With Love

It's Mother's Day Weekend! I'm looking forward to a little spoiling and pampering, how about you? Do you have any special plans for the weekend? Plans that you know of? Plans you would like to share?

How about a card to kick off Mother's Day weekend?

The other day I was rummaging through my scraps bin for another project when I noticed these Making Memories patterned papers and card stock pieces and how well they matched. They were practically calling out, "Make something with me!" ;)

Okay! I set the papers on my desk to remind myself to create something with them. There they sat for a few days until I was pinning a beautiful quilt on Pinterest when the idea hit me to make a patchwork type of card.

To make the heart I cut strips of paper all the same width, about 3/4" and then I varied the lengths. Like a brick layer, I arranged the strips together and to hold the pieces in place, I used scotch tape on the back.

Once I put together enough strips to cut out the Spellbinders heart die, I ran it through my die cutter. Then with a ruler I made lines and pierced holes at 1/8" increments for hand-stitching.

Since I love dimension, I go through a lot of adhesive foam tape, as you can imagine. If I have a large piece like this heart, chipboard saves me from having to use so much foam tape and it's an great way to reuse cereal boxes and the like! All I had to do was cut another heart the next size down.

Details include some washi tape, buttons and jute. And a little die cut butterfly from My Favorite Things.

I love these mini heart buttons, they have been a go-to embellishment of mine for years! They're from Dress-it-Up, I have quite a stash and use them a lot! Out of curiosity I just looked and counted four projects I used them on in just 10 days! A bit of useless trivia for you! ;)

So that's my lovey, quilt-ish project for the day! I hope you enjoyed it.

Have a fun and memorable Mother's Day!

Oh, I'll be back tomorrow for another Precious Remembrance Stamp Shop installment of Saturday Creations. Hope to see you then! :)

Kathy

All Star Dad

Hello!

I know it's a bit early to share Father's Day cards, but I was inspired by the Papertrey Ink team to play with my star border die because they have a similar one they are releasing this month. With all these stars you could make birthday, July 4th or all star student cards too.

There's quite a mixture of goods used to make this card. The paper pad sheet and sentiment flag were created with Papertrey Ink dies. The star border was cut using a My Favorite Things die and the large star is an old Sizzix die. The last die, the rosette, is from Tim Holtz. Wow, I used five dies for one little card! Love my dies!

I used up a bunch of left over tidbit accents too! The notebook paper was made with My Mind's Eye 'Follow Your Heart' paper that I cut for another card, but didn't think the color worked. The rosette is a left over from a Doodlebug project and the star pin is old Fancy Pants.

I stitched the inner stars of this border cut. I wanted to see what it would look like and I think it turned out pretty neat. What do you think?

I haven't mentioned yet that the twine and letter rub-ons are a la Doodlebug and that pretty red button is from Stampin' Up...another oldie. Speaking of old...the star was made with Making Memories 'Giggle Kids Boy' paper.

If my hubs weren't such a wonderful supporter and avid reader of my blog, I could give this to him for Father's Day, but I like to make a card special for him...something he's never seen. Maybe we'll send it to his father?

Hopefully you hump day is a good one! We're rounding the bend and heading for another weekend!

Kathy :)

October 1st Halloween Card

Hey everyone! T.G.I.F! It's a three day weekend in our county since schools are closed today for a teacher work day. So Christopher is here in my office typing a story. He loves to write which is somewhat of an unusual interest for a nine year old, but I'm delighted with it and love to read his stories. Maybe we have a future author on our hands?

I have a card to share and a couple photos of my Halloween house to show you this first day of October. First I'll show you my card.

Oh how I love the vintage shabby chic look, but don't pull it off as well as some of my favorite designers like Betsy Veldman or Melissa Philips. I'm giving it my best shot though.

My jack-o-lantern started as as a plain piece of chipboard from Bazzill Basics Chips and I painted it with a mix of Making Memories paints. I didn't want the orange to be too bright so I mixed in a bit of tan and brown. Once dry, I inked the edges with a walnut color cat's eye inker and then I took some Martha Stewart glitter to him. Eek! He's so handsome! ;)

I rarely make a project without some buttons on it somewhere! I just love those little things! The bingo card is from Jenni Bowlin and that ribbon, can you believe it's from Dollar Tree? Yep! Lovely and the perfect weight to make bows, not too stiff.

