I used some foam tape strips and a transparency to create the window which was die cut.
I then stamped a label around the window!
CREATE Challenge: Butterflies!
Hey Everyone!! I wanted to share a card that I made for the Cards Challenge which asked participants to create a card incorporating butterflies. I made a butterfly "shaker" card with little teeny butterflies in it that you can shake around!
Paper Therapy Valentine's Day Blog Hop
Paper Therapy "Made with Heart" Valentine's Blog Hop!!
Join me and some fabulous other designers for a fun blog hop January 21st through the 23rd! You will find gorgeous projects to inspire you to make something beautifully handmade for the one you LOVE.
Plus, I am adding some fabulous blog candy to one lucky person. All you need to do is become a follower of my blog, then leave a comment on my Made with Heart post and I will pick a lucky winner on Monday, January 24th!!
See ya then!
Paper Therapy-January 17 2011
Hello all!! Welcome to our fifteenth challenge at Paper Therapy. Paper Therapy is an online forum for scrapbookers and card makers to share their work, meet new friends, learn new tips and techniques and have fun!! I hope you can join us every week in our challenges! The previous fourteen have been SUPER fun and we'd love to have you join us!
Here's how it works. Every monday a new challenge will be posted in the forum. You upload your design and have the chance to win the weekly challenge. A fabulous prize and winner blinkie will be awarded the first challenge winner of every month, and then subsequent challenge winners will win an awesome blinkie to share with the whole world, showing them that you rocked the Paper Therapy challenge.
This week's challenge was to make a shape card. That's right! No squares. No rectangles. At first all I could think of was die cutting a circle. But, then I started to think a little more out of the box (as I always tell my students) I finally came up with the idea of making a template for the front and back of this card, and the template was a little dress!! Perfect for any occassion!! When I showed my dh, he gasped with adoration which made me feel ohh so good. Sigh. I will miss running downstairs to show him my latest creation. At least I can Skype the card to him.
I hand-drew a dress form for a template, then it out and stitched the front and back together.
Some yummy Prima pearls and paper from one of my FAVORITE 2010
collections, Paper Girl from The Girl's Paperie
Added some more Prima flowers and a butterfly from Jenni Bowlin.
MATERIALS:
"For You"
Cardstock: (Vintage Cream) PTI
Patterned Paper: (Green Brocade, Cabbage Rose and Shabby Rose from Paper Girl) The Girl's Paperie.
Chalk Ink: (Creamy Brown) Clearsnap.
Fibers: (Yellow Ribbon) Creative Impressions. (Pink and white baker's twine) May Arts.
Accents: (Flowers and pearl flourish) Prima. (Pink button) PTI. (Butterfly) Jenni Bowlin. (Tiny type stickers) Cosmo Cricket.
Other: (Border edge punch) Martha Stewart.
Etsy Inspired #122--1.15.11
This week's shop Modern Bird offers handcrafted silver jewelry. They are also offering one our winner's this adorable little bird necklace.
Our sponsor this week Kutz and they are offering our second winner a silhouette cutout.
This week I was inspired by the following piece
I was inspired by the bird motif and I pulled out my brand new Making Memories paper
and created this.
The birds, sentiment and patterned are from the new Making Memorie's Je t'Adore collection
So, now it's your turn to play along. Make sure to visit the design team's blogs to see their BEAUTIFUL projects so that you can get inspired to create a fabulous project of your own! Make sure to post your design to the Etsy Inspired Challenge Blog by Friday, January 20th at noon!
and our guest designer for January, Rachel
MATERIALS:
Kiss Me card
Cardstock: (Vintage Cream) PTI.
Patterned Paper: (Paper pad from Je t'adore collection) Making Memories.
Chalk Ink (Creamy Brown) Clearsnap. (Pixie dust) Tsukineko.
Fibers: (Cream crochet trim). (Cream jute twine) May Arts
Accents: (Rub on and birds with heart from Je t'adore collection) Making Memories. (Pearl stick pin) Maya Road. (Chipboard frame)Tattered Angels. (Flowers) Prima.
Other: (Banner dies) PTI. (Vintage dictionary paper)
I am a Shabby Tea Room Guest Designer!!
Hey Everyone!! I am soooo excited to share this news with you!!! I have been asked to be a guest designer for The Shabby Tea Room!! I will be participating with them this January 24th! So, make sure to check their blog out! Gorgeous and fabulously delicious inspiring projects!
p.s. This is the first time I have EVER been a Guest Designer, so yeah I am pretty stoked
Color, Twine and FELT!
Hey People! One of my New Year's resolutions was to participate in more challenges, oh how I miss them! So, I made a card today that fit's 3 challenges, that's right 3! The following Love card is for the following fabulous challenges that I LOVE!
Bright and Bold Color Challenge for Color Inspiration for Card Maker's Week
LOVE this ISSUE!! It's a color issue so these were the four colors that the challenge called for us to use.
The other two challenges that this card is for is
whose sponsor this week is The Twinery where we were asked to use twine in a fun new way. I liked using it as a border!
as well as the ever popular and wonderful
CREATE Blog which I love. This week's challenge was to use felt.
I had a SUPER fun time playing along in 3 challenges today!
Paper Vineyard-January 10 2011
Hey there everyone!! It's Paper Vineyard time!! Paper Vineyard is a scrapbook store located in Chandler, Arizona and the design team will feature cards, layouts and other paper-crafted projects showcasing fabulous products that you can find in their store!
This week we were challenged to create a project any Cosmo Cricket paper and embellies that follow the theme, "Take Me Out of this World." Immediately my mind went to that show in the 90's called, "Out of this World," where Maureen Flannigan played a teenager whose father was an alien, and she had the power to freeze time. Loved that show! But anyways, back to the challenge. I didn't want to just make stars and planets. I wanted to think outside the box so bear with me as I explain these two cards.
For this design, I used a chipboard embellie of a globe and lady
to make a Congratulations card for a promotion. I love the Circa 1934 line
and the lady sitting on top of the globe fit perfectly for this challenge!
She's sitting ON THE WORLD-out of this world!
I even added a phone book page to illustrate
all the people that she beat on the promotion....haha, no competition here.
For my next card, were going to think outside the box, as I always tell my
students to.
The fun little geometric shapes are fussy-cut from paper, reminiscent
of little planets, orbular spheres or star bursts! I liked the idea of using
sphere-ish shapes in this design.
The spheres are also repeated in the polka dots. It kind of reminds me of a galaxy.
You can visit Paper Vineyard's blog to see my designs along with the other amazing team member's fantastic creations. Remember, Paper Vineyard sells fabulous Cosmo Cricket paper, and Circa 1934 is one of their newest lines!
Materials:
"Congrats on the Job Promotion"
Cardstock: (Kraft) Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper: (Ginger and Chaplain from Circa 1934 collection) Cosmo Cricket
Accents: (Lady on Globe, brackets from Circa 1934 collection) Cosmo Cricket. (Brown Tiny Type letter stickers) Cosmo Cricket. (Red letter stickers) Jenni Bowlin.
Other: (Letter beads) Michael's. (Gold doily) Wilton. (Phonebook page)
"Happy Birthday"
Cardstock: (Kraft) Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper: (Polka dots and Spherical shapes from 1934 collection) Cosmo Cricket
Accents: (Red Tiny Type letter stickers) Cosmo Cricket. (Clear doily and gray trinket pin) Maya Road. (Pearl embellishment) Prima.
Fibers: (Red jute twine) May Arts.
Other: (Letter beads) Michael's.
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