Core'dinations Rainbow Set of Cards

Hello! 

I hope you all had so much fun hopping along with us and I can't wait to find out which of you won things! There is still time to get your comments in, so check out Artful Delight's blog HERE for all the details. Also, don't forget to play and link up to the challenges in case you win the 6 months of kits! What a HUGE prize! 

Now, for today I wanted to participate in the Core'dinations color challenge! There is still time to play! :)  Instead of putting all of the colors on one card, I made a card set. I picked out my twine from the Twinery and matched the Core to that. I think they look SUPER good together! My Core colors came from Roy-G-Biv™ and Elements™.

Everyone always needs thank you notes, so these little ones are perfect to tuck in places or leave behind when you are staying at someone's house!

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! Back in September of 2013

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! Sorry! Back in September of 2013

Recipe:

• Core'dinations Paper
• Cuttlebug Emboss Folders:
• D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™
• Forest Branches Emboss Folder™
• Clockworks 5x7 Emboss Folder™
• Argyle Emboss Folder™
• Seeing Spots Emboss Folder™
• Checkerboard Emboss Folder™
• Twine from The Twinery at Shop Pumpkin Spice
• Buttons from my stash
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Sweet Baby™

My First Guest Design Post for My Mind's Eye!

Hello! 

I am SO excited to show you two of the projects I have been working on for My Mind's Eye! But because there was YET another FABULOUS collection released today, it got pushed back to this evening! :) So here is a sneak peek and some of you already got the full thing! :) When I get the okay to launch, I will re-post it up here! :) 

 Close-up:

I'll be back later with all the information! :) 

PKS Guest Designer - Woodland Themed Party - Banner

This is the last day as a Peachy Keen Guest Designer and it certainly has gone by quickly!!! Thank you SO much to Peachy Keen for having me! I hope you all enjoyed my projects!

This week's Let's Face it Friday challenge is to use a banner on your project or make a banner, etc. Hop on over to Peachy Keen to see the prize that you could win for playing along! It's on my Peachy Keen wish list! 

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

Close ups of the banner:

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

ALL of the paper I used came from Pumpkin Spice! They are all things My Mind's Eye, Echo Park, and so much more! Definitely check them out!

Recipe:

• Cartridges: Create a Critter™, Sweethearts™(tree), Birthday Bash™ (banner, letters, balloons)
• Embossing: Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™, A2 D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder, A2 Argyle Emboss Folder™
• Stamps: Peachy Keen Stamps 755 ™, Peachy Keen Stamps 490™
• Cardstock: 
• PaperTreyInk (True Black, Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate)
• Cricut (green for the tree)
• Paper: 
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel "Joy" Woodgrain Paper™
• My Mind's Eye: Good Day Sunshine: "Writing on the Wall Paper"™
• My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: True Blue "Daydream" Paper™
• My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: True Blue "Splendid" Paper™
• My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: Tickled Pink "Radiant" Paper™
• My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: Tickled Pink "Delighted" Paper™
• My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: Tickled Pink "Lovely" Paper™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Glam Rocks in Pearl™
• (for the cheeks) Design Memory Craft: Mix and Match Sampler™
• Black Sharpie 
• White Gel Pen
• Ink: Colorbox in black
• Twine from the Twinery in Caribbean™
• Stickles in Christmas Red and Waterfall™
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™
• Glossy Accents
• Ribbon from my stash
• Crop-a-dile
• Eyelets
• Foam Dimensional Tape

drum roll please.......................................

For my Friday giveaway and the last of my blog-aversary prizes is a YourStory machine! I LOVE my YourStory and bought one just for one of you!!! 

Thank you SO much for taking this journey with me! I just started crafting in January of 2010 and from then until now it has been such a wonderful adventure. I have met SO many wonderful people and new friends! You all encourage me every day! 

Paper with Pizazz Blog Hop!

Today is the Imaginisce DT i-rock Intensive Paper with Pizazz Blog Hop! We are showing you different ways of using your i-rock on paper! You should have gotten here from the Imaginisce blog. If not start there to join in the fun and find out what the prize is!!!

Hello out there in bloggy world! I find myself just so thankful. Sometimes it's easy to focus on the things that aren't going right in life, but right now I am just looking at all the things that I feel so blessed to be a part of. Being a DT member on the Imaginisce DT is definitely one of them. This group of ladies is SO encouraging and SO kind and my favorite - drama free! :) So thank you so much to Lori for choosing me and thanks to my teammates for making me feel so LUCKY. :) 

I also feel very blessed to be a part of the Cricut Circle. So I thought I would sport some love in my close-up preview. Did any of you know what I was making with this? It was tricky because I turned the photo upside down so that I could get the Circle logo somewhat right side up! Let me know if you have any questions about the Circle. I am happy to answer them to the best of my ability! 

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

If you guessed a banner, you were right! You can click on the photo to make it bigger.

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

My tiny lessons: 

• Don't be afraid to mix and match your gems! 
• Also, don't be afraid to mix and match your collection lines. This was made using Cottage Christmas and Apple Cider! :) 
• If your i-rock is not setting the smaller gems in 5 seconds or less, then switch out the batteries. I hold it on the largest ones for about 10-11 seconds each. 
• Sometimes the top gets a little loose after lots of use, so when it is is cold, screw it on tighter again by twisting it with your fingers.

Recipe:

Paper: Imaginisce Cottage Christmas and Apple Cider™

i-rock by Imaginisce™

Imaginisce Hot Rocks Compact in Crystal™

Imaginisce Hot Rocks Compact in Pink, Black, and Clear™ (smallest clear gems)

Imaginisce Hot Rocks Compact in Jewel™

Imaginisce Swirls Stencil that comes with pink and green hot rocks (and flowers)™

Cricut Cartridges: Designer's Calendar™ and Birthday Bash™ 

Cuttlebug Embossing Folders: Argyle™ and Cricut Circle (can only be picked up at Circle crops and swarms)

Crop-a-dile

Copper Eyelets

Ribbon is Offray

Glossy Accents

pop-dots

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

 Thank you so much for stopping by!


Now head on over to the fabulous Marielle's to see what she has created! 

Train Banner for Malakai using Echo Park's Little Boy line!

I won the Little Boy Line from a contest that Echo Park Paper was having on their Facebook page. (You should go over there. They are always giving things away!) I was THRILLED because we are extremely proud Godparents to one little one year old named Malakai. Isn't he precious? I know I am biased, but seriously... 

So I wanted to make him something for his room to put on the wall above his crib. This Little Boy Collection was PERFECT! 

This picture was taken on his first birthday in October. He received a wooden train and really liked it, so that became my inspiration piece. 

I thought, why can't a banner be a train? 

Recipe: 

Paper: Echo Park Little Boy Line™

Gypsy™

Cricut Cartridges: Everyday Paper Dolls™, Cake Basics™ (letters) 

Cuttlebug Embossing Folders: Swiss Dots™, Seeing Spots™, Argyle™, and OMC Exclusive Checkerboard™

Buttons, Twine, Stickles in "Waterfall" and "Christmas Red"™

Glossy Accents™

Crop-a-dile™

Adhesive: Glue Arts™

Instructions:

I used my Gypsy to make the cars with the yellow stripes show some of their holes and others with no holes. *Note* You can do the rest of this without the Gypsy - You will just have holes in the cars for all of your trains.

Cut out all desired letters and their shadows using the Cake Basics™ font. 

Glue font to font shadow and apply Glossy Accents to the front of the font. Let sit overnight. *Note* This can be done last if you would like to let the whole thing sit overnight. That is what I usually do, but for this I did it ahead of time.

Cut out all cars  from solid colors (shadows) at 3.75 inches - flipping the engine and the caboose so that the train is going left to right. This is only because there is not shadow feature on the Everyday Paper Dolls Train.

Cut out all cars again from Echo Park Paper at 3.5" - Again, remember to flip the engine and caboose.

Run desired layers through the Cuttlebug using desired embossing folders. 

Next adhere the fronts of the cars to their shadow layers using your Glue Glider Pro.

Using foam dimensionals, adhere letters to their corresponding train cars. 

Add buttons as the wheels.

Punch holes through the edges using your Crop-a-dile™ and add the eyelets. 

String the twine through the holes and cut extra pieces of twine to tie on as bows in between the letters. 

Lastly, apply Stickles to the desired areas of the train - I chose a few stars on the front and the light blue stripes on the caboose. 

Give it to a little person that you love dearly!

I have received a few blog awards that are long overdue to be posted so those will be coming up shortly!

Thank you SO much for visiting today! Have a beautiful day!

Celebrate and loving the Sentimentals™ key cut out, WMC13

This card was made from scraps that I had been playing with for my other cards.... but ironically it ended up being my favorite from the set I made that day!

I embossed the card base with the Embossing Folders Love is in the Air Set™. I used my scrap of purple paper because I loved the contrast of the purple against the yellow. Then I added the favorite card stock of mine - the green and white. I inked around those edges. The raspberry card stock is Cor'dinations™ (all the solid colors are, actually except for the white). I embossed that with my A2 Argyle Emboss Folder™ and also inked around those edges. I added the white card stock and stamped it with my Hero Arts™ stamps.

Lastly, I cut the second key from the Sentimentals Cartridge™. I love this key! It's so whimsical and romantic. I thought this card would be great for a wedding "key to my heart" or graduation or even a birthday "laugher is the key to life".

Thanks for stopping by! :)

Jenny at Wee Memories decided her challenge would be "free for all" so I am linking this one up to her blog! :) Thanks Jenny!

P.s. My husband took this picture at dusk and I thought it was SO beautiful.