Holiday Chaos

Hello to all of my followers! I am sorry for the lack of posts the last week or so! I will do my best to catch up on all the chaos from the holidays! Anyone have plans for New Year's Eve? This year is the first time in 3 years that we will be able to go out and spend the night out with my brother and his wife. I am pretty excited.

I do have some photos to show of some mini cards I made for my partner in my GIBBS swap. I altered a glue dots box and put all 12 cards inside. I hope you like them!

Noah Banner

This banner I made for my cousins son Noah. I know the pictures aren't the best- but it was late at night- and I had to bring that to him the next morning. The dinosaurs are cut from Create a Critter. I used skittles to add a little pop, and the letters are cut from Storybook (I think) I cut these a few months ago- but finally put them together. The scalloped circles are cut from Nestabilities Large Scallop Circle.

Birdhouse for GIBBS

This is a mini birdhouse I made for my partner on the Cricut Messageboard. The swap is called GIBBS- "Girls I'm Broke Box Swap." I found it on the blog Project Tuesday... Heres the exact link for the inspiration I got. I am happy with how it turned out. I used this for the word "Birds of a Feather Flock together."







For the bird I used Animal Kingdom. The house was cut from a template. I chalked the edges with dark brown Cat's Eye Chalk Ink. I dressed it up with a few prima flowers and some skittles. I had fun with it! Please tell me what you think!!!

Terrific day for a Birthday Card!

Happy Terrific Tuesday Everyone!!!

Today, as promised, I am showing the birthday card I made. I really like the effects with the glitter that I used. I am addicted to the JoAnn's Essentials Crystal Glitter... it's on sale at JoAnn's this week! I used prismacolor pencils with the gamsol technique on coloring the image. I received this image in a stamped image swap on the Cricut Messageboard. Isn't it just darling?! I used stickles to jazz things up a bit here and there, and chalked the edges with VersaMagic Chalk Ink Dew Drop. I am unsure of the maker of the ribbon I used, but I love the effect it leaves with this card! I also used some of my own decorated skittles to finish the card off.









Thanks for looking! Let me know what you think!

My very first ATC card

Good Morning to all of my fellow followers!

Today I am showing you a picture of my very first ATC card I made for a swap that I am in. If you are wondering- "What does ATC mean?" Well ATC stands for Artist Trading Card. They are 2.5"x3.5" in size. They come decorated, and artists trade them.

The theme I had to use was something using the first letter of your first name. Well, mine is "J". So, I had this cute stamp sitting right in front of me- Lord knows I was thinking on what to do for the letter J for a while now!- so I saw it and ran with it. This is what I came up with. I used StazOn Olive Green ink, Stampin Up grosgrain ribbon,chalked the edges another one of my favorite things to do, used my own decorated skittles, a flower made with sizzix sizzlits Floral Fusion, and run through the big kick with Stampin Up's perfect polkadots. I then secured them with a brad and decorated the brad with glitter. I really am falling in love with this JoAnn Craft Essentials Glitter! It looks like sugar! ENABLER ALERT: JoAnn's has this glitter on sale for buy one get one 50% off from March 7th- March 13th!

Thanks for looking! And as always, have a wonderful day!

Birthday Card for my Mother in Law

I am really happy with how this card turned out!

HERE'S WHAT I DID:

For this card I used divine swirls as the embossed background. I chalked the edges of the sentiment with Purple Hydrangea and chalked the edge of the card with Aegean Blue. I went with alot of purple because this is her favorite color. I used the blue to kind of bring it all back in. I used 3 of my own dyed skittles. I used Frosted Lace Stickles on the cupcake edge for the frosted look. I used my opaque white Sakura Gelly Roll pen to put some dots on the "chocolate" color of the cupcake, and on the heart.

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Comments are greatly appreciated!!!