The E-Team & Stampavie Blog Hop

Welcome! The E-Team has invited the Stampavie DT members to join in on their hop as they focus on Stampavie images and coloring. This is going to be one colorful event!! Make sure you read all the way through, there are prizes and discounts you don't want to miss!!

Here is a list of all of today's players...

Stampavie DT Members

Kittie Caracciolo

Michelle Oatman

Diane Zechman

Janna Werner

Asa Danielsson

Jay Jay

Leann New

Monique Hulsman

Tracy Harp (that's me ;))

E-Team Members

Daisy Sparks

Broni Holcomb

Latrice Murphy

Linda Duke

Linda Ledbetter

Micki Harper

Sherry Cheever

Starla Nelson

5 winners will be picked randomly between both the E-Team's & Stampavie DT's blogs. Winners will receive a Stampavie stamp plus some other eP goodies.

Readers can leave comments Friday(May 20) - Sunday(May 22nd). Winners will be posted on the eP blog on Monday, May 23rd.

Stampavie stamps that eP carries will be 10% off during the hop. Pre-orders for the newest releases will also be available and marked at 10% off.

Stampavie images are MADE for coloring!! It is hard for me to pick a favorite but I do love, love, love this Mo Manning image called Birthday Fairy Lee. Her chubby cheeks melt my heart. She looks good in just about any color, but I feel compelled to make her as girly as possible and I don't know a girl who doesn't like pink!

I used Tim Holtz's Baroque Sizzix die to create a shaped card as my base. It is embossed with the Sizzix "Flowers" folder. All coloring was done with Copic markers this time. Her wings are coated in Waterfall Stickles and the stars have clear Stickles.

Here is a close up of my image.

I hope you will check out the others blogs on the hop. Be sure to leave some love along the way, you could find yourself a winner!!

Teenager

My baby is a teenager today!! I can hardly believe it. I'm trying hard not to think about, as if by not acknowledging it, it won't be true.

But it is true, so today we celebrate. He gets his favorite foods, this morning it is corned beef hash (or as he used to say when he was little, 'corn geef cash"), eggs and toast. Then for dinner, probably every teenagers favorite food--pizza. His cake of choice--cookies and cream. Oh yeah, and root beer soda.

Here is the card I made. It is a Mo Manning image available at Stampavie.

His favorite color is orange. No frills. No fuss. This image really looked like him until he decided to cut his hair short 3 days ago.

Gotta go cry in my cereal ('cause momma don't eat hash!) now. Have a good day!

Coke Bottle Glasses

I didn't mean to give this cute fella thick lenses but that is what he got when the Glossy Accents got a little unruly. They do make me giggle though.

Meet Oxford, one of the latest Mo Manning images released by Stampavie.

Adorable right? He is paired with some Cosmo Cricket Boyfriend DP, the sentiment is from SU. I think I need a different sentiment, I couldn't find anything I liked so I fell back to the safe BD wishes. It will be easily changed when and if I find the "right" stamp. Oxford was colored with Copics followed by a bit of Prismacolor pencils.

Oxford looks an awful lot like a friend of our youngest. Not sure he is studious though, lol. But the hair is most definitely right on.

Dude

Happy Tuesday!

I have another Stampavie sample to show you today. It is a Mo Manning image called "Simon". I knew he would be a hit with my youngest.

I went for a bit of a grunge look. The image was water colored with Distress and SU inks, the paper is by Prima. When I showed the card to hubby he commented how the design on the blue paper looked like a skate company logo. Yeah.... I meant to do that ;).

Teen boy images/cards can be tough. Stampavie released 2 Mo images that are perfect for the teens in your life.

Gotta get ready for work. Have a great day!

Hairy Good Time

I still haven't made it to my stamp room but I have one card left in my stash that I haven't posted yet. This is my second go round with this cute Mo Manning digi image.

This time she's going brunette. Such a spunky image deserves lively colors so I used paper from Cosmo Cricket's Delovely pad. I stitched some pink grosgrain ribbon so it gathered a bit to either side of my image.

There was one other item waiting in my stack of mail when I returned from vacation. It was the most recent issue of Card Maker magazine. It has one of my cards on page 38. I have had other items published already this year but Card Maker was my first acceptance! I was even more excited to see my fellow Western NY stamper and friend, Cheryl Rowley, in the same issue. Her card totally rocks! Fellow Dirty Dozen Alum, Jeanne Streiff, is on the cover. Congrats ladies!

Thanks for stopping by!

Zoom, Zoom

That's what we'll be doing tomorrow, zooming back home from vacation. It is always sad to see our time at the lake come to an end.

My boys are now 12 and 14, long past the tricycle days but I couldn't resist this adorable Mo Manning image from Stamping Bella.

This little fella looks like he is off on a grand adventure. He probably has a juice bag and crackers in that back pack, along with some toys. Once the crackers are gone he will probably pedal his way back home. As much as I know I do not want to go back to the days of diapers, I do miss my boys being toddlers. They were so cute! Now they are growing into fine young men capable of doing so many things on their own. Lucky for me they haven't outgrown hugging their mama!

I hope to be back soon with some real time posts. Have a wonderful weekend!

Celebrate Good Times...

Come on! Do you have Kool and the Gang in your head now??

