Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Monday! Well the kiddos are home for the Thanksgiving holiday and amazingly enough I was actually able to get into my craft room and create a card for the demo color challenge for my fb demo group. What a mess I had to work in, I did a workshop/boutique on Saturday and the days up to the boutique I wreaked havoc on my craft room, it still needs a good reorganizing because I just moved some things aside to give myself room to work :( but I sold alot of cards, tags and snowman soup which made me so happy!, I'm looking forward to more boutiques.
The colors for the challenge were rich razzleberry, pistachio pudding, and always artichoke.............now I didn't have any of the artichoke so I used gumball green in it's place. I decided to go with a holiday theme since they are so quickly approaching and I think the razzleberry works well for a holiday card.....here is the front:
I created the border with 2 nestabilities dies so I decided to use the leftover piece to decorate the inside of the card, then I added an ornament and stamped on the greeting.
It's a simple but sweet card that has a very festive feel to it. I used the 'ornament keepsakes' and 'christmas messages' stamp sets, and the sizzlit leaves die, plus I added some pearl bling.
I am working to get the video done of my tealight boxed set and hope to have it uploaded by the end of the week, I appreciate your patience, the workshop boutique I did Saturday was booked because of SU's bookathon, so it kind of got in the way of my video, but I did earn some grab bags of retired goodies, I'm so excited about that, plus I sold a bow die and some pretty presents bow kits!
Thank you for stopping by,
Have a wonderful day!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Wednesday, my this week is flying by, harvest work is keeping me busy and in between work I am getting as much crafting done as I can for a boutique that I will be participating in on Saturday. Since I created the box for my tea-light candle I discovered it also hold 4 to 5 cards depending on how thick the embellishments are, so I have created a few card sets in a matching box, I thought they would be great for gifts, I will be sharing some of these creations in the coming weeks but for today I will be sharing some cute birthday invitations I created recently.
With the holidays coming up well everyone is sharing lots of Christmas, wintery, holiday creations, but birthdays and other occasions happen all through the year, I decided to make a more boy friendly version in blues and greens and the girl version is in pink........
For the girls:
and on the inside:
For the boys:
the inside of the boys version is the same as the girls except the balloons and hat are in blue and green.
This invitation is super sweet and super easy to create, the rosette in the middle takes the most time, although if you have the rosette die is does save a bit of time.
I used the stamp set 'sketched birthday' and the dsp 'birthday basics'.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a wonderful day!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
I'm back to share another greeting I created for my fb group, we are all SU demo's and the group is for sharing and supporting each other. We often have color challenges to help with gain design ideas from each other. The card I created for today's post was the result of one of those challenges. I believe the colors were baked brown sugar, primrose and ivory........since at the time I had not used my new mosaic embossing folder I decided I would use that in my design, after embossing I used a dauber to rub a little of the brown sugar on the embossing so it would add a little depth the the edges. I stamped then fussy cut the flowers out and made an arrangement of them on the front, to create the leaves I just simply cut them out of card stock then added some vein lines. And it just felt like it needed a little pearl bling.
I wanted to carry the look into the inside of the greeting so a added ivory cs and used the corner punch on them to fancy it up, stamped the sentiment then added another of the large flowers I used on the front.
The colors actually work well for a fall birthday greeting.
Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Tuesday all! We had another busy day on the farm but I still wanted to share one of my creations with you. I created this card for a swap I participated several weeks ago now, but with all the hops and videos I am just finding the time to share it.
To create the card I used the set 'Kind & Cosy' from our new IBC, in fact that was what the theme of the swap was....to use something new from the IBC.......well I really loved that set when I saw it, maybe it was the gingham but anyway I decided I would use it to create my swap.
Another new item I love was the ruffled ribbon, it's so pretty and I love the pool party so that was what I decided to use in my design. I also liked the way the 'Morning Meadow' hostess set went with the flowers in the 'Kind & Cosy' set so I used them on my background, before stamping I used my SU markers in summer starfruit and gumball green to color the stamp. I added some tiny pearl bling to some of the flowers.
I also used the vintage buttons and some twine, I really love this design and way the colors coordinate. I did have to do a lot of fussy cutting around the flowers and the cups, but I really like just seeing the image and not a lot of card stock, which is fine for a few but I would recommend too much fussy cutting if your doing a large swap.
