Creative Blog Hop Take 2

I was nominated by my good friend Diana Eichfeld over at Stampin' Fun with Diana.  Go visit her blog and see what she created for her project!

I have been wanting to create a new wreath for my front door for Valentines Day, so I broke out my big shot spiral flower die and some felt and went to town.  I love how fast and easy these flowers are to create.  It was the perfect little touch to place next to my pom pom style flowers. I started with wrapping my wreath with fluffy off white yarn.  This took the most time but with the tv on and a good cup of coffee by my side, I was set to wrap!

  These are two of the cute little rose flowers I created with the big shot flower die.  After all my flowers were made, I placed them on top my wreath to get the exact location for all of them and then started hot gluing in place.



I spray painted my wooden word "love" in black and hot glued it to the right side of my wreath.

Aren't the cute little pom pom flowers so cute?!

After all the flowers were glued in place, I went back and added in a little chevron ribbon and some wrapped clusters of black 1/8" ribbon to accent the flowers.

 

In addition to posting a card or project, the hop creators asked each participant to answer the questions below.

1. What are you working on?  I am currently working on some upcoming design team projects, shhhhh

2. How does your work differ from others in your genre?  I tend to use layers vs. a single card layer.

3. Why do you create what you do?  I create what I do for the simple reason of "it keeps me sane"!!!  I do day care in my home with up to 5 kids at times, and by the end of the day, I am in need of some relaxing stamping time!

4. How does your creativity process work? I always start with either a sketch challenge or a color challenge and work from there.  Second step would be selecting the stamp set.

Supplies Used

Originals Flower Spiral Bigz Die

$17.95

 



I hope you have enjoyed my creative blog hop project.  I hope I have inspired you to go be creative!

A Flowered Picnic with FM155

Well its hump day and you know what that means?!  Only two more days til the weekend and boy am I ready for it.  Not that its been a long week, but I have good news and bad news.  I know, the bad news first.  I have been having some issues with my steering with my Traverse.  Yep, you guessed it.  My power steering pump is gone, dead, not working, adios!!  And as you may know it, its not the parts that's gonna cost me my arm and leg, toes, fingers, hair, etc...  yep, its the labor.  That good old expensive mechanic labor we all love to pay out the wazoo for!  YUCK!  Double YUCK!  So what's the good news? Well the good news, is that I have been feeling very upset, angry and just disappointed after getting this news this morning, that I wanted to make a card in hopes that it would cheer me up (a little) not $800 happier but a littler happier!!

 

I decided to play along with the fun challenge over at The Friday Mashup.  What a fun challenge in deed.  A lot of different colors with a combo of creating a shaped card.  So I went to town and here is what I came up with.  Even though it poured down rain all day here yesterday, the sun is out today and shining bright.  So it made me think of the pretty green grass and flowers we will be getting after all this rain. 

 

I created a picnic basket from soft suede, embossed it with my lattice folder, added a piece of DSP to represent a basket cloth liner and added some pretty flowers down the side.  Now this cheers me up and makes me happy!!

 

I made the basket so that it still opens up so you can write your greeting inside and also so that the handles swivel and fold down just like a real basket.

 

I used the spiral flower die to create my flowers in pool party, wisteria wonder and calypso coral.  To get my wild wasabi color in, I used the leaf framelit from the secret garden set.  I also added a lacey ribbon mixed with daffodil delight seam binding ribbon for the bow.

 

I sure do hope you have enjoyed my shaped basket card for my take on the challenge over at The Friday Mashup, and anyone wanting to contribute to my power steering pump fund is more than welcome too!!!  JUST PICKING!!

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ soft suede, pool party, wisteria wonder, calypso coral, whisper white

Ink ~ soft suede

DSP ~ gingham garden

Stamp set ~ Oh, Hello

Misc. ~ spiral flower die, lace ribbon, daffodil delight seam binding ribbon, neutral candy dots, chalk talk framelit, secret garden framelit set, lattice folder

Burlap Frame w/ Flowers and Tutorial

Good morning!  I have been a busy little bee this past week with working on my special project for my individual post over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration!  Click the link and head on over to see what I did with this little wooden photo frame.....

A Flower for Easter!

 

 Good morning and thanks for stopping by!  Today over at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration, we are busy creating flowers.  As you may have seen on our blog last week, my good friend Breelin with Craft- Somnia Momma, created a cute little Easter Basket.  We had a friendly little challenge to both create this basket to see what we could come up with.  Well today I am sharing my spin on it.  Like Bree stated, we can't take credit for this cute little gem, but it was so fun to CASE and recreate for ourselves!  You can find the video tutorial HERE with Caroline.

 

So the basket and card is made using the envelope punch board.  Both items are for my upcoming April class project.  I love being able to show my customers all the different things they can make with the punch board other than envelopes.  The tag is what I used to attach my flower too.  The flower, oh yes, that wonderful little flower!  Its created using the new Spiral Flower Die.  It is the best thing since sliced bread!!!  And I love bread!!  It was so quick and easy to make that I created another to place on the belly band of my card wrap.

To make the card, here is what I did:

1.  cut a piece of cardstock to measure 8" x 8"

2.  with your envelope board, line one side up at the 3-1/2". Punch and score as you would if you were making an envelope.  Don't forget that after you punch/score at the 3-1/2" mark the first time, no need to use that measurement anymore.  Just use the score line tool on the board to line up with the first scored line and work your way around.

3.  the card will measure  4-1/2" x 5-3/4" card when done.  The layer inside is a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" piece of whisper white. 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my version of this cute little basket and how I used my flower to decorate it.  Don't forget to leave some "love" before heading over to see the other projects from our design team members at Stylin' Stampin' INKspiration!

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock ~ crushed curry, coastal cabana, whisper white, smoky slate

Ink ~ coastal cabana, crushed curry

Misc. ~ large rhinestones, crushed curry chevron ribbon

 

Happy Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$16.95

Spiral Flower Originals Die

$17.95

Envelope Punch Board

$19.95

Chalk Talk Framelits Dies

$24.95

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