Happy Birthday

Hello everyone, today I am featuring a birthday card using the new We're Turning One Sparkle Blends!!  This blend is awesome!!!  I love the bright colors of it!  I used my Scan and Cut 2 to cut out the balloons for my shaker window.  The balloon is in the patterns on the scan n cut2, I just used it 3 times and resized it!  The little boy and girl are part of a cut apart from the pattern paper line I used called Circus Party from Carta Bella.  I had this paper in my stash and do not know if it is still available or not but it's wicked cute!!!

I used distress inks in the colors, Antique linen, Brushed Corduroy, and scattered straw to distress around the balloons.  I also use Antique lined to distress the outline of the the image of the children.  The red on the bottom of the card is the reverse side of the balloon paper behind the shaker part.  You will be seeing a lot of Birthday cards from me in the near future as I am making them to donate! 

Head on over to White Rose Crafts to find all the sparkle blends you could want and more!! 

Unwrap a Special Day

Hey,  Today I am showing a card I made for Doodles Paper Playground and for my sister's birthday!  Her birthday is the first part of December, as is mine, and I always make it a non holiday inspired card!!!  I've used the Majestic Sparkle Blend today!  The soft colors are wonderful for this!!! Don't forget that you can only find the limited edition Sparkle Blends at White Rose Crafts LLC.

I've used a wood grain background on this card and the pink patterned paper is from the Echo Park Jack and Jill 6x6 paper pad.  The stamps and sentiments from a Darice stamp set! Y'all there are tiny unicorn sequins in this blend!  Look towards the top of the shaker and you will see one!!  

I've stamped on the inside as well and colored everything with distress inks, in scattered straw, spun sugar, and picked raspberry!  

Thanks for going me today!  

Happy Turkey Day

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!  I hope you are having a wonderful day!  Today I am sharing a cardI made just for today!  I have made a shaker card using 2 different sequins from Doodles Paper Playground!  I used the Gingerbread Man blend from the current release and also the Flaming Sunset Blend!  YALL this flaming sunset blend is AWESOME!!!!  LOVE LOVE LOVE it!  I mean I know I love a lot of the blends, but this one I am IN LOVE with!!!  You will see why!  

I used the Turkey Day stamp set from Lawn Fawn and some Echo Park Celebrate Autumn patterned paper for the card today! 

I cut the sentiment apart, but I promise it did not hurt the stamp!  It told me so!  lol

LOOK, those tiny pink pearls, and the flowers and the tiny gingerbread men AACCCKKK!!!!

Thanks for joining me today!  Have a wonderful day! 

Don't forget that you can only find the limited edition Sparkle Blends at White Rose Crafts LLC. 

Semi Explosion Box

Hey guys,

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Today I am sharing my last project for the Stampendous 31 Days of Halloween and I am super sad about that!  I have had so much fun and greatly appreciate Laura and all the Design Team for having me as a guest this month!

Isn't this 31 Days of Halloween Hop a blast!!!  I am loving it!!  To start at the beginning of today's hop please head here!  Also remember to add your Family Friendly Halloween project to the inlinkz below for your chance to win some prizes! There are also prizes for random comments on all the participating blogs throughout the whole month!! All the rules and regulations can be found here!

My last project is a Semi Explosion Box, no I am not blowing up a truck!  I have made an explosion box, but I didn't want it to just go every where so I made a semi booming one!!  LOL

This video shows how to assemble the inside piece for the lipgloss.

To make this project you need 4 pieces of card stock total, 3 for the box and one for the lid,  for the box you need a piece of cardstock that measures 9 3/4 square scored at 3 1/4 one each side, you need another piece of card stock that measures 8 1/4 square scored at 2 3/4 on each side, and on the last piece for the box you need 2 pieces, one that measures 6 3/4 square scored at 2 1/4 on each side, also from that piece you need a 3 inch square score at 1/4 and 1/2 on all sides doe the inside.

Once you have burnished all of the score lines, cut the 4 outer squares so that your cardstock looks like a plus sign!

For the lid you need a piece of cardstock that measures 4 1/4 square scored at 1/2 on each side using the tick mark on your score board... not butted up against the side but about a 1/16 of an inch away!!

Here is the video for this box. 

I have used every stamp set that Laura sent me this month on this box, which is why I like it the most, not to mention the surprise inside this one!!!  It is so super cute and I show it in the video!!! 

