Fall Colors

WOO HOO! Imaginisce November Sketch Challenge time!!! 

Recipe:

• Cartridges:
• Gypsy Wanderings™
• Elegant Edges™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "I Love Fall"™ (orange polka dots)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Dancing Leaves"™(leaves)
• Canvas Stickers: Imaginisce Happy Harvest Canvas Sticker (fall colors)
• Solid Cardstock:
• Bazzill Basics Java
• Core'dinations Roy-G-Biv (two colors of turquoise)
• Ribbon: PTI
• Foam tape by Imaginisce in white™

I based this on the November Sketch for Imaginisce! I LOVE this sketch! I worked in all of the layers, scalloped side, ribbon (behind sentiment), journaling (sentiment), and the stars are the pumpkins which I squished together. I deleted all of the picture boxes for obvious reasons. 

I hope you play along with us this month for the chance to win BIG! The prize pack is always valued at around $75! That's a LOT of Imaginisce! Just use 75% Imaginisce in your creation and make it great because we all get to judge it! :) We love creative ideas! 

My Pink Stamper Pink-alicious Blog Hop!

Hello and thank you for joining us!!! Last hop, I went super cutesy, so this one I wanted to go super classy!
This month our challenge was to use black and our favorite color... hmm... easy! Green! After the hop, head back to Robyn's blog to participate in the challenge! 
I am SO thrilled to be showcasing one of Robyn's AWESOME new stamps sets: Music Speaks™. I just love this set!!! I am all about the music and FINALLY there is a stamp set out there dedicated to it! Way to go Robyn!

You should have gotten here from My Pink Stamper's blog. If not, hop back there to start in the fun! 

Recipe:Stamps: My Pink Stamper: Music Speaks™Cricut Cartridge: Gypsy Wanderings™Cuttlebug Folder: Allegro™ (my best friend Kourtni actually owns this one, but we were crafting together! :).. it's now on my wishlist!)Card Stock: Paper Trey Ink™Paper: Bo Bunny Double Dot™i-rock by Imaginisce™Mirror Glam Rocks by Imaginisce™Ink: Versamark™Embossing powder: a la Mode™Heat Embossing Tool: Coloriser by EK Success™Adhesive: Glue Arts™Pop Dots

Now you are off to the fabulously talented CarrieAnne's blog! I think her creations are just wonderful! 
Here is a list of participants if you get lost: 

Robyn

Courtney-Court’s Crafts --You are here

CarrieAnne

Sonia

Lori

Julie-readysetstamp

Agnes-Flowerdisco

Helen

Angela’s Simple Creations

Tracy-Craft Junkie Too

Pam

Cristi

Shelley

Shauna at Craftee She

Edna

Kassidy

Andrea

Raechel

Bling Queen Wendy

Michelle-Meesh’s Pieces

Karlee

Alex-You Had Me At Craft

Maria

If you made it ALL the way down here for the bottom of a post, you are in for a treat!
I had said that I wanted to give something away for breaking the 300, 400, 500, and now 600 mark of followers! It went really quickly and being on the My Pink Design Team has made a HUGE impact on that! So, in honor and thanks (Thank you Robyn for this opportunity!!!), I wanted to give away something. SO I picked up this Paisley Cartridge™ for one of you! Please only leave one comment (multiples will be deleted) and I will ship anywhere in the US. If you are outside the US and would still like to be in the drawing, I just ask that you pay for the shipping and you can be eligible as well! I will draw a winner on Sunday so come check back and see if you won!

Whew! There are a lot of us, but we are all showcasing some fabulous things! So enjoy the inspiration!!!

Day 6 - Christmas Tags!

Courtney Lee

Good Afternoon! I hope you enjoyed this morning's post on tags over at Passionately Artistic! This is day 6 and I am the afternoon Tags post! :) This is my last post for the 12 days of Christmas series, but continue to head on over there for inspiration!  

My goal with this tutorial was to show a variety. A lot of times, I see something that I wanted to create, but I don't have the cartridge or the resources. 

Different Cartridges

Tie the Knot, Winter Woodland, Storybook, Gypsy Wanderings 

Using your Gypsy

I will show you how to make something truly unique with your Gypsy. 

No Cricut, No Cuttlebug, No Gypsy - just Scissors! 

