You Are Awesome

A little while ago, I got some new stamps from Paper Smooches as well as their Notebook Basics die. I combined them with some patterned paper (I thought it looked too plain on a white card base.)

 

I really love the adorable Paper Smooches "cuteasaurus" stamp set. I am hoping to get the matching dinosaur dies - makes cutting them out so much easier.

The paper is from My Mind's Eye, and the banner die is from WPlus9.

I am entering my card in Charisma Cardz Challenge #11- Die Cuts.

Have a good night!

Happy Easter Tag

It has been a long time since I have posted. I have been fighting colds for most of the new year. I've missed a lot of challenges that I wanted to participate in, but I just didn't have the energy to be creative. Today, I was finally able to focus long enough to make and complete something - an Easter tag.

 

I used the colours from the Hero Arts March Challenge:

 



I decided to stamp and colour the images separately and then fussy cut them - so the Copics wouldn't show up on the back of the tag. Those flowers were tricky to cut out.

I am entering my tag in the following challenges:
A Blog Named Hero - Challenge 22 Free Style!
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Easter/Spring
Hero Arts March Challenge

Supplies:
Hero Arts: Happy Day Animals, Celebrate Everyday
Inks: MementoTuxedo Black, Summer Sky; Tim Holtz Distress Ink Peeled Paint
Copics
Neenah Solar White Cardstock

Moxie Fab Camera Craze Challengee

This morning, Cath posted a new challenge over at Moxie Fab World: The Camera Craze Challenge. I had the perfect stamp for this challenge. It is from Penny Black, and is adorable with all the little mice. I stamped it on Neenah solar white, coloured with copics and cut it out. I adhered the camera with the three mice directly to the card base, and added dimensional foam under the fourth mouse.

 

I aslo stamped the lens portion of the camera again, coloured it and then added it to the camera with dimensional foam. I watched a video earlier from Julie Ebersole, over at 'the CLASSroom' and liked how she added dimension to her camera.

 



 

I think I should have coloured under the mouse though...

 

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Cupcake Inspirations Challenge 196

 

I just love the photo inspiration at Cupcake Inspirations Challenge blog. I couldn't resist this week's photo:

 

The colours, the layers...just beautiful. It inspired me to use my Memory Box Princess Dress die.

 

 

I decided to create layers to my dress, so I stamped a lace pattern onto neenah solar white cardstock (distressed with TH antique linen) and cut out two dresses. The third layer was cut from patterned paper. The colour doesn't quite look right in the photo, but it is more of a rose colour. I popped up the layers on dimensional foam and adhered the rest of the dress and the hanger directly to the card base. I made the bow on the dress by copying my bow die from MFT.  The hanger was die cut from a piece of a silver chocolate box. It was a good weight and I liked the addition of the silver to the card - tied in nicely with the gem on the bow.

 

I would also like to enter my card in Love to Create Challenge - Let's Celebrate!  They are celebrating 1 year!! Congrats! 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a good day!



Pillow Box Gift Card Holder

I made this pillow box for my niece's (33rd) birthday instead of a card. I thought she might find it cute...?? She liked the Chapter's gift card inside. 

I am entering the pillow box in Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes challenge.

Have a good day!

World Map

Just a short post...

City Crafter Challenge Blog's challenge this week is It's a Small World.

I have this really nice map background stamp from Just Rite that I bought a while ago but hadn't used. I didn't realize how much I didn't like the word 'Travel' on the image until I tried using it. But, I fixed that on the birthday card for my husband. I just tore off most of the word and added Happy Birthday instead.

I coloured with my Copics, and distressed the edges with Tim Holtz Antique Linen and Walnut Stain. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches (it is my favourite Happy Birthday sentiment.)

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First challenge at Muse...

