Category: Crafts

Paper Players 263

TGIW! LOL! We are at the halfway point, didn’t you miss the countdown to Friday?! I didn’t! Ha! The office reared it’s ugly head yesterday and I was super busy but the day did move along quite rapidly. After work I had some quality time with little Daniel, he is such little man now! And fresh! You don’t get kisses anymore! Cheeky little devil! When I got home it was time to change the faucet in the kitchen that my lovely daughter broke while I was away. Thankfully, my dad came over and helped. There is nothing that man can’t do. When that was finished I ran to Michaels to pick up some stuff for card class and tonight I will be off to cut for said class. 🙂

I have been enjoying coloring with my copics and when I saw this week’s Paper Players challenge…

I knew just want I wanted to use! The card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. My background is a piece of Hello Honey that I cut out with the Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Rectangles. The bottom is a piece of Soft Suede also cut with the same die and then again with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders. I traced across the slope with a pencil and then stamped the corn stalks from the Lawn Fawn Happy Harvest Photopolymer Stamp Set in Old Olive using generation stamping. The background is adhered to the card with SNAIL and Fun Foam. All of the rest of the images and greeting are from the same set and are stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and colored in with Copics. They are all cut out with the Lawn Cuts Happy Harvest Dies and adhered to the card with SNAIL. I love the cute images in the stamp set and I’m really enjoying coloring with the copics! I hope that you enjoyed my fall scene card for this week’s Paper Players Challenge! Thank you for visiting and I wish you all a wondrous Wednesday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Happy Harvest Photopolymer (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Ink (Stampin’ Up!) and Memento Tuxedo Black

Markers: Copics

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah), Hello Honey and Soft Suede (Stampin’ Up!)

Dies: Small Stitched Rectangles and Happy Harvest Lawn Cuts (Lawn Fawn)

Adhesives: SNAIL

Tools: Big Shot and Fun Foam

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September 23, 2015
SIP Challenge 15 – Colors!

First day back to work not too bad, I did have over 1000 emails that I finally got though around 3:30. I met with some people to catch up on what happened while I was away. Just another typical day. My friend Louis stopped by in the evening and we went out and got some frozen yogurt. I got peach and it was delicious! Not a bad day but not an I’m on vacation day either! LOL!

Now on to toady’s post, it’s time for another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge! This week we have some colors from Andrea…

I pulled out some Mama Elephant goodies to make this one. My card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. A strip of Basic Black that I embossed with the We R Memory Keepers Woodgrain Embossing Folder goes down the right side. My flowers are from the Mama Elephant Freestyle Florals Photopolymer Stamp Set and are stamped in Daffodil Delight on Daffodil Delight, cut out with the coordinating dies and adhered to the card with SNAIL. My greeting is cut from some Pool Party using the Mama Elephant Thanks Script Die twice. They are adhered together with 2-Way Glue and then across the flowers with some more. Nice and simple and flat so it’s easy to mail! I hope that you enjoyed my Design Team card for this week’s Stamp, Ink, Paper Color Challenge! Head on over to the blog and check out the rest of the talented Design Team’s cards and make one of your own to enter in the gallery! Thank you very much for visiting me today! Have a terrific Tuesday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Freestyle Florals Photopolymer (Mama Elephant)

Ink: Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin’ Ink (Stampin’ Up!)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb (Neenah), Basic Black, Daffodil Delight and Pool Party (Stampin’ Up!)

Die: Thanks Script and Freestyle Florals (Mama Elephant)

Embossing Folder: Woodgrain (We R Memory Keepers)

Adhesives: SNAIL and 2-Way Glue

Tools: Big Shot

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September 22, 2015
Mojo Monday 416

And my vacation is officially over and we shall resume our normal week of wishing it was Friday! LOL! I’m back to work today and not looking forward to my email at all. It will be good to see my work peeps but I honestly I haven’t missed it! I had a more productive day yesterday, no where near back to normal but better. I dropped off my cards for class yesterday and will post them here on Saturday. There are 26 in this month’s class between Thursday and Friday! Oh wait, that’s a lot of cutting! LOL! I would say that it will be good to get back into the day to day but I would be lying! I did get to speak to Michael for bit last night, told him all about vacation and got caught up, that was nice! Here’s to hoping today goes fast and smooth!

Monday and it’s time for another fabulous sketch over at Mojo Monday…

This was one of those that as soon as I saw it I knew exactly what I wanted to do! A nice change from the past few days! The card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock with the entire front covered in a piece of Basic Black. The background is a piece of Very Vanilla with a strip of Gold Foil Sheet along the bottom. The two “rings” are also Gold Foil Sheet cut out with the Circles Framelits and adhered with 2-Way Glue. I used them again to cut out a piece of Timeless Elegance Designer Series Paper. My congratulations is cut out from a piece of Basic Black with the Simon Says Stamp Congratulations Circle Die and adhered to the DSP with more 2-Way Glue. I then adhered some Fun Foam with SNAIL to the back to hold the circle to the card. My greeting is from the Simon Says Stamp Congratulations Photopolymer Stamp Set and is heat embossed in Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder on a piece of Basic Black that I cut out with the Simon Says Stamp Apothecary Labels and it’s adhered with some Foam Tape. Simple but elegant, don’t you think?! I hope that you enjoyed my Design Team card for this week’s Mojo Monday sketch challenge! Be sure and stop by the blog and check out the rest of the Team’s cards and enter yours in the gallery! Thanks for coming by and have a manageable Monday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Congratulations Photopolymer (Simon Says Stamp)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Stampin’ Emboss Powder: Gold

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb (Neenah), Very Vanilla and Basic Black (Stampin’ Up!)

Specialty Paper: Gold Foil Sheet (Stampin’ Up!)

Dies: Circles Framelits (Stampin’ Up!), Apothecary and Congratulations Circle (Simon Says Stamp)

Adhesives: SNAIL and 2-Way Glue

Tools: Big Shot, Heat Tool and Fun Foam

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September 21, 2015
Pink Feathers Happy Day

The lack of motivation is real! It took me all day yesterday to make my cards for card class and one more. I guess that I’m suffering from PVD, Post Vacation Depression! I need to get out today and do some stuff, anything! LOL! I’ll go by Scrap-A-Latte and drop off the cards and then maybe take a drive somewhere, that helps to clear the mind sometimes.

The other card that I made last night is a just for fun one. I always find it funny that people think that a birthday card actually has to say happy birthday on the outside when there are so many other greetings that work! The base for today’s card is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. I ran a strip of My Minds Eye My Story Washi Tape down the left side of the card. Next up is a piece of My Minds Eye My Story 6×6 Paper with the bottom flagged. A circle of the same paper is cut out with the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Circle Dies to back my greeting which is from the Simon Says Stamp Oh Happy Day Photopolymer Stamp Set and is stamped in Simon Says Stamp Smoke Ink. My feathers and twigs are from the same set and are stamped in Teeny Bikini, Rosie Cheeks and Goldenlocks. They, along with the greeting, are cut out with the matching Happy Day Craft Dies. I adhered some Fun Foam that I cut out with the Sizzix Circles Framelits to the back of the stitched circle and greeting and the adhered everything to the card with SNAIL. A few Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear and Ballerina Pink Iridescent Sequins finish off the card. I think that Oh Happy Day works pretty well for a birthday, don’t you?! I hope that you enjoyed today’s card and I thank you, as always, for taking some time to stop by and see me! Here’s to a more productive Sunday! LOL! Have a great day! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Oh Happy Day Photopolymer (Simon Says Stamp)

Ink: Smoke, Teeny Bikini, Rosie Cheeks and Goldenlocks (Simon Says Stamp)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah)

Patterned Paper: My Story 6×6 Pad (My Minds Eye)

Dies: Happy Day and Stitched Circles (Simon Says Stamp)

Embellishments: My Story Washi Tape (My Minds Eye) and Ballerina Pink Iridescent and Sparkling Clear Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: SNAIL

Tools: Big Shot and Fun Foam

September 20, 2015
Freshly Made Sketches 204

I had another somewhat of a lazy day yesterday. I just can’t seem to get motivated to do much! I did run out to get some stuff from Target yesterday but the rest of the day was spent mostly in front of the TV and that’s not like me at all. I made two cards, only two! Lets hope that today is a bit more productive!

One of those cards is for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge…

Much to my dismay I made a holiday card! LOL! I guess that it’s not too early to start. The card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. Down the middle is a piece of Black. I die cut some more of the 110lb Card Stock with the Simon Says Stamp Snowflake Block Die and adhered to the card with 2-Way Glue. Across the lower half is a strip of Black that is adhered with some Foam Tape. The greeting is also die cut from 110lb using the Simon Says Stamp Deco Tree Die and adhered to the strip of Black with some more 2-Way Glue. Super clean and super simple! I hope that you enjoyed my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge! Thanks for your visit and have a simple Saturday! 🙂

Products used:

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb (Neenah) and Black 100lb (Michaels)

Dies: Snowflake Block and Deco Tree (Simon Says Stamp)

Adhesives: SNAIL, 2-Way Glue and 3M Foam Tape

Tools: Big Shot

September 19, 2015
Fab Friday 73

And it’s Friday, next week I will be much happier about that! LOL! Yesterday I caught up on some things around the house, took a ride over to see Renee and picked up the stamps for next week’s card class and got to see little Daniel! Not a bad day at all. Today I have some cleaning to do and lots of cards to make. I also need to venture out and get some food!

Every other Friday it’s time for another Fab Friday challenge and today’s it’s colors…

I played with some new goodies that I ordered while I was away so they would be waiting for me when I got back! The card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock with the front covered in a piece of Very Vanilla. I used the Simon Says Stamp Notebook Edges Die on the left side of a piece of paper from the Pretty Petals Designer Series Paper Stack and adhered it to the card slightly askew with some SNAIL. The panel in the middle is a piece of Rich Razzleberry with the center cut out with a die from the Simon Says Stamp Happy Day Dies. All of the images are from the Simon Says Stamp Oh Happy Day Photopolymer Stamp Set. The hi is heat embossed in Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder on Vellum and adhered behind the negative in the panel. Old Olive and Soft Suede are used to stamp the sprigs and feathers, they are cut out with the matching dies. Some Soft Suede is cut out with the Circle Loops Dies and all of them are adhered to the card with 2-Way Glue. The main panel is adhered with Foam Tape and a few Pretty Pink Posh Gold Sequins are added for a little sparkle. I always love a greeting heat embossed on some vellum! I hope that you enjoyed my card for the Fab Friday color challenge! Take a minute to stop by the blog and check out the other Designer’s cards and enter your card into the gallery! Thanks very much for taking some time to come by and visit! I hope that you all have a fabulous Friday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Oh Happy Day Photopolymer (Simon Says Stamp)

Ink: Sahara Sand and Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Ink (Stampin’ Up!)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: Gold (Stampin’ Up!)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb (Neenah), Very Vanilla and Rich Razzleberry (Stampin’ Up!)

Specialty Paper: Vellum (Stampin’ Up!)

Designer Series Paper: Pretty Petals Stack (Stampin’ Up!)

Dies: Notebook Edges, Happy Day and Circle Loops (Simon Says Stamp)

Embellishments: Gold Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: SNAIL, 2-Way Glue, Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger) and 3M Foam Tape

Tools: Big Shot and Heat Tool

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September 18, 2015
Butterfly Postage Wishes & BA

Good day everyone! I’m back in NY, missing my cousins already. We went our for a breakfast yesterday before heading to Heathrow. It started to pour once we got to the airport. Tracey and Jules waited with us for a long while, we even sat and had a Costa Coffee before we said our goodbyes. The flight home on British Airways was really nice! We sat in Club World with the nice big seats that turn into a flat bed! Lunch was delicious and so was the snack before landing. My friend Betty met us at the plane and walked with us through to baggage claim and we were out in 15 minutes! Heather and Stephanie picked us up and Heather and I had our movie moment! LOL! I unpacked last night and went to be early so that I can try and reset my clock. Today I have some cleaning to do and then finally sit down and make a card, the first time in over two weeks! That has been the longest for me in over 4 years! Wish me luck! Here are some pictures from the plane yesterday…

Our nice big comfy seats, and yes, you sit facing the back of the plane!

A view from the seat just as we were flying out into the Atlantic.

Now on to today’s card which I actually made before I left. The card base is the usual Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. I stamped the “Vintage” Dictionary Background Stamp in Smoky Slate on a piece of Solar White 80lb. Down the left side is one of the stamps from the Butterfly Basics Photopolymer Stamp Set stamped in Real Red and up in the right corner is a stamp from the “Vintage” Office Ephemera Stamp Set stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black. Two of the stamps from the same set are stamped in Pacific Point and cut out with my Paper Snips. The butterfly is also from the Butterfly Basics Set and is stamped in Pacific Point, Real Red and Memento Tuxedo Black and then cut out with the Bold Butterfly Framelits. I adhered the background to the card with Fun Foam and SNAIL, the stamps are adhered with SNAIL and the butterfly and greeting are adhered with Foam Tape. For the greeting I cut out a piece of Solar White 80lb with the Papertrey Ink Just the Ticket Border Die and stamped it from the Butterfly Basics Set in Memento Tuxedo Black. I resisted the urge to add some sequins, LOL! I hope that you enjoyed today’s card! Thanks for sticking with me through these last two weeks and I wish you all a terrific Thursday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Sets: Butterfly Basics Photopolymer, Dictionary Background Clear Mount (Vintage) and Office Ephemera Wood Mount (Vintage) (Stampin’ Up!)

Ink: Smoky Slate, Pacific Point and Real Red Classic Stampin’ Ink (Stampin’ Up!) and Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah)

Dies: Bold Butterfly Framelits (Stampin’ Up!) and Just the Ticket Border (Papertrey Ink)

Adhesives: SNAIL and 3M Foam Tape

Tools: Big Shot, Paper Snips and Fun Foam

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September 17, 2015
SIP Challenge 14 – A Sketch

A very good Tuesday to you! It’s my last day in England and it’s a little rainy today. I have a few last minute bits and pieces to pick up but I think that I can do that locally. Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting my FaceBook friend Lesley! We went to the Crypt for a Latte and some cake and had a lovely time chatting. So much so we got a pot of tea and finished that too! I love when I get to meet people in person and Lesley is just lovely! After that Brian and I went to Leister Square and picked up some souvenirs and then stopped by my Uncle’s before having some wood fire pizza for dinner. On to the station after that to make our way back home. A very nice day indeed! Here are some photos from yesterday!

The Crypt under St. Martin in the Fields.

The floor in The Crypt.

Me and Lesley!

The lovely birthday card that Lesley made me!

If it’s Tuesday then it’s time for another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge and this time it’s a sketch from me…

I had fun playing with a new stamp set and did some watercoloring too! The card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock and the front is covered with a piece of paper from the My Minds Eye Necessities Wood Paper Pad. The panel on the left is a piece of Smoky Slate that I embossed with the We R Memory Keepers Woven 3D Embossing Folder and backed with a piece of Night of Navy and adhered to the card with SNAIL. The main panel is a piece of Night of Navy backed with some Solar White 80lb. My greeting and flowers are from the Clearly Besotted Fairytale Ending Photopolymer Stamp Set. The greeting is heat embossed with Hero Arts White Embossing Powder. I did the same with the flowers but on Canson Watercolor Paper and then cut them out with the matching dies. The flowers are colored in Zig Clean Color Brush Pens and a Water Brush. I adhered the flowers to the panel with some SNAIL and then the panel to the card with Fun Foam and SNAIL. A few Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Sequins complete the card. I love those flowers, especially watercolored. I hope that enjoyed my Design Team card for this week’s Stamp, Ink, Paper Sketch challenge. Please take a minute to stop by the blog and check out the rest of the Design Team’s cards and enter yours in the gallery! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Fairytale Ending Photopolymer (Clearly Besotted)

Specialty Ink: Versa-Mark

Embossing Powder: White (Hero Arts)

Markers: Clean Color Brush Pens (Zig)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah), Night of Navy and Smoky Slate (Stampin’ Up!)

