Bunnies & Eggs

Good Morning! It's the last day of our sneak peeks, which means all nine stamp sets will be available in the 2RedBananas store tomorrow - Woo Hoo!! I know you're going to love them.

Today's card is made with the set "Bunnies and Eggs" illustrated by Abbey Westemeyer. It's a fun, whimsical set with 3 images and a sentiment. I used the bunny holding the basket (obviously) and the sentiment. This was a fun and easy card to make. I started with a purple base and used some lime green and soft blue cardstock. The dp I used, I've had in my stash for a while, but I really like the softness it added to the card. I used the Fiskars Threading Water punch at the bottom of the dp and threaded some soft blue fiber through the holes and tied a little blow. My only other embellishment is the metallic dew drops, these are FUN!! These are from the Mardi Gras set, but if you really know Mardi Gras, the set comes with this soft purple, gold, and turquoise (not green). They're really look good together though, so it's okay :)

Oh, I did color my image with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits and highlighted with Inkssentials white pen.

You can see other projects made with this set on Teresa's blog and Maraya's blog. You can then go to the 2RedBananas blog to enter to win your choice of one of the newly released stamp sets :)

Our quote for the day: "My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected."

- Anna M. Uhlich

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Louie & Louie Too :)

Good Morning! We have snow on the ground this morning, not alot, but snow just the same :( But I will continue to make spring cards to tell myself that spring will SOON be here :)

This morning we are introducing you to two new sets that are just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Louie and Louie Too. These leprechauns are having so much fun, they just make you smile!!!

For my card I used the "March" sentiment from the March Journaling Spot set and created my own background with it just by stamping it in rows over the base of the card. Then I used some pieces are green shimmery paper from Reminisce (leftovers from my stash). I stamped Louie and the Shamrock in Memento Tuxedo black ink and then colored them with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits. I added Inkssentials White pen to the hightlight on Louie. I also added Shimmerz in Celery to the shamrock and to Louie's suit so it all shines so nicely :) I cut each of them out and pop-dotted them onto the card for dimension. The ribbon I used is one of our brand new ribbons and it is fabulous!! I love how it coordinates with this card. You can see it here.

See the Shimmerz?? :)

You should jump on over to the 2RedBananas blog to see anther project and to read about the Inspiration Challenge that will be open until Monday, March 2nd at 4pm EST. It's an easy and fun challenge and right now your chances of winning your choice of one of the newly released sets are excellent!

Also, go visit Maraya's blog, Deb's blog and Jami's blog for more fun projects using these stamps!!

Our quote for the day: "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkgaard

Thanks so much for stopping by and enjoy your blog hop today!

Just Ducky :)

Good Morning - Spring is in the Air, oh wait I'm dreaming again :) It's supposed to rain/snow here today, so I don't think spring is quite here, but I'm going to make spring cards anyway!

Today's sneak peeks are using Abbey Westemeyer's "Just Ducky" set. I LOVE these little guys! So cute! I also love how bright they want to be :) I stamped my images in Memento black and colored them with Copics and highlighted with the Inkssentials white pen.

The paper I used is from Imaginisce's Twitterpated line. I also used Wrinkle ribbon from May Arts and dew drops (can't forget those :) I almost forgot, I pop-dotted the duck to give him some dimension and keep him from fading into the background.

This close up picture shows the sentiment a little better. I stamped it directly onto the dp. I love this saying with this image :)

Other dt members peeking this set today are:

Wendy

Deb

and remember to go to the 2RedBananas blog to enter to win one of the new releases, right now you chances are really good to win :)

Our quote for the day: "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." - Harvey Mackay

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Happy Birthday Sara & Gunther's Greetings

Happy 15th Birthday Sara!!!
Yes, our baby girl is 15 today, I just can't believe it! I can remember this day 15 years ago like it was yesterday. I can truly say that I have enjoyed every 'stage' that she has gone through....so far anyway :)

We are so proud of you Sara - the young lady you are and the young woman you are becoming! We hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Now to the awesome set we are sneak peeking today. It's called "Gunther's Greetings" and was designed for a specific puppy, Gunther. You can see Gunther on Curt's blog. You can also see projects Curt created with this set! His blog has a ton of inspiration for you and I promise you will leave there smiling, Curt's happiness is contagious :) If you want to ready the story behind Gunther becoming a stamp just jump on over to the 2RedBananas blog and you can read about it, see more samples with the set and enter to win one of our new releases by playing in our Inspiration Challenge.



