Momenta Butterfly Garden Layout and Fussy Cutting

Pastels are a huge trend right now. You can see them in Fashion, Home Decor and Paper crafting. When I received my latest design team products from Momenta, The Butterfly Gardens paper stack screamed at me. Well since it is filled with butterflies, maybe it was more like a soft whisper, but you know what I mean lol.

Today I am going to share with you a layout I created using the Butterfly Garden Paper pad, Butterfly Embossed Cardstock messages and Butterfly Mini Puffy Icon Stickers. The combination was perfect for a very girly layout of our little girl in her favorite pink jacket.

I also used a sentiment sticker from the My Style Puffy Stickers sheet to tie in the big fabric flower. Here are a few photos of the layout for you.

I did a lot of fussy cutting with the papers to create embellishments and the flowers and butterflies are great to do this with. 

 I also added a little Rock Candy Distress Stickles to the pieces I fussy cut, to give them a little blingage.

 Here is the complete layout. Everything has been adhered using Helmar Adhesives and I added a little distressing to the edges of the layout.

That is it for me today. I hope you all have a great weekend. Tomorrow, I'm going to select a winner for my small blog candy that I have so if you haven't entered , you can find the post HERE.

Until then
Toodles

Robins Nest Blog Hop- Earth Day

Hello everyone and welcome to the Earth Day Blog hop, featuring all the wonderfully talented designers from The Robins Nest. Today you are going to see some amazing projects all about the earth, up cycling and recycling.

If you just stopped in, please hop on back to the Chattering Robins Blog and start from the beginning. If you have been following along, you should have hopped here from Terri Sprouls Blog.

Today I have a plaque to share with you that I was just about to throw out. It was a horrible green color and didn't go anywhere in our home. But when our daughter found out what it said, she asked very nicely if I could "craft it up"!!! How could I refuse.

First off, I started by painting the entire surface with White and Black Gesso. Once dried, I added the beautiful Glitter Black and White Swirl paper as well as the pretty pink Princess Card Stock using Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive.

After this, I painted the bottom panel with Glimmer Glam and adorned the entire piece with Petunia Dew Drops. I added a few super sweet chipboard pieces and this trash turned to a treasure for our little girl. Recycle or Up Cycle, she absolutely loves it!

Here is a photo of the finished piece. We saved Mother Nature today a little, by recycling something that otherwise would have ended up in the landfill.

Make sure you leave a comment here today because you could win some goodies from The Robins Nest. Now hop on over to Clare Dempsey's Blog, where you will find a beautiful project as always. The list for the hop order can be found below. Thanks for stopping by today.

Until Next time
Toodles

Momenta Guest Designer

Sometimes when you get crafting products you are just moved to create. Something goes off in the Mojo part of the brain and you are racing down a path of creativity. This is exactly what happened when I receive my goodies from Momenta to be their October Guest Designer.

Today I've got 6 projects to share with you and I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I did creating them. I got to work with 2 amazing collections from Momenta, both very different, but super sweet to work with.... and the Stickers!!!! Holy Batman these stickers are a TONNE of fun!!!

First off, 3 projects using the Chloes Garden Collection. Filled with soft tones of pinks, browns, blues and greens. This first card is super sweet  and a little girly with some wonderful ribbon to make it even sweeter. The stickers are puffy and filled with glittery goodness. Perfect for card making and scrapbooking.

Now I used the same Chloes Garden paper pack to create a much more masculine card. I added some Robin's Nest dewdrops using Helmar Gemstone Glue to finish it off.

Next a 12 x 12 layout using the Chloes Garden one last time. These papers were a perfect fit for the cheesy two tooth grin my daughter had in this photo. I did some fussy cutting of the flowers and added some flourishes and butterflies as well.

Here is a close up of the layout for you. I just love the soft palette that Chloes Garden has.

Next are three cards I created using the EYE POPPING Kaleidoscope Paper Pack and matching stickers. This has to be one of the most fun collections I've worked with in a while. So vibrant and cheery and the designs are awesome. The first card has some fun flourish stickers and great little gemstones from Momenta. I think I might have to send it to my girlfriend Jenn. Hope your house gets better soon hun!!!

Then a little more color with a great card using some Spellbinders dies and a few more butterfly punches. So fun!!!

