The Paper Shelter #619 ~ Add a Number

    Hello crafting friends and welcome to this week's challenge

at the The Paper Shelter. 

Team A - our challenge this week is 

~ Add a Number ~ 

I used The Number One Hot Dog digi set from The Paper Shelter to create my card.

I uploaded this cutie to Silhouette and used the print and cut feature to cut it out twice.  Remember I always print my digi images on photo paper to get a crisp vivid image.  Not that cardstock doesn't print well, I just prefer the vivid colours on my printer when printing on photo paper. 

I adhered the two layers together using foam squares.  By now you guys know that I always do this to give my cards a little dimension.  I normally use the 1 mm foam squares from Hunkydory or from Marianne Designs.  This adds dimension but very little bulk which is important for me as I mail a lot of my cards overseas. 

Since she is selling hot dogs, I thought I would add a few of my other favourite "fun" foods, burgers and fries! Don't know why people call them junk!  I think they're awesome!!!!😁  I especially love the fries (chips) you buy in Holland.  They come in cones with a large dollop of mayonnaise and a tiny fork, just as pictured above.

I used the following materials to create this card:

Card Frame - SL35 - Studio Light

Cactus Hillside Border - Lawn Fawn

Fries Die Set - Marianne Design

Hamburger Die Set - Marianne Design

Red Cardstock - Bazzill

White Cardstock - Colorbok

Pattern Paper - DCWV

Silhouette - Greeting and Sentiment

Stampin' Up Punches for mats of Sentiment

Twine - The Paper Studio

For the birthday greeting, I made it in Silhouette and then printed it on photo paper too.  I just didn't have a Happy Birthday die that would fit on this small card front.  Lastly I threaded a piece of white and silver twine through the side of the card. When closed and ready to mail, this card measures 6" x 4" and fits perfectly into an A7 envelope.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Before I leave, I would like to invite you to come play along with us.  Remember that The Paper Shelter has fabulous prizes up for grabs. Check out the details below ...

I do hope you will come join the fun and share your projects with us.

You'll find our challenge blog HERE.

Crafty hugs,

CCAYR ~ Eight Maids a Milking

  Hello crafting friends and welcome to this month's challenge  at Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.  On our "The 12 days of Christmas" challenges, this month we have Eight Maids a Milking. 

This is August's inspiration pic.

Our challenge this month is to have Eight of something or For a Child.

I created this shaker tag for my lil grandson.

Crafty supplies used to make this tag:

Elizabeth Craft Designs - Snow Globe

Elizabeth Craft Designs - Holiday Elf - His

Marianne Design - Pine trees

Lawn Fawn - Stitched Hillside Borders

Moonstone Dies - Snow Globe

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Now it's your turn to make a Christmas project that falls within our challenge theme, and come play along with us.  You have till the end of the month to link your project to our blog at  Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round.

Crafty hugs,

Crafty Gals Corner #245 ~ Christmas in July!

Hello crafting friends and welcome back to another fun challenge

 starting today at Crafty Gals Corner! 

Challenge #245 ~ Christmas in July

 Our sponsor for this challenge is: 

Conie Fong

Prize ~ 3 Single Digis

Conie Fong is a self-taught artist residing in California, USA with her husband, daughter, pet hamster and fishes.  In her early childhood years, she was inspired by every kind of art and crafts.  She loved watching demonstrations by artists on the streets and at festivals and spent most of her free time perusing arts and crafts books in the library, drawing, crafting and experimenting with her art supplies at home.  Conie first started sharing her art with the world by selling ACEO reprints of her ACEO paintings of fairies, mermaids, and kitty art on Ebay in 2010.  She was a full time account manager for a University before becoming a full time mom and part time artist.  She currently enjoys spending time with her family traveling, exploring the outdoors, and designing beautiful, cute, and magical art for craft and coloring lovers. 

