MOJO MONDAY MM 221

Happy Friday to all my crafty friends! Today is so gorgeous outside I had a hard time bringing myself to come in and write this blog.  Sweater weather is my favorite weather for it is not too hot nor too cold and a nice cozy sweater is just perfect.  The sun is out and the sky is so blue and pretty today.

Today’s card is a New Year’s card for our son.  It is inspired by the Mojo Monday sketch MM221.

Here is my card….

…and here is the sketch

I thought this was a perfect LO for my Inspired by Stamping stamp set and MME papers. 

Complete instructions are listed below, so if you want all the details, please scroll down.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and will leave comments before you leave! Thanks for stopping by….


STAMPS

• Inspired by Stamping
• Ahoy Matey stamp set

PAPER

• MME Paris & Co
• • 5 x 1/2” strip
• Dark Blue 10 x 5” folded to form base
• Brown 5 x 1/2” strip and scraps for medallions
• Beige 4 3/4 x 4 3/4”

INKS

• VersaColor
  • Celadon
  • Pinecone
  • Bark
  • Indigo

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Spellbinders Lacey Circles
• Sewing Machine
• EK Success 1 3/8” circle punch

ACCESSORIES

• Buttons
• Twine

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut all paper
2. Cut Lacey Circle using Spellbinders and Big Shot
3. Punch circle
4. Glue strips together and then use sewing machine to stitch edges
5. Stitch around edge of beige panel
6. Use Ahoy Matey stamp set on beige panel and on circle
7. Use a scrap of white paper to make a small medallion for the year. Back it with brown paper and scissor trim to size.
8. Adhere white circle to Lacey Circle
9. Attach all panels to card.
10. Add buttons, twine, sentiment

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM TSTR WEEK 94

Hello to all my friends in blog land. I hope your Christmas wishes came true and that you are looking forward to a happy and prosperous new year! 

I have to say I absolutely love seeing a new year arrive.  It always brings so much hope and anticipation of good things to come.  I know the year doesn’t always really bring us all goodness and joy, but don’t you just love the feeling of a fresh start?

Today, I am sharing a card I made for The Shabby Tea Room challenge Week #94 - 'A Colorful & Shabby New Year'.

…here is the inspiration photo

The challenge is to create a card or project inspired by the above photo and USE PINK OR RED, BLUE, YELLOW AND GREEN!

Well, I’m sure I nailed the colorful part of this challenge! I tried to make this card lighthearted and fun with the colorful design and the cute little dog jumping into the new year. 

How cute is he? I just love the sunshine and that happy little jump from this darling little guy. This stamp set is from Rubber Stamp Tapestry and is called “Sunshine Puppies”. 

I was lucky enough to get lots of new card making items for Christmas….stamps, lots of stamps, and Spellbinders. So stay tuned as I try out my new goodies and once we get into the new year, I will be trying new techniques too.

Complete instructions are listed below, so if you want all the details, please scroll down.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my card today and will leave comments before you leave! Thanks for stopping by….


STAMPS

• Rubber Stamp Tapestry
• Sunshine Puppies Set

PAPER

• DCWV  Garden Party Matstack
• 4 1/2 x 4 1/2”
• 4 x 3” for Spellbinders Fancy Tag
• White
  • for Spellbinders Labels Four
  • scrap for circle
• Craftwell Blueberry
• 1 x 4 1/2” strip
• 4 3/4 x 4 3/4”
• Light blue
• 10 x 5 folded to make card base

INKS

• VersaColor
• Cyan
• Pinecone
• Green Tea
• Canary

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Spellbinders
• Labels Four
• Fancy Tags
• Lacey Circles
• Sizzix Sizzlits Circle #3
• EK Success
• 1 3/8” circle punch
• Card maker
• Fiskars edger

