Pretty and Her Puppy

I kind of went on a splurge and bought several stamps last week. Some stamps I have always wanted and thought impractical for the most part. I dont have girls or have friends who have girls (my BFF does have a girl but she is an adult now..) so I guess these are for me LOL! I just think this one is so pretty, picking flowers (yes, doing the loves me - loves me not thing) and walking along with her puppy. The layout is last week's MFT sketch - I didnt use a MFT stamp because I didnt have one last week. So I didnt join the challenge but still used the sketch because it is kind of cool. It's hard to tell but there is a felt button on the right side and the flower on the left is an idea I got from one of the DT's (design team) card. I used chalks to color this one, some days I like to switch from the water color crayons. Can you see the sparkle on her wing? Yep, you got it, Stickles. It really looks good on this card! I took a close up of it and here is the picture below but it came out blurry, I retook it several times and this is the best one. Hope you like!

MFT Sketch Challenge, MFTWSC2

Oh I am rockin' these images now! Woo Hoo! I saw a sketch challenge for MFT stamps (My Favorite Things) so I thought I would give it a go and I love how this turned out! I used a 6 x 6 Basic Grey paper pack, spellbinders dies and water color crayons. Stickles in the flowers again :) I love butterflies so I thought for the three in a row I would use my smallest butterfly punch by Martha Stewart. Thanks for looking!

Isn't she a cutie? This little gal is from My Favorite Things, the first time I have gotten a stamp from them and I ordered two. She is just too cute! Same paper as yesterday's card and I added some heart brads to the bottom. She is colored with water color crayons. As usual I used Stickles, on the hearts on her clothes and the center of her flowers. Today was an "ice" day, no school and the roads too icey to drive on, so I made some cards. I have another one I will share tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by! Be safe out there :)

Lilith and her friends

I absolutely loved this stamp from the first time I saw it! I finally got it, I didn't before because I couldn't justify a use for it but after still wanting it for more than a year I decided to go for it :) I am not sure what to use it for still but she just cracks me up so much! This is my first card with Lilith. In case you are wondering she is from Kraftin Kimmie. The paper is I think from SU's last year's Sell-a-Bration. The button and ribbon are Stampin Up also. I put Stickles on the frogs, they just seemed like they should be glittery. That's about it! Hope ya like ;)

 

Calendar Drawer Box

Isn't this adorable? I just love it, almost didn't give it away. I must make one for myself when I get a chance :) This is for my BFF for her birthday which is near the end of December. I made her birthday card to match. There are little 3x3 cards and envelopes in the drawer as well as a post it note pad and then the calendar on top is held on by a "library" clip (from Tim Holtz but I believe Stampin Up has them also) so you can easily get to the next month. I am sure you have seen these little boxes around, I made this from the Technique Junkies CD I mentioned in one of my recent posts. Very easy and quick to make. The top part of the box where the "F" is lays flat then it props up - it is an easel card on top of the box basically. Thanks for stopping by!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Christmas Card

Here is a simple Christmas card I made this week. The designer paper is Stampin Up (from last Christmas) and the stamps are those clear Inkadinkadoo ones you see at Michaels and AC Moore. This stamp set has some nice designs in it! It has a beautiful large snowflake, a beautiful Noel word, a neat christmas tree etc. I also used four different spellbinders dies! You can't see it but I used an Atyou Spica glitter pen on the reindeer so it sparkles just a little. The snowflake is punched out of vellum and covered with glitter. I put a rhinestone in the center of it and the ribbon off to the side and done! The layout is a case of this gorgeous card from one of my favorite card makers Denise :) but totally different papers, stamps etc. It doesn't do her card justice! Christmas is only a little over a week away! I better get these in the mail.

Snowflakes!

This card is inspired by this card on the Hero Arts blog. That's two I have done! This one is quite a bit different though, I started with the snowflake idea and went from there. I love these colors together, in person the ribbon does match the paper, I don't like how the picture I took made it look different. I am sure it has to do with lighting and such and I haven't really wanted to do the whole light box thing. If I were submitting these for publication (but I won't since they are "cased") then I would be more "professional" about it :) Anyway the die for the big snowflake is from Spellbinders and the small ones are a Martha Stewart punch. I used my new "bow easy" to make this bow, wow it came out good! I am not thrilled with the tool yet, I like the results but I have to fiddle with it a lot. The paper and ribbon, oh and the stamp are Stampin Up.

I am working on a fun little project today, I will post it later this week. Thanks for stopping by!

Lori

Magnolia-licious Christmas Year Round

First off to the US viewers, Happy Thanksgiving! I have many, many things to be thankful for and one of the things is my blog visitors - I appreciate your viewing my blog!

