Happy Valentines Day!!

Happy Valentiens Day!!!

I hope you are all getting to spend the day with your loved ones today! I have a valentines day card for you all today! 

I really like this one!

1. I colored and cut out this cute little Marci with rose.
2. Then I cut the first layered paper which is from DCWV.
3. Then I had the purple paper which is from Cricut but I went over it with a stampin up heart sentencial I just took a chalk ink pad and run it over to add the hearts to the background
4. Then I stamped the Love stamp with memento purple grape ink. It's another mystery set though..

 

Flower Vase

I promised you a card today didn't I?

I really like how this one came out.

1. I colored and cut out the flower vase which is a digi from Sparkle N Sprinkle

2.  I cut the pink and blue paper out on my SNC it's simply the same shape cut just slightly smaller to create the mat. The blue paper is from the stash and the pink paper is from DCWV.

3. The flowerish paper is also from DCWV. I cut that out with a black mat to fit the card base.

4. Then I glued it all together!

Challenges:
Just Keep On Creating: February 2016 Anything goes link-up
Ants in my Pantry Digital Challenge 14

A trip to the LSS

So about a week or so ago my mom and I took a girls day trip to one of our LSS. It's relatively close to where we live but far enough that we don't go often and it's a treat to visit. So today I thought it would be fun to share what my mom and I all got.

These 2 go together but I'm so excited to finally have my Tool-in-One! I've already used the paper piercer end and I'm already in love!

This one is kind of boring but it needed to be bought. I use this stuff a lot. My SNC mat and Cricut mats are struggling to stick and this is my preferred way to keep my paper in place when that happens. I also like to use it to keep dies in place when I run them through my cuttlebug!

This is one of those I need it things but I'm actually really excited about it. I hate re-filling my markers but I'm super excited to try it with these.

This is a pair of reverse tweezers. My mom has a pair of regular tweezers that we usually use but they were too much work for me so I bought these and they're pink which I think is awesome!!

This is another boring one. I bought some extra brush nibs because I think it's a good thing to have on hand.

I love this tool! I haven't used the little tacky pick up end yet but I love the other end right now for taking off the backs of double sided tape!

 This one is for my mom. We both have big scor pals but she has the original version that doesn't have all the line on it and she's been wanting the smaller one. So she bought it. :)

Last but not least my mom got some paper. I'm not sure who the manufactures though.



That's it. My guess is that the next haul post will be coming from SCRAPBOOK EXPO in April!!

Never fear tomorrow there will be a card!

Gyro Cut

Today I have a little product review. This is by far one of my favorite products that I have started using in the last year.

This is the Gyro Cut. It's a craft knife but it works like a pen and the blade moves around as you move it so if you draw a curve the cutting sharp pointy part of the blade moves with the handle. I've always struggled with getting craft knifes to work well for me but this works perfectly for me. I've been using this since August and used it to do all my fussy cutting before I got my scan n cut in December. I still use it to do clean up if I need to!

Another Design Team!!!

That's right not only was I accepted to the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge but also the Digi Stamps 4 Joy Design Team! I'm so excited to be able to design with these wonderful digi's! And to clebrate here's a card I've created with one of there beautiful digi's!

I absolutely love this card and the Digi Stamp!

1. I printed out the Digi which is called Dream then I colored her in with copics like this.

            Skin: Ell,E00,E000
            Hair: E39,E35,E33
            Pink: RV21,RV23,RV25
            Purple: V12,V15,V17
            Green, G05
2. Then I cut her our on my Scan N Cut. Now it cut out most of it but not all of it, it got the outline sure but it missed a lot of the in between spots . So I went in with my Gyro Cutter to get those little inside parts. I'll be doing a small product review post on that tomorrow.

3. Then it was paper time. The black I used to just back the other papers (it was a think my friend did one day when I was at her house and we had a craft day that I really liked so I stole it. Hi Chelsea! if your reading) is from the stash. The pink paper in the front is from Cricut and the first layer paper is from DCWV.

4. Then I added the bling which is by Kaiser Krafts


I am so excited to see what great things I can create with DS4J products!


Challenges:
Inspiration Destination: Anything Goes
Petal Lu Challenge: Anything Goes Challenge #9
Ruby's Rainbow #122: Anything Goes

Organizing Update Embellishments

So this may come as a surprise but I really don't have a fondness for embellishments. I don't use them a whole lot although I'm getting better with them. And I just have so many of them!!! I almost never make Christmas cards because I just have too much Christmas stuff!  When my mom and I got our scrap-rack 2ish years ago we loaded most of our embellishments into it. So honestly most of this was done. There were a few things that just needed to get sorted through and added in that we had accumulated in the last year or so. Here's what are scrap-rack looks like it's far from pretty and pretty overloaded but we've purged quite a bit and we've been pretty good about using stuff.

So for this challenge it's been a lot of working on back-stock. We have Ribbon and Washi Tape stored in other places. We also have glitter stored in other places. So I've been working on sorting through everything and "Cataloging' where the majority of it is stored. So pretty much everything is done! We still have a little more to do over the next few weeks as the challenge continues and sorting embellishments continues to be homework but we hit a little snag in that we wanted to put a few things in those really small baggies but we don't have those right now. We have to take a trip and go get some!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge: Half of the Sensational 6

Most Disney fans can list off the fab 5. Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pluto,  But add Daisy into the mix and you get the sensational 6. And this card features half of them.

This is my second post on the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge DT and my first one that is officially on my week! So first here's the sketch.



And here's the card!

I'm so happy with how this one came out! And yes something didn't come out as planned on this one. The sentiment was stamped with Versamagic Pixie Dust and it came out way to light! So I went over ti with a sparkly pink gel pen. Also Kelly from Sandcastle Stamper another one of the Crafty Cardmakin Chicks  had asked me awhile ago where I got the goofy stamp I used on this card. Well I found the Disney Sets on Amazon! The one with Daisy, Pluto and the Goofy shown in the other card is here. And Mickey and Minnie are here


1. Once again I had previously colored these images.
2. The pink and black paper is from the stash. and the green is from Die Cuts with a View


Challenges:
2 Creative Chicks: #7 Anything Goes
Crafts Galore Encore Challenge: Use a digi or stamp for February
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #08