We got home yesterday, right at 5 p.m. My last session, on Joomla CMS and WordPress/Mu, went really well and a lot of people seemed to have gotten a lot of info from myself and also others attending. That’s what I love about conferences, other people to physically share information with (instead of my Twitter and Ning virtual buddies). I also had Internet access — wish I had this the other day too. Oh well…

The first thing I wanted to do when I got home was go into my arts and crafts room. I’ve been itching to make something but of course I had to be responsible. Also, I got some new stamps. I have the stamps from H&M, the new stamp company that’s coming up in May that I’m the guest CT of, and also some goodies from PaperTrey Ink. Plus, I have new circle Nestabilities from Cutathome (40% off!). They’ve been on back order but I wasn’t in a hurry so I didn’t care when they’d show up. But I’m glad they did, it’s fun to play with them. So now I can stamp — well, I can do more after I grade {::SMILES}. Since it’s’ a weekend, and I did miss last week’s, I went to Beate’s site and did her sketch challenge for this week. This was a HARD sketch. I’m not use to having these types of intersections.

I used all sorts of brands for this card:

Stamps: H&M Dad’s Outdoors and PaperTrey Favor It Wedding Stamp Set

Cardstock: Stampin’ Up! carft, green galore, pink pixie, and black paper
Pattern Paper: KI Memories Chill Out Ticking and Flair Design Paradise Paisley
Ribbon: SU
Eyelets: Making Memories
Tools: Corner rounder, Crop-a-Dile, Nestabilities, ATG glue gun, SU Markers and paper piercing tool
Markers: SU

The top square cardstock is 3×3 and the pattern paper is 2.75×2.75
The bottom rectangle is 3×3.5 and the pattern paper is 2.75×3.25

Ok, so the boots are from a manly stamp set BUT, M has boots similar to this… I scrapbooked it even (I’ll show you later) and I thought hmmm… these boots can be used for so many things. I wish I had a stamp set that says “Perfect Pair” but this will do. I love the colors and the boots turned out so cute in green and pink (M’s colors). I’ll have more to show this month and next from H&M.

Have a great weekend!! I have a few video tuts in mind… and part II of the part I I did. Hopefully this weekend I’ll be able to whip one out.

I did the per the SCS MFTSC11 sketch. This was fun. My first sketch!  I also received my Nestabilities today. So quick from cutathome.com. You should check them out and sign up to be in their VIP club. You get 40% off every month!

So here’s my card, used the Hot Stuff MFT stamps that I got for Christmas, the Cuttlebug stuff that I got for Christmas, and the Nesties that I got for me {::SMILES}. There’s really no special technique that I did. Just a lot of layerings. Actually it was kind of interesting how this came about. Initially I had a black card, the white embossed background, and the ribbon. Of course it ain’t right lookin’. So I just left it. Then when I was doing the sketch, I got clever. I grabbed this plain old card and used the sketch to jazz it up. Here’s what it turned out to be. I like it a lot better. Enjoy!