Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Merry Christmas!! Happy Holidays!!

I won't be doing much scrapping from now until the end of the year.. but hope to next week some! So let's see how things go! I have 3 more frames to make as gifts. My attempt to make home made gifts back fired since I don't have much time, and it ended up costing more probably I stopped keeping track.. lol..

Here is our Christmas Card I designed with Echo Park Digi Paper/Elements! This was my first ever attempt to design our Christmas Cards from scratch, of course I had about 3 versions at least but hubby liked this one the best, which was my first attempt. I printed them out at Costco and the print quality was amazing!

Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas!!

Gift Baskets and Ornaments!

Here are some ornaments I made this weekend for CTS! I also made several things 1) Lemon Sugar Hand Scrub 2) Candy Cane Bath Salt 3) Oatmeal Bath Soak 4) Crockpot Candy 4) Fudge










This one is missing the scrubs and candy added it later!





 FINISHED BASKET!!

Crockpot Candy!
Another finished basket! I ran out of wrapping....

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

12 Days of Christmas- The Moments!

I just recently participated in 12 Days of Christmas at The Moments! It was really neat, every day for 12 days you add an element on your page!! How neat is that? And with not much time to scrap, this was PERFECT!!  This is what I came up with! Sorry for the colors, it was late when I finished it and took the photo...

Last Paper Variety Challenge and two Design Team Calls!!

Don't forget The Paper Variety is still taking applications until Friday!! Here is the info!

Global Scrappers also has a call out that ends tomorrow! Click HERE!

I cannot believe this is my last challenge on the DT for TPV! I had a lot of fun these past 6 months!! I forgot my zoom photo's so only have one picture of the Picture Tray I made for my in-laws for Christmas but will get the rest of the pictures uploaded tomorrow so you can see the cute details on it!

The challenge this week is ANYTHING GOES!!! How exciting right???!!!!!

 Challenge!
Prize!
Dots and Stripes Christmas Kit Collection..

Can't wait to see what you create and see you all around!!!

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Tim Holtz- Tag 7

I enjoyed this tag! I used bo bunny paper, went over it with pearl dabber.. and then maya pearl mist.. I cut out the hollies with the Cricut and did several layers of paint and ink.. crumbled them up..used red bling spheres as my berries..and some misc ribbon and lace.. used a rub on that says Merry Christmas from Bo Bunny, on Kraft cut it out, and used ink around the edges and on top!


Tim Holtz- Tag 6

Here is my take on Tag 6.. I did not want to cover the foil as much and only did minimal coloring so the clear embossing powder did not work too well...I got the wreath picture ornament at big lots for $1 and bashed the backing out...

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

One more layout! Pumpkin Patch

I totally forgot to add this page for November! ;-)


Tim Holtz- Tag 5

Here is my 5th tag! I did not have any fancy stamps or embossing plates so I knew exactly what paper to used for this tag! I believe it was from the 12 days of Christmas line.
I used my Cricut to cut out the wreath with Joys of the Season. I did a few cuts on it, regular, blackout and layers, with two shades of green. I applied white dabber on the bottom piece, and added brown ink around the edges. I then added ink to the edges of the top piece, and then again added dabber on the layer pieces and bent my leaves to give it an effect. I then applied some more glimmer mist, and sprinkled some white glitter on it. Then used some red and white pearls, and added a bow I had in my stash. Used my white tulle and inked the tag itself some before applying the wreath! I cut out 3 more! SO I will have a total of 4 tags like this and will add some sentiment to it to give away.



TFL!

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Tim Holtz- Tag 4

This tag took me FOREVER!! WoW!! I couldn't find my spackled paint since my DD has been playing around with it.. so I used spackled accents instead didn't give me the same effect but will have to do. I used my cricut to cut out the snowman, and also the number 25. I embossed the blue paper, and painted the snowflakes so they can stand out. I later added glossy accents on my number 25, luckily had some tulle from my tutu making extravaganza.. and found some bling buttons in my stash... I embossed some clear plastic, cut it out, and used pearl white dabber... I found a snowflake chipboard to add on top and painted it blue ish before adding some spackled accents on it. I also took a stamp swirl and used peal dabber on it, it's on the top right corner!

Tim Holtz-Tag 3

Here is my 3rd tag! Wow.. I did not have ANY stamp, embossing folder to do this with, so I was lucky enough to find this paper! I cut out the goodies with the Cricut!

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Tim Holtz- Tag 2

This tag was simpler than the first tag.. I used music paper, and cut out the reindeer with Winter Woodlands. I FLOCKED the reindeer and tied a bell around it's neck and added some gold stickles, used some burlap cut it up, and added it on to the top.. I used MS punch and Misc glitter ribbon for the bottom.. and used some distressed ink to go over the background. I added some pearl glimmer mist but very faint.

Tim Holtz- Tag 1

Here is my take on the first TH Tag! I could not find my cuttelebug snowflake embossing folder ANYWHERE so after an unsuccessful trip to Michaels I found the TH ones at Joann's.  I bought some jewerly bling that was on sale.. used my Cricut for the PEACE cutout and also the leaves.. I then glittered them with my Martha Stewart glitter, went over the blue embossed paper with some white pearl dabber, then sanded it some. I went with a paint brush over the sides with stained tea distressed ink...I made my "pine cones" out of brown tissue paper...I used some music paper and distressed it some...



 

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Sketchy Thursdays!

I didn't think I was going to make it to finish this last night, but I did but ended up going to bed wayyy too late.. and I am exhausted this morning.. LOL!

Here is my layout! Sorry for the bad pic it was late last night and I HAD to take the picture...


Here is the fabulous sketch!
TFL!

The Paper Variety new Challenge is up!

Gooood morning!
I am posting my 2nd to last challenge for The Paper Variety! How time has flown!!! :-(

Please check out the new Design Team Call!

Our challenge this week is to use an ornament on your project! Perfect right???!!

I scraplifted a TALL card I made 2 years ago and did some modifications to it! I used Joys of The Season Cricut Cartridge for the ornaments and all scrap paper! So dig in your stash!!
Here is the card I made 2 years ago! I was SO lucky to find all the scraps for it!



Our fabulous sponsor this week is Precocious Paper!Check our her Etsy page for some fabulous goodness!!

Can't wait to see what you create! 

Monday, November 28, 2011

Some misc layouts and cards for November! Mini Flower Tutorial...

I have been extremely busy and forgot to post these last layouts and cards I made these past 2 weeks!
                                                                 
All Dressed Up
I just got these awesome crocheted trims last week from Australia and HAD to put them to use! I don't use my cuttlebug enough, so have been keeping it out to use more!

 Where is Bella??
Had a lot of fun with this layout it's an explosion of colors! I used two hand made flowers on this layout! I got to use some scraps I had laying around. Used a hand punch for some circles, and embossed my strips..as you already know I am obsessed with these doilies.. ;-) I also got into the ripping and distressing of paper...
 Merry Christmas! I got the candle stickers for $0.63 at Michael's on Wednesday...
 Pumpkin Patch 2010
I love this new "glitter glam" ribbon that I recently bought.. This was perfect to use my wooden pumpkins that I have had in my stash as well!
 Give Thanks
Simple Give Thanks card..
 Simply Thankful
Always wanted to emboss the leaves with my cuttlebug..

I made some flowers last week! I used the Accent Essentials Cartridge...
 Cut out two types of flowers..
 Misted with Glimmer Mist....
 Twisted the edges with stick and fingers..
 Stickled the edges and added bling in the center!
 Finished product!
TFL!