Cheers to a New Year!

Cheers to you!  I am starting the New Year celebration a tad early on my blog.  I am so excited because hubby and I are heading to a lovely inn for the event.  I plan to enjoy my evening by ringing in a brand new year full of health, happiness, and prosperity.  How about you?  Any plans for the evening?

This card combines lots of texture and patterns with a focus on the sentiment.  I used a SRM sticker which always delights because they lay so incredibly smooth and I never have issues with bubbles or finger prints.  I used a mustard yellow trim with orange twine wrapped around it for a little extra something-something.  I don't know why I am using that word but there it is.  I stapled a strip of corrugated cardboard on the larger navy blue strip and then added the orange buttons because embellishing is good and I have so many dang buttons. 

I hope you have a wonderful New Year's eve and wishing you the best in 2012!

Challenges I would like to enter my card in:

Little Red Wagon: #113 Something New (SRM Stickers and yellow trim)

Paper Pretties: #186 Ring in the New Year

Scrapbook Sisters: #66 Anything Goes

Top Tip Tuesday: #66 Anything Goes

Whimsical Wednesdays: Happy New Year

Supplies used:

cardstock: The Paper Co.

pattern paper: My Mind's Eye Lime Twist Out of the Blue Family

sticker: SRM Stickers

trim and buttons: craft supply

twine: Divine Twine orange

other: corrugated cardboard recycled :-)

Be Merry!

Happy Wednesday to you!   Today's card was fun to create because I used Valentine papers.  I get tired of the traditional colors so decided to use something a little different.

At Penny's we have a "Holiday Gifts" theme and I used SRM Stickers with this Digi Darla image.  Lots of bling because it's Christmas after all and a little stitching because it's me.

***We are having a DT call on the blog so come on by and enter to be a part of a really fun team!***

Challenges I would to enter this card in:

Digi Design Challenge: Show us Christmas

Papertake Weekly: Last Christmas card of the year

Pile It On: #49 Bling it up!

Raise the Bar: #86 Christmas

Top Tip Tuesday: #65 Anything Christmas

Supplies used:

cardstock: Paper Studio

pattern paper: My Mind's Eye "Love Me" and Lily Bee

image: Digi Darla

stickers; SRM Stickers

ribbon and button: American Crafts

rhinestones: Queen & Co.

Altered Snowflakes

I made a special snowflake ornament for a friend that I would like to share with you today.  It's one of my favorite things to do is transform a dollar store item into something that exudes style and looks costly. 
I started with a plastic snowflake that I glued to a scallop die cut  for the background.  Next I started layering more scallop pieces with stamped images.  I paired a silver tinsel  trim in there for extra shine.  I added a button at the top to finish it off and then strung a thin silver cord to hang it.  I would love to make these for my tree but I don't have the time to make 50 currently.  Perhaps after the holiday is over, I can stock up on the snowflakes and create away.  I think they make beautiful ornaments and can be personalized with initials, words, images, etc.  I envision charms dangling.  Oh so many ideas. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Addicted to Stamps: Snowflakes
Crafty Boots: Christmas
DYSU: #50 Winter
Gingerloft: #30Winter/Christmas
My Sheri Crafts: #75 Let It Snow
Oh La La Creations: #95 Anything but a card
One Stop Craft: #162 Christmas Sparkle
Paper Creations Ink: #15 Something old, something new (old papers new stamp)
The Ribbon Reel: #17 Shabby Holiday Winter

Supplies used:
snowflake: Dollar Store
pattern paper: My Mind's Eye Holly Jolly
stamp: PSA Snowflake
fiber: Webster's Pages, DMC floss, and Stampin Up silver cord
button: craft supply
other: Recollections extra large scallop punch, Stampin Up 2 inch scallop punch, Marvy circle punch

DOUBLE Valentine

I am going there today!  I broke free from the Christmas holiday to make a cute Valentine card because I was itching to use these fun new Love Me papers from My Mind's Eye.  I am such a sucker for all their collections.  I seem unable to say no.
I created this card for today's Paper Playtime challenge #63 which is anything with a stamped sentiment.  Easy peasy huh? So get your cards in everyone because we want to see them and one lucky winner is going to receive A MYSTERY PACKAGE from THE SCRAPBOOKING QUEEN.  I know she is going to give out something unbelievable!

