September 12, NorthWoods Halloween class

Northwoods Rubber Stamps

My friend Pat and I had a fun day out a couple of weeks ago and took a class at a LSS in South County called For Keeps Sake.  The teacher Mary is amazing and the cards are usually outstanding and this was no exception.  When you do a Northwoods class you use a lot of stickles (which I love),(and which didn't show up in the picture I took),  copic markers to color and the Northwoods stamps are great to work with.  Of course you get to "SHOP" after the class and the store is always well stocked with everything a stamper or scrapper needs (or doesn't) to either start or finish that certain project you are working on.  What a fun day. 

September 10th, Let us Be Thankful

Doodle Pantry Colored Image, and Sentiment, Doodle Pantry printed DP, DCWV orange cs, white vellum, brown cs Spellbinders Scallop Nesties, SU punch, Tim Holtz tiny stapler, Kaiser Pearls,

Wouldn't this be a pretty Thanksgivving card??  With the precolored image and printed DP included in the set this was so simple to put together.  Printed out, cut with my Spellbinders scallop nesties, held together with ribbon from Harvest Crafts, 3 brown pearls and just a bit of score-pal lines and sanded just a bit this card is ready to put in the mail.   Did you know this month if you enter the Digital Challenge here using the TAG/KEYWORD DPDC27 and following the instructions using the inlinkz tool you will receive a FREE set called Mister Monkey.  This set is just too cute and can be used to make such a variety of cards.  So go on over to the Doodle Pantry Blog and enter your creation.      

September 6, 2012 Cowboy Gear

Doodle Pantry, Liquid Applique, Nailhead brad, Spica glitter pen

Another new fun image from Doodle Pantry called Cowboy Gear.  This set is not colored so it was perfect for me to use the suede technique. After resizing and printing (on ivory cs) my boot image  I squeezed a generous amount of brown liquid applique on wax paper, then I used my  brayer roller and picked up the liquid applique.  Next I rolled the brayer over the image getting a pretty thin even coating on the boots.  I let it sit for just a few minutes then took my heat tool and heated the brown liquid applique.  Make sure you don't over heat as it tends to "burn".   I then cut my boots out , added a bit of spica glitter pen on the trim of the boots, pop dotted the image.  The sentiment went perfect with this pair of boots.  When you feel the boots they feel like a very soft leather that have been worn to many line dances!!!  

   

Sept. 1, 2012 Too Sweet Turtle

Doodle Pantry Too Sweet Turtle, Doodle Pantry DP (included), Rain Dots from Cloud 9, Bakers Twine, Lg. Scallop Die AMuse

Today is New Release Day over at Doodle Pantry and once again there are so many new cute images to pick from.  I am so excited to announce that I am a "new" member of their design team, as you know I love their images and participate in their monthly challenges so when I was asked to be a team member it was so easy to say YES!!!  I choose the new release Too Sweet Turtle which comes with a colored and black/white turtle image, 2 design papers, and 5 sentiments.  I do so many kids get well and birthday cards - I knew this would be perfect for either a boy or a girl.  I printed the turtle out on  X-Press It cs, colored with copic markers cut out the images  with Spellbinders nesties then mounted it on  one of the bright colorful DP  This makes it so easy to match colors.  I had some Rain Dots in my stash and I thought they would be perfect on the orange dots on the shell and give the shell some texture.  A bit of bakers twin in orange and another piece in green tied in a little bow, then scalloped the bottom with AMuse Die large scallop die  and this card is ready to go.   

August 26, 2012 Christmas Card

Cricut used for sleigh, cuttlebug embossing folder, snowflake vellum, asst ribbon, asst, bling

Here are two more fun cards we made at our play/create day - don't you love the sleigh - Cheryl has a Cricut and I don't so these two cards were fun to put together.  Love the soft snowflake vellum that she had when you touch the snowflakes are a velvet texture.  Add some bling to the card (you know I love bling) tape it down and ready to go.     

August 24, 2012 Beautiful Botanicals 2

AMuse Beautiful Botanicals 2, TAC sentiment, AMuse butterfly out of gingham cs, misc. ribbon, CS

Every year for my birthday my friend (and boss) get together at her house and we each have 3-4 projects that we make, then we go to lunch and come back and create some more.  Time is such  a nice birthday present as well as we each get to add more knowledge and creations to our stash!!!  Oh I forgot the best part - she also makes "garp" - per my request, almonds, M&Ms, and raisins and I got to take the remainder of the bag home with me to share with DH,.  I will be sharing a couple more we made soon.

August 17, 2012 Whimsie Doodle Pencil Pixie

Whimsie Doodles Digi Image, DCWV DP, Spellbinders nesties, Copic markers, Queen and Co. washi tape, Vippies (pencil), AMuse glitter. AMuse cherry CS

Is she not a real cutie she is a "freebie from Whimsie Doodles  and she was so much fun to coor and paper piece (her dress and head band.)  I always have my sewing machine set up in my craft studio and just never think to use it but on this one I thought it added a little extra touch.  The pencil is from Vippies that I have had a pkg. of forever and my DH cut it off for me (it was way too long) and I glued it to the notebook paper.  Sentiment is from a set from TAC.  Love the glitter on her wings.