Another {REVEAL} card from my swap group…
Ok, Terri!!! This one’s for you darlin!!!! There’s nothing like playing with someone’s original creation and letting your imagination run wild! Terri made this random stamped paper for our original swap and my job was to make it into my own card design. Click on the photo to view larger. This card was soooo super fun to make! This color combo was a challenge for me because it’s totally out of my normal “crafting box”. The butterfly was my starting point. I had been playing with that stamp set (Spring Possibilities – CTMH) trying to make some “card candy” when the card candy thing exploded… anyway… I made the butterfly by inking up the large butterfly in Crystal Blue ink (CTMH) and stamped it on white CS. I let it dry for a good while and them went back with Liquid Glass and glued all the tiny glass seed beads in place. It needed more “umpfh” so I followed up with more LG (which btw, is my all time fav embellishment, followed closely by GLITTER) and filled in the spaces, and then added Prisma Glitter (CTMH). I let the LG dry over night and trimmed it out the next day and then popped it in the freezer for 2 mins, quickly pulled it out and snapped the LG to make cracked glass. I attached antennae with gold wire and added little gold seed beads on the ends. I LOVE how it turned out! Other supplies:Fiskars craft scissors (scalloped)Ribbon – OffrayPapers, Inks – CTMHPearlescent Chalks – Pebbles, Inc.Spring Possibilities Stamp Set – CTMHCelebrate BOoking Stamp Set – CTMHSandpaper
TFT Rak Winner!!
I loved reading what makes everyone happy. Hope you had fun finding the answers to my trivia questions! 🙂 I’ve chosen a random winner….. Linda SS said… What a gorgeous shaker card! 1. Dog is Sadie2. Moab rafting down Colorado River. 3. Talking about my love for Jesus and what He has done in my life makes me happy – I hope that sharing my testimony makes others happy as well. My family is my joy – those grandkids keep me young, they are so full of fun and constantly make me laugh:) Linda – if you will please email me at inkysmiles @ gmail.com and let me know your mailing address I will pop this in the mail tomorrow 🙂 Thanks for playing, friends!!!
Thoughts for Thursday, Swap Reveal & RAK Opportunity.
“ We all live with the objective of being happy;our lives are all different and yet the same. ” – Helen Keller (1880-1968) author, lecturer, activist Helen Keller was a remarkable woman. She overcame great odds and despite her physical issues made a happy life for herself. Our lives really are all different, but we all want to be happy. This {REVEAL} card makes me happy. (Click on photo for a larger view.) It’s Pam Klassen’s card for our two part swap. She made the random stamped paper and I created the card around it. I piled up loads of glass beads on globs of Liquid Glass (CTMH). I hand scored the grid lines in the Blush CS and sanded to reveal the white core. I used the Coluzzle oval template to cut the oval sentiment piece and mat. All papers, inks, ribbons and metals are CTMH. Stamp set is Love Quotes from CTMH. RAK Opportunity: Post to THIS POST only and tell me (answers found on my blog): – what my dog’s name is– where I went for Mother’s Day weekend this year (made me sooooo happy)– AND something that makes YOU happy or something you’ve done to make someone else happy. Heck, make a layout about it if you want, too! On Sunday I will draw a random winner (you gotta answer all three questions) who will receive a really cool retired (but NEW) CTMH booking stamp set which includes 4 small individual stamps, no block. Inky Smiles!Erin
Sketch Challenge {006}
Gosh! It’s been a while since we’ve had a sketch challenge. Here’s #006 just for you! I picked up this design from Becky @ PageMaps. Her sketches are free to the public and are absolutely fabulous! She’s also having a card contest… jump on over and check it out! Don’t forget to leave a comment and show us what you’ve done with this sketch! Happy creating! Erin
Stamper Storage: First Ever InkStak Sale!
It’s our first ever SALE on InkStaks! WOO HOO! LIMITED TIME: From now until November 30th, 2007 you can get 10% off of any of our InkStaks! Hurry now and whisper in Santa’s ear so he can get your order in for Christmas! Visit Stamper Storage to place your order. For Christmas delivery, orders must be placed and paid for by December 10th.
What do you want me to do, dress in drag and do the Hula?