ACCESSORIES

• Yellow satin ribbon
• Pink pearls
• Liquid Pearls – Petal Pink

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut all paper
2. Use Big Shot and cut all Spellbinders and Sizzlits Circle #3
3. Use Fiskars edger on the Blueberry strip
4. Use card maker on the top two corners of the Blueberry panel
5. Cut the small white circle with the circle punch
6. Slip the 4 1/2 x 4 1/2” panel into the slits in the Blueberry panel
7. Run yellow ribbon through holes in the punched edge of the Blueberry strip
8. Attach Blueberry strip doily and Fancy Tag to Garden Party panel.
9. Use Sunshine Puppies stamps on the Labels Four tag
10. Edge the Labels Four tag and small white circle with Cyan ink
11. Add Liquid Pearls to the grassy areas of the Labels Four tag
12. Make the sentiment medallion by layering the Lacey Circle, Circle #3 and 1 3/8” circle
13. Make bow and attach
14. Add pink pearls

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I could not let the day go by without wishing all of my friends a very Merry Christmas!

I want to share some pictures with you from last year.  On December 26, we awoke to a very rare and beautiful snowfall!  I didn’t go outside but I did take pictures from inside looking out.  It was so wonderful getting snow at all, much less that close to Christmas!

I love this picture of my neighbor’s house with their Christmas decorations out.  Their house is always pretty at Christmas, but the addition of the snow made for a gorgeous scene. 

This year, my daffodils are blooming on Christmas Day! They should not be blooming for another 2 or 3 months, so again we are having rare weather at Christmas. 

I wish you all a peaceful, joyous Christmas, and if you have a loved one on the way home from Iraq or Afghanistan, God Bless you and your loved one.  My Son will be leaving March 5th to start Basic Training in the Army…. following in his Father’s footsteps it seems. 

Merry Christmas! I am looking forward to sharing lots with you in 2012.

CAS-ual Fridays CFC32

Hello all of my blogging friends! I cannot believe Christmas is less than a week away.  Our neighborhood is all decorated now and it is so much fun to walk around and see all of the lights.  I do love this time of the year!

I have so many birthdays in December, and this card started out to be CAS. Unfortunately, I am still not very good at keeping it simple but here is my card with coordinating envelope for CAS-ual Fridays CFC32…

I will list the materials used, however, I have been too busy with the holidays to have all of my normal details.  This is my hubby’s birthday card that he will get on Thursday.  I hope he likes it!!!

I hope you enjoyed reading about my card today and will leave comments before you leave! Thanks for stopping by….


STAMPS

• Inspired by Stamping
• Beautiful Ovals
• All Year Wishes II
• Not sure who the Vino stamp is from

PAPER

• MME Paris & Co

INKS

• VersaColor

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Spellbinders Big Scalloped Circles Large
• Crop-A-Dile

ACCESSORIES

• Twine 
• Yellow beads
• Eyelets

MOJO MONDAY MM219 SHAKER CARD

Hello to all my blogging friends! Wow, I cannot believe this week is almost over and Christmas is just over a week away. I’m so happy to have everything done and ready, so now I can just relax and enjoy the season. Now, if it would just get cold I would really be thrilled!

Today, I am sharing a card for Mojo Monday….see what I mean about the week getting away from me?  Well, this week MM219 was an awesome sketch and here is my take on it…

and here is the sketch….

I have always wanted to try a shaker card so this week I decided to just do it.  I also wanted to incorporate it into the MM sketch so that was a lot of fun and it took a few tries to get it right.

You can just see the items I put in the “shaker”, Happy Birthday sentiment, balloons, and light blue seed beads.

The pretty flowers are from Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Pottery Garden set. I made the “garden” in the box and then stamped and cut out the foreground  and mounted using dimensionals.

The sentiment “flowers feed the soul” is from RST too.  The base of the sentiment medallion is made using Spellbinders Big Scalloped Circles Large and the circle is made using Sizzix Sizzlits Circle #2.  Glam Gold ink was used to color the circle and then I masked the circle leaving a small edge uncovered and inked that with VersaColor Lapislazuli using a cotton swab.  Light blue seed beads finish off the sentiment medallion.