Patterned Paper: Necessities Wood 6×6 Pad (My Minds Eye)

Specialty Paper: Watercolor (Canson)

Dies: Fairytale Ending (Clearly Besotted)

Embossing Folder: Woven 3D Next Level (We R Memory Keepers)

Embellishments: Sparkling Clear Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: SNAIL and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Big Shot and Fun Foam

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September 15, 2015
Mojo Monday 415

Happy Monday! I can’t believe that we leave in two days to go home. It’ has been such a great vacation I don’t want it to end! Yesterday we went to my Uncle Steve’s in Harrow for a BBQ and that was really nice! After the BBQ Brian and I headed out to meet Tracey and Jules to go to another BBQ at Tracey’s friend Tracey’s house. That was a good time too! Tracey had to stay in London at her mum’s last night so we hung out with Jules and watched some TV before calling it a night. I’m going into London today to have coffee with my friend Leslie, can’t wait to meet her!

Monday and it’s time for another Mojo Monday sketch challenge…

I kept my card simple and right to the sketch! The card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. Down the left is a piece of Basic Gray that I embossed with the We R Memory Keepers Next Level 3D Geometric Embossing Folder and adhered it to the card with SNAIL. My greeting is from the Simon Says Stamp Sending Happy Thoughts Photopolymer Stamp Set and is stamped in Island Indigo and backed with a piece of Island Indigo. Tucked behind it it is a piece of Blushing Bride with some American Crafts Brights Hemp Twine tied through the top. The greeting is adhered with Fun Foam and SNAIL. A sprinkling of Pretty Pink Posh Blue Lagoon Iridescent and Sparkling Clear Sequins around the greeting complete the card! I like the mix of colors and sequins make everything a little better don’t you think?! I hope that you enjoyed my Design Team card for this week’s Mojo Monday sketch challenge! Stop by the blog and check out the rest of the team’s cards and enter yours in the gallery! Thanks for visiting with me today and have a happy Monday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp Set: Happy Thoughts Photopolymer (Simon Says Stamp)

Ink: Island Indigo Classic Stampin’ Ink (Stampin’ Up!)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah), Basic Gray, Island Indigo and Blushing Bride (Stampin’ Up!)

Embossing Folder: Next Level 3D Geometric (We R Memory Keepers)

Punch: Project Life Corner Rounder (Stampin’ Up!)

Embellishments: Brights Hemp Twine (American Crafts)and Blue Lagoon Iridescent and Sparkling Clear Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)

Adhesives: SNAIL and Multi-Matte Medium (Ranger)

Tools: Big Shot and Fun Foam

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September 14, 2015
Just Happy Card & More Paris!

Back in London! The train ride back yesterday was just as nice as the one over there. We had some breakfast at a café before heading to the station, Nutella Crepes and a delicious latte. Juliette picked us up from my uncle Bruce’s and we stopped at Watford Harlequin Shopping Center so Brian could pick up some things for the girls. There was a HobbyCraft there too so I had to stop in there. I was good, I didn’t get too much stuff, just things that I can’t get back at home! Today, Tracey and Jules have a little surprise for us so we are off to somewhere in a little bit! LOL!

Here are a few more pictures from Paris before we get to the card!

The glass floor on the second level at the Eiffel Tower, makes you feel a bit queasy!

The Fountain at Saint Michel.

Notre Dame.

The Louvre.

Dessert from Wednesday night!

Now on to my card for today, just a simple card! The card base is Neenah Solar White 110lb Card Stock. I took a piece of Solar White 80lb and drew some diagonal lines across it with a pencil so that I would more easily be able to line up my stamping and die cutting. The stamps and die are from the Hero Arts Happy Stamp & Cut Set. First I die cut the negative happy from the panel. Some Hero Arts Pool and Wet Cement Ink is used to stamp the happy and the dots. So that color behind the negative happy would match I used a Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool and some Pool Ink to color a piece of Solar White and that is adhered to the base with SNAIL while the panel is adhered with 3M Foam Tape. Like I said, very simple card but also very mailable! I hope that you enjoyed the Paris pictures and my card for today! Thanks so much for stopping by and enjoy your Friday! 🙂

Products used:

Stamp & Die Set: Happy Stamp & Cut (Hero Arts)

Ink: Pool and Wet Cement (Hero Arts)

Card Stock: Solar White 110lb and 80lb (Neenah)

Adhesives: SNAIL and 3M Foam Tape

Tools: Big Shot and Mini Ink Blending Tool (Ranger)

September 11, 2015