Sweet Baby: CCChallenge-Baby

Good morning and welcome to my blog, I'm one of the designers over at Creative Cutting Challenge and it's all about baby this challenge. So my post is a card that I made:

using Creative Pointe's Baby Buggy file:
 
This file was perfect for the card, to produce a Sweet Baby card. Depending on the designer, this file cuts really well, some svgs don't I'm finding out :)
I was able to jazz up the cut with a border created with a double edge punch: MS: Double Link Trim punch. I used a hunk of paper for another card so that left the 2" border with the word Sweet in the right place ( I love creative uses with paper) That paper came from the 6X6 Lost & Found Two Designer paper pad from My Mind's Eye. The sweet pea paper was in my stash for the background. Added a few buttons in my button collection and the bow. A very easy card :) The card base is 6 X 6 card cut out from a 12 X 12 cardstock I have in a Baby cakes collection paper pad.

The inside I used that same sweet pea paper and also the pink cardstock that the cardbase is cut from. Added more of that border and a couple of hearts from the card I posted on Friday.
The die-cut was cut from cardstock from my February Counterfeit Kit Challenge, The Abbey Road collection also from My Mind's Eye. (Enough from those 3 pieces for probably another card yet:) Also I did the bottom of the buggy piece with the cuttlebug embossing folder swiss dots for some dimension.


Thanks for stopping by today and seeing what I'm doing in my little corner of the world. Later...

It's All About the Green

Hi and welcome to my blog, I'm the designer today for Card A Day Blog We have been celebrating St Patrick's Day this past week over at CADB, we like to do a month in advance so you have time to create for your holiday and can find inspiration before it's needed. My card is all about the green:

I used a variety of greens for the card, a lime green cardstck for the scallop background and the sentiment cut, a light green cardstock for the card base, a green pattern paper for the background of the card this came from the K&Company Alleghany Plum specialty paper pack (this pack has pretty vibrant color designs and a darker green for the shamrock cut.

The shamrock cut is from the silhouette store: Design #39513 and the one thing I love about the designer software is that you can take that design and in the offset window and create that sweet scallop background with just the push of a button no thinking at all the software does for you, all I have to decide is how big of an offset I would want. I ran the shamrock through the cuttlebug with the swiss dots folder to give it dimension and added stickles pine around the edge for a glittery look. The background pc was cut from the silhouette also, a Lori Whitlock square that I adjusted for the card base. The sentiment tag came for a set roof tags from the silhouette store too. I used an ATD sticker pack that had the shamrock stickers and the rhinestones. The stamp sentiment comes from SU Teeny Tiny Wishes (this is a great all around holiday mix of stamps to have on hand) and I inked it with memento tuxedo black.

The inside all I need to do is add a white printed sentiment for the inside. I'll have to go look online for an Irish Blessing to put in there :)
You all have a great weekend and come back Monday for Creative Cutting Challenge and  then all week blog hop for 3 Twenty Crafts while we showcase the new stamps coming out.

You Make My Heart Soar

Yep it's Friday and that can only mean that it is Fun-Day Friday Challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack! Hello and welcome to my blog, today our sponsor this week is 3 Twenty Crafts,This is Jo's very own crafty store where she sells her stamps and some crafty goodies as well as hand crafted word books. This weeks challenge: Valentine's Day. My card was made from a card cut file at the Silhouette Store:

I used my February Counterfeit Kit for the card, the red and pink cardstock is My Mind's Eye Abbey Road collection. I used 3 Twenty Crafts stamp set Winter Wonderland for all those stamped arrows in the pink border making it look like rockets shooting upwards.

A closer shot of the stamp images, 3 Twenty Crafts stamps are so unique and so fuctionable to be used for more than just what it was created for. The sentiment was printed from the computer on white cardstock. I will be using this card for an extra special day. The inside of the card:

Plenty of room to write a little love note to the hubby.

 It's your turn now. The prize is a $10.00 Gift certificate to the store.This is Jo's very own crafty store where she sells her stamps and some crafty goodies as well as hand crafted word books. Please stop by Jo's Scrap Shack and check out the challenge and see what prizes you could win! Here are some simple rules. 

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,

Using the linky tool below.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

3. Unlimited entries per person and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

Will not be eligible for top 3 or random/monthly wins.

The monthly prize drawings will only be mailed within the US and Canada only

You have until February 21th by 6:00Pm (central) time to link up.

All winners will be announced on Monday, February 24th.

Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!

