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Springtime Fun!

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 18

Hello friends! Welcome back to our Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I have something fun today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

I wanted to make something with the Springtime Garland Simply Created Kit and I kinda wanted to make some cards instead of the garland.  I have LOT’s of parts left though and can definitely make some more cards and a garland 🙂  I have made bunches of projects lately and I really wanted to play with my favorite retiring products to showcase those before they are gone but they are seriously selling out so quickly that I hardly have time to post a project before all the parts are gone!  Soooo I just decided to play with something that is still current 🙂

On both cards I cut some of the cute banner stickers in half, these were fast and easy to use and added lots of interest to my projects.  On this first card I also used the Spiral Flower Die which gave me an over the top Spring look!

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The second card features more pieces from the kit and I stitched the circle pieces to one of the banners, I love how this came out.

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I hope you enjoyed these fast & easy projects as much as I enjoyed making them to share!  There are so many goodies in this Simply Created Kit that you could knock out several quick cards without very much work on your part!

Don’t miss the rest of the pretties my friends have for you!  I just know everyone has gorgeous projects to share!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dani Dziama and the rest of the hop!

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My sweet girls…

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I love this picture of my daughter and her dog Sawyer when Sawyer was just a little puppy that I have scrapped it into a traditional page and now a digital layout.  This project was quick and easy….so much faster and more portable than traditional scrapping!

I used the beautiful SVG “lovely” from Endless Birthday Wishes…gosh I just love the word brushes in that set!  I also used the new “Gorgeous Grunge” brushes, I love that stamp set so much and I am thrilled its available in digital form now!

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I hope you are having a fantastic Sunday and find a few minutes to do something you love!

You can find all the fun things I used below, click on the picture to go to my online store to purchase!

Seriously Teen Kit – Digital Download
$9.95
Staple & Stitching – Digital Download
$1.95
Sara’s Sequins – Digital Download
$2.95
Basic Pearls And Rhinestones – Digital Download
$1.95
Gorgeous Grunge Stamp Brush Set – Digital Download
$4.95
Delicate Doilies Stamp Brush Set – Digital Download
$3.95
Today And You Stamp Brush Set – Digital Download
$9.95
Endless Birthday Wishes Kit – Digital Download
$9.95
Follow Your Bliss Kit – Digital Download
$7.95
Happy Life Hostess Kit – Digital Download
$11.00
A Split Second Designer Template Pages – Digital Download
$2.95
Hooray For Today Stamp Brush Set – Digital Download
$9.95
Packed For You Designer Template – Digital Download
$0.00
Think Back Photobook Templates – Digital Download
$19.95
Tickets And Tokens Ii Digital Kit – Digital Download
$7.95
Convention 2012 Photobook Template – Digital Download
$17.95

beautiful butterflies

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I’ve been obsessed with butterflies the last few weeks….crafted butterflies anyway!  I pulled out a couple of things I haven’t used in a while:  the Papillon Potpourri stamp set and the Beautiful Wings embosslit.  And look how beautiful they are!  I tried a couple of techniques on this card.  I love how it came out but I have to say, I probably won’t do at least one of these techniques in quite the same way again!

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The first thing I did was use my Hive framelit as a stencil for Gesso.  I slathered Gesso into some, not all of the openings.  I dried the Gesso with my heat gun and then I painted the gessoed octagons with gold encore ink.  The part I would not do again is use the framelit as a stencil!  I cannot get all the dried Gesso off!  Next time, I will make a paper stencil first…much better plan 🙂  I love the look though, very pretty tone on tone look on the Whisper White with a hint of gold sparkle.

Next I added a folded doily on the right side and spritzed the whole card front with Tempting Turquoise re-inker mixed with alcohol.  I slid the fat white banner underneath the spritzed doily and added a sliver of plain white doily underneath the banner on the other side.  I love how this looked!  The spritzed doily is really set off by the plain white banner underneath it.  Tiny little “thanks” sentiment on the bottom of the banner stamped in Tempting Turquoise.

I stamped one of the butterflies from Papillon Potpourri in Versamark on vellum paper.  Then I heat embossed it in gold and punched it out with the butterfly punch.  I made his little feelers out of fluffed up Gold Baker’s Twine and added a huge fluffy baker’s twine accent underneath.  The rest of the butterflies are out of Gold Foil and Whisper White cut with the Beautiful Wings embosslit.  A few rhinestones and sequins finished the card.

I wish you could see how pretty this is in person!  Yummy!  I still love, love gold in all its forms and seem to have to include it on nearly everything I make lately!

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It’s been a long week.  My daughter had surgery on Monday and I just haven’t had a chance to create much this week.  I needed some creative downtime though and this project soothed my soul today.

