It's time for another Just For Fun Challenge with my pals Michele, Lori, Alli & Julie, and this month, we also have a new name for ourselves. I think it was Lori who first referred in a group email to us as the 'Jiffy Girls,' and it stuck! Maybe we need to get satin embroidered jackets now, like the Pink Ladies...
Just to review our little challenge procedure, one of us picks out a stamp for all of us to use, but before she reveals it, another member of the group sends out patterned paper to everyone in the mail. Once the paper is in the mail, the stamp choice is revealed. Thus, the paper picker and the stamp selector have no idea what the other is choosing, and then all of us have to use the image and the patterned paper in our projects. Then, we each post our projects (I like to call 'em projects just in case I get a wild hair to do something other than a card) to our blogs on the same day at the same time and surprise each other with what we come up with. Fun, fun, fun!
Anyway, this month Julie sent some darling paper from Cosmo Cricket's new 'Girl Friday' line (I love ALL Cosmo Cricket paper -- it's my favorite brand, in fact -- so I was thrilled to see it show up in an envelope from Indiana), and Alli picked out the sweet stamp: Bluebell Bittybloom by Stamping Bella. This is my first image from of Stamping Bella's Chichiboulie line -- I don't know how I've resisted this long because they are too, too much fun to color! Everyone had been telling me about them for so long, I just dug in my heels out of stubborness. Kinda like I am about the Twilight series. I mean, if it's that popular, it can't be good... (so says the part of my brain that has remained unchanged since I was fifteen...)
Ready? Here goes nothin'...
She looks so sweet and innocent with her basket full of cherries, doesn't she? (Still waters run deep.) I colored her with Copics and then masked her and airbrushed the background. Her shirt is paper-pieced with the back side of the striped paper. I guess that's it... Oh, alright. The sentiment? I couldn't resist it! I was looking all through my sentiments for a non-boring one, and then I feasted my eyes upon this one by River City Rubberworks that I hadn't used in a while... The next thing I knew, it jumped into my hand and began stamping itself. Y'all know I have very little self-control when it comes to these things...
Be sure to visit the rest of the Jiffy Girls to see what they've come up with! I'm sure they'll have gorgeous creations and that none of them will assault your delicate sensiblilities. So go visit
Alli Miles,
Julie Campbell,
Lori Craig, and
Michele Boyer
and heap them with praise for their talents and condolences for having to put up with the likes of me, okay? Thanks!
Supplies used:
Stamps: Bluebell Bittybloom by Stamping Bella, sentiment by River City Rubberworks
Paper: Buttercream Choice Cardstock (TE), Raspberry Fizz (PTI), Taken With Teal (SU!), Fabriano Hot Press watercolor paper 130 lb, Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Adirondack Raspberry
Accessories: Copic Markers, Airbrush system, Prima Obsessions flower, PTI ribbon and buttons in New Leaf, circle punch, embroidery floss, Jody's foam boosters
BWAHAHAHHAAHA! OMG, Carole, I can't stop laughing! That is PRICELESS!!! LOL...such a sweet little girl (the image, not you). And then that sentiment! Still waters...lol...GADS! You are a riot!!! :)
Posted by: Shel9999 | February 25, 2009 at 05:57 AM
LOVE it!!!!! Such a sweet card, paired with that hilarious sentiment -- too funny!
Posted by: christina fischer | February 25, 2009 at 06:37 AM
Oh sassy! I like it!
Posted by: Susan | February 25, 2009 at 07:10 AM
Darling - you crack me up...where do you come up with this stuff, girl?
Posted by: Lori Craig | February 25, 2009 at 07:28 AM
Carole! You always come up with something that gets me laughing in the mornings. (Dont' take that the wrong way!) ;) Love the sentiment! And... I love the layered button accents too! Yum! :)
Posted by: Julie Campbell | February 25, 2009 at 07:43 AM
LOL Too funny. I love it!
Oh, and I watched Little Miss Perfect last night, not too bad! Reminds me of Showbiz Moms & Dads.
Posted by: Shannan Teubner | February 25, 2009 at 07:46 AM
That sentiment is too much!! LOL I love it!!! Gorgeous card!!
Posted by: Tracey | February 25, 2009 at 09:03 AM
This is hilarious! Love the sentiment!! :-) You did a fab job coloring her...she looks amazing!
Posted by: Maren | February 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM
What a wonderfully fun challenge!!! Great job!
Posted by: Tricia T | February 25, 2009 at 10:55 AM
I am printing this sucker out and putting it on my husband's Mac! He majored in horticulture, ya know! ROFLOL!!!
Posted by: jenn | February 25, 2009 at 01:48 PM
You even know how to get a sick girl laughing! Thanks I really needed that...I just can't kick this flu. Anyways, about your card...love the colouring, the paper piecing and the sentiment.
Posted by: Alli Miles | February 25, 2009 at 02:45 PM
What fun colors Carole. I just ordered her, and am waiting on EZ mount. Love the Bellas, but hate to mount them. I would love to see you all make jackets...lol
Posted by: Chris Mott | February 25, 2009 at 03:27 PM
OMG, Carole--you are so naughty (sentiment) and I just love ya for having the balzers to do it! When I first laid eyes on this sweety, I was amazed at your copic coloring and then I read the sentiment...read it again...laughing my arss off!
You dirty girl, you!
Posted by: Amy/rohla | February 25, 2009 at 04:29 PM
OMG that saying is TOO FUNNY!!!! And your card rocks too!
Posted by: Maureen W. | February 25, 2009 at 04:47 PM
That sentiment ROCKS...too funny!!
Posted by: Jessie/knightrone | February 25, 2009 at 05:37 PM
OK, Carole, I just spewed diet coke onto my monitor over that sentiment!
Posted by: Kathy D | February 26, 2009 at 04:18 AM
Carole! :) Thanks for stopping in my blog and leaving me love. And yes, you would tower over me, no problem!
You are so funny, lady! I love popping over here to read your delicious craziness- it’s addictive ya know! :)
-Bev
Posted by: Bev | February 26, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Your coloring is beautiful! And, let me just say that I nearly peed in my pants reading that sentiment! ((hugs)))
Posted by: Joanne Basile | February 26, 2009 at 10:47 PM
LOVE it. Awesome colors.this is so "Carole"!
Posted by: Carolyn King | February 26, 2009 at 11:42 PM
so cute! this is my fave rcrw stamp!!
Posted by: jen del muro | February 27, 2009 at 08:39 AM
Super cute! Again, the colors are spot on! Love the sentiment too.
AND, you simply MUST read Twilight books -trust me, you won't be sorry. This from someone who WOULD NOT make the time to read since having my first kid 5 years ago!!
Posted by: Michelle Woerner (sf9erfan) | February 27, 2009 at 11:46 PM
This is soooooooooooo sweet! Love it Carole!
Posted by: Julia | February 28, 2009 at 05:31 PM