For my Friend -

Hello & Happy Wednesday everyone! 

It's time for a new sketch challenge 

over at Paper Play Sketches!!

Here's This Week's Sketch:

Here's the Project I Created:

I just LOVE the papers on this card! :)

Here's the Recipe for my card --

Cardstock - Stampin' Up, American Crafts

Digital Designer Paper - Meredith Fenwick (Good Days)

Pre-Colored Digital Image - The Paper Shelter (Seeking Inspiration)

Stitched Card Mat Die - Die-namics (Blueprint #13)

Sentiment - Stamps of Life (Tiny Titles)

Make sure to Link up here:

 Paper Play Sketches

I hope you plan to join us - the Challenge is for 2 weeks

so you'll have plenty of time to create something fabulous!

Don't forget to leave some Blog LOVE for my Awesome

Design Team Members!!! :)

Thanks for stopping by -

Have a Wonderfully Crafty day!!

The Good Life.....

Hello & Happy Tuesday Everyone! Today, I'm honored to be Guest Diva at  Die Cuttin Divas Challenge Blog!  This weeks Challenge is a Bicycle!  Make a Project using a bike/bicycle!

Here's what I created --

I used the Print N Cut Feature on my Silhouette Machine to

create my card - Along with my Sizzix Big Shot for the 

Stitched Square Card mat layers - 

Here's the Recipe on my card --

Card Stock - Stampin' Up, American Crafts

Designer Paper - Fancy Pants Digital (The Good Life)

Flowers & Label - Fancy Pants (The Good Life) Embellishments

Square Stitched Card Mats - Lawn Fawn

Dimensionals to "POP" up the 2 smaller flowers on the card

Now that you've seen what I've created - Head on over to

Die Cuttin Divas , join in the fun and create something

with a Bicycle! Make sure to leave some Blogging Love

for ALL those Fabulous Design Team Members

over their - They work really hard to make FUN

Challenges for you & ME! :)

Best Teacher Around --

Hello & Happy Monday Everyone!

 Since School is almost over for my son - This Friday

is his last day! :) I thought I would continue

to show the little projects I made for his Teachers/Bus Driver.

Friday, I showcased a Tag I made for the Bus Driver

which can be found in the next post below this one -

So, today I'm showcasing a card I made for his

AWESOME Teacher! He likes Dr. Pepper & Popcorn

So, he'll be getting that as a gift from us along with a

Redbox Gift card to enjoy with his family while

on Summer Vacation! :)

I'm using the Adorably CUTE Apple Bookworm

Here's what I created --

Isn't this the cutest Teacher card? 

I just LOVE how it turned out!

Here's the Recipe on my card --

Card Stock - Stampin' Up, Bazzill, American Crafts, Bo Bunny

Designer Paper - Lori Whitlock (School Days Digital Paper)

Echo Park (School)

Card Design - Silhouette Store (#12366)

Apple Bookworm - KaDoodle Bug Designs

Sentiment - Jaded Blossom (Teacher Appreciation)

Stitched Zig Zag Die - My Creative Time (Tags Layer)

School Bus Tag -

Hello & Happy Dance Friday to ya! You know.... my son has 1 more week left of school - which means it's time for me to step up my game for Teacher gifts! He also rides the bus home from school everyday - so we need to think about the sweet bus driver who gets him home safely!
So, today's project is a CUTE tag I made to add to a gift I'm giving the bus driver! I'm using an SVG file from KaDoodle Bug Designs

Cutesy School Owls


Here's the Tag I made --

The minute I saw that school bus in the KBD file, I just thought

it was so cute and perfect to add to a tag! 

Now, that Die tag I'd been waiting months to order from

My Creative Time - Every time I would check, it was out of stock 

until this past month - So I snatched it right up! :)

I'm going to be adding this to a box of See's Candy -

My son said she likes Chocolate so I thought it would

make a wonderful treat for her! :)

Simple Tag Recipe -

Cardstock - Stampin' Up, Bo Bunny, American Crafts

Designer Paper - Simple Stories (Smarty Pants)

Stitched Tag Dies & Chevron pieces - My Creative Time 

(Tag Dies & Tag Die Layers)

School Bus SVG - KaDoodle Bug Designs (Cutesy School Owls)

Black 1/4" Ribbon - Stampin' Up

Mustard Yellow Twine - My Stash

Have a FABULOUSLY CRAFTY WEEKEND!!!

Hello -

Hello & Happy Thursday my fellow crafty friends! How has the week been going for ya? Well, good or bad the weekend is almost here and we are almost through 1/2 the month of May already! How crazy is that? I swear May just started yesterday!
Today's card is for our Monthly Card Swap Group -  We're using Sketch #275 from Mojo Monday The Theme is HELLO

Here's the Card I made for my Swap --

I LOVE this Designer Paper from Fancy Pants -

It's one of my favorites! :)

Recipe for my card -

Cardstock - Stampin' Up, Bazzill, Georgia Pacific, American Crafts

Digital Designer Paper - Fancy Pants (Park Bench)

Digital Flower & Circle Embellishments - Fancy Pants

Banners Created in my Silhouette Program

"Hello" Sentiment was computer made (Font - Dancing Script OT)

 I use the Print N Cut Feature in the

Silhouette Program to make my 8 cards for the swap -

I design everything out first  - then add in the Digital Designer 

Paper I'm going to use - Once everything cuts out, I use

assorted inks to add shadow/shading

It's Yarr Birthday!

Hello & Happy Tuesday Crafty Peeps! How are you doing this fine warm May day? It's time for a FUN KaDoodle Bug Designs Card to show ya! I'm using the soon to be retiring SVG file called: Pirate Sharks

This file is perfect for those adorable Disney

Pirate pictures or cute Birthday cards for little

boys - Heck you could even slap a bow

on the pirates for the girls! I don't see why not! :)

Here's what I created --

How FUN is this card? - I thought it turned out pretty cute!

Here's the recipe for it -

Cardstock - Stampin' Up, American Crafts, Doodlebug, Bo Bunny

Designer Paper - Echo Park (Pirate Life)

Stitched Card Mat Die - Die-namics (Blueprint #13)

Sentiment - Scrappy Moms (Designers Choice)

Stitched Tag Die - My Creative Time (Fun Stitched Tags)

Black/White Trendy Twine

Recollections white snow pen for the dots on the red scarf

Scallop shape & Rounded shape - Sil. Program

Micron Black pen to create some sort of map - :)

Shimmer & Glitter Mother's Day -

Hello & Happy Monday Everyone! I hope you all had a Fabulous Weekend! Did you enjoy your Mother's Day? I certainly did... It was wonderful getting a call from my older boys and spending some quality time with my youngest! My mom lives with us, so she is always here to celebrate with us! :)
Speaking of Mom - I thought I would share the card I made her for Mother's Day - She reads my blog so I make sure not to post anything for her until after she has received it - :)
Here's the card I made her --

My Mother likes the Color Purple - I'm more of a Blue Gal, but when I'm thinking of her - I think Shades of purple! :) I watched a video by Jennifer McGuire the other night with Double Sided Adhesive, Glitter, & Copic Markers and thought I would give it a go ---
Now, I don't have any Copic Markers (to rich for my blood) but thought I would try with my Spectrum Noir Markers - Well, when that didn't work for me - I tried using my Tim Holtz Distress inks - and that worked! So, here's how I created this card -
Cardstock - Stampin' Up, American Crafts Designer Paper - Kaiser Craft (Violet Crush) Recollections (Color Splash) "Happy" Die & Sentiment - My Craft Spot (No Longer in Business) Butterfly Die - Gina Marie (Whimsical Butterfly) Circle Frame Collage Cut - Silhouette Store (# 61897) White Glitter - Stampin' Up Tim Holtz Distress inks - Milled Lavender, Dusty Concord,  Shaded Lilac, Seedless Preserves
I cut only the circles out on a piece of white cardstock - using the "no cut" for the outside circle design - then I went back with a piece  of my purple designer paper to cut out the outside layer - I then cut a piece of 2 3/4" x 4" white cardstock added double sided adhesive to it - then poured white glitter over it - burnished the glitter into the adhesive so it would stick - then pulled out my blending tool & the Distress inks - and started to blend my colors together on the glitter - which changed it from white glitter to the pretty  colors I used! I attached the 2 3/4" x 4 glitter to the backside of the cut out circles - so they could "peek" through - Added the Happy Die - then the sentiment - Cut out the lovely butterflies and added dimensionals to "POP" them up on the card - 
I really like the "CAS" look of this one with all the shimmer & glitter it has - and so did my Mom Which is the most important part of my card! :)

I'm Entering the Following Challenges:
DL Art Thankful Thursday Challenge - Mother's Day DL Art May Linky Challenge - Anything Goes Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes Decorate to Celebrate - Anything Goes PDE Linky Party - Anything Goes Silhouette Challenges - Anything Goes Little Scrap Pieces - Show it off Saturday