My card was made with a brown cardbase, and some of the new My Mind's Eye French Flea Market paper. When I looked at the stripes I saw a rug for Gunther to lay on :) so that's what I created. I stamped on of the sentiments directly on the dp too. I colored Gunther with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits and added December Sky blingz to his bandana. The heart stamp is part of the set as well. I stamped it onto red cardstock, cut it out and added royal red Shimmerz to make is sparkle as well! I also used the brown wrinkle ribbon (again).

Our quote for the day: "With a stop light, green means 'go' and yellow means 'slow down'. With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means 'go', green means 'whoa, slow down', and red means 'where the heck did you get that banana?'" - Mitch Hedberg

Have a wonderful day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Quotes & March Journaling Spot

Good Morning! Today is the second day of the 2RedBananas "Week of Peeks". Today we are showcasing the stamp sets "Quotes" and "March Journaling Spot". Both of these sets are very versatile and can be used on cards, layouts and altered treasures. When you visit the 2RedBananas dt blogs you will see what I mean :) Also visit the 2RedBananas blog to get the details of our Inspiration Challenge so you can have a chance at winning your choice of one of the newly released stamp set.

This first card I made uses the "Quotes" set along with Imaginisce paper. I was just looking at the "So Happy Together" paper with it's curved lines and this card popped into my head (that doesn't happen often :) I started with the Co'ordinations paper as my cardbase and then cut the Imaginisce paper so the hearts were still hanging down. I stamped the quote in Versafine Onyx black and then added the celery grosgrain ribbon and the new metallic dew drops. At the end I covered the hearts with Glossy Accents, you can see this in the closeup picture.

See the glossy accents :)

This second card was CASE'd from the Joy of Card Making - A Second Helping, Wendy Johnson's card - pg 119 if you have the book. I love both of these books. I used the "Quotes" stamp set, Imaginisce Flower Trails paper from the Twitterpated line and some of the new satin ribbon that's in the store :) The clip and the brads are from my stash.

This 3rd card uses the "March Journaling Spot" which I stamped onto the card and then onto the Imaginisce - Twitterpated, Mushroom Fancy paper (the back side). I cut out the inside of the kite and stamped Happy Birthday on it and then pop-dotted it onto the original image. The other papers I used on this card are also from the Imaginisce Twitterpated line. I also used dew drops, wrinkled ribbon, and the new stardust glitter pen in red.

The week is just beginning so be sure to stop by again tomorrow to see more sneak peeks! :)

Our quote for the day: "Joy is the feeling of grinning inside." - unknown

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Wrapped in His Love

Good Morning! The Week of Peeks at 2RedBananas has officially started! Yes, I'm the slow one and the last to post, but I'm here :)

The set we are sneak peeking today is "Wrapped in His Love" by Sgt Stamper. Once again Jami is AMAZING! I love how versatile this set is! You don't need many embellishments when you use her sets.

I started with a prism cardstock base and added layers of the new My Mind's Eye Bella Bella "French Flea Market" collection. Once again these are double sided papers (my favorite). I stamped in Versafine - Vintage Sepia

You can see here how much the Angel Wings Shimmerz adds sparkle to the card. You can also see the Cat's Eye chestnut roan chalk ink I used to edge the papers. I love that stuff :)

I added May Arts brown wrinkled ribbon and Dew Drops in the water collection.

Can I tell you again how much I love this set! You can go to Jami's blog and Deb's blog to see more creations with this set.

Tomorrow will be sneak peek of another set and different dt members will be showcasing that one.

We are also doing the blog hop a little differently this month. Here are the details:

Our blog hop this month involves a challenge for you. We would love for you to play along for chance to win your choice of one of the new releases! It’s an inspiration challenge. Here’s what you do… during the week, you stop by our blogs and check out the sneak peeks. Then you choose any three things from any three projects and create your own. It can be a card, a layout, an altered item…whatever. For example, you may use a layout from one persons card, colors from another, and a certain embellishment from another.