Onto my card:

I am calling this my DOUBLE Valentine because it has two chipboard hearts on it as the focal point.  I added a little rick rack felt trim with clear rhinestones for a little something.  The stickpin is tied with a vintage trim from my France antiquing trip this summer and a red rhinestone for color.  I stamped the word Valentine with a Sepia pad using a CTMH stamp.  Rounded corners were added for a little softness.

It was easy to pull it together and I hope you enjoy!  Come and join us in the challenge and see what the other designers are creating! 

Supplies used:

cardstock/base: The Paper Studio white and Bazzill blue

pattern paper: MME Love Me Hearts Paper, Banners Paper

trim: vintage cream, red felt rick rack from craft supply

rhinestones: Queen & Co. clear and red

chipboard: large glittered heart Melissa France, small red heart

pin: craft supply

ink: Sepia

stamp: Close to My Heart "Say It In Style"

other: Creative Memories corner rounder

Winner of Thankful Giveaway!

Wow!  I am completely humbled by the amount of kind comments and people that joined via Mr. Linky.  Thank you very much for taking the time.  I will say I totally made this more work for myself than I imagined because I had two ways to enter: Mr. Linky and the comments section.  I wanted to be sure everyone got the amount of entries they deserved so  the easiest way to do it was writing names from both areas  on a piece of paper which I then cut and folded  to draw a name from a big old basket.   Whew.  But without further adieu.  The winner is....

Margie Visnick

Please email me your mailing address so I can get your prize right out to you!

Thank you to everyone that entered!

Your Phone's Ringing!

Does your phone ring too much or too little?  Funny how you wish for it to ring less and then when it does it makes you a little sad.  I currently have 7 messages waiting to be heard so I am posting this card really quick to take care of them.

I have to be honest and say I was getting tired of holiday cards.  Honestly, I have made so many and also mailed out a bunch so I needed to move on and try a typical everyday scenario.  I will be back with some altered projects I made for Christmas to share soon.  I had to break up the consistency because I am like that.

Today's retro phone card is filled with some new papers I purchased recently.  The shame!  I was pretty determined to use most of the of the bag but at this rate, not going to happen until 2013.  In fact, I think I am going to give my scrap bag away because I can't remember what collection the papers are from any longer. 

So this card uses the new Head Over Heels paper from lily bee design.  What a cute line!  It was created Julia Stainton.  I have long admired her work and love that she is creating beautiful paper lines.  I used lots of punches on this card.  I was also happy to use my new Copic in warm grey.  I bought the W7.  I used stone grey twine that I curled to make the cord on the phone.  It needed a little more so I added the black pearl for the center of the phone dial.  I remember using these types of phones very well.  My ex MIL was using her dial phone into this decade because she did not like the push button.  She would get frustrated when the answering machine came on and would instruct her to press one to leave a message because she couldn't.  Bless her soul! Funny how things have changed.     :-) 

Challenges I would like to enter my card into:

Card Patterns: # 145 Card Sketch

Crafty Catz: #112 Anything Goes

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge: #50 Bingo (Buttons, Die cuts/punches, Pearls)

Ribbon Carousel Challenge: #33 Tangled Twine

The Crafty Pad: #151 Send Someone a Smile

The Cutie Pie Challenge: #7 Use a Sentiment

Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenge: #96 Anything but Christmas

Supplies used:

cardstock/base: The Paper Studio

pattern paper: lily bee design Head Over Heels Smitten

image: Bow's and  Berries retro phone

stamp: CTMH Say It In Style

iink: Hero Arts black

twine: The Twinery stone grey

pearl: Kaiser Craft black

button: Making Memories

craft: ribbon

punches: Marvy, EK Success, and Fiskars

markers: Copics

Thank you for stopping by!

Me again! With a big wish!

Two posts in one day means I have been productive!  I am back really quick to share a card I created with A Day For Daisies image.  I love this mermaid freebie Tammy is offering this week.  Quick!  Run and grab it before it's gone! 

I used the color challenge found here.  I wanted to be able to mail my card using a standard postage stamp so I kept the embellishments down.  I used lots of paper scraps for this card which always makes me happy because I need that bag to be smaller so I can buy more paper.  :-) 

Supplies for card:

cardstock/base: The Paper Studio

pattern paper: Fancy Pants Designs and Basic Grey

image: A Day For Daisies freebie

sentiment: SP & Company Bold Sentiments

ink: Hero Arts black

twine: Martha Stewart

rhinestones: Michael's

Thanks for stopping by!