I has been a while but I have swapped my "craft of the moment". A girlfriend of mine introduced me to Knifty Knitters. I have always wanted to knit but alas, as many times I have tried to learn I cannot get the hang of it. Well, I never thought to try loom knitting which is all Knifty knitters are. So I got hooked, no pun intended. My kids are fascinated, the youngest two cannot wait for which hat I will make them next and the oldest has caught on and has even made herself a scarf (at 8 and she has ADHD this is an amazing accomplishment). Check out the products of my new addiction.

This is a scarf I made using 2 strands of very fine variegated yarn. I can never start simple and this scarf is made with a honeycomb stitch I saw on youtube.

As I said my eldest made herself a scarf and this is it.  She did a great job. I just did the start and finished it off but she did the rest. 

Now I am off to do more.

Today I finished up a baby gift for one of my co-workers. It's a girl and she (my co-worker) decided on pink zebra for her baby's room. I had not originally planned on making her gift, just the card, but when I saw this quilt kit I couldn't pass it up.

Beautiful pink and brown fleece patterns including zebra, pink satin and super soft brown plush fabrics just perfect for a baby girl.

I also made her card. My standard 6x6 with a white base. A medium pink embossed with Cuttlebug swiss dots. I lighter pink shimmer paper with 2 embossed lines along the edges. The baby is a digi stamp from Digi Doodle Shop (check them out), printed on X-Press It paper and colored with copics. The leaves are a Sizix die and the roses are made from Spellbinders Rose Creations and Retro flower punches. I have yet to figure out how to make fitting buds so these were bought along with the white mini flowers. The stick pins were hand made alone with the pearl sprays. I got to play around with a new product for me, Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze in Plumeria. I glazed the dark pink flower along with painting the rattle on the tag. So far I am really liking Glimmer Glazes. I also tried it out on some stamps both digi printed out with my ink jet printer and regular stamped with Memento inks. So far no ink bleeding. They don't seem to be water-based like the sprays and have a little odor that I am having a hard time placing at the moment. Enough for now. Later!

Beach Wedding

My BIL got married on the beach last week and I made this card for him and his new bride.

I used Magnolia's Loving Bridal Couple and a beach background colored in copics. I thought the cream color scheme was more "beachy" even though this is her first marriage (his second). I had some shimmery paper on hand in green, pink and yellow and used them to make the flowers and leaves. I used some mini shells, starfish and sand dollars to accent the card. The sentiment is from Fiskars. I also made an envelope box to match.

It's been a very busy month for me, the drywall is up in my addition and most of my free time is spent working on that. Spackle, sand, spackle, sand, paint, touch-up, clean up little hand prints when the little ones get into something. I don't have alot of time to finish cards but I'm gonna post the ones I haven't already.

This was the Father's Day card I made for my dad. The image is from Mo's Digital Pencil Shop. Every one thought this image looks like my younger daughter. I colored it just like her with her mix of girl and boy's clothes (she swipes the boy's clothes from her cousin's hand-me-downs set aside for her brother).

This one is the Father's Day card I made for the kids to give to my hubby. The image is Lili of the Valley.

This was one I made for no particular reason. Yellow was never really a favorite color to use so I was extending my color pallet. The large rose is hand made using my Rose Creations die set.

This is the last. Not much special about it, just playing around really.

Hope you enjoy some of my work.

I made this card really just by playing around. I had no real plan, just the background paper which is called Smitten 12x12 Pretties that I bought at Michaels.  I colored Tilda to match using E37.E33, E31 for her hair and R22,R21, R20 and R00 plus E29,E27,E25 for her clothes. I cut the the corner and border from Spellbinders Floral Doily Accents out of Brown cardstock, embossed them and used Perfect Pearls over the embossed parts. The larger flowers were made from Spellbinders Rose Creations and the smaller were out of a small retro flower punch. The leaf spray is a Sizzix die and MS Pine branch are added touches behind the flowers. I regret to say I have not figured out how to make my own rose buds so those are purchased. Swavorski crystals accent the photo corner and the lower right.

I have a new card to share today. I made this as an End-of-the-Year Thank You for my daughter's teacher. I also made an envelope box to match. It is a center step card using Split Coast Stamper's tutorial of the week.

