My Craft Spot Ch #34 - Homemade Flower Power

Goodmorning!  It's Monday but a short week Monday...woohoo!!  No long work week here!  This week at My Craft Spot we are showing off our Handmade Flower Power!  The challenge is to include at least one handmade flower in your project!  I had a hard time deciding wether I wanted to share a handmade paper flower or ribbon flower but in the end the Crinkle Ribbon Flower won!

I made a card for one of the women who takes care of our areas Girl Scouts.  I wanted to get my Oldest E involved in Daisies earlier but it hasn't happened with all the chaos this fall!  Hopefully it will happen next year!  I found this absolutely adorable La-La Land Scout Marci Stamp and had to have it!

Here is a close-up of my Homemade Flower Power!  I knew I had to go with a ribbon flower because my paper flowers are pitiful compared to the beautiful ones the other ladies make with that flower shoppe cart (on my wishlist)!! 

The crinkle ribbon ones are easy to make.  I sewed down the length of the Hot Pink ribbon with my sewing machine but you can do it by hand too, then I pulled the strings tight to gather it. 

I punched out a 1 1/4" circle (I decided not to use the button sitting there).

Then I adhered the gathered crinkle ribbon to the circle by starting on the outside and working my way in.

Added a rhinestone (yes my poor neglected stash of them) and I stapled a curl of Olive Green Crinkle Ribbon for the leaves.  I adhered that to the back of the circle with a glue dot and viola...a beautiful Handmade flower!

Please come show off your Handmade Flower Power this week at My Craft Spot!  Thanks for stopping by today!

No Time for Catching Butterflies: Get Well Soon Card

First, I want to thank all my old and new friends for stopping by with your well wishes for my new position with the My Craft Spot Design Team.  I am humbled with the number of you who stopped by and have liked what you see!  I promise to continue posting fun and inspiring projects for you and I plan on visiting many of you this weekend!   Thank you!
So, have I mentioned lately that I love Kate's ABCs Cartridge!  My daughter picked this image for a Get Well Soon card.  She said she would be sad if she was too sick to catch the butterflies!  My Craft Spot's Monday Challenge #4 this week is Get Well Soon and we're playing for a chance to win your favorite set of Hand Dyed Crinkle Ribbon!

For this card I used Kate's ABCs and My Craft Spot Inside & Out Set #1 

I also made a ruffle of ribbon using the Snow White Crinkle Ribbon.  

What's great about the Inside & Out stamp sets are that they come with a sentiment for the outside and inside of your cards!   

Products Used:

• American Crafts Cardstock
• Stampin' Up! Cardstock and Top Note Die
• Kate's ABCs Cricut Cartridge
• My Craft Spot Inside & Out Set #1 Stamp Set
• My Craft Spot Hand Dyed Crinkle Ribbon and Baker's Twine
• Martha Stewart Border Punch
• Divine Swirls Cuttlebug Folder
• Basic Grey Button
• Signo White Gel Pen

Other Challenges:

Flutter By Wednesday #151 Open Challenge (must use a butterfly, angel or fairy)

There is still time to join in the fun, so head over to My Craft Spot and link up your Get Well Soon project! 

Baaa, Baaa Birthday Card

I got a wonderful package in the mail today!  It came from My Craft Spot and it had the most beautiful toys in it!!  I could not wait to play!  Here is a birthday card I made for a knitty friend using the Hand Dyed Crinkle Ribbon and stamps from Sweet Sentiments Set #1 that were in my package!

I was following the sketch from GAB challenge #10 and I was using my scraps from my Camping Trip LO.  I had planned on using the other side of the polka-dot paper but accidentally applied my adhesive to the wrong side...oppsies!  Oh well, it still looks cute and I loved the way the ribbon matched the paper!  I also love how the ribbon tied so nicely on this.  If you look closely, you'll see that it is just a bunch of cheater knots, not an actual bow! 

The lamb is double layered and I thought it was a fitting image for a friend who knits.  It also went nicely with the inside sentiment!  I love the quality of these stamps and they stamped so nicely (even over the layers of paper like on the "Happy" part of the outside sentiment).  I added a little tag to the lamb and hand wrote the "Baaa" sentiment. 

Here is the card the girlies made with the scraps while I was working on my card!  My Oldest E wanted to cut a little lamb for the card with the cricut but Middle E wanted a baa, baa black sheep.  Looks like Middle E won!  Baby E worked on her normal job of floor clean-up, picking up all the little pieces of paper (some of which I'm sure I will find in her diaper).  The funniest thing I saw was the label on the Cosmo Cricket paper reads "Acid Free. Lignin Free. Fat Free. Sugar Free. High in Fiber. Happy Trails"!  Good to know because Baby E eats a lot of paper...hehe! 

Make sure you check out Kimberly's new line of stamps over at My Craft Spot and let her know I sent you! 