Supplies used for this project are:

Recollections 110 lb cardstock

Stampendous Stamp Set Little Monsters
Stampendous Stamp Set Batty Cat
Stampendous Die Set Batty Cat
Stampendous Stamp and Die Set Halloween Hats
Stampendous Stamp and Die Set Sugar Skull
Love Nicole paper pad

Stampendous 31 Days of Halloween Link Up - Click Here

Spooktacular Chapstick Holder

Isn't this 31 Days of Halloween Hop a blast!!!  I am loving it!!  To start at the beginning of today's hop please head here!  Also remember to add your Family Friendly Halloween project to the inlinkz below for your chance to win some prizes! There are also prizes for random comments on all the participating blogs throughout the whole month!! All the rules and regulations can be found here!


Today I am showing a chapstick holder.  I found this amazing chapstick at target and it is supposed to make your lips buzz so I had to get it.  I am going to give this to my son-in-law and I know he will love it!!!

It's called Lip Freak and it says it will freak your lips out with the buzzing!!!  I am super excited to see if it does!!

Here is the finished project, I love the Sugar Skull set from Stampendous!!

For todays project you need a piece of cardstock that measures 7 1/8 x 3 7/8.

Score the 7 1/8 side @ 2 5/8, 3 1/4, 5 7/8, and 6 1/2

Score the 3 7/8 side @ 5/8 and 3 1/4

Patterned paper needed:

(1) 2 1/2 " square

(3) 1/2 x 2 1/2 

Please go here to see the coordinating video I have made to show how to trim the score line to make this box!!

Supplies used today are :

Stampendous Stamp and Die Set: Sugar Skulls

Recollections 110 LB cardstock in black

Pebbles Midnight Haunting 6x6 paper pad

Stampendous 31 Days of Halloween Link Up - Click Here

Tea Box Halloween Style

Isn't this 31 Days of Halloween Hop a blast!!!  I am loving it!!  To start at the beginning of today's hop please head here!  Also remember to add your Family Friendly Halloween project to the inlinkz below for your chance to win some prizes! There are also prizes for random comments on all the participating blogs throughout the whole month!! All the rules and regulations can be found here!

Today I am making a box that will hold 4 tea bags for that person, or people in your life that love hot tea!!

You will need an envelope punch board (EVPB) for part of this project!

Starting with the EVPB and 4 pieces of patterned paper measuring 5x5 make your first punch and score @ 2 3/8 then follow the score lines around until you have punched and scored all 4 sides of each piece of paper.

For the inside of the wrap you need a piece of card stock measuring: 4" x 3".  Score the 4" side every 1/2 inch... so... 1/2, 1, 1 1/2, 2, 2 1/2, 3, and 3 1/2.

Here is a video that shows you how to assemble the box!

Supplies used today:

Stampendous Stamp Set Batty Cat
Stampendous Die set Batty Cat
Recollections Cardstock
Pebbles Midnight Haunting 6x6 paper pad

Stampendous 31 Days of Halloween Link Up - Click Here

Scarecrows and Turkeys Oh My!

More fall decorations for you today!!!  I think these are so cute, I just love them!  I find that painting is therapy for me!!  and it doesn't always have to be something extravagant!!

These are simple wood pieces that I got at my local wood creations shop!

WOW!!!

Thank you everyone for joining me this past month and commenting on all my posts everyday!!!  You all are awesome!!  Now grab some apple cider or coffee or tea or whatever you want an get ready for some fall projects!!!

As most of you know, I have recently moved from the east coast to Idaho!  That in and of itself was quite daunting!  BUT,,,, somewhere along the way with the purging of the house to get it on the market and the moving, I lost some mojo and some decorations!!!  Somehow all my fall decorations disappeared!!  I don't know if they accidentally got added to one of the 10 goodwill trips, or what but they are gone.  So instead of going out and purchasing all new stuff I made a lot of things and am still making a lot of things!  

Here is the first thing I made, when I saw this patterned paper I had to have it and then I had this ugly pumpkin I got from the dollar general store and I didn't want to put it out but what choice did I have?  Until I decided to put them together!!!  This is the cute result of that, along with some old book paper! 

12 Days day 8 and Dilly Beans Challenge

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a card I made using a Dilly Beans image, 2 actually, Ruby's Candycane and the 3 presents... I cannot explain to you how much I love Ruby, almost as much as I love the Dunce Cap skellies.  There is just something about them that I can't explain!!!  Anyway This card is made using patterned paper from Echo Park Holly Jolly Christmas collection, cardstock in pink and turquoise and prismacolor pencils!  

 

Remember to leave me some love and to visit the other bloggers and leave them love for your chance to win that $100 shopping spree!!!

Day 6 of 12

Hello Lovelies,  today I have for you a cute little card I made using a cute little dilly beans image called Ruby.  She is going traditional today (color wise anyway)!! LOL  Well I guess if you can throw black into traditional colors she is traditional! 

She is colored with my prismacolor pencils.  And a permapaque marker by sakura.  Her background papers are from the Teresa collins Christmas Home collection. 

 

Remember to leave me some love and to visit the other bloggers and leave them love for your chance to win that $100 shopping spree!!! The Blog Roll is on the side bar and will remain there until the end of the month!!! Please look there for the next blog!!!

Day 5 of 12

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you another tag I made for another gift.  This one I used some of my Tim Holtz images I got on clearence last year.  This tag was cut from patterned paper, just a vintage with very tone on tone pattern, then I used tea dye distress ink to make it a little more and stamped my images with Fired Brick distress ink.  The little image charm came from the little envie of goodies I got last year in a swap!!!

Remember to leave me some love and to visit the other bloggers and leave them love for your chance to win that $100 shopping spree!!! The Blog Roll is on the side bar and will remain there until the end of the month!!! Please look there for the next blog!!!

Dilly Beans Challenge Traditional Colors

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a card I made for the newest Dilly Beans challenge Traditional Christmas colors.  As you all know if you saw any of my posts for 31 days I love this image from Dilly Beans..Dunce Cap Skellies.... and I said in one of those posts that I couldn't wait to play with this one for christmas as well!!! SOOOOOOO I did!  I took those dunce cap skellies and turned them into christmas skellies!!!  LOVE LOVE LOVE it!  I don't say that often about my own stuff but I love this card!!!  The words on the patterned paper and the skellies, it is quite simple but has great impact I think..... The patterned paper is from Teresa collins the Christmas Home collection....

 

A Very Merry Steampunk Holiday

Hello Lovelies,  today is super special for me... My friend and fellow APDT member Leslie Rahye has decided to have a Holiday Blog hop... What's special about this one, well it's steampunk of course.  We could do anything we liked with a steampunk theme so I decided to do a Snowman/Top Hat!!  Now my vision for this is to make a paper mache snowman to wear this hat!  No it's not done yet because I just thought of it so it's still a work in progress(the snowman) but the Hat is done.  I found these paper mache top hats at Michaels in October and snatched up a couple before they were gone.  Not really having any clue as to what I wanted to do with them then I heard about this blog hop and knew what one was going to be!!! I hope to be done with my snowman before christmas but if you have ever made your own paper mache items(big ones at that) then you know it takes a while to get them done. 

 

That key paper is tissue paper I got from Michael's it comes in a 5 pack... it's by recollections.  The band is some printed canvas also by recollections from Michales. 

 

The tiny gears are from Tim Holtz. The clear beads are dew drops.  They circle the band.

 

There is a double layers poinsetta with some greenery from the craft store as well.

 

 

Be sure to visit everyone and leave some love!!!  Cause everyone needs some love!!! 

12 Days Day 3

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a card I made using a cute little image from of course Dilly Beans... I have no idea why I like these images so much right now but I do!!! Anyway I thought I would take this image and turn her into a cute little christmas card! 

I colored her with my prismacolor pencils and highlighted some spots with the sakura glaze pens.  Mounted her on turquoise card stock and used my sakura glaze pen to do the little edging on that and the card.  The patterned paper came from AC Moore last year and I can't remember the company...sorry... the words were printed from my computer and mounted onto turquoise card stock as well... 

Remember to leave me some love and to visit all the other bloggers for 12 days for your chance to win that $100 shopping spree!!!

So Much Going ON!!!!!!!!

Hello Lovelies, Holy Heck dude can you believe it is December already????  Where did this year go?  So much happening this month not to mention today!  First off it's the beginning of 12 Days of Creepmas with Smeared and Smudged...  It's a new challenge over at Dilly Beans Pop It Up... and it's my BIRTHDAY!!!!!  yep I am 40 today and I am loving it!!! 

Ok so for creepmas we bloggers have committed to posting one christmas/creepmas project for 12 days in December.  We start today and go everyother day until the 23rd.  So today I have for you a card I made using a Dilly Beans image and saying.  Mounted on some patterned papers from echo park the Holly Jolly christmas collection and Christmas Home by Teresa collins.  I colored my image with my prismacolor pencils of course and colored the edge with sakura gelly pens.  She is popped up as are the words!

This is what happens when you don't make sure you have pop dots before sitting down to make a project..... you have to use the left overs from the pop dot page... LOL  either way it's popped up!!

 

So remember that this is a hop and it will be awesome for you and for me if you come back every other day and comment on all the bloggers posts!!!  You could win a $100 shopping spree from Smeared Ink if you do!!!

 

The Blog Roll is on the side bar and will remain there until the end of the month!!!  Please look there for the next blog!!!

Bombshell Hump Day Hop

Hello Lovelies, today is the day... The one we wait all month for! The Bombshell Stamps Hump Day Hop!!! Here is what our lovely Ms. Alison had to say about this months hop:

 

Greetings, Bombshell Fans! It's time to announce the November Hump Day Hop! Since many of us are getting ready to think about cooking for Thanksgiving, I thought it would be fun to have a recipe challenge! Ingredients: 3 Patterned Papers 2 Bombshell Stamps images 1 Piece of Ribbon

 

I used 3 Pattern papers from the Holly Jolly Christmas collection from Echo Park Paper Co. Love that set! My 2 stamps were from the bombshell stamp sets A Pirates Life and from the Gingerbread Pin-Up digi set.  My ribbon is some I found in my stash while I was in that portion of my month long purge and says Happy Holidays on it...I really don't know where I got it from sorry!

Now having missed the sketch challenge on it's scheduled date for personal reasons I have done my card following the sketch Kathi made this month!

Remember that if you started here to head over to the Bombshell blog to start at the beginning and to leave love for everyone for your chance to win some awesome prizes!!!

 

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com
Susie: http://whiteribboncards.blogspot.co.uk
Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/
Mari: http://mariscreativerazzledazzle.blogspot.de/
Glittery Kate: http://ferrishyn-frontier.blogspot.com
Jodi: http://www.elamdesign33.blogspot.com/
Torrey: http://left-field-studio.blogspot.com/
Jenn: http://stampinangeljenn.blogspot.com/
Kim: http://www.craftypinkanchor.blogspot.com
Kelli: http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com
Cassie: http://www.casbacreations.blogspot.com/
Stempelientje: http://stempelientje.blogspot.com
Kathi: http://kathstales.blogspot.com

DICC challenge 42

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a card I made for the DICC challenge #42 using a steampunk image I had printed out and I am sorry I can't remember who it is from but if you know please let me know so I can credit the company!!!! I HAVE NOW FOUND OUT THE IMAGES ARE FROM SASSY STUDIO!!!      I thought it was great! 

Here is the itinerary:

1. Christmas

2. Green/Red (main colours)

3. Shaped Cards

4. Twine

5. Buttons

6. Sparkle

7. Kraft Paper

8.Stitching - real/faux

9. Pearls

10. Flowers

 

Now for the challenge you have to use at least 3 of the list.   I used 6...

#'s 1 ,2, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

 

Let me know what you think...

Isn't that a cute image??? I colored my image with my prismacolor pencils!  Where's the mistletoe you ask?  Look down...

See, there it is nestled in the background with a definition and everything! Right along with the kraft cardstock that the patterned paper and image are mounted on!!!

Every girl needs some sparkly stockings and garter belts!!! Just sayin...

 

 

 

Day 25 of 31 and Bombshell Release

Hello Lovelies, today I have for you a witches hat I decorated with patterned paper, black roses, and a paper rosette with a moon and stars stamp on it.   Right now it's just part of a centerpiece but I have been thinking of doing something else with it....My question for you is how would it look if I snipped off some of the top so that I could add flowers coming out of it....real flowers as there would be a small vase under it, all you would see would be the flowers..... Let me know what you think about that....

 

Bombshell Stamps has two new sets to share with you!!!  They are called Indian Princess and Indian Warrior!  Here is a little ATC with an image from Indian Warrior.  There are so many more projects made with both new sets on the Bombshell Blog that you HAVE to go and see them!!!  There will also be a new release blog hop on the 28th of this month so that we can showcase more images from the two new sets!!!  So head on over to the Bombshell blog to see what the other Bombshell's have made for you and to see these two new wonderful sets!!!!!

 

 

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Day 24 of 31

Hello lovelies, today I have for you this little "plaque" I made using images from moonlight journey and letters from inkadinkado!  Ok, it's really 3x3 canvases covered with patterned paper images and letters, then hot glued together.  I added some of that witch ribbon to the top and some black ribbon to the sides!  So I use the term "plaque" loosely but it works!!!!

Day 22 of 31

Hello Lovelies, today I have a very quick, very easy little project to show you.  I made these little candy holders for the kids friends so needed something that would go quickly....

A stamp, some of last years Tim Holtz kraft halloween paper and a paper mache tombstone...there you have it...a quick little treat holder.  These tombstones came in packs of 4 at michaels so I just grabbed a whole lot of them and we went to town....

Just a quick simple little gift and we all had fun making them!!!

 

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