Card Making Monday # 41 - American Quilt

Welcome to a new Card Making Monday post.

What can be more American that quilting?! Ok, ok after apple pie and basballl. lol With July 4th fast approacing I chose to pull out my red, white and blue scraps and create a quilted patterned for this card.
 This allows for lots of detail without the bulk frowned upon in the mailroom. In addition I kept the ribbon knots relatively flat so no big bumps when in the envelope.

Here's my peice of Americana with my American Patriotic card...what ya think?

Here's a closeup of  the zig zag stitching I used for the quilt. You can find tips and strategies on how to add stitching to your cards here. You can also find more tutorials on my tutorial tab here. I kept the sentiment and other embellishments simple so that the stitching could take front and center.

This card will make it's way to Operation Write Home. If you want to know more click on the badge located on the right of my blog. 

Products:
paper scraps from my stash
stitching
Plantin Schoolbook Cricut cartridge for tag
blue ribbon

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

now it's your turn...go make something beautiful...

Scrapbook Saturday # 36 - Fat Cat

Hello and welcome to the latest Scrapbook Saturday post.  As a pet owner it doesn't matter how old my little kitty gets he's the most adorable pet in the world! It still amazes me that after 6 years he can still make my heart smile with a look or even sitting in a laundry basket or box.
I snapped this picture because i though how cute it was that he was basking in the sun but couldn't quite fit. 

I've been tryng to use up my scraps recently on scrapbook layouts and this one was no different.
Products:
DCWV Guy Stack
ribbon
font usig SCAL
Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge

Have a terrific day and now it's your turn to make something beautiful...

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. You'll also be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Challenges:
QKR Stamplede- Cat or Dog

Feature Friday - 6/27/2014

Hip, Hip, Hooray It's Friday! and... all things beautiful has almost met the goal of 175 followers! So many thanks  to all the followers who support my blog and check in from time to time to see what I'm up to in the crafting world. 

Just a reminder...when you become a follower please send me an email or comment in a post letting me know your a new follower,  your name and blog address. I've had several followers that did not contact me and I couldn't find their blogs and that makes me so sad because we all need inspiration and I love sharing the craftiness of my followers with you all.

Now onto the fun stuff...

BIG "Shout Outs" to all this week's  new followers!

  Brenda @ Disney Girl 

Anita Wiley 
sorry Anita, couldn't find your blog-let me know and I'll update my post :-(

Cindy @ Creating With Cindy

Angelique Avis @Engel Design Scrap

Merethe Arstein @ Merethes Kreative Boble

Karla Yungwirth @ Creative Love Affair

Reesy A @ Created in NY

Vinita Jain @ New Creations

These are my Feature Favs for this week!

Nikki @ Crafty Calamities
This card is gorgeous! I love all the 3D flowers.


&
Samantha @ Penrith Crafts 
I love the softness of this card. The muted tones are so feminine. 

Make sure to visit the blogs of these crafters and find out what wonderful projects they are creating! You can find all my Feature Favs under the Friday Fav tab above. 

I hope you've enjoyed viewing the wonderful craft projects by followers of all things beautiful and make sure to find time this weekend to create something beautiful!

If your visiting please consider following me. When you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on my next Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. You'll then be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address in a comment or email it to me I won't be able to link it up)

  Have a HAPPY FRIDAY and Happy Crafting!

UMT Thursday # 38 & a Tutorial-Summer Daisies

Welcome followers and friends to my Thursday post of Using My Tools. For today's project I pulled a Lili of the Valley Stamp  out of my stash that hasn't been used yet. Boy, I've had this stamp for at least a year and I finally grabbed it to make this summer themed card bookmark combo.

 I used a tutorial from Youtube to help me make this card You can find the tutorial I used to make the bookmark card here and another one here. You can also find more tutorials on my tutorial tab here.

I used Copic Markers to color her in and added some shimmer pearl pen to the petals for some shine.

I perforated the card stock for the bookmark so it can be easily removed by the recipient.

Here's the bookmark attached. 

Here's the bookmark removed. I added matching ribbon and a prima flower with brad center to coordinate with the card.

Products:

Lili of the Valley Stamp ST198 Milly Flower Power

Copic markers Y38, B02, E15, G24, E00, BG10, E37

Ribbon from Walmart

prima flower

Recollections Brad

Bazzell cardstock

Yellow Bicycle clear stamp set ZIN-225

I hope you enjoyed my posting and please comment and let me know what you like best! I love to hear your comments! Have a great thursday and  I'll see you back tomorrow for my Feature Friday post where I'll showcase work from my followers and give shout outs to those who have joined all things beautiful. 