The small rosette on the bow was crocheted by me. The instructions for crocheting it are by Jenn Ozkan and located here. It is so easy to do and is very quick to to finish.

Complete instructions are listed below, so if you want all the details, please scroll down.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my card today and will leave comments before you leave! Thanks for stopping by….


STAMPS

• Rubber Stamp Tapestry
  • flowers feed the soul
  • Pottery Garden set

PAPER

• DCWV The Linen Closet Matstack
• 6 1/2 x 4 1/2” base panel 
• 5 1/2 x 1 1/2 left panel
• 3 3/4 x 2 3/4” middle panel
• White
• 3 x 3 3/4 box base
• scrap for circle
• Kraft 10 x 7” for card base
• Dark blue
• scrap for die cut circle
• 3 x 3 1/2

INKS

• VersaColor
  • Split Pea
  • Lapislazuli
  • Bamboo
  • Evergreen
  • Cyan
  • Paprika
  • Peony
• Inkadinkado Glam Gold pigment pen

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Spellbinders Big Scalloped Circles Large
• Sizzix Sizzlits Circle #2
• Rubber Stamp Tapestry Rectangle Positioning Template

ACCESSORIES

• Cream satin ribbon
• Blue pearls
• Light blue seed beads 
• Liquid Pearls – Baby Blue
• Acetate

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut all paper
2. Attach two panels to base panel
3. Use RST rectangle positioning template to cut opening for shaker box. The actual size of the opening should be 1/8” larger all the way around if you want to add the dark blue border.
4. On white paper, position the template and draw a gold border along the inside using the gold pen
5. Use the stamp set on the white paper to create the garden 
6. Use a scrap piece of white paper and stamp the foreground flowers. 
7. Cut out the foreground flowers.
8. Make the “shaker” (instructions here).  Instead of cutting the hole in the card base, I cut it in the base panel so that when I put everything together, the inside of the card is intact and the base panel is elevated with dimensionals.
9. Once the box is complete, attach the dark blue border
10. Now attach the box to the back of the base panel
11. Attach the foreground flowers
12. Use Spellbinders die and cut the scalloped circle
13. Cut circle that is slightly smaller than the die cut…. I used Sizzlits Circle #2
14. Use Gold ink pad and color the white smaller circle
15. Mask the circle leaving a border. Use cotton swab and Lapislazuli VersaColor ink to create border on the circle.
16. Stamp the circle with sentiment
17. Add seed beads to sentiment medallion
18. Attach medallion to base panel
19. Add blue pearls
20. Using Liquid Pearls, mark dots on middle panel
21. Make bow. Add crochet flower to center. (Click here for crochet instructions)
22. Attach bow to base panel.
23. Attach base panel to card front using dimensionals.

GETTING MISTY AT CFC31

This week CAS-ual Friday’s challenge is a technique challenge, and one that I have not used before.  CFC31’s challenge is to “Create a Clean And Simple project using a misting technique”.



This card is 4.25 x 5.5” and uses a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the base panel.  I masked the oval portion of the embossed panel used Cranberry alcohol ink in a mister to mist the outside area.



The center medallion is stamped with Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Christmas Love set and embellished with green pearls, a Prima flower, bow and sentiment.

Complete instructions are listed below, so if you want all the details, please scroll down.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my card today and will leave comments before you leave! Thanks for stopping by….


STAMPS

• Rubber Stamp Tapestry
• Christmas Love set
• Merry Christmas Peg

PAPER

• ColorMates Smooth & Silky Cherry Ice Dust Card Stock
• 8.5 x 5.5” folded to create card base
• White
• 4 x 5.25”
• 3.5 x  4 for medallion 
• scrap for sentiment

INKS

• VersaColor
• Burgundy
• Charcoal
• Evergreen
• Adirondack® Alcohol Ink Cranberry

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Spellbinders Beaded Ovals
• Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Rectangles
• Cuttlebug embossing folder
• Small mister

