Crafty Grandma To The Rescue!!!!!!

So if any of you have grand children, the one thing you all know is that they have but to tear up and whatever they want is theirs.  My youngest grandchild, Angie, is almost six,,,,,,she's in Kindergarten, and according to her,,,,,,,,,EVERYONE has boutique bows in school. The most IMPORTANT everyone (Her best friend, Riley) has them, and therefore,,,,,,,,she needs them. And of course, my DD chimes in that she bets GRANDMA can make them,,,,,,

Never mind that I've never made a boutique bow in my LIFE,,,,,,never mind that my first try isn't perfect,,,,,,,my granddaughter is happy,,,,,,,,,,,she loves them, and that's all that matters.

Just a little something different than another card for this weekend!!!!!!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed the bows!!!! There are a ton of tutorials on You-tube, if you're interested in making some of these,,,but this is the one I used,,,,,it's relatively simple,,,,but it DOES take some practice :)

Bow Tutorial.

Have a fantastic weekend!!!!!

SUGAR CREEK HOLLOW SATURDAY!!!!!

Good Morning!! It's Sugar Creek Hollow Saturday and this week over at SCH we have a really fun challenge for you!!!!  THINGS WITH WINGS!!! We want to see your vintage and shabby chic cards and projects with birds, butterflies, ANYTHING with wings!!!!!!

Here's mine!

I found this vintage image of a bird hiding in a rose bush online and thought it was just perfect,,,

Here's a close up of my bird!

Card REcipe:

Paper: Pink Paislee and MME
Stamps: none. yeah. can you believe it?
Image:online freebie
dies: spellbinders foliage and spiral blossoms 1 (cut from coffee filters)/Cottage Cutz Tea Time Doily
Punches:old EK success 6 petal punch (small blue flowers)
ribbon and pearls: Joanns and Michaels.

I hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,,,,thanks for looking, and I hope you join us this week at Sugar Creek Hollow!

Party Time Tuesdays!!!!!

Good Tuesday Morning!!!!!!  It's time for Party Time Tuesdays weekly challenge!!! I know you love it,,,,,,and this is our monthly ANYTHING GOES challenge!!!! So anything your heart desires! Just please remember that during our Anything Goes Challenge, we have SO many entries, it's simply impossible for us to comment! We love to see your entries, but to be fair to all, we simply don't comment during this challenge! But know we are looking!!!!

Since it was Anything Goes, I decided to go a bit differently than normal!  I made these really darling candy bags for my grand children and youngest daughter (who thought they were so cute she had to have one!)

I colored these darling scare crows with copics, and fussy cut them out, inking the edges of the moon for effect.I used a 5.5 x11 inch piece of kraft card stock and simply scored at 4.5 and 6x5 folding up both ends,,,,,,,the food grade polystyrene bags full of candy just slip down inside and I stapled the top together (with the bag in there) to hold the bag in,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Fancy pants paper on the front, and then I cut some more fancy pants paper out of my Grand labels 23 nesties to fold over the top,,,,,,,,,I decorated with nested pumpkins and fancy pants stickers,,,,,,,,,and she's done!

Here's a close up of the side, where you can see the candies,,,,,,

Click on any of the pictures to see a larger version,,,,,,,,

Project Recipe:
Papers: Fancy Pants and Recollections Kraft paper
Stamps: the Stamping Boutique
Dies: Nested Pumpkins and Grand Labels 23
inks: copics and Ranger Archival Black
Stickers: Fancy Pants

Our fabulous sponsors this week are Fancy Pants, the Stamping Boutique, Digital Delights, Crafty Sentiments and Crafty Ribbon.

I hope you enjoyed this easy peasy project and thanks for looking!! I so appreciate your comments! Now run on over to Party Time Tuesdays and load up YOUR anything goes project or card!!!

Sugar Creek Hollow!!

Good Morning!!!!! We have a really fun challenge for you over at Sugar Creek Hollow this week!!! We want to see your vintage animals or animal scenes on your cards and projects!!!! How fun is that?

Here's the card I made for the challenge!

I found this vintage image of Mary and her little Lamb on line, printed it and used it for my focal point!!!!

I really love how my flowers came out!!!!! Here's a close up, all sugary and glittery!

