Happy Birthday Ashley Blog hop!

Sweet Ashley asked me to be a part of her birthday blog hop and so I put this together for her. Happy birthday girl!

If you got here from Ashley's blog, then you are on the right track. If not, click on her name and it will take you there so you can join in all of the fun!

Pumpkin Spice and I are giving away a $15 gift certificate to their store!!! THANK YOU!!! That is where I got the Fine and Dandy paper and bling embellishments that I used for this project! So you can go shopping for whatever you'd like! $15 goes a long way in her store because the prices are so cheap! Go check it out! She carries a ton of My Mind's Eye, Cosmo Cricket, My Pink Stamper, and is adding Echo Park's new lines shortly! 

Here is the order of the hop just in case you get lost:

Ashley       http://myscrappinpalace.blogspot.com
Courtney   http://courtscrafts.blogspot.com
Wendy       http://wendyscreativecraftingcorner.blogspot.com
Angela       http://creativecraftin.blogspot.com
Jillian         http://princessandthepaper.blogspot.com
Darlene      http://talesoftayandbay.blogspot.com
Abby          http://scrapbookaholicbyabby.com
Tracy         http://adventures793.blogspot.com
Momo     http://madebymomo.blogspot.com April           http://ajoy2scrap.blogspot.com
Kristin       http://lilsweetpeasplace.blogspot.com

Recipe: 

Paper: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: Tickled Pink™ "Charming"(reverse side brown), "Cherry"(reverse side pink polka dots), "Delighted"(reverse side green), and "Engaging"(reverse side pink stripes).

Bling: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: Tickled Pink Bling™

Cartridges: Create a Critter™, Wild Card™

sentiment: Hero Arts™

Now head on over to Wendy's blog! Don't forget to leave me a comment to win and check back on Thursday when I draw the winner to see if you won the $15 to Pumpkin Spice!

Rockin' New Year Hop - Celebrate in Style

Welcome to the final day of the Rockin' New Year Blog Hop! I hope you have some wonderful things planned for this evening! My husband and I will be staying in and watching an action flick and a chick flick and we order in pizza! We'll probably just let the movies run in the background while we play dominoes! I am really looking forward to it! 

I hope you got here from Celeste's blog! If not, start at the beginning HERE at Carol's blog! 

Thanks SO much to Jenny for coordinating this hop! These ladies are so talented! 

Recipe: 

My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found: Madison Ave "Cherish" Pintuck™, "Happily Ever After" Delightful Glittered Paper™, "Pretty" Polka Glittered Paper™,  "Sisters" Lace Glittered Paper™

White and pink plain card stock: Paper Trey Ink™

Ribbon: MME: L&F: Madison Ave "Cherish" Trims™

i-rock™

Pink gems (on party hat): i-rock Swirls Stencil™ 

Brad (top of party hat): MME: L&F: Madison Ave "Happily Ever After" Decorative Brads™

Twine: The Twinery in Cappuccino™

Stamp: Hero Arts™

Ink: Studio G™

Straw: from a delivery restaurant! :) 

I actually didn't cut anything with my Cricut on this one. The party hat is a scalloped bordered piece of card stock that came like that. I loved it and instantly thought, "party hat!". I embellished it with a brad and gem stones. I inked around the edges and popped it on the card.

I used a tutorial to make a party blower and thought it would be fun to attach it to the front of the card.

Lastly, I scored two lines on the pink paper for just a little touch of extra and skewed them in different directions! I hope you like it! :) 

Now head on over to the ever so talented and sweet: Dorcas' blog!

Remember to leave a comment on yesterday and today's post to win the cartridge! I will draw a winner on Monday to give people a chance over the weekend to comment. Make sure to come back and see if you were the winner! 

Be Inspired Wednesday - Embossing powders

Scroll down for my Betty Bee's Buzz post and a giveaway! :)

This week at Passionately Artistic we were instructed to use embossing powders as a resist or to distress. I decided to use them to resist.

I have never done this technique before and really enjoyed it! 

