WELL THAT IS JUST "PEACHY KEEN"

hey bloggies,

Sorry I have been a bit quiet this week.  Lots of work going on to sell our home and lots of showings so I have to leave for 30 minutes each appointment.  That equals not much stamping!!

Today I have a card to go with our current sketch on SKETCH FRENZY FRIDAY. 

I used the sketch to start my creativity, but strayed a bit from it.  Instead of banners I used stamped arrows.  Hope you like it:

 Here is my take on the sketch with lots of fun arrows and spears.  Love the stamp set PEACHY KEEN.

 I got a card similar to this at Leadership from my roomie DJ, a demo from Austin.  Thanks DJ for the idea!!

Heat embossed the sentiment and punched it out with extra large circle punch, then popped it up on dimensionals.  I love the spring colors of the coastal cabana, baked brown sugar, summer starfruit, and crisp cantaloupe.  The card base is coastal cabana with a layer of crisp cantaloupe underneath the whisper white main layer.

Thanks for stopping by,  Pop over to Sketch Frenzy Friday to see the other team member's cards and to enter YOUR creation on the site as well.

Come back again for some more creativity, won't you?

FRENCHIE FOLD CARD

Good morning all.  What an amazing day here in Southeast Texas.  My monarch caterpillars are getting big and fat and will soon spin their crysallis.  My tomato plants have little maters all over it.  And flowers of all kinds are blooming and beautiful.

I saw a cute and fun fold card on my fellow demo FRENCHIE's blog (hi Frenchie).  She called it fancy fold, but I already have that name for a different folded card.  So I am calling this Frenchie Fold.  grin

 This card is cut the long ways from the card stock to get two long and tall cards.  Then with a few score lines and a punch out at the top, you have your fun card.

 I am still loving my cupcake punch.  I used the icing on dimensionals as the "latch" to keep the card closed.  You just slide it up from the cupcake and it can then open.

 This is actually attached on the inside fold, but it peeks out through the punched circle on the top fold.  I used two different sizes of scallop circle punches to create this adornment.

Here is the first layer opened so you can see how the scalloped circles are attached to the second layer, along with the DSP.  One more fold opens it up to see the sentiment inside.

Hope you enjoyed my fun folded card.  Won't you leave me a comment and tell me what is YOUR favorite shaped card you like to make or receive?

Stay creative, my friends!!

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FABRIC OR PAPER?

Do I REALLY need to choose between fabric or paper when I am feeling creative?  I DON"T THINK SO!!  Recently fabric has been whispering to me to come touch it and create with it - so I AM!!

Besides the folded fabric heart I posted a few days ago (scroll down to see older postings), I am now in the first stages of a quilting bee online!!  We are given 5 quilt block patterns to create every two weeks.  So far I have 4 blocks done so I am only 6 blocks behind because Feb 1st comes 5 more blocks to create.

Want to see what I have done so far?  Ok, here goes.  (For those of you Strict Paper creators, you can do the same thing with designer paper.)

 Right out of the chute is HAND APPLIQUE.  OUCH...I am not good at that at all.  But I was a brave gal and did it.

 I really like this one a lot.  As you can see, I am going scrappy with the colors and my background color is black.  WHAT YOU SCREAM - - BLACK??

Yes I chose black as my background color because I am making this for my grandson Collin.  He is the one who does not have a quilt by Nannie yet so I am making this for a gift for next year for him. (SHHH - it is a surprize!!)

Third block:

 This half square triangle block was a fun one to make

 I am really liking these colors together so far.  Lots more fun colors and patterns coming up in more blocks.

The blocks will be different sizes.  It is a mystery quilt because we don't know how it will go together until they tell us by units.  It is a fun idea and I am really enjoying it.

If YOU are interested in doing this Just Take Two Quilting Bee, hurry and get on the website and download the first 5 blocks because they will be going away by Feb 1st.
www.justtakes2.com

DAY THREE OF THE GLITTER QUEEN BLOG HOP - FALL HOP

ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?  Didn't you just love those cards at Stephanie's blog?  She is so creative.

More fun is awaiting you here at my blog as well.  I have tackled how to make a medallion or "lolly" as our Canadian friends seem to call them.  The pretty folded materials that are the main part of an award ribbon.  What do you call them?  I call them medallions.  My card below has one of those medallions on it for your viewing pleasure.

 Aren't the colors so fun?  I used Perfect Plum card stock for the base and the "lolly", the designer paper is Cast a Spell, and I also used whisper white and pumpkin pie card stock  I also used pumpkin pie satin ribbon, and the scallop oval and scallop circle punches.  Also the circle punch.

 Here is a nice closeup of my Lolly or Medallion.  I used 1 1/2" wide cs, cut across the width of the paper, or 8 1/2 inches, and used two pieces.  I used my Simply Scored tool (LOVE IT) to score every half inch.  Then I adhered the two pieces together with sticky strip so it will hold well, and bring the ends together to form a circle and adhered them the same way.  Then I pushed down on the middle until it all flattened out into this beautiful rosette medallion.  I TRIED EVERY TAPE AND GLUE UNDER THE SUN, I REALLY DID!! Most would not hold, some held but then popped open later and were a sticky mess.  You know what worked for me and is still holding?  HOT GLUE.  I punched a circle of scrap and put hot glue all over it, then put my rosette medallion on top of it and held it down with my fingers until the glue cooled, just a minute or so.  VOILA.  It was stuck permanently.  No need to worry how the back looks, because it was then glued to the card so it does not show.  I used sticky strip for that part.  It doesn't matter what kind of glue you use for the top decorations because they do not have any stress of the folds pulling because those were taken care of by the hot glue on the back.  LOVE THAT HOT GLUE GUN WHEN YOU NEED SOME MUSCLE!!

On the right side of the rosette medallion, I put some sticky strip and then pinched and pleated some ribbon until it was as full as I wanted it to be.  Looks like I gathered and sewed it, but I did not.  I wanted easy after fighting with all those glues to figure out the lolly!!  ha

The Stamp sets I used were:  Scaredy Cat for the BOOOO, Wicked Cool for the witch hat and boots.  I also used markers to color in the details on the hat and boots.

Here it is again for one final look.  Click on the photo for a large photo to get a good look.

Hope you enjoyed this card.  I saw this idea somewhere on the web and forgot to write down whose it was.  If it is your original idea, please let me know so I can give you credit, ok?

Have you tried the wonderful Simply Scored tool yet?  It is precise and so easy to use.  I LOVE how I can do so many things easily and quickly with it.  Here is an idea with these Lollies, medallions or rosettes.  This is from Stampin' Up!, but I am working on my own version.

LOVE the fall colors of the card stock and Spice Cake designer paper.  AND look at the size of those buttons - these are made to go with the Spice Cake suite of paper and cloth.  Also included is the 1 1/2" espresso ribbon, antique designer brads, other buttons and brads.  FUN FUN FUN.

 Here are some smaller lollies/medallions on goodies bags from a recent party.  The First Edition designer paper with black or black and white striped ribbon is such a classic look.  AND we cut out some vinyl monograms for each person who attended.  CUTE CUTE CUTE

Close up of two of the goodie bags with their lollies on them.  Buttons, large pearl buttons, brads, small ribbon rosettes, etc. can be used for the middle of the lollies.

Another Halloween card but this time NO lollies.  I call it my BAT Masterson Symphony.  I took the Newsprint designer paper sheet that has music notes on it and then I  stamped bats where the notes are and heat embossed black embossing powder mixed with irridescent ice embossing powder.  After I was finished with the bats, I sponged Concord Grape, Wisteria Wonder and Lucky Limeade ink on the music script.  It made it look a bit like a Halloween sunset, I think.  It is a fun card for my grandkids.  SPOOKY

One more idea for Halloween - we got some of those little mini pumpkins and decoupaged newsprint all over them.  Then cut out vinyl Halloween characters to stick onto them.  Black and white ribbons on the stems and we had a hit with all those who attended the party. They took them home for favors when the party was ovet/

You NEED this wonderful tool in your craft room too!!  I am offering a special discounted rate of only $24.99 for the SIMPLY SCORED instead of the regular $29.99 - BUT ONLY TODAY AND TOMORROW IF YOU ORDER AT MY STAMPIN' UP! STORE.  So if you are considering purchasing the Simply Scored, order it today by clicking below.  Once Iyou order, contact me by email and I will send you a $5.00 check rebate.  This is a special for my Blog Hop guests.

Thank you for looking at my creations.  I would love to hear from you - won't you leave me a comment?

Also, if you want to be considered for the BLOG CANDY, don't forget to leave a comment AND be a follower of my blog.  Thanks for visiting!!  Inky Fingers Y'all!! Next stop is HAWAII and Cely's blog.

SOMEONE IS WATCHING YOU....

Sometimes do you get chills at your neck and the hairs get all prickly and you think someone is watching you?  That is the feeling kids love to have a Halloween time.  It is scary but fun for them at Halloween.  This card is kind of like that.  It is simple but scary and certainly fun.  I saw the idea at Becky Roberts blog and knew I had to CASE it with a few changes to make it my own.

Isn't it just too fun!!!  Reminds me of a mummy because of the black and white -  like bandages wrapped around a mummy.  I used Confetti Cream and my top note die for my BIG SHOT to cut out the card base.  Fold your card base and put it just inside of the one cut mark on the left side.  That way you have a folding card in the top note shape.  Then I cut it again single only in black and cut it in half.  I used the fun 1/8" black ribbon with the tiny white stripes.  I love this ribbon and have it in every color SU! makes it in.  I use it all the time!!  You NEED this ribbon, I promise you!!  I used two different sized punches for the eyes and sponged around the eyeball with black ink.  That's it.  Took less than 5 minutes to make.

I am using them for Thank You cards for my customers so I put a simple "thank you" from Kindness Matters stamp set on the inside.  It fits perfectly into the small notecard envelopes.

Hope you enjoyed this card.  Won't you leave me a note to tell me what you think of this Clean and Simple and FUN card??

Here's to Inky Fingers y'all!!

PPA111 entry

Hi Y'all,

I have a cute Christmas card for the Paper Pals Arts Challenge 111 this week.  I have been trying to keep abreast of the holidays and did most of my halloween last week, now I am working on my Christmas cards.

This stamps set is so cute and so versatile.  It is the GOT TREATS stamp set.(120627).  I love LOVE LOVE it.  I made this card rather clean and simple so the gingerbread man would stand out as the thing your eye goes to first.

I used last year's dsp called Jolly Holidays.  It is cherry cobbler and old olive as the main colors.  I used some fine glitter on the buttons of my little man, but used real glimmer brads for the accent up at the top of my card. The ribbon is striped old olive ribbon from the clearance rack.  I LOVE this ribbon and got several rolls so I am well stocked before it is all gone.

I also used the scalloped circle punch for the main image second layer, with just the circle punch, sponged on the edges, for my little man.

Isn't he cute?  I love gingerbread men/folks/people...what would be the politically correct name these days?  ha

Thanks for stopping by.  Won't you leave me a comment?  I love hearing your thoughts and look forward to seeing what everyone says.

Thanks!  Inky fingers y'all!