Thankful, Grateful, Blessed

 Hello and Happy Saturday Everyone!

I know it's been a couple of weeks since I posted last -

We have been plugging away and getting the kitchen done -

I really wanted to have it done by Thanksgiving and we are

so Dang Close I can taste it! YAY!

Of course, as with anything we've been doing on this

house we've run into snags here and there -

We have a small section left in the kitchen which should

be completed by this weekend (keeping fingers crossed)

On another good note, my back is so much better, 

but now this past week I've caught a bug!

I've been a bit down and out not able to do too much

around the house -- But as I'm typing this out I am feeling a lot better

than those first few days of catching whatever it was I caught! LOL

I've only had time to create 1 card so I thought I would share it before

November left us behind - :)

It also looks as though I won't get my house completed by the

end of the year deadline we had set for ourselves - I'm coming to terms

with it and will take whatever I can out of it now - My son will

leave after the holidays so whatever is done by that time is what

I'll have to live with and work on the rest of the house

without his help moving forward - 

It'll all work out I'm sure in the end and I can honestly

say I'm totally happy with all the work we've put into this place so far -

I'm super grateful for him and all the hard work

he helped put into this place for us - I'm one lucky MOM!

Anywho - Let me share the card I made using

a beautiful Leaf Stencil from Polka Dot Orchard

I swear if I had more time on my hands I would have totally made 

several more cards with this beautiful stencil - 

I just LOVE it!

I Foiled my card with Copper foiling! I had to take another picture to

see if I could capture it - it looks so pretty

up close and in person!

I tried several times to take a picture showing off the inside as well - 

All Copper foiling inside too... this really is an elegant card! 

Here's what I used on this lovely card -

Plenty-O-Leaves-Square-Stencil

Falling-Leaves-Mini-Wood-Bits

A-Maize-ing-fall-wishes Digital Stamp Set

The-Best-Pumpkin Digital Stamp set

Copper Foiling, Laser Printer, Laminator,

Fun Foam, Stitched Rectangle Frame Die, Neenah Solar

White Cardstock, Dark Chocolate Cardstock, Distress Oxides in

Spiced Marmalade, Ripe Persimmon, & Fire Brick

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a Beautiful Thanksgiving Week!

Theresa

Best Witches....2020

 Hello & Happy Tuesday Everyone!

I'm back with another pre-scheduled Halloween Post!

Yesterday I shared a card I made using products

from my good friend Jessica over at

Polka Dot Orchard

and today I have another one I made using

more of her products -

She really has come a long way with her digital designs and

has embraced the crafting community with more

than just digital stamps! I love seeing her shop grow with

so many different designs and products for everyone to use -

Okay... I'll stop gushing over how proud I am of her and share

what I made - :)

YUP! I Foiled Again!!! You guys know I LOVE foiling!

And this is what the inside of my card looks like -

So perfect to send to a crafty friend for Halloween

OR in my case a little after Halloween since I'm

so behind on life right now! :)

Here's how I made it ---

(Boots & Sentiments) Best-Witches Digital Stamp Set - Polka Dot Orchard

(Web Stencil) Tangled Web Square Stencil - Polka Dot Orchard

Black Foil, Laser Printer, Laminator, Fun Foam, Masking Tape

Cardstock - Neenah Solar White, Black Papertrey Ink

Stampin' Blends Markers

Distress Oxides - Dried Marigold, Carved Pumpkin

Stitched Rectangle Frame Die, Oval Circle Die

See ya Tomorrow!

Have a BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

Theresa

Witchy Hat Slim Line

 Hello And Happy Monday Everyone!

I hope you had a lovely weekend and 

the day has started in the right direction!

I'm sharing another quick post with you 

This time I'm changing it up and sharing a card 

I made about a week and a half ago -

My friend Jessica over at Polka Dot Orchard

has been doing amazing things over at her store

and I wanted to show you this fun card I made using

her brand new Stencils! 

