A big hello, to all my crafty blogging friends.

Hi  Everyone, hope you are all having a happy Tuesday.  I'm back with a birthday card I made for my niece.
I have a kit I bought years ago from HSN ( or maybe it was QVC) cant't remember now. Anyway it's old and vintage looking, and I did not do any thing with it for a long time, but from time to time I pull out papers and embellishments from it and create something. So last week I pull one of the cards in a peach color and I embossed it and added some flowers and glued some papers from  K and Company. I also added a pretty diecut from an EK success punch. I took a lovely velvet ribbon,  from  a Anna Griffin collection (love all her stuff). and added it the the front bottom of the card.
                         On the inside of the card I used a technique  I learned from  StampwithBernie  on you tube. She calls it floating butterflies. You take a piece of acetate and you cut it round and round in a spiral and you paste it to the inside of the card both sides with glue dots and you add butterfly cut outs or punches. When you open the card it stretches the acetate and the butterflies look as if they are flying or floating inside the card ( real cool effect). Please view her video for a more detail look. This was my first attempt  at creating a card this way.  Please don't forget to comment (remember your comments good or bad are what keeps me growing in this craft and I welcome them all). Thanks for viewing and hugs always!

Here is the finished card ( I was happy.  It came out  good for a first  try)  making this type of card.

Here you can clearly see the spiral acetate through the front cutout  on the card.

I was trying out the spiral acetate before putting the inside papers to see if it worked  ( it did).

The inside of the  card, you can see the acetate cutout I did with the spellbinders die. I did the front of the card cutout and then used a bigger die to cut the acetate.

You can slightly see that opening the card makes the butterflies  seem a little like flying.

The card is ready and I lined and envelope with the same paper line as the card.  I purchase a matching color gift bag to put the other gifts I had purchase for her. 

I pasted a small cutt out from the inside paper and  added the stamp image.

A new card and pics of the tags I received

I Colored this little guy with Copics, and I used the  papers from  hot off the press  called School days  the round  embellishment is from making-memories.

I stamped this really cute phrase on the inside with  a stamp from  Studio G.

Hello Everyone, Hope you are all enjoying the wonderful summer sun and some out door fun.  I created a Graduation card and matching bag for my super smart handsome nephew.  he attended a High School that offered a college program, so besides getting his H.S. diploma, he also received his  two year associates degree. He is going to continue college and will be taking something in the medical field. below are some pics of the creation of the bag ( super simple to do).

The paper and scor tape I used.

I put a lot of tape. but it doesn't really need this much and you can also just use a glue stick.

I like using stazon ink pad for most of my stamping because it dries in a flash.

Ta- Da  all done, super quick and unique.

Hi again, here are the tags I  received from a tag swap I did in April. Laura from following the paper trail host it and there were about 320 people that signed up, and three different groups of tags. all together Laura received about 2,700 tags. She had her work cut out for her, so while she sorted and packed all the groups together, I patiently waited and received my tags last week. ( so happy).  Every one did an awesome job with them, they are all beautiful to me. If you have reach this far down the post I thank you! Please continue the Pics of the tags are next. Hugs and god bless.

I posted this pic twice because I wanted to show the last  card on the right.  On the next  pic below you will notice I flipped  that last tag. The lady that made it decorated the back as beautiful as the front ( so cool).

The last tag has a little pocket with a small tag inside ( so cute).

Just testing and moving up to the new blogger interface

Hi all my beautiful scrapping friends, today is my children's last day of school. They are a lot less stress now that  regents and final tests are over. I am just happy to get back to some crafting again and maybe join some challenges they are so fun. I also want to enjoy some time with them out doors in the summer sun. I  upgraded to the new blogger interface, because the old one will be taken away in a few weeks and I might as well move up now while I have the time. So my blog might look funny for a few days, until I learn the ins and outs of it. I discovered it is a bit confusing but  nothing you can't learn. I was having a little trouble placing the gadgets where they go and a few other stuff.  

