FINAL DRAGONFLY CARD CREATED THIS WEEK

HEY BLOGGIES,

I am LOVING this Dragonfly bundle from Stampin' Up!  Here is a look at what I created FIRST, and then built the card around it:

I cut out the white cardstock and the Pink Glimmer Paper with the two dies from the Dragonfly Bundle.    Then I used Markers in Daffodil Yellow, Pink Pirouette and Soft Sky. to color in the openings on the wings.  Doesn't it look amazing??  I am loving this stained glass effect.  Look below for my card I made around this amazing ART PIECE:

 Again, like yesterday, I used Pink Pirouette and Blushing Bride cardstock, as well as the SAB FREE designer paper called Outside the Lines.  I cut it up and lightly colored parts of it with my chalk markers.  I am LOVING this card!!!  Oh, I also put some Wink of Stella clear on the centers of all the flower on my cards this week.

See that little glossy glue spot near the Dragonfly's head??  Well, I removed it with my SU gum eraser and VOILA, good as new!!

FLASH NEWS:  STARTING FEBRUARY 21ST THERE ARE THREE MORE FREE SALE-A-BRATION ITEMS AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO GET.  THE BEST ONE??  A PACK OF GLIMMER PAPER IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT COLORS!!  WOOT WOOT  MORE DRAGONFLY CARDS TO MAKE!!

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Come back next week to see some more fun cards.

DIE CUT THANK YOU CARDS

HEY BLOGGIES,

I have been making some cards from this month's PAPER PUMPKIN CARD KIT.  I have cut things up, added card stock and generally changed them to be a bit different than the instructions call for.  You know me if you have visited me at all - I love to change things up and make them ...well...ME or MINE!!

The kit had a complete scored card of the striped designer paper, but I cut it to be a layer on top of the card stock strawberry slush card base with first a layer of mellow moss card stock then the striped layer.   The die cut "THANKS" is the top layer, where I adhered some 1/4" pieces of paper stripes.  Then I punched two small scalloped circles to make a flower with a small dot in the center of the flower.

I then used the dot stamp with strawberry slush stamped three times without reinking, then the mellow moss ink the same way.

Hope you enjoyed this AUGUST PAPER PUMPKIN project.  Come back tomorrow for another creative way to use parts of the kit, wont you?

RAINBOW COLOR THANK YOU

HEY BLOGGIES,

Two friends and myself got together today and it was Tammy's turn to come up with the card idea that we would create.  We love getting together and sharing ideas.  Here is my card:

Tammy has an E-cutter and she showed us how she creates die cuts with it.    I am thinking I am going to NEED to get one before too long!!  I am loving the "thanks" ecut die and the cute rounded squares too!!  We used white embossing powder on the thank you on the squares, then overlapped them and popped up the overlap with stampin dimensinals.

I added very very tiny star jewels onto my card in the colors of the rainbow squares.  They finished off my card just perfectly.  I am loving this CAS card.

Hope you enjoyed this card.  I have entered this into the weekly Sketch Frenzy Friday and hope you will visit them to see what the other team members have created as well.

Please come back to visit again for more inspiration and creations.

MORE CARDS FROM SIMPLY SENT GOOD AS GOLD KIT

HEY BLOGGIES,

I am showing some NEW ITEMS coming up in January from the SALE-A-BRATION Catalog and this GOOD AS GOLD SIMPLY SENT KIT is awesome!!

Here are two cards I made with the kit.

 I am especially loving the card base with the coastal cabana, crisp cantaloupe, pistachio pudding, baked brown sugar and shiny gold foil POLKA DOTS.  They make this card so fun!!   I also LOVE LOVE LOVE that the thank you die cuts are IN THREE LANGUAGES!!  That is so trendy right now to have French, German, etc. in decor.  LOVE IT!!

And the die cuts come in all the coordinating colors to match the card base.  The card base is very heavy card stock while is PERFECT in my humble opinion!!

THESE ARE MY THANK YOU CARDS FOR ORDERS FOR THIS MONTH.

If you missed my fun card yesterday from this kit, don't forget to see it below.

Thanks for visiting.  Stop back by again, ya' hear?  I have so many NEW GOODIES to share with you!!

