Thinking of You Friendship Card

Hello, crafty friends! I hope you're having a happy week! :o) I'm popping in to share a card featuring two of my favorite lines carried by 7 Kids College Fund: Elisabeth Bell's Whimsy Stamps collection and Wild Rose Studio!

Elisabeth is one of my favorite artists and it is always a treat to color up one of her sweet images! For this friendship card, I chose the adorable Lemon Pepper.

How precious is she leaning toward her little birdie friend? I just want to hug her! I used the out-of-the-box technique to cut her out with a Spellbinders Standard Small Circle die (the largest of the set) and colored her with Copics. Portions of the image are sparklified with Star Dust and Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush. I used Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and a cloud template to sponge the sky.

The beautiful papers are from Wild Rose Studio's Butterfly Glade collection. The rich shade of purple and the lovely butterflies make these patterns two of my favorites. Lemon Pepper's balloon is paper-pieced to give it a fancy flowery design. I surrounded her with Wild Orchid Crafts roses, which are atop Cheery Lynn Designs' Mini Fanciful Flourish. My Pink Gem Designs sentiment is from their Vintage Occasions stamp set.

Naturally I couldn't resist adding a bright sunshiny butterfly, my favorite from Cheery Lynn's Small Exotic Butterflies #2 set.

Copics Used: 

Clothing: RV63, RV66, RV 69; Y000, Y11, Y15; B91, B93, B95

Hair: E33, E35, E37

Skin: E0000, E000, E00

Grass: YG17, YG23, G28

Products from the 7 Kids College Fund Store:

Elisabeth Bell: Lemon Pepper

Wild Rose Studio: Butterfly Glade Paper Pad

Spellblinders: Standard Small Circles

Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass

Wink of Stella Glitter Brush: Clear

Ranger Stickles: Star Dust

Copic Sketch Markers

Neenah: Solar White Smooth Card Stock

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Thank you for fluttering on by! Have a blessed day! :o)

Challenges entered:
 *613 Avenue Create~ Anything Goes (Optional: Create Your Own)
 *Crafting From the Heart~ Anything Goes
 *Creative Fingers~ Anything Goes
 *Elisabeth Bell's World~ Lots of Flowers
 *Elphine House Australia~ Spring is in the Air
 *Love to Create~ Friendship
 *Through the Craft Room Door~ Anything Goes
 *Through the Purple Haze~ Anything Goes (Optional: Masculine)
 *Tuesday Throwdown~ Spring Blossoms
 *Whimsy Stamps~ Two or More Die Cuts (Vines, nestie, butterfly)

Berry Sweet Mason Jar Tag!

Happy Friday, crafty friends! I hope you've had a lovely week! :o) I'm posting at My Craft Spot today and am sharing my project here, as well!

I'm planning to make a sweet little set of mason jar-shaped tags for a gift and this is my first one. The mason jar is from the Jar Basics stamp set, which I heat-embossed a deep shade of blue and cut out with the coordinating Jar Basics metal die set.

I chose gorgeous papers from a Susan Winget K and Company collection for my fruit-filled jar. This glossy-fruit design is one of the main reasons I bought the pad! (Don't ask me why I didn't stamp the lid... I cannot believe I missed that part! So upset about that.) 

The sentiment is one of my favorites from Kimberly's Tasty Treats stamp set, which is heat-embossed to match the jar. I was delighted to discover it fits nicely within the Tiny Doilies 2 metal dies! I accented it with pearls to match my pearl-centered Denim crinkle ribbon. The lacy trim beneath the lid is from Wild Orchid Crafts, as is the scalloped pearl.

Precious butterflies...

You know my love of butterflies! I love them as much as I love sparkles. :o) I colored two butterflies from the Jar Full of Flowers stamp set with my Copic markers, fussy-cut them out, and covered them in Star Dust.

I love the fun dimension you can give these butterfly stamps of Kimberly's!

Thank you for visiting and I wish you a blessed and sunshiny weekend! :o)

Challenges entered:

 *613 Avenue Create~ Anything Goes (Optional: Bling)

 *Card Mania~ Emboss It (sentiment and jar outline are heat-embossed)

 *Crafting From the Heart~ Anything Goes

 *One Stitch at a Time~ Ribbon or Lace

 *Papertake Weekly~ Anything Goes

 *The Paper Girls~ Mason Jars

 *Through the Craft Room Door~ Anything Goes

 *Through the Purple Haze~ Anything but Square

Anything Goes at 7 Kids College Fund!

