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 my friends!! So we got a little bit of snow last night, wet slick snow. I HATE it!! We had some really awesome weather last week and I totally thought it was going to start warming up. Oh well, this will be last winter to see snow so I will be ok. LOL!!

Today I have the whole day off.....what to do first? Well right now I am enjoying a yummy cup o' joe while I type up this post (and of course listen to my children fight). Hmmm, maybe clean a little, scrap a little, laundry/dishes, craft a little, grocery shopping, scrap a little, make some dinner......oh poop I forgot I have two take home tests to finish by Thursday. Scratch those plans.......a little homework, craft a little, cleaning, homework, craft a little........scratch that, I am crafting ALL DAY!!! LOL, I wish.....I will probably do a little mix of everything. haha!! Darn responsibilities always get in the way of my fun!!

Anywho, I have a fantabulous card to share with you today. I was super excited about making this card. I saw a tutorial on Jennifer McGuire's blog on using Pink Paislee's Mist-a-bles. Oh, that's right there is some of that in our February kit, YAAAHOOOOO!!!



So I got to work. I used the smallest scallop trim and I used my Papertrey Ink ink pad to color it. Now Jennifer used Mister Huey's mists and that would have been easy too but I didn't have any color mist that I wanted to use and I wanted the color to match the cardstock included in the kit. Oh my it matched perfectly. :-) The only thing on the card not from the February kit is the rhinestones but those are from the January kit.

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out the "thank you" sentiment and the card base. The flower was colored with Raspberry Fizz and Ripe Avacado ink from PTI.

Alright well I will pick a winner of my giveaway later tonight and post that tomorrow with another amazing project using our February scrapbook kit.

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Sending you Thanks (faux metal)

Hello my friends. It is cold and rainy here in Virginia and I don't like it. LOL!! I decided not to go to Panera Bread this morning and do homework. The only "homework" I officially have this semester is for a class called Project and Seminar. It is a class that coincides with my Intermediate Accounting class. It's online and kinda self paced. I finished my first paper for that class and it isn't even due until next Wed. The next paper isn't due for 3 weeks now. SO, I decided to stay home and craft. *GASP* LOL!!

Who is a fan of Kristina Werner's work? Let's see a show of hands (now let's see a show of hands of those that actually just raised their hand, lol)......Do you ever do that when you are talking on the phone or something? Not raise your hand per say but are you really animated and do you use a lot of hand gestures even though you know no one can see you? Oh I am totally that way. LOL!

Anywho, well I am a big fan of Kristina's and have been for over 2 years. A couple months back I saw her first tutorial on how to make faux metal and I was determined at some point to try that technique. When I searched Kristina's blog for her faux metal tutorial, I have come to realize she has been sharing this technique since 2006.

Ok so anyway, I have this gorgeous paper from Authentique's Uncommon collection. Oh so beautiful. I thought a faux metal sentiment would look awesome. So I set to work on creating this card.

I just love the way this card turned out. Sorry the pictures aren't the best. Isn't this technique AWESOME. I almost think I am addicted. I want to make many, many more cards with a faux metal sentiment.

Now I haven't watched all of Kristina's faux metal tutorials but I think the ones I did see show her just using a bigger sheet of paper and then cutting out the sentiment area. For mine I cut the label die cut first, used some removable adhesive to hold it on to a larger sheet while I embossed and then VERY carefully lined the sentiment on the label.

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. :-)

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