Little Scrap Pieces DT Post - Emboss it!

Hi Everyone!
Wow, what a week! So glad the weekend is here and yay it's time for Little Scrap Pieces FUN FRIDAY! This weeks challenge is a fun one - It's being sponsored by our very sweet DT sister Lisa.
The challenge is to add some embossing on your project - any type heat or dry. Have fun with it and please pop over and see what the fabulous DT created.

I created an Anniversary pillow/Gift box for my Aunt and Uncle. Their Anniversary was on Valentine's Day so sweet. 

I chose to heat emboss, I love the effect and I think it can add a elegant touch.

The pillow box was cut from the Wrap it up Cartridge and using my Gypsy I hid the image so it would be a solid box.

I tried and TRIED to get a good picture but it was so hard :( 

I used a MCT - Script Type Backgrounds Stamp Set

Clear embossing powder

Paper - Recollections

Ribbon - Little Scrap Pieces

Tag - Teeny Tag Greetings Stamp Set

Burlap Jute

Decorative scissors

Challenges/Linky Parties

Celebrate the Occasion - Challenge #100: Happy Anniversary

Hiding in my craftroom - Embossing

DL Art - Thankful Thursday February Link Party

Stuck on u sketches - Die Cut Challenge ( I used the Wrap it up Cricut Cartridge to cut the box)

Craft Junkie too - tgif linky party

Everyday is an Occasion - Sunday Funday

Little Scrap Pieces Fun Friday DT

Hi Everyone!

Did a whole week really just go by? Really? My head is spinning, we have our neighborhood Christmas party on Saturday. We are hosting and it should be a ton of fun, we have some really great neighbors and are so lucky to live on a block with about 30 kids. Can you believe that 30? We will be decorating gingerbread houses, having a Hot cocoa & cookie bar, and plenty of laughs!

So I know you all stopped by for the "Fun Friday" post not to hear me babble :) So let me get to it. Today's challenge is "Holiday" so stop over at Little Scrap Pieces and join in the fun! Link up any Holiday card or project and check out all the FABULOUS DT projects! There are some pretty amazing things to see:)

The scallop circle and inner circle were made using an EK success punch.

The Holly and berries are a die cut from Lil Inkers - Holly Jolly Dies and stamp set

Card - 5.5" x 4.25"

Paper - Recollections

Ribbon -  Little Scrap Pieces 

Sentiment - My Creative Time

Machine stitched

Glimmer Mist added to ribbon & Polka dot paper.

Challenges/Link Up Party

Pink Cricut - Link Up Tuesday

DL Art - DL.ART THANKFUL THURSDAY RED AND/OR GREEN CHALLENGE

Go fish challenges - Create any Christmas themed project

Celebrate the Occasion - Christmas (must use a punch) 

Docerela Creations - Red & Green

Whoot Whoot...Celebrate

Hi Everyone!


Wow, Is it really Friday today? Where did this week go? I have had NO time this week to craft. So this card is actually from last weekend and I just added the final touches on it. I created this for a few challenges and I missed one :( Anyhow, I actually had a little inspiration for this card, it was from one of my SUPER talented bloggy friends. Miss Cindy from Cindy's Scraptastic Designs. Now I'm probably crazy creating a card using Cindy's design, because she is such an AMAZING crafter but I just loved this card (Click here to see it) Gorgeous right! I really wanted to create a card with a little owl in a tree. So here is mine! I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

I used a Sizzix Tim Holtz embossing plate Bricked & Woodgrain set to create the tree like background. I cut a shape in the middle using my gypsy. Can you guess what shape I used....it's an apple turned on it's side and stretched until I like the way it looked.

