Halloween Bird House and a WINNER!!!

FINALLY!!! I told you I would make you something other than a card! And tonight I will be showing you something else as well!!! Look out now! haha.

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park: Apothecary Emporium: Vanished/Liquid Smoke™ (solid white fence)
• Echo Park: Apothecary Emporium: Haunted Forest™ (orange and white damask)
• Echo Park: Apothecary Emporium: Striped Toad™ (black and white polka dots)
• Echo Park: Apothecary Emporium: Spider Webs™ (spider web paper)
• Solid Paper:
• Echo Park: Apothecary Emporium: Viper Venom/Squid Ink™ (spiders)
• Cartridges: 
• Everyday Paper Dolls™ (fence)
• Designer's Calendar™ (spiders)
• Stickles in Orange
• Twinery Twine in Charcoal™ 
• Glossy Accents™
• i-bond by Imaginisce™
• Mod Podge
• Exacto knife

I made this for the Cricut Circle Magazine Challenge - Use Echo Park Paper + at least 2 Cricut Cuts (there are 5!) 

I hope they like it!!! 

In a couple of hours the My Pink Designer Blog Hop will be going live!!!!

But before that, I need to announce the winner of the My Pink Stamper stamps that I gave away during the Shop Pumpkin Spice hop! The winner is.......

How often does it pick #1?!? I am so excited that it chose that number! Dorcas, if you could please send me your address and I will get your information to Shop Pumpkin Spice who generously donated the My Pink Stamper Stamps: Friend-tastic™ For my giveaway! THANK YOU SPS!!!

You have one week to email me at CourtsCraftsBlog@gmail.com until I pick another winner! So email me straight away! :) 

See you in a few hours for the hop!!! 

Thank you - card 4 of 4 in the Shop Pumpkin Spice kit!

It's actually my Grammy's birthday today!!! Happy birthday Grammy! Wish I could be there to celebrate with you!!! Love you!



Well, this is the last one in the series. I hope you like it! :) You can purchase the kit HERE.




Thank You

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Memories" Sweet Paper™ (blue gingham)
• Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Two of Us" Damask Paper™ (black)
• Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Lovely" Sewing Paper™ (blue polka dots)
• Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Lovely" Plaid Paper™ (blue, yellow, black plaid)
• Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Sunshine" Adore Paper™ (white doily cloud and envelope)
• Brads and pennant tag: Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Forever" Decorative Brads™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Sweet Baby™
• Burlap: Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Sunshine" Trims™
• Cartridges (not found at Pumpkin Spice): 
• Birthday Bash™ (postage stamp shaped card
• Everyday Paper Dolls (clouds)
• Sentimentals™(swallow holding envelope)
• Stickles in Diamond
• White Embossing Powder

Beach Day Layout

For the Cricut Circle Crop there was a Crops of Love donation. We were asked to make two page layouts in a variety of different themes. They are given to the families and children who are going through terrible things and are granted a wish - like a beach day. So then they take scrapbooking donations and put in the pictures and give them to the families. What a wonderful thing to cherish as times get harder for them. I chose the beach theme!

The elements on the right page don't look straight, but trust me, I measured them from all angles and they are as straight as can be! 

I will have to add links to the recipe for this tomorrow because I am exhausted and need to go to sleep. But here are the highlights:

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper: Imaginisce: Animal Crackers
• Cartridges: Everyday Paper Dolls, Cake Basics, and Designer's Calendar
• Stickers from My Little Shoebox
• Cardstock: Coredinations Paper and Paper Trey Ink
• Embossing: Swiss Dots Emboss Folder
• pom-pom ribbon: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy
• Splatter paint is Smooch in Carrot Cake
• Crop-a-dile and eyelets
• i-rock by Imaginisce
• Hot Rock Compact in Jewel 

Imaginisce June Challenge!

This month's challenge at Imaginisce is a fun one! You are to use the inspiration photos well as lyrics to a song. You can find both of these at the Imaginisce blog HERE. 

I used a bunch of lines on this card! :) The pink and blue are from Enchanted, the yellow is from Berrylicious, and the red is from Happy Camper. The cloud stag 'em up stamp is also from Happy Camper.

Have you ever made a project where you just didn't think one photo was enough? Here is the first photo I took which shows the depth of the embossing. 

This photo shows better the rhinestones and the Glossy Accents which I sprinkled with glitter.

