Raspberry Suite Challenge #17... { wish big }

Woohooo!  It's a raspberry suite challenge with Dawn McVey! I *heart* these colors and gleefully pulled out a gorgeous swatch of fabric by Amy Butler that my homegirl, Traci, gifted me.  As I was dancing around my craft room waving my fabric (just kidding!) I was remembering {this post} by Cathe Holden about making kanzashi flowers.  I found a great tutorial {here} so I thought I'd give the flowers a try.

the challenge:

my card:

Aren't these flowers pretty?  OK, I am no kanzashi master but, these are fun to make and something new to try in the flower making department.  I used 2"x 2" fabric squares to make each petal.

I used fabri-tac as the adhesive on this flower.  Love that glue!

The dimension on these flowers is fabulous!  Too fun!  I will definitely try these again.  Thanks so much for stopping by, I love your company!

Supplies:

Fabric: Amy Butler

Paper: Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Ink: Papertrey Ink

Punch: SU!

Craft supply: embroidery floss, vintage button

Thanks for {bee}ing there..

Hey blog friends!  Thanks for always bee-ing here *giggle*  Coming to you today with some great images from My Cute Stamps, the Forest Friends set.  We all have tough days, right?  This card was inspired by all those wonderful people who are just THERE for me to lean on.  I am a lucky girl!

Lots to note here...hmm...let's start from the bottom up.  The dotted background paper is more of the fun October Afternoon Cherry Hill collection.  I sparayed it with some Shimmerz mist in Sea Foam I received as one of Ann's blog candy summer give aways!  Thanks Ann!  The clouds are DP fromt he same paper collection punched with an SU! scallop circle punch.  The "grass" is an inked paper doily and I also stamped the flower stem on the doily paper so it has texture to it if you zoom in on the photo.  The cute bee and sentiment are also from the Forest Friends set.  Finally, another handmade felt flower that has been stitched, glittered and button-ized.  Fun!

So, thanks!.... for always being there and for sharing so generously with me!  I really truly treasure my friends and family.  My life is richer because of you all!

Supplies:

Stamps: My Cute Stamps

Paper: October Afternoon, Papertrey, $1 store doily

Ink: SU

Punch: SU!

Glitter: Stickles, and Shimmerz spray

Craft supply: button, thread, craft felt, craft gems, fabric paint

Blog candy..check it out

Just wanted to share this fabulous blog candy opportunity!  Check out these amazing buttons and more at Jane's blog!  She MAKES these...wow!

Oh {joy}! It's a Christmas card!

Oh my!  I actually had a couple minutes to myself last week to just P-L-A-Y...don't you love when that happens?  I have been very into fabric flowers lately so I grabbed some felt to see what I could make!  I came up with this little poinsettia look-a-like and was just as happy as could be :)

It's quite a powerful piece so I decided it didn't need much to make it sing on this card.  I wanted the accents to be delicate so I grabbed some skinny ribbon, a "joy" stamp and the gorgeous vintage lace stamp from the Motif set from Clearly Vintage.  I stamped the lace with vintage cream ink from Papertrey.  A quick line of stickles red glitter dots and this holiday greeting is ready to go.

Joy....I just love that word.  It is many times the simple and little things that bring me joy.  Thanks so much for coming by today.  I hope your day is full of JOY!

Supplies:

Stamps: Clearly Vintage and Studio G

Flower: handmade Paper Daydream original design

Ink: Papertrey

Punch: EK Success

GLitter: stickles

Cardstock: Georgia Pacific and Papertrey

Craft supplies: buttons, craft felt, ribbon

My Time to Create Template Challenge #06

Hey blog friends!  It's time for another challenge with Lauren Meader and the my time team.  This week is a challenge to use a My Timeless Template to create beautiful packaging for candy! 

I chose the Recipe Wrap Up template...one of the freebies offered by Lauren over at Papertrey Ink!

I will be giving my gift to my cousin and his wife-to-be on their wedding day in october.  The recipe wrap is the perfect way to house individual messages from our family of four, plus something sweet to represent their sweet love, and the "moola"  as I like to give good old cash for the actual wedding present.

After sliding the decorative belt off of the wrap-up, it unfolds to show the 6 individual pockets inside.

Hershey bars fit perfectly inside!  Yet another great template design by Lauren Meader!

Want some more inspiration?  Check out the My Time to create team:

Lauren Meader

Alicia Weiman

MacKenzie Bruckler

Maria Levine

Kendra Wisenbaker

Kristen Beuter

Tracey Cuccia

Pam Imholtz

Odette

Lisa Kind

Tamara Harder

They will for sure tempt your taste buds and your craft mojo with their candy re-dos.  I hope you'll take some creative time to try one of the templates for the challenge this week.  Link us up to your creation on the Mr Linky on Lauren's blog so we can all see!

