Etsy Inspired Challenge--Working Around the Clock

Hi friends.  Phew, barely made it here tonight.  My computer literally went up in smoke last weekend and I have been trying to figure out how I can get photos into blogger since then since I either have computers with photo software not on my network or on-line and no photo software.  I finally figured out that I can try it all virtually, so the pics may not be the best, but they came from my phone and have little editing, so I apologize.

Here is my project.  I got a jump start on Father's Day and figured this little coaster album will be something fun for my girls to give to Daddy this year.  I can't get to my photos right now, but I know we have a couple of the girls "helping" Daddy work on his car that he would love to be able to keep at his desk at work.  I'll just have to add those later.

This week's inspiration shop is Bearly Art: http://www.etsy.com/shop/bearlyart  

This is the clock that inspired me:

Isn't that a cool clock?  It is actually painted vinyl record.  The ultimate in cool artistic recycling. 

One winner this week will receive a clock of their choice of those in stock at Bearly Art.  I am seriously going to order a couple of these because they are sooo cool.

This week's sponsor is Sassy Cheryl's http://www.sassycheryls.com/store/

One winner will receive a $5 gift certificate from her store.

Make sure to check out what the rest of the Design Team has done this week.

Ashley

Carole

Angie

De

Emily B.

Jackie

Joy

Kerry

Kimme Leach {April Guest DT} – You are Here :)

Ruby

Savannah

Sherry

Virginia

I hope to get a new lappy soon and be back to regular posting :)  

Have a Wonderfully Blessed Easter.

Friday Fun Challenge- By the Numbers

Today’s challenge Christi says: This weekend is Daylight Savings. Today use numbers on your project. You get bonus points, if you actually use a clock. ;o)  No bonus points for me, oh well.  I knew right away that I would use my Cupcake designer paper by BasicGrey as it has a sheet with numbers on it.  Then, yesterday I saw that "31 Cupcake Inspired Creations" on FaveCrafts.com was released by Maria Nerius.  There are some seriously cute projects in there, and it’s FREE.  So then I wanted to make a cupcake card and guess what, part of the Cupcake dp has some sprinkles paper.  So this is what I did:

I used my Once Upon A Princess cartridge and used my Cricut to cut out the cupcake and the #3.  I used my Nestabilities for the ovals and traced the cut lines with my blue gel pen.  The larger sprinkles were colored with the blue gel pen and then a drop of Tiara Stickles were added on top for more dimension and a sugary look.

See what the other Fabulous Friday Fun chicks have done:

Jimmi
Sherry
Christi

And you can download “31 Cupcake Inspired Creations E-Book” here:

I hope you enjoy your weekend.  I’m hoping to get outside at some point and to craft some too.  

FFC-Something Old Something New

I hope you all have plans for a great weekend ahead of you.  I know we will be VERY busy with picnics and back to school planning. 

Our FFC theme this week is “Something old, something new.”  My Sister-In-Law, Barb asked me to make her some Thank You notes that she could send to the medical staff volunteers from the Cleveland Susan G Koman 3 Day Walk for the Cure.  Barb was one of the medical co-chairs for this even again this year.  I admire her dedication and know that she puts in a lot of hard work for the event.  She thought it would be fun to make cards with feet on them.  FEET!  If you know me, you know that feet are not my favorite thing, and to put them on a card was simply frightening to me.  I did get a new toy out of the deal.  I bought myself the Sure Cuts A Lot software for my Cricut (something new) and I paired it with some old Stampin’ Up! designer series papers and together they really did make a cute card with FEET.

 

See, CUTENESS!  I then realized that I have another cute card with feet on it in my gallery. 

Those are my kids feet on Peanut’s baby announcement.  Happy 2nd Birthday Kerrington.   Your little toes are still the cutest I have ever seen.

Now, go see what the other Friday Fun Chicks have done today.

Jimmi

Kim

Sherry

Sara

Christi

 

Have a great weekend!!!

Etsy Inspired

This is the first time I have played along with the Etsy Inspired Challenge.  As soon as I looked through the Cosi Dolci store I was truly inspired to create a card. 
Here is my inspiration piece:

And my card:

Details


Stamps:  None
Paper: Night of Navy, Bordering Blue, Granola-BasicGrey
Ink: Liquid Paper Correction Pen
Accessories:  Plantain Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge, Buttons

I hope you will play along with the challenge too.

Happy Valentine's Day

 

 

I made this Valentine banner a few weeks ago and have been saving it to show you all.   Nothing is stamped, I just used my Cricut to cut the letters and the scallops.  I added some White Gel Pen to make the letters pop more, a few packs of Valentine's Stickers to embellish with, old Large Heart eyelets from Stampin' Up! and strung it on Red polka dot ribbon.  I have plenty of extra ribbon there so I can hang it wherever I want.

Friday Fun Challenge #64

Wow!  Happy 2010!  I have been so busy lately I haven't had much time to stamp the past few weeks with all the Holiday hustle and bustle.  In fact, I lost track of time and forgot that today was Friday until about 3pm, so I had to get this done around our dinner plans.  Sorry about that.  I am glad that things will finally begin to settle down now and I will have time to stamp again.  

Sara is starting out the year as our challenge hostess.  

This week she states, "This one is a simple one.  Just a color challenge to get us back in the swing of things.  Black & silver (can use white if needed) or gold… ya know PAR-TAY colors and get your bling on!!"  

I was going for an elegant look to this card and decided to make a card for a wedding shower.

She said to bling it on, so there are 24 rhinestones added to this card.  

Details

Stamps: None
Paper: Black, Brushed Silver, Shimmer White
Ink:  Silver Gel Pen
Accessories:  Textile Cuttlebug Folder, Cricut Wedding Solutions Cartridge, Rhinestones, Silver Ribbon

If you would like to play along with this challenge, please provide a link to your card in the comments here.  Don't forget to check out the work by the other Friday Fun Chicks.

White Christmas

I have been challenged to make an all white card following the Limited Supply Challenge for December 4, LSC249, and to use a stamp we just HAD to have but have not used yet.
Here are your requirements and limits:

• 1. Only White Cardstock!
  
• 2. Only White or Clear embellishments
  
• 3. No patterned paper, unless it's all white!
  
• 4. You may use any color ink you wish, but only ONE color.
  
• 5. No coloring (i.e. copics, watercolors, etc)
  
• 6. Limit your layers/embellies (I'll leave that to your discretion, but ya'll know what I mean)

Well, I'm actually not sure if I used this stamp before or not, but I did buy an embossing folder kit that I intended to use and just never did.  SO here is my card.

Yes, I actually made my own embossing folder, isn't that cool?  I got the embossing folder kit a while ago and never played with it, when I saw this challenge I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.  

I also recently picked up the Joys of the Season Cricut Cartridge and used that to cut the deer.  I free-handed the border with my Fiskars paper trimmer and this is what my custom folder looks like:

I have been able to produce 20 cards in an hour including an inside sentiment.  Now I just need to sign, address, postage stamp and add a picture of the kids and they will be ready to send.......I hope to get them out before Christmas ;)
 

Details

Stamps: Many Merry Messages
Paper: White
Ink: Real Red
Accessories: Cricut Joys of the Season Cartridge, Fiskars Paper Trimmer, Cricut Cuttables Embossing Folder Kit.

Friday Fun #59

Gee. So sorry I am late.  I have to admit with all the hustle and bustle this week I actually forgot that today was Friday and didn't have my project for today done in advance.  Bad Bad Blogger :(

Today's challenge was to make a card using Black and White and a splash of Red in honor of Black Friday.  This card has a little of everything thrown at it.  I used the Snowflake Cuttlebug Folder, Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridge, Martha Stewart Snowflake border punch, Large Oval Punch, I embossed with my cutter, I used Stickles AND some crystals.  The only thing I didn't use was some ribbon.  After all, I didn't want to go overboard.

This card also fits the criteria for this week's Crazy 4 Challenges Saturday challenge to use punches. 

Details

Stamps:  Holidays and Wishes
Paper: Shimmery White, Black
Ink: Real Red Craft Ink
Accessories: Snowflake Cuttlebug Folder, Accent Essentials Cricut Cartridge, Martha Stewart Snowflake border punch, Large Oval Punch, I embossed with my cutter, Stickles AND some crystals.

Friday Fun #57

Greetings from Texas!!!  I am visiting one of my SplitCoast friends this weekend Linda aka SpicyGingerSnap, so I apologize for being a little late today.   This week our challenge was to make some place cards to go with our upcoming turkey feasts.

Here are some super easy place cards that I made for us.  You may notice that there are only 4, but I just didn't think that Peanut needed a place card for her high chair.  Anything you put on her tray she eats, even the bowls, forks, paper etc. so I don't think she needed a place card this year.

