JoAnn's All things sweet and crafty

Finally....

2011-08-11T03:49:00.000-07:00

Finally I have a new piece of work that I just finished.... It has been a very bad summer for my scrappyness!
So I made this for Club CK's Summer Camp that is going on now.
I used a whole ton of different papers that I have no idea what brand they are. Sorry wasn't paying attention. Alot of them were scraps...
So anyways here is my layout about the song "Moves like Jagger" and how it is the song that never ends in my head... Every since I heard it on the voice, it has been stuck in my head! Enjoy my misery!

Yuck!

2011-06-13T02:37:00.000-07:00

I have had scrapper's block for a while now. I am truely getting sick of it... I have tried looking at magazines, books, blogs, and going to my LSS and no evail! I am blocked up!!!

Vibrant

2011-05-09T12:18:00.000-07:00

(Sorry this picture is a little off kilter. Took the pic with my phone)

So this is a LO I made in the wee hours this am. I used Echo Park paper pack Summer Days. This collection is soooo freakin' cute! I love all the papers so much. They are so festive and bright!
Anyways, let me tell ya how I made this! I used a piece of golden Bazzill cardstock for the background. Then I took the BoBunny Mamarazzi paper that has that shape, traced around it on the back of the diamonds paper. Cut it out delicately and glued down. Next I used more bazzill cardstock in green, purple, and white. Cut out the sizes I needed and matted my pics. All the embellies used are from this line- chipboard stickers, regular stickers, and titles. I wanted the whole thing to pop a little bit more so I used Smooch bright pink and colored around the diamond sheet and placed little dots here and there. Wrote my journaling and all done!
Here are the challenges for this week:
1) Crazy Challenge- Anything Goes (Mon)
2) Kaboodle Doodles- Lots of Layers (Mon)
3) There She Goes- Picture inspiration (Mon)
4) Cupcake Inspirations- Photo inspiration (Sun)
5) Lasting Memories- Photo Inspiration (Sun)
6) Catch the Bug- Anything Goes (Sat)
7) Studio 313- Bright & Colorful Cake Casing- #1 (Fri)
8) CASE Study- Photo inspiration (Thur)
9) Paper Play- Show us your Style- Bright Colors (Thur)
10) PaperTrey Paper Dolls- Photo Inspiration (Thur)
11) Shelly's Images- Girly (Thur)
12) All That Scraps- Anything Goes (Wed)
13) Freshly Brewed- Summer (Wed)
14) My Mum's Craft Shop- Girly (Wed)
15) PaperTake Weekly- Anything Goes (Tues)
16) Shopping our Stash- Launch Candy (May 24th)

Can't wait!

2011-05-07T00:00:00.000-07:00

Can't wait til tomorrow. Going scrapbooking all day at my favorite scrappy store. Lots of stuff going on for National Scrapbooking Day. Here is one of the sites I will be on for the day!

Wow

2011-05-03T15:55:00.000-07:00

So I must be getting pretty good at this stuff. I won again over at If the She Fits for my rainbow LO. Then I won over at Clear it out for the Multonomah Falls LO! Then for my best card I won at two sites Karen's Doodles and Magic in the Air!
Woohoo!! I am glad that people think that my scrappy pages and cards are award worthy. Thank you again!!

Rainbow rememberance

2011-04-25T18:39:00.001-07:00

Wow two entries to my blog within one week. Woohoo! Moving right along.

So this double page LO is my attempt on creative. I wanted to use up some little scraps I had soooo.... I took all the scraps that were at least 3x1 inches long and cut them to that length, I did that bc there is 24 inches divided by 8 colors equals 3 inches a piece. I did 12 pieces of each color starting with black, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, then brown. I placed them edge to edge covering the whole page of CS. Then I took white shimmery Bazzill CS and punched 2 inch circles. Then I cut those in fourths. I wrote on each little piece where the paper was used, or at least the ones I could remember. Then I placed the Thickers.

Good way to get rid of scraps and remember things you have given away and remember the faces of the people you gave the gift too!
TFL!
Challenges for this project:
1) If the shoe fits- Recycled (Fri)
2) Our Craft Lounge- Punches (Fri)
3) Studio 313- Recycled (Fri)
4) Crop Stop- Show me a Rainbow (Thur)
5) Creative Card Crew- Recycled (Tues)
6) Lexi's Creations- Anything but a card (Mon)
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Multnomah Falls, OR

2011-04-23T16:50:00.000-07:00

I absolutely love this LO! Tooting my own horn. I think I am getting pretty good at this stuff. LOL! JK! I think I have lost my mind!

