Gina K Mix and Match Hop

The Gina K Designs illustrators are hopping today to share some fun ways to combine the new release stamp sets. Hope you will join us as we Mix and Match!

For my first project, I used Stamp It Big (for the lines across the front of the top of the camera, small blue flower), Spoon Me! (Sentiment and small Polaroids, hearts); and Simple Hearts (messages on Polaroids and ring on the camera lens) to create this little camera treat holder:

I used the clear pillow box (SRM Stickers) to make the camera part.  I filled the camera with Hershey's kisses and the little stamped Polaroids to add some fun notes inside.

Next, I have a card that pairs Stamp it Big (large sentiment, small hearts), and Stately Flowers 6 (Valentine sentiment) and Skater Diva:

I wanted to show the Skater Diva in a different way so I stamped her behind the punched heart and it looks like she is just ready to give a hug to her friend!  The Red Hot Gingham ribbon is from the Gina K Designs Color Companion Collection.

 Here is a simple greeting pairing Stamp it Big  and Stately Flowers 6:

I stamped the group of flowers from Stately Flowers 6 and cut out the one flower on the edge.  I did this again and cut out the flower and two of the leaves so I could stack them up and add some dimension.  I embossed the large "Thanks" sentiment from Stamp it Big to finish off the simple design.

And....this one pairs Stamp it Big with Birds and Blossoms:

Just a fun, bold birthday greeting.  I cut out the bird using the cut file and then stamped the bird in black to have a bold image to break up all the color.  I used Ocean Mist Gina K Ink to stamp the sentiment (love this color!) and tied a little bow using the Ocean Mist Organza from the new color companions collection.

Finally, I have a card that pairs up Lovely Ladybug with Lots of Letters!  (ok...so Lots of Letters was from a prior release but I thought of this card idea and HAD to do it!):

Get it?  I was such a PAC-MAN nut when I was young. When I saw this particular ladybug design, I immediately thought of it and had to make this:

 I used Lots of Letters to spell out the sentiment.

 Well, that's it for me.  Now head on over to the rest of the illustrator team to see what they chose to MIX and MATCH:

Becky

Beth

Carolyn

Debbie

Melanie

Tami

Theresa

Thanks for stopping by!

SRM Project Recap

Happy Friday! Hopefully you had a good week! Mine was wonderful because all three kids had a great first week at school! Whew!

I thought I would share some projects that are on the SRM Stickers blog this week!  

This Valentine treat holder/card was on the SRM blog on Wednesday.  You can check out the details HERE.

And, this festive Halloween frame is up on the SRM blog today.  You can check it out HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful (holiday) weekend!

The Twinery and Bella Blvd Project Showcase and Giveaway!

Hello! Welcome to the final day of the The Twinery & Bella Blvd Project Showcase that has been taking place all week at The Twinery blog and the Bella Blvd Blog.  Each day designers from each team have been showing their projects created with both products and the results are amazing. 

Be sure to check over at the two company blogs to see all the designers' projects from each day!

Here is my project:

I created a little gift using a flower pot, some dowels and some chipboard to create a notepad:

 

I wrapped each dowel in baker's twine - Blossom and Shore-- and then attached the Bella Blvd chipboard elements (Sophisticates- Stars & Hearts) to the top. I added some more twine embellishing to the tops using Pink Sorbet and Shore.  I finished the heart dowel with the little Bella sweet Heart flag (Flag-Girl) :)

Here is the finished gift:

 

And here is a close up of the notepad.  I think this is a gift anyone can use.  I always keep a notepad in my purse to jot things down and I keep one by the computer for passwords, etc.  I designed this notepad for that purpose so I added the word "Remember" to the front of it.  The Bella Blvd paper is from Plastino-Bermudas and the label and stickers are from Plastino-Label Additions.  I added a little Bella Blvd button (Aqua flower) in the center, threaded with some Pink Sorbet baker's twine.  I used the Pink Sorbet to wrap around the clip as well:

 

Next, I just wanted to share this project that was on the SRM blog this week because it uses both Bella Blvd and The Twinery products.   I created a little photo cube using Bella Blvd. chipboard (Sophisticates- Stars & Hearts) and patterned paper (Plastino):

 

I used some Honeydew baker's twine to cover up the place where I cut the chipboard flower in order to attach the picture of my daughter.  I really don't think I make any projects anymore without at least a touch of twine. Sigh!