I cut the flowers out of coffee filters with spiral blossoms 1, the white one I left natural, the pink one I inked with pink ink and the brown one I colored with a copic before rolling,,,,,,,some Martha Stewart glitter glue and a sprinkle of chunky glitter, and they really sparkle!!!!!  I think it will be so perfect for my daughter!!! she so loves my cards, so this one is getting ready to be sitting on her desk waiting for her when she comes home this weekend!!!!

Card Recipe: (I am really liking this method of the recipe at the bottom)

Paper:Authentique Essentials 6x6 pad and Recollections Kraft paper
Dies: cottage cutz tea time doily/spellbinders spiral blossoms 1/Memory box Elegnt Scrollwork and Open leaf Loreli dies
Stamps:Justrite Just the right words set
Ink: Versafine vintage sepia/unknown pink dollar spot ink
pearls and ribbon: my stash. (Joanns and Michaels)

I hope you enjoyed the card,,,,,,,thanks for looking, and run right over to Sugar Creek Hollow and link up YOUR vintage or shabby chic animal card for a chance to win!!!!

I love CHALLENGES!!

Good Morning!!  I love challenges,,don't you? They are fun, you might win a prize, AND they often push you to make something you wouldn't ordinarily,,,,,

sometimes what you make turns out to be a new favorite!!  As it was with this card I made today!

Here's my card!!!

This card just turned into something that I just LOVE. I don't know why! I think it's because I totally LOVE shabby chic,,,,,,,,and I'm not that great at the style,,,,,but this is probably the best shabby chic card I've ever done,,,,,,YAY!

Here's a close up of those gorgeous stamps, and that stunning doily die cuts and I'm VERY happy with how nicely my flowers came out!

AND yet another close up from a different angle!

I'll be entering this into the following challenges,,,,,,,

Justrite Friday Challenge,,,Be Supportive!
and the Shabby Tea Room where we were to use this photo for inspiration AND use flowers!

I hope my friend, that has been going through a lot lately, really likes this card!

Card Recipe:

Papers:Pink Paislee London Market
dies:cottage cutz tea time doily/Memory box elegant scrollwork/spellbinders spiral blossoms 1, spellbinders foliage
punches: Martha Stewart winter branch punch and butterfly punch
Stamps: Justrite Stampers "Just the right words" set
Inks: Momento angel pink and new sprout/Versafine Onyx Black
ribbons and pearls: my stash

Thanks for looking!!!!!!  Sugar Creek Hollow is up tomorrow!!!! I so appreciate your comments!!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!!!

My Sweet Mother-in-law

I often hear jokes about mothers in law,,,,,,,most of them are funny,,,,,,but usually represent mothers in law who are less than desirable LOL. I am happy to report that I have been married to my mother in law's son for 29 years,,,and I've never had occasion to regret having her for a mother in law!  She's a wonderful woman, and extremely generous.

She was especially so this month and did something very nice for my husband and I,,,,,,,,and so, of course, I had to make a thank you card,,,,,,

Here it is!

Card Recipe:
Papers: Fancy Pants
Stamps: vintage digi image from my stash/Justrite Just the Right Words Set
Inks: Versafine Onyx Black
Dies: Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles, Eyelet Pendants/MFT mini rolled roses/Memory Box Lorelai Outline leaf, elegant scrollwork, iron gate
Pearls, ribbon, corner piece: my stash

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking,,,,,,,,,,,

Party Time Tuesdays!!!!!!

Good Morning!!!!! It's Tuesday, and it's time for our new challenge over at Party Time Tuesdays!

We have another color challenge for you this week!! Here's your color inspiration photo!

And here's my card!!!!!!!

Our fab sponsors this week are My Favorite Things, Sassy Pants, and Fancy Pants, who provided the wonderful papers for us to make our cards with this week!!!!!  My darling image was provided so generously by Sassy Studios,,,,,,,,and she's been colored with copics.

I've used Romantic Rectangles and Memory box elegant scrollwork for dies,,,,,,,

I hope you enjoyed the card, and my apologies for posting this late,,I've had SEVERE blogger problems all week, and haven't been able to post anything at ALL for days now!

Have a great week, and thanks for looking!!!!!!!