Love Moo!

Hello! 

This is one of those cards that looks better in your head then it comes out on paper. 

I really liked the idea of having a red fence that the cow was looking over... but the red might be too... red... My husband was making fun of me! haha. But none the less, here is my card. Had I to do it over again, I would have toned it down. But that's why we craft! To make our own creations and to laugh at ourselves! haha.

Recipe:

• My Pink Stamper: Moo-ey Doodles Kit™
• My Pink Stamper: Yankee Doodles Kit™
• Cricut Cartridges:
• Create-a-Critter™
• Picturesque™
• Patterned Paper: American Crafts: Dear Lizzy Neapolitan™
• Brads: MME: Lost and Found: Union Square "Favorite" Brads™
• "Love" Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Love-alicious™

There are a bunch of samples of the Moo-ey Doodle Kit that the SPS team made over on the Shop Pumpkin Spice blog! Be sure to check them out HERE! :)

Pumpkin Spice NSD Layout by Court

Hello and welcome to National Scrapbook Day with Shop Pumpkin Spice - challenge #2 - create a layout! 

This is always an interesting challenge for me, but getting into more "layouts" I was excited to expand my wings a little. I cased a layout which you can see below and I saw it on someone else's blog so I am still waiting to hear back who the original designer is. Hopefully it will be up here by NSD, but it might not. 

This was my first layout that I've made about our baby girl that is due in July! We've had three ultrasounds so these are pictures from each one. She has grown so much! I can only imagine how it will feel when she is on the "outside"! 

Check out the challenges HERE and participate for a chance to win $20 to the SPS store!!! And with prices that are always 30% below retail - that $20 goes a LOooooooooonnnnnnnnNG way. trust me. You should just start shopping now. :) With three challenges that means there are three GC's to be won! Participate in one challenge or all three! The last one will be posted at 2pm PST. Check back! :) 

Here is the layout that I cased:

Recipe:

• Patterned Papers:
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Rosy "Best of Friends" Celebrate Paper™(black background)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Memories" Sweet Paper™ (blue check)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Lovely" Plaid Paper™ (blue/grey/yellow/black pattern)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Sunshine" Music Paper™ (music notes)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Lovely" Sewing Paper™ (blue polka dot)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Princess" Pintuck Paper™(off white polka dot)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Blush "Sweet" Eiffel Paper™ (script)
• My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found Two: Rosy "Love" Blossoms Paper™ (yellow polka dot)
• Letters: MME Lost and Found: Union Square "Moments" Glittered Alphabet Stickers™
• Pearls: MME Lost and Found Two: Sunshine "Two of Us" Pearls™
• Twine: MME Lime Twist: Happy Go Lucky "Together" Twine™
• Cartridge: Cake Basics™

My Pink Stamper - Layouts!

So this week, My Pink Designers are supposed to create layouts... Well I don't know how long you have been following my blog, but I have only done one layout and that was for a challenge. I am not a scrapbooker by nature. I LOVE to send my work in the mail to someone else. So this really was a challenge for me. 

Thankfully, someone who follows my blog had asked me to make a series of layouts for her since she liked my style. I agreed and she has been so much fun to work with! 

I feel such a great responsibility because they are the layouts surrounding her wedding. This one that I decided to do for this challenge was for her husband's bachelor party. I am trying to challenge myself to do more manly cards (and apparently layouts) so off I went and I am so thrilled that she loves it! :) The pictures are blurred for her privacy. 

I looked through my stamps and thought that "NOTE-ABLE" from Music Speaks™ was a perfect fit! So I put it right in the middle of the photos. 

Recipe:

Cartridge: Graphically Speaking™ (GREAT for all kinds of cards!) and Gypsy Wanderings™

Embossing Folder: Oh My Crafts Exclusive Everyday Shapes™(Apparently they are out of stock)

"Note-able" - My Pink Stamper: Music Speaks™

Cardstock: Core'dinations Nostalgia pack™

Paper: My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found: Union Square™: "Beautiful Day" Paris Glittered Paper (left) and "Beautiful Day" Journey Glittered Paper (right), "Favorite" Birds of a Feather Glittered Paper (maroon on left page), "Moments" Charming Glittered Paper (red striped layer of hand), "Moments" Seamstress Glittered Paper (All "black" layers which are actually black damask), "Perfect" Happy Glittered Paper (stripes).  

