You Are Simply Fabulous

Hi again friend!  Thank you for stopping by.  This is my second post for today, so if you happen to miss my TCM release post, click here or scroll down.

Today, I thought I would share a fun little card I made using some of my newest Papertrey Ink goodies, Flower Fusion and Wonderful Words.  I took my inspiration from Maile's fab card here, using the colors and LO.  I always love what she makes!  I was inspired by the super FUN challenge over at CAS-ual Friday, the long and short of it!  How clever, who comes up with the awesome challenge titles?!  Seriously genious.  Anyway...

Starting with a plain white panel, I stamped my sentiment in Pear Tart ink and then my flower stem in Tuxedo Black ink.  I then stamped my flower image with Rose Bud and added a black rhinestone.  I then die cut the word "you" and adhered it with a bit of Tombow Mono Multi Glue.

I adhered the white panel onto a Simply Chartreuse piece and then attached them to my 9 x 4 card base.  Lastly, adding a doodled line to the edge with a Copic Multi-liner.

Well, that is all, promise.  Thank you so much for popping by today!  Have a great rest of the weekend!

Lindsay

Supplies:
Paper: White, Simply Chartreuse Papertrey Ink
Stamps: Flower Fusion 6, Wonderful Words Additions
Ink: Pear Tart, Rose Bud, Tuxedo Black Tsukineko
Embellishment: Black Rhinestone Kaisercraft
Tools: Wonderful Words die, Copic Multi-Liner

The Craft's Meow Sneak Peak In Tandem

How are you today?  I am back with the fourth stamp set sneak peak from The Craft's Meow!  This one has me so excited, it is small but mighty I say!  It is called In Tandem and includes a sweet tandem bike along with a fun pinwheel and a few sentiments.  I picked the pinwheel image for my card today.

Starting with some fun Echo Park patterned paper, I adhered it to a yellow card base.

Next, I stamped my pinwheel multiple times on a white panel, colored them in and added a coordinating rhinestone to their center.  I adhered the panel to my card front with foam.

Lastly, I die cut and stamped a frame, added my sentiment and adhered it to my card, along with stamping the rest of it in red onto my card.

I hope you liked this preview, and can't wait for you to see the set!  There is always a chance to win it, by leaving comments on The Craft's Meow blog!  Come on back tomorrow for the blog hop, with even more chance to win these stamps!

Thank you for stopping by, have a great day!

Lindsay

Supplies:
Paper: Harvest Gold, White Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper: Splash Echo Park
Stamps: In Tandem The Craft's Meow, Label Basic Papertrey Ink
Ink: Tuxedo Black Tsukineko, Pure Poppy Papertrey Ink
Embellishment: Various Rhinestones K & Co.
Tools: Label Die Papertrey Ink, Corner Rounder We R Memory Keepers

The Craft's Meow Sneak Peak Telegram

Hi there!  Welcome to day three of The Craft's Meow August stamp set sneak peak!  Today, I am sharing a project using a fantastic 6x8 set designed by Nina Bracket called Telegram.  This set is packed with fabulous sentiments and a giant telegram image.  Please be sure to leave a comment on the TCM blog, you never know if your name will be drawn to win this set!

To start, I adhered a distressed piece of patterned paper from My Mind's Eye Gertie paper pad to a Kraft card base.

I stamped the telegram image and sentiment onto a piece of Vintage Cream card stock and distressed it well with Walnut stain ink, distress tool and mists of water.  I then adhered it down to my card.

Lastly, I die cut a flower from tissue paper, added glimmer glaze to it along with an aqua brad and adhered it, along with some twine, to my card.

I hope you enjoyed today's project!  Be sure to check out the other ladies lovely creations using this set!

Lindsay

Supplies:
Paper: Kraft, Vintage Cream Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper: Gertie 6x6 paper pad My Mind's Eye
Stamps: Telegram The Craft's Meow
Ink: Walnut Stain Ranger, Pure Poppy Papertrey Ink
Embellishment: Brad My Mind's Eye, Twine Westrim Crafts
Tools: Glimmer Glam Tattered Angels, Tattered Flower Sizzix

The Craft's Meow Sneak Peak Owl See You In Class

Hello my friend and welcome to day two of the August release of The Craft's Meow stamps!  The set featured today is a little one (4x4) and oh so cute!  Designed by Jenny Suchin, it is filled with school images that can be used in a number of fun ways.

For starters, I took some patterned paper from October Afternoon's Schoolhouse line and stamped the hopscotch image onto the ledger paper.

I cut a strip of black card stock and heat embossed the pencil image in white and added it to my patterned paper covered card front.

I die cut a label, stamped a frame using the image from another new to be released set and spelled out my sentiment using the Banner set from last release.

Lastly, I die cut stars and adhered them with foam and added a red button!

This set is perfect for the teachers in your child's life.  The images are just small enough to create tags and items for gifts and such.

I hope you enjoyed, be sure to check out what the other TCM gals did with this set and for a chance to win it, leave a comment on the TCM blog!

Lindsay

Supplies:
Paper: Vintage Cream, Harvest Gold Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper: Schoolhouse October Afternoon
Stamps: Owl See You In Class, Telegram, It's A Banner Day The Craft's Meow
Ink: Pure Poppy, Ocean Tides Papertrey Ink, Cantaloupe, Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa Tsukineko
Embellishment: Pure Poppy Button, Twine Papertrey Ink 
Tools: Mat Stack 5 Die, Star Dies Papertrey Ink

Craft Room

Hi there!  In an effort to document more of my everyday, I thought I would post some pictures of our latest project...my new crafty space room!!  I never shared before but, here is a look at where I craft right now.  I never wanted to share because it is such a hodge podge of a space...

I live in a 1930's Bungalow with a very large upstairs room (32x14) and had no other place to put my space!  My wonderful husband rigged up two counter-top scraps and a wire rack and that is where I have been creating.  Enter the front bedroom.  We just couldn't stand it as a bedroom any longer and decided to move our bedroom back upstairs where it use to be before Jonathan was born.  So the craft space gets moved to, you guessed it, downstairs front room.

Here is my hubs painting and Jonathan "helping."

Here it is all painted with a few pieces of furniture in it.  We will be moving more of the pieces from upstairs to this room, but I thought I would share what it looks like as of now.  I do hope to share photos of it when it is all done.  I still have a lot of storage and furniture pieces to find.  We were thrilled to find the wood floors underneath in very good shape!

So, yeah, that is my craft room and I couldn't be more thrilled!  I seriously need a room that I can go to and call my own.  This fits, so happy!

Thank you again for stopping by, and do come back tomorrow...TCM release ya know!

Lindsay

The Craft's Meow Sneak Peak Owl Be Thinking of You

Howdy friend!  I am so excited that sneak peaks have started for The Craft's Meow's August stamp release!  Jenny Suchin is the genious behind this cutie little set called Owl Be Thinking of You (available August 1st), and if you have been to her blog you have seen that owl before!  I challenged myself to stamp a bit on patterned paper and here is what I came up with.

Starting with a pink patterned paper panel, I stamped the tree image twice on two separate papers, cut out the heart and added it to the tree.  I then stamped my sentiment onto woodgrain pp and cut them out and added those to my tree as well.

Tied some twine in a bow and added a fabulous Prima flower!

I hope you enjoyed today's little preview and check out the other ladies lovely work using this set.  You won't be disappointed!  Also, commenting to win the release sets will need to be placed at The Craft's Meow blog to be eligible to win.  I do appreciate your comments though!


Thank you for popping in, catch you tomorrow for another set that will surely please!

P.S. If you haven't voted for Gallery Idol yet, please click on the widget over in my side bar or go here.  Voting ends today at noon (mountain time) Thank You!

Lindsay

Supplies:
Paper: White Papertrey Ink
Patterned Paper: BoBunny, Crate Paper
Stamps: Owl Be Thinking of You The Crafts Meow
Ink: Rich Cocoa, True Black Tsukineko
Embellishments: Prima Flower, Twine Westrim Crafts

I Love You

Hello hello!  Thank you for popping by today!  I was planning on taking a little blog break until tomorrow (when TCM sneak peaks begin) but I just can't stay away.  So what brings me here you ask?  Well, not only to BEG you to vote for me in this third round of Gallery Idol, link to my card HERE, but also to bring you this little cutie of a card.  The colors were inspired by the latest ColourQ challenge and well, I just had to play along.

For my card, I started with a Hawaiian Shores panel, ran it through my Big Shot with the Linen & Canvas IP and secured it to a white card base.

I stamped a little heart from Vegtastic repeatedly and then colored it in with an R32 Copic marker, matted it to a brown piece of card stock and secured it to my card front.

Next, I stamped the cat image from Chubby Chums and colored it, cut it out and adhered it to my card.

Lastly, I stamped the big bubbly I love you from Word Up onto Aqua Mist card stock, cut it out and popped it up with foam, only after I stamped the You're Purrr-fect sentiment below.

Here is a look at the inspirational pic:

Well, that is all for me today!  I hope you liked my silly little card!  Stop by tomorrow for the start of the August release of The Craft's Meow!

Lindsay

Supplies:
Paper: Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, White, Dark Chocolate Papertrey Ink
Stamps: Vegtastic, Chubby Chums, Word Up Paper Smooches
Ink: Tuxedo Black Tsukineko, Copic Marker

Pocket Full

Well hello my friend!  Thank you for stopping by today!  I am so excited to share my little project with you because it is my entry for Round 3 of Gallery Idol.  It is hard to believe that a winner will be announced in a few weeks!  It has certainly been on amazing ride and I am so thankful to have made it this far.  With your help, I might be able to go further (crossing fingers)!

