It's Always Nice to Wish the Best....... w/Trendy Twine

Good Morning Everyone!!!

It is my DT day over on the Trendy Twine blog and I am very excited to share my project with you all!

This month we are featuring 

 Twisted Lime Trendy Twine

It's currently on sale for $7.95 a spool! FAB deal so make sure you check it out!

There are also a whole bunch of new mini's added to the store and those too are all on sale!

You can check them out HERE

Onto my project....

If you are a blog follower of mine, then you know I love to create CAS cards... and I am always on the lookout for different ways to use my twine.

So for my card today I went with just that... CAS design and let the twine be my burst of color...

Hope you like it!

As I was digging through my stamps trying to come up with an idea for my card I found my container of eyelets and since I had not used them in like FOREVER on a project other than for tags the ideas began to come. 

Then sitting on my desk was this month's new release Pillow Talk from The Alley Way Stamps and I thought incorporating those two products could make for a fun card. And so this was created :)

Here is a close-up of the stamping and how I used the eyelets and Trendy Twine.

Don't you think that this twine gives such a GREAT pop of color??

I really love the way this turned out :)

Well that is all I have for you today!

 Don't forget about this month's challenge~

"Going Green"

~St. Patrick's Day with a clover, leprechaun, or both

~Monochromatic green (shades of green; no other colors)

and 

~Trendy Twine

You still have time to enter and we would LOVE to see all those projects!!!!

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

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Pinspired Challenge~#5 
(green and white plus geometric shape as my inspiration)

DL. Art~ Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Happy St. Patty's Day!

Hi Everyone!!!!

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

I just wanted to pop in quickly to share a card I made for a few challenges....perfect for today!

I hope you like it!!!

One of my favorite Digi companies is Bugaboo Stamps and I have not played along in one of their challenges in forever so I thought I would use one of the adorable Ava images for my card. Here is Ava Shamrock, colored using my copics and the colors from this weeks Colour Q challenge.

I used the sketch from Catch the Bug as well as this week's Bingo challenge (die cut, circle and pearl)

I ended up using my cameo to die cut a circle around Ava and then cut a slightly larger circle to mat her on. I also used the scalloped border die from MFT.

Finished it up with some Lime Green Stickles, pearls from my stash and the sentiment from Jaded Blossom~Lucky Treats.

Well that is all I have for you today! I hope you have enjoyed my card!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT

St. Patty's Day!!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Colour Q~ #180

All That Stickles~ Lime Green
Little Scrap Pieces~ Luck of the Irish

DL Art~ March Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Craftin Desert Divas~ Linky Party
Sentimental Sundays~ Anything Goes

Pile It On~ Circles and/or Squares

Catch The Bug~ Stella Says Sketch Challenge

Catch the Bug Challenge~ Bingo

You Amaze Me w/ TAWS

Good Morning Everyone!!

It is my DT day over at The Alley Way Stamps and I have a card to share using one of the new release stamp sets for this month.

If you have not checked out March's new release you can do so HERE!

They are AWESOME!!!

So for my CAS card I used the new set

Words to Live By and Ka-Pow

   

and came up with this.....

What do you think??? How fun is this??

 When I saw the sentiments from this set I thought of an actual maze and through my searching of the Silhouette Store I found this great cut!

Of course I added my own touches to the card~ using the arrow from Ka-Pow , a heart punch instead of the cut that came with the file and some SU bling I received from my friend Norma over at PinkBlingCrafter

Well that is all I have for you on this fine Saturday morning!

Hope you all have a GREAT weekend 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

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

DL Art~ Linky Party

Craftin Desert Divas~ Linky Party

3 Girl Jam Challenge #14~ It's All About the Green

Good Morning Bloggers!!

It is a happy day over here....

I am hosting the new challenge over at the

3 Girl Jam Challenge Blog

and

this week's challenge is~ 

It's All About the Green w/Ribbon

This week's challenge will be open for 2 weeks, March 15~28 so plenty of time to create and share!!

Our challenge is being sponsored by non other than us~

3GJ!

So the winner will receive :

~$10 Gift Certificate to  3GJ

and a 

~Guest designer spot

Awesome prizes for sure!!!

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Onto my project....
I found this fun project on Pinterest with the original post HERE
and wanted to make these for my son to hand out to his class and teachers.
They were so easy to put together and look super adorable all completed.
I did use exactly the same treats from the original post but made my own tags to attach.

I ended up making 17 of them so far and might be making some more depending on how many more he wants to hand out :)

Here is a close-up of the tag. I used Kraft cardstock with an embossed pattern on it (love the texture~Just had to say) and cut the shape out using my Cameo. The shamrocks are from My Creative Time~You're My Pot Of Gold set. After I die cut them all out I added a layer of Lime Green Stickles and let the all dry. They started to curl up a bit but I liked the dimension it gave when I glued them to the tag so I ended up only gluing the stem and center.
The sentiment is from Jaded Blossom~Lucky Treats stamp set and I stamped it using Stazon Black ink for a sharp, bold look :)
Finally after adding some green eyelets to all the tags to they wouldn't pull or rip I tied them all with the gorgeous Goblin Green crinkle ribbon from 3GJ's Spooky Bundle. I think I have said this before...but that bundle has got to be my favorite!!!

So there it is....

What do you think???

I sure hope you have enjoyed my project and will play along with us over at the 

3 Girl Jam Challenge Blog!

Remember this challenge will run for 2 weeks so lots of time to get those Anything Goes projects in!!

Thanks so very much for stopping by!!

Have a GREAT Friday and awesome weekend!!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

All that Stickles~ Green Linky Party

The Kraft Journal~Lucky Green Challenge

DL Art~ Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Craftin Desert Divas~ Linky Party

Die Cutting Divas~Green and Gold

Scrappy Moms Stamps~ Luck of the Irish
More than Favors~ Wacky Wednesday Something Green
Decorate to Celebrate~ St. Patty's Day
Go Fish Challenge Blog~ Ribbon

You're My Whole World w/TAWS

Good Morning Everyone!!

It is my DT day over at The Alley Way Stamps and I have a card to share using one of the new release stamp sets for this month.

If you have not checked out March's new release you can do so HERE!

They are AWESOME!!!

So for my CAS card I used the new set

Words to Live By

and I followed the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch!

and came up with this..............

What do you think???

 When I saw the sentiments from this set I remembered I had been hoarding saving these fun dimensional stickers for the perfect card~ well I think I found it!

Here is a close-up of the star embossing on the background..... just enough to give a plain piece of card stock some texture.

The designer paper is from October Afternoon and I took 2 different papers from the stack and used My Creative Time banner dies to make the banner border. Then of course using my sewing machine added some decorative stitching.

Here is the sentiment...don't you just LOVE the font????

Well there is my card. 

I hope you like it!!!

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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

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Also if you missed the fun cross promotion that was announced on Friday that we are doing with 3GJ you can head on over to their challenge blog HERE for all the details...

Their challenge is also based on the new Be Inspired photo!

So that means there are LOTS of chances to win both TAWS and 3GJ ribbon!

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

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Entering this into the following Challenges

CAS(E) this Sketch~ #18

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

DL Art~ Linky Party
Simon Says Stamp Challenge~ Bit O'Green
Craftin Desert Divas~ Linky Party

To a Fungi~ PKS Challenge 13-10

Hey everyone!!!

Popping in later than normal with a card to share for this week's PKS challenge.

This week's challenge was this beautiful photo and color 

So for my card I used the colors as my inspiration as well as the great outdoors

and came up with this card.

Hope you like it :)

Ha! Isn't he just the cutest "fungi" with his Peachy Keen face :)

I always find making manly cards to be so hard and never seem to have enough on hand so when I saw the color combo and the nature scene I remembered downloading this cutie schroom from SVG Cutting Files and knew he would look adorable with some peachy goodness. 

For his adorable face I used the Pile's of 1" Smiles (PK-146) and added some white gel pen to his teeth and eyes and a red gel pen for his tongue.

The paper is actually Christmas paper from Recollections~ Holly Day Wishes. The colors couldn't have been a better match for the inspiration photo.

My sentiment is from Joy's Life~ Wild Life Puns stamp set. Such a cute stamp set with adorable sentiments! I tend to forget to look through all my stamps when making a card and this one was perfect for this card!

Finally I couldn't leave my card without some distressing around the edges using Tim Holtz Distress ink in Gathered Twigs and some sewing machine stitching.

So there you have it....a manly card that I am sure will be used sooner than later :)

I hope you have enjoyed it and thanks so much for stopping by!!

Enjoy the rest of your day and I will be back tomorrow with a card for 

The Alley Way Stamps :)

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge~ 13-10 Photo Inspiration

Simon Says Stamps~ Bit 0' Green

Everyday is An Occasion~ Linky Party

Crafty Desert Diva's~ Linky Party

DL Art~ Linky Party

CI Paint~ Inspired By: Go Green!

Good Morning everyone and Happy Sunday!!!!
(if you are looking for the Trendy Twine Bunny Hop please click HERE)

It is time for another fun Inspired By Challenge 

over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!!

This weeks Challenge~

Inspired By: Go Green!

We want to see all those St. Patty's Day projects OR recycled projects!!

 and here is the project I made....
I wanted to make my boys a fun St. Patty's day treat...I know they are super excited about it~ I hope you like it too :)

For my project I started out with a clay pot that I painted black using acrylic paint. Once that was dried I went over the black with CI Paint in Onyx. I wanted that black to really shimmer :)

 Here is a close-up of my sentiment~ 
Using the sentiment from My Creative Time, my favorite embossing powder~ Deliquesce Black from CI Paint, I stamped and heat embossed it onto a die cut~ the Curly Label Die also from My Creative Time
I wanted to add some gold brads but didn't have any, so instead of going out and buying some I used silver brads from my stash and heat embossed them using Deliquesce Gold Glitter. They turned out AWESOME I might add :)
To hold my sentiment up I used a sucker stick~ kinda boring until I wrapped it using Twisted Lime Trendy Twine!! Did you know it is the color of the month??? Trendy Twine is having a sale on it HERE
~~Just a little enabling on my part...LOL!!~~

Finally here is a close-up of the shamrock die cut~also from My Creative Time!
I love Emma's dies and the stitching  she adds to them~ Awesome!!
I couldn't leave him unpainted so I added a layer of Green Olive CI paint as well as another gold brad.
Filled with some "gold" in the form of Rolo's and there you have it!

I hope I have inspired you with my project and you will play along with us over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!

Remember you do not need CI Paints on your project but if you have them we would

LOVE to see how you use them!!!

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

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Supplies Used~

Paper~ Bazzill~Easter Grass

Stamps~ My Creative Time~You're My Pot of Gold

Ink~ Versamark

Dies~ My Creative Time~Shamrock Die, Curly Label Die

Other~ Creative Inspirations Paint~ Deliquesce Gold Crystal, Onyx Black Paint

Trendy Twine~ Twisted Lime

Brads

mini clay pot

Glue gun, foam pop dots
3GJ bow maker

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion~ Luck of the Irish

Decorate to Celebrate~ St. Patty's Day

Simon Says Stamp Challenge~ Bit o' Green

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party
DL Art~ Linky Party
Go Fish Challenge Blog~ Gold
Craftin Desert Diva's~ Linky Party