Day 2 of the Shabby Chic Stamp hop

Hello everyone!  I wanted to share with you a few more projects that I did using the new stamps from the March Release at Shabby Chic Stamps.  Remember you only have until March 15th to save on the bundle so don't miss out!  Click here for all the details.

 For this first one I used the BUILD A CAKE set and the sentiment is from the GREETINGS set.  I added some Pearl pen to the trim on the cake and a little pearl in the center of the flower on the cake. I am entering this one into the Stampin' for the Weekend inspiration photo challenge.

 I took the lips from the IRISH LUCK set and paired it up with a sentiment from the GREETINGS set.

Lastly I used the flowers from the BUILD A CAKE set in different colors and stamped it with a sentiment from the Greetings set once again.

I will be showcasing a few more cards tomorrow using the new releases.  Till then..have fun!

Shabby Chic Stamps March Release Blog Hop

Welcome to our celebration hop of the newly released stamp sets from Shabby Chic Stamps.  If you came here from Jessica's blog then you are right on track. If not, you can click HERE to start over at the beginning.  The hop runs thru Sunday.  Many of the DT members will be posting new projects everyday to give you lots of eye candy.  I don't know about you, but I love to see what other people create.  It gets my creative juices flowing.

Before I share with you my projects I wanted to share with you a picture of all the stamp sets included in the hop.  They are on sale until March 15th if you order the bundle.  Click HERE for more details.

I came up with these projects today using just my scraps and I LOVE how they came out.  Today I am showcasing the new GREETINGS set.  I will be posting different projects Saturday and Sunday as well.  Tomorrow I will be using the Build a Cake set.

 Here is a set of 6 3x3 cards that I made.  The butterfly is from the EASTER BLESSING set.

 A close up of each one of the cards that are included in this set.

 I packaged them up in a cello bag and made a quick tag.  Used another sentiment from the Greetings set on the tag.  This would make a cute hostess gift or a little thank you for somebody to show your appreciation.

This card was made with scraps that were left over from my bird house I posted for the SVG ATTIC blog hop (also today!).  I have to trim my paper to fit on my Silhouette mat and these stripes were left over...I couldn't throw them out because I LOVE the paper!  The pic for some reason came out kinda BLAH sorry about that!  The Congratulations from the Greeting set is stamped onto a label die from Spellbinders. 

Now hop on over to Jennifer's blog to see what they have in store for you.  

Welcome Spring Blog Hop

Top of the day to you!  Welcome, welcome, welcome to the WELCOME SPRING blog hop!  If you came here from Jessica's blog then you are right on track.  If not, you can start over from the beginning by clicking HERE. 

When Jessica from SVG ATTIC released this set we all thought it would be fun to all do the same set to show our different takes on the same thing.  This has to be one of my best loved sets from SVG ATTIC. Even some of her customers are joining in on the fun!! 

Let me tell you, I had soooo many ideas because there is so much to do with this set.  I mean come on...how fun is this???   When I started this project it was my anniversary and instantly thought of my Market Fresh Kit from Market Street stamps and decided to pair it up with the bird house file from the Welcome Spring set. The kit came with a LOVE bird stamp which fit just perfectly. If you don't know yet, the bird house is a box and the lid comes off.  I am going to make a mini album of my husband and I to put inside.  I didn't get to finish that part yet so I haven't included pictures but stay tuned I hopefully will get it done soon and share it with you all.  

I just adore how this came out.  I really have to give a shout out to Stephanie who put this great kit together.  I am color challenged and waste so much time trying to match up papers and such.  But with the talent from Jessica and Stephanie I was able to make a treasured item that I will proudly display.  Thank you ladies!!! MWAH!  Without further ado, here is my project that I came up with.

 I put the letter B for the first letter of my last name since it was our "house" LOL

 I wanted to make a shingle roof and OMG these papers fit perfectly!!!

 The ribbons on the top (very top) and bottom are from My Mind's Eye.The one along the trim of the top was included in the kit. I also trimmed the house out with some twine from My Mind's Eye. To distress all the edges I used Tim Holtz's Vintage Photo and Stampin' UP! Basic Grey on the roof.