I have Linked this up to The Crafter's Cafe Challenge: Challenge #50-Have to Have Hearts

Twix-Make Your own Twix

Hi you all and welcome back to another Throwback Thursday. Today is a 6 X 6 recipe card I made for the March 2013 swap:

I'm telling you they really do taste like Twix Bars. These make for a great snack in the summer or a nice gift at Christmas to give away. I got the recipe from the PeppermintPlum.blogspot.com. I used Que Sera Sera paper pack from K&Company for the base. Staples cream cardstock for the recipe print out. Used Martha Stewart Double Edge Punch: the Double Link Trim punch, a dazzle flower circle and a Rhinestone in the center of the flower.
It is a fantastic recipe give a try the rich ad crisp cracker base and top gives it the buttery taste. Thanks for stopping by today, hope your enjoying Throw Back Thursdays. Have a fabulous day.

CKC-February Project Life Forgery

Hi you all,
Got my whole kit figured out for the Counterfeit Kit Challenge-Project Life choice:

And this is what I created: A little more bolder than their kit:

Their kit had 3-12 X 12s plus a kraft cardstock sheet in it, not sure why guess to create your own cards. If you went to the actual kit's site the first paper that came up is one full of arrows that is why the arrows paper is in it. It was fun to translate the kit to find out exactly what was in the kit.
Since they didn't show any other of the 12 X 12 paper I drew in the Stars paper and used alot of circles they had to bring in the other sheets of paper.

The kit consisted of  light blues and the whites and the kit had (6) 4 X 6 pcs (I'm thinking a couple were for the title page) and (24) 3 X 4, enough for 4 weeks of crafting. I pulled in the blues, greens, golds and tans (to work with the cinnamon core kit). I pulled in a variety of designs: chevrons, dots and stripes

The kit had 2-badges/flairs, 1 alpha, 1 washi tape, 1 rub-ons, 10 mini veneers and 1/2 pack of enamal dots.

 I pulled in 2-alphas, 3 washi tapes, pack of rub-ons to use, the flair buttons, the veneer pack and 2 packs of enamel dots.

They also had stamps, which I have but at the moment I can't show them. You can see those next week during the blog hop for 3 Twenty Crafts new release stamps. It'll be fun to get back into Project Life, life has been so busy that I haven't had a chance to enjoy the weekly crafting of project life.
Wow 2 posts in one day, you all have a great night and stop back tomorrow for Throwback Thursday.

Workplace Wednesday-2-12-14

Good Afternoon,
Brrrrr today started off with some cold temperatures:

 Welcome to another Workspace Wednesday? I'm kinda liking this day of the week, I can show you all a preview of what is ahead on the blog. It was nice to jhave all the bookkeeping stuff off the desk and preping some crafting stuff for the rest of the week. Oh I still have book keeping to do but I'll do that at the kitchen table now in the mornings till our appointment.

So this is what my workspace looks like this morning:

 Last night, all that was on TV was repeated TV shows, so I was in the craft room. February Counterfeit Kit Challenge also had a Project Life kit to forge so I was working on that last night gathering up the supplies. I'm  planning to work on, a couple of weeks of PL, this weekend. So here is a partial of what the kit looks like. I will be showcasing some new stamps with the page spreads to the stamps are hidden at the moment. Planning to pull the rest of the kit together today.

 This is the other side of the desk, I usually have my laptop right in the center of the desk when I'm crafting. I have a paper pad and a stamp set for a project that I will be doing for Friday, I also have my cinnamon edition of PL out, that is my core kit this year for PL and want to make sure that what I pull in to use with it will work. the plastic container holds the items pulled for Jan CKC that wasn't used (note: Needs to be put away :) The stack of card stock, ink and punch is out so I can have it handy when I type up my blog spots for I think 3 different crafts. Also, my notebook is there for my notes of what I crafted and pertinent details and some scrap notes that need to be transferred into the notebook (this is my way of staying some what organized-so I know what I have posted and what I haven't. Country Life cartridge  and the Graphically Speaking cartridge just didn't get put away yet :)

So that is what I'm working on at the moment, kinda of enjoying Wednesdays off from work too. Was able to catch up with laundry today, chose a ton of designs from the Silhouette store for upcoming projects.

What's on your desk today?

Have a fabulous day

Penn's Cave 2003

Hello and welcome, I've been working on Audit stuff for the club that my husband and I belong to so no crafting for almost a whole week (I feel like I'm on some kind of withdrawal :). We've been asked to help with the feature tractor next year at Penns Cave-Nittany Antique Tractor Show (It's one of the biggest in our area). So I thought I'd dig out the old scrapbook pages from the last time we were there as a group (me I worked that show as a vendor so I wasn't much help). It was fun to look back a bit.

The show was so big that the layouts were on 4 pages instead of 2. We had a good variety of tractors and hope to do that once again. Lot of the details come from other members and from our newsletter. It was nice to start this project for the club a historical picture album, that one volume is almost full. I'm looking forward to getting back into this album to work on it a bit. This is where sketches really come in handy cause there is now thinking, just putting it together.

I got over the next 2 weeks to get my own prepared, so crafting is going to be at a minimum, but I do have some obligations that I have to fill that will help with the withdrawal symptom...
Till then do you do anything particular hobbies with your hubby or other half?