Festive Friday Pearl Paper Party

Happy Festive Friday! Terri Sproul hosts this hop the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month to inspire you with Holiday cards. Join us and make a little each month, or tuck the ideas away to look back at when you do start your holiday card making, either way I know you'll agree there are some great ideas on the hop!

This week was a de-stashing card:

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Some retired Designer Paper, some punched paper accents, some pearl accents, a little two-tone stamping and Voila!
Festive!

Please continue to add to your inspiration as you hop along with us, and visit all the lovely blogs participating!
Next on the path is CYNTHIA. Enjoy!!
Happy Crafting!
~angie



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Rolled Roses for the Teacher

Another teachers gift, this was for Valentines Day...

Inspired by the sight of his dear teachers pencil bucket, with its down-to-the-nubs selection of pencils, I decided to do a pencil bouquet and make the flowers in her University colors. (Each classroom has chosen a College as their mascot for the year, ours is UCLA)

The flowers are rolled roses from 6x6" scrapbook paper. I had a couple sheets of the perfect blue - Brilliant Blue - and sadly that color is now retired, but I used up almost two sheets, so I do have a little scrap left! The yellow is So Saffron.

Hard to see them, but there is a Scallop circle base in green I punched out using the 2 3/8" scallop circle. I punched a small hole the size of the pencil, and then cut each scallop so it would wrap around the pencil where I glued it. Once the roses were made I used SNAIL adhesive to affix them to the scallop bases.

The vase is smaller, but it does hold a couple dozen pencils, some were Valentines themed, with a dozen roses. We do like bubs teacher, I hope she enjoyed the bouquet - she really does have "The Write Stuff"!

xoxo
~angie
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Festive Fridays Mixed Bunch

Here we are again with another installment of Festive Fridays! Terri Sproul hosts this hop the 2nd and 4th Fridays of the month to inspire you with Holiday  cards. Join us and make a little each month, or tuck the ideas away to look back at when you do start your holiday card making, either way I know you'll agree there are some great ideas on the hop!

This card is simple and super fast. I saw this layout over at mychicnscratch.com and thought it was beautiful for a Christmas card. The stamp set is Mixed Bunch from the Occasions Mini, (out now!) and the colors used are Lucky Limeade and Pool Party. The sentiment I used is from a retired set.

Festive Fridays Mixed Bunch

The beauty of this stamp set is the coordinating punch, which saves you time and looks gorgeous. I popped the snowflake off the solid strip of Lucky Limeade with dimensionals.

Please continue to add to your inspiration as you hop along with us, and visit all the lovely blogs participating!
Next on the path is BRENDA. Enjoy!!
Happy Crafting!
~angie



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Q&A Join During Sale-A-Bration

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Festive Fridays Branching Out

TGIF - yes, I am SO thankful it is Friday!
Thank you for hopping by on the Festive Friday Blog Hop! Terri Sproul hosts the hop the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month to showcase Christmas Cards. There is a list of the participating blogs at the end of this post, I hope you'll take the time to visit and enjoy the festivities!

This week I am sharing a card that I think would be good for the holidays, but also great to send in the winter - unless you don't care for the snow! Then, maybe it would be good to send in the summer... when its hot. And you wish it would snow, but you have forgotten how much you really don't care for the snow. Or something like that....

This card is made using the emboss resist technique. I stamped the Branching Out tree in Marina Mist and Versamark on White cardstock, and embossed with Clear embossing powder. The snowflakes from the same set (Branching Out, retired) were stamped in Craft White ink and also embossed with Clear embossing powder. I used a sponge to apply Bashful Blue ink to my scene, and then stamped the Real Red bird image (also from that set). Then the tree scene was mounted onto Marina Mist and Bashful Blue cardstocks, rounding the corners on all layers.
Whew! And that was just the center of the card!

The same snowflake stamp was used with the Craft White again, to stamp across the Marina Mist cardstock on the card base, and embossed with Clear powder. I stamped the sentiment from the Punch Pals set onto the bottom of the card, and added some white accents with a Signo Gel Pen.

And then I called it Done!

This set is retired, which is a shame - its quite lovely I think! However, you could use this fabulous technique with any of the available winter sets, it makes for some striking snowflakes!

Please continue to add to your inspiration as you hop along with us, and visit all the lovely blogs participating! Next on the path is BRENDA. Enjoy!!
Happy Crafting!
~angie



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Whatcha Workin' On? ~ Wednesday



Well, I guess we know what my summer project is: refinishing that table!

Everyday Enchantment...

I just can't get over how pretty this paper pack from Sale-a-bration is! I think I find something new to love about it every time I look at it. The color combos are so fresh and bright, yet feminine and soft, and goodness! Versatile - I can see the colors lending  themselves to some nice masculine cards as well!  

Everyday Enchantment #126154 - just a great pick, when you get to choose your Sale-a-bration FREE product...

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This week was my moms birthday and I was searching for ideas for a good card to make her, when I ran across this beautiful layout over at http://www.cardsscraps.com/. I shamelessly CASED the card. I made an matching envelope for it. And wouldn't you know it?! I put the card in and sealed it before I took any pictures... as they say on Twitter: SMH!

At least my Mom liked it.

So today I used my crafty hour to make a couple more cards. And lucky you, I took photos!!

Here they are:

Sale-a-bration 2012 Everyday Enchantment and Outlined Occasions

The card base is Pool Party, the Designer Series Paper is the beautiful Everyday Enchantment pack, and I accented it with some Cameo Coral card stock. The Flower is from the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer punch #122464 and the brads are from the Everyday Enchantment Ribbon and Brad Pack #127279 - also another Must Have from the Sale-a-bration brochure! The second card is almost identical - I used a different brad for the center of the flower:

SAB 2012 Outlined Occasions and Everyday Enchantment

The sentiment is another SAB (Sale-a-bration) set Outlined Occasions # 126016. I stamped it in Black and then used my Blender Pen #102845 with the Pool Party, Calypso Coral, and Lucky Limade ink pads to color in the letters and confetti. I still buy some markers, but usually I will just buy the ink pad and use my Blender Pen to color images. On one hand this is very economical, but the real truth is I am just not that good at coloring and I do not do it very often, thus my lack of a marker collection. One of those things I would like to work on, but probably won't make it to the top of the list. Now you know.

I also have a couple more projects I'm working on, the first in que being my card for Festive Friday this week - hope you'll come back and see that one on Friday. And I will be adding the refinishing of my craft tables to the list for the warmer weather. Haha! I suppose I should add to the list the "reveal" of my craft room - I don't think I ever posted any photos. It is still a work in progress, but at least after a year in the works it can now host visitors! 

One thing I really liked about the original card was that the complete design includes decorating the inside of the card. That really finishes a card off, in my opinion, adding a small coordinating design element to the inside. For these cards I will be making the matching envelopes and adding a flower or a strip of the DSP to the inside of the card.

But that will have to wait for after dinner and baths and story time and bedtime for those little crafters of mine... back to Mama mode! 

Happy Crafting!

~angie 

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Sale-a-bration Time, Come On!

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