Recipe:
Embossing Powder: Filigree Gold purchased from Paper Trey Ink™, a la Mode in white™
Paper: Paper Trey Ink White™, Ripe Avocado™
Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink Satin Dark Chocolate™
Hero Arts gem stones
Sentiment: Hero Arts™
Ink: Momento in brown and Color Box in Olive
Stamps: My Mind's Eye: I believe Stamps™

Instructions:

1. This card is a typical 4.25"x"5.5".  
2. I heat embossed the gold leaves and sentiment using Filigree Gold embossing powder.
3. Then I used a piece of paper towel to rub on the olive ink and worked it towards the center.
4. Heat emboss the white wreath stamp onto the Ripe Avocado™ card stock. 
5. Use a piece of paper towel to rub the Momento ink onto the edges of the free hand cut paper.
6. Place piece of Paper Trey Ink Dark Chocolate Satin ribbon around the card. Adhere.
7. Use a foam dimensional to pop the wreath cut. 
8. Make a bow from the Dark Chocolate satin ribbon. Adhere.
9. Place Hero Arts self-adhesive gems™ where some of the berries might be. 

Now hop on over to Passionately Artistic to see what else the Design Team has created for your viewing pleasure! :)

This also qualifies for Kim's challenge at Off the Wall Craftiness:

The balloon swatch is a little more yellow so I changed that to gold. I hope that's okay! :)

Present Shape Card

I couldn't help but play with this kit some more! I love it! Wouldn't this line make the sweetest wall banner for a little girl's room? 

Anyway, I designed this on my Gypsy™ in London while we were on vacation there. I looked up the papers and thought it would make a cute present shape card.

I used the polka dotted flocked transparency, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist™ and Stickles™ - all came with the kit. For the glimmer mist, I simply sprayed it on a paper towel and used it to "ink" the edges of the accordion cut and tag cut.

Recipe:
Artful Delight November Kit
Cartridges: Sweethearts™ and Tie the Knot™ (tag)
Button: Paper Trey Ink™
Twine: Paper Trey Ink™
Adhesive: Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™ and Martha Stewart Gel Adhesive™
Sentiment: Hero Arts™
Embossing Powder: A la Mode - white™
Heating Tool: Coloriser by EK Success™

Instructions:

1. Weld two short presents together from Sweethearts (there is a tall present version as well).
2. Create another front of present. Cut out of flocked transparency.
3. Use layer of bow and cut out of desired paper.
4. Adhere flocked transparency layer to front of card.
5. Use Stickles where lines of box and bow would be. Let dry.
6. Adhere bow to box.
7. Cut one 1.75" circle tag from Tie the Knot™.
8. Ink edges using Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist™ that has been sprayed on a paper towel. 
9. Cut one 1.25" blank monogram feature from Tie the Knot™ (found on the lips page).
10. Stamp sentiment onto blank monogram feature scalloped circle, and heat emboss with white embossing powder.
11. Cut a .75"x8" strip of paper and score every .25". Bend into accordion shape and put one Extreme Adhesive Square™ at the end of it to hold the two ends of the paper together. (I LOVE those squares!)
12. Use two more Extreme Adhesive Squares to adhere accordion shape to tag. 
13. Use hot glue to adhere sentiment stamped scallop circle to accordion.
14. Tie a bow with the twine through the button after looping it around the tag. 
15. Adhere button and twine to card using hot glue.
16. Put it on the top of a present or attach it to a gift bag and give it to someone special! :)

This picture is just to show you the flocked transparency. Those purple polka dots are flocking on the clear transparency. How cool is that? So my present is actually shiny in real life. 

Enjoy your day today and I hope it is fabulous! :)

This card also qualifies for Jenny at Wee Memories' Birthday Bash Challenge where Artful Delight is a sponsor this week!!! Head on over and play! Happy Blog Birthday Jenny!!!