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For my card, I used the very cute, fun and festive Puurfect Kitties digi, and created a bridge card.  Take a look ...

Crafty supplies used to make this card:

Conie Fong - Purrfect Kitties, String of Lights and Meowy Christmas greeting.

Great Impression Stamps - Two Little Wishes sentiment

Lawn Fawn - Stitched Hillside Borders - for the snowbanks

Silhouette - Trees

Embossilicious - Let it Snow embossing folder 

Glassy accents on all the lights

Copic Markers for colouring the image

Wink of Stella pen to add a little sparkle here and there

 Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I would love to you see you play along with us.  You have until noon, CST, on 8 August 2023, to link your project to our challenge.

Crafty hugs,

Wine Bottle Gift Card

 Hello crafting friends and welcome back.  I have another masculine card to share with you today.  I was commission by my mom to make this birthday card combination gift card for holder her grandson-in-law 😀

I think it turned out super cute.  I used a Silhouette file of a wine bottle and turned it into a card.  To hold the gift card, I used the Gift Card Pop-up Insert die from Lawn Fawn.  It always works so well no matter the card size or shape.  I trimmed it down a little on each end, and voila ... perfect fit!

Thanks for stopping by today, friends.  I'll be back soon to share another project with you.

Hugs,

You're Fangtastic!

Hello everyone. This is my last card for 2022. Whew! It has been fun though   👻

I made this wiper card for my little granddaughter. Halloween and all the spookies are not her favourite time of the year, so I thought I would make this batty card and keep things on the cute side for her.  I think she'll enjoy the little bat that peeks out when she pulls the card open 👻

And, just like the card I made for my grandson, this one also glows in the dark.  I put the glow paste on the little stars. I used a black glaze pen for the eyes of the bats and the spiders, and crystal accents on the little pumpkin buckets.  So sorry for this awful pic, but I think you can see the effect of the stars.  I really do need some photography lessons.  I'm okay with the point and shoot, but anything more is beyond my capability!

Here is the list of supplies I used to make this card:

Made to Surprise - Z-Fold Wiper Card 5" x 7"

Lawn Fawn - Fangtastic Friends

Lawn Fawn - Fangtastic Friends Add-ons

Lawn Fawn - Glow in the Dark Paste

Kat Scrappiness - Spooky Happy Halloween

Sue Wilson Dies - Spooky Greetings

I'll be back with my last Halloween project for 2022 in the next couple of days.

Till then,

Happy Halloween

 

Fright Night Drive

Hello crafting friends.  It's mid October already and I've heard that ...

When witches go riding,

and black cats are seen,

the moon laughs and whispers

'Tis near Halloween! 

So with that in mind and the fact that I still need another couple of cards, here is one I made today!  This witch is definitely riding ... just not on her broom! 👻

I recently got these cutest dies from Spellbinders, and after following a tutorial on YouTube  for this type of card fold, by Sam Calcott, I came up with this card 👻

I had already cut all the bits and pieces, so I crafted along with Sam.  I must admit it was fun!

My personal message on this card is going to be short, sweet and to the point, since I didn't leave much room for it. But since it is going to be hand delivered, I can always add to it with a hug 👻

This card folds flat for mailing, but due to the springy mechanism on the inside, once you pull it out of the envelope it pops open.

As you see it fits perfectly on a 6" x 6" envelope.  However, it is more than 1/4" thick, so it will require additional postage.  That and the fact that here, in the US, square cards are not that common, so these larger square cards need to be hand stamped, which also means a few more cents over the standard postage fee.  It came out so cute though, that I think it's totally worth it.  I can already see many possibilities for Christmas 😀

In case you want to recreate this card or make something similar, I have listed, below, the link to Sam's tutorial, as well as the supplies I used.  