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for stopping by!

If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a cake...

Do you know this song?  I don't actually know it except for that line but my girls and I sing it with gusto over and over again whenever we bake a cake.  I will be baking up a storm tomorrow in preparation for the baby shower I have been talking non stop about but until then, I thought I'd share a batch of freshly cooked RIBBON cakes!  Love these simple cards that help me to use up my teeny pieces of pretty ribbon.

Taking them out is like a walk down memory lane...take the orange with white flowers ribbon above at the top of the cake...that was a snippet left over from a card that I have in this October's CARDS magazine!  Seriously, I have been holding that secret in since the golden email that said I was "IN" because I didn't want to jinx myself but I have official confirmation, my card made it!  It's my first publication so I'm pretty stoked and completely humbled!

Oh chocolate decadence!  Doesn't this cake look like a girl's best friend??  OK, on this cake my standout ribbon is the brown with leaves...a Martha Stewert jobbie that I first used on this owl card.  Still one of my faves to date on the blog-o.  Also, the caramel brown satin ribbon was from my mom, to my cousin's fiancee, who gave the shower ribbon bouquets to my girls who then shared with their mom, me.  Whew!  That's practically a family scrapbook! ;)

And the last cake...a pretty little feminine pink and aqua confection.  Stand out ribbon???  Well, it's none other than the very top layer...the ribbon I used on my daughter's baby announcements when she was just a newborn.  Now the girls are almost 9 and almost 6, my how time flies....and to think I still have those scraps hanging around in my craft room!  I need to make more ribbon cakes don't I?

Thanks so much for coming by today!  I'll be back at saturday midnight my time to help kick off another My Time to Create challenge....this time it's Lauren's fabulous templates!  Start thinking of giving someone a gift in creative packaging and play along with us OK?  Have a great one!

Cowboy {w}RAP!

Can I get a Yeeeeehawwwww!???  I do love a rowdy "yeehaw" every now and again to cure what ails me.  Don't knock it til you try it, right?! ;)  LOL  So, blog friends, how about some cowboy RAP, er, I mean, WRAP?

Mmmm hmmm, yep indeed this is a bit o western goodness nestled among some artifacts that live atop our wood burl woodstove mantle.  I needed a clever way to conceal a gift card for a boy turning 8 and decided on these CTMH stamps and a paper wallet of sorts.

 The flap tucks behind the yeehaw fence strip to keep the gift card secure.

Good ol Target to the rescue.  We tied this gift card wallet on top of a box of red vines....the perfect snack on the trail, right?

Not to be outdone, my girls made a fabulous card.  Quite colorful don't you think?

One thing is for certain, the cowboys in our life better like rainbows...because this cow-GIRL heavy house has a lot of 'em!

Have a rootin tootin YEEHAW of a day!  Thanks for stopping by my corral, y'all.

Farm Fresh with Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs Blog Hop!

Happy wednesday blog friends! Are you READY??? It's the first ever Blog Hop with Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs!  Would you like to win a $10 Gift Certificate to Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs? If so, go check out all of the Creative Team Member's projects, then head over to Kelleigh's blog and leave a comment. Tell Kelleigh which project you liked the best, or which project you can see yourself doing next.

Want another chance? Twitter about the blog hop and leave another comment on Kelleigh's blog! Facebook it, and leave another comment for another chance! Kelleigh will pick a winner by this Friday evening.

Kelleigh

Tracy

Julee

Julie

Juli

Christy

Sunghee

Hop around, be inspired..I dare you! ;)  Kelleigh designs wonderful and versatile templates and today I am showing the Cookie Wraps template...but in a new way ;)

This past weekend I raided two far more successful gardens than my own meager attempts this year. The star of the vegetable show was by far and away the fantastic heirloom tomato! Oh YUM! In thanks for the several pounds of juicy tomatoes, I am going to whip up some homemade salsa fresca! Kelleigh's cookie wraps template kit was the perfect way to add a little something to my ball jar.

Aren't those tomatoes unreal?? They are simply the BEST! I embellished Kelleigh's cookie wrap with vintage fabric, stamps and fabulous vintage seed packet label from Clearly Vintage. Cora of Clearly Vintage posts free vintage images every week to use in your art work. Check her out.

Here is the template arranged atop the ball jar top. I then placed a circle of fabric over the lid and screwed on the lid ring.

