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It's the little things...

2012-03-03T11:11:00.001-05:00

Hi everyone,

Just popping in to share a card I made recently. The soft colours make me think of spring. :)

Hero Arts: Edged Fabric With Flowers, Find Joy, Hero Hues markers

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Love...

2012-02-24T22:36:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

When I submitted these baby tags to Paper Crafts magazine I also submitted a similar one of a bridal couple. That one wasn't picked up and so I made it into a card...

I used my Silhouette for the die cutting along with Basic Grey papers and a Technique Tuesday stamp.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you all have a wonderful, restful weekend!

Masculine Birthday

2012-02-20T19:43:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Just popping in to share a masculine birthday card. I used a Hero Arts background stamp for the the panel on the left side, first coloring the stamp with Memento markers before stamping it on white cardstock. I also used a marker with the sentiment stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

Baby Tag set

2012-02-14T10:18:00.002-05:00

Hi everyone,

Popping in to share a Baby Tag set I made for Paper Crafts which can be found in the March/April issue. I *heart* this issue! Rainbow and Cameos and much, much more makes for a super fun issue!

Here's my tag set which is found in the cameo section:

I used Hero Arts Old Letter Writing on the backgrounds and various Hero Arts sentiments ('love' in 'baby love' is from Technique Tuesday).

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Valentine's Day!

Edited to Add: I saw this was pinned on Pinterest and someone was asking how they were made. I used my Silhouette...put the tag up on in the program and put the image(s) on top so it cut both at the same time. I then used the tag part (with the negative part of the other image and adhered it a piece of colored cardstock. I then trimmed around the edge to create a border.

Paper Craft rejects

2012-02-10T15:05:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Just popping in to share a couple of cards I submitted to the Paper Craft Stamp It! Cards vol 9 call that didn't get any loving. Hoping they'll get a little here. ;) I submitted 15 cards, only 6 were new. 9 were resubmits and the 1 that they picked is one I've submitted 2 times before. 3rd times a charm, right? ;)

Anyways, I'm going to hold on to a few of them yet but thought I'd share a couple today.

As always, thanks for stopping by!

New winner

2012-02-08T16:52:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Just popping in to pick a new winner for the Stamp It! 3 Ways issue. And here she is!!!

Amrita said...
Cute cards! Love the circle scallops!

January 27, 2012 7:18 AM

Congrats, Amrita! Please contact me and we can get this out to you! :)

Barking Birthday Card

2012-02-04T22:19:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Just popping by to share a card I made for a sweet 3 yr old boy from our church. My daughter went to his birthday party today (while we hosted a 'friend' party for our oldest). It was a busy, but good, day. :) Anyways, I used the fun Birthday Buddies set from Paper Smooches to make this card.

Also, I haven't heard from the Stamp It! 3 Ways winner yet...so Beastybunny, if you're out there please send me an email. :) If I don't hear by early next week I'll be picking a new winner.

Take care!

Paper Crafts Stamp It! 3 Ways Winner

2012-01-30T18:26:00.001-05:00

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to pop in and thank you all for the wonderful comments you left over the weekend regarding the Paper Crafts Stamp It! 3 Ways blog hop. :)

I also need to pick a winner for a copy of this fabulous issue. My son and did it very scientifically. ;) I slowly scrolled down the page of comments until he said 'stop'. He then closed his eyes and moved the mouse around and when he stopped this is the comment he stopped on. ;)

Beastybunny said...: Fantastic use of the circles! I love emboss resist. And the scales of the last card are so bright and cheery! Great job!
January 27, 2012 10:23 AM
Congrats, Beastybunny! Please email me with your name and mailing address and I'll send it on over to Paper Crafts. :)ETA: I used ColorBox Frost White pigment ink on the kraft card...

Paper Crafts Stamp It! 3 Ways Designer Blog Hop

2012-01-27T06:00:00.117-05:00

Hi everyone! Welcome to Paper Crafts Stamp It! 3 Ways Designer Blog Hop!

Each of today's blog hop designers was asked to make a card using one the sets they used in the Stamp It! 3 Ways issue. I decided to use this fun set from Hero Arts called Many Dots:

There are just SO many fun ways to use this set. Here's the card I made for today's hop:

I used the small solid circle stamp to create the background. On the front panel I white heat embossed various images from the set and went over it with distress inks using an ink blending tool.

Since this issue of Stamp It! is all about using a stamp set in 3 different ways I thought I'd share 2 other cards I've made using this set.This next one is the one that was published in Stamp It! 3 Ways. Here I used various images from the set to make the background paper and used the flower image for a main element.

