Burrr...

Can you hear my teeth chattering? -17 this morning. Yes, that is a negative. Good day to stay inside and stamp some!

This card used up some of my much loved and hoarded SU paper from a few years back, as well as my CTMH snowflakes! I put flocking on the furry areas of Bella's outfit. She told me she prefers Arctic Fox. Expensive taste. ;)

I wish I looked this cute in my winter clothes!

Warm wishes for your week!

Cooking with UIT!

We are cooking up some fun at Use It Tuesday! We would love to have you join us by making and linking a creation that has something to do with cooking!

In addition, we are having our second Design Team call. If you are interesting in being part of an awesome team, head on over to the Use It Tuesday blog for all the details. :)

As for the card...I pulled out my neglected Cricut Imagine and used it to make the images. I also tore into my hoarded SU stash of papers for the accent pieces. And, since we are spilling the beans (or is it apples?), my Janome sew mini had to be dusted before I stitched the card. Sad. ;)

Hope you play along with us! Thanks for looking!

Daisy Birthday Wishes

Happy Friday! I have an easy 10-minute card to share today. The best part about this creation? I used my hoarded SU ribbon! (...and buttons...and stamps...)

You know the sets of 5 types of ribbon Stampin UP sells? Well, I had NO IDEA what to do with the 1 1/2" ribbon. I used it as the inspiration for the card, thus I wanted to keep it simple to showcase it.

I used the direct marker to stamp technique and finished it off with some clear embossing powder for a little pop. :)

For those of you who Pinterest, my dear friend, Sami, added a little Pin It to my blog! Isn't it cute? And how lucky am I to have a friend who helps me with all that HTML gibberish?! ;) Thanks again, Sami!!

I would love to enter this card in the following challenges:
-Crafty Ann's: Clean and Simple
-Prairie Fairy Fridays: Heat Embossing
-Inspire Me Fridays: Anything Goes
-Pals Paper Arts: Ribbon
-Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes
-Whimsy Inspiration: Buttons
-Crafty Sentiments: No Designer Paper
-Make It Monday: Anything Goes

Wishing everyone a fabulous weekend! Thanks for stopping by!

Batty Treat Boxes

The challenge over at Use It Tuesday is to make a project using orange, purple and/or black. You should see what the other girls created! So many GORGEOUS creations that are not at all Haloweenie! (Do you like that word?) ;)

Anyway, I pulled out my neglected Sizzix pillow box die, old cardstock and patterned paper, never used stamp set and my much loved but hardly ever used SU scallop circle die to make little treat boxes. They were super easy and fun!

We would love to have you play along! You have 10 days to play and can enter as many times as you like. :) Use that stash!

Thanks for flying in!

Happy Dance!

Oh my gosh...I got the cover!!! I got the cover!!! I made the chicken card on the left...Isn't she darling?! She is one of the sets I used a lot while I was guest designing for Paper Pretties!

And the icing on the cake...I also had 7 other cards picked up!

Even better...I know a few blogger friends who also had cards picked up! :) Love seeing my crafty sisters in print!

Thanks for celebrating with me. As for DH, he is happy for me, but you know...I don't think he gets it. Or maybe he is just thinking "how much is this gonna cost me"? ;) Just adds fuel to my fire, honey! Thanks for putting up with my addiction to paper!

Kite Marks the Spot

Today I saw snow flurries from my office window...I am already thinking about spring and next summer! A girl can dream, no? Hence this bookmark that will allow me to escape winter while reading one of my favorite authors...

Speaking of, who is your favorite author? I think my all time favorite for "beach reads" is Janet Evanovich! What a riot...her books always put a smile on my face and more often than not, I end up with a full-up belly laugh out loud!

At any rate, I had fun with this one...made the background sky paper from scratch using a sponge dauber which was like magic! The kite is paper pieced and elevated using a dimensional. And...I actually used that horded jumbo brad...**sigh** It is difficult to let go sometimes!!

And...I made this for the following challenges:
-Use It Tuesday: Metal
-Crafts and Me: Orange
-Art Impressions: make a tag or bookmark
-Stamp Insanity: Anything but a card
-Crafty Cardmakers: Anything Goes
-Heartsong Inspirations: Sponged background
-Hooked on Craft Challenges: Anything but a Card
-Make it Monday: Anything Goes
-Woodware: Anything Goes
-Sentimental Sundays: Anything Goes + a sentiment
-Stampin' Sisters in Christ: Anything Goes

May you all have a blessed week! Thanks for stopping by!

Chocolate

This week at Use It Tuesday is all about CHOCOLATE! What fun!

I chose to dust off my Cricut Imagine and made this super easy card based on a sketch from Clean & Simple Stamping. The paper was printed from my Imagine as well, because I don't have enough paper already in my stash. **snort** ;) Of course I do...but this just matched so perfectly, I could not resist...

Used some SU ribbon from my stash, as well as the rhinestones that I got from the 100yen store while living in Japan. Stickles dressed up the cake and we finished it off with one of my favorite sentiments from Papertrey Ink!

Thanks for looking and have a fabulous week!