I used bazzill cardstock as the background. I made a patchwork quilt look by using 2x2 pieces of paper (don't know the brand- sorry was in a kit). Then I triple matted the pictures, Added the fibers, flowers, and chipboard elements. Took black stickles to make the stitches. Then took yellow and icicles stickles to accent the chipboard. I used a silver gel pen to write around the quilt part. And that's all she, I mean I, wrote. LOL

Hope you like and TFL!
Challenges for this project:
1) Kraftin' Kimmie's- Frilly (Sat)
2) Totally Gorjuss- Bling it on (Sat)
3) Baby Bud Designs- Flowers (Fri)
4) Studio 313- Recycled- the kit was bought at a yardsale. (Fri)
5) CRAFT- Flowers (Thur)
6) Papertrey Paper Dolls- Photo inspiration- quilt and some of the colors (Thur)
7) Inky Impressions- Flowers (Wed)
8) Papercraft Star- Recycle (Wed)
9) Clear it Out- Quilted (Tues)
10) Creative Crew- Recycle (Tues)
11) Ladybug Crafts- Anything Goes (Tues)
12) Try it on Tuesday- Recycled (Tues)
13) Cupcake Craft Challenge- Lotsa Layers (Mon)
14) Incy Wincy Designs- Bright and Bold (Mon)
15) Karen's Doodles- Lots of Layers (Mon)
16) Scrap it with a Song- Livin on the Edge (Mon)

Best card

2011-04-14T20:48:00.000-07:00

SO this is a card that I am going to send to my mom for her birthday. So I hope she doesn't look at my blog before then.
I personally love this card. The best I have ever made!
Anyways I used Creative imaginations South Seas paper as the background (double-sided). Then I stamped the background with all the stamps from Tim Holtz's set HABERDASHERY CMS105. Then I used a teal piece of scrap paper (sorry don't know the brand) and used the Tim Holtz's Sewing Room die with my vagabond die cutting machine. That thing was the best X-mas present I have ever gotten!! Anyways, I then took ribbon and wrapped it on like a skirt. Used another scrap piece of paper to make the shirt. Next, I took floss and wrapped it around the bobbin.
I finally used my new SewEasy design stitch runner. Then I took silver thread and stitched all around the two sides. That took alot of time but it was soooo worth it. I sewed on the fake paper button.
For the inside I needed to cover up my stitching so I decided to mat the inside. I used bazzill cardstock on both sides. Placed the words from Making Memories Sew.. on the front and Happy Birthday on the inside. And last but not least, I took Glossy accents to attach the hanger looking paper clips!
So this is my wonderful card. I hope you like and thanks for looking!

Challenges for this project:
1) Aud Sentimentals- Anything Goes (Thur)
2) Lili of the Valley- Happy Birthday (Thur)
3) Pixie Dust Studio- Say it Aloud (Thur)
4) Crafty Creations- Paper piecing (Wed)
5) Truly Scrumptious- Vintage (Wed)
6) Anita Be Stampin- Anything Goes (Tues)
7) Ladybug Crafts Ink- Celebrations (Tues)
8) Papertake Weekly- Truly Dimensional (Tues)
9) Tuesday Throwdown- Sparkle and Bling (Tues)
10) Craft your Passion- 2 by 2, my 2 is the form as a stamp and as a die (Mon)
11) Karen's Doodles- Happy Birthday (Mon)
12) Squigglefly- Fabric/ Stitching (Mon)
13) There's Magic in the Air- Fabric/ Stitching (Mon)
14) Totally Stampalicous- Anything Goes (Mon)

Lilith Fair 2010

2011-03-28T12:48:00.000-07:00

So here is another LO. This one is from Lilith Fair last year in San Fran. It was so much fun.. Had a great time. The music was the best. The artists that I really wanted to see there were: Sarah McLaughlin, The Bangles, Colbie Callie, and Heart. I personally think Heart rocked out beyond what I could of ever imagined!!! LOVED IT!!! Dancing and singing and rocking out- What more can a girl ask for?

