Believe in the Season....

Hello & Happy last day of July Everyone!!

Well... we go back to school in 2 weeks!

How sad!!! I'm gonna miss Summer!

Who am I kidding!!! I hate Summer... I'm excited for

my FAVORITE Season of all to start soon!

FALL!!!

That's right! it'll be here before you know it!! 😂😂

Since it's the last day of July, I thought I would

share 1 last Christmas in July card with you -

I'm using a Digital Stamp set from Polka Dot Orchard

Magic of Christmas

This is really a great Digital Stamp set and the 

fact that one of Jessica's Designers designed the

images is just amazing to me! 

-- Here's what I created --

This one was a quick card to make!

I had already colored the Hat and die cut the sentiment out -

So I put a couple of things together and BAM! I had a card!

The DP is from Fancy Pants (Oh, Deer) 6x6 pad

Stampin' Blends Markers (Stampin' Up)

Clear Adhesive Gems (Stampin' Up)

Stitched Rectangle Frame Die & Banner - MCT

Bracket Die - MFT

I dressed up the inside again - using the Santa hat & sentiment pieces

in the Digital Stamp set along with a strip of designer paper - 

Super Simple and ready to go out in the mail!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a Terrific Day!!!

Theresa

Petals for The Pittman's & Linky Party #2

Hello & Happy Monday Everyone! I'm back with another

project for the Fundraiser POLKA DOT ORCHARD

is Hosting for The Pittman Family - 

If you would like more info on the Pittman’s situation you can find a nice write up done by their daughter on their Go Fund Me.

Polka Dot Orchard has teamed up with several companies, artists and crafters to raise money for the Pittman’s. We collaborated together to bring you two joint digital floral stamp sets, that will only be available for a short time. 

All proceeds from these two sets will be donated to The Pittman’s.

Petal For The Pittman’s Set One

Petals For The Pittman’s Set Two 

The designs in these sets were created by many, many artists in

the crafting industry. The list of companies can be found HERE!

I've created a card using an image and sentiment from each of the sets -

The Floral image with the cup was designed by Graciellie Designs and the sentiment was designed by Polka Dot Orchard - I used assorted Copic Markers, a Stitched Rectangle Frame Die, Clear Adhesive Gems from SU, Neenah Solar White CS, WeRMemory Designer Papers,
 Fun Foam for added dimension - 

****LINKY PARTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED****

We're having a huge linky party with giveaways that weregenerously donated, including something from me!

The linky party is floral themed. Please link up new craft projects and remember if you use a floral image from one of the Petals For Pittman’s digital stamp sets you get two entry for a prize instead of one. 

So, make sure to create anything FLORAL related and add it to the linky

party for a chance to win a fabulous prize!

CLICK HERE - to link your newly created project -

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

Theresa

Petals for The Pittman's & Linky Party

Hello everyone, we are here to help one of our own. Larissa Collins Pittman is a cherished part of our crafty family. Her bio is inspiring when you look and see how many amazing companies she has worked with, sharing her time, energy, and love of this incredible crafty journey. And whether you realize it or not you have been enjoying her work for years, seeing her projects for so many of the companies we all love! She needs our help and as one of the most caring communities we know, we are reaching out to all of you to help us help her. 

Larissa has been facing her own health issues. Gary, her husband, has been a police officer for over twenty years. He was in the process of trying to find work closer to home so that he could take care of her when his own medical needs began to surface. He has had many hospital stays, lots of ups and downs, astronomical medical bills, and is still battling, every day, to just be able to be at home and try to regain his health. They are out of money, yet the medical bills continue to mount. Please help us to help them!

If you would like more info on the Pittman’s situation you can find a nice write up done by their daughter on their Go Fund Me.

Polka Dot Orchard has teamed up with several companies, artists and crafters to raise money for the Pittman’s. We collaborated together to bring you two joint digital floral stamp sets, that will only be available for a short time. 

All proceeds from these two sets will be donated to The Pittman’s.