Can you tell I used Foil? Yup... I Did! :)

Here's the inside of my card all foiled up as well ---

Here's what I used to make my card ----

(Web Design) - Tangled web-slimline stencil - Polka Dot Orchard

(Witch Hat) - Best Witches Digital Stamp Set - Polka Dot Orchard

(Sentiment) - Cats and Magical Hats Digital Stamp Set - Polka Dot Orchard

Laser Printer, Laminator, Purple & Black Foil

Distress Oxides - Carving Pumpkin, Forest Moss, & Black Soot

Stampin' Blends Markers - To color my witch Hat

Stitched Slim Line Die

Fun Foam for added dimension

Cardstock - Neenah Solar White, Black Papertrey ink, Purple Bazzill

See ya tomorrow!!! 

Have a BEAUTIFUL DAY!!

Theresa

Elegant Friends....

Hello & Happy Easter Weekend Everyone!

I'm already over at the other place working my

little heart out with NO Internet again! 

It should be coming soon! They called us, so hopefully, someone will

be out here to put in a cable - They did say that they would just place

it through a window for now - They don't want their workers coming into

the house - Which is okay with me as long as we get

some internet service out here I'll be happy! 

Here's another card I made a while back using

a card front from a card kit I found at Tuesday Morning -

The Card kit just had white cards designed with silver foil images on them -

Of course, I took it up a notch or two by doing some ink blending -

I used 3 different shades of Distress Oxides and then I cleaned

my ink off the silver foiled floral design - It looks so pretty

I used my favorite Stitched Rectangle Frame die from My Creative time

I wanted the background to stand out of course - So I just

die-cut the Friends Frame die from (Papertrey Ink) in some SIlver

Foil cardstock - Then I die cut a banner from (Lawn Fawn) and

used silver embossing powder on the sentiment Stamp from (MFT)

I then added some Clear Lucy's card gems to finish it up!

It is popped up with some Fun Foam on a Neenah Solar White Cardbase

I wish you all a Very Happy and Safe Easter Weekend!!!

Theresa

Silent Night...

Hello and Happy Monday Everyone!

Have you ever just NOT felt like Crafting? 

Well, that's been me all week...

 I've been checking out your blogs to try

and get inspiration... and you guys

are really rockin' some awesome designs

and yet I still feel like Naaawwww... 😌

When we returned from our trip

back from the other house is when 

it started... I mean, everything over there

is getting done slowly, but still getting done...

Then I come back home only to sit here

doing nothing... GRRR!

I don't know if it's the stress of everything or what?

I did make myself do some crafting yesterday -

I have some old card kits still in their packages and

thought maybe I should try that! So, that's

exactly what I did... I followed a couple of cards

before I finally made some designs without

looking at the ideas they had - I ended up

making about 8 cards with at least 2 more left to do -

I think I'm gonna try a few more of the kits in

hopes it'll get me motivated... We shall see...

In the meantime here's a holiday card I made 

a while ago using foil! Yup... I still have several

projects sitting here complete with foil on them!! 

The images, Sentiments are from the Silhouette Store

I used my laser printer to print them out

I used deco foil on both cards and put them through my Laminator

I used Stitched Rectangle frame dies from My Creative Time,

and Fun Foam for added dimension

The blue and Gold Metallic Cardstock is from Making Memories

This is what the inside sentiment looks like, the sentiment

is also from the Silhouette store - I did one in the gold and the other

in blue to match up with the fronts of the cards - 

They both look so elegant and I can't wait to send them out for Christmas!

If you guys have any Mojo vibes you'd like to

share... please send them my way! 😁

Have a Beautiful Day!!

Theresa

Second Foil Quill Post...

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I'm back with

another Foil Quill Project! I really hope you guys

don't mind all the foil cards I've been sharing...

I really enjoy playing with all the different ways

you can add elegance to your card projects

and foils are definitely up there! :)

So, there are 2 cards and they are Christmas cards!

