Hello, Little Tangles - Artful Delight sketch challenge

  I created this card using a sentiment from my Neat and Tangled "Fresh Blooms" stamp set

and the current sketch from Artful Delight:

  My pretty patterned paper and

coordinating felt and button flower came from my

November 2011 Artful Delight kit.
The yummy papers and embellies are abundant in
every delightful monthly kit.
Enter the sketch challenge for a chance to WIN a free kit!

I want to welcome the blogosphere's newest challenge blog:

Little Tangles!

FREE digi available too!  Check out Little Tangles challenge blog :)

Happy Monday!

Me & Echo Park...So Happy Together

  I love pretty papers, and I have many favorites.  Today I used Echo Park's "So Happy Together" collection.  The papers are all really happy and work well for summery cards.  But I purposely made mine a wintery card...I am funny like that :)  I may as well get a jump on holiday thank you notes, right?  I purchased the Echo Park 6x6 pad, the glossy accents, the My Mind's Eye "playful" twine, and the My Pink Stamper sentiment stamp from Shop Pumpkin Spice.  The liquid appliqué on the roof and the button are from my stash.  The house is cut from the Cricut "Create a Critter" cartridge, p.28.

Happy Thursday!

Three Bugs in a Rug "Ellie" at Shop Pumpkin Spice

  I have a thing for elephants, so when I saw this "Ellie" 6x6 pad for just $4.20 at Shop Pumpkin Spice, I had to buy it :)  When I cut the tent, it came out ginormous!  I decided to just go with it; as a result my card base is 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"!  Yep, and entire sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" scored and folded in half.  I had to piece together my "grass" to fit across the 8 1/2" bottom...can you find the seam?

  My sentiment stamp and ink also came from Shop Pumpkin Spice; a one-stop shop :)

Supplies (links embedded):
paper:  Three Bugs in a Rug "Ellie" 6x6
ink:  My Pink Stamper "Darkest Night" hybrid ink
sentiment stamp:  My Pink Stamper "Girlie Doodles"
Cricut cartridge:  "Create a Critter"p.55 (tent cut @ 2 1/4"; elephant cut @ 3")
embossing folder:  Cuttlebug "Polka Dots"
border punch:  Martha Stewart (grass)

  I hope you will come back tomorrow for more Shop Pumpkin Spice inspiration.

Happy Wednesday!

Tags & Bags blog hop - Joy's Life - blog candy

  Welcome to the Joy's Life design team Tags and Bags blog hop.  There are prizes to be won, so I hope you will start at Joy's blog and hop along.  This is my first hop with the Joy's Life design team, so if you are new to my blog, welcome!  I enjoy both stamping and die cutting, so I hope you enjoy perusing my blog.  If you are hopping along, you should have arrived here from Amy's blog.

  The "tags and bags" blog hop theme seemed perfect for Cricut usage!  I cut the purse and tag, then stamped on the tag and assembled.  Next to create some gift tags to put inside the purse...I cut, assembled, and stamped the "TO:    FROM:".

"HO HO HO" is from "Oh Christmas Puns" and  "TO:    FROM:" is "All Around Sentiment Stamps"

Other supplies:
Cricut cartridges:  Tags, Bags, Boxes and More (purse p.118 cut @ 7" and sentiment tag p.90 cut @ 1.5"); Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 (ornament tags p.46 cut @ 2.75")
brad:  Stampin' Up! build-a-brad
adhesive:  Glue Arts extreme adhesive squares and Scotch quick-dry adhesive
ink:  Memories Cherry Red
papers:  My Mind's Eye "12 Days of Christmas"; Bazzill card stock (green); Stampin' Up! Very Vanilla
ribbon:  salvaged from a Christmas gift from years ago
gold string:  ACMoore

Your next stop on the hop is my sweet blog friend, Patty!

Leave a comment before you go for a chance to win a 6x6 My Mind's Eye "All is Bright" paper pad.  Winner chosen Nov. 20th!

Happy Hopping!

A Freshly Made "All is Bright" washi tape card

   Happy fall, y'all!  The Halloween fun is now behind us and Thanksgiving is right around the corner; my favorite holiday.  And the Christmas fun can now begin too, though I have not yet played my Christmas music cds yet, I have been thinking about it!  I enjoy Christmas music so much.

  Both my daughters are now recovered from their bronchitis and are both back in school.  After having one or both home for two consecutive weeks, it is so quiet without them around the past two days!  I have put all of my Halloween papers and embellies away, so my craft room is a bit neater; my desk still has some piles to work through...

  I was in need of mojo, so I checked out some of my favorite challenge blogs for inspiration.

I found this sketch at Freshly Made:

  I noticed that peach strip right way!  I have a few bits and bobs on my desk; extra pieces that never made it on a card.  One bit is a paper strip of white card stock that I had covered in My Mind's Eye "All is Bright" washi tape (aqua).  That was my jumping off point.  I pulled another scrap strip of white card stock from my scraps bag and covered it with the red chevron pattern washi tape (also MME "All is Bright.")

  Then I perused my Christmas stamps, and I chose this Santa Rosa stamp from 2001.  I colored the flowers with a Promarker "poppy".  I wanted to match the aqua, but I do not own any aqua-colored markers!  I blended two Copic marker colors:  G82 and B00.  I added Hero Arts pearls to the center of my flowers and glossy accents to the flowers and berries.

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!

Happy Wednesday :)

November Hop at Shop Pumpkin Spice!

   Shop Pumpkin Spice is my favorite online scrapbook store.  This card is created from products I purchased from Shop Pumpkin Spice!  The first Saturday of every month the Shop Pumpkin Spice blog has a DT hop; I hope you will hop along and see what my sweet and talented DT sisters have created too.

  For my circle under my butterfly I used the faux chipboard technique (I used my Cricut to cut three circles @2" from black card stock and one 2" circle from the aqua My Mind's Eye paper; then I glued the four circles together.  Easy peasy!)  The butterfly was punched once from MME orange, then from the MME aqua patterned paper; then I used foam tape between the two butterfly layers.  My sketch is from one of my favorite bloggers, Nance Leedy.

Shop Pumpkin Spice products used (links embedded for enabling):

My Mind's Eye "Bright Side Two"6x6  papers

The Twinery "Charcoal"

My Mind's Eye "Lush 2" button

"Darkest Night" hybrid ink pad

My Pink Stamper "Buggy Punnies" sentiment

Hop order:

Diana

Saundra

Lezlye

Carissa

*June *

Court

Lenae
Shop Pumpkin Spice blog

Happy Hopping!

School Daze at Shop Pumpkin Spice

Without teachers there would be no class:

 
   I recently purchased My Mind's Eye "School Daze."  This collection is easy to work with; I made both cards from papers in the 6x6 pad...no stamping nor an electronic die cutting machine!  In both cards the banner sentiments, school house, owl, books, and apple were fussy cut.  I used one sheet of very vanilla card stock for the two card bases, and scraps of red card stock to layer in the first card.  I edged the pieces (in the second card) with a black ink pad for dimension.  I added glossy accents to the school house bell and windows, the owl's eyes, and the apple.

Teachers make the little ones count.

Now I have two cards on hand to write the girls' teachers a thank you note :)

Happy Thursday!