Tinsel Tuesday #3 -Glitter Swirl Tree

Welcome to my Tinsel Tuesday post. This is my attempt at 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.

Here's my card...

I added some glitter to the Cricut cut out which I found on the Christmas cartridge and the tag is cut from Gypsy Wanderings cartridge. The patterned paper and the twine is from my stash.

I added some pearl pen to the holly berrys which give off some nice shimmer in real life.

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. 

Challeneges:
Sparkles Christmas Challenge- Favorite Color Combo Red & Tan
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge- AG
Weekly Christmas Cards-Color Combo 

Open Minded-Farmer Stork

Welcome back for another Design Team creation for the Open Minded Crafing Fun Challenge Blog. This week our challenge is use something with wings. For my project I used a fun image from QKR called Break Time.  I also used a 3D piecing tutorial which you can find the tutorial here and many more tutorials tutorial tab here.

Here's my CAS card:

I pieced the image and popped up just the farmer for some demension. I alsi incorporated some raffia on the side to give it that organic feel.

Here is the Copic markers I used.

I hope you are inspired by my CAS card and join in our challenge. Don't forget to go back and link your project and don't forget to check out the other wonderful design team submissions for this challenge. Now it's your turn...go make something beautiful...

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and Thank you 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 in a comment or email to me I won't be able to link it up)

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Feature Friday 6/6/2014

 It's Friday and that means I'm sending 

"Shout Outs" to all the new followers of all things beautiful and....WOWZA!!!! We have lots of new friends to send a big "HELLO!" to.

So without further delay let's send a warm thank you and shout out to.... new followers of all things beautiful!

I hope everyone goes to visit the fabulous work by our newest friends.

Aussie Annie @ Memories to Keep My Little World

Theresa Pollack @ Theresa's Studio

Jackie D

and now onto... my Feature Favs for this week!

Make sure to visit the blogs of these crafters and find out what wonderful projects they are creating!

Kristal @ The Scrap Tree
I love all the contrasting black and gold details!

&
Sylvia Anderson @ Kard Krazy
These are fabulous altered books!

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!

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 in a comment or email to me I won't be able to link it up)

  Now it's your turn...go check out the tutorial and go make something beautiful...

Using My Tools Thursday # 36 -Racoon Rocker

  Welcome followers and guests to my Thursday post of using my tools. this post is going to be a short one.  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. This time it's the action wobble and the rocker card template. When I saw these action wobbles on-line so many, many months ago I just thought I would be making so many wobble head cards...um....I made one. This one....

You can find the Tutorial here for a rocker card  and more tutorials on my Tutorial tab

I made this card for my best friends son. Just saying "hi" card.

This is the head in action using the wobble.

Products:

Rocker Card

Create A Critter Cricut cartridge

Bazzill cardstock

google eyes

That's  it for today...I told you thepost would be short. 

I hope you come back tomorrow to check out my Feature Friday post where I feature some of my followers work and send "Shout Outs" to new followers.

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....

Card Making Monday # 39 -Card Sets

Hello to a brand new Monday! Todays post will showcase my first completed card set. Over the last few weeks I've shared with you a new stamp set I receieved from Gina K Designs. In this post I've put those cards together in a set. I've already sent this set off to my sister who lives in NH and loves the outdoors. She often speaks of seeing deer out her kitchen window so when I saw this stamp set I just knew I had to make her a card set.

The easel card on the left was just  letting her know I was thinking of her. I made several notecards like the one in the middle and on the right to give to her in the set.  

As I was making the larger note cards I messed up the embossing on my scoreboard and I definately wasn't going to throw all of those stamped images out so three of them became tiny note cards with custom envelopes. There they are below.

So what do you think of my first card set? I hope you like it and give it a try yourself. 

Now it's your turn to go make somethng beautiful....

Thank you to my followers for always checking out my latest creation and Thank you 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 in a comment or email to me I won't be able to link it up)

Challenges:
Without Words-Femme Fatale
Crafting Musketeers-Stamped Image
Crafting By Designs-AG
Natalie & Amy- four legged friend
Bugaboo Stamps-AG
CAS-ual Friday-no kraft, guy theme, use a ribbon
Craft-dee BowZ-AG CDB14

My First Creative Encouragement

 Hello and Happy Sunday!

We all have heard about doing an act of kindness for someone else just to brighten our world and even our own day! I happen to stumble across Art Abandonment and thought what a great idea but I don't make works of art although, you could consider my cards small works of art. 

So...I jumped right in and put together my first act of  what I call Creative Encouragement. It's my endeavor to leave some cheer for someone to find with an encouraging message written inside one of my handmade cards. 

If your a card maker, I hope you join me with leaving a little Creative Encouragement and send me an email with a picture of where you left your card and I'll post your picture to my blog.
I bagged the card in a small ziplock so it would be protected from any weather if I decided to leave it outside. I punch a hole in the top about the ziplock and attached my tags. The tag behind the brown one just  says this is a gift for you, a little blurb and my blog address so they can come back and tell me where they found this card. I also stamped "handmade card"  on the back.

 I'm don't typically take photos with my phone so that's why the photo is so blurry. I'm a Cannon Tsi girl and I was trying to leave it quickly. My first Creative Encouragement. Yeah!!!

If your a card maker, I hope you join me with leaving a little Creative Encouragement for others and send me an email with a picture of where you left it and I'll post your picture to my blog.

Have a fabulous Sunday and go make something beautiful!

Scrapbook Saturday # 34 - Live Free or Die

Hi There! Welcome friends to this weeks Scrapbook Saturday post. Oh my, this layout is bittersweet. Ok, for me brings back nightmares. I only had 2 photos of this portion of last years vaction and that's ok because the focus is on the journaling. I added close up of the journalling blocks so you can see what I'm talking about. I won't drone on here but it was a sigh of relief to get OUT of those kayaks!

As for the scrapbook page, I chose to make it very simple. My friend had a nice tree stamp made by Stampin' Up that she so kindly let me use for this layout. I then added the embellishements and viola! It's done!

Products:

Bazzill Cardstock

Font using SCAL

Stampin' Up tree stamp

Just Because Cards Cricut Cartridge

So here's the story!

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)

I hope your day is filled with lots of fun and don't forget to make something beautiful...