Valentine Sweater

New challenge theme is up and running at

Back To Basics and Beyond.

It's a cute theme and pretty easy too...

A Shaped Card...no squares or rectangles though.

I knew right away what shape I had in mind.

The Cutting Cafe

came out with the cutest 'ugly sweater shaped card' cut file in early December

and it is so easy to use.

I did use my Cricut to cut mine

(using my Cricut more is another of my 'creative goals' this year)

but it also comes with a PDF file.

I made mine into a 'Valentine' sweater...

I have plans for an Easter sweater later on!

Here is a side view of it.

I added a glittery heart and banner from my stash.

Make sure to visit at Back To Basics and Beyond to see all
the fun~pretty and various shaped cards to inspire you!!

Entering the following challenges:

Watercolor Wednesdays ... All About Occasions

Word Art Wednesday .... ATG

The Proposal

This is my post on the Tutti Designs blog today.

Hi, Diane with you today.
It seems like a lot of marriage proposals are made on Valentines Day
which will be here before you know it.
I have the perfect die for you to create a card to celebrate just such an occasion!
The die is 'Proposal'.

The first card was very easy by using a beautiful background paper,
and a die cut leaf and purchased Rose.
The sentiment was computer generated.

The second card is mostly black and white, (sorry the overlay distorts the colors slightly).

I also used the Tutti Designs Nesting Stitched Hearts for this one

and cut a tiny glitter heart for her dress.

The third card uses the gorgeous Tutti Designs Rose Frame and 
Tutti Designs Celebrate Word Set.
I paper pieced the dress and his tux.

Celebrate Word Set

Proposal

Stitched Nesting Hearts

Rose Frame

Make sure to visit the Tutti Designs Store (link below)

for LOTS more fabulous dies!!

Come back tomorrow for lots more Tutti Designs inspiration!

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Tutti Designs Store

Tutti Designs Pinterest

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Tutti Designs Blog

Thank you for visiting with me today!

Thinking of You

Do you have New Year's Resolutions?

Not me, I call them New Year's Goals....

goals to achieve some things in my creating world....

One is to find some fun challenges and challenge 'myself'.

Today I did just that with a brand new challenge I found.

It is CAS Stencil challenge...

something very different and unique....

something to make me use my stencils....

I am hoping to join in each month....

being monthly I should be able to...how FUN!

So here is my card.

The stencil I used is from Dreamweavers (I think Stampendous owns them now?)

I thought it might be a bit tricky using the inks since it is quite small...

it was...until I used the Nuvo sponges that have that tiny little tip on them

allowing me to get in tiny spaces.

I used oxide inks 

worn lipstick~picked raspberry~cracked pistachio~spiced marmalade

The sentiment is from SU.

I am now curious as to what next months stencil challenge will be,

but I am ready for it as I seem to have a major amount of stencil products!!

I hope to see you join in the fun, too!!

'B' Is For Berries

Hello All, I have a Christmas card to share today,

Christmas you say, well yes I do...

I have a few I never shared before I ran out of time

PLUS

the fact I want to start my Holiday cards now

to save me much stress when the jolly old season comes around again...

seems time flies by and it will be here once again before we know it.

But, what really inspired me was the ABC Christmas challenge.

I have to say this card is much prettier IRL as they say.

It was created with a recycled card front that I die cut a 

Tutti Designs Holy Angel die.

I used a gold ink to stamp the sentiment.

For some reason I had a hard time getting a good photo of it.

Entering in the following challenges:

ABC Christmas .... B is for Berries

Happy Sweet Birthday #3 At Double D

We are celebrating our 3rd year at
Double D Challenges
and our theme is
'It's On The Menu'!!

We have a fun and fabulous mood board below to get you inspired!!

All you need to do is create anything that you would find on a menu....
does it make you hungry...YUM!!

Sometimes when I create these boards, the craziness kicks in
and I purchase a die/stamp just for that specific board!
That is what I did for this challenge!

I used a fun die from Sue Wilson Ice Cream Sundae.

I cut three of the 'ice cream'  in Neapolitan 'flavors'.

I added Stickles for the fudge topping. 

The sprinkles paper is from American Crafts and the sentiment from Hero Arts.

The spoon was cut from a metallic paper.

Make sure and visit Double D Challenges to see

all the 'yummy' goodness the DT has created

AND

because this is our 3rd year to celebrate,

there are LOTS of fun prizes to be had...good luck!!

I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to to all our

Design Teams for all the work you do

and for all the 'friendships' we have become!!

Entering the following challenges:

Scrapyland .... ATG

Simon Says Wednesday .... Something New (dies)

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper

Inspire.Create. ....Party

Word Art Wednesday .... ATG

Birthday Cards

This is my post on the Tutti Designs blog today.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Hi, Diane with you on this 1st day of January.

Wow, hard to believe we are already staring another year.

I thought we would celebrate a little by having a cake....

and a Stained Glass Cake at that!!

I have three of them to share with you today and first up is one

that I added to a sticky back paper then coated with glitter.

It was then colored with Copics.

I mounted it onto a Tutti Designs Nesting Stitched Rectangle.

The second card was done with coloring on the backside of vellum,

I used Ken Oliver Stick It on all these die cuts,

making it easy to adhere on the vellum, then color.

The third card was using the Ken Oliver powders, 

then once again I used the Stick It before I die cut it.

If you are not familiar with this, 

you simply place it on the back side of your card stock

then die cut as normal.

It gives a stickiness to the back of the die cut...pretty neat and easy!

Make sure to visit the Tutti Designs Store (link below)

for LOTS more fabulous dies!!

Come back tomorrow for lots more Tutti Designs inspiration!

and here are some Tutti Designs quick links:

Tutti Designs Store

Tutti Designs Pinterest

Tutti Designs Facebook

Tutti Designs Blog

Thank you for visiting with me today!

Party Time

Happy New Year!!!

Today on the Dies R Us Challenge blog
the theme is Anything Goes!
What could be a better theme for the first day of a new year!!

I stayed within a 'party' theme and choose a 
Sue Wilson Shadow Box Celebration  die.

This is a bit of a 'different' die as it does not cut the outer edge
but does cut out every inside piece
allowing you to add an entire background like I did or you can add a different
color paper behind each square/rectangle.
The die measures 5" square making it easy
to figure out your card size, I went with a 5 1/2" square card.

All the pieces you see (including the sentiment May Your Day Sparkle)
with the exception of the letters for the word 'party'
are part of this die set, and there are many more included!

For the word party, I used 

Cheapo Dies Font Unicorn.
I thought the 'unicorn' letters just shouted PARTY lol!!

I even finished the inside

Kind of fun bright and cheerful!!

Make sure and visit the Dies R Us Challenge blog

to see all the beautiful variety of cards...join in with us!!

Entering the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday .... ATG