Meet this smart girlie-girl who loves to read – her name is Cinnamon and one of the newest stamps available at Little Miss Muffet Stamps! This little doll was inspired by two munchkins running around my feet… one loves to read and the other loves dresses! Check her out then head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Challenges blog for more inspiring projects. ;D

Preview: Little Miss Muffet Stamps New Releases – Day 2
Challenge: Card Cupids Challenge #19 (dots and stripes)
Challenge: Scrappy Frogs Challenge (flowers [paper] and lace)
Challenge: Kaboodle Doodle Challenge #61 (girlie)
Main Stamp: Cinnamon (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: Lemonade (BG)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Large Scalloped Rectangle

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin tone: E000, E00, E11, E13, R11, R12
-skin: E000, E00, E11, E13, R11, R12
-hair: E08, E07, E19, E18
-clothes: E41, E42, E43, E44, E47
-other: G40, G82, G85, G99, R22, R24, R29

Did you know? A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. One of the earliest known uses of a pendulum was in the 1st century seismometer device of Han Dynasty Chinese scientist Zhang Heng. Its function was to sway and activate one of a series of levers after being disturbed by the tremor of an earthquake far away. Released by a lever, a small ball would fall out of the urn-shaped device into one of eight metal toad’s mouths below, at the eight points of the compass, signifying the direction the earthquake was located.
[Pendulum, Wikipedia.org]

Here’s another card featuring the new Sugar ‘n Spice Dolls from Little Miss Muffet Stamps. Check out inspiration on all the new releases then head on over to the store and get your favorites! 😀 This card is featuring Pepper with her jumping rope.

Main Stamp: Pepper (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: scraps
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Deckled Rectangle

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin: E000, E00, E11
-hair: E43, E44, E47, E49
-clothes: B91, B93, B95, B97, G20, G21, YG63, YG67
-other: R20, R22, R24, R29

Did you know? Martin Eichler (1912–1992) was a German number theorist and received his Ph.D. from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1936. Eichler once stated that there were five fundamental operations of mathematics: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and modular forms. He is linked with Goro Shimura in the developing a method to construct elliptic curves from certain modular forms. The converse notion that every elliptic curve has a corresponding modular form would later be the key to the proof of Fermat’s last theorem.

Today we’re showing off the new Sugar ‘n Spice Dolls at Little Miss Muffet Challenges blog and I’m excited to introduce to you four newest girls, or I should say dolls. ;D This one is named Peppermint and she’s all ready for school probably waiting at the bus stop. I made this card for a little girl and used bright primary colors with a touch of bling.

Preview: Little Miss Muffet New Releases – Day 1
Challenge: Stampin’ Sisters in Christ #83 (card for a kid)
Challenge: The Crafty Pad Challenge #115 (flowers [brads])
Challenge: I Did it Creations Challenge #49 (anything goes)
Challenge: Craft Your Passion Challenge #52 (anything goes)
Main Stamp: Peppermint (LMMS)
Patterned Paper: scraps (DCWV)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 4

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin: E000, E00, E11, R11, R12
-hair: E30, E31, E35, E37
-clothes/other: R21, R22, R24, R29, YR21, YR12, YR14, YR18, Y32, Y35, YG11, YG13, YG17, BG000, BG01, BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09, BV000, BV00, BV02, BV04, BV08, W2, W3, W4, W6, W8

Did you know? “Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto” written by Benedikt Kotruljević around 1400 was the first bookkeeping manuscript and trade manual, aka Accounting. Several historians show the manuscript being written in 1458 and as the oldest known manuscript on the double-entry bookkeeping system, predating Luca Pacioli’s claim by at least 36 years.
[Della Mercatura e del Mercante Perfetto, Wikipedia.org]

Here’s another background sky I tried to make after having success with the last one behind Tilda. I wanted to try a sunset, however, the colors didn’t work out so I started adding browns and blacks to create a nighttime sky. Once the coloring was done I added stars with a white pen.

Challenge: Designers Choice Challenge (create a scene)
Challenge: Penny’s Paper Crafty Challenge #5 (1 image, 2 embellishment types, 3 papers)
Challenge: The Paper Variety 1-2-3 Challenge (1 image, 2 embellishment types, 3 papers)
Main Stamp: Monster Dreams (LMMS)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Deckled Rectangles and My Favorite Things Die-namics Jumbo Scallop
Copic Colors:
-monster: G40, G82, G94, G99, B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, R11, R12, R14
-ice cream: E35, E55, E57, E59
-grass: G21, G28, YG63, YG67, YG99
-sky: (reds, yellows, oranges, browns and blacks)

Did you know? Ondines are elementals, enumerated as the water elementals in works of alchemy by Paracelsus. Ondines are said to be able to gain a soul by marrying a man and bearing his child. The German folktale of Ondine, a water nymph who curses her unfaithful husband to cease breathing if he should ever fall asleep again, is the basis for “Ondine’s Curse,” the historical term for congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, in which the afflicted lose autonomic control over breathing, placing them at greatest risk when they are asleep.
[Ondine, Wikipedia.org]