A Fine and Dandy Hello

Supplies:
MME Fine and Dandy paper
Colored gems
Clear acrylic letter pieces
CB Quillled Daisy
Martha Stewart Fence Edge Punch

Bath Time

Here's another old page. The paper is My Mind's Eye, "Bath Time" was custom cut at Picture This, the flowers aare all from Tim Holtz/Sizzix Tattered Florals die and the edger punch is from EK Success.

Captured Memories

First thing I gotta say is that I love this background paper.  It's from Fancy Pants and it's adorable. This is the first sample page that I made during our girls night at the Green Haven Retreat, so it's not my favorite but still post worthy.
October Afternoon: Starry Night (front and back)
Spellbinders- Ribbon Banners
Zva gems
Kaiser paper flowers- sky blue
My Mind's Eye- The Spider's Web Accessory Sheet
Cream cardstock
Fancy Pants: My Camera #1956/ Memories Captured
Authentique- Petite Type Circles (abc stickers )

Fine and Dandy Chicks

My Minds Eye Fine and Dandy paper line and sticker sheet
Cuttlebug Quilled Daisy
Martha Stewart Picket Fence border punch
Corner rounder

My Oh My

Everything is from the Fine & Dandy-Tickled Pink My Minds Eye paper collection. The stickers, the paper, the die cut. Fleur de Lis Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Martha Stewart Border Punch.

Mother

Graphic 45 baby collection
MY MINDS EYE "mother" die cut
Jewelry charms
1" cream ribbon Cassie Os Brocade Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Tim Holtz Distress Ink- Victorian Velvet

Meadowlark

This is a page I made using the Meadowlark collection from MME. The collection is a couple if years old.

Spider Lane

I know, I know. You all see Halloween and you're thinking "that is SO last month". I can't help it. I have to post this page; it was one of the samples I worked on at our girl's night. But I made it on October 28th. I already had things I wanted to post through the end of October, it would just be too hard to find time to rearrange my posts and type up this one in three days. EXCUSES. I'm done with them now. Now just look at this page and go make it! Here's the products:
Pebbles "Spider Lane" Tricks or Treats
My Mind's Eye- "The Spider's Web Accessory Kit"
Echo Park- "Dictionary" Chillingsworth Manor
Bo Bunny-Fright Delight Chipboard

Magnificent Pine with Poinsettias

I LOVE this paper and this die. The turquoise color for Christmas is amazing and this tree is so beautiful. There are four components to this card: Memory Box Magnificent Pine die cut out of pine green cs, MME Mistletoe Magic "mistletoe" paper, EK Success "jewel" edge punch on white cs, and your choice of liquid pearls and stickles (I used white opal, platinum, and xmas red)

Another Journal

Here is another journal made from MME paper.
The craft fair wasn't very busy for us but I did manage to sell almost 30 cards!

So Sophie Journal

Today I went on a rampage making books out of these binders I acquired a while ago that I contimyually mention. One of the ones I made I used MME So Sophie line. I really like how this one turned out. I hope it sells tomorrow at the craft fair. 

Journal Book

Here's another item I recently made for the craft fair from the many binders I saved from the garbage a couple of weeks ago.
Front and back cover:
Jillibean Soup- Watermelon Gazpacho Soup-Seedless Cucumber
MME Ooh La La "Over the Top"
The inside is full of patterned paper from a variety of companies including MME, Authentique, my little shoebox, and IOD. They all have a notebook paper pattern that I thought looked very cool for a journal or day planner.
Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!!

What a Wonderful Day

This weekend I got some crafting in, specifically scrapbook pages for samples for the store.

Here's one of the samples using My Minds Eye paper:

All of the supplies needed to make this page can be found at Picture This:

Martha Stewart Daisy Fan Deep Edge Punch

MME Indie Chic "Ginger Travel Tulips"

MME Breaking Free "You & Me Frame"

MME Indie Chic "What a Day Journal Card" & "What a Day Title"

Zva Bling

Kaiser Paper Flowers- Sky Blue

Dark Desert Dune CS

What's the Buzzz?

So eons ago I colored this image with my Copic markers and I was going through my projects and found the image. I have about 5 of them total stamped out (with the saying as well) in on of my project boxes. Obviously this was another one of those projects that I started and intended to finish but hadn't gotten around to it yet. It's been months, probably closer to a year, since I've had this image in my bin waiting to make use of itself. 

Well! It's got use now. At least one of the 5 images does...I'll have to get around to coloring the other ones and then turning them into something spectacular. 

If you'd like to make the Beehive card this is what you'll need:

Copic Markers (Y35, B39, C00, C2, YG63, E00, E23)

Spellbinders Nested Lacey Pennants & Labels 18

Martha Stewart "Daisy" Punch

MME PB&J "Sunny Day"

Paper Flowers

I apologize for the fact that I don't know what the stamps are from. They do go together, they're from the same company and came out at the same time. I want to say Great Impressions but I won't commit to that.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you've been inspired! 

DEER FRIEND

Stitched Ribbon
Alphabet Stamps (or at the store there is a new stamp that says this on display for V-day)
MME Die cut Olala
Paper:
Sassafras (deer)
MME Olala (orange)

Happy Haunting

So, I thought I'd throw a little Halloween into the mix today  because it doesn't get enough card attention. I mean I sent out Halloween cards but do most people? I'm not sure. But I like to because I entirely enjoy making Halloween cards; they can be creepy but still cute. And they're fun to mail, especially if you have some young ones to send them to because you can stick some candy inside of them. What else would someone expect for Halloween?

All I've been seeing lately on TV are these previews for the new scary movie Mama. It looks REALLY scary. I can't wait to go see it. Or better yet to own it and watch it in my basement to make the scary effect that a scary movie has even scarier. Right? Well anyway there's at least one commercial on for this movie every commercial break on some channels, so it's really pumping me up to see it. It makes me want Halloween to be coming soon. But since Halloween is NOT around the corner, I will have to settle for some cards that feature the creepy house from around the corner (or the end of the block).

The first picture here is to show you the details of these cards up close. 

This picture is to show you some of the slightly altered designs of this card that I made. I had to alter the designs not just because it's fun to do, but because I made the first card using some scraps and had to finish the rest of the cards using the rest of the scraps or by finding more scraps to use instead.

Supplies you'll need to fill your Halloween bucket:

Carta Bella-All Hallow's Eve "Scary Stripe" paper

My Mind's Eye-The Spider's Web "Cauldron Bubbles" paper

We R Memory Keepers-Urban Window Collection "Restortaion Jacquard" paper 

Great Impressions c405 "Have a Frightfully Fun Halloween" stamp

Black and White The Twinery twine

Spellbinders Lg Classic Inverted Scalloped Circles

Spellbinders Labels One

Spellbinders Ribbon Tag Trio 3 

Memory Box Country House

Betcha didn't think that the Country House (Memory Box) could also double as a haunted house did you? Did you see it as a church either? Ah...well now your eyes have been opened.

Happy Hauntings!

Way Back When. . .Card Kit

Whoa, is this a blast from the past. I found these cards in my stash and realized that I never posted them on my blog. So way back when, when I was still working many hours at Picture This and had time to do things like this, I made a card kit. This is said card kit. Sadly if you like it we no longer have it. Also sadly, I have absolutely NO idea what any of these papers are...I do know that they were doubled sided and at least one of them was the kind of paper that had 4 6x6 squares on its back side that showcased some of the other papers in its paper line. I can tell you that it's old and sold (out) because that is why card kits get made: to sell things out. The embellishments are My Minds Eye. The ribbon PT still carries: green mesh ribbon. Also the blue embossed paper is Core-dinations. The Cuttlebug embossing folder is called Moroccan Screen. The white tags are Spellbinders Ribbon Tag Trio. And the stamps are/were all from Leann's stash.

But don't fret over the fact that these cards are old and there's no way you can still get anything used to make them, because you still have the idea. ;)

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

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