An early Christmas card share :)

I know it's only August-

much too early to be posting Christmas cards-

but I have a cute little gift card holder that I wanted to share. :)

 

This is a card I made for a recent card that didn't get picked up.

 

 

Love this stamp set from Paper Smooches! 

I paired it with papers from Crate Paper

and a Maya Road kraft snowflake.

 

I like this design for the coffee cup-

I think I will try it with other shapes in place of the snowflake

(maybe a circle or heart?)

 

Thanks for visiting today! :)



Sigh...You are Fabulous.

What?  Two shares in two days? 

That's a record for me this summer. :)

 

This is a "reject" from a recent call that is a bit different from my usual style. 

It was my first time using gold paint,

but with gold trending right now, I wanted to give it a try. 

I love all of the Pinterest pins that combine pastels with gold,

so I thought it would look great on a card.

 

 

The chipboard sticker and papers are from Basic Grey's Knee Highs collection, sentiment stamp is from Unity, and that fun gold paper fringe is from K & Co.

 

Thanks for popping by!



hello. :)

So, I got a not-so-subtle reminder that I haven't updated the blog for a while!

LOL

(Thanks, Steph!)

 

I have made a few cards over my summer vacation,

but haven't taken the time to share many. 

Sorry!

 

Here's a bright one for you today.

I am in love with neon right now!

I just got the new neon ink pads from Hero Arts, too, so you'll probably need sunglasses to read my blog before the summer's over. ;)

 

 

I cut this fun kraft and neon background using the Creative Cards cartridge from Cricut. 

Fun, huh?

The stamp is from Studio G.  I stamped it with Versamark

and embossed with black embossing powder.

 

I'm hoping that I have some time today to get inky.  Happy Tuesday! :)



Echo Park NSD Challenge #1

Happy National Scrapbook Day!

I am having SO MUCH FUN doing nothing but scrapping today!  In my jammies, to boot! LOL  I am also very grateful that we have not had any company today.  If the doorbell rings, I will pretend I am not home. :)

I have been playing along with a few challenges today.  There is so much happening online today!  The first project that I am sharing is a card for Echo Park's first challenge of the day: make a summertime card.

At first, I didn't think I could play along because although I have quite a bit of Echo Park product, none of it was really summer-themed.  Then I remembered that I have the entire digital Hello Summer collection!  I always forget my digi stuff because it's not right in front of me. :)  Here's what I came up with:

I printed the window box twice on white cardstock, then fussy-cut the flowers and layered them.  I also paper-pieced the window frame and awning.  The awning paper and background are both from Echo Park's Walk in the Park collection.  The little "Thanks a Bunch" sticker is from the Country Drive collection.

Thanks for popping by today.  I have a kit and layout to post in a bit, then it's back up to the scrap room to play some more. :)

Warm Wishes

I was inspired by the FRIGID temperatures today to create this little CAS card.  It's a great day to stay inside, do some stamping, and have a hot cuppa. :)

I love this cute little mug from Paper Smooches' "Hot Concoctions" stamp set.  I also love this new snowflake embossing folder that I just picked up from Darice.  What a bargain-only $2.99 at A.C. Moore!  I can see myself using this on lots of winter cards.

I am also entering this card in the current Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge: Anything Goes.  Just click on the image below to go right to the current challenge!  Thanks for visiting my blog!

I Love You...Like a Love Song, Baby

Oh, how I have missed scrapping and blogging!  I've made a few projects over my little Christmas break.  Some of them I can share now-others I can't share until later. :)

My first card today is a CAS card that I made for the recent Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge.  I missed the deadline to post, however, and was a bit grumpy about that. :(  This morning, though, I saw that the latest Sparks Challenge was "Anything Goes."  Woo-hoo!  Now I can still enter this card!

This super-cute jukebox is from the "Perpetual Bliss" stamp set.  I paper-pieced it using some new papers from Basic Grey's "Fiction" paper pad.  It's hard to see the embossed sentiment on the left of the card in this photo, so here's a detail photo:

See the "love you" sentiment?  The top two are more subtle, but the bottom "love You" is a deeper emboss.  

This is one of my entries for the current Paper Smooches Sparks challenge: Anything Goes.  Just click on the image below to go right to this challenge!

