Sugar Creek Hollow!!!!!

Good Morning!!!! It's Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday, and today we have another great challenge for you! We want to see your vintage and shabby chic cards and projects with sparkle, glam and bling!!! Glitter, gem stones, whatever sparkle you want to use!

Here's mine!!!!  I've used this image before, and I just love it for Christmas cards,,,,looks so cute peeking out from my nesting mittens dies!

Card recipe:

Paper: K and Company
stamps: Just Rite Happy Everything Kit
Dies: Spellbinders nested mittens, ovals large, foliage, Rose Creations (for the pine cones), Ironwork motif
bling, lace, buttons: my stash
glitter: Martha Stewart


I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking!!!!!!! Now run right over to Sugar Creek Hollow and join the fun this week!!!!!!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!!!!!

Good Morning!!!! I am so hoping you will join us this week for the Sugar Creek Hollow challenge, because I am so excited about it,,,,,,

one of my favorite types of cards, that frankly, I do not make often enough!

This week's challenge is,,,,,,,,,,

FANCY FOLDS!!!!!!!!!

Please make a card that is NOT the ordinary one side or top fold card! Come on, fancy it up a bit! You're that talented, and we know it!

Here's mine!

I made this card for a friend whom I love very much, and miss very much back home in Massachusetts. As you can see, it's an easel card, so easy to make, yet so fancy and pretty!

I cut the base of the card with Grand Labels 23 as well as the image out of the DCWV paper,,,,then I added an Inkadinkadoo stamp that said exactly what I wanted to say to my friend!

the larger roses are handmade with  spellbinders dies and the smaller roses are made with MFT rolled mini roses dies. I glued a button behind the roses to stop the front from sliding into the roses.

such an easy card! And I hope my friend likes it!

Thanks for looking,,,,,,,,,now get to it, because we KNOW how talented our friends are! Upload your Fancy Fold card to SCH and you might win a prize!!!!!!

Simple fold box,,,,,,

Good afternoon!!!!! I had a sleepless night last night,,,,,who knows why, but it happens to me quite frequently,,,,,

at 4:45 I gave up and got up to do some crafting,,,,,,

I threw together this simple little fold box, and fancied it up a bit with romantic rectangles and some roses!

such an easy little box for a gift, jewelry or something small,,even a gift card would fit in here!

Here's another view! the little bling key is Prima,,,,,,,,a bit of lace a charm and some ribbon to close the box and she's finished! Easy peasy and pretty enough to use for a gift!

I'll be entering this into the Shabby Tea Room challenge, which HAPPILY just happens to be "home made flowers"! YAY!

Hope you enjoyed the box, and thanks for looking!!!!!!!!

Happy Thursday!!!!!

Just another day til the weekend is here! I'm looking forward to Saturday, as we are taking DH to dinner and Disney World for his birthday (which is friday). In the meantime, my WONDERFUL DH bought me this AMAZING die! Seriously, it's to DIE for hahah! OK, bad joke!

This die, the Heart Felt Creations decorative lace border die made by spellbinders, cuts amazing detail  and is really easy to get out of the die, which surprised me! I used wax paper first, and I've not had a problem since!

I can see tons of uses for this die!

well, of COURSE I had to make a card with it! Since I needed sympathy cards, I made one,,,,,,and I used 3 layers of this die cut,

and another angle,,,,,,,you can see that I cut another diecut of this lace to put INSIDE the card, cutting off most of the die cut to use just a portion,,,,,,,another reason this die is so versitile,

I wanted to make the card reasonably simple, so I made a simple black rose with my spellbinders spiral floral 1 and my spellbinders Rose Creations,  and added a black velvet ribbon, a pearl stick pin and some flat back pearls,,,,and DONE.

Hope you enjoyed the card and thanks for looking!

The Shabby Tea Room,,,,

I'm not sure SHABBY is really my forte LOL. But, the Shabby Tea Room is having a color challenge. Additionally, they want to see pennants, banners or flags on cards. Since I came across these papers with the colors (pink, aqua, red) in my Prima papers, I decided to give it a shot. It's a style I love,,,,,,,,and I suppose I just need more practice, LOL, but I never seem to quite get the shabbiness I want.

Anywho, it was fun to play!

Here's my card,,,,,,,,

I hand cut the pennants out of 2 inch wide paper, simply marking the center and cutting out a point. I used my brand new Grand labels 23 nesties to make a shaped card, layering on the Madeline Prima paper. I made the two roses out of spellbinders spiral blooms 1 and nested those in the two largest petals of the Rose Creations dies. I tipped here and there with pink crackle paint on the roses and also the papers and added a red and white checked border to the tops of the banners and red and white checked bows to the corners,,,,,,,a few buttons, some aqua netting and she's done!

I hope you enjoyed the card, as bad as it is LOL. And I hope it gives everyone everywhere who is bad at ANY style some hope!

Practice makes perfect!!!!!!