Welcome to the Magnolia-licious Group Christmas Year Round Blog Hop! If you came from Leonie's blog you are in the right place and next on the hop is Martina's blog. I hope you enjoy all these wonderful Christmas cards! The start of the hop is here.

For this card I was searching for a smaller Tilda stamp and found this one from last year's collection. She looks like she is waiting to open her Christmas presents! I wanted to color her jammies to match the paper using chalks. The paper is Stampin Up and the snowflake punch is from Martha Stewart. The circle and scallop circle are Nestabilities. I used Stickles on the snowflakes and her "wings".



This picture shows the sparkle a bit better -



I love how this ribbon sparkles! It is iridescent ribbon and comes in different colors.



I also love how these snowflakes sparkle too! I punched the snowflake out of the designer paper and then applied the stickles.



Thanks for visiting my little blog, I hope you enjoy the hop and have a Merry Christmas!
Lori

Snow Globe Card

 

First I want to apologize for changing my blog again, the green grass just wasn't working with these Christmas cards! Hopefully this is more neutral. Anyway, I made this card about a month ago and forgot to post it! I have these cup things for cards and never used them. I was thinking it would work as a snow globe though. So I hunted for a stamp small enough to fit under it and found this cute older Stampin Up snowman in my stuff. I put some snow crystals in it so you can shake it, no water in this one! The color isn't quite right on my monitor, I hope it doesn't look yellowish on yours. Later I removed the bow, just didn't like it. I will be back on Thursday, Thanksgiving with the Magnolia Christmas card blog hop. See you then, thanks for stopping by!

Love this card!

 

The title says it all. My inspiration was this card by Claudia Rosa (the card making genius!) and I just went from there! The paper is Basic Grey Jovial, which I was surprisingly disappointed with this year but if used right it does come out real nice. I just don't like the dark colors and the burgundy etc. just not my taste. However I do love how some of the lighter papers worked on this card! So you just never know :) I was trying to figure out what to do with the wide outer circle around the image, I don't have those circle stamps that make a nice image around like hers so I thought well how about I stamp the other stamp in this Stampin Up stamp in a neutral color and see how the edges of it show under the image. I did have to stamp it a couple times to get it to the edge but I am really happy with how it turned out. Then I used one of the Spellbinders tag dies and it didn't look right the way the curved end stuck out on the paper edge so I cut off the end that stuck out and sort of came up with the ribbon idea :) The button was kind of what do I do with that area down there that she used such a nice bow in sort of thing. My creative process is kind of immature as I have never had any formal training in Art but hey it works, I just struggle so! Off to make more Christmas cards :)

Henry and his Ornament

 

 

My sweet boy, he wanted to make a card just like Mommy's :) So here is my card which I cased the layout and his card below. He wanted it exactly like mine but the scalloped edge was enough to drive me nuts and I didn't want to subject him to it so his is straight-edged. I think he did a great job and I was thrilled to have him make something with me. This stamp is another cutie pie, my dear friend Paula gave it to me, thank you again gal!

Thanks for looking :)

Merry Kiss-Mas

Before

 

After

 

I took a whole day (on and off) to make this card. I kept looking at the card and thinking there was something I didn't like about it. (The first picture, ignore the cut part of the paper, I did that after I removed it to try to still use the paper!) So after going back to it throughout the day I decided it was the blue paper with the red dots that was throwing me off. I actually colored her little shirt to match the paper! So I removed the paper and ended up with the second picture's card. I changed the layer under the image from red to white and added Stickles glitter glue in little dots all around the border. I also used white Stickles on the berries as I realized that Mistletoe berries are white not red! I am happy with it now :) This is such an adorable stamp! I really can only give it to my hubby I guess but I just had to have these cutie pies. So what do you think? Do you like the before card? Just curious, thanks for looking!

Christmas Cardinal

 

This card was made using Basic Grey's Wassail paper, still one of my all time favorites. The stamp is Christmas Cardinal, the older of the two cardinal sets Stampin Up came out with in the last few years. The nestabilities frame (cut from two different dies) is on pop dots, the image is colored with chalks or "pastels". I made a mistake though, I used a sponge that apparently had black left on it and I was trying to sponge crumb cake around the cardinal to give it an old paper sort of look and the black came off and ended up making it look more like soot! Other than that I am really happy with this card. I came up with gathering the ribbon width in some because it was too wide and covered my cardinal and it made such a nice look! I think the ribbon is 1 1/4 inches wide. Anyway I taped it down on the back to scrunch it up some. The branches on the bow are sprayed with gold mist which is sparkly and I just couldnt get a good picture to show it. I splurged this time and used a whole bunch of gold beads along the trim on the bottom. Not sure how I am going to get this one in an envelope though! As always, thanks for looking!
Lori