Card - 5.5" x 4.25"

Cricut Cartridge - Paisley

Stamps - PK-754 Critter Faces SET A Medium

Flower - My Creative Time Rolled Flower Die

Sentiment - Hand written

Hemp Twine - Liz's Loft Lizs paper loft

Challenges:
Cards by Jovan - Celebrate  Hop over and celebrate Jovans Blogaversary!!
Celebrate the Occasion - Birthday
Little scrap pieces - Anything Goes
Jaihart - Sunday's are Lovely

Happy Father's Day

Hi Everyone!
Enjoying your week? It's the last week of school for us so we've been doing lots of end of year parties and yesterday the entire 2nd grade walked over to our local nature park and had lunch and an ecology hunt. It was a ton of FUN! 
So I did manage to put together a Fathers Day card for my Dad. It only took 5 days (hee hee) Every time I stepped foot in my Craft room last week and this week I heard....Mom I can't find...., Mom I spilled...., Mom I'm hungry..., I'm sure most of you can relate :) Well here is my card.

   Card - 5.5" x 4.25"

Cricut Cartridges - CAC (flags) & Wrap it Up (Ties)

Paper - Authentique & My Minds eye (Lost & Found Breeze)

Sentiment - My Creative Time (GC Sentiments)

Hemp Tine - Liz's Paper Loft

Challenges

Go fish - Sketch Challenge with a Fathers day theme using your fav. embellishment (My new hemp twine)

DL ART - Card for a Man

Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday - Fathers Day Theme

My Sheri Crafts - Father's Day/Masculine Card

Cardz TV - Make a card for Father's Day

Celebrate the Occasion - Father's Day

More than Favors - Father's Day

 

Happy Birthday to you!

Hi Everyone!
Did you have a FUN weekend? So nice to have a 3 day!! So I have tons to post this week. It's my niece's 1st Birthday (where does the time go) on Saturday and I'm making all the decorations. The theme is Minnie Mouse. My craft room is filled with pink and black right now :) 
But first I wanted to share something that I have absolutely fallen in LOVE with. Did you all see Emma at My creative time's new release I'm sure you did but can I just tell you that it is SOOOO awesome. I have been playing with the Celebrate Good Times Stamp/Die Set and I may have made about 50 different cupcakes:) I wanted to make a somewhat masculine b-day card so here is what I came up with.
I'm entering this in the following challenges:
Celebrate the Occasion - Anything Goes Birthday
Die Cuttin Divas - Anything-goes
DL ART - Anything Goes

Hope you have a SUPER day! Stop by tomorrow for some Disney fun:)

The Frame is made using my gypsy and the Cricut Cartridge Plantin Schoolbook

I embossed the frame with the Sizzix Bricked & woodgrain set

Die - My Creative Time - Celebrate-Good-Times-Stamp-Set-MCT-072

Stamps - My Creative Time - Celebrate-Good-Times-Stamp-Set-MCT-072 

Tag/Die - Teeny-Tag-Greetings-Stamp-Set-MCT-058

Twine - Twinery 

Spring is in the air...

Hi Everyone!
I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL Easter and hope you are enjoying the break (if you have it off). I am limited on time, in fact I'm posting this while my son and his friend are eating lunch :) 
I have a card that I made for someone special. I followed the guidelines for quite a few challenges and came up with this spring card.
Challenges:
Simply crafts - make any kind of project using the umbrella cut on the Paisley Cricut cartridge.
Fantabulous Cricut - Make a project with at least one button and bow on it.
Paper Playtime - USE AN UMBRELLA on your project & any type of Die Cut!  (The flower on the umbrella is a cricut cut from Bloom cartridge).
Exploring Cricut - create a card, layout, or papercraft project that contains at least one Cricut cut flower.  (The flower on the umbrella is a cricut cut from Bloom cartridge).
Celebrate the Occasion - Just Because (must use pink)
Die Cuttin Divas - The Challenge...Use Pastel Colors
Reasonable Ribbon - Buttons & Bows

Card - 4.25"

Cricut Cartridges - Paisley & Bloom

Paper - K&CO

Ribbon - Little Scrap Pieces

Machine stitched

Button - MM

Stamp - My Creative Time Color me happy

Jute Twine

Tattered Angels Glimmer mist - Cranberry Zing

Happy Egg Hunting....

Hi Everyone!