Have a great weekend.  Don't forget to check out the other Friday Fun Chicks.  Please keep Jimmi and her family in your thoughts today as they lay her grandmother to rest.  {{HUGS}} to Jimmi. 
Details

Stamps: None
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, More Mustard, Indian Summer-BasicGray
Ink: None
Accessories: Fall Leaves Around the Corner Punch- Martha Stewart, Storybook Cricut Cartridge

Friday Fun Challenge #43

After taking last week off while some of the Friday Fun Girls were at CHA we are back this week and welcoming back Sara to our ranks. Sara had back surgery and has not been in her craft room lately, but she is coming back and we are glad to have her with us and she even gets to be the Friday Fun Hostess this month.

This week our challenge is to BLING IT UP!

I just saw the tutorial for Shadow Box cards a few weeks ago and decided to play around with one. As I was making it and had the inside of the window already cut out, I decided I could just as easily make it a pocket card as well, otherwise where would you sign it?

So where do I start explaining this one? I cut the window/insert with my Cricut. I stamped the Circle Circus images and punched the larges circles with the scallop punch and used my paper snips to cut the rest of the pieces. I need more small circle punches. I used the Copic airbrush and Y19 to add some more color to the images, and then sponged Rich Razzelberry around the edges. I also used my Copics to color some white grosgrain ribbon before tying it onto the pull out tag.

I added more accents with the white flurishes from the Priceless set and used my rhinestone brads to add the final details in the center of the circles and layering it all with dimensionals.




Details

Stamps: Circle Circus, Holidays and Wishes, Priceless
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, White, BasicGrey Eva
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Copic RV99 Y19, White Craft
Accessories: Rhinestone Brads, Cricut Cartridge Accent Essentials, Scallop Circle Punch, Copic Airbrush System, White Grosgrain Ribbon, Paper Piercing, Stampin' Dimensionals

Remeber if you want to play along, please show us your BLINGED projects by adding a link in the comment section here or by using keyword FFC43 on Splitcoast Stampers. Be sure to check out the other Friday Fun Chicks.

Friday Fun Challenge #37

Oops sorry this is late. I was on vacation last week and while I did do my card in advance I never got around to blogging it. Bad girl!! Sowwy! The challenge was to make a Father's Day Card.

I had to play with my new stamps coming out in the '09-10 Stampin' Up Idea Book and Catalog.


Details:
Stamps: Circle Circus
Ink: Pacific Point, Baja Breeze
Paper: Pacific Point, Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Accessories: 1 3/8" Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch. Cricut Accent Essentials Cartridge, Dew Drops-Water

Pokie Dot Tea Party!

We had a tea party with one of my neighbors today. Naturally, I had to stamp something, even if it was just for us.


This is a shot of the table. Notice that the girls had to have their tea set out.


Here you can see the name cards and candy holders. They were filled with Hershey Kisses, and Reganne ate every single one of hers. The treat bags were cut from Pink Pirouette DSP using my Cricut and the Tags Bags Boxes and More cartridge.



Here is a close up of just the name cards.

Details:
Stamps: Crazy for Cupcakes
Paper: Close to Cocoa, Whisper White, Pretty Little Papers from AMuse
Accessories: Copics, Stardust Gel Pen, Silver Gel Pen, Stampin' Dimensionals

Notice all the Pokie Dots I used. So this is my REAL submission for the FFC this week. Hehehe!

Scrapbook pages

Ok, I have been a very bad blogger. I really have been creating but have not been uploading much lately. Sorry about that.

One of the projects I was working on was a scrapbook for one of my friends. Her husband had commissioned me to make it up and gave me the pictures and that was it. No guidance or direction. It wouldn't have been too bad except that the pictures were of their 18 month old IDENTICAL twins. I should be used to this challenge, but if my pictures are not marked I sometimes have a difficult time telling my own girls apart. My solution was to just put the pictures on the pages and I supplied them with Stampin' Write(r) markers for journaling.

I didn't think of taking pictures of the pages before adding photos....doh! I did make extra pages for the book so those are the ones I am showing here as well as the title page. Since the pictures are not mine, nor are the children I don't feel it is appropriate for me to post them here.

Title Page. Not knowing who was who in the pictures I asked her husband to add the pictures and birth info.





I used Jersey Shore DSP, Crew Kids Simply Scrappin' Kit and Special Delivery Boy Simply Scrappin' Kit by Stampin' Up!(r) to complete most of the pages. I also used the Cricut Design Studio and Cricut Expressions machine to add titles.