Be You

Take a look at this lovely card I created for Ribbon Carousel Challenge this week as well as the Inspired By Challenge #30. It was also inspired by a card I saw on Dawn McVey's Blog. I love the vibrancy of the colors, layered flower, mis-match of embellishments and the distressing.

The challenge of Ribbon Carousel was to do paper piecing. I chose to stamp the flower 3 times and then cut around the petals to give it dimension. Piecing it all back together on the card really makes it a focal point!

This was the inspiration photo on Inspired By. The colors, flowers and bit of polka-dots is what really caught my eye!

Dotty Peeps

This cute card uses the Peeps stamp set again and some of the new Dotty papers! I matched the colors of the peeps with the actual marshmallow treats! I've also used the adhesive spring to give my card extra dimension. I am entering this card in the Ribbon Carousel Spring challenge this week. You will see that I have added some green twine to the bottom of the card and also used it to tie a knot in my button.

Creating with Twine

Ribbon Carousel is challenging us to use Twine on our projects this week. That's hardly a challenge since Twine is just soooo much fun to play with! I used some colorful twine to string up some flower buttons high in the sky. Check it out~

Celebrate Spring

The cold wind stopped blowing and the warm sunshine was out yesterday so I was inspired to create this card for a couple of challenges.

The sketch is from Mojo Monday, the spring theme and colors are inspired by...well, Inspired By Blog and I've added the sweetest little pink felt flower for the Ribbon Carousel Challenge.

Inspired By Photo



Sweet Hope

I made this card for someone very special to me, who teaches me through her strength and faith. I am entering this card in two challenges this week.

Mojo Monday sketch~

and the "Anything Goes" challenge at Ribbon Carousel~

All products are Close To My Heart:

papers-silhouette, cherry-o, cardstock; creme brulee & smoothie

stamps-Treasures of the Heart, Universal Backgrounds

embellishments-smoothie button, color ready seam binding, baker's twine, black pearls

Non-Traditional Valentine Colors

Over on the Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog we are invited to create a Valentine project with "Non-Traditional" Valentine colors. We typically see the red, white, and pink colors in many projects and decor for Valentine's Day! It usually looks like Cupid stormed all the stores directly after Christmas! By using some lovely whimsical papers {Florentine} and this sweet image {Childhood Portrait} you can clearly see that it is still a Valentine.

By the way...Ribbon Carousel is having a BIG giveaway! Look at this stunning carousel, isn't it fabulous?! Go to the blog to get all the details.

Ter.RUFF.ic!

New Year's Resolutions... Love them or hate them? I suppose it's a good opportunity to set new goals, why not begin at the start of a new year.

One of my smaller goals is to get out and walk at least 30 minutes everyday. I also decided I needed to take my slightly over weight beagle with me. It will be good for the both of us. Have you ever tried walking a hound dog though? She wants to sniff and track the entire walk. I figured if I walk the same path each day, she will realize it's familiar and will no longer need to stop along the way. When she walks good for me she will be rewarded back at home. {She stopped to taunt a great big Husky and Rottweiler the other day, which I found slightly amusing, so she still got her treat!}

Having some canning jars left over from Christmas crafts, I decided to make a little jar to keep her "cookies" in. It's much more stylish than the bags they come in. She also recognizes the sound of the lid spinning off already!


The jar and top of the lid are decorated in some older Cherry-O papers. The dog is from an old stamp called Puppy Love. The label is glued then held around the jar using some simple blush grosgrain ribbon.

Be sure to check out the other artwork at the Ribbon Carousel Challenges Blog!

Melty Snowman Card

I'm playing along with this week's Ribbon Carousel Challenge. I just love using twine on projects, especially Holiday projects. The twine I used for this project is definitely tangled and twisted.

If you could only see the underside of the snowman's scarf, it's a tangled mess! The twine was wrapped around giving dimension to the stripes of the scarf. I just love these "melted" snowmen cards.

Peppermint Twist RCC Challenge

Check out this photo, our inspiration on the Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog this week. I love the red and white colors, but even more I enjoy the peppermint scents this time of year. How do I create a card that evokes that joy? Make it scented of course!

I wish someone would invent "Sniff-a-Blog" because these cards smell as good as they look! I used the candy cane scent from the scent my cards company. The stocking were cut on the Cricut using the AP cartridge then hung with care on some fluffy CTMH Sassy Strands.

Candy Canes & Gingerbread Men

I have another set of Christmas cards for you today! These "sweet" cards will also be entered in the Ribbon Carousel color challenge this week. The colors in the challenge are Kraft, Brown (Chocolate) and Red. Once again I pulled out some older items that have not seen daylight in years. My "spool" item however is some newer adorable ribbon from the red collection in the Close To My Heart Autumn/Winter Idea Book.

inside~

Fall Fabric Card

I could not resist joining the fun challenge over at Ribbon Carousel this week! Using fabric on your project as well as the usual challenge of adding ribbon. I played with some fabrics on some scrapbooking pages last year and had some left over. Take a look at the card.

Wondering where the fabric is? Here's the swatch of fabric I had left over ~

Now you see it! The fabric does all the work for me. I simply cut out the image I wanted and glued it to the front of my card base. Pretty cute and simple...I need to do more projects with fabric!

Back To School

I have some "new" stuff for you today and a project for 2 challenge blogs. It's back to school for many of us and that is the theme for the Heart 2 Heart challenges and Ribbon Carousel Blogs.

I just received the new Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge and wanted to give the "fry box" a try. I thought to start small and create two little boxes for my kiddo's for their first day of school treat. They only stand 4" tall and will hold 4 Hershey Nuggets. I used the new Typeset papers along with some other new cool corrugated chipboard and Canvas Complements. For my fibers I chose a teal colored twine and Juniper CTMH ribbon.

Sooo Faux!

The challenge this week on RCC is to use stitching on your project. I chose to use some faux stitching on these little Thank You notes. I like to give these to my customers with their orders to show my appreciation.

You can see here that I've used some matching twine to tie them to the order bag.

Be sure to see the other creations on the Ribbon Carousel Challenge Blog.