Wise owls

Good morning and a happy Monday to you all. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Mine was full of thunder, lightening, and rain.... cold rain!!!! I do not understand what the heck is going on with the weather, but a little steady pace of one temperature would be nice. Not this sunny and rainy back in forth banter of cold and warm. 

Well today I have a short post, but just wanted to share with you a quick and simple masculine card. I do not normally make masculine cards so this was a fun change for me. I really love the colors and the owls are just too adorable. Owls I think were a real big hit last year.

I used the Wise Owl (E644) stamp and the With Age (E647) stamp.

I colored the owls with copics and used my Spellbinder Oval Die, and distressed the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink . I used some My Mind's Eye paper with some chocolate colored cardstock I have. I also used some cream cardstock to stamp the With Age sentiment stamp in Memento black ink and distressed the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink. I cut it like a banner and finished the card off with some jute string and a button.

Are you all ready for some GREAT IMPRESSION challenges???
We are working behind the scenes to hopefully have it up as soon once the store is up and running. Unfortunately, bad weather is has the owner's playing it safe right now. Hopefully they are doing okay as there have been power outages all over due to the bad snow storms.

Hopefully you all love my card. Please stop by tomorrow to see what new project awaits to inspire you!

Free Stickables Storage Solution

Hi everyone,

Hope your having a good weekend. I found a free stamp storage idea that I thought I would pass on.

I have a Sizzix BigKick machine and bought some new plates for it recently. Opened the package this morning and a light bulb went off. The package is the perfect depth to store my Great Impressions Stickable stamps. And it has a hole in the top of the package so I can hang it on my peg board.

Love that's it's free and I can recycle it instead of throwing it out.

Just to let you know...

Happy Saturday and welcome to another 

post of The Queen's creations using 

Great Impression Rubber Stamps...

The Queen used two images to create 

this adorable card ... 

E-589 sentiment and D394 Bird Motif

Spellbinders really make a stamp image

come together to create a very simple

but elegant card... carefully place bling

just add a nice touch...

 The Queen also used DCWV paper stack

Le Tres Chick Matstack, ink around the edges

and carefully color stamp image and you 

too can create a card to give to anyone

who in your thoughts...

Fabulous Friday~Heart Blooming Tree

Welcome back everyone! It's Friday.....finally!!! This week seemed to be a bit long for me.
I was struggling this week with what I wanted to do for my project and I decided to do something I haven't done in AGES!!! Heat embossing! I used to emboss everything and then....I guess I just got tired of it and stopped all together so I pulled out my heat gun and embossing powders and here's the image!!!
It's a fairly simple card this week as well but I did do my own rolled flowers. They are sooo cute especially when they are all glittered up and super quick to make!

Products Used:
Image~Great Impressions Heart Blooming Tree #G402
CS~SU!
DP~American Crafts
Martha Stewart Border punch
SU! Melon Mambo embossing powder
Fine gold glitter SU!
Spica pens
Half pearls
Stickles

If the Shoe Fits...

If the shoe fits...get one in every color!

And you can with the Lace Background (K97) and embossing powder in your favorite color...

The stamped tag reads:

One pair of

Shoes changed

My life

Cinderella

{Changed My Life (D441) }

This project was so easy to do...cut out your template, stamp and emboss each piece, put it together and decorate (visit my blog for more pictures and details.) All those bits and pieces of ribbon and embellishments you have hoarded hidden ...ahem... saved may just be what you need to make an adorable pair of pretty pumps...and quite affordable, too!

The Rose Intertwined Hearts (G450) would also make a beautiful lace-type pattern...hmmm...and wouldn't the Bird in Roses (F517) make a sweet vintage design?

I think I'm just getting warmed up!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Inky hugs,
Angi


Stamps: Great Impressions Lace Background (K97), Changed My Life (D41)
Inks: Versamark Watermark, Memento Tuxedo Black
Tools: heat gun, Martha Stewart Doily Punch, Tim Holtz Tiny Tags and Tabs Sizzix Die, Tiny Attacher
Other: Ellen Hutson High Heeled Shoe Template, Scor-tape, Helmar 450 Quick Dry, paperclip, assortment of fibers and mulberry rose from my stash, Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam Big Apple

Some Bunny Loves You

Here's a quicky and easy Valentines day card using the adorable Bunny Love stamp and the paper piecing technique.

