Pink Paisley Hearts

My Creative Time Designer Challenge. Colors and Design. I love the little key from Chunky Jar Charms.

DESIGNER CHALLENGE -* Dream * Believe *

It is another Designer Challenge over at MyCreativeTime and I got inspired. I did most of my Christmas in red and white this year so it was refreshing to use some other traditional colors.


http://www.creativetimeforme.com/2014/12/designer-challenge.html

The banner swings freely on the raffia ribbon.

Here is a tip: When I have a color challenge I pull out my collection of paint chips! Then I am able to design with the required colors.

The sets I used for this card:

Build a banner
Believe from Boughs of Holly
Uppercase Fun Dies
Scallopped and Stitched Ovals

Hats off to You!!!

Good Morning friends As one of our Godchildren gets promoted to Middle School we are having a graduation celebration!

The cute little owl is cut a 4" from Give a Hoot and the mortar board was cut at 2" from Locker Talk.

Attached it all on an Action Wobble foe some added fun.

Happy Birthday Box

Good morning. Here is a great little gift box I found when I had the Wedding Solutions cartridge out. I added some happy flowers (also on that cartridge) and stamped them with Peachy Keen Just Baby Face Assortment. The sentiment for your birthday is from Peachy Keen April 2012 release. Cut at 11 1/2" it really holds a lot of goodies. I added some paper shred and will fill with favorite candies.

I'm a Big Sister!!!!

Preparing for the "call". Our Grandson Isaac is due any time and we are waiting. His Big Sister Makayla is super excited. Not wanting her to feel left out of all the fuss, I made her this card.

The little girl and sentiment are from Peachy Keen Life is Good Babies. I put the little girl on an Action Wobble. So cute! Hope you like it! This is one excited Nana!!

Rainbow Bright

A bright cheery thank you note to make someone special smile.

 

Glow in the dark paper makes these gift tags super fun for those end of the year treats!!

Happy 33rd Birthday Darling Daughter

Every year on our annual camping trip we celebrate our daughters' birthday! This year is no exception except that our son and his family won't be there since our grandson is due in a few weeks. She was born at 8:20am on the 28th and I wake her up at that time on that day every year! We replay the 12-hour labor (I really should keep her up from 9pm on!!) and have cupcakes after breakfast! Here is her special card. With flowers and ribbons in some of her favorite colors.

Congrats Grad

Our nephew-in-law graduates from Boston University this weekend and we are very proud of him. Has a job secured already making it that much sweeter. Keep up the good work Chris. Your future awaits you.

Used Nate's ABCs for the 2013 at 1" and the U at 3". Boston is cut from good old 50 States...already welded...thank you very much! The mortar boards and the stamp "GRAG" are from MyCreativeTime Here's Looking at You coordinating stamps and dies set.

Giftcard Holder

So...as I prepare for an upcoming vacation I decided to get a Subway gift card for my coworker that will be covering my duties. He will be able to have lunch on me all week! He'll need it!!! While I am rolling on the river!!! This is a MyCreativeTime feast for the eyes and so easy to do as everything coordinates and are sized to work together. I just love these products. My leaves arrived today and I had to break them out!!

• Embossed Gift Card Holder
• Just Tags
• More Gift Card Sentiments
• Stitched Daisy
• Stitched Leaves

A Little Birdie Told Me

I am the Featured Designer over at Action Wobbles today. I am working extra hours this week and had a busy weekend. Well here you go!! Everybody is lovin' the Angry Birds. I had bought our grandson some Fruit Snacks for his lunch snack and the boxes had these great characters. ALREADY ON CHIPBOARD!!! I carefully cut them out and put them on a wobble. Created a background using paper and making a little varsity stripe to coordinate. The stamp was from the $1 bin at Michaels a couple years ago. Great upcycle!!! Can be used for just about anything.

Enjoy~

Close Up of Card

 

Placement of the Wobble

 

Wobble in Action

 

 

Lets Hear it for the Boy!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!

My new grandson that is! Today is his baby shower and we will be showering my daughter-in-law for sure. I have the bassinet that we bought for our first grandson and hoped to pass down for all our grandchildren. So...now it will be Isaac's turn. I filled it with handmade goodies. Then she is having a diaper raffle at the shower where if you bring a box of diapers, you get a raffle ticket for a little prize. I made a diaper trike for that part! So here you go! Picture heavy!!!

Crochetted Blanket and hats. Summer baby yes but with everyone's A/C blasting, these will come in handy!

Bouquet of roses made of washcloths

Goodies in the bassinette -  don't you love the mustache paci??
And the Cowboy Bib???
Lots of fun handmade goodies in there.

Diaper Trike with soft cushy puppy

Shower Banner - in case you missed it

Large Framed Name with Pixar Character Stickers

And a special surprise...I will show another time. My Nana has passed and will not meet Isaac for awhile, but 3 years ago when my brothers were having their babies, she kept knitting little blankets. LOTS OF LITTLE BLANKETS. My mom put some aside and is giving Isaac some made by is Grand Nana when she was 103! I know I cried when I saw this!

Happy NSD!!
 

Hand-Picked for you!!!

It's another Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge and I just love how this card went from my head to my hands to the finished design!

Here is the sketch:

 And here is my card!

I took it at an angle so the light would catch my little jar! Lots of goodies used here but having the right tools makes the assembly go soooooo fast with a great outcome! The little jar is from MyCreativeTime Stitched Chunky Jar Dies. The flying banner is from MyCreativeTime Fly away with Me Sentiments (with Coordinating dies). The daisies are from MyCreativeTime Stitched Daisy Die. And the cutie patootie faces that make this card so special are from Peachy Keen Stamps Sweet and Silly Faces! Trying my hand at CAS (clean and simple). So hard not to add ribbon, bling, jewels or embellishment of any kind. I just love the clean look of the white on white. Embossing the background did make it look dimensional. The daisies are 3 layers each and only glued in the middle so the petals stick up and look realistic..

Entered in the following challenges:
http://thekraftjournal.blogspot.com/

Hello Little Man

The baby shower for our next grandson is next weekend and my sewing machine, die cut machines and fingers have been busy busy busy!!! I have made blankets, bibs, hats, onesies, diaper covers and wall décor.

Here...Billionaire meets Mini Monograms for a banner at the shower. I cut the ties at 6" and the medallions from Mini Monograms at 2". I wanted to letter to pop so the letters are actually 3 layers. 1 layer of the blue, 1 layer of black and then the letter cut in aqua.

Entered in the following challenges:
http://decoratetocelebrate.blogspot.com/

Bloom

As luck would have it...a patient ran overtime and I was asked if I wanted to shorten my lunch and leave a half hour early! Don't have to ask me twice and knew just what I would do!!! Run home and finish my card for the Peachy Keen Color Challenge. I chose another Tulip! This one is from Freshly Picked. The background is from Pretty Pennants and the cute face is stamped with Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kids! Phew! Even got a little pen stitching in there. So with 3 hours and 37 minutes to spare...here is my entry! Now I think my husband would appreciate dinner. LOL

Brightening up the office where I work

good Morning! Today I am the featured designer over at BugBytes. Drop over and give a shout out!
Everytime we needed to have our patients sign a credit card slip, we gave them a pad of post it notes to put under the slip. Real classy! So the Dr bought a mini clipboard. PERFECT! But plain and ugly. She asked me to class it up a bit with my creativity. Our office colors are shades of purples, lavenders, pinks and olive and celery green. I couldn't just stop with the clipboard...I had to make a matching pen! The swirls are from Cricut Cartridge Sophisticated in a glossy black cardstock. I found these beautiful silk flowers at the Dollar Store and got several to use for stuff around the office. The ribbons on the top are a mix of raffia, sheer ribbons, grosgrain ribbons and satin ribbons.

 

I couldn't stop there. We have deep tissue massages and the current packages save you $12.50. I suggested that we have buy 5 get 6 and that we could sell more since that saves $50. With Mothers Day coming up it would be a nice gift! The Peacock is from Cricut Cartridge Art Nouveau. The flowers and the butterflies are from MyCreativeTime Flower Petal Dies and Chunky Jar Accessories. The Black letters are from Chip Décor, the word Massage is from Sophisticated and the pink letters are from Nates' ABCs. I liked the way the peacock coordinated with the peacock tail printed paper. Here is my poster advertising this:

 

 

Quick and fun birthday gift

We attended a birthday party for one of our nephews that turned 2. I figured there would be tons of clothes and toys for gifts. When I saw this cute little froggy beach chair, I grabbed it. I got some oversized beach shovels and put his name on it in vinyl. I added a hardboard book called A day at the Beach and tada...great gift!!! IT was a hit. I didn't even use wrap! I added balloons and curly ribbon. It went perfect with the beach card I showed last week!

Tulips Tulips Tulips

Yes I have Tulips on the brain 24/7!!! Hello my friends. Today I am the featured Designer over at Action Wobbles and I realized I hadn't done any Tulip cards, Tulip  tags or 3D Tulip Projects this year yet! Well...here you go...

I used Cricut Cartridge Art Nouveau and cut one of my favorite cuts. The ivory background cut is from Pretty Pennants. Not just for pennants you see!

I inked the edges of the flowers and stems and my fingernails! I love the look that peach and lavender have when you use them together. Add some ivory and this is such a soft and beautiful look.

Have you gotten your Action Wobbles yet? You can order them HERE!

The Card

Wobble in Action

 

Attaching the Action Wobble

 

 

I Mustache you a Question

I love this card!!! It matches a sweater I got recently that says I heart Mustaches! Good thing 'cause my hubby of almost 34 years...sports a big 'stache!!

I used white and pink cardstock and embossed the white with Cuttlebug Geometric Rings. In the center of each ring I adhered a little pink acrylic gem. The mustache stamp is from Kay Andrews Designs Mustache Fun. The sheer pink ribbon is fro my stash.

 Entered in the following challenges:

http://pausedreamenjoychallenges.blogspot.com/

Oh Brother

Getting a jump on the card making as one of my brothers celebrates his birthday next month. This card is cut using Cricut Cartridge Birthday Bash. The sentiment was created using MyCreativeTime Dies Lower Case Dies and the eyes on the cute gator were stamped with PeachyKeen ABC Animal Faces. I think they were for a fish but they were perfect for the gator! No masking needed. The balloons are accented with Twine from the Twinery. And the little red rhinestone cheek is from my stash.

Tag Challenge

Here a Birthday Tag made with assorted scraps in colors I love! Some homemade paper, some crunched up paper, a scrap of trim, a pretty button and some chunky glitter. Topped off with lots of beautiful sheer ribbons. Made this for a Tag Challenge and now I cannot locate the BLOG to enter it!! Oh my goodness I have to write these things down!!!

 

Entered in the following challenges:

 

http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/2013/04/monday-challenge-93-tags.html