And lastly a sweet card using some border stickers and that great Always sticker sentiment. Isn't this Kaleidoscope Paper Pack with matching stickers amazing??? I think so!!! Very Flower Power for sure

Thank you so so very much Jamie and Everyone at Momenta for giving me the opportunity to work with your products. I absolutely loved creating with them and I know I'll be using more of them in the future.

To see more amazing Momenta projects, make sure to check out the MyMomenta Blog.

I Adore Nutcrackers

This has been a rough 2 weeks. Being sick is no fun at all and with pneumonia, it really wipes ya out. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, and today is the first day that I feel somewhat normal. WAHOOOOOO!!!!!

So I thought I'd share a Nikki Sivils project that I created.

This first one is a little Christmas card I created using the wonderfully cheery Nikki Sivils collection Happy Holly-Days. I collect nutcrackers and this paper quickly wiggled its way into my heart. The colors are so rich and the images are just perfect.

I added a little fabric paint on the boot trim and this sweet nutcrackers hair, as well as some stickles to jingle it up a bit. Pretty Pretty. The dimension on the card was created using a combination of Helmar Zapdots and Liquid Scrap Dots. (both are available at Really Reasonable Ribbon)

That's all for today. I hope that you are all enjoying your day so far. I'll be back tomorrow with another of my Tattered Angels DT submission projects for ya.

Toodles


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A little Urban Lily Goodness

I so love the bright colors of Urban Lily papers. The pairing with blacks and whites just makes them POP. I've got a couple of cards to share with you today using Urban Lily. If you are looking for somewhere to purchase these beautiful papers, take a look at Scrap-tastic. They carry a lot of Urban Lily goodness.

For this first card I added a Urban Lily Answer it Chipboard piece and glitzed up the heart with some Stickles.

 This next one has a distress ink stamped area where I used water to blend. I think it is one of my favorite ways to use Distress Inks. I then heat embossed the sentiment and added a little more Distress Ink, direct to paper.

Thank you to each and every one of you for stopping by this past weekend for the Helmar Halloween Howler Hop. We had so much fun and we are so happy that you did too.

Until Next time

Toodles

PDD Wednesday and mojo monday

Hi Everyone and Happy Wednesday to you. Today I've got a card to share that I used some serious Stickles and Pez-a-Bling on. I've always been a little afraid of Stickles, but I'm starting to embrace the possibilities. This card is uses Scarlet Lime paper, Studio G stamps, and Pez-a-Bling. I cut out the stamped image and a few of the flowers from the patterned paper. Yellow and Green seem to be a favorite combo of mine lately. hope you enjoy and take a moment to go check out the pre-order Tim Holtz releases available over at Pez-A-Doodle. Can you say yummo??!!

Pez-a-Doodle Wednesday.

Hello Everyone and Happy Wednesday to you. Today is another wonderful Pez-a-Doodle day with a card to share and a great sale to let you know about too. Pez-a-Doodle is having a free shipping sale on all purchases over $50. You gotta love when you can buy a little extra because you're not being charged shipping right!!??

Today I am sharing a card with you that I just absolutely love. I took the Butterflies a-flutter stamp and used it as the background stamp. Lightly dusting it with chalk and perfect pearls for a little luster. Then I took the same stamp and stamped it twice almost linking the two stamped images together. love how that turned out. And finally, I cut out a few of the butterfly images to adhere on the card front. This stamp is REALLY versatile and you will love having it in your arsenal I guarantee it!!!


Supplies:
Accessories: purple buttons
Coloring agents: memento ink, chalk, perfect pearls, Le Plume markers,black stickles
Paper: lemon (PTI), basic black, sage (SU), unknown design paper
stamps: Pez-A-Doodle - Butterflies a flutter , Shine- Unity stamp
Tools: Scor-pal, Purple Cows 2-in-1 trimmer, craft knife

Little Bugs

Hi Everyone and happy Thursday. Today I've created a card completely out of my usual style, but oh this image is UBER cute. It is the new set from Pez-A-Doodles calls Bee Picnic. This is the first of a series and you can mix and match accessories with each and every series you purchase. Talk about versatility. Make sure you check out the playgroup from Pez-a-Doodles and follow along with their blog hop and hint parade. You will be so happy that ya did. The Bee Picnic stamp is available as a DigiStamp for a limited time so go grab it!!!


