We are still receiving new products! In addition to the new Crate Paper, October Afternoon, new Shimmerz colors, Pink Cat Studio, and Stampendous! products, we are still adding in more of the best new products! Keep an eye out...We will be putting LOTS of products on clearance (most of our card stocks included!) to make room for the newest and brightest products out there!
New DT members: Welcome Lee Murphy and Lorie Ames! Goodbye to Katie and Brandi, we'll miss you!
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I was trying to do something out-of-the box for me, but I'm not sure what it is, lol! Anyway, here is the color combo of the week again. I die cut a bunch of hearts from acetate, if you look close you can see them. I used vellum tape to adhere them, but it isn't completely invisible. The chipboard letters are sparkly (American Crafts), and the buttons are from various lines of Basic Grey.
Here's a cupcake card I posted over on the clean & simple blog with Natasha's 25th fall-to layout. I am loving this color combo, I've been playing with it A LOT lately. Just a warning you will be seeing more of it!
The base is Chocolate Box Black Cherry coredinations cardstock. I ran the top half through my Big Shot with the Swiss Dots embossing folder, then sanded the raised part so the red/pink shows through. I got the idea from Brandi, isn't it cool? I added a river rock panel and a bit of Bittersweet patterned paper. I cut out an oval from shimmery white cs and stamped the sentiment from Delectable Delights, then added the scallops by punching out circles from the same black cherry cs I used earlier and adhering them on the underside of the oval. I stamped the lollipop, also from Delectable Delights, on shimmery white. I colored it with copics, painted the bow with coffee shimmerz , added a snow pearl to the knot, and cut it out. I attached the oval to the base with dimensionals, and added the lollipop with another layer of dimensionals. Some more pearls on the bottom finish the card. Seriously, the pearls are fantastic, and you get a lot in the package. If you haven't tried them, you need to! 
So the past couple days that I've sat down to stamp have not gone so well. I just couldn't focus, had no mojo, etc. Well, today was different. I found a few layouts that I was able to tweak and make my own, the colors were working, and I actually cranked out two cards in a relatively short period of time! This was the first one. I stamped one of the trees from Limitless Limbs in black and added celery leaves and rose red hearts. You can't see it in the picture, but I painted over all the hearts with angel wings shimmerz. I matted the tree on a rose red piece and added a black scalloped edge. I stamped HVD from Lily & Billy Sweethearts in black on regal rose, punched it out with the key tag punch, and threaded some reversible black/silver ribbon through a slot and tied a ribbon. I did some piercing along the right edge of the tree layer as a finishing element.
Again, there is glitter on her shoes, the hearts on her dress, her hairbands, and the rose. 
Supplies:
You can't see it, but her shoes, hairbands, and the edge of the valentine are sparkly. I cut out a few different sized hearts from acetate and pink cs and added a button for a bit of color. I repeated the Luv Ya in white ink across the bottom. 
Supplies:
Sorry I haven't been posting as much as usual, my mojo was gone for a few days and is just now starting to come back. Sneak peeks for Pink Cat Studio's January release start next week, so don't miss that!
Anyway, I used the set Giggle Grove by Unity, available at Limelight. This set has been on my "to get" list for a very long time, and I was finally able to get this month. I started by stamping the tree on scrap paper and cutting out the inside to make a reverse mask. I then put the mask on a piece of Coredinations Chocolate Box Pistachio Nut cardstock and using sandpaper to remove the chocolate "top", revealing the green underneath. I then stamped the tree over it (using my SAMJ) in versamark and embossing in white. I stamped the birdie on Bittersweet patterned paper and cut her out. The hearts on the tree are from Limitless Limbs, cut out and adhered. The sentiment is from Lily and Tweet. I finished off the card with a Bittersweet button and a rose pearl.
Thanks for stopping by, don't miss what the rest of the team made!
Inside view 2:
And the game cards:
To make the cards: I cut out 1-1/2" white squares and stamped a bunch of matching accessories from Dress Up Billy and Dress Up Lily. I colored them very quickly and simply with copics. I mounted them on 1-3/4" black squares. There are 20 cards total, 10 each of different items.
To make the holder/pouch: I cut a 3-1/4" x 12" piece of spooky circles/black swirls paper, and scored at 5, 5-1/2, 10-1/2, and 11". The spooky circle side didn't go well with my theme, so I covered up that side with various patterns of Offbeat paper. I added a self-adhesive velcro dot to keep it closed. On the outside, I used a cuttlebug alphabet (red tag) for the letters and some more Offbeat paper. I added some white crochet thread to an Offbeat button and attached it to the front with glue dots. On the inside, I attached a clear plastic baggie (it's actually the bag that ribbon comes in from Limelight - there, I recycled and reused!) with 4 eyelet brads.
Head on over to the other design team members' blogs and see what they have come up with!
2. Mandy has a new DT call posted for Limelight's next term, you can check that out here.
3. I found the Russian Tea recipe from this post:
Russian Tea
1. Boil 8 c. water with 2/3 c. sugar, 1 tbsp. whole cloves, and 2 cinnamon sticks. Simmer for 1/2 hour. Strain out the cloves and cinnamon sticks.
2. Steep 4 bags of tea (I use Lipton) in 2 c. hot water. Add to first mixture.
3. Add 1 can of orange/pineapple juice concentrate, 1/2 can of lemonade concentrate, and add water to make a gallon.
4. Serve warm or cold, refrigerate leftovers. Yummy!
