12 Kits of Occasion: March 2016

Hi everyone, and welcome back to another installment of the 12 Kits of Occasions! This month we had newcomer, Michelle, sent out the kits, and what a fabulous kit she sent out! I hadn't worked with anything that she sent, so it was so fun to try out new and adorable bunnies and paper. I particularly love the carrot paper and those veggies...the colors that she stamped them in were so vibrant, luckily I have a few left so I can case what some of my fellow 12 kittens make!

I actually already sent out all of the cards, too! They were too cute not to :) Now go check out the 12 kits blog so you can see what all the other ladies made, too. Thanks for stopping by and happy Easter!

My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge #270

Bunnies AND marching band? You know I had to get this set :) I decided to make some Easter cards with this week's sketch challenge. Here's the challenge photo:

And here's my card!

The bunnies are, of course, from MFT

Cardstock, buttons, ribbon, and tag die: PTI

Sentiment: Paper Smooches

The 12 Kits of Occasions March 2014

This month's kit was put together by Kelly, Gingham Girl!  The Easter and spring colors, images, and sentiments were so fun to work with. Kelly must have been die cutting for a year for our kits, though, because wow, there were a LOT of die cuts in there, and some of them were itsy bitsy! Thanks for the great kit, Kelly, it was a lot of fun to work with :)

 

 

 

 

Now that you've seen what I was able to create I hope that you will go check out the beautiful projects created by my talented friends!

 

Renee {It's a Patchwork Life}

Joyce {Cards-by-the-Sea}

Tracey {In my creative opinion}

Kim {Cupcakes Cards and Kim}

Kara {KandRDesigns}

Sharron {On Papillon Wings}

Marybeth {Marybeth's Time for Paper}

Cathy {Empty Nest Crafter}

Jessica {The Paper Parade} (That's Me!)

Christina {SeaGlass Papercrafts}

Kelly {Gingham Girl Adventures



12 Kits of Holidays March 2013

So this month's installment of the 12 Kits of Holidays is Spring/Easter and the awesome kit was sent to us by Tracey! I loved the variety of supplies that were sent in the kit. Check out this picture, courtesy of Kara that shows the colorful kit:

 

 

So here's what I was able to make with this fabulous kit:

 

 

 

 

 

 

My favorites are the first and the last...what about you? Now let's go check out what everyone else created!

 

Renee {It's a Patchwork Life}

Amy {Stamp-n-Paradise}
Kelly {Gingham Girl}

Joyce {Cards-by-the-Sea}

Kim {Cupcakes Cards and Kim}

Kara {KandRDesigns}

Sharron {On Papillon Wings}

Marybeth {Marybeth's Time for Paper}

Jeanne {A Kept Life}

Jessica {The Paper Parade}-Me!
Tracey {In My Creative Opinion}

Christina {Sea Glass & Sentiments}

Paper Smooches Sparks Cool Shades March 2013

 

Hi everyone! Its Paper Smooches time! I used several stamp sets on this card. I used "Spring Fling," "A Magical Spring," "Streamers," and the matching streamers die. This card was really easy and turned out pretty cute, I may have to make a few extras of these before Easter! This week its the cool shades challenge, so here are the colors we were given to play along with:

 

 

 

So now you have to go see what the rest of the talented design team created! Check out their creations here:

 

Ashley Marcu - www.cherryhilldesign.blogspot.com

Lori Tecler - http://inkingaloud.blogspot.com/

Nina Yang - http://waffleflower.com/

Savannah O’Gwynn - http://www.savannahland2.blogspot.com/

 

 

Now that you've seen all that talent, don't you want to play along? You have a week to do so. Here is the link to the sparks challenge blog!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, everyone! I hope that the Easter bunny filled your baskets full of crafty goodies...and a chocolate bunny for good measure :) I hope you are getting to spend time with families and enjoying delicious food. Here's a look at the Easter cards I created for my girlfriends...using Paper Smooches, of course :)

I designed and made 8 of these cards in an hour...a record for me! I now know that Clean and Simple is the way to go when creating multiples ;) I paper pieced the chick with some SU DSP and used Copics to color in the beak and feet.

The chick and sentiment are both from PS Chubby Chums, the patterned paper is all from SU DSP, the half & half die and cardstock are from PTI and the twine is from the Twinery. The corduroy button is from SU.

Here's a look at the group of them before I mailed them out :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Make It Monday #59

This week's Make it Monday challenge was to use Computer Generated Sentiments on Diecuts. You should definitely watch the video, I don't know why I never thought of Erin's technique using the negative from the die for perfect cutting placement! I'll definitely be going back to that in the future. Here is the Easter card I created:

And the computer generated sentiment on the jar label die:

So I used Mega Mat Stack #3 and Layerz Mat Stack #3. I used Aqua Mist Gingham paper, Spring Moss, and Harvest Gold paper (and saddle stitched ribbon).

The jar is from the Friendship Jar set and the bunny is from the Spring Fillers set. The grass punch is from Martha Stewart and the pinking border die is from PTI.

PTI February Blog Hop & cQc #125

This month's PTI blog hop challenge was to make an interactive card, and boy was I excited since my release package came in just in time! I used the Movers and Shakers Spinners die and the Scrambled Eggs set and die to create this little card for my niece or nephew (haven't decided which one yet, hehe).

I took advantage of using this great color combination from Colour Q. You can check out the challenge yourself, here.

Check out what this bunny does...he moves!!

All of the cardstock is PTI. The patterned grey paper is from SU. The fence punch is from Martha Stewart. The ribbon is Canyon Clay from PTI. I got the sentiments to go along the path like that by bending them on my clear block before stamping.

The only thing missing was a cute cottontail! Which unfortunately I only had pink and it just didn't look right. Now off to check out all the other blog hop cards, thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend :)