TGF Creepin Crew easel drawer card

Here is another easel drawer card using an image from The Greeting Farm Creepin Crew set.  The papers used are from the DCWV Flower Shower stack. The image was colored using alcohol markers and I paper pieced her hat, shirt and pants. She is stamped on an oval nestabilitie and layered on a scalloped oval nestabilitie. The sentiments are from Stampin Up and The Angel Company. The button embellishments are ones I had in my stash. This project is 4 1/4" squared. I used a Tim Holtz hitch fastner for the drawer pull. I used the Sakura Stardust pen for her eyelids.
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Teacher Easel Box Card

Here is an easel box card that was made for my daughter's teacher. The card and box are 5"x5" square. The notebook background paper was plain white cardstock that I had used a ruler and drew lines on and then stamped with an assortment of stamps. I used the Stampin Up spiral punch for the notebook edging. The girl is a C.C. Designs "Honey Teacher" stamp that I paper pieced and colored in with alcohol markers and matted with spellbinders. The "Just for you, Teacher" sentiment stamp is from the "More Gift card sentiments" stamp set  from My Creative Time. On the drawer of the box I had stamped and colored the pencil and apple separately and added glossy accents and then adhered them to the front of the drawer. The drawer pull is a Tim Holtz hitch fastener. The red and green designer paper is from Stampin Up. Inside the drawer we placed some sticky notes and shaped paperclips.
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Geisha suitcase gift card holder with card

This gift card holder was made using the Sizzix suitcase die (this die is perfect size for a small treat or gift card). The geisha girls are from Stampin Up "Kimono Kids" stamp set.The kimonos, lanterns, fan and umbrella were paper pieced and shaded.On an oval background I had stamped the lanterns and colored the background and then added the paper pieced lanterns and cut shape using a nestabilitie. I then ran it through my cuttlebug with an embossing folder from Stampin Up to add texture. There is some gold highlights added to the girls with a  stardust pen. The sentiment is from the same SU set and punched with the word window punch and mounted on a modern label punch that was also embossed with the cuttlebug. The paper lines used are My Minds Eye and Provocraft. The card measures 2 1/2" x 3".

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Creative Time for Me's August Sneak Peek

Check out Emma's new August sneak peek going on right now at Creative Time for Me. She has some awesome stamps and new dies that can be used with your bigshot or cuttlebug. Love the stitched circle embossing die. She has some great projects on her site.

Teacher Appreciation

This card was made for Teacher Appreciation Day, my daughter has a wonderful teacher this year and we wanted to let her know that.
This is a regular A2 size card. For the chalkboard I stamped a woodgrain stamp on a tan cardstock and cut a frame with nestabilities square dies, this was layered on the top of a piece of black cardstock that was stamped with white craft ink. The ribbon is from Micheals. The apple, chalk, backpack, scissors and ruler are cut from a Disney Cuttlebug cut and emboss die. I used stickles on the scissors and glossy accents on the apple.

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Here is a card I made for Thanksgiving. The turkey is a D.O.T.S. "Terrific Turkey" stamp and I stamped it with stazon ink on watercolor paper and used my Stampin Up markers to color him in. I then cut some leaves with a cuttlebug die and adhered them on my image.  I used the I-Rock to attach the bling on the leaves and on the card. The background paper is some old paper I had in my stash. Each layer was matted on dark brown cardstock and then added to a crumb cake A2 size card base. And then I added a ribbon bow. Thanks for looking and to my family, friends, and fellow crafters THANK YOU!!! for inspiring me each and every day.

Motorcycle Birthday Card

Off to my nephews birthday party, but I thought I would share the card I had made for him. He is fond of motorcycles and dirtbikes so this is what I came up with. The card base is a standard A2 size card of Stampin Up's Pacific Point cardstock cut 5 1/2 x 11 and scored in half. I then matted a piece of tin foil (that I had embossed with my diamond cuttlebug folder) on a piece of black cardstock. The motorcycle is a Stampin Up stamp and so is the sentiment. I colored in the motorcycle with pacific point and going gray ink with my blender pen and sponged the edges with pacific point ink, then matted the image on black cardstock. Mini brads were placed in all four corners and then the matted imaged was placed on the card with dimensionals.

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Christmas Box Card

I had seen the directions for this type of card on a fellow crafter's blog Valita's Designs and Fresh Folds and knew I wanted to try this so here is my take on this type of card. The gingerbread men are from a TAC set that I stamped on Kraft cardstock 3 times (on two of them I excluded the heart and left the heart on one and colored it with a red marker). Glossy accents was used on the heart of the gingerbread man and the others I placed some tiny buttons from my stash. I filled in the frosting lines with my white gel pen. The two background papers are Stampin Up's Bermuda Bay cardstock stamped with snowflakes in versamark ink. The top and bottom gingerbread people are mounted on dimensionals and the middle gingerbread man is mounted on dimensionals on one side, on the other side is a piece of velcro.  The ribbon is red cardstock punched with the lace border punch from Stampin Up. I then shaped a bow from the cardstock and added that to the foe ribbon and added a pearl in the middle. The sentiment is a TAC stamp with Bermuda bay snowflakes lightly stamped in the background and punched out with the SU large oval punch and matted on an SU scalloped oval. I used my white gel pen to doodle dots on the scallops. The inside of the card box has a piece of Bermuda Bay cardstock that I stamped snowflakes with white ink and then used a word background stamp with versamark and clear embossed over the top. The tags are from a TAC stamp set that I had left over from last year that I had made up.

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Halloween series #3 Ravens

This card was made using Stampin Up's "Aviary", "Graveyard Gala" and "From the Crypt" stamp sets. The purple background paper was stamped with the skull in From the Crypt and embossed with clear embossing, then crinkled to get the aged effect. I tore the edges of one side and sponged around all the edges. The black background was embossed with the swiss dots cuttlebug embossing folder and the edges were distressed. I stamped the birdcages and ravens and cut them out. I attached the birdcages with dimesionals and placed a brad in the top of each cage. I strung some beads on a corsage pin for the stick pin and placed it into the ribbon. The orange tag was a Studio G stamp clear embossed and then cut out and attached to the ribbon. I added some black brads around the corners of the purple layer and added some sparkle with Scribbles glittering crystal 3d paint (great alternative to stickles).
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Fairy "Thank You" cards

I was recently RAK'd a set of Studio G Series 28 stamps "Fairy Set" from an awesome crafter on the Splitcoast messageboard.  Although Studio G stamps are not of the highest quality stamps (sometimes you need to condition them to stamp well), I think this set is awesome. I made a set of four 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" cards. I used four images of fairies from the set and colored them in with watercolor pencils and waterpen.  The pixie dust circle around the fairies are from the cuttlebug cut and emboss die fairy dust I found at Big Lots.  The "Thank You" stamp in the corner is from a stamp set from The Angel Company. I used Scribbles glittering crystal 3D paint on the wings (This is a cheap alternative to stickles).  I cut a one inch strip for a belly band and embossed with  the "Textile" cuttlebug folder. The pixie dust circles and belly band were misted with some homemade glimmer mist (would love to try the real glimmer mist just can't afford it) and lightly brushed across embossing with a gold ink pad. I layered some paper flowers from Michaels dollar bin and placed a brad in the center. I used the "Tiny Tags" stamp set to stamp the sentiment and the Jewlery tag from Stampin Up to punch out the tag and placed that on the flower with the brad. There are some really awesome, kind people out there who get overlooked by all the negativity in this world.  I am so glad that I have had the opportunity to meet with some of them. Thank you!! and thanks for looking at my creations.