Anyways on this LO I used Bazzill cardstock- sparkly white with silver specks as the background. Then I used a whole bunch of my patterned paper scraps, making them equal on the one side so they were mirrored. Used chocolate and pink bazzill shimmery cardstock. Placed alot of the actually things from the festivities on the page ie: the buttons (took wire pliers and removed the backs of both), my vip wrist band, and the tickets.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Challenges:
1) Incy Wincy- Sparkle and Shine (Mon)
2) Paper, Scissors, and Rocks- Something Hoarded- my scraps (Mon)
3) Scrap it with a Song- Playlist Remix- Colbie, Chantal, and Kelly {artists not songs} (Mon)
4) Creative Craft World- Girlie (Sun)
5) Hello Cuties Challenge- Photo challenge (Sun)
6) Scrap and Stamp- Anything Goes (Sat)
7) Scrap, Stamp, and Doodle- Photo inspiration (Sat)
8) Frosted Designs- Reuse or Repurpose (Fri)
9) Res-Q Challenge- Scrubs (Fri)

Where, oh where...

2011-03-23T07:16:00.000-07:00

Wow where does the time go. It's been two months since I put new stuff up. I should of made that one of my New Year's resolutions to post once a week. Well I guess I should start now....
So here is my first layout. It is a 12x12 single page layout. I did it with a collage feel. It is really busy.. So here it is...

I used a plain white shimmery bazzill cardstock paper and then spray inked it everywhere. Then I took a blue shiney paper and used that as my matting for all my pics. Then I went crazy with a million stickers, rub-on-s, and other misc things. Put my pics into place and that's all she wrote. Thanks for looking!

Challenges:
1) Pile it on- Bling (Mon)
2) Nerdy Girl- Collage inspiration (May 7th)
3) Digi Doodle Shop- Anything Goes (Wed)
4) Paper Cutz Challenge- Anything Goes (Thur)
5) Sugar Creek Hollow- Anything Goes (Fri)

Baby love

2011-01-11T01:45:00.000-08:00

So here is a layout that I did for a co-workers twins from her baby book I am making.
I used Teresa Collins baby girl patterned paper. For the background I used bazzill shimmery white cardstock.

The embellishments are all natural. Examples: those really are the ekg leads from the babies; thier little micro feeding tubes; the name bands for babies, mom and dad; and thier little at the bottom of the bassinet label thingys.

I used thickers for thier names.

Challenges for this project:
1) Cupcake Challenge- Something New (Mon)
2) Incy Wincy Designs- Go Dotty (Mon)
3) Pollycraft Challenge- New Things (Mon)
4) Top Tip Tuesday- Anything Goes (Tues)
5) Nerdy Victorious Scrappers- Inspiration (Wed)
6) AIFactory Challenge- New Beginnings (Thur)
7) Charizma Card Challenge- Birthdays & Celebrations (Thur)
8) Cute Card Thursday- Out with the old (Thur)
9) Dutch Dare Challenge- New Beginning (Thur)
10) Crafty Calendar Challenge- New Beginnings (Fri)
11) Fairy Fun Fridays- New Beginnings (Fri)
12) Stampin B's- Something new and old (Fri)
13) Basic Grey Challenges- Dots and Spots (Sat)
14) Crazy 4 Challenges- Color inspiration (Sat)
15) Secret Crafter- Tons of Texture (Sat)
16) Cupcake Inspiration- Baby (Sun)
17) Pile it On- It's all about the cute children (Sun)

Where has the time gone....

2010-12-15T22:20:00.000-08:00

Wow the holidays have taking over my time... Well here is the newest project I did. I made a gingerbread house (castle) using my new cricut cake. Isn't it cute?
I used Once upon a Princess for the Castle. Paperdoll dressup for the Princess, Knight, and horse. I used Pagoda for the dragon.

On the 12th Day....

2010-11-01T07:57:00.001-07:00

So this is a scene I have made for the Simply Betty Halloween Challenge. This is a young witch that is truly mad at her perfect (or so everyone always tells her) sister! She feels that she can not compare to her sister in anyones eyes and she is tired of it!!

She took her sister's picture and has smashed it numerous times. The glass shatters but it starts healing on its own as you can see in the picture frame (Tim Holtz die on acrylic). She has even ripped the picture to shreds and it healed itself also.

