Cricut Lite Botanicals Giveaway

Tammy Skinner is giving away a Cricut Lite Botanicals on her blog. Definitely worth scuttling over for a chance to win it if you don't already have it :D.

WOYWW 115 Feeling Scrappy

Today I'm working on a Papertrey Ink layout. I bought enough stamps over the last year to qualify for the Thank You Anniversary set and I just loved the printed piece that came with it. So when I was cleaning up after my Club Ruby Designers August Design Team projects, I came across the thank you and a layout was started. I really do try to clean, I just keep getting interrupted lol. The 12 x 12 paper is made from two different sheets glued together.

I also finally finished (and photographed) the cards I made from my Paper Layerz experiments. Rather I was testing the dickens out of the paper and couldn't bear to throw them away lol. With Papertrey Ink cardstock for the card bases, I made a whole stack of cards using one 12 x 12 sheet of PaperLayerz. And I still have some more to finish!

After I took the Damask Decor silhouette cut off the mat, this was left, well this was face down on the mat. And it looked too pretty to scrap off, so I put glue on the back (that was facing up on the mat), and put the mat on it, let it dry and then pulled it off, put some faux stitching and another mat on it and ta da, second card lol.

This is an A2 sized card, I never thought I could make this Paper Lace cut at less than four inches. It's glued on with Patina Stickles. The other cut was an experiment from years ago lol.

The moon and dream are from Graphically Speaking. That dream cut is tinnnnny, but easy peasy on the PaperLayerz. I got the little bit of dimension by putting Tombow Adhesive on the back and letting it dry (it's still really tacky though after it's dry). The toughest part was transferring the cut from my fingers to the paper lol. I used Marvy Ink's Ochre to edge the mat (more scraps from the past btw).

The last two cards were made from one Creative Memories Reminisce cut. The soar is colored with the Stardust gel pen and attached using the dried Tombow adhesive. Platinum stickles for a little more sparkle lol (I'm such a magpie!).

I used the Papertrey Ink white Shimmer cardstock as the base for this one. White gel pen and Faded Jeans Distress Stickles for extra umph :D.

If you are wondering what's all this WOYWW, head over to Julia Dunnit's Stamping Ground and have a gander. Better yet, snap a picture of your workspace and join in the fun!

Glitter Hello card

Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday #28 the challenge was to use a thick glue pen around a die, only I don't have a thick glue pen, so I used a copic marker (cool gray) and colored over it with a Martha Stewart glue pen and used Pallette Ultrafine Prism glitter.

cardstock: pink mat from stash, PTI soft stone (mat) and sweet blush (A2 card), vintage cream (mat shape #3).
marker: C5 (cool gray) Copic, chisel edge around the shaped mat, side of brush to edge the rectangular mats.
inks: Spun Sugar and Pumice Stone Distress Inks
stamps: Papertrey Ink Honey Bees and Mat Stack 3 Collection.

Two Fast and Easy(ish) Cards

Finally had a chance to do a Make It Monday. This week's challenge was to make a copic colored ribbon. I used red and green on Papertrey Ink's Fine Linen Topnotch Twill Tape. The cardbase is Papertrey Ink's Stampers Select. The robots on the bottom of the card are from a self-inking Inklings stamp I picked up at the dollar store. The other robot stamp is from a Stampin' Up Lots of Bots stamp set.

The thank you card is Papertrey Ink's Stamper's Select cardbase masked off with painter's tape. The stamps are all from Papertrey Ink's Embellishments stamp set and the inks are Distress Inks (bundled sage and sooty black). Easy peasy! I'm thinking this would do well as a Thank You card set.

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Papertrey Ink stamps to use on the left, box of Cricut cuts under the Papertrey Ink cardstock sample book on the right. Cards to finish behind.

It's great for picking out cardstock color combinations. One of my favorites: vintage cream, pure poppy and Hawaiian shores.

It has a handy dandy chart in the front.

So I added the various whites that I have (stamper's select, white shimmer, vintage cream, rustic white), and re-arranged my cardstock in the order of the chart. Thinking this will make it easier to find what I'm looking for :D.

It's been a fairly quiet week considering that DD is back after 5 weeks away at camp lol. And somehow I managed to get a gallon of water in the floor of the passenger side back seat (American seating that is). Thankfully I bought a small automobile wet/dry vac a couple of years ago. Still haven't figured out how the water got in, if it was an open window I think the seat and door would have been wet too. Apparently there is no gel pack I can just put on the floor and vacuum up later. I might have to borrow a hairdryer to dry out the residual.

If you are wondering what's all this WOYWW, head over to the Stamping Ground and have a gander. Better yet, take a picture of your workdesk and join in the fun :D.

I'm Really Loving the First of the Month!

As I might have mentioned once or twice lol, I'm on the Club Ruby Designers' Design Team.  On the first of the month I get to see the fabulous projects my team mates have posted on the site and I get to share what I've made.  This month we're allowed to share a photograph of one of our projects on our blog and this is the one I chose :D. It's a small gift box, about 3 x 4.5 inches, and I feel the colors are neutral enough you could use it for a gift box for anyone. And no wrapping required! And it's a birthday keepsake! Love multi-purpose things :D. Except for the stickles and the Papertrey Ink Twine, everything is from the Fancy Pants August 2011 kit.

So if you want to see all the other projects, hop on over to Club Ruby Designers and join up. There is even a free membership level!

WOYWW 112!

Happy WOYWW :D. I've been playing with my Papertrey Ink stamps. This is the Honey Bees stamp which I used to make the card from the previous post and this one (which my daughter sent off to a friend). The wellies are from the Daily Designs stamp set. I'm so in love with versamark for stamping btw lol.

I'm happy to say the weather has cooled off significantly from last week! Nothing like 100 degree weather to make 89 seem balmy :D, actually it was 108 with the heat index last week, bah.

Now for you Tim Holtz fans (It's been ages since I put a Tim Holtz label on a post), one of my favorite CHA reporting blogs, Scrap Time has posted a series of Tim Holtz videos, so I'll enable anyone interested by providing a link for videos 1 and 2 and this link for 3, 4, 5, and 6. Watch at your own fiscal peril however lol.

If you are wondering about what's all this WOYWW, then head over to our fearless leader's site, The Stamping Ground and have a gander, better yet, take a picture and join in :D.