Donut Worry

Yes! I'm a Journey Coach with Fun Stampers Journey! I'm so excited! Ok, back to those donuts though! Super cute stamp set! Cannot wait to get this set in my hands! 

Today is the LAST day to sign up to receive this Kit of the Month! If you decide to wait a day or two, it won't be available! All details can be found HERE. 

I'm happy I joined the FSJ family! I wish I would of done it sooner! Any questions, feel free to ask away in the comments or send me an email. =)

Happy day to you!

xo

Dies & Foam

Hello again! Just wanted to share this tid bit about craft foam! Have you ever tried using with your dies? I ran it through my Grand Caliber twice with no problems at all! The thickness of my foam was a tiny bit less than 1/8". If you need to purchase, you can try the craft stores or even the dollar store! Mine has adhesive on the back, but I added a bit of wet glue to ensure it would not come off any time soon! 

I used my Martha Stewart fringe scissors & LOVE! My hands have really bad psoriatic arthritis plus carpal tunnel & the scissors did not hurt me at all. Love when this happens! I used regular old school crepe paper also. I measured, cut then stitched to stripe paper before adhering to card base. 

I consider this a CAS card. (clean & simple) Love the end result too! I always look at the tiny details & since I didn't stitch around the outside of the stripe paper, I did use pierced rectangles to emboss the tiny dots.

Happy day to you!

xo

Supplies used:

Spellbinders:

Celebra'tions Whirl White cardstock

Celebra'tions Pierced Rectangles

Die D-Lites: Sentiments Three

American Crafts/Dear Lizzy: Neapolitan paper pad

Teresa Collins: Happy enamel shapes

Other: craft foam, stitches 

Hello Fall

Happy Sunday to you! Today we're headed out to a soccer game and to the Dias de los Muertos festival. And no we won't be wearing sweaters & jeans! Today's high here in the desert will be 89 deg & feel much warmer in the sun. In the shade, it'll be bee-- autiful! So pack the sunscreen & water!

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I created this card for the October mood board over at Jot magazine & I must say, I am loving those clocks, feathers & those comfy pillows! 

I started off this card w/the brown chevron paper from Amy Tangerine. The doily was made with a Spellbinders die, added an Amy Tangerine Hello Thickers accent on top of the Amy Tangerine feather sticker. I added the slits to give texture. The flowers are are by Kaiser Craft & Prima. The buttons were in my stash. The xxx stitches are Amy Tangerine mini mark rubons. The enamel dots are by Teresa Collins. 

I love the colors in this card too! I kind of wish that AZ would catch up & cool off! Around here is still green, but we can drive up north to see the leaves change colors and eventually snow!

Happy day.

xo

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Spellbinders Stamps & Dies

Have you seen the newest line by Spellbinders: Celebra'tions? Stamps, dies, paper, ink & more! Here is a peek using my watercolor pencils & stamps.

And no project is complete without sequins! =)

The green chevron paper is from the 12 x 12 paper pad by Celebra'tions too. Also included in this collection, are the Celebra'tions pierced dies. LOVE!!

 I didn't have pink sequins to add, so I added some purple ones with twine w/a hint of gold. Depending how the light hits the sequins, they look more pink (as my 13 y/o pointed out!) Add the pop dots and we're set! Love this little guy! He's super cute all sparkly! Or he can easily by a she! oops!

Have a crafty weekend!

xo

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Pretty Pink Posh Blog Hop

Happy weekend everyone! Today is the perfect day to stay inside & craft away! I had to have my teen at a soccer tournament at 7am! We live in the desert, so it never rains or is even cloudy! The clouds rolled in with the wind and we got some sprinkles too! The final score was 0-0, even after two 45 min halves! Now onto the blog hop!

Have you heard of Pretty Pink Posh? If not, head on over! Paulina has a shop full of sequins & other goodies to add to your cards, layouts or Project Life! She has videos on how to create shaker cards as well, along with many others!

Here's my card I created for the blog hop!

Supplies used:

Heidi Swapp:

Hello today paper, mint ink, speech bubble

Pink Fresh Studio: wood arrows

Spellbinders: square dies, Grand Calibur

3M double side foam tape

Misc: sequins, stitching, ATG, twine 

Have you ever made a shaker card? This is other item that

has made a come back! Love it!

xo

Celebrate

Happy Birthday to my bff from when I was 2 years old and many years after---!!! Happy day to you Debbie! Love you much girl! We have too many memories that are too funny! She lives in Florida now & me in AZ. Crazy how time flies!!

I love how this came together! I got the idea from this card on MayArts.com The end result is different & I want to make this again! So many ideas!

Supplies:

Heidi Swapp: Hello Today paper & ink

 Prima flowers 

Inkadinkado: Celebrate stamp & Mason Jar stamp

 sequins

Have you made a shaker card yet? I never did & I'm hooked! I just stamped this & filled it w/sequins and stitched on my machine. No adhesive. BOOM! lol 

What do you think??

Happy weekend!

xo

Cards Galore

My cards-to-make list is getting longer by the day! How about yours? Each day I add another person to that list! I'll tell you what... I would love to receive a handmade card in the mail! I love snail mail. I will gladly make you a card & send it off! Just shoot me an email and we can exchange mailing addresses! 

Here are the latest:

Those above are spoken for. =) The first going to my oldest daughter, the second I made for my 12 y/o and third, my bff from high school. Yes, we still talk! The next four, my 12 y/o & I took a card class at Fun Stampers Journey last Saturday. Love love them! They have so many stamps too!! I want to go back for more! Richard, who owns the company, I met w/in the past couple of weeks at Spellbinders! He also works there, like moi! Yes I'm a happy camper! Instagram + scrapbooking = happiness

Until more cards are made, I have one in the works too, have a good night.

xo

Forever

I cannot believe it's almost happy heart day! I made this card from Sketch #6 by Heidi at PolkaDotPixies. I love layers, glitter & pink! Also the new roller stamps from Glitz? Love.

Supplies used:

Recollections My Favorite Things card stock

Teresa Collins Crush ticket paper

Glitz Chevron roller stamp

Doily

Donna Salazar / Zutter Distrezz-it-all

Martha Stewart border punch

Stazon ink: Jet Black

Ranger Stickles: Coffee Ice

Black sequins

Heart clip

So what do you think? Do you love layers, glitter & pink?

Have a great week!

xo

Make a Wish

I created this birthday card for Heidi's card sketch #5 over at Polka Dot Pixies. I love the colors & different patterns in the Basic Grey's Paper Cottage Collection! 

Supplies used:

Basic Grey Paper Cottage Collection, Donna Salazar Fairy Dust Glitter, Silhouette SD, Martha Stewart, scallop punch & washi tape

Happy Thursday!

xo