(I stamped the white layer with bunny image then stamped another one on a scrap piece of white cardstock. Then I stamped the image again on pink. Cut out pink heart and attached to main white image. Then cut out bunny and attached to pink layer.)

Here's a list of the supplies I used:

Great Impressions Stamps:
E564 Bunny Love
C343 Some Bunny Loves You
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink for image
Versafine Onyx Black for saying
Copic markers: C21, RV21
Red, Pink, White Cardstock
5/8" Ribbon, crochet thread for button
Dress It Up Heart Button
Silhouette SD
Silhouette Scalloped Border Cutting File # C00318_31857
Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Eight - 4 5/8"
Cuttlebug Love Language Embossing Folder - Red Layer
Pop dots to attach white layer to red

Shabby Valentine Collage

Yikes!!  My project today is so far out of my comfort zone (lol!)

But boy, did I have a ton of fun putting this together.

I started with the frame, Great Impressions stamp, 

and one sheet of lovely Prima paper and just kept adding. 

Isn't this a wonderful image? - it's called Romantic Collage from Great Impressions.

I stamped it twice on ivory paper, once in Rich Cocoa and once in Distressed Victorian Velvet.   I fussy cut out the entire image in the Rich Cocoa and cut just the framed portion in the Velvet.   My frame is lightly sponged with Glimmer Mist.  All the papers including my doily were sponged around in Antique Linen. The outside edges of my card are painted white, sanded and then sponged.  Love that look!  Then I just played!  Really, you've just got to move things around...

 and around until it works for you...

Supplies

(vintage button, twine and ric-rac from my stash)

InLinkz.com

The shabby chic look is one I love...so glad I challenged myself with it!

Think about what You can do to challenge yourself creatively. 

Let me know about it...love to come and take a peek!

Have a wonderfully crafty day!

Hugs,

Jenny

Starting the Week Off Right

Good morning and happy Monday to everyone. I had one hectic weekend. My Friday started with a migraine and my two year old kicked into full terrible two mode. Her aunt and cousin came to stay with us Friday night as well. Little Miss A was horrible in gymnastics and got in trouble with her teacher a few times... I must admit it was funny watching her make the teacher chase her around the balance beam. As a stern mom I went out and had to use the threat "If you are not a good girl and listen to your teacher NO MORE GYMNASTICS". Needless to say she finished class, got her stamp on the hand, and passed out in the truck on the way home. There are only two things that can make me happy within seconds..... ICE CREAM (preferably Cold Stone) and shoes. I am a shoe-aholic! I think having kids is a great why to stop buying them cold turkey! Well I turned to Reebok Run Tones and Walk Tones.... even a more expensive choice than my average heel cost. I love shoes. I could wear heels anywhere...even to the grocery store. I am even planning on having our bathroom remodeled (maybe next year or the year after) to include  shelving for my shoes. Taking out our tiny tiny shower will be a very big improvement. 

When I saw this stamp for the January Stamp of the Month Program I had to have it. Is this not a beautiful shoe? I would I love heels that tie and I have never had embellishments on my heels but a nice fabric similar to like an Asian print style but roses in a shiny satin mmm black with bright red... I should start making shoes lol. My fiance would put his foot down with that. I have enough hobbies between cooking, baking, cross stitching, and now cards or paper crafts!

I really hope you enjoy this card. It was a quick simple make. The papers are just black and dark red cardstock. The design paper is My Mind's Eye - Union Square. I colored the Rose Shoe (F516) with copics   and once again used the stamp Je t'aime (A137). I used some pearls in all assorted sizes and some lace from Really Reasonable ribbon. 

Make sure to come back tomorrow to see a new creation Jenny made to share with everyone.

Stop by my blog for any extra details I may have left out

and last but not least

make a GREAT IMPRESSION!!!