Petal For The Pittman’s Set One

Petals For The Pittman’s Set Two 

The designs in these sets were created by many, many artists in

the crafting industry. The list of companies can be found HERE!

I've created a card using an image and sentiment from each of the sets -

The Puppy image with flowers was designed by Dare 2B Artzy and the sentiment was designed by Polka Dot Orchard - I used assorted Copic Markers, a Stitched Rectangle Frame Die, Clear Adhesive Gems from SU, Neenah Solar White CS, MFT Designer Paper, & Fun Foam for added dimension - 

****LINKY PARTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED****

We're having a huge linky party with giveaways that were
generously donated, including something from me!

The linky party is floral themed. Please link up new craft projects and remember if you use a floral image from one of the Petals For Pittman’s digital stamp sets you get two entry for a prize instead of one. 

So, make sure to create anything FLORAL related and add it to the linky

party for a chance to win a fabulous prize!

CLICK HERE - to link your newly created project -

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

Theresa

Beary Christmas - PDO

Hello & Happy Thursday crafty friends!

It's July 25th! exactly 5 months til Christmas! EEK!

I know you're all thinkin' THERESA let's get through Summer first!

And you are sooo right!, but just remember, the holidays

will be here before you know it and I'm gonna be reading 

your blogs when you say... how did it get here so fast? HAHAHA

Remember I warned you!!! Tehehehe

Anyway... Here is another fun Christmas card I made...

I'm using a couple of file from Polka Dot Orchard

Magic of Christmas

Winter Bear

-- Here's the Holiday card I made --

OMGOSH! I love this bear!! He's super CUTE!!!

The Tiny tree is a digi and I cut the

bears hand, so I could place the tree in it -

I colored up the bear & tree with my Stampin' Blends markers

The DP is From Fancy Pants (Oh, Deer) 6x6 pad

Stitched Rectangle frame dies - MCT

Stitched Scallop Frame die - CDD

Thin Banner Die - MFT

Here's the inside! I colored up the tree and made it a little bigger to

go on the inside of my card - The sentiment was printed on some

white cardstock then I cut it down to size - The banner I made myself

Another Holiday card down! YESSS!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a FAN-TAB-ULOUS DAY!!

Theresa

Pinata Party!

Hello & Happy Wednesday Crafty Friends!

This is a PRE-Scheduled Post

I made these FUN Birthday cards for work - 

I'm using Lawn Fawns (year 7 Stamp Set)

Concord & 9th's (Bitty Burst Turnabout Stamp Set)

and Jaded Blossom's (So Many Birthdays Stamp Set)

The Wonky Stitch die is from Gina Marie Designs

The Slanted Banner die is from MFT

The Blue & White design is Washi Tape

One Pinata was colored with my Zig Real Brush Pens & 

the other one was colored with my Stampin' blends markers

Both were cut out with my Brother Scan & Cut Machine

The assorted Gems are from Lucy's cards

Both cards were popped up with Fun Foam

and I used an assortment of Distress Oxides for the

bitty dots on the background. 

I also heat embossed the sentiment with some

SSS Ultra Fine White Embossing power - 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a Lovely Day!

Theresa

Be your own kind of Beautiful...

Happy Monday Morning Crafty friends!

This is a Pre Scheduled post as I'm out of town

again due to the last Family emergency -

We are all okay - so don't worry -

It's just some things that needed to be taken care of -

On a happier note - I made a sweet card

using the lovely Digital Stamp set called

Grant me the Serenity

Speaking of Serenity - there is an amazing FUNDRAISER

going on Right now thanks to POLKA DOT ORCHARD

and tons of other Crafting Companies -

One of our own Crafty Friends is in desperate need of some

help - You can read all about it HERE!