Imaginisce d-stress tool for sanding the edges of the Core'dinations layer (LOVE this tool)

Crown stamp: Union Square "Perfect" Stamps™

Gem stone on crown: Union Square "Favorite" Brads™

Crown on right page: Union Square "Home Sweet Home" Glittered Dimensional Die Cut™

Crown tag on left page: Union Square "Home Sweet Home" Glittered Accessories Sheet™

Alphas: Jillibean Soup: newsprint chipboard alphabeans™ and American Crafts "Dear Lizzy" thickers (red glitter)

Ink: Colorbox in black

Whew! What a recipe list! :) 

Now for some close ups of different areas:

Page 1: 

 Page 2: 

Make sure to hop back to My Pink Stamper to see what she has done, what all of the other Pink Designers have done and also to play along in the challenge! :) 

Have a wonderful rest of your week! :) 

Rockin' New Year Blog Hop!

Welcome to our New Year's Blog Hop! 

This is such a wacky card, but I had a lot of fun with it! It looks like it's not lined up, but it opens from the martini glass... so the card is open and that's why it looks like that.

You should have gotten here from Celeste's blog. If not, start at the beginning HERE. 

Recipe:
Cartridges: Smiley Cards™, Graphically Speaking™, Cake Basics™
My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found: Union Square™
i-rock™
Glam Rocks in Mirror™
Ribbon: Union Square Favorite Trims™, Union Square "Beautiful Day" Trims™
Stickles in Christmas Red™
Glossy Accents™


Here is a list just in case you get lost:
Carol carolssweetcreations.blogspot.com
Celeste ccscards.blogspot.com
Court http://courtscrafts.blogspot.com/ <<<----- You are here. :)
Dorcas  http://4craftyangels.blogspot.com/
Gloria" Girlia's cards" http://girliascards.blogspot.com/
Jen jennyscards.blogspot.com
Karen thebusybug.blogspot.com
Norma http://pinkblingcrafter.blogspot.com/
Roma romascards.blogspot.com
Saundra luvscrappingtogether.blogspot.com
Jeanine luvscrappingtogether.blogspot.com
Karey www.creativecraftcorner.com

Leave a comment today and tomorrow (only one comment each please) and I will draw a winner for the Speaking of Fall Cartridge! Check back to the blog to see if you have won! Sorry, but this is only open to residents of the US. 

Now, head on over to my good friend Dorcas' blog! 

Gold Heat Embossing Tutorial

On last Wednesday's post, Jen asked if I could make a tutorial showing the gold embossed leaves. So, I made a quick one for her! :) 

Please excuse my stuffed-up voice. I was still sick.

Here is a picture of what you will need:

Video:

Finished Project:

Recipe:
Filigree embossing powder is from Paper Trey Ink™
Heat Embossing Tool: EK Success Coloriser™
Card Stock: Paper Trey Ink Stamper's Select White™
Paper: My Mind's Eye Lost and Found: Madison Avenue "Sisters" Lace Glittered Paper™
Stamps: My Mind's Eye Lost and Found: Union Square Perfect Stamps™
Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink Enchanted Evening Saddle Stitch™
Adhesive: Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™ and Glue Glider Pro with perma-tac™
Embossing: Love is in the Air™
Border Punch: Fiskars Hearts Border Punch- Thanks Christy! :)
i-rock and Glam Rocks Rhinestuds™ by Imaginisce™

Thanks for watching! If you have any other requests on what you would like to see, I am happy to oblige! :) I'll do it if I can! :) 

Snowflake Ornament

I made this ornament for a Cricut Circle challenge. I am really excited about how it came out! :) I hope you like it too an can't wait to put it on a Christmas tree this year. :)

What is exciting is that while I purchased the Christmas Solutions cart because I LOVE it, it is now a promotional instant download if you have a Gypsy! It just comes with it after you register and update it! I'm not sure how long it will be available, but you don't even have to buy this cart if you have a Gypsy! How cool is that! 

