Hello Friend Card

Hello Everybody!

I made a card using Graphic 45's Secret Garden.  I used the sketch over at Inkspirational to get my creative juices flowing.  There is still time to play at Inkspirational-Challenge #17 Sketch.

Here's my card:

Here is the sketch:

I bought the 6X6 pad and then a sheet of Graphic 45 with 6 squares on each side.  I fussy cut the cage, flowers and bird out of one of the squares.  The sentiment is a stamp from Tim Holtz.  And I embossed the yellow paper with a Sizzix lace folder.

Until next time my friends...who will you send a hello card to? :)

Happy Birthday Card

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I just recently bought the clock die from Tim Holtz.  It was perfect for the circle in this week's sketch for Let's Scrap.  And since Anything Goes! at Simon Says Stamp Challenge-I am going to link up there too!

Here's my card:

Here is this week's sketch:

I cut the clock out of a light brown cardstock and used walnut stain (distress stain) and some bronze and silver Tim Holtz distress paint to color it.  The shape that the sentiment is made from is also from Tim Holtz.  used walnut distress ink on the edges of the background and the sentiment shape.  Those papers are from Prima.

I embossed and distressed the pink square.  I roughed up the edges and used my favorite-walnut stain distess ink!  :)  The flower pearls are Making Memories and the swirls are from Want2Scrap.  

I got the pearls at the Scarpbook Expo-which is next weekend for me!  Yay!  I will be doing updates on Facebook so make sure you are a friend of my page!  

Thanks for stopping by friends!  Until next time...stay crafty! :)

Tim's April Tag

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I am so happy that I was able to make this tag.  My new local scrapbook store got in the regular and metallic Distress Inks-and I am so in heaven!  They are so fun!

I am submitting my tag to the Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2014 and to the Anything Goes! Challenge at Simon Says Stamp Challenge.  You can get all of Tim's stuff there and they are offering a generous $50 gift voucher to the winner of their challenge.  :)

So here is my tag using the paints:

There were a few things that I had to substitute.  I didn't have the dragon fly stamp on the clear material that Tim had so I used some other Tim Holtz stamps and a Fiskars dragonfly.  I stamped on a transparency to give this little guy wings.  I was at my local store making this during a crop, and I had forgotten my mini attacher so I just used glossy accents to adhere the wings.  The clock and arrow (hehe my mom-in law cracked up when she heard me say this.  She said that's a clock hand.  I called it an arrow-that's great) are done using mossy green, salty ocean, and broken china distress paint.  I LOVE this affect!  And it gets better with the number 4!

I used the little hooks to adhere my words of wisdom.  Another substitution I made was that I didn't have the dictionary tissue paper so I used the Tim Holtz stamp definition of Curiosity and distressed the paper it was on.  The 4 is from his new numbers collection that is normally black plastic.  But a few layers of paint and then the metallic paint and a little heat (and I mean just a little!) and this great patina 4 is made.  So awesome!!

I am still loving that 4.  It's like an old treasure!  LOL!

Thanks for stopping by today!  I appreciate all of your sweet comments too!  Until next time my friends...it's Friday!! :)

New Home Card

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This month at Sparkle N Sprinkle the challenge-SNSSC18-is to use a digital stamp.  This cute little mushroom house is from Sparkle N Sprinkle and the artist is Becky Muir.  I printed it twice so I could make some extra flowers.  One of the flowers I used a pop dot to make it dimensional.

I colored it with Copics and added some Martha Stewart twine.  New Home are words from the Tim Holtz chit chat collection.

Here is a picture of the dimensional flowers.

The challenge goes until the end of the month and you can play with whatever images you have!  Until next time my friends...have a good night!

Car Show Layout

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So I have been working on a 2 page layout for the last couple of days.  I used the sketch at Let's Scrap and got a few new things from Hobby Lobby and had a lot of fun!  :)

Here is my layout.  I added a couple of pictures because all of these were together and were from the same event.  My cousin and his wife and my sister and me all came to our "hometown" and went to my Uncle's Car Show.  Good times for sure! :)

I am also submitting this project to the challenge at Shopping Our Stash: Challenge #97 Text or Letters.  I used sheets from a 1997 Almanac (that talk about cars for the year 1996-10 years before this event) and the ticket on the bottom right corner has print on it.

Here is the sketch from Let's Scrap.

I got a new embossing folder from Tim Holtz.  I used some rusty hinge distress ink and gold dabber paint.

This is a ticket from 7 Gypsies.  It also makes a great journaling square.  The 2006 are stickers from Tim Holtz (love them!).  I also use them to spell out baby next to my cousin's wife.  How exciting! :)

Here is a close up of one of the pages that show text-and Car sales by type :)

I did a closeup of the gear (tim holtz) because I used silver Stampin' Up brad but colored them with Tim Holtz Distress Paints.  I was trying to patina them.  I think they turned out great! :)

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...good night! :)

Happy Birthday Annette!

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My bloggy friend Annette at My Clever Creations is celebrating her birthday today!  Happy Birthday!  Annette does this cool thing where she does a birthday card challenge for her birthday-so I have made a card for her.

I used Graphic 45 papers and a thick lace that was in my ribbon box.  I am also submitting this card to the challenge at Inkspirational: CASE challenge.

Annette, I hope you have a wonderful birthday!  Until next time my friends...eat lots of cake and ice cream! :)

You're 4!

Hello Everybody!

I got my gelli plate out tonight and had a wonderful time making backgrounds!  For this card I used a blue paint and a texture thing from Martha Stewart.  We were at Home Depot last night in the paint section and Martha Stewart had a paint combing set for $6!  There were 3 different sized combs and one of the combs had two sides so that's like 4!  I used the biggest one on this monoprint.

Then for the square I used bubble wrap and edged scissors to cut out the square.  I put Tim Holtz Silver distress paint around the edges.  The circle is from a different monoprint.  The tissue tapes and letters are also Tim Holtz.

I am entering the following challenges:  Unscripted Sketches #206 4th Blogiversary

And Simon Says Stamp and Show: Make your own background.  They always give away a $50 voucher to Simon Says Stamp- so awesome! :)

Thank you for stopping by!  I am giving this card to a little guy that turns 4 tomorrow!  He likes art so I hope he likes this card!

Until next time my friends-Let's have some cake and ice cream! There are celebrations everywhere! :)