ACCESSORIES

• “Let it Snow” ribbon
• Green and red pearls
• Prima flower
• Jingle bell
• safety pin

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut all paper
2. Run the white paper through the Big Shot using the Cuttlebug embossing folder
3. Put cranberry ink in mister and mist the outer edges of the embossed paper..
4. Use Spellbinders Beaded Oval to cut center oval shape and Fleur de Lis Rectangle to cut sentiment tag
5. Use RST’s Merry Christmas Peg to stamp sentiment on small die cut.
6. Place 3 red pearls under sentiment
7. Stamp the oval with Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Christmas Love set
8. Attach small green pearls to each “bead” around the oval 
9. Use foam dimensional dots to attach the oval to the white embossed panel.
10. Attach Prima flower in center of medallion 
11. Make bow and attach a red jingle bell to center.
12. Attach bow below medallion
13. Attach sentiment to bow using safety pin

THE SHABBY TEA ROOM GUEST DESIGNER

Happy Monday to all my blogging friends. I am so excited today because I am the Guest Designer at The Shabby Tea Room.  I just love those Shabby Girls for all of their inspiration and encouraging comments and thank each and every one of them for choosing my card as winner in week #79 - ‘Boys Will Be Boys’! If you haven’t checked it out yet, be sure to see this weeks challenge Week #92 – ‘The Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney With Care’ at The Shabby Tea Room. 

I saw this cute sleigh template from Card Carousel and just had to find a reason to make it this season. I decided to make the sleigh match my card and create a gift set for a small special gift.  Here is what I did (but be prepared for a lot of pictures!) ……



…which is based on this inspiration photo and the challenge to create a card or project inspired by the attached photo with a stocking(s) on it!



Isn’t that inspiration photo just gorgeous? I ended up including stockings a couple of ways: 1) from the stamp set used on the card and sleigh and 2) from the stocking I quilled to go on the card.

My card is a 5x7 that uses MME Lost and Found Christmas paper that is crimped into a beautiful diamond pattern and lightly rubbed with red ink with distress ink around the edges to soften and “age” the paper.  Before crimping, I  used Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Holiday Stockings Set to stamp a wreath on the lower right corner.  The same stamps set was used around the border of the card.



The stocking is one that was quilled by me and glued over a gold trim that I crocheted.



The large poinsettia flowers are made from strips of red satin ribbon and the small ones are punches from the McGill Petite Petals Punch.  I just used the 5-petal flower and layered it to create the poinsettia effect. Seed beads create the centers of the poinsettias.  The sentiment tag is stamped with the RST stamp set and with their Merry Christmas peg stamp.



Santa’s sleigh was so much fun to make. The template is available from Card Carousel and is very easy to assemble.  Decorating it is where the fun begins. 



I decided to make my own template for the sleigh’s skids so I could cut them from metallic gold paper. I like the way they turned out, but you can also create the skids by outlining that portion of the original template with glitter, cord, or an element of your choosing.



Santa’s sack opens and is large enough to include a small gift like chocolate, tea, or jewelry.



The sleigh is decorated with the same stocking stamp set as the card…Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Holiday Stockings Set



The distressed paper, crochet trim and doily give this card a nice vintage feel..  I like the way they turned out, but what do you think?

Complete instructions for the card are listed below, so if you want all the details, please scroll down. The template and instructions for the sleigh are available from Card Carousel.

I hope you like my card and will leave comments before you leave! Thanks for stopping by….


