Another Birthday Card

            Hello Everyone and happy Tuesday. Hope you are all having some summer fun. I was invited to another of my niece's birthday party ( I have a lot of niece's).  Well, you know what that means have to make another card lol ( I enjoy it).


            She wanted a princess party, so I took some Disney paper and cardstock and made a card for her.  I fussy cut the bottom of the princess dress ( I think this is princess Belle)image and I added the paper flowers and leaves and some brads to hold the flowers together ( the flowers and leaves are from K&Company and you put them together. I also  used distress ink (worn Lipstick) on all the edges and stamped a dragon fly and added a butterfly bling  and last I cut around the princess celebration sentiment with decorative deckled scissors  and inked it all around and added a stitched pink ribbon with glitter dots and Viola  the card was done.  Hope you are all taking some time to craft,  Thanks for viewing, Hugs and God bless.

The card is finished (yay).

Here I almost forgot to stamp the dragonfly and add the butterfly bling ( you can see the above card has  it).

I always like to stamp  handmade  on the back ( I have several different  one's I use ).

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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