Happy Easter! Wishes On A Wire

Today I'm sharing with you my last Taylored Expressions Easter card. This is from the Wishes on A Wire Collection - Easter. I used kraft paper as base, topped with DCWV Spring Mat Stack paper, and used Simon Says Stamp Postage Stamp Edge Frame Dies as the base for the stamped image. I colored the image using Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers, and unfortunately, it bled through and went over the stamped edge. I did a blue background sponge effect by using Tim Holtz Salty Ocean, and the flowers are from Stamps of Life Triplits Flower 7 Dies.

Happy Easter weekend everyone! Hope you all have a blessed one!

Enjoy!

August Birthdhays

I have a couple of friends whose birthdays happen to be in August and thought I'd make their birthday cards in advance.

I used The Stamps of Life's stamp of the month for this card below and DCWV birthday paper pack. It's so simple yet the big candles sure do make a statement!

This card below also uses DCWV birthday paper, and I embossed the Cricut Happy Birthday folder to add some design and texture. The balloons were cut using Cricut's Birthday Bash cartridge.

Sympathy Card

I've been away for awhile, dealing with some personal issues and I'm just starting to ease back into crafting again. Unfortunately my first couple of cards back are sympathy cards. My daughter's teacher's dad passed away recently, and my co-worker's father in law also passed away recently. Both prompted me to make a card, and I hope it helps to make them feel a bit better.

I haven't crafted in awhile so here goes. The gray/black cardstock is from Recollections neutral paper pack, and the purple floral background paper is from DCWV's Floral stack I believe. The tags were cut using Silhouette and the stamp is from The Stamps of Life. It's a quick card, I actually made 2 of the same as I'm not 100% really back yet. I have yet to find all my supplies, and sort through a lot of new materials.

PB & J Birthday

I've been so busy at work lately and crafting has taken a back seat the past week. I sit in my craft area every night thinking making a card will somehow take the stress away, but unfortunately being so drained and stressed from work somehow nipped my creativity pool as I couldn't come up with anything at all. Well it's the weekend and I'm glad I at least was able to make something. I'm using the morepb&j2stamp from The Stamps of Life and making another PB&J card.

I couldn't find a plug sign stamp so I just substituted with a heart instead. The jelly was stamped using Hero Arts Mid Tone Shadow Ink in Raspberry Jam, the blue label using Close To My Heart's Sky ink, the peanut butter cap was stamped using Hero Arts Red Royal Shadow Ink, body using CTMH Desert Sand, yellow bottle label using CTMH Buttercup. I love these ink colors!

Hello There!

I've missed Lollydoodle and thought I'd create a card again using its super cute papers. While the most popular pairing is an Owl, I thought I'd use a butterfly instead. I just bought this really cute Sizzix butterfly dies from The Stamps of Life yesterday during their store opening. It's brand new product that's not even on the website yet so I can't put a link yet.
Admittedly I'm having a creative block, sad to say. I thought with the long weekend I'd be on a creative roll, but of course life doesn't work that way. Instead I'm suffering some sort of a block and I can't seem to come up with anything pretty. This will have to do for now.
Everything is from the Lollydoodle Cardmaking WOTG pack, except for the brown butterfly background, which is just some scrap paper. Sentiment was stamped using Lagoon ink, and satin ribbon is from scraps.

Washi Play

I finally got the chance to play with the ton of Washi tapes I got at the Scrapbook Expo. I made a set of these everyday cards that should be appropriate for any occasion. I used a variety of Close to My Heart Mini Stamps - Balloon, Perfect Polka Day, Hi, A Little Gift, Colored Egg and Parasol. Washi tapes are from Queen and Co., and a couple from We R Memory Keepers. I think this should be enough Washi play for me for awhile. I used a lot of supplies to make these, each sentiment came from different CTMH stamp sets, with only the Parasol using a Stamps of Life sentiment. Inks are a mix of CTMH Sweet Leaf, Chocolate, Cranberry, and Hero Arts Mid Tone Shadow Ink Bubble Gum Pink, Orange Soda and Red Royal. The images were colored in using a mix of Memento Markers and Wink of Stella Markers.

PB&J - I'll Always Stick By Your Side

My stamp of the month from The Stamps of Life came in today and I just wanted to play! I was skeptical at first when I saw the reveal, but it quickly turned to excitement as soon as I got my hands on it. So here's my first take on this month's PB&J theme.

I used kraft card stock as the base, white card stock as layer, and background paper is from Basic Grey. I stamped the PB & J jars, text and sentiment using Memento Tuxedo ink, but used Close to My Heart's Saddle Ink for the peanuts and Hero Arts Shadow Ink Grape Juice for the grape. The jars and peanuts were colored in using my Spectrum Noirs, pretty easy as I didn't really want to do any blending. I used a mix of Gold Browns (GB 8 and 9) and Purple (PL 3 and 4). The tag die is from Paper Smooches and I just used a scrap of brown ribbon to embellish.