I used Magnolia's Mermaid colored with Copics and embellished with Stickles. The shell wave behind her is a Jolee's sticker. I use some generic  skittles as bubbles on the center panel and the side panels are embossed and sanded using Sizzix summer embossing set. The "Ocean Floor" is tan card stock with super sticky tape over top and real sand pressed on. I made the pearl stick pins and the beaded sprays. The flowers and "sea weed" are both organza ribbon that I melted with my heat gun.

I made the box using the tutorial from Pop'sPlace Blog, If you have a chance, check out her blog, she is incredibly talented.  I stamped the lid before gluing the corners with some shell stamps and put some white tulle around the card. 

I've been feeling Patriotic lately and started some red,white and blue cards. This one was sweet and simple. I had picked up the paper a long time ago but the red had a metallic sheen and the white I used for the stars was glitter. The rest was plain old cardstock. I cut the stars out with my Cricut and the lacy border was a MS punch. You can't really tell but I used stickles on Tilda's shoes and flowers.

This one I am really proud of. Again I used my Cricut for the stars out of the white glitter paper as well as the white circle. The red circle is a holographic paper from Targets $1 scrapbook supplies. I made all the flowers except for the tiny buds.

Here's a better look of Tilda and the Flowers. I used one of my favorite hair combos, Copic E97, E99 and Y21. I really love the golden blond. The red and blue flowers were made from small and medium retro flower punches and the white flower was Spellbinders Rose Creations. All flowers were spritzed with glimmer mists and the centers of the blue flowers was Distressed Stickles in Walnut Stain. 

Hope you enjoy! 

I'm so excited. I just got the Spellbinders Rose Creations dies. I've been making my own paper roses using Retro Flower punches but my size was limited to1/2 and 3/4 inch and I have been dying to buy this set.

There was one problem, NO DIRECTIONS ON PUTTING THE FLOWERS TOGETHER!! YouTube to the rescue. There were two really great videos on making 3D flowers using this set. First by Donna Salazar herself (here). She had two ways on making the flowers. I tried both. First, her Easy Peazy.

Then the more complicated one.

Both were really quite easy though the second definitely took more time with glue.
The other video was by Carolynne1982. This one was a little like the second Donna Salazar one.

I need to glue the center of mine a little more but I am very happy with the results of all three flowers. No more buying bigger flowers for me with these new dies.  Definitely check out the videos.

Wow, it has been a while. Time has gotten away from me. This is the card I made for my grandmother for her birthday.  I got the original stair step card desigin from Expressions with Heart. I fell in love with her Native American Tilda stair step card. Anyway, I took Make a Wish Tilda, colored with my Copics, used Stickles for her "Fairy Dust" and have her sitting on a Jolie's border I had picked up on clearance a while ago. The papers were just from Target's dollar bins. I cut out  a "Make a Wish" from one of my Cuttlebug dies and used Stickles on that too. I made the envelope box from the Split Coast Stampers tutorial here.  Hope you enjoy.

Febuary is a Birthday month in my house, my sister and my grandmother, so I decided to make a couple cards.

This one is preaty simple. Modeled off a SplitCoastStampers' card sketch, SC303, I started with a plain, white card and embossed the front with a Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder. Then I cut the vertical and horizontal strips, the circle and Spellbinders Beaded Oval from some fabulous hand-crafted paper that I had got at Michaels on clearence. Tilda that I colored, some pale blue pearls and a couple tissue paper flowers completed things.

Wow, it has been a while. Between the holidays and the business of the new year I hven't been able to do much crafting, other than a little coloring in the evenings. I LOVE Magnolia's Tilda stamps. I have quite a few images now and I have really improved (I feel anyways) in coloring the little things. I got hooked on Tilda stamps a few months back and tried starting with Prismacolor markers. They could be purchased locally and were cheaper than Copics and I didn't know if I really wanted to make leap since I already had alot of markers that didn't get that muck use. Well I didn't like the results I got with Prismacolors. Don't get me wrong they are great markers but not for what I wanted them for. I decided to make a small investment in Copics to start, just reds and flesh tones, a total of 6 markers. Needless to say I was addicted and I've increased my collection greatly.
To compare how my coloring technique has improved, I've found some of the original images I've done and then recolored them using teh same color scheme.

 You can really see my improvement from the old ones on the left compared to the new on the right. Too bad my date is wrong... got to remember to fix the date on my camera.