Month: November 2009

A Cutting Café Creation

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Regina Easter from The Cutting Cafe is generously sponsoring Crafty Creations challenge this week!  Our design team got to play with her Bulbs for the Tree set of digital stamps and they are so lovely!   Our challenge this week is to make a Christmas card but if you have the supplies we also want to see you use the  cracked glass technique!!  It’s a great technique and the results can be just stunning. I used the cracked glass technique on the ornament after cutting it out and coloring it in with copics and a gold glitter Sakura pen.  I hope you can see the sparkle and glassy layer in the photo, because it’s pretty cool looking.   If you look closely, you’ll see that the dp behind it has a cracked look to it too.  That paper is from daisy d’s which I’ve heard is sadly not available anymore??  The other layer of dp is from Stampin’ Up! (Merry Moments) and the base is vanilla card stock.  I used a whole pack of designer gems too! …

Impressions of Christmas Past

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Here’s my latest project for Custom Crops…a vintage inspired Christmas card.  You can see all the details for this card and many other new Christmas cards, FREE templates, cut files and project tutorials at Custom Crops. Pssst…hey you guys … I might get into a lot of trouble for this… Kelly over at Custom Crops asked us to keep this top secret but I just couldn’t  do that to you… I guess it’s too late for them to keep it hush hush because you can see the info has already been leaked and the Internal CONFIDENTIAL Employee Video has been posted to YOUTUBE!!  There is definitely going to be a Custom Crops employee (NATALIE) being tacky taped and glittered after this is all over!!  (OUCH) Anyhoo, as long as it’s not me….here it is… There  is a huge PINK TUESDAY SALE at Custom Crops starting a 12:01 CT November 24th!!  It lasts only one day so don’t miss out! Oh, I really hope Kelly doesn’t find out about this…Shhhhhh!!! I’m hiding my tacky tape and …

Christmas Trees Sold Here!

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Get Sketchy has a lovely sketch this week that I wanted to try.   The shape of the slope made me think of a mountainside so this is how I interpreted it. The Christmas trees are already lining the lots, ready to be brought home for Christmas, but outside of the city you can still find places that allow you to cut down your own special tree for the Holidays.  Although we usually just pick ours up from the pépinière (tree nursery), my Sister’s family always cuts down their own, and there is something so special about that I think! The slope is made by tearing a piece of Basic Grey eskimo kisses paper.  I stamped the tree from Flaky Friends after inking it up with markers on the side of the “mountain” and then added the other panel of BG paper matted with Jillibean Soup kraft paper. The sign is also stamped on the kraft paper.   I love the whimsical feeling of these papers and thought to add to it by stringing two stars on …

Santa’s Watching!

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It’s a COLOR THROWDOWN challenge  AND a Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge!   Flourishes is also sponsoring the Color Throwdown challenge this week so I just had to play along.  It is my first time playing the color challenge but I’m sure it won’t be the last! These are the colors we had to work with and they are very similar to the SCS color challenge this week too.   I love these rich colors together! I just received my new Flourishes Santa image and Drummer Boy images in the mail on Monday, so I’m so excited to use them!   I just love this Santa face! !  He’s the jolly Santa I always pictured in my mind as a child and  he makes me smile! Stamps: Flourishes Santa-I Believe Ink: Vintage Photo Paper: K& Company Elizabeth Brownd paper pad,Chocolate chip cs, white cs Accessories: Copics – YG99, YG95, R29, R27,  Borderabilities snowflake border edge Thanks for stopping by!! You know I love your company! 😉

A Winter Wonderland!

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Crafty Creations Challenge theme this week is METAL/METALLIC FINISHES.   There are many ways to incorporate metal into a card, be it with embossing in silver or gold, using metal embellishments, using metallic papers or adding  punched metal elements like I’ve done here with my snowflakes.  They are punched from a metal craft sheet.  The blossom circle background  is a silver card stock from the Metallic Stack by DCWV. The image is “She Dreams”  from DOODLES BY HOPE JACARE.  Claire will be sponsoring us this week with her very own digital image giveaway!!   She has a beautiful assortment of images in her shop and if you play along in our challenge this week, you might get to choose one along with a few other surprises! I’ve also entered this card in the Pink Persimmon Sketch challenge this week, using their fabulous sketch! Lexi’s Creations is having their first challenge ever and  wanted to see our blue an silver Christmas cards! Here’s a second card I’ve made with the theme as well. I made this card …

Mystery Box Project Revealed!!

