Thinking Of You...

Good morning! I hope all is well with you all! I just wanted to share with you a card I made using My Creative Time stamp and dies! I wanted to create something very clean.I have seen this technique so many times but have NEVER tried it! I really like the effect it gives. So you just take an embossing folder and ink it up! Then run it thru your Cuttlebug or Big Shot.  As much as I wanted to ink the edges ~ I did not (only on my roses did I ink) ~ beleive me I really wanted too!  I decide I wanted to use my XL label Die but cut that in half to put on the MCT  "Thinking Of You" sentiment! I am ALWAYS amazed how Emma's stamps and dies work so PERFECTLY together! I couldn't resist adding the roses ~ these are so simple to make. That is it for today! Another very quick post ~ I am so excited for quick posts!

Materials Used:

My Creative Time ~ "Floral Sentiments" ~ sentiment

My Creative Time ~ "XL Label Die" ~ die

My Creative Time ~ "Rolled Flower Dies" ~ roses

Stampin Up ~ Ink and Bird Punch ( leaves)

Paper Trey Ink ~ Paper and ribbon

Bazzill Paper

Embossing Folder ~ Bird and Swirls

Peachy Keen Challenge 27:: Sketch

Good afternoon! This week Peachy Keen Challenge Spot is having a sketch challenge! Click here for details. For my card this week I have to admit, AGAIN, I have had this stamp set for over a year now and have never played around with it! Surprise right ~ it is so ADORABLE! Fun little bee images and cute little sentiments! So I colored with my Copics. I decided to use my Spellbinders and try a reverse card! I LOVE how they can be used in so many ways! I found this ribbon last year too after I bought this set and thought it would go nicely with that ADORABLE bee! Sorry for the short little post ~ hopefully you can play along too!

Materials Used:

Peachy Keen  ~ PK ~ 244 Bee Happy ~ bee, sentiment and squiggly thing

Spellbinders

Copics

Twine and ribbon

Rhinestones

Birthday Gift Tag

Happy Friday! Today I have a real quick post and birthday tag to share with you all. I made this tag for the gift bag from Wednesday's post. Click here for details. I have to say that Emma from My Creative Time has won my heart when she came out with her Tag Dies! There are two different dies and they fit PERFECT on any a bag or a box! I have to say these little flowers are so CUTE too!!! I used hemp, from Liz's Paper Loft Boutique, to make my leaves. I promised a quick post ~ so go enjoy your weekend!

Oh before I forget ~ head over to My Creative Time ~ Emma is having a customer appreciation SALE this weekend only! July 20, 2012 thru July 22, 2012! Save 20% with coupon code: THANKU ! Head on over and start shopping!!!

The bag and tag together! Purple is starting to grow on me ~ just a little!

Materials Used:

My Creative Time ~ "Tag Dies" ~ tag

My Creative Time ~ "Flower Petal Dies" ~ flowers

My Creative Time ~ "Polka Dot "Surprise" Stamp Set" ~ sentiment

Liz's Paper Loft Boutique ~ hemp ~ leaves & tied around top of tag

Paper ~ Paper Trey Ink & Bazzill

Ribbon and buttons ~ Paper Trey Ink

Memento Ink

My Creative Time Guest Designer ~ Rocket Ship

Happy Thursday everyone ~ it's Kim from Scrapin Mom Of One Inspiring Little Boy filling in for Emma while she continues to take care of her family! Sounds like Aaron is still heading in the right direction ~ so continue to pray that Emma and her family can put this ALL behind them real soon!

Starting tomorrow Emma is going to have a "Customer Appreciation Sale"! Yes ~ I said SALE! Save 20% with coupon code:: THANKU! This weekend only! Friday July 20, 2012 ~ July 22, 2012!

I hope to show you all how versatile Emma's products can be used. So for today's card I just had to share with you my rocket ship I created with the My Creative Time June Stamp release (click here) and some other MCT dies. It is VERY unconventional but I just had this vision when I first saw the hot air balloon! During the release some of the hot air balloons that my fellow design team members created ~ whether it was  the paper they used or how they paper pieced ~ I could see this rocket ship! So I got this CRAZY idea to create one! So I stamped the hot air balloon image on this shiny silver paper. I cut out the middle section of the balloon including the the strings to the basket. Then I looked at my Pocket dies and thought those could be the wings ~ I used two of them. The banner dies could be the flames. But then I was a little stumped for the little window part until I realized the stitched circle die from the Build A Banner Kit would fit PERFECTLY! I know you are all thinking I am out there with this but I think it turned out rather CUTE! My son LOVED it! I tried to make this as masculine as I could minus the bling for stars. I am sending this to my sister's boyfriend who just had an AMAZING opportunity to work with a very well known company! I just want him to know "Reach for the sky ~ The sky is the limit!"

Have a GREAT day!

