You Blow Me Away

Another House Mouse stamp I have had forever and not used.  I am doing quite well with my New Year’s goal of using my neglected stamps.  Of course, it helps when you have no money in the stamping budget, but it really has been fun rediscovering what I already own. 

I colored this image with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol.  I adhered it to the card with foam tape to give it some dimension.  The paper is from My Mind’s Eye Bohemia collection.  The cardstock I used is Terracotta Tile.  I was so excited by how well it matched the paper.  The green strip is Spring Moss and I used an EK Success border punch to punch the border.  The sentiment is stamped in Terracotta Tile and the satin ribbon is Enchanted Evening.  The little blue bling in the corner is more of my clear cell phone bling colored with a B97 Copic marker. 

I hope everyone has a most enjoyable weekend!  Thanks for stopping by.

Stamps	HM Air Head, HM Blow Away
Paper	PTI white, Terracotta Tile, Spring Moss, MME Bohemia pp
Ink	Momento Tuxedo Black, PTI Terracotta Tile
Accessories	Spellbinders Classic Circles, Labels One, EK Success Punch, prismacolor pencils, Gamsol, clear cell phone bling, B97, N1 Copic markers, PTI Enchanted Evening satin ribbon

Fall in Chocolate

I fell in love with this sentiment the moment I read it.  It is a studio G stamp that I purchased last year.  My card was totally built around this sentiment.  I used Dark Chocolate as my base.  I stamped the Cooking Background stamp in Versamark and embossed it with clear embossing powder.  (The little sparkly flecks you see are some glitter that I somehow managed to get in my clear embossing powder.)   The pink layer is Prism cardstock.  I used the MS Valentine lace border punch to make the border.  The sentiment is stamped in Dark Chocolate.  The cupcake image is from The Angel Company.  I colored it with Copics and added glitter to the hearts.  The ribbon is some I have had forever and I am not sure where I purchased it or who makes it. 

On the inside of the card, I used the same pink cardstock.  The sentiments are by Craft Affair from the Life is Sweet set and are stamped in Dark Chocolate.

Keeping it short and sweet today.  Thanks for stopping by.

Have a blessed day!

Stamps	Cooking Background (Great Impressions), Sweet Thing (TAC), sentiment (Studio G Series 29), Life is Sweet (Craft Affair)
Paper	Dark Chocolate, White (PTI), pink (Prism)
Ink	Versamark, Dark Chocolate
Accessories	clear embossing powder, ribbon (stash), Copics, diamond dust glitter, cell phone bling, MS Valentine Lace border punch, Marvy scalloped circle punch, SU slot punch

Knitted with love

Happy Tuesday!

I thought this stamp was adorable and was begging to be colored.  I haven’t colored a House Mouse image in a long time.  I forgot how much fun they were.  I used my Copics.  I am still working on improving my Copic skills.  I am often very intimidated by them and just reach for my dependable prismacolor pencils.  I used shimmer chalks to fill in the background.  The paper is from the DCWV Nana’s Nursery Baby Girl collection. 

Here is the inside.  I used the matching sentiment from House Mouse.  I stamped it in New Leaf ink and colored it with Prismacolor pencils.  I was afraid the Copic marker would bleed through to the back.  I added a little heart sticker to the center of the “o”.

I hope everyone is having a great week so far.  My day was crazy yesterday.  I had to take my son Malachi to his nephrologist.  We received a great report.  He is off his meds and still in full remission.  We don’t have to see her again for six months.  Praise the Lord!  He is so awesome!

Have a blessed day!

Praying for you

I love black and white with a touch of hot pink!  I stamped a border from Damask Designs in True Black onto a white card base.  The sentiment is also from Damask Designs.  The little hot pink rhinestones are actually cell phone bling that I picked up really cheap on a clearance rack.  The black satin ribbon is from Offray that I purchased on my last trip to the Offray Ribbon Outlet.  Love that place, I think it’s time to go back.

I finally got my Christmas tree down!!! My house is starting to take on it’s pre-Christmas look.  It is amazing how much more light I have now that the Christmas tree is not blocking the window.  I am hoping to spend this Saturday in my craft room, but I must get my house clean and my laundry done first, so…off I go.

Thanks for stopping by!

Retro Birthday

Happy Tuesday!

This is a birthday card I made.  I was going for a more masculine look.  I used Kraft paper as my base and stamped the image from Basic Backgrounds: Retro three times in Dark Chocolate ink.  The star is from Star Prints and is stamped in Enchanted Evening. The sentiment is from Birthday Basics and is stamped in Pure Poppy.  I wrapped red baker’s twine (from Martha Stewart) around the card three times and tied it in a knot. 

There it is…my simple, almost one-layer masculine birthday card.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a blessed day!