Hope you all are enjoying your weekend. I wanted to quickly post a tag I made for Easter gifts. There are so many fun challenges for spring so I thought I would get started on the many tags I'll need for Easter. I used some fun spring colors for my little tag, Hope you like it!

Challenges:

My Craft Spot - Spring Scallops

Made Especially For You - 3 Buttons

Celebrate The Occasion - Welcome Spring

Whimsical-designs - Celebrate Spring (this is WD last challenge I hope you will play along this week. They are a fantastic inspirational challenge blog that has a FABULOUS DT! Thanks for all the FUN!)

The Tag measures about 6" long.

Cricut Cartridge - Doodlecharms, Gypsy Wanderings, TBBM

Paper - My minds eye(on the bright side) DCWV

Ribbons - American Crafts

Buttons - American Crafts

Have a great weekend, I'm off to the the ball field :)

Always my BFF

Hi Everyone!
Hope all is well with you! Today was such a nice day, took a nice walk, the sun was out and so were the dolphins... they were playing in the water today, such a beautiful sight, and I had a little time to craft :)
I made a card for a few challenges and I really wanted to cheer up my BFF.  She's had some BOY/MAN problems, no FUN!! I just want her to know how much I care and I'm thinking of her. 
Challenges:
Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge - CARDS ONLY this week, using the theme: FRIENDSHIP.
Fantabulous Cricut - #99 – Fancy Trims Use fabric, lace or other trims on your project
Celebrate The Occasion - CHALLENGE#51: Thinking of You
Die Cuttin Divas - Create a project with an image or die-cut of your favorite pet.  

Card - 4.25"

Cricut Cartridge - Playtime

Paper - K&Co, My minds eye, Momenta

Stamps - PK-451 Wide Eyed 1 1/8 & PK-440 Cute and Cuddly Face Assortment

Ribbon Trim - Pebbles

Charm - It was on the packaging of the Ribbon

Sentiment - Printed

Patches of Pink Design Team Link UP Party

Hi Everyone!
Welcome to My Paper Love and the Patches of Pink Design Team Link UP Party! I am very excited to be continuing as a DT member and look forward to working with the other continuing members and the new members. So let's get right to it... This months theme is Valentines Day. I really wanted to make something other than a card so I decided on a desk calendar. It was so simple to make and the best part was that I could add so much dimension and bling because it wasn't going in an envelope :) I designed the calendar as an Easel card which you can see a tutorial by Spitcoaststampers HERE. 

I used a frame cut from the Cricut Storybook Cartridge for the base of the Calendar.  I used my gypsy to hide and cut so I could have a shadow for the frame. I printed the dates on the smaller cut image and lastly, I added a flower made from a scallop punch along with some stickles that I just hand brushed all over the flower.

The printed paper is from K&Co and the other cardstock is from recollections. The hearts were scraps I found in my diecut drawer and they matched perfectly! 

This was such a FUN project I think I'll make one each month, so check back so you can see what March will look like:)

I'm entering my calendar in a few challenges:
Celebrate the Occasion - Valentine's Day (must use a heart)
Die Cuttin Divas - Color Challenge The colors are red, pink, white, and black. Use at least two colors from the list provided.
Whimsical Designs - Colors of love (Red, White & One color of your choice)


Please stop over to see the fabulous projects that the DT members have created this month at PATCHES OF PINK  Come link up with us and make some new friends and see some fantastic crafts!! 


HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE!!

Birthday Wishes - Masculine

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Hi Everyone!

Wow, Is time going by at lighting speed or what? I can't believe an entire month has almost gone by. Well one good thing about that is it's bringing us closer to spring :) 

I wanted to share a masculine card I made for all those GREAT challenges going on right now. Pretty simple except do you see the gold accents on the wheel? Well I probably should have used brads, but no... I took gold metallic paper and hole punched eight holes and covered them with glossy accents. Sounds easy right?? Well I kept forgetting about them and setting paper, or items down on top of these little hole punches. I think I ended up having to make 19 of them.  I had these sticky, gluey, glossy hole punches everywhere. I even left for basketball pictures this morning and when I got back in the car one was on my car seat? (Wonder where that hole punch was)? The funny stories of crafting that only other crafters would appreciate! Have a GREAT day!

Challenges

My Craft Spot - Let's hear it for the boys

Celebrate the Occasion - Masculine Cards

Cardz TV - It's a Guy Thing

Card - 4.5"

Paper - GCD Studios

Cricut Cartridge - Life's a beach

Label - Die Cut - MCT

Sentiment - MCT

Machine Stitched

You're an All Star

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Hi Everyone!


Hope everyone had a super weekend.  Well what a VERY relaxing day we had. It's been quite cold today which is more normal now for this time of year. It did give me time to create more cards and EVEN...are you ready..... a layout! I have never shared one before but will share it next week. I wanted to post a card I made last week for a couple challenges. I just love how this card turned out. I really wanted a vintage looking card so I really inked it up :) I placed a banner on the inside to be used as a pocket to hold a gift card.  You all know I have two boys so this type of card is pretty typical around here. I made this for my son's friends 8th Birthday. The boys really liked the card!


Challenges:
My Creative Time - Throwback Thursday Challenge - Sports Theme (Hurry and head over, you have until the 18th to enter and for a chance to win the entire "New Release"
Celebrate the Occasion - Child's Birthday - I'm just making the deadline it ends in about 5 hours! You have a chance to win a Papertrey ink gift card.

Card - 5.5"

Cricut Cartridges - Boys will be boys(glove) Sports Mania(Ball) Jubilee(Banner)

Paper - Recollections, DCWV

Ink - Tim Holtz

Sentiment - Printed

Gypsy - Welded two shapes together

Happy Day to you!

Hi Everyone!


We had just the busiest weekend, but oh so fun! I know I mentioned this but my 7 year old is playing flag football for the first time this year.  He's just a little peanut out there having so much fun. The coaches have put his ENERGY to good use. He looks like a little tornado out there grabbing flags. It's so much fun!! We also had a pumpkin carving party that was so much fun! But meeesssy!! On Saturday we went to a family party and my boys went to Halloween parties. whew... we need a rest. 
Tonight, I have created a super simple card for a couple challenges. I have seen these pumpkins all over the internet and just love the way they look. They are so simple but look so pretty. I created this to enter in:


Little Scrap Pieces challenge - Fall, Halloween, or Thanksgiving
Celebrate the Occasion - Fall

Card- 4.25" x 5.5"

Cricut Cartridge - George & PDDU

Paper - Recollections

Stamp - Stampin up

Bakers Twine

Happy Haunting!

Hi Everyone!

I love circle shaped cards, so I knew I was going to play in the challenge over at Celebrate the Occasion. The challenge is any occasion circle shaped card. I also wanted to play in Abby's challenge over at Scrapbookaholic by Abby.  It's her last challenge :( so anything goes  Stop over and join in the fun at both blogs!

For Halloween, I always make cards for my godson's along with some little treats! So I created this card using Wild card for the circle card and welding the spiderweb (also from wildcard) to the center. I just love how it turned out!

Card - 5.5"

Cartridges - Paper Doll Dress Up(spider) & Wild Card

Paper - DCWV, Recollections

Ribbon - Celebrate It

Brads - MM

White Gel Pen

Party Bags!

Hi Everyone!

Just wanted to share some party bags I made for my son's friend's birthday. His mom wanted something that went along with the theme. He had a game truck birthday, it was pretty cool. This huge trailer truck parks in front of your home and it is filled with flat screen TV's and every gaming system imaginable, hence the game controller for the party bag.  The kids had a blast!! I am entering this in Celebrate the Occasion challenge Kids Birthday & My Sheri Crafts - Party Decor.  Hope you come and join the fun! Have a great day!

Cartridge - Wrap it up

Paper - Bazzill, recollections

Sentiment - printed and then cut and rounded edges

Christmas hot cocoa

Hi Everyone!