For my final card (which I believe I've shared before) I used the polka dot circle and stamped it multiple times in different colours on die cut circles and adhered them to the card to make rows of scallops.

Here's the full list of blog hop participants:

Jaclyn Miller

· Julie Masse

· Laura Williams

· Heidi Van Laar

· Emily Leiphart

· Mariana Grigsby

· Julia Stainton

· Sarah Moerman <---- YOU ARE HERE

· Karen Baker

· Laura O’Donnell

· Kelley Eubanks

· Kimberly Crawford

I hope you'll check out what everyone has created and be sure to comment at ALL our blogs as each designer is giving away a copy of Stamp It! 3 Ways. Also be sure to leave a comment on the Paper Crafts Connection blog for another chance to win a copy as well as a VERY exciting prize!!! Paper Crafts is giving one lucky commenter ALL of the stamps featured in this issue! (see below) WOW!!! (All deadlines are Sunday, January 29th at midnight).

Thanks for stopping by!

Summer Shaped Cards

2012-01-14T21:37:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Thought I'd pop in and thank everyone for leaving such sweet comments during the Hero Hosti Blog Hop this past week. The other Hosti and I had SO much FUN! If you didn't get a chance to hop along here is my post: 2012 Hero Arts Hosti Blog Hop.

I also thought I'd share a few cards that didn't make the cut for Paper Crafts July/ August 2012 issue. There were SO many submissions for this call...which didn't really surprise me since there such fun topics - summer shaped cards, stamping with markers, and using paint were my favourite categories. I submitted about a dozen cards and had 3 shaped cards picked up! Feeling very blessed! I won't share my stamping with markers cards just yet as I resubmitted them for the current Stamp It! call but thought I'd share a few of the shaped cards. We could all use a little 'summer' about now, right? :)

All the shapes were cut with my Silhouette. Love it!

My twins were quite happy the shades and crab didn't get picked up. My daughter asked for the shades and my son wanted the crab card. He actually asked for it while I was making it. I was happy to oblige. :)

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Hero Arts 2012 Hero Hosti Blog Hop

2012-01-12T09:00:00.216-05:00

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the Hero Arts 2012 Hero Hosti Blog Hop! You should be arriving here from the ever so talented Sue McRae's blog. If you haven't been following along with the blog hop please start at the Hero Club Blog to get all the details. Also, Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments. For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on ANY day this week, including each day's starting post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning! Also, if you find a broken link, you'll find a master list of the hop links at the Hero Club Blog. (Please report broken links to Tami).

I had SO much fun creating for this hop! Hero Arts stamps really do make it easy :)

Here are my cards:

This one is pretty self explanatory so I'll just share the supplies I used. :)

Supplies (For You):

For You Gifts
Single Starburst
Snow Layering paper
Iris Chalk Ink
Punch Chalk Ink
Cerulean Chalk Ink
Other: (small envelope - Michaels, Prismacolor pencil crayons, Versafine black ink, cash)

I wanted to try something different with this next one to give this image a really soft look...

Heat emboss Large Flower Background on a piece of Snow Layering paper using white embossing powder.
Press watermark ink pad over entire image and color in the different areas using Pebble Inc chalks. I found the blending stumps worked well for smaller areas. Wipe away access with paper towel and adhere to card base.
Tie ribbon around card, making a bow.
Embellish with threaded button.

Supplies (Chalk Roses):

Large Flower Background
Snow Layering paper
White Embossing Powder
VersaMark Watermark Ink
Other: (Blending Stumps, Pebbles Inc pearlescent chalks, May Arts silk ribbon, Doodlebug Designs button, crochet thread)

I think this one is pretty self explanatory too. Do feel free to email me if you have questions about any of the cards. :)

Supplies (Thinking of You Daisies):

Daisies
Daisy Outline Pattern
Say It All
Carnation Folded Cards
Spun Sugar Distress Ink
Clear Embossing Powder
Blush Mixed Accents
Other: (Versafine black ink, Le Plume alcohol markers)

Thanks so much for hopping by and a big thank you to Hero Arts for inviting all us past Hosti to participate in this fun blog hop! This is your last stop for today. Be sure to head back over to the Hero Club Blog tomorrow for the last day of the blog hop!