As you know I just got the Foil Quill kit and I bought extra Foil Quill colors at

my local Tuesday Morning, so I thought it would be fun to try using different foiled

colors on a card! When I use my Laser Printer and heat foil with

my laminator, it's really hard to get different colors - especially this close together

on a project - So having the foil quill really does help with those types of details!

I started out by finding an image in the Silhouette store (#208106)

I chose to use the BOLD PEN Tip this time and I had to

go to Sketch and enlarge my image then fill it in with the

checkered pattern again, then I used the .05 spacing and then

shrunk it down to fit on a card front -

What that does is "fill inside" the outline -

Most SVG's have an outline, and if you want to "color"

the inside with foil, you need to use the Sketch fill first

otherwise, it won't color inside - 

Here's a Youtube video showing someone using this technique

with the Foil Quill - Solid Fill

I used the Red foil first and it did the 2 trees and the 1 swirl, then when it was done

I used the Gold Foil which did 3 trees then I removed it and

then I used the Green foil to finish off the last 3 trees and swirl

I made 2 of them at the same time, so it took a while to create them -

Your machine is doing all the work and getting all the details

into each image - So you need to have patience which I don't

always have but watching this work flawlessly on

both cards made me very happy - It was only my second try

using the Foil quill - I could never get this foiled with all

3 colors with my laser printer and heat foiling, so you can

imagine the massive details having the quill can provide - 

I used Neenah Solar White Cardstock, Making Memories Gold & Red Cardstock,

MCT Stitched Rectangle Frame dies, The Sentiment is from MFT,

and I used Fun Foam for added dimension

Have a BEAUTIFUL DAY!!

Theresa

Long Story, Elegant Foiling...

Hello & Happy Monday Crafty Friends!

How the heck was your weekend?

I hope you all had a chance to do something fun!

Me? Well, it started out by adding a new driver

to my computer! Earlier in the week, my computer

was kind enough to warn me that my old

hard drive was about to go out... Weird? I know!

So, I called my husband and he suggested that I

upgrade to a Digital hard drive. So Amazon Prime

to the rescue and a new hard drive arrived, thank goodness

it was easy to install and I was able to clone ALL my files

from my old drive to the new one... And the kicker...

My computer runs sooooo much better now! Who Knew?

Certainly not me! hahaha

While I was shopping at Amazon (for the driver)... I happen to run

across a crafting item, I had been wanting since last year -

So, guess who bought it? ME!!! LOL

So I spent some time playing with my new tool

and I have a card to show ya using it - 

I know, I know another foiled card! But guess what tool

I used to make this card? The FOIL QUILL!!! EEK!!!

Look at the fine details of that image! I was impressed!

I have been wanting it since I saw it at CHA last January.

Of course, I wasn't a fan of the price point at the time (99.00)

But I happen to walk into a Tuesday Morning last week and they

were selling the individual pens for $20 apiece, so I started

to investigate the price. Then I forgot to check around until

I walked into a local Walmart and they had the kit for $64.00!

I was like... WHAT? So, instead of buying it at the store, I went home

and started searching online and funny thing... Walmart.com

is selling it for $44.98! WTH? $20 cheaper than the store???

So then I went to Amazon since I needed a Hard Drive anyway and

they were selling it for the $44.98 price as well... And you know I like

a good deal, so I bought it! Just a side note - Tuesday Morning

also had the Foil Quill Foil Rolls that are $9.99 selling for $4.99

so I bought a bunch of different colors to go with my new tool!

So once I got my important stuff done - (Hard Drive, Laundry, cleaned the house)

I sat down to watch a few youtube videos on how to use

my new tool with my Cameo 3 - After all that, I jumped right in

to make this card my first project with my tool -

I used the light blue pen ( Regular point) The pink pen is the

(Fine Point) and the Dark Blue Pen is the (Bold Tip) -

I grabbed an image from the Silhouette store (#313896)

and I did a TRACE of the image before I went to foil

I tried to make 2 of them, but since it was my very first

time trying it out the first image was off. center... like by a lot and

the second image was perfect or close to it!

