There's still time!!!

You still have time to upload a creation using Mary Vogel Lozinak stamps to 

Viva Las Vegastamps!!!  Blog hop.

Get Inky!!!!!

Until later, inky hoppers...... Gotta split......TFL!!!!

How many languages do you speak???

Apparently I speak two..... 

1. Southern.....I was born and raised in Georgia. 

 I have been told that my accent is very pronounced.

2. Love...... according to the sentiment on this card. 

{giggle}

I have a new found love of flowers.  I remember a time when this wasn't true.  Though I have always loved Daisies {hence the name of my blog}.

I've always picked plants for the yard and house that are mostly green...{ie: ivy's, pothos, spider plants, etc....}.

Not anymore, now I want flowers and flowers and flowers. 

 Any and all flowers.

Funny though, I still have yet to grow daisies.....LOL They require a lot of sun and our yard is mostly shade....but one day!!!!!!!

OK, now to the real reason you are here.

Some Viva Las Vegastamps! LOVE!!!!!

Basic card with basic layering. 

I stamped the flower images with one of the images from 

Plate #1403.....you can get it HERE. 

I loaded the stamp with ink and stamped several times before re-inking to get a lighter printing.....to get the illusion of a field of flowers.  I stamped with a brown ink and a yellow ink. 

The sentiment was stamped with a coral ink. 

Added some matching ribbon and you have a finished card. 

Until later, blossoms.........Gotta split.....TFL!!!!!!

Diet.....?????.....what a dirty word!!!!!

Now this is the type of diet I can handle....

Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Isn't that the cutest pig meat you have ever seen.

Its a stamp from Viva Las Vegastamps!

                                  (click ^ there to purchase this one)

He's called Wheely pig....and its was designed by Mary Vogel Lozinak.

She has designed a lot of stamps for VLVS...so be sure to check out her

other designs while you're there.

A little bit about how I created this cutieeee..

I stamped the image on white card stock and colored it with 

color pencils and blended with OMS and a paper stump.

The saying was computer generated.  I used a new pennant punch from Creative Memories to create the border at the top.

An 'art deco' embossing folder was used on the orange-y layer.

Bakers twine was used for the tightrope.

I tried to create a "Circus Big Top" feel.

Here's a close up of the glitter gel pen I used for the wheel. 

YOU CAN JOIN IN THE FUN ALSO......

here's how!!!!!

You all are invited to participate in all the fun too.

 All you have to do is create a project using

 any Mary Vogel Lozinak image from Viva Las Vegastamps! for a chance to win one of NINE coupons to Viva Las Vegastamps! We ask that you post the project to your own blog/facebook/flickr etc.. Make sure Viva Las Vegastamps is mentioned somewhere in your post/description.. and go HERE to link up your post!

 (In the link list at the bottom of the post) 
Be sure to visit EVERY link as there are some prizes hidden on certain blogs! 
Prizes up for grabs : 7 - $10 coupons to be given away to random comments on seven different blogs. 

1 - $25 coupon given randomly to one person who links a project up! and 

1 - $25 coupon to a random comment on the VLVS! blog.

Until later, piglets.......Gotta split......TFL!!!!!

BLOG*** Candy alert!!!!!

Awesome giveaway !!!!

Follow HERE to check it out!!!! 

Until later, sweet toothers........ Gotta split....TFL!!!!

Let the good times ROLL!!!!

 I love big chunky jewelry.......

I believe you need to make a statement no matter the occasion.

I think this one will do the trick.

Speaking of tricks, I would like to see this one in real life. 

Elephant on roller skates of sorts. 

Bwahahahahahahahaa!!!!

Here's a close up of the stamped image.  It's from the Mary Vogel Lozinak series

 (plate #1399) that is available at here Viva Las Vegastamps!!!

I stamped it using Black Stazon onto white cardstock.  Then colored with Bic Markers. 

I used some crackle finish on the entire surface and let it dry, then I rubbed it with a sponge with ink to emphasize the cracks.  Modge podged the crackled image to a wooden disk. Wrapped the edges with leather cording and left the ends rather long to create the necklace part. Added a wooden wheel and bead; tied off the ends. Adhered a faux flower like kinda reminded me of a gear.  

Tied the ends together and now its ready to wear!!!

Until later, holy rollers.......Gotta split......TFL!!!!!

Enough is enough......

NEVER!!!!

That's exactly what I say about any and all of my crafting supplies.

Especially my rubber stamps.

The place to shop for rubber stamps is

Viva Las Vegastamps!!!

They have some of the most awesome and unusual you will ever come across.

Click on the link and check them out....

Meanwhile, back at the studio I have created a little masterpiece....

This is like seeing double for me....

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

I had this framed mirror that was a purchase from Ikea.  It was solid black and I wanted to give it more pizzazz.  I painted chevron stripes with acrylic paint.....

Here's a tip on how to get perfect chevron stripes.

while it was drying I stamped the Topsy glasses lady (#4651), bursting through (#3108), and the 'too many stamps' sentiment (#3903) on white cardstock.

I colored them using colored pencils and OMS (odorless mineral spirits) blended with a paper stump. I also added some crystal effects to her glasses.

I then cut out the center of the 'bursting through' stamp and placed the topsy glasses lady in  the bottom half to look like she's 'bursting' with craziness for more rubbah!!!!

Matting the sentiment with some black cardstock and placing them catty corner of each other.  I also added a few stick-on jewels. and ta--daaaaaa!!!

These are the colors of my studio....I'll hang this near my rubber stamp shelf.  Well, until I have to make the shelf bigger to add more 'rubbah'.......

Until later, rubbah enthusiasts.......Gotta straighten my glasses split.....TFL!!!!!!

Cricut ....Nat'l Scrapbooking Day.....

Hey....its me in my studio.

I have the WHOLE basement to myself. 

I have everything in stations and I just move from one to the other

when I'm creating something.

You can see by the smile on my face that I {heart} my Cricut.

Heck, I even painted to walls to match my blue Expression. 

Check out the Cricut Blog post regarding the great giveaway....

in honor of National Scrapbooking day!!!

Until later, fellow cricut lovers........Gotta split......TFL!!!!!!