52 Questions - 3 Things

Happy Friday everyone!  It is challenge day over at Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges.  Today, Janis asked us to think about the first three things we grab when crafting, and create a project with them.  Any of you who visit my blog regularly, will know that I am a very simple crafter.  I like to pick a sentiment and cricut cut and pair them quite simply.  So, the three things I grab these days - 1) Gypsy girl 2) stamps (sentiment and whenever possible PK faces)  3) my Sakura Jelly Roll pens to do lots of doodling.  Here is a project I created with those 3 things:

I love how cute it turned out!  The lemonade is cut from Simply Charmed, I sized her on my Gypsy.  The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Stamps.  My daughter says this all the time - it's the cutest saying!   Her face is stamped with PK Princess Faces.  I doodled around with my Sakura Jelly Roll pens, and gave her cheeks a bit of color with my SU pastels.  The paper is all from Michaels and  so is the ribbon.

There are two lucky winners this month, on from Canada and the US.  These 2 CTMH stamp set are up for grabs:

You can shop with Canadian CTMH Consultant Darla Haverstock HERE, and see her blog HERE.

You can shop with American CTMH consultant HERE, and see her blog HERE.

I hope you come to Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges, see what the DT came up with, and play along with us. You could win one of the amazing stamp sets!!

A challenge or two for my cute little tag:
My Craft Spot - cool treats
The Stamping Boutique - jump into summer
Love To Create - summertime fun
Pan Pastel Challenges - summertime
The Crafty Pad - food
Cute Card Thursday - summer
Charisma Cardz - summer


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Teacher Gift #1

Happy Thursday everyone!  School ends here next week, so I decided to make some card sets as thank you gifts for the kids teachers.  I got the idea a couple of years ago from the ever brilliant Ruthie from September Ninth, you can see her card HERE.  The card I made for Andrew's Grade 4 teacher has an apple, just like Ruthie's, but this one, for Gabrielle's primary teacher, I took a slightly different route.  Here it is:

Cute, isn't it?  The paper and pencil are from Simply Charmed.  I welded their shadows together, so they look like they belong together.  Their faces are from PK Princess Faces.  I doodled on them with my Sakura Jelly Roll pens, and chalked on some cheeks with my SU pastels.  I printed the words on my computer.  I followed THIS tutorial here.  Then I used my Martha Stewart Score Board to emboss the lines around the outside.  I love the finished look it gives the card.

A challenge or two for my cute little card:

All That Scrap - embossing

Crafts And Me - anything goes
Divas by Design - die cut
ATCs and Cards with Attitude - anything goes
Crafty Catz - embossing
Fat Pages and Cards with Attitude - anything goes

I hope you come back and visit tomorrow, I will have my DT project for Pause Dream Enjoy, and don`t forget to enter Paper Playtime's anything goes with sentiments challenge.

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Bee Happy!

Happy Wednesday everyone!  Today I have a card to share that I created at on my Gypsy Girl.  I made it using a few shapes that I welded together.  This card feels like summer to me, the kids always know that summer has arrived when the bees show up by the cottage.  We have hives up there.  Here is my card:

Didn't it turn out cute?  I wish I had some cloud patterned paper, or PKs cloud stamp, I feel like it would have been the perfect background on the middle layer, hmm... I think I will cut out some clouds and a sun on my Gypsy girl and add them to the bottom layer.  This was designed with George and Basic Shapes and Create a Critter.  The bees faces are from Peachy Keen.  I chalked up their faces with my SU pastels.  The sentiment stamps are both (I think) from my Simply Sweet set, that are no longer available.  I doodled around with  the card with my Sakura Jelly roll pens.

A challenge or two for my little card:
Celebrate the Occasion - welcome summer
Lady Bug Crafts - use two of something (2 bees)
Creative Mondays - summer
Hooked On Crafts - all that glitters
The Squirrel and the Fox - make it glitter
Emergency Crafters - things with wings
Stampin for the Weekend - bugs and butterflies

I got off work 5 hours early this morning - at 2 am - ya me!  Hopefully after I wake up, I will get some time in my craft room.  There are lots of things I want to work on.  Hopefully I will have a project for you tommow - I'm on a roll this week :)

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Angry Bird!

Happy Tuesday everyone!  I am popping by today with a very quick card I made for my 4 year old nephew for Easter.  Duncan is obsessed with Angry Birds.  i decided to try to make him a card on my Gypsy Girl.  Here is what I came up with:

Isn't he cute?  My nephew loved him!  I created him with George and Basic shapes, and that's it!  I was thrilled with how easy he was in the end.  I inked up many of the edges with some distress ink to give him a bit more dimension.  The Happy Easter stamp, is a CTMH stamp, but this could easily be a birthday card, a note card, a party invite, anything you want :)  The paper is all from Michaels.  I stitched around the edges with my Sakura Jelly Roll pen.

