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Hi everyone! Haven't been doing a lot of crafting lately with soccer in full swing and since we are the coordinators for it. But I did manage to add a few items to my etsy shop. You can click on the link on the side bar to view the new magnets I made.

I LOVE making magnets. Not only are they functional but they are so pretty hanging up on my frig. They are perfect for hanging important notes that you need to see on a daily basis. Trust me there are some things that if I don't have a daily reminder for them they are forgotten.

Sorry I haven't gotten crafty lately. I will be back soon and for sure on Monday for the Papertrey Ink blog hop. Love all the inspiration when they have those once a month and this months theme is all about masculine cards.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies:

Picture #1

patterned paper - Crate Paper

stamps, felt, button - Papertrey Ink

ink - Stampin' Up!

dies - Papertrey Ink, Stampin' Up!, Spellbinders

brad - Making Memories

Picture #2

patterned paper, letter stickers - October Afternoon

cardstock, stamps, button - Papertrey Ink

ink - Tsukineko

dies - Spellbinders, Papertrey Ink

Picture #3

patterned paper - Echo Park

cardstock, stamps, ink - Papertrey Ink

dies - Spellbinders

cork sheets - Quickutz

All magnetic sheets are from Quickutz

March PTI Bloghop

Hi everyone. Is it really time for another PTI blog hop? I need to watch the days more closely because they are just slipping by me.

This month's challenge is to use embroidery floss in a creative way. I chose to use it as raindrops as the background of my card. Spring reminds me of lots of rain and tulips and so my card reflects this beautiful season.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies:

cardstock, stamps, felt, patterned paper - Papertrey Ink
ink- Papertrey Ink, Tsukineko (black)

floss - DMC

paper piercer - Stampin' Up!

corner rounder - EK Success

dies - Papertrey Ink (clouds), Quickutz (sun)

die cut machine - Big Shot by Sizzix

You are a Treasure

Hi!! I was going through some of my pictures of projects I made and I stumbled upon this card that I realized I haven't posted yet. It isn't anything too spectacular but I loved how it turned out. Love the colors, the dress form with the ribbon for the skirt, everything.

The dress form is a die cut by Papertrey Ink and I cut out three dress forms and then adhered them all together to make it like thin chipboard (wanted something a little more stable). I covered the top of the dress form with patterned paper and covered the bottom with ribbon and then made a belt out of gems. So much fun to make.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies:

cardstock, die cuts, stamps, ink - Papertrey Ink

patterned paper - October Afternoon, Making Memories
gems - Kaiser Craft

ribbon - Pebbles, Inc.

border punch - Fiskars

Favorite Papertrey Ink Project for 2010

If someone were to ask me who my favorite stamp company is, I wouldn't hesitate to shout out Papertrey Ink. And if you go and read this blog post by Nicole Heady, it is a small snippet of why they are so great. Not only are there great designers, including Nicole, who inspire me daily, but how generous could one company be to give away $700 worth of their product to one lucky winner. So by posting my favorite project for 2010, I can double my chances of winning. What are you waiting for, go enter yourself into this great drawing.

These cute rosebuds were inspired by Betsy Veldman. Told ya the designers were great with wonderful, innovative techniques.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies:

All supplies from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted

hole punch - Stampin Up!

black ink - Tsukineko

scallop circle punch - Martha Stewart

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Wow, this is my very first Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. I am really enjoying looking at all the entries so far in the hop, loads of inspiration.

I love the challenge for this month, to break out a set we haven't used yet or to dust off one we have used but not for a while. When I glanced at my stamp sets I knew right away which one I wanted to use, Guide Lines. When I first got this set, I used it a lot but as I continued to acquire more PTI stamps, this stamp set was pushed back and I haven't used for over a year or more. Thanks for the challenge, I now have a new found love for my Guide Lines, and I think I will throw some Guide Lines 2 into the mix as well.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies:

All supplies Papertrey Ink except for circle and scalloped circle punch (EK Success)

Bloom and Grow Forever

Hello!!! Here is a flowery card for you today. And I know looking at it you wonder how I would ever send it through the mail, and here is my answer, I don't. :) Sometimes I make cards just for the fun of it and this is one of those cards. I just felt like playing around with my stash of craft supplies and this is what I came up with.