Giveaway:  And since everyone loves a giveaway----The Twinery is giving away 3 different 'Original Sampler' packs to 3 winners: 

Comments must be left on each of The Twinery's designer's blogs on all 5 days ( a total of 3 blogs per day ).

A complete list of participating blogs will be on The Twinery blog each day.

Deadline to visit and leave comments to win is 11:59 EDT, Sun May 20th
Winners will be announced on Tuesday, May 22nd on The Twinery blog

Be sure to stop by the Bella Blvd blog as well to check out their giveaway.

Thanks for stopping by!

The Twinery & SRM Stickers - Perfect together!

Hello! For two days,  The Twinery and SRM Stickers are teaming up to show you what you can do with their products.  You can check out the SRM stickers projects on the SRM blog and the list of designers for The Twinery hop are on The Twinery Blog.  

 

Of course, there are PRIZES up for grabs just for visiting the blogs on the hop:

The prize will be 3 full spools of winner's choice ($42 value)

To be eligible to win, you MUST leave a comment on each participating designer from The Twinery (16 total, 8 on Thursday and 8 on Friday)

A complete list of designers will be on The Twinery blog each day.

Deadline to leave comments is 11:59pm Sunday, April 29th

And be sure to stop by the SRM blog to be entered into their awesome giveaway, too!

Here are my projects:

 For my first project, I altered a wooden ornament I found at Jo Ann's.  I painted the ornament and added some patterned paper over the body.  I cut out a chipboard heart and added some Caribbean twine and a SRM sticker (Love) in the middle.  I added an SRM sticker border along the bottom of the ornament and then added a row of adhesive pearls.  To create her hair, I braided a section of Lemondrop baker's twine.

Supplies: wooden angel (Jo Ann's); acrylic paint- butter creme, blue, pink; stickers- Love, Thinking of You (SRM stickers); adhesive pearls and rhinestones- Recollections (Michael's); baker's twine- Caribbean, Pink Sorbet, Lemondrop (The Twinery); Patterned paper- Be Mine: Love Letters (Echo Park Paper).

My next project is a fun tube.  I wanted it to look like a rainbow coming from a cloud:

 

I used a SRM tube and filled it with m&ms in many different colors.  Then I added some baker's twine between each color--Denim, Mandarin, Lilac, Peapod, Lemondrop.  For the cloud, I separated the Shore twine piece and stitched through some the edges of the cloud.  I added a SRM sticker in the cloud.

  

Supplies: The Tube (SRM Stickers); sticker sentiment-Life is Good (SRM stickers); baker's twine-Denim, Lilac, Peapod, Shore, Lemondrop, Mandarin (The Twinery); cloud- Silhouette file (by Lori Whitlock); bird- element sticker- Hello Summer! (Echo Park Paper); m&ms.

Hope you enjoyed the project.  Don't forget to leave a comment on all the blogs along the hop to be entered into the giveaway!

Thanks for stopping by!

Makin a List

Hello! Hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend!  We are still recovering from all the family fun!

Today I have a little notepad to share.  I created this using half of a Jr. legal pad and the adorable heart owl by Lori Whitlock that I cut using my Silhouette (you can find it in the Silhouette store):

 Here is a close up of the owl.  (He's my favorite!) 

 

I used some  Peapod and Blossom baker's twine (The Twinery) to add some fun texture to it.  

I made this for a friend's birthday.  I love little notepads like this because I am a list maker. You can put magnets on the back of it and use it as a grocery list or put it by your bed or on your desk to jot down important things you don't want to forget. So I think they make pretty practical gifts.

Speaking of lists---->  I am blogging today over at SRM Stickers and the Cardmaker Blog.

Click on the links if you want to take a peek! Thanks!!

Hope you have a great day! Off to tackle 37 loads of dirty laundry. Jealous?

Thanks for stopping by!

Lori Whitlock Valentine Blog Hop

If you are here from CARDMAKER blog, see post below!

