Cottage Rose

Happy Sunday!

Now these colors are challenging to me.  I am also leaning towards the neutrals, so this is a stretch.  This set and paper is from the Cottage Rose bundle.

The designer series paper is gorgeous and has neutral colors.

I used the water painters to color in the rose and leaves. 

Cottage Rose stamp set  and  Abigail Rose paper

                                          

                                          

Happy Forest Friends

Cutest new stamp set called 

Happy Forest Friends

This is such a cute set.

If you like little forest animals you will love this set. 

'These new stamp sets can be brought separately

or together with other coordinating pieces.

You can purchase the entire Suite which includes

The stamp set, the coordinating designer paper, the matching dies

and two spools of coordinating ribbon. 

This is the Happy Forest Friends Suite set - $68.00

HERE

Nature's Prints

Good Morning!

A little heat going on here in the PNW along with the rest of the nation calls for some indoor activities to stay cool.

Here's another card made using one of the new stamp sets from the annual catalog.

This stamp set is called Nature's Prints ,

I chose to use the new embossing folder called 

Fern 3D and lightly brushed the white ink across

it so you can barely see the ferns. 

This stamp set is offered in a bundle or separately.

By a bundle that means the stamp set and the dies that will cut

out all the pieces of the stamp for you.

There is also coordinating dsp paper which is a gorgeous meadely of night of navy and crumb cake. 

Nature's Print bundle - HERE   $55.75

Fern 3D - HERE  - $ 9.00

                                        

Tags, tags and more tags!

Tags, tags and more tags!

I spent last week in Spokane with my bestie and we had a whole lotta

time to create!

Do you have a scrap bin or basket?

Well she took out her bin and she does this often with her scraps,

creates grab and go tags for any event that might come up.

We used what she had and just created away utilizing punches,

random stamp sets and pieces from left over Paper Pumpkins.

This would be a great project for your creative classes

or a women's retreat, or for yourself!

Isn't that mini man's shirt tag cute!

So take a look at what you have and make yourself a basket of

already made tags for any of your events you can grab and attach 

to the gift you are taking.  

This was so much fun! 

Bewitching

Andddd they keep coming.....

I am loving creating with this set.

I promise next week I will be back with some

other stamp set. 

I got out this retired stamp set to use the greeting

"pick your potion" for the cauldron I made. 

To make the cauldron I used one of the circles from the 

circles framelit sets.  If you don't have the circle framelits

you can easily use a large circle punch. 

Cut out your circle and then cut the the top

1/4" off to create the cauldron. 

To make the legs of the cauldron I used

a star punch and cut the points of the star off

asa you see in the photo below. 

The small piece on the right is the piece you need

for the legs of the cauldron. 

The background paper is the new Rustic Harvest.

Stamp the witches legs and adhere them with dimensionals.

I used Pumpkin Pie ink and a aqua painter to create the warm

orange glow behind her legs.  

The little spider is in the stamp set

that I stamped dangling off her boots.

This is a very easy card to make. 

muuuuwahhhhhh...... 

Bewitching

Bewitching  stamp set

HERE

The background paper is from the new mini catalog

called  Rustic Harvest

HERE 

                                       

This fall harvest paper is so pretty, such warm fall colors, be sure to check it out.  You can use it sept on thru to november for your card making. 

   

I added just a little bit of gold glitter to

the hat and boots to level it up. 

I can't seem to put this set down even though

we are in the heat of the summer......

Bewitching

Helllloooooo!

This canvas was left over from last month's Paper Pumpkin.

I had it sitting on my desk wondering what to use it for

when all of a sudden I thought,  Halloween!

I know, I know, it seems early, but with the sets being out

in the catalog and things showing up in the stores it makes me want 

to make some cute things.

To get started on this project you need a canvas bag, like I said

this is left over from last month's kit, you could always research online for mini canvas bags or look at your local craft store for them.

Start by putting a piece of cardboard inside of the canvas bag

so that when you go to stamp the image onto the bag you have

a solid backing for the image to take clearly.

I use StazOn black permanent ink to do this, once

the image is stamped it is somewhat faint so I take a fine tip sharpie

and outline the image, then I use a regular tip sharpie to fill in all the details to give it a sharp look. 

Here it is outlined.....

and this is it after I color it in with the black sharpie. 

I used an orange marker to color in her tight and hat.

To finish the bag off I tied some fabric around the handle.

Fill up your bag with treats and you're ready to gift away!

Hardscape transformation

Happy sunday!

I thought I would share a transformation that we did to our front entrance to our driveway.  

It has looked bare and in need of some help.

I went with a local company that did some work for me a year ago

and they do an amazing job. 

If you are local they are North End Landscape

As you can see in the picture above it is a pretty

sad looking area.......

The week before they came to make the transformation they had me pick out some boulders to go in the space.

Once they delivered them and sat them up at the end I was so excited to see that the rock on the right had a heart on it!

Unbelievable!!  I never saw it when I picked it out, it must

have been on the opposite side.   

How cool is that! 

This is how it turned out!

I was working and came home just as they finished and I literally squealed with delight!

So wonderful! 

Simplistic, natural, low maintenance. LOVE it!

 they added the boulders, cobble and grasses.

Love how welcoming it looks!

So if you are local be sure to check out

North End Landscape!

Abigail Rose

Being lovely today with this beautiful butterfly card made

with the new dsp paper called Abigal Rose.

Goes well with the stamp set Amazing Shillouttes.

I used the background paper and added the butterfly from the Amazing Shilloutes set which I stamped and cut out three times. Use stampin dimensionals to add depth to the butterfly. 

I always keep pieces from all the paper pumpkin kits as you never know when you might use them.  

The "lovely" is from one of the past pumpkin kits. 

To step up the card I added some glitter to the butterfly

and three irridescent embelishments.

Amazing Shilouettes

HERE

Abigail Rose dsp paper

HERE