Card Crazy....

So, I'm not much of a card maker.  I always look at everyone's lovely copic cards and just oooh and ahhh over them.  I've done a few but have never really gotten into them.  Maybe one day...

Until then, this is how my cards go...

Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe

Crate Paper Restoration

Prima Romantique

Just sharing.....

Some Yummy Crate Paper, Portrait line :) <3 Can't get enough CP!!

Lots of Layering!

This is a layout I did for a Design Team Challenge we did just for the design team.  We were given certain items to add to out layout and we were given a sketch.  Needless to say I swayed way away from the original sketch.  I ended up with something totally different.

I like this background paper, I think it's Pink Paislee? It has embossing on it and then I misted and wiped off the excess to see it.

Thanks for stopping in :)

Family Banner

Last week I recieved a full box of Crate Paper goodness so I have been creating.  I was in the mood to make a banner of some sort.  I had some Maya Road bottle caps and put my thinking cap on and came up with this:

Yes, our family started in 1988!

I used the "Portrait" collection from Crate Paper, some ribbon and LOTS AND LOTS OF POP DOTS!!

Hope it inspired you a bit today :)

XOXO Lift

I saw a cute layout over at XOXO that I really liked so I thought I would play along. 

The layout it by Lisa Harroll. Here's my take on it:

Materials:  Basic Grey Background paper; American Crafts Thickers, Pink Paislee letter stickers, Crate Paper pattern paper, chipboard, stickers; Queen & Co. pearls

Thanks for stopping in today!

SWAK & More!

Warning....this is loaded with pics! 

 How's everyone?  Seems like there's lots of crafting going on out there from the looks of my blog reader!  I thought I'd share a couple of LO's with you today.  I made some these past few weeks that I REALLY love.  You know you love it when you get to the end and KNOW (without a doubt) that you don't need to do anything else to it. Oh Happy Day!

Materials Used: Crate Paper- (Restoration) Pattern Paper, Chipboard, Rub-ons; Prima -  Flowers; Pink Paislee -Chipboard Letters; Misc: Lace; Mini Alphas-October Afternoon

Materials: Sassafrass Lass: Pattern Paper, Chipboard, Flowers, Letter stickers, Chipboard Letters;  Misc: ribbon

The above layout is a scraplifted design. 

Not sure where it came from so if you know holler at me so I can update ;)

Materials: Bazzil -Cardstock; American Crafts -Remards (Holland); Dear Lizzy - Ribbon; Crate Paper - Snow Day PP, Restoration PP; Lily Bee Designs - Lovely PP, Flower; Sassafrass Lass - Mix & Mend PP; Jenni Bowlin - Crepe Paper, Ribbon; Misc: chipboard, Paint, Pearls

Thanks for stopping by today!  I have a few more things to share with you but my connection is being really slow so maybe tomorrow :)

Bye 2010!

Where has it gone? I can't believe the year is already over! It seems the older you get the fast the time flies and I don't like it one bit :( It seems like just yesterday I was changing diapers and now I have college students for kids (well, 2 of the 4).

Every year I take a picture of them all together.  Here's a layout of one of the shots.  This weeks challenge over at Scrap Tiffany is 2010, year in review.  I couldn't think of a way to include that but this is the way I sum up the year. I'm posting this early since my reveal is on Friday I wanted you to have a bit of time to send in your creations if you have one or would like to play along.  Just pop them in an email to Tiffany.

Crate paper: paper, chipboard, brads, American Craft Thickers, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Glue Dots®

 “I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots® design team.”

I used my favorite line,Crate Paper and I tried something new (to me anyway). Recently I love to use paint and mist  but I wanted to do a splatter effect without a heavy look.  So, I took the glimmer mist and opened it up and stuck in my paint brush and splattered away.  I really like how it turned out. Just what I was going for :)

Crate Paper Crazy!

 Wow, I've been in a holiday creating mood!  I went a little Crate Paper crazy this weekend!  Here's a few project to share with you.  The first is a recycled Prima Flower box (gotta love those)!  It is now a cookie/candy box to share when I get around to baking.  I lined the box with some pattern paper as well as covered the outside sides.  I added some chipboard pieces, ribbon and glitter.  That's it!

Next is a Christmas Tree! I bought a foam floral cone for this.  I put a layer of guesso on it before I started because that green foam tends to rub off all over.  I used Glue Dots® to adhere the strips of paper onto the cone.  The strips were cut 1/2" X 3" then the ends were curled and placed on in layers working from the bottom up.  I added a scallop circle to the top and the chipboard piece.  I sprayed it with adhesive spray then shook on some Mica Flakes from Martha Stewart.  It really looks so much cuter in person :) P.S. Ignore our dead grass!  Not enough rain here :( You'd never guess it's Florida!

Here is a close up of the tree. You can see the mica flakes.

 

“I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots® design team.”

Thanks for stopping in today :)  I appreciate it!

Scraplifting anyone?

Scraplifting, yes!  So much fun!  (I'm posting this a day early since I have a Blog Hop tomorrw) This weeks challenge over at Scrap Tiffany is Scraplifting.  One of my favorite challenges.  There ae too many choices in this.  Who to pick? Oh my. 

I really love Crate Paper.  It's one of my all time favorite collections.  So, I found this great layout on their site by Lisa Truesdell.  I had the paper and everything so I gave it a shot.

Here's Lisa's layout:

Here's mine:

I loved the stitching and the added paint dots.  It was so fun to make.