Hello there!
Here's a card I made that's a little similar to this whale card I made back in January...
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...only this one is a gift card holder card! I applied adhesive to the water waves paper along the sides and bottom to create the pocket for the gift card holding whale. :o) I actually made the pocket a little too snug, so I had to re-think how the gift card was going to be held. I couldn't use the planned idea of punching slots on a slightly larger piece of cardstock because that just wouldn't fit. I wound up attaching a small strip of cardstock across each bottom corner so the gift card could just slide behind those.
When I finished this card, I thought that I probably should have made the gift card holder blue rather than purple so it would blend in with the background [I originally picked the purple to tie in with the little fish because I thought the card needed a bit more purple]. Either way, I think it's a happy-lookin' card, which is what I was going for! :o)
The cute whale, fish and most of the sentiment are from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Sea stamp set. I wanted to emphasize the word "whale", so I substituted the lowercase "whale" from the Critters in the Sea sentiment with "WHALE" spelled out with Jessie's ABCs. The style of the letters from Jessie's ABCs are just the right match!
Hope you got a smile here today! :o)
I'm a fan of stamps.
But today I'm not talking about the crafting type -- I'm talking postage stamps. When I was a kid, I used to collect them -- not in a serious way, but I would just keep neat-lookin' ones that I found in a little album I had. Nowadays, I still get kind of giddy when certain new stamp designs are released, but I buy them to use and not to collect. My favourite kind are the gummed ones [a stamp should be a stamp, I say!], but it seems that many of the ones here these days are the self-adhesive type. Still, any postage stamp is far better than this:
Ha!
When I send something through the mail, I like to decorate it, if even a little.
I mean, junk mail, bills, printed-on postage or blah postage labels kind of make the ol' mailbox kind of depressing, don't they?
It just takes a little extra time to make something look a little more fun, and it takes no time at all to stick on a nice postage stamp. :o) And it'll make a mailbox happier!
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Here's a kraft envelope that I decorated with a frame from Lawn Fawn's Fanciful Frames stamp set. The dashed lines are from Bon Voyage, and the "To:" was stamped using Smitty's ABCs.
I coloured the frame with Copic markers and took the accent colour from the lovely bird on the postage stamp! I guess that might seem a bit 'overboard', but why not, eh? :o)
Snail mail lives!
Hello there!
I hope you're having a nice weekend! For the next three days, I'll be sharing some projects I've made with some Lawn Fawn stamps! Today's project is a set of four mini cards:
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Aren't those embellishments adorable?! Those are Puffies from KI Memories. I set out to make only one card, but that turned into two, then three, then four...couldn't help it! A lot of the sentiments from Lawn Fawn suit these embellishments so well -- I could have kept going, but I thought a set of four was good! And I've got to say, I can't get enough of polka dotted paper -- the pale blue one is from Echo Park, and the other three are from October Afternoon. Polka dots = happy paper! I placed the scalloped circles a little bit past the top edges of the cards just to make 'em a tiny bit different from the usual.
Since I'm such a slow crafter, I like the idea of coming up with one simple design and then repeating it with different colours/sentiments/themes -- each card is different from the next, but they still look cute as a set! :o)
My personal fave of the four is the storm cloud mini card -- that cloud just cracks me up! The "we will weather the storm together" sentiment is from the Partly Cloudy stamp set. "You're Tweet!" was spelled out with Smitty's ABCs, "there's a bun in the oven!" is from Plus One, and "I've gone bananas for you!" is from My Silly Valentine!
Hope you got a smile here today! :o)
Hello there!
I wanted to say a shiny, sparkly *thank you* to everyone who stopped by during the Card Creations 9 blog hop and those who left a kind thought! I was so pleasantly surprised at how many of you are also pet parents and animal lovers! :o) Lots of hugs for your pets from me! And a shout out to Christiana who left a comment that made me want to cry. :o) Thanks, folks!
The winner of the Card Creations 9 issue is Lindsay C.! Congratulations, Lindsay!! I've e.mailed you for your snail mail address!
