Mother's Day Card with Scrappy Moms Stamps

Hi There! I am posting this a little late but wanted to get it up.

 

Today a new Terrific Tuesday Challenge has been posted at Scrappy Moms Stamps!

 

This week's challenge is all about Mothers. Make a project for Mother's Day.

 

I made a card, of course!

 

 

I used a sentiment from Scrappy Moms Stamps "Fun Celebrations" set.

 

 

Other items used:

 

Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge ~ mat

Cindy Loo Cricut cartridge ~ flower

My Mind's Eye Reunion paper pad

The Paper Studio flat backed pearls

Ranger Distress Ink - Tea Dye

Ranger Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Ribbon from my stash

Foam tape

 

I hope you will join us in the challenge this week. You can link up at Scrappy Moms Stamps!

 

Until next time...

Happy Crafting!

 

Thank You Indie Chic! ~ Shop Pumpkin Spice Inspiration

Hi There and Welcome to Luv Scrapping Together!

Today is my day to provide inspiration on the Pumpkin Spice Blog and I am thrilled to share my card with you!

I'm sure many of you have seen the My Mind's Eye "Indie Chic" papers. I just received mine a few days ago and I am loving the rich, beautiful prints in this 6x6 pad. What's wonderful about My Mind's Eye is that they create wonderful embellishments to go with their paper lines. I used several on this card.

The flowers on here are handmade by me. I had fun picking out the papers to make them but, Boy, were my fingers sore afterward! It was worth it, though. I love the way they turned out.

Remember, Shop Pumpkin Spice carries the newest lines of designer paper and most importantly it is always 30% off retail or more. We all love that, don't we?

Here are the items I used and can be found at Shop Pumpkin Spice:

My Mind's Eye Indie Chic "Ginger" 6x6 pad

My Mind's Eye Indie Chic ~ Ginger "Adventure" Decorative Brads

My Mind's Eye Indie Chic ~ Ginger "Direction" Decorative Buttons

The Twinery Baker's Twine in Cantaloupe

My Pink Stamper "Girlie Doodles"

Other items used:

Cindy Loo Cricut Cartridge ~ flourish

Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge ~ scallops for flower

Seam Binding from my stash

I hope you enjoyed my card today! Be sure to visit the Pumpkin Spice Blog Monday through Friday for lots of inspiration!

Until next time...

Happy Crafting!

Sending Love ~ Shop Pumpkin Spice Blog Hop

Hi Everyone! Welcome to Luv Scrapping Together!

The designers for Shop Pumpkin Spice is having a Blog Hop. The theme for this hop is to create a sympathy card. We know it's a difficult task and we wanted to help you all a little.

You should have gotten here from Lezlye's blog: Ink and Paper Creations. If you just happened upon my blog then you will want to start from the beginning at the Pumpkin Spice Blog so as to not miss a thing.

I have to say that I have not had to make many sympathy cards so it took me some time to figure out what I wanted to do.

When I think of sympathy cards I think of soft soothing colors. That's why I turned to My Mind's Eye Stella and Rose "Hazel" 6x6 paper pad. This pad is filled with beautiful prints in soft colors. All the printed card stock is from this pad.

I used a sentiment from the new My Pink Stamper Handle with Care set. I added some ribbon from my stash and topped it off with a brad from My Mind's Eye Fine and Dandy Tickled Pink decorative brads.

Other items used:

Cricut Expression

A Child's Year Cartridge ~ scalloped oval tag

Cindy Loo ~ Flower

Ranger Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye

Thank you for stopping! Now it's time to head on over to Lenae's blog: Sugargem Crafts.

Sympathy Card ~ Pumpkin Spice Design Team call Entry

Good Evening, my crafty friends! I have been busy crafting the last few days and still have a few items on my list to get done.

This morning my father-in-law called and informed us that my husband's cousin had past away. My husband wasn't close to this cousin and I had never met him but we wanted to send his cousin's parents a sympathy card. I was trying to decide on a design and was thinking about what I wanted to do when I happened upon Courts Crafts. Court was sharing about a few design team calls and so I decided I would give the Pumpkin Spice design team call a try. I had to get to this quickly as the deadline is tomorrow!

Pumpkin Spice is an online paper crafting store with discounted prices. This was the first time I have looked through thier store and I must say the that the prices are mush less than others. I plan on purchasing a few things in the near future. You should check them out. You will not be disappointed.

The requirements for the design team call was to make a new project using 2 lines of paper that they had listed.

I wanted a soft and pretty look to my card so I went with soft colors and papers from 2 of my favorite paper lines, My Mind's Eye and Echo Park.

Here is a close up of the beautiful petal pink crinkle ribbon and pearls.

Here is a list of products I used to create this card:

My Mind's Eye ~ Where the Heart Is (green polka dots and soft yellow)

Echo Park ~ Life is Good (the two shades of pink on the flower)

Solid color is DCWV

Cricut cartridges ~ A Child's Year for the oval and scalloped oval ; Cindy Loo for the flower and scalloped border.

Ranger Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye to ink around all the edges

Petal Pink Crinkle Ribbon from My Craft Spot

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder ~ Swiss Dots

Bo Bunny ~ Crazy Love Jewels ( or in this case pearls :) )

Other miscellaneous items: ATG, foam tape, glue gun, and piercing tool

Don't forget to check out Pumpkin Spice. You will love their prices and their products!

Thanks for stopping and Happy Crafting!!

Just a Pretty Owl

Happy Friday, My Crafty Friends!

It's time for another challenge over at Flaunt It Fridays. This week we are flaunting Cindy Loo and guess what? It's anything goes! How fun is that! So I was looking through my booklet and I just had to cut this owl. I already had a person in mind for this card when I created it and have already put it in the mail. Have a look-see!

I truly love how this turned out. I think it is because the paper I used is gorgeous!

Here are the details:

Cindy Loo Cricut Cartridge ~ owl and scalloped circles

Echo Park cardstock ~ Life Is Good

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder ~ Swiss Dots

Ranger Distress Ink ~ Brushed Corduroy

Ribbon

Pop dots

Now hop on over to the Flaunt It Fridays challenge blog and check out what the rest of the talented design team put together. Let me tell you there are some beautiful projects over there. Then, dust off your Cindy Loo cartridge and create something. We would love to see how you flaunt it this week.

Have great weekend, Friends!

A Treemendous Card!

Happy Monday, Everyone! I hope it's beautiful and sunny where you are! It's time for another "Challenge Me Monday" over at Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and today's challenge is to use a tree or tree branch somewhere in your project. I've been using my Cindy Loo cartridge a bit more lately and I saw the perfect cut for this challenge.

Here is what was used to create this card:

Cricut Cartridge ~ Cindy Loo

Gypsy ~ I welded 2 shadow cuts for my base

Cardstock ~ Recollections and DCWV Autumn Splendor

Cuttlebug ~ Swiss Dots embossing folder

Ranger Distress Ink ~ Brushed Corduroy

Sakura Gelly Roll Pen ~ White

Ribbon ~ Hobby Lobby

Pop Dots, Glue Dots, ATG

Now this partricular cut on Cindy Loo does not have layers so I cut it out several times so that I could have green leaves and pop the frame up from the rest of the card. I also cut out a seperate bird and all its layers.

Well that's it for today. I hope you will pop on over to Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog to see what my fellow designers have to inspire you with today. Join in the challenge, there is always great prizes to be won!

Happy Crafting!

Spotlight My Craft Spot ~ Post #1

Happy Sunday!

I hope you all are enjoying your weekend. As many of you may already know, I am a designer for Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog. Well, not only am I a designer but I also write the Spotlight Sunday feature for FCCB.

This week's Spotlight Sunday is a spotlight of one of our sponsors: My Craft Spot.

I was given the priviledge of not only spotlighting My Craft Spot but also designing with the beautiful hand-dyed Crinkle Ribbon that can be purchased there. I made 4 projects with the Crinkle Ribbon and I will be showing them to you over the next few days.

For my first project I made a card using Spring Moss Crinkle Ribbon.

I love the elegant look of this card. The crinkle ribbon is beautiful. It definately lends itself to a vintage feel.

Here are the details for this card:

Card measures 4.25 x 5.5

Cricut Cartridges ~ A Child's Year, oval and scalloped oval cut at 4.01 ~ Cindy Loo, flower cut at 2.76 and scalloped border cut at .83

My Craft Spot ~ Spring Moss Crinkle Ribbon

Ranger Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye

Cardstock ~ DCWV, K&Company Classic K McKenna Mat Pad

Pearls

Foam tape, Glue Dots, Zig Glue Pen, and ATG

Head on over to Fantabulous Cricut to see the other projects I have created along with a few of my fellow design team members and to read about My Craft Spot and the wonderfully talented Kimberly.

If you are interested in purchasing Crinkle Ribbon or Baker's Twine I want to let you know about a special promotion that Kimberly is offering.