I haven't been able to update yet as I have a Mac. Soon, hopefully as I can't wait to download Smiley Cards and Tags, Bags, Boxes and More as well as Indie Art! :) 

Anyway, here is the project! :)

Recipe:
Cartridge: Christmas Solutions™
Embossing: A2 Snowflakes Emboss Folder™
Paper: My Mind's Eye: I Believe Collection™: "Trees" and  "Candy Cane Stripes", and DCWV Glitter Paper
Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink Pure Poppy Saddle Stitch™
Crop-a-Dile™
Glitter Glue: Studio G
Brads: My Mind's Eye: Lost and Found: Union Square Brads™
Adhesive: Glue Arts Perma Tac™ and Martha Stewart Gel Adhesive™

Instructions:
For the Christmas bulb:
Cut the blackout, base, and shift buttons and then flip them and cut them again all at 4.5". Each layer should be cut out of different card stock.
Emboss the blackout layer with the Snowflakes Emboss Folder™
Adhere all layers together.
Punch hole in top using Crop-a-dile™and add eyelet

For the Snowflake:
Cut the blackout and base layers at 3 inches.
Use Studio G red glitter glue to dot on all the polka dots on the pattern paper.
Punch small holes in the middle of the snowflake.
Put brads through on both sides.
Adhere all layers together.

Tie the snowflake to the Christmas bulb using the Paper Trey Ink ribbon!
Hang it on the tree! :)

This qualifies for Cricut Cardz Challenge of "use something with an 's' " - snowflake! :)
This also qualifies for Wee Memories Challenge #29 "Anything Goes"! :)

Pumpkin Spice is my sponsor and a giveaway!

I am SO excited to finally announce that Pumpkin Spice is sponsoring my blog!!! This is the company that I was telling you about during the hop where I bought My Pink Stamper stamps from. 

I put the same My Pink Stamper stamps in my cart for 5 companies. Hallmark Scrapbook and Custom Crops were two of the bigger ones and they charged about $6 and $8 for shipping respectively. 

I chose Pumpkin Spice because of two reasons: 

1. The shipping price was $2.78 (I think or it was $2.87)
2. I called customer service because I needed them pronto to use for my projects and for the give away. I got a call back within 15 minutes! And she went to the post office and shipped them within an hour! 

THAT is amazing and I told her so. Now here we are - a friendship has been born and now a sponsorship!

Today I have a card for you that is for my grandfather's birthday. So Grammy, if you're reading this, don't show it to him! :)

Denine at Pumpkin Spice was SO generous and I am pleased to open this with the Union Square line from My Mind's Eye. While I doubt it's the same one they named the line after, we have a Union Square here in San Francisco and I just LOVED the red glitter paper. I thought it is so versatile from men's cards (like this one) to girls night out cards, polka dots, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and even Halloween -- of course it's a shoe in for Valentine's day as well but that's a little bit far away.

Recipe:
From the My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Union Square™ Line:
Union Square "Favorite" Decorative Brads™
Union Square "Home Sweet Home" Glittered Accessories Sheet™
Union Square "Perfect" Stamps™
Union Square "Favorite" Trims™ - the "ribbon" is linen! I love it! 
Union Square "Favorite" Union Station Paper™
Union Square "Favorite" Birds of a Feather Paper™
Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg Collection - Acorn Paper™
Embossing: A2 Seeing Spots Emboss Folder™
Glossy Accents (on the crown)
Red Stickles by Studio G (on the crown)
Pop Dots
Corner Rounder

Denine (owner of Pumpkin Spice) has also generously put this all in a Court's Crafts Collection Kit! So you can everything you need to make it here! How cool is that! 

And if that wasn't great enough, she sent me some goodies to send to you! Leave a comment on this post telling me how many items for sale there are under the section listed "Blackbird" under "My Mind's Eye - Halloween Collections and what your favorite paper is from there. I will randomly choose a winner on Friday to win the Cosmo Cricket Matilda mini deck sponsored by Pumpkin Spice! 

You will have until Thursday at midnight PST to leave a comment. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me because I am leaving for Europe! So become a follower if you don't want to miss it and if you like my work!