Sketchy Bear

Hi! Just popping in quickly with a card I made for the My Favorite Things sketch challenge- MFTWSC25.  I used Friends Furever on this card...

I love doing sketch challenges especially when I feel unmotivated. They really jump-start creativity.  Have a wonderful day!

Thanks for stopping by-
Cammie

Can't Wait to Hug You

Hello! Busy week this week--I am gearing up for a fun release blog hop next week with a company I love!

But, I thought I would pop in and share this card that I made this week.  I used My Favorite Things  Friends Furever and True Friends on this card.  I sponged the background with Ranger Distress inks (scattered straw, picked raspberry, seedless preserves and black soot) and then sprayed water on the background and removing excess with a paper towel.  I embossed the sentiment in white.  Final touches were the punched stars and washi tape on the bottom.

Have a great week. Be back soon!
Thanks for stopping by!

Cammie

Just for You

Hello! Happy Monday:)  Just got home from a great family vacation in Keystone, CO.  We had a great time but boy was it cold.  My ski-loving son and husband didn't seem to mind, though!  It might take me a few days to thaw!

Here is a cute greeting using My Favorite Things Friends Forever:

I cannot wait to make some more cards with this set....but first, to the grocery store:)

Thanks for stopping by!
Cammie

HUGS

Happy Monday!

Just popping in to share a card I made with My Favorite Things set called Fancy Flowers.  For this card, I embossed the flowers in white onto black cardstock.  The main panel was created by stamping the flower and coloring it with Copic markers.   I stamped the flower again on white cardstock and colored it and cut out the center portion so I could pop it up over the first one:

I added a strip of blue paper over the bottom of this focal panel and then die cut the word HUGS (Words for Friends) from black cardstock and placed it on top.

I finished it off with a little sheer ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cammie

Sending Love Your Way

Happy (almost) Valentine's Day!  It's a great time of year to use this set called Heart Bouquet from My Favorite Things:

I stamped her in some light ink and colored her with Copic markers and Prismacolor Pencils.  Such a sweet stamp!

Hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day!  😘

Thanks so much for taking time to stop by today!
Cammie

Be Mine!

Hello--

Still looking for a cute Valentine idea?  Create this simple treat holder in 10 minutes and fill with candy and/or a gift card!

See full directions on how to create the holder HERE!

Thanks for stopping by!

Cammie

Squirrel Love

Hello!

Regardless of who won---hope you had a great Super Bowl Sunday😛

Just popping in to share a cute little greeting with an adorable fella from My Favorite Things- Cute Critters set (unfortunately, I think this set is retired:(.  

I stamped the squirrel first (in River Rock ink) and then masked it and stamped the trunk below it. I colored the image using Prismacolor pencils..resulting a softer image:

The sentiment is from Label Maker Sentiments (MFT), which is stamped using Memento Love Bug ink.  I finished up the card with a 3D gel sticker stitch along the top (Cloud9 Design) and a little tie of hemp along the bottom.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Cammie

Hello Friends

Hello! Playing again with My Favorite Things Cute Critters stamps.  I ended up die cutting and stamping a lot of these guys and I spend the time at my daughter's tennis lessons coloring them.  Then, I just have to pop them on a card....once I figure out how I want to use them!

And here is basic sympathy design I came up with using stamps from Gina K. Designs (large flower, sentiment) and My Favorite Things (small flower). The large bloom is embossed in white and then I die cut and stamped the two colors on the small flower and popped it up.  I embossed the sentiment and then just added some hemp and a piece of washi tape in the background.  I like the simplicity of it.

Hope your October is going well. Do you decorate for fall or for Halloween?  I love it but never make it too scary because I am a wimp.  I have been spending a lot of time getting the house ready for the Halloween festivities.  Pictures to come :)

Thanks for stopping by!
Cammie

Gasp! More cards...

Hello! Me again---I know....twice in one week:)  I will get more creative with my post titles once I get used to this again.  Right now, I am just having fun delving into all the stamps and dies that I have gotten in the past year but have not had time to use.

First up is a birthday card which uses My Favorite Things Birthday Sentiments and Lucky Stars Dienamics. I also used some star stamp outlines from Out of this World because it was sitting on my desk and I thought a few stars among the die cuts would go well.

For this card, I placed the stars (not pulled apart) on the cardstock front and die cut them.  Then I pieced cardstock scraps behind the cut out stars. I stamped the fun sentiment in Memento Love Letter ink and added some Twinery twine and a few rhinestones:

The next card features one of my favorite sets: Cute Critters from My Favorite Things.  I die cut and stamped the raccoon, colored him with Copic markers and popped him up. I die cut the hearts using Tag Builders #5. The patterned paper is from Echo Park (Sweet Day). I sponged the edges of the card with some Tea Dye Distress ink. Finally, I added a bit of Twinery twine to the bottom of the card:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Cammie

MFT Cards

Hello! I decided to jump in and play along with the MFT Superstar Card Contest and that meant I had to figure out where everything in my office was hiding.  It has been awhile since I have taken the time to stamp :) After figuring out that stuff...my computer wasn't working so I had to use my laptop and my camera wasn't charged. ugh!