In this picture this is actually a piece of paper from her journal that blew up extremely big for no apparent reason.... Again maybe her perfect sister wanted her to not write about her. So this is how she reminds her sister not to do so!!!

As you can see, the expression her face is a simple smile. This is the very reason why she thinks her perfect sister has hexed her. She can only show a smile on her face at all times. When she is sad, really mad, and wanting to cry all she can do is give this smile. How does this work when she goes to a funeral.... She actually caused a scene once and ended up with a black eye. As her sister just smirked from around the corner!!

Not Simply Betty, EVIL BETTY!!!!!

On the 11th day

2010-10-30T16:06:00.000-07:00

So here is my creation for the ever loved by me Simply Betty Challenge....
It's not my best work but I like the effects of it. I hate working as a night-shift nurse sometimes. It so gets in the way of my crafting time... How Rude!! Hehehe!
To tell ya what I have done now... I used Martha Stewart's halloween paper, cut in half, folded at 3inches and then 9inches so the card would open outwards. Then I took the other half of the 12in paper and cut it at 3in and 9in. I did this so I could adhere it to the inside of the card. Making it look all uniform.
Next I cut out little bats with my cricut cartridge Happy Hauntings. Adhered some with pop-up dots and some I made little springs from black wire and adhered. I hope that you can see the dimension (I'm really not the best photographer when it comes to doing photos of my work). Added the cool letters from Martha Stewart also. Then stamped the halloween and using embossing powder heat embossed it. Added the little vampire dude and that's all she wrote...
Thanks for looking!!!

Fabulous Dah-ling!

2010-10-28T03:34:00.000-07:00

So here is a cute easel card I made for the 12 days of Halloween over at Betty's. I used the new die cut from Tim Holtz to make the spider. I added some stickles and some flock to him and little strips of cardstock for his legs...
I then hand stiched, yes hand stiched all of those spider webs. Attached it to orange bazzill cardstock with pop dots.
Next I added the purple bazzill cardstock to the bottom. Added a flower and gem. I printed out Spinderella and colored with copics. Then I wrote out the wording on white cardstock. Had the happy halloween stickers from recollections.
Challenges for this project:
1) Simply Betty Challenge- Spiders
2) Magical Mondays- Halloween (Mon)
3) Oh La La Creations- Scary Stuff (Mon)
4) Paper Playtime- Halloween
5) Simon Says Stamp and Show- Spook-ay (Mon)
6) Die Cuts R us- Make it spooky (Tues)
7) Flourishes Timeless Tuesday- No buttons or bows (Tues)
8) Papertake Weekly Challenge- Sparkly and Bright (Tues)
9) Top Tip Tuesday- Anything Goes (Tues)
10) Tuesday Taggers- Deep Purple Halloween (Tues)
11) ABC Challenge- Glitter (Wed)
12) Creative Belli Blog- Flocking or flower soft (Wed)
13) Cooking with Cricut- Not so spooky (Wed)
14) Crafty Creations- Halloween (Wed)
15) Little Red Wagon- Halloween (Wed)
16) My Grafico- Add some Sparkle (Wed)
17) Penny's Challenge- Purple, Orange, and Black (Wed)
18) Southern Girls Challenge- Glitter it Up (Wed)
19) 4 Crafty Chicks- Roll with the Punches (Thur)
20) AIFactory- Halloween (Thur)
21) CCMC- Halloween Haunts CCMC122 (Thur)
22) Dutch Dare- Halloween (Thur)
23) Paper Play Challenges- A Haunting we will go (Thur)
24) Pixie Dust Studios- Happy Halloween (Thur)
25) Shirley's 2 Girls- Trick or Treat (Thur)
26) Stamp Something- Digi (Fri)
27) Stampin for the weekend- Halloween/ Fall (Fri)
28) Crazy for Challenges- Halloween (Sat)
29) Speedy the cat's friend- Die-cut or Punch (Sat)
30) Corrosive Challenge- Halloween (Sun)
31) Cupcake Inspiration Challenge- Picture Inspiration (Sun)