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

 Take care and go make something beautiful....

Challenges:

Scribble & Scrap-AG

The Craft Place-AG

Scrapbook Blessing AG-Bookmark

My Bestie Norge-AG

613 Avenue Create-Pink/AG

Fitztown Challenge Blog-Shaped Cards

Melonheadz-Kids

Just Inspirational-AG

Crafty Sentiment Designs-Summer or Summer Colors

Through the Craftroom-AG

Fan-tastic Tuesday-AG

Ladybug Crafts- AG

Pause, Dream, Enjoy-Many Layers

Simon Says Stamp-AG

Just Inspirational Monthly-Summer

Seemacrafts-Make it Cute

Cards Galore-Use a Stamp

A Gem of a Challenge-for a child

Open Minded-Patriotic

Welcome back for another Design Team creation for the Open Minded Crafing Fun Challenge Blog. This week our challenge is to make a project using patriotic colors. For my project I used a cute image from Beansiedoodle called Pepper for Prom.  

Here's my project:

 Don't forget to go back and link your project and  check out the other wonderful design team submissions for this challenge. 

Challenges:

Craftin Desert Divas- Red, Whie & Blue

Twisted Tuesday-Red, White & Blue with stars

Sponsors:

     

      

Using My Tools Thursday # 37- Gingham Birthday

 Welcome followers and friends to my Thursday post of using my tools. Every other Thursday I try to pull something out of my stash that at one time I thought I just "HAD" to have and finally use it. It's my opportunity to pull something out of my stash I bought a while ago and didn't use or something that's collecting dust and hasn't been used in a while. For this card, I grabbed one of the tutorials on my tutorial page -the Squash card- You can find the tutorial here and many more tutorials tutorial tab here.

So what Using My Tools products am I using for this card? The floral stamp set,  pearls and this black floral paper from my stash.

I colored the  white pearls with my black copic marker and added the black gingham ribbon. Side note: Don't adhere the ribbon to the back of the card- I did on this card and found out pretty quickly you won't be able to open the card all the way. Thankfully the ATG tape I use is forgiving and I was able to remove the ribbon from the back and rub off the extra glue.

You can find the tutorial for this squash card on my Tutorial tab.

I hope you enjoyed my posting and please comment and let me know what you like best! I love to hear your comments! Have a great thursday and  I'll see you back tomorrow for my Feature Friday post where I'll showcase work from my followers and give shout outs to those who have joined all things beautiful. 

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

 Take care and go make something beautiful....

Tinsel Tuesday # 4-On Dasher

Welcome to my fourth  Tinsel Tuesday post. I am making my Christmas cards early. So, every other Tuesday I'll be posting a Christmas card in hopes by December 1st I'll have a nice selection ready to be stuffed in envelopes and put in the mailbox.

For this card, I used a tutorial. You can find the tutorial here and many more tutorials under my tutorial tab here.

Here's my card...

I cut these embellishments from the Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge. 

The sentiment is from Stampin' Up and I used Martha Stewart's Cherished border punch for a decorative element around the bottom of the card.

and I added some google eyes and used Swiss Dots & Babies Breath embossing folders by Cuttlebug.

I hope you've enjoyed my latest Christmas card and see you back in a couple of weeks!

Now go make something beautiful!

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. 

Card Making Monday # 40- My Deepest Sympathy

Good Morning to all of you! Thank you for stopping by today.

Today is Monday so that means I'm sharing a card with you. 

I really enjoyed the blind embossing technique I  used for Mail It Monday a few weeks ago. 

I chose to use a Stampin' Up embossing folder for these cards. I wanted to keep the design clean and simple. 

I used a spellbinder Nestabilitie for the sentiment piece and it's border.

I also chose to add a trio of gems to balance the design.

Here's a close up of the sentiment which comes from Gina K Designs.

I hope you enjoyed my Card Making Monday card. Let me know what you think. I sincerely appreciate your comments. They keep my crafting.

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

 Take care and go make something beautiful....

Challenges:

ODBD OWH-Dies & Punches

Father's Day Wishes card

  Hello and Happy Father's Day! 

I finally finished my last Father's Day card a few days ago for this year's special day for dads.  I thought today would be the perfect day to share it with you. You can find my other 2 cards here and here. 

Today's card layout was inspired by a recent Gina K Designs tutorial found here.

