Candy Sign

CANDY ANYONE?

 

 



I have had these popsicle stick fence pieces in the drawer in my crafting desk for at least four years from when my younger brother and I used to craft together. All we ever finished from the project was hot glueing the popsicle sticks together to make fence pieces. We also made a gate out of one of them (the C) by putting a drawer handle on it to look like a door handle and then glueing a popsicle stick diagonally onto the piece.

 

Anyway, I nailed them all together and cut out some pennants and made a Halloween sign out of them! :)

 

Materials:

 

Hot Glue

Popsicle Sticks

Spellbinders "Lacey Pennants" and "Inverted Scalloped Circles"

Graphis 45 Happy Halloween Collection "Pumpkin Time"

Reminisce Trick or Treat  "Spider's Trap"

MME The Spider's Web "Cauldron Bubbles"

C10 Copic

Happy Anniversary

 

Happy Anniversary!

 

It took me two and a half hours to make this banner, but it was worth it to see the joy it brought to the faces of my soon to be in-laws.

 



The celebrating couple.

 

 

The set-up.

 

 

 

 

The banner.

 

The details.

 

 

Materials:

1. Paper- Echo Park Paper For the Record line, "Lazy Daisy" and "Diamonds". Crate Paper- Paper Heart Collection, "Delicate". Silver Mirrorcard. Cream Luster. Light Olive Green.
2. Dies- Spellbinders "Lacey Pennants" and "Standard Large Circles". Martha Stewart "Branch" punch. EK Success"Daisy" punch.
3. Green Ribbon.
4. Copic Marker-C10 (lettering).
    



Have a Frightful Halloween

I haven't posted in months! I feel likeI never have any time to create, but I have been buying and getting ideas like crazy. So there is a lot of new stuff that I have yet to play with but hopefully soon there will be some inspiration flowing from my blog yet again.

My biggest set back with creating is that I need some reason to create, and now that the holiday season is approaching, I have inspiration again!

 

Here's a card that I just whipped up with lots of new product from the store.

 

 

 

 

Martha Stewart Graveyard Edge Punch

Memory Box Dancing Skeletons die

Penny Black "Slapstick" Cling Stamps

Cuttlebug Tag Die

BACKROOM BLOWOUT

Hey all you Picture This go-ers!

Friday and Saturday June 29th and 30th is Picture This's Backroom Blowout Sale!

CHA is fast approaching and there will soon be a ton of new product in the store so we have to make room for it all. This sale is the perfect time to stock up for all your summertime scrapping at a bargain price!!! Everything in the back classroom will be 50-75% off. Items will include product such as paper (like Graphic 45, Basic Grey, and My Minds Eye), stickers, stamps, and more! All at amazing prices.

You do not want to miss this awesome event!

Arboscello Tree

I finally got to play with the Memory Box Arboscello Tree. I've been waiting for it for a while, they sell out so quickly it's been hard to get my hands on one. And then I have to actually find time to make something with it. This is the first card that I made with this die, and I like it so much, as well as the paper, that I made 6 of the card, because you can never have too many sympathy cards within reach.

 Memory Box Arboscello Tree

Stamp N Plus (Chippewa Falls) Sentiment

Authentique paper

Fab 5

McRice has new medleys out an we are loving them!

Here's what I came up with from their Fall Medley.

I used a flower picture that they  had on their medley and cut out flowers for my card from them to give my flowers a funky design.

Here's everything that I used:

McRice Fall Medley

Spellbinders Fancy Tag Trio

Martha Stewart Branch Punch

Cheery Lynn Sweet Williams D 137 dies

Basic Gray Hello Lucious paper

Anna Griffin corner Punch

I got my creative juices flowing and made more cards with the Fall Medley too!

McRice Fall Medley (Crow)

Kaiser Craft "Reunion" (Background)

Spellbinders Tag Trio Two

Spellbinders Standard Lg Circle

Memory Box Grapevine Wreath

Judith Bat Lg Stubby

Twinery Brown Stripe Twin

Great Impressions Have a Frightfully Fun Halloween C405

Memento Black Ink

McRice Fall Medley (pumpkin)

Memory Box Wrought Iron Fence

Spellbinders Standard Lg Ovals

Great Impressions BOO! A135

Memento Black Ink

Fab 5 is Tomorrow

Fab 5 is here tomorrow and it's only for one day. Check out what the girls have come up with this month and be sure to comment!

Mark your calendars for next Monday 25th....it will be time for another Fab 5. This one will feature the new Medleys by McRice. And you can join in on the fun. Check out the Picture This Facebook page for details. Then tune in Monday for a good dose of inspiration.

Best Wishes

This card was made with the new Cheery Lynn die Wedding Vows FRM 138.

Then I added a Lg Scalloped Oval and a Lg Standard Oval in white outlined in Memento Rose pink ink and stamped a sentiment on the inside oval.

The flowers were cut out using EK Success's Daisy flower punch.

I added some Stickles to add sparkle to the flowers.

Jamaica

Here are a few photos I'd like to share with you from my time in Jamaica

We went snorkeling and parasailing, saw a ton of awesome sunsets and got to watch the locals jump off of cliffs, we gazed at the lighthouse of Negril and then climbed its stairs to the top. It was a lot of fun

For My Kitchen



I had a lot of fun making this page. First of all, it's Graphic 45. Second of all, I got to use the TH/Sizzix Rosette die. Third of all, I hardly make pages although this month it seems like that's most of what I've been creating. And forth of all, it's going to be for my kitchen. As soon as I find the perfect picture to go in it, it's going up. I wanted to make a collage or something because I love this line of paper by G45 and it looks so kitchen-y. So I can't wait until I find a picture so I can hang it up!

Supplies:

Tim Holtz/Sizzix Mini Rosettes die

Graphic 45 Botanicabella Collection Garden Suite

Graphic 45 Botanicabella Collecion Botanicabella Tags

Graphic 45 Botanicabella Collection Secret Garden

Reminisce Autumn Forest Collection Textured Pear



Mirror, Mirror

More of the paper left over from my Christmas stuff

Dienamics (MFT) Fancy Flourish
Spellbinders Large Scalloped Ovals
Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch
MME Colorful Christmas Mistletoe Kisses
Flower
Silver Mirrorcard

On the inside here I used the border that my flourishes created. Waste not!

Jamaica

I am scheduling this post to go up because I will be leaving by the time it posts. Heading to Jamaica this morning from the cities.

I'll schedule some posts to go up while I'm gone and then have some pictures when I get back.

Have a great week Wisconsin! I'll be getting some sun!

Flourish

OOO! I got a new die!

This one was used up from my Christmas stash, again. The paper is from the MME Colorful Christmas collection Mistletoe Kisses ( the green and the polka dots).

I used Spellbinders Standard Large Ovals

Dienamics  (My Favorite Things) Fancy Flourish, it was cut out of silver mirrorcard

Fab 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOO! It's time for Fab 5 again today. Just one day only. This month we are featuring Tim Holtz Rosette die. I love this die so much. I use it all the time so I had my project done ages ago, I just had to make sure to limit myself because I could make dozens of projects with this die.

Here's the idea that I ended up going with. 

It was definitely time for me to make a page for my new home. I love how this turned out.

Here's the main feature of today's post. The TIM HOLTZ ROSETTE DIE. I actually used the Mini Rosettes die (that's the one that I have). It's a really good substitution for flowers. If you want something like a flower but not as fat, the rosettes lie flatter than most 3D flowers do. It's also good if you're making something for a guy. Flowers are just too feminine for them and this is a good alternative.

The die cut out and placed behind the two rosettes is called Amira Flourish and it's Memory Box

This banner was made with the Memory Box Scalloped Banner die and some circular alphabet sitckers

The window has several components to it. First of all, the window is Memory Box Small Madison Window. the valance hanging above the window is from Spellbinders Blossoms Tags & Accents set, folded in half over the window. The tree is from Memory Box: Twiggy Tree. The leaves for the tree are a Martha Stewart punch called Branch. 

I did a little distressing on the tree with Vintage Photo distress ink as well as on the leaves with Pine Needles distress ink to make them look more realistic. Also, hard to see in the pictures, but I also used Broken China to make clouds/sky on the blue background

So, I guess that I didn't control myself well with this page...I kinda went overboard with the dies and supplies but I had so much fun and it turned out so nice.