And here is the whole set, I had to make about 7 of them.
If you haven't got this set yet you should try it out the gingham circle works great for adding a circle frame to alot of other stamps and can be stamped in a variety of colors, I did a card with it that I stamped in black and it was gorgeous....in my humble opinion :)
Thanks for stopping by, Have a wonderful day!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Saturday to you all, sorry for being so late getting this posted, but I was so tired after getting back from camp from all the trekking around in the forest that I just needed a lot of extra rest. Wow it was incredible I think I learned as much as the kids did, of course they encouraged and asked us to join in the activities. We were on the move from 7 in the morning till 8 at night and most all the classes were conducted outside, although we were inside for the 'arrowhead' and 'earth and beyond' classes. Here the kids are in one of the 'class rooms' :) my daughter is the one in shades looking at the camera..
This was what we were walking around in all day....heavenly.....I have many more photos, but they are still on the sd card, but I will be sharing some of my favorites in the coming weeks.
Here we are taking a selfie of us in the forest...
I hope you all enjoyed the hop I had so many wonderful comments, thank you thank you!, they are so appreciated! I was so happy to get back to my computer so I could catch up with all the activity.
I numbered all your comments and used a random generator to pick the Winner of the Blog Candy!!! and the Winner is.....................
Regina!!! her comment was:
these are more than beautiful! Perfect for the Christmas tree!
Thank you so much, I loved the way the ornaments turned out too, can't wait to make more :)
I will try to contact you by email....if you read this post then please contact me at: papercraftingstamper@gmail.com and tell me your physical address so that I can get your package posted.....note: we have a holiday on Monday, so I will not be able to ship until Tuesday.
Many thanks to all of you that left comments and thank you for following my blog! We are planning on another hop the beginning of December so I encourage you to check back I will be announcing the details asap.....and since it is December I will most definitely be giving blog candy away!!!....just call me Tami Claus, lol.
All silliness aside I will be posting new goodies as I get them made so I hope you will stop by and see what I'm up to.........
Have a wonderful weekend!!!!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Welcome to day 3 of our Glitter Queen's Blog Hop! I hope your enjoying all the awesome paper crafts everyone has been sharing, I can't wait to get back home so I can hop around to everyone's blogs, I am still in Sonora and having a great time, but I will be so ready to get back home, to my own bed and I'm sure I'm missing my computer and phone service, lol.
Today I have a Wintery version of the tea-light candle card and box I created for our last hop with the Fall theme, the design is something I cased on the internet although when I created the fall set I noticed the box was a little wider then the card/candle holder. So when I created this set I re-engineered the box to fit my card/candle holder better, took a bit of trial and error but I ended up with a box that fits the card perfectly :-)
The video for this project will be ready later this month, bear with me I've been preparing for this hop and I'm still helping my husband with harvest plus I have had several dr. appt's lately...all just check-up's, but time consuming all the same.
I used the dsp 'Winter frost' and our silver glitter paper to create the box and card, my card base is 'island indigo' cs, the sentiments were from the 'Christmas messages' set in the holiday mini, on the top front of the box I used the framlits 'labels' collection and made 3 layers with them, I love this layout so much that I think I will make a card using this design (smiles) the small snowflakes and stars are from an older small die I have, I used the silver glitter paper for these, they are so pretty and sparkly.
On the card front I used the framelits 'ornaments' collection and 'island indigo' to make the ornament then I added some of the foil dsp from the 'winter frost' dsp, I added a twine bow and a rhinestone to the sentiment for a little extra sparkle.
On the inside of the card, the sentiment was stamped on whisper white and punched out with the artisan punch and I also used more of the 'winter frost' dsp
This would make a great gift, I need to get busy with the video, the video will be of this winter version since the big day is coming soon, yikes.
Thank you so much for joining us for our Winter hop, we plan on doing another hop the first week of December, so keep that in mind and mark your calenders.
