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It's been awhile since I posted a project, but I have been working on them. I have been doing the weekly HeArt Journaling with The Greeting Farm, but just have not shared them here....perhaps I will get busy and start adding those. But for now, I have a card to share with you.
Christmas already....yep, I decided to get a little bit of a head start this year. For my card I used the sketch at Deconstructing Sketches. At first the triangle shape intimidated me, but I really like how it turned out.
The image is Take a Bow from Tiddly Inks ~ I love Christy's images ~ they are just so cute and fun to color. The challenge over at Tiddly Inks is to use paint so I used some shimmerz paint on the flowers. The papers are from the Tinsel and Twigs Collection from The Girls Paperie ~ these are some of my favorite holiday papers and am kicking myself for not buying more of them at the time. The lace trim and ribbon were pulled out of my vintage trim collection.
Looking forward to Monday...DI Season begins for the Elementary level! I am managing two teams there....Hold It (Structural challenge) and Built to Last (Rising Stars). I am excited to see what the kids have prepared for their tryouts. The Middle School has to wait until November, but that will be here before we know it. There I am managing Coming Attractions (Fine Arts challenge). I am really excited to be starting another DI season and can't wait to see how the kids decide to solve their challenges.
Well, the weather here is beautiful, so I am off to enjoy it for a bit with the kids.
Have a great day!
Today my term as a Design Team member for Claudia & Company comes to an end. I would like to thank Claudia for inviting me to be a part of the team for these past 6 months and will definitely miss working with her and the other girls.
Today I will be running out to pick up last minute school supplies and then heading over to the Middle School with the kids so Alicia can set up the locker shelves she and my husband made. Tomorrow my kids are headed back to school...summer went by way to fast and I will really miss them being here all the time! For my last project I decided to make a back to school card.
Once again I used Puddle Jumper Lucy (what could be more perfect for a back to school card?), and paper pieced her dress and bag. All coloring was done with copics. The papers are from the Cosmo Cricket Odds & Ends Collection...definitely need to get some more of this! I added rhinestones to the center of her bows, pearls to her dress in place of the buttons and colored over her shoes with a clear glaze pen. The sentiment is from a Unity Stamp set. I was so happy to find some polka dotted ribbon that was a close enough match that I could use it on here.
I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Fussy and Fancy Friday - Sketch
The Pink Elephant - Paper Piecing
The Pixie Cottage - Back to School
Allsorts - Back to School
Paper Play - Back to School
Sentimental Sunday - Back to School
Stamp Something - Back to School
StampInsanity - Back to School
City Crafter - All Dressed Up
Catch the Bug - Warm colors and paper piecing
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
After a brief summer hiatus, the Claudia & Company Design Team is back. It was nice to have a break since we had so much going on these last few weeks as you can tell from my lack of posts lately. Since the kids are back to school next week :( we decided late last week to take the kids up to Wisconsin Dells for a few days ~ we all had a great time and the weather was perfect!
For my card I used Puddle Jumper Lucy and colored her with copics. I added some rhinestones to the center of her bows and some silver "pearls" to her dress for the buttons. To add some shine to her shoes I colored over it with a clear glaze pen. The papers are from the Pink Paisley Soiree collection. I added a green ribbon and some bakers twine along with a green button.
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
We have been so busy running the kids around to tennis lessons, acting lessons and playing outside that I haven't had much time to play along in challenges lately. Now, with the exception of band and flute lessons, there isn't quite so much running so I found some time to head into the craft room. Since it's been awhile since I've played along in challenges, I decided to check out a few and see what I could come up with.
Squiggle Stamps currently has a challenge to make something for Christmas. I used the image Daisy with Gift (which happens to be a freebie right now in the shop), colored her in with copics and added some stickles. I followed this weeks sketch over at Mojo Monday but modified the sketch elements to fit the size of my image.
I would also like to enter the following challenges:
Totally Gorjuss - Christmas in July
Crafty Catz - Christmas in July
Sweet Stampin' - Christmas in July
Fussy & Fancy Friday - Christmas in July
Allsorts - Free and Easy
Thanks for stopping and have a great day!
Recipe ~ all items SU unless indicated
Stamps: Daisy with Gift (digi stamp) Squiggle Stamps; Sentiment - Amy R Stamps Winter Sentiments
Ink/Coloring: Rose Romance; Copics (E00, E01, E21, E23, E25, E27, R81, R83, R85, YG11, YG13, YG91)
Paper: Rose Romance; Gina K Pure Luxury (White); DP - Provo Craft Winter Stack
Embellishments: Ribbon (rose);Stickles (stardust); Rhinestones
Tools/Misc: Circle Nesties; Circle Punches, Dimensionals
Lori, owner of By Lori Designs, is celebrating Lollipop Day with a digi giveaway. How appropriate, since one of her stamp lines is none other than "Lollipops". In addition to the Lollipops, she has Puddle Jumpers, Sugar Sticks, Elephants, Special Editions (which are images already combined for you), Spoonfuls (which I believe her mom created) and Bug & Roo which were created by her daughter Hannah (what a talented family). I just love these images ~ they are so fun to color, they always bring a smile to my face and they make the cutest cards.
Here is a card I created using Lollipop Sophie and Lollipop Dylan. Don't they make a cute couple?
I merged the two images in photoshop and colored them with copics. The designer papers are from Basic Grey. I machine stitched each layer, added some punched hearts, ribbon and pearls.
Thanks for stopping and have a great day!
I came across the O Scrap blog the other day and saw that they were giving away a free digi kit and had a contest to make something using the kit so I decided to make a card and a few 3x3 note cards.
Along with the digi kit I used the digi image of Cupcake Anya from the Greeting Farm. I used the floral paper for Anya's dress and bows while the rest of Anya was colored with copics. I cut out some of the flowers from the kit and added buttons to the centers. The little circle embellishments were punched from the floral paper as well. The sentiment is from the Happy Chef set by the Greeting Farm. I also followed the Which One Wednesday Challenge at The Greeting Farm's Farm Fresh Challenge Blog which happened to be a sketch challenge this week.
These four note cards use different items from the digi kit. On the two flower cards I added buttons to the center of the flowers. The Happy Bird-day sign that the bird is "holding" I made myself.
Thanks for stopping and have a fantastic day!
Hello everyone! Can you believe it is that time again...CHA is almost here! I can't wait to see all the new goodies, but in the meantime, Claudia and Company is having their Biannual Getting Ready for CHA Sale!
Now is a great time to stock up on all those wonderful crafty goodies that have been on your wishlist, but still haven't made their way into your craft room. In the Claudia and Company store you will find items marked down 25-40% off regular price in almost every category; including the super popular 6x6 sampler packs! Prices available while supplies last and through July 15th.
Claudia also has a fantastic giveaway for you this week. How would you like to win this Cinch Binding Machine?
All you have to do for a chance to win is help spread the word by posting about the "Getting Ready for CHA" sale on your blog (in an actual blog post and not a sidebar addition) by July 14th; go back to the Claudia and Company blog, and link your post. Please feel free to use the blog banner at the top to add to your post.
Do you want a second entry for the Cinch machine? No problem, just add the sale blog button below to your sidebar and leave a comment on the Claudia and Company blog after you have done that.
Complete details of the sale are available on our store website: www.claudiaandcompany.com
The winner of The Cinch Binding Machine will be announced on July 15th.
Have fun shopping!
