Teacher~First Day of School Treats

Hi everyone!

I have another project to share with you today!

But if you are looking for my This to That Challenge #4 with The Digi Bistro please click here.

Back to school time for my boys today and I wanted to make something little for them to take to their teachers :) ~ Nothing like a little kiss up right from the beginning right!?!?!

This is what I made for them....

I made Milk Cartons  using a file from The Cutting Cafe.

Not too long ago Regina had a special...all the milk cartons for one price...yup I jumped at the chance and purchased them all.

This is the plain one I cut out on paper from Me & My Big Idea's

The background frame is cut from Gypsy Wanderings at 2.6" and then stamped with SU Petite Patterns in Mellow Moss Ink

The apple is from Create a Critter, cut at 1.96" and stamped with PK~491 Everyday Character Faces

I did add some white gel pen to the faces and Creative Inspirations Paint in Winter Frost.

The tag was cut from The Digi Bistro's Tag It! SVG file at 2.5" and inked with Mellow Moss, painted with Winter Frost and stamped with Memento Ink~Afterthoughts sentiments from SU.

The whole this was put together with red line tape, filled with Hershey bars and tied up with Martha Stewart Fern Seam Binding.

Hope the teachers enjoy their treats :)

I am entering this into the following Challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut~Challenge Me Monday #76~ABC's/123's
Peachy Keen Challenge~Let's Face it Friday~ Back to School
Creative Inspirations Paints~Back to School
CCCC#30~Gypsy Wanderings

Thanks for stopping by and see you all tomorrow for another Whimsical Wednesday Challenge!

Happy Birthday w/ Paper Smooches

Morning Everyone!

I hope you are all having a great weekend!

This is it...the last few days before my kiddo's go back to school and we are trying to get all the last minute preparations in order, labeling supplies~packing bags and picking out the outfits!

My boys have had quite a few birthday parties these last few weeks and yesterday was the last of the summer.

I made this super easy and very simple card for the birthday boy.

I used a freebie digi from Paper Smooches and printed and colored the cupcake with my copics.

I added some stickles to the top and a red candi for the cherry.

I cut the entire image out and attached to an A2 size card.

Stamped my sentiment underneath and I was done.

(Sorry about the BAD picture....I have yet to figure out how to photo good!)

I am entering this into the following Challenges:

Birthday Sundaes~ birthday sentiment

The Paper Players~ #62 birthdays

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!

Birthday Card for Birthday Sundaes: Challenge #21~ Another Bugaboo Image

Hi Everyone!

It is Sunday and usually we have something planned...some sort of job around the house to get done but today is a LAZY day~ at least for me and I have been crafting all day.

Most of what I have been doing is DT work that I cant share at the moment but I did squeeze in some time to make a challenge card.

I know...Halloween is a ways away but I just love this skelekinz~Birthday digi from Bugaboo.

I colored her with my copics (I think my cricut is jealous...my copics have been getting tons of love lately) and layered her on a new paper stack I just picked up at Joanne's.

Cloud 9 Designs~Seasonal Stack.

The entire pack is Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas paper.

I stamped the "boo" with Fiskars Halloween Night Stamp Set

and the "birthday girl" with MPS Pinka-licious Stamp Set.

I added some homemade skittles and distressed the papers with my Tim Holtz paper distresser.

So there you have it...

I will enter this into the following Challenges:

Birthday Sundae's~ Challenge #21
Catch the Bug Challenge~ Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT night!!

Birthday Sundaes/M.A.G by the Page and An Award :)

Good Morning Bloggers!

I hope you all had a fun filled weekend!

I made a card today for 2 challenges~

Birthday Sundaes~Summery colors~~white/green/orange

&

M.A.G Challenge by the Page~ Simply Charmed Cartridge page 39

My A2 card is on a white base with a green layer and another white layer.

I cut my flower out at 5" and hid the face so I could stamp my own PKS~Simple Sallies Face.

I used my white gel pen for some doodling and attached my sentiment with a fun square paperclip.

The sentiment is one I won from The Cutting Cafe. It is from the Everyday 1" Circle Greetings.

The corners were missing something so I added some bling in orange as well.

I am so honored to accept this award from

Diana over at DL.ART and Tiffany over at Sparkled Memories.

Thank you ladies!! Please make sure you go over and check out these excellent blogs! Both ladies are so very talented and I know you will find loads of inspiration on both blogs!

There are no rules to this award but I am still going to pass it along to some well deserving and "Stinkin Cute" favs of mine!

Brigit ~Brigit's Scraps

Adrian~By Adrian 4 U

Cheryl~Cards by CG

Chloe~Chloe and her Clip on Koalas

Cindy~Cindy's Little Creations

Donna~Donna's Dreamworks

Stacy~Love that Bug

Carlene~Me n' Miss Pink Cricut

Janis~Pause Dream Enjoy

Tami~Tami's Craft Connection

Please check out these super talented and so stinkin cute blogs!!

