Adventures

Happy Thursday!!
I was in town yesterday and our local floral shop had a sign out
that said only 41 days until Spring
(make that 40 today)
but I wish someone would tell Michigan that
as we can have a hard frost right up to Memorial Day in May.
Our weather starting tonight is to get 10 to 14" of wet, heavy snow
and another 5 to 6 on Saturday.
You know where I will be, right here!!

I have a few FREE days and thought fun it would be to

pick a fun challenge to create with and enter.

For today I chose Freshly Made Sketches

I LOVE this simple sketch.

It gave me an opportunity to use up a bit of my mountain of scrap papers,

plus a cute little piece of ephemera from my drawer of 'everything' but the kitchen sink lol!!

The little sentiment/flower piece is from Pebbles.
I had to contain myself not to add a few sequins
to keep it ready to mail!
I think this card would be great for someone
just getting engaged,
as marriage sure is an 'adventure' isn't it?

Also entering it in the following challenges:
The Card Concept .... Old Fashioned Love
(I did the CAS style)

Word Art Wednesday ....ATG
Watercooler Wednesday .... Feminine ATG

Sequins~Sequins~Sequins

First Wednesday of the month means first
Double D Challenge of the month of February!!

We have an easy and fun theme once again to work with
and it is
SEQUINS!

Look at the fun inspiration board below just to get you inspired!

My first thought was to do a flamingo card,
then I just couldn't resist that adorable mitten
and since we are smack IN winter, I decided it would be perfect!

What's even more perfect is I used a cut file from The Cutting Cafe called
Mitten Shaped Card.
I cut it on my Cricut making it so simple.
Once cut, I stitched around the mitten part
then added Sparkle N Sprinkle Brushable Glue to the cuff
and sprinkled with Sparkle N Soft Twinkling Clouds flocking.
I added a shiny silver ribbon/bow to that.

In my ever growing stash I found a little canvas heart on a tiny clothespin,
covered the heart with Nuvo Glue Pen Large,
then Sparkle N Sprinkle Reflection glitter.
This is probably my most favorite silver glitter of all...
it is so fine!! 

And of course the 'finale' are the SEQUINS...many silver ones!

Now you HAVE to pop on over to the
Double D challenge blog and see all the gorgeous creations the
Design Teams have...you will be as usual WOWED!!!!

Entering the following challenges:
Creates and Makes .... ATG (m)
Get Creative .... Ribbon/Washi (m)
Craft-Dee Bowz ...ATG with handmade bow

Hugs & Kisses

Fun time at The Cutting Cafe this week,

we are all to use a Valentine 'word' cut file

and I chose this XOXO word shaped card.

I just love how it turned out,

love the colors, love the papers, too!

I cut the base of the card with a red card stock.A white card stock 

was stacked on that.

Next came the fun part, cutting each letter,

I used a just purchased paper from Authentique 'Lovestruck'.

Once the letters were adhered I added a pretty ribbon bow

and a heart, sentiment and arrow, ALL part of the XOXO set!!

Make sure later in the day on the 7th you stop by 

The Cutting Cafe blog to see ALL the Valentine Word cards in one place

by the design team...it's a post you won't want to miss!!

Leave a comment there and you could win 3 cut files of your choice!

entering the following challenges:
Stinkin' Inkers .... Love Is In The Air
Try It On Tuesday .... Love Is In The Air
Unicorn Challenge....Love/Valentines
Simon Says Stamp Monday .... Love Is In The Air

Best Bud

Hi all, did you have a fabulous weekend?
Mine was super busy but now the hubby went back to work
so I am hoping to get caught up again.
I just can't seem to shake this sore throat/cough
I have had for 4 weeks now, even after 10 days of antibiotics!
so I am kind of ignoring it for now and moving on!

Today I have a Valentine card (yes, it is getting that time again)
using a favorite embossing folder,
one that I have put somewhere and have yet to find it again!

The embossing folder is an Elizabeth Designs one.