Be Inspired Wednesday - A Thanksgiving color card

This week at Passionately Artistic we have been asked to use green, orange, and brown along with a Thanksgiving theme. This is the card I created. :)

Recipe:
Card stock: Paper Trey Ink Perfect Match: Ripe Avocado™, Orange Zest™, and Dark Chocolate™
Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink Saddle Stitch Ripe Avocado™
Embossing: 5x7 Holly Ribbons Emboss Folder™, Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™
Cartridge: Winter Woodland™
Adhesive: Glue Arts™ and Martha Stewart Gel Adhesive™
Button: Paper Trey Ink Holiday Mix™
Twine: Paper Trey Ink Rustic Cream Button Twine™
Glossy Accents
Ink: Momento™, Versamark™
Sentiment: Hero Arts CL272™
Embossing Powder: Filigree Gold™

Instructions: 

Cut Branch 2 card feature from Winter Woodland at 5.5" out of Dark Chocolate.
---Note: I left the real dial size off, but it did not translate to the leaves, so that is why the measurement is different--
Cut leaves at 2.25" out of Ripe Avocado.
Emboss leaves with swiss dots.
Ink around edges of leaves with Momento brown ink.
Ink the top of the raised dots with Momento brown ink.
Cut layer for background out of Orange Zest.
Emboss Orange Zest background with Holly Leaves Emboss Folder™ using your Cuttlebug™.
Adhere orange layer to back of brown front of card using your Glue Glider Pro™ or other adhesive.
Stamp sentiment (this one is from Hero Arts™) using VersaMark ink.
Pour gold embossing powder over the top and shake off all excess.
Using heat embossing tool (I used EK Success Coloriser™ and LOVE it), emboss sentiment
Doodle around all edges and on acorn as well as branches and leaves as desired.
Use button twine around button and adhere to acorn using small pop dot.
Add ribbon and secure with Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™ on the back of the bow.
Smile and enjoy your card! :)

Now pop on over to Passionately Artistic to see what the other ladies have made. Link up your project just to share with us at the bottom if you would like! Have a wonderful day!

Be Inspired Wednesday #107- Cauldron Card!

Good Wednesday morning and welcome to Be Inpsired #107 - A color challenge! Our challenge this week was to use the colors black, orange, green, purple, and a pop of red! I had so much fun with this and you should join in the challenge too!

I love this Haunted line from MME. At first I was a little worried about how I would use it, but it is gorgeous! For those of you that love kraft like me, you will love the versatility of this line. I am in love with this Harlequin Paper™! The flocking on it is gorgeous and precise. 

Recipe:

Cartridge: October 31st™

Gypsy™

Paper: My Mind’s Eye Haunted “Harlequin” Paper™, MME Blackbird “Trick-or-Treaters” Paper™, MME Blackbird “Halloween Words” Paper™, Core’dinations Nostalgia line

Embossing: Swiss Dots™

Sentiment: MME Blackbird Stamps™

Pink Paislee™ Pixie Stix in black

Glossy Accents

Hero Arts Gems

Adhesive: Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro with Perma-Tac™

Instructions: 

1. Weld two cauldrons together on the Gypsy and hide all contours to make the base.
2. Cut out base and another regular cauldron to put on the front
3. Cut two sets of eyes from the October 31st Cartridge™ - one with the contours hidden again.
4. Run the top layer of the eyes through the Cuttlebug™ using the A2 Swiss Dots Folder™.
5. Attach layers together popping the eyes.
6. Use glossy accents to draw a line around the contours of the cauldron. Apply Pixie Stix black glitter and shake off excess. 
7. Stamp sentiment on the inside of the card.
8. Apply Glossy Accents to the spooky eyes.
9. Add Hero Arts self-adhesive gems (that’s how I got my red in there!). 
10. Let dry

I made another card that is being put on the website! This one is a little more simple and fun! :)

Recipe:

Paper: Paper Trey Ink White Card Stock™, My Mind's Eye Blackbird Costumes Paper™ (Front side is shown, back side is the black with white polka dots) 

Embossing powder: a la mode: Black™

Stamps: My Mind's Eye Blackbird Stamps™

Coloriser by EK Success heat embossing tool

Hero Arts™ Adhesive gems

I am still learning how to heat emboss so sorry about the little black spots - I didn't notice them before I used the heat embosser so they are on there for good! But I am having a great time learning and it is definitely my new favorite thing to do to cards! :)

Now hop on over to the Passionately Artistic blog (the new name for the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog) and see what the other ladies have created! 

Off the Wall Craftiness Challenge #30

These are a couple of quick thank you cards that I made using my new Paper Trey Ink supplies that I ordered while in London! I love the name "ripe avocado". Being from California, we get a lot of avocados, but we still eat them ALL the time because we love them so much! However, this color does not look like a ripe avocado on the inside or the outside, but I still like it!

