{live your dream}

Hello friends!! Hope everyone here in the USA had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  We did... but now it is time to get the Christmas tree up and decorated!   Have a card to share that has absolutely nothing to do with any holiday!  Had a bit of time the other day and so I played with some new stamps from Precious Remembrance Shop and the colors from ColourQ.

For my card I combined two Precious Remembrance Shop sets:  Positive Thoughts and DIY.  Both sets are full of fun trendy images that are easy to collage on your project.   Even though the design is pretty simple and one I tend to use fairly frequently I did spend the time stamping all the images on some scrap paper to make sure I liked the combination of images and colors.   A few sequins were added just to give the design a bit more interest.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Precious Remembrance Shop; Inks:  Stampin Up! Kiwi Kiss; Tempting Turquoise & Early Espresso, Memento Tangelo

CCC #72

Hello friends!!  We have made it back around to Tuesday and that means time for a brand new cue word!  Loved all the clever and beautiful entries that showed up in last week's gallery!  I know that there will be tons of equally clever and beautiful entries to found for this week's word:  shop.  Joining us this week in the guest designing spot is the super talented, Lisa!  And we have a wonderful sponsor, too!  All the details can be found here.

Coming up with an idea for this week's challenge was well... challenging.  I was going to go with the obvious and as I was looking for the stamp set that I was going to use I came across a stamp set from The Alley Way stamps that my sweet friend, Lisa, gave me recently called Mustache Mania.  When I looked at it I realized that it was absolutely the perfect set for the challenge.  Based on my card I think you can see where I'm going with the cue word, lol!   I stamped the barber shop pole three times and colored portions of it with Spectrum Noir markers.  The mustache was stamped, trimmed out and adhered over the barber shop poles with foam dimensionals.   Finished off with the sentiment stamped in black.  

A big thank you to Lisa for giving me such a fun set!!  Now... I cannot wait to see where this week's cue word "shop: takes you!  In the meantime make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team: Melissa, Judy, Meghan, Ardyth, Gillian, Maureen, Kimberly, Jen , Tracey and guest designer, Lisa!

Supplies:  Cardstock: PTI white; SU! Grey; Stamps:  TAWS Mustache Mania; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black & London Fog; Spectrum Noir makers

hello... friend

Hello everyone!!  Enjoying a nice sunny, but cold Sunday!!  Have a little card to share that I made using the current layout from CAS(E) this Sketch, as well as the colors from the brand new Reverse Confetti color challenge.   Have to say that I was pretty darn excited to see that the gals over at CTS picked my little camper card as a CTS favorite!!  Thanks ever so much ladies!! 

 

The RC color combo is a fairly bold one of navy blue, orange and grey.  For my card I combined two RC sets:  Peacock Pretties and Forever Fall.  I think I stayed fairly true to the idea of the sketch, but did go a little outside the box with my image choices.  I started by stamping the woodgrain image from Forever Fall in SU!'s Smoky Slate on my cardstock.  I then layered on the peacock feather from Peacock Pretties in SU!'s Midnight Muse.  The heart from Forever Fall was stamped with orange and then the sentiment from Peacock Pretties was added using black ink.  To finish off my super clean design I added a grey, orange and navy My Mind's Eye enamel dots.  I did do a test run of my layout to make sure that I really like how the images worked together (and to make sure that they did work together, lol!). 

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Reverse Confetti; Inks: Stampin Up!; Enamel Dots:  My Minds Eye

Christmas... Waltzingmouse Style!

{for my CardMaker blog hop post, click here}

Hello friends!!  It has gotten very chilly here in my part of the world... winter is on its way for sure!!  It has been very frosty in the mornings and my little guy has enjoyed smashing the ice on frozen muddle puddles and walking on the grass crisp with frost as we walk to school.  Playing along with this month's WMS Pajama Party and I have two projects to share with you.  First up is a card that I made for the second challenge "Pick a card, any card so long as it is Christmas".

For this card I used a pretty Christmasy color combo of dark green, dark red and kraft.  The layout is based on the current Mojo Monday sketch.   I used the two WMS Christmas sets that I own:  Nutcracker Sweet and Vintage Christmas Labels.  I stamped the tag from Vintage Christmas Labels in SU!'s Cherry Cobbler, trimmed out and stamped with the sentiment.  I used to own the Spellbinders labels dies that matched this stamp, but they have disappeared!   The tree from Nutcracker Sweet was stamped using Always Artichoke ink and trimmed out, as well.  The red cardstock piece was embossed with a PTI chevron coverplate.  After layering everything up I added some bling to the tree and a bit of ribbon and twine to the tag. 