Products Used:

• Cosmo Cricket Mr. Campy Paper
• Stampin' Up! CS, Dimensionals and Ink
• My Craft Spot Sweet Sentiments Set #1 Stamp set
• My Craft Spot Hand-dyed Crinkle Ribbon and Bakers Twine
• Country Life Cricut Cartridge

Challenges:
GAB Challenge #10 Sketch Challenge
Scraps 4 Fun Use Your Scraps Challenge
Flaunt it Fridays Challenge #18 Country Life
My Craft Spot Monday Challenge #3 Birthday with a Twist (use a tag)
Crazy About Cricut Thankful Thursday Birthday Theme in honor of Jenny's Birthday last week!  Happy Birthday Jenny! 

Thanks for stopping by today!

This card was a Winner at Thankful Thursday



This card was Top Pick at GAB

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #1

It's an exciting day!  Today is the opening challenge for the new challenge blog BIRTHDAY SUNDAES!!!  These challenges are going to be so much fun because we all need Birthday cards!  The challenge this week is Anything Goes Birthday and the Design Team has some fun cards to inspire you today!  Kristie, the founder of Birthday Sundaes will be sponsoring the prize this week.  This week you'll be playing for the chance to win the super cute Cupcake Ruby from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps! 

Here is my Birthday Sundaes creation for this week!

 I apologize for the light to dark pics this week.  My baby E got a hold of my camera and did some major damage to the settings!  I have gotten it back to where the pics are not all blurry but I still need to work on it!  Anyway, I used Doodlecharms, an oldie but goodie cart for my first Birthday Sundae creation.  I dug into my scrap pile for the Bo Bunny Sun Kissed Line as well as the coordinating Double Dot paper for this fun card.

I added tons of dimensionals to get lots and lots of layers.  This isn't a card that is going to be mailed to anyone, that is for sure!!  I may even have a hard time giving it away!

If you've visited my blog lately, you'll see that I've been playing with ribbon in some different ways!  This cut has a little topper but I wanted something bigger, so I used my scissors to cut that off and added ribbon to the top!

And I added a little ribbon ruffle accent to the bottom of the hat too.

Here is an inside look at the hat.  I sponged the circles, the bottom ribbon was sewn on and the top ribbons were taped onto this layer!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Solid CS, Ink, Ribbon(retired), Dimensionals, Birthday Stamp and Punches
• Bo Bunny Sun Kissed and Double Dot Paper Lines
• Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge (Party Hat)
• B is for Boy Cricut Cartridge (Background)
• Signo White Gel Pen
• Michael's Ribbon

 
If you haven't already, stop by Birthday Sundaes to see all the creative cards from the rest of the DT and be sure to link up your fun cards!   I can't wait to see your "Anything Goes Birthday Cards" this week and please let me know you were here!  I love to hear from you! 

We are packing up and heading out to the Great Wolf Lodge for a few days so I will see you again on Tuesday!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!

Happiness is A Butterfly LO

OK...I am about crafted out for the day but I have kept my mind busy so mission accomplished today!  Today was another fabulous My Pink Stamper Pinkalicious Blog Hop Friday and what a wonderful way to start the weekend!  Robyn and her Design Team did an amazing job!  I was in aww every time I jumped to the next blog!  Thanks to all of you for the wonderful inspiration tonight!
So, the theme was Spring and the challenge is to do a layout.  Robyn, you read my mind today!  If you've seen my posts for Friday, you know I've been a busy girl!!   I actually started on pieces to this page earlier today but it just was not working.  I wanted to recreate and use up my scraps of ribbon from my CTO DT project.  I laid them out on white paper and was photographing along the way so everyone could see how to make the ribbon rainbow!

I was going to use this LO for my FCCB project but I could not decide on a tree, I didn't like the rainbow on the white, and I couldn't decide on a picture.  It just wasn't working so I ripped off the ribbon and started on a completely different project (the Color my World card in my last post)!

Well, the MPS DT really inspired me tonight.  After hopping through their blogs, I began to picture my new LO and as I posted my last post, I realized which picture I needed to scrapbook!  This is what my boring white piece of paper transformed into...

 The ribbon is a little sloppy looking because of it being ripped from the white paper today, but I just couldn't throw it away (I'm a scrappy scrapper)!  After seeing all the Colors, all the Butterflies, and all the Buggy Punnies this evening, this is what my brain came up with!  This picture is of my oldest E and this place, this moment in time, and this picture has sooooo much meaning behind it.  She is visiting "her butterfly home" and she was leaving behind a piece of her family's history!  It is a touching moment and I am so happy that this LO captures it so perfectly!  I think this LO is going to be framed and hung in her bedroom rather than placed in her scrapbook!  I just love what this LO became.  Thank you MPS for the inspiration to create this piece!! 