A long time ago, in a craft studio far, far away, I participated in a swap….. Remember this swap I mentioned WAAAAY back when and posted some sneak peeks along the way ?? Well, I finished my cards for Part 2 waaaay back in Sept and sent them to our hostess…. Here’s one of the cards that I made using Tiffany Cheney’s random stamped paper. Click the photo for a larger view. All papers, stamps & inks are CTMH. I used my scalloped scissors (remember those deco scissors from the 90’s? I found mine in the Great Dejunking) to cut a decorative edge around the green mat, pierced the edge with my paper piercer and then pounced some pearlescent chalks from Pebbles, Inc around the edges. Ribbons are from SU! and Offray. Liquid Glass from CTMH. Paper flowers from Prima. Yes, that is real stitching. Love my machine for paper stitching and not real sewing! LOL! Stay tuned for more reveals…
Happy Halloween, Mr Mummy!
I am generallly soooo not into Halloween (this year I’m ok with the cutsie, silly stuff), but I saw this idea on a Bind It All group I belong to and had to copy it… she copied it from a post she saw on twopeasinabucket.com, too. LOL! Anyway… I finally sat down and decompressed a little bit with some crafting tonight before a meeting I had at my house for church stuff. (Big huge change coming in my life… details a little later, maybe tomorrow.)This cute little guy is a 4×4″ chipboard and cardstock book. I handcut 4″ chipboard covers (my Bind It All covers are not here yet) and painted them with black paint, then covered with black cs (inside of covers) and white textured cs, torn and inked in black for the outside covers. The eyes are just circles punched from cs. The “boo!” letters on the front are the coolest new thing… VELVET Thickers from American Crafts… I just picked them up on Friday from the American Crafts warehouse… SWEET STUFF! The inside base pages are cardstock that I cut 3 7/8″ square and then created pages on them with various cardstocks and embellishments. Mini books are so much fun and relatively fast to make once you decide on the paper combos. Materials used:Bind It All Machine – Zutter5/8″ Black Owire – ZutterChipboard – GraphixWhite textured CS – Archiver’s brandGreen, Purple & Black CS – CTMHMisc patterned papers – CTMH “Happy Halloween” (retired) & American CraftsMisc ribbons -American Crafts, CTMH, generic brand White Galaxy Marker, Black Marker – American CraftsMisc embellishments – CTMH Click on photos for larger view.
Happy Monday!
Love this cartoon! It came to me today from a friend… totally made me laugh! I have not felt like or had energy to scrapbook… perhaps I need to visit Dr. J!!! LOL! I need to apologize for not posting for a while. I’ve been out of the loop for the past week. We had some major issues with our ISP having a DNS server completely crash and fry out the in house servers (when they rebooted) in several homes in our area. We’ were without tv, phone, and internet for most of last week. We spent over 7.5 hours on hold with the ISP company on our cell phones and finished burning up this month’s allotment of minutes in a matter of a couple of days.I had something going on EVERY night last week and finally crashed on Friday and went to a Witch’s Night Out at a girlfriend’s house. Ok so I am sooo not a Halloween girl…. BUT this was sooooo much fun! Ginny had us all come dressed in our “Witch’s Best” (For me it was a borrowed hat with purple hair.. lol!) and she had yummy chili and breadbowls and salsa with chips all ready for us when we arrived. She also had Witch’s Brew (rootbeer) ice cold in the bottle. She read a cute little story had a little “ceremony” (promise not to be a lame girl friend and wear a little finger puppet instead of gross fingernails – see photo to the left) to initiate us as “witches”… totally silly and fun. She gave us fun and silly little gift bags, too. I won the contest for the “best cackle”…. LOL! We just had a fun and relaxing girl’s night out. I can’t wait to see what she has in store for next year!! I need to get the pics of me from Ginny’s camera… but here are a couple of photos from the evening…. Yummy Cupcakes!!! She made the CUTEST cupcakes… I had to take pics of them to share… so stinkin cute! She broke the PepperidgeFarms cookies in half and wrote BOO and RIP on them and crammed them in the choc cupcakes to make headstones… sooo fun! A few of the other girls had matching metallic eyelashes! These were sooo cool! I’ve been trying to find a pair to wear on Halloween night when the kids come for treats.
Beautiful & mister toad
This layout was fun! I used a “quick page”/template and stuck a photo in and added some journaling and the date. I LOVE this photo of Brent. He’s always so happy and good to me. I couldn’t ask for better! We found Mr Toad in our guest room window well in the summer of 2006. I guess he must have fallen in while hopping in the flower garden that surrounds the back side of the house. Brent scooped him up and we had fun playing with him for a little while before setting him free along the creek on the back of our property. He truly was a beautiful little creature.
Think Pink
I’m up waaaaay too late tonight! Fighting off heartburn (dang garlic chicken pitas) and figured I’d do a little “homework” for my Up & Running With Photoshop class. Here’s a goofy me in a layout inspired by the packaging for Victoria’s Secret perfume Pink. LOTS of white space….totally out of my box.