Edited to add: Although the comment section seems to be working for some people I've heard from others that they aren't able to leave comments on my blog post. So sorry about this! I've checked my settings and everything seems fine there so blogger must just be mad at me about something. ;) If you try to comment and aren't able to do so, feel free to leave an additional comment for me at the Hero Arts blog. Tami assures me that it will count towards the prize. :)

Silhouette cards

2012-01-06T13:03:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,
I have a few things on the go but wanted to pop in and share some cards I haven't shared yet. These are all baby related. :)

The silhouette images were all cut using my Silhouette. ;) The first 2 cards use Hero Arts stamps and the last uses one from Technique Tuesday.

Hope you all have a happy and healthy weekend. I'm hoping to get over a cold before we start school up again on Monday.

Hugs!

Sharing my heart...

2012-01-03T21:45:00.001-05:00

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I see it's been about 3 weeks since I last posted. December was a crazy month here.... with family get togethers, a card making project I was honoured to work on, and an emotional Christmas. I really just needed a few weeks away from blogging.

As many of you know, I made and sent weekly cards of encouragement to my husband's uncle for 15 months during his chemo treatments and continued battle with cancer (which ended just over a week ago on Christmas Day). He was a wonderful man and godly example to me of trusting God during the most difficult times of life. A few of you may know that I started to struggled with anxiety 4 years ago (which I now know was mostly related to undiagnosed Celiac disease). The way my anxiety showed itself was through fear of cancer.... to the degree that I thought every little health issue was a symptom of cancer and couldn't handle hearing anything about cancer. This was a dark and scary time for me, full of fear, and one I hope and pray I don't relive. Our uncle was diagnosed just weeks after my anxiety began... and although treatable it wasn't curable. He faced his new challenge with such an amazing attitude and taught me so much about living life and facing death with the grace and peace that only God can provide. I will never forget this most valuable and life changing lesson or the man who taught it by way of his example.

I didn't take pictures of every card I sent him but I did take pictures of some of them. Here's one that I don't believe I've shared yet.

Thank you for letting me share my heart today.
Hugs,
Sarah

Busy, busy, busy...

2011-12-16T11:48:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Thought I'd pop in a say 'hi' this morning. I've been busy, busy, busy this past week working on a project that required me to make 6 cards from a couple of particular stamp sets that were mostly words and frames. Boy was I stretched (in a good way)... and realized just how much I LOVE my background stamps. ;)

Today I'm busy cleaning house, Christmas caroling with the kids at a nursing home this afternoon with our homeschool group, and getting food ready for TWO Christmas parties. I thought I'd take a short break and pop in to share a card I made last week for my husband's uncle. As some of you know, I've been sending him weekly cards for the past year and a bit as he's been battling cancer. I'm hoping to see him tomorrow at one of the parties and am so grateful for the amazing example he's been through everything.

I used a bunch of scraps for this one and it came together very quickly. Love when that happens. :)

Hope you all have a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

One Sketch - 2 Cards

2011-12-12T17:15:00.005-05:00

Hi everyone,

Just popping by to share a couple of cards I made for a recent Paper Crafts call based on a sketch. Neither card got picked up so I thought I'd share them with you. :)

That's all for now. Time to finish writing out the rest of my Christmas cards. :)

Spring Get Well Card

2011-12-09T21:10:00.001-05:00

Hi all,

Thought I'd pop in real quick and a share card that didn't getting an loving from Paper Crafts. ;)

Here it is:

This card uses Hero Arts Butterflies and Wildflowers set as well as Classic Messages. The patterned paper is from Basic Grey's Picadilly 6x6 pad and and the twine is Honeydew by The Twinery.

Before I go... Have you heard of Blitsy? It's a new paper crafting deal website where you get some major discounts! Check it out! I've already placed an order. ;)

I have some cards I need to work on tonight so I'll leave it at that. Enjoy your weekend!

Winner of Card Creations: Get Inspired

2011-12-06T07:32:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Wish I had a card to post today but I'm in the middle of getting my Christmas cards ready to send out. :) I just wanted to thank everyone for all the sweet comments during the Get Inspired blog hop. They all meant so much to me. Now to announce the winner of the copy of Card Creations: Get Inspired.

The winner is....

Barb who said...: Congrats on being a part of this fun blog hop, Sarah! Love your fabulous take on your daughter's jacket! She sure is a cutie! :); December 2, 2011 9:03 AM; Barb please email me with your address so Paper Crafts can get get this issue out to you. :)

Paper Crafts magazine Presents: Card Creations: Get Inspired Blog Hop!

2011-12-02T06:00:00.144-05:00

Hi everyone!!

Today I'm excited to be part of Paper Crafts Card Creations: Get Inspired blog hop!

