FTL209 Pumpkin pie, Pumpkin patch

Hi everyone!  I just received some new goodies from The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store and set aside a few minutes to play along with this week's Fall To Layout sketch challenge (FTL290).  It was a really cool sketch and I made this card in less than an hour (which is pretty fast for me)!

I used the gorgeous Apple Cider 6x6 paper from Bo Bunny and the sentiment stamps are from JustRite's Autumn Words.  I added some rhinestones, velvet ribbon and prima flowers as accents and done!  See the gold edges on the flowers?  I chose those specifically for that.  I generally use silver tones in my cards, but this paper and theme allowed for gold accents perfectly!  LOVE!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!  I'll leave you with a close up picture.

All supplies found at the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store

Card Deets:
Stamps - Autumn Words (JustRite)
Paper - white cardstock; Apple Cider (Bo Bunny)
Accessories - Avon Rose in Alla Prima, Sugar Blooms in Madeline (Prima), Rhinestones in Amber (Kaisercraft), 1/8" velvet ribbon in brown (May Arts)

Home is Where the Heart is digi kit

Hi everyone!  I’m super excited to share a fun new digital/paper crafting kit with you today!  Check this out:

 One of my online scrappy friends (and Spellbinders DT mate), Shanna Vineyard, has combined her love of hand-drawing and painting mixed with her fondness of bright, happy colors to bring us a kit that is different than anything you’ve ever seen!   In celebration of her relocating back home to Arizona next week, she was inspired to create this kit, “Home Is Where the Heart Is” that includes over 50 different hand-drawn and painted images.  They can be used in your digital projects or can be easily resized and printed to cut out and use with your traditional scrapbooking and card making.  The possibilities are endless and you will have them to use over and over again as much as you like for as many projects as you wish!  So FUN!!! 

Here are a couple cards I made with the kit.  Most of you know that I'm not all that technical and doing hybrid projects about scares the pants off of me.  But Shanna explained that I can copy and paste the images into my Word document, size accordingly and print out.  HEY!  I can do that!  lol!  Turns out it was pretty easy peasy.  This card uses the Spellbinders flower pot dies and a couple flower images printed out in different sizes.  Love this blue birdie -it's my favie of all the colors in the kit.

 My next card uses the Fall To Layout 180 sketch from this week.  Ummmm, how cute is that kite???  Again with the cute little birdies, happy sigh...

You can visit Shanna’s blog to purchase this kit and see LOTS of other awesome samples from several designers!    In celebration of this fun, new release she is also having a huge giveaway valued at over $275.00 with lots of fabulous new scrappy goodies and several ways you can win!  So head on over and check it out! 

Thanks for stopping by, here are a couple close up pictures.

 

Washi Tape goodness

Hi everyone!  I just love happy mail!  Lookie what I ordered from Etsy?  

Look at all this fabulous Washi Tape goodness!!  I love how some Etsy stores sell smaller rolls on these cute little spools.  This is a much cheaper way to get lots of designs.  Full rolls are sold for about $10 for 2 or 3 full rolls.  But this way, you get 5 yards of 3 designs for about $4!  These are from the store Chickydoddle and she sends the spools in these cute little tins.  L.O.V.E.!!

So, of course I HAD to make something with the tape this morning!!  I used this week's Fall To Layout sketch.  The sketch wasn't really tape friendly, so I had to work with it a little to get some in there.  The hearts are die cut felt (also from an Etsy store) using the Classic Heart Nestabilities dies and the banner from the Nested Lacey Pennants dies.  I didn't really plan on using the tiny rhinestones like that, but my baggie spilled all over the bottom and I kinda went with it.  The little rhinestones are from Pizzazz Aplenty.

Well, that's it for today.  Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Shades of yellow accordion flowers

Hi everyone!  I have a double challenge card to share today.  I combined the sketch from this week's Fall to Layout with CAS-ual Fridays "Mostly Monochromatic" challenge (to use 3 shades of the same color + brown).  I should note that my flowers were a bit too big to put my sentiment at the bottom, so I adjusted the sketch a bit.