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! 12x12 CS and Heart Punch
• Scrap Pile CS (pretty sure most of it is American Crafts based on the texture)
• SU Butterfly Embosslit
• My Pink Stamper Buggy Punnies Stamp Set
• Create A Critter (my fav) Cricut Cartridge
• Michael's Ribbon

If you haven't done so already, make sure you hop on over to the Pinkalicious Blog Hop and thank you again My Pink Stamper for the inspiration tonight!  I can't wait to keep on hoping in the morning!  I'm off to bed!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful night!

You Color my World Card

I just got done hopping the MPS Blog Hop and I wanted to do a quick post before I head off to my craft room!  This one is for the Jitterbuggin' Rainbow and Butterfly Challenge.  I wanted to get this one in early because I posted too late and missed the deadline for last weeks piggy challenge.  Here is my Rainbow Butterfly Card!

I was going to clip the ribbons at the edge of the card, but then I just couldn't do it!  I think it gives it an extra little something letting them dangle!  It looks like the butterfly is flying in from off the card the way they spread across the table!  I love the way it turned out and I am sitting here with an amazing idea in my head so I must be off to my scrap room! 

Products Used:

• All Scrap Paper (I'm pretty sure the black is SU because of it's thickness)
• Gypsy Wonderings
• Divine Swirls CB Embossing Folder
• Pretty Petals Sizzix Embossing Folder
• Pink By Design Stamp
• White Embossing Powder
• Michael's Ribbons

Challenges:
Jitterbuggin' Rainbow and Butterfly Challenge
Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge
Cricut Cardz Challenge #65 Make a Tall Card

Thanks for stopping by!

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge #4

I am sooooo excited today!  Do you know why?  That's right, it is my very first Design Team Day at Celebrate the Occasion!  Even though I was quite sick last week, I still made something very special for the occasion!  I could not make it to the craft store so I was limited to what I had on hand (although my mother-in-law did stop by ACMoore to pick up some shamrock pattern paper for me...thanks Mom)!
Challenge #4 for Celebrate the Occasion is St. Patrick's Day and the Design Team has some inspirational projects for you!  I created a 2 page layout for the occasion.

I used my sewing machine to stitch the shamrock paper as well as the photo mats.  I embossed with Divine Swirls Cuttlebug folder on the photo mats and added a strip of green glitter ribbon to tuck my pics under.   

I welded a bunch of clovers from Paper Dolls Dress Up together with my Gypsy to get a clover field for this cute little Leprechaun(Simply Charmed) to dance in. I sponged all the clovers and added some on top of the welded image with different brand dimensionals to get several different layers of clovers.  

Now for the bright rainbow, this element did take some thought.  There is not a rainbow on any of the Cricut cartridges that stretches well across a 2 page LO so I needed to make my own rainbow.  At first, I was going to use buttons, but I did not have enough colors on hand.  I needed to find something (beside paper) that I have a lot of and in several colors.  What did I find....RIBBON!!!!  I ran my tape runner across the entire length of the ribbon then carefully layed it out.  I really like the way it turned out! 

The pot of gold is from one of my new favorite carts, Simply Charmed!  I wanted to give it a full look so I layered it.

and for the Gold inside the pot, I cut the background out with gold paper, sponged it then adhered the top layer and stickled the edges!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Solid Cardstock
• Recollections Gold Paper
• Karen Foster Design Pot O Gold Collage Paper
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge (Shamrocks)
• Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge (Leprechaun and Pot of Gold)
• Country Life Cricut Cartridge (Title)
• Divine Swirls Cuttlebug Folder
• Michael's Ribbon
• Stampin' Up! Ink
• Gold Stickles

I did not make it out of the house to print my pictures but here are Mommy's Leprechauns.

Thanks for stopping by to see my first DT project!  I hope you like it!  Stop by Celebrate the Occasion and check out all the other fabulous Design Team projects and be sure to link up your St. Patty's Day project!

It's A Zoo in Here LO

More than Favors Wacky Wednesday #28 Challenge is Zoo Theme!  I thought this would be a fun way to use up some scraps from my 3 year old's second birthday scrapbook.  She had a jungle party and I had made her an 8x8 book.  I couldn't find the 8x8 jungle pad when I made her book so I had to buy it in 12x12.  This left me with a lot of large scraps!  I saw this as a perfect opportunity to follow Sonia's Challenge to use my scraps up over the next 2 months.  Here is my new Zoo LO made with mostly all leftover treasures from the Jungle scrapbook!  Isn't recycling great!



Products Used:

• Scrap Pile Paper (everything but the blue background which is Bazzill)
• Leftover brads and stickers are most likely Sandylion
• Zooballoo Cricut Cartridge (Monkey)
• Animal Kingdom Cricut Cart (Hippo)
• Create A Critter Cricut Cart (Alligator)
• Sugar and Spice Cricut Cart (Elephant)
• Paper Dolls for Everyday Cricut Cart (Zoo entrance and fence)
• Cuttin' Up Cricut Cart (Title)
• Stampin' Up! Ribbon
• White Signo Gel Pen

Challenges:

More than Favors Wacky Wednesday #28 Zoo Theme Challenge

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today!