CCC03/10

Hey everyone!

The Christmas Card Challenge for March was to create non-traditional Christmas cards. I thought a great way to make my 4 cards for the month would be to change up the colors. It was a lot of fun working with non-traditional colors. I want to show the cards to you that I created for March.
This card features Kraft cardstock and Angelee designer paper from The Angel Company. I added doodle dots and faux stitching with my white gel pen. The scalloped edges are from my Cloud Scissors. The sentiment is from Inspirational Sayings and the images are from Circle Sampler. I used Palette Hybrid Iris and Cognac inks. I added shimmer with my Stardust Clear Glitter Gel Pen. The brads were added with my Crop-A-Dile. I used my Scor-Pal to score all the cards.

This is one of my favorite stamp sets from TAC but sadly it is retired. I paper pieced the clothing of Mary and Joseph with Lilly Anna designer paper and the swaddling clothes on baby Jesus is paper pieced from Juliette. It's purple but you can't really tell it from the photograph. I sponged the "floor" with Cognac and the "walls" with Burnt Umber. The little images are from the Circle Sampler stamp set and inked in Cognac, as well. The shimmer is from the Stardust Clear Glitter Gel Pen. The rest was colored in using Tombow bright markers, Copic markers, and Hazelnut Memory Marker.

The last two cards were super fun to make. They are Pinwheels with a faux button in the center. I used my Crop-A-Dile and some ribbon with a small circle punch to create a fun little button using Lilly Anna designer paper. The sentiment is also from the retired The Only Thing stamp set. I hope you enjoy checking out some very non-traditional cards.

Angel Hugs,

Brighten Your Day!

Hey, everyone!

I have been trying to take on more challenges this year as I create cards and projects. It is a lot of fun for me to check out various blogs and find so many new things to try. I have found that when looking for a new card idea, I have been more drawn to sketches (no pun intended) and when the measurements are right there for me it's a no-brainer! I love that!!! It makes it so much more fun to craft when I am not guessing at what size something should be. You have to check out this wonderful sketch I found on Laurie Unger's blog HERE. The card she made is absolutely FABULOUS! She makes the most stunning cards ever! Don't you love that sketch and how easy she made it for us? Here is the card I created for my BFF:

This card is for some encouragement and love for my dear friend Heather. She and I are joining Weight Watchers together this year and I am really glad she is going to help me. I will do my best to support and encourage her, as well. Of course I just had to use this adorable little image from The Angel Company! You can find out more HERE if you want to see the whole stamp set and learn how you can purchase it!
Here is a closer look at the shimmery cardstock I used on the card and my satin bow! I paper pieced this whole image except for the skin. I colored her skin with my Copic markers E00. Her hair is paper pieced from cardstock. Her shimmery shirt and shoes are the same as the cardstock behind the main image. I used the striped paper to create hair bows and her pants. I used my R02 Copic marker to create her rosey cheeks and added a white dot on each eye with my signo white gel pen! The pink hearts are stamped with Belle Rose palette hybrid ink and it's from the retired Sweet As Pie stamp set. I told you I love this set!!! Leave me a comment with a link to your projects. I'd love to see what you come up with using Laurie's sketch!

Angel Hugs,

StampTACular Tuesday Challenge

Hey, everyone!

This month I am featuring the Butterfly Swirls stamp set (T-2929). I chose to make a card this week and I was trying to use other colors besides pink or purple! I tend to think of those colors when I think of butterflies, so this time I went a different direction! I first stamped the butterfly using Burnt Umber Hybrid Palette Ink (TT-218). I stamped this directly onto a blue and yellow plaid paper. I cut out the wings using my Kai scissors (C-1220). I stamped the image again onto the card and then layered the wings I had paper pieced with pop dots (D-89) on top of the stamped image so the wings have a raised effect to them. The sentiment is a free GWP stamp "Because" (TG-2973). You get your choice of 15 GWP stamps for every $30 purchase.
Be sure you check out the StampTACular Tuesday Challenge Christina made. If you missed last week's projects, click on the links to the right under the picture of the Butterfly Swirls stamp set.

I will be placing an order tomorrow for the new Serendipity magalogue. If you requested one, I will be sending it to you as soon as I get them. If you would like one but haven't reserved your copy yet, please let me know.

I will see you here again tomorrow. I will share my Scripture Challenge page with you for this week! But you will have to WAIT.

Hugs,

So much to share!

Hey, everyone!