Hope you are having beautiful weather and enjoying your weekend! We just got home from our oldest boy's baseball game and got beat 8-2.  Bummer... but at least it was sunny and we had a great breeze blowing.  Perfect weather for a game :) Certainly not what you think of when you look at my card:) I really wanted to participate in some of the awesome challenges this week.  This is probably one of my very favorite color combos, it just makes me think of the Holiday's. I am entering this in the following:

Celebrate the Occasion Challenge - Christmas Shape
Scrapbookaholic by abby Challenge - Bling
Patches of Pink - Red, white, and blue theme
Crazy about Cricut - Thankful-thursday Red, White & Blue

Card - 5.5" Shaped Card

Cartridges - Joys of the season, George (heart)

Paper - Recollections

Button - MM

Twine - Stampin up

Stickles

Ink - Colorbox

White Gel Pen

Happy Father's Day

Hi Everyone!

Here is a Father's Day card that I created for my FIL.  I do have many more cards to create but I do love how this card turned out and I may duplicate it. Shhh don't tell anyone!  There are so many Father's day challenges this week so I this is my entry into all of them.

Fantabulous cricut - #1 Dad
Celebrate the Occasion - Fathers' Day
More than favors - Father's Day
The Paper Variety - For the Guys
Whimsical Wednesdays - Happy-fathers-day-challenge

Card - 5.5" x 4.25"

Cartridge - Life's a beach & Paper Doll Dress Up

Paper - Recollections, MM,

Sentiment - My computer

White gel pen

Versamark ink

You're the Best - Teacher Card

Hi Everyone!

Here is a card I created for a few challenges! I really needed some cards for our teachers end of year gifts, so perfect timing for these challenges! First, My Craft Spot - Challenge - Cute Critters, second, Celebrate the Occasion - Challenge School's Out theme use an apple, and last but not least, The Paper Variety - Challenge - Fruity Fun.

So keeping them all in mind, here is my entry! 

Card - 4.25" x 5.5"

Cartridge - Wrap it up, Create a Critter

Paper - DCWV safari stack

PKS - 493

Embossing - Cuttlebug

Macine stitched

White gel pen

Memento & Versamark ink

Oh Happy Day - Graduation Card

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to make a "Grad" card for my cousin that is Graduating next week from College! As we all know, it's such an achievement. Especially now with the unfortunate circumstances at our CSU schools. But none the less he did and now on to Law school.... Way to go Will. So here is my simple card that I made to pop in the mail today. It had to be simple because of course I waited until the last minute.  At least I'm mailing it.... Right??

I am entering this in Celebrate the Occasion - Challenge #12, the theme is "Graduation". 

Hope you enjoy!

Card - 4.25" x 5.5"

Paper - Bo Bunny Press, Bazzill, Georgia Pacific

Cartridges - Wild card, Wrap it up

White Gel Pen

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Happy Mother's Day

Hi Everyone!

Here is a card for one of the Mom's in my life! I love how it turned out. I plan on entering it in a few of the many challenges for Mother's Day. Hope you Enjoy!

Challenges

SCRAPPY MOM STAMPS - Use the Paisley Cartridge

SCRAPBOOKAHOLIC BY ABBY - Mother's Day themed and use FAUX STITCHING!

FANTABULOUS CRICUT - Mom's the Word

CELEBRATE THE OCCASION - Theme : "Mother's Day"

4.25"x5.5" Card

Paper - GCD Studios, recollections, Bazzill

Cartridges - Paisley, storybook

Ribbon - Joanns

Red Sitckles

White Gel Pen

Home Sweet Home!

Hi Everyone!

Thought I would share a card that I made a while ago for my Mom.  She sells real estate and I thought these cards were perfect to send her clients after they purchase a home.  I made one and had every intention of making a set... but you know how that goes. I saw the challenge over at CELEBRATE THE OCCASION - "New House" challenge. So I thought I would enter. The card is done using Create a critter. I put a little stickles on the flowers in the window and the sentiment is from my computer. I finished it off with the white gel pen, some ribbon, and a button. Hope you enjoy!