I will say, it was nice to look through all that I own and see what I got because I came across this wonderful flower die by My Favorite Things that makes the flowers that you see on this card. You just simply cut your flower shape and then roll it up, I prefer to do it around a pen or pencil, and then I hot glue the end to the bottom of the flower and there you have it.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Supplies:

cardstock - Papertrey Ink

patterned paper - Echo Park

stamps - Papertrey Ink (sentiment)

dies - Spellbinders (scalloped circle), My Favorite Things (rolled flowers), Quickutz (leaves)

die cut machine - Big Shot by Sizzix

gems - craft supply

ink - Tsukineko

corner rounder - EK Success

hi!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We had a three day weekend here since the kids had Friday off with parent-teacher conferences this week. And we were blessed with some nice weather to go with our great weekend.

I have a shaped card for you today. I don't do very many of these but I may have to start making more of them. To make this one I folded my cardstock in half and ran it through my die cut machine with my Spellbinder label die. But make sure the die sticks off the folded end some so you can keep the fold in the card. Easy peasy.

Wow, and not only did I do a shaped card but I didn't even do any stamping on this card. I must have been in some kind of mood that day. :o)

Hope you have a great week!

Supplies:

cardstock, buttons, twine - Papertrey Ink

patterned paper, letters, sticker - American Crafts

ribbon - prairiebirdboutique.etsy.com

label die - spellbinders

die cut machine - Epic Six by Quickutz

I Miss You.

Hi!! Been really busy lately. We have finally wrapped up pop warner and jr. high football, but still going on with the high school football (hopefully all the way to state) and so that has caused quite a bit of my absence. But, start next week we have winter swim and basketball starting. I figured with my kids growing so fast, other things can wait. I'm sure you all understand so I will try my best to post more cards and LOs for ya when time permits.

At least I have a card for ya today. A simple one but fun to make. I just love using my die cut machine and totally LOVE Papertrey Ink dies. They are great, cut great, and so many wonderful designs to coordinate with their stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Supplies:

cardstock, patterned paper, buttons, twine, dies (couch and label), stamps (couch, chair, sentiment) - Papertrey Ink

ribbon punch - Stampin' Up!

ink - Tsukineko (black), Papertrey Ink (purple)

Embellish Paper Piecing Color Challenge

Hi everyone. I have decided to do another Embellishmagazine.com color challenge. I just love the colors for this one and I love to paper piece. My scissors and I have a very close relationship. :)

For this challenge I knew I had to paper piece a flower, my favorite thing to piece together. It just brings the flower so much dimension making them feel more real. So first I stamped my image on green cardstock and cut that out for my leaves and then I stamped my image on yellow to cut out the flower part. I put it all together and this is what you get. And to even add more interest to the flowers, I added some glitter glue for a little sparkle.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies:

cardstock, stamps, ribbon - Papertrey Ink

pearls - Hero Arts

glitter glue - Ranger

ink - Tsukineko

border punch, corner rounder - EK Success

A Special Occasion

Happy day after Labor day to ya!! So wished our labor day was like labor week. It was so nice having my husband home and spending time together as a family. Very far and in between these days since coaching takes up a lot of his time now until November. At least we had a wonderful weekend together.

Here is a card that I created that I submitted to a publication call and it didn't get picked up. It was for a vintage card. I have to admit, this is really my first vintage card that I made. I typically don't go that route but have to admit, it was fun to create. Loved all the inking I did to distress my card and flowers. Felt good to get a little inky. Hopefully this won't be the last vintage card I make.

Don't you love those flourish stamps? New stamp set released in August from Papertrey ink. New favorite, and dies to match, yum!!!

Supplies:

cardstock, stamps, ink, flourish dies - Papertrey Ink

patterned paper - October Afternoon

flowers - The Paper Studio

gems - Kaiser Craft

beads - craft supply

label die - Stampin' Up! by Sizzix

die cut machine - Epic Six

Embellishmag.com Color Challenge

Hi everyone. It has been way too long since I have done a color challenge. This summer seemed to be full of everything and I didn't get a lot of the challenges done that I wanted to. But, when I saw that Lawn Fawn was sponsoring this color challenge, I just had to make the time to play along.

