Valentine's Day Card Share

Morning Crafters and Craft-enthusiasts!

I just wanted to pop on and show you the Valentines I made for 2015.  I am lucky enough to have the support of 2 local small businesses whom allow me to have a display of my cards available to their customers for purchase.  So THANK YOU to the lovely folks at Independence Beauty Centres and The Cutting Garden for believing in my and my creations!

Let me know what you think! 

Tiddly Inks Design Team Entry!

Happy Sunday my lovelies!

I know it's been a bit since I posted, but hey, it's summer and I've been out with the pup, soaking up this amazing sunshine! 

The other day I was doing my morning check of Facebook and noticed that one of my favourite stamp companies, Tiddly Inks, was having a design team call, and I decided to give it a shot.  I've never applied to one of these, but I've always admired the beautiful projects that people come up with, and I'd love to be part of something like that.  So without further ado, here's my entry!

I chose Mystria as my image.  She's a digi, that was printed on (surprisingly) Michael's cardstock with my laser printer and coloured in with my precious Copics.

Mystria is a great buy because not only do you get her, you also get the awesomely swirly tree, and digital papers too (see the inside of the drawer).

I chose to do my card with a twist - it also doubles as a gift box!  The small handle is from FabScraps, and as I said above, the paper lining the drawer is a digital paper that comes with your Mystria purchase!

I had a great time making this, and I hope you all enjoy it!  I'd love to hear what you think of it, so let your voice be heard in the comments section.  Feel free to give me a follow if you like what you see!

Kenny K Krafty Krew Challenge - Femme Fatale!

Seriously.  How can I NOT enter something with a challenge name that's the same as a Britney Spears album?!  It was MEANT TO BE lol

Challenge Link:  CLICK ME!

And my entry:

I made a  Birthday/Anniversary Reminder calendar for my desk for this challenge.  It is free standing, and each month has its own page.

I used Kenny K's Capt. Locke, the rubber stamp version, purchased from Whimsy Stamps.  She was stamped and embossed and then colored in with Copics.

I hope you like her!  I had a great time making this project :)

Happy Mother's Day!

Let me start off by wishing all the Mommas and Furbaby Mommas a very HAPPY Mother's Day!

I had a great day with the fam.  We went over to my sister's and had a Mother's Day brunch for her and my Mommy.  I made Mom's famous Wife Saver breakfast casserole, and it was DELICIOUS!  My sister surprised me with a Furbaby Mother's Day gift, which was SO sweet and completely unexpected!  She got me a super cute mug for my tea with apples on it, and some melt-in-your-mouth AMAZINGLY YUMMY fudge from a lady at one of the craft fairs she was at.  Oh, and she totes had it all in a Backstreet Boys (Millennium-era) Gift Bag!  Sweet!

As you know 2 of my favourite people, Lindsey & Glenda (whom I lovingly refer to as my Baby Mommas), were celebrating their very FIRST Mother's Day, so I wanted to make them a card to commemorate the day:

The image is from Saturated Canary, though I believe it's retired now, so I don't think you can buy it anymore.  They were colored with Copics, the patterned paper from Pink Paislee, and the cardstock is from American Crafts. I've been told I should make more of these, so I probably will.  Keep checking out my ArtFire Studio and Etsy Shop!

This is the card I made for my Mommy.  In the drawer I had her gift which was a Kameleon Jewelpop :)

This card was made using Graphic 45's Botanical Tea Collection. The cardstock is from American Crafts, the "Where there is tea, there is love" stamp is from the Botanical Tea Collection, and so nicely lent to me by my darling Mel.  The adorable little handle on this drawer was purchased from Kim at The Cutting Garden in Halifax, and I believe it is made by FabScraps.

The Baby Mommas ordered card for the ladies in their lives, and these are what I made for them.  For Lindsey I tried the Pop Up Box Cards I've been seeing all over Pinterest.  They were SO fun to make!  I have lots of ideas for these in the future!

