Valentine's Day Cards & My New Etsy Shop!

Saturdays with no plans are simply marvelous ... don't ya think?! :-) I love it.

This afternoon, my mom came over and we played around in my craft room stamping. I came up with some little v-day card sets that are just too cute (I am biased, I guess). :-) If you like and want 'em, you can get them in my new Etsy store! I have also put up some koozies in the store, too. Fill one with candy for a sweet gift!

Anyway, I also made this slammin' little accordion tag for Valentine's day ... I will post that in a separate post tomorrow.

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!

All supplies are by Papertrey Ink (except Polka Dot Ribbon - Taylored Expressions).

RAK from THE Verve Girl!

A few days after Christmas I got a beautiful card from the Verve Girl herself - Julee Tilman! Check out the card and how she made it here. She also has a shop with beautiful stamp sets - check it out!

Kristina's Color Inspiration # 38

Here's another Kristina's Color Inspiration Challenge entry. I am posting late because (a) Internet Explorer wouldn't let me upload photos to blogger so I had to download Mozilla and (b) I realized while I was trying to post that I used the wrong color pink and red! Oh geez.

Anyway, I made the background by stamping PTI's Polka Dot Basics on the pink. I then used a Sakura glitter pen to add a little sparkle to each dot. The flowers were stamped, cut out, outlined with the glitter pen and popped up on foam dots. I used some Basic Grey buttons to add a little something.

You can see the glitter better in the close up folder. I really like how this turned out. I just hate I used the wrong shades of pink & red! Oh well. It is still really cute to me!


If you have the day off like me, enjoy it! :-)

TECC#51

Happy Holiday weekend! I am enjoying today knowing that I can sleep in one more day! :-) I have mostly been playing around in my craft room - or maybe just making a mess. My husband would say the later! haha

I decided to put together Taylor's Cupcake Challenge this afternoon. I like how it came together. Although, I think I would use smaller brads next time.

Enjoy :-)

Here's the supplies that I used:
Stamps: Stamping Bella, Inkadinkado
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Not Quite Navy, Copics
Paper: PTI White, SU! Pretty in Pink, Teal CS & dotted background paper from the craft store.

Kristina's Color Inspiration #37

Happy Saturday! I made it through the first week back to work after the holiday break. It was a really busy week, so it went by pretty quickly. Today we are headed to our friends' house to celebrate their son's 3rd birthday. I decided to use Kristina's color inspiration challenge for this week as the jumping off point. Here's her color scheme for the challenge ...And here's my interpretation. What do you think?

I created the striped paper with Papertrey's Faux Ribbon set and the polka dot paper with the Polka Dot Basics set. The zig zag strip is from Bazzill paper's Just the Edge cardstock strips. And the Happy Birthday image is from SU! Alphabet Soup. I like that it is kind of funky but still really simple. Well ... off to the par-tay!

M is for Monday

Here's a closer view of the little tote and composition book cover set that I made for our niece for Christmas. She was so cute when she opened the box and found her journal and bag! I hope she enjoys using both of them! :-)

The tote was really easy - awhile back I printed some letters in Comic Sans super huge on paper and then I just trace them for a template when I need to make an initial tote. I use premade totes for these - however, for my larger totes I usually make the bag, straps and lining.

Its back to the real world today ... hope everyone's new year at work gets off to a great start!

Here's a little monogram set I made for a friend of mine for Christmas. I really love the Justrite stamper monogram set - it makes it so easy to create special and personalized gifts! :-) My old roomie, Emily, really loves purple, so I used that for my theme. All the paper and card stock is by Papertrey. I think it turned out really cute and she seemed to like the notepad folio and matching card set, so it all worked out great! :-)

Supplies Used: Justrite Monogram Stamper; Ink, Ribbon, patterned paper, clear card box and cardstock all by Papertrey Ink; SU! Scallop and circle punches.