In Color Butterflies

As you can see, I was kind of inspired by Andy Warhol on this one.

I used several In Colors, from both collections...Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, Summer Starfruit, Island Indigo & Calypso Coral along with the Basic Black.

Thanks for stopping by today...have a GREAT weekend!

Little Critter Cards

Another fun project from Craft Project Central for you today! This one is created by Carrie.

Share your love of paper crafting with children with these adorable Little Critter Cards! You can make them for the little ones in your life or, even better, make them with the little ones! Each of the Little Critter Cards are easy to make with little or no help from an adult. The child who receives one of these cards will certainly smile, and the sense of satisfaction from making one, will stay with the child for a long time to come! What a fun kids’ class these cards would make too! Project includes instructions for making a penguin, mouse, lady bug, dinosaur, and not shown, an owl, monkey, bee, and dog!

To get the instructions for Carrie’s adorable project, just subscribe to October!

Witch's Caldron Treat Box

Another aweseome Halloween project for you from Craft Project Central! This one is created by Rae.

Halloween is such a fun time of year to decorate and give candy to friends and co-workers. Why not make your treats something special, and of course spooky this year? Replace the "Trick or Treat" label with a guest name and you have a place holder/party favor! And if you don’t celebrate Halloween, you can still use the instructions and template included to make favors for other occasions!

To get the instructions for Rae’s project, just subscribe to October!

Googly Ghouls Halloween Treats

Back again today with another adorable Halloween project from Craft Project Central. This one is created by Laurie.

Whether you decide to make one, two, or all three of these cute little projects, they are sure to be a hit this Halloween! This Halloween Ensemble includes an easy-fold gift box, a darling triangle treat bag, and a coordinating card! This project is also a quick and fun class, club or camp project! Or, how about a "ghouls just want to have fun!" night of crafting!? To get the instructions for Laurie's frighteningly cute projects, just subscribe to October!

Have a great weekend!

Witch's Cottage Luminary and Card

I am excited to tell you that I'm a guest designer this month at Craft Project Central! I cannot share the project I created just yet, but I've seen a few of this months projects and they are SUPER CUTE...like this spooktacular project designed by Amanda shown below.

Are you looking for a fun and whimsical Halloween decoration for your holiday display? Or maybe you just want to give someone a special Halloween gift? This Witch’s House Luminary is quite spooky when you have a flickering battery powered candle inside! It looks like the witch could step out at any time and go for a ride on her broomstick! The matching card makes this a great gift set.

To get the instructions for Amanda’s project, just subscribe to October!

Toxic Trick or Treat

With October only a few days away, I thought it was about time I shared something Halloweeny! Here's a cute, but simple card I created to demo for a workshop I had last week.

I have the clear mount Toxic Treats set, so it was easy to line up the "Happy Halloween" sentiment over the fence image right on my block and then stamp onto my card stock. After that I used the Apothecary Accent Framelits to cut the tag shape, and just cut the other rounded end at the bottom off. The rounded tab at the top is the perfect spot to add some sparkle using a Glimmer Brad.

Stamps: Toxic Treats
Card stock: Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Lucky Limeade & Rich Razzleberry
Ink: Basic Black
Accessories: Apothecary Accent Framelits, Glimmer Brad, Spider Web Embossing Folder, 1/2" Striped Satin Ribbon, 3/4" Circle & 1-3/8" Square Punches

Hope you have a weekend full of treats!

Here's to the Last Day of Summer

Even though the calendar and all other signs point to the fact, it's hard to believe that tomorrow is the first official day of Fall. The weather certainly has cooled down and the trees are starting to change, but it just can't be...Summer just went by way to fast! So, for the last official day of Summer I have two cards to share that feature fun, summer colors along with flowers, a butterfly, and an ice cold cocktail.

As you can see, I was inspired by this card over at SCS. I  just changed up the colors and the DSP and added a few other details, like the piercing around the Label die cut and the pennant shape at bottom of each strip of DSP. This is a fairly simple, quick & easy card and was one of the cards we made at my last card class. To show how versatile this layout is and how easy you can change the look, here's another version using the Happy Hour set.

Both use Floral District DSP and the same layout, but look so much different.

Enjoy this last day of Summer and the weekend too!

Everything Eleanor in Pink & Chocolate

Here is one of the cards we made at my All Occasion Card Class yesterday.

I haven't used one of my fav color combos, pink & brown, in a while and I think it suits this pretty feminine set well. After I stamped the Apothecary Accent die cut, watercolored the flowers & inked the edges, I spritzed it with some Log Cabin Smooch Spritz...unfortunately a blob just had to land right on the sentiment! BOO! But after all the work I didn't want to have to re-do it...other than the little ink blob, I love the way it turned out. I guess that's why I rarely use the Smooch Spritz...it's too hard to control. I really need to make my own using the little Stampin' Spritzer bottles I bought a while back. I hear those work much better.