Thanks for stopping by today, and I hope your week is off to a crafty start! :o)
Hello, folks!
Today I'm very happy to be part of a fun Paper Crafts blog hop in celebration of the new special issue, Card Creations: Volume 9!
Image courtesy of Paper Crafts magazine
Nine of us were asked to create new projects using the Card Creations 9 cover as our inspiration. Here's my project for today...
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This sentiment could not be more true to me. Ha!
The stamps I used, including the background, are all from a personal fave of mine -- Starving Artistamps. The inspiration I drew from the cover was the layout of Kelley Eubanks' Birthday Bike card.
Card Creations 9 was such a fun issue to craft for! There were no limits because PC wanted cards for every occasion, so it really was a blast to make cards to submit!
Check out the blogs of the other eight designers for more!
Teri Anderson
Vanessa Menhorn
Cristina Kowalczyk
Windy Robinson
Julia Stainton
Kim Hughes
Betsy Veldman
Kalyn Kepner
If you'd like to order a copy of Card Creations 9, click here! Comments are open on this post, so you can also leave a comment here for your chance to win a copy! You have until midnight MDT on Sunday, May 22nd to leave your comment [only one comment per person, please!]. I have Comment Moderation turned on, so don't be alarmed that your comment doesn't appear right away! You can increase your chances of winning by commenting on the other eight blogs in the hop!
Also, be sure to comment on today's post over at the Paper Crafts Connection blog! They're giving away THREE awesome prize packages!
Thanks for stopping by today, and have a crafty weekend!! :o)
Hello again!
I just wanted to say a big thanks to Kerri for posting my Hip Hip Hooray card on the Paper Crafts Connection blog today! Woo-Hooooo!! :o) Also, thank you to those who left such kind words on the Q&A post there as well! I truly appreciate it very, very much! :o)
Thanks for stopping by today!
Hello there!
Another late post! Yesterday was the last day of projects for the new Lawn Fawn stamp sets that are now in the store! It was Cruising Through Life day! Here's a card I made with this stamp set...
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I coloured in parts of the pinwheels with Copic markers, cut 'em out and attached 'em with brads so that the pinwheels can turn! The cloud is from the Bon Voyage set -- I wanted it to be subtler on the card, so I stamped it, cut it out and turned it over so it would be plain. I wanted to give the cloud just a bit of dimension, so I attached it with a little dimensional adhesive in the centre but regular adhesive on the sides. I attached the separate words of the sentiment with different levels of adhesive -- I wanted the word "your" to stand out the most. :o)
For more super-fun projects using the Cruising Through Life stamp set, check out the blogs of the other Lawn Fawn girls:
Julie
Latisha
Lea
Lynnette
Nichol
Teri
Tiffany
...and, of course, the Lawn Fawn blog!
Thanks for stopping by today!
Hello, folks!
A little late with today's post! Today is the second day of projects for the new Lawn Fawn stamp sets that will be in the store on May 19th! Today is Bon Voyage day! Here's a gift tag I made with this little set...
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The sentiment is actually from tomorrow's stamp set, but the other four stamps I used are from Bon Voyage.
For more super-fun projects using the Bon Voyage stamp set, check out the blogs of the other Lawn Fawn girls:
Julie
Latisha
Lea
Lynnette
Nichol
Teri
Tiffany
...and, of course, the Lawn Fawn blog!
Thanks for stopping by today!
Hello there!
Today I am very honoured to have a Q&A posted over at the Paper Crafts Connection blog! Thank you, Paper Crafts!! This week, they're promoting the new special issue, Card Creations: Volume 9! This issue is full of fun cards for every occasion -- and I mean full. It's awesome!
Even though we're in the middle of May, I'm going to share another shot of my Ghostly Boo card from the Halloween section of the magazine!
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I die-cut the ghost from white glittery cardstock and the word 'Boo!' from purple shimmery cardstock. The webs are embossed, and I used a cotton swab to lightly apply some ink to bring out the design. It was really fun to make this card!