I made these accordion flowers by die cutting with the Spellbinders Picot Edge Circles. I scored at each point, made a slit 1/2 way to the center and folded along the lines like an accordion. It takes 2 circles to make 1 flower.  The pattern paper is the fabulous Alla Prima by Prima. LOVE this paper pad (I used it on my Lace inspiration card from yesterday)!! The flower centers are 2-toned open roses glued to little brown circles.

 Here is a picture showing the process for the accordion flowers.

 Thanks for stopping by and be sure to come back tomorrow for another double challenge card -I am on a roll!!!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Family Garden (JustRite Stampers)
Paper - Pure Luxury white, ivory and chocolate brown (Gina K Designs), Alla Prima 6x6
Accessories - Spellbinders S4-345 Picot Edge Circles and S4-114 Standard Circles LG, burlap string, yellow rhinestone, satin ribbon, 15mm 2-toned open roses (Wild Orchid Crafts)

FTL150 Some sweet fruit

Hi everyone!  Today I played along with this week's Fall To Layout sketch (FTL150).  Can you believe they are up to 150 sketches?  That's a lot!!  Congrats girls on a job well done!

I took some liberty with the smaller bottom panel and used ribbon instead.  I inked up the fruit images in the Garden Fresh set to match the colors in the pattern paper.  I added some little gems and the ribbon is the new 1/8" taffeta from SU!. 

Short and sweet today.  We are redoing our entire back yard this weekend as well as our entryway!  What HAVE I gotten myself into?  lol!

Oh, I almost forgot!  One winner of my papers and ribbon package didn't get back to me, so time to pick another winner.  

Here are your random numbers:

10

Timestamp: 2011-07-24 00:26:35 UTC

Tanya said...

Oh I would love to add my name for a chance too, I don't have much ribbon. Thanks! :D

July 16, 2011 3:07 PM

Congrats Tanya!!  Send me an email and I will get your package out to you ASAP!!  Here's a close up pic on your way out.

Card Deets:

Stamps - Garden Fresh (GKD)
Paper - Watermelon Gazpacho Soup 6x6 pad (Jillibean Soup)
Accessories - 1/8" daffodil taffeta (SU!); Green, red, and orange rhinestones (Pizzazz Aplenty)

FTL130 Way to go

Hi everyone!  I have a summery card to share using a couple summer stamp sets from Verve, Hibiscus, Happy Days  and Dude.  I stamped them and colored them with copic markers to match the pattern paper.  Speaking of the pattern paper, I used the new KaiserCraft 6x6 pad, Seaside.  What I love about these pads is the papers are embossed, flocked and glittered AND in the back are 3 pages of die cuts!  I used one of the die cut shapes for the sentiment.

The sketch is from this week's Fall To Layout #130.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!  I'll leave you with a close up picture.

Card Deets:

Stamps - Hibiscus PJ, Dude (Verve Stamps)
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa, Cajun Craze
Paper - Vintage cream cardstock, Seaside 6x6 pad (KaiserCraft from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store)
Accessories - Copic markers, silver cord, Tiny twinkles rhinestones (Taylored Expressions)

Fall to Layout 116

Hi everyone!  I have a quick post today.  Here is a card I made for this week's Fall to Layout (FTL116).

I used the yummy Cosmo Cricket Mitten Weather 6x6 pad AND the amazing co-branding stamp set from Unity called, Mitten Weather Icons.  The sentiment and background snowflake image are from Merry and Bright.  Don't these adorable ornaments look good hanging from Baker's Twine?  Isn't it cool how Unity is doing stamp sets that coordinate with designer lines?  Sigh... I do love me some Unity!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Merry and Bright, Mitten Weather Icons
Ink - Wild Wasabi, Sahara Sand and Basic black
Paper - Vintage Cream, Mitten Weather Mini deck pad
Accessories - Top Note die, red rhinestones, sponge, stickles, baker's twine

A couple challenge cards

Hi everyone!  I am nursing a horrible sore throat, so I just had to sit down and make cards, right?  Any excuse -lol!  I have a couple challenge cards to share today.

