Etsy Update, Cards and More

Hi all. Im feeling a bit better than I did this afternoon, I hope I wont feel like I did this morning again. Whew! Thanks for the wishes to get well. 


I just wanted to let you all know that I have updated my Etsy shop with new goodies, check out the sidebar for a link to my shop. I have been working on packaging and trying to find all sorts of different sized envelopes to fit my needs. Guess I will have to start making sure my cards fit in envelopes well, lol. I also finally got some clear bags for them too, thanks Bea for the suggestion! I hope you will check out all the new goodies I added.


Also want to share with you some CAS cards I did that I never uploaded, woops. I found them as I was uploading pictures to Etsy. Totally forgot about these.

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co.

Stamps: Hero Arts

Thanks for peekin' in
Scroll down for the DRS Designs blog hop! Hope you will join in on the fun, its a SCAVENGER HUNT!!! 


:) :) :) 

Something CUTE to share YAY! :)

Papercrafting is therapeutic to me. It completely clears my mind. And when im stressed I like to stay really busy, I also cant sleep very well either. I've been working on some secret projects last night and tonight that will go live here Friday... I cant wait to share them with you.


Im finally able to have some time in my craft room and get some things done. I really missed crafting for the past few days. I hope to be doing more this weekend, staying here on the homefront with my daughter. The hospital isnt a place for her to be and we dont want her to see her Papa in such bad shape.


Now on to the cuteness. Just thought I would take a break and craft a card for CARDS magazine challenge - Windows. Had some fun making this card. Did more paper piecing in this one... love it. And I love the Bitty Dot Basics paper stack from PTI.

Side view to see its a bay window :)

Stamps: Hero Arts

Paper: PTI bitty dot basics, kraft, white, hawaiian shores

Other: PTI cloud die, ribbon

Again I wanted to say Thank you to all you dear friends for all the prayers. I appreciate them so much. And I appreciate your understanding that I haven't had time to visit you. I also will be sending out prizes that need to be mailed off on Monday when I return to work, I ship from work. And I will be getting back to doing my DT posts, I missed a couple this week. Im also working on some blog re-designs for some friends so that I also need to get done. Well, I think I have enough to keep me busy and my mind off of things.


Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday! Im going to try and get around to visit. Dont forget Friday is the last day to enter the current challenge... guess everyone doesn't do paper piecing lol.


Blessings to you!

Ouch that HURT!

Just kidding... well I did prick myself a few times. I always do when I sew LOL. I wanted a break for the night from cards to make a little something I need and for another entry for the Moxie Fab World fun with fabric challenge. I made a few for my craft room for the pins I put on cards and LO's and for needles. So heres my little cushion all stuffed and fluffed:

Recipe:

Fabric: Cosmo Cricket (love their fabric)

Felt: PTI raspberry fizz and white

Other: PTI bloom dies, Needle, Thread

I love the line of fabric from Cosmo Cricket, I have lots of it. I cant wait to use it. This pin cushion is the same basic concept as my fabric flower tutorial but you are going to make the circle at least 5.5" round, you can go bigger too just keep in mind that whatever size your circle is your pincushion will be half that size and also you will stuff it as full as possible. And make sure to use a strong thread to make sure it doesnt break when you pull it closed. Instead of putting a button like on the flower you can add some fun felt cutouts to the top, go crazy with it. Here I used the PTI beautiful blooms flower dies for the top. Love it and its so handy having these around the craft room and you can whip these out in 10 minutes. :) :)

Dont forget ... the challenge closes on Friday at 11:59pm, so hurry and get your card or project in. 

On another personal note, can I please ask for some prayers? My fiances Dad is very ill, hes not doing well at all. He refuses a hospital till he can get his affairs in order. He keeps thinking if he goes in he will never come back out. Hes in really bad shape and his health is heading down hill fast. So I ask could you please say a prayer for him (Jim) that God may put his healing hand on him and ease his pain. If for some reason I dont post this weekend till possibly Sunday that means we probably took him to the hospital. Im praying that he can hold on that long. Thank you kindly.

