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Peas Be Mine

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This is the second post of the day. See below for Texas Tuesday post.

I had hoped to make Valentine’s Day cards for our family and a few friends, but unfortunately, I ran out of time to make enough so I didn’t mail any this year. Oh well. However, I did make a Valentine treat for Jessica’s music teacher.  My parents took Jessica to music class yesterday morning since we didn’t get home from our trip until mid-afternoon. I apologize for the poor picture quality, but I didn’t finish the treat jar until the night before we left.

The cabinet above my refrigerator is stocked with glass jars that I started saving when I used to make candles. One of these was perfect for this treat jar. I used the cute Funny Valentine stamp set I won a few weeks back for entering the All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge and here I am entering this treat jar in ATS Weekly Wednesday Challenge #66 to make a Valentine card/project using non-traditional colors. This project also meets the requirements of Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #98 to stamp a card/project with lovin’ from the oven. I think my jelly bean filled treat jar counts, don’t you? A treat jar also meets the requirements of the current Simon Says Stamp Challenge to make anything but a card.

Peas Be Mine - Front View

Peas Be Mine - Side View

Peas Be Mine - Top View

Stamps: C.C. Designs Funny Valentine; Stampin’ Up Wild Hearts
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Wild Wasabi
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Embellishments: white heart brads; Stampin’ Up Wild Wasabi stitched grosgrain ribbon
Tools: Nesties circle, oval, scalloped oval; hot glue gun

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Happy Birthday Sarah!

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My uber sweet, beautiful younger sister turned 29 last Friday. I sent her a present via Amazon and I was so stoked that even though I procrastinated, it would arrive on her actual birthday. Alas, the abnormally cold wet weather the DFW area was experiencing messed that up. Hopefully, it arrived today.

Hopefully, she also received her card by now, because I am too excited to wait any longer to share it with the rest of ya’ll. Her card was inspired by this card by Maribeth, a DT member for the Anyone for Anya Challenge team. I loved the unique S-fold of the card, the stitching, and the coordinating pattern papers. So I took the sketch for last week’s Anyone for Anya Challenge and her inspiration and ran with it. Granted, the deadline for that challenge was Saturday night, but I posted the pics of the card to an online gallery and guess what.

Yep, I made the top 3, which is way cooler than being the randomly selected prize winner (although that is nice too). My card for Sarah was chosen by all the members of the DT as one of the top three cards entered in the challenge.

Anyway, on to more details of the card. I tried to color the image to look like Sarah. The cupcake was stamped a second time and popped up on dimensionals with the frosting made with glossy accents and glitter.  The stitching was done by hand,  and that is definitely not a technique I would do for just anyone as I probably spent at least an hour just stitching. The flower was made using a scallop circle punch with the scallops cut a bit and then the edges rolled. It also uses two pieces punched from a Marvy flower punch and stacked on a dimensional on top of the scallop circle part. Since I used a C.C. Designs image, it meets the requirements of the All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge #65, which is an anything goes challenge this week. I’m also entering it in Meljen’s Designs Challenge #44 to use a fun fold and I definitely think the S-fold is a fun fold in addition to being fitting fold for girl whose name starts with S. Yes, I used Baja Breeze again. I must be on a Baja Breeze kick, although I hadn’t intended to use it on this card. I wanted to use Sarah’s favorite color blue and the PP I decided upon just happened to work with Baja Breeze.

Sarah's Birthday Card

Close-up of the Girl

The Card Open

Stamps: C.C. Designs Cupcake Kiki, The Cat’s Pajamas You Say It’s Your Birthday (outside and inside sentiments)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Regal Rose, Basic Gray
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Walk in the Park
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Baja Breeze (inside sentiment)
Embellishments: Papertrey Ink Vintage Buttons Holiday Mix; grayish brads, clear ultra-fine glitter, white embroidery floss; Inkessentials Glossy Accents (shoes and ponytail holders too)
Tools: Stampin’ Up scallop circle punch, markers; Copic markers; atYou Spica clear marker (on skirt); Marvy flower punch

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Another Thank You Card

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Today, I’m sharing two versions of a thank you card I finished up last night. I’m not completely happy with either one of them. I think I tried too hard to meet multiple challenges. The first challenge is Jen del Muro’s Sketch for You to Try. This year, she switched it to being a monthly challenge. I like this better since her sketches are always super fun, but I didn’t always have time to play along. Now I’ll have a whole month. The second challenge is All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge #62. The challenge this week is to use snowmen. I think this might be where I tried too hard. I have very few snowmen stamps and none are sold in the ATS store, so I decided I would use DP with snowmen on it. Well, I only found one DP with snowmen, which looked great by itself but when I added it to the card, it looked a little odd, since only a few of the snowmen are visible. There’s actually two rows of snowmen on the DP, but you can only see the snowmen on the second row. Maybe I should have just used the punched out snowman from the DP and used a different DP for behind the C.C. Designs image. Oh well, too late now. The last challenges is A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge #134 to make a thank you card.

I do like how I picked the orange and pink colors from the snowman’s scarf to color Party Emma’s outfit. That turned out pretty cute. I also really like how I did the ribbon Party Emma is holding. The glossy accents really makes it shine. The first take utilized green for the ribbon (I had pulled that color from another snowman’s scarf), but I like the blue version better.

Blue Version of Thanks Card

Green Version of Thanks Card

Stamps: C.C. Designs Sugarplums Party Emma; Stampin’ Up Small Sayings (sentiment)
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Really Rust, Pacific Blue, Garden Green; textured white cardstock
Designer Paper: DCWV The Christmas Ultimate Stack
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Embellishments: Inkessentials Glossy Accents; pink glitter on green version of Thanks card
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; Copic markers (green version only)


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Tags #6-10

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Granted, Christmas is over. However, I haven’t shared all my tags yet, so here’s five more.

This first one is for my mother-in-law. Her favorite color is purple.

Olivia's Tag

Stamps: C.C. Designs Harp Angel
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Dell printer
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up grosgrain ribbon Elegant Eggplant; glitter; eyelet; Recollections mulberry paper rose
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; atYou Spica gold; Nestabilities Labels Four; glue pen

Here, you can see it on the present. Isn’t that gold ribbon pretty? I reused it from a gift I received.

Olivia's Present

The next one is my friend Jillan’s daughter, Lillie. I made her a little Christmas present, which I will share in another post. Lillie likes red, but she calls it pink, so I decided to use both red and pink.

Lillie's Tag

Stamps: Close to My Heart Merry Pursuits
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Real Red, Pretty in Pink
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Dell printer
Embellishments: satin ribbon from stash; glitter; eyelet; Robin’s Nest early dawn dew drop
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; Copic markers; Nestabilities Labels Four, snowflake die; white gel pen; glue pen

This one is for James’ sister Tami. It is very similar to Lillie’s tag, except I ended up not adding a snowflake. Yep, her favorite color is purple too.

Tami's Tag

Stamps: Close to My Heart Merry Pursuits
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Dell printer
Embellishments: silver sparkle ribbon from stash; Stickles Frosted Lace and Holly; eyelet
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; Copic markers; Nestabilities Labels Four

Then we have the tag for my father-in-law.

Joe's Tag

Stamps: Close to My Heart Merry Pursuits
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Bashful Blue
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Dell printer
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up 1/2″ striped grosgrain ribbon Real Red; Stickles Xmas Red; eyelet
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; Copic markers; Nestabilities Labels Four; Martha Stewart Snow Flurry border punch

And lastly (for today), this is the tag for my nephew Cameron. I kinda wish I had swapped the ribbon I used on Joe’s tag with the ribbon I used on Cameron’s tag, but oh well.

Cameron's Tag

Stamps: Close to My Heart Merry Pursuits
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Real Red, Garden Green
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Dell printer
Embellishments: satin snowflake ribbon from stash; Stickles Xmas Red; Stampin’ Up pewter eyelet
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; Copic markers; Nestabilities Labels Four; Martha Stewart  Snow Flurry border punch

I still have a few tags to share and I hope to share some scrapbook pages using the tags as embellishments, but I don’t know when I will get to that as I have some other scrapbooking priorities.

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A Little Christmas Gift

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You never know when you might need a little Christmas gift. Here’s one I finished up today. I filled it with candy cane kisses. I used a template for a trapezoid box that I picked up from Mirkwood Designs. She has a bunch of neat templates there, although I found the trapezoid shape to be somewhat annoying for putting a band around the middle since the sides aren’t perpendicular. I knew this when I decided to use this template, but it didn’t dawn on me until I was getting ready to adhere the snowflake band. That’s why you see a slight gap at the edges. I made this little gift with three challenges in mind: All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge #57 which is all about gift ideas, Paper Pretties challenge to use punches, and Pink Elephant Challenge #90 to make a winter wonderland card/project/layout. If you haven’t noticed, I’m really digging the Baja Breeze/Whisper White/Real Red color combo for Christmas projects. Maybe you’ll see some projects in a different color combo, but no promises.

Trapezoid Christmas Gift Box

Stamps: C.C. Designs Christmas Around the World
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Baja Breeze, Real Red
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Embellishments: Stampin’ Up 1/4″ grosgrain ribbon Real Red; The Twinery Maraschino; ultrafine white glitter; velcro closure
Tools: Stampin’ Up markers; liquid applique
Punches: Martha Stewart Snow Flurry; Stampin’ Up Tag and Small Tag

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