Thanks for popping by-come back later-I have more projects to share! :)

Tree Trio

Yup-more Christmas cards!  It's my day off from school and I am celebrating by wearing my pajamas and getting inky! LOL

 

Here's what I'm sharing over on the I Heart {ippity} blog today:

 

I created one basic card design (on the right), then "stepped it up" by using slightly different stamping techniques on the other two cards.  I also caved and cut into a piece of embossed cardstock that I have had since 2007!  I LOVED this Love, Elsie paper so much that I have been saving it, LOL!  But I caved today because it matched my olive chalk ink so beautifully, and the embossed trees looked fabby with my {ippity} tree stamps. :)

 

Thanks for popping by today!  I am working on the World Cardmaking Day challenges posted over on the Unity blog-hopefully I will have more shares later!

Naughty or Nice?

I know that there are still a couple of months until Christmas, but crafters tend to think about holidays well in advance. If you're like me and stamp all of your holiday cards, chances are it takes you several months just to build up your stash!

Today I'm sharing a Christmas card that I created for the I Heart {ippity} blog.  It comes with a built-in gift card holder on the front:

I used the adorable new holiday set from {ippity} called "Naughty. Nice. Not Sure." Seriously, how CUTE is this little Santa? I colored Santa with Copics, and paper-pieced the list with some vintage text paper from My Mind's Eye. A punched border along the top of the kraft bag adds a fun touch and lets the gift card peek out.

This design would also work great for lottery scratch tickets! The guys (and kids!) in our family LOVE scratch tickets in their stockings-what a fun way to dress them up, holiday-style!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Some Halloweeen {ippity}...

Just a quick post today to share two Halloween projects that I created recently for the I Heart {ippity} blog.  Heather Flaherty is my {ippity} chick-and she would love to be yours, too!  Just click on her lovely photo on the Unity Stamp Co. website and shop away!

 

First up is a colorful little card:

Next is a tag perfect for attaching to a bag of Pumpkin Spice coffee:

 

 

 

Both projects use {ippity}'s new Halloween Itty Bitty, "Halloween Greetings".  I just love that little witch!

 

Thanks for stopping by today!  Check back in the morning for another {ippity} project-this one has a Christmas theme!



8 Cards from my July Counterfeit Card Kit!

My month of Guest Designing for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge will soon come to an end, but that doesn't mean that I don't have a ton of projects to share with you!  First let me share that today's projects were not made with my July main kit-instead, I created a smaller Counterfeit Card Kit.  You can absolutely do this every month, too, if you are a cardmaker!

This month, our inspiration kit was the Summer Boardwalk Kit from Citrus Twist.  Instead of copying the kit exactly, as I did with my main kit, I made a very generic list of kit contents.  My list included things like: "chevron patterned paper", "masculine print paper", and "textured embellies."  Definitely generic, but with plenty of room for interpretation!  This is a totally legit way to play along when your stash doesn't seem to work with the inspiration kit, or when the inspiration kit just isn't your style.  I also wanted to include some sketches, so I printed some that I had already pinned on Pinterest.  Here are pics of my kit contents:

Patterned papers from Cosmo Cricket, Pebbles, Colorbok, Echo Park, Imaginisce, and TPC (a 6x6 piece of each to make me feel like I had a new 6x6 bundle to work with!)...

tiny alpha stickers, chipboard letters, felt embellies, paper flower, ribbon, buttons, twine, and a vintage pattern print in place of the vintage book page...

and uber-cute Lawn Fawn.  :)  I substituted the border stamps for the washi tape in the inspiration kit.

Now for my my sketches and cards.  I made 2 cards from each sketch, for a total of 8 cards from my little kit!  Click on the sketches to be taken right to their websites.

Sketch 1:

Sketch 2:

Sketch 3:

Sketch 4:

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and check out all of my cards today!  I hope that you will be inspired to create your own kit-please be sure to share your projects by linking up to the July Mr. Linky on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog!

Just Be Awesome :)

How about another quick share?  This card was also one that wasn't picked up by Paper Crafts magazine.  Do I love it any less?  Nah-I think the sentiment rocks!

Papers from Basic Grey (Paper Cottage and PB&J), stamp from Unity Stamp Co., felt star from Pebbles, Dream Big brad from Studio G, mini paper clip and gems.

Oops...here's a late peek for you!

I have a new project up at I Heart {ippity}-hope you will check it out!  Here is a sneak peek for you:

Click HERE to see the whole project!

Operation Write Home

I am Guest Designing for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge this month, and I loved that our first challenge for July was a cardmaking challenge. :)

The challenge: use your July Counterfeit Kit to create cards for Operation Write Home.