Now to share a little of my Halloween house. It was rainy and cloudy yesterday so pictures were not very good. My friend came over to help me decorate and we had a splendid time until I nearly knocked the entire mantle display to the ground! Wow, did that rattle our nerves!

I was adjusting the cream colored netting and pulled a little too hard which in turn made the window come falling down! I quickly caught the window, but that antique iron scale came crashing down! That thing is heavy and only made a little dent in the wood floor! Ouch! I was surprised the dent wasn't at least twice as big!

The window is salvaged piece that I purchased it from one of our local antique shops. I decided to leave it dusty since it made the look more authentic. It's hard to tell from this photo, but the black item in the glass jar is a glittered skull on a bed of moss. I got the skull from Dollar Tree last year. What a find! ;)

I recently purchased the green divided box at an antique store and need to find a couple more little items to put on the little shelves. I wish the photo did the mantle justice. It appears somewhat plain because of the large wall space above the green box.

I'll share some more photos this month as I get some better pictures. Do you decorate for Halloween? I've always put out a candy dish or two and a few token Halloween items, but last year I decided to start collecting some fun things to decorate our Halloween home with. It's fun and keeps me out of trouble! Thanks so much for stopping by today! Kathy :)

It's a Busy Monday Morning!

Hi! Thanks for stopping by! Wow, it's already 11:00 this morning! Clock, please slow down! I've got a lot to do and the time just keeps ticking away! Well, perhaps I should just get to it! I have some crafty shares for you! :)

This first card is a hybrid card. The adorable vintage image is from a digital kit called 'I Wish' from Chelsea Parsons of Two Peas in a Bucket. The background paper is also from the kit.

I colored the vintage image in with Copic markers. I also inked and distressed most of the papers. Lots of goodies went into this card so if you want a supply list, it's at the bottom of this post.

This next share is another hybrid card. This one uses a die cut kit called 'Summer Fun' created by Laina Lamb of Two Peas in a Bucket.

This kit contains a lot of fun die cuts for summer pages and cards that I'm sure I'll use time and time again. Clouds are so popular these days that it's great to have those!

Well, I'm going to keep this short and sweet so I can get to the other tasks of the day which includes making my blog rounds so I can see what you all have been making lately. Hope your Monday is a good one! :)

Supplies

Let Love Grow

Card Stock:  Bazzill Basics
Patterned Paper (sentiment tag):  Basic Grey
Digital Kit:  I wish
Glittered Chipboard:  Making Memories

Seam Binding:  Etsy

Decorative Pins:  Making Memories
Flowers:  Bernico

Button:  Vintage

Text Border:  October Afternoon
Stamp Ink:  Ranger Industries
Die Cut Machine:  Silhouette

Hello

Patterned Paper (polka dots):  Jillibean Soup
Patterned Paper (stripes):  The Girls' Paperie
Just the Edge:  Bazzill Basics
Die Cuts:  Summer Fun
Markers:  Copic

Craft String:  Michael's

Letter Stickers:  American Crafts

Fifth Avenue

I've been making projects with this line of paper from Making Memories for over a year now and I still love it! Some paper lines get old after a while, but this one, Fifth Avenue, has staying power. Here's just a sampling of the projects I've created. If interested, you can purchase the card in the first photo and/or a 6"x6" stack of these gorgeous papers in my Etsy shop at http://www.cardblanc.etsy.com/.

Chloe's Closet

I love new scrapbook paper lines with pretty matching embellishments and ribbons and Chloe's closet is my new favorite. This line is manufactured by Making Memories and I found it at Michael's of all places. I made the cards and scrapbook page above with the line and find these colors are perfect for spring crafting.

A Valentine for the Teacher

Recently, while scrappin' with my talented friend Audrey, I watched her make one of these adorable little heart shaped goody containers and thought it was just too cute and a perfect Valentine treat for my son's teachers. If you happen to own a Silhouette digital die cut machine by Quickutz, they just came out with a template for this project. The patterned papers I used are from Making Memories new Valentine line called Love Notes. I'm going to fill these little guys with some heart shaped Peeps, a lolly and perhaps a few Hershey Kisses. Hope this inspires you to make some goodies for your child's teacher or a special friend.