STAMPS

• RUBBER STAMP TAPESTRY:
  • Merry Christmas peg
  • Holiday Stockings Set

PAPER

• MME Lost and Found Christmas 4x6
• White paper  5x7

INKS

• VERSACOLOR
  • Neptune
  • Evergreen
  • Burgundy
  • Olive
  • Green Tea
• Pigment Copper
• Jim Holtz Distress Ink – Antique Linen

TOOLS

• Fiskar’s Crimper
• McGill’s Petite Petals  Punch

ACCESSORIES

• Red satin ribbon
• Crochet trim
• Gold & clear seed beads
• Gold metallic ribbon
• 1/2 baker’s doily
• Gold half-pearls
• Red rhinestones

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut all paper
2. Use RST’s Holiday Stockings Set to make border on white 5x7 paper and lower right corner of the MME 4x6 paper
3. Use Fiskar’s crimper to make the diamond design. Click here for instructions
4. Make large poinsettias from red satin ribbon. Click here for instructions
5. Use McGill’s Petite Petals Punch to create small poinsettias.
6. Glue seed beads in center of flowers
7. Cut baker’s doily in half and rub with Jim Holtz Distress Ink – Antique Linen and adhere to 4x6 panel
8. Adhere gold crochet trim over top edge of baker’s doily
9. Attach quilled stocking to gold trim
10. Add flowers
11. Tie metallic ribbon to sentiment and attach to panel.
12. Add glitter, rhinestones, half-pearls

MOJO MONDAY 218

Happy Tuesday all  my sweet friends!  I hope you are all having a great week and getting into the Christmas spirit!

I have good news and bad news today.  The good news is, my son helped me get my Christmas decorating done today!!! I am so happy it is done. It is hard for me to have to depend on someone to help me do something because I have always been very independent and get things done. My broken ankle is really putting a kink in my holiday plans so, hopefully the orthopedist will give me some good news on Thursday.

The bad news is, since I was busy decorating, I did not get this card into the PPA122-Celebrity Color Challenge as planned.  It is going into the Mojo Monday MM218 challenge using the colors from the PPA challenge.

My extremely kind neighbor sent me a live Balsam wreath this week which I promptly decorated and hung on my front door.  So this card is to thank him for sending the wreath…

…. and the LO is based on MM218

Once again, I have to thank Mary Fish for her wonderful video tutorial.  It shows how to make this fantastic rosette. And, did you see that pretty strip behind the rosette?  Here is a close up…

I didn’t get to use my peg stamps as much as I wanted to (I got in a bunch of new ones, so I will be doing a lot with them soon!) but the pretty design on the strip is from Rubber Stamp Tapestry’s Azalea Terrace stamp set.

My sentiment is on some beautiful cardstock from DCWV’s The Mariposa matstack and matches perfectly with MME’s Paris &  Co.

And this is a picture of my decorated wreath! So my Christmas decorations are done, my cards are almost complete, and all of my shopping is done. I just need to start wrapping gifts!

Complete instructions are listed below, so if you want all the details, please scroll down.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my card today and will leave comments before you leave! Thanks for stopping by….


STAMPS

• Rubber Stamp Tapestry
• Azalea Terrace Set

PAPER

• DCWV The Mariposa Matstack
• 3.25 x 2.75” green panel
• 3 x 2.5” (fussy cut image for sentiment)
• Craftwell
• 8.5 x 5.75” folded for base White Flour
• 8 x 2” strip White Flour scored & punched with double sided edge punch
• 4 x .75 White Flour scored and stamped
• 3.5 x 3” Olive Oil
• 2.5” scrap Olive Oil for circle
• MME Paris & Co
• 5.5 x 4.25”

INKS

• VersaColor
• Burgundy
• Olive
• Sage

TOOLS

• Big Shot
• Spellbinders Big Scalloped Circles Large
• Martha Stewart double edge punch 
• Score board

ACCESSORIES

• Vanilla satin ribbon
• Green pearls
• Red button

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cut all paper
2. Use Big Shot and cut scalloped circle
3. Score the white strip and punch with double edge punch. (save the extra strip for later) 
4. Create rosette from punched strip (Instructions here)
5. Attach the rosette to the green circle die cut.
6. From the remaining piece of scored paper, cut a 4” strip. 
7. Stamp with Azalea Terrace in burgundy, olive, and sage..
8. Attach DCWV green panel on top of Olive Oil 3 x 3.5” panel
9. Adhere all panels to card front
10. Attach pearls and .bow.