Recipe:

Card stock: Ripe Avocado™, "White"

Ribbon: Dark Chocolate Classic Grosgrain Ribbon™

Embossing Powder: A la Mode: White, Filigree: Gold (from Paper Trey Ink™)

Hero Arts Adhesive Gems

Colorizer from EK Success Heat Tool™

Stamps: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™, Hero Arts CL272™, Inkadinkado 97626™

These two cards are for the Off the Wall Craftiness Challenge of green, brown, and white. Looking on the color swatches now, my green is a bit off. I used my favorite - olive green. I hope it's okay! :) Here is the inspiration photo and balloon color swatches:

I have some spooky cards coming up for you tomorrow for Be Inspired Wednesday at Passionately Artistic (the new name for the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog).

Be Inspired Wednesday #104 - Breast Cancer Awareness

Good morning. Today at the Cuttlebug Challenge we are making cards for a wonderful cause: Breast Cancer Awareness. 

This card dawned upon be very quickly and I love how it turned out! Joanna did one similar a while ago and while I also had the idea to make it a shape card, I used hers as inspiration for the doodling since she is the doodle queen!

Recipe: 
Gypsy™
Cartridge: Tie the Knot™, Designer's Calendar™
Embossing: A2 Victoria Emboss Folder™
Stamps: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™
Pixie Stix from Pink Paislee™(black glitter)
Hero Arts Gems
Glossy Accents
Pop Dots

Instructions:

1. Select bodice, bodice blackout, and bodice shadow (twice) on your Gypsy™ from the Tie the Knot Cartridge™.

2. Weld two of the bodice shadows together to make the card base. This is the light pink layer.

3. Select Designer's Calendar™ pink ribbon from the October page twice. In the Gypsy™ you can see both the bodice and the bodice blackout. Lay them perfectly on top of each other on their individual layers.

4. Place one of the ribbons in the middle of the bodice. Place the other one on the layer with the bodice black out and also make sure these are perfectly on top of one another. This method allowed me to the cut ribbon out of both layers where you could see the pink of the card base all the way through.

5. Cut out all layers.

6. Doodle white around the edges of the dark pink layer.

7. Run dark pink layer through the Cuttlebug™ with the A2 Victoria Emboss Folder™. 

8. Adhere to black layer (bodice shadow).

9. Doodle black around the light pink layer.

10. Place pink and black layers over the card base.

11. Take My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions ribbon (it's the black ribbon) and stamp it in black in the middle of the cut out ribbon.

12. Use Glossy Accents™ on top of the black ribbon stamp. 

13. Sprinkle Pink Paislee Pixie Stix in black over the top. Tap the card to remove excess.

14. Use pop dots to adhere dark pink and black layers to the light pink base. The black ribbon should be showing through the center cut out ribbon.

15. Add Hero Arts™ adhesive gems to the top in the middle and the points of the cut out ribbon on the bottom (you can barely see mine, but they are hot pink). 

16. Give it to someone who is fighting the pink fight! 

I went to a Crop for the Cure on October 2nd in honor of Monique Griffith. So I gave this card to her! 

Head on over to the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has created and play along with us! 

Operation Write Home and a birthday wish

This is my first time using embossing powders and I am in love. 

I was definitely inspired by the cards from the DT shown on the Embellish Magazine Website. 

Recipe:
Cartridge: Cake Basics™
Paper: DCWV™ (black), Bazzill™ (white), Echo Park: A Walk in the Park™
Gypsy™
Stamps: Hero Arts CL 139™, Inkadinkado™ (what a cute name!) 97626
Embossing Powders: a la mode™ (white and black)
Ink: VersaMark: Watermark Ink Pad

Challenges:
Raven's challenge: Make an Operation Write Home card and send it
Scrap Review: Card made on World Card Day
Embellish magazine: Black, White, Yellow with stamped background

Be Inspired #103 - Haunted House

This week for Be Inspired Wednesday at the Cuttlebug Challenges we are celebrating World Card Day early and giving you inspiration of all different kinds. We were given free reign and our personalities really came out in our work. I hope you enjoy and hop over to join in the fun! EDIT: They are giving away TWO cartridges to those that play along and follow! Woo Hoo! 

