A Little Salt and Peppa'

Here's a card that I made for CardPatterns sketch #106.

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A Cityscape Card

I created this card for the Cityscapes Are On the Rise Challenge in the Moxie Fab World.

I used patterned paper from American Crafts Craft Fair and cut out the cityscape. The background on the cardstock is from the Quickutz Retro Squares embossing folder. The stamps are both from Unity Stamp Co. The blimp is from City of Love and the sentiment is from Perfect in Every Way. If you have a chance, you should join in at Moxie Fab and make a project using a cityscape!
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You're the Cherry on Top

I made this card for CardPatterns sketch #105.

Supplies Used: Melissa Frances Kitschy Kitchen patterned paper, Unity Stamp Co. Perfect in Every Way rubber stamps, Fiskars Apron Lace border punch, American Crafts ribbon, Nestabilities Square die cut, Memento Lady Bug Red ink, buttons, and twine
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Sometimes a Card Just Won't Do

Can you believe that I said that?? Well, you know sometimes you feel like you should do more then just send a little card...so I sent a little card and some delicious (if I do say so myself) homemade cinnamon rolls! Sorry the picture is so bad. My battery died so I used Jon's BlackBerry. It doesn't take very good pictures.

Supplies Used: October Afternoon Patterned Paper, Our Daily Bread Designs rubber stamps, Labels 4 Nestabilities, American Crafts lace, button, Fiskars Threading Water border punch
And if you want to make some delicious looking cinnamon rolls (with a bread machine, they are so easy!), you can find the recipe here.

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Everyone Is a Star

Here is a valentine that I made for one of my nephews. I used the current Get Sketchy sketch.

Supplies Used: Rubber Stamps (Unity a pocket full of...; friendship, love, miracles), Patterned Paper (Cosmo Cricket Material Girl), Accessories (Nestabilities Circles and Scallop Circles; American Crafts lace)
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Happy 2011!

Have you all recovered from your exciting New Year's Eve parties? Jon and I ordered pizza, stayed up until midnight, and headed to bed. Wild, I know! :) So here is a card that I made for the CPS challenge. We could pick any sketch we wanted from 2010. I chose sketch #163.

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Candy Cane Holder (and winner)

Today I have a fun project to share. I cut out these adorable little stockings using my Silhouette. Then I stitched around the sides to close them up. I stuffed them with polyester stuffing to puff them out. Then I added some Liquid Applique to make the tops puffy. I wanted to embellish them a little more, but I have pretty much run out of time (my Christmas cards are still not finished!). I am going to put a candy cane in each of these and give them to my kids at school. I love how they turned out!

I wrote the kids names in Stickles at the top of the stocking. I smudged them in the picture on purpose (not sure if I needed to, but just to be safe!). They are NOT smudged in person...okay, yes they are, but only a little. You all know that I hate Stickles, right? :) Imagine that there is a candy cane in there, I haven't bought them yet.

And the winner of my blog candy was Karen B. also enduring the freezing cold state of Wisconsin with me! Email me your address and I'll mail your stamp. katytipton at yahoo dot com.
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A Little Sketchy

Today I have two cards to share with you. The first one is for the Limelight Papercrafts sketch and product challenge. The product we had to use was shimmer. I used glitter on the snowflakes, which I stamped onto a Jillibean Soup Sprout.

If you haven't heard, Limelight is closing it's doors. Sad for us, but great news for Mandy! Lucky for me, I have a LSS, so I will somehow survive. Thanks Mandy for the great customer service! I always ordered from her because she would include a cute little handmade note just to say thank you.
Okay, on to the second card. This is for the CardPatterns sketch. I am loving the Mitten Weather paper from Cosmo Cricket -- are you sick of it yet? :)

Lastly, this is your last reminder for the blog candy a few posts down!
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Apparently I'm a Little Too Dramatic

Maybe you noticed this in the last post? I write for effect...I wasn't literally crying about the snow or anything. I will survive the winter. No worries. There is one thing that I love/hate about winter though. That's wearing sweaters and sweatshirts. I love being all cuddled up in a comfy sweater. What I hate though is when I have to put on a coat over the top of them. Let's just say I'm big enough without all the layers...add the coat and I have a serious oomp-a-loomp-a problem. I look like I could do some serious damage to some bowling pins. I better not bend down when standing on top of a hill... You get my drift. Big and round. :) Someday I will figure out how to be warm and stylish. Until then... I have a card! I am really loving the Cosmo Cricket Mitten Weather paper. I really like the non-traditional colors for Christmas cards.

