Happy Birthday Princess with BLING

Hi everyone, there is a new Designer's Challenge over at My Creative Time and we are using BLING for the challenge (glitter, gems, sequins, you name it). This was a fun challenge and I hope you will play along at My Creative Time.

I had WAY too much fun with the bling on this. I used the All Around Birthday Time for the crown and sentiment. I heat embossed the crown in silver. I added a little bit of stickles to the crown as well as some adhesive gems. I also used the Scallop and Stitched Circles by My Creative Time. The glittery pink and purple papers are by Core'dinations. The blue is by DCWV. I added a few sequins and gems at the bottom too. This is a super BLINGY and fun birthday card for a girl.

Make sure to stop by Emma's blog so you can join in this fun challenge too! Hugs- Glora

PKS Sketch Challenge

Well it is time for another awesome sketch challenge over at Peachy Keen Stamps. I think this is such a fun sketch:

As you can see I don't normally stray too far from a sketch - LOL.

I used the Halloween Holler Scarecrow Driver stamp set. I colored him up with my watercolor pencils. I've been having some fun with those lately. For the sentiment I used a die that comes from the Just Simply Live stamp and die set by My Creative Time. A few adhesive rhinestones and sheer polka dot ribbon and that was about it. 

I hope you will join in this fun challenge at Peachy Keen Stamps. I can't wait to see what you make.

Also did you notice the call for the 2013 Peachy Keen Stamps Design Team (click HERE for details)? This has been a dream come true experience for me. So many of you are huge Peachy Keen fans and do such amazing work with the stamps. I hope you will try out for the team and I wish you the BEST of LUCK!!!! 

Hugs- Glora 

Thank You Birdy

Today I wanted to share a thank you card that I made for a super sweet crafting friend of mine. She sent me some of this BEAUTIFUL paper by Doodlebug Design called Petite Prints. I just LOVE it. There are polka dots on one side and grids on the other side. SO SUPER cute! Thank you sweet friend. I have been WAY too spoiled lately. I also received some pretty bling, Tim Holtz Distress Inks, stitching pens, and Glossy Accents from another sweet crafting friend recently. You both know who you are and I just want to say THANK YOU so much for thinking of me! 

For this card I used some of the pretty Petite Prints paper that my friend sent to me and some of the bling that my other friend sent me. The darling little bird is a new die by Peachy Keen Stamps- CottageCutz called Winter Bird. I think she is too cute. I cut her out in the pink, white and turquoise and then inked up all the edges and added doodling too. I added glossy accents to the eyes and beak and a little twine bow as well. These dies are so cute and easy to put together too. The sweet Thank You sentiment is from the new Gnomegrown stamp set by Peachy Keen Stamps.

I hope you are having a WONDERFUL Wednesday and I will see you again soon! Hugs- Glora

Items Used:

Peachy Keen Stamps - Gnomegrown

PKS - CottageCutz- Winter Bird

Doodlebug Design - Petite Prints

Inks for inking

Twine from The Twinery

Adhesive Rhinestones

Sakura Gellyroll Pen

Spring is in the Air!

Yes, I am ready for spring. We have had VERY cold weather here, but today it actually felt rather warm. So it felt like Spring was in the air and it most definitely is in my heart. I'm READY for spring! Here is my spring inspired card using My Creative Time Color Me Happy stamps.

I attached the kite to an Action Wobble so it could sail through the air. Here is a quick video of showing that.

Items Used:

*Create A Critter
*Gypsy
*My Creative Time - Color Me Happy stamps
*Peachy Keen Stamps- Simple Sallies
*Black Ultrathin Bic Marker
*Bakers Twine
*Rhinestones

Mr and Mrs Wedding Card

This is a simple wedding card that I made for some friends. Like I said it is simple, but I like how it turned out.

Items Used:

Sweethearts Cricut cartridges
Gypsy
Cuttlebug
Lots of Love Cuttlebug embossing folder
Rhinestones
Bakers Twine

Dancing Birthday Girl!

This is the card that I made for me daughter's birthday. It has all her favorite colors in it and she loves to dance so this was perfect for her.

I used an Action Wobble to make her dance. Here is a video of this dancing birthday girl.



Items Used:

Cricut Lite Twinkle Toes
Gypsy
Peachy Keen Stamps Critter Faces
Pink By Design Stamps for the sentiment
Versamarker
Pebbles Ribbon
White Gelly Roll pen
Chalk
Adhesive rhinestones

Peachy Keen Challenge and News

I have some WONDERFUL and VERY exciting Peachy Keen Stamps news. I was lucky to be chosen as a Peachy Keen Stamps Guest Designer for 2011. This means that the week of August 22-26th, 2011, you will see a week full of Peachy Keen fun on my blog. My posts for that week will also be posted on the Peachy Keen Stamps Blog. I will also get to give away a Peachy surprise donated by Peachy Keen Stamps during my guest week. I'm so happy. I love Peachy Keen Stamps. I've tried out for a few design teams in the past and haven't made the cut. Although this is only a guest designer position I couldn't be happier. Thanks so much for the opportunity Peachy Keen Stamps! And thanks to all of you for endulging me in this little celebration. For a full list of Guest Designer's Visit Peachy Keen Stamps Blog.