This haunted house was so much fun to create. I put on the Harry Potter movie in the background and went to work.

When I purchased the October 31st Cartridge™ I automatically knew I wanted to make this into a shape card on my Gypsy™. I paired this with some Pink Paislee™ supplies that I won over at Penny's blog! She was so generous and you will be seeing a lot of that awesome black glitter coming up. I had never used Pink Paislee™ and I loved it! Thank you!

Recipe:
Gypsy™
Cartridge: October 31st™
Paper/Cardstock: Cricut™ Card Stock Earthtone (orange), Pink Paislee™ Twilight Collection (black), My Mind's Eye™: Ooh La La paper pack - For Him: Get in Line (yellow with orange cross-hatching, Bazzill™ (diamond white)
Adhesive: Glue Glider Pro Perma-Tac™ - I LOVE this and I have an ATG as well, but this is my new love for sure.
Glitter: Pink Paislee Pixie Stix™
Hero Arts Black Adhesive Gems
Glossy Accents

Instructions:
1. Weld together two haunted houses with everything "hidden" except the outline. Don't forget that one has to be flipped. (This is the dark orange layer.)
2. Duplicate the house that is going to be on the front and put on a new layer. (This is the black layer.)
3. Duplicate the house again on another new layer. On this layer, "hide" everything BUT the windows. You want the windows not to cut - for them to be solid. (This is the yellow with orange cross hatching layer.)
4. Cut all of the objects out.
5. Glue #3 to card base (#1) using your Glue Glider Pro.
6. Hand cut little white ghosts (I wish I would have had that adorable ghost in Paper Doll Dress Up for this one!) and draw sad little faces on them.
7. Glue sad little ghosts onto the yellow with orange cross-hatching layer making sure that they will peek out of the windows properly.
8. Take the black layer and apply glue to the roof (you could use Glossy Accents to make it more solid, but I wanted this house to look dilapidated so I just used glue and kept shaking it off.)
9. Add two orange Hero Arts adhesive gems to the gables of the house.
10. Add black adhesive gems to the bottom two sides and one as the door knob.
11. Apply Glossy Accents™ to the rest of the black layer
12. Pop dot the black layer and add to the front of the card.

Enjoy your card!

I might make this larger and do it as a wall decor item because I really liked how it turned out. I hope you do as well!

Court

Wee Memories Challenge (WMC18) - Brads, Buttons, Bling

This week's challenge over at Wee Memories is to use brads, buttons, and/or bling. I obviously went for the bling! I love the Design Team and am having so much fun being a guest Design Team member - Thanks Jenny for the opportunity!

Recipe:
4x4"card
Stamp: Ippity (I won this over at Morissa's blog - thank you!!!)
Sentiment: Hero Arts™
Pearls and crystal: Hero Arts™ and Swarovski™ respectively
Ribbon, pop dots, Martha Stewart™ gel adhesive (this is quickly becoming my new favorite)

Hop on over to Wee Memories to play this week and you could win a set of 10 Cuttlebug™ folders from Oh My Crafts! I want to play too!!! I love my Cuttlebug™.

Off the Wall Craftiness #19 and Happy Birthday Uncle Royce

I made two cards with my new Bo Bunny™ Dot paper that I kept seeing on everyone's cards and then I just had to have it!

The first one I made when my co-mom Linda asked me to make a card for her brother in law (my new uncle) Royce. So I had to make it "happy birthday"-esque while keeping it manly.

Now the fact that I went out and bought two more sets of Hero Arts™ is totally Jenny over at Wee Memories's fault (do you like how I am casting all purchasing blame on other people?). She is a Hero Arts™ hostess and I keep seeing adorable stamps left and right! I did need a new happy birthday stamp and so I picked up the Hero Arts™ CL 139 set . I LOVE it. The paper piecing is also inspired by Jenny's many cards.

I love the way this card turned out.


Recipe:
Paper: Bo Bunny™
Sentiment and balloons: Hero Arts™ CL 139
Pop Dots
Glossy Accents™

The second card I made was for my new Grandmother's birthday. I liked the formatting of the first card so much that I copied it for the second. I picked the colors based on Challenge 19 for Off the Wall Craftiness: light pink, lemon sherbet, lime green. You can see the inspiration photo below.

