Happy Fall Leaves

Hi Crafters & Bakers! Today Georganne and I are doing our Cookie Card Challenge. I'm lucky enough to steal one of her cookie designs and make it into a card and she takes one of my cards and makes it into a cookie.  Super Fun!

I was looking through her Thanksgiving cookies and saw these super cute leaves I knew I wanted to recreate them. 

 Seriously, how cute are those???  :)  To see her post on these cookies go HERE.  And here is my take on these cookies:

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to head on over to her blog, LilaLoa, to see what she made of mine. 

SUPPLIES:
3 Birds Straight from the Nest - Leaves 9"
Googlie Eyes
White Gel Pen
Dark Brown string
PTI - Dark Chocolate, Fresh Linen, white, and Harvest Gold Cardstock
Random cardstock - Fall Colors

Happy Mother's Day!

Hello Crafters! I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day. Mine was nice and relaxing, hung out with the family. Then my two dogs ate a whole large bag of Peanut M&M's. It was a gift to my mom from my brother. I'm sure I'll be up tonight with some sick dogs. Fingers crossed it's not too bad.

This is the card that I made for my mom.  I made a shape card based off the main front image.  What I did was use the shadow cut of that image and joined it together to make the shape card.  I then cut out the original cut w/ all of the inside cuts hid to make it a solid cut.  That is the white cut on the card.  I cut out the main image in green and another one in purple.  Then I cut out just the flower by hand from the purple cut.  Hopefully that made some sense.  I should have made a video on it but I made it pretty quickly.  :)

Have a great week and Thanks for stopping by!  :)

SUPPLIES:
Straight from the Nest Cricut cartridge - (Farthest bottom right image)  4"
PTI - Simply Chartreuse, White & Royal cardstock
Yellow and Purple Stickles
Sheer Yellow ribbon

Elegant Thank You

Hi Crafters! Today Glora and I are doing our Cricut Cut Challenge. This month I chose the birdcage cut from the Straight from the Nest Cricut Cartridge.  It's been a while since I used this cartridge so I wanted to pull it out and use it.  Saw this birdcage and thought that it might be a challenge to alter it as I kinda like to do. 

So I decided to make a square card and enlarge the cut.  For some reason I love doing this and I have a tendency to do it as well.  Here is my card...

I cut the size at 9" and my card is 5"x5".  The patter paper is from the DCWV Linen Closet paper pack.  I loved the colors in this paper pack, soft and elegant.

I had cut out two birds just in case and so I had an extra one and decided to decorate the backside of the envelope w/ it.  It's kind of hard to see on the picture.

Make sure you head on over to Glora's blog to see what she made with this cut.  She's my favorite crafter.  I want to be like her when I grow up.  I LOVE the way she completes a card.   :)

SUPPLIES:
Straight from the Nest Cricut Cartridge
DCWV Linen Closet paper pack
My Pink Stampers Everyday Life stamp set
Floral yellow ribbon
PTI - Yellow Harvest cardstock
Corner Chomper

Simply Crafts with Glora and Pam - Episode 35: Bundle of Joy!

I'm really excited about this post today.  Glora from Glora's Crafts and I have decided to try something fun.  The first Wednesday of the month she and I will make a project using the same Cricut cut or type of project.

For our first project I chose the Straight from the Nest Cricut cartridge and the clothes line image.  I needed to make a baby card and I know she just got that cartridge so that is the reason behind it.  I hope you enjoy what we are doing.  I know it will be a lot of fun and maybe in the future we can do a challenge that the rest of you can participate in.  Let us know by leaving a comment if that is something you would want to participate in.

Now, make sure that you head on over to her blog to check out her creation.  She is always amazing in her projects, she goes above and beyond on finishing a project.  Amazing!

I also used the new My Pink Stampers "Sweet Baby" stamp set.  It has the cutest sayings and the cutest fonts.  Love It!!!  Be sure to head on over to her blog to purchase this one.  This is a 'Have to Have' stamp set.

*This is a 5"x5" sized card.  I wish I would have made it an A2 sized card.  It would have had a lot less white space on it.  Lesson learned.  :)

Card Recipe:
Straight From the Nest Cricut Catridge
My Pink Stampers Sweet Baby Stamp set.  **This is new, LOVE this set!!!**
The Twinery - Cappuccino colored twine
PTI - Dark Chocolate, White and Blueberry Sky cardstock
Polka Dots Cuttlebug Embossing folder
Colorbok Earth Tone designer paper pad (Got from Walmart)

~ Thanks for looking!

Thank You Fall

This card came to me and I had to create it.  I love the way it turned out.  The only thing I wish I would have waited on was the sentiment.  This card would be a great Just Because, Happy Thanksgiving, and so on.  I'll still use it as a Thank you though.  :)

Card Recipe:
Cricut Cartridge - Zooballoo - Tree
Cricut Cartridge - Straight From the Nest - Leaves
My Pink Stamper Everyday Life stamp set
PTI Dark Chocolate cardstock
PTI Scarlet Jewel cardstock and ribbon
Bazzill Basics cardstock - Saltillo (Drk Orange), Capers (Drk Green), Citrus (Lt Orange)

~Thanks for looking!

It's Not Easy Being Pink - Thank you Robyn!

Welcome to the It's Not Easy Being Pink blog hop!!! We wanted to thank Robyn, My Pink Stamper, for the privilege of working with her these last few months. It was such a wonderful experience and an honor to be part of her design team. She is an amazing woman who does so much for others. We also want to thank her for sharing her fabulous talent with us. So we wanted to do something special for her. We are holding this blog hop in her honor!

This blog hop includes 7 previous My Pink Stamper Design Team Members. Emma is still a current design team member (Lucky!). The theme of each of our products is some form of "Thank you!". You will definitely want to check out everyone's projects, they are fabulous! Plus each blog has a fun giveaway! So let's get the party rollin'....

I already sent a little thank you gift to Robyn so I wanted to make a project "Robyn Inspired". When I think of her I think of Pink and Butterflies. The first thing I did was to change my blog design to be pink! :) Then I made a card with that inspiration as well...

The butterfly cut is from the Straight from the Nest cartridge. I cut it out twice for added dimension. The sentiment is from her Buggy Punnies stamp set. Adorable! I also used the Swiss Dots cuttlebug embossing folder, PTI ribbon & Paper and the darker teal paper is from SU!. I used Stickles on the body of the butterfly as well as the swirl. I outlined the edge of my butterfly, both layers, w/ a Versamark pen. (Thanks Glora for the idea!)

For my giveaway I am giving away a 6x6 scrapbooking kit from SEI. It contains an album, designer paper, label and frame stickers, die-cut tags, alphabet stickers, brads and ribbon. If you're not a scrapbooker (like me) everything in the kit can easily be used towards your card making. That's what I do when I see one of these types of kits on sale. :) I'm also including 3 adorable butterfly stamps (2" each) from Studio G. To be entered into this giveaway please subscribe to my blog if you haven't done so already and leave a comment on this post along w/ a way to get a hold of you. The winner will be chosen by random.org. You have until Tuesday July 27th at 10pm MDT to enter. I'll announce the winner on Wednesday the 28th.

Now on to the other fabulous women! The next person on the hop is Rowena. Her projects are always SO wonderful!

The order of the blog hop is as follows:

Julie

Agnes

Emma

Jo

Karla

Pam (that's me!)

Rowena

Thanks for stopping by and have fun Hopping!

Happy Trails to You!

Here is a birthday card I made for my uncle. He loves hiking and nature so I thought up this card.

The trees are from the ZooBalloo Cricut cartridge and the grass is from the Straight from the Nest cartridge. I couldn't find the path that I liked so I searched in my Gypsy for a wavy line and found this one. It is from Home Accents. It lists it in my Gypsy as a line. I unlinked all of the measurements and set it at 8x30" and then only cut about half of it. It worked out great. The image is image 9 in the shift position. This is one great advantage to the Gypsy or Design Studio. You can make something that you need out of something that doesn't make sense.

The birthday sentiment is from the My Pink Stamper's Family & Friends stamp set. The paper is from PTI.

Don't forget about the Blog Hop w/ Giveaways this Saturday!!!

~ Thanks for looking and let me know if you have any questions!

MPS Color Challenge

This card was made for the My Pink Stamper Color Challenge. We needed to make a project using brown, green, pink and orange.

I used the Straight from the Nest cartridge for the bird. I used the flip feature on it because the bird was originally facing the other way. The branch cut is from the ZooBalloo cartridge. I embossed the white paper w/ the Polka Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder.

The designer paper used is from a couple of paper packs that I got at Walmart. The name brand is called Colorbok and the packs I used are called Bright and Bright Florals. The ribbon is from PTI. The eye on the bird is stamped from the Peachy Keen Baby Animal Faces n More! stamp set.

The sentiment stamp is from the new My Pink Stampers Tweetie Hoo Puns stamp set. Love 'em!

Head on over to My Pink Stamper to see the other submission for this challenge and to submit your own! I hope you can participate!

Thanks for looking!

Paper Playtime Challenge #4 - Bugs!

Our lovely Paper Queen Sue is in charge of this weeks Paper Playtime Challenge. The theme is Bugs, Bees, Ants or Ladybugs. You can interpret the theme anyway you want. The end date for this challenge is Sunday, June 27th. Make sure you go over HERE and participate. It's fun to participate in the challenges!

I used the Create a Critter cartridge for the flower and the caterpillar. Aren't they adorable? :) The grass is cut from Straight from the Nest cartridge. I cut it out twice to add extra layering on the card. The face stamp is from Peachy Keen Stamps Critter Faces Set A X-Large stamp set. The solid cardstock is from SU! and the designer paper on the flower is from the DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack.

Thanks for looking!

Happy Bird-Day!

Here is a card I made for a friend of mine. I used the Straight from the Nest Cricut Cartridge. Just got it. Isn't it too cute. The cutie stamped bird face is from the Peachy Keen Stamps PK-755 Critter Faces size Large stamp set. The stamped sentiment is from the new My Pink Stamper Tweetie Hoo Puns stamp set (Coming Soon). Whoooo loves them? I do! :)

The solid cardstock is from PTI, the bird designer paper is from DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy paper pack. The designer paper on the bird if from the K&i Memories Classic Prints paper pad. I used the SU! Celebrations border punch on the green paper.

Thanks for looking!