I have had quite a busy week and almost forgot that I have several birthday cards to make for this weekend. I was at school for the morning, so I've only had a little bit of time to work on them today. I took my inspiration for my first card from the new Muse Challenge Blog. It is their first challenge and I'm excited to be able to enter.
The beautiful inspiration card is from Amy Kolling:

I love her beautiful yellow flower. This inspired the card that I made for my sister-in-law. I used the poinsettia die from MFT to create the flower. I first stamped a damask pattern (IO) onto Neenah Solar white cardstock with Versa Magic Thatch Straw. I die cut them and distressed the edges with Walnut Stain. I then decided to add another layer of stamping to the flower. I used another IO stamp and Antique Linen  ink to have a subtle layer of writing on top of the damask print. I die cut the leaves from Echo Park patterned paper (sorry, I don't remember the name of the 6x6 pad).

The sentiment is from Paper Smooches - a set I got just before the holidays. I really like the 'happy birthday' font and size. It is hard to see the yellow in the photo - poor lighting on this cold, snowy day.

Please check out this new challenge blog! The current challenge ends at noon (EST) Saturday, so you still have a little time to enter!

Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

Bear Hugs

This week at CAS-ual Fridays, the challenge is to create a clean and simple card with a long edge and short edge - not standard size.

I made my card 2.5" x 5".

Have a great day!

Edit: I was a Contender for the challenge!! :)


Supplies:
Stamps: Paper Smooches, Lawn Fawn
Paper: Neenah
Copics
Doodlebug Twine

Honorable Gnome from Lawnscaping - Make it Shine challenge

Shortly before Christmas, I received my prize from Lawn Fawn (from a previous Lawnscaping Challenge). I was so excited to get it! I had to test it out right away. I made two step cards - the second one with more layers and gingerbread men/girls. :)

Since I used my flickr account to post the card and enter the challenge, I didn't really go into much detail about how I made it. Unfortunately, I can't remember the site I was at for the tutorial on it....I had planned to make the blog post right after the holidays.

I started by cutting and folding the step card, using Neenah solar white cardstock. I cut two sets of hills for each of the front two folds. I adhered the larger hills to the step card with scor-tape, and then popped up the smaller hills on dimensional foam. I frosted the edges of them with Martha Stewart glitter embossing powder. The back panel is another piece of Neenah cardstock that I stamped with my IO snowflake stamp and heat embossed. I used Tim Holtz distress inks for the sky (Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans). I coloured the images with Copics and trimmed the trees with a white gel pen.

To get the texture on the gingerbread house, I coloured the main part of the house with Copics and then stamped it with my Penny Black Paisley stamp - that I had misted with a little rubbing alcohol. Once it had dried, I coloured the rest of the house.

I created a gingerbread person for each member of my nephew's family. I just love this stamp set - it is so fun to use!

I was so excited to see that I had been chosen as one of the Honorable Gnomes for the challenge.

The current challenge at Lawnscaping is Let's Party! They are celebrating their 2nd birthday! The challenge ends on January 16th. I have many birthday cards that I need to make for January and February, so hopefully I can have one done in time to enter the challenge!

Have a great night!

Happy Holidays Card

My daughter needs two Chrismtas cards for tomorrow night - one for the Conductor (of Youth Strings) and one for the Co-ordinator. I had her look through a few of the cards I had already made (but haven't mailed out yet...) but then I decided to make some new cards. I found inspiration for this card at Maureen's blog. I liked her snowflake with the hexagon center, but wanted my snowflake to be more visible. I'm still working on the second card.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Snowflakes
Love to Create - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz Challenges - Christmas!!
PaperPlay Challenges - Christmas is Coming
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
The Ribbon Girl - Ho Ho Ho

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day. :)


Supplies Used:
Stamps: Christmas background (Stampendous), Sentiment (Hero Arts)
Dies: Wplus9, Spellbinders (hexagons), Sizzix (snowflake)
Inks: Antique Linen, Walnut Stain (TH Distress Inks)
Paper: Neenah Solar White, MME Merry
Ribbon, button, twine

Snowman Gift Tag for CAS-ual Friday's Challenge

Quick post before the kids start coming home...
I loved the turquoise and red colours from the Lawnscaping challenge so much, that I made a Christmas tag for the CAS-ual Friday's gift tag challenge:

 

 

I used my Hero Art's snowman stamp and die. I trimmed off part of the snowman to be flush with the bottom edge of the tag. The sentiment is stamped in Memento Tuxedo black ink and clear embossed. 

