Hello

Good Afternoon bloggers!!

I'm hoping to have my blog every day in may post up later... but we'll see right??

Right now I have a fun and fabulous offering for you!

This last weekend was Memorial Day Weekend, and there was a fab sale at

Michaels, and also Joann's...

So I picked up a couple of fun things.

First was a new Spellbinders die.

This is like the mega die!  I cut out the frilly goodness around the "hello" and also the

little middle piece inside the hello!

And these are the two smallest of that set!!

 

Last week I printed out a slew of these jars... some onto regular white cardstock,

and a whole page onto vellum.

I thought, well, I could put a cool paper behind the jar, and it would turn out like this!

Like the butterflies are inside the jar??

I like I like!

Plus I also got a new and very frilly (for me) border punch!

From Fiskars, I think it adds just the right touch as the band in the middle??

The brown lined paper (that sorta looks like wood??) is from bo bunny,

and I'm linking up to the sketch challenge at Page maps found here,

and the color challenge at Unity Stamps found here

And I also got that fabulous "hello" stamp from them!!!

 

I'm also joining in the fun at our Crafty Sentiments where the challenge is Stitching, real or faux!

Sweet nothing's thank you

Good evening all my bloggy friends!

Today I was busy in the craft room all day long!

I worked on some DT stuff, but also some stuff I can share with you right now!

I got this free digi from Sweet Nothings Stamp Co

So I have decided to play along with their challenge which is to

use this picture for inspiration

So I got to work making a neutral card!

I added the paint spatters on the background paper as I'd like to play along with the challenge at designed to color and can I just say that man did it feel like it took a long time for those paint spatters to dry!

As they were drying I cut out the digi and backed it with some old sheet music

Here's her close up!

The lace was hand dyed and hung to dry,

I then went to work arranging some buttons on the corners of the card

And I added the numbers and the "thanks"

which was backed with some of the wood looking paper that I had left over

All in all a cute and girly card ready for when I need a thank you on the fly!



Entering this into:

Designed to color: Paint Splatters

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge: Thankful/ give thanks

Crafty Sentiments: Thanks

Cute card Thursdays: Girls only

Sweet Nothings: November Challenge: neutrals

DYSU Challenge: Numbers

 

Quickie thank you

I fell in love with these butterflies when I was in the store, and the background paper

Was perfect with the butterflies!

So, it's a super simple card, but I love it! 

Hope your crafting today!

It's a great way to relieve the stress of the holidays!

Entering this into: 

Flutterby Wednesdays: Thank you

The corrosive challenge: Flutter by

Crafty sentiments: Thanks

Simon says Stamp and Show: Thank you

The Pink Elephant Challenge: Thank you 

Pink Christmas

Happy week before Thanksgiving!

I have a Christmas card to share with you all today...

A pink Christmas Card.. My mom will love it I'm sure as she LOVES

all things pink!

I won this cute as a button Stampendous stamp a few weeks ago from

Designed to Color

and I thought this was the perfect time to use it!

Aren't those elves just so adorable???

I wanted to add the stars but could not for the life of me figure out how to make them

a banner... Finally I just popped them on with pop dots and added the twine behind them... It turned out cute right??

For the Heart I die cut it and then I used my new

Distress Stains to make the pretty mottled background, I stamped

the "merry christmas" with my staz-on black, and added a start inside the heart as well..

The December is a Tim Holtz embossing folder and again the heart was a die cut!

I'm following along with a number of challenges with this card

Bearly Mine Challenges: Pink Christmas

By the Cute and Girly: Twinkle Twinkle little star

Crafty Sentiments Design: Christmas

Cute Card Thursdays: Starry Night

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge: Anything Goes

Tuesday Alchemy: Anything Goes

Diva's by design: Anything goes

Cute and sweet Birthday card

Today I made a quickie card for my mother in laws birthday

I've wanted to try some new techniques, 

With multi folds.....

This is closed

And then tri folded open

It was fun to try a card with multiple folds..

I think the card turned out pretty cute!

Too bad we forgot to bring it to dinner with us!

I guess she'll just get it a day late!

Entering this card into: 

Chocolate, coffee, cards: sweet treats

Penny's challenges: More than one fold

Cute and girly: Birthday

Cupcake craft challenges: Think pink

Cute card Thursday: Letters and numbers

Crafty sentiments: Happy birthday

Just us Girls: Use Numbers

IDIC Challenge #127: stitching real or faux