I have been as busy as a bee lately! I love to swap with other paper crafters for new ideas, fun projects to inspire me and encourage me to create even more! I only have a few more swaps to go and then I will be nearly done with swapping for the year! I have several new projects coming up that I will share more about later! It's been fun but also a little hectic trying to get things done on time. My baby boy (13 months) loves to "help" but his busy little hands are a little more help than I need sometimes, so I end up playing with him instead! LOL His laughter is contagious and I love to see his precious smile!

Okay, so let me show you a few things that I have been working on lately! This is a fun little treat bag I wanted to try and make. It's doesn't sit perfectly straight up but neither do most real pumpkins! LOL I am really pleased with how it turned out, though. I used some orange snaps on the sides, black ribbon, my TAC scallop circle punch (page 115 in the fall/winter 2008 catalog) to create my tag, a stamp from the $1 bin at Michael's and I filled it with a cellophane bag and some candy! I was inspired to make one when I saw this one from SplitCoastStampers.

I already shared with you the birthday cards I had made for a swap I am in over at Paper Wings. There's only 3 of us swapping so it makes it easier for me to do a card with a little more detail since there isn't as many to do like that. For the baby shower invitation I used my TAC stamp set HELLO BABY and a couple misc. stamps I have picked up along the way. The diaper is paper pieced and so is the blanket. I used Gentle Beginnings paper from The Angel Company and premium white cardstock, also TAC. I sponged the edges of my card in Burnt Umber palette ink. I tied a brown ribbon with a pretty sheen to it on the left side of the card. I used my TAC scalloped circle punch on this card, too. Can you tell I enjoy using it? For my final swap project I want to show you, I made a gift card holder. This is another swap I signed up for at Paper Wings. I really like the Tutti Frutti paper that we carry! It's so fun! Inside I stamped a birthday sentiment. I left a lot of the white showing inside so the gift-giver can add their own doodle dots, fun stamps or designer paper that they would like or they can simply write a short and sweet note in the white section!
Tomorrow I will share with you the fun projects we'll be making at Memory Lane Scrapbooking store in Bedford on October 9. I had a lot of fun making those projects and am eager to share them with you. I hope you'll be inspired to create something fun today, too! Please let me know if you do. I always enjoy reading your comments!

And I wanted to say HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to my sweet and wonderful husband, Paul, of 8 years. We have grown a lot, learned a lot, loved a lot, and have come to lean on one another more throughout the years. We have 2 beautiful children that makes our lives complete. Here's a picture from our wedding day 8 years ago! Neither one of us had any idea what the future held for us but I am glad I have him in my life. He is my best friend and he always reminds me of how everything will just work out. His faith strengthens mine. I thank God for him.

Hugs,

Hoosier Card Angel Creations

Hey, everyone!

I thought I would show you just a few of my recent creations. I have trouble sleeping so I stay up all night working on crafts! LOL And this morning is no exception. I am finally starting to feel tired, so I may lay down for a little bit after I share my cards with you!

First of all, I love this stamp set from The Angel Company™. It's called Count Your Blessings. I love the fall of the year and I thought this would be a fun set to get. The little pilgrim girl here got a little modern with her clothing! LOL I paper pieced her dress and hat from a piece of blue DP I purchased recently. The leaves were colored with my favorite stardust glitter gel pens that I absolutely love! I did a little bit of masking at her feet so it gives the illusion that she is walking through the leaves. This is the second time I have ever done masking so I didn't want to mess it up...but I think it turned out pretty cute! The Happy Thanksgiving sentiment is from the same stamp set and the leaves are just from the ones the girl is playing with. The hair, shoes, dress sash and top of the bonnet are colored with my Tombow markers. I used a watercolor pencil in a peachy color to give her hands and face a little bit of color. The buckles on her shoes are colored with a silver glitter gel pen I bought at the Dollar Tree. I used my white gel pen for doodle dots on the corners. Inside is a really nice sentiment from a stamp I bought at Hobby Lobby when they had their 50% off sale on rubber stamps. I plan on giving this to my brother along with the other cards I have made for him to give to his fiance.

The next thing I want to share with you is my attempt at making a love-themed ATC. I am very new to the world of Artist Trading Cards as far as trying to make them. I know about them from when I wrote to my pen pals several years ago. I have had pen pals since grade school and the best pen pal ever, that I absolutely love to pieces, has been my pen pal since I was in the 10th grade! She lives in Italy, though, and I am here in America so we have never met but I would love to meet her someday! I got paired up with a girl in my SBS18 sisterhood to swap friendship ATC's and sadly I have not been able to make one to save my life! I get as far as the base card measurements of 2.5" x 3.5" and that's it! So I came up with this idea...using my fun little triple heart stamp that I don't even remember where I purchased it from but most likely Michael's $1 bin! The rhinestone brad is from Hobby Lobby. I punched the image using my new scalloped square punch that I traded another Angel some catalogs for! I added a few white doodle dots with my gel pen. It's simple and kind of cute... It does seem rather plain to me...but I think I will leave it as it is.


