Art Nouveau - Sympathy Card

Please join us this week for another Krafty Girls challenge!  This time it's all about getting in shape...as far as card bases go that is :) Just link up your shaped card for this week.  Make sure to visit the DT for some inspiration! 

I'm having lots of fun with this Art Nouveau cartridge!  I was looking through my stash of cards and realized I need sympathy cards.  I have the most difficult time thinking of sympathy card designs but this one came to me pretty quickly and I love how it turned out!

 

Here is a side view.

 I also added lots of pop dots for dimension.

I was so proud of my Liquid Pearl work.  I haven't worked with LPs in over a year so I was worried I was going to mess up, but all the little pearls look pretty even.

 

Recipe:

Size: 6 inches across

Carts: Art Philosophy and Art Nouveau

Paper: The Paper Studio, script paper from DCWV in the Bella Armoire stack

Punches: SU!

Pearls: Liquid Pearls in Platinum Pearl

Congratulations Card

I've been into simple cards lately and I needed a quick card for a friend recently.

This is what I came up with:

I created this card using scraps that I had in my bins.  I used a SU! punch to cut out the flowers and used some pattern paper to back them.  The stamp is from My Creative Time from the Gift Card Sentiments set.  The pearls and the punch for the sentiment are also from SU!  This was a fast one to make!  It took me about 10 minutes tops, which is refreshing because I tend to spend over 5 hours to make one card. 

Here is a sideview:

I added some pop dots to the sentiment for dimension.  I'm happy with how it turned out.

Now to get back to planning for class.  We only have four more days of school left!  I'm looking forward to my vacation big time!

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!

Thankzzzz!

It feels like forever since I was last on here! I MISS crafting so much!  School is almost over and I'm in my last master's classes, so I'm hoping that will open up tons more time to do what I love most...CRAFT!

I wanted to make some thank you cards and I was looking through my goodies and found my "Perfectly Preserved" stamp set and die cuts from SU! that I hadn't used.  Well...I had to use them of course! So this is what I came up with:

 

Recipe: 

Stamps:

SU! Cute as a Bug (Retired)

SU! Perfectly Preserved

SU! Framelits - Cannery Set

Paper:

SU! Crumb Cake

Red: From my scrap bin.

I am looking forward to crafting more often and visiting all you talented scrappers!  

Thanks for stopping by and visiting!

Candy Wrapper

Good morning! 

Today is the start of our newest Krafty Girls challenge.  The challenge is to create any 3D craft! 

For my project I had been wanting to play around with this Candy Wrapper die from Stampin' Up. 

The twine is from the Twinery and all the other elements used to embellish this wrapper are from SU!

 

I love the fact that it only takes a half sheet of cardstock to make.   It's something that would be easy to mass produce for favors.

Make sure to visit the DT for more inspiration and show us your 3D project:)

Thanks for visiting!

Happy Halloween!

Giveaway ends October 31st at Midnight.  You can enter HERE. 

Today I made some cards for my class.  My kids get so excited when I make a card and bring it in to show them.  My class is so sweet! I think it'll mean a lot to them to have a card made especially for them!

 Halloween Cards

This looks like a small army of owls! This owl stamp came from SU! in the Warmest of Wishes stamp set.  The sentiment is from the Small Talk set by Emma at My Creative Time.  You can see the whole set here.

Here is a larger view of each card.  I could not wait to use this spider web embossing folder! It's from SU! If you look at the corner of the card you can see the spider web shape.  I think my kids will love this because we have been learning about owls and spiders this month.

How cute are these envelopes? They are sized for 3X3 cards.  My cards are 2.5 inches by 2.5 inches, but with all the pop dots they ended up being a perfect fit.  I got these envelopes from Stampin' Up.  I had them for a while and wasn't sure what I was going to do with them.  Now I'm going to have to order more :)

I sealed one up and thought something was missing.  Well...the front flap is pretty large so it had enough room for a sentiment!  This sentiment is also from My Creative Time, it is from the Mixed Holiday Sentiments set. I think this set may be one of my all time favorites because it has the coolest fonts and there is a sentiment for every occasion in it.

I hope my kids enjoy them! 

I am linking up to the following challenges: 

More Than Favors: Anything Goes

The Paper Variety: Cute or Spooky Halloween Project

Thank you for visiting!!

Pink Bling Crafter Guest Designer

I was so honored when Norma (AKA Pink Bling Crafter) asked me to be a Guest Designer on her blog!   She has incredible ideas. I guarantee you will be inspired to create when you visit her! Make sure you visit Norma here.

I am a HUGE SU! fan.  The quality of their product is unbelievable and SU! was my introduction to the crafting world.

I made three projects for today.  I hope you like them!

This box is so cute and I used one of my all time favorite stamp sets called Eat Chocolate with it.

This box is from the Spring Holiday Cart.  I used the Decorative Label punch to punch out this stamp.  I really love the SU! markers because they color beautifully and you can even color your stamps with them.  Don't forget you can win this cart by entering my giveaway.

 I absolutely love how this house came out.  It was made with the Sweet Tooth Boxes cart.  This little house is for my classroom.  It will be holding our Box Tops collection for this year.

The idea of this house is that a little owl is throwing a party and his friends are coming over.  One of them is at the entrance here.  He is dressed up as Frankenstein.

Here comes another one of his friends!  He is wearing a Spiderman costume :)  The host is in the window waiting for his friends.

I hope you can see the detail in the Spiderman owl.  I colored him in with SU! markers and just stamped it on Whisper White cardstock.

 How cute is this Frankenstein owl? I saw one like this on a card on Ebay. It's amazing where we can pick up ideas:)  It was all done with the Owl Punch.  Really easy!

Here is the host waiting for his friends to arrive :)

Happy Owl-O-Ween!  

I am nuts about this owl!  He is from the Warmest of Wishes stamp set.  I colored him with my SU! markers and punched him out with the coordinating owl punch.  My inspiration for it came from Norma's blog here.  Once I saw him, I knew I had to have him :)  I had been thinking about making Halloween cards for my students but wanted something that wouldn't be overwhelming to make for an entire class.  This stamp set will make it so easy to make my kids individual cards.  I think they will love these little (3X3) cards.

I hope you enjoyed my projects for today.  Please make sure you stop by and visit Norma at Pink Bling Crafter here.  

Thank you Norma!!

I am also linking up with Whimsical Wednesday's anything goes challenge that you can enter here. 

Blog Candy!

A couple of weeks ago I was the lucky winner of a SU! stamp set from Norma at Pink Bling Crafter! Norma is one of the sweetest and nicest people ever! She is also tremendously talented! You can visit Norma here: Pink Bling Crafter. You will find tons of inspiration there!

The stamp set I won is called Go Green.  The moment I saw one of the sentiments I knew exactly what I wanted to make.  I noticed a bear inside a trash can when I got the Give a Hoot cart.  I thought I would never be able to use it, but I got my chance!!

Here is my card featuring this cute stamp set and this environmentally friendly bear.  I'm thinking he's searching for cans and other recyclables???

Here is the sentiment that inspired the whole card.

I welded the base using a square and a frame from Elegant Edges.  I used the PKS sketch for this base.

I added a PK face and some glossy accents to the lashes.  I used some chalks and gel pen to add details to the cheeks. 

 I used one of the stamps from Go Green and heat embossed it using Tempting Turquoise embossing powder onto blue card stock to make my own paper.  I then ran it through my Big Shot. 

Norma sent me everything in a really nice neat package but of course I opened it as quickly as I could without thinking of taking a picture first.  Here are all the goodies Norma sent me!  She even gave me a beautiful card! 

How cute is this stamp set?  It goes so well with the "Give a Hoot" cartridge.

Recipe: 

Give a Hoot: Bear in trash can

SU!: Sentiment and background stamp from the set pictured above.  Crumb Cake card stock, modern punch label, Tempting Turquoise embossing powder, Whisper White embossing powder.

PKS: Bear face from large Critter Set

Recollections: Blue card stock

I am entering this card into the following challenges: 

PKS Sketch #58

Frosted Designs: Animals