I kept the layer colors for this card very masculine. I used my score board to add some dimension to the card stock and stamped the sentiment on vellum.

I popped up the deer image with some dimensional adhesive to help it stand out. I found this stamp in the $1.00 bin at JoAnn fabrics and fussy cut it. I ran a dark colored marker around the edges to mask any white space and the background piece was cut from a spellbinder, while still in the nestibilitie I colored the background using Tim Holtz distress stain and then stamped on top with another $1.00 stamp with sage green ink.

So that's my last Father's day card but I do have one more card to show you. I made this card a few months ago using a tutorial I saw on the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge Blog. The link to the tutorial is on my tutorial tab at the top. I made a few of the cards without using any sentiments so that I could personalize them as needed. 

I thought I would show you one I finally personalized.

Well, I hope you've enjoyed joining me in my Father's Day card making frenzy this last week and I hope you find time to spend with loved ones today and always find time to make something beautiful!

Challenges:

Bearly Mine-One for the Boys

Natalie & Amy-Four Legged Friends

2 Sisters-Make Your Own Embellishments- Sentiment banner, Center focal square, embossing with score board

Scrapbook Saturday # 35 - Family Folk

 Welcome to my little blogspace for the newest Scrapbook Saturday post. 
Yet another page representing a stop on our 2013 vacation. This time it's our fun photography session at Clark's Trading Post in NH.
If oyu take a close look you'll see the title hidden in the tan pattern paper

Products:

Pattern paper from my scrap stash

Font using SCAL

Smiley Cards Cricut Cartridge

Hunting Season Too Cute by Jessica SVG

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Have a wonderful day and don't forget to make something beautiful...

Challenges:
Scrapbook Blessings Club-AG

Feature Friday - 6/13/2014

Hip, Hip, Horray Bloggers! It's Friday! Yipee! I'm am excited today not just because it's the end of my work week but because all things beautiful has almost met the goal of 175 followers! Thank you so much to all the followers who support my blog and check in from time to time to see what I'm up to in the crafting world. 

Now a little sad news...when you become a follower please remember to shoot me an email or comment in a post (even if you are an email follower-no email will be shared) letting me know your name and blog address so I can add your name and blog to my Feature Friday post. I've had several followers that did not contact me and I couldn't find their blogs and that makes me so sad because we all need inspiration and I love sharing the craftiness of my followers with you all.

ok, ok enough of that...

It's Friday and that means I'm sending 

"Shout Outs" to all this week's  new followers so let's give a BIG howdy to

Karal Schuknecht @ Karal's Creative Space

Sundaystamper @ Sunday Stamper Papercrafts

Maragaret @ Christian Chick Crafts

Granmargaret @ Granmargaraets Cards n' Stuff

&
Sammibug @ Sammibug's Scrapshack 

Welcome!

These are my Feature Favs for this week!

Andrea @ Andrea's Paper Antics

This card was done using a stencil. 

I haven't tried stenciling yet but this card definately begs I give it a try. Love it!

&

Barbara Thompson @ Cards and Paper Fun

I love all the little design embellishments! 

There's so many goodies on this card that catch the eye.

Make sure to visit the blogs of these crafters and find out what wonderful projects they are creating! You can find all my Feature Favs under the Friday Fav tab above. 

I hope you've enjoyed viewing the wonderful craft projects by followers of all things beautiful.  Thank you for joining me and make sure to find time this weekend to create something beautiful!

If your visiting please consider following me. When you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on my next Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. You'll then be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. Check it out here!

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address in a comment or email it to me I won't be able to link it up)

  Have a HAPPY FRIDAY and go make something beautiful...

Father's Day Box Card

Hi There friends! I'm on a Father's Day card making frenzy. 2 down, 1 more to go! I showed you my woodgrain card yesterday, today I'm showcasing an ocean themed box card filled with goodies from SVGCuts and Cricut cartridges.
So I dove right in thinking I should get this card done pretty quickly since I had all the elements in mind I wanted to use. Usually it's the the design process that takes me the longest....well....several hours later. Whew...I was done.
You can find out how to make a box card here and you'll find many more tutorials unsder my tutorial tab here.

Here's my card...

     

     

I stayed with the color scheme in the striped paper which was blues and gold. 

I also added some texture using some embossing folders.

and added a few popped up boat wheels just to give some interest.