I created 3 cards already, but I think I will add more as the month goes on.  I find that I make many more cards than I actually mail, and this is such a great cause.  Hope those that serve will enjoy sending my cards to their loved ones back home. :)

Here are shots of the individual cards:

Thanks so much for stopping by today-I would love it if you left me a comment! 

We would love to have you join us for this challenge!  Let's see how many cards we can make for OWH-post your number in a comment on THIS post!



Stop Pinning? I think not...

I have been pinning cute little quotes (OK-some of them are downright sassy) on Pinterest.  I love funny and sarcastic cards, so I thought that some of these quotes would make fun card sentiments.  Like the one on this card:

"I'm getting tired of pinning things

on Pinterest.  Maybe I'll stop,"

said no one ever.

Heehee! Loved this one!  I typed the sentiment in Word, printed it on cardstock, and paired it with this sassy lady stamp from Unity's March 2011 Kit of the Month.  She looks like a pinner, don't you think? :)

I also used (and flipped) the sketch from the June KOM Sketch challenge:





Thanks for popping by today!  Hope I made you smile! :)

Sending Koala Love

I had fun yesterday playing with my newest Lawn Fawn stamp sets.  I think my new favorite is Critters Down Under.  The little koala in the set is just the cutest!  I thought he would be perfect for this week's Lawnscaping Challenge, Color Splash:

Here is my card-with a splash of peachy pink:

Color splash challenges are THE hardest for me because I love lots of colors and patterns.  I do love this little guy, however.  I acgtually used him as a little experiment, too.  I colored him with Spectrum Noir markers instead of Copics.  There is an awesome deal on them this week at A.C. Moore ($7.88 for a set of 6), so I picked up the set of Warm Greys to try.  Definitely not the same quality as Copics, so I will definitely not be switching over.  However, with this sale, they are an inexpensive way to add to my colors as I build my Copic collection.

Oh, and to finish off my little koala, I added a super cute black nose with Ranger's Enamel Accents.  It makes is look like a real little nose!  Definitely going to try that again!

Thanks for popping by today! 



Sending My Love

First off, I can't say "thank you" enough to all of my sweet friends in the blogging world who wished me a Happy Birthday yesterday.  You all are the best!  You really know how to make a girl feel special. :)

I had a bit of time yesterday afternoon to play in my scraproom (best. birthday. gift. ever.)  I decided to play along with 2 different {ippity} challenges going on right now.  The first is the BRIGHTS CHALLENGE on the {ippity} blog.  This striped paper from Sassafras Lass is super bright and funky!  The second is this week's sketch challenge at Chick Challenges {with ippity}.  Here is my card:

I absolutely loved the idea of adding an envelope to the front of your card, as the sketch shows.  I cut this little envelope using my Cricut Wild Card cartridge.  Although I adhered it shut, you could also make it a functional envie for a little note or gift card.  I moved the bow from the sketch over onto my card flap, and moved the sentiment lower on the envie.  The sentiment is from {ippity}'s How YOU Doin' stamp set, on of my favorites sets for cute little sentiments.

I am also sharing a project today over at I Heart {ippity}-hop on over and check it out!

Fun with BasicGrey Challenges!

I am so excited to be Guest Designing for BasicGrey Challenges for the next few weeks!  Today's challenge is to use your favorite color combo to create a project.  I usually choose the colors for my project based on the patterned paper, so I went to my new favorite BG paper collection, What's Up?  The colors in this collection are so pretty-I love purple, so the papers with purple are my favorites. My color combo was lavendar and aqua.  I created both a feminine and a masculine card using these colors and fun papers from the What's Up? collection.

For my "Thank You" card, I used THIS stamp set from Basic Grey/Hero Arts.  The little flowers are stamped on a few different distressed solids from several different BG collections (Plumeria, What's Up?, Porcelain, and Olivia.)

I just love THIS fun stamp set from The Craft's Meow!  Cute mustache images and snazzy sentiments, too! 

I stamped the mustache twice on a figgy brown cardstock .  The first layer is adhered flat on my tag.  The second mustache is folded in half and only adhered along the fold so the edges pop up.  You can see the detail a bit better here:

The DT over at BasicGrey Challenges has some beautiful projects to share using their favorite color combos, too!  Check it out, leave some love, and play along to win!

CAS Thinking of You

My card today is a quickie, made from scraps that were on my desk. :)

The background paper made the perfect frame for this label die-cut, but the sentiment that I had originally stamped on the die-cut bled a bit.  What to do?  Cover it up, of course!  I had already stamped these little flowers out of coordinating papers for another project, so I used some leftovers to cover up the icky sentiment.  I created a little tag to house a tiny sentiment, then tied it through the center of one of the flowers.  The fun border on the bottom is just a border sticker.  Super quick!

I am actually entering this in 2 different challenges: BasicGrey Challenge (CAS) and Hero Arts' Thinking of You.

Please stop by tomorrow, as I am Guest Designing for BasicGrey Challenges for the next few weeks!  I have two fun projects to share with you tomorrow, using some of my favorite new Basic Grey products!  Play along with me and you could win a fabby gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp!

I Heart {ippity} Blog Hop-Day 2

I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am that it is the weekend!  It has been a very long, very stressful week at school-assessments, meetings, report cards-my brain is fried! LOL  What better way to start a fun, crafty weekend than with some fabulous {ippity} projects in today's I Heart {ippity} Blog Hop?
First off, if you are not familiar with {ippity} then you are missing out! {ippity} is a line of rubber stamps manufactured by the Unity Stamp Co. The {ippity} line is separate from the Unity line but has the same wonderful quality, it is marketed though Unity Endorsed {ippity} Chicks, reps for {ippity}.     Although I am no longer selling {ippity} myself, I *happen* to have a fabulous friend who does!  Heather Flaherty is my {ippity} CHICK and would love to be yours! To order {ippity} just go to the Unity Website and on the left hand side click {ippity} - Pick a CHICK & Order. That will take you to the {ippity} chick page where you can pick Heather as your {ippity} Chick

My project today used my all-time favorite technique, paper-piecing.  It is SO easy and packs a punch when you use a mix of patterned papers.  I used a fun mix from Simple Stories.  The stamps are a super-cute new Itty Bitty set from {ippity} called Java Friend.

To make this blog hop even more fun, Heather is giving away a prize to one person who comments on all of the DT blogs! So get commenting! LOL 

Blog Hop Line Up:

Heather
Sherri - That's me!
Shellye
Emily
Amy
Jeannie
Kristy

Now head on over to Shellye's Blog to see what amazng project she has for you today!

Also, check out the I Heart {ippity} fan page on Facebook and like us there. Thanks for stopping by today!
Facebook Fan Page Link - www.facebook.com/PCAHeather
Pick a CHICK & Order Link - http://unitystampco.com/ippity-chicks/default.aspx

I Heart {ippity} Blog Hop

Happy Friday, everyone!

Welcome to the I Heart {ippity} Design Team Blog Hop!  I am SO excited to be part of Heather's {ippity} team.  I love sharing fun projects with you!

First off, if you are not familiar with {ippity} then you are missing out! {ippity} is a line of rubber stamps manufactured by the Unity Stamp Co. The {ippity} line is separate from the Unity line but has the same wonderful quality, it is marketed though Unity Endorsed {ippity} Chicks, reps for {ippity}.     Although I am no longer selling {ippity} myself, I *happen* to have a fabulous friend who does!  Heather Flaherty is my {ippity} CHICK and would love to be yours! To order {ippity} just go to the Unity Website and on the left hand side click {ippity} - Pick a CHICK & Order. That will take you to the {ippity} chick page where you can pick Heather as your {ippity} Chick

My project today allowed me to play with some of my Copics.  I just got Copic certified, so I want to color all the time! LOL  One of the techniques we learned was a stonewash technique, but I also thought it looked like colors that get faded in the summer.  I tried this technique on this butterfly from {ippity}'s Devoted stamp set.  I also added a touch of Spica Clear glitter to the butterfly wings.  The sentiment is from Music of my Heart.  Although it doesn't show well in the photo, I also pierced a line under the sentiment to "ground" it.
To make this blog hop even more fun, Heather is giving away a prize to one person who comments on all of the DT blogs! So get commenting! LOL 

Blog Hop Line Up:

Heather
Sherri - That's me!
Shellye
Emily
Amy
Jeannie
Kristy


Now head on over to Shellye's Blog to see what amazng projet she has for you today!

Also, check out the I Heart {ippity} fan page on Facebook and like us there. Thanks for stopping by today!


Facebook Fan Page Link - www.facebook.com/PCAHeather
Pick a CHICK & Order Link - http://unitystampco.com/ippity-chicks/default.aspx