If you have been commenting on my projects, many thanks, I look forward to reading them upon my return, and be sure to join me on Saturday when I announce the Winner of my blog candy!!! I have a nice package of goodies for crafting with, it has a selection of 6"x 6" 'winter frost' dsp, some 'season of style' stack, 2 yds. silver 1/8" ribbon, 2 yds. 1/4" real red ribbon, 2 yds. of twine, plus some buttons and embellishments.....I even added a few of my leftover snowflakes :-)
Be sure to check out my Holiday shares bundle, it has dsp, ribbon, embellishments, boxes, and muslin bags! ( see the details on my Oct. 30 post or on the sidebar of my blog......oh and if you buy a share you will have a 1 in 10 chance of winning the stamp set 'oh goodie' I will choose the winner with a random generator and send the set along with the winner's share bundle!!
This is the end of our hop, thanks for stopping by, and now back to Dawn...........
Enjoy your day!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Welcome to Day 2 of our Glitter Queen's Blog Hop! It's so nice that you have stopped by for day 2, I am so inspired by yesterday's fabulous goodies I can't wait to see what everyone has for today, unfortunately I will not be able to see day 2 and 3 till I get back.......as you are reading this I am on my way to Sonora, I am a chaperone for my daughter's 6th grade camping trip :-) we will be back on Friday late afternoon, I will be anxious to see what has been shared on days 2 and 3 as well as comments! On Saturday I will announce my winner of my blog candy!
For today I have some sweet ornaments I made using the 'Color me Christmas' set from the mini, I had originally planned on making 5 using all the images in the set but the constraints of time, work, and preparing for the camping trip, I only got 3 made......the other two I will save for a future post. I stamped my images on a watercolor paper and I used my acrylics to color them in, of course our SU markers or copics would work equally as well.....as I was brainstorming this idea I thought the images would work great on the rosettes, now I made mine by hand using dsp cut at 1 1/4" x 12" then score every 1/4"....but if you have the rosette die for the big shot that is so awesome and makes it so much easier, but I have many other goodies on my wish list that take priority over the rosette, lol, perhaps there is one in my future!
I wanted to add some bling so I decided to use the silver glitter paper, oh my this is another of my loves.....this paper is gorgeous and makes your projects just pop beautifully.
For the reindeer and the present ornaments I added a sentiment to the back using the 'Christmas messages' set, but for the tree I just put a tree on the front and back.
Here is the reindeer:
Here is the present:
Here is the tree:
And the group together:
I'm just missing the stocking and the santa but will work on those when I return...........I hope I've inspired you to make some of your own ornaments, I think they look fabulous and I can't wait till I get to try them out on our Christmas tree..........they would actually make a great gift, in fact I think I will make a set for my mom :-)
Thank you for stopping by, don't forget to follow and comment, blog candy may be in your future!
I will share more about that tomorrow...........please come back by I have another 3-d project to share!
Have a wonderful day!
Tamara
That's the end of our hop, thanks for stopping by, and now back to Dawn........
Hello Papercrafters,
Welcome to Day 1 of our Glitter Queen's Blog Hop! I'm so glad you are joining us today, these hops are always so much fun and they are so inspiring, I love seeing everyone else's idea's. I have different projects for each day so be sure to come back for all 3 days!
Our theme for this hop is Winter so I have created a couple of greeting cards for Christmas, to create my cards I used the 'Winter frost' dsp.....I love love love this dsp.....and the foil papers included are gorgeous, I also used the stamp sets 'Christmas messages', 'Color me Christmas' and 'Seasonal sayings', of course I needed embellishments, I used some white satin ribbon, vintage faceted buttons, twine, rhinestones and lets not forget the silver glitter paper! .
Here are the greetings:
And on the inside:
Here is my second card:
Don't you love that foil dsp and the silver glitter paper, it's so pretty!
And now for the goodies :-) yes I have some blog candy! All you have to do is follow my blog and leave a comment during the hop, each comment gives you a chance at winning so comment on all my hop posts for more chances!!! I will share a photo of the goodies on day 3!
For anyone interested I have some holiday mini share bundles available-these are only available through me, the details are on my October 30, 2013 post! Or you can see the details in the sidebar on the left. This is an awesome deal, the shares have dsp, ribbon, embellishments, boxes and muslin bags! Be sure to check it out! Plus the shares have a Bonus!
Thank you for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed my cards, I have some 3-d projects for tomorrow, hope to see you then.
Have a wonderful day!
Tamara
That's the end of our hop and now back to Dawn..............