Happy Wednesday, my dear friends! I hope you're having a happy week! :o)

A new Anything Goes challenge begins today at the 7 Kids Challenge Blog! I hope you'll join in the fun, as your creativity inspires us! Be sure to use products (primarily the image) available at 7 Kids to be eligible to win a gift certificate to the store! :o)

Although the theme is Anything Goes for participants, the DT added a twist to our contributions: Flowers! I took the opportunity to make a tag featuring a few beautiful Memory Box goodies.

I am making a set of coordinating nature-themed encouragement tags, the first of which I posted a few weeks ago. I began by using the Memory Box Honey Comb stencil over a patterned paper from the Wild Rose Studio Peach Blossom collection. Previously I made a warm sunset background of oranges through the stencil. For this version, I used Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass to mimic the sky, Scattered Straw for a touch of sunshine, and created a grassy base. I didn't have a proper green for the bottom, so I combined the blue and yellow to make a light shade.

In my first tag, my scene was creating with a nature stamp. This time, I created a floral scene with three sets of Memory Box dies! I used the Small Olive Branch for my greenery and Adorable Posies and Fairy Flower Drops for my flowers. You may be surprised at the lack of rhinestones in the center of those three opened flowers... don't worry, I'm not sick! ;) I ran out of my stash of tiny sparkles... which is just so sad. They will be added before this gets mailed out, that's for sure. ;) 

Although difficult to capture with a camera, the flowers are covered in gorgeous sheer sparkle from a Wink of Stella Glitter Brush marker. The top of my tag is Sky Blue crinkle ribbon from My Craft Spot, centered with a Wild Orchid Crafts sweetheart blossom. My sweet sentiment is from My Craft Spot's Tiny Tags 2 stamp set and the butterfly is from the Jar Full of Flowers set.

Be sure to check out the marvelous creations of my teamies! Thank you for fluttering on by and I wish you a beautifully blessed day! :o)

Products from the 7 Kids College Fund Store:

Memory Box: Honey Comb Stencil

Memory Box: Adorable Posies

Memory Box: Fairy Flower Drops

Memory Box: Small Olive Branch

Wild Rose Studio: Peach Blossom Paper Pad

Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Scattered Straw

Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass

Wink of Stella Glitter Brush: Clear

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Challenges entered:
 *613 Avenue Create~ Anything Goes (Optional: Bling)
 *Crafting from the Heart~ Anything Goes
 *Crafty Catz~ Anything but Square
 *Creative Fingers~ Anything Goes 
 *Love to Create~ Say it with Flowers
 *Papertake Weekly~ Anything Goes
 *Through the Craft Room Door~ Anything Goes
 *Through the Purple Haze~ Anything but Square
 *Word Art Wednesday~ Encouraging/Uplifting Sentiment

Mother's Day/Spring at My Craft Spot!

Hello, my dear friends! I hope you had a blessed weekend. :o)

For this week's challenge at My Craft Spot, you have a choice! We are celebrating Mother's Day and Spring, so take your pick and join in the fun! :o)

For my mom's card this year, I'm honoring a sweet and special part of our relationship: our weekly Starbucks dates! :o)

We make a lot of goofy and fun memories over our special drinks! Regardless of how busy life gets, I make it a point never to miss one of these dates or turn down an invitation for a spontaneous one. Everything gets tossed aside so I can spend a beautiful hour or two with her. :o) What we order varies based upon season or mood, of course! For this I made her a Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino with a cut file from Lettering Delights' Love You a Latte set. :o)

I made the whipped cream with liquid applique, which was such fun! If you enlarge this close-up, you'll see that I covered it with glitter before heating it:

The sparkly whipped cream is covered with Tickled Pink sequins, which serve as pink sprinkles. (Shouldn't everything come with pink sprinkles?) I centered them with tiny pearls. To make her glass fancy, the rim is trimmed with pink rhinestones. The black pearls in the drink are the cookie crumbles. :o)

I was anxious to use the fun new Flowers- Rolled Roses metal dies again, which is trimmed in Star Dust and centers my Pink Bubblegum bow. The sentiment is from Tiny Tags 2, which is cut out with the coordinating Tiny Tags metal dies. The polka dot flower and sentiment papers are from Doodlebug's Hello Spring. 

My background paper is from Pebbles' Front Porch collection and I used my La-La Land Crafts Filigree Corner metal die to adorn the corners. Each is accented with graduating sizes of Recollections pearls. 

Be sure to flutter on over to My Craft Spot to see what my teamies have created to inspire you! I hope you'll play along with us this week! I look forward to seeing what you create. :o) Have a blessed day!

Challenges entered:

 *613 Avenue Create~ Anything Goes (Optional: Bling)

 *Charisma Cardz~ Mother's Day

 *Craftin' Desert Divas~ Mother's Day

 *Crafting for all Seasons~ Lots of Layers

 *Crafting From the Heart~ Anything Goes

 *Crafty Ribbons~ Anything Goes with Ribbon

 *Creative Fingers~ Anything Goes

 *Cut It Up~ Mother's Day

 *Simon Says Stamp~ Anything Goes

 *The Pink Elephant~ Mother's Day

7 Kids College Fund Fun!

Happy Saturday, crafty friends! I hope you're enjoying a beautiful and crafty weekend! :o)

Today the 7 Kids College Fund Design Team is featuring the adorable stamps from SugarPea Designs! You can find all of our cards showcased on the 7 Kids Blog, where one lucky commenter there will win a $25 gift certificate to the 7 Kids Store! :o)

For my card, I played with the precious SugarPea set titled Tweet Friend! This is my first contribution for this month's I Feel the Love Project recipients: sweet baby Violet (who is battling leukemia and currently receiving chemotherapy and blood transfusions), as well as her parents to encourage them along.

I made this for Violet's parents, to bring extra blessings and sweetness to their home.

How cute is this stamp?! It comes with several wonderful sentiments, including the "Bless your nest" that I chose. I colored this little sweetheart with Copics after sponging her sky with Tumbled Glass distress ink and a cloud template. Star Dust sparklifies several areas of my image, including the tiny little egglets. The whimsical tree and nest were a little intimidating at first, but they were fun to color. :o)

My image is framed with Marianne Design Anja's Vintage Ornaments 2, which I've inked with Faded Jeans distress ink. My pink floral panel is trimmed with a Memory Box Fleur de Lis Border, also inked to coordinate.

The pretty papers are from the Front Porch collection by Pebbles. I cut apart a Memory Box Butterfly Vine Border to scatter sunshiny butterflies throughout my card, meant to deliver healing light and strength to the entire family. My pearl accents, including the border beneath my sentiment, are from Recollections. I hope with all of my heart that this brings a smile to this precious family.

Be sure to flutter on over to the 7 Kids Blog and comment for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the 7 Kids Store! Plus you'll be inspired by the work of my talented teamies. :o) Have a blessed and beautiful day!

Products from 7 Kids College Fund Store:

SugarPea Designs: Tweet Friend

Marianne Design: Anja's Vintage Ornaments 2

Memory Box: Butterfly Vine Border

Memory Box: Fleur de Lis Border

Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Faded Jeans

Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Tumbled Glass

Copic Sketch Markers

Neenah Solar White Smooth Card Stock

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Challenges entered: 
 *Crafting for all Seasons~ Lots of Layers
 *Creative Fingers~ Anything Goes
 *Frosted Designs~ Spring Has Sprung Word Collage (eggs, blue, flowers, among others!)
 *Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge~ Anything Goes
 *Through the Craft Room Door~ Anything Goes
 *Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

My Craft Spot Mini Release Day 2: Washi Tape Dies!

Happy Friday, my sparkly friends! I hope everyone is doing well. :o)

It's Day 2 of the Mini Release festivities at My Craft Spot! Yesterday we showcased the new gorgeous Flowers- Rolled Roses metal dies. Today we're featuring the fun new Washi Tape metal dies! Kimberly is offering more amazing prizes today, detailed below! :o)

These new dies are such fun to use! I made a card to sprinkle a friend with love. :o)

A close-up of the washi tape dies since the pastel tones aren't the easiest to see properly:

Aren't they sweet? I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out tiny hearts from my washi tape strips... I thought it would be such a fun way to begin a shower of love! I backed them with my favorite brown cardstock because you just can't go wrong with chocolaty hearts. (My base is also dark brown, though it looks black.) I covered them in Clear Wink of Stella for an abundance of shimmer. The delightful sentiment is from the Tasty Treats stamp set, which is one of my favorite of Kimberly's stamps!

The beautiful papers are from Wild Rose Studio's Peach Blossom collection. The umbrella is a cut file from the Silhouette Online Store, which I've adorned with pearls. Pearly love is also sprinkled amongst the hearts. 

