Shaker Butterfly Card

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I love love love shaker cards!  And I love that Queen and Company has totally made shaker cards their thing.  When I was at the Scrapbook Expo, I spent a lot of time in the Q&C booth.  If you haven't been to their booth-first it's color coded.  So I bought these little flower that are on this card.

But this card is a shaker using their die cut (that I had to buy!  Butterfly 😍😍😍)  I also had an Art Anthology class-and they have cool paints and sprays.  So I bought Wisteria and Pixie.  I painted the purple (Wisteria) on the outside of this card and Pixie (the light blue) on the inside.  There are sequins and all sorts of goods in the shaker part.  AKA my favorite part.  I love putting all of the little bits into the shaker. :)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafting by Designs: Things with Wings  6.20

Brown Sugar Challenge: 254 Anything Goes  6.15

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...Shake it up! ;)

Mother's Day Shaker Card

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I have been busy over the last few days.  I went to the Scrapbook Expo yesterday-and was totally inspired by the examples and products.  There was so much to see!  It's nice to see the Expo getting bigger.  In years past it has been smaller, but it's definitely growing now. :)

One of my favorite booths is Queen and Company.  They are always so bright and cheerful.  Everything is organized by color-so it's hard not to want 1 of everything.

For my mom this Mother's Day, I made this shaker card.  The flower paper came from a magazine gift.  Everything else is Queen and Co.  I mad the 2 little flowers at the top with a paper punch.  All of the fun sequins inside the shaker are Queen and Co as well.  The sentiment is a stamp from Stampin Up (I think).

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Just us Girls: 392 Mother

Creative with Stamps: 14 Flowers

Brown Sugar: 249 Mothers Day

Thank you for stopping by today!  And early Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there.  

Halloween Gatefold Card

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It is time for a new challenge at House of Cards!  For October we would like to see Gate Cards or you can use the challenge colors.  Or if you are feeling courageous-then both! :)

I went for the Gate Card.  And I totally embraced the Halloween spirit.

I have to warn you though, my card did not want to close nicely.  And I know they used to sell these little magnets-and now I know why.  LOL-but I don't have any of those.  :)

So here is my card closed up.  There are rhinestones on the outside.  The card, spider web and inside shapes were all cut by my silhouette.

So when you open the card it looks like this (the very first picture).  And you see the plain orange shape.  

Then when you lift up that flap--ta da!  The sentiment (a Stampin Up stamp).

This seemed really cool in my head.  Until I realized that anything that went behind the spider web would be to busy with the web.  So that is why the plain shape is there.  

The spider is from Jolee's Boutique.  And this is the front side.  He is made out of felt and he has little beady red eye and little wire legs.  So cute for a fake spider! :)

But on the card he kept flipping over.  And his back side was a white dimension sticker which I peeled off.  But it was still white and he didn't hang right.  So I used Rangers Black Enamel Accents and covered this back.  I lined up the floss so he would hang straighter also.

This is his backside.

Thank you for stopping by today!  We hope you join in to our challenge.  Here is the inspirational photo colors.  Also, you can make a gate card instead.  So the question is...what will you make!

I would like to link this card up to the following challenges:

Brown Sugar #218 Anything Goes

Little Miss Muffet  #147 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge  Anything Goes

Sunny Day Crafting #16 Anything Goes

Until next time my friends...Happy October! :)

Think Rustic

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Happy Friday!  I am so excited to show ya'l this card I made.  It was inspired by the Rustic theme happening at The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge right now.  I created a mood board too.  Which was pretty cool-I haven't ever put one together before.

How much fun is this!?  There was so much inspiration from the design team and then from my own board, I hardly knew how to start.  And I have this thing for rust-I think it's awesome.  LOL I know it's destructive, but look at it on those metal letters.

So here is my card:

It's for a friend of mine who's birthday has passed (like a month ago--I know I know.)  So hopefully she will forgive my tardiness.  :)

The paper is from a wood looking paper from Simple Stories.  I inked walnut stain distress ink over the paper to make it less bright.  Then I stamped a Tim Holtz plant stamp from the Spring Sprung collection.  Then I put Versamark around the edges and heat embossed Tea Dye Distress powder.  I rubbed it after it cooled down to get the filler flakes off.  

I diluted some black paint and made the flecks in the background.  For the flowers I used rusty hinge and walnut ink for the flowers and the 16 bingo chip.  The 16 is for the year.  Not my friends age-but if she want to tell people that... ;)  I'll never tell. 

I found a bee button and cut of the shank, and then painted or rubbed more like it brown paint to distress it.  The bee was a bright yellow.  I stamped the happy birthday with a Great Impressions stamp on yellow vellum.  Lastly I added Queens and Co. chocolate delight pearls.

I am entering this rustic card into the following challenges:

The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #28

Brown Sugar: Anything Goes #217

Great Impressions: Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by today!  Until next time my friends...Have a great weekend! :)

Classy Birthday Card

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Tonight I'm sharing a card I made for my husband.  It's for 3 ladies at one of the offices that have birthdays close together.

For the background paper I used K & Company.  There is a stamp on the left that is from Tim Holtz and so are the roses.  I painted those with spun sugar.  I also used spun sugar with a stencil in the background (also Tim's).  The spiral clip is from Stampin' Up.  There is a flower rub-on on the right corner.  The image is from the Silhouette store.  I have been waiting to use this cut file-so I was very excited when this project came along.