Love Potion #9

2010-10-26T05:49:00.000-07:00

So this a treat holder underneath a candle.
I used DCWV paper for the background. Took Modge podge and glazed the whole thing. Then I used a label I didn't like and covered the back with glimmer mist. I then stamped with embossing ink the cute little chemistry items from There she goes stamps. Colored them with copics and used more embossing ink and used ranger clear embossing powder to make them look glassy.
Made the butterfly from tin foil and alcohol inks. Placed some flowers I had.
Used tissue paper and glimmer misted that. Placed flowers and purple wire in place. Took some vellum heart paper and placed that. Then I placed a large candle at the very top so it looks like the whole thing glows. (the picture does not do it justice).
Hope you like...
Simply Betty Challenge

Scary Movie

2010-10-15T00:15:00.000-07:00

So I know I missed the time frame by 9 minutes on the post but I made it so I am going to post it. My darn watch was 15 minutes different. I knew I should of checked the computer time. Oh well!
I used paper from Creative Imaginations as the background. I took the picture (which is awesome) from the website http://www.fanpop.com/spots/horror-movies/images/11226239/title/thirteen-ghosts-wallpaper .
I placed that on the Coredinations Cardstock. Cut out all the letters from the cricut using the Happy Hauntings and the October 31st cartridges.
I used stickles to color in the letters with black and burgandy. I used recollections ribbon over the picture. Placed the EEEK from Jolees. Then the transparency bling thing. I don't know who makes that.
I used liquid enamel to make the 13 ghosts stand out.
Again this is for the Betty Challenge that I missed by minutes. :(

Halloween card

2010-10-07T06:42:00.000-07:00

A new little card I made specifically for the Betty Halloween challenge. I absolutely love that site. I can't believe I missed day 2 of the challenge... Oh well. I am all over it now... Here is the direct link to the festivities!
http://simplybettychallenges.blogspot.com/

My favorite halloween costume

2010-10-03T01:44:00.000-07:00

Yes that is really me way back in the day!!! Wasn't I a little brat!?!

Anyways I used Creative Inspirations patterned paper for the background and the cherry paper. Then I took the DCWV rockstar matstack and cut out the guitar, used Tim Holtz distress inks to change the color. I used copics to color in the Theresa Collins stamp, which I added glittery stars from MM. I took the Holiday Headstart download and cut down the Happy Halloween to just halloween. Didn't like the green so I used enamel accents to color it in.
Used a whole bunch of stickles, paper ribbon, and whole bunch of thickers.

Challenges for this project:
1) Simply Betty- Anything Halloween but a card
2) Incy Wincy Designs- Anything Goes (Mon)
3) The Crazy Challenge- No ribbons or buttons (Mon)
4) Tuesday Taggers- Here comes Autumn (Tues)
5) Creative Belli Challenge- Number Creations (Wed)
6) Color Throwdown- #112 (Wed)
7) My Grafico Challenge- Anything Halloween but a card (Wed)
8) Penny's Challenge- Circles (Wed)
9) Aud Sentiments Challenge- Halloween (Thur)
10) Some Odd Girl- Monochromatic (Thur)
11) Stamp N Doodle- Anything goes (Thur)
12) Crafty Anne's- Anything but a card (Fri)
13) Fun at the Fairy Knoll- Haunting Halloween (Fri)
14) Fun with Shapes and More- First Stamp (Fri)
15) Paper Cutz- 3 Patterned Papers (Fri)
16) Stampin for the Weekend- Autumn (Fri)
17) Cupcake Inspirations- Halloween Bliss (Sun)
18) Sentimental Sundays- Autumn or Fall (Sun)
19) Stamptacular Sunday- Layer it up (Sun)
20) Paper Sundaes- Something from your stash- actually have had the paper for over a year(Sun)
21) Cowgirl Sundays -Anything Goes Halloween (Sun-challenge list)
22) Ginger Loft Challenge- All that glitters or blings (Sun)
23) Kenny K's- Bling it on (Sun)
24) One stitch at a time- Spooky Halloween anything goes (Sun)
25) Scrap, Stamp, and Doodle- Open (Sat)
26) Scrap and Stamp- Open (Sat)
27) Create with Connie and Mary- Anything but a card (Thur)
28) Hannah and Friends- So Dotty (Thur)
29) Fab and Funky- Is it black or is it White (Wed)
30) Totally Stampalicious- Halloween (Mon)

