Saturday, March 31, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Thirty-One - Beautiful Balloons

I cannot believe National Craft Month is over already!!  It's been so fun!!!  This is my last card to share, a gorgeous birthday card that I had a BLAST making!


LOTS and LOTS of challenges to end the month:



Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Friday, March 30, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Thirty - Easter Tag

I can't believe the month is almost over.  I've been having SO MUCH FUN!!!



LOTS of challenges:



Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Thursday, March 29, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Twenty-Nine - Purple Bunnies

Remember this card I shared a couple of weeks ago?  This is the other version.  I love the way the skies are different on each one because they were made by hand.



Just a few challenges:




Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!!

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Twenty-Eight - Star Gifts

Happy Hump Day!  Today I have an awesome 3-D project that I made for my brother.


There's over 100 individual stars on this decoration!  I added a hanger after the fact and I made the little paperclips too.  Pretty great gift right?  #bestsisterever

Just a few challenges:



Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Twenty-Seven - Bride To Be

I have another card for my SIL today, I love that she had a silver and blue color palette, it's so pretty and easy to work with.



Just a few challenges:




Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Friday, March 23, 2018

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

**SPRING/ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with Creative Moments!!

Happy Hump Day!!  It's a new challenge at Creative Moments and our theme is SPRING!  Of course you can always play Anything Goes, but I know I'm wishing the cold and snow and sleet away and can't wait to be surrounded by flowers, so I definitely wanted to create with them!  Our lovely sponsor is Creative Bug and I'm working with Angelina Flowertina.



Just a few challenges:



Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT have created.  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nineteen - Catwalk Bunny

I looooooove this bunny!  She's so fashionable and fun!!


Just a few challenges:


Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!!

Sunday, March 18, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Eighteen - Level One!

Happy Sunday!  It's a great day for shopping (LOTS of crafty sales right now!!) and crafting!!  This is a special card I made for my brother, who as you know is a HUGE Nintendo fan!!


It's a slider card!!


I love how this card turned out, and so did my brother!!

Just a few challenges:





Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Friday, March 16, 2018

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with Crafting with Friends!!

Happy Friday!  It's a new challenge at Crafting with Friends and as always, our theme is Anything Goes!  We are just for fun this challenge, no sponsor, and I decided to make a project with Momenta products!!



Just a few challenges:


Be sure to visit the blog to see the rest of the DT's work!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Fourteen - Mario Lotto

If you visited the blog a few days ago, you saw the I Do Lotto card we played with at my SIL's bridal shower.  This is the special card we made for the groom.  He's a HUGE Nintendo fan, as you all know.


Look he won!  ;D




Just a few challenges:


Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Sunday, March 11, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Eleven - I Do Lotto

This is one of the games we played at my SIL's bridal shower.  She LOVES scratch-off ticket so we figured these were perfect.  And yes we did all the stamping ourselves!


Match three and win!


YAY I won!!

Come back here in a few days, you'll see the special Nintendo-themed game card we made for the groom!


Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Saturday, March 10, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Ten - SLAY ALL DAY!!

Happy Buffy Day!!!  21 years ago today, Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered.  Buffy is one of my favorite shows, but only the first three years!!  When I think of the character of Buffy, I think of her as spunky, mouthy and tough.  (One of the things I hate about the later seasons of Buffy is how weak she became!)  When I saw this stamp, I instantly thought of Buffy.  S3 Buffy.



Just a few challenges:



Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Friday, March 9, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Looks Like She's Thirty!!

It's time now to celebrate the second most important woman in my life, Barbie.  I don't remember getting her for the first time as a three year old, but I also don't remember my life without her.  I played with my Barbies until I was older than most I'm sure, and continued to make clothes and accessories for them long after that (I wanted to be a fashion designer for awhile--my inability to sew kind of threw a snag into that one!).  I still love her and continue to treat myself to a Barbie now and then, especially those with "current" fashion.  She's an icon, she's had every career under the sun, and at neatly sixty, she looks no older than thirty and that's based on what she's wearing!!


Several challenges for this awesome card:


Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Thursday, March 8, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Eight - Celebrating Women

Today is International Women's Day, and I did choose to make this card to celebrate that, but I want to make a point: I am NOT one of those crazy women in a crass hat displaying private parts that is marching to "get back" the nothing that was taken away from them.  I celebrated this day long before that crap started and I'll still be celebrating it when the Hollywood elite has grown tired of marching for nothing and has moved on.  I celebrate International Women's Day because I'm proud to be a woman.  Okay soapbox moment over!  Onto the art!!

Yesterday you saw my DT post for Creative Moments!  We're celebrating International Women's day with our girly theme this fortnight, so I wanted to make an extra card, especially since I already had this awesome image from one of our sponsors, Scrap N Dipity!

OH and before you look at the card, I have have HAVE to talk about my favorite new mixed media find.  Brea Reese modeling pastes and texture pastes!  This is the gold modeling paste.  See how shiny and SMOOTH it is?  It dries with a glossy smooth finish.  Their texture pastes have a almost pebbled or dotted finish, you'll see that in an upcoming post.  I'm obsessed with these pastes!


Just a few challenges:



Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

**ALL ABOUT WOMEN/ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with Creative Moments!!

Happy Hump Day!!  It's a new challenge at Creative Moments and in honor of International Women's Day tomorrow, our theme is All About Women!  Of course you can always play Anything Goes, but I think we should always celebrate women don't you?  Our lovely sponsors are Polkadoodles and Sheepski Designs!!  First up is Polkadoodles and I'm working with Fredericka Debutante!


Next up is Sheepski Designs and I'm working with Coffee Break!



Just a few challenges for the coffee card:


Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT have created.  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day Six - Bunnies Everywhere!!

Hippity, hoppity, bunnies all around!!!! I loooove this card, I even made the sky background.  So fun!  I've got a different variation of this to share later in the month, too!







Just a few challenges:

Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Monday, March 5, 2018

**FANTASY/MYTHOLOGICAL** New Challenge with Get Creative Challenges!!

Hi everyone!  It's a new challenge at Get Creative Challenges and our theme is Fantasy/Mythological!!  This is one of my favorite themes to work with!  Our lovely sponsor is Angie's Digital Stamps and I'm working with Fairy Sprinkling Stardust!



Just a few challenges:



Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT created.  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!!

Sunday, March 4, 2018

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with Angie's Digi Stamps!!

Hi everyone!  It's the first Sunday of the month and that means it's time for a new challenge at Angie's Digi Stamps!!  Our theme is always Anything Goes but we always have a twist as well!  I'm working with an adorable image, Chick Hatching From Egg!


Just a few challenges:


Be sure to visit the blog to see what the rest of the DT created and to enter this month's challenge!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting!  Laters!!

Thursday, March 1, 2018

31 Days of Crafting - Day One - New Ideas

I make a cards.  I make so. many. cards.  And when I started to plan out my National Craft Month blog posts for this year, I thought it might be fun to NOT make cards.  So most of what I'll share this month will be something else.  Banners.  Boxes.  Bags.  Anything that comes to me in the moment.  I'll still share cards, I'll still have my DT projects of course.  But I just don't wanna share thirty or forty cards like usual.

Today I'm kicking things off with a really fun project.  It was a commissioned project for a 30th birthday.  The recipient LOVES lottery tickets and it just came together so perfectly.


You can't really tell from the photo but the sign was huge.  The hearts were all glued on permanently but I made the tickets temporary so that the board could be used again in the future for other events.  The client loved it!!

Just a few challenges to kick off the month:



Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!!