Framed Thank You

This next Thank You Card is part of a Heidi Swapp design paper. I took my favorte element on the page and used it the main focus on the card.

This stripey grey and the off white/ivory/gold shiny ribbon and Rhinestones seem to be the trend lately, unusual color combinations. I also used a Basic Grey Rub On for the Thank You, relatvely simple but kinda elegant.

Let's see what the next card has to offer..

Fully Thank{Full} Card

Thought this monthe I would do a series of just Thank You cards. I had fallen in love with Basic Grey's Mellow Collection, with the colors, images, design, everything. So when I had some pieces left over I decided to make a great card.

I had just enough cardstock to do a long side fold card, I also purchased the coordinating die cuts, so I punched out the flowers on the sheet. Layering the flowers and popping a brad in the middle, I misted them with water and started squeezing and pushing the petals into place, the out come is this great 3D flower on the front.

In my stash was some random Creatve Memories stickers and there I found the perfect sentiment. I finished the card front with some cute amber jewels highlighting the great images in the paper.

Lately, for me, a card is not complete without some paper on the inside too. It uses up the extra pieces I would have normally thrown away and it looks pretty.

A success I think, I just wish I had more of that paper...

Mojo Monday Challenge #237

Up for the next challenge was Mojo Monday, and thier latest sketch. A cute little sketch and everyone one loved it there are lots of entries. I was having a challenge figuring out what to do with 4, not 3, jumpy circles? I could do flowers, but most of the ladies did those, I could do the actual circle, too cliche, or I could do butterflies? To many ideas, I ended up thinking about it for a day and realized that what hangs not at the same level are lanterns, the are never just in a straight line, so with some asian inspiration I dug out my Pagoda cricut cartridge.

There are awesome lanterns, dolls, fish lanterns, pandas, anything with an asian theme you can think of on this cartridge and other than this card I have used it once. It was a great layout that I will probably post another day but hopefully soon we will visit China or Japan and that cartridge will be smoking that day! :)

It is also full of Kanji characters, each page has a different word, and even though there is no birthday...celebrate is a great way to say happy birthday anyway, or anything else for that matter.

It was looking pretty plain with just the paper so I decided to add some jewels, maybe it kinda looks like fireworks, too much Kung Fu Panda for me, and sprinkled them around.

Last but not least, I looked at the sketch again and saw that it needed a label or ribbon down near the bottom, but I wasn't going to put any words on the front, so I was thinking I needed a fan, but where would I find that? So next idea, I had some wider red grosgrain ribbon and ended up folding that across the card for an awesome pop of color.

All in all I thought it turned out pretty nice, even with all the thinking going on. Want to play the next card challenge? On Mondays of course, see the next sketch -->HERE

Provincale Fair Flair

Just a quick little post about this card, I finally made a layout and a card using the Provincale Fair paper line from Tinkering Ink. I have been holding on to this paper for about 3 years and was not sure what I was going to do with it. It ended up making the most beautiful layout and I was amazed by this little card. I am totally in love with the line drawn flower and painstakingly cut as many as I could out of one of the sheets. Then another paper had this great huge swirl across it, which made me fall even harder. So with the last cut flower and a small piece of patterned paper I created, what I think, is a beautiful card. Just pretty enough for any deserving person.

Even though it didn't really need it, I added some bling to my card, I had some dark blue Gemstones from Close to my Heart and sprinkled this card with them.

Then I added a great stamped 'Happy Birthday' in Outdoor Denim courtesy of Close to my heart and added some subtle touches like die cut flourish from the Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge. I am falling again for this card and am happy that Plan A is taking effect, to use up my current stock of scrapbook supplies before I go home to Canada...I am well on my way!

Summer Idea Book Kick Off

So here I am writing about my Summer Idea Book Kick Off Party before it has even started, I guess I am hoping for big things. This cute monocromatic tag is the Make n Take for the day, 90% Close to my Heart products*. I choose Tulip as my Exclusive color for this tag and used Candy Apple Red Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels* and a Dimensional Elements Border (chipboard) as a mask which gives us the cool swirl in the background. Using Tulip Ink, I stamped the May Stamp of the Month and cut out the Thank You, then adhered it to the tag with 3D foam tape. I also added the Just Blooms Paper Flower and Butterfly in Tulip. Threaded White Daisy Organdy Ribbon thru the hole and tied with Tulip Embroidery Floss. To finish it off I used our Clear Sparkles and made it shine. This whole project takes 10 minutes to make and shows like you spent hours slaving over it! I hope you try this Close to my Heart project and send it to someone you are thankful for!

To Carry or to Capture?

For my next project as Guest Designer for Creative Cuts & More, I decided to take the basic Gable-Tall Box in Acetate and fashion it into a Phot Box. What better way to capture my daughter's boundless energy than by encasing it into this box. I wanted to create something with depth, color and fun techniques. This has eye-catching qualities and some great products helped that along. Of course we have the Gable-Tall Box in Acetate, Basic Grey Paper and Killer Red Tacky Tape from Creative Cuts & More. Rhinestones, Stamps, Inks and Ribbons are all Close to my Heart. I think this photo box is darling and only wish I would have found a way to make it rotate!

BLOG HOP & August Guest Designer

Welcome everybody, this is my first Blog Hop! Also a great 'Thank You' to Creative Cuts and More and Die Cut Diva for letting me be the August Guest Designer of the month!!! I was really excited to play with all the great products and Die cuts that Creative Cuts and More has to offer, not to mention great ideas on the website. If you just got here and would like to do the blog hop, hop on over to Die Cut Diva which is the start of today's ACETATE blog hop and if you start there, there is a 15% coupon code for anyone who visits Die Cut Diva's blog. Weren't Chrissy's designs awesome? But of course I also have some great ideas for you too...