I had so much fun working on cards for this issue! I enjoyed going through all the inspirational pieces and trying to figure out what I could take from them and put on paper. Since I'm a stamper at heart a lot of this involved going through my stamps and seeing how I could work them into projects that represented the inspirational pieces.

For today's blog hop I decided to make a card based on my daughter's new snowsuit. I LOVE the pink, gray, and white colour combination and the design of the scattered flowers. (The cute girl wearing it didn't hurt either). ;)

I took the yummy colour combination and paired it with some scattered snowflakes to come up with a Christmas card for this great cause:

I hope you'll check out what the other participants created for the blog hop. I can't wait to see what they came up with and what they were inspired by! (click on the names to get to their blogs)

AND be sure to comment here (and on the other designers' blogs) by midnight on Sunday, December 4th for your chance to win your own copy of Card Creations: Get Inspired!

Also, be sure to head over the the Paper Crafts Connection blog and leave a comment there by midnight on Sunday, December 4th. There's a BIG prize up for grabs...

That's right! The Martha Stewart craft station including a 12”x12” LED light table and glass cutting mat, a cutting shuttle and movable ruler arm, three cutting blades and cartridge, a metal stencil, a stylus, five 12”x12” tracing templates, a cutting knife and an alignment guide. Retail price is $165! Hurry on over!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hambo Stamps Guest Designer

2011-11-29T06:25:00.005-05:00

Hi everyone,

I have a fun card to share today using a sweet nativity scene and sentiment from Hambo Stamps. I was thrilled when Libby from Hambo Stamps contacted me earlier this month asking if I'd be interested in guest designing for them. After checking out their selection I knew I definitely wanted to play along! :) They have so many cute, fun, hilarious stamps and sentiments that it was hard to narrow down my selection. In the end the Christmas season won out and I couldn't resist this adorable nativity scene and coordinating sentiment found here:

Coloring isn't my strong point (and I'm not a patient enough person to work on it). ;) So when I have images like this to work with I tend to paper piece. When I first saw this adorable nativity scene though, I knew I wanted the focus to be on baby Jesus and the manger and decided to colour just those areas with white pencil crayon on kraft. Not sure if you see it in the picture below but I went over the white areas with a glitter pen to give a hint of sparkle.

I'm really happy with how it turned out and will be sending it to Cards that Care.

Big thanks to Libby, Monica, and Hambo Stamps for warmly welcoming me and inviting me to play with their wonderful stamps. I do hope you'll check them out.

As always, thanks for popping by!

Another Paper Crafts Get Inspired card

2011-11-25T07:25:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

Hope all my American friends are sufficiently stuffed from your Thanksgiving dinners yesterday. I just saw that the Paper Crafts Connection blog has another one of my cards from Card Creations: Get Inspired on the blog today along with three other wonderful cards all inspired by the same tank top. This will give a good idea of what the issue is like.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Paper Crafts: Get Inspired

2011-11-23T21:39:00.001-05:00

Hi everyone,

Back today to share one the cards I have in Paper Crafts newest special issue: Get Inspired. This was such a FUN issue to design for. A number of designers where sent pictures of 80 different objects from around the house - clothes, jewelery, pillows, dishes, etc. and asked to make cards inspired by them. I have a few cards in this issue and here is one of them:

Hero Arts: Designer Woodgrain, Four Flowers, Find Joy

Hope you have a wonderful day! Thanks again for popping by! I appreciate it. :)

Virginia Lu's 29th Birthday celebration! ;)

2011-11-20T15:42:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone!

I'm back to share I card I made for Virginia Lu's 29th birthday celebration. She claims she's turning 50 but we all know better. ;)

Happy Birthday, Virginia! I hope you have an amazing day! I've enjoyed getting to know you over the past few years during our shared time as Hero Hostesses, at the crafting weekend we did together with some of our fellow hostesses (you give the best massages), and our trip to St. Jacob's with my Mom. You are such a fun, caring, hospitable, funny (in a good way) woman and I'm glad I get to call you 'friend'.

Paper Crafts 365 Cards

2011-11-18T08:52:00.001-05:00

Hi everyone,

Quick share this morning. I had 2 cards accepted for Paper Crafts 365 Cards and got my issue in the mail yesterday. This is such a fun issue with cards celebrating tradition and wacky holidays as well as sharing cards we tend to use on an everyday basis.