 

Supplies (all Papertrey unless otherwise noted)

Stamps	BB: Retro, Star Prints, Birthday Basics
Paper	Kraft
Ink	Dk Chocolate, Enchanted Evening, Pure Poppy
Accessories	bakers twine (Martha Stewart)

Making cards in my dreams

Have you ever woke up and could visualize a card you wanted to make?  I woke up and it was like I was dreaming.  I could totally visualize everything about this card, like I had already made it.  It was so real.  I decided to get up and just go make it.  It was probably the fastest I have ever made a card.  I knew the layout, the colors, the stamps, the embellishments, everything.  It was weird…and wonderful.  I wish every card was like that.  It normally takes me hours to make a card, half the battle is what I am going to do. 

I started with a card base of Rustic Cream.  I stamped the image from In Bloom onto Pure Poppy in Versamark and embossed it with Transcendence embossing powder. I did the same with the leaves on Ripe Avocado.  I cut them all out with my detail scissors. I cut my rectangle of Spring Moss and rounded the corners on one side and tied Pure Poppy twill ribbon on the other.  I added a strip of In Bloom patterned paper over a strip of Pure Poppy that I had punched with an EK Success punch and adhered them to my card base. I stamped the flourish from Fancy Flourishes over the Spring Moss cardstock and onto the card base as well using Spring Moss ink.  Finally, I stamped the sentiment from Vintage Picnic in Ripe Avocado.

For the inside, I added a strip of In Bloom paper and stamped a smaller image from In Bloom in Spring Moss ink in the corner.  The sentiment is from Birthday Basics and is stamped in Pure Poppy. 

I had a blast making this card.   I just wish they could all be this easy. 

Have a blessed day and thanks for stopping by.

Stamps	In Bloom, Fancy Flourishes, Birthday Basics, Vintage Picnic
Paper	Rustic Cream, Pure Poppy, Spring Moss, In Bloom
Ink	Spring Moss, Ripe Avocado, Pure Poppy, Versamark
Accessories	Pure Poppy twill ribbon, transcendence embossing powder
Tools	Corner Chomper, EK Success punch

Christmas Rewind – Framed Monograms

Ok, this is it.  After this post, I am officially finished posting Christmas gifts. 

I had so much fun making these.  Once again, I used my Cricut. The designs were purchased from www.myvinyldesigner.com.  I love my Cricut!
I hope I didn’t bore you too much with Christmas gifts.  I know people have moved on to Valentine’s day already.  I still have my Christmas tree up…can’t seem to find the time to take it down.  It’s weird, you know.  You can’t find the time to put it up and then you can’t find the time to take it down.  Am I the only one?  Guess what I’m doing this weekend?!?! 
Have a great day.  Take time to be thankful!

Christmas Rewind – Personalized Mugs

What do you give teenagers for Christmas?  That was my biggest question.  I was at a loss about what to give my nieces and nephew for Christmas.  Then I thought of etching mugs with their names and filling them with marshmallows, hot cocoa mixes and candy canes. 

This is what they look like filled.  I packaged them really cute, but of course, I forgot to take a picture.  Here are some up close shots of the mugs.  It’s very hard to get a picture of etched glass, but I think I did ok…not perfect, but you get the idea.

 

I used my Cricut to cut the names out of contact paper and then used etching cream.  I left the etching cream on for 30 minutes.  I find leaving it on that long worked pretty well for me.  They were really excited about them, so I knew my little idea was a success.  That’s a really nice feeling.

Thanks for stopping by, have a blessed day!

Christmas Rewind – For the Ladies

 

I am really having a tough time getting back into a routine after our Christmas break.  I guess I am just feeling a little overwhelmed by all that I have on my plate right now.  I am attempting to do the Project 365 challenge.  I am doing pretty well with it.  I know I am crazy for taking on another project to work on, but I like the idea of being able to look back on the year and see what has happened.  It seems like it always goes so fast and I can’t remember any of it.

I have finally found a few minutes to edit some of the pictures I took of Christmas gifts that I made.  These are the gifts that I made for my kid’s female Sunday School teachers. 

    

I raided my scrap drawer to make these.  That always makes me happy when I can use my scraps. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Rewind – Masculine Gifts

As promised, I am sharing gifts I made for Christmas. These are some gifts I made for my son’s Sunday School teachers.

This is just a 4 x 6 acrylic frame that you can purchase at Walmart for about $1. I put a piece of scrapbook paper in the frame. I used my ATG gun to adhere a piece of paper on the side that I had matted to cardstock and tied a piece of twine around. The calendar is bound by brads then glued to a piece of cardstock. I used a piece of sticky tape to adhere it to the frame.

My son shares a special bond with this teacher, so I wanted to do something a little more personal. I took a picture of them together, played around with it in Photoshop and printed it. I then put it in the frame and adhered the calendar directly to the frame after binding it with brads and adhering it to cardstock.

There you go…great gifts for under $2 each.

I’ll be back with more gifts soon. I am trying to get back into our school routine. Man is that hard after taking a couple of weeks off. Things are slowly getting back to normal. Yeah!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a blessed day!