Sunday's Fun-Day's!!

I thought since Sundays are open days for us right now I'd fill them in a little bit with whatever pops up!

I'm really excited to see we have 99 followers that's awesome!!! Thanks to those of you that are following us and joining us each day for a look at the DT's work.

Today I wanted to share with you the SOTM (Stamp of the Month) program. I know you have seen on the sidebar a photo of some projects made with the SOTM and wanted to explain it a bit.

(Lace Background)

These stamps when they first come out are ONLY available to local craft stores. So right now....this stamp^^ is only available in stores until February and then it becomes open stock. I think this is really a great program because I am all about supporting our local small businesses and this is a perfect way to do so. Along with the SOTM there are other stamps that are new as well, stamps that go along with the SOTM....as you can see on the project board

To see close ups of these cards you can go HERE
(there is a high heel that I MUST HAVE!!!)

Here are the other stamps that are new that coordinate nicely with the fabulous lace background....perfect for Valentines Day cards!

For a list of stores that might be near you go HERE AND....there are a handful of online stores that carry the SOTM as well...these are online websites for the local store for those of us that don't have a store close by...we can shop the web!

Puppy Love

Hello Everyone and Happy Saturday 

Today The Queen has a really adorable 

card created using one of 

Great Impression Stamp for her 

Design Team Post Day... 

Woof  #G269

Who could resist that face and floppy ears...

.

The Queen used brown card stock to

create the shape around the stamp.

Raised it up with mounting tape to make

it pop ... and tied a sweet tulle bow 

The stamped image was colored with 

copic markers and The Queen used

her Royal White Gel pen to highlight 

Fabulous Friday~Birthday Diva

 Oh my goodness...it's finally Friday!!! My son was off school for 3 weeks for winter break and this was his first week back. Let me tell you it was not easy getting up this week. I got way too spoiled with sleeping in and going to bed late over break.
Today I have for you Birthday Diva. She has a TON of gifts...I could not color all of them (maybe it's just laziness) so the one's that she is juggling I paper pieced with scrap DP!

Look at  these flowers. They are soooo sparkling!!! I took this picture at the perfect time of day today when the sun was shining right in the window upstairs so you can actually see that the glitter is glitter and sparkling!

Products Used:
Image~Great Impressions Birthday Diva F528
Prima Flowers
Ice Stickles
CS~SU!
Sentiment~SU!
Copics
Spica Pens
Heart Clip from Recollections
SU! Ribbon
KaiserCraft Rhinestones
Glue Dots
SU! Dimensionals

A Thousand Winds of Memories

Hello, hello!

I'm typing up my Thursday post and my card is sitting here beside me drying. I had the original card designed and made a couple of weeks ago. When I had picked up my December Stamp of the Month (SOTM) stamps from my favorite local stamping and paper crafting store (Hello, Simple Pleasures in Colorado!), I was fully intent on making birthday cards...and I did!

Then two nights ago I was looking at my card, thinking about Valentine's Day and had an idea...yeah, well, you know the saying about 'best laid plans' and all?

To make a long story short (you can read the longer version and more on the making of this card on my blog)...this picture is NOT my first attempt at getting the idea in my head wrapped around this project...

Also available as Stickables.

...but I am persistent.

Fluffy clouds, shiny balloons and recent Life events inspired this card. I'm glad I decided to  'go with it' and reimagine my original idea.

This is definitely a better IRL (In Real Life) kinda card!

Have you recycled an old idea into a new or improved one? Tell us about it!

I'm sure it was great...

Inky hugs,

Angi

Stamps:  Great Impressions Stamps Water Swirl Border (H200), Patterned Balloons (F514), Always Cherish Memories (E745)

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Versamark Watermark; Tim Holtz Distress Stain Picket Fence

Patterned Paper:  Scraps from my Stash

Tools: Sizzix eclipse and eCAL; heat gun; needle; Tim Holtz Blending Tool; heart punch

Embellishments: brown twine, Flowersoft Polar White

Other: foam tape, tacky glue, Diamond Glaze