We are away this week, enjoying our annual week at the lake with my brother and his family. We rent a small place on Cayuga Lake and basically lounge by the water, float on the water, swim in the water....you get the idea. A whole lot of nothin', just the way we like it. Oh yeah, and lots of good food.

This Mo Manning image depicts how we feel about our time away.

There is that love-hate relationship my camera has with the color purple. The embossed panel (Tim Holtz folder) is SU's Lovely Lilac, a really nice purple. I used Taken with Teal for the accent color. I had to sneak in some more polka dots, this time in the May Arts ribbon.

Anyway, we are celebrating Oma being here with us, relaxing and enjoying time together. I have a few things pre-posted so the blog will have activity while I am away.

Lookie Here...

it's Friday! I feel like I missed a whole day. Wednesday afternoon I found out I had to organize a lunch for 75 people at church following a funeral the next day. That meant planning, shopping and making a huge pasta salad on Wednesday and then setting up, serving and cleaning up yesterday. Needless to say anything I thought I was doing with that time was quickly shelved. But I was glad to help serve a family of our church during such a difficult time.

Last night I took my Copic markers upstairs, put in Pride and Prejudice and colored a bunch of images I had stamped and printed from digi files. I have seen P&P so many times I was content to just listen and look up during the good parts. My favorite is the 5 hour A&E version but last night I opted for the shorter movie version. Then this morning before work I used one of the images to make a card. I find I create so much better in the morning, not sure if it is because I am more alert or because I know I only have a certain amount of time and I want to get it done.

This image is a digi file I bought from Mo Manning's Digital Pencil Too site, it's called Out There. Isn't it a fun image? The sailor outfit makes me happy! I paired the image up with some paper by Prima and some navy card stock I embossed with a Cuttlebug star folder. I cut out 2 of the stars to use for embellishments. All the papers and twill have been distressed a bit with ink.

Since this card was made without a recipient in mind, I have left off a sentiment for now. When the time comes to use it I will add one. Or maybe I will just hoard this card along with most of the ones I make, lol.

My boys come home today! I can't wait to hear all about the fun they had at camp.

Have a great weekend.

Celebrate the Dads!

Happy Father's Day! I hope you are having a good day. The weather is glorious today in Upstate NY and hubby has returned from his 2 weeks away. Normally we are all about grilling steak on FD but some key components of the family are missing. Our 2 boys are en route back from Connecticut with the grandparents and aren't expected in until late. They have spent the past few days at a Wood Turners Symposium. Our oldest attended the symposium 2 years ago and won a mini lathe set up. He turns some incredible pens and gifts. I have told him I would gladly offer some of his items for sale to my readers but friends and family buy it up before we get a chance. Now our youngest had a chance to go learn how to turn and guess what? He won a lathe too!! Can you believe that?! The wood chips are going to be flyin' in the basement this summer. I love that they have the opportunity to learn skills like this.

Anyway, I will take hubby out for steak. He deserves to be celebrated! He is an incredible man of God and a wonderful father. I am so fortunate! I made a card that the boys will give him along with a special gift they bought him.

This image is a digital one from Mo Manning. Perfect for Father's Day. I colored him with Copics and Prismacolor pencils. The paper is some old Cosmo Cricket and a scrap from a DCWV pack. I think he'll like it!

By the end of the day the family will finally all be back together again. I can't wait!

Tomorrow is week #3 for the CHF Summer Fling and I am again participating in the blog hop. Hope to see you then!

Hair Raising Good Time

I have the other Mo image card to share with you today. All I can say is Michele made me buy it, lol! I laughed out loud when I saw this girl with the static hair. I knew she would be perfect for my other little friend turning 6.

I made her blonde to match the recipient. She was mostly colored with Copics. The embellishment was made from cork and a Sizzix flower die. I am having the best time finding different materials to cut with my dies! So many possibilities. The pattern paper is more of the October Afternoon that I am addicted to. Seriously, I bought 3 packs each of the 2 new patterns for fear of running out. Sick? Maybe! Actually, sick is probably what all my readers will be...sick and tired of seeing it practically every day! The sentiment is from the Kim Hughes Scripty Words set.

It's off to work for me. Blessings on your day!

Superduper

It's Monday...again! Nothing superduper about that but I do have a superduper birthday card. I know two special little girls turning 6 in the next two weeks. Having 2 boys myself, creating cards for girls is extra fun. I used Mo Manning digi images for both cards, I'll share the other one later.

This cute image is called Superduper Girl. She totally reminded me of my niece who likes to dress up, though her dress up of choice probably has more to do with tiaras and sparkly dresses.

I punched out one of the cupcakes from the Basic Grey (Nook & Pantry) paper to use as the center of my flower embellishment. I am ever mindful of the sendability (is that even a word?!) of a card, so this will fit nicely into the envelope without the extra postage bulk. I used Copic markers and Prismacolor pencils to color in this image.

I am having a ball coloring these Mo Manning images!

My brother and his oldest son (5) were here for a couple of days to fish this weekend. Of course my oldest was in on the fun. They caught several King Salmon, one of which we enjoyed grilled up for dinner on Friday. It looks like we are in store for some beautiful weather these next few days. I think I will plan some more grilling meals!

Thanks for stopping by!