Lastly, here is a close up! :) 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Enchanted "Happily Ever After"™ (blue)
• Imaginisce: Enchanted "Princess Promenade"™ (pink)
• Imaginisce: Berrylicious "Cherry Lemonade"™ (yellow)
• Imaginisce: Happy Camper "Don't Feed the Bears" (red)
• Snag 'em Up Stamp: Happy Camper "Clouds"™
• i-rock™
• Hot Rocks Compact in Pink, Black and Clear™
• Gypsy™
• Cartridges: Create a Critter™ and Everyday Paper Dolls™
• Embossing: D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Tickle me Pink™
• Button and twine: Paper Trey Ink™
• Ink: Colorbox in blue and gStudio in light pink 
• Sentiment: Martha Stewart Sans Serif Font
• Glossy Accents
• Glitter: from high school! :) haha

PKS Guest Designer - Woodland Themed Party - Favors

Hello again out there in bloggy world! This is day 2 of 5 for my Peachy Keen Guest Design Week.

Part 2 of our Woodland Party Theme this week is FAVORS! Every party needs favors! I always try to think of something that's inexpensive and still personable. Read further to see what I made this out of!!!

This idea came from my good friend June (who doesn't remember saying this) but I was bouncing ideas off her and she said "log" and I thought "toilet paper roll"! Okay, so they don't seem like they should go together, but they do!!! I'll show you!!! 

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

That, my friends, is a toilet paper roll covered in paper and embellished. The ribbon tied around it will keep any candy inside of the log! How good would this look with gummy worms coming out! Okay, maybe that's just me, but I think it would!

I used the PK490 Everyday Character Face Assortment on my mushrooms.

Recipe:

Cartridge: Create a Critter™, Everyday Paper Dolls™

Paper: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel "Joy" Woodgrain Paper™, My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: True Blue "Splendid" Paper™
Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink (Pure Poppy and Stamper's Select White) and Cricut Earthtones (greens)
Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink: Pure Poppy Saddlestitch™
White Gel Pen
Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro™
i-bond by Imaginisce™ (cordless glue gun)
(for the cheeks) Design Memory Craft: Mix and Match Sampler™

Design Memory Craft contacted me and offered to send me product and offered two giveaways if I would review their product! Today I used their Gelato that was included in the Mix and Match Sampler for the cheeks of my mushrooms. I used the blender that comes in their essentials kit to blend out the cheeks. I really liked the result!

This is what the Mix and Match sampler looked like that they are going to give away to two of you!

This is what the Color Gelatos and Clear Stamp set looks like that they are also going to give away to two of you!

There is a LOT more to play with that they sent me, but this week, I will be using them on Peachy Keen Critters. Going forward, I can see a lot more uses for these and will share with you as I go along. If you would like to read more about their products and the company (which just launched at CHA in January) then go HERE.

Now, don't forget that I am giving away a set of Critter Faces in MEDIUM  this week but I won't tell you what post it is going to be on! :) I am also giving away TWO sets of the Design Memory Craft: Mix and Match Sampler as well as the Color Gelatos and Clear Stamp! I think you're getting the drill by now! Just leave me a comment on my blog all week and I will draw a random winner of this FABulous set!!!

Check the post I left earlier for another giveaway opportunity for Imaginisce goodies! Just leave a comment on every post this week between Monday and Friday and you will have amazing chances to win things!

Also, if you feel so inclined to put my blinkie on your blog, I would be thrilled! :) 

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!

Pumpkin Tree

This is the last day of the blog hop :(
We've had a wonderful time and I hope you have too!

I often decorate this candelabra tree for the different holidays. This decoration was so easy. You could always add EAD Halloween Face Stickerz or Peachy Keen faces. I was really craving them for this project.  I might still add them afterwards. :)

Recipe: 

Cartridge: Everyday Paper Dolls™

Crop-a-dile

Ribbon

Instructions: 

1. Cut 10 2.5" pumpkins from the Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge™

2. Glue back to back in whatever patterns you want (if you are not using double sided paper, then you need to flip half of the images and be more careful as to what you want showing ahead of time).

3. Punch holes with Crop-a-dile™

4. Add eyelets

5. Tie ribbon around the top!

EAD Designs has decided to sponsor this giveaway and has provided me with some AWESOME Halloween stickerz. Thank you EAD!!! 

I am giving away:

October 31st Cartridge™

My Pink Stamper's Spooky Puns™ This link will take you to the place where I bought them at Pumpkin Spice. It is a fabulous little shop with the best customer service and the best shipping rates I have found to date! AND she has decided to give us free shipping in honor of this blog hop if you use the coupon code "OCTBLOGHOP"! Thank you SO much Pumpkin Spice! 

Cuttlebug Skeleton Scroll Emboss Folder™

Cuttlebug Boo to You Emboss Folder™

If you get lost in the hop, here is the order:

Jen from Purple Scrapbooker

Georgiana from Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas from 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl from Cards by CG

Carri from A Busy Bee

Star from Star's Paper Passion

Court from Court's Crafts (that's me!)

Yvette from The Little Things

Now head on over to Yvette's blog to end the hop! We hope you had fun today!

