Halloween-a-thon Day 4--Happy Fright Night!

Here is another long-retired SU set, Happy Fright Night, colored with Copics and chalk/blender pen for the cauldron and bats. I had originally colored the witch green, but she was too dark, so I did another one and made her flesh-toned. I used a white gel pen for the bats' fangs and Liquid Applique/green Doodlebug Designs glitter for the "brew".

I love this image and had fun coloring it. Thanks for looking!

Have a ball!

Emily also had a sleepover birthday party to go to Fri. night (Brad and I went on a DATE! woo-hoo!). I made 2 cards for her to choose from, before remembering she had already made one for her friend weeks ago! I should have photographed it, but I forgot. It turned out really cute. Anyway, this is the first card I made. The second copy actually--I had a LOT of trouble with it for some reason. Either I or my machine kept messing up cuts. When I finally got all the layers cut, I put them together and managed to get glue all over everything. So, I started all over. But I'm very pleased with how it turned out. The seal and sentiment are from Birthday Bash.

I created a frame card in my Gypsy, using THIS TUTORIAL from She's a Sassy Lady's blog. I welded the seal and sentiment in Gypsy too. Then I cut the layers. I glittered the layers on the ball and his hatband with Doodlebug sugar glitter. I drew his nose and eyes with a marker. Anyway, I think this is adorable and will def. be making more, now that I'm aware of the pitfalls LOL! Happy Crafting!

Sometimes I Just Crack Myself Up!

That doesn't sound too hard, right? I got a new Cricut cartridge (well, several in fact, but they were all on sale! Really!) called Winter Frolic, and it has some darling images on it! Expect to see a lot of this over the next few weeks, or maybe even months, since it's not strictly Christmas. Well, Ems and I both liked the little beaver image on this cart, and I've been turning it over in my mind, and finally came up with this:

Too cute right? So now you KNOW what's coming next, don't you?

Sorry, I just couldn't resist! I already know who's getting this card. Card base is PTI white, all other CS is SU, except glitter paper which is Doodlebug Designs. "Wishing you" is from Snowflake Serenade by PTI, and the inside I did with my Karen Foster Snap a Stamps. Thought balloon on front is cut from Graphically Speaking. Thanks for stopping by today!

Cupcake Card

Good morning! I made this card last night for a co-worker's birthday. Emily helped me, as you can tell if you look closely LOL! She enjoys playing with the Cricut. There is no stamping on this card. I used the Wild Card Cartridge and mostly SU CS (Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, and Regal Rose) except for the white glitter CS. I cut the card and envelope at 5". Emily and I added Doodlebug Designs glitter to the cupcake wrapper and candle flame.

I cut the sent. at 4.5 " so it wouldn't show when the card was closed. I want to make this card again using the cricut markers because I think that would add a lot. I think using the swirls embossing folder on the icing would be cute too, instead of glitter paper.

This is a cool cartridge because you can make matching envelopes too--they really thought of everything with this cart. I used CS for the envie too, which makes it really stiff. Double sided DP would probably be a better choice. I colored the candle flames on the envie with a marker.

Turns out, Tuesday Morning Sketches is having a cupcake challenge today, I found out from my friend Angela. You can see the challenge HERE. Thanks for stopping by!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season; I know I did. I don't usually make resolutions, but I did this year and one of them was to focus more on scrapbooking. My PTI buddies over on SCS were right there with some tips on some great websites to help get me started. This layout is for Sketch # 1 for the Scrap Friendzy Sketch-a-Thon. I really liked this sketch and knew immediately what I wanted to do with it. Emily got a ton of stuff for Christmas, but her absolute favorite thing was these SpongeBob PJ's, robe and slippers. Base is Bazzill, and layers are SU Yo-Yo Yellow, Tempting Turquoise, and the old Rose Romance, which I still have a sheet or two of lying around. One of the great things about scrapping more is maybe I'll use up some of my paper LOL! I got a Cricut Expression for Christmas and have been having a wonderful time with it--it is just so fun! Here I used Stretch Your Imagination for the panel with the holes (because SpongeBob is absorbent and yellow and porous you know), Accents and Elements for the scalloped border and the little fun elements, and Plantin Schoolbook for the letters (the last two came with the machine). The word "present" is stamped in Palette Noir with Technique Tuesday's Large Avalon Lowercase. I really like TT's alphas, especially the script ones. I used Doodlebug Designs glitter on the centers of the flower looking things. Journalling was done on the computer and the font is Party Let. Hope you've enjoyed looking. Did you make any New Year's Resolutions this year?