This card is for Gina K's release party challenge #2. A sketch challenge, my favorite kind!!  The boy and girl image is from the set, The Journey and the sentiment is from Fine Furnishings Additions. I colored the image with copic markers. 

AND see that fun ribbon? I got it from an Etsy store!  It was actually the wrapping ribbon from my purchase! Love it when I can reuse packaging!!  The pattern paper is from Webster's Pages, Restoration and the rose is from Prima's Fairytale Rose Coral collection.

 Next is a card for this week's Fall to Layout (FTL115). I used Verve's Winter Mittens and Holiday Phrases. I LOVE this sketch cause I got to use more of my snowflake sequins (from the Blizzard Mix)! I pieced the mittens, added silver stickles on the cuff. and put silver pearls in the center of my snowflakes!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Saturday!!

Card Deets:

Stamps - The Journey, Fine Furnishings Additions
Accessories - oval, circle and blossom nesties, bling, top note die (SU!), Fairytale Rose in Coral, hand dyed ribbon

Card Deets: 

Stamps - Winter Mittens, Holiday Phrases
Accessories - silver pearls (Recollections at Michael's), silver stickles, sequin snowflakes from Blizzard Mix

Simple Snowflakes

Hi everyone!  I had a chance to play along with this week's Fall to Layout (FTL114) challenge.  Pretty cool layout and I thought Verve's snowflakes from Glad Tidings would work perfectly.  I also used some of my snowflake sequins. 

My plan was to do blue snowflakes on white cardstock and then the opposite of white snowflakes on blue cardstock.  But my blue card got all crooked, so I trimmed out the stamped part and mounted it to a white base.  Still turned out pretty cool!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Card Deets:

Stamps - Glad Tidings
Ink - Bashful blue and Night of Navy
Paper - white, bashful blue
Accessories - snowflake sequin (Cartwright Sequins), silver pearls (Recollections, score-pal

Stamp Simply blog hop winner and another circle card

Hi everyone!  The Stamp Simply Ribbon store blog hop winner comes from comments left on my blog this month!  Woohoo!  Random.org chose:

Sabrina aka okimom2girlz said...

Michelle, this gift set is beyond words!!! So elegant....love it!! Hugs, Sabrina

September 14, 2010 7:03 AM

Congrats Sabrina!!  You win this FABULOUS Kaisercraft Utopia Kit:

Please contact Sharon at ssj@up.net and be sure to put "Blog Hop Winner" in the subject line.

I also have a card to share, yep another circle card!  Have you seen enough of these from me lately?  Well today's Fall To Layout sketch was A CIRCLE card.  So how could I not play along?  heehee! 

My card uses the lovely papers from Webster's Pages, Garden Gala Triple pack.  Can't get enough of these lovely prints.  The ribbon is the Wrinkled ribbon in cream, the thinness of this ribbon makes it perfect to make double bows with!  The perfectly matched Kaiser Pearls are in Blush, Latte and Bliss.

See the stamped border on both sides of the sentiment?  I used a rectangle frame stamp from the JustRite Stampers set, Victorian Nested Frames & Occasions.  Here's what I did with the stamp to get the borders that close together.  I cut the frame at all 4 corners and placed them closer together on the stamping block.  I've cut my stamps before, don't be afraid to do this!!

Because of the nature of JustRite stamps and their stamping blocks, putting the cut pieces back together in the original rectangle is EASY!  See?  Just snap them on and good as new:

That's it for tonight!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great evening!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Victorian Nested Frames and Occasions (JustRite Stampers)
Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa
Paper - Cream cardstock, Garden Gala triple pack (Webster's Pages)
Accessories - ribbons, circle nestabilities, and pearls (Stamp Simply Ribbon Store)
 

Featured Stamper and an Ippity Trio

Hi everyone!  Short post today, got lots to do!!  I have a couple cards to share.  First up is a card I made for the SCS Featured Stamper challenge.  This week, we honor nikkischmaltz. She has a fabulous gallery and I chose this cutie card to case.

I heat embossed the branch image with white EP and added a couple flower sequins for flowers. The PP is Just Chillin' Girl from Making Memories and the sentiment is from Signature Greetings from PTI.

