Thursday, February 9, 2012

Colors of Love CMC Challenge

Hi everyone!!  I am a few days later than I would like to be getting this post up busy week.  I am so excited that I am going to get the chance to go to Waco to take the wonderful Suzanne Dean's CMC Copic Class next weekend and will finally get to meet this wonderful lady and get some great tips too.  There are still some spots open so if any of you live in Texas I would love to meet you too.  You can get all of the info right HERE.
There is also a new challenge up at The CMC Copic Challenge Group.
NEW CHALLENGE #36 will run until February 17th!
Your challenge this time is all about
 ** COLORS OF LOVE**
In honor of Valentine's Day we want to see you using pinks and reds and whites & creams!
Show your LOVE all over your projects!
We want to see you use YOUR COPICS, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Colored Pencils!!
 I just love making these treat pulls for Valentine's Day, so fun!!  This weeks sponsor is the fabulous Stamp Fairy and for my projects I used Lenny Love.  So I have to tell you I missed the part of the challenge that said "red, pink or white" and I didn't realize it until the day the challenge went live.  Since I am not much of a rule breaker I quickly recreated a pink version of the pull, too bad I was half asleep and forgot to shadow most areas, LOL.
 Copics
E59, E29, E33, E31/R29, R27,R24/R85, R83, R81
Challenges
 Have a wonderful day!!
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Sunday, February 5, 2012

All That Scraps New Woodland Release and DT News

Hello peeps!! I just wanted to pop in before the Super Bowl starts to share some news.  After a short break I am now back on the All That Scraps Digi Design Team and  I couldn't be happier, especially when you see all of the total cuteness that has just been released by C.C. Designs in the Woodland Collection.  
The stamps are available in rubber and digis and oh my you have to see the new C.C. Design Cutters but I noticed they are almost out so hurry.  I can't wait for mine to arrive, the mushrooms are so cute!!
 Today I made a quick tag to use for a teacher's secret pal gift. I merged two digis together Swiss Pixies Woodland Lucy and Woodland Daisy. 
 
Copics
Hair E29, E37, E35, E34/Skin E11, E00, E000, R20/ Clothes RV17, Rv14, RV13, C9, C7, C5, C3/Flowers- BG000, G28, G24, G21,Y21, Y17
Challenges
I hope you enjoy the rest of your day and I will see you again very soon:)

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Saturday, February 4, 2012

The Sweet Stop SKetch 144

It's Saturday, yippee!! This week flew by for me, I can't believe it is February already.  I am going to have to make this post a fast one.  It is storming here and I am afraid of losing the internet connection. Here is my card for this weeks The Sweet Stop Sketch.  I don't know how Korin comes up with all of these great sketches every week but I am so glad she does.
This cute image is an old Sugar Nellie Stamp called Daisy and the paper is from the new spring collection from K and Company (love it!!).  The sentiment is from Sweet n' Sassy Poppies & Greetings.
Challenges

  The Sugar Babies have some wonderful creations to share.
The Fabulous Sugar Babies 
  Have a wonderful weekend!!
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

A Work In Progress

Hey everyone!! I wanted to share a project that is going to be an on going work for my CMC Copic Challenge Group.  I have had this 7 Gypsies photo tray since this past summer just waiting to be inspired to use it.  Well, inspiration hit me with Tiddly Inks new stamps from the Wryn and Friends collection.  This little girl totally reminds me of my crafting buddy Riley.  I have also wanted a way to keep some of my work for myself and I think this is perfect way to do that.
  For my tray I am going to continue to use all Wren Images and my absolute favorite paper by Prima Madeline.  This image is called New Nest.  The die is from C.C. Designs Cutter Leafy Branch the flower punch is from Martha Stewart but I don't know the name. I used CTMH Twilight ink for the sky along with my hand cut cloud die.
Copics
Hair-E49, E29,E37,E57/Clothes B01,B00,B000/Tree-E44,E43,E42/YG67,YG63 Nest E55,E53/BG000 Grass-G85,G82,G40
Challenges
Ink Spots
You still have a few days to enter the CMC Copic Challenge Wintery/ Frost.  Our sponsor this time is Lily of the Valley so please join in for your chance to win.
 I hope you enjoy the rest of your week and I will see you in a couple of days.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Sweet Stop Sketch 143

