Clean and Simple?

Not so much, I'm afraid LOL.  This TOTALLY started out as a clean and simple card.  I bought some new spellbinders edgabilities and a new (my FIRST) spellbinders M-bossabilities and TOTALLY intended that they should shine and that this card should have clean, simple lines,,,,,,,

yeah,,,,,,,NOT! I suck at clean and simple LOL.

Be that as it may, this card has grown on me since I made it yesterday,,,,,,,I am loving the ballerina pink color,,,,,,the embossing (click to enlarge to see the embossing better), and the roses,,,,,and of course,,,,,I always love bling LOL

Card Recipe:

Cardstock: Coordinations Tim Holtz and Ranger Distress Collection, and Prima PP
dies: Spiral Blossoms 1, Memory Box Open leaf Lorelai, Spellbinders Classic Petal Edgabilities
ribbon: Hobby Lobby
Bling: Michaels

Here's a close up!

I hope you enjoyed the card, and thanks for looking! I really love your comments and appreciate them so much! And I'd love to visit your blog!

Have an amazing weekend! I have house work to do! (Calgon, TAKE ME AWAY!)

Good Morning!

I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend so far :)  My husband and I are planning to go to the movies tonight, which almost NEVER happens, so I am looking forward to that,,,,

But I had a bit of time to craft this morning and decided to play along with the shabby girls at the Shabby Tea Room.

Challenge number 124 is "Oh so pretty in pink",,,,,,,and I couldn't resist! Now for some reason, SHABBY is a tough one for me,,,,I love it so, but just do not seem to have much talent for it. Ah well, practice makes perfect!

Here's the inspiration photo,,,,,,

so cool and refreshing looking after the heat most of the country has been having lately!

They also want us to have a flower on our card,,,,,,,,,,well, I love pink and I love flowers,,,,,so I had a lot of fun!

I got the image at Free Vintage Digi Stamps (button to the right) some time ago,,,,,,and I just KNEW it was perfect for this challenge!  I made the roses from Spellbinders spiral blossom 1 out of coffee filters that I had inked.  The cherry blossom was made with Spellbinders Rose Creations die out of coffee filters, inked, scrunched, dried and stamens added.  The leaves were Spellbinders Foliage, inked pink, and I added some pearls to the Recollections corner bling element to tie in with the pearls added along the lace and pink velvet ribbon. The butterfly bow was created on a wooden bow maker,,,,,,,,,easy peasy!

Here's a close up!

I hope you enjoyed the card!! And thanks for looking!

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!!!!!!

Thank you, Thank you!

This is my second post of the day! If you're looking for my PTT post, scroll down one post!

So we had a TON of birthdays in March in our family,,,,,,,three out of the four people living in this house right now, have birthdays in March,,,,,,2 of us on the 9th, and one of us this next Friday, the 23rd.

Birthdays mean presents, and presents mean thank you cards to our relatives who were kind enough to send gifts and money presents! My MIL and mother gave me $$$$$ and so I was able to buy several sets of nesties and my FIRST grand nestie (Labels 23) which I am DYING to get,,,,,,it's taking forever to get here LOL

Anywho, I made up some thank you cards, and I thought I'd just post them all here in one post :)

I had a ton of fun playing with my new spellbinders Romantic Rectangles, and another of my favs Parisian motifs. I also used some of the very first tools I ever bought, some flower punches, that have been sitting neglected in my cupboard to make some of the flowers. I am REALLY happy the way they turned out, after shaping with a ball stylus and glittering!

Here's a close up!

The butterflies are MS, and the leaves are all Spellbinders foliage.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you're having a wonderful week!

Bright and Cheery!

Good morning! Really bright colors aren't normally my thing,,,,,although I find myself drawn more and more to them lately!

I am fixing to order me some of the Echo Park Country Drive paper that I really have fallen in love with! And that has some lovely bright colors!

Anywho, looking at that online got me in the mood, so here's a bright card,,,,,

The paper is about  3 years old LOL. It's Making Memories paper I've had  in my stash since FOREVER. I'm pretty sure it's the FIRST stack I ever bought.

The roses were an experiment that I really like the result of. I rolled one of Spellbinders spiral blossom 1, and then nested THAT inside two of the largest petals of Spellbinders Rose Creations after shaping them with a ball stylus. I then took a third set of petals and cut them off their base, and stuck the petals kind of willy nilly into the extra 2 sets of petals, if that made any sense. It gave me a nice LARGE full rose, and I really like the effect! I did the same for the yellow rose, although I cut off part of the spiral before rolling, wanting a smaller full rose.