I hope this inspires you to make something pretty!

You can find all the fun things I used below, click on the picture to go to my online store to purchase!

all about love

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Monday Montage Blog Hop – Week 17

Hello friends! Welcome back to our Monday Montage Blog Hop! You may have gotten here from the amazing Bree Renwick’s blog, make sure you select the “next” button below and that will take you to the next stop on the hop, the fabulous Dani Dziama’s blog. I have something funky & fresh today & I know my friends have amazing inspiration too!

Today’s card was inspired by something I saw on Pinterest, I can’t remember exactly what but when I find it again, I’ll give credit where credit is due!  I pulled out one of my fave sets that hasn’t seen ink in a while during a virtual craft night with my friends.  I just love, love, love that balloon image!!!!  With my luck it will be on the retired list, you’ll probably be seeing a bunch more of it from me if it ends up on there!

I used my e-cutter to cut the clouds out of vellum and I embossed the balloon in gold embossing powder on vellum for one image.  The second balloon I stamped on watercolor paper in Soft Suede and then I watercolored it with Coastal Cabana.  I cut the love out of Coastal Cabana with the Expressions Framelit.  I used Naturals Ivory as my base and I spritzed it lightly  with Coastal Cabana re-inker and alcohol mixed.

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I added some cute rhinestones, a button, baker’s twine and sequins to finish off the look!  So easy and pretty 🙂

 I hope you enjoyed this project as much as I enjoyed making it to share!

Don’t miss the rest of the pretties my   friends have for you!  I just know everyone has gorgeous projects to share!

Make sure you go “Back” if you missed Bree Renwick or you can loop on around by hitting the “Next” button to get to Dani Dziama and the rest of the hop!

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Star Studded Project!

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This cute and fast little card features one of my absolutely favorite My Paper Pumpkin sets.  Are you subscribed to My Paper Pumpkin?  If you aren’t, you are missing out!  I have to say the limited edition stamp sets that come in the My Paper Pumpkin kits are always my favorites, very trendy and so much fun to use!  Go to MyPaperPumpkin.com to sign up for a monthly craft project in a box, always sure to be a fun craft getaway right at your kitchen table!

Okay, back to this cute card!  It was so fast and easy to put together!  I punched a couple of stars and some fun label shapes with the Little Labels Punch Pack.  I cut a piece of Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper in a fun angled shape, layered that with half a strip of Chevron Ribbon and then stacked the stars and label punches on top of that with some twine.  I love the way the quick hit of Cherry Cobbler in one of the labels sets off the whole card.  Quick banner sentiments stamped with the Paper Pumpkin images and some rhinestones….yummy!  I think the whole thing came together in about 8 minutes!


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Did this make you want to make something fast and fun?  I sure hope so!  I would love to see your star studded project!

You can find all the fun things I used below, click on the picture to go to my online store to purchase!

Awesome!

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This is one AWESOME card, perfect for an AWESOME friend!  There are lots of fun goodies on this card.  I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the “awesome” out in Crisp Cantaloupe…isn’t that fun?  I was going to say “awesome” again, but enough already!  I used my Paper Doily Sizzlets to cut out the big doily in Sahara Sand Cardstock.  I don’t use this die enough because it is always seems like so much work to pop all the paper pieces out.  I have a little trick for this die though….sandwich wax paper between the die and your card stock and your die cut paper shape will slip out like buttah!!!

The rest of the little details on this card were fun and easy.  I spritzed the base with Crisp Cantaloupe re-inker mixed with alcohol.  I punched some stars out in Coastal Cabana, Silver Foil, Silver Glitter and Crisp Cantaloupe.  I die cut the arrow out of Silver Foil, added some rhinestones and ribbon and the whole thing came together beautifully!

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I hope you enjoy this card today and it inspires you to make your own fun project!  I just love how all of these goodies came together to make such a cute card!

You can find all the fun things I used below, click on the picture to go to my online store to purchase!

So simple, so fun!

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This is a super fun and fast card!  It would be easy to make this one with a couple different color combos and sentiments to stock up for special occasions 🙂

I used the Starburst Framelits and the Starburst Sayings stamp set.  I popped a few quick layers together mixing and matching paper that went with the DSP I used, in this case Kaleidoscope which features lots of fun, bright colors.  I also mixed in some circle die cuts with the starburst die cuts for interest.  I stamped the “world” section of the stamp again in Strawberry Slush and cut the little banner out and popped it up on top.  Finishing touches were a button and some rhinestones.  So fast and easy!

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I hope you enjoyed this card today and it inspired you to make your own fun project!  I think this one has lots of punch for a quick card!

You can find the cute things I used below, click on the picture to go to my online store to purchase!