Another view of the house.  The twigs...well I have to laugh about those.  Who has painted twigs on hand?? I do!!!  It was part of another project that I didn't finish and I broke them and threw them out.  When I was doing this project I looked down into my pail and said...HEy I could use those!  This is why I hate throwing anything out!!

Now hop on over to Bunny's blog to see what crafty creations she came up with!

Don't forget......... we are also having a Shabby Chic Stamp Company blog hop today thru Sunday so stop on back and everyday until Sunday to check out my projects!  You can also check out SVG ATTIC's Facebook page as well as Shabby Chic Stamp Company's Facebook page daily for tips and inspriation!

Did I tell you how much I love my Market Fresh Kits???

Okay  I need more paper like I need a hole in my head but since I already have 2 holes in my head I figured the 3rd's a charm! LOL  I signed up to receive monthly Market Fresh Kits from Market Street Stamps.  I never look at the preview of them except I accidentally saw the stamp for this month.  I like to be surprised.  I love to craft but I am colored challenged.  I see cards and think OMG I love it but I would of never thought to put those colors together.  So the kits come in handy.  Everything is all in one perfect little package.  I keep all my scraps in there and have them right next to my desk so I just pull it out.

This month color challenge over at Market Street's blog was pretty cool.  I pulled out my February kit and found some colors that I thought would go perfectly.  There was a little saying one a sheet filled with sentiments that I thought would go perfectly so I cut it out.  I stamped on the tweed card stock with my Vintage Wallpaper stamp in Navy blue ink from Stampin' Up!  Then I found a scrap piece of paper that was the closest to Peacock that I would get.  On that Peacock paper I stamped  again with a different color of blue.  Even the pearls were from the kit!  I did add some linen ribbon from Paper Trey ink but that's it, everything is from the kit!

 Keeping with my Market Street Fresh kit theme I whipped up this card quick last night.  I used Sweet Lace as my background stamp on my Kraft card stock.  Then layered it with papers from October Afternoon (included in the kit).  The sentiment as well as the cross is from Shabby Chic Stamp Company's Easter Blessing set.  I had this left over piece of ribbon on my desk that any normal person would of thrown out but NOT ME!  I sat there wondering what I could do with it.  I knotted it on both ends and thought..hmmm I could add it to the card so I did just that.  Hope you enjoy!

More "Shabberific" stamps made with my Shabby Chic Stamps!

Happy Day to all! I wanted to pop on in and share with you some projects that I have made recently with my Shabby Chic Stamps.  They just released a new batch of stamps and I am looking forward to sharing with you all some neat projects with them so stay tuned!

And just to give you all a heads up..... SVG ATTIC has released this really, really awesome new cut file that I just adore to bits called Welcome Spring.  OMG you can make so many different things.  This Friday we are having a blog hop to showcase it all.  The DT thought it would be a cool idea that all of us use that file (can be combined with other cuts) to show what kind of designs are possible.  What is even neater none of us will see the projects until they are released.  It's killing me not to see what the other members created.  If you would like to hop along and have that file just put a post on the SVG ATTIC Facebook page that you would like to hop along and send Jessica your picture of your project in time.  I can't wait to see what everyone created!

So the girls went to bed early, dishes were done and the hubby was occupied so I was able to get into my craft room to play.  I made a few more projects.  The first set I worked with was the Shabby Chic.  I used the butterfly from the Easter Blessings set to make my own background design.

Below is a flower shaped bath sponge that I saw at the dollar spot at Target.  I stopped short when I saw that and said "Oh that would make a good cupcake."  Don't ask me why but I did.  I used the cupcake wrapper from SVG ATTIC Valentine Cupcake wrapper collection.  Figured this would be a cute little gift by itself or even shower gifts...hey no pun intended! LOL

I made this bookmark with my Irish Luck set.  I thought it would be cute to send to my friend.  I just love those free Stamp' Em's that come with the purchase of the set.  That is what I matted the stamp on (the ivory piece)....love how it is specifically made for the stamp.

New SVG ATTIC challenge

Good day to you all!  I am here to share with you a new challenge project from SVG ATTIC.  This is a month long challenge so you have time to play along.  Jessica gave us a gorgeous color combo to follow.  You need to use at least two of the colors shown below.