Don't forget to leave a comment on this post so that you can be entered into the drawing for these awesome prizes! I will be picking multiple winners so check back to see if you are a winner on Thursday! You will have 48 hours to email me because I need to send off the prizes before going to Europe! :) Don't worry, I will be posting while I am away as well. :)

Become a follower if you would like to and rest assured I've already done my shopping for another giveaway in November and EAD has sent some goodies for that too! :)

Pick of the Patch

Welcome to day 2 of the Halloween Blog Hop! 

I hope you are having as much fun as we are!

This card was easy and fun. I actually received that ribbon on a wedding present a little over two years ago. How is that hoarding for you?!? I loved it and I think it came in perfectly for this card.

Recipe:
Cartridge: Everyday Paper Dolls™
Embossing: Oh My Crafts Exclusive Everyday Bundle: Pajama Stripes
Stamps: My Pink Stamper's Spooky Puns™
Hero Arts adhesive black gems
Doodleing
Ribbon

EAD Designs has decided to sponsor this giveaway and has provided me with some AWESOME Halloween stickerz. Thank you EAD!!! 

I am giving away:

October 31st Cartridge™

My Pink Stamper's Spooky Puns™ This link will take you to the place where I bought them at Pumpkin Spice. It is a fabulous little shop with the best customer service and the best shipping rates I have found to date! AND she has decided to give us a free shipping code for orders over $40! Use "OCTBLOGHOP" as the coupon code. Thank you Pumpkin Spice!!!

Cuttlebug Skeleton Scroll Emboss Folder™

Cuttlebug Boo to You Emboss Folder™

If you get lost in the hop, here is the order:

Jen from Purple Scrapbooker

Georgiana from Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas from 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl from Cards by CG

Carri from A Busy Bee

Star from Star's Paper Passion

Court from Court's Crafts (that's me!)

Yvette from The Little Things

Now head on over to Yvette's blog to end the hop! We hope you had fun today!

Don't forget to leave a comment on this post so that you can be entered into the drawing for these awesome prizes and remember to come back on Sunday as well! I will be picking multiple winners so check back to see if you are a winner on Thursday! You will have 48 hours to email me because I need to send off the prizes before going to Europe! :) Don't worry, I will be posting while I am away as well. :)

Become a follower if you would like to and rest assured I've already done my shopping for another giveaway in November and EAD has sent some goodies for that too! :)

Be Inspired #98-Under the Sea

This week at the Cuttlebug Challenges Digital Delights by Louby Loo is sponsoring us. We are all doing an Under the Sea theme and having a wonderful time with these awesome digital stamps!

For my Wednesday project I chose the adorable Sea Crab and the Under the Sea Background. This was only my second time coloring in digital stamps so I think I did alright! I decided to give the crab polka-dotted boots. I think they're too cute. I used Glossy Accents™ on his eyes and tongue and did a bit of doodling with my white gel pen.

The background was pretty straight forward. I used my Copic™ markers for all the coloring. I put Glossy Accents™ on the kelp and picked up some sand from an obliging sand box in a playground by our house and glued that to the bottom.
The sign was cut from Everyday Paper Dolls™ twice: once out of kraft card stock and the second from glossy white. I simply cut off the top and bottom of the glossy white and adhered it to the kraft sign. The kraft sign was first sponged with gold ink. I used My Pink Stamper's Punny-licious set for the "Crab-ulous" sentiment. I LOVE her stamps! They are such great quality.

The fish tank was also cut from Everyday Paper Dolls™ and the patterned paper was K&Co paper stack and then embossed with D'Vine Swirls™.

I simply layered the embossed paper onto the glossy white card stock base, pop dotted the background from Digital Delights, put the sign behind/under the background and glued the crab down. I also added some bubbles coming up from the crab.

Play along with us this week using the Under the Sea theme where you can win a complete set of digital stamps shown here!

Recipe:
Paper: Bazzill™ Diamond White card stock, K&Co
Cartridge: Everyday Paper Dolls™
Embossing: D'vine Swirls Emboss Folder™
Stamps:Digital Delights by Louby Loo
Sentiment: My Pink Stamper™
Other: Glossy Accents, Dimensionals, Hero Arts™ adhesive gems (bubbles)

Dance in the Rain

This is my second post of the day.

This is for two challenges:
Cuttlebug Challenges: Dance, sing, energy
Cricut Cardz Challenge: Green, blue, black and white only

Recipe:
Cartridges: Everyday Paper Dolls™ (clouds), Sweethearts™ (couple)
Embossing: A2 D'vine Swirls Emboss Folder™
Paper: Torendi Sassafras™ Indie Girl Wee Bundle
Sentiment: EAD Designs Rainy Day set
Ribbon

Happy Birthday Mike!

Just a quick post for this card to get it in by the deadline!

This card is for my co-father (FIL) Mike. It's about to be his birthday! He's the best kind of man. I am so lucky. Some of the best conversations I've had with him have been driving in the car on family vacations or just between homes that are two hours away.