Just post your project to your blog or SCS and tell us in your description where you pulled your three inspirations from. For instance, Jami's layout from her Wrapped in His Love card, Maraya's color combo from "Gunther's Greetings" (wondering what that one is yet :) and the ribbon treatment that Deb used on her "Just Ducky" ( just another name to tease you :) card. Then go to the 2RedBananas blog and give us a link to your project. (If you upload to SCS, be sure to add 2RedBananas as a keyword)You can enter as many times as you like!!

On Monday March 2nd at 4:00 pm EST/3pm CST the challenge will close and we will choose 2 winners. Both winners can take their pick from the new releases. If there are lots of entries, we just may have to choose more than 2 winners, so be sure to tell your friends to come play along too.

Be sure to play along and stop back tomorrow to see what's new!

Our quote for the day: "Don’t worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that’s creativity." — Peter Max

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

February Journaling Spot

Good Morning!! Can you believe it's been a week since we started these blog hops? It's gone so fast! We have really enjoyed reading all of your comments though, so thank you for hopping along with us!

Today's featured set is February Journal Spot. This one contains the Journaling Heart and the word February (I didn't use it here, but other dt member's did so you'll see it when you hop :)
This is a picture of our daughter and grandson. I LOVE this picture. So I thought the heart would be perfect for this picture. The colors on my picture are a little off, sorry about that, I did play with it, but couldn't get it just right.

The background paper is old paper from Flair. The red with pink hearts is from Imaginisce - Loves Me. It the back of "The Game of Love" which is one of my favorite papers in this line :) I matted the picture on red and added some black photo corners. I added an Imaginisce flower and some dew drops in the swirls of the heart and in the center of the flower. I machine stitched the panel behind the picture and then tied the sheer black polka dot ribbon. Then I put it all together. It really was an easy page.

Our last blog hop today will work similarly to the other's this week.

Visit each dt member's blog to see how they have used the February Journaling Spot and be sure to leave them a comment.

Go to the 2RedBananas blog and answer a question for us in the comments section, then you will be entered to win the February Journal Spot stamp :)

Our quote for the day: "To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." - unknown

Thanks so much for stopping by and remember the stamps will be released at 12:01am EST on Monday, February 2nd.

A new Stamp Set and a new Illustrator

Good Morning! Are you ready to hop some more??? Today's featured set is called "Heartfelt Friends" and it is illustrated by a brand new stamp artist. I'm pretty sure you'll agree with me that her images are fun and very easy to work with!

This set includes 6 images that will make you smile just looking at them. I can't decide on a favorite and I've been trying for a while now.

This first card uses a red Bazzill cardstock base, Imaginisce paper from the Loves Me line, some Bazzill Bling embossed with a cuttlebug folder, my cute hippo image colored with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits and then highlighted with an Inkssentials white pen and the heart painted with Royal Red Shimmerz. I airbrushed the background of the image with my Copic airbrush system. Then I added the glitter heart by Scrapworks and Dew Drops :)

This second card is a gatefold card. I hadn't made one for a while, so decided to with this fun frog! Again Bazzill card base. The patterned paper is from Cloud9Design. I used my nesties to cut the image and the matting. I colored the image with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits and painted it with key lime and royal red Shimmerz......I think I'm starting to use Shimmerz as often as I use Dew Drops! I tied the gatefold card with celery grosgrain ribbon. Oh, the Be Mine stamp is not in this set, it's from one of the Michaels $1 sets.

This third card, I made for the SCS Sketch Challenge. I used a Bazzill cardstock base and "Love is in the Air" patterned paper by Imaginisce. I stamped the image in Versafine Onyx Black and colored it with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits. Then I painted the flamingos with Bubblegum Shimmerz (you can see the sparkle in the closeup picture). I inked around the image and did some doodling and then matted in with Bazzill. Then I added the sparkle hearts by Scrapworks.

See the Shimmerz??? :)

I hope you enjoyed seeing these cards made with the featured stamp set "Heartfelt Friends". Remember our blog hop....visit each of the dt member's blog and leave a comment for them. Then go to the 2RedBananas blog and leave a comment answering the question. We are having so much fun doing this and we hope you are having fun hopping!

Our quote for the day: "Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired." - Robert Frost


Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

the Value of Joy

Good Morning! So are you enjoying all this blog hopping that we're doing this week? I sure hope so! Today's featured set is Jami Bova's third set to be released this month. It's call "The Value of Joy" and is such a SWEET set! I just LOVE it!