Lastly, I will show you some tags that I did without any Gypsy, Cuttlebug, OR Cricut so that there should be inspiration here for anyone! :) 

Recipe:
Cartridge: Tie the Knot™
Base tag- 3.25"
rest - 2.5"
Stamper's Select White from Paper Trey Ink™ - heat embossed with a la Mode™ white
Martha Stewart Scandinavian Paper Pad ™ and Martha Stewart Winter Wonderland Paper Pad™
i-rock and bling by Imaginisce™
Glossy Accents
Pop Dots
Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink Saddle Stitch in Pure Poppy™

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Recipe:
Cartridge: Winter Woodland™ - all images cut at 3.25"
Martha Stewart Scandinavian Paper Pad ™, American Crafts Glitter Card Stock™
Paper Trey Ink Button Twine™
Ribbon from my stash

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Gypsy Fun making Tags!

Recipe:
Cartridge: Gypsy Wanderings™
Tag was cut at 3.75"
Snowflake and shadow cut at 2"
Accordion underneath the snowflake was cut at 1.5x12".
Martha Stewart Scandinavian Paper Pad ™, Martha Stewart Winter Wonderland Paper Pad™
Button from Paper Trey Ink Vintage Holiday Mix™
Button Twine from Paper Trey Ink™
Jingle bell from Michaels

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Another tag made with the aid of the Gypsy using Winter Woodland™

Recipe:
Cartridge: Winter Woodland™
Martha Stewart Winter Wonderland Paper Pad™, Martha Stewart Scandinavian Paper Pad ™
Liquid Applique in White
Pop-dots
White Gel Pen™
Saddle Stitch Ribbon in Pure Poppy from Paper Trey Ink™

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This last Cricut tag was two images welded together. I liked the holes it created in the middle. I cut the flourish again to place it on top. I used my i-rock to add bling and I heat embossed the "To" and "From" with gold embossing powder. 

Recipe:
Tag from Tie the Knot™
Flourish from Storybook™
i-rock and bling by Imaginisce™
Martha Stewart Scandinavian Paper Pad ™
Gold embossing powder by Filigree from Paper Trey Ink™
My Mind's Eye: Holly Jolly Perfect Stamps™

No Cricut, No Gypsy, No Cuttlebug - just manufacturer love. :) 

Sometimes we get so caught up in what a tag could look like on our layouts or cards that we just forget to use them as... well... tags.

I LOVE Echo Park Paper™ and the Merry Christmas line is fabulous. I just took these stickers, stuck them to card stock, cut it out, punched a hole on the the top, i-rocked some bling and tied a ribbon. Done. I am going to stamp a "To, From" onto the back. Easy Peasy. 

Recipe:
Echo Park Paper Merry Christmas line Stickers™
i-rock and bling by Imaginisce™
Gold bows were recycled off the top of a smoked almond package! (yay for up-cylcing!)

For this next one, I just took the My Mind's Eye: I Believe Chipboard and popped it out of it's little home. I added some green ribbon and - my favorite part - since it already has an adhesive back, it will stick right onto your gift! Done! AND it already is glittered - love that.

 Recipe: My Mind's Eye: I Believe Chipboard™

Next up we have the EAD Design Stickers. I had a bunch of fun with these. I stuck them to white card stock, cut them out, punched a hole in the top, added Stickles, and tied some twine at the top. 

The best part about EAD Designs is that this sticker set comes with cute little "To: From:" stickers as well. I put these on the back, but forgot to take a picture! So you'll have to go check out their website to see how cute the font is because I love it! 

Recipe: EAD Design Christmas Tags™
Stickles in Waterfall™ - the manufacturer pic looks like it is purple, but trust me, it's blue.
Stickles in Christmas Red™

I hope this inspires you to make your own Christmas tags this year! 

Don't forget to leave me a comment and become a follower if you're inspired! :) 

Malakai's First Birthday Invites!

That Halloween Hop was fun! I will give you a little while longer to leave comments so be sure to get them in! 

On World Card Making Day (this last Saturday) I went to a Crop for the Cure where I got to meet some wonderful ladies like Monique Griffith and Wendy Lawrence. While there, I made a few things. This is one of them. :)

These are going to be the invitations for our Godson's first birthday! The theme will be Baby Beluga as that is his favorite song to be sure. 

Recipe:
Cartridge: Gypsy Wanderings™ (comes with the Gypsy™), Wild Card™ (for the oval)
Paper: Echo Park: A Walk In the Park™, Bo Bunny™ double dot, Cricut™ (solid brown), Bazzill™ (solid white)
Embossing: Seeing Spots™
Ink: Momento™
Stamps: Hero Arts CL 139
Ribbon
Crop-a-dile™
Eyelets

I made this for the challenge at Off the Wall Craftiness as well: light blue, cream, and brown
Here is the inspiration photo:

I also made this for a variety of places that said, "show us your World Card Making Day card":
Scrap Review

Off the Wall Craftiness, Caardvarks, and My Pink Stamper

Today was a day to try to participate in some challenges which is always fun. :) I am participating in a few new ones. One of those new ones is called Caardvarks. Their challenge was clean and simple stamping.

I love participating in Kim's challenges at Off the Wall Craftiness and this was our inspiration photo:


Lastly, My Pink Stamper is having a challenge where anything goes so this one and the next one will both qualify for it! :)

This is an A2 sized card which Robyn would tell us over and over is 5.5x4.25" - but thank goodness because now I know it! I am ready to take the My Pink Stamper quiz! haha.

The white base is Bazzill™, the dark pink is Core'dinations™, and the light pink is actually white card stock. I inked up the Love is in the Air™ embossing folder and then embossed it so that everything ELSE was pink and the embossing was white. It's a technique I picked up from one of the design team members at the Cuttlebug Challenge before I was asked to be on the DT. I love learning new things. :)

I added some ribbon, some Hero Arts™ adhesive gems and adhesive flower, and cut the butterflies from the Gypsy Wanderings™ borders option and hid all of the detailing since I was going to cut it so small.

I hope you like it. It makes me smile and I can't wait to give it to one of my chick friends for their birthday!

EAD Designs, Peachy Keen, AND Digital Delights Challenges!

EAD Designs was having a color challenge and the theme was Farmer's Market - who doesn't love a good Farmer's Market?
Peachy Keen Stamps is having a color AND sketch challenge.
Since their colors were very similar, I decided to enter this in both! :)
BONUS! My good friend Wanda (HUGGLES) is now a member of the challenge DT over at Digital Delight's Delightful Challenge and this week you have to use a pumpkin. Done and done! :)

Here is the color combo/inspiration piece for EAD Designs:

Here is the sketch/color combo for PKS we had to work with:


Here is my card:

I think EAD will forgive me if I couldn't fit the cranberry in as I tried and tried, but I did get the pumpkins from the "farmer's market" aspect. :)

I welded a rectangle to the pumpkins on my Gypsy™ and hid the holes in the pumpkins for the background. Then I cut just the pumpkin border again with the holes in orange. I embossed the blue background piece with the Leafy Branch Emboss Folder™. Next I cut the layers and the sentiment is stamped with My Pink Stamper: Winter Punnies™ set. I popped the sentiment, added ribbon, tied it through a button, and added some Glossy Accents™ and Hero Arts™ adhesive gems.

Recipe:
Paper: Bazzill™, Core'dinations™, DCWV Home stack™
Cartridges: Gypsy Wanderings™
Embossing: A2 Leafy Branch Emboss Folder™
Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Winter Punnies™ set
Ribbon
Glossy Accents™
Buttons
Hero Arts™ adhesive gems

Thanks for viewing today! :) The October blog hop is coming up from Oct 1-3rd. I will have some great talent joining me and some fabulous prizes to give away... I just have to decide if I want to break them up or make it one fabulous prize. What do you think? :) The blog hop participants and order is up on the top left side of my home page. Enjoy your weekend!

Be Inspired #101 - Crafty Secrets

This week at the Cuttlebug Challenges we are being sponsored by Crafty Secrets.

I love their classic vintage images. Come and play along and you can win something similar from them! :)

Recipe:
Sentiment: Gypsy Wanderings™
Image: Crafty Secrets
Embossing: A2 Perfectly Paisley Emboss Folder™
Paper: DCWV and K&Co.
Ribbon

My Pink Stamper thank you and Torendi One Year Anniversary!

Hi everyone!

Just a quick post today showing you a thank you card I made for Robyn at My Pink Stamper for sending some stamps my way for the Cuttlebug Challenges (she should have gotten it by now hopefully) as well as an announcement that Torendi is having their one year anniversary and doing giveaways on their blog and facebook page!

I used some Sassafras paper from the Indie Girl Wee Bundle (back in stock!) for this thank you that I picked up at Torendi. Torendi also just got some new Sassafras paper in and they have an anniversary kit going that there are only 5 of, so pick one up if you want it! The sentiment came from My Pink Stamper's Everyday Occasions  - LOVE it.

The pink paper is Provo Craft Cricut Paper Pads Reds and Pinks™ and the grunge tag I won over at Mad Hatter Stamps a while ago. The flower is from the Gypsy Wanderings™ cartridge and embossed with Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™.


I just finished a huge project that I hope to share with you all soon - but I can't yet just in case it gets published. If it doesn't, it will be up very soon! I am very excited about it!

That's all for now! Have a beautiful day!

Cuttin' Up Saturday with My Pink Stamper!

Hello everybody!

This is the My Pink Stamper edition of Cuttin' Up Saturdays at the Cuttlebug Challenge! I hope you are having a wonderful Labor Day weekend!

I think you already know by now that I LOVE My Pink Stamper stamps. This set is no different. In fact, you all have a chance to win it if you play along this week! This set is called Punny-licious.

I used my Gypsy™ and the Gypsy Wanderings™ "cartridge" for this whole card. As always, I am happy to email you the .gypsy file if you would like.

I used Core'dinations card stock. I meant to emboss one of the layers with Swiss Dots™ and totally forgot! But like Robyn at My Pink Stamper says, "If I wanted it to be perfect, I'd buy it at the store". So, I still love my Hoppy Birthday card. :)

I welded the bunny in the grass shadow to the card base (which is a shadow of a tag) in light pink.
Then I cut the bunny in the grass shadow again in dark pink.
Next I cut the bunny in the grass (regular) in olive green - my favorite color!
I used some basic shapes for the middle of the card, some white and black ribbon and black adhesive gems and voila! Hoppy birthday!

Don't forget to "hop" over to the Cuttlebug Challenge for a chance to win her Punny-licious stamp set! What a great prize! Thanks so much, Robyn!

Wee Memories Challenge #19 - Sweet Treats

This week at Wee Memories, Kim (DT Coordinator) got to choose the theme. She chose sweet treats as her theme with a touch of ribbon.

I decided to make a cupcake card. I cut this card multiple times before I found a combination that I liked. I hope you like it too. Don't the cherries look edible?

May Arts is the sponsor this week so head on over to Wee Memories, play along, and see what you might win!

Recipe:
Cartridge: Gypsy Wanderings™
Embossing: A2 D'vine Swirl Emboss Folder™ (cupcake top), A2 Swiss Dots Emboss Folder™ (cherries)
Paper: K&Co.™, Core'dinations™, Cricut™
Pixie Glitter, Glossy Accents

Torendi/EAD designs/WMC#16 Hello Bird!

This is going to be a fun post with lots of links to products and blogs that I am coming to LOVE!

Jenn over at Torendi's Blog had a contest a while back that I won for a free roll of washi tape! So I not only ordered that but ordered another washi tape, a "mini deck" by Cosmo Cricket™ (Material Girl), a "wee bundle" from Sassafras™ (Indie Girl), some Cosmo Cricket™ (I spell Cricket -Cricut- every time now! I just realized I did that in all my posts before! Oh dear!) Earth Love chip board pieces (on sale for $2.50!), and Jillybean Soup "bean stalks" a.k.a. ribbon ($3!).

Thank goodness because Jenny at Wee Memories made chip board her challenge this week).

SO, that came in the mail on Saturday and I was SO excited, but I had to finish up the Christmas Around the Clock over at Cuttlebug Challenges first! One I commit to something I have to finish it. Anyway, I finally got to play with my new Torendi products and I am THRILLED. Her sale is still going on right now so go check it out!

Also, a little while ago my EAD Designs Stickerz and Rub-ons came in the mail so I wanted to use a few of those too!

Recipe:
This is an A2 sized card (4.25x5.5").
Cartridge: Elegant Cakes™, Gypsy Wanderings™ (scallop edge welded to rectangle with the Gypsy™)
Embossing: A2 Combo Friends Forever™
Paper: Cosmo Cricket™ (via Torendi) Material Girl Mini Deck, Core'dinations™
Tape: Washi - "pink" with polka dots - it comes out more of a lavender color.
Stickerz: EAD Rainy Day set (flowers which I colored in purple)
Sentiment: EAD Right on Target
Chipboard: Cosmo Cricket™ via Torendi™ Earth Love chip board pieces

This qualifies for:
Wee Memories Challnege #16: use chipboard (this was my first time using chipboard! It's so much fun!)