Butterfly Tag

2010-09-28T02:00:00.000-07:00

So here is a tag a recently made. I was playing around with different stuff that I haven't used in a while.
I took Tim Holtz's ink and inked the outer parts and blended inward. I haven't used embossing ink and powder in a while. So I used my bright red with gold flakes embossing powder and made the big flowers. I believe the stamp is from Making Memories but I am not sure.
Next I took tin foil and used alcohol inks to color it. Then I used my cuttlebug to to cut out the butterfly and emboss it.
I added the little roses and the fancy red fibers to finish off my project.
I hope everyone likes.
Challenges for this project:
1) Pile it on- Cute and Charming (Sun)
2) Incy Wincy Designs- Anything Goes (Mon)
3) Pollycraft Monday Challenge- No designer papers (Mon)
4) The Crazy Challenge- No ribbons or buttons (Mon)
5) Creative Card Crew Challenge- Bloomin' Marvelous (Tues)
6) Creative Belli Blog Challenge- Embellishment that starts with a B (Wed)
7) Little Red Wagon- Glitter (Wed)
8) AIFactory- Anything goes (Thu)
9) Charisma Cardz Challenge- Anything Goes (Thu)
10) If the Shoe Fits... Scrap it- Flowers (Fri)
11) Paper Cutz Challenge- Critter (Fri)
12) Stampin for the Weekend- Tag it (Fri)
13) Crazy 4 Challenges- Bling (Sat)
14) Paper Sundaes Challenge #37- Things with Wings (Sun)
15) Sentimental Sunday- Let's See Some Dimension! (Sun)
16) Digi Doodle Shop- Emboss it (Wed- Katie)
17) Stamp Insanity- Emboss (Katie)
18) Tellen's Place- Bling (Katie)
19) Scrap and Stamp- Embossing (PIO)
20) The Craft Den Anything Goes Craft Challenge- Cute (Scrappy)

Great website that I just found

2010-09-25T06:02:00.001-07:00

So I was just on Club CK's message board and found this great little website...
http://scrapwithstacy.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-tim-holtz-blog-candy-giveaway.html
Super cute stuff and she is giving away Tim Holtz stuff!!! What could be better than that!!!

Get Well Card

2010-08-29T03:07:00.000-07:00

So here are get well cards I made tonight. I used blue cardstock to make an easel card. Then took this cool patterned paper for the background. I took my copic markers and colored in this super cute little nurse stamp. I will have to post the name of the stamp co at a later time. Added some reflections felt ribbon. I added different words to say get well. Added a brad on the white cardstock to keep it from falling down. Sprayed with my favorite glimmer mist, Marshmallow. And Presto!!! My card for now. Hope you like!
Challenges this applies to:
1) Stamp with Fun: For a girl (Mon)
2) The Shabby Tea Room: a Wee Bit of Metal (Mon)
3) Color Q Challenge: Challenge #47 (Tues)
4) A Spoonfull of Sugar: The choice is yours (Tues)
5) Quixotic Challenge #38: Shiny Happy People! (Wed)
6) YNS Challenge #23: Bold, Bright, Summery Colors! (Wed)
7) Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: Anything Goes (Thur)
8) Cute Card Thursday: Dieing for a Punch (Thur)
9) Fun at Fairy Knoll: Anything Goes ( Fri)
10) Paper Cutz Challenge: Metal (Fri)
11) Stampin for the Weekend: Anything Goes (Fri)
12) Bee-Crafty: Anything Goes (Sat)
13) Kraftin Kimmies Stamps: Pearly Whites (Sat)
14) Ann's Creative Nook: Under the Weather (Sun)
15) Let's Ink it Up: Anything goes with yellow (Sun)
16) Sentimental Sundays: Clean and Simple (Sun)
17) Sundays With Crissy: Favorite Time of the Year- Flu and Pneumonia Season bc I get to make people better in the ICU (Sun)
18) Color Cue Challenge: aqua, gold, red, cream (Sept 7)
19) Just Scraps: Fussy Cutting (Sun- challenge site)
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A new little something