I've used my brand new spellbinders dies, Romantic Rectangles, and OH MY GOSH, I love them,,,,,they are HUGE and the largest is the perfect size for this 5x7 card. Easy peasy!

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful week!

PTT 58!! At the End of the Rainbow!!!!

Happy Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Tuesdays,,,,,it's the day PTT comes out with their newest challenge,,,,and the day I get to see all the cards my team mates have created!

This week's theme is At the End of the Rainbow!!!! and we wanna see glitter,,,sparkle,,,,,,,,bling,,,,,,,,,gold,,,silver,,,,,,,,,ANYTHING that sparkles!!!!!

And for this week, we have the PERFECT sponsors! Robin's Nest Products supplied us with GORGEOUS paper and blingy dew drops! A Day for Daisies and Spesch Stamps provided us with images to create our gorgeous BLINGYYYYY cards!

And here's mine!!! Isn't that paper gorgeous???? It's SO glittery and sparkly!!!! I just couldn't resist it! I even made the flowers out of it! The dew drops sparkle so pretty on the Cinderella coach and inside the black and pink flower as the center!! And how PERFECT is this darling Cinderella coach from A Day for Daisies???? It's all ready for blinging up!!!! I colored it with copics and highlighted it with gold stickles and dew drops! And I've added a gold metallic quad bow, and heat embossed the rose leaf with gold embossing powder,,,, a blingy stick pin and a computer generated sentiment (You'll always be our princess!) complete the card.  So pretty! I've put this card away for the perfect card to give my daughter the next time I need one! And I know she'll love it!!!!!

Here's a close up of all the bling on my image!

So pop on over to Party Time Tuesdays and get your blingy card linked up!!!!!! We hope to see you soon!

See Spot Run!

I'm probably going to date myself here,,,,,,,,but I learned to read with Dick and Jane, Sally and Mother and Father,,,,,,,and of course, Spot and Puff,,,,,the family pets. The Dick and Jane readers were some of the most popular, and generations of children from the 1930's through the 1970's learned to read with these beloved characters. I was on the tail end of those children who to this day remember the characters with great fondness.

So when Pamela over at freevintagedigistamps.com (button to the right) posted this beloved image of Sally and Puff (the kitten who never seemed to grow up!), I KNEW I had to make a card with it.

I purposely left the card relatively simple,,,,,Life WAS so much simpler in those days! I'm not saying they were all good days,,,,,,,,far from it,,,,,,,,African Americans didn't even APPEAR in the Dick and Jane books on that whitest of white streets "Pleasant St" until nearly the end of their publishing in 1965,,,,,the year I was born.

Those days were decidedly NOT all good,,,,,,,,,but I do have fond memories of the milk man delivering milk straight into the metal "milk box" on the front stoop,,,,,,,penny candy that was a penny,,,,,,,and phones with no call waiting. If you left your phone off the hook, your grandmother would call your neighbors and they'd run over and tell you to hang it up and call Grandma. If you weren't home,,,they'd let themselves in and hang it up for you,,,,,,and they wouldn't case the joint while they were there. It was a time when children played with friends, learned by making believe, and Mother counted heads every couple hours and passed out popsicles in the summer to any child playing in her yard. Til the day my mother moved out of her house in 2002, we never owned a key for the front door.

Now I feel old LOL,,,,,,but I did enjoy the trip down memory lane. Now back to the card LOL. I made it larger than I normally do (5x7) so that I could print the image quite large,,,,,,,The paper is all Cosmo Cricket "Girl Friday", and I chose it because of the pink and blue "primary" spaced paper in the pack,,,,,,,that and the letters just seemed to go with the theme of Dick and Jane and learning to read.

a ribbon, some lace, a blue bow and a rolled flower made from that same pink paper, and she's done,,,,,,very simple,,,,,,,,,,like the feelings I was trying to evoke. And that's the sentiment I used

"Remember when everything was simpler?"

See Sally Play!
Run, Puff, Run!

Here's the inside,,,,,,,,,,

Where you can see silly Puff trying to ride Mother's Vacuum while Sally plays with her play one.

and the inside sentiment:

"some things still are. I love you."

I think I'll give it to my mother. Another Dick and Jane reader from 20 years before me.

I've so enjoyed my walk down memory lane today, that it led me to try and find more images, some of which I have printed out and plan to make some tags with,,,,,,,,

I hope to have some of those Monday or Tuesday.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you also enjoy a trip down memory lane,,,,,,,,no matter what your memories are! Have a wonderful weekend!

Vintage Rose!

Good Afternoon!!!! I hope everyone is enjoying their Friday and has great plans for the weekend! DH and I are going to Disney World on Saturday for a few hours after he finishes working,,,,,,,,

I'm looking forward to that! I haven't forgotten about posting some Disney pics,,,,,I just forget every time I pull out the card reader and yank pics into my computer LOL. Making a note to do that now.

So today I have a card that features this GORGEOUS vintage rose digi stamp,,,,Pamela over at Free Vintage Digi Stamps posted it the other day, and I HAD to use it!!!! It's really stunning,,and Pamela is SO generous with her lovely images,,, I just love that it's ready for copics or watercolors!!!!

This card is super simple,,,,,,it's 5.5x5.5 (one of my favorite sizes),,,I colored the image with copics,,,the base is pink,,,,,I layered brown over that 1/4 inch smaller,,,and then this gorgeous light pink French newsprint on the top, and this gorgeous, really shabby chic looking pink stripes on the lower half. My focal point from the bottom up is Fleur de lis pendants, lacey ovals and ovals large,,,,,,,a bit of  lace that has these beautiful roses woven into the decoration, a few gems, a spiral rose on a bow and a stick pin, and it's all ready for my mother's friend, who's quite ill  in the hospital,,,,,,I used to babysit her children when I was a teenager,,,,,They're adults now, and I'm showing my age LOL.

so today,,,,I'm spreading the love (see button on my side bar for information on that movement).

Here's a close up of this stunning image!

You should run right over to Free Vintage Digi Stamps right away, because Pamela has the most gorgeous images,,,,,,,Thank you so much for all of them, Pamela!!!!

Thanks for looking, and have a wonderful weekend!!!!

Prize Pack!

Good afternoon! Saturday I got my prize pack from Stampin' D'Amour and I could NOT wait to use it!!!!

There were so many goodies, I couldn't decide which to use first! I wanted to use them ALL,,,,,,,but that simply wasn't possible there were so many lovely vintage goodies! So I settled on a collage type card, which would insure use of the MOST product I could possibly squeeze on the card LOL. I needed a birthday card for the 99 year old lady down the street, and these stamps and goodies were PERFECT for her!

So, without further ado, Here is my card!

I started with a kraft card base and cut and embossed the edge with spellbinders edgeabilities " Classic Ric Rak". All stamps are Stampin' D'Amour,,,,,,I used the birthday cake, the "Happy birthday to you", the "happy birthday" and the "Birthday Wishes" stamps on this, I stamped them directly on the vintage advertising sent to me (I copied it so I can use it over and over again) in Onyx black and Cocoa, put just the teensiest touch of peachy pink with my copics (R22) and inked everything with sepia ink. I also used the GORGEOUS tickets, inked them and also stamped Happy Birthday on them. the large red rose (I wanted a pop of color!) is spellbinders spiral blossoms 1.

A few pearls and gems, a messy bow, a heart charm, and I think it's gorgeous!

Here's the close up of the stamps and flower!

I hope you liked the card, and thanks for looking! Run over to Stampin' D'Amour for the most gorgeous vintage stamps! You won't be sorry!

I'd also like to thank Pamela, owner of Stampin' D'Amour and Free vintage Digi Stamps (button on my side bar) for the lovely prize pack! I'm having so much fun with it!

Happy Sunday!

So Valentines day is coming up QUICKLY! And I've been working on some Valentines Day cards in addition to my DT work. I've been meaning to blog since FRIDAY, but my computer is on the fritz, I've been using my husband's lappy, and I can't make his computer recognize my card reader. GAAH! (Not to mention, all my favorite challenges AND images are STORED in my computer!)

So, I finally figured this out on the FAMILY computer,,,,,my next goal is to find some of my fav challenges and work on those! LOL, I am so computer illiterate!

So today, I have a Valentines day card made with some old stand by paper,,,,,,yes, that would be MME Lost and Found! Love that stuff! The first thing I did was to punch the edge of my card with a MS punch (I wish she put the name of her punch ON the punch!)  No clue where this sentiment stamp came from, I think it was a dollar bin find at Joanns last year.  I've framed the sentiment with Nesties Postage stamps, Floral doily motifs, and standard squares large, the larger roses are spellbinders spiral blossoms 1. It's brand new, and I LOVE it. It took a bit of time and some staring at Amazing Paper Grace and Becca's roses before I figured out how to best roll them so that I could shape the outer edges, but I finally have roses that I love! Thanks, Becca!

The smaller roses are MFT mini rolled roses,,,,,they're so cute and great for tiny spots!  I tied a triple bow on my peg bow maker (Thanks again, Becca!), a few pearls, some lace and a heart charm, and she's done.

Here's a close up of the roses!

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoyed! And while I'm at it, I'm going to enter this into Sassy Cheryl's show me thursday challenge! I've missed her :(