homemade embellishments

I was reading the Scrapbook Steals blog and one of their craft challenges was to make your own embellishments. Sounded fun so here's what I made!

I used two of my fave colors (coral and kraft) and a sheet of Teresa Collins' You are My Happy paper to make these tags and embellies. I die cut some shapes, stamped and fussy-cut images (Dutch Mustard Soup), and then layered them all up.

Here's some close-ups:

I'm linking up to:
*Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - use your favorite technique/product - I used my fave colors and techniques (die cutting and layering)
*Scrapbook Steals Monday Craft Madness #18 - homemade embellishments
*Unity Stamps Friends with Flair blog hop

Not your average Father's Day card

I found this ecard image and immediately had to turn it into a paper card!

 I mean it's too funny and too true not to!

I just printed it out and cropped it to fit my card. I matted it on black and placed it on some  Authentique Gathering paper.

I embellished with some fussy cut flowers and a black flourish.

 My husband is not the sentimental type, but he loves humor so I thought this would be perfect for him!

I'm entering this into Scrapbook Steals Monday Card Madness sketch challenge

and Authentique's Color Inspiration Challenge (yay - so glad that is back!)

Supplies:

Authentique Gathering 6x6 pad

SU Basic black and Crumb Cake cardstock

Spellbinders Twisted Metal Tags & Accents die for the flourish

foam tape

Wishing You the best

My entry for Stampin' Sisters in Christ, Monday Card Madness #73, and Stacy's Card Challenge

The Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge is to make a card with variegated colors (my flower).

The MCM challenge was to use this sketch:

And Stacy's challenge was to use metal on your card. I added a metal brad and metallic  embossing powder:

Supply list:

SP and Company Bold Sentiments I stamp set

SU Fun Flowers die

Zing Metallic Copper embossing powder

SU cardstock and patterned paper

I Love You

It's Tuesday and time for my DT post for SP and Company.

Today I've got a Valentine's Day card (and it's not even February yet. Yay me!!).

I used this MCM #67 sketch from ScrapbookSteals.com

This was a great way to use up a bunch of different papers!

Supply list:

Lippy Single Stamp

Ultimate Sentiments II

Echo Park Yours Truly 6x6 pad

I've also got a post on the SP Stamps blog today as well. Check it out if  you have time. Thanks!



Peace and Joy

Project #35 of 100

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I stamped the Worn Music background stamp on white cardstock, then aged it with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo inks. Then I stamped Peace & Joy from Unity and aged it as well, distressed the edges, and mounted on black cardstock.

Inspiration is from the following challenges:

* ScrapbookSteals Monday Card Madness #58 sketch:

* Unity Stamp Company Challenge Let it Snow which is to use snow, snowmen, snowflakes, christmas trees.. anything to do about this coming winter season.

And I got to use my new Helmar liquid scrap dots finally! There's dimension to the card without any unsightly white foam. : )

Can you tell? It looks like I didn't zoom in close enough and I'm too lazy to go back and fix it : \

Also, I think the card needs another color. I'm thinking pink. I thought about putting some Spun Sugar Stickles onn the flourishes on the tree. What do you think? It needs something. Maybe some rhinestones? Let me know if you have suggestions.

This is also my Friends with Flair post for Unity. So hop on over and join the blog hop for some easy prizes! Just comment on blogs to win!

1 Christmas card down, too many to go

Supplies used:

Unity Stamps: Worn Music, Peace & Joy

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress inks in Vintage Photo and Antique Linen; StazOn in Jet Black; SU marker  in Old Olive

Ribbon: 7gypsies seam binding

Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots

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And don't forget to enter my giveaway to win a free e-book tutorial that will teach you to create wonderful gift boxes and more! Today is the last day. Click here or see the post below. You don't need an electronic die cutter to use this.

Teacher Survival Kits

Projects #25-#27 of 100 (I'm counting each card and box set as only 1)

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So this year for teacher gifts I decided to make a Teacher Surival Kit! I've seen the idea alot but stumbled on this one on pinterest and decided to try some.

We have 2 kindergarten teachers and 1 second grade teacher. These photos are horrible. I know. I literally took them in the morning last minute as we were scrambling to get out the door. They are crooked and weirdly colored and you can see my shadow. : ) I'm sorry!

Surprisingly, the boxes in my store's jewelry and craft section didn't have customizable inserts! Really? There is a new brand in there now and you can only work with the sections they give you.

As if! : )

So I searched all over the store and found these in the fishing section. Whew. Crisis averted.

I decorated the outside with some scrapbooking supplies. The third box uses a discontinued SU scrapbooking kit and the top two have a bit of that plus some AC paper plus those fun Thickers.

For the insides I filled it with a few necessities I thought they could use including Post-Its, paper clips, push pins, binder clips, hand sanitizer, hand lotion, some energy drink mixes and chocolates!

And here are the matching cards for each box:

(Also for ScrapbookSteals MCM #46 card challenge)

(Also for ScrapbookSteals MCM #47 card challenge)

This poor card. After I put it together I realized I should have inked the edges. So I took it apart and inked the edges and put it back together. It's barely together and looks like I let the baby play with it! Oops.

And I managed to get these to the teachers only 1 week after school started! One day, I'll have something made by the time school starts.

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**Linking this up to Think Pink Sundays over at Flamingo Toes. Go check out the linky party for some really awesome crafty ideas**

Thanks, Teacher

This card is a double-entry. It's for Wee Memories and ScrapbookSteals.com.

Wee Memories Challenge #29 is a free for all! We got to pick what to do.

And the Monday Card Madness #4 at ScrapbookSteals.com is a sketch:

This is a Thank You card for my son's teacher who loves apples (or at least I think she does judging by her classroom).

This was my first gate fold card and it was both really easy and really fun! Here it is opened:

I finally used the Apple Cider paper from Imaginisce that I LOVE sooooo much. The apple was cut from a Cricut cartridge and now I can't remember which. Just Because Cards, maybe??

My handmade tag!

boo...

This card is a double entry for both Off The Wall Craftiness and ScrapbookSteals.com

Second entry for Off The Wall Craftiness Challenge #28

Inspiration colors:

Monday Card Madness #2 at ScrapbookSteals.com using this sketch:

 

First, I turned the sketch on its side and changed it just a tad. I sprayed the card with some log cabin smooch spritz and used the leftover scraps from my paper pumpkin to make this really simple card. The papers are from The Spiders Web from My Mind's Eye. I cut the word BOO using the Happy Hauntings cartridge and the leaves are cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge. The button is Stampin Up.