2010-08-05T09:01:00.001-07:00

So this is an adorable stamp from unity stamps.
I took an acrylic tag and used alcohol inks from ranger ink for the background. I then stamped the image on the other side of the tag. Colored it in with a black sharpie marker. Then I used white cardstock and stamped a basic background stamp on that. Cut it to the same size of the tag. Distressed the edges.I used glue dots to adhere the two together. A little bit of ribbon and that's all she wrote.
Challenges for this week:
1) Cupcake Craft Challenge: Distressing (Mon)
2) Scrap Creations: Anything goes (Tues)
3) Tuesday Taggers: Lots of Lovely black (Tues)
4)Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge: Anything Goes (Wed)
5) Cute Card Thursday: Whateva! (Thur)
6) Delightful Challenges: Distressing (Thur)
7) Dutch Dare Card Challenges: Anything Goes (Thur)
8) Some Odd Girl: So Punny (Thur)
9) All Sorts: Dressed up (Sat)
10) Digi Doodle's Shop Best: Use your favorite stamp (Thur)

Baby invitations

2010-07-29T15:27:00.000-07:00

So I just went to a class last night called easel does it at my local scrapbook store. One of my favorite teachers taught it Amy, her blog is listed on my favorite blogs ( scrappin in style, http://scrappinstyle.blogspot.com/). Sorry I wish I was better with html. Anyways she has the cards we made on her blog, so you can take a look and see what we made. BTW they are gorgeous.
When I got home and the "world went to sleep," I started scrapping away. I made 20 big and 25 little pink baby girl invitation cards. They are not totally complete. I need to put the baby info on them whenever that happens. The little pink cards I didn't take a picture of because they look the same on the outside. They are just 3 inches by 4 inches. I don't have the inside done either!
And the great thing about this is I only used 15 sheets of cardstock. The big card measures in at 4.5 inches by 6 inches. So I used the left over 3 inches to make the small card. I also looked through all my scrap paper to use on the face of the little cards. So I saved even more money and used my stash.
I am going to do boy cards sooner or later... Stay tuned!
Challenges for this project:
1) Color Create- Hot pink, warm orange, and Saffron (Thur)
2) Dutch Dare Card Challenges- Anything goes! (Thur)
3) Paper Play Challenges- Anything Goes (Thur)
4) All Sorts Challenge: Baby/ Child ( Sat)
5) Crazy 4 Challenge- Girly Love ( Sat)
6) Just Us Girls- Template (Sat)
7) Kraftin' Kimmie's Stamps- Mostly monochromatic (Sat)
8) Practical Scrappers- 7 or more (Mon)
9) Digital Tuesday Stampers- Dazzle me (Tues)
10) Kah-Wink-E-Dink - Anything Goes as long as it is cool (Tues)
11) Party Time Tuesdays- Anything Goes birthday card (Tues)
12) TCP Tuesday- Inspirational Photo Challenge (Tues)

Machine Love

2010-07-14T02:26:00.000-07:00

So I worked on this cute little card last night.
I used the cuttlebug to make the background. Then I used the new Tim Holtz die to create the machine gears. I didn't use paper I used transparency. I used gold, coppeer, silver, and watermelon alcohol ink to color the gears.
On the background I shaded the design to give it more diminsion with Tim Holtz soot black distressing ink pads.
I took black cardstock and placed different rub-ons to make the lettering. Cut to size of the words.
I used pop-up dots to create diminsion off the card on the gears and wording. I wanted the word love to stand out so I used a clear sticker with the word love on it. Then took white enamel accents to make the dots on the word love.
I hope you like and always thanks for looking!
Here are the challenges this card are for this week:
1) Creative Belli: Alter it- transparencies (Wed)
2) Stampavie and More: #102 - Anything goes (Wed)
3) Shelly's Images: Any Day Any time (Thur)
4) Stampin' B's: Polka Dots (on the word love) (Fri)
5) Crazy 4 Challenges: Black, White, and Red (red letters of love)(Sat)
6) Just us Girls: Ink, Spray, Smash (Sat)
7) Mark's Finest Papers (Speedy cat): Punch it (Sat)
8) Ann's Creative Nook: Anything goes (Sun)
9) Crafty Ho's challenge Blog: Black, White, and ____ (Sun)
10) Sentimental Sundays: I can see clearly now (well it WAS clear) (Sun)
11) Sundays with Crissy: Monochromatic Mostly! (Sun)
12) Cupcake Craft Challenge: Acetate (Mon)
13) Practical Scrappers: Embossing (Mon)
14) Riley and Company: Cut it Out and Pop it up! (Tues)