 



Have a good day!

Fabulous Colour Combo Challenge at Lawnscaping

This week's Lawnscaping Challenge has started and I'm so excited!! I just love the wonderful colour challenge:

 

I was inspired by all the beautiful creations by the Lawnscaping DT and went right to work creating a gift bag for the challenge.

 

 

I stamped the snowflakes on the bag in an ink shade a little lighter than the kraft bag. I used turquoise ink to colour some white paper and then misted my Penny Black Diamond Pattern stamp with some water and stamped in onto the turquoise paper. I just love the results (but the picture doesn't really show it very well.)  I stamped the Hero Arts sentiment in black (I tried turquoise, but it didn't look good). 

 

I paper-pieced the Lawn Fawn snowman and popped him up with some foam adhesive. I folded the top of the bag and tied a ribbon (from Michaels) around the top. I tried a bow, but felt the ribbon was too bulky.

 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great night! 





Tag Challenge at Lawnscaping

A quick post to enter my tag in the Lawnscaping Tag Challenge (which ends today!)

 

I wish I had made some more tags for this challenge, but I've been fighting a cough and cold for the last week and I've found it hard to create  very much. But, I am feeling a whole lot better and hope to get back to making some birthday and Christmas cards this week. :)



I used Lawn Fawn's Gnome Sweet Gnome and  Hats Off to You stamp set. The trees and sentiment are Hero Arts, the clouds are Memory Box, and the candy cane is from Paper Smooches.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a good day. :)

Rainbow Challenge DYSU

DYSU challenge #98 is Rainbow!

I used my Lawn Fawn stamp set, 'gnome sweet gnome'. I curved the sentiment and inked it up with a rainbow of colours.

 

 

I originally started with an idea of a tag (not rainbow related, but for the Lawnscaping Tag challenge), but couldn't fit the sentiment on it. As I looked at the sentiment, I started to curve it on the block and it reminded me of a rainbow - and I thought of the DYSU challenge! So a whole new idea came to mind. I messed up my original card (added flowers and then coloured them in - which didn't look good at all), but I was able to use the back of my original card, trim it down, stamp my sentiment and grass, distress it with some HA's Soft Pool ink and pop it up on some dimensional foam on a new card base. I finished off the inside with a cute little gnome and some tiny smiling mushrooms (again using my rainbow colours...pretty much.)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day. ;)

Hero Arts November Contest

I am so happy that I managed to get my new tag in before the deadline for the latest Hero Arts contest.

 

 

I used my awesome Hero Arts Snow Much Joy snowman and die for this tag (I can't help using it - it is so cute!)

 



I cut the tag (Tim Holtz Tag and Tie Die) twice using Neenah solar white cardstock. I embossed the tag base with my Sizzix snowflake embossing folder and distressed the raised snowflakes with my jumbo dauber and HA's Soft Pool ink. I trimmed the top off the second tag, and ripped the bottom off. I lightly 'coloured' both pieces with the same ink and stamped HA's Snowflake Tree on them. I also used the Soft Pool ink to colour my sheer ribbon and distress the edges of my sentiment banner (Wplus9 banner die).

I paper pieced the hat, holly leaves and scarf on the snowman. The paper is MME's Lost and Found Christmas (snowman's body), Echo Park Very Merry Christmas (hat), Kaiser Craft (leaves) and the scarf is just a scrap of neenah cardstock rubbed with Soft Pool ink.

I added some black enamel accents for the eyes, and glossy accents for the nose. Some shading was done with pencil crayons.

I really enjoyed making this snowman tag. I was quite happy with the embossed background and the perfect size of the snowflakes on the Snowflake Tree stamp.