Next up, I have a trio of CAS note cards.  Awhile ago I bought some Hero Hues folded card packages.  I bought them in Reds and Blues.  I rediscovered them when I did my stamping area clean up -BONUS!!  I haven't had much a chance to play with the Ippity set, The Simple Things, so I busted it out! 

Here is my favorite of the trio:

Here is another:

This one uses this week's FTL93 layout:

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

Card deets:

Stamps - Signature greetings, turning a new leaf (both PTI)
Ink - black, versamark
Paper - white, Just chillin' girl (MM)
Accessories - white ep, double stitched ribbon (PTI), single embossed curve punch (EK Success), flower cupped sequins, bird punch and corner rounder (SU!)

Card Deets (trio):

Stamps - The Simple things, Everyday Greetings (Clearly Wordsworth, for last sentiment)
Ink - Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point, black
Paper - White, Sea Folded Cards (Hero Arts)
Accessories - Oregon Raindrops in Aqua and Kiwi, misc rhinestones, ruler, black pen

May Guest Designer for Nina Brackett

Hi everyone!  I have fun news!  You may have caught from my Embellish Magazine blog hop post yesterday, that I was asked by Nina Brackett to be her May Guest Designer!  She released 2 wonderful stamp sets for Gina K Designs, Fine Furnishings and Fine Furnishings Additions.  Here they are!

I have a couple cards to share with you using these sets.

This first card uses the chair, side table and flower vase from Fine Furnishings.  I also made this for the Limelight Papercrafts challenge, which is a sketch challenge that you were to use "fuzz" on.  My fuzz comes from the felt flower which I used as a "pillow" for the chair!

I stamped the chair, table and vase on white and cut them out and popped them up.  See how the vase is colored?  I used my Stampin' Up markers to color the stamp.  I haven't done that technique in awhile, but that is one advantage when using red rubber!  The de-lightful paper is from Cosmo's new paper, DeLovely! 

This next card uses a sentiment from Fine Furnishings Additions.  I love the wide arrange of sentiments in this set.  Perfect for many occasions!  The sketch is from last week's FTL91 sketch.  I used the amazing Basic Grey Capella papers.  Sigh, so soft and delicate.  I pleated the white wrinkled ribbon on a strip of Score-tape.  I stamped the sentiment on one end of a Labels Eight nestie, sponged the edges and added some Latte Kaiser pearls.  The flower dies are from PTI with a small white sweet blossom from Zva Creative.

My last card uses the amazing chandelier image from Fine Furnishings.  Notice this image comes in 2 sizes in the stamp set?  Perfect scale for many designs.  I stamped the image in black and added some red and clear rhinestones to is.  The paper is from Pink Paislee, Bayberry Cottage -love the rich colors and patterns in this line -perfect for the regal chandelier image!  Again I used some wrinkled ribbon, this time I used 2 pieces and tied them together.  I used another white Sweet Blossom from Zva to set off the bow.

Thank you so much for stopping by and be sure to check out all the amazing sets released by Gina K Designs last night!!


Card Deets:
Stamps: Fine Furnishings and Fine Furnishings Additions
Ink: black, Hawaiian Shores
Paper: White CS; DeLovely PP (Cosmo)
Accessories: Lippy Red rhinestones (Kaiser), gingham ribbon (SU!), Scallop border punch (EK Success), SU Markers

Card Deets:
Stamps: Fine Furnishings Additions
Ink: Vintage Photo (for sponging), black
Paper: White CS; Capella PP (Basic Grey)
Accessories: Sweet blossom flower (Zva Creative), Latte pearls (Kaiser), White wrinkled ribbon (May Arts), Scallop border punch, Blossom dies (PTI)

Card Deets:

Stamps: Fine Furnishings and Fine Furnishings Additions
Ink: black
Paper: White and black CS; Baybury Cottage PP (Pink Paisell)
Accessories: Sweet blossom flower (Zva Creative), Lippy red rhinestones (Kaiser), burgundy wrinkled ribbon (May Arts), Scallop border punch, circle and oval nesties