Pastel Hello

Happy Friday!!! That means it's Friends With Flair Day over on the Unity blog! Link up your Unity creations there! For today's card I used The Simple Things kit. I love the flowers and leaves stamps in this kit, and they look awesome double stamped, which I did here. The sentiment is from a grab bag, so not sure which kit that one is from! Thanks so much for having a look today!
Other supplies used: Stampin Up cardstock and ink(new in colors!) Stampin Up ribbon and embossing folder, Memory Box buckle die.
Pam

Gift Card Holder

Hello everyone! I am sharing a gift card holder card that I made to play along with the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge which is a sketch this week:

The gift card holder is actually a Paper Smooches die called Shopping Bag, and you adhere it to the card front, cute right?! I also used two Paper Smooches stamp sets, Shadows for the subtle background, and Market Fresh for the sentiment and money. I also used the Borders 1 dies on the cardstock that the sentiment is stamped on. I was going for a ragged receipt look! Here is a side view of the die cut:

I am also sending this to the Paper Smooches Be Our Guest, for a chance to be a guest designer on their blog! Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Shrink Plastic

So I found this wonderful shrink plastic from Darcie's Heart and Home when I was at the scrapbook show a few month's ago. I love this product! When it shrinks, it is very thick, and I can get it to be almost completely flat. PLUS, it's printable!! Yes, just run it through your printer with ANY image you have!!! The one I used is a pre-colored digi stamp from The Paper Shelter. Check the link on my sidebar to check out their images, they are just adorable!! I printed this image to fill an A2 card front size. Trimmed it out, shrunk it, then attached a magnet to the back. Love how the colors stay so bright and crisp!! This has shrunk down to about 2 inches!! Isn't it cute?!! I am entering this to The Paper Shelter challenge, which is Flower Power. Thank you for stopping by!
Pam

Gold Tag

I am playing along with this week's Paper Smooches SPARKS trend watch challenge which is all about the gold!

I'm not a huge fan of gold, unless it's in jewelry form!! But, I thought I'd give myself a challenge. So instead of using gold paper, or embossing powder I stitched this heart from the Paper Smooches Needle Little Love stamp set in gold. Here is my progress:

I first stamped the heart with black Stazon ink onto a piece of muslin.

Then I started cross stitching following the pattern in the heart.

Then I trimmed around the muslin and frayed the edges. I wanted to add more gold, so I painted a piece of watercolor paper with gold acrylic paint, and glued on the stitched fabric piece. I decided to make a tag out of it and attached a small bow, punched a hole and threaded some more floss through it. So that's my interpretation of using gold in my paper crafts! Thanks so much for having a look!

Pam

 

 

 

My Other Crafty Life

Hello all! I wanted to share my other blog I just set up for sharing all the other crafty items that I make! My Creative Life is a typepad blog. I hope you will all be able to comment on it, as you don't need to have a typepad account. Anyway, here is one pic of what I shared over there today.

I hope you'll stop by for a visit!! I do so many other crafty things other than card making and scrapbooking, and I wanted another place to share them. Hope you've had a great weekend, and are ready for a new week! I've enjoyed watching my garden grow over the past few days from all the rain that's been coming down!
Pam

So Little Time....

Hello! So I haven't been in my craft room since last Friday!! Whoah!! I know, where has this past week gone?! Well, I wanted to share something, so here are some cards for magazine publication that were rejected. The first two were made with a Market Street Stamps background stamp, I really love that one! The sentiment on the first card is from Technique Tuesday. The last one is a note card made with decorative mini cupcake liners, and the sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. So that's my eye candy for today! I hope to get some crafting time soon!! I do have this Friday off, woohoo!! Thanks for dropping by!!
Pam

Best Day and Winner!!

Welcome Back! I wanted to share one last Unity card with you! I made this for my little guy who's birthday is in a few days. I stamped this Itty Bitty from Simple Stories called Best Day onto the card, made a mask on a post it, then used my favorite Distress Ink to cover all around it. I love doing this with this calendar image, it just totally pops! Here is a close up:

The birthday sentiment is from the Unity kit How You Doin?

Now on to the winner of the Itty Bitty stamps!!!

Random.Org picked day 4 and commenter #16

SHartl!!!! Congrats to you!! I will be sending you an email later today! Go pick out which 2 Itty Bitty stamp sets you would like!! Thanks SO much to everyone who stopped by my blog this week and left such sweet comments!! And thanks again to Unity!!!!! Have a great Memorial Day!