The theme is so perfect for this challenge sponsored by Lawn Fawn: quirky-cutesy-clean. All the words that describe them and their stamps. Who doesn't like quirky and cutesy. :o)

Glad I got a chance to play along and hop on over to embellishmagazine.com and check out all the entries so far, they are amazing.

Supplies:

cardstock - PTI

stamps - Lawn Fawn

hearts - Cricut cartridge Graphically Speaking

border die - PTI

felt - PTI

ribbon - www.prairiebirdbotique.etsy.com

embossing folder - Quickutz

ink - Tsukineko

corner rounder - EK Success

You are My Sunshine

Needed a little sunshine for my day so I went back in my photo archives and came across this little sweetie smiling at me. This is my nephew, Noah, and he is truly this fun and happy and he brings sunshine to any day.

Since I haven't photographed my LOs and cards that I have piled up I decided to look back and find some old LO or card to post. So happy I did because I forgot all about this LO I did for my brother and SIL. I think I posted this in my family blog but that was before I created my crafty one. So this will be new for most and I hope you all get a smile out of it like it did for me.

I didn't put any journaling on this LO so his parents could fill it in as they wish. So, hence the journaling card that is sitting there blank. :o)

Have a wonderful Thursday!!!

Friend

This card was a little different for me. There is absolutely no stamping at all on it. That is a rare occasion but it turned out to be a fun one.

There was a submission call for friend cards and I remember my stash of Blue Skies paper by American Crafts and there is this great patterned paper that is full of words people use to address their friends. Perfect!! My card centered around this paper and I just took off from there. Love how something so simple as a piece of paper can turn into a card that is so much more than just a few words.

This card is really simple, but I think it is one of my favorites. And if you would like to check out this awesome set of patterned paper by American Crafts, just click HERE.

Supplies:

cardstock - Papertrey Ink

patterned paper - American Crafts, Papertrey Ink (pink grid)

bird embellishment - American Crafts

border punch - Stampin' Up!

label die - Papertrey Ink

corner rounder - EK Success

die cut machine - Epic Six by Quickutz

For You

Hi everyone. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Mine was very uneventful. It is actually the only weekend we have free for the next 7-8 weeks. So, a little bummed that it rained most of the weekend, but good family time.

I don't know about you, but I never think of decorating the insides of my cards. I went ahead a tried it out and loved the end result. It does make the card quite a bit thicker if you are sending it through the mail, but oh such a fun thing to do if you have the extra time.

Once I picked my color combo I just went with it. Just added stuff here and there and loved making my word background. That took some time stamping all of that but love the overall look of it on the card. The letters I used to stamp are from the new stamp set by Lawn Fawn called Harold's ABCs.

Isn't it cute to open up this card and see the decorations inside as well? I may have to make more of these kinds of cards.

Hope you have a wonderful week!!

Supplies:

cardstock, ribbon, felt, flower dies patterned paper - Papertrey Ink

stamps - Lawn Fawn

letter stickers - Jillibean Soup

brad - craft supply

border punch - Martha Stewart (half daisy), EK Success (flower chain)

corner rounder - EK Success

Love-Hate Relationship

Hi everyone. I don't know how to apologize for not posting for the last 3-4 weeks. I have been having a love-hate relationship with my computer lately. I love all the vast knowledge a computer can give me, but I have been hating spending too much time on the computer lately. I only seem to get on to check a few sites and then I am off. I will do my best to try an post more crafty things for you, but they may be short and sweet. But we all know, it is really the pics we are all interested in, not my babbling. (wink, wink) :o)

Here is a card I created for the most recent CARDS October calls. And since I am posting this here, it wasn't picked up. The call was to use die cuts. And I used two different ones on this card. First is the die cut label by Collage Press and second is the chair which was die cut from one of the new Papertrey Ink dies. LOVE how it turned out on felt.