This is what I came up with.

It is hard to tell from the photo but I used several shades of the green as well as the ivory.  For the card I just welded two circles together and the celtic symbol is from CELTIC KNOTS.  The hat and horse shoes are from her cute ST. Patrick's day set called GO GREEN.  I used my spankin' new stamps from Shabby Chic Stamps for the sentiment.  The stamp set is called Irish Luck and can be found HERE.  To mat the stamp I used the free Stamp Em's that come with the purchase of the stamps.

We sure hope you play along with us.  Remember you have plenty of time and the reward is some awesome SVG's to pick from!

Oh and check out this fabulous and I mean fabulous new set from SVG ATTIC.  It was just released and OMG I am in love!  So many possibilities its ridiculous!   It is called WELCOME SPRING and can be purchased HERE.  What's even better, you can get this file FREE yes free with purchase.  Please see store for details.

A quick reminder!

Today is the last day for the SVGATTIC challenge.  It is an easy one so if you want a chance to get some great  prizes make a quick project with a heart on it and link it up before time is up.  For all the details click HERE.
This is the card that I did for the challenge so I thought I would share it all with you again.

Shabby Chic Stamping I go!

I wanted to share with you some cards that I made using new stamps from Shabby Chic Stamp Company.  I gotta tell you one of my favorite favorite favorite things is that each stamp set comes with free STAMP Em's.  You download them with the purchase of a stamp set and it is like getting a free Nestie or die cut with each stamp!  It makes planning your cards even easier when you use them in your program.  And they fit each stamp perfectly.

 This one I cut out the chocolate rabbit from the Easter Elements set from SVG ATTIC.  I cut out the Stamp Em' for the sentiment in two colors and tied it to the ribbon.  I used BUNNY LOVE stamp set from Shabby Chic Stamp Company for both of the sentiments.

 For this card I used some scrap paper from October Afternoon as well as My Mind's Eye.  I got the February Market Fresh Kit from Market Street Stamps that came with these label stickers from October Afternoon.  When I saw the sticker with the chair I thought it would be perfect for this sentiment. The sentiment is from the Shabby Chic set.

 When I was making this one I was thinking of keeping it very simple with a natural look.  I stamped the cross from Easter Blessings in various brown tones of ink from Stampin' Up!  Distressed the edges with some Tim Holtz ink and cut it on my scalloped edge trimmer.  I thought it needed something else so I ran it through my crimper.  The sentiment is from Easter Blessings as well.

My first album designed by me :)

Okay this has been a work in progress and has finally been finished.  I wanted to challenge myself to make an album completely from files that came from SVG ATTIC.  I can't believe it is finally done!!  Now I took a video of it since it is jammed packed with so many goodies and there would of been a gazillion pictures.  The video isn't the greatest since I am holding my camera with one hand and trying to show you the album with my other hand but hopefully you will get the idea. Please excuse the mousy noise which is my voice.  I am so stuffed with sinus issues.

Below I will list all the files that I used. I mention them in the video but you will be able to refer to either one. I thought I would fill this album with a mish mosh of things that I love in my life. I wanted it to be colorful and I think I accomplished that..LOL The papers I used were from October Afternoon.  I left some areas for journaling which I will do later.  I hope you like it and let me know if you have any questions.  Enjoy!

Okay these are the files I used (all available at SVGATTIC.com):

 Be Mine

 Yours Truly

Sweetheart Captions

Thankful Captions

 Birds and Bees

Give A Hoot

Back To School

Cozy Christmas Captions

Feels good to be crafting again

Yeah I am back.  Well sort of.  I don't have full motion and use of my hand but I have partial and that is all that counts!!  It gets my feet in the door of my craft room.  First I had a reaction to an immunization and couldn't use my arm for a couple of days.  Then on the same arm a couple of days later I had surgery.  It's been alittle over a week after the surgery and cast/bandages removed and I am slowly regaining strength in that arm/hand.

I haven't been on the computer for awhile and noticed that Market Street Stamps was having a Block Party.
Well right before all this happened I got my Stamp of the month kits from Market Street Stamps.  Oh boy that was torture!! I could only drool over them and not play with them.  BOO HOO for me.  So I decided to try to see if I could craft today.  I found out I couldn't use the tape gun because of my wrist but I made it work the best I could.  I didn't want to push it but I had fun with it.

