Tree of Life CAS

Hey everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend!! I recently picked up this Inkadinkado stamp, Tree of Life, at my local Michael's store. I picked it up thinking it was super cute and that I would figure out something to do with it. I love the image but I have the hardest time with large stamps and abstract images, I like my fancy DP and colors so for my first use of the stamp I decided to go simple and just dip my feet in the water with the stamp. So what better than a one layer card with a simple saying to get a little feel for the stamp. Maybe sometime later I will try something a little more courageous with it but for now I just wanted to ink it up.

So here are two cards I came up with, let me know what you think.

Enjoy!!!


Chestnut Roan Tree of Life



Rainbow Tree of Life




Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend, and come back soon!!!

Chestnut Roan Tree of Life Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 2/2
Stamps: SU Fresh Cut Sentiment, Inkadinkado Tree of Life
Ink: Chestnut Roan ColorBox Fluid Chalk Inkpad
Paper: Whisper White

Rainbow Tree of Life Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 2/2
Stamps: SU Fresh Cut Sentiment, Inkadinkado Tree of Life
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), ColorBox Classic Pigment Cat's Eyes Queue (Heliotrope,Lime, Scarlet,Marigold, Canary),
Paper: Whisper White

OCL Relax & Enjoy CAS

Awww what a beautiful day here in California, although very hot, so what better than to make a card with the gorgeous beach on it. Now if only I was really there...probably later this week, at least hit the beach before I go back to school, right!!!

LOL so here is another card using my new OCL stamps, Coastal Wishes, I just totally love this new set!!! I decided to go super simple and quick, so here it is.

Relax and Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by, stay cool, and come back soon!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: OCL Coastal Wishes
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: SU Whisper White

CASED Beautiful Kindness

Hey everyone,

I hope you are all having a great day, as it has just begun. Last week was my birthday and my neighbors back home always send me cards with little goodies, like lotto tickets and if I'm home they always bring me one of my favorite fruits, strawberries. And of course I always send them a Thank You card for their birthday wishes. Yup...so my thank you cards are a little late but I wasn't around my craft room to be able to make them right after my birthday, I was having fun in Pismo. So now that I have gotten to making them, I want to share them with you.

Again, I CASED another card. Laura Fredrickson over at Scrapnextras had a great layout on her blog that she created to Preview "Chillax" by Taylored Expressions . Another super cute layout!! So I had to give it a try and I decided to ink up my never used SU Botanical Blooms and one of my Beautiful Kindness sentiment from Verve that just went perfect for the occasion.

Take a look. Enjoy!!!







TIP: If you want to make your baubles match your card perfectly take a clear bauble and use your copics to color the bauble whatever color you want to make it, to make it match your card. It's real easy and you can't tell that they were colored by you. (That's how I made mine a matching pink.)

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day, and don't forget to come back soon!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4
Stamps: SU Botanical Blooms, Verve Beautiful Kindness
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Rose Coral ColorBox Fluid Chalk Inkpad
Paper: Michael's Paper Slab
Accessories: Nestibilities, SU Scalloped Edge Punch, Gross Grain Ribbon, clear baubles, 3-D pop Dots.

Daisy

How I do love my Sugar Nellies. They are so cute and match with all sorts of fun paper that can't always be used with just any stamp. There images are just soo cute, and only now have I discovered them, where have I been? and what has taken me so long to get my hands on them, right?? lol, Their just sooooo much fun to create with. So today I have another Sugar Nellie image to share with you, these images make such great cards!!! I definitely had lots of fun playing with my new Daisy stamp and my new S.E.I. Bridgeport paper.

For this card I was inspired by Jen del Muro's , Berries and Cherries... card. It just had a great layout and I had to play with it. Jen is always inspiring me, she does such great work.

So here is my card using Daisy from Sugar Nellie and using my fun S.E.I. paper. Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by, have a great week, and don't forget to come back soon!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 x 6 1/2
Stamps: Sugar Nellie Daisy
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: S.E.I Bridgeport Paper Slab
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, 3-D Glue Dots, Stickles, Martha Stewart Arch Lattice Edge Punch, Pearls

Featured as a CAS Fav on Splitcoast again

So I was checking my Splitcoast comments today and low and behold this card is a CAS fav featured on Clean and Simple Favorites for Week Ending Auguest 9, 2009, how exciting is that!!! I'm mentioned in the 24th post on the forum by Fionna51. So glad to be featured again, such an honor!!! Thanks Fionna51 I appreciate it!!!