Supplies:

cardstock, ribbon, felt, die, stamps - Papertrey Ink

patterned paper - October Afternoon

ink - Tsukineko

label - Collage Press

die cut machine - Epic Six by Quickutz

Best Wishes

Wow, have I really been gone that long? So sorry. We are the town coordinators for our soccer program and had a house guest last week so I am so behind on my blogging. I couldn't stay away for long though. :o)

Here is a card I submitted to CARDS magazine that wasn't picked up. It was for their Happy Birthday call. I was dying to use my new flower dies from Papertrey Ink so they made their way onto this card. I love all of their dies and they cut so smoothly and I have also cut PTI felt with them and it comes out beautifully. You may want to take a gander HERE if you don't own any PTI dies yet, just sayin'!!! :o)

Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Supplies:

cardstock, stamps, buttons, dies - Papertrey Ink

ink - Papertrey Ink, Tsukineko

border punch - EK Success

Best Wishes

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Although I am not one to celebrate the day, I did make sure my school bound kids wore a green shirt. I don't plan on pinching my two at home so they should be safe without green. :o)

I have a masculine card here for you. And I did the same for this card as I do for most of my masculine cards, I kept it simple. A little background effect, simple sentiment, and a little twill to pull it all together. I absolutely love that Upper Crest border punch for guy LOs or cards.

Enjoy your day and all that is green!

Supplies:

cardstock, stamps - Papertrey Ink

circle punches - Creative Memories

border punch - Fiskars

ink - Tsukineko

twill - craft supply

WISH Tag

I had made this tag for a submission request for a magazine, but it wasn't picked up so I am sharing it here with you today. I'm not one to make tags but I have to say it was a lot of fun. When you have such a small area to work with, you pretty much can't fail at making a tag look nice. Before I made this tag I had just bought the Stamping Solutions Cricut Cartridge and I fell in love the butterfly and wish sentiment, they just fit perfectly on this card.
And what is a girly card without a little glitter. I just had to spruce up that butterfly and so I added some stickles to it and around the circle. And for the sentiment, I really wanted to use white on white and to help it stand out more I embossed it with my Cuttlebug embossing folder. Love the end result and hope to use this tag on a gift for a really special little girl very soon.

Supplies:
cardstock,button, twine, ribbon - Papertrey Ink
glitter - Stickles
embossing folder - Cuttlebug
die machine - Cricut
cartridge - Stamping Solutions

U ROCK!

Hi all, I hope you are having a fun weekend! I just thought I would pop by with a card for you. I have been really loving my Cricut lately and every now and then I will flip through the booklets that come with each cartridge just to maybe spark some ideas for me. And when I flipped through my Graphically Speaking cartridge book I found this fire image that intrigued me and as I continued on with my search I found the guitar image on my Stamping Solutions cartridge and that was all I needed for some inspiration.

Everything else just kind of fell into place from there, the colors, the design, and THIS sentiment from Papertrey Ink. I think this could be a great card for a teen. I only wish now after seeing the card posted here that I should have done more to bling up the guitar a little, it looks a little plain jane to me, but I can always go back and add something to it before I send it to someone. What do you think, what could I add to the guitar to make it be more appealing to the eye? Or I even thought too that I could add a little glitter around the top edges of the fire to help make the card stand out a little more. Decisions, decisions.

Supplies:

card stock, patterned paper, stamp, ink - Papertrey Ink

marker - Creative Memories

border punch - Fiskars

die cut machine - Cricut

cartridges - Graphically Speaking, Stamping Solutions

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #21

So happy that another Raspberry Suite Color Challenge as been posted. And I have to tell you, I am in love with these colors. It took no time to come up with a card design because these colors were so fun to work with. Thanks for the inspiration, Dawn McVey.

I got a new Quickutz butterfly die from Two Peas last week and it is my new favorite. I am so in love with butterflies right now it isn't even funny and when 2Peas has Quickutz on sale I just had to have this die.

And thanks to Dawn's awesome tutorial on how to tie bows, I finally got the bow I have always wanted to tie. To think that it was so easy to do, but I just couldn't master it on my own. I think it is the flipping of the ribbon to make it lie flat after you make that first tie that made all the difference. Thanks, Dawn, will forever love making bows now.

And if you look closely, you can see that I made a plaid background with my Background Basics:Retro stamp set and my lemon tart and aquamist ink pads. So fun to do and love how it turned out.

Hope you all have a great weekend!!

Supplies:

cardstock, ribbon, stamps, ink - Papertrey Ink

border punch - EKSuccess

butterfly die - Quickutz

die machine - Epic 6 by Quickutz