I created this card with the February Market Fresh stamp kit.  OMG I fell in love the minute I got it.  What a beautiful doilie stamp.  The papers and goodies are so scrumptious. I love all this stuff so much I had to force myself to use it.

I inked up the doilie in a dark grey ink then "kissed" the edges with a red ink to give it the toned look.  I stamped it onto a spare tag that I cut out.  I glanced to my right and I had the stickers out that came with the kit and noticed this sticker that would fit perfectly so I decided to use it.  I wanted to add some background images.  I grabbed my Vintage Notepad background stamp and thought it needed something on the edges so I stamped two lines using my Simply Stitched borders set.  I distressed my papers in Tim Holtz's inks.  I decided I didn't like the tag so I cut it down but then I couldn't figure out what to do with it.  There were these awesome flowers of different textures so I played around with them and layered them and eventually came up with this card.  The button and the pearl are even from the kit. Completely different than what I wanted to come up with but hey I am just happy to be crafting again.

Well I am off to see how much more crafting my hand will handle...PFFTT who needs to clean?? LOL

Shabby Chic blog hop

Welcome to the Shabby Chic blog hop! We are celebrating the newly opened stamp company Shabby Chic Stamps and their gorgeous new stamps. If you came here from Jessica's blog then you are right on track. If not, you can start from the beginning HERE.

What's a blog hop without some candy??? Well we have some awesome prizes in store. One lucky winner will get ALL four newly released sets, four random participants will win one stamp set each, and one more lucky winner will win a $20 gift certificate to SVG ATTIC.COM which is Shabby Chic's sister company. All you have to do is become a follower of the Shabby Chic Facebook page and their blog. Then leave comments on all the blogs on the hop which stamp set you like the most. Don't forget to leave your contact information along with your comment on the posts so we have a way to contact you if you win. Once you are done you can leave a comment on the Facebook page that you are done hopping. That's it!!  There are four stamp sets that have been released with more in the works.  One of the things I love the most is that all the stamps come with FREE Stamp Em's. Stamp Em's can be cut out on your machine and fit the stamps perfectly. This is like getting a free Nestie with each stamp!! NOW that makes me smile :)

Here are some projects that I made with the newly released stamps. I do have a few more to share with you but due to hand surgery I did not get them done in time. I will be posting more this week and hopefully some more during the day.

These are a few that I made with the Easter blessings set. I wanted to show that this set does not only have to be used for Easter.

This is a sneak peek of one page I made of an album that I will be sharing with you all shortly.  I stamped and cut out the crosses from the Easter set on various DP.  

For this card I took the sentiments from the Irish Luck set and stamped them in various shades of green. I used Tim Holtz's Distressing ink to share the edges. I wanted to make my own background paper and love how it came out. I cut out this horse shoe from SVG Attic on my Silhouette.  Inked up the edges and added some stickles and ribbon.  Every year I make my friend a St. Patty's Day card but some how I never get them mailed out.  I joke that one day UPS will show up at her house with years worth of cards that I made for her.

 I already posts this one but I wanted to share with you another card I made with the Shabby Chic stamp set. I really like how this one came out. I designed it with my friend in mind and when she received it she loved it!  I used some of my new stash from My Mind's Eye. I spy with my little eye the butterfly from the Easter Blessings set :)

I hope to be completely healed soon so I can share with you some more projects that I made using my new Shabby Chic Stamps.  But for now you can hop on over to CARLEY's blog to finish the hop!

Not to "Shabby"

Hello Everyone! Things are a bit crazy here so I am delayed in getting this post up. I am due to get surgery this week on top of it being the 5th Anniversary of the date our two children went to heaven. I usually try to keep busy crafting so my mind stays off of it but I won't be able to since I just had surgery on my hand..sigh. Well first I wanted to share some exciting news that I got asked to be a designer for a newly released stamp company called Shabby Chic Stamps. You have to stop by to see some of her newly released stamp sets and keep popping on by to see what projects I have done using her stamps. I am working behind the scenes on some projects but I thought I would share one with you today. 