Supplies:

Paper: MME Fiddlesticks "Lucky" Tapestry (from the Miss Caroline collection)-this was the background

Kaiser Craft "Reunion" (from the These Days collection)-this was used for the rosettes

Ivory CS

Worldwin Light Spring Green CS

Peach CS

Green CS

Brown CS

Blue CS

Dies: Tim Holtz Mini Rosettes Die

Martha Stewart Branch Die

Memory Box Small Madison Window

Memory Box Amira Flourish

Memory Box Twiggy Tree

Memory Box Scalloped Banner

Spellbinders Blossom Tags and Accent

Inks: Tim Holtz Broken China Distressed Ink

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distressed Ink

Tim Holtz Pine Needles Distressed Ink

Accessories: Round Alphabet Stickers 

Ivory Twine

Pink Ribbon

FAB 5 IS TOMORROW! REMEMBER TO CHECK OUT EVERYONE'S BLOGS!!!!!

Oh, Pinecones!

More from my old Christmas collection! 

The paper is Reminisce Holoday Bloom.

Tim Holtz/Sizzx Tattered Pinecone Bigz Die

Zva bling

Stampabilities Merry Little Christmas 02

Have a Cool Yule

Here's another Christmas card that I made from my leftovers that I found in one of my project bags.

This is really similar to a card I did last year...I think. I made it for the Card Marathon I think...It's made from all the leftover pieces I had.

SB Ribbon Banners 

SB Standard Scalloped Circles

SB Standard Large Cirlces

Amuse stamps (have a cool yule & the boy and girl stamp)

Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch (the pink swirly piece behind the people)
Crate Paper Snow Day Collection Sparkle (lightbulb paper)

Twinery lime green twine

Copics

I love it when I can finish off a piece of paper that previously I had no idea how I was going to use it up. And in this case, all that digging I did last weekend in my project bags helped me clear out a little more than just my Christmas stock pile. Many of the pieces on this page are from a MME Olala line package that I bought last summer I think...

Supplies:

Background is MME Olala paper
The mount for the pictures on left are Pink Paislee Neighborhood Pool
The pictures are from a McRice paper medley
There's some bling from Zva
Everything else on the page is from the MME Olala line tags sheet

An Edward Christmas

This past weekend I really wanted to get some crafting done after work, but I hadn't bought anything new from the store so I dug around in some of the bags of paper and projects that I have laying around and made a bunch of cards, mostly with old Christmas paper. But it was still a ton of fun. I made a ton of cards and got rid of a lot of old paper that had only been used for one card.

Here's one card I made. 

The boy is Greeting Farm (Edward Cullen)

I think that the paper is a Christmas piece from MME, not sure on the polka dot

The snowflake is a Spellbinders snowflake from a variety pack 

Edward was colored with Copics:

E00 for his skin

E23 and E25 for his pants

YG63 for his shirt, layered on top of itself for texture

B39 and C10 for his hair

C10 for the black parts of his green shirt

(Also, I used C2 for his shirt underneath)

Tim Holtz Chipped Sapphire Distressed Ink 

Stampabilites Merry Little Christmas 02

Freshly Cut Flowers

Just a project I was working on last night amoung the many others. I can't finish it yet because I don't have any wire or pipe cleaners to attach the flower to.

Supplies:

SB Flower Pots, Large Standard Circles,  & Blossoms Tags & Accents

Sizzix/TH Tattered Floral die

Grass

I should probably get a lawn mower so I can cut my grass now that I think of it...

Supplies: McRice "Out West" Medley, MME Miss Caroline paper, MFT Dienamics Fresh Cut Grass die

Fun in the Sun

Anyone up for a little fun in the sun? I sure am. Today it's cold and rainy, it was actually hailing a little bit earlier today. And it's been storming. This card just reminds me that in two weeks I'll  be in Jamaica!

Supplies:

Pink Paislee "Neighborhood Pool"

McRice Medley

Memory Box Small Madison Window

Spellbinders Large Scalloped Circles

Twinery yellow twine

Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distressed Ink

Hot Fudge Studio stamp



Fiesta

I have had this page layout done for months. Since before Halloween actually. As soon as I knew what I was going to be for Halloween. It's been put together waiting for me to print the pictures for it, and today I finally printed pictures and finished the page!

We R Memory Keepers "Fiesta" paper and stickers

Mini Tree

Supplies:

Tim Holtz/Sizzix Mini Pine Tree & Holly

Mc Rice Medley

Sizzix Gridlock folder

Twinery Charcoal/Black Twine



BOB!!

I was scrapbooking and Bob decided to help.

And then she stole my paper strip and ran across the house with it...

Notice the teeth marks and saliva