I used the Sketch pen setting and set my force to 3 

and kept the speed to 10

I used a portable charger I have to heat up the pen

and away it went - When I revealed the foil image

I could not believe the details! Stunning in person!

So then I wanted to add the sentiment and again

I went to the Silhouette store and got (#10893)

and that was a little trickier since I wanted to

"Fill in" the gold foil... 

Let me just start by saying THANK GOODNESS for

Youtube videos that helped! 

I enlarged my THANKS Word then

I went into "Sketch" and I grabbed the

Checkered image (That's probably not the right name of it)

But anywho, I filled the word with that image and changed the 

spacing to .05 then shrunk it down to fit - 

(It's like filling inside the word) 

Once that was done

I placed the Thanks were I wanted it under the floral design

and added the gold foil on top before sending it

thru to my cameo -  I left the settings the same as

before and then peeled away the foil to reveal

the lovely gold word -

I really love the way this turned out - and I have another

card to share with you (Well 2 more) cause

it was fun to practice and learn how

to use this new tool - It's another great way

to foil and you all know I LOVE to Foil!!! 

I used Neenah Solar White Cardstock, Making Memories Pink

Foiled cardstock, MCT Stitched Rectangle Dies, Fun Foam,

Gold foil from We R Memory Foil Quill Kit

Fushia Foil From We R Memory Foil Quill 12" x 96"

If you guys have any questions?? Feel free to shoot

me an e-mail and I'll be happy to answer your

questions as best I can!

Have a FABULOUS DAY!!

Theresa

Dim the Light....

Hello and Happy Hump Day Everyone!

I've got a foiled card to show ya -

I told you guys I had several foiled card fronts

ready to be placed on cards... well this is one of them...

I'm using the Polka Dot Orchard Digital Stamp sets called:

Floral Flourish Background 3

Sunshine of Life

I added some clear lucy's cards gems to the flower centers

The foil is copper color (I think?)

I used a Stitched heart die, Stitched Banner die, & a
Stitched Rectangle frame die 

The heart was die cut out of a piece of vellum - 

and of course, I used a piece of fun foam to add dimension!

I think the sentiment is so beautiful! 💗

Have a FABULOUS DAY!!

Theresa

Acetate Xmas Trees...

Hello and Happy Last day of January Everyone!!

Well, we ALL made it through our first month of the New Year! YAY

Before you know it, Spring will be here! YYAASSSS!!! 😊

I've got a Christmas card to show ya using foil -

I bought those Acetate Toner sheets from Deco foil (awhile ago) and had these all

foiled up in assorted colors of course - Since I only got this one

completed, I thought I would show it - 

I have to say I'm a little disappointed in the PEARL FOIL -

That is what I used on those trees - now up close and in person 

you can see the foil, but other than that, it looks like I've got

black silhouette trees (nothing wrong with that) but that

wasn't what I was going for! LOL

I colored the backside of the acetate to add some color to the

trees and that turned out cute - but I gotta say I love the

other colors I got on my other trees - I just need to turn them

into cards first before sharing! 😁

The toner sheets are great for those of you who don't have a laser printer

And the acetate ones are just fun for trying something different!

They ALL HEAT FOIL BEAUTIFULLY!  (trust me I got a bunch!)

I hope you all have a FANTASTIC WEEKEND!!

Theresa

All my love...

Hello and Happy Thursday Crafty Peeps!

I have a super quick card to share today!

This is another Foiled card I made using what I had

sitting here on my desk - The design was

from the Silhouette store and I

printed it out on my Brother Laser Printer - 

Foiled cards are hard to photo - so I took the best 2 I had to show ya - 

This was so quick and easy to do, I did use a stitched rectangle frame die

and added some clear gems to add a little somethin' somethin'!

It's popped up on some fun foam and adhered to a Grey Card Base - 

Have a BEAUTIFUL DAY!!

Theresa