Card Fold Tutorial by Sam Calcott 

Made to Surprise - Z Fold Wiper Card die set

Made to Surprise - Circle Super Slider die set

Spellbinders - Sunday Drive

Spellbinders - Halloween Sunday Drive add-ons

Lawn Fawn - Simple Stitched Hillside Borders

Art Impressions Stamps - Fright Night

I think it's now time to continue to work on my Christmas card stash, so come back soon and visit.

I'm playing along at:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenges

The Four Seasons Challenges

Unicorn Challenges

Gem of a Challenge

Till next time,

Be Spooky!

Fairy Stamper - Tea Time

Hello friends and welcome back to my Fairy Stamper Friday share!

 

My little granddaughter was invited to a tea party to celebrate a friend's birthday.  While talking to her about it, I showed her one of the tea sets I have, and although I don't have any that look like this, it was the inspiration for this card 😀

This card was very easy to put together and it's pretty much self explanatory. If you're one of my followers you know how I enjoy mixing stamps and dies to get the look I'm after, so this card was fun to make. 

Here is the list of supplies I used to make this card, all linked to the Fairy Stamper store, for your convenience.

Fairy Hugs Papers - Lavender Dilly

Fairy Hugs Stamps - Gingko Branch, Like a Teacup

Fairy Hugs Glitter - Translucent Pearl, Translucent Orchid

Fairy Hugs Ink - Black Raven

Memento Ink - Northern Pine

Lawn Fawn Dies - Stitched Teapot, Stitched Teacup

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you will come play along with us and share your magical projects on our Facebook group.

Till next time,

crafty hugs!

Snowflake Trio Slimline Card

Hello and welcome everyone.   I've had these gorgeous Ornamental Snowflakes, from Tutti Designs, for a while, but hadn't had the chance to play with them yet.  Since I'm a little short on Christmas cards, I thought now would be the perfect time :-)

Aren't they pretty?  And just with a little paper piecing, it makes them even a little extra special.  In addition to the paper piecing, I added a few tiny gems to add a little sparkle.

On the inside, I added the strip of paper that was left from the mat in the front and another few snowflakes.  These tiny snowflakes were cut using a MS punch.  The background was cut using the slimline background die from the Slimline Pull Tab die set by Heffy Doodle.  This slimline card was really quick and easy to make and would be wonderful for mass producing.

Thanks so much for stopping by and spending a little of your day with me. 

Crafty hugs,

Fairy Stamper ~ Snow Globe Gift Tags

  Hello friends and welcome back to my Fairy Stamper Friday share!

Before I share my project with you today, I would like to remind you that we have 22  gorgeous Flower Fairies stamp sets and 5 new sentiment stamps that debuted on the Create and Craft show on Monday! These beautiful Flower Fairy stamps are available at the Fairy Stamper store.  You can purchase them individually or as a "must have it all" set at a discounted price. They are all gorgeous and I can't wait for mine to arrive.

In the meantime, I will share my next Christmas in July project.  Because there is such an awesome variety of stamps and dies at the Fairy Stamper store, in addition to all the gorgeous fairy folk, I was able to create these two tags using Christmas stamps and matching dies.

I've only made 2 of these shaker tags so far, but I'm planning on making another 8, one for each member of our family expected to be here in the US for Christmas.  Once those are done, I will share them with you.

For these I chose the cardstock I was going to use and cut out all the elements from the Snow Globe Gift Tag die set.  In order to turn this into a shaker, I cut out the snow globe 8 times.  I prefer to adhere multiple layers together  than using foam tape when making snow globes. I feel that they are a lot more sturdy and when looking at the sides, it has a cleaner finish.  Next I stamped all the tiny images, copic coloured them, and cut them out using their corresponding dies. Once I had all my bits and pieces I assembled each tag. I adhered 6 of the snow globe cutout layers to the back panel.  Next came the acetate layer and then the final front layer.  In order for the "snow" to move freely inside the snow globe, I adhered the tiny gingerbread tots and Santa to the front of the acetate.

I kept the back very simple by just stamping the "to" and "from" on it.

