Gift card holder

Hello! I'm playing again in the Fall/Winer Coffee Lovers blog hop.

I used the gift card bag die from Spellbinders to create this. The coffee cup die and stamps are from Hero Arts.

Didn't this turn out cute?

Thanks for stopping by!

Pink cupcake

Hi everyone! Here is my take on this week's Freshly Made Sketch which I also paired with The Card Concept #31 challenge.

Cupcake stamp and die is from Verve. I colored it with Copic's and then added some cotton candy stickles to jazz it up a bit. It's also popped up using foam tape. I hardly ever use my stickles, and it finally dawned on my why. I don't have any patience to let them dry.

The circle and banner die is from My Favorite Things, which is now discontinued, I believe. Sentiment is from Tim Holtz.

The pink designer paper is from Lasting Memories. I added the perforated holes down both sides of the white cardstock to give this a bit more dimension. However, decided to keep this one clean and simple and stopped there!

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping by.

Mojo #293 - Cupcake

Hi everyone! I had a bit of time tonight and decided to play with this weeks Mojo Monday sketch.

 Stamps are from Verve. I colored the cupcake with Copic's and added just a bit of bling in the small star with a yellow Sakura glitter pen.  Well, that prompted me to hunt around for a small star to balance out the circles. Half an hour later, what you see is what I ended up with out of a bunch of starts and stops.



It's a grunge board pre-cut shape from one of Tim Holtz packages of shapes. I painted over it with white Gesso and then took a yellow Copic marker to it. Then I really had to bling it up with some diamond skickles.

Brown designer paper is from Hot Off The Press and the pink polka dots is from DCWV. Brown and white cardstock is from PTI.

Thanks for stopping by!

Red Velvet

Hi everyone! Playing around with the latest cake image from PTI's set called Tremendous Treats - Birthday.

The frosting on this is done using stickles. Designer paper is from My Minds Eye and the cornice punch from MS Crafts used on the dark red cardstock. The grosgrain ribbon did not photograph very well - but it's a really close match to the yellows that are in the dp.

Keeping things CAS for a few birthday cards to replenish my stash! Thanks for dropping by!

Heard you caught a bug

Hello! Another snow day here in Washington state. Thank goodness I didn't have to go out in it! I started playing around with the Mojo Monday sketch late last night and just now finished taking pictures. Darn battery in the camera went dead! Looks like I need to purchase a back up!



All stamps are from Victorine Originals. Frog is colored with Copic's in G21, 24 and 28. I added a bit of glossy accents to his eyes so that they would bug out (no pun intended) and stickles to the wings of the fly so that they would stand out.

Designer paper is from Basic Grey, Wisteria paper pack. Black and spring green grosgrain ribbon are from RABOM.

We are suppose to get hit with another storm sometime in the wee hours tomorrow! It's predicted that it will drop about of foot of snow! I learned a valuable lesson with this - about a week prior when we had the heavy monsoon type rain all week, I was complaining pretty hard. We rarely get torential down pours, it's just a misty rain. I think Mother Nature is paying us back for my complaining! I'd take rain over this snow any day!

Thanks for stopping in!

Punch challenge

Hi everyone! There's a challenge to use your punches going on over at Victorine Originals blog. Here's the card I created for it.

Punches used:
Martha Stewart
Punch Bunch
McGill tools to form the flower

Cotton Candy Stickles used on the edges of the flower to give it some bling! DP is from my stash and I believe its from My Minds Eye, but can't be positive.

Sentiment stamp is from Victorine Originals and stamped in Archival jet black ink. Pink and green grosgrain ribbon used to cover up the raw edges between the card stock and dp.

There are some great stamps that are being given away to one random lucky person who up loads a card for this challenge. Link is on my side bar.

Thanks for stopping in!

Ornaments

Hello! I got a chance to play around with this weeks sketch challenge. Here's what it looks like.

I changed the direction on the sketch and my card ended up looking like this:

Stamps are from Papertrey, Ink and colored with Copic's. I also added some highlighting on the ornaments using a stardust pen. Berries are accented with stickles. Dusted off my oval nesties to cut out the main image and its layer.