Here's one of my cards:

I wanted to print some Fall pictures onto canvas and my sister-in-law is a great photographer so I asked her if she had any she could email me. Both this leaf picture and the pumpkins in the other card I have in this publication are photographed by her. Paper Crafts didn't include her name for the photo credit so I'm going to do it here. Thanks Erin Moerman for the great pics! :)

Hope everyone has a great day. The kids and I are off to visit my parents today.

quick share

2011-11-14T12:40:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone,

I can't believe it's almost been 2 weeks since I've posted a card. I'm crazy busy working a on big project but should have that done in the next couple of days. :)

I thought I'd pop in real quick before I get back to work to share I card I made recently for the last Paper Crafts call. Unfortunately it didn't make the cut and so you get to see it here. ;)

I made this for the heat embossing category. I heat embossed a circle with 4 layers of embossing powder and pressed my stamp into it while still hot to give the look you see here. Stamps are both Hero Arts: 'Blooming Meadow' and 'Friends Are Treasures'. I had SO much fun heat embossing for this call. I had 4 cards picked up for that section alone and 2 more in other categories. My new record! :)

Okay, off to work. Lots of pop dots in my future. Fortunately my kids like pop dotting little bumble bees. :)
Thanks for stopping by!

Basic Grey!

2011-11-05T11:49:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

Just popping in to share that I have an (older) card up on the Basic Grey blog today for their Eye Spy feature! So honoured!

Basic Grey

Lots of sun here today. I better go soak some of it in. :) Hope you all have a great weekend!

WCMD cards

2011-11-02T11:58:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone,

Thought I'd share the cards I made for Paper Crafts World Card Making Day contest. They didn't make the cut but will be going to some soldiers to send home to family so it's still a win! :) Most of the cards use Hero Arts, one uses Technique Tuesday and one Paper Smooches. Let me know if you have any specific questions.

There you go! (I had one more included here but realized it closely resembles a group of tags I'm going to have published so I decided to remove it). ;) It's suppose to be beautiful weather today so I think a trip to the park is in order for this afternoon. Hope you all have a wonderful day

Some Our Daily Bread cards

2011-10-25T15:53:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

I thought I'd pop by today to share some cards I made last month at the craft retreat I went to Cincinnati. Jana Millen was sweet enough to let me borrow some of her "Our Daily Bread Designs" stamps: Scripture Collections 1 and Scripture Series 1. I really do need to add these to my own collection of stamps. I LOVE the messages and have been needing to send out some extra special cards the past few weeks. The sentiments in these set were perfect.

Here are the cards I made:

Thanks for stopping by today!

Paper Crafts Holiday Cards & More project

2011-10-21T13:43:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

I'm back to a share a project of mine that's in the current issue of Holiday Cards & More by Paper Crafts. I'm still waiting (impatiently) for my copy to come in the mail as I have 5 projects in this one (a record for me)! :)

Anyways, here's the one I decided to share:

The case insert is made with Hero Arts and Papertrey Ink stamps, Echo Park and Papertrey Ink papers and my beloved Sizzix snowflake die. My initial thoughts for the CD itself were to use Staz-on ink with the Hero Arts snowflake stamps on a regular CD. I really wanted to use blue ink and only had white and black Staz-on. Going through our office supplies I came across some printable CDs and thought I'd give inking on one a try with regular (chalk) ink. It worked!

Hope you all have a great day and enjoyable weekend! My kids are at the in-laws today and I'm trying to take advantage of it and get a little touch up painting done around here.

Christmas Cards!

2011-10-18T17:31:00.000-04:00

Pooping in REAL quick to share a couple of cards I made for the current Hero Arts challenge (focusing on Christmas cards).

Hero Arts: Envelop Pattern, Old Letter Writing, Holiday Sayings; Tree is a Silhouette shape; Buttons; PTI die

Hero Arts: Greatest Gift (LOVE this set!)

This it. Off to heat up leftovers for dinner and get us all out to watch my daughter's dance class. :)

Giveaway Winners

2011-10-17T22:00:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone,

I'm popping in to share the giveaway winners for Latrice Murphy's Handmade Holidays class. I'm getting excited and can't wait for this class to start! I used Random.org to pick my winners and came up with #8 and #13!

Here they are:

pegg said...: Sounds like a great class! I've been making some handmade animals for my new niece but honestly don't really know what I'm doing ! Would love to learn how to make some "real" goodies :); October 11, 2011 7:16 PM
Kimba's Kreations said...: These classes sound like a lot of fun! I would to win a spot in this class.; October 13, 2011 8:29 PM; Congrats, ladies! Please send me an email with your full name and email address and I'll pass them on to Latrice.

Merry Christmas Money Card

2011-10-14T09:26:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

Popping in real quick to share a card I have in the December/November 2011 issue of Paper Crafts magazine.

Here it is:

It was picked up for a section they did on using twine and I must say there are some AMAZING card in here!!!

I'll be back soon to share a project featured in Paper Crafts Holiday Cards & More.
Off to start school. :)

See you soon!

Some exciting news!

2011-10-11T07:19:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to pop in to share some exciting news. My dear friend, Latrice, has asked me to be part of her online class series...

Handmade Holidays is a class that is all about Doing it Yourself. You will learn how to create projects with varied difficulty from cards to a monogram wreath. We will focus on both Fall and Christmas holiday for our DIY projects. Lots of the items you will have on hand and a few you can find either online or at your local craft store. No worries though the class blog will be available to you for one year.

This class is taught by Latrice Murphy along with some great guest designers.

The Deets

Registration Dates: October 7-21, 2011

Class Dates: October 24- November 4, 2011

What are we making: We will complete 10 Fall and Christmas themed projects. Here is the full list of projects.

1. Cards using sketches (2)
2. Scrapbooking with sketches (2)
3. Holiday Wreath
4. Yearly ornament
5. Paper pom pom balls
6. Holiday odd and ends banner
7. Framed artwork with stitching
8. Ruffled pillow

Tutorials: Each day there will be a photo tutorial and we will also have 3 videos (Maybe more)

Flickr: We will have a flickr group set up in order to share our projects and to ask any questions during the class.

Supplies needed: Because there are 10 projects in this class the supply list is big, but most of the items you will have in your crafting stash or you can improvise. A quick trip to your local craft store and you’ll be set. You can also get most of the item online at eclectic Paperie. A full supply list will be given to all registered students on October 17th (One week before class starts)

Discount codes: Registered students will receive a special discount code to eclectic Paperie that is good through the entire month of November!

Prizes: There are prizes from May Arts, Penny Black and eclectic Paperie to be given!

Cost: $10 for students who sign up within the above registration dates! Whaaaaat! Yes…just $10! Individuals who sign up after the above date will pay $12...if you would like to register please go HERE to do so.

Latrice has also generously offered me to giveaway TWO spots in the classes. All you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post by Sunday October 16th at midnight EST for a chance to win a free spot.

I've been busy working on my card for the class and am quite excited to be part of this. It's going to be so much fun and I hope that you will join Latrice, myself and the rest of the guest designers.

Before I go I thought I'd share a picture and a card I made while at a scrap retreat just over a week ago. The room was full of talent with the likes of Jennifer McGuire, Jana Millen, Kathy Racoosin, Britta Swiderski, Deborah Nolan, Stephanie Klauck and many, many more fabulous ladies. We had so much fun, so much ice cream (and much to my surprise I got so much done)!

Here's one of the cards I made (for my husband's uncle). If you could keep him and his family in prayer I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

Fall Guest Designer

2011-10-08T08:28:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to pop in real quick to let you know that I have a card over at my sweet friend Michelle's blogs: Page Master Designs. She's posting fall and Halloween projects all month long. :)

I'll try and post something here soon. Still have to share about my fabulous weekend away last week but have had a busy and emotional week. If you could pray for Jack and his family I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Happy World Card Making Day!

2011-10-01T09:00:00.004-04:00

Happy World Card Making Day!

Hi everyone!

Happy World Card Making Day!!! I hope you all have a chance to get crafty today! :) I've pre-scheduling this post as I'm in Cincinnati this weekend getting crafty with some of the most talented card makers ever! I'll be sure to post about it once I'm back home. :) Before I go here's a card I made recently for a Paper Crafts call that wasn't picked up. Not sure if you can see it in the picture but I added some Frosted Lace Stickles to the candle flames.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful weekend...whether it includes pretty papers & stamps or not. :)

Thanks ever so much!!

2011-09-28T14:28:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

Super quick post today as I'm getting ready for a crafty weekend away with friends... Just had to make one more card for the current Paper Smooches Sparks challenge.

This one is super simple and features a greeting from the Pretty Phrases set.

Thank YOU ever so much for stopping by!

Paper Crafts Holiday Cards & More

2011-09-26T22:02:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

A quick post today. We just got home from celebrating my brother's birthday (today), our twins' birthday (tomorrow) and my Dad's birthday (Saturday) all at my parents' place. Lots of fun! :)

Anyways, I thought I'd just pop by and let you all know that I have a card featured on the Paper Crafts Connection blog along with a little write up about what I love most about card making and a little tidbit about Santa's address being Canadian. Still some time to get your letters in to the 'big guy.' ;)

Thanks for popping by!

Paper Smooches Sparks challenge

2011-09-24T13:24:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone!

I'm back today to share a couple of cards I made for the current Paper Smooches Sparks challenge! I LOVE Kim's adorable Paper Smooches stamps!

Here's the inspirational piece for the challenge:

and here are my cards:

Both cards use Paper Smooches sweet 'Birthday Buddies' set. They also both draw from the colors of the inspirational piece. The first one also uses a similar layout from the picture and includes a tag like in the picture. For my second card, I was inspired to make a shaped card using the onesie as inspiration. The 'she' is from the word 'fishes' in the set.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Bring on the Bling!

2011-09-23T06:00:00.012-04:00

Hi all!

I'm here today to share the card I made for this week's Lily Pad Cards blog challenge. I'm sad to say that this will be my last challenge with Lily Pad Cards. I've had lots of fun playing along with Deborah, Vicky and the rest of the wonderful design team. Thanks for everything ladies! I just felt it was time for me to hop off the pad since I'm homeschooling all 4 of our kids this year and wanted to keep other commitments to a minimum until I knew everything was running smoothly (which it is). :) Anyways, this week it's all about the bling! :) Our sponsor is none other than the wonderful Simon Says Stamp!

Here's my card:

I punched/ die cut the butterflies from black cardstock, adhered the bling and went around it all with Glossy Accents. For my background, I heat embossed the grid image in black, rubbed over it with Pumice Stone distress ink and spritzed with pearlized water. If you have any questions about the card feel free to send me an email. :)

Now please head over to the Lily Pad Cards blog to see what the designers have come up with and to get all the challenge details.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Lily Pad Cards/ Hero Arts sketch challenge

2011-09-16T06:00:00.012-04:00

Hi everyone,

I'm here today with another Lily Pad Cards blog challenge. This week's challenge is a sketch challenge and is sponsored by the one and only Hero Arts! Yay! :) Hero Arts was so generous with the design team. They sent not one, not two, but THREE sets for each designer to work with! Because of that I couldn't help but make two cards for this week's challenge. ;)

Here's the sketch:

Here's my first card:

Hero Arts: Greatest Gift, Artistic Circles, Joyful Christmas Season

...and my second, in which I flipped the sketch on it's side and didn't include the sentiment:

Hero Arts: Greatest Gift, Artistic Circles

I LOVE the Greatest Gift set SO much! I've been wanting a faith-based set for a long time and Hero Arts has totally delivered with this one. :)

I can't wait to see what the other designers have come up with! Head over to the Lily Pad Cards blog to see what they've created and to get all the contest details.

Thank a Soldier

2011-09-09T11:14:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

Popping in real quick (while my son works on his math sheet) to share a card I made for my brother-in-law who's serving overseas with the National Guard. We put together a care pack for him, including a Kindle from his entire family. Lots of down time gets kind of boring... but WE like it that way. He's serving as a medic, so the more bored he is the better. ;)

Anyways, here's the card I made to put in the care pack:

The background was created using the Silhouette and the sentiment is Hero Arts...

Thanks for visiting... and if you get the chance, thank a soldier for all they do to help keep the world safe.

Lily Pad Cards: A Day for Daisies

2011-09-02T06:00:00.003-04:00

Hi everyone,

I'm back to share a card for this week's Lily Pad Cards challenge which happens to be a colour challenge. Yay! I love colour challenges since they take away some of the decision making. ;)

This week's challenge is sponsored by A Day for Daisies a great digital stamp company.

Here are this month's colours:

I used this adorable little dress from A Day for Daisies along with some Basic Grey patterned paper (Out of Print), a Hero Arts sentiment (from the Adorable Baby Girl set), and a touch of Glossy Accents (on the dots).

Go check out the Lily Pad Cards blog to see what the other designers have created and to get all the challenge details.

Thanks for stopping by!

Scrapbook Stamping with Nichol Magouirk

2011-09-01T11:20:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone,

I'm excited to share today that the ultra-talented Nichol Magouirk has asked me to play along with this month's Scrapbook Stamping class over at Two Peas in a Bucket. This month's class is focused on incorporating stamping on non-paper products. Now it's been a few months since I've done a layout so I was kind of nervous about it... but also very excited to stamp on one of my favourite things: Sticky Back Canvas!