I created my card base from an ornate rectangle frame cut file. The sunshiny MCS Buttercup crinkle ribbon is centered with a Wild Orchid Crafts scalloped pearl. The sweet daisy charm is from The Ribbon Girl.

Both new metal die sets are so versatile and inspiring! Be sure to visit the My Craft Spot blog to see the amazing work by my teamies! And don't forget... there is blog candy as part of this celebration!

Want to see both new sets of metal dies from the Mini Release?! :o)

Kimberly will be giving away a $15 gift certificate EACH DAY of this mini release, chosen randomly from comments left on our blogs!

Additionally, since these new goodies are available for purchase right now, Kimberly is picking a winner EACH DAY from customer orders for a $20 gift certificate!

Thank you for celebrating with us! I hope your day is sprinkled with sparkly love. :o)

Challenges entered:

 *613 Avenue Create~ Anything Goes

 *Crafting From the Heart~ Anything Goes

 *Crafty Ribbons~ Anything Goes with Ribbon

 *Cupcake Inspirations~ Photo Inspiration

 *Die Cuttin' Divas~ Make It Girly

 *Divas By Design~ April Showers

 *Moving Along with the Times~ Pretty Pastels

 *One Stitch at a Time~ Anything Goes

 *Simon Says Stamp~ Anything Goes

 *Through the Craft Room Door~ Anything Goes

 *Word Art Wednesday~ Encouraging/Uplifting Sentiment

My Craft Spot Mini Release Day 1: Rolled Flower Dies!

Happy Thursday, my crafty friends! Are you ready for the surprise My Craft Spot mini release?! :o)

Kimberly was just too excited to wait for the next full release to share two of her new metal die sets! Join us today and tomorrow as we showcase these new goodies! Kimberly is offering an amazing prize each day, with the winners randomly being chosen from comments left on the MCS and DT members' blogs. The more blogs you leave a little love on, the more chances you have to win. :o) She is also picking a winner both days from customer orders! (More details on all prizes below!)

Today we are showcasing Kimberly's new Flowers- Rolled Roses metal dies! Not only are they fun to use, but the results are gorgeous!

For my project, I made a pearly and sparkly birthday wand centerpiece for my mom's special day! :o) I wanted to use patterned paper for the flowers, so I chose the gorgeous Graphic 45 Secret Garden collection to break in my metal dies. One fun part of rolled flowers is the ability to make them as full or tight as you prefer. For these ones, I let them naturally fall open a little bit before hot gluing them to their base tab.

An extra special occasion calls for extra love, so instead of making rosettes I opted for a lacy heart base. The heart is a Cheery Lynn die from the Two of Hearts set. The little leafy flourishes scrolling through the beautiful flowers is Cheery Lynn's Mini Fanciful Flourish.

All three sentiments are from My Craft Spot's Tiny Tags 3 stamp set. I cut out little banners for them and adorned them with pearls in graduating sizes. I just cannot make a wand of any kind without flowing ribbon, so I chose three gorgeous crinkle ribbon shades to leave a fluttery trail of love. I also wrapped my bamboo skewers with the ribbon to make the entire project soft and lovely.

Unseen in my pictures is that the flowers and bases are coated in shimmer from my Wink of Stella Glitter Brush. So lovely in person... so challenging to photograph! I hope my mom loves her sweet centerpiece... it was such an enjoyable way to play with these new dies. :o)

Ready to see both sets of metal dies?! :o) Today we're showing you the Rolled Flowers set of 2 metal dies...

... and tomorrow we'll be sharing with you the beautiful ways we used the Washi Tape set of 3 metal dies!

Kimberly will be giving away a $15 gift certificate EACH DAY of this mini release, chosen randomly from comments left on our blogs!

Additionally, since these new goodies are available for purchase right now, Kimberly is picking a winner EACH DAY from customer orders for a $20 gift certificate!

Be sure to visit My Craft Spot to see the inspiring creations from my talented teamies! Thank you for celebrating with us and I wish you a sparkly day! :o)

Challenges entered:

 *613 Avenue Create~ Anything Goes

 *Crafting from the Heart~ Anything Goes

 *Decorate to Celebrate~ Mother's Day or Birthday

 *Die Cuttin' Divas~ Make It Girly

 *Love to Create~ Pearls and Bling (They are covered in sparkle, but it doesn't show in my photos!)

 *One Stitch at a Time~ Anything Goes

 *Simon Says Stamp~ Anything Goes

 *Word Art Wednesday~ Encouraging/Uplifting Sentiment