I bought another new stamp set for this one: Hero Arts™ CL280 which has elephants on it. You didn't know that I LOVE elephants, but you will see it very soon as now I have 4 to play with... three of which made it onto this card! :)


Recipe:
Paper: Bo Bunny™
Sentiment, elephants, and flowers: Hero Arts™ CL280
Pop Dots
Glossy Accents™
Ribbon

I really think my Grandmother will like it!

Have a great Thursday! I've got to get going on some projects and I've been so thrilled with the response that I've gotten about my video and the giveaway! Thank you all for your comments and encouragement! It is so appreciated! And welcome to all the new followers!

WMC14-Summer Fun

Whew! I was about to go to sleep and remembered I hadn't done a challenge for Jenny at Wee Memories! It is due in 39 minutes! So I quickly got out my stamps and stamped this card into existence. And I know it's kind of silly, but I love it! I will be looking for a stamp that says "love birds" because I REALLY wanted to own one to put on this card!

I love just being out in nature and looking at flowers and gardening (I walked through a community garden today - it was gorgeous!). So this is what I think of when I think of summer time.

I still only have the one stamp set from Hero Arts™ and these are all the little stamps that come between the sayings. I had a great time doing this!

Butterfly Thank Yous

Just a quick post today as my parents are on their way up to the city to bop around. I am so excited!

These cards were made for my birthday present thank you's (they are shamefully late). I made another batch in a different style that I will share with you later. But for now, here they are!



Recipe:
Card Size: 4Bar which is 3 1/2 x 4 7/8".
Butterfly: Sentimentals™
Sentiment: Hero Arts™ CL272
Card Stock: DCWV
Patterned Paper: K&Co.

Happy Friday everyone!

More Christmas in July

Hold onto your hats because there is going to be a lot of posting going on here soon and it will almost all be Christmas cards.

Cuttlebug Challenges is hosting a Christmas in July week. It started on the 19th and is ending on the 24th - "Christmas" eve in July. On the 24th they are posting 24 one hour challenges. I will participating in as many of these as I can. I realized that since I got my Cricut in January - I have NO Christmas images/cartridges. Luckily there are about 2 on the Designers Calendar, but I think this 24 challenge thing is going to be very tough without it.

With that being said, this card is for their regular challenge per week.


Recipe:
Snowflake - Designers Calendar Cartridge™. Cut at 2" - that was too small to cut properly - used it as the back white diamond and re-cut the image at 3". I ran the top layer through the Cuttlebug™ with the A2 D'vine Swirls Emboss Folder™, glued the same green card stock as the strip to the back so the color would come through. Then I popped it with pop dots.

Green stripe was scrap paper from the doggy mat I made a few days ago. LOVE up-cycling!

The stamp was done with Hero Arts™ CL272 set and ColorBox olive green ink.

I used Crayola™ Glitter Glue (no kidding - I had it from about 10 years ago and it's still working!) for the dots around the snowflake.

Enjoy!

This card qualifies for the following challenges:
Cuttlebug Challenges: Sketch and Christmas
The Cuttlebug Spot: Christmas in July

Pink, White, Grey and Argyle

Lately I have been feeling a lack of mojo--- but I am certain that it is coming from the general direction of trying to refinance our house - which is FINALLY in progress. SO I should be getting it back soon. :)

On Saturday my best friend Kourt and I found some time to craft. It was choppy at best while Malakai (her son and my Godson) is teething and just wants to be held. So between the two of us, we kept him occupied and co-created a card. I gave her the color scheme and showed her the Wild Card™ argyle cuts and we both picked out the papers together and took turns cutting out the shapes. She glued it together and added the swiss dots embossing (I think that looks amazing and would never have thought to do it!!!). She also thought of the tag on the front and we both put our heads together on the ribbon and the stamping. So honestly, it was a completely joined effort of goodness. I did cut the envelope the wrong way - the stripes were supposed to be vertical! Bad me. Anyway, we had a wonderful time creating this together and I hope you like it too!