Stamps: Everything Eleanor & Sincere Salutations
Card stock: Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette & Whisper White
Ink: Basic Brown (to ink flowers to watercolor) Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette & Primrose Petals
Accessories: Primrose Petals Stitched Satin Ribbon, Apothecary Accents Framelits, Large Scallop Edgelits, Delicate Designs Embossing Folder, Log Cabin Smooch Spritz & Basic Pearls

If you like the pretty Primrose Petals Stitched Satin Ribbon used above...all this month you can get it for free with your $40 order!

Happy Hour CD Pockets

For almost 20 years now, a group of my girlfriends and I have a weekend getaway each summer. For the most part,  the destination has remained the same...near or on the water in beautiful Northern Michigan! We enjoy a relaxing weekend of fun in the sun, eating & drinking...probably more than we should, laughing until our stomachs hurt and just enjoying each other's company. Most of us have known each other since way back in high school, and I don't really remember who came up with the name, "Wild Women Weekend" but it has stuck! Anyways...I'm usually the photographer of the group, so this year after I went through all the photos, I compiled the best ones on a CD for each of my friends and made this cute little CD pocket to hold the disk.

I used some retired product here...Taken With Teal & Pear Pizzazz along with  Sweet Pea DSP, one of my all time favorite wheels...Lazy Days and the cute Happy Hour stamp set. Here's a closer look...

I had the girls who live local over last week for some wine & delicious appetizers I've been wanting to try that I found on Pinterest. We had fun...and they loved their CD's.

Have a great day!

Fossilized Autumn Accent

I'm baaaack! I hadn't realized I took such a long break from blogging until I signed in here this morning to make this post. I have been really enjoying the summer and getting some things done around here and I guess just not being particularly creative. The past week or so I've been back to stamping more, so I have some new stuff to share. Today I have a masculine birthday card I created using the Autumn Accents Bigz Die and the Faux Fossil Technique.

I just love the new Woodgrain Embossing Folder...I've been wanting an EF like this for quite some time! The Timber Wheel is also great...and works perfectly with this die and EF.

The Faux Fossil technique is a lot of fun...and so easy! I taught this at my Faux Much Fun Class yesterday and the ladies loved it! Besides your card stock & ink, all you need is a plastic page protector...

• Cut off the bottom & one side seam (keep the side with the 3 holes attached)
• pick out 2 colors of ink and ink up plastic...one color per side. (ink an area large enough to fit your card stock piece)
• close the page protector and run hand along outside to blend colors. Air bubbles will form, and that's what will give you the fossil look.
• Open page protector and insert two pieces of card stock (back to back) White or Vanilla works best.
• Close the page protector and rub with fingers or a brayer to ink up your card stock.
• Remove your two pieces of fossilized card stock and use as a background, stamp onto it or cut into shape as I did above.

I also added some sponging to my leaf to give it more of a vibrant fall color. Thanks to Carol at Crafty Cat for showing this great technique! I've been having lots of fun with it...and I hope you will as well!

Love & Laughter Cake

I just love the images made up of words in the Love & Laughter wedding set! The cake fit perfectly on the Window Framelit die cut...love that too! What I don't love is the bad quality photo I took before sending off this card. Oh well...have a look anyways.

I used the beautiful new Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder for the background and the new Festive Paper Piercing Pack to easily add the piercing on the Brushed Silver layer. The stamped images are embossed with Silver EP. The sheer white ribbon is lined with silver and went perfectly with the rest of the card...not sure where I got it, it's been in my stash for a while.

Hope your day is filled with love & laughter!

Floral District Happy Hour

It's been a while since I stamped and posted anything, but I had to create a fun card for a friends upcoming birthday, so it was just the excuse I needed to get in my studio and stamp! I used the super cute set Happy Hour along with a few goodies from the new Holiday Mini Catalog.

I used the new Window Frames Framelits to cut out the two layering shapes and then the Festive Paper Piercing pack to easily add some detail. I colored the glass image with my VersaMarker (which unfortunately is retired from SU!...but you could use a blender pen and VersaMark re-inker to do this) and embossed it with Clear EP to make it shiny like a glass...see the close up when the light hits it.

I got my color combo of Baja Breeze, Rose Red, Rich Razzleberry & Tangerine Tango from the fun print in the Floral District pack of DSP. I was also inspired by a M&T shown in a recent Stampin' Success for my layout. Even with all this inspiration, since I hadn't stamped for a while it seemed to take me forever just to create this one card! Tomorrow one of my friends is coming over to stamp, so hopefully I will find my mojo and have more to share here again soon.

Hope you are enjoying the summer! Thanks for stopping by today!