Urban prairie basket

I love these gorgeous spring-y colors in this paper pack, they are really inspiring me to create. This cute little basket is actually made from my Cricut .cut file version of the SU! scalloped envelope die. I designed this copy-cat version originally for the heart shaped couple card, here.

This is the side view, showing the handle better. My .cut file includes the decorative layers for all four sides too. The handle was manually border punched from the scrap that was left from the piece of 8.5 x 11 cardstock I cut the basket from originally.

Here is my first version of this basket. All loaded up for giving to a friend who's recovering from an illness.

I forgot to photograph it before I left for a visit. So these photos are taken in the car on an overcast California afternoon. But I liked the project so much I decided to come home and make another.

I am happy to share my .cut file. If you would like it, please leave me a comment on this post, including your email address and I will send it out to you.

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Urban prairie card

I have been hoarding this paper for a long time. I love this paper. My inspiration to finally cut into it came from one of my favorite blogs, stopandstamptheroses.blogspot.com her 03-01-11 post. Gorgeous card, using many coordinating patterns of paper. I hope my interpretation does hers justice.

The paper is Basic Grey urban prairie paper pack. I used CTMH hollyhock ink on some SU! stamps and embellished with a few CTMH sparkles gems. I was so thrilled that my Really Reasonable Ribbon club shipment had the white crocheted lace as one of the pieces. Love it!!! The green silk appears to be from Dollar tree maybe or Michaels dollar bins. I think that's all the details. I hope you find inspiration and make something beautiful.

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Be yourself silhouette card

This hot pink and black card is made for a dear friend who is not feeling well. I hope she loves it.

I used three different CTMH stamp sets, and the CTMH black archival ink and hollyhock ink.

I added ribbon and pearls for some bling and also sprayed the whole front of the card with Tattered angels glimmer mist in iridescent gold. That doesn't show in the photo, but its gorgeous in person.

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Northern flurry embossed Christmas cards

I know, I know....Christmas cards in March?!?! Really? But I can explain. I spent probably an hour or two this morning drooling over sandimaciver.com. But this card jumped out at me.  I really love it. So I had to make it right then and there. 5:30am in my craft room making Christmas cards. Yes, cards. Because I almost never make just one. My way of thinking is I already have all the supplies out and I'm already cutting into an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper so why not make 2? Or 4? That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Aren't they gorgeous? Rustic? Country? My only real drift from the original inspiration card was the SU! cherry cobbler card stock and stamping the sentiment in red. Everything else is as close to the inspiration card as I could approximate.

I pulled out my box of Christmas stamps looking for the perfect sentiment. Lucky for me I was already thinking of making 4 cards because I found 4 perfect sentiments. Serendipity!

I used a Dew drop brilliance moonlight white lil ink pad to ink the embossed areas and the edges of the craft cardstock.

The cotton lace and the large metal brad are such cool country shabby embellishments. I really love the combination. My brads where too bright, so I toned them down with a little chalk ink and embossing powder and a shot from the heat gun worked its magic.

They went together really quick. It's a great card idea. So glad I lucked onto Sandi's website, she has a ton of amazing inspiration. 

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A sneak peek and a many layered card

This is a little peek at what has been keeping me busy this week. I am working on a baby girl brag book and it is not coming together easily. Its for my hubby's niece, her first baby, and I think I am putting a lot of pressure on myself.

I got a bag full of SU! goodness delivered to me yesterday, so I had lots of temptation laying around on my desk. I decided to take a lil break and play with those. This is what I came up with.

What started out as a simple card idea turned into a layer-licious card. With pop dots, ribbon and buttons...oh my. It still came together fairly quick. The color scheme was determined by some ribbon from one of my monthly kits that I had not broke out yet.

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A surprise blogger award

I have seen these, and always enjoy seeing the details about the blogger and the new links. I never thought I would get to play along. Wahoo! Thanks Tina thecrazystamplady.blogspot.com I appreciate the award and the attention. *blush*

So here are the rules:

1. Thank the person who gave this award to me and link it back to their blog (see above link)

2. Share 8 things about yourself.

3. Pass this award to 8 others individuals that I have recently discovered.

4. Leave a comment so they can pass along the recognition.


8 things about myself:

1. I have been crafting all my life. Sewing, embroidery, cross stitch, crochet, quilting, photography, scrapbooking and papercrafting is my newest addiction.

2. I have a Cricut, a Cricut Expressions and now a Pazzles. I am finally ready to let go of my first baby bug, I am running out of counter space since my mom gifted me with a Pazzles for Christmas.

3. I learn so much from youtube tutorial videos and am so thankful to those that make them, but I would die of fright if I tried to make one myself. I get all tongue tied and silly when I know that all attention is on me.

4. Married to my high school sweety for coming up on 22 years on April fools day. :) That's right, we married on April fools day, even the minister made a lil joke about it during the ceremony.

5. I have two sons, pride and joy of my life, that can test my patience to the bitter end. Isn't that how it goes? They are good, kind and considerate boys, I'm proud of that, the rest will come with maturity.

OK, those are all fine and dandy but lets do an off the wall fact or two.

6. I love bagpipe music and men in kilts. *sigh*

7. I love tye dye. I literally have enough tye dye tee's that I could wear a different one every day for two weeks straight. The brighter the tye dye the better. It just makes me smile.

8. If I never went on another non-Disney related vacation, I would be totally ok with that. Much to the chagrin of my guys and my mom. I am single minded in my vacation destination.

Now I'm all warmed up to this task. I could keep spilling useless facts about myself, but lets get on to the good stuff. I am a blog stalker extraordinaire. I have a feeds list a mile long. Love them, love the inspiration I can always find there. So here are my new finds, I hope you enjoy.


http://stamping411.blogspot.com/  my latest addiction, just check out all their how to tutorials. Amazing!

http://sporadicstamper.blogspot.com/

http://jlwcards.blogspot.com/

http://paperchef79.blogspot.com/ paper crafts and recipes. Its the perfect combination.

http://sps-academy.blogspot.com/

http://forthejoyofcreating.blogspot.com/

http://dudleychickdesigns.blogspot.com/

http://happyscrapinnstampin.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. Thanks again, Tina.

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Baby shower card

I took my inspiration for this card from http://www.sandimaciver.com/ her 01-26-11 post. The color inspiration came from some of the things the mother had requested on her registry. Love the brown, green and pink combo. Cute but not over the top girly traditional. Hopefully like my card.

The ribbon is from another great monthly club set from Really reasonable ribbons, and the lil flower is a beauty I picked up from Scrapbook Expo this year. I wish I had paid closer attention to who made them because I am almost out and would love to get more. They are so sweet. The alphabet stamps are CTMH Doodle alphabet. Love them too.

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