Thanks again to Tiffany and Diana! You ladies are GREAT!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT day :)

Happy Birthday~~ Red, White and Blue Style and an Award :)

Morning Blogger!



I have another challenge card to share with you :)

This time I made a cricutless (yikes) card using my spellbinders die, a circle punch and a star punch!

I made this card for My Creative Times~Throwback Thursday challenge following this sketch

 And  for Birthday Sundae~Stars and Stripes

I hope you like it!

I just received an award from Raquel over at Raquel's Designs! Thanks so much Raquel!!

Please stop by her blog, give her some love and see all she has been up too!

To receive this I have to post 7 things about me and pass it a long to 8 blogger friends , so here goes:

1. I love to shop :)

2. I only buy things on clearance....I love searching out a good deal

3. I'm a HUGE True Blood Fan~~Tonight's the night!!

4.I love to read! Right now I'm reading Lindsey Sands

5.I very rarely watch TV~~rather craft or read

6. So far I have reached my goal of crafting everyday :)...going to try REALLY hard with the kids home this summer to continue

7. Simple is better in my eyes

8. I love blogging and visiting other's in the blogging world...So much GREAT inspiration!

I'm passing this on to the following blogs:

Everyone who regularly visits! You all make my day with all your sweet comments and kind words!

Without each and everyone of you I would not be where I am today....sharing my work with confidence!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a GREAT day!!

 

Birthday Card~~Sketch and Embossing

Afternoon Bloggers!

I have a card to share with you as well as a reqest.....For the request, if you could please find the time to pop over the the Papercraft Star blog and vote for my card. It is #1. I would be soooooo appreciative :)
Thanks bunches...you have till 6am tomorrow to vote.

Next I have a card to share that I made for 3 challenges.
Birthday Sundaes , 365 Cards and CropStop.

For the Birthday Sundaes challenge we were to use wet or dry embossing and the 365 Cards challenge was a sketch. CropStop's challenge, twice as much fun is to use 2 embossing folders in your project.

The background paper is from Jillibean Soup and the rest is from my scrap. The Circle I cut at 3" using George and Basic Shapes and the cake is from Simply Charmed cut at 2.5"

I embossed the circle with my cuttlebug and a birthday folder and the icing~divine swirls, flames~~herringbone.

The sentiment is from fiskars stamps.

That's all I have for now....remember if you haven't entered my 300 follower giveaway you have until this Friday~June 17th to enter :)

Now off to make dinner and then to play some ball....Have a GREAT night everyone :)

Twisted Easel Card~~ Birthday Wishes

Hi Bloggers!

This is my last post for today. I have been B~U~S~Y today.

Working outside in the sunshine and craftin' in between :)

I was watching a tutorial on Cardz TV with Mary on how to make this twisted easel card. As I was blog hopping I found a bunch of challenges that I thought would fit this card.

My first time making one of these cards and I have to say that besides being really easy to make, they look awesome when completed!