A challenge or two for my card:
Make it Monday - anything goes
Cutie Pie Challenges - stitching
Stamp and Create - bold and bright
There She Goes - winged things
Magical Monday - for the boys
Amusing Challenges - masculine
365 Cards - round (that angry bird is a pretty major circle)
Stamping With Dragon - anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - bright colors
Crazy Amigo - summer colors
Fussy and Fancy - boy attitude
Hot Shot Craft - distress ink
Charisma Cards - masculine cards
Delightful Challenges - for the boys
Do you Stack Up - male cards

I`ll be back tomorrow with another Gypsy made creation, so be sure to come over and visit!

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Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

Happy Monday everyone!  It's challenge time over at Paper Playtime.  It is a "Say it With Sentiments" Anything Goes challenge, so let your imagination go wild, just be sure to use a sentiment on your project.  Here is what I came up with:

Last week at The Cutting Garden, a LSS, I took a gatefold class.  We used Spellbinders to create them , but I figured out how to do it with my Cricut!  It saved me a couple of hundred dollars, cause now I don't need to buy 6 or 8 sets of Spellbinders.  My hubby was very happy...

I used the Flourishes stamps set Sweet Days of Summer.  I am loving these stamp sets!  I colored a little with my SU pens, and used some stickles on the flowers - though it's a bit hard to see in the pic.  I designed parts of the card on my Gypsy Girl.

The card stock I used is from Michael's.  The "patterned paper" is actually washi tape from Freckled Fawn.  They are our sponsor this week, and were kind enough to give the DT some tape to play with.  It's pretty, isn't it.  The ribbon is from Michael's.

As I said, our sponsor this week is Freckled Fawn, they are giving one luck participant a $15 gift certificate! So, hop over to Paper Playtime, see what the DT came up with and play along with us :)

A challenge or two for my little card:
Card Crafters Circle - sentiment
Robyn's Fetish - anything goes
Crafty Ann's - it's a girl thing
Inspire me Fridays - anything goes
Sentimental Sundays - summer fun
Sweet Stampin Challenge - summer fun
Polka Doodle - summer scene

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope to see you again soon!

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52 Weeks - Mostly Yellow

Happy Friday everyone!  It is challenge day over at Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges.  This week, Janis challenged us to make a mostly yellow project.  Here is what I came up with:

Isn't it cute?  I cut the owl from Hoot and Holler,  The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Owl Occasions - it has the cutest sentiments on it :)  The patterned paper is some old Creative Memories paper that has been sitting in my stash forever.  The cardstock is all from Michael's, as is the ribbon.  I doodled around the tag with my Sakura Jelly Roll pen.

There are TWO prizes this month available for people who play with us.  One winner from Canada, and one winner from the USA.  We are sponsored by two wonderful Close To My Heart consultants and they are each providing a gorgeous stamp set.

Darla Haverstock - Canadian CTMH consultant.  Shop with her HERE, and see her blog HERE.

Lucy Kelleher - American CTMH consultant.  Shop with her HERE, and see her blog HERE.

So, hop on over to Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges, see what the DT came up with, and play along with us!  I hope you all have a great weekend, I might have a card for you over the weekend, if I get some time in my craft room today.

A challenge or two for my little tag:
Forever Friends- anything with an animal
Pixie Dust Studios - birds
Southern Girls - things with wings
Paper and Such - our feathered friends
Tuesday Throwdown - critters

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Father's Day Take 2

Happy Thursday everyone!  So, I did make it into my scraproom for an hour or 2 last night, after the kids went to bed, but it was way to dark to take a picture, I decided to take a pic this morning, and just post late.  There seem to be a ton of Father's Day or Men challenges out there in blog land, so I decided to make another card.  This one is for the kids to give my dad.  Here is what I came up with:

Isn't it cute??  The shirt and tie are from Simply Charmed - the shirt doesn't really have a pocket, but one of my acrylic stamps, fell off the block and put a nasty ink smudge right below Grandpa - what's a girl to do??  I decided a pocket was the perfect solution :)  The Grandpa stamp is from Scrappy Moms Stamps "fro the Boys" set.  Happy Father's Day is a CTMH stamp.  The twine is from Doodle Bug, and the button from my stash.  I used all Recollections paper.  I love how it turned out.  I think my dad will really like it!

A challenge or tow for my cute card:
Die Cuttin Divas - father's day
Crafting For All Seasons - for a man
Fab'n'Funky - father's day
More Than Favors - father's day
Papercraft Star - father's day
Celebrate the Occasion - father's day
Crafty Sentiments - father's day
Flourishes - father's day
Scrappy Moms - father's day
Make My Monday -  father's day
My Sheri Crafts - father's day
Ink it Pink - father's day
Creative Cutter Room - father's day

I'll be back tomorrow with my Pause Dream Enjoy DT project.  Hope to see you then :)

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