Betty Bee's Buzz - Monday Motivational - Pinwheels!

Thank you so much for all the Birthday Wishes! :) They really touched my little heart! :) 

Today at Betty Bee's Buzz, I volunteered to do the Monday Motivational (tutorial) on Pinwheels! The subject that June and I picked for the challenge this week! 

Never having done one, I had to look it up myself - which I did HERE. 

This is my version. :) 

All You Need is Love

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. I cut three 2" squares from the shadow function on the Cake Basics Cartridge (most of you probably have Plantin Schoolbook for this, but it didn't come with my Expression). You can also just hand cut 2x2 squares.

2. Score down the diagonals of the squares in both directions - making triangular quadrants (is that an oxymoron? I'm such a geek, I know.) 

It should look like this:

3. Cut on the score lines only half way down. This is very important for the pinwheel to hold its shape. If you cut all the way down, you won't have room for the brad to hold it... Ask me how I know... ;) 

It should look like this now:

4. Curl edge inward. I chose the ride edge of each section. Either will work I suppose! :) 

It should now look like this:

5. Using Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares, place one in the center of the pinwheel and curl the edges PAST the middle and adhere to the square. This will get you a much neater looking pinwheel than meeting in the center (believe it or not!). 

Close up of the Extreme Adhesive Square middle:

6. Punch a small hole in the middle of the pinwheel using your Crop-a-dile or other apparatus. 

It should now look like this:

7. Put a brad in the center and enjoy! :) 

Finished Product:

This was based on a sketch at the My Mind's Eye blog and I will be using it for their challenge. 

Almost ALL of this can be found at Pumpkin Spice - my Sponsor! Check them out!!!
Recipe:

• Cartridge: Cake Basics™
• Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink in Stamper's Select White™
• Patterned Paper: 
• My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: True Blue "Pleasant" Paper™
• My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: True Blue "Shining" Paper™
• Brads: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: True Blue Decorative Brads™
• ric-rac: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy: True Blue Trims™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Love-alicious™
• Ink: Momento in Dark Cocoa
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares
• Foam dimensionals

Have a wonderful Monday and make sure to play along with us this week at Betty Bee's Buzz! Create a project using a pinwheel! Come back on Wednesday to link it up and see what the other honeybees created! 

Honey Bee Showcase- Old, New, Borrowed, Blue

This week at Betty Bee's Buzz Amy Sheffer is our guest designer! She made a GORGEOUS balloon card! She also got to pick the theme for this week and she chose... Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. 

Amy Sheffer is a good friend of my friend June (also a HoneyBee) and I am thrilled that June set this up because Amy's card is just gorgeous and her talent is fabulous. 

I have to admit I was STOKED about this challenge. I laid everything out that I wanted to use and realized... there was no blue. haha! So I started again and I'm very happy at where the card evolved to. 

 Old: old script writing

New: the crinkled ribbon is brand new and I LOVE it!

Borrowed: a sketch from Artful Delight AND the idea of having the flowers overlap like that from Melinda Spinks HERE

Blue: background paper

It is based on this sketch here:

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Mother's Day Bouquet™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Fancy Phrases™
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Dusty Rose™ (If you order please let her know I sent you in the comments section)
• Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel "Love" Letters Paper™
• Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink "True Black" and "Vintage Cream"
• Ink: Colorbox in Black
• Embellishment with brad center: MME: Stella and Rose: Gertie "Delightful" Decorative Brads™

Play along this week to win a prize! :) There are SO many takes on this challenge and it's a really fun one. So have a blast and join us! :)

First Yudu Project - Onesies!

Hello! You are half way through the work week! 

I have my first ever YuDu project with you to share!

Now, I actually did these back in January because three of my friends were having boys! So I just whipped these out and I have to say, this project made me fall in love with my YuDu! You can also do onesies with the YuDu card shop! I haven't tried that yet, but I would LOVE to! :) 

I am sharing these over at Betty Bee's Buzz to play along in the baby challenge! :) 

The "boy" is on the back of the onesie - on the bottom. I thought it would be cute to see them crawling around with "boy" on the butt! 