One Cupcake at a Time

Hello everyone,

I hope the beginning of your week has started off on the right foot. I know mine has. Here is another card that I want to share with you. So I must share with you all that I am not very creative, well I am, but I am always inspired by sketches, color challenges, or cards made by others. There are very few times that I design my own cards without being inspired by something or someone and when I do just create a card from my imagination it's usually not one of my good ones.

So today and some of the cards that I will be sharing on my blog this week are mostly going to be CASED cards or just ideas that I've seen around. This card that I am sharing today is a card that was inspired by Maren over at Zany not Crazy, it was very cute and simple and I had to give it a try. I of course changed up the paper, ribbon, and the stamps to make it my own but I used her general layout for this card.

Take a look, Enjoy!!!!




Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the beginning of your week!!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4
Stamps: SU Sweet Little Sentiments, Justj hanna cupcake stamp
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: Making Memories FabricBrocade Rouge Paperie, S.E.I. Mimosa Paper Slab
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, 3-D Glue Dots,

Thank You Dots Card

Hey everyone,

I hope you are all having a great Sunday!!! I saw this super cute, CAS card in this months Paper Craft Mag, so I decided that I would give it a try since it's a quick one. It turned out pretty cute and simple. Don't forget to take a look at the magazine there are quite a few great ideas in there. Here is my CASED card, Enjoy!!!!




Thanks for stopping by, have a great week!!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 4 x 5 1/2
Stamps: SU Fresh Cut Sentiment
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack)
Paper: Whisper White
Accessories: brads

Bellarific Friday Sketch: Julia's Diaper Bag

Hey there everyone,

I hope your are all having a great start to your weekend!! I thought that I would give this weeks Bellarific Friday Sketch a try.

I started this card late Friday night in hopes that I would finish it before midnight so that I could email it to Emily. As I was finishing my card and just starting to glue everything down, I had a rather large incident. I had gone to Michael's earlier in the day to pick up a new bottle of glue because the one I had was getting low. So I decided to use the new bottle because the old one wasn't upside down and I didn't want to wait for the glue to come down. I started to use the new bottle and the glue wouldn't come out, I know with my old bottle if I squeezed it eventually something would come out, so I gave it a try with my new bottle. I squeezed it and nothing, so I squeezed it harder and harder and then BAMB!!! the cap flew off, hit the ceiling along with all the glue in my bottle.

There was glue on the ceiling, on the wall, on my frames, on my carpet, on my desk and all the splatter was in my hair, on my face and on my glasses, thank goodness just the splatter and not what was on the ceiling. And to top it all off I had just showered and was nice and clean and ready for bed, so, so much for that shower, I had to take another one to get cleaned up. Lol my roommate and her boyfriend were in the other room watching TV and I popped my head in there and they just cracked up, I looked pretty bad with a bunch of splattered glue all over my head LOL. It was funny but definitely not funny to clean up or have a new bottle now be empty and I still can't find the cap, I looked everywhere, so my new bottle might just go dry.

Anyways on with my card. Since it is a Bellarific Sketch I decided to use Julia's Diaper Bag. I figured I'd better get to the baby cards cause I know so many women who are expecting, I'm thinking there is something in the water, who knows. So here it is. I made it a unisex card because so far none of the expecting mom's know what the sex of their baby's are.

Enjoy!!!!




Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your weekend!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4
Stamps: Stamping Bella Julia's Diaper Bag, SU Bundle in Love
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: Stemma Masterpiece Studios New Baby DP
Accessories: Gross Grain Ribbon, Nestibilities

Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #76

Hey there,

I'm so excited!! Yesterday my package from Addicted to Rubber Stamps came in the mail with my new Our Craft Lounge stamps, Sandy Sunsets, and Coastal Wishes. I've been waiting to get these sets since they first came out but just didn't want to spend the extra money. So I saw a great sale at Addicted to Rubber and it was around my Birthday so I decided to go for it. And of course I ripped open the package and began using my new stamps. So here is the first project that I made.

I've been wanting to give Taylor's Sketch Challenge (TECC76) a try, so that is exactly what I did.

So here it is, I hope you enjoy, now it's back to creating some more cards!!! I think I will be in a very beachy mood now that I have these stamps to create with lol. I'll have to remind myself not to neglect the others, right, lol!!

Oh and don't for get to give Taylor's Sketch Challenge a try, it's a fun one! Enjoy!!!





Thanks for stopping by, have a great day, and come back soon!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 4
Stamps: OCL Coastal Wishes
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: Michael's Paper slab, Making Memories Ocean DP
Accessories: Ribbon, 3-D Glue Dots, K&Company Adhesive Gems

Bizzy Becs Creatalicious Challenges DT Call

Creatalicious Challenges is looking for 2 more people to join their Design Team, anyone can apply and it is also open to Overseas Residents. The term will be for 6 months. With making Monthly Cards or Creations for the set Challenges..


