Get Steppin' - Mama LoveBug Style With Two Types of Embossing

Good Rumpling to You.  

It's Mama LoveBug with a center step card to share today.  Since I have a Cameo, I've been experimenting with different card styles that can be easily cut out with this machine.  The card is a Silhouette Cameo Center Step file using two types of embossing - dry and wet. 

Recipe
*SVG cut center step card - cut twice with different shades of green and then center, side, and bottom panels switched out with the lighter green; center mats run through Sizzix with woodsy embossing folder (dry embossing)
*Sherri Baldy digital image colored with watercolor pencils and glitter pens; fussy cut
*Gold wet embossing for bat and sentiment
*LoveBug Creations Mama's Mesh and Halloween Grunge Rumple Ribbon for side steps - step over HERE

Remember, no matter how you rumple your ribbon and piece your paper, have fun with it.........cybersteppin'........Mama LoveBug

Cowabunga - Mama LoveBug's Home Is Where The Herd Is

Good Day, Crafties………Mama LoveBug here asking the question – do you use digi stamps?  Do you know there are megatons of freebies online that may be a catalyst for some mojo-crafting?

I found a quilted cow freebie digi at Beccy’s Place http://beccysplace.blogspot.com/2010/08/quilted-cow.html

that really moooved me to try a double-sided stand up card.  Thank you, Becky!! The quilting was such a cute idea so I got out my colored pencils after I printed off the digi (2x – one in horizontal reverse) and proceeded to color up a storm.  I used my Star Dust gel pen and Stickles for some highlighting, fussy cut the two images and then placed them on some substantial Kraft cardstock and fussy cut yet another layer for each side……….hey, that’s a lot of fussy cutting………I love my scissors!!

After all this is done, I used double-sided tape to adhere the tops of the cows so the bovine will stand up on her own……….cowabunga……….she had to have a LoveBug Creations Rumple Ribbon Bow (On the Edge) sold HERE……….

and finally a computer-generated sentiment –

Home Is Where The Herd Is........... here is my udderly charming Miss Cowrumple……….

Remember, no matter how you piece your paper and rumple your ribbon, have fun with it……….cyberhugs …………Mama LoveBug

The Robin's Nest Shout Out - Mama LoveBug Style - A Perpetual Calendar

Good Day, Crafties.  I love to make practical gifts so I've designed a perpetual calendar - it can be useful and decorative for your kitchen area or desk to keep you "on top" of significant birthdays, anniversaries, or other special dates (all in one place)!  At the end of the year lots of people have to laboriously recopy dates onto a new calendar - why do that when you can have a perpetual day finder of your own?

First here's the inside - as you can guess, each month is numbered with the appropriate days so one can record the special occasions.

 Here is a long shot of the decorated front of the perpetual calendar.

 For better pictures I took a shot of the top portion.

And a shot of the bottom.

Recipe for the perpetual calendar

*Two charming Sherri Baldy digi stamps - round and rectangle

*Frames from two Spellbinder dies

*The Robin's Nest Glittered Sorbet cardstock - I used Kiwi and Aquamarine HERE

*Bottom Border fancy punch

*LoveBug Creations Rumple Ribbon for the weaving around each frame - HERE

*Prisma colored pencils, gamsol, Stickles, and gel pen for coloring and highlighting each image

Hopefully you are inspired to try your hand with these products and create your own perpetual calendar.

Remember, no matter how you piece your paper and rumple your ribbon, have fun with it.........cyberhugs.........Mama LoveBug

Paper Hoarders DT Offering - Mother's Day

Welcome to a Paper Hoarder's DT Day!  Our marvelous PH guru- Tanya - has pictures of the DT offerings on her blog at http://scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com/ so please check them out and drop a love note for each designer!

For my (Kimi) project I wanted to make something springy as a gift for my mom for Mother's Day! I found a cool tutorial on the DCWV YouTube page for a fun wreath and ran with it. I changed a few things and I love how it turned out! Hope Mama LoveBug Loves it as much!

Here's a picture of it hanging..well as best as I could! Just moved and I don't have a wreath hanger thing on my front door yet! So I hung it on the outside of my craft closet! :)

Photo of it laying down!

Close up of the flowers!

I have 4 children so I made I flower for each one! My oldest daughter is the purple, my two middle children are boy & girl and only 14 months apart and then the little purple for my baby girl! Each flower is as different as each of the kiddos! I figured it was a great way to incorporate them into this project!! :) Now keep scrolling down to check out Mama's awesome project!!! :)

This offering was set to be either spring or Mother's Day - our choice, so Mama LoveBug decided to get in the Mother's Day spirit with a pocket card for her daughters who are mothers - Melissa and Kimberly.

I took a darling La-La Land Marci digi and colored her using my watercolor pencils and gel pens.  I used Stickles for highlights and added some gems, Pink By Design sentiment, and SU butterfly punch for embellies.  The old crimper came out as well as the corner chomper to give a softer appearance.  The cardstock was K and Company double-sided paper.  Hope you visit the other DT offerings today and are inspired to try your hand at designing a sweet card for any Mother in your life.  Come back tomorrow for a Patchwork of Love Blog Hop which will feature a 2-day Mother's Celebration.

Paper Piecings By Nikki DT Offering - Bee at the Hop Tomorrow

Bee at the Hop - Jan 7 (tomorrow) for some beary cute treats at Ringing in the New Year 2012 Paper Piecings By Nikki - bee sure to mark the event; don't bee left out of the fun!

This is the Bee Bear in Flower Digi Stamp and you can find this at Nikki's store located at  http://www.paperpiecingsbynikki.com

These can be used as bookmarks, tags, or photo mat pull outs (put a picture or journaling on the back) for an album or layout........that's versatility!!

So why use digi stamps?  Mama LoveBug has both the conventional rubber/acrylic stamps and some digis and I love them both.  So what's my "take on digis"? Well, they can be customized by you in size, color, and combination with other digital images or hand-stamped items to make your projects unique.  There's also the storage issue - these take up space on your computer/thumb drive and not in your craft room.  You have to decide what's right for you.

 BTW here's a few things to know:

*Nikki is having a sale at her store!

*She also takes customer requests so you can customize your crafting treats!

*AND we're hoping to see you at PPBN's blog hop on Saturday, January 7 (tomorrow), called Ringing in the New Year 2012 Paper Piecing Blog Hop, so schedule yourself for some "fun"!

Remember no matter how you piece your paper, have fun with it..........thanks for stopping by........cyberhugs..........Mama LoveBug!

Read Any Good Books Lately? Need a Handmade Bookmark?

Mama LoveBug loves to read.  I belong to a book club through our local library (Williams County Public Library) called Novel Ideas, which meets once a month.  Do you like to read too??

I decided that it would be a fun project to make bookmarks for the gals in the group, so I crafted some using a darling little digi from Broken Box - she's a Toodle.  This one is a Reading Toodle, which given it's a book club, was appropriate.  I also thought readers who really, really like their books, should be known as
Paper Divas (yes it could also apply to crafters as well).

We also have two guys in the group so I used more masculine digis from GFS.  I had some Core'dinations paper which I embossed and some double-thickness Kraft paper (I heart Kraft) for the base to give each bookmark some depth.  I cut out the digis with two different Spellbinders shapes - oval and fancy oval.  For the GFS digis, I colored them with watercolor pencils and added a glitz or two after fussy cutting them. Here's what I designed:

And here's a close up of the Paper Divas

I hope you like these little characters and maybe you'll make some for the readers in your life...........cyberhugs, Mama LoveBug.