The ATC I made for the swap with Jaime is this one. (Jaime don't look! LOL) The background has pink ladybugs on a green background with white flowers. It's really cute paper with glitter on it! I added some rhinestone brads for fun along with a green brad at the bottom for her to see it's something to pull. When you open up this adorable waterfall card you can see the stamped phrase FRIENDS FOREVER which is a retired stamp set. I did punch a semi-circle out so the pull tab was easier to get access to. I used my pink Tombow marker and blending pen to color in this flower. The flower is a stamp set with Tinkerbell in it that I picked up at Big Lots for cheap one day! Then I covered it with pink stickles! I love stickles!!! I think this one turned out a lot better than the LOVE one and I made this one first....oh well! I hope Jaime likes it. I am mailing it off this weekend along with a few other things that I will not tell on here in case she sees this before I get the chance to mail it all to her!


Thanks for looking at my projects with me. It's been fun blogging about it and I hope you will share a link with me to see all of your ATC creations! Take care and have a great day!

Hugs,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CUPCAKE!

Hey, everyone!

I have the best friend you could ever want! She is funny and creative, so very talented, and smart! She has helped me out so many times when I needed advise, just someone to listen, have a girl gripe session occasionally (LOL), and always to inspire me when I get stuck on a project! We IM frequently and enjoy "shopping" together and blurfing! Today is her birthday and I wanted to do something special for her. We live several states away from one another so I can't just hop in my car (as much as I'd like to) and scrap with her or work on cards or even just hang out! So, I asked her if she would want to do a virtual scrap session or something since my daughter and her daughters are all in school. So that is what we're doing today! She came up with a challenge and I am so excited because it's fun and easy and now...it's done! LOL She e-mailed me this challenge and I couldn't wait to get started. Mine doesn't look exactly the same, but Christina loves purple so I went with purple frosted cupcakes! Of course I have to add the bling so the top layer has glittery sparkles that may not show up too well in the picture and the cherry is all blinged out with stickles! I can't wait for her to see it!!! So, this challenge is just for you CHRISTINA!!! Go wish her a very happy birthday!!!!!!!!

Christina: I hope you have an awesome birthday and get to spend the day doing all the things you enjoy with the people you love!!!

BIG BIRTHDAY HUGS!!!!

THIS JUST IN!!

Hey, everyone!!!

Welcome back! I am SO excited to show you what my friend Amber has donated to our prize table for the STAMP OUT CANCER and CROP FOR A CURE fundraiser!!!

Do you not LOVE these? You should see these in person! They are adorable and a really great size, too! Just add your photos, decorate the pages as you like, and you have an instant scrapbook! Each one is SO cute with coordinating papers inside, and all with a fun summer theme!! I asked her if she would like to make one accordion album but she made THREE!!! And they are all awesome! Thanks, Amber!! I am definitely looking forward to next Saturday!! It's going to be a really FUN day!

For all you mothers out there, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!! I have a really, really wonderful mother. We are really close...like best friends and always have been! I look up to my mother and wish I could be just like her!!!

Here's a Mother's Day Card I made for my husband's grandma! She is really great and always loves playing with her great-grands!! She likes birds and so I used the Basic Birds stamp set (T-2636), Swoops & Swirls Hostess A stamp set (TA-2857), and Trendy Greetings (T-2144) to stamp Happy Mother's Day on the inside. I stamped the bird in Noir Palette Hybrid Ink (TT-220) and the sentiment in Claret (TT-194). I stamped the bird image three times to piece it together. I stamped the tail feathers on a patterned pink paper, and the body of the bird was stamped on a sheet of cardstock that I used the shaving cream technique on. I made my own grass with a sheet of green cardstock and my Kai scissors (C-1220) and mounted it to a sheet of blue cardstock. I punched a circle out of some gold scrap paper and mounted it for a sun. I stamped the bird image onto the cardstock and then I mounted the bird body and tail feathers on top using foam tape. Thanks, Hannah, for the use of your stamps and Claret ink!! Thank you ALL for looking!! Have a great day!

Hugs,
Bridgett