I made a card for the current Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge. The challenge was to do some embossing on your project. I finally found me the Polka Dot Cricut embossing folder and decided to try it out. This is a shape card made with the Very Merry Tags Cricut cartridge. So yes, it is supposed to be a tag, but I thought it would make a cute shape card.

I love snow people and these Peachy Keen Stamps make her look SO cute. I also love my twine. I think it definitely adds to her scarf.

I have had a bunch of people ask me about the twine. I have bought mine at a local scrapbooking store for 15 cents a yard. They have twine from both The Twinery and Divine Twine. However, I found an awesome sampler pack that The Twinery offers. It is $14.95 for 120 yards of twine in all 8 colors. Shipping was reasonable, so if you are in the market for some twine this is a great deal. Just click HERE to go to this offer.

Items Used:

*Peachy Keen Stamps Everyday Character Face Parts for nose and mouth
*Peachy Keen Stamps Basic Paper Doll Faces for the eyes

*Very Merry Tags

*Gypsy

*Polka Dot Cuttlebug embossing folder

*Holly Jolly Sentiment from MSE

*Red/White Bakers Twine
*Red rhinestones
*White Sakura Gelly Roll
*Black Ultrathin Bic Writer
*Chalk
*Inking

Day 2 - Holly Jolly 2 Day Hop

Hello everyone, welcome to day 2 of our 2 day Holly Jolly Blog Hop. If you got here from Stephanie's blog than you are moving in the right direction. If not head on back so that you don't miss out on any of these amazing projects.

Today's project is a little Minnie gingerbread ornament that matches the decorated candle (this could also be used as a gift tag).

BLOG CANDY: Here is what I'm offering for blog candy. 6 total yards of twine in 3 different colors (lemondrop, caribbean, pink sorbet all from the Twinery), 5 Action Wobbles and a Cuttlebug square die cut set (pictured below). This blog candy is available to anyone residing in the US or Canada (due to shipping costs). Please leave me a comment to be entered for the blog candy. You do not have to be a follower of my blog, but I would love it if you were. I will randomly pick a winner on Monday, December 13th, 2010.

Also remember that for the grand prize which is a bunch of scrapping goodies donated by Scrapadabadoo make sure to leave a comment on each project along the hop. Here is a complete list of the blog hop order. Click on the name to go to their blog.

Stephanie
Glora (ME - you are here)
Carri
Deb
Kristal
Marianne
Erika
Margie
Sandra
Jess

Once again your next stop is the wonderful Carri of Double Click Connections. Thanks so much for hopping along :).

Items Used:

Just Because Cards Cricut cartridge
George and Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge
Gypsy
Cricut Expression
Peachy Keen Stamps -Simple Sallies
Deco Art Snow Paint Writer
Red and White Divine Twine
Cappuchino (Brown and White) Twinery twine
Chalk for the edges and cheeks
Red Rhinestones

Sparkly Merry Christmas!

I've had this ornament designed for a couple of years now and never got around to cutting it out. I originally designed it in the Cricut Design Studio and later converted the file for my wonderful Gypsy. It is very simple but I love how it turned out. I used Core'dinations Couture Cardstock and it is GORGEOUS. Unfortunately the photos do not do this paper justice. Anyway, here is my card.

I also wanted to remind everyone about the Holly Jolly 2 day Blog Hop. I am so excited this is my first time participating in a blog hop and I hope you will join us. It starts of Friday, December 10th, 2010 at 7:30 PM EST.

Items Used:

Christmas Cheer

Mickey and Friends

Gypsy

Core'dinations Couture Cardstock

Stampendous -sentiment

Rhinestones 

Diamond Stickles

Ribbon

Peachy Keen Stamps - Challenge 32

The subject for this challenge was summer destinations. Our FAVORITE summer destination is DISNEYLAND. We had a fabulous time at Disneyland last month. This project will be the introductory page for our Disneyland vacation scrapbook.

I love how this turned out. I tried to give us all our actual look and I think it worked out well. Here is a close up of the paperdolls with their cute Peachy Keen Stamps faces.

For this project I used:

Peachy Keen Stamps - Simple Sallies for the girl faces

Peachy Keen Stamps - Basic Paper Doll Faces for the boys face

Everyday Paperdolls - for the dolls and their clothing

Mickey font - for the Mickey icons

Mickey and Friends - for Minnie's bow

Once Upon a Princess- for the castle

Gypsy Font- for Magical Memories

Rhinestones

White gel pen, black pen & Versamark watermark pen