I used a paper pad from DCWV for the patterened bits and the flowers, the cardstock is Recollections and the little fence was cut out with my Cameo.  The lettering was done with Photoshop and then printed out with my laser printer.

And for Glenda, she liked what I made my Mom, so she ordered 4!  I unfortunately didn't have any more of the Botanical Tea to spare, but I did have some other Graphic 45 papers that I used :)

The Peach and Mint one was made using patterned paper from Graphic 45, Sweet Sentiments Collection, and Recollections Cardstock.  The stamps, again, were from the Botanical Tea Collection.

The Cream and Purple one was also made with Graphic 45, but this time I used Secret Garden Collection paper, and the cardstock was Recollections.

I should mention here that my goal for May is to 'create within my stash'.  Meaning I'm ONLY using products that I have here in my craft room.  It's shocking how much stuff I have in here that I forgot I even bought lol

Again, all of these will also be popping up in my ArtFire and Etsy shops, so stay tuned!

Birthday Card Share!

Happy May, y'all!  Today is my AMAZING sister's birthday and it's her last year in the Dirty Thirties, so I wanted to make her a special card.  As you may have guessed, this was inspired by Pins I've been obsessing over on Pinterest. 

May I present the Exploding Tealight Birthday Cake Box! 

 

 

So, what do you think??  Is this something I should start making to sell?  It was really fun to make and I can see these getting used for a bunch of different occassions.  Let me know what you think in the comments.

On a related note, I've finally given in and opened a shop on Etsy.  I haven't finished uploading all my products yet, but that will happen over the next few days.

Brag Books

I know, I know, I know.  What is this INSANITY?  She's doing TWO posts in as many days?  Why, yes, yes I am!

As many of you know, 2 of my very best friends both had babies in the last 3 months.  These two little boys are absolutely amazing, just like their Mommies (and Daddies!)!  Well I had some adorable scrapbook paper in my stash by Bella Blvd that was dying to be used, so I decided to make Brag Books for Noah & Tristan's Grandmothers!

I saw a Pin for a One Sheet Wonder mini album on Pinterest by Paper, Craft, & Scissors, and decided to use that as my base.

The printed paper is by Bella Blvd (I believe it was called We're Expecting), the solid papers are Bazzill Basics, the ribbon was all purchased at Michael's (the monkeys are one of those tiny rolls they have at the end of the ribbon isle, and the baby feet and the yellow were right in the ribbon isle), the heart punch is by Martha Stewart.  The lettering was done with my Silhouette Cameo.

Let me know what you think!

Miniature Pet Shop!

Good Morning my lovelies! Today I want to share with you a little project I worked on while I was discovering Netflix...

A few months ago I found this kit on ebay, and it was about $10 with free shipping from China. I get THE BEST deals from China I swear! Anyway, I have been in a huge creative slump for the last few months, so I decided to dig it out and try working on miniatures for a while instead of cards/etc.

So while watching entire series of 'Community' and 'Parks & Recreation', THIS is what I made!

Then the front swings open and...

And some closeups.

This kit came with instructions, in Chinese, and all of the contents were made by hand from paper, sheets of felt and fabric, ribbon, twist ties, small wood pieces, wires, beads, and cardboard.  It took forever, but it was so worth it in the end!

I'm slightly obsessed with miniatures, and now that I've actually MADE something, I think I'm ready to move on to my next project: A 1/2 in scale lighthouse!
Let me know what you think!

Sorry for the unedited shots, I haven't step up Photoshop on the laptop yet.  Shocker, Me procrastinating ;)

Cameo Creations - Jingle All the Way Shadowbox

Happy New Year, everyone!  I hope you've all had a relaxing holiday.  We sure did!

I wanted to share with you my very first Silhouette Cameo project!  I've seen many versions of this on Pinterest, but I wanted to make my own.  So I went out and got my supplies and after a few failed attempts I finally got this finished today and was able to give it to my Mom this evening.  It was supposed to be her Christmas present but I kept messing it up.

So without further ado...

If anyone is interested, I will try to make a tutorial and include the SVG file I made.  Let me know what you think!  What did you create over the holidays?