Here's my layout of my sweet boy (love him so much):

I cut 6 panels from Natural Sticky Back Canvas and stamped them with background stamps.I also die cut tags from the same canvas and stamped on them too. Oh, and I promise that 'orange' button is really RED. Not sure why it photographed off. Anyways, for all the details and a supply list look here.

Thanks again for stopping by! I appreciate it!

Simon Says Stamp-tember Hop and Treasure Hunt !

2011-08-31T07:53:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone,

This is my final Simon Says Stamp! challenge guest designer post. I've had so much fun playing along this month and send a big "Thank You" out to the Simon Says Stamp! design team for inviting me to play along with them.

For the second year in a row, Simon Says Stamp and Show & The Simon Says Stamp Challenge are joining

forces to bring you a SUPER hop and treasure hunt to celebrate the approaching fall and winter holidays.

To help celebrate we will be giving a BIG BASKET OF CRAFTING GOODIES to the winner of this hop! PLUS 3 $25 VOUCHERS to the Simon Says Stamp Store! The vouchers will be the hidden treasure on 3 DT blogs and you have to find them.

The Blog hop starts today (August 31st, 2011) on the Simon Says Challenge blog and will finish on September 5th, 2011 on the Simon Says Stamp & Show blog. The theme for both challenges this week will be ANYTHING GOES. You can make anything you like … a card, an ATC, a Scrapbook layout … the possibilitiesare endless! You will need to hop through each blog, find the little parcel of goodies and make a note on which designer’s blog you found them. You do not HAVE to comment on all the DT blogs but we would appreciate any comments you would like to leave. ;) If you lose your way at any time a full list of all the participating blogs with links will be available on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge and the Stamp and Show Challenge blogs. For more details please refer to either blog.

If you arrived here from Debby's blog then you are going in the right direction otherwise you need to start at the beginning on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.

Here's my card:

I took a piece of the French Mint Core'Dination cardstock and adhered it backwards on the top section of my card base. I then cut a piece of patterned paper, torn the top edge, and adhered it in place. I then ran another piece of the Core'Dination cardstock through my die cut machine with the numbers embossing folder, sanded the raised area so the blue would show through, and ran it through the die cut machine with a tags die.
I stamped my greeting on a label and attached it to the tag using Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher. I threaded some lace ribbon and twine through the tag hole securing it with the Tiny Attacher before adhering the tag to the card.

Here is a list of the supplies I used:

- Number Collage Embossing Folder
- Stella & Rose: Gertie 6x6 paper pad
- Classic Messages
- Lace Ribbon
- Walnut Stain Distress Ink
- Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher
- French Mint Core'Dination cardstock (from Chocolate Box collection)

Feel free to send me an email if you have any questions about the card. :)

Your next stop is at the super talented Terry's blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

Paper Crafts Card Ideas for Paper Crafters

2011-08-27T18:27:00.002-04:00

Hi everyone,

I'm popping in today to share one of my cards published in Paper Crafts "Card Ideas for Paper Crafters". I LOVE this issue (and not just because I have 4 cards in it). ;) It really is fun to see how 4 different people approached one particular sketch. This issue is packed full of amazing cards and I'm sure I'll be referring to it often for ideas.

Here's one of my cards:

I hope you'll pick up this special Paper Crafts issue. It really is FABULOUS!

Thanks for dropping by! I hope you're all having a great weekend!

How can you 'Resist' Lily Pad Cards?

2011-08-26T06:00:00.001-04:00

Like my title? I could 'resist'. Hee hee. Okay enough of the puns. :)

This week's Lily Pad Cards challenge is use the Resist stamping technique. :) We have a WONDERFUL sponsor this week too! Simon Says Stamp! Yay! I have to tell you, I just love their customer service and international shipping rates. They are top-notch! :)

Here's my card:

For my card I used the Springtime Silhouettes stamp set by Gina K. Designs, Out of Print patterned paper by Basic Grey, and Bloomers ribbon by Webster's Pages.

Instructions:

1. Make notecard from cardstock.

2. Cut patterned paper to size and distress edges with distresser.

3. Clear emboss butterfly image at top and stamp sentiment at bottom.

4. Using distress inks and ink blending tool apply color over butterfly image.

5. Adhere panel to card and embellish with ribbon.

Feel free to email me with any questions you may have. :)

I can't wait to see what the other designers have come up with over at Lily Pad Cards! Hop on over to take a look and get all the challenge details.

As always, thanks for stopping bye! :)