Their Challenge blog is an anything and everything Challenge blog.

The DT call will close on 7th August 2009 so you have 2 days to send in your entries.

They have provided this sketch to the left for your entry.

I figured I would give the sketch a try and enter my card into the DT Call. I haven't played with my new Sugar Nellie stamps so I decided to ink Reflective up for the first time. I love this new (well new to me) Mimosa Paper from S.E.I., it so pretty. I figured it would go well with this stamp.

So I put it all together and here is what I came up with. Enjoy!!!




I hope you like it as much as I do, I think it came out a lot better than I had envisioned.

Recipe:
Card Size: 5.25 x 5.25
Stamps: Sugar Nellie Reflective
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: S.E.I Mimosa Paper Slab
Accessories: Pearls, Prima Flowers, Martha Stewart Arch Lattice Edge Punch

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day, and don't forget to come back soon!!

Wedding Invitation Pocket Fold

Hey everyone,

Here it is, the last wedding invitation and the invitation that the bride chose. This one is my absolute favorite invitation. It's so elegant and simple, it's just perfect!!

Take a look. I won't say much for you have all seen enough Wedding invitations, and I have no more to say, lol I have had enough myself, now it's time to play with making some fun cards, for myself. I'll worry about these invites when it's time to make them for the bride to send out. Enjoy!!!




Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2
Paper: The Paper Company Metallic Cardstock Blue Bell & Pearl
Accessories: Sheer Ribbon

Thanks for sticking around through my invites, now it's back to the fun stuff. See ya around!!!

Gatefold Wedding Invitation

A quick little sample before my final Wedding Invitation. This is a gatefold invitation, just a sample of the outside, I didn't decorate the inside, it was just to get an idea. The bride liked this design but I could never get the embossing to work perfectly so that it all connected evenly on the folds. Never the less she chose another invite so no worries. But take a look it is rather pretty!!



Recipe:
Card Size: 5 1/2 x 5 1/2
Paper: The Paper Company Metallic Cardstock Blue Bell, Paper Pizazz Purple Hydrangea DP

Wedding Invitation Pocket Fold

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying the beginning of your week. I know I am. So on with my Wedding Invitations, but time for a little change these next two post will be some sort of pocket fold invitations, each a little different.

For this Pocket Fold invitation, I needed a cardstock that was larger than 12x12 so I went to the Martha Stewart section to get one of her 16x16 sheets to be able to design this pocket fold. I couldn't get my hands on the good metallic paper because I had to buy in bulk, I couldn't just buy one sheet to practice with.

So this is what I came up with. The center of the pocket fold for the invitation, and the side with a pocket for all the information for the wedding, and a little flap to close the pocket fold. Then on the outside, a little band of some sort to keep the pocket fold closed. I hope you have enjoyed, tomorrows post will be the final wedding invitation and the one that the bride chose. I hope you are all still here with me... If not come back, I won't show anymore invitations!!!



Recipe:
Card Size: 5 x 7
Paper: Martha Stewart 16 x 16 Cardstock

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed!!!

Featured again as a CAS Fav on Splitcoast

Got back late last night from Pismo to find that I was again featured on Clean and Simple Favorites for Week Ending Auguest 2, 2009, how exciting is that!!! I'm mentioned in the first post on the forum by LateBlossom. What a pleasure that is, I feel so honored. She featured my CAS Christmas Berries and my CAS Thinking of you Pocket Silhouette from my Splitcoast Gallery. All of these cards are some older cards that I had posted on my blog but never uploaded them to my Splitcoast Gallery, I'm so excited that I finally got them up and that they are getting more attention than I gave them, lol.

I have no card for you all today, I'm trying to come back to reality aftert a weekend in Pismo, I'm sure I will have some picture from my weekend to share with you but until then thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!!

Pismo Dunes Trip

Hey everyone,

We arrived safely last night from Pismo. I had an absolute blast. The group of 19 people that we went with are just a great group to go with, we all got along so well and just had a great time laughing joking. It was a great vacation. The weather wasn't to bad, it was a bit chilly, and over cast but nothing to complain about. Except for the fact that on the last day we were there the sun came out and made everything 10 time prettier and warmer but we were leaving, it always happens like that, when your leaving things get better, I just hate that. I just wanted to share a few pictures with you all from our little vacation. Enjoy!!!

Beautiful Pismo Beach!!


These next two pictures are of our group coming into camp after going out on a long ride. We had 5 campers, 3 sand rails, 2 dirt bikes, and some 18 quads.