Some of my most loved paper lines come from My Mind's Eye. OMG don't get me started on Stella and Rose!!!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVEEEEE that line. I saw the challenge over at their blog and designed my card around their sketch. Now what I didn't do is take a picture of the inside that said "THANK YOU" before I sent it off. Stupid me since along with the sketch you had to use the word YOU in it. Well trust me it is there I was just not smart enough to include a picture of it! LOL The paper I used is from My Mind's Eye Lost and Found collection. It is called BLUSH. I loved the shabby, vintage look to it. I thought it would work perfectly with the new stamp set from Shabby Chic Stamps called SHABBY CHIC.  I used the sentiment C'est La Vie as well as the butterfly that I paper pieced on top of the sentiment.  I had a THANK YOU rub on that I used on the inside.

I am entering this card into the following challenges.

My Mind' Eye - Sketch

Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

Crafts and Me - Use a new stamp

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

CES Challenges - Lots of Layers

Allsorts Challenge - Free & Easy

Crafty Sentiments - Let's Get Girly

Ribbon Carousel Challenge - Anything Goes

Market Street Stamps color challenge

Hello everyone!  It is a dreary day with a mix of snow and rain so this card is just perfect for the weather.  I wanted to participate in the challenge over at Market Street Stamps.  They have a fantastic color combo challenge going on.  I have to admit that at first I thought I would have lots of trouble using those colors but much to my surprise I had none at all and I just adore the color combo.  The stamp set I used is called Ain't No Sunshine.  To make the frilly edge I used a MS edge punch on some scrap papers that I put together.  This is a larger 6x6 card.  I used my Prismacolor pencils to color in the poor sad cloud.

Home Sweet Home - SVG ATTIC & PKS Challenge

Good Afternoon everyone!  I can't believe it is winter and we are getting 60 Degree weather.  Not that I am complaining but the darn plants are gonna get confused and start growing.  Just came in from a nice little play day outside with the girls.  This weather was to nice to pass up.  But I wanted to come in and share my latest card that I made with my files from SVG ATTIC and stamps from PEACHY KEEN STAMPS.

There is a new challenge over at both blogs so I decided to make it so it would fit both challenges.  First at SVGATTIC the challenge is to use a heart on your project.  Which I did in the little birdies hand as well as on the bird house.  There was a photo inspiration at PKS.  It was so pretty that I wish that was in my yard.  Looking at it I took the colors as well as the nature/flower theme and made the card around that.

For the card I welded some shapes together on my MTC program from SVG Attic's Yours Truly set. The adorable bird and birdhouse are from the Birds and Bees set.  I added a branch from the Give a Hoot set so the birdie had some place to sit. My sister just bought her first house so I made this with her in mind.  I included a gift card inside with some Congratulations.  The sentiment inside the heart is from PKS's PK-636 Pumpkin House accessories stamp set.  For the adorable "I just want to Pinch you" face stamp I used PKK-144 Winter Faces.  The papers I used are from Basic Grey, October Afternoon as well as some various scraps I had laying around.

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

Simon Says - Animal Antics
Partytime Tuesdays - Anything Goes 
SweetStamps - Shaped card
Marks Finest Papers - have at least 4 layers

Just Ducky!

Whew by the skin of my teeth. Everything went wrong with this card. I couldn't find my darn cuttlebug plates (I flippin hate that they are clear...think when I buy new ones I will paint them) so I had to jimmy rig it and what a disaster. Let's just say I now need all new plates.

I wanted to make a double pocket card for my niece to sent her a gift card as well as a little note in it. Figured I would play along with the first Peachy Keen Stamps challenge. If I didn't have so many problems I would of had fun with this one. I am not super happy with the turn out from what I had in my head but it is what it is until I get to Michaels.

I used the Duck and Egg die as well as the Duck accesories die from Peachy Keen Stamps. For the inside sentiment and the faux stitching I used PK-225 Happy Flowers and Cheerful phrases. I made a tag out of some scrap paper to stick in the front pouch. In the back pouch I used the gift card holder from SVG Attic in the Be Mine set. The papers I used I also got from Peachy Keen stamps which came in a kit by American Crafts.