This is a Snow Pyramid, I modeled it to be like a 'Snow Globe'. Great for and ornament or a cute gift. I decided on the Acetate Pyramid Die Cut. Held the pyramid together with CC&M Killer Red Tacky Tape. I stamped the outside with Staz-on ink and stamps from Close to my Heart and then pumped up the words with Stickles and added Pink Rhinestones. If you look really close you can see an acetate 3-D snowflake inside the pyramid. I think it looks darling and would love to decorate my whole Christmas tree with these ornaments.





This great layout is about my Daughter and her Aunt...on a Swing. I had ordered a bunch of Acetate Flower die cuts and A la Mode Paper by Basic Grey from Creative Cuts and More, the flowers came in three different sizes and that was perfect for this pretty layout. I then used Staz-on ink and Close to my Heart Stamps to fill in the flowers. With a rhinestone in the middle and Acetate letter I had on hand, this layout turned out perfectly.
I love this blog hop with great ideas on it and awesome quaility die cuts. Note there is a giveaway of a brand new Sealife 8x8 album kit on the Die Cut Diva blog and there are FOUR ways to win! Also on the Die Cut Diva site is a sneak peek of the new All Occasions Card Kit, which features great cards in Autumn Colors and sentiments for occasions like Thank You's, Birthdays, Thinking of You's... Thanks for coming to see my blog and if you like what you see and are inspired I love comments and followers!
If you are continuing on with the blog hop your next stop is Jen's Blog with some more great ideas
As the Guest Designer for Creative Cuts and More, I have a bunch of great ideas yet to come this month, so keep checking back for more great ideas.

DT Submission - Pile it On

These projects were made for a new challenge site called Pile it on! A fantastic idea that takes other challenge sites and incorporates thier challenges in with other challenge blogs. For example; The Animal Train is a challenge from Whimsical Scraps and Bugs, they are challenging us to use animals this time, but Pile it on asks us to also use 4 buttons or more. Get it? New Addition is a layout I made from a sketch I got off 2sketches4U, and Pile it On wants us to also use Purple. Makes more sense. Thank You Card was a sketch I used from Color Chef and Pile it On's challenge was a Non-stamped Setiment...thus the Rub ons! I think they all worked out really well and being told what my layout kinda had to look like really sped up my creative process! I am hoping for the best, I hope I used thier link properly! Hope to hear good news!

Capture These Sketches Team Search

This Layout is based on the Sketch provided by Capture these Sketches.

This a sketch I drew to jump my creativity,

This is the layout based on the sketch above and one of my favorite at the moment, it captures one of my daughters looks perfect...I think it worked out great.

All of the above was made for Let's Capture our Memories , for their first Design Team.
I am applying and it seems like a really great sketch challenge site and online store. I know it is going to be good because I recognize a lot of thier followers as being some really talented designers from other design teams. I have not yet been picked for a sketch challenge site and would love to opportunity to design some great layouts and push my scrapbook boundaries.

I hope everyone gets a chance to look at this up and coming site, I got a chance to look around and it already has a hopping Gallery and great Forum. If you think I should get choosen to be on the Capture these Sketches design team, I would love to hear from you, leave a comment and some encouragment! Finger Crossed!

It's all about Class

This was a class I did last night. Only Jessica showed up last night, but we had a great time playing with all the Close to my Heart papers, stamps and rub-ons. Ended up making a couple of really cool frames, the top 2 are mine but the 'Beachy' one is Jessica's. This is a super easy frame and with all the paper and embellishments on them they really *Pop*! I am hoping to make some more soon and possibly sell them at the county fair. Also if you are interested in taking one of my classes, and are in the Denver Metro area, you can check out my class schedule here. Looking forward to creating some more today.

All in a day's work.

Just wanted to show you all the cute little things I made today at the crop. I made this cute little Miss You card that I am going to be giving away today to our friends the Ratcliff's who are moving from Denver back to Calgary. This was made using my Cricut.

This adorable little purse is filled with chocolates for the girls...something cute they can play with. I think they will have fun with it! Also made using my Cricut.

And here we have some weird looking bottles for the bathroom that I had just bought. They looked so boring before I felt like I had to jazz them up a bit. All the colors match the fabulous wallpaper I have in my bathroom. Believe me the bathroom needs a bit of something cute! Hope you like them .

My Hubby is gone

So my DH has gone on a business trip for about 11 days. This is day 2 and I have already gotten 6 layouts done. Didn't know that he took up more time than my daughter. It has been good as I have been getting alot of my deadlines done, even ahead of schedule. This lovely picture which I submitted for the first GCD Studios desgin team, you can pick up a paper pack at Michael's, they include die-cuts, glitter letters and lots of great paper. I hope you like the little dragonflies I made out of flowers and rhinestones. Just the right touch. Hopefully I will have some good news for you soon. Wish me luck!

Look at me!

I have been doing a lot of 'out6side the box' thinking. This layout was an entry for a Guest Designer Contest, based off a sketch. I, of course, love the picture and the paper is all Heidi Swapp. I am currently trying to push myself to try new scrapbooking methods and get a bit more funky, that seems to be what people like. So did I achieve it? Who knows. I thought this layout turned out really great and the paper did a lot of the work for me. Next time I hopefully with push the creative lines even more!