With every $25 purchase you will receive FREE one 30 yard spool of Traditional Baker's Twine in the color of your choice. All you need to do is write: FCCB free twine offer with your color choice in the "notes to seller" section at the time of checkout. This special promotion will end March 15th so you will want to hurry! And get this...

Every order recieves FREE shipping no matter how much you spend.

Now go visit My Craft Spot -HERE to see all the scrumptous colors of Crinkle Ribbon and Baker's Twine.

Happy Crafting!

Fall Birthday Card

Hi Bloggie Buddies :)

Here is a card that I made for my mother-in-law's birthday. I am submitting this to Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday. The challenge this week is to make something with leaves. I'm also submitting this on Party Time Tuesday blog. The challenge is anything goes but with a birthday sentiment on the front.

Here are the details:

Card size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches

Cricut Cartridges ~ Cindy Loo ~ tree trunk, Gypsy Wanderings ~ Crown (I was trying to mimic the trees on the patterned paper.)

Solid Cardstock ~ Recollections

Patterned Cardstock ~ DCWV Autumn Splendor and K&Company Fall Harvest

Martha Stewart ~ Around the Edge leaf punch

Crinkle Ribbon ~ Pumpkin Spice ~ You can order this ribbon from Kim at My Craft Spot. She has done quite a few projects with this ribbon. The colors are beautiful.

Sentiment ~ Fiscars

Leaf buttons ~ Michaels

White Gelly Roll Pen for doodling

Stitching ~ done on my sewing machine in a zig-zag stitch

Thanks for stopping by!

You're So Deer

I just wanted to share with you all a card I made for my pastor's wife. I have been going through a difficult time in my life and although I am excited about my future I am also sad about what I am leaving behind. Anyway, she came to me today and shared some encouraging words and showed me such love that I just had to make a card to share how much I care for her. This is a simple card to make but I think it came out darling.

This is a 4.25 x 5.5 card folded portait style.

Details:

• Cricut cartridge ~ Cindy Loo ~ deer cut at 3.5 inches
• Kraft cardstock for the base
• Solid cardstock is WasuWasu ~ I bought this at Target and it seemed to cut quite nicely for this deer but I have had trouble with other cuts.
• Patterned Cardstock ~ DCWV Baby Boy Mat Stack
• Fiskar's Punch
• Debbie Mumm ribbon
• Sentiment is computer generated

Thank you all for your sweet comments. I appreciate them all.

Happy Crafting!

Just Because...

I have another card for you today. I made this card for some dear friends in appreciation and also as an encouragement. I decided that I would us the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge. For this challenge you had to use the sketch and also use kraft cardstock on your project. Here is what I came up with:

This is the sketch:

Now for the details... This is a 4.75 x 5.5 size card folded at the top.

• Cricut Cartridges~ Home Accents ~ Oval Frame, I used the hide contour feature in my Gypsy to just cut the outside of this oval, Cindy Loo ~ Flower, Plantin School Book ~ Oval and the rectangle for my layer. I designed this card in my Gypsy. I have to say that I LOVE my Gypsy!! It makes design so easy.
• Paterned Paper is K&Company ~ Classic K McKenna Mat Pad
• Solid Cardstock ~ Recollections
• Rick Rack from my stash
• Ranger Distress Ink~ Tea Dye and Aged Mahogany

I am so glad I used Home Accents and Cindy Loo for this card. It has been a long time since I used them. It makes me want to check them out all over again.

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Recreation ~ Cindy Loo

Good Morning! I am so enjoying my time off from school. It has been so nice to just have the time to play in my craft room. Last week was very crazy but this week my kids are at summer camp so it is very quiet around here.

I wanted to share a card I recreated. I first saw this card over on Jeannie's blog. I just thought it was adorable. Here is the direct link to her card: http://aplaceformycards.blogspot.com/ Isn't it cute! Well, when I saw her card I just knew that I wanted to get the Cindy Loo Cricut cartridge. Sure enough CricutMachine.com was having a sale and I snatched this cartridge right away.

Here is what I used to make the card:

Cindy Loo Cricut cartridge ~ flower from p. 51 cut at 4 inches with the layers and squirrel from p. 62 cut at 1 inch with all it's layers

Doodle Charms Cricut cartridge ~ lady bug p.92 cut at approximately 3/4 inch and all its layers.

Paper is from DCWV Baby Boy stack and Papertrey Ink

Color Box pigment ink in brown.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope to have more projects to show later.

~Saundra :)