For this next challenge the ten of us were to incorporate Fabric in our design.  I decided to use that little jean pocket within the bigger pocket for my fabric piece, which I did not know was put there in the 1800's by the Levi company for cowboys to keep their pocket watches safe.  Cool!  Here is what I did with it.

I started by cutting four equal pieces of patterned paper and adhering them to a brown panel, securing it to a white card base.

Using the small extra pocket in a pair of men's jeans (2 bucks at a thrift store), I tide around jute twine and secured a darling heart botton.  I then adhered my pocket to my patterned paper panel with Scor-Tape.  I then customized my sentiment using a fun handwritten font I found at Dafont.com, trimmed it and adhered it with foam.

Lastly, I die cut and punched out two sizes of vellum stars, ran them through my Big Shot using the Swiss Dot Embossing Folder, rubbed white ink on the edges and secured them to my card after running them through the Xyron.

I do hope you liked my project and if you feel so inclined, you may vote now through Thursday noon mountain time.  Thank you so much for all of your support!  I appreciate you so much!

Lindsay

P.S.
Here is a direct link to my card or you may click the box on the side bar of my blog.

Supplies:
Paper: White Bazzil, Dark Chocolate Papertrey Ink, Vellum TPC
Patterned Paper: Vicki B. BoBunny, Splash Echo Park, Soup Staples Jillibean Soup
Embellishments: Heart button, Jean pocket, Twine Westrim Crafts
Tools: Star Dies Papertrey Ink, Little Star Punch Marvy, Swiss Dot Embossing Folder Provo Craft, Sticker Maker Xyron
Other: Jenna Sue Font Dafont.com 

Mod Best Wishes

Howdy!  I am popping in to share my creation for Papertrey Ink's monthly blog hop!  The challenge this month was a fabulous inspirational picture full of gorgeous colors!  I pulled those colors out for my card today and added butterflies as seen in the pic.  Here is what I came up with!

Starting with a cream card base, I stamped my labels in the various colors found in the picture.

I added some small and large butterflies using Butterfly Dreams along with a die cut popped up.

Lastly, I stamped a sentiment from Giga Guidelines and rounded my corners

Here is a look at the inspirational pic:

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I do hope you will come back in a few hours when I reveal my third round Gallery Idol card!!

Lindsay

Supplies: All PTI unless stated
Paper: Vintage Cream
Stamps: Label Basics, Giga Guidelines, Butterfly Dreams
Ink: Latte Chalk Hero Arts, Ocean Tides, Potter's Clay, Tuxedo Black, New Sprout Tsukineko
Embellishment: Clear Rhinestone Hero Arts
Tools: Corner Rounder We R Memory Keepers, Butterfly Die 

Butterfly Celebrate

Hey there!  I am just popping in to share a little card I made using The Play Date Cafe's latest challenge: Color Splash and announce my giveaway winner!  I have never joined in on the fun over at TPDC and figured this challenge would be the perfect opportunity to get a little inky.

To start, I took a white card stock panel and ran it through my Big Shot using the Herringbone Embossing Folder.  I adhered that to a 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 white card base.

Next, I die cut a square of black card stock and adhered it to my card.  I then stamped my butterflies onto a vellum square and colored them from behind using an orange and gold copic marker, stamped my sentiment and then matted it onto white card stock.  Lastly, I adhered a few rhinestones.

I hope you had a relaxing weekend!  Be sure to stop back tomorrow for my latest entry for Gallery Idol!  It's getting down to the wire friends!  I need your help to make it to the top 5!  Voting starts at 12 noon mountain time on the Paper Crafts website.  Thank you so much for your support, I couldn't have gotten this far without you...which brings me to my next order of business, my giveaway!  I am all for Random.org and all but, I thought I would do it the good ol' fashion way.  :0)

Wrote all the numbers on a piece of paper and cut them out.

I had my trusty three year old assistant draw out a number from the bowl which was:

Amy said...
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You are so humble Lindsay! I love love your work and this citrus card is spot on with these colors!

July 20, 2011 2:09 PM 

YEAH Amy!!  Please send me your addy (email is over on the sidebar) and I will ship your package to you asap!  Thank you to everyone of you who left comments, you all made me smile and I appreciate you so very much!  You make blogging so worth while.  Have a great rest of your weekend friends!   

Lindsay

Supplies: White Bazzill, Black, Vellum TPC/Antique Engravings, All Occasion Messages Hero Arts/Tuxedo Black Tsukineko/Clear Rhinestones Hero Arts/Sm Square Dies Spellbinders