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!

Hezzy's Wedding Week - His and Her Bookmarks

Yet another home made gift I made for the shower - bookmarks. I'm such a nerd - how do you all put up with me? My husband and I love reading together cuddled up. So, I'd like to think they'll be able to cuddle up the same way we do and remember their wedding, their silly friends, and just enjoy being with each other.

Heather's wedding invitations were craft card stock with brown and blue. Our bridesmaid dresses are blue. So, I stuck with the theme for these as well as for the next project.

The bookmarks were elongated tags from Sentimentals™. Once elongated, I didn't like the one with the heart anymore. So I hid the heart and replaced it with a heart from Gypsy Wanderings™ and hid the inner line of that heart as well.

The other bookmark was the tag that was on the Key2 feature. The Key2 feature was also cut as well as it's shadow and placed on the card stock.

I used the font from Elegant Cakes™ to create all the words. I welded all of it on my Gypsy as well as the shadows. This took a very long time, but I really enjoyed doing it and hope she likes it as much as I hope she does.

I punched holes in the top with my Crop-a-Dile™ and then ran both bookmarks through the YourStory™. Then I re-punched the holes and added eyelets.

Then I just added ribbons and tied them at the top. I painted the ends with clear nail polish so they wouldn't fray and there you have it! My mom used to tell me that I was the key to her heart and wore a necklace that had a tiny key and heart to it. So the special meaning is being passed along.

Whimsy Haven Sketch Drawing - Just for You

Over at Whimsy Haven they were doing a sketch challenge. I decided to participate because I liked Amy's sketch! You should also check her blog out because she puts packages of scrapping supplies together and sells them and they are oh so cute and with the coupons, usually pay for themselves! June's package is called Pocket Full of Sunshine. But I digress...

I designed this on the Gypsy™ using the Gypsy Font™ for all of my basic shapes and stretching them, etc. I ran the blue squares through the Cuttlebug™ with the A2 Persia Die/Emboss Combo™ folder (Thanks Hazel!!!). I just placed them carefully along different parts of the embossing folder and I love the different effects!

The white circle was cut with the Gypsy Wanderings™ cartridge. The "Just for You" sentiment is from Hero Arts™ stamps. I thought this could make an good masculine card as well.

Enjoy!

You Are My Sunshine

I made this card for my dad. Even though I tried to make it masculine, it still came out a little girly, but my dad is a father of an only girl (me) so he's used to that. When I was little and he was late coming home for work or just when he was thinking about me after I went to college, my dad would sometimes call and sing "you are my sunshine" to me. I (since about high school) now call some of my chick friends or my husband occasionally and sing the song to them on their answering machines. So, this "you are my sunshine" is going back to dad as most times fathers don't know what they did right in your life and what is now being passed forward because they loved you the way that they did.

That being said, I was also trying to work in some challenges and this one qualified for four of them.

Cricut Cardz Challenge Blogspot - Father's Day Card
The Cuttlebug Spot - Sketch Drawing:

Wee Memories- WMC9 - "Punch It"
BBTB2 -Use an image of a Sun from Doodlecharms Cart - which I didn't have so I used one from the Designers Calendar Cartridge™ - It's my border on the left if you can't find them. :)

All of the layers - including the card base are from the Gypsy Wanderings Digital Cartridge™ - they were tag shadows that I just stretched on my Gypsy. I welded one of the rectangles to 5 suns from the Designers Calendar Cartridge™ to get the left panel and added another layer.

The embossing on the bottom is from the A2 Border With Love Emboss Folder™ set. The square panel is popped with pop dots and the kraft paper flower was punched out. I added the buttons to the center of three of the Suns and I added ribbon to the bottom.

The "YOU" was from the Designers Calendar font and was squished on the Gypsy. "Are" and "my" were welded and cut from the Gypsy Font™ and "sunshine" was from the Gypsy Wanderings Digital Cartridge™.

There is a lot going on in this card - I think I am going to make it more simple next time. Let me know if you would like the Gypsy cut file as it is all on there. Happy looking!