Designer paper is from Kaisercraft.

Have a great weekend!

Picture frame

Hi everyone! Quick post today! I had some play time over the weekend and was practicing on making flowers out of the new rose spellbinders dies and grunge paper. Here's what it ended up being.

I'm also loving the new foliage dies as well! All the grunge paper is colored using the new distress dyes from Tim Holtz.

I think I OD'ed on the stickles, though!

What do you think?

Tags, tags are everywhere!

Seems that everyone is buzzing with the techniques and tags that you know who does every year for Christmas! I have to admit to following along and trying out some of them. Here are two that I've recently done that were inspired from watching (er, reading) along.

This one uses Tim Holtz stamps from Stampers Anonymous. I heat embossed the trees and snowflakes. The snowflake die is from Provo Craft and is cut out using grunge paper. I painted it with white craft paint and added some pearl luster medium too. It almost came out looking silver - hence the silver button in the center. I added a bit of stickles to the snowflakes here and there, but you can't really see them in the picture. The blue is faded jeans distress ink that is sponged on.



On this tag I used distress inks in pumice stone and vintage photo. The wood grain is an old back ground stamp from SU and stamped in Vintage photo - then I sponged around the edges with it too.

The sentiment and decorative element are from Papertrey ink (Big and Bold Holiday Wishes) and is stamped in Rich Cocoa Memento ink. The red is pure poppy Palette ink. It's hard to see "the" in Tis the Season due to the wood back ground stamp. If I did it again, I would probably use black ink.

The poinsettia is cut from grunge paper using nestabilities and I painted them with red craft paint. Added a bit of red stickles to the edges to make them stand out. The swirl die is from TH and it's also cut from grunge paper. I air brushed it using Copic's and then smeared some Star dust Stickles all over it.

Lastly, I used barn door distress ink to color the seam binding that I tied to the tag. I think this one is my favorite so far, which do you like best?



Don't forget about my blog candy challenge! Link your CAS one layer card to be included into the drawing! Entries will be allowed until midnight PST on 12/15.

Deck the Halls Blog Hop

Hello everyone! It's time again to follow along with some very talented TAC Angels as we show you some creative inspiration centered around Christmas.


Here is my project! The stamps are from the new set Reindeer Food!


This cute little guy and his hoof prints are colored with Copic markers. Xmas red stickles are used on his nose.

I found the test tubes at Micheal's on clearance and thought it would be fun to fill with Oatmeal as "Reindeer Food" to showcase this great little set!

The tags are cut from the Spellbinders tags nestabilities set and tied on with Raffia. Vintage photo distress ink is sponged around the edges.

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to visit the other Angel's blogs to see what creative inspiration that they came up with.

CAS Tree

Greetings!

How about a change up in season for this next card? I know I'm ready for anything different right about now.

This gorgeous little tree is from The Angel Company set called Jingle Jolly. I colored it with Copic markers and added some stickles to the star and bulbs!

Designer paper is from Debbie Mumm and the red ric rac is from my stash that I originally got from my Mom years and years ago.

I used a oval nestability to cut out the tree and it's popped up using foam tape. Simple, quick card that could be mass produced! What do you think?

Have a fantastic weekend.

Blob!

Here's the real reason I don't use stickles all that often! BLOB! Big mess - specifically because I was too impatient to let it dry before trying to take a picture of this card!

You see, it fell face first onto the surface that I propped it up on to take the picture and splat went the stickles! Well, what to do but try and fix it even though it's now outside of the stamped image lines! It'll have to do!

I hand drew the stem and colored the leaves with Copic markers. Thinking of you sentiment is from English Everyday Cuties. Daisy and leaf are from Blossoms and Blessings (TAC) and the cardstock is from The Angel Company as well. I tied some organdy ribbon around the marigold cs and then used the bow easy to tie the bow. It's adhered using a glue dot. Lattice punch used on the top.

Anyone else had similar episodes with stickles that they'd like to share? Thanks for stopping by and let me know what you think....