A shot of the *business* in the back. An autumn leaves journaling stamp creates the perfect spot to label my homemade salsa.

There you have it, custom labeled farm fresh salsa...it doesn't get much tastier or prettier :) Take another look at your stash of templates and see what else you can come up with. You just never know what you might use them for next!

Supplies:

Template: Kelleigh Ratzlaff

Paper: Papertrey Ink and Georgia Pacific

Stamps: SU!, Autumn Leaves and Studio G

Digital: Clearly Vintage

Punches: CM and SU!

Other: Ball canning jar, ribbon, button, twine, fabric, pinking sheers

Have a cuppa {SPCC and moxie fab around the house}

Hello blog friends! A simple cuppa jo card for you! Inspired by the fabulous SPCC color challenge 16 and the Moxie Fab around the house challenge, I brewed up a clean and simple card (I know, *gasp*!)

Dare I say this even qualifies as graphic? Who knew? I stamped and masked the coffee cups from Papertrey Ink and layered over a strip of satin turquoise ribbon. The bottom section has been dotted with metallic teal fabric paint. It's fun and shimmery!

Thanks for coming by. Hope you get to enjoy your favorite cuppa something today :)

Supplies:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Ink: SU!

Paper: Georgia Pacific

Ribbon: Michaels $1

Craft supply: button, fabric paint (Scribbles)

MTTC 06 My Time to Color Challenge ...Happy Owl-oween

Wooooohooooooo...it's Saturday with Lauren Meader and the My Time to Create Challenge team! This week is a color challenge to spark your creativity. Be sure and link your project at the Mr Linky on Lauren's blog.

the challenge:

my card:

I love this cool owl from My Cute Stamps Happy Owl-oween set! So fun to paper piece with the DP from Stampin Up! and to color with markers. I also highlighted the big eyes with crystal effects and dotted on white dimensional paint on the DP. Some embossed spider webbing rubbed with vintage cream ink adds some fun texture too!

Check out the My Time team for more fabulous inspiration!

Lauren Meader
Alicia Weiman
MacKenzie Bruckler
Maria Levine
Kristen Beuter
Tracey Cuccia
Pam Imholtz
Odette
Tamara Harder

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a fantastic and creative day!

Supplies:

Stamps: My Cute Stamps

Paper, ink and crystal effects: Stampin Up!, Papertrey Ink

Embossing envelope: spiderweb from cuttlebug

Other: paper piercer,pinking sheers, ribbon and tiny brads

The icing on the cake at The Hybrid Chick

Hi sweet blog friends! I have a diaper cake confection to share today! I have been dreaming of making my first diaper cake for a couple of weeks now. My cousin's baby shower is almost here and it was time to put some more handmade ideas to work! Perhaps you'll remember the invite and the gift box I shared before using the monkey from the My Cute Stamps Circus Animals set?

All the details on the cute square box gift topper are in my tutorial over at the hybrid chick. I'd love it if you checked it out! The box template is from Kelleigh Ratzlaff over at the digichick and BONUS Kelleigh has her whole store on sale for 30% off right now. Go go go! :)

This was an incredibly easy project and I would totally do it again. SO fun!

Thanks for stopping by, I'm so glad you shared your day with me!

Supplies:

Template: Perfectly Square by Kelleigh Ratzlaff at the digichick boutique
Designer Paper: Paper Daydream original ;) using Microsoft Word

Stamps: My Cute Stamps

Cardstock: Papertrey and Georgia Pacific

Cricut Cartridge: Base Camp

Punches: EK Success, CM and SU

Ink: Papertrey

Pens: Zig scroll and brush

Other: pinking sheers, felt, ribbon, hemp twine, diapers (i used a box of 96 size 1 pampers and had about 30 leftover), receiving blankets, rubber bands

Sparkle and Shine

Work your sparkle girls! Don't you love it?! This past weekend I spent a couple hours watching my youngest get glammed up for a 5 year birthday bash at a super fun local party place called Sparkle! This place is a little girl's dream come true!

Trust me, this sparkley girl had a blast dancing, dressing up, playing games, crafting...it was a party fit for a princess for sure!

My little diva! They got to choose their favorite accessories and pile it on!

For the birthday girl, a gift bag adorned with a cricut storybook cut "birthday girl" and a tag by moi. I love this retired stampin up princess stamp.

I gave my zig scroll and brush markers a run with some detail work and color blending.

Oh! And of course, some SPARKLE! Thanks Martha Stewart for the fine detail glitter! :)

Glad you could stop by today! Thanks for doing that, that was nice!