I did the ducks first so I learned a lot while doing the ducks. I wasn't using enough pressure and that's the only reason there is an imperfection! :) 

Recipe:

Yudu™

Cartridges: Wall Decor and More™, Cake Basics™

Ink: Rain (comes in the muted 3-pack). I got it at Michael's with my 40% off coupon

Hope you like these and they inspire you to create some onesies for friends who are having kiddos! :) 

Pure Joy

Good Monday morning to all of you! You might have gotten here from Betty Bee's Buzz or you may have gotten here from Artful Delight! Either way, welcome! 

This week I am doing the tutorial on Betty Bee's Buzz! And in honor or her new grandbaby Paisley being born, we are having a baby week. So play along in the baby challenge and you never know what could be up for grabs! :) 

This card was inspired by my good friend June Houck! I was on the phone with her brainstorming and she brought up "onesie" which produced my a-ha moment! 

OUT FOR PUBLICATION!!!! :)

Instructions:

(If you have a Gypsy, weld the two together at the top and ignore step 1)

1. Using Wall Decor and More™ cut two onesies out at 4" out of Butter cardstock. 
2. Next cut one onesie with the swirl detail out of Summer Fun at 4". Adhere to card base.
3. Ink around edges of card.
4. Stamp Pure Joy and the little foot from My Pink Stamper's Sweet Baby™ set in Momento ink.
5. Cut 2 one inch butterflies from Cake Basics™ (or any butterfly blackout or shadow cut - or punch for that matter!).
6. Add white stones using your i-rock™ to the center of the butterflies. 
7. Ink edges.
8. Bend edges up around the i-rock™ stones making the wings upright.
9. Adhere one of the butterflies to the mini clothespin and the other one to the onesie.
10. Take two buttons and use twine to thread through the holes from the back and tie a bow in the front. Trim extra length off. 
11. Using Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™, attach one to each button back and adhere to card.
12. Send the card to a friend!

Recipe:

• Gypsy
• Cartridges: Wall Decor and More™, Cake Basics™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Sweet Baby™
• Cardstock: American Crafts "Butter"™ (Artful Delight April Kit)
• Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee: Hometown Summer "Summer Fun"™ (Artful Delight April Kit)
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot rocks in Pearl by Imaginisce™
• mini clothespins from Canvas Corp™ (Artful Delight April Kit)
• Buttons from October Afternoon: Modern Homemaker Collection™ (Artful Delight April Kit)
• Twine from the Twinery in Lemondrop™
• Ink is Momento™
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™

Now pop on over to Betty Bee's Buzz to join in all of the fun of the challenge and pop over to Artful Delight to pick up this month's kit while you still can! They usually sell out quickly and I am SO excited about the kits coming up! They are going to be fabulous!


Now, my one year blog-aversary was last month and I totally missed it, so I am going to be having a blog-aversary party very soon! Stay tuned as I am ordering things to give out as prizes and I think everyone will be excited! :) 

Betty Bee's Buzz - It's a frame up!

Honeybee Courtney Lee
Today over at Betty Bee's Buzz we are showing you the frames that we made while at the Honeybee Retreat! We were each instructed to bring a project that everyone could do. I made the t-shirts which you saw on my EAD Designs post. This is Roe's project!
This is the frame that I did. I haven't ordered the pictures yet and can't print them, but I wanted to show you my frame too!
Thank you SO much to Roe for putting together this fabulous project and letting me dive into your gorgeous papers and fabulous flowers! 

Recipe: Frame - from RoePaper: Roe's stack of DCWV Linen (I think)Rosettes - from Roe! Stamp: from Betty!Ink: Momento in Cocoai-bond from Imaginice™ (to glue the flowers to the glass)
Instructions:The frame came from me cutting the mat that was included with the photo frame. I simply cut one inch off all sides. I did this because I was in love with this paper and wanted the paper to show after I put the picture in! 
I glued down the frame to the paper (I should have only done it on three sides so I could slide the picture in, but I forgot and glued it down on 4 sides so now I will have to use my x-acto knife to make a slit to slip the paper in!!! Silly me!!!)
I replaced the glass on top and used my i-bond and hot glue to glue down the flowers. 
Here is the picture that will be going inside:

From left to right: Kristi, Roe, me, June, Wanda, Betty
Don't forget to head on over to Betty Bee's Buzz to see what the other honeybees did with their frames while we were at our little retreat! Play along and put a frame on something or decorate a frame and link up so we can buzz by and say hi! 

***Don't forget to buzz over to the Imaginisce blog after you stop at Betty Bee's to see the Click it with Cricut post (giveaway there) as well as the March Sketch Challenge (giveaway there too)***

This month is FLYING by! I will be in Florida when you read this and tomorrow I will be hanging out with my design teammates from Betty Bee's Buzz! We call ourselves the honeybees! So this is the project that I am made for our swarm! A swarm is when a bunch of ladies that are Cricut-crazy get together and craft!

Today I have a fun post made with EAD Designs Vinyl! You should have gotten here from the fabulous talented and wonderfully sweet Jenn's blog! If not, start back at the beginning at the EAD Designs blog for fun fun fun! 

I cut out the vinyl on my Cricut™ after using the Gypsy™ to place it all where I wanted it to be placed on the mat. Now, I should have flipped the whole image so that I could adhere the vinyl to the underside of the silk screen, but I forgot and ran out of vinyl so I just used this and it still worked perfectly! 

Don't mind the bubbles - that was my hastiness and not a cause of the vinyl! About the vinyl... I have to tell you that I tried another vinyl before this one that I had won and thought that all vinyl was created equal. I am telling you right now that it is not the case. EAD Designs vinyl is SO much better! So while I had to find out the hard way, I will be promoting this vinyl with full confidence! 

The finished product :) Yes, I just left them on the hangers and Yudu'd them as I was going quickly and wanted to hang them up to dry.

At the swarm, we were each instructed to bring a project that everyone can do, so they will be blinging out their t-shirts using the i-rock from Imaginisce! This is what I did to mine: 

As I always show cards made with EAD Designs Stickerz, I just wanted to show another project using their vinyl to create an awesome product! I hope you enjoy them as much as I hope the girls enjoy them at the swarm! 

Recipe: 

EAD Designs Vinyl in brown™

Yudu™

Cartridges: Sentimentals™ (bee) and Birthday Bash™ (font)

i-rock™

Hot rocks compact in Crystal from Imaginisce™

Hot rocks compact in Jewel™

Don't forget to play in the color challenge this month! One random winner will win $20 of EAD goodness and everyone else gets a 25% off coupon! How great is that!?! 

Now you are off to Lauren's blog! 

Monday Motivation at Betty Bee's Buzz

Here is the project I made for this Monday Motivation at Betty Bee's Buzz! EAD Designs has sponsored the Honey Bees this week and I could not be more thrilled!!! THANK YOU EAD DESIGNS! You have to go check them out for all your sticker, rub-on, and vinyl needs. I have tried all of their products and I won't even confess how much of their store I own... It's a little embarrassing! :)

We decided that there are plenty of December birthdays that get overlooked due to Christmas! So we Honey Bees are doing birthday cards! :) 

Recipe:

Stickers: EAD Designs: Your B-Day™

Paper: Echo Park: A Walk in the Park™

Embossing: Seeing Spots Emboss Folder™

Ribbon from my Stash

Foam dimensionals

Sharpie™ markers

Plain white card stock is from Paper Trey Ink™

You can check out the EAD Designs store HERE and their blog HERE. They have a  regular monthly color challenge where everyone wins and a Monday blog hop with fabulous inspiration!