Please take a look at how you might be able to help them -

There are giveaways as well - Just click the links above to see -

-- Here's my sweet card --

I love the Rainbow colors on the coffee cups - 

I even did some foiling (although you can't tell by the photo)

I colored all the cups & flowers with my Stampin' Blends Markers and 

I die cut out 1 extra cup and colored it red and popped it up on the card

The black strips are actually black foil, which looks cool up close - 

I popped up one of the flowers and I used a Stitched Rectangle

frame die from MCT - It sits on some Fun Foam popped up over the

black card base - 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a Beautiful Day!!!

Theresa

Trendy Bakers Twine - Spread a little Happy Treat

Hello and Happy Thursday Crafty Friends!

 I'm back as Guest Designer for Trendy Twine!! 

This month they are featuring Lemon Midnight Trendy Twine

I created a Fun Summertime Treat Holder --

I found the wrap treat holder in the Silhouette Store (#290040)

It came with the scallop frame & rectangle for dressing up

your treat holder!

It was super quick to put together since you just put your

bag top through a hole then tie it with a triple bow using

pretty Lemon Midnight Trendy Twine! 😉

My Clear bag is the Large Treat Sacks Gusset Bag

I used some Designer Papers from Doodlebug & Stamps Of Life
The Stitched Sun is a die from MFT
The Shades is another SVG I got from the Silhouette Store (#142364)
I shrunk them down to fit my sun -

The smile stamp on the sun is from Pink & Main
called Sweet Faces 3 - I covered everything except the
mouth, for stamping on my sun -

The Sentiment stamp is from Annie's Paper Boutique

It's called Choose Happy

 it has such Happy sentiments and I love the

variety - This is a must-have for crafters!

If you are new to Trendy Twine, you will want to

check out these fun places:

Shop for Trendy Twine HERE

Follow Trendy Twine on FACEBOOK

Twine it Up! Facebook Group

Thanks for stopping by!

Have an AWESOME DAY!!!

Theresa

You're Fintastic!

Hello & Happy Wednesday Crafty Friends!

I have a super fun Card to show ya today!

I seem to be playing with Sharks & Bees

this month besides my Christmas cards!

What a crazy combo! hahahaha

I'm using the Digital Paper Collection called

(SHARK TANK)

and my trusty old Silhouette Program

How CUTE is this?? I love the purple shark!

I designed everything in my program, just dragging and dropping colors

here and there - I printed everything out on some

Bazzill White 12 x 12 cardstock - Then sprayed my sheet with

some Acrylic Spray then proceeded to let my Cameo

cut out all my pieces

I used a Stitched Rectangle Frame die from My Creative Time

The Sentiment is from Lawn Fawn (Fintastic Friends) and I

heat embossed it with clear embossing powder -

Here's a Screen Shot of my design and pieces before cutting it all out

Of course, I did the inside as well - I thought this might be fun to send 

to a crafty friend!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a FIN-TASTIC DAY!!!

Theresa

Penguin Xmas...

Hello & Happy Tuesday Crafty friends!

We are Midway thru July already

and I've seen lots of Christmas in July designs and sales! 

So, I guess I better share another

Christmas in July Holiday card with you!!

I'm using 2 Digi Sets from Polka Dot Orchard today!

Magic of Christmas

Penguin Love

Check out my Sweet card --

Isn't he the cutest?? I ADORE Penguins, so I thought why not

use the Santa Hat from the one Digi Set and place it

on that sweet penguin's head from the other digi set!

The Hat & Penguin were colored with my Stampin' Blends markers

The DP is from Photoplay (Here comes Santa) 6x6 pad

The sentiment was printed on some Neenah solar white

cardstock and die cut out with a Stitched Rectangle die

I made a triple bow with some Candy Cane Trendy Twine

and added a tiny little silver bell (Oriental Trading)

Dies that were used - Stitched Square die (Lawn Fawn)

Stitched Scallop Border die, Stitched Oval die, & 

Stitched Rectangle Fram die -MCT

Of course, the inside is dressed up as well -

The Stitched Banner die & Scallop border are from MCT

I think this turned out really cute and can't wait to mail it off to someone!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have an AWESOME DAY!!

Theresa