I would like to submit this to the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes  5.31

Silhouette Challenges #37 Anything Goes  5.31

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...stay classy! :)

A Card for Mom

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I just put the finishing touches on a card from my mom for Mother's Day.  If I had just started a couple of days earlier I would be totally awesome.  But since I'm not-and I have to mail my card-I just decided I would embrace by tardiness.  It's possible my mom knows I'm going to be late anyway-LOL.  :)

So here's my card:

The background is from when I was making gelli prints.  If you want to check out that post go here.  Then I used a stencil (I don't know from who) and Wendy Vecchi's crackled texture paste.  

Once that dried I used glossy accents to glue on the flower (prima) and the center which is from Jolee's boutique (it's old lol).  The I stamped a few swirls-the small ones on both side are Heidi Grace and the one in the corner is way old from Stephanie Barnard.  The I glued some Tim Holtz hearts and mom stickers from Making Memories.

I'm really excited about it.  So time to get it ready for the mail.  But before I do, I need to submit this card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Stencil It

Brown Sugar: #197 Mother's Day

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Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time Happy Mother's Day! :)

Happy Birthday Card

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Today I have finished a card-a CAS card!

At Stamplorations they are having a CAS challenge using green if you want.  I have some Stamplorations stamps-so I thought this would be perfect.  The feathers are from their Trendy Feathers Vignette set. 

Other supplies include:

sentiment: TCM Stamps (I think) ;)

paper: green galore Stampin' Up, white cardstock

ink: green galore SU, Chrome Yellow and Manganese Blue from Ranger

sequins

I would like to submit this card to the following challenges:

Stamplorations

Cards in Envy: Another year older-Birthday Cards

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenges: Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a great weekend!

The Table Layout

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It feels like it has been forever since I posted something crafty!  We had family and friends visit over the last few weeks.  So since things have quieted down I am back to scrappin'!

I didn't know what I wanted to do-but I had to do something.  So I have a handful of pictures left to scrap for my husband's birthday in 2012.

So I created this layout:

I just started diggin out paper and moustache stuff!  Here's the journaling.  (You may have to enlarge it.)  The grey strip of 'stache's are Studio G washi tape.  And I used my Going Places Cricut cartridge for the knife and fork circle.

This is a die cut from Tim Holtz.  I used brown cardstock and inked it with black ink.

The circle and moustache are both Kaiser craft wood pieces.  I used fire brick distress ink for the circle and an orange gelato for the 'stache.

I'm sorry this came out blurry.  It looked ok on the camera.  And I realllllly  wanted to post this tonight so here we go.  :)  Tim Holtz's bingo piece and ticket.  The 18 is for my hubby's birthday.  It is hard for me to use a number that does not tie into whatever I'm scrapping.  Does anyone else have this problem?  The moustache and heart are brads.  

I am lucky because there are a couple of challenges that this fits into.  Usually I find the challenge first but this time I went rogue!  LOL!

Cut It Up Challenge: #41 Anything Goes with a Die Cut--The Title (Cricut Alphabet), Hand (Tim Holtz/Cuttlebug), and Fork and Knife Circle (Going Places Cricut)

Brown Sugar #86:  Anything Goes

And remember if you are looking for a birthday challenge--go over to Scrap It Girl and check out the details.  It runs until the end of the month! :)

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a great night! :)

Crackle Heart Valentine

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Whew!  I am on a posting frenzy!  LOL!  This is the last one for now.  I gotta go make some more Valentine's after this one.

I used Tim Holtz's stencils and Heidi Swapp's chevron stencil.  For Tim's I used ink but for Heidi's I used light molding paste and some picked raspberry distress paint.

The heart is a white chipboard heart from a pack that I got many many moons ago.  Side story-my husband, me and our son were painting birdhouses.  And my son squirts out way too much pink.  So I got out these hearts and started painting the hearts.  I knew Valentine's was on the way and the paint didn't go to waste.  Then I applied Tim Holtz's clear crackle paint over it.  Then I pop dotted the heart.

I see this mixed media and messy clusters on scrapbook pages-which I love.  So I am trying to do that with my cards too.  :)  Lot's of fun!

I am going to submit this to the following challenges:

Brown Sugar Challenge #80 Valentine's Day

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge:  Have a Heart

Challenges 4 Everybody: Anything Goes

As always-thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends....have a good day! :)

Valentine's Fun

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I just love how this card turned out!  This is a Bugaboo Digi (I love their stick people!)  The background was done using the Shaving Cream Technique over at Technique Time Tuesday.  It was one of the first "prints" I had done and it isn't very swirly.  But for this card it is awesome because I wanted it to be a background.  That I covered with gesso and a Heidi Swapp chevron stencil.  :)  I usually use light modeling paste but I have seen folks using gesso and wanted to give it a try.  

The red ink in the background and around the happy little Valentine girl is from Close to My Heart-Holiday Red.  I love this color!  It is so happy and bright.  I used a Tim Holtz applicator to put it around the square so I didn't have to worry with matching colors.  And I pop dotted the focal image.  

I am submitting this to the following challenges:

Catch the Bug Challenge:  February Challenge-Love

Brown Sugar Challenge:  Challenge #80 Valentines

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Have a Heart

Digi Haven:  Valentine's Day Love, Cherish, Adore

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...more pink and red ;)