Thrifty Thursday w/MCT and a Winner!

Good morning everyone and welcome to 

My Creative Time's Thrifty Thursday.

A day set aside to share any type of project using our scraps/leftovers or recycling items using My Creative Time stamps and dies!

With the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, I thought for my project today I would use up some of my Red, White and Blue card~stock scraps to a make a card in honor of  all those brave men and women who fight every day to keep us safe. 
I hope you like it.....

For my card I started with a navy blue card~stock base and following the sketch for the current CASE(E) this Sketch (pic down below) went about cutting my layers. I recently picked up this beautiful star vellum paper and couldn't wait to give it a try. After cutting my white and red card~stock down to size, I added a piece of the star vellum as an overlay and stitched it to the white and red card~stock layer.
Placing those layers aside, I stamped my sentiment from the Happy Homecoming stamp set and then heat embossed it using some white embossing powder from Creative Inspirations Paint.
I then attached my card~stock mat to the front of my card. Finally I die cut some Stitched Stars in the matching papers, attached them to my card front using some foam pop dots and added a few randomly placed sequins.

So what do you think?????

Making projects with all those scraps has never been easier...LOL! Especially with the adorable MCT dies and stamps!

Supplies Used:

Paper~ Navy, White, Red scraps

Vellum~Boys Rule (unknown manufacture)

Stamps~ My Creative Time~Happy Homecoming

Dies~ My Creative Time~3 Star Stitched Dies

Embellishments~ Sequins, Sewing Machine

white embossing powder

WINNER WINNER!!

thank you all for leaving me comments on my blog the other day! I appreciate you all stopping by and always supporting me!

Using Random.Org the lucky winner for a coffee on me is.....

Jennifer 
May 19, 2014 at 4:34 AM
Hi Jessica,
Love your cute gift card holder!!! :) Hard to imagine you were able to out it together so quickly! 
Thank you for sharing!
Crafty hugs,
Jennifer

Congrats Jennifer! Please email me your address and I will send out your gift card!!
eschfamily@yahoo.com

Now for a few last minute reminders......

~~New Release from My Creative Time is coming soon too~~

Hope you will join us starting on Monday 5/26 for a week of awesome sneaks and then on Friday 5/30 for the New Release Blog Hop!!!

I know you are all going to LOVE this new release!!!!

Don't forget about the new  MCT Challenge going on now!

CHALLENGE DETAILS:

~ All you have to do is create a project of YOUR choice using this color palette:

~ Deadline for this challenge is Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at midnight PST!

~ Link up your projects to Mr. Linky over on the MCT blog HERE

~ Last HAPPY CRAFTING! I can't wait to see all of your entries for the FUN challenge!

Make sure you head on over to My Creative Time to see what the rest of the DT made!
I know the inspiration is AWESOME!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT Thursday!
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Entering this into the following challenges:
CAS(E) this Sketch

Be Re~Inspired #29......{TAWS}

Good Morning Everyone!!

It is Re-Inspire time over at

The Alley Way Stamps!

Our challenge is this fun inspiration photo...

yours to interpret anyway you want

So once you create a project using any TAWS

come link it up over HERE

(don't have any TAWS stamps....did you know there are freebies you can check out HERE)

The Top Pick will be hand picked and will receive 1 free stamp sets of their choice, and a badge to proudly display on their blog.

One Random winner will receive 1 free stamp set of their choice, and a winners badge to proudly display on their blog..

Here is my card and hopefully some more inspiration

With Memorial Day just passing, Flag Day and the 4th of July quickly approaching, this inspiration photo was the perfect on to use with the new release Good Point stamp set.

I stamped several times the arrow with the stars into a chevron pattern and then colored a few of the stars within each stamped image using my copic markers. To keep the card on the CAS design but still add some addition red/white and blue colors I added some Trendy Twine in one of my FAVORITE twists~ Stars and Stripes.

Finally I stamped my sentiment using the Wish BIG stamp set and attached all my layers onto my Kraft Cardstock base.

  

Well that is all I have for you this morning!

Check out The Alley Way Stamps for more inspiration and we would LOVE to see you play along!!

Hope you all have a GREAT day and thanks so much for stopping by!!

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Reminders!!

You know there is always a lot going on over at TAWS

~our Be Inspired Challenge

~TAWS freebie's HERE

~TAWS FB page HERE where we love to see your creations!

and

~the store where you can purchase all these adorable stamps HERE

Make sure to check out May's New Release stamps...they are AWESOME!!
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Entering this into the following Challenges:
The Pink Elephant~ Stars and Stripes
Craftin Desert Divas~ Ribbon or Twine
Simon Says Stamps~ Anything Goes
Ribbon Carousel Blog~ Celebrations

Red, White and Blue........{The Kraft Journal}

Good Morning and Happy Monday everyone!!!

It is time for a new challenge over at

 The Kraft Journal!

This week's challenge is... 

Red, White and Blue

seeing that my son will be celebrating his 10th birthday in just a few weeks I used this week's

Seize The Birthday 

sketch

and came up with this fun birthday card...

So here is what I did.... I started out with a Brown Kraft Cardstock base and added a mat of Peebles Let Freedom Ring pattern paper.  Using my cameo and a star file from the Silhouette store, I cut 2 stars....one using the kraft and another one using some Bazzill blue. Since there is no white in my pattern paper, I added some white gel pen doodles (wanted to make sure I was following TKJ challenge) Again since this is for my son's 10th birthday I added the number's "1" and "0" using Tim Holtz Mini Numerals and popping them up using some foam adhesive.

Moving onto the sentiment and embellishments.. 

I wanted my sentiment to be on some Cream Twill Tape , so I stamped The Alley Way Stamp Wish BIG birthday sentiment using  Stazon Black Ink directly onto the ribbon. Didn't it turn out awesome????? To finish my card up I added one of my favorite embellishments from The Kraft Outlet~ the Custom Fasteners. Two of the stickers that come with this set were a perfect match to my card!

So there you have it....my inspiration for this week's challenge.

I hope you have enjoyed my card and will play along with us!

As always I have linked all the supplies I used from The Kraft Outlet throughout my description.  If you have not checked out the store yet....make sure you do! There is so much available, the prices are so reasonable and shipping is super fast!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT Monday!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Seize the Birthday~ Sketch #16

Ribbon Carousel Blog~ Celebrations

Pile it On~For a Teen

Simply Create Too~Anything Goes

Diva's By Design~ Anything Goes

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

DL Art~ May Linky Party

Pause Dream Enjoy~ Happy........

Simon Says Stamp and Show~ Little Paper

The Pink Elephant~ Masculine Birthday 

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!!