YAY FOR CROPS!!!!

For once I actually accomplished alot at a crop!!! I finished a mini book and another quick card. I am totally in love with this card. Its simple and I love the pop of the pink!!!! The card base is 5x5 piece of bazzil cs. Then a layer of WW and then a piece of Royal Ballet by one heart one mind!!!! Did I mention I love this paper WOW!!! I got the ribbon in a multi pack at HL. The frame was cut out with nesties and the sent is from Paper tray ink. I stamped it with SU! pink passion. Hope you like my quick card. All entrys must be in by tues night....Ill pick a winner then!!! Lets crank out some 15 min cards ladies!!! Check back tomorrow, I am gonna post a mini book I did tonight for my Husbands Valentines day present.....SHHHHHHHH Dont tell him ok?

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Ok now that thats over with :) I am way behind and I apologize!!!!! Melanie You won last weeks challenge....Just email me your address and Your goodies will be on their way!!! Here is the first of my 10 min cards. I am going to a crop tonight and I plan to make a BUNCH more to post tonight :) fingers crossed I will actually be awake enough to do it!!! I also plan on scrapping some tonight which I havent done in a while. Its my first true love and I feel bad that I havent been doing it!! I recently read Ali Edwards Life Artist, I absolutly loved it. It renewed my spirit and reminded me of what was really important in my crafting life!!!! The card was made with thickers by American Crafts, Bazzil cardstock, some christmas ribbon from Michaels, Prima flowers, a button, and some left over patterned paper(dasiy D's) from an altered thing im making for my BFF swap with my 2 buddies. I stamped a background image on the cs with Tim Holtz embossing ink but it faded away???? Any one else ever had that problem???? The stamping not showing up kinda threw the cards balance off so im gonna have to fix it. I figured it would be like versamark but alas it was not :( Ok i gotta finish packing for my crop.......I'm gonna keep repeating "I will post when I get home" over and over LOL Lata buddies!!!!!!! CRAP spell check still isnt working!!!!!!!!!! BOO ON BLOGGER GET IT FIXED!!!!!!!!! I cant spell for nothin :)

Challenge on THurs OOPS

Todays "wed challenge" is to create a card in 15 min. I went to a crop this past weekend and some scrappers were asking about cardmaking, to prove how easy it was I made a simple thank you card to match the altered project I had been working on that night. It took me all of about 10 min to make. Later on I was looking at the card, and I realized with a few changes the card could go from cute to WOW so I spent another 10 min on it. Mind you this was a few days later!! You dont have to revamp your card at all, Just make a quick card to remind yourself that youre in this hobby for the fun not to toil away for hours on one card!!! I will post my org. card along with my 10 min "revamped" version later today(Im waiting on a light box that I ordered to get here!!!) This challenge is open to any one that reads my blog. Just link to your card (or cards) in the comments and on wed I will pick a winner!!!! Have fun..........CREATE something today!!!!

Calendars

Hello again!!! BEWARE**** For some reason my blog spell check isnt working, so grandma and everyone else dont have a cow :) Hopefully it will be fixed tomorrow!!!!My friends Kristi and Niccole and I have a BFF swap that we just started doing. January's theme was a calendar, and this is my submission!!! First is a picture of the frame I used. I got it on sale at Hobby Lobby for about a dollar. It holds 2 4x6 pictures. All I did was measure it and slip my paper in and embellish the outside!!!! Super easy. The first frame is all SU! and is for Niccole(My super Hostess enabler buddy). I had a prob with this one because she likes earthy colors and I like bright cheery colors and lots of pink lol. It turned out ok in the end but im not entirely happy with it so im gonna make her another one even though she likes this one LOL. Postit notes go on the bottom left of the frames where my water mark is, I just didnt have any that matched. I think these are a cute quick and easy gift idea!!!! For hers I took some white ribbon and colored it with my copic markers(that I got from Gina k's copic club) and adheared it to the outside with Tacky Tape. The flowers(from Hobby Lobby) have Glossy Accents in the middle with seed beads on top. I saw this on some ones blog and I cant remember who(sorry I think your really cool though!!!) The paper is soft sky, so saffron, and old olive. The DP is Fall Flowers. I got the calender from Red Castle, which I found through Beate's tutorial on SCS.

Next is the one I made for Kristi(My Mrs Phil teenager advice columnist!) I jused paper from the For peeps sakes line from Imaginice. I am soooooooooo in love with this paper.....The best part is the matching stamps are only a dollar a piece. I bought mine on ebay way before I got the paper and I love them. The little birdy in the corner is the one Im talking about!!! It looks so cute stamped on the patterned paper!! I also bought this ribbon off eBay its May Arts and I already think I need more!!!!! This whole line makes me smile!!!! Hope you enjoyed todays post.....Hagd and remember Sistahs......try and do the challenge......You know you want the goodies!!!

SBS6 challenge #1

I was talking to our admin about setting up a weekly challenge for our Group and she said it would be great!Sooooooooooo Here's week #1's challenge. I want YOU to take some thing small, and inexpensive(like a dollar!!) and turn it into something to give as a sweet valentines day gift. No restrictions or vendor requirements! All you need to do is post a link to it here and I will randomly pick someone to win a prize!!!! The prize will be some stuff to alter from Target as allot of people have said they cant find these things. Please note only SBS6 sistahs are eligible for the prize, but anyone can play!!!! I will draw a name on Monday. Here are 2 examples that I made this week. The clips are explained on an earlier post. They were from the dollar spot at target, so were the little chocolate boxes. I just used the scraps from my paint cans to make matching items to go in them!!! Hope you guys have fun doing the challenge. I will be posting one every Wednesday. They will include everything from color challenges to inspiration challenges to anything else i can dream up!!!!! I'm off to make some more ideas for the challenge to post later today or tomorrow. Have a great day!!!!!

SORRY.....And a paint can!!!!

Sorry I have been the worst blogger ever.....I missed over a WEEK. **gasp** OK I have been making a bunch of altered stuff for the past two weeks, and I will be diligently posting them this week! I promise!!!! OK this can is for my friends swap on SCS. I got the can at home depot for $4 and its gallon size. First I measured and cut my paper to go around it. Then I laid the paper over the can and pressed down on the circles on the side so I would know where to cut them out. I used a 1" circle punch for this, creating a half moon shape where i had indented. It took two sheets to go all the way around the can! The paper was adhered with Modge Podge, cus I couldn't get the Tacky Tape to lay flat for some reason. Letters were cut out with my Cricut and Stamped with a swirl image(you cant really see it in the pic though). I adhered the pink ribbon with tacky tape to cover the seam between the two papers.

For the lid, I cut out a 5 1/2" circle with my cricut and adhered it with Modge Podge. I used my thumb nail to make sure the sides went all the way down, because the lid is actually about 5 1/4" Make sense??? Then I took some scrap paper and cut 2 circles out with my Nestabilities (one scalloped that i pierced, and one regular with I embossed). The finishing touches were some Liquid Pearls and Stickles in the flower centers and a sentiment stamped on scrap paper with some liquid pearls under it. Oh ya and some ribbon to the handle......Which BTW now that I look at it it defiantly needs some more!!!! Have a great day. I will be posting tomorrow so check back!!!!!!!

Details:

Paper: Imaginisce Loves Me

Ink: SU Real Red

Stamps: Studio G dollar stamp, Swirls by Stampendous

Other: Liquid Pearls pink and white, Stickles red, Nestabillities, Cricut, Paint can, Modge Podge, Tacky Tape, Random ribbon, and gems