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We're on vacation this week, and I thought that meant I'd spend lots of time in the craft room, but I really feel like taking a break.

Luckily, I have a few cards that I haven't shared yet.

 It wasn't my first time at this rodeo - I created another mini-polaroid coming out of the lawn fawn camera (from the "say cheese" set) before...  but for this one, I used a sentiment - "pull here" - from PTI's "movers and shakers sentiments" to add a bit more fun.

 ... and, when you get around to pulling it out:

The bee is from lawn fawn's "gnome sweet gnome," and the sentiment is from PTI's "tiny treats: birthday" set.

Thanks for peeking!

MIM, part 2.

Hi, all!

ETA: if you were hoping for the recipes from Maia's cookie party, I added it into that post.  Click here, and scroll down to the bottom to access the PDF with our 5 amazing cookie recipes :)

I have another one to throw into the mix of PTI's "MIM" challenge, and also into the CAS-ual Fridays birthday challenge:

 Sorry that the pictures are a bit less than inspired... I couldn't stop coughing long enough to grab many non-shaky pictures :)

I loved Dawn's little sentiment tab at the top, so I grabbed an old SU punch and transferred the look to my card :)  The cupcake is from "baby button bits."

Thanks for stopping by!

CAS card class - thanks a ton.

Hi all!

Today's class challenged us to use stamps in different ways - to use a background stamp in the foreground, or to find a smaller stamp and fill the background of a card with it.

I used the small elephant from PTI's "tiny treats: birthday" to create a couple of 1-layer thank you cards.

I started out by drawing a straight line where I wanted my sentiment to go.  Once I had the sentiment stamped, I stamped the rest of that row with elephants, and then built from there.  

I think that by coloring a few random elephants, and leaving the rest outlined, it added interest to a very flat card.

The "thanks" sentiment is from a lawn fawn set, and "tons" was created using a lawn fawn's "smitty's abcs."

Thanks a ton for popping by!

Christmas duo

A duo of Christmas cards for you today, cased from the very talented Debby Hughes.

For both cards, I used PTI's "tiny treats: christmas" images, and the frame from "tiny treats: birthday."  The bow on the present got a hit of glossy accents.

So did Rudolph's nose.

Thanks for looking!

say cheese!

Excuse me while my photo develops...

Eeek!  I had the idea of making my own little polaroid picture - what do you think?  The one that comes with the "say cheese" set (lawn fawn) is too big for the camera to spit out!  I drew and cut the tiny polaroid out and then stamped on it using PTI's tiny treats: birthday images.  Some distressing around the cake helped to define the "picture area."  I cut a slit into the camera using a craft knife and mounted that layer onto my card with foam tape so that the recipient of this card could "play" with it a bit!

Have a great day!

stamp-a-faire challenges 1, 3, 5, 8

I've just gotten home from a beautiful day outdoors - getting blistery red while my half-indian kids roasted themselves a beautiful tan color...

I thought I would see what I could whip up for the challenges - I've combined a few of them!

challenge 1: Create a project featuring patterned strips that are created with some of your favorite decorative elements.
challenge 3: Punch a window from you card cover and tie ribbon or twine from the window to the side of your card.
challenge 5: Your challenge is to take a solid shape, just like she did, and create your own custom "faux" border!
challenge 8: Create a card with an front cover that is cut back by an inch or so.  The extra lip invites you to add a sentiment, a strip of patterned paper, a bit of glitter, just so many opportunities!


And here's the card:

My cute little monkey of a nephew will be getting this card very soon!  There is a lot going on here, but I hope that a 3-year-old won't mind!  The border around the white mat was made by using a button stamp from button boutique.  I'm hoping the rest is pretty self-explanatory!

and, the inside:

Thanks for looking!

MIM #10

Where do you derive inspiration for your papercrafting?  Or for your general craftiness?  I find mine in the weirdest places... 

This week's MIM challenge was to mask using your die-cuts.  I die-cut the cupcake you see above, and then used the negative space to sponge in my colors.  I sponged the entire space in SU's crumb cake ink and then created another mask that allowed me to sponge fresh snow ink at the top for the "icing" and SU's early espresso ink for the "wrapper" at the bottom.  I wanted the wrapper to stand out, so I also stamped it using text-style II.

Here's my inspiration photo:

Doesn't it look yummy?  That icing is calling my name, begging me to eat salads all day so I could fit it in to my daily WW points, lol!

When I sponged white ink onto my cupcake, it wasn't looking enough like that yummy icing.... so I busted out my liquid applique (who uses that anymore? ha!) and painted over the top to make it pop.  And, for good measure, I added some chocolate chip sprinkles.  Because, according to my kids, everything is better with chocolate chip sprinkles...

Everything else is pretty straightforward.  I stamped a row from polka dot basics II in SU's cherry cobbler, and another row in daffodil delight.  The little "eat cake" sentiment is from Tiny treats: birthday and was stamped in baja breeze.  Everything was sponged to tie it together, even the embossed polka-dots on the card base.  For a final touch - a little baker's twine.

Thanks for looking!

animals in a jar!

I was just playing around with the "friendship jar" set and seeing what I could put inside.  Thomas, taking a break from his game of Wii bowling, suggested I throw in some pirates.  I thought the sight of pirate heads floating around in a jar would be kind of morbid, so I re-directed him to some of the animals from "tiny treats: birthday."

I can't believe my snaggle-toothed baby (he had a little accident last week - it's all I can see when I look at him, lol) will be 4 next month!  He liked the animals so much, that I decided to really make his day and slap a "4" on there.  For Thomas, in honor of his special day - albeit a little early :)