Here is a close up of the Santa tag. The little tree is on the inside but Santa has been adhered to the acetate on the front.

I used Twinklets Diamond Dust for my snow inside the shaker, since they are pretty small.

And here are the gingerbread tots.  The little tree is adhered to the acetate on the inside and the lil cookies are adhered to the acetate on the outside of the snow globe.  This way it was easy to cover the glue dot on the tree that I used to adhere it to the acetate.

Here you can see the Diamond Dust laying in the background.

Looking back, I think that a little red gem on the center of each embossed snowflake will look very pretty.  Will have to remember that when I make the others, and to be honest I'll probably go back and add it to this one too :-)

Here is the supplies I used.  I have linked each one to the Fairy Stamper store, for your convenience.

Lawn Fawn - Snow Globe Gift Tags

Lawn Fawn - Tiny Christmas Stamps

Lawn Fawn - Tiny Christmas Dies

Lawn Fawn - Tiny Gingerbread Stamps

Lawn Fawn - Tiny Gingerbread Dies

Lawn Fawn - Stitched Hillside Borders

Lawn Fawn - Snow Globe Scenes

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you will come play along with us. Our challenges go live on the first Thursday of each month on our Facebook group.   All you have to do is to create a project using your stamps, and upload the pic to our challenge album.  Of course we would love to see projects using Fairy Hugs stamps, but it is not a requirement to enter our challenges.  We do however request that you use a stamp, not a digi.  There is a prize drawn for one lucky crafter, at the end of every challenge. 😀

Till next time,

crafty hugs!

Dies R Us #194 ~ Kindergarten Graduation

 Hello and welcome to another challenge, starting today, at Dies R Us.

Challenge #194 ~ Dad's/Masculine

(as long as you use a die that is sold at Dies R Us)

My little grandson graduated from Kindergarten. I made this card for him to celebrate this milestone in his young life :-)

This was one of those "I got to have" stamp and die sets :-) These chimps are just too darn cute and having a 5 year old grandson ... well, I just "had to have it" 😀

I started by stamping a bunch of images, and then coloured them using copic markers.  Next I die cut them all.  I also die cut the card frame and all other bits and pieces I wanted to use to create this "jungle" scene. Once all the die cutting and colouring was done, it was just a matter of playing around to put each little chimp where I wanted it.  As a final touch, I added glassy accents to the trophy as well as to all the bananas.  I'm hoping the little guy will love it 😀

Here is the list of supplies used to made this card, each linked to the Dies R Us store, for your convenience.

Marianne Design - DL Slimline Frames (Special Order Event)

Marianne Design - Hibiscus & Tropical Leaves (Special Order Event)

Lawn Fawn - Slimline Tropical Leaves Border

Heffy Doodle - Chimply the Best Stamps (Special Order Event)

Heffy Doodle - Chimply the Best Dies (Special Order Event)

I purchased the Marianne Design dies and the Heffy Doodle stamps & dies during one of the International Dies sales events that Dies R Us have every so often.  The best way to know about these sales is to subscribe to their newsletter HERE. 

Thanks so much for stopping by and spending a little of your day with me.  I hope I was able to inspire you to create a project, and  play along with us at the Dies R Us Challenges for your chance to win a gift certificate to the Dies R Us Store.  A new challenge begins on the 1st and 15th of each month.  There is a prize to be won with every challenge, you could be the lucky winner! If you have a minute, please visit our challenge blog, where my team mates showcase their creations to provide you with some wonderful inspiration.  Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Pinterest too.  

And don't forget to visit our sister store, Didi Crafts.  It has warehouses in the US and Canada. This means that our Canadian friends no longer have to worry about huge taxes or expensive shipping fees.  It has some products that are the same as Dies R Us, but in addition, it carries international dies,  and other crafty supplies for a variety of crafts.  Go take a peek and be pleasantly surprised!

Crafty hugs,