Of course, it qualifies for a few challenges:
Cricut Cardz Challenge:Use a card feature on a cartridge
EAD Designs:Pink, Grey, Argyle and optional White and Black
Off the Wall Craftiness:Pale pink, grey, and white or cream
The inspiration photo is here:

Celebrate Bug Vinyl

I made this card last night. It's an A2 sized card with and EAD Designs Rub-Ons bug. The sentiment is Hero Arts™, the embossing is done with the Cuttlebug™ A2 Perfectly Paisley Emboss Folder™. I added just the buttons (even glued them on) and then decided that I wanted to make it a garden of flowers with button centers. So I ripped the buttons off and added some flowers that I made with a flower punch and then added some stems and leaves with my new Copic™ markers that I got from iCopic via winning them over at BBTB2! Whew! What a run-on!



I loved this idea so much that I think one of the next cards you will see from me will have a whole garden of flowers with button centers and most likely you will find an EAD rub on bug in there too. :) I love those rub ons!

This card qualifies for two challenges:
Cuttlebug Challenges: Bug and Embossing
Off the Wall Crafitness:Tangerine, teal, and (optional) white, cream, black.... Here is the inspiration photo:




Have a beautiful day!

Hezzy's Wedding Week - Thank you notes

What bride doesn't need thank you notes? I once again stayed within the kraft card stock theme. This time I decided to add a little country yellow.

This was my first time using the Embossing kit from Cricut Cuttables™. Some of this was easier than it looked, other parts were much much harder. Lessons learned: do not cut any object smaller than .25-.5 inches. It will have an incredibly hard time separating and then sticking to the correct sides.

Now, you may be wondering what is smaller than that in my embossed wording - the middle part of the "A" is no bigger than the head of a pin. This was by far the biggest challenge. The three dots for the periods as well as the middle of the R were the other challenges. I used a credit card to help pull apart the letters onto their correct sides. This will make a lot more sense if you had it in front of you. Maybe I will do a video of this because it was so interesting to me. All in all, TOTALLY worth it. I love the effect.

H.A.T. Riley was part of their wedding website name. It stands for Heather, Aaron, and Tucker (their dog). They sign their Christmas cards H.A.T. so I thought I would use that. I played around with a monogram for a while and I think that they are just not monogram kind of people. This, on the other hand, is just their thing. The letters came from the Gypsy Font™ - the shadow feature.

I simply embossed the kraft card stock, cut up some spare off white/light yellow paper, cut up some K&Co. paper, glued them together and added my happy yellow and green ribbon. Then I stamped the inside with my Hero Arts CL272 "Thank you so much". I made white envelopes to go with them and tied them all up in white ribbon. I'm sure they will be useful. :)

Paper Cranes

I made this for the Torendi challenge. We were supposed to get inspiration from the photos and create a project. I think I got to Torendi through EAD Designs.

Anyway, I've had this paper with the lotus blossoms for a while and I wanted to make a simple, classic card. When I looked at the inspiration photos, for some reason I thought of a Japanese wedding and I know paper cranes are part of the tradition. I knew I had the paper cranes on Wild Card™, so that's what I used!



I made them different sizes and flipped one of them to make them all a little different. I ran the cranes through my Cuttlebug™ with the A2 D'vine Swirls Emboss Folder™. Then I added some ribbon and stamped it with my Hero Arts™ stamps.

I made the envelope to match and didn't match up the edges like one normally does so that it could look a little more like origami.

I hope you're having a wonderful day!

You Make Me Smile

This green and white card stock is my favorite pattern that I've found. I was considering making it my blog background! I love it. Olive green is my favorite color and while this photograph makes it come out a little more apple then olive - it's a little closer to an earthy olive.

I cut the crown at 2 inches (it's the height - which I had forgotten and cut it out MUCH too large initially). It is cut from the Summer in Paris Cartridge™ (noticing a theme? I LOVE this cartridge!). I cut the background out of white and the front out of raspberry and popped the crown with pop dot to give it some dimension.

I embossed the pink layer on the bottom with one of the folders from the A2 Organic Border Emboss Folder™ set. I inked around all edges of the bottom border. I stamped it with the Hero Arts CL272 stamp set (the only one I own! haha) and my card was simple and complete.