Anyway, after dusting off the cobwebs....Here are the two cards I made today:

(These photos are from my iPhone since my camera wasn't charged:()

My first card is a tag card and I used several MFT sets on it, including So Much Love, Modern Blooms Stamps and Dies, Tag Builder BP#5, Mini Wavy Pennants.

And my second card features some MFT sets and dies that are not Halloween sets but I altered them to make them fit.  The Pure Innocence girl is carrying a bouquet in the original (PI Heart Bouquet) and I used a little fella from Out of the World set to put in her arms.  (I had to cut out his eyes off and put them on top of his body so they wouldn't cover her face!). The sentiment is a piece of a sentiment from True Friends stamp set:

Not sure if you can see the faint stars stamped in the background.  They are from Out of the World set.

It was so much fun to get all inky again! Thanks for stopping by!

Cammie

SRM Holiday Card Ideas

Hope you are enjoying your December.  It has been a crazy month already!  My son had to have a molar tooth pulled on Tuesday.  The dentist wanted to pull it because it does not have an adult tooth and the baby tooth had a root canal and a cap placed on it when he was younger. So, they didn't anticipate it lasting long.   The hope was that they would pull it and the other molars would start tilting forward and then braces will just pull the teeth into alignment.  But, when we got there...the procedure took a lot more time than we had planned because that little tooth had fused with the bone.  Luckily, the dentist got it out (along with a piece of the bone!)  Ben did great (much better than I did!) but I think the whole process aged me a few years :)

Yesterday I spent the day at the mall...and still feel like I haven't accomplished much:(  But it was fun! (At least more fun that watching your child have a tooth yanked:)

Anyway.....here are a few more holiday card ideas using SRM Stickers:

This first card features Sticker Sentiments: Happy Holidays along with some Echo Park paper (Happy Days: Red, Springtime: Lemonade, Robin's Egg; For the Record: Green) and a layered chipboard snowflake (Season's Greetings-Echo Park).

Next--A little Peace on Earth:

I used  Sticker Sentiments: Happy Holidays (SRM) on this card also.  I combined it with some fun patterned map paper (Wayfarer by Bazzill Basics) and some Echo Park Papers.  The dies are from My Favorite
Things (Paper Doll border Dienamics) and The Cat's Pajamas (Heart).

Thanks for stopping by!
 

Holiday Cards & More

Paper Crafts Holiday Cards & More, Vol. 7 is now on sale.  Woop! This is one of my favorite issues from Paper Crafts because of the "& More" part.  I love seeing all the fabulous ornaments, packaging, decorations and tags in this issue.

Here is my favorite project in the issue (pg. 160):

Of course, it is photographed much better in the issue :)   You can find Holiday Cards & More, Vol. 7 HERE!  Have a great weekend! (Don't forget to celebrate World Cardmaking Day TOMORROW!)
:)

Tag Wall Calendar

Hello! Happy Monday! Thanks so much for all the comments and emails from my last post.  I just love my super fabulous blog friends!

Last year I created a wall calendar made up of tags that hang on this birdcage in my kitchen.  I decided to update the tags for 2013 since it has been a big conversation piece in my house.  The tags feature SRM Mini Calendars and a LOT of other SRM stickers (listed below!)  You can see in the detail pics all the other stickers I used (including lots of border stickers!) Here is the finished product that was on the SRM stickers blog last week:

SRM Stickers used:
Stickers by the Dozen- Valentine’s  #62004

We’ve Got Your Border- Halloween  #57005

Express Yourself- St. Patrick’s Day #42036

Freestyle Winter #50001

We’ve Got Your Border- Valentine’s #57007

Mini calendar 2013 Standard #48009

Mini calendar 2013 Decorative #48008

Sticker Sentiments- Life is Good #51014

Year of Memories 2013 #48007

Express Yourself- Water Fun #42039

Express Yourself- Graduation #42019

Quick Card- Class of 2013  #52043
Express Yourself- School #42020

Other supplies used are from these companies: The Twinery, Ranger (Distress inks), Gina K Designs, My Favorite Things, Bella Blvd, October Afternoon, Little Yellow Bicycle, Echo Park Paper, My Little Shoebox, Lori Whitlock (Penguin Silhouette Shape).

Thanks for stopping by!

A True Friend

Hello! Happy Tuesday!  Since we celebrated labor day here in the states yesterday, this is going to be one of those weeks that I am always a day off!  YES, I had to double check the day before typing that!

Well, today I have a card to share that I have worked on little by little.  I was trying to play along in the Moxie Fab Challenge: The Asymmetry Challenge.  In doing so,  I discovered that when you create a design that happens to turn out asymmetrical, that is one thing....but trying to create something asymmetrical is quite another.   I started off in several different directions but finally went with this design.   I like that the sentiment is in black to draw your eye toward it, with only a few other small details on the card being black to keep your eyes focused on the important part :). Otherwise, every other element was in 12 different positions before they were finally glued in their final place.  

Supplies: stamps- My Favorite Sentiments (My Favorite Things);  cardstock- Ivory (Gina K Designs);  Patterned paper- Escape Collection (Little Yellow Bicycle); baker's twine- Ocean (The Twinery); sewing machine; ink- tea dye distress ink (Ranger), Memento tuxedo black (Tsukineko); ribbon-Offray; flower and pin- Wild Orchid; rhinestones- Recollections (Michael's).

Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

 

Dream Tag

School starts for my kids on Tuesday.  I am holding tight to these last few days of summer vacation.  I am also school shopping, doing the routine doctor appts, dentist appts, etc.

One of the other things I wanted to do was to make my oldest daughter a special note for her lunch.  She will be in 11th grade this year and last year was her first year in this school because we moved just prior to her sophomore year.  I sent her notes everyday in her lunch and sometimes I included a drawing, a funny comment or something she could hang in her locker to remind her how awesome she is.  I knew how hard it was for her to be the new girl and I wanted to give her something to laugh at or smile at in the middle of her day.

This year, I made this tag to stick in her lunch.  It is something she can use as a bookmark or to stick on the inside of her locker.  She LOVES giraffes so when I saw this new set from My Favorite Things called Circus Spectacular, I KNEW I had to have it just to make a million giraffe notes for her :)

I paired this set with the fabulous sentiment set called, My Favorite Sentiments 6th Anniversary Set.  LOVE this set!

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great day!

Travel Gift Idea

Since my husband and I "gifted" each other a Hawaiian vacation for our anniversary this year...I was inspired to created a fun way to present a travel gift.

Here is my gift idea...

I used a Silhouette file to make the airplane and added some SRM stickers to the plane...."relax" "unwind" and "dream".  I attached the plane to the tube by using a stick pin.  The top of the pin in threaded through the airplane base and then I pushed it through the lid of the tube.  I put some foam tape on the inside of the tube lid to anchor the pin.   The plane actually tilts back and forth :)  

I covered the bottom of the Mini tube with black vinyl that I die cut into building shapes using My Favorite Things Die-Namics Skyline Border die.  I added the "adventure" sticker along the tube and filled the tube with the travel information.  This concept would work well with concert tickets, amusement park tickets, etc.  Simply change out the topper to reflect what is inside :)

SRM products used:

Express Yourself Retirement #42005

Express Yourself Everyday Boy #42040

Mini tube

Thanks for stopping by!

Inspiration Revisited

I have a hard time making cards/scrapbook pages while watching the Olympics.  Since I have tons of fabric remnants sitting in a drawer, I thought I would revisit a Moxie Fab challenge from months ago because it was so much fun to make one of these little houses the first time.

Here is what I came up with this time: 

 

Some of my hand stitching is not the best---had to pull out a seam more than once because I watching the Olympic coverage at the same time. Ha! 

Supplies: Sticker sentiment- Shine Your Light (SRM Stickers)

Baker's twine- Marigold (The Twinery)

Dies- Homespun Birdhouse, Fresh Cut Grass (Dienamics- My Favorite Things)

Hope you have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Inspired Birthday Card

Hello! Just wanted to pop in and let you know I have a post up on the Cardmaker Blog today.  Come see how a Tiffany & Co. bag inspired this card:

 

I would love for you to check it out! -------> Click HERE!

Supplies used: White cardstock from Gina K. Designs; Swoon 6 x 6-inch paper pad, stickers and stickpin from Little Yellow Bicycle; Splash Blue and Yours Truly Grey patterned papers from Echo Park Paper Co.; Fancy Sticker Sentiments-Birthday from SRM Stickers; silver cord from Stampin’ Up!; Recollections pearls from Michaels Stores Inc.; Perfect Petal Trio Die-namics die from My Favorite Things; artisan ornate oval frame Silhouette file by Samantha Walker from Silhouette America Inc.  

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great Monday!

Twine Cards- Update!

Hello there!  Am I the only one who gets so overwhelmed in the month of May? So much going on--- games, school dates, recitals, etc.  Mind blowing.  Well, part of that has prevented me from posting some of my projects that I have created for my dt's here.  I do like to share my work on here because I understand that time is precious and it is not always possible to follow links to other blogs I contribute to.  So, here are two cards that I had on two different blogs this past month:

The first card was on the Helmar blog: 

 

Supplies:  white cardstock (Gina K Designs); baker's twine- Denim, Pink Sorbet (The Twinery); Patterned paper- Echo Park; Stamps-By the Numbers (My Favorite Things), sentiment-Moments + Minutes (Technique Tuesday);  Die- Fly a  Kite Dienamics (My Favorite Things); ribbon- Pinecone Press; pearls- Recollection's (Michael's); tiny attacher stapler- (Tim Holtz); Memento tuxedo black ink.

Next, this card was on The Twinery blog last week.  I love the whimsical feel to it with the wrapped leaves:

 

For this card I used  Pea pod and Honeydew baker's twine from The Twinery.  I also used the Silhouette file 3 branch tree by Lori Whitlock to cut the tree shape.  The patterned paper and stickers are from Hello Summer collection by Echo Park.

Thanks for stopping by!