On another note my Birthday is not until Friday but my sneaky Daughter and Son along with the rest of the family collaborated this past Saturday  to throw me a surprise birthday dinner at Red Lobster, they were all there (about 24 family members) including my darling grandchildren. I had a fabulous time and the waiter's came over after the dinner to sing me Happy Birthday and give me a slice of the most delicious slice of chocolate cake and ice cream, which I was to full to eat so the grand children gladly ate it (oh well , some one had to eat it).  I might post some pics later, for now I leave you with the photo above of what I chose which is my favorite dish and my favorite drink when ever I go there.  You can see a little of my hubby's dinner behind my drink, he love's fried seafood while I like mine's grilled. Thanks my friends for taking the time to read this post. I'll be back with more later in the week. Hugs and God bless to all. 

Happy Friday to all my crafting blogging friends.

Hope everyone is doing great! I have been spring cleaning and organizing since school will be over in a few weeks. I will then have more time for blogging and scrapping, but most of all more time for PROJECT LIFE!  YES yes I'm in love with project life (There I've said it). This system of scrapping better known as documenting the moments in our lives that Becky Higgins has come up with is so GREAT. I love the ease of it all. The end of this month will have three good things going for me the first is the end of school which equals to more crafting time for me. The second is that the project life core kits including the original now called cherry edition will be back in stock on Amazon. And the third is, it will be my birthday and the kids will soon start asking what do I want and my answer will be core kits and page protectors (Yay for me).


  I also like to go blog watching and see all the wonderful you tube videos people do using project life. I like to  see how the whole community fills up their albums, all the same way yet all the albums come out different when you add your own photos and embellishments. Okay enough is enough, I have babbled long enough for you to get the point, how much I am loving project life.


 I took some time this week to do two cards for one of my favorite challenge blog. The theme is anything goes but you can use the three colors Yellow, Gray and Blue if you want to.  I incorporated these colors in my cards. The little naughty boy is a digi stamp from MJM and I colored him with a combination of prisma and copic markers. I also used the bubble all around punch from Martha Stewart. For the little boy going fishing digi, I colored him up using just copics and I used the punch double arches for the edge and my scallop scissors to go around the image. I will be entering these two cards in the Jackson's Digital Expression card challenge blog. Well that's all for now, I will try to post more next week.  Have a wonderful weekend my friends. Hugs and God bless.

Challenge colors on side yellow, gray and  blue

Who can get upset with this little guy. Just look at that face, he looks just like my grandson  when he does some mischief. And that is the same answer he will give if you ask who did it. Hmmm.

Now this little boy looks like my little guy but with different  hair color.

Mother's Day and Birthday cards

A big hello to all my scrapping crafting friends. Hope you are all doing well and enjoying some wonderful weather. Down my way, it has been gloomy thunder showers on and off and it feels humid and stuffy. Enough about the weather, I want to show you two cards I made a while back and did not have a chance to post.  The first is a Mother's day card I did for my sister. I used the little darlings paper and the butterfly embellishment is from  K& Company and I used worn lipstick distress ink on the edges and  a pretty punch from Martha Stewart  to finish the card. The Second card  I made for a little girls birthday. she was turning one ( such a precious time) I used white card stock and  paper from K&Company Itsy Bitsy. I added the diecut cupcake  from hot off the press and stickers from another pad whose name I don't recall at the moment and I cut out the Birthday words and paste it on, so easy. Hope you like these and  have a wonderful crafting week my friends.

This is my first Award

Thank You Elisa from http://g8countrylife.blogspot.com/  for choosing me to receive this Liebster Award. Elisa is  very talented  and she creates  the most beautiful  cards and  joins many challenges. She has been such an inspiration to me. If you get a chance please go and visit her blog.  The origins of the Liebster Award are somewhat unclear,but the general consensus is that it originated in   Germany. Liebster meaning favorite or dearest, to showcase bloggers with less then 200 followers. Upon accepting the award the recipient must then pass it on to five more blogs of their choice.

Now here is what you do as a presenter of this award 


1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog.
2. Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you.
3. Copy and paste the blog award on your blog. 3 to choose from : )
4. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 blogs of 200 followers or less who you feel deserve.
5. Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blogs.


Here are the five  blogs I feel deserve this award.