The second project is for the third challenge, Tag you're it!  I don't often make tags, but decided to give go since I really wanted to use one of the nutcracker images from Nutcracker Sweet.  I went with an aqua/grey/white color combo for this one.  I used some SU! dp called Winter Frost.  A white cardstock tag was die cut using the Penny Black Tag It die.  A second tag was die cut from the patterned paper and adhered to the white tag.  I die cut a partial tag from aqua cardstock and adhered it to the tag.  The nutcracker was stamped in grey, trimmed out and popped up on the tag.  The sentiments were added using black ink.   I added a scattering of sequins.  Not sure I really like the "wreath" that the nutcracker is holding, but it is what it is...

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Supplies:  Card:  Cardstock:  kraft, red and dark green; Stamps:  WMS; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento; Ribbon:  Stampin Up!; Twine:  May Arts; Rhinestones:  Stampin Up!

Tag:  Cardstock:  white & aqua; Patterned Paper:  Stampin Up!; Stamps:  WMS; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento; Ribbon:  PTI; Bakers Twine:  The Twinery

CardMaker/We R Memory Keepers Blog Hop!!

Hello friends!!  Happy Friday! Today myself and my CardMaker blog teamies have fun projects to share with you.  If you got here from the blog of my teammate, Michelle, then you are on the right track.  If you didn't and you want to see all the projects, then start from the beginning at the CardMaker blog.  Below is my finished project.  I have also included a few photos of the tool and my little box before I completed it.

We all know that We R Memory Keepers is at the forefront of innovative paper crafting products and that not too long ago they debuted their new punch board envelope maker.  Well, they have now added to that line with the Punch Board Pillow Box, Candy Box, Gift Bag and Gift Box and the CardMaker blog team each received one of these fantastic little tools to work with!  I received the Punch Board Pillow Box tool and first let me say that this tool is so incredibly easy to use.   You will be making wonderful pillow boxes in various sizes in no time flat.  When I received my tool I was pleasantly surprised to see that it is relatively small measuring a compact 5 1/4 x 7 inches in size.  I love that because storing it will be super easy.  I also like that they include a scoring tool that is cleverly stored inside the tool!!   When making the pillow box you simply cut your cardstock or patterned paper 6" wide and then up to 12" long.  The tool has easy to follow instructions printed on the tool.    If you can punch, score and fold, then you can make fun little boxes using this tool. 
I started my little box my cutting my cardstock 6" x 6" and then began punching and scoring my cardstock piece.  I made a few test pillow boxes and determined that you will want to use a fairly aggressive adhesive like Scor-Tape when adhering the box together.  Once completely punched out I assembled the box and added the embellishments.   I cut a piece of burlap to fit round the middle and then secured the burlap with some pale blue silk ribbon.  The leaves and acorn are from the Stampin Up! set Wonderfall and were stamped on the coordinated die cut pieces using More Mustard & Pumpkin Pie inks.  After adhering all the pieces to the box I finished things off with a little bow tied with some cream twine.


I had so much fun making this little package and definitely want to get the other punch boards in the near future.  Your next stop is Stacey's blog.  You can also check out all the punch boards on the We R website here.  I used the color combo from this week's ColourQ and so I will be popping my little pillow project into that challenge.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  SU! Crumb Cake; PTI Vintage Cream; Tool:  We R Memory Keepers Punch Board Pillow Box tool; Stamps & Die:  Stampin Up!; Inks:  Stampin Up!; Ribbon & Twine:  May Arts; burlap:  PaperTrey Ink

a quick post...

Hello friends!!  A quick post today to let you know about a couple of things.  First I have a card that I made using some of my left over scraps up over at the CardMaker blog today.  You can check it out here.

Second Penny Black is playing along with Designed to Color and I made the following card (you can also see it on the Penny Black blog, here):

To make the card I started by stamping and coloring the PB Amaryllis image using Copic markers.  The flower image was stamped again, colored with Copics and then trimmed out.  After all the coloring was done I over stamped the image with the Penny Black background stamp Christmas Story using Pumice Stone and then adhered the flower with foam dimensionals.  The image was then inked with Old Paper distress ink.  After mounting the piece on the card front a small tag was stamped with the word "Noel" (from the clear set "in a pear tree"), inked with Old Paper, adhered to the image and a red twine bow was added.   If you want to play along with the Designed to Color challenge click here.

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Supplies:  Cardstock: PTI Rustic White; Stamps:  Penny Black, Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Pumice Stone & Old Paper; Twine:  May Arts red; Tag die:  PTI tiny tags; Copic Markers