Thanks again, Paper Crafts, and thank you for stopping by today!! :o)
Hello, folks!
Welcome to the first day of projects for the new Lawn Fawn stamp sets that will be in the store on May 19th! Today is Admit One day! Here's a gift tag I made with this set...
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I cut out the ferris wheel and attached it with that big gem brad so that the ferris wheel can turn!
For more super-fun projects using the Admit One stamp set, check out the blogs of the other Lawn Fawn girls:
Julie
Latisha
Lea
Lynnette
Nichol
Teri
Tiffany
...and, of course, the Lawn Fawn blog!
Thanks for stopping by today!
It's been a little over a year since I started this blog and exactly a year since I first started submitting cards, so I've been reflecting lately and want to keep reminding myself of the real reasons I started.
When I started my blog, and for quite a while after it began, I really didn't get a lot of visits or comments, but it just plain didn't matter. I really enjoyed making things and posting, even if it was just for me to look at. It just felt like I was keeping a different kind of journal from my usual paper-and-pen ones, and I enjoyed looking back at projects and remembering how fun it was to come up with the ideas and see them come to life. :o)
I'd like to go 'back to basics', so I've made a few changes here.
I removed my page counter, the Google Friend Connect/Follower thing, and am not going to have comments open on posts [except in a few certain cases]. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with these things -- it's just a choice I'm making.
I don't think of myself as someone who cares about 'numbers', and if I see myself almost heading in that direction, then I have to change something. To be honest, since my blog has started to get a few more regular visits, I will sometimes find myself thinking, "I wonder how many people visited today" or "I wonder if anyone left a comment" -- and I'm really not crazy about that. I don't want the number of visits or number of comments to affect how I feel about any particular post or about blogging in general. I'd like to go back to how it was before when I didn't think about any of that.
If you no longer see my avatar in your Google Friend Connect thing, please do not be offended! I'm going back to my 'old' way of bookmarking blogs because I just prefer that. I added the Friend Connect thing to my blog because of a very kind request I received on one of my posts, and though I did try to get with the program for a little while by adding some blogs, it never seemed to 'fit' with me. I'm really not a social networker at all. If anyone wishes to stop 'following' my blog because of this, I completely understand, and there are no hard feelings! If anyone chooses to stop by again, thank you very much!
My heartfelt thanks to those who have taken the time to leave kind words on past posts -- you've made me smile and laugh, and I really appreciate your kindness a whole lot. Thank you!
...from this day, I submitted cards for the first time to Paper Crafts magazine! I had purchased an issue of Paper Crafts and saw a little message in it that read, "Want to submit your ideas to Paper Crafts?" It interested me enough to visit the website. From there, I clicked on the 'Submit' tab and read about the categories for the November/December 2010 issue. I just thought, "Why the heck not?" and made four cards that I submitted. I was truly surprised and ecstatic that they picked one! I was very happy with the cards that I made, but I really didn't want to expect anything and get my hopes up. It's still crazy for me to think of all that's happened in the past year. This is my first published card -- I still look at this card very fondly, and it reminds me of how I felt then...
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If you've always dreamed about seeing your work in print, take the first step and try! I'm as ordinary as they come, and I think I've done sort of okay, so that really has to mean that anyone can do well with it. And I mean anyone. Ah hee hee!
Thank you, Paper Crafts, for all of the crafty fun that's happened over the past year -- I appreciate it!
Hello there!
I just got these fun pom pom trims and ribbons in the mail, so I thought I'd add some to the Donation-Giveaways!
These will be added to the Best Friends giveaway [1 yard of each colour for a total of 3 yards]:
These are so fun and festive, like Forrest's birthday party, so I thought they'd make a nice addition to the Best Friends prize! :o)
These will be added to the WSPA Canada giveaway [1 yard of each type for a total of 3 yards]:
These are so pretty, so I thought they'd go well with that BasicGrey stamp set! :o)
Thanks for stopping by today!