CHRISTMAS TAGS FOR MY FAMILY--AN ART PIECE

HEY BLOGGIES,

I am starting a bit early, but I am working on MY personal Christmas tags and gift wrappings for MY FAMILY.  Because I am doing that, I can use whatever items I want to, right??  Soooo, there is a certain person in the crafting world that every year does the 12 tags of Christmas and I love his style.  I created this Christmas tag with some of his crafting items and his style.  Hope you enjoy seeing this ART PIECE.

 There is a lot going on here, but it all adds up to an ART PIECE.  It all started with the kraft tag, then an embossing folder, then some gold encore ink, then some Snow Stuff.

 The JOY is made with stickers, the blue is Distress paint, then a chipboard deer piece with distress paint and white shimmer and blue spritzing.  A doily spritzed and folder as well.

 The three pine cones are made with recycled packing paper that I sponged all sorts of browns all over it, ripped into a circle and ripped into a spiral and glued back into a circle.  A small fake piece of pine bough is underneath the cones.  Also some more of the fake snow put on the pine cones and all over the tag.

Knitted cord in cherry cobbler from the clearance rack for the tag tie and VOILA - it is FINI.

I would love to hear what you think of my artful gift tag.

I am entering this at THE FRIDAY MASHUP.

EXTRA DAY

ONE EXTRA DAY OF SALE-A-BRATION ITEMS TO SHOW YOU.  I JUST COULDN'T FIT IT ALL INTO OUR 4 DAYS OF BLOG HOPPING!!

 This is the HAPPY HELLO SIMPLY SENT KIT which is, you guessed it, FREE with SALE-A-BRATION!!  It is a kit to make cards, but I wanted to show you how easy you can make other projects, like this gift box for goodies.  I got the idea on the web and the directions from Barb M. at Barbstamps.com.  Thanks girlie!!

 You can see how the kit looks on the left and on the far right how the paper looks.  And a little peek into the box as well for the chocolate goodies!!  YUMMM

 The embellishment of the 3 layer flowers and the stripe are self adhesive die cuts that come in the kit, as well as the rhinestones on the left side.  I added the blue brad inside the flower from my stash.  And of course I added the cellophane bag of candy tied with summer starfruit ribbon from my stash as well!!  (grin)

 

Directions for scoring.  Lay it down flipped pattern side down,  the Tall way on the score tool where you will score at 1" and 4 1/2: all the way down.  

Then turn it the Long way on the score tool and score at 3" only. (It is even with where the the printed chevrons end on the backside.) There is another score line about 1" below that which comes already scored when you receive it.

You cut the two tab areas where the Long scores meet the Tall scores.  These are your tabs and you put Sticky Strip on the outside of these and also on the top along the outer edge as shown in the photo.

I just wanted you to see how the blue printed chevrons show on the side once you adhere them over.  It does not go all the way around.  You adhere the back white piece first on the small tab, then adhere the blue piece.

That's all there is to it.  You can now make cute gift boxes of goodies to go with your cards from this FUN and FREE Simply Sent Kit.

Hope you enjoyed this simple tutorial.  Here's to creativity y'all!!

QUILTED VALENTINE HEART

I wanted to bring out this photo of my beautiful quilted heart I made last year along with my friend, Leila.  We had so much fun figuring out how to do this one and we were very pleased how each of ours came out.

Mine is framed and is out for display in my living room again this year.

I made mine with circles of fabric folded.  I think I will make another one and this time use squares of paper and fold them.

Have you ever made one of these folded paper hearts or pictures?

Here is my post from last year:

QUILTED VALENTINE HEART

It is made from fabrics, but it is NOT sewn.  I started with a 3" circle of fabric, then folded it in half and in half again.  Put a little Tacky glue to hold it folded and started layering it around.  In  the middle are 4 pieces, then around with 8 pieces, then so on all the way out until it is as big as you want it.

I used my BIG SHOT and one of my dies to cut out all the pieces, then folded and glued them into a heart shape.  Then die cut the scalloped heart and the underneath heart shape before I framed it.

I would love to hear from you about my project, and if you have made a project like this before.

Go, get creative Y'all!!

QUILTED VALENTINE HEART

It is made from fabrics, but it is NOT sewn.  I started with a 3" circle of fabric, then folded it in half and in half again.  Put a little Tacky glue to hold it folded and starded layering it around.  In  the middle are 4 pieces, then around with 8 pieces, then so on all the way out until it is as big as you want it.

I used my BIG SHOT and one of my dies to cut out all the pieces, then folded and glued them into a heart shape.  Then die cut the scalloped heart and the underneath heart shape before I framed it.