Products:

Cliff's Clubhouse SVG kit cut file from SVGCUTS.com

The Box Card svg kit 

Seaside SVG kit

Cricut Life's a Beach Cartridge

Plantin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge

Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder

Swirls Darice embossing folder

Just Rite sentiment stamp from Anchors Away

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too and finally you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. 

Challenges:

Mod Squad- On the Sea/Ocean
Scribble & Scrap-AG
The Craft Place-Men
Sentimental Sunday-AG
My Bestie Norge-AG
Scrapbook Blessing-AG
Bitten By The Bug-Father's Day
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge-Celebrate Dad
The Pink Elephant-Father's Day
Artistic Inspiration-AG/all about dad
Crafty Sentimetn Designs-Father's Day/For a male
Tuesday Throwndown-Special Man
Through teh Craftroom Door-AG
Ladybug Crafts-For Him
QKR Stampede- Father's Day
Stampin' for the weekend-AG
Sister Act Card Challenge-AG
Crafts-4-Eternity-For the Boys
Penny's Paper-Crafty- AG

Top Tip Tuesday-Shaped Cards
DL.ART-Masculine
Fantastic Tuesday-AG
Pause Dream Enjoy-Beach
Melonheadz-Summer Fun
Craft Hoarder's Anonymous-Fun Fold
As You Like It- Favorite Embossing Technique (dry emboss with folders-no fus/no MESS)
Bearly Mine-One for the Boys

Woodgrain Masculine Card

Hello All,

 with Father's Day fast approaching and realizing I have 3 cards to make with only 4 days left I got busy at my craft table. I still have 2 more cards to make but I've made some progress.

This card was done using a woodgrain technique. You can find the tutorial here and many more tutorials tutorial tab here.

I made this card using all Gina K Designs stamps

I used faux washi tape. You can find this tutorial under my tutorial tab too.

I inked the edges of the oval image piece and then layered it with 2 oval layers cut from the Cricut. 

I hope you enjoyed viewing my Father's Day /masculine card and now it's your turn to go make something beautiful or well...masculine.

Supplies:

Lots of Washi Stamp Set

The Northwoods Stamp Set

Colorbox inks

Tim Holtz distress stain

Platin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge oval 

Copper brads by Recollections

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and if your visiting please consider following me. If you become a follower I'll send you a shout out on this weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too and finally you'll be entered in my BLOG CANDY drawing. 

Challenges:

Scribble & Scrap-AG
The Craft Place-Men
Sentimental Sunday-AG
My Bestie Norge-AG
Scrapbook Blessing-AG
Bitten By The Bug-Father's Day
Fantabulous Cricut Challenge-Celebrate Dad
The Pink Elephant-Father's Day
Fitztown Challenge Blog- use your favorie colors-brown and green
Craftin' Desert Divas-favorite colors-brown and green
Artistic Inspiration-AG/all about dad
Just Inspirational-girls/boys
Crafty Sentimetn Designs-Father's Day/For a male
Tuesday Throwndown-Special Man
Through teh Craftroom Door-AG
Ladybug Crafts-For Him
QKR Stampede- Father's Day
Stampin' for the weekend-AG
Sister Act Card Challenge-AG
Crafts-4-Eternity-For the Boys
Mix it Up Monday-Woodgrain 
Penny's Paper-Crafty- AG
Fan-Tastic Tuesday-AG
Eureka Stamps-Thank You

Write Home Wednesday #5- Hers and His

Hi There!

  For this week's OWH cards I chose to make a masculine and a feminie card using skeetches 227. 

I used Designer papers for both from Pepples Americana 6x6 paper pad

Here's my cards for this weeks Write Home Wednesday.

Here's the sketch

            

For the masculine I added some burlap and hemp cord. I also used a somewhat masculine paper choice.

& for the masculine I chose to use florals

That's it for today! 

If you want to know more about Operation Write Home click on the image below and it will bring you to their home page. They also have a blog with lots of creative ideas and tutorials. I hope these cards inspire your creativity and maybe you'll be encouraged to send some of your homemade cards to our soldiers overseas too through Operation Write Home!

A sincere thank you to all my followers and if you are a visitor then be sure to follow all things beautiful and I'll send you a shout out on next weeks Feature Friday post and link your blog so others can visit you too. Oh and how could I forget--you'll be entered in my 175 followers BLOG CANDY drawing. Check out the blog candy tab to see whats up for grabs.

( Unfortunately, there are some who have not posted in the comments or sent me the link to their blog in an email. I will not be hunting for your blog so if you don't post your blog address I won't be able to link it up)

Challenges: