Quick Tip #1

I just hate opening and closing the plastic baggies that stamps and dies come in and other sorts of scrap booking/card making goodies.

I have really been trying to organize/rearrange/go threw/purge my craft room so I can be better a better crafter.

My girls, Lexi age 4 and Miss Pivia age 16 months have a little living room adjacent to my craft room, I am also working on redoing that so they can better play and be occupied so I can play in my craft room too.

I am recently into the Dies and Stamp combos and have gotten some over these past months. NEW addiction as my hubby calls it.

Here is a way I found to store one of my Combos.

This is the Lawn fawn Summer Time Charm dies/Stamp set I just got yesterday ;).

These are adhesive backed magnetic sheets from Walmart, 2 in a back.

An empty CD case.

I measured the inside panel of the CD case and cut it out of one of the magnetic sheets.

Peel off the backing, FYI very sticky.

Apply to the inside of case.

Had to pre occupy Pivia, I moved my chair to the middle and she would push it around and chase it.

Good for 15 minutes of fun.

She's checking out underneath.

Trying to say in baby talk, 1 2 3

Scrap card stock I stamped the matching stamps to dies

 

Using washi tape I put the framelets/dies on top and ran them threw my cuttle bug.

1. Big white plate
2. C plate
3. paper/dies
4. B plate
that's my combo

This is what the outside looks like. I put the name of the die/stamp set also the die cut images and the back has the other stamps that go with the set. Attached with ATG tape. The dies are on the inside. I also used a Sharpie on my stamp set and wrote that I have the Matching Dies that go with it.

Sketch Challenge #1

First time for me to participate in a sketch challenge.

I dont have many pictures of my process because my original idea didnt pan out and i didnt want to retake picture of what I did, so I just crafted without the pictures of the how's she do that.

Entering my card at 365 Cards

I used Recollections paper in a pale pink and a pale orange/cream color.

I used Stampin Up Pretty In Pink ink and a sponge wedge to ink around everything, I also ran the sponge over the top of the embosed background.

I believe its a Cuttle bug embossing folder.

The ribbon is a Micheals celebrate ribbon.
I used my bone folder and flattened out the flowers along the ribbon so it would adhere better to the pink mat.

The dies I used are from My Creative Time with Emma.

The hello stamp is inked with Momento Tuxedo Black ink, its from a Stampin up stamp set.

I pop dotted the hello and also the banner that is layered on the top banner.

Close up of the banners and inking.

Close up of the hello stamp.

Simon Says Card Kit (card #1)

This is the card I made from my February Card kit.

 

 I stamped out my sketch on a scratch piece of paper.

                                         Here's my finished card                                       

                                                                   Inside of the card.

                                                                 Side view of the card.

                                                                Laying my pieces out.

                                                                              Close up.

I used patterned paper from the February kits to stamp the dresses on and cut them out, after I cut them out I used a black marker to hide any extra white places from when I cut out the dresses.

I loved these 2 pieces of patterned paper because my 4 year old loves stripes and polka dots.

I masked off the string of heats, covering the heart part with tape and stamping in black Staz on ink and vice versa for the hearts in a Stampin up in.

The white thread is from the January Card kit.  I also put the 2 dresses on foam adhesive.

I corner rounded the bottom of each of the paper and attached the layers with adhisive.

The pink and craft paper is either from the January or February kit.

I am adding this card to their blog Simon Says February Card Kit Gallery

Bee Mine 3X3

Made a 3X3 Valentines note card, again no Cricut use this time, EEK, don't worry Cricut I will use you soon I promise.

Entering this little sweet bee mine note card in the Anything Goes challenges over at Simon Says Stamp

Finished card

Side view, I used Staz on Jet Black ink.

They Bakers Twine is from American Craft in a yellow color, I used a glue dot to hold the bow down.

This little heart punch I got for Christmas from my mom.

All paper is from Recollections.

I also used up scraps.

Testing out Glossy accents and Crystal Stickles on a scrap piece of card stock.

I use the need to keep my glossy accents from clumping, also keep one in my desk bin to unclog my Stickles.

Inside of the card also stamped with Jet Black Staz On ink

Lawn Fawn stamp called Bee Mine.

Recollection's brand water color pencils.

First time trying, did something very simple.

Below I was testing out which color to foe stitch with around my card.

Gotta love scraps.

Love You A Lattee Vday Card

Mary at CARDZ TV is having another challenge #124 Be My Valentine. Make a card using the card feature of any Cricut Cartridge, round or square.

Finished Card

Here is what I chose from my scrap bin. I used all scraps except for the card base. Trying to use up stuff.  The brown to the left is the left overs of my card base, the only full 8 1/2 X11 inch piece of paper.

Using my gypsy, below is after I cut out my pieces.

Below I ended up cutting off the top of the cream layer it didn't cut very good the sprinkle part so I cut it off and then when I began to piece together you could see some of the green so after I glued the first 3 layers I took a brown maker and colored the inside so all the sprinkles would look the same. Then glued the white part on top.

The coffee was cut from the Love You A Lattee Cricut Cartridge its called Frpacho2, I cut it at 2.75 inches.

Card base came from Stretch Your Imagination Page 81 cut at 4 inches. The hot pink paper I cut at 3.75 inches and just moved the card over and had it cut out just half the card base. Make Sense?

All paper is from Recollections.

Inside I stamped with Staz on Jet Black ink.

Also added another pink square matt, about 1/8 inch border all around.

I put the coffee on foam and added some American crafts ribbon/bakers twine in brown, threaded and brown button and secured with a glue dot.

The sentiment is from a Cardz TV stamp set I purchased a while ago.

It says You MOCHA me happy!

From Brew HaHa

This stamp I bought at hobby lobby on clearance, I have some interchangeable stamps that go with it that were also clearanced. J for Jennifer.

OH my, I'm showing you my scrap bin.

Its pretty big and deep.

So go join the challenge, Mary's blog really does challenge me and takes me out of my comfort zone and even better makes me want to scrapbook and card make more and just get into my craft room.

Red, White, Black Vday card

I so did not use my cricut for this card but I did use some new products and a new technique that has begun to spread.

I am entering a CardzTV color challenge use only Red, White, and Black.

I am seriously supper happy beyond words how cute/lovely this card turned out!

Here is a look at the products I pulled out, I used the 2 heart punches and the single L O V E wood mounted stamps. Also 3 different heart cling stamps.

Didn't use glue dots but just in case I had them out. The pop dots are circles today.

Look at that pretty Stampin Up ink pad in Real Red. LOL. I didn't use the banner die.

Making 2 cards at ounce. Red base, 2 white layers (one for inside and one for outside), and the black mat. Standard size card.

White colored pencil and ruler to make the outline of the chalkboard.

One of the hearts to act like the little ties for the LOVE banner. drew a white pencil line first then did the hearts and then the LOVE letters.

Let dry, next time I will heat set, THIS TAKES LONG LONG to dry.

Finished Card. LOVE IT.

The two hearts are stamped in Real Red ink and used the two hear punches to punch them out
and did some fussy cutting to finish them. Big one is on a foam circle while little is just attached with adhesive.

Matted first with the white, 1/4 of an inch border around.

Inside again white mat with 1/4 of an inch border around. I stamped the sentiment in the Real Red ink as well with a stampin up stamp. Heart punch in the top for some somethin.

Used a sponge dauber and gently sponged around to give the chalkboard effect.

Sticker Valentine Card

Entering another challenge tonight.  Looking for different card/scrap booking challenges really has me thinking outside the box and making me want to do more not just because of the prizes but because they make me do what really makes me happy. Other then my 2 mini monsters and husband monster. LOL

I entered the Use it Tuesday Challenge #47 make it sparkle.

This blog has a requirement of using your hoarded stash and that's why I chose this challenge because I opened one of my sticker drawers and found this sticker sheet that my Secret Pal (from my work) gave me LAST FEBRUARY and Ive never done a card based on stickers.

Finished Front of the Card

Sentiment, I ended up masking the Be part because I just didn't want that. I used American crafts brown bakers twine, I got a whole bunch of small rolls from TJMAX for 9.99 back in October. I wrapped it around 3 times and tied a bow, I secured the bow with a glue dot.

The inside of the card I matted with a brown mat and another cream mat. I used a heart punch that my mom got me for Christmas and stamped Happy Valentines Day in Brown Staz on Ink.

Here's a shot of the supplies for the inside on the card.

Something new and different for me to do.  Decorating the inside of my cards.













Top Picture is of my desk and my supplies. The bottom picture shows the sticker and how much dimension it adds to the card. The SPARKLE part of my card is the hearts, I hope you can see from the two photographs that this sticker and sticker sheet has glitter on them.