Many blessings to you! :) :)

My Heads in the Clouds

It was this weekend, I wasnt feeling to well. But now that im feeling better and my mojo is coming back from the dead I would like to share some cards with you!! :) :) I also was waiting for my PTI order so I could use my new stamp set and dies for these cards. Love all the goodness I got from PTI... the new cloud and hot air balloon dies are my favorite and the stamp set that goes with them. And who doesnt love their paper?


I made these as inspiration for my challenge... 'Sky's the Limit' ... I even had the perfect sentiment for the first card.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Hero Arts (clouds), PTI (kite & sentiment)

Paper: PTI hawaiian shores, white, bitty dot basics

Ink: Memento

Next I would like to share another inspiration card for my challenge and one I will be submitting to CARDS for the publication call. I finally got to use this cute owl couple from Hero Arts... they are adorable aren't they?

Tweatured (featured lol) on Hero Arts Twitter!! :)  :)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Hero Arts (owls), My Cute Stamps (branch, sent.)

Paper: PTI enchanted evening, white, bitty dot basics

Ink: Memento

Accessories: Cloud Dies from PTI

And look what was in my mailbox today...

Bo Bunny Goodies!!

I won these from playing their challenges. :) :) YAY!! I love this collection... its my favorite - Love Bandit. They are so generous with their prizes, this is my second prize from them and its always full of goodies!! :)

Im still working on the Diorama tutorial. I didn't craft at all this weekend, I just didnt feel so good... this weather has been hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold and I think it got the best of me so I slept most of the weekend. Im feeling much better today after I went to the gym and got some mileage on the bike and treadmill. Hope you had a nice start to your week and an even better tomorrow!! :) :)

Thanks for stopping by ... have a Happy Day! :)

Sky's the Limit Challenge - #7!!

Im sure you have seen these in allot of my work... Those little and big, cute and fluffy, fun to watch and make things out of... CLOUDS! I have a thing for clouds. Paper, Felt, Fabric... clouds!! They are great with anything!! I love going on trips, laying on a blanket in the grass and staring at the clouds and making cute shapes, people, things out of them with my daughter. Its fun and relaxing! Clears the mind.

 

Handmade Mobile by The Butter Flying

Also you may remember this card I made inspired by the movie 'UP'. I LOVE this card and I plan to make a bigger version of it to hang in my daughters room in a shadow box. It was featured on Hero Arts as one of the cards they picked of mine *does a happy dance*. Well... I love that movie... how they made use of clouds and the cute shapes Carl & Ellie made with them. Sooo adorable!

And once again ... our sponsor this week is: SIMON SAYS STAMP!

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Your challenge: So my obsession with clouds has spilled over into my crafting world and now yours. This weeks challenge theme is 'Sky's the limit' ... your challenge will be to make anything that flies in the sky - clouds, hot air balloons, balloons, kites, planes, (houses lol j/k) etc.


How to play: Just link your project below or to the SCS gallery with the keyword WMC7 ... that simple! :)


THE PRIZE: A $10 Gift Certificate to Simon Says Stamp!! You can get some new stamps or anything you have been eyeing lately!! Awesome!!


Rules: 1)Please only submit creations that were made after the time this challenge was posted, links posted from old blog or gallery posts will not be counted. 2)Please provide a link to this challenge with your entry on your blog or with the keyword WMC6 in your gallery. 3) Maximum number of times you can enter - 2.


Deadline: The deadline for this challenge is next Friday, May 28th at 11:59 PST so make sure your entries are in before then. The winner will be announced on Saturday, May 29th (possibly Sunday, off to the Zoo on Saturday for Girl Scouts).
 
And now for the winner of our last challenge. What wonderful creations you all did... I LOVED all the pink!!!! I will be around to comment on all of your wonderful creations!!

CONGRATS TO JANIS @ PAUSE, DREAM, ENJOY

Here is her wonderful creation:

Please contact me to claim your prize - weememories@aol.com

And thanks to last weeks sponsor - S.E.I. - for the wonderful prize!

Thank you to ALL who played last week!!!!

Im also posting the cute little UP card for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop... I wanna share how much I LOVE their felt!! Its awesome!!! See the hop HERE. I have all the colors they have put out so far and I cant wait to get the full colors of felt. Their felt is sooooo awesome and easy to work with!!


I will be back tomorrow with a fresh creation for inspiration for this challenge and my tutorial for a Diorama. Haven't quite finished it how I want it yet thanks to my mojo not cooperating lol.

Have a wonderful and blessed SUNDAY!! :) :) :) :)

Don't you just love Daisy's? I do!

I love spring so much, all the beautiful flowers. And one of my favorite flowers are Daisys. They come in such a variety of colours. Thats why I love this stamp from Hero Arts. Its called Engraved Daisy. Its so cute. I used it here for the Playdate Cafe challenge 25. The challenge is to make a black and white card with a splash of colour. Wherever I go flowers always remind me of that splash of colour. Like when we took our trip to Disneyland, everywhere on the hillsides are Poppys. A splash of orange on all the hillsides, it was so beautiful. Usually a purple Daisy has a darker purple center, but there are some with an orange center... so heres mine.

Card recipe:

Paper: PTI black & white

Stamps: Hero Arts CG142 Engraved Daisy, Sentiment from PTI button bits

Ink: Copic Markers, Memento

Accessories: May Arts ribbon, Bo Bunny rhinestones, Spellbinders Nestibilities

Weekend is over BOO! Went by too fast!
Be sure to check out my new challenge... great prize for the winner! :)
Have a great week!

Colours make the creation... Some Hero Arts and Challenges!!

Hello again... hope your day was great. TGIF! Im looking forward to the weekend :)  I have been busy busy with lots of projects for the next challenge and some other goodies to come. Heres a few projects I would like to share with you... I did this first project for my dear friend Kims OTWC Challenge #2 ... see her blog HERE. She has a new challenge up now... check it out!! The DP is white and sparkling silver so the camera didnt like that, it is a little bright. I love the colours for this challenge. I also made this for the Hero Arts April 2010 Contest... see contest details HERE.

Ingredients:

Paper: K&Co., Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Hero Arts CL223, CL147 & Digi-kit Flutterbies, Papertrey Ink (mixed messages)

Ink: Copic Markers, Memento, Gel Pen

Accessories: Misc Pearls and Rhinestones, MS lace border punch

To show more detail:

Next, I would like to share a couple of cards I did just playing with some of my Hero Arts stamps. I love the butterflies in the Hero Arts Antique Engravings set, #CL383. They are so pretty... I use them all the time as im sure you have seen in allot of my creations. They also have digital versions of these butterflies so you can resize them for your needs as I did in my layout above.

Ingredients:

Paper: PTI Hawaiian Shores, White

Stamps: Hero Arts digi, Papertrey Ink Butterfly Dreams

Ink: Copic Markers, Memento

Accessories: PTI Ribbon, Misc Pearls

Tech: Spellbinder Nestibilities

Ingredients:

Paper: PTI White, New Leaf, Lemon Tart

Stamps: Hero Arts

Ink: Copic Markers, Distress Inks, Memento

Tech: Spellbinder Nestibilities

Thanks for letting me share my creations with you. I hope you have a fabulous weekend! Im ready for it... I need to sleep in!! Be sure to get your project in if you haven't already, it closes tomorrow at 11:59PST!!! I love all the entries so far, they are so gorgeous!! I hope you will all play again with the next challenge that will start Saturday... it will be a good one. Oh and we are only 9 followers away from the next giveaway... the next one will include some My Minds Eye goodies so if your not already a follower be sure to become one for your chance to win. I will post a picture of the prize pack soon.

Have a wonderful FRIDAY!! :)

Come Fly with Me :)

Happy Wednesday! We are half way through the week, yay! Hope your having a great week. :) Busy week for me. Working on some projects and thought I would share a couple of them with you.