Scrapbook Expo Weekend

I spent the last 2 days at the Anaheim Scrapbook Expo and was lucky enough to have a supportive hubby who tagged along. I found a lot of good deals and was able to stock up on my supplies. Not that I was missing anything to begin with, but as you probably all know too well, we can never have enough of everything. I opted out on classes this time around and didn't attend any workshops. Last time I attended some I thought it was a waste of time and money. This just gave me more time to roam around and not have to worry about leaving my hubby for an hour or two waiting for me to come out of class. Believe it or not we got there at 830am Friday and didn't leave until 4pm. Time just flew by so fast next thing I know hubby's dragging my arm because he did not want to get stuck in Friday afternoon traffic.

I scored some great deals on paper, gosh not that I don't have enough of them! I also got a lot of embellies from Adorn It. I love love love their stuff! $1 each embellishment if you buy 20, plus 2 free embellishment of your choice and they gave out this really really cute bag!

I of course stopped by Stephanie Barnard's Stamps of Life booth and got a couple of coordinating stamp sets that I've been wanting to collect. Then I went crazy with paper stick straws. I must have gotten like 8-10 packs of it, 24each per pack. I've been wanting to buy some but they seem to be more expensive elsewhere. I didn't have the patience to keep going back for 40% off coupon everyday just to collect the colors.

I also got me some cute Lawn Fawn stamps and dies. Too bad they ran out of the Elephant dies, that was disappointing. I did not get the new Hello Sunshine stamp set but after thinking about it, when I went back, it was all sold out! Bummer! Guess it was not meant to be! The show was having a Buy 3 get 1 Free stamps and dies and I took that opportunity. Buying it there saves me on shipping plus I get 1 Free.

Lastly, I splurged on some Washi tapes. Yes, Washi tapes. Like I need more Washi tapes right? I probably already 45 rolls in front of me right now and I just added another 38 from Queen and Co. The designs were too cute to resist! Plus the box they're giving away fits the tapes perfectly and I preferred it more than the dispenser. I also went ga-ga over the epoxy bubbles, or as they call it, Jellies and Jawbreakers. Bought 12 and they gave a pretty storage album for free. Here are some of the pictures.

Hubby and I  had so much fun. We were dead tired and exhausted by the time we got home but it was all worth it!

Thanks Bunches!

This card is made using Stamps of Life's March stamp set crazy4daisies. I wish I had the dies for these daisies since I spent quite some time cutting these out. I made quite a few, not just these, as reserve. I guess I was illusional when I thought this was going to be a 5-minute card.

So, for papers I used a variety of papers from Lily Bee Persnickity Collection. The yellow layer is Bazzill Butter Cardstock and the dark purple base is plain cardstock from Heritage. The embellies I think are from Recollection.

Butterfly Kisses

Here's a cute card I made using Stamps of Life's butterfly2build stamp set. This is a standard A2 card size (4.25"x5.5") and the background papers I used came from my leftover Simon Says Stamp January 2013 Monthly Card Kit. Yes it's pretty old, but I was cleaning up my closet to make room for more CTMH products coming in and I chanced upon this kit which I had barely used. The stripes on the left corner came from the Lily Bee 6x6 Patterned Papers set, and the big piece is Bazzill Night Mist cardstock I believe. The pink paper that's like a ribbon background is just scrap paper, and I used Neenah Natural White cardstock to stamp the butterfly on. I used CTMH black ink for the butterfly outline and Hero Arts Shadow Tone Bubble Gum for the body. Turned out pretty nicely tying in with the pink scrap of paper.

Oh Happy Day!

I thought I'd make use of some of my scraps to make a birthday card today. I was inspired by one of the card patterns from the Originals book, but I tweaked it a bit since I did not have a lot of embellishments on hand. The scrap paper I used came from Colorbok Hootenany Designer Paper collection. It's a cheap pad I got from Wal-Mart some time ago. The pink was just an ordinary Recollections card stock. The flower embellishments were die cuts using Stephanie Barnard's latest products Mini Flower Dies. I absolutely love love these dies! They are just so cute! I topped them with some brads I got for free.

I embossed the top of the cupcake using my Cuttlebug and used actual cupcake wrapper on the bottom. I couldn't quite get the effect I wanted using the design on my Artiste cartridge so I decided to just use the real thing then! I used a white card stock and Tim Holtz Tattered Rose distress ink for the cupcake background, then stamped the stitch design using CTMH's Stitch Wonder stamp set. I then added some red and white stones and stamped Oh Happy Day sentiment from CTMH's Cricut Artiste Celebration stamp set.

Hope you all like it!