The die is from Tutti Designs Elegant Love Bird.

I also used  Nesting Stitched Banners.

The sentiment is from an older Flourish's set.

Have a great day all!!

Hello Foxy

This is my post on Sparkle N Sprinkle today.

Products:

  Hello Foxy 882

Flocking Autumn Sparkle

Coffee Embossing Powder

  Sakura Glue Pen 

Craft Perfect Embossed Paper Mermaid Trail

Tonic 5” Mini Scissors 

Versamark 

Clear Embossable Acetate 

Nuvo Embellishment Mouse Fresh Copper

Tim Holtz Stamp Platform

Misc:  Square Die Cuts

Tiny Heart Punch

Cord

Bark Embossing Folder

Sprinkles for shaker

Hello, Diane with you today with a cute little shaker card

perfect for Valentines or anytime using the newly released stamp set

Hello Foxy!

I wanted to show you how handy the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform can be.

As you can see, I stamped the image but didn't capture the entire thing.

So I easily inked back up and stamped a couple more times until

it was perfectly and completely stamped....this is the best 'tool' ever!!

For this card I used just the sitting fox.

I applied Sakura Quicky glue pen to the fox after I had colored him with Copics

I added a bit of glue at a time, then used 

Sparkle N Soft Autumn Sparkle flocking, pressing down slightly.

I wanted a really good coverage, which is why I did a little at a time.

Isn't he pretty and all soft and glittery!

Once he was completely dry I fussy cut him out with Tonic 5" Mini Scissors.

I used a bark embossing folder and a square die to cut out the shaker shape.

I rubbed on Nuvo Mousse Embellishment Fresh Copper directly on the embossed folder.

I cute a slightly bigger piece (then the cutout square) of Clear Embossable Acetate

for the 'window' of the shaker.  Foam was then added to the back of the acetate and I added a few little heart sprinkles, then added a back paper to cover.

I heat embossed the sentiment on a stitched square die cut using 

Versamark and Coffee embossing powder.

For the back paper of the card I used a new and beautiful 

Craft Perfect Embossed Paper Mermaid Trail.

I actually 'flipped this paper upside down as it then resembled little hearts.

The same paper was used to punch a tiny heart to add to the sentiment.

I added a tiny pink cord to 'tie it' all together!

Thank you for visiting with me today!

XOXO

I have a quick card to post today

I made with 2 dies and a heart punch!

I used one of the nesting cross stitch rectangle dies from Tutti Designs

and a cute as can be Fancy Hearted Cat die

also from Tutti Designs.

I simply stamped a little heart stamp I had and then used a little heart punch.

Couldn't get any easier then this.

I have two more cards using this die I will show later in the month!

Hope you all are having a great Saturday,

I am trying to finish up some Feb DT things today!

Entering the following challenges:

Mod Squad .... Valentine/Love/Red

A Gem of a Challenge .... Have A Heart

Just Us Girls .... Love

For The One I Love

Happy February 1st!

This is one time of the year I love to see time fly

and the end of January and the brutal weather we had!

February brings us hearts and love (chocolate too)!

It also brings us the new challenge theme at

Dies R Us

which just happens to be

'For The One I love'..

I started my card with one of my favorite embossing folders

'Falling Hearts'.

I embossed it on one of two of mylast sheets of pink pirquette card stock...

how I will miss that gorgeous paper!

The dies I used are:

Precious Marieke Flower Border

Tutti Designs Word Set Love

Cheery Lynn Designs Lattice Heart & Vines.

All were cut in white with the exception of

the red metallic 'shadow' I put under the word LOVE!

I added a few pearls as well.

Take a peek at the Dies R Us challenge blog

and see all the pretty creations by the DT.

Join in with us too for a chance to win a prize and/or a badge!

Entering the following challenges:
Aud Sentiments .... Valentine/Love sentiments
Cardz For Gals .... Think Pink
Craft Rocket .... Love (m)
Moving Along With The Times .... Valentine/Love