Hello! Welcome to the Lori Whitlock Valentine Blog Hop!  All of the designers are working with some of Lori's newest Valentine's releases to get you inspired to create your own!

I chose the Heart Shaped Box for my project:

 This box is so easy to make.  I used Echo Park's Yours Truly paper for it and only needed minimal embellishments, because it honestly looks fabulous on its own.  And this box is pretty big---It has a bag of Hershey's miniatures in it and there is still plenty of room in it... (ok, that could be because I had to sample a few!)

 

 To see more projects using Lori's files, head on over to these fabulous blogs:

Lori

Carolyn

Joy

 Natalie

Corri

Krissy

And. to help celebrate....Lori is having a sale in her online store---

 

 

Thanks for stopping by! 

PS: Yes, I have some CHA pictures to share.  I got home late last night so it will not be happening today. Hopefully I will have a post to share on the weekend :)

LOVE

Hello! Today I have another Lori Whitlock design team project for you! Since Valentine's Day is a month away, I figured I would make a wall hanging that I could put in my home since I am still kind of sad about all the Christmas decorations coming down :(

I painted a thin piece of wood with black paint and got to work creating this:I used several of Lori's silhouette files to help in my design:

Love Banner

9 Hearts

Bird on Branch (in Silhouette Store)

I used the banner to spell out the word and then used the fun hearts to suspend down from the banner using jump rings. The hearts just dangle :)

You can check out more of Lori's designs on her website HERE.

Supply list:

Wood

Black acrylic paint

Patterned paper- For the Record (Echo Park Paper)

fibers- Baker's Twine- (The Twinery)

heart pin (Maya Road)

jump rings

Mini clothespins (Hero Arts)

ribbon- gingham (Stampin' Up!); unknown

Digital cut files for Silhouette-- Love banner, 9 hearts, bird on branch (Lori Whitlock)

Thanks for stopping by!

{Be Mine} Birdhouse

Hello! Happy Wednesday! I am officially freezing now. The temperatures here have suddenly taken a turn towards deep winter and I cannot seem to keep my hands warm! (But the kids are loving it!)

I was at home the other day and decided to play around with Echo Park's Valentine release called "Yours Truly." I truly love this collection. Since I was kind of looking to alter something---I want looking in my stash and found a wooden birdhouse I picked up a few years ago.

I took the little dowel out of it and decided to make it a cute Valentine decoration--to bring me out of the winter doldrums :)

Here is what I ended up with:




I painted the birdhouse with white acrylic paint and then after that dried, I covered the sides of the house and the roof with Helmar Premium Craft Glue and added the patterned paper. (I sponged the edges of all the patterned paper with Ranger Antique linen distress ink before gluing!)

I wanted to suspend the little clear heart from the top shingle over the love birds so I used my paper piercing tool (yep, I got a new one as my other one broke when i jammed into a locked bathroom door :) to make a hole up under the shingle. Then, I inserted a finding into it and the heart charm hooked onto the end.

I used some Maya Road felt birds to add the the Echo Park Yours Truly heart sticker. I also added some tiny rhinestones all along the outside part of the heart to dress it up a bit.
The bottom of the house is lined with some Twinery baker's twine. I used some Helmar 450 Quick Dry glue to adhere the buttons along the front of the house and to attach the lace to the roof. After adding the lace, I put a small row of pearls on the top edge of the lace.
The final touch was the little {Be Mine} tag courtesy of a SRM sticker.
Feminine and simple. Definitely helped to lift my mood a bit.

Supply list:
Wooden house (Hobby Lobby or craft store)
White Acrylic paint
Helmar Acid Free Glue, Helmar 450 Quick Dry
sponge
Ink-Antique linen distress (Ranger)
Baker's twine- (The Twinery)
Patterned paper and stickers- Yours Truly collection (Echo Park Paper)
Sticker- {Be Mine} (SRM stickers)
MicroFelt birds - (Maya Road)
Rhinestones/pearls - Recollections, Michael's
Buttons- (Papertrey Ink)
Heart jewel
Paper piercing tool
Pink glitter- Doodlebug
Lace ribbon - Michael's

Thanks for stopping by!