Materials Used:

My Creative Time ~ "Fly Away With Me" ~ hot air balloon

My Creative Time ~ "Fly Away With Me Sentiments" ~ sentiments and banner dies

My Creative Time ~ "Fun Pockets Stamp Set" ~ pocket dies

My Creative Time ~ "Build A Banner Kit" ~ stitched circle die

Paper ~ Paper Trey Ink, Bazzill & Bo Bunny

Stampin Up & Archival Ink

Recollections stars

Peachy Keen Challenge 26:: Gift Bags

Well good morning! This week Peachy Keen Stamps is having a fun challenge ~ its all about gift bags! Well my BFF daughters have a special gift for someone and asked if I could make them something to put their gift in! What PERFECT timing! Well of course I said YES! Their ONLY request was to make it PURPLE ~ their friend LOVES the color PURPLE! ! Well we ALL know how much I LOVE purple ~ NOT ~ but whatever these girls want ~ I shall do! I decided to do a flower ~ what girl doesn't LOVE flowers??

Well this is one of my favorite flowers PKS has! I use it a great deal but try to put a different spin on it every time I use it! This time I cut the petal base out 2 times in different shades of purple! The top layer I decided to bend the petals and some twine for the veins of the flower. I also added some twine around the adorable face but I wanted the face to pop a great deal! I didn't want to use a zillion pop dots. Well I have been re-organizing my craft space this past weekend and low and behold I found about 15 ATG empty plastic tape holders. Why I was saving them who really knows but boy what a GREAT way to add dimension! It worked PERFECTLY for the center of my flower face! I even cut out that CUTE little butterfly that comes with this die set. Used some Spellbinders ~ LOVE those things too. For the top of my bag I added the ribbon all around the bag then added some twine at the bottom ~ just to add a little more detail. Nothing would be complete with out a big bow! Again ~ I LOVE my big bows too! So hopefully the girls and their friend will LOVE this little bag. Friday's post will be the gift tag.

Sorry the bag is lying down for the picture! It is so hot here today with a very hot BREEZE! So the poor bag keeps falling over!

Materials Used:

Peachy Keen Stamps ~ "Funny Flowers Die" ~ flower, leaves & tiny butterfly

Spellbinders

Paper ~ Stampin Up, Bazzill & Paper Trey Ink

Twine

Ribbon

Copic, Chalk and Sakura pen

A Miss You Card

Hello ~ today I have a real quick card I made for my son! He went out of town with my husband today! I just wanted to let him know his Mommy is ALREADY missing him! I have a stack of unfinished projects! My goal is to pick through them and create cards ~ simple and quick from this stack! So when Emma from My Creative Time had her last release I starting playing around with this ADORABLE image of this little boy and the balloons. I colored it with my Copics. Then for some reason started another project with out using it! So as I was rooting through my stack ~ I found this and the picket fence and thought this would be PERFECT for a quick card. So I put it in my husbands briefcase so he can give it to him later. My son LOVES balloons and so many sentiments of Emma's fit amazingly on the new cloud dies! LOVE these dies!!!  So today I am a little sad but so happy he gets to have an adventure with his Daddy! The picture really isn't capturing the colors that well but my lighting issues continue... I really need to work on something better soon!!!!

Materials Used:

My Creative Time ~ "Fly Away With Me" ~ boy and balloon image

My Creative Time ~ "Fly Away With Me Dies" ~ clouds

My Creative Time ~ "Just A Note to Say..." ~ sentiment

My Creative Time ~ "Happy Mail" ~ sentiment

Paper ~ Paper Trey Ink & K& Company

Copics

Martha Stewart Punch ~ fence

Stampin Up Ink

Get Well and Best Little Brother Cards

Happy Thursday! One more day until the weekend! YEAH!!! I just wanted to share some cards I made for Emma's ( My Creative Time) boys  Aaron and Anthony! I couldn't let Anthony not get a card! It is so hard on siblings when their brother or sister is sick ~ plus before or during all this he hurt his hand!!

The boys LOVE their baseball! They had an AMAZING season! So it didn't take me long to figure out what I wanted to make but it did take me a long time on making it! I know the cards aren't complex but Cricut doesn't have the layering I needed or wanted for their baseball caps! I looked for a full day on the cut I liked the best! I know CRAZY right! Then almost another day to actually go through ALL the fonts! Again ~ CRAZY me! But I really wanted to get as close to their baseball caps as possible! So after all that I actually ~ sit down for this one ~ pulled out that Gypsy. I seem to have a LOVE ~ HATE relationship with! I actually welded too! I even used that button (not sure what it is called) to slant the "A". I know some of you Gypsy Professors out there are laughing up a storm by my technical terms here!!! LOL. I did add the new banner dies to the caps. With all that said the end product didn't turn out to bad! Hey as long it put a smile on their faces that is all that matters to me!

The pictures aren't that great ~ sorry about that!

Materials Used:

Cricut Cartridge ~ Paper Dolls for Everyday ~ cap cut at 12.47

Cricut Cartridge ~ Calligraphy ~ letter "A" ( I think) 2.5

For the sentiments on both caps I used a variety of MCT stamp sets

My Creative Time ~ "Pain Pain Go Away!"

My Creative Time ~ "All Star Baby"

My Creative Time ~ "You're My Best Buddy"

My Creative Time ~ "Fly Away With Me Sentiments" ~ banner dies

Paper Trey Ink and Bazzill Paper

Stampin Up Ink

Sakura Pen