Package I sent to my PTI Secret Sister

On our last round of PTI swapping, we had a Secret Sister part of the swap. My SS was JoAnn. Here is the package I sent to her. This is the little enclosure card--the envelope is made with the SU scallop envelope die by Sizzix out of Raspberry Fizz Mix DP. Stamp sets are one of the Borders and Corners sets (forget which) and Spiral Bouquet.

This box I made from the For Keepsake template from My Timeless Templates. I used the Spellbinders Oval Nesties for the "windows" and embossed some plastic from the PTI stamp boxes with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I shredded some Rasp. Fizz CS and put it in the box along with some yummy Hershey's Nuggets.

Here is a detail shot of the box lid. I used a Maya Road flower coated with Doodlebug Designs glitter, RF ribbon and one of PTI's vintage buttons (the prettiest one IMHO). Glitter matches better IRL, though not perfect.

Here is the tag tin I made. JoAnn listed some of her likes/dislikes as pink and brown colors and PTI tins. So I cased THIS IDEA from Nichole's blog. I love my Tags for Spring set, and I thought JoAnn might be able to use these for card candy or just tags.

I cut a small dowel to fit in the box and the divider template is given in the post above.

Below are just a few of the tags I made. Some are made with other sets besides Tags for Spring. Most use either the Marvy punches or Spellbinders dies.

52 Weeks--52 Sketches # 9

Hi, everyone, hope you are having a good weekend! Chris has been doing great things with the 52 Weeks--52 Sketches, so I thought I'd give it a try. The whole reason I got into stamping in the first place was to scrapbook, but since we moved I haven't done much of it. Sorry for the terrible pic! The light was going. This was a really fun and easy sketch. And I had the perfect picture! Anyone remember the card and gift I made for Kate, Emily's friend? Well Kate's mom sent me this when she sent a thank-you note. They were watching a clown named "Soapy", who, Emily informs me, is married! Imagine that--he's not a clown all the time! Anyway, everything here is SU except flower is from Maya Road, coated with Doodlebug Design glitter. Colors are Apricot Appeal, Purely Pomegranate, Tempting Turquoise. Center of flower is a Build a Brad. Journalling reads, "I love this photo--there is such joy and delight on your face, and that row of toothless first-grade faces! This was taken at your friend Kate's birthday party. February 2009."

Me and 52 Weeks--52 Sketches. This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

Birthday gift for Kate

I have been waiting to post this until the end of the PTI 2nd Anniversary madness is over, which is tonight. My daughter has a very good friend in her 1st grade class, Kate, who had her birthday party last weekend. I made her a gift ensemble built around this Doodlebug Design paper, which I absolutely love. Kate told me recently that blue is her fave color (I was originally going to do it in purple--I thought that was every little girl's fave color LOL!) so I used the blue, which turned out to go very well with SU's Ballet Blue. Other ink and CS is Green Galore and Summer Sun. Butterfly punch is Martha Stewart (and is there to cover a smudge--don't pretend you've never done that!) and covered with stickles. Oh, and I used my new eyelet border punch from SU. Set is Floral Frenzy by PTI.

I enclosed a Target gift card in her present. This is just a folded piece of the DP with a band to hold it closed. Card is attached with glue dots.

I used Lauren Meader's Lollipop-along design from her MyTimeless Templates collection. Inside are some mani-pedi things and some polish--Ems loves that stuff so I figured Kate would too.

Here is the side view. I used the bucket style to hold all the stuff. It turned out really cute.

Hope you enjoyed looking--thanks for stopping by!