SAF 2013: Rolled Dough Designs

Here is my next project in the line up.  The paper clay was a bit tricky to work with and kept sticking to my die cutting plate, but it was still a fun product to try.  I die cut the hand/heart from the Love Lives Here set out of the paper clay and stamped them with the coordinating images in the set.

SAF 2013: Tea Staining Techniques

I'm back with my next SAF project.  I think this one may be one of my favorites out of all of the cards I made.  I dyed some white felt in a mug of coffee and die cut the mugs from the Warm Happiness sets.  The little heart tag from the new Coffee Cozy Details die collection added the perfect finishing touch.

SAF 2013: Breakfast Bake and Take

Here is my project I made for the Breakfast Bake and Take challenge, which combined a color recipe and sketch recipe:

I look forward to trying out the other color and sketch recipes in future projects.  I'll be back soon to share the rest of my nine SAF projects.

August PTI Blog Hop: Fast Food Color & Sketch Challenge

It's been two months since my last post.  Work and other events in my life took over my summer, but hopefully I can get back into my crafting groove and blog a bit more regularly now that the cooler months are approaching.

I did a very quick and simple card for this month's blog hop this afternoon.  After completing all 10 of the Stamp-A-Faire challenges between yesterday and today, my brain is a bit fried!  I was taken with the rainbow birthday cake layers in the inspiration photo.  I'm not really drawn to pastel colors, but since I've spent the last two days crafting outside my comfort zone, what was one more card to stretch me creatively?!

Here is my card, which is a very literal interpretation of the inspiration photo:

I think I might go back and try to glitter up those stripes a bit.  But that's for another day!

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June PTI Blog Hop: A Touch of Gold

Long time, no posts!  I've been doing a fair amount of crafting, just not much picture taking of the projects.  I decided it was time to get my act together and fix that, just in time for this month's PTI blog hop.  The challenge was to add a touch of gold to a project.

I had more fun with this challenge than I thought I would.  Out of all of the metals, I prefer silver over gold.  I'm not sure why, the cooler tones just seem to appeal to me more.  I made two cards for this challenge.

This first one is my favorite of the two as I'm particularly enjoying the nautical trend lately.  Living in Seattle near Puget Sound provides plenty of inspiration for all things water-related! The anchor is embossed in gold powder.  I just got the Out to Sea stamp set and I can see myself using it quite a bit.  I love the navy and white striped paper from Fancy Pants' Down By the Shore collection.

I went with summery colors on this one, and broke out my American Crafts glitter tape for the occasion, too!  Keeping up with more trends, I put the Irresistibly Ikat set to use and added another trendy element--a sequin.

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Renewed Interest in Older Products

Happy Weekend!  I'm back to share a quick card I made yesterday afternoon.  My boss was in Mexico on vacation a few weeks ago and brought back some little clay painted jars for her employees that she picked up in a local pottery studio.  I wanted to give her a thank you note and I remembered I had some Mexican-themed stamps from way back in the days of A Muse wood-mounted stamps that would be perfect for my idea.  While my personal crafting style has definitely evolved over the years, one of the things I liked (and still like) about A Muse products is that it was pretty easy to create some great cards with just a few simple supplies.

It's so easy to get caught up in all of the new products that are constantly coming out, and I certainly enjoy acquiring new supplies like most crafters do, but I have a hard time getting rid of the old stuff.  And when occasions arise that prompt a certain idea you want to execute--like the one I had yesterday--it's great when you can go into your stash and find exactly what you want to carry out your plan.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you've had some time to create this weekend as well!

April 2013 PTI Blog Hop: Design on an Angle

I'm back to share my April blog hop card, which was to create a project that features something tilted.  For my card I broke out my Wonderful Words dies and die cut the  "you" at an angle on the white panel.  I prefer to use the little pieces inside the die cut letters when using the negative portion of a word die cut, so for this project I adhered them flat on to the card base, but popped the white panel up with foam dots to give the card more dimension.  The dots stamp is from Savvy Stamps.

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