1 Evelyn at http://e-stamperly.blogspot.com/
2 Joann at http://jwscrapshack.blogspot.com/
3 Loida at http://pinkangelspartydecorations.blogspot.com/
4 Penny at http://9hawksandadragonfly.blogspot.com/
5 Wanda at http://artbywanda.blogspot.com/

Now ladies please choose 5 blogs you  feel deserve this award and  thanks for all the inspiration on your blogs!       (here are 3 Liebster  Awards to choose for your blog,  so pick one of your choice).

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I'm back with two cards and some tags too.

                                      Hello Everybody, hope you are all doing well and have been having some crafting  fun. Today I want to show you some Tags I did for a card swap in early  April.  I will try  entering these tags in some of the challenges going around. As most of my followers know I take classes with Laura from Following the paper trail,  she hosted this tag swap and received about 2,700 tags which she now needs to put into groups and mail to all who participated. the tags were  to be made on 4X6 card stock and the 3 groups were Grungy, Shabby chic and French country. I chose two groups  Shabby and Grungy (had to do 8 of each) I  am posting the one's I did and I will post the one's I receive when they get here.


 I am also posting some Pics of two cards I did on National scrapbook day. I will be entering these two cards in some challenges. for the first card I used a Kenny K digi stamp, They are just awesome and I have purchased quite a few. I made it for my beautiful niece (Adri) when she came to visit, her birthday had just past (so glad she liked it). I used the piano paper from the Performance stack from DCWV  and the rose and chip board banner was from the imortal line from the same company, it was plain so I stamped  the sentiment on it and the image was fussy cut and colored with Copic markers. 


                                        For the second card I made I used a wonderful digital image from one of my favorite artist Robert Jackson (he has some of the most fun images) and this image called (tha bump) brought me back to the 70's where disco was all the rage and then there was a show called Soul train and they did this type of dancing (It was  a early morning dancing show on T.V.). For this card I used a lot of solid color cardstock and DCWV pattern paper and  a bunch of Martha  Stewart punches in pretty borders and the Fisker's paper edgers in my favorite pattern (Imperial edge). I also used chipboard, felt flowers and ribbon and rubber stamps and  all images were fussy cut and colored up with Copic markers. Well my friends, this is all for now. Thanks so much for viewing and have a wonderful week. Hugs and God bless!

Here are two of the tags I kept for myself  from the Grungy and Shabby   group . I made a total of 18 tags   and I mailed out 16 and kept these last two. This was my first tag swap and also the first time I ever made tags from scratch (Yay).

I took some cream vintage paper and stamped the saying all over the page then I cut the saying with paper edgers and used vintage photo distressed ink on the edges. I also used colorbox  chalk ink pad in white on the tag itself with a pretty clear back ground stamp from Anna Griffin.( love all her scraping stuff). 

The flowers are from studio 18 and had to be assembled. They are 4 layers and I added the button brads.

These are my interpretation of shabby chic, I tried to make these exactly the same.

I like using the corner chompers in  stub and angle to cut the edges of the tags.

Here I was assembling after I punched out he chain in the metallic paper and  the keys were cut out using the Cricut cartridge Vintage romance. 

Here are the  eight tags I sent out in the grungy group . they did not have to be exact but in similar  papers and tones.

                                           
                                               And here are the pics of the 2 cards I  made, hopefully I will be able to enter them in some challenges. They are really so different from each other, one brings back memories the other is pretty and sassy. Hope you all like them.

The image is from Kenny K and  the piano paper is from DCWV .

This is the inside of the card  the red with the glitter stripes is a DCWV paper that I punched out with a gaint circle punch I have from Marvy. And I colored the little  butterfly with my markers after I stamped the design.

And here is the finished card I fussy cut the image and left a little edge around it , if you feel it looks bad please let me know and I will try to cut closer to the edge. I am knew and all your comments help me to get better. I liked this chip board banner and stamped  the oh happy day on it with Staz on ink pad.

Here I am getting ready for the second card.

Here I also used the same little stamp from the first card but I used different paper and  colored the butterfly  with my markers. and I pinked the edge all around using the Fiskers imperial edger. 

I had so much fun doing this card I just love Robert Jackson's  designs. His art is so nostalgic takes me back in time to fun days and happier times (Well enough daydreaming for me). I'm happy crafting and I hope you all like this one too. I used a bunch punches from the Martha Stewart line and  all the paper is solid or textured card stock. and the image was fussy cut and colored with Copic markers.