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It’s time to show you all my CUSTOM CROPS MYSTERY PROJECT!!   I had so much fun with this!! As some of you already know, I received a  box of mystery items from Custom Crops and was invited to make a project  using all of the products in the box!  What would you make with a set of plastic cutlery, a cheerios box and some shrink film??? The girls at Custom Crops have a wonderful sense of humor and our “mission as we chose to accept it” was a ton of fun!! Here’s what was in the box… You’ve seen what I did  with the contents of the box, but wait until you see what all the other designers did!!! You will be amazed at what these ladies have come up with too!!  Please head on over to CUSTOM CROPS for full project tutorials of all our creations!  We would love to hear what you think of them too, so if you have a moment, leave a comment…they really are appreciated!! Custom Crops is also having …

Over the Top!

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I received this fun award from MANDY and I would like to pass it on to Rose,  Linda, Kelly, Teri and Heather Here are the rules of this award 1. You can only use ONE word!!! 2. Pass this along to 5 of your favorite bloggers! 3. Alert them that you have given them this award! 4. HAVE FUN!!! And…here are the questions…. 1. Where is your cell phone? PURSE 2. Your hair? AUBURN 3. Your mother?  LOVING 4. Your father? MISSED 5. Your fave food? CHIPS 6. Your dream last night?  INSIGNIFICANT 7. Your fave drink? COFFEE 8. Your dream/goal? PEACE 9. What room are you in? CRAFTROOM 10. Your hobby?CRAFTS 11. Your fear? HEIGHTS 12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? HERE 13. Where you were last night?HOME 14. Something that you aren’t? FAMOUS 15. Muffins? NEUTRAL 16. Wish List Item? CRICUT EXPRESSION 17. Where did you grow up? ONTARIO 18. Last thing you did? CLEANED 19. What are you wearing? COMFY CLOTHES 20. Your TV? OFF 21. Your Pets? …

Hot Cocoa packet Holder Tutorial

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Hi everyone!  From the results of the poll I took on the hot cocoa holder I posted last week, there are some of you who wanted a “how to”. So today I went ahead and made a tutorial for you.  Thank you for your response to the poll, it really helps me know what my readers want to see! Materials Cardstock- chocolate chip 8 1/2″  x 6 3/4″,  white Circle punch Double sided adhesive tape Ribbon or brad Scoring tool Stamp- I used UNITY Hodgepodge of Happiness cup and sentiment OPTIONAL: Cuttlebug and embossing folder – I used Snowflakes Die Cut Nestabilities: Labels One Scallop oval punch Step 1:  Score the cardstock at 1/2″ and 4 1/2″ vertically.  Score the bottom edge at 1/2″. Step 2: Cut the corner just below where the score lines cross. Step 3: Add adhesive tape to the bottom folding edge just to the score line. Step 4: Flip the cardstock over and still working on the cut corner side add adhesive tape to the long edge and across the …

Frosty the… Penguin?

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We don’t have snow here yet, in fact today was a mild sunny day!  But I know that it is not far off.  If we are really lucky we may have a month before it hits us.   But why am I talking about snow?  Because SNOW is this week’s Crafty Creations theme!  Fresh Brewed Designs is generously sponsoring us again this week and Heather gave us all images to work with for today’s card.  Isn’t this penguin a cutie? I added some Deco Art snowtex to the rim and ball of his tuque.  The background embossing is Spots and Dots, and the scallop circle is embossed with swiss dots.  The green snowflake dsp is from Stampin’ Up! Merry Moments. Come play in the  snow with us at Crafty Creations! Thanks for stopping by, and have a creative day!!

What’s in the Mystery Box?

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Hi everyone!! I’m SUPER excited because on Friday I received a MYSTERY BOX of products and unusual items and a challenge (should I choose to accept it…) from CUSTOM CROPS!!  This is the 2nd mystery box challenge that they have had and since I’m on the design team, I was asked if I would like to take on the challenge. Well of course!!  I can’t say NO to a good challenge! You can see the last Mystery Challenge projects at Custom Crops; they are wonderful! WHAT’S IN THE BOX??? There are 7 items and we have to use all 7 in some way in our final projects.  5 of these items are craft type products from CUSTOM CROPS, but two are truly baffling when thinking of using them in a craft project!!  Last time, they mystery challenge takers had to use a can of soda! I’ll give you a clue for one of the items I will have to use…you can eat it for breakfast!!?? Well you will just have to wait and see what …