Faux Flower

Hello, this week has flown by and I can't believe it is Thursday already.  You know what that means, it is time for another Outlawz Thursday Twist challenge.  The twist this week was to use a flower on your card/project.  

I chose to use this beautiful Tilda Swirl die from Poppystamps and added a button to the middle to create a faux flower.  

This card was 100% inspired by these beautiful cards by Wanda Guess.  Shhh, don't tell Wanda, but I think is is a rock, rock, rockstar stamper and I love her designs.  You can check out her blog:  A Blog Called Wanda for yourself and see why I think she rocks the world.

Please come on over the the Outlawz Challenge group and check out the beautiful creations that my teamies have created.  We would love it if you would play along as there are prizes to win each and every week. 

Hello Friend

Helloooo my dear friends!  Today on the Outlawz challenge group the Twisted Thursday challenge is to create a card/project with "Friendship" as the theme.  

I love the look of layered backgrounds so I pulled out a couple of my favorite Hero Arts background stamps and went to work.  First I inked up the Large Fabric Design with Orchid Brilliance ink and stamped into on some ivory cardstock and then I inked up the Friend Definition stamp with Rich Cocoa Memento ink and over stamped it.  I trimmed the panel down to the size I wanted and then layered it onto some GKD PL Chocolate cardstock.  I die cut another piece of Chocolate cardstock with the Cat's PJ's Pinking Cut Up die and added it to the print piece.  Next, I added some crochet ribbon from May Arts and created a rolled flower with some May Arts Striped Grosgrain ribbon.  For the flower, I folded a strip of ribbon in half and then cut it about 3/4 of the way down every 1/4" or so.  I then rolled it up and secured the bottom with a Tombow Power Tab.  I fluffed the flower a bit to give it a shabby look and then plopped a big pink brad from American Crafts right down in the middle and layered it onto a American Crafts Bubblegum pink cardstock. To finish off the card, I added a few Kaisercraft pearls and some leaves from the Poppystamps Meadowleaf die.  

Why don't you head on over to the Outlawz challenge group and play along with the challenge this week.  You could have a chance to win some fabby prizes.

Reindeer Rex

Isn't this little puppy cute? He is from Poppystamps (a little division of Memory Box). I colored him to look similar to my little dog Wags (see photo to the right). Wags has a couple of very light tan spots, but is mostly white. Some say he is a Parson Russell Terrier, but we are not sure as he was a rescue dog. It doesn't matter what he is, we LOVE him!

I stamped a snowflake from Kaisercraft's Merry Christmas clear set in Versamagic White ink on a PL Kraft card, I then layered this fun red dot cardstock to an ivory panel that was punched with the EK Scallop Scallop Edger punch. I also punched one side of an aqua dot panel and layered with red dot and the image panel. Both of the dot cardstocks are from the Poppystamps Snow and Cedar 6 x 6 paper pack. Rex was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and spotted with my E31 Copic marker, the edges of the spots were softened with my Copic Colorless Blender. I paper pieced his scarf and then I cut the aqua dot snowflake out with my Cuttlebug die and inked it and the wooden snowflake from Kaisercraft with my Glue pad and covered them with Vintage Glass Glitter and combined the two with an aqua pearl brad from American Crafts. I purchased my Poppystamps and Kaisercraft goodies here.

Blessings to You

Hi there! I hope everyone is having a great Friday. I have been waiting for my CSSDT box to arrive from Gina K Designs, but snail mail is at it's best this week. I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will arrive tomorrow.

I spent the day finishing up my class kits for tomorrow and then decided to make this cute little card using my new Give Thanks (Anna Wight) set from Whipper Snapper. I knew I wanted to use the Snow and Cedar 6 x 6 paper pack from Poppystamps so that was my jumping off point. I ended up using four colors of paper from this pack! I love the little teeny tiny dots that this paper has. I decided to use the tree from the Give Thanks set and away I went. The base card is 4 1/4" square. I layered the light blue dot cs and then three of the green prints to form a hillside. I stamped the tree on the blue print first and then I embossed it onto some bark cardstock w/clear embossing powder. I cut the tree out (without the leaves) and paper pieced it to the card. I stamped the tree again on one of the orange prints from my Basic Grey Indian Summer 6 x 6 pad. I cut each leaf out and rolled a half a mini glue dot and placed them where they needed to be on the tree. (about now, I can hear AW cackling like a hen as I fuss to get each leaf in place). To finish off the card, I cut a few leaves for the ground, went around each leaf with the Chocolate Spica glitter pen, did some faux stitching, added a couple of buttons (tied w/twine as buttons should never be naked....never,never ever). I finised off the card with the "blessings to you" sentiment from the same set. If you need any of this goodness, you can get it here.

I am off to fix dinner, I'll let you all know if my "box" arrives tomorrow. I will be most happy if it does!

hugs,