For this card, I used one of the two sentiments that come with the set. To see the other sentiment you'll have to start your blog hopping ;). I had alot of fun with this set because I used Shimmerz and Blingz on both of my cards. Great image for that :)

For this first card, I started with a cream cardstock background and then layered some Webster's Pages papers, first the brown is "Bountiful" from the Inspired collection, then the blue is "Peacefulness" again from the Inspired collection. Then a layer of Bazzill Bling and then another layer of the "bountiful" paper, then my image. Since I put so many layers on the image, I chose to stamp the sentiment directly on the "Peacefulness" paper and use it that way. I colored with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits and added bubblegum shimmerz to the flowers. I also used the brown wrinkled ribbon to tie the sentiment on.

This second card is made with softer colors again. I started with a periwinkle cardstock base and then layered Webster's Pages "Secret Garden" paper from the reflections of nature collection. I colored the image with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits and then added both Shimmerz and Blingz to this one. You can see these better in the close up picture. I sponged Antique Linen distress ink around all the pieces. The corners are punched from an EKSuccess corner punch and are Bazzill bling and then you know I had to add some dew drops since the first cards doesn't have any :)

In this picture, you can see the Shimmerz and the Blingz really well. The Shimmerz is Lilac colored and is on the flowers. The Blingz is December Sky and is on the puppy's bandana. The difference between the Shimmerz and the Blingz is that the Blingz is a little chunkier, you get bits of shimmer instead of a really smooth shimmer. It's FUN!

Now to the blog hopping. If you've been hopping with us all week, you know one thing you have to do is visit all the dt member's blogs and see what they did with the featured set today. Then leave them a comment. After that, go to the 2RedBananas blog and answer our question of the day in a comment. Then you will be eligible to win the blog candy for today, which is a set of "the Value of Joy" stamps!!!! So get hoppin'!

Our quote for the day: "Beauty is whatever gives joy." - Hugh Nibley

Thanks so much for stopping by and enjoy hopping around with us today!

A little Snowman Love

Good Morning!! Are you ready for a little Snowman Love???? This is the set we are featuring on the 2RedBananas blog today. I know you're saying what do Snowmen and Love have to do with each other especially in February right??? Well, in Iowa, we still have about 8 to 10" of snow on the ground and will have much more before winter is over, plus snowmen are just fun! I love to look outside at them while sitting inside drinking my coffee :) So, I decided that a stamp set that has elements of Snowmen and Valentine's Day would be FUN! And so, here it is :)

My first card uses Imaginisce paper from the Loves Me line. I rounded all the corners, something I don't often do, but always like!
I stamped the snowman images in Memento black ink and colored with Copics. The arms I stamped on brown cardstock and the heart on red and then cut them out. The "Be Mine" sentiment is separate from the heart, there are other sentiments you can use to put inside the heart. I pop-dotted the heart and wrapped the arms around the snowman, you can see this better in the close-up picture.

You can see in this picture what I did to the blue background much better. I used the glue pad and stamped the trio of hearts and then glittered them with blue water colored glitter. ( I didn't clean the extra glitter off as well as I thought, sorry about that). I also glittered the outside of the snowman with a quickie glue pen and regular colored glitter.

Then I tied the heart ribbon onto the card. My favorite thing about this set is how the snowman can hold the little heart with sentiments in it. You could also have him hold other things, like punched out stars etc.

For this card, I made the snowman the same way except I left his arms out and put mittens on them. I also painted him with Angel Wings Shimmerz (you can see that better in the close up picture).

Here you can also see the sparkle of the ink that I used for the background snowflakes. It's Pearlescent Sky Blue Brilliance and it's my favorite ink for snowflakes.

No glitter needed :) Oh and I also added dew drops to this one, did you notice the card above doesn't have dew drops on it.......gasp!!!!

The dt has rocked this set as well, so be sure to visit their blogs and leave a comment.

Jami

Maraya

Teresa

Wendy

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Our quote of the day: "In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the BEST THING to hold on to in this world in EACH OTHER. " - Linda Ellerbee

Thanks so much for stopping by and stop by again tomorrow for some more blog hoppin'!!