Tag and Card Set

A little gift for a special someone (and a tag to complete the set)...

Materials
Paper: Watercolor paper, misc. Bazzill cardstock, glitter paper, kraft, LF DP
Stamps/Inks: TH Distress Ink - Peeled Paint, Memento - Tuxedo Black, Penny Black - Promise Me, SSS - Sayings, HA - clear sentiment set
Cutting/Embossing: Ellentina Cutting Dies - DCN016A, WPlus9 - Folk Art Florals Die
Misc.: Hydrangea liquid pearls, TH Distress Markers, Tattered Angels Glitter Mist - Cork, twine from The Twinery, Zig Wink of Stella clear glitter pen

Baby Fun

Some Baby Crafting/Knitting...


A Little Card Set

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, OWH Hero Arts - Lil Hoot (CL7550)
Misc.: Prismacolor pencils, gamsol

And Some Knitting:

My little bunny.

Pattern: Bunny Tail Hats
Yarn:Plymouth Yarn Dreambaby DK
Needles: 7
Size: Newborn and 0-6 mos

Card Set #5 and a Thank You Notecard

The finale of card sets...

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar white
Stamps/Inks: TH Distress Inks - Salty Ocean
Cutting/Embossing/Stencil: Inky Antics Cloud stencil, Memory Box: Adorable Posies and Hayden Twigs
Misc.: White Liquid Pearls

And Thank You...

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar white
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Rhubarb Stalk, HA Shadow Ink Midtone - Butter Bar, Impress - Mom and Baby Giraffe Combo, Verve - Treasured Words
Cutting/Embossing/Stencil: Stampin' Up heart punch
Misc.: dimensional adhesive, zig wink of Stella clear glitter brush

Wplus9 Birthday Extravaganza

Still celebrating with WPlus9!

Create a card, tag or layout with a focus on a current trend. Use at least one Wplus9 product and upload your project to your blog or online photo gallery such as Flickr. Then link it up using the InLinkz widget below by 11:59 PM EST, Sunday, February 23, 2014. Winner will be posted by 12:00 PM EST on Monday, February 24, 2014.

Here are mine (2 each of 3 designs):

Trend: I've noticed a lot more layered stamping and stamps - my favorite is WPlus9's Fresh Cut Florals.

Materials
Paper: Neenah - Solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: WPlus9 - Fresh Cut Florals, Verve - Treasured Words, HA Shadow Inks - Butter Bar, Soft Cantaloupe, Soft Blossom, Pool, Corn Flower, Grape Juice, Green Hills, Cup O' Joe, Field Greens,; SSS ink - green leaf; Memento - Tuxedo Black, Fresh Ink - French Lavendar
Cutting/Embossing/Stencil: Martha Stewart Score Board

Lawnscaping and Card Set #3

And the card gift sets continue... and today's actually fits in very well with the Lawnscaping Challenge this week... using an infrequently used set. Critters in the Dog Park is super cute --- but I've never actually used this particular stamp (or actually, the majority of the set)!

Materials
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Lawn Fawn - Critters at the Dog Park
Cutting/Embossing/Stencil: Martha Stewart - Grass punch, Lil' Inker Designs - Rainbows and Cloud set, Small Sunshine Die
Misc.: Copic markers, dimensional adhesive, glossy accents

Card Set #2

Here's the second little gift set of 6 cards that I whipped up recently as a gift...

This set features a new stamp from DeNami - Noah's Ark!

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, DeNami - J150 Noah's Ark,
Cutting/Embossing/Stencils: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard and Scalloped Circles, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps - Wave Dies
Misc.: Copic Markers, Dimensional adhesive

Card Sets --- A Series...

Card Set #1... which happens to work really well with WPlus9's birthday celebration and challenge for this week!

PLAY ALONG: Create a card, tag or layout with a focus on adding dimension. 

Here's mine:

 Materials
Paper: Neenah - Solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock, Best Creation Inc. - GP043
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black and Lilac Posies, Wplus9 - Onesie Twosie
Cutting/Embossing/Stencil: Fiskars scallop punch
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive

A little elephant gift set...

Here's a little card gift set that I've been working on (lots of fun to color)... and I think these may be my new favorite Christmas stamps! It doesn't get much better than baby elephants!

Basic Info:
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, DeNami - Christmas Wishes, Wild Rose Studio - Bella on Bauble, First Christmas, Bella with Wand
All colored with copic markers and embellished with stickles and various DP.

Random Cards and the Ravellenic Grand Finale

Ravellenic Games 2012

Knitting project finally finished!!

What made this an Olympic Challenge? The seaming - beginner at it and really dislike seaming, and it takes me along time to get it how I like it (multiple tries and at least one day's worth of work).

Little Jockey Wrap
Needles: Size 3 and 6
Yarn: Sublime Baby Cashmere Merino (3 sk of MC and 2 sk of CC)
Size: 1-2 years 

And some cards...

A gift set:

Materials:
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Lilac Posies; TH Distress Inks - Tea Dye, Amuse Studio - Cranberry and Evergreen, Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Stonewash midtone; WPlus9: Fresh Picked
Cutting/Embossing: WPlus9 - Folk Arts Floral Dies, Fresh Picked Dies

And, a random Halloween card -- not sure what put me in the mood to make one of these!!

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Faded Jeans, Paper Smooches - Falling for You, DeNami - Happy Halloween
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Ovals, Corner rounder
Misc.: Prismacolor pencils, gamsol, twine from the Twinery, googley eyes

More Playing with the Light Tent

Here are some more cards that I whipped up yesterday, mostly just to have some more fun in the light tent...

Some are obviously with better light than others.

Materials: 
Paper: Misc. Bazill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Impress Fresh Ink - Peach, Hero Arts Shadow - Faded denim, rosie posie, cup o'joe, Memento - Tuxedo Black, Lawn Fawn - On the Mend, Impress - Poppy

Clean and Simple Day #10

Simple Card Sets

Belated final post for the class --- was waiting for the stamp and ink to come in the mail!

Here's the first card of my card set...

I finally got the light tent out and started to play. This is the first card in a series, with different shadow ink colors.

Materials

Stamps/Inks: Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Midtone - Stone Wash, Lawn Fawn - Many Thanks, Impress - 5127G Solid Poppy  

And a little knitting:

This sweater was a little large for the light box. Still fun to try, though. 




Tiny Tea Leaves Cardigan, Sz 2 yrs, Needles sizes - 6 and 7. Yarn - Limited edition Hawk Ridge Three Irish Girls Colorway, Springvale Super Merino

Some Thank You Notes

Still no challenges for 2012, because I'm getting caught up on obligations for an upcoming baby shower and writing (and making) my thank you notes from Christmas.

Here are some thank you notes that were extremely simple to make... (one layer)

Ugh. Not the best photos. Haven't set up the new light tent, yet! Maybe later this week.

Materials:
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Paris Dusk, Cottage Ivy, Bamboo Leaves. Stampin' Up - Delicate Doilies, Lawn Fawn - Many Thanks

Chickies, Knitting, Card Sets

I've been away for a bit, but not for lack of being busy.

Here's some knitting... a stocking and a card set/gift basket both for charities...

The snowman is just something I made up and needle felted (see earlier post with felt stocking).

The basket has a stained glass snowman with a cardinal (made by my Dad), cardinal sugar cookies from Cookie Temptations, and cardinal cards -- see below.












Here are some card sets I'm giving away as gifts this year --- very CAS, so easy to mass produce. The coloring takes the longest, but is the most fun, for the Northwoods cardinal stamps.

The Cardinals - Northwoods Rubber Stamps

The Calendar Chicks - Hero Arts