Angel Tree Topper

Holy Wow...only a few days left until Christmas is here! If you are like me---->you still have lots left to do.
Confession: I actually leave most of the wrapping and final touches for this week on purpose. I love to put on Christmas music and wrap and watch holiday movies. Really gets me in the holiday spirit.

Speaking of holidays.....I LOVE angels. I collect them in all shapes and sizes. I was looking at my tree and was thinking that it just might be time for a new tree topper. So, I used some supplies I already had in the house and made this: A little tree topper angel (or angel decoration) made of a paper machie cone (that I bought awhile ago intending to create a tree with it!) and a Styrofoam ball (painted with Ivory acrylic paint) for the head. The head is attached to the body with a thin dowel and some Helmar Acid Free Glue.

I used some fun thick felt snowflakes I found at the dollar store to design the wings, layering them to achieve more dimension. I added pearls and rhinestones all over her wings and body so she really sparkles.

The halo was created using a stick pin and clear shrink plastic. I punched a circle from the plastic (because it is almost invisible and thick enough to support pearls). I added some beads on after the clear circle and then stuck it into the top of the angel (ouch!)
I added some pearls all around the halo.

The patterned paper on this angel is from Echo Park Paper.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lori Whitlock Christmas Blog Hop and *Blog Candy* and FREE gift!!

Hi there! Welcome to the Lori Whitlock Design Team Christmas Blog Hop. There are seven stops along the way and if you leave a comment at every stop, you will be entered to win a $25 gift card to Lori's store (that's A LOT of shapes!) (Check out the bottom of the post to check out your free gift and some more blog candy you can win just by leaving a comment :)


In addition, Lori is having a 25% off sale in her online shop this weekend (now through Sunday)! Woohoo!
Here is the blog hop order (just in case you get lost along the way!)

Lori Whitlock

Carolyn King

Natalie Graham

Corri Garza

Joy Dickson

Krissy Clark

Tamara Tripodi

I know you will be inspired by these ladies---and I will too. Cannot wait to see their projects!!

Now onto my project for the hop! Somehow I got the hairbrained idea that it would be neat to create a bunch of tags and then create a tree for them to hang from.

I bought a few thin pieces of wood from my local craft store and handed them to my husband so he could cut the corners for the tree shape. (<<<----that was the hairbrained part.)

Heaven knows why I couldn't just hang them on a tree but I like the end result.

I used Helmar Premium Craft Glue to glue the wood together and then after the shape was dry, I covered the front with glue and cut strips of Echo Park Season's Greetings (the insert page) to cover up the wood. I used some Twinery baker's twine to string across and adhere to the back of the tree so the tags could be clipped it it.

The tags were all cut using my Silhouette from this file of Lori's: tag shape and all of the shapes on the tags are from Lori's digital files and/ or from the Season's Greetings collection she designed for Echo Park Paper.
I used these files for the shapes on the tags: Christmas Set #2 . Love them! There are so many shapes in this collection--I could have made more tags :)
I added some chipboard elements/element stickers from the collection in a few spots too.

Here is the finished tree:


Now I either have a fun holiday display or I have a bunch of Christmas tags ready to use. I can just unclip the tag and add it to a gift. Then, I have the tree that I can put away for next year and make a whole new batch of tags.

Here are close up pictures of all the tags because you cannot see them real well in the group shot:


















Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget to comment all along the way to be entered to win the $25 gift card from Lori!

BONUS: Lori created these fabulous tags for the design team to give away along the hop. At Each blog you visit you can collect a FREE SVG/DXF for a tag! You can collect them now till Sunday! Then, they go back into the online store. Download the second tag HERE.


Cool, ugh?

.....And here is another EXTRA bonus from me----I will select another person who comments on this post to receive the Season's Greetings 6 by 6 paper pad designed by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park. This paper pad is perfect for cardmaking or for making some beautiful gift tags for all your holiday gifts! Leave a comment by Sunday (11/20) at 8 p.m. EST time to be entered. I will announce the winner on my blog on Monday! Good luck!

Have a GREAT weekend! Have fun hopping!