Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Friday! I hope everyone has been having a good week, I know a lot of you are excited and getting ready for Superbowl Sunday! We'll I hope you all enjoy the game, we are not football watchers at my house, so we will be otherwise engaged, lol.....actually the girls want to start making their valentines so we will probably make it a crafty day :)
My apologies for not being a diligent blog poster this week......my husbands aunt passed away :( and I had a stomach bug hit me yesterday, couldn't hold any food down until last night, but I feel much better today so I am looking forward to the weekend!
I have a Valentine to share today.....I had planned on sharing this a little closer to the big day but with all that has gone on and kept me from the craft room this week I decided I would share this little beauty today.
I based my card on the SFF sketch, that I made a few other cards with.......I found this ended up being a great challenge for me, by that I mean I took a sketch and created more than 1 card with it...........I think this card is my favorite of all .
I used the chevron folder for my 'bullseye' (as you can see better in the second photo)....I love the chevron!.......and those arrows are so fun to play with although a bit fussy to cut out, but I love the effect. I also love the stamp 'I freakin' love you!' I've already gotten a lot of use out of it......my daughter wanted me to use it on a birthday card for her best friend which I did......so it has uses beyond Valentines day
On the inside I used a 'hugs & kisses' stamp. I freakin love it, lol!
Thank you for taking the time to stop by, I hope my valentine inspires you to create one of your own :)
Next week I will be sharing more valentines, plus I have a super cute, super easy Valentine treat favor to share! Please stop by and see what's new in my crafty corner!
Have a great day and a wonderful weekend!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Monday to you all! I hope everyone had a great weekend, I so enjoy time off from the hectic weekday schedules but alas 2 days go by so fast. I had planned on posting Monday thru Friday last week, although as it turns out I wasn't able to get anything ready for Friday :( So I will try to fulfill that goal this week!
Today I thought I would share another Valentine greeting card I recently created......I've also recently been adding the 'sewing' technique to some of my projects, and I love the look, don't know why I waited so long, lol, there's just so many cool things to try I guess it just takes awhile to get around to trying them all.
This greeting is really simple, a little stamping, some die cutting, a little sewing and walla, a sweet little Valentine......
I love the simplicity....a lot of the time I make really busy cards, it's nice to switch it up sometimes.
Over the weekend I did some surfing and learned to make a box card, I will be sharing my box card creations with you soon! Woo Hoo it's so inspiring to try out something new....
Thanks for stopping by......have a wonderful day!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Thursday! I am back with another take on the Friday Frenzy Sketch challenge I did earlier in the week, it seems to be turning into a personal challenge as I have gone on to make 4 cards using that sketch, lol, I may have to try this again it's kind of fun and now I have several cards made and ready to give.
I'm also combining today's card with a color challenge with a private group I'm in at FB, the colors are saffron, slate and tangerine.
We'll I am off to run some errands, I hope to get back in my studio this afternoon. Thank you for stopping by......Have a wonderful day!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Wednesday! With a holiday on Monday and a birthday to celebrated Tuesday here we are already on Wednesday.....Friday will be here before you know it. We had a lot of fun yesterday.....ate lots of yummy Mexican Food, plus cake and ice cream! and watched the birthday girl open her gifts, it's hard to believe she's already 12, seems like only yesterday she was my little baby, oh my in the blink of an eye she will be grown up and graduating. I feel so blessed she is a very sweet, with a kind heart, I am very proud of the beautiful little lady she is becoming.
Today I am back with another Valentine, I liked the sketch friday frenzy sketch so much that I decided to explore it a bit more so I created a card with the more typical valentine colors using the same sketch.......I'm thinking about doing a 3rd version once I get into my craft studio for tomorrows post.
I used some primrose cs and framelits 'hearts a flutter' dies to make the hearts, and I added in a bit of the 'fresh prints' dsp. I wanted to use one of the doilies but I don't currently have any so I pulled out my doily die and made one using white cs.
I love that little 'love' bird and have used it several times already......he's from the set 'Love you more'....this set will only be available for a limited time thru the end of January or until supplies run out, so don't delay if you want your own.
Here's the inside:
I really love the way this greeting turned out.....now I'm off to see what else I can come up with :)
Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Tuesday! Today is a special day around here :) it's my daughters Birthday!!!!
Happy Birthday Maia!!!! I Love You!!!
Yea....time to celebrate! I just wish she didn't have school :( last year she lucked out and Martin Luther Kings holiday was on her birthday and there was no school, it's going to be awhile until that happens again.
I was cruising around the web and discovered the SketchFridayFrenzy blog ( we'll I did have a little help from my friend and SFF design team member Jennifer Kay) anyway they have challenges, since they just started a new one and I liked the sketch I decided to participate in the challenge. Here's the sketch....
I love the color selection in the dsp stack 'fresh prints' in the new SU occasions catalog, so I decided to make a valentine using the pool party and brown sugar color scheme, it was fun to create 'not your typical valentine' since I usually always pick red and white or pink and white for my valentines.
And now that it's done I am so glad I did use this combo, I love it!.....that ruffled ribbon works great on circles, it made the perfect trim for a valentine....I really need to get more colors of this ribbon.
Thank you Sketch Friday Frenzy! I loved the sketch and your design team examples were so inspirational :)....I love challenges they help me spread my wings and discover new things, it was fun and I will be back again to participate!
Thanks for stopping by, Have a great day!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Monday all! It's a 3 day weekend here so the kiddo's are home today, and tomorrow is my daughters birthday! She turning 12, wow, she has grown up so fast, so we are going to go play today to get the celebration started. I love birthdays and we celebrate several in the spring, there's someone in our family with a birthday every month through April....then we take a little break and start in again in July through November. Not complaining though, I'm always ready for cake and ice cream :)
I had hoped I would have a birthday greeting to share today in honor of my daughters special day but the constraints of time kept me from getting it done and the card I made for her is a design I have shared before, so since Valentines Day will soon be here I thought I would share another Valentine Greeting Card, this card has a mixture of new and retired products but since they are all Stampin'Up! they still work very well together.
I really love the new 'fresh prints' dsp stack from the Occasions, there's a lot of pretty designs that would work well for a variety of occasions. For the inside I stamped some xxx's & ooo's
Thank you for stopping by, I'll be back tomorrow with another project to share.
Have a wonderful day!
Tamara
Hello Papercrafters,
Happy Friday! Welcome back, we'll it's been a very productive week for me, yea, I posted all week, cleaned up some clutter around the house, and got a video done for today even though I got a surprise phone call from the eye dr. that my new contacts were in and I had to make a trip to town to pick them up.......btw I love my new contacts, I've worn the hard lenses for years but am trying out some soft lenses and omg they are so comfortable compared to hard lenses, I don't know why I waited so long to try them, lol.
Anyway I have a video tutorial of how I constructed the basic box I used for my recipe box, I included the sizes of the tabbed dividers and the recipe cards, but the decorating I will save for another video.
If you have any questions about this project just leave a comment on this post or email me: papercraftingstamper@gmail.com
Thank you for stopping by, I wish you a fabulous, fun-filled weekend!
Tamara