Make sure to leave a comment over at Betty Bee's Buzz to be entered into December's giveaway and play along with us as EAD Designs has generously decided to give away a $20 gift certificate to their store!!! That's a lot of vinyl/stickers! 

Flour, Sugar, Brown Sugar - Home decor project

This project was really fast! 

I did this for the Honey Bee Showcase over at Betty Bee's Buzz. We Honey Bees (the DT) use the tutorial presented on Monday to come up with something that is inspired by the tutorial for Wednesday. 

This week I decided to do a home decor project. 

This was my first time working with felt and I did it so that this would qualify for one of the Cricut Circle contests going on. I had a great time with it and I think I will definitely be using it again in future projects! 

OUT FOR PUBLICATION!!! :)

Recipe:
Jars from Michaels
Cuttlebug™
Cricut™
Vinyl: EAD Designs™ (of course!)
Cartridges: Straight from the Nest™, Cake Basics™
Embossed felt from Michaels
Card Stock: Paper Trey Ink: Ripe Avocado and Spring Moss™
Embossing folder: Perfectly Paisley™
Scissors
Adhesive: Glue Arts Perma Tac™
Ribbon: Paper Trey Ink Perfect Match in Ripe Avocado -Saddle Stitch™

OUT FOR PUBLICATION!!! :)

Now pop on over to Betty Bee's Buzz to see what the other Honey Bees have done using Betty's tutorial!

Honey Bee Wednesdays!

---Scroll Down for my Be Inspired Wednesday Thanksgiving Favor Box! :) ---

So on Wednesdays the HoneyBees are invited to show our versions of whatever the tutorial was on Monday! Last Monday Roe gave an awesome tutorial on place setting cards for your Thanksgiving Table (or any table). 

I found myself saying, "Thank you Roe for making my life so easy." out loud while I was doing this project. So THANKS ROE!

Anyway, here is my version of it. Jim is my dad so this will be his place-setting for Thanksgiving! 

Recipe:
Paper: Imaginisce Apple Cider Line: Changing Leaves™
Card Stock: Paper Trey Ink Pure Poppy™
Stamp: Imaginisce Apple Cider Line: Snag 'em Ups: Frame™, Martha Stewart Alpha Stamps™
Cartridge: Thanksgiving™
Filigree Gold Heat Embossing Powder from Paper Trey Ink™
Heat tool by EK Success™
Glossy Accents™
Button Twine by Paper Trey Ink™

Now head on over to Betty Bee's Buzz and see what all of the other Honey Bees have created for your inspirational delight! :)

---Don't forget to scroll down for my earlier post! :) ---

Paper Pumpkins

Hello! I am so excited to be a member of Betty's Bee hive! 

Today I am sharing with you these cute paper pumpkins. 

I got the idea from Linda and told Betty about it. Betty made some two years ago for Halloween here and now I am making them! :)

Recipe:

Paper: My Mind's Eye: Blackbird "Argyle", "Crows", "Trick-or-Treaters", "Neighborhood", "Costumes", and "Spiders"

Embossing: Cuttlebug™ Oh My Crafts Exclusive Everyday Bundle: Checkerboard ™, Swiss Dots™

Ribbon from my stash - recycled from wedding gifts received over 2 years ago! haha

Instructions:

Small Pumpkin

1. Cut 12 6"x1" strips of paper (In my case 2 designs of 6 strips)
2. Use Crop-a-Dile™ to punch 1/8" holes about a quarter inch from each end of the strips. I just put them in a pile and made one cut of each stack.
3. Link 3" of string between two brads. Put the brads through the holes with the top of the brad on the wrong side of the paper. Spread the prongs on the right side of the paper. 
4. Starting from the bottom piece of paper, spread them around to form the pumpkin.
5. I free-hand cut a stem on the pumpkin and adhered it to the pumpkin with hot glue. I did the same with the ribbon.

Bigger Pumpkin

Do the same thing as above except cut 18 strips at 9"x7/8". 

This also qualifies for Kim's Off the Wall Craftiness challenge colors of orange, black, and white.