Be Mine

Hello to you all! It is the day after Robyn's birthday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBYN!!!

Today at My Pink Stamper's website the Design Team has been showing you projects made with either Love-alicious or Happiest Moments AND the color pink! I LOVE the Love-alicious stamp set! I think it's fabulous. For this project, I decided to use the "Be Mine" for a card and treat box. I hope you like it! 

 Recipe:

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Love-alicious™

Cartridge: Cake Basics™, Tie the Knot™

Embossing folders: D'vine Swirl™ and Swiss Dots™

Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink™

Paper: Echo Park: Be Mine™

3D flowers: Roly Rosies by Imaginsice™ (LOVE these)

Twine: The Twinery

Ribbon: stash

Black bling: Want2Scrap

i-rock by Imaginisce™

Hot Rocks Crystal Compact by Imaginisce™

white and black embossing powders by A la Mode™

Heat Embossing Gun by EK Success™

Buttons: Paper Trey Ink™
The flowers were put together and adhered to the box using the i-bond™ (LOVE it!)
My d-stress™ was used on the edges of the flowers as well as smoothing out the Cricut cut of the heart.

Crop-a-dile and eyelet™

 I really love this treat box. It just makes me happy on the inside! :)

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I have been getting a lot of questions on how I made the treat box and I am SO excited that it inspired a few of you!!! So here are the instructions! :)

The box was cut from Tie the Knot on "fit to page" on a 12x12 mat using Echo Park Paper. 

Next I used my petal roller by Imaginisce to make some roly rosies. I also used the D-stress to smooth and distress the edges.

I adhered those using my glue gun to the side (flatten it out of all of the next parts - but keep putting it together to make sure you are getting things where you want them on the box - and then flatten it again) 

Then I used my i-rock and the template for swirls that comes with the green and pink flowers i-rock kit. But I used the i-rocks from the crystal compact (all links to these things are above under "recipe" except for the green and pink stencil kit which is found here: http://www.imaginisce.com/ProductDetail.aspx?id=1243). 

Lastly, I cut out a heart from the Tie the Knot cartridge (it was the "blackout feature" of the heart that says "thank you") at 1.75 inches. 

I heat embossed that with white embossing powder and of course MPS Love-alicious stamps. I used my crop-a-dile to punch a hole and add a silver eyelet and then put some pink twine through it and tied it around a roly rosie. Clip the end, and you're done! :) 

Let me know if you have any more questions! I am happy to help! :) 

I made the card to match because the Cricut Circle is doing the month long contest where you have to "case" one of the projects on the blog along with using two cuts from the Cricut and two sponsors. My two sponsor were Echo Park Paper and Imaginisce! Here is the card I cased which was by Michele Kovack:

My card ended up a lot "busier" than hers, but all of the elements are still in there! :) 

Thank you SO much for stopping by today and make sure you pop on over to the My Pink Stamper blog to see what the rest of the DT has created! 

February Kit Reveal from Artful Delight

****First off: Announcement: I wil be at CHA starting on the 17th at the Cricut Circle Meet-up and in the make and take booths for Imaginisce on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. So if any of you are going, I would LOVE to meet you!*****

I am SOOOO excited to show you the new kit for February from Artful Delight!

Graphic 45 - Once Upon a Springtime collection - 1 sheet each

Once Upon a Springtime

Enchanted Forest

Fairy Folk

Butterfly Kisses

Woodland Fantasy

Spellbound

Tiny Treasures

Pixie Post

Primrose Cottage

Flight of Fancy

1 sheet each

Jillibean Soup - Soup Staples - Brown Stock

Parisian Anthology Divine Damask

Solid Cardstock - 1 sheet each

American Crafts - Mint & Canary

Embellishments - size and color may vary per kit (ribbon and twine is an approximate)

1 yard Twine - Kraft Outlet

3 small tags - Kraft Outlet

1 yard Maya Road Crochet Trim - Brown

4 American Crafts - Pearl Brads - Letterbox

1 pkg Kaisercraft - Self Adhesive Pearls

2 Prima Flowers - Guava Peony Brahms

5 Jenni Bowlin - Butterfly Chipboard Elements

3 Prima Flowers - Butterflies Vlinder

1 Kaisercraft - Wood Flourishes - Border

1 pkg American Crafts Thickers - By the Yard - White

1 My Minds Eye - So Sophie Savvy Die-cut cardstock frame

BonusEach package will include 1 of these - Once Upon a Springtime Frames or Tags in addition you will receive surprise bonus items - all items will be from the kit, may be extra paper or embellishments or both.

Whew! That's a whole lot of stuff!!!! I can't wait to get it and play with it!

By the way, you still have two more days to enter the sketch challenge where you could win the kit above! Here is the sketch by our Design Teammate Debbie!:

January's kit sold out super quickly and so did December's kit so if you want it, email Leeanne at leeanne@artfuldelight.com to reserve it! 

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!

Imaginisce Animal Crackers Release Party and Cartridge Winner!

I am so excited to finally be able to help release the Animal Crackers line from Imaginisce! I think this line is SO much fun and so very versatile! The Design Team has been working hard to show you all how great this line is and I think your jaw will drop on some of the projects they made! 