P.S. The snow didn't stick, the sun is shining and it's pretty nice today! YAY! Pin It Now!

Scene It!

Happy Friday and Friends with Flair. Today I mixed and matched different stamps and used the masking technique to create a fun little scene card.

Stamps Used: House, Tree, and Sentiment (Another Sweet Day), Clothesline (Perfect in Every Way), Bicycle (Following My Heart), Clouds (A Pocket Full Of...) I actually used more stamps for the scene, but then I decided to cut it down to a square 4.5" card. It was good call, because the card was getting a little too busy. I used one of my biggest enemies (the STICKLES) to embellish it and did a little paper piercing on the word "home" with some Jillibean Soup patterned paper. Don't forget to go to the Unity blog to see the other blogs participating in Friends with Flair.Or go to Jennie's blog next!
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New Techniques

Here are the other two cards that I made for VSN (plus a practice card). They were new techniques for me. The first technique was to make a tent-fold card. My first attempt took me a lot longer then 45 minutes. I cut and folded a few things incorrectly, my sewing machine jammed, and so on and so forth. So I had to make a second card to submit. The second one went a lot more smoothly.

This is the one that I submitted.

The other technique that I tried was the Wax Paper Cuttlebug Resist. I had a hard time getting a good photo because of the glossy paper, and it was dark when I took the picture.

I learned how to make these cards by using the Resource page on Splitcoast. TONS of information here!
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Summertime Foods and Camping

Splitcoast hosted a VSN over the weekend. VSN stands for Virtual Stamp Night (although it's generally a weekend), and challenges are posted every hour for you to play along. The catch is that you only have 45 minutes to finish each card. For somebody like me who is sloooooow, that's a challenge. Here's the first card I made. It was to be inspired by food in the summertime. I love to have barbecue's in the summer, so I made this card.

The second challenge that I did was to be inspired by camping. Well, you should know -- I hate camping. To me, roughing it would be a Holiday Inn. I also don't feel like something that's used as a table during the day should be a bed at night. But I know there are tons of "crazies" out there that enjoy this activity. ;) So here is my card inspired by this crazy thing called camping.

 
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Computer Problems!

I've been having some problems with my computer lately, which has stopped me from posting anything. The wireless card in my laptop just up and quit working. Grrr. Tech support says that they are aware of the problem with that model of laptop, and it would cost $250 to fix it (the laptop was only $300). Grrr (again). So I have to be connected to the dsl modem now to do anything online (which, of course, is in another room and there's nowhere in my craft room to plug it in at). So, I have an old laptop that takes me about an hour to upload and create blog posts on...which means my posting will be sporadic at best until I figure something out! Anyway, after a lot of frustration, I finally have this blog post done!Here is the card I created for the Limelight sketch challenge.

Hopefully I will have another post for you soon!
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Somebody's Got Baby on the Brain

Have you noticed an abundance of baby cards on my blog lately?? Well, don't worry, I'm not announcing or hinting at anything. Just seems like everybody (except for me, of course) is having a baby! I cased this one from Carly. I just changed the direction of the card and the colors. It's simple and sweet.

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CardPatterns Sketch #76...x2

I made two different cards for the CardPatterns current sketch. The first one is a square 5 1/4" card. I need to make a baby card for somebody, but after I finished this one I realized it's more appropriate for a little boy, and I need to make one for a little girl. I think if I swapped out the brown for a pink or yellow, it would make a cute girl card.

 Supplies Used: Rubber Stamps (Stampin' Up Bundle of Joy, Stampin' Up Warm Words), Cardstock (Bazzil, Stampin' Up), Patterned Paper (Basic Grey Kraft collection, Jillibean Soup), Accessories (Fiskars Apron Lace Border Punch, Making Memories brad, Nestabilities scalloped circles, lace, buttons)
The second card is a standard A2 size card, but I still used the CardPatterns sketch.

Supplies Used: Rubber Stamps (Unity Stamp Co. Stuck on You), Cardstock (Jillibean Soup kraft, Stampin' Up Very Vanilla), Patterned Paper (Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday), Ribbon (American Crafts), Accessories (Basic Grey rhinestones, Martha Stewart Scallop Punch, sewing machine)

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A Birthday Card and a Little Update

Well, I have lived here in Wisconsin for 2 months...and I've already rearranged my craft room! There are still boxes that aren't unpacked in other rooms of the house...Priorities, you know? :) I had to give up a few things that I liked about the old arrangement, but I like this so much better. I'm not so crowded and everything has a spot where it goes. I don't have to try and work in messiness anymore! But before we get to that, here's a card I made using the CardPatterns Sketch #74. It's a birthday card for my niece.

Supplies Used: Rub-ons (Crate Paper), Patterned Paper (Basic Grey Kraft, Cosmo Cricket Earth Love), Ric-rac (American Crafts), Rhinestones

And here's one picture of my new layout of my craft room. I won't bore you with lots of pictures...today. :)

Also, just a side note. I have listed a bunch of stuff for sale on Splitcoast. Stampin' Up, Unity, Hero Arts, and some odds and ends. Not having a job means I need to clean out the stuff I'm not using. Boo.

Thanks for looking. And now that my room is organized, I should be back to crafting and blogging more.

 

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Mmmm...Cabbage Stew!

Card I made with the CardPatterns sketch #69

I used Jillibean Soup paper (caraway seeds and brown rice from the Old World Cabbage Stew line), Unity Stamps (Perfect in Every Way, Fresh Beginnings), Very Vanilla cardstock from SU, Scalloped Circles Nestabilities. American Crafts Ribbon

I hope everybody is having a great weekend and a happy father's day tomorrow!

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Project Runway Inspired...Sort Of

I love to watch Project Runway -- the fabrics, the designs, the crazy designers. At the end of the season, the top 3 (sometimes 4) designers get a budget and have to create a certain number of outfits. Most of the outfits have the same fabric (because they are on a budget!), so I decided to take a clue from them and make cards using the same piece of 12x12 patterned paper to create my cards. The first card was for the CardPatterns Sketch #60.

The second card was for a new challenge blog I decided to try, Crazy 4 Challenges.

And the last...well it didn't end up as a card yet. I got stuck. It was for the Limelight challenge, but I didn't get it finished (it's still sitting just like this on my table). Picture it all put together...It's like one of those "pick your own ending" books, only for cards. I may be on to something here. Haha!

I also have a little piece of news to share with you. I'm moving north! Jon was offered a new job in Wisconsin, and after a lot of praying, discussions, and him driving me crazy, we have decided to move. I'm sad to be leaving, but excited about the new opportunities that are ahead. We will be moving next month, so if you notice that I'm not blogging much, well now you know why. And if anybody has any great ideas for some "We've Moved" cards, share with me! We've moved about 6 times now...so I'm out of ideas. I'm thinking a simple email might be it!
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HI!

I made this card for the CPS Sketch #160

And here is the close up of the chipboard that I covered in Shimmerz. It's so nice and sparkly!

Supplies Used: Cosmo Cricket Material Girl PP, Basic Grey Blush Moda Fabric, Peony Nestabilities, Basic Grey chipboard, May Arts and American Crafts ribbon, Choc-o-lot Shimmerz, Baby's Breath Shimmerz Spritz
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I Hate When I Do That!

So I made this scrapbook page for the Sketchy Thursday blog sketch challenge. Tuesday night at 11:30 I remembered that I hadn't yet photographed the page and submitted it. I almost got out of bed and did it then! I should have. Because I am just now posting it. Oh well, it happens. Lucky for me, I also used the recipe challenge on the Scrap and Stamp blog, and I still have time to link it there!

Supplies Used: American Crafts thickers and pp (Craft Fair), Unity Stamp Co. (Confession: i {luv} unity, Fact of Love), Kaisercraft Rhinestones, Core'dinations cardstock

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