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!!

Happy Wednesday!

Good morning my friends. Today should be a good day around here. I don't have class today, Tony has off from work, and it's my lil man Tony's 4th Birthday. I feel so sad to think next fall (2012) that I will be sending him off to kindergarten. I think I need to start stocking up on tissues now because I KNOW I will cry. And every year thereafter one of my lil ones will be starting school. I remember crying every year for like 7 or 8 years when my oldest went off to school. The next 10+ years are going to be really rough for me. LOL!!! Heck I cry when I take my son to speech therapy and I see him walk down the hall with his teacher. He is only gone for 30 min and I sit in the waiting area for him. He just looks like such a big boy. Sniff! Ok enough of that. LOL!

Today I have some awesome projects to share with you from Abby and Suzanne (the winner of Artful Delight's July monthly kit).

A new challenge is posted today over at The Paper Variety and these LO's both go along with today's challenge. This week's challenge is a tic-tac-toe. Chose any 3 items off the board to make your project. Check out the details here, as well as the awesome sponsor this week.

Abby

Suzanne

AMAZING LO's!!! For more details about these LO's please visit their blogs. Below are some links for more inspiration and details:

The Paper Variety

Abby's Blog

Suzanne's Blog

Happy Crafting!!

You lift me up

Good Morning! Happy Wednesday! :-) Today's post will be super quick since I have to be at school soon.

The winner of June's sketch challenge was Suzanne from Scrap with Suzy and The Paper Variety.

She offered to let me post pictures of the projects she made using Artful Delight's July monthly kit. :-) The first picture is a LO using ASC #10.



Awesome projects and thank you to Suzanne for letting me post these today. Please head over to her blog for more details about them and also head over to The Paper Variety because this week's challenge has been posted.

Happy Crafting!!

THANKS

Good Afternoon my fellow crafty friends! Today I have a card to share with you that DT member Abby created using the April monthly kit as well as for her newest challenge over at The Paper Variety.


This card is super cute, love the frame with the daisy flowers, and how she used the ribbon on the edge!! LOVE it!

For full details about this card and more inspiration please visit Abby's blog. Also be sure to stop by The Paper Variety and enter their challenge. I'm not sponsoring this week but there is an AMAZING prize for the winner of the challenge, be sure to check it out!!

Happy Crafting!!

The Paper Variety;1-2-3 challenge

Good Morning! I am so excited that I will be sponsoring some great challenge blogs for, well just about the rest of the year. For the next couple months I will be sponsoring The Paper Variety and then after that I will be sponsoring Frosted Designs. YIPPPEEEE!!!

So today I have some projects to share with you from the DT, we were invited to play along with this week's challenge at The Paper Variety. Both Abby and April are on the TPV design team.


The possibilities are endless with this challenge. Basically all you have to do is use the recipe of YOUR choice. For more details, inspiration and to enter the challenge head over to The Paper Variety. Here is what Artful Delight's team came up with.

All projects created were using the April kit. Here is my project:

I used 1 ribbon-2 buttons-3 twine! The Jenni Bowlin paint dabber that is in the kit is so much fun!! That is what I used to make the circle. The only things that weren't in the kit was the micro mini alphas in black I used in the title and the yellow and brown twine. The kit does include the alphas I used for "zoo" and it does include twine from The Twinery in Peapod.

Next up is Courtney's card!


Courtney's recipe is 1 chipboard die cut-2 words-3 buttons. Now Courtney used the paint dabber to color the chipboard frame. Oh this card is so cute. I LOVE it!


And last but certainly not least is Debbie's fabulous LO!

Debbie's recipe is 1 button-2 chipboard frames-3 pattern papers. So CUTE!!! April's kit is packed with a ton of cute embellishments. So be sure to play along over at The Paper Variety for your chance to win this month's kit.

Also don't forget to enter my anniversary giveaway, it ends March 31st. Be sure to stop by Debbie's and Courtney's blogs for full details about their projects.

If you would like to purchase April's monthly kit they are now on sale. Click here!

Happy Crafting!!

Have a sweet birthday

Good morning my friends! I hope y'all are having a wonderful weekend so far. Mine is the same as usually, pretty low key, watching my kids play, laundry, dishes, homework....mostly all the things I do everyday of the week. LOL!

Today I have a super cute card I made last night, another one of my moments I had to craft.


I was going to take a short video of the card because the candy machine wobbles and obviously you can't see that in the picture. Unfortunately I am video challenged and the video quality on my phone stinks and I would have to charge the battery for the video camera and tape it, edit it and upload it and for a 30 second video, that seems like a lot of work. LOL!

Anywho, I used papers from Echo Park's A Walk in the Park collection for this card. The candy machine image is from mygrafico, what I love about this store is that not only do they have digital stamps but they also have SVG files to use with my SCAL/Cricut. LOVE it! Ok, so I printed several of the candy machine images on several sheets of pattern paper, then I began to cut and paper piece it all together. It was a lot of work but it was a TON of fun. I used some Glossy Accents to make it look like a glass container (where the candy goes). The sentiment is from Skipping Stones Design, I have had this stamp set forever and I never used it. Thought it was a perfect card for it. Buns-N-Crunches is the name of the stamp set. Super CUTE!

I did a little sewing action on the outside of the card. So my kids must have played with the dials on my sewing machine because the stitch I made on the outside of the card is certainly not the one I wanted but it turned out ok. This is the first time I decorated the inside of the card, I did that because the sentiment I used was kind of a two-parter. LOL!

Now for the super COOL part of the card, the image is popped off the card using an Action Wobble. Have you guys seen these things.
Such a cool product. I bought a package of 25 for $9.95, they just started selling them in smaller quantities. I am going to have to use these more often on my cards, they are awesome.

Anyways, I am going to enter this card in two challenges. The Paper Variety, you were to sew on your project, whether you hand stitch or use a sewing machine and then also to the Sketches in Thyme


Alright well that's it for today. Have you seen the March kit reveal? People are already reserving their kits so be sure to check it out before they're gone. There is an option in my sidebar to reserve your March kit, or if you subscribe to a 3 or 6 month subscription by clicking here you can also reserve a kit.

Happy Crafting!!

Winner and a LO!

Good Morning! OH MY GOODNESS, I got halfway through typing this post and I thought it was Thursday the whole time. I was bummed because I thought I had missed the deadline for playing along with The Paper Variety. Seriously, what day is today, is it Tuesday or Thursday?

Well if it is in fact Tuesday then I will be able to submit my LO to The Paper Variety for this week's sketch challenge.

I was trying to get through my Macroeconomics homework last night and my brain kept hurting, so I decided to take frequent breaks and try to complete a LO. It was my stress reliever. :-)

Ok, well first I would like to announce the winner of January's sketch challenge ASC4 - Julie at life with the Tucker and Wolek clan. Here was Julie's submisson:

I LOVE Julie's work, it is always so bright and colorful and filled with awesome embellishments. And her daughter, oohhh she is a cutie!!!

If you aren't already a follower on Julie's blog, you should be, she is an awesome inspiration, very talented. :-)

I want to thank everyone that has entered the challenge this month, the choice was hard, all the submissions were amazing and creative. We will definitely be having a sketch challenge in February, I may have the prize be the kit and GDT spot again.

Ok, now for my LO I created for The Paper Variety sketch challenge.

And here is my take on the sketch:
Ok, I think that is it for today. Oh don't forget to pre-order your kit for February (link on the sidebar). I also plan on having a giveaway for my Facebook peeps so make sure you "like" me so you can get in on the fun. :-)

Happy Crafting!!