Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Heart 2 Heart Challenge: Birds and Bees

I was looking at all the cute cards on the Heart 2 Heart Challenge website and was feeling disappointed because I didn’t think I had a cute bee stamp. I did a search on an app I have on my phone and lo’ and behold; I had a cute bee stamp! Yay! This is the retired stamp set B1353 A Little Buzz and I had never used it before today.

A Little Buzz stamp set

I cannot tell you how much I have loved the app Evernote. It took a couple of months for me to get all my stamps loaded on the app but now that they are all in there it makes my craft life so much easier. Instead of spending a serious amount of time physically flipping through my stamp sets, it now takes a few minutes to find the perfect stamp for my project. And the bonus is, I am using stamps that I haven’t used in forever or had never used at all.

Here is my card:

Birds Bees 3

Products Used

CTMH
White Daisy Card Base
Black, Canary and White Daisy CS
A Little Buzz Stamp Set – retired
ShinHan Markers: Golden Yellow and Black
LePen – Black
Black & Gold Ribbon
Grey Wool colored pencil
3D Foam Tape
Cricut Cut – Artbooking
The Paper Studio embossing folder
And then I made a couple more!
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Birds Bees

Monday, March 28, 2016

Mojo Monday #441

Mojo441

It seems like every time I get on Facebook, I am reading about another friend losing a loved one.  It’s nice to have a stack of sympathy cards available when you need them. Unfortunately, I was completely out so, I used this sketch to create this one for a family friend. I love sketches because they are like a map. If you follow the directions laid out for you; you will end up at your destination – a great looking card created with ease. For my card, I decided to let the paper shine rather than do a lot of stamping. I have used this paper often for sympathy cards because it is reserved yet very pretty. My card is not square but 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″.

sympathy card

CTMH Products
White Daisy card base
Ariana Paper Pack – retired
Outdoor Denim Cardstock – retired
Comforting Thoughts stamp set – retired
Bow – Ariana Assortment – (Clearance Item on my website right now!)
Die cut is at  2 ¾” from the Artiste Cricut Cartridge
Ink distressed using Outdoor Denim
Here is the link to Mojo Monday to see more fantastic cards using this sketch.


Sunday, March 27, 2016

Color Dare #186: The Purple Popsicle Edition

CD 186
Another color dare! And daring it is, for me, since these are colors I normally don’t gravitate to. But I do think Gypsy could easily be renamed Purple Popsicle. What do you think?
Check out other projects on the Color Dare website.
CD 186
CD #186

Products Used

CTMH                                                                                                                                                         White Daisy Card Base
Inks: Lagoon, Gypsy, Champagne, and Black
Stamp Sets: Blossom and Love Ya Silly
White Shimmer Trim, Black LePen, 3D Foam Squares

Happy Easter!

My kids are all teens with one in college so we don’t really do the Easter Bunny anymore. 🙁But I still like to give them a little something, something on Easter. I know and believe in the true meaning of Easter BUT when the opportunity strikes, to indulge in chocolate, or more specifically, Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs, I am no fool and am not going to pass that up!
I happened upon a video for some Easter tags that my top of the heap upline, Tina Jeselnik, posted on Facebook. They were super cute so I decided to make my own to help dress-up the kid’s candy. This is a great way to use up scraps! Here is the video she posted and here are my tags!
Easter tags
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Easter tag

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Heart 2 Heart Challenge: Monograms

I love classic Black & White. I think this card is kind of fun! It is formal yet with an edge. I used a floral embossing folder that is rather elegant and then pared it with the bold stripe and a lower case letter. The stripe total reminds me of 80’s punk bands for some reason.
Click here to go to the Heart2Heart Challenge website.


Monogram

Products Used:

CTMH
White Daisy Card Base
Black & White Daisy Cardstock
La Vie En Rose patterned paper
Black Glitter Paper
Alphabet Stamp Set – Retired – no name #W190
Silver Triangles
3D Foam Tape
Paper Studios
Mums Embossing Folder

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Color Dare #185 The Monster Edition




This week's Color Dare Challenge is to use Topiary, Sweet Leaf, Cotton Candy, Glacier and White Daisy.

I really wanted to use a current stamp set for this dare but as I was going through my stamps I came across my Love Ya' Silly stamp set. Even though it is retired, I hadn't used it yet so I decided to give it a spin.

I love the card layout, even though it is a much used sketch. I used Adventure Fundamental Papers and my black ShinHan Marker for the doodling to give it more of a bolder cartoon look. 

Hope you like it!



Products Used:

CTMH
White Daisy Card Base
Adventure Fundamentals Paper Pack: Topiary and Cotton Candy
Sweet Leaf, White Daisy and Glacier Cardstock
Glacier Twine
Black and Topiary Ink
Retired Stamp Set Love Ya' Silly

ShinHan Markers
Cherry Pink and Black

Here is the link to this weeks Color Dare.

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Mojo Monday 440

Our well broke down today. We called a local company to come out and fix it but they weren't able to get here until about 4 p.m. Which was fine, except for the fact, that I did not shower yesterday. 

Too much info? 

I am normally a shower everyday kind of girl but yesterday was one those days where I had nowhere to be so, hey, why not slum it! I did accomplish a lot around the house but, today, I was totally regretting my lapse in hygiene. Especially since I had to make trips to Kroger, Aldi, the gas station and my kid's schools.

Let's just say that I was extremely happy when my well was back up and running this evening. After my shower, I decided to head upstairs to my craft room and work on a Mojo Monday sketch.



Products used:

CTMH 
White Daisy card base
Zoe Paper Pack
S1603 March 2016 Stamp of the Month: Sunshine Birdies
D1674 Zoe
Black and Slate Inks
3D foam tape

ShinHan Markers
Turquoise Blue, Light Orange, Leaf Green and Warm Grey 4  


Link to Mojo Monday