Four leaf clover

Click here if you missed our guest designer post from this morning. 

Surprise, I crafted today! LOL!  

When I lived in Virginia I actually sold quite a few cards to local  friends and acquaintances. 

I have lived in Arizona for almost a year and one of the girls contacted me (after a year) and asked if I would make a card for her.  Of course  I said yes even though I hardly ever get to craft.  

Well she wanted a specific phrase on the card and it was a bit long.  

"A best friend is like a four leaf clover:  hard to find and lucky to have"

I thought this would be easy, just type the phrase in Word and print it on my cardstock.  WELL the only smooth cardstock I have is what I include in my card kits and it is super thick, it wouldn't go thru my printer.  I tried with some textured cardstock but then my stamping didn't look good.  

So I busted out my Paper Smooches stamp set, Alphadot.  

And then I also pulled out a new stamp set to me, Petal Pieces from Simon Says Stamp!

Simple card took forever because each letter had to be arranged and stamped and each part of those flowers were stamped.  Well the letters I arranged on my grid mat by line and stuck down on my stamp block and did it that way but it was time consuming.  Would have been therapeutic if  my kids didn't come in every 5 minutes to ask me if I was done. UGH!!

So here is something funny, well not really.  I had completely finished the card and wanted to add a little glitter.  I got these glitter pens, Zig, Wink of Stella glitter marker a couple weeks ago and wanted to use it.  I started to apply it to the small blue flower on the top of the card and the glitter just poured out, I might have actually squeezed too hard.  :-(  

So basically I had ruined the card, essentially.  I was about to do the whole card over when I realized I probably didn't have the time or patience to do it all again.  So I stamped the flower pieces on to another white sheet and fussy cut it out and adhered it over the ruined flower.  

I always say it feels great to craft and that I should do it more and then never have time.  BUT I really do need to craft more.  LOL!!  

For the flowers I used Papertrey Ink and Hero Art inks. 

Alright, that's it, see you tomorrow for more inspiration using our July kit.  :-)

Thank You

Good Morning!! It has been cold and rainy here the last couple days. YUCK!! I can handle cold and I can handle rain but I can't handle the two together. :-( Oh well, hopefully this will be my last winter here. So it is almost the end of the first week of school and I am totally excited, only 15 weeks to go. :-) LOL!

Yesterday I did a little crafting. I have been on a shopping spree, not spending that much but I just want new things. I want new product. I want to buy, buy, buy!! A couple weeks ago I bought some Papertrey Ink goodies and then I also went in to my LSS the other day and bought a new Hero Arts stamp.

With those goodies I set out to make these two cards. Well it will be a set of Thank You cards eventually but I had to go back and get stuff from Papertrey Ink so I am waiting for that to come in the mail.

I bought 6 new ink pads but I only bought 2 of the Perfect Match cardstock. I also bought some dies and the white note card set.



With the two cards I used the white note cards for the base and I also used the coordinating ink and cardstock, all from Papertrey Ink. LOVE these colors. The "Thank You" stamp was an exclusive and I am not even sure if it is sold separate.

I am trying out the Inlinkz Product Manager so all the supplies for these cards are listed below. :-)

InLinkz.com

Card set

Hello my crafty friends! Today I have some cards to share with you that I created. They all sort of go together as a card set. I have a couple more to make but I thought I would share with you what I have created so far.

My all time favorite new stamp is one of the Basic Grey/Hero Arts cling stamps. It is a background stamp. It coordinates with Basic Grey's Out of Print collection. I just love it!! I bought mine at my LSS but here is a link to the stamp. Click here!





The last card I haven't added a sentiment yet but I think it is my favorite mix of colors. Basically all I did was white embossed the background stamp on a standard sized white card base. Then I sponged on a variety of distress inks, changing up the color combo for each card. I think I like the last one the most because it has a little bit of each of the colors I have.

And that's it. Just slap on a sentiment and you have a super easy card.

Don't forget to enter my giveaway that I have going on right now. Click here to enter. Also be sure to stop by Sketch Inspiration and play along this week, we are sponsoring the sketch challenge this week and the prize is a January scrapbook kit.

And don't forget to play along with our sketch challenge here on the blog. Upload your project by January 23rd or your chance to win our February scrapbook kit. :-) Link up in the sidebar.

Be sure to stop by tomorrow, I will have another project from one of our Delightful Designers to share with you using the January kit. :-)

Hello

Hello my friends. I have a super quick post for you today.

I am not sure what color this paper really is. I went to my LSS and asked for Kraft but this is certainly not Kraft. Can you believe I am all out of that paper. My favorite paper ever! LOL! Anywho, I used some printer paper and cut a mask. I used a 5x5 inch piece of paper and cut a 3x3 inch square from the center. I temporarily adhered the outer part to the card and inked the two flowers in Versamark ink and clear embossed it. Then I used some distress inks and sponged around the flowers.

I didn't realize until I was all done that when I was stamping the flower on the left, the stamp must have shifted a bit so there is a little double image action going on. The sentiment is a sticker from EAD Designs.

Well that's all for today. I will be back tomorrow more cute projects from the DT using Artful Delight's August kit. :-)

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #13

**edit: I have changed the butterfly on the card, before it was a pink butterfly that I cut out of Echo Park Paper but it was a little small. I replaced it with a Jenni Bowlin embellished butterfly**

Good Morning and Happy Sunday. I have been feeling a bit crafty lately so I have been taking advantage of that. I made several cards yesterday. I was able to play along with The Paper Variety and also CAS-ual Fridays. I see these beautiful clean and simple cards that Karen from The Bald Dragonfly always creates and I wanted to give it a try.

CAS intimidates me. LOL! All that white space just needs to be filled. haha. Well lucky me this week's challenge was to create a long card. 4x9. WHAT?? More white space to leave empty. Yikes!!



Well here is my card. :-)


The papers are from Echo Park's Victoria Gardens collection. And the panel that has the sentiment on it is from the sticker elements that came with the collection.

That's all for today. Be sure to stop by tomorrow. It's August 1 and I will have some amazing projects to share with you from the Delightful Designers using the August monthly kit.

Happy Crafting!!

ONE stamp, THREE different cards

Hello my friends. I was able to craft a bit today which is good because I really wanted to play along with The Paper Variety. Their challenge this week was a tic-tac-toe board. You had to chose three items in a row. I chose hand/machine stitching, use the color pink, and make a card.

A week or so ago I bought this awesome Hero Arts stamp from Michaels. I think it was my reward to myself for doing well in my classes, LOL! I have yet to use the stamp but today I decided it was time.

I made three different cards. three different techniques with the one stamp. The base of the card is a Hero Arts note card in Blush. There are three different colors in the package and I used one of each for these cards.

The stamp is called Flower Text and I absolutely love it.

In the first card I used a piece of water color paper and embossed it with white embossing powder. Then, thanks to a technique I saw on Jennifer McGuire's blog I used some distress ink, liquid pearls, and water and began to "water color" the image. As soon as I was done coloring it all in I used a moist baby wipe and smeared it across the top of the image. It sort of blended it all together. Softened some of the areas that were a bit bold with color. On the inside of this card I stamped "thinking of you."

This next card I used water color paper again and my distress inks. I tapped the ink pad in various colors all over the stamp to give it a mixture of colors. Then before I pressed the stamp on my paper I generously misted the stamp with water. I use the Mini Mister from Ranger. When it's wet it looks a little messy and watery but as soon as it dries it looks pretty cool. Then I used a stamp from Stampendous that I had in my stash to stamp the sentiment.

This last card is created using the good 'ol paper piecing. I used Echo Parks Victoria Gardens to create this card. I stamped the image in chalk ink on some white paper and then I stamped the image on various pattern papers from the Victoria Gardens collection. I began cutting and paper piecing. A couple of the pieces have been pop dotted to give a little dimension. This card I left with no sentiment.

And that is all for me this evening. I am actually not sure anymore which card to submit to TPV's challenge. I was going to submit the paper pieced one but now I don't know. :-)

Happy Crafting!!

Thinking of you

Happy Monday morning! This will be super quick because I am on my way out the door to take my Macroeconomics final.

This card I created using some canvas I bought at Michaels about a month ago. I also bought some new Hero Arts stamps from Michaels. I was in the mood to shop, lol!! I also got some new Hero Arts note cards the other day(I see a giveaway in your future, wink).


So anywho, I stamps the image on the canvas and colored it in with my blender pen and Tim Holtz distress inks. I also used some element stickers from Basic Grey's Kioshi collection.

Well that is all for today, I am off to school! :-)

Happy Crafting!!