Recipe:

Paper: Imaginisce: Animal Crackers™

Cardstock embellishment (balloons): Animal Crackers: Animal Tricks: Die Cuts™
Cartridge: Create a Critter™
Gypsy to weld the tent together

red ink: ColorBox™

i-rock™

Glam Rocks: Mirror™
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For this next one I wanted to show some diversity in the colors so I made a baby card!

Recipe:
Paper: Imaginisce: Animal Crackers™
Cartridge: Straight from the Nest™
Emboss Folder: D'vine Swirl™
Ribbon: Animal Crackers Loop de Loop Ribbon™
Sentiment: Hero Arts™

i-rock™

Glam Rocks: Metallic Pearl™

White Embossing Powder by A la Mode™

Heat Embossing Tool by EK Success™

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For this last one I just wanted clean and simple lines.

Recipe:

Paper: Imaginisce: Animal Crackers™

i-rock™

Glam Rocks: Mirror™

Sentiment: Animal Crackers Snag 'Em Stamps: Life is a Circus™

Animal Crackers: All Aboard! Borders™

Embossing Folder: Seeing Spots™

White embossing powder: A la Mode™

Heat Embossing Tool: Coloriser by EK Success™

I hope you have enjoyed my cards! Head on over to the Imaginisce blog and leave a comment there to be entered to win the Animal Crackers line as well as the tool used most that day! Be sure to stop back and comment all week as there will be prizes every day! AND don't forget to keep leaving comments on the 10 things posts as there will br prizes there too... that's a lot of prize opportunities!

Speaking of winners....
The winner from the My Pink Stamper Design Team Hop is:

Jamie said...

Love the card! What a great start to the hop!

Jamie, please contact me at CourtsCraftsBlog@gmail.com so I can get your cartridge out to you! I will give you a week and then I will have to draw again!

I want to take a moment and thank those that have stopped by, left comments, and become followers. What a thrill that you think my work is good enough that you want to see more of it! I really appreciate it and I emailed those back whose reply was an email address opposed to a "no-reply at blogger dot com". So I hope you all received it! 

Hello My Friend

This is another card I made with the January Kit from Artful Delight! 

Recipe:
Artful Delight January Kit
Striped twine from the Twinery™
Solid twine from Paper Trey Ink™
Sentiment: Unity Stamp Itty Bitty "Hello My Fiend"
Stickles in Christmas Red from Artful Delight's December Kit (currently sold out)
White Embossing Powder from A la Mode
Heat Emossing Gun: Coloriser by EK Success
Liquid Applique from Artful Delight's Website (currently sold out)
Adhesive: Glue Arts™

Design Notes:

This was my first time working with liquid applique. I had a great time! Per the directions, I let it dry overnight and then heated it with a heat embossing gun. I just love the result! I wish I would have done this on all of my Christmas cards for snow, but I think it looks great as frosting too! :)

Unfortunately the January Kit is already sold out, but you can get ahead of the game and sign up for February's as it is going to be awesome! 

My Pink Stamper Blog Hop!

Welcome!!! 

I can't even tell you how excited I am to be part of the My Pink Design Team! Isn't this new blinkie SO cute!?! Thanks Robyn!

You should have gotten here from CarrieAnne's blog. If not, start here at My Pink Stamper's blog. We all have a "key word" that will give you the total message when you string them together in order!

Sorry! Photo is out for publication! :) 

Recipe:

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Punny-licious™

Cartridge: Create a Critter™, Straight from the Nest™

Embossing Folders: OMC: Brickyard™,  D'vine Swirl™, and Forest Branches™ (on the grass)

Paper: Imaginisce Enchanted™"Princess Promenade" 

Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink™, Core'dinations™

i-rock™

Glam Rocks: Pearl™

Twine from the Twinery™ in Lemondrop

Ink: Colorbox in black™

Glossy Accents

White Gelly Roll Pen

Design notes: I just had to use Robyn's favorite cartridge: Create a Critter, but I absolutely love making shape cards so I thought I would make a shape card for the blog hop.

I used the Twinery twine around the flowers and used Glossy Accents on the grass and the flower petals.

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It's my best friend Kourtni's birthday tomorrow (HAPPY BIRTHDAY - and yes, we share the same name) and this was her birthday card! So she just received this in the mail. I love you friend!

Since it is Kourtni's birthday, I think I should have a giveaway. As I just got her one of these for her birthday, I will give one away to you as well! All the cake cartridges work all of the Cricuts and I use this font the most and the images are fabulous too!

Leave a comment on this post and I will draw a winner on Monday. This is open to US residents with free shipping, but if international friends want to win it, I would ask that you pay the shipping above what I would have paid in the states. I hope that's okay with everyone! Check back to see if you won and I will give the winner a week to contact me! :)

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Photo is out for publication! :) 

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After you have collected your key word from here, leave a comment, and then hop on over to the fabulous Sonia's blog!

When you get to the end and have collected all of the key words, hop back to My Pink Stamper's blog and participate in the fun! Don't forget to have a moo-velous day! 

Will You Be Mine?

Another card made with Artful Delight's January Kit! 

I used the thickers as the centerpiece for this one and paired it with some of the epoxy heart buttons (love those!) 

The only thing that wasn't from the January Kit was the twine from the Twinery and the white card stock.

So... will you be mine? :)