Guess who I'm Guest Designing for???

Lollyrot Illustration!

I'm so thrilled to have been asked to guest design with Maria's adorable images! Here's another peek of Lollypie B-day...

I told you. She's adorable!

Visit Lollyrot Illustration to see more Lollyrot projects and, of course, to get your very own cutie-patootie Lollypie!

Have a great weekend!

Inky hugs,
Angi

Sentimental Sundays #177 - Happy Birthday: Shaped or Easel Card

Hello, Friends!

Enamel Dots, Bling, DIY Pennant

It's the 3rd week of the Sentimental Sundays' Month Long Birthday Celebration!!! I'm happy to say, my studio is finally mostly organized! Still workingo on the stamps... (If you've ever had to move your studio/craft room, you know how difficult it can be to really work on a creative project when you don't know where your tools and bits and pieces are!)

Have you ever taken a creative break? Because of our summer move, settling into the new house & area, the broken pipes in the wall, these last few months have been a necessary hiatus from most things crafty, colorful and inky. Insert sad face...and clean fingers.

Distress Inks, Mists, White Embossed Script
(En Francias is one of my most used Stampin' Up stamps - sorry, I think it's retired...)

So glad that's over! I hope to be able to stay in this house for y.e.a.r.s!

Okay, back to the pretty stuff! Shaped or easel card...couldn't make up my mind, so why not both?! I used the Tim Holtz tag die and cut 3 tags. After some fiddling and scoring (what would I do without my Scor-Pal and ATG?) I had myself a tag-shaped easel card!

Still trying to figure out where the lightbox will go...

It did take longer than usual, more do-overs and a few more pieces of chocolate, but Boy, did it feel good to put ink on paper!

Love seam binding with jute twine!

Silver Frost Creative Inspirations Paint upcycled an old bronze chipboard star

There are great sponsors and you don't want to miss a chance to win crafty goodness just for linking up something you made! Be sure to stop by Sentimental Sundays...can't wait to see what you've created!

Joining these challenges:
Creative Inspirations - Anything Goes
          used Silver Frost on the star

Sparkle & Sprinkle - Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing Powder or Flocking
          The background script is embossed in white.
Craft-Dee BowZ - Anything Goes include a handmade bow
          Bows made with seam binding and jute twine

See you again soon!

Inky hugs,
Angi

WOYWW #29 (227) - Making Progress

Happy Wednesday!

(Dare I say, "It's HUMP DAY!" out loud? Didn't know about the Geico commercial until after a trip through a McDonald's drive thru one morning...my children were happy to educate me with the remix. Lucky me. lol)

Another edition of WOYWW...check it out, so you can play along or just peek at everyone's creative places! There is so much eye candy to be had!

Here are a few pictures of the studio. I've stolen a few moments to do a card or two, but can't wait to get back to creating every day!

Thanks to my favorite guy I've got pegboard, rails and shelves up! Still a mess, but now it's more of an organized mess! Way easier to attempt a project when I have an idea of where the supply/tool is...

The rails + buckets are working great to sort tools & embellishments.

My friend, Donna, inspired the design for my twine 'board'. Thanks!

Command Hooks + *cheap* Dry Erase Board = Color Coordinated Storage | LOVE

Looking forward to being able to share details and more of what's working for me next week. Fingers crossed there might even be a project or two!

Inky hugs,
Angi

Happy Birthday, Calypso!

Calypso is having a birthday today!

We are so excited to share with you a Surprise Birthday Blog Hop!!!
Every stop along the hop has a surprise birthday card or project for Calypso created by members of two Design Teams... 

Sentimental Sundays and Scribbles Designs.

Calypso keeps all of us so organized. She is such an inspiration to all of us and is always right there with unfailing support, compassion and patience for any of the team members.  

Her talents abound and we adore her!

Please join us in this

(surprise!)

* Birthday Hop for Calypso * 

Be sure to stop by her blog at the end to wish her the Happiest of Birthdays!

Here's my card (making it's way across the country!):

Who doesn't love a birthday celebration...especially when it includes fun people, washi tape, stars, buttons, twine and embossing enamel?!

(not to mention a fabulous blog hop!)

I enjoyed making this card for Calypso and sent it on its way full of hugs, joy and laughter!

Don't want to keep you too long, so head on over to 

Doreen's blog for the next project!

Be sure to comment on the Birthday Hop post on one or both blogs 

Sentimental Sundays and Scribbles Designs.... 

One person will be randomly chosen (on October 8th) from all comments collected from both blogs to receive a prize in the mail.  

The prize will be sent to you and we welcome you from

* anywhere in the world! *   

And just in case you get lost, here's the lineup:

Angi of Sentimental Sundays....

Doreen of Sentimental Sundays...

Vicky  of Scribbles Designs...

Jennifer  of Scribbles Designs...

Archana of Sentimental Sundays & Scribbles Designs...

Deanne of Scribbles Designs...

Sharla  of Scribbles Designs...

Julie of Sentimental Sundays...

Karolina of Sentimental Sundays...

Lisa of Scribbles Designs...

Cely of Scribbles Designs...

Sam of Scribbles Designs...

Tracey of Sentimental Sundays...

Nick of Scribbles Designs...

Sandy of Sentimental Sundays & Scribbles Designs...

(Your last stop is CALYPSO, so you can wish her a Happy Birthday!)

Calypso 

Inky hugs,
Angi

Sentimental Sundays #165 - Anything with Wings sponsored by A Day for Daisies

So, if you've been following along here, you'll know I've been a bit preoccupied with a cross country move and settling into a new home...then I hope it's not too much of a surprise that I'm late with my Sentimental Sundays project, but I'm officially back to creating!

metallic purple embossing over die cut clock - 2 layers!

This week's SENTIMENTAL SUNDAYS challenge is sponsored by the simply gorgeous designs of:

A Day For Daisies Challenge 
A Day For Daisies Store
Donating: $12 gift certificate 

This week's challenge is:
Anything with WINGS

(plus a sentiment)

There is only 2 more days to link up!

I can't say it enough...I love the sweet images to be found at ADFD! They are such a wonderful line of designs and easily can be used with whatever style of creating you find yourself in. I chose:

WILD ROSE NYMPH

click to get your very own!

i love the subtle shine from the sequins and embossing...

My daughter turned sweet 16 last week! Where does the time go?! In the midst of all the chaos, we were able to pull together a mini Mom & Me day and a small dinner party that evening (not to mention we closed on our house in Colorado!) Alas, I was unable to make time to create her card until last night...want to see it?

the 'blue' sequin is really purple. wings are glittered

see the numbers? some random office stamp i picked up thrifting.  love the font.

 Thanks for stopping by! Now hurry and link up your project for your chance to win some ADFD goodies!

Inky hugs,
Angi

Playing along with these challenges:
A Day for Daisies #75- Favorites
Twisted Tuesday Challenges - Extra Letters & Numbers (letters in the clock die cut & numbers under the sentiment)
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Craftin' Desert Divas - Birthdays
Created with Love - Anything Goes (and they have an anniversary hop!)
Through the Purple Haze - Favorite Colors (purple & green)