~~here is my completed card open~~

~~~my card closed~~

So what do you think?

I really love how this turned out....especially for my first attempt.

So for the details:

The card is an A2 size with both inside and outside mat measuring 4" x 5 1/4".

The cut is from Simple Charmed and it was cut at 3". I hid the face and instead added some white stitching. To add dimension to the cake I popped up the 1st layer as well as the candles and flames.

The banner is a stamp and inside the banner I stamped 4 U. They are strung with red bakers twine.

The inside of the card is very simple. The sentiment is from Fiskars and that too is up on foam dots with some stitching around the mat. There was originally just going to be buttons that were used to hold open the card but I liked how the stamped image raised worked better.

I also added another smaller mat to add another birthday note.

There you have it...my first attempt and for sure not my last with the twisted easel card.

This card is for the following challenges:

Catered Crop- FTR #13

Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog- Something on a Spool

Getting Cricky- Simply Sunday Challenge~Banner

Birthday Sundaes-#11 Masculine Birthday

Bitten By the Bug 2- Birthday Cake

Thanks for stopping by and see you all tomorrow :)

Scrap Paper Clean Up, Copic Marker Storage Solution & A Card :)

It is a crappy day here....raining like CRAZY and flood watches all around.

What to do on a Sunday like this....play with paper of course :)

I thought my boys would be beating eachother up by now but they are playing sooo good with Legos. I really love days like this! Everyone is happy and I am getting tons done! (I still have a long list  but slowly things are getting done)

I wanted to share a tip that I saw over at DoubleClick Connections-AKA ABusyBee. Carrie had a GREAT tip on using all that scrap designer paper which I am sure we all have a ton of!
Cut it all down to the size you use the most for your cards. I make alot of A2 cards so I cut my scrap down to 4 x 5 1/4. (Alittle smaller that the standard A2 size which is  4 1/4 x 5 1/2)

ended up with this :)

started with this

Now I only went through 1/4 of my paper but already I feel like I can create so much with what I already have cut down.

This is the card I created from my scrap find! I really love this paper and you sometimes tend to forget what you have laying around when the scrap piles get really big...like mine.
The paper is K & Company Faded China Paper Pad and the card is an A2 base with the pattern paper cut at 4 x 5 1/4. I added a simple black ribbon and made my own stick pins (again another tip from Carrie)
I made a rosette with the coordinating paper and stamped the sentiment with My Pink Stamper's Pinka-licious set.
I am going to enter this card over at Birthday Sundaes-use at least 3 circles

Lastly I was searching for a better way to store my growing collection of copics without spending the big bucks and being able to see all the colors in their grouping better. I think I found the perfect solution.

I found these pencil boxes at Target today. They came in 3 different colors and I bought one of each color. They have 4 divided sections and I used a small binder clip to hold them all together. Then I was able to separate by color and see what I have. I will go back and get at least another one...there are a few colors together because I ran out of room. I really love the find and the solution!!
Thanks for stopping by and see you all tomorrow :)

Happy Birthday Cupcake---Floating Cupcake Card

Good Morning Bloggers!!
First I want to thank everyone who left me such "sweet" comments on my post yesterday. I had a GREAT time making the ice cream cake pops and sharing them with everyone. Your comments like all comments we receive really made my day....So Thanks Again!!
Today I wanted to share this birthday card I made. I recently came across this awesome blog..My Craft Spot and she did a tutorial on how she made her floating candle card. I of course had to give it a try. Mine is a floating cupcake :)
I did have to play around with the dimensions on my gypsy and once I figured it all out I was good...lots of trial and error.
The base is George and Basic Shapes welded together to measure 5 1/2 x 4 1/4. I added a rectangle cut into the middle of the base and then into the middle of the top layer. This is where my trial and error was.
The cupcake is from the Simply Charmed Cart and it was cut at 1.75 as well as all the layers. (you need 2 shadow cuts for this...one for the front and onc to cover that back). The birthday sentiment is also from simply charmed and that is cut at 2".
I stamped his face with a PKS...alittle too big for this cupcake but I still think it is cute
I added stickles to the candles, home made skittles to the corners, some bakers twine to the side and alittle stitching around the outside.
I really like how this came out!!
Hope you do too :)

I am entering this into:
Birthday Sundaes- Challenge #8 Recipe

"It's Your Birthday" Card and Bottle Swap Goodies

Good Morning Blogging buddies!

I am back in the swing of things, trying to get my cards made and replenish some of the cards I have used in the past few days. I really need to make some more Easter Cards as well...so many projects so little time to get them all done :)

Here is a birthday card I just finished. I used the Bargello technique that I found on Splitcoaststamper. I have added the link here for the tutorial. It is another great way to use up scraps...which like me I am sure we all have tons!

Recipe for this card is:

Cricut Cartridge--Celebrations for the cupcake
Paper- Misc Scraps
Sentiment- stamp from Fiskars Birthday Cheer
Twine- from local stamp store
Adhesives- Foam dots, ATG gun, liquid adhesive
Stickles- multi colors for cupcake and candle
Cuttlebug- herringbone-for cupcake holder, swiss dots for cupcake

Entering into the following Challenges:
Birthday Sundaes--Anything Goes

Just wanted to share the other bunch of goodies I received for the bottle swap I participated in. It is so much fun to give and receive goodies in the mail and I definitely want to do this again! I cant wait to create something with these :)



I did it Again :) Patchwork Lion Birthday Card

 

I am loving this Patchwork pattern design! It is such a GREAT way to use up scraps and create something COOL!
Here is my second post of the day. My patchwork lion. Isn't he too cute. I really LOVE the way he came out.
I made this as a birthday card for my good friend son for his 1st birthday. I know she will love it and so will her son :)

I am going to try and put together a picture tutorial for tomorrow's post on the step by step to creating the patchwork design.

I am entering this into the following Challenges:
Birthday Sundaes- Anything Goes
Chloe and Her Clip on Koalas- Anything with a Smile
Cooking with Cricut- Lion or a Lamb
365 Cards- MNO

Be back tomorrow :)

Birthday Sundaes Challenge Blog

I found a new challenge blog...Birthday Sundaes.  Here is the details...I love making birthday cards so I'm super excited about this! They are also giving away some candy so make sure you pop over!
A little about the new challenge blog:Birthday Sundaes is a weekly challenge blog beginning March 20, 2011.  The goal of Birthday Sundaes is to build up those birthday card stashes!  I just love to make birthday cards and hope you do too! Types of challenges Birthday Sundaes will be hosting are color, supply, recipe, inspiration & technique challenges incorporated into birthday themed cards.