So it never ceased to amaze me at how small some of the quad riders were in Pismo. I swear there were like 3 year olds riding on thier own quads and they were riding fast and playing tricks, it was pretty cool. So when I saw this little girl I had to snap a pic to show you all. Amazing huh, she's soooo little!!


As I was taking picture of my new quad and these three girls road by on their horses so I couldn't resist taking a picture.


Here is a pic of me all geared up on my quad after riding up to the beach.


Here are a few pics of me next to my quad.


Sporting the Azores (Portuguese) flag on my quad


This is a pic of Daniel, my boyfriend, and I next to our quads.


The first day we came in there was a tour of horses riding on to the beach, so as we were leaving I took this picture of another horse riding tour. I would just love to go on one of these tours, but they were going really slow, I would want to gallop along the beach, what can I say I'm a romantic ;-). (The picture is a little in the distance so you may need to blow up the pic to see the horses.)



Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed my pictures, come back soon!!!

Wedding Invitation #9

Hey there,

Happy Sunday!!! Here is another one of my Wedding Invitations. Again going along the traditional, elegant, and simple style. I just love the ribbon slide, this one happens to be a heart ribbon slide, and I gave the invitation another look by just putting the ribbon on the edges. This one is another one of my faves if I wanted to go for the traditional look, the only thing is you don't get the whole effect because the white paper is not the good metallic thick paper but we get the idea. Enjoy!!!




Recipe:
Card Size: 5 x 7
Paper: The Paper Company Metallic Cardstock Blue Bell & Pearl
Accessories: Wrights Casa Collection 1 1/2 DS Sparkle satin Cornflower Blue Ribbon, Bling Heart Ribbon Slide

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Wedding Invitation #8

Hey everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying your Saturday as well as the first day of August. So here it is again, another invitation, I promise I'm almost done showing you guys. Lol I had to make these all, I know I was sick of them by the time I was done so I'm sure you are all sick of seeing them all on my blog as well. Lol I changed it up yesterday so that you could all see a card, I promise I'll change it up soon, again!!

So here it is. This is one of my favorite cards of the somewhat plain, simple and traditional invitations. I love the ribbon slide, it's such a great touch. Enjoy!!!




Recipe:
Card Size: 5 x 7
Paper: The Paper Company Metallic Cardstock Blue Bell & Pearl
Accessories: Wrights Casa Collection 1 1/2 DS Sparkle Satin Cornflower Blue Ribbon, Square Bling Ribbon Slide

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!!!

Lets Makeup

Hello there,

So I am currently far away from my crafting zone but I do have a little something to share with you. Sorry to make this a short and sweet message but this post was scheduled for today but I am writing it on the Wednesday the 29th. After I write this I am going to start packing my things and heading over to my boyfriends house so that we can leave early tomorrow (Thursday) morning for Pismo. I am super excited, I dont think I will be doing any sleeping tonight with such excitement for tomorrow. It will be my first time riding on the dunes and I just can't wait. When I get back I hope to post some pictures. I have a feeling there won't be to many pics because I'm going with a group of 19 other friends who probably won't like my constant picture snapping and I need both hands on my quad to ride so I will have no free hand for picture taking or a place to store my camera while riding. So enough about my trip I will be back soon with pics, the rest of my wedding invitation samples and maybe I will have some creations to share once I'm back and in the same city as my crafting zone.

Until then have a great day and Enjoy!!!




Thanks for stopping by!!!

Recipe:
Card Size: 5.25 x 5.25
Stamps: MFT Put on the Glitz Girl
Ink: Pitch Black (Adirondack), Copic Markers
Paper: S.E.I Mimosa Paper Slab
Accessories: Ribbon, pearls, pearl brads, Martha Stewart Lace Doily Border Punch

Wedding Invitation #7

Here is another invitation in the long skinny style. This one I like better than the previous one, for some reason I like the knotted look on this invitation, it gives it character and dresses it up. Again this was one that didn't get the pretty paper. I got to a point were I couldn't see invitations anymore, I had made a few really pretty one's and I figured that I needed to throw in some traditional and plain ones in case that was the brides idea for her invitation, but I'm so glad that it wasn't her choice. Her choice will be the last invitation I show, it's also my favorite from all the ones I made.

So here it is. Stay tuned for more!




Recipe:
Card Size: 9 x 3 3/4
Paper: The Paper Company Metallic Cardstock Blue Bell & Pearl
Accessories: Wrights Casa Collection 1 1/2 DS Sparkle Satin Cornflower Blue Ribbon

Thanks for taking a look, come back soon and have a great day!!!