I'd like to say thank you to my followers (some of which are fairly new) and others who comment on my blog, for their kind words.

Now that I'm done making the tags for the church bazaar (which sold out before we got to the bazaar to look around) I can hopefully start playing in some challenges again. :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Tags

Quick post this morning. I am getting ready to head off to school and I am dreading the horrible weather. The winds were strong overnight, and although they have mellowed since, it is still quite windy out there. I'm thankful it is not raining (yet).

I have been working on Christmas tags for the last few weeks (when I can find the time) and here are a few samples of what I have created. (The lighting in my house isn't the greatest for taking pictures at night, and there is no sunshine during this stormy weather - so I apologise for the poor picture quality.) I have made about 25 tags in total so far, but in these designs:

The first two use Hero Arts products for the image (Snow Much Joy, Winking Reindeer), die cut, and sentiment. The third one uses HA sentiment and Penny Black image (the wonder), and the last one uses Wplus9 stamps and die cut (pretty patches: trees).

I tried to work on some more last night, but using kraft for the tags, but I didn't like the results. Hopefully I will get back to make some more later tonight.

Have a good day (and stay safe from the storm, if it is in your area.)

The Play Date Cafe is Celebrating...

its 3rd anniversary!! The challenge ends soon, so check out their blog, here.

I tried to match the colours the best I could. I used my Tim Holtz distress inks. I did a little 'thumping' to combine the two ink colours for the sentiment. I thought it would make a cool effect on the card (give it the look of a flame, like the picture above.)

 

 

 

Everything on the card (except the inks and pencil crayons) is from Hero Arts.

 

I am also entering my card in the following challenges:

 

CAS-ual Fridays - Over the Edge (my large butterfly extends past the edge of the card.)

 

 





A Blog Named Hero - CAS card

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!



 

Christmas Tags



I was thinking about creating Christmas cards and tags for my church's Christmas Bazaar this year (instead of baking cookies). So I have been playing around with some different types of tags.

 

The first one uses some patterned paper from Penny Black's Madison 6x6 paper pad. The sentiment is from C.C. Designs Holiday Greetings. The tag die is from Tim Holtz; and I cut the bottom of the tag with a corner of my Spellbinders hexagon die.

 

 

My second tag uses a Spellbinders tag die. I used the cute hedgie from 'the wonder' by PB. He is coloured with Copics. 

 

The third tag uses PB's Tweet Christmas. I coloured it with my Copics and cut it out. I used a little strip of paper, behind the red ornament, to make sure it didn't get pulled off the tag since it was only barely attached to the tree once I cut it out. The background is stamped with an IO Wallpaper stamp in Versa Magic Thatch straw. Not sure if I like how bright the Thatch straw is though...

 

 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

 



boo!

With Halloween coming soon, I thought I would make a card using my Penny Black 'mimi halloween' stamp set. I coloured mimi with Copics and then cut her out. The dress is purple, but it's hard to see in my picture - looks more greyish than purple.

 

The background was created with a mask. I die cut a circle on some printer paper and used both parts as masks. I masked the sky first, so I could create moon. Then I masked the moon so I could use distress inks to create the night sky. I added the 'stars' with a glitter pen. The card shape was cut from Spellbinders postage stamp dies. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

 

 

I am entering my card in the following challenges:
Love to Create Challenge Blog: Trick or Treat or Something Sweet  
Papertake Weekly:  FRIGHT NIGHT ,,,,,,,, BOO
and
Allsorts Challenge Blog: Too Cute to Spook!

Thanks for stopping by!

Koala PJs

Recently, my daughter ordered a pair of pajamas from a company in Korea (through Ebay). We were very surprised when I checked the mail yesterday and it had arrived! I ordered a pair of jeans from Long Tall Sally and it took over a month (and after I sent a friendly 'where are my jeans' reminder email) to get them - and they were shipped from a location 2 hours away! Anyways, she is very excited and couldn't wait to try it on. She let me take a couple pictures of her and said I could post them.

:)