Recipe:
Car: Heritage™
Road: Everyday Paper Dolls™
Scallops for the "M" pendant : Gypsy Wanderings™
"M": Designers Calendar™
"Happy Birthday": Elegant Cakes™
Embossing: A2 Happy Birthday Emboss Folder™

So this is my card for him and it qualifies for a few challenges...
Peachy Keen Stamps: Favorite Summer Vacation + bling, brads, or buttons
The Cuttlebug Spot: Sketch Challenge


Last, but not least, thank you to my new followers! I am so excited that you like my work and if you have blogs, I'll be around to see your work too!

Baby Girl - MPS challenge

My husband and I live in a condo in San Francisco. Our building manager, Candace, is on leave and I just found out that she had her baby girl yesterday morning. I don't even have the details or what her name is yet! Anyway, I thought this would be a fun card to make for the My Pink Stamper challenge of Brown, Pink, Green, and Orange.

Now, these would not have been the colors that I would have put together on a card, but I think they ended up pretty cute. I did use beige for the baby's head. But I think I will be forgiven for that. In hindsight, I wish I would have used the same paper that I used for the envelope for the baby carriage. But alas, Now I know for next time.

The carriage card and envelope are from Wild Cartridge™. The baby body, head, and bunny are from Everyday Paper Dolls™.

I welded the baby body and head to the card base with my Gypsy™ as I didn't want all the colors showing on the inside of the card. Then I re-cut the baby's head and pasted it on top. The bow is my orange - it more of a coral, but it's the orange I wanted to use. I used a black pen to ink in some eyes, definition lines, etc. and I cut the the green scallop by hand (you can totally tell!). My scissors are kitchen scissors so they are huge! haha. Add another thing on the craft list!


I stamped the sentiment with Hero Arts™ CL272 stamps.

Now, I just have to take it to the HOA office so they can send it off to Candace! I can't wait to see her new baby girl!

Grandma's House

Well, as you all know I went to North Carolina this past weekend and my parents took care of our Yorkie named Spoon. She is almost a year and a half old, but in many ways she is still a puppy so they are troopers to take care of her. Anyway, I made this card to say thank you. It's a little cheesy, but it's from daughter/puppy to parents so they'll understand. If you saw the way my mom dotes on our little dog then you'd understand why I labeled it grandma's house. :) The day we have kids - my goodness - it's going to be a spoil-fest.

The dog house and the dog are cut with Everyday Paper Dolls™. I flipped and welded the images together with Design Studio™. The words are welded on Design Studio™ using Designer's Calendar™ and then squishing/stretching the letters a bit. I added some Swarovski™ Crystals to Spoon's collar and a little "S" for her tag.

Challenge Card for BBTB2 and WeeMemories (WMC4)

Challenge Requirements:

BBTB2: To use the leaf from Life's a Beach™ (a Cartridge that I don't have, so I used one from Everyday Paper Dolls™).
WeeMemories: To put script or writing somewhere on the project.

Now, I had such a good time with both. I put on the shirt that I won over at Carole's blog and looked at the album made by Joanna which just came in the mail today and did my best. :) Thanks girls.

Jenny (Wee Memories) has been writing back and forth with me a bit today and gave me some great advice about stamps and some encouragement. Thank you!

So, I cut the card (and envelope) from Wild Card Cartridge™, I embossed the second layer with A2 Script Texture Emboss Folder™ (I LOVE my Cuttlebug™). I cut a little square and inked the edges with the side of a blue pen since I don't have any inks yet and popped it with some foam dots. I cut the leaves from Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge™ and put some ribbon in a diagonal on the bottom with some Tacky glue. I left the sentiment blank because I didn't know what I wanted to use it for yet.

Thanks for stopping by!

Blue Moon Scrapbooking Birds and Butterflies Challenge -

So, I loved the swallow on the Sentimentals Cartridge™ and decided to play with that. I actually made this card first and then the one for the Cuttlebug Spot challenge. But I loved that tree so much that I used it in both and played with the grass, fence, etc. I might make them into a series and sell them, but we'll see. My favorite part were the buttons. :) I used my beloved Cuttlebug™, the A2 Forest Branches Emboss Folder™ on the grass in the background, and the A2 D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™ on the tree. Thanks for stopping by!

The Cuttlebug Spot Challenge Favorite Flowers!

I found another challenge site and I love how it's challenging me to craft more and stretch my wings. So, while my actual favorite flower is the sweet pea, I chose the "poppy" from the Storybook Cartridge™ as all the poppies in California are blooming right now and it's simply magnificent. With that said and without much more, I used Storybook, Sentimentals Cartridge™ and the Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge™ for these images as well as my Cuttlebug™, A2 D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™, and A2 Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™. Enjoy!