I needed a book to keep track of my list of projects I want and need to do so I made this notebook with some cute Webster pages paper that I picked up yesterday from my local SBS. I love Webster, they make such great DP and this is such a cute collection... isn't the little fairy on the turtle adorable and the hot hair balloon so cute!! :)

Recipe:
Paper: Webster Pages
Stamps: PTI, The Girls Paperie
Accessories: Misc Flowers, Pearls, Basic Grey Chipboard
Ink: Tim Holtz distress inks

I made this card for Embellish Magazine Buttons color challenge publication call and I used the CardPatterns sketch #58. I love this stamp set from PTI called Button Bits... so much you can do with it. Im loving all the stamps and DP with hot air balloons ive been seeing lately, too adorable.

Recipe:
Paper: American Crafts, PTI white
Stamps: PTI button bits
Ink: Tim Holtz distress inks, Memento
Accessories: PTI ribbon & buttons

And I just want to share with you a wonderful beauty from my garden, they are in full bloom and I just love how pretty they are. One of my favorite flowers, I have them all over my front yard in different colours. Ahh spring... I love it!

I will be back Friday with my first SPONSORED challenge with great prizes!!

Have a wonderful day!! :)

I Heart Spring

Happy Thursday! Hope you had a wonderful one and didn't get fooled on April fools day  LOL! TGIF tomorrow... yay! I have so much in the works, got a busy weekend ahead of me. So I wont keep you... First I would like to share that my card HERE was featured on the Bo Bunny blog HERE. I love their challenges and all their goodies! :)

Secondly I would like to share with you a set of cards I did, I love the 3x3 and everyone loved the last ones I did so I thought I would make another set for spring and for Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: Hippity Hoppity Easters on its Way! They fit the colors and patterns well. I really love this stamp set from Hero Arts.

And while I was at it I thought I would show how I put these cards together. Im sure you can tell from the pictures but I would love to share with you anyway... plus allot of calls for DT's some of them ask that you have given a tutorial before so here goes my first:

First I inked up my stamp with Tim Holtz distress inks, you can choose any colors you want to use to make these. I chose several different colors.

This is what they should look like all stamped and pretty, then take your same distress ink and your distress tool and run it along the edges of the flowers which it always distresses darker so it gives it a nice look.

Next I spritzed on some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Pearl and dried it quicker with my heat gun. I always spray mine in a box so I dont make a huge mess.

Next I got to play with my button collection and added some buttons to these cuties, my favorite part of putting these together (I love buttons) :D

Next I cut my Kraft cardstock 3x6 (folded it to 3x3) with my bone folder

Then I took my PTI white ink and stamped my leaves, sentiment and butterfly.

I pieced my card together, using pop dots on the flowers. Added a swirly trail for the butterfly with my gel pen then took my distress tool again and my PTI white and gave the edges a soft frame.

Card recipe:
Stamps: Hero Arts CL151 Share Laughter, PTI Mixed Messages
Paper: PTI Kraft, PTI Stampers White
Ink: PTI white, Tim Holtz distress inks
Accessories: PTI buttons, Glimmer Mist

Clean up and enjoy! :) Hope you enjoyed my lil tutorial.

I will be back this weekend with more details of the upcoming challenges and prizes! :)  Off to bed again... have a wonderful Friday! TGIF!

Some things to Share :)

Hope your week is going great! This week brings some fabulous news... I have some wonderful sponsors and I will be posting contests and challenges here soon after I complete my projects, I hope you will stay tuned for that! There will be some awesome prizes!

Also wanted to share with you a card I made, which my colors ended up being a perfect match for the challenge #23 at PDC. I love Heat Embossing, and I wanted to do some layered emboss resisting cause I think its so pretty and such a great technique and Jennifers video explains it well if you want to check it out the link is below. 

Card Recipe:

Paper: PTI Enchanted Evening, Gina K Pure Lux
Stamps: Hero Arts
Ink: Tim Holtz distress inks, Gel Pen
Tech: Layered Emboss Resist (tutorial on Jennifer McGuire ink), Perfect Pearls

This card is featured on Hero Arts twitter :) yay! http://twitter.com/myheroarts

Haven't had the time to do much paper-crafting in the last few days just been so busy getting ready for Easter, spending time with my daughter while its spring break enjoying some much needed time together, lots of birthday parties this month, spring cleaning, etc. I've also been busy working on projects for the upcoming contests here. I cant wait to share them with you! Want to share with you a cute picture I took Sunday of my daughter when we arrived at the birthday party for my friends daughter, I thought she looked super cute... I love the mismatch socks that we got while at Disneyland... must get more!

Isnt she pretty and so precious? Both of us love Skelanimals, we collect them. Shes getting so BIG! Where does the time go? And her hair is gotten so long and curly, I love it!! My baby girl!! You can see the cute gift bag shes carrying that I made too :D but shes much cuter! 


Well im off to bed... need my rest for another day! Have a great day! Toodles! :)

Some Moxie, a little Embellishing and a bit Off the Wall

HI!! Hope you are having a great weekend! Im enjoying mine, its spring break here so I took a few days off work to spend time with my daughter. I hope your enjoying your weekend or spring break too.

As you may have figured from the title of my post im here to share with you some cards I made for 3 challenges.

First is a card I did for Embellish Stitching Color Challenge on the Embellishment Magazine blog... I loved using these colors together and my favorite paper right now is Kraft so I enjoyed making this card.

Supplies:

Paper: PTI kraft, sweet blush, aqua mist

Stamps: Inkadinkado, Hero Arts (butterfly)
Ink: Versamark, Memento

Accessories: PTI buttons, Pearls
Tech: Cuttlebug Swiss Dots, Heat Embossing

Next card I did is for Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: Butterfly Dreams. Who doesnt love to dream about Butterflies? I LOVE butterflies as you can tell from my work, so I had to do this challenge. Well... I love all their challenges anyway! Love me some Moxie!

Supplies:
Paper: PTI plum pudding, DCWV PP
Stamps: Hero Arts (butterfly), TPC
Ink: Tim Holtz, Memento
Accessories: Melissa Frances lace, Pearls

And last but certainly not least is a card I did for my dear friend, Kim Wilson's challenge. I adore Kim and we found out that we live close to each other so we are anxious to take a class together at my local SS and get together for some crafty girl time. Cant wait to meet her! If you have a moment visit her blog, shes one sweet friend and you will just love her and her creations!

Supplies:
Paper: PTI Raspberry Fizz, K&Co.
Stamps: Hero Arts (butterfly), PTI Butterfly Dreams (saying)
Accessories: PTI ribbon, K&Co. Bling

Thats it for today! :) I also went to a local sale for a lady that refurbishes Shabby Chic decor and furniture, I found some super cute items! I got a cupcake stand, Shabby dress form stand, bookcase and shelf. I painted the shelves pink and put them in my craft room... one of them now houses my wood stamps. I was excited to get these, they are so chic!

And as soon as I get my PTI order I will post the next blog candy... PTI goodies will be in it! AND I will soon be posting a challenge that will be sponsored by WHIMSY HAVEN... you will have the chance to WIN some free goodies, check her out if you haven't already... her digital images are adorable!

Have a blessed Sunday! Supposed to be beautiful day tomorrow, around 80 degrees but then the rain will be back Wednesday.

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

Tonights card is for the Papertrey March blog hop - Buttons! :) Got my card in, almost missed the hop but here I am. Put this card together in like 30 min.

Supplies:
Paper: PTI Kraft & Hawaiian Shores
Buttons: PTI Hawaiian Shores
Ribbon: PTI
Stamps: PTI Delightful Dahlia
Ink: Memento
Border: Martha Stewart

Thank you for coming by I hope you will become a regular visitor!! :) HAPPY HOPPING!