Hi everyone!! Looks like we made it through another week.  I was hoping for a relaxing crafty one but after the 2 weeks of party planning but it wasn't meant to be...that not so fun thing called "work" got in the way:)  I did manage to get my project done for The Sweet Stop SSS143.  I found this clip board in the dollar section at Target and it just spoke to me and I wasn't in the mood to make a card so I used the sketch to create this.
The patterns were so bold and fun that I had to find a sassy stamp to go with them and in my stash I had this cute Greeting Farm stamp called Cheeky Chat and it just seemed perfect.  The sentiment is from C.C. Designs Summer Sentiments.  Look at me coloring another blonde, unusual for me on girls since I tend to go with my daughters brunette hair colors. I have been having fun experimenting with the different colors though.
Copics
Hair-E31, E53, E50/Skin E11, E00, E000, R20/Clothes RV14, RV13, RV10, Y15, Y13, Bridge with Y11, C9, C7, C5, C3
Challenges
 
TGF Retro Fresh- Lucky In Love (I hope it is OK it is clip board instead of a card)
Now it is time to visit the rest of the Sugar Babies.
The Fabulous Sugar Babies 
Have a wonderful weekend and I hope you find time to craft.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Riley's Tangled Party

As promised here are all of the details for Riley's 6th birthday.  For those of you who haven't seen Disney's movie Tangled it is a great movie for young and old.  I found so many great ideas on Pintrest for this party and then I added a few ideas of my own.
So here we go starting with the front yard leading in the front door. The hair is made out of a roll of plastic table cloth with purple ribbons and I got the idea HERE, it looked great from from the street.  My husband and brother get to take all the credit for this one. Inside I used yarn and strung it back and forth tied it off and loosely draped it over the doors and staircase.  The wanted posters were all over the house.
My mom was a huge help with the decorations and cake.  I wanted to make the flags look like the scene from the movie at the festival for the lost princess, mission accomplished I do believe.  I knew cutting the suns out would be way too much work so I Googled and found THIS link to a free SVG file so my Cricut finally got used:) I punched 1 1/2" circles in a different color to give them some dimension.  About 75-80 flags later along with some floating lanterns I got at Hobby Lobby this is what it looks like.
I found these cute little lanterns at the Dollar Spot at Michaels and added LED tea-lights to shelves and the craft tables .  There are tons of pictures from the movie so my husband was able to print them in all sizes and I placed them on doors and over pictures for a little extra touch.  He printed THIS picture of the floating lights and I tried to make it resemble Rapunzel's Fireplace using plastic table cloths.
The cake was a variation of Disney's Tower Cake but instead of styro foam we actually made a cake.  I used the Cricut again to make paper flowers for the cupcakes. The Jello boat idea was from a  fabulous blog called Super Mom Moments and the Rice Crispy Paint brushes can be found HERE.

 If you have seen the movie you know I had to use frying pans and the magic flower in the decor.
 And finally crafts and goody bags.  I made "dream journals" with Tangled activity pages for the girls to work on along with decorating wands that I found at The Dollar Tree.  The Pascal blowers and activity pages for the journal are Here.
Sawyer my wonderful son was the perfect party assistant and helped watch the girls and organized games and activities.

 I was so excited when I came up with an idea to make a hair clip to attach to the goody bags.  I took apart the purple flowers glued them back together and braided yarn 3 sections of  four 20" long pieces tied the end with a purple ribbon and glued them to the back of the flower and then on to a hair clip.  I think I will add more details and pictures in the Tutorial section in a few days. 

It was a great party and the kids absolutely loved it and can you tell I had a blast making it happen.


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