Part One of my Valentine's Day Goody bags.

Hello Everyone! My girls go to "school" one day a week for 4 hours. I am excited because I never got to the point of getting teacher gifts and making class party supplies and stuff like that. I know many of you maybe burnt out on that but that is something I was robbed from so I am having fun with it this time.

My girls are in a class that consists of 10 children in the 2 year old range. Ironcaly there is another set of twin boys..hmmm can you say boyfriends?? LOL
So I am making up each child a Valentine Day gift bag. I am making them a bit bigger because a) its from two children and b) this is my first chance that I am getting to do this. I am compiling each bag with a couple of components. I will share what the end product will look like but I thought I would share with you each item as they are done.
Trying to keep in mind their age I decided to come up with a cute little Valentine's themed memory card game. Market Street Stamps has a really cool color challenge going on so that is how I picked the colors to use. Sigh... keep in mind I started this project a couple of weeks ago. All my cuts including the square cards are from SVGATTIC. Now I am only taking pictures of one set of the cards (4) obvisouly there will be 8 in the set since you have to find the matching picture.

For the back of the cards I used Hearts of Plenty background stamp. I first stamped it in Vintage Cream ink then a red ink on top of it to sort of give it a shadow effect. I also used Hearts of Plenty on the inside top note matting as well as the Gingham stamp. The stars are from the Blast Off! set. The cuts I used were from the following files - Birds and Bees, Sweetheart Captions, My Valentine,and Yours Truly.

I am going to enter these into the following challenges:

Market Street Stamps - Color Challenge

Paper Pretties - Valentine's Day

There She Goes - Love is in the Air

Send A Smile for Kids - kid oriented

Simply Create Too - Love is in the Air

Craft Us Crazy - Valentine/Love

Crafty Creations - Valentines

Angelica's Online Birthday Bash!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Consider yourself lucky that you are reading this and not hearing it in person! LOL Welcome to Angelica's birthday hop! A bunch of us have gotten together to throw her a birthday party!! If you came here from Julie's blog then you are right on track. If you just got here you can start at the beginning by clicking HERE to start at the way beginning. Trust me, you will be amazed at what these ladies came up with. I was blown away by their creativity.

Angelica is a Mom, business woman, friend, basically a juggler of many things. I hope and wish today on her birthday she gets treated like a Queen and takes a break, she surely deserves it. Angelica you are a wonderful human being and truly deserve the best. Sending you many hugs and birthday wishes on your birthday.
Since I am ALWAYS behind and running late I went ahead and made her a Happy Belated birthday tag to go with her little gift that I got her. I honestly have the best intentions all the time but somehow, some way time slips away from me. I wanted to package up her gift so I used the pillow box cut from SVG ATTIC. The beautiful background stamp is from no other than the talented Angelica. It is called Vintage Wallpaper. I think this stamp was one of my very first Market Street stamps that I purchased. To ink up the stamp I used Vintage cream from PaperTrey Ink and stamped it on their kraft cardstock. If you haven't checked out her stamps you should!!! I am pretty sure that you will love them as much as I do.

Now go on and hope onto Kristi's blog to continue Angelica's birthday blog hop.

Here is the full blog hop list in case you got lost along the way.

Kathy-http://www.peachykeenstamps-kathy.blogspot.com/
Amanda-http://amandascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/
Amy Crockett- http://www.scrappingmommy.com/
Cristina Garcia- http://www.craftingwithcristina.com/
Lauren Brewer http://www.laurenscreative.com/
DoBea Alberts- http://www.dobeaalberts.blogspot.com/
Raven Baca- http://www.Love4stamps.blogspot.com/
Jennie Garcia http://earthyscrap.blogspot.com/
Heather Hoffman - http://housesbuiltofcards.blogspot.com/
Lorie Souther- http://thethinkinspot.blogspot.com/
Stephanie Muzzulin- http://www.handmade75.blogspot.com/
Erin Schreiner - http://www.erinleecreative.com/
Brenda Weaver- http://www.sweetpapertreats.com/
Michelle Criswell- http://www.scrappinwithmybug.com/
Michele Gross- http://studiomsg.blogspot.com/
Leanne Garner - http://www.createdbyleanne.blogspot.com/
Tifany DeGough - http://inkblotsbytrd.blogspot.com/
Samantha Casey- http://samanthacasey.blogspot.com/
Nikki Foraker- http://scrappinnavywife.blogspot.com/
Heidi Anne Giebel - http://gotscraps.blogspot.com/
Glorajean Beardall - http://www.glorascrafts.blogspot.com/
Vivienne Holden - http://www.craftinghaven.blogspot.com/
Janice Wilson http://stampingwithjanice.blogspot.com/
Saundra Rega http://luvscrappingtogether.blogspot.com/
Julie Day - http://www.daydesigns.blogspot.com/
Lisa Buttafuoco - http://our2angelsinheaven.blogspot.com/ -- YOU ARE HERE
Kristi Bennett - http://www.littlepapersprinkles.blogspot.com/
Mel Haas- http://doxiemeldesigns.blogspot.com/
Stephanie Washburn- http://sweetstephcardcreations.blogspot.com/
Kim Score -http://www.paperpunchaddiction.com/
Emma Aguilar -http://www.creativetimeforme.com/

Buzzing by.....

I had so much fun with this one! For some reason when I saw this I immediately wanted to make it with a pull tab. Don't know why but I did so I set to try to figure out how to do it. I used the beehive svg from SVGATTIC's set called Birds and Bees which you can find here. The sentiments and little flutter marks from the bees are from PEACHY KEEN STAMPS. The sentiment and one of the little flutter marks are from PK-244 Bee Happy and the other flutter mark is from PK-249 Honey Bugs and Bees. For some added dimensions I added some twisted florist wire for the antlers (actually I don't know what the heck they're called).
To make the beehive I cut out 3 beehives. Two in black and one in the yellow. When I glued the 2 layers together I used glue dots at the very edge along the side. Then I glued the yellow paper to the front as normal. I cut off the tippy top of the front layer as well as the back. I played along with another one of cuts from SVG Attic which I believe was just a simple panel for one of the cards. I made it into 2 layers that would fit inside of the beehive. There is loads of layers on this card and it looks so much cuter in person. Sorry about the pics but I haven't downloaded the software for my new camera yet...pure laziness I guess.

Above is how it looks when everything is tucked in nice.
Partially pulled out.


And here is what the complete card taken out looks like.



HOpe you enjoy my card, I certainly had fun making it :)

LOVE fully revealed

Hello everyone! As promised here is a full view of my project made with a new collection of files released today from SVG ATTIC titled Sweetheart Captions. The minute I saw this file I knew exactly what I wanted to do and even had the colors I wanted in mind. I literally did this during nap time, sewing and all. This picture was taken of my daughter Mia by my friends 14 year old daughter who is absolutely phenomenal at taking pictures. Sweetheart captions is jam packed with all of these ideas and possibilities. It is not just for Valentine's day which is the type of files you need to add to your collection. I am working on another project using the Amour file but I did not get a chance to finish it for this post. Hopefully I will be able to share it with you soon. Here is a picture of all the svg cuts included in this file. You can click HERE to be directed to the page to purchase it.

I also wanted to share with you my project for the new Sisterhood of Crafters challenge. The challenge was to make a project related to snow. To be honest I am so snowed out and ready for some different type of projects. But I did have fun with this one. My fellow talented DT sister Darlene gave me this tutorial on how to make this memo holder. She is just so inspiring and gives me tons of ideas and projects so make sure to drop by her blog. You won't be disappointed!

It was so easy and makes wonderful gifts. All it uses is one 12X12 double sided piece of paper and that includes the pocket on the inside. I did also pair it up with a Post-It note holder using some scrap paper and another Mega Clip bookmark that I made. I made this with all items that I had on hand which was great for me! I hope you do stop on by and play along with our challenge.

Sneak Peak!!!

How much fun did I have you ask??? LOL LOADS! You know you have a good file when things come together rather quickly. I made this project during nap time with a file that will be released tomorrow from SVG Attic. There are soooo many possibilities with this set. I am also working on another one and hopefully will have it done for the release tomorrow. Check back tomorrow for my full picture of my project made with the new release.

For now here is a little tease~!