All Supplies linked are available at PeZ-A-Doodles
Supplies:
stamps: Pez-a-Doodles-Picnicing Bee, Fiskars flowers, Just Rite round 2 5/16 roman font
Paper: Card stock- PTI White, SU Basic Black, gingham red and whit scrap, black and white circle scrap.
Accessories: I {Heart} Paper Blue, Aqua and Red Glimmer ribbon, Black rhinestones, Ivory PTI vintage button. Black Diamonds Stickles
Coloring agents: Le Plume Markers, Versafine Onyx Black

Color Create Challenge

Today is a snow day here in Frontier. Big chunky flakes that are filled with spring water. I'm sharing with you a card that I made last night that I think is super sweet. I used the Color Create color challenge, which is chocolate, coffee and cream. This card was really fun to create and I hope you enjoy it just as much as I do. Don't forget to also enter in for my Sweets, there is a $15 gift certificate from Pez-a-Doodles in it!!!

Also MAKE SURE to check out the Pez-A-Doodles New releases event. Take a moment to figure out todays hint at Sandie's The new sets from Pez-a-Doodles are FAN-FLIPPIN-TASTIC!!! You could win some great stuff.

Now on with the show.


I tried my hand at something a little different with this card. I distress inked the embossed background with photo brown ink to really pull the chocolate and cream combo for the top part of the card. And for the first time I used a whole lotta buttons for a border so to speak. I just got these vintage buttons from Paper Trey and if you haven't purchased buttons before, Theirs are truly beautiful. Then I added some pink pearls to a few of those cute buttons to bring in just a hint of pink to the card. The coffee cup was glazed over to give it that porceline look using Glossy accents.

Supplies:
stamps: Unity Stamps March Kit of the Month-coffee on display, Polka Dot Pie-Chocolate Treats 1 Studio G-Warm and Cozy
Spellbinders: Scalloped and regular Large rectangles
Paper: Card stock-SU Basic Black, PTI White, BG bittersweet-Almond Toffee, Scrap black and white paper, embossed hand made paper
Accessories: PTI Vintage Cream and White buttons, Pink pearls, Ranger Glossy Accents,
Coloring agents: Tim Holtz Distress ink Photo Brown, Versafine-Onyx Black, Cinnamon Stickles, Coal and Coffee Shimmerz, Pink glaze pens.
Tools: Big Shot, Scor-pal, Purple Cows 2-in-1 trimmer

Happy Crafting

CPS challenge 105 and Color Create 5 challenge

This weeks CPS challenge was one that I absolutely loved. I paired it up with the color challenge #5 over at Color Create which was blue and brown. This color combo is one that I'm absolutely smitten with. It is so soft and fresh. So without further adieu, here is the CPS challenge I really wanted to do the postage edge, but since I didn't have a punch for that, I went with an edge that was comparable, on my Purple Cows trimmer. Have i ever told any of you how much I love my purple moo cow? Anyways. The papers that I used for the card are from the Bella Blue patterned paper from SU. For the CS I used Chocolate Chip and Bashful Blue. They truly are a great match.
As for the stamps, I used a few from the Little Yellow bicycle set "Elegant". These are a part of my blog candy. so if you haven't entered, please go leave a comment to win these and a few other items. I used two different techniques for the butterflies. The blue one was stamped then clear embossed. on the bottom side I used versamark and then added blue glitter. Sealing it with glossy Accents. Using this really gave me the ability to mold the butterfly. For the other one, I also stamped the image, then used clear embossing power (both were stamped on acetate). Then on the back side I used Alcohol inks in Denim and Ginger with some Copper Krylon marker. Hope you guys don't get sick of butterflies. I'm really taken with them and they bring something to the table inspiration wise. Lastly I used a really cool button which is the shape of a branch. I painted it with December Sky Shimmerz and cinnamon stickles.
I hope you enjoyed the card for these two challenges. It was a lot of fun to make and a whole bunch of smiles to share. Thanks for stopping by and
Happy Crafting!!!

My first Card Patterns Challenge

Hi everyone and I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend.

I did my first ever challenge for Card Patterns. it was a sketch which you will see below. I hope you enjoy the card. This site really looks like a keeper, so if you love challenges, go take a look at Card Patterns
I decided to take some inspiration from the Basic Grey Challenge this week and use a Brown and Blue combo. I really like the look. As my sister says, kinda Victorian"ish". I used SU Brocade and bashful blue as well as Chocolate Chip. The pretty paper is also from SU and is the Bella Bleu Collection. Gosh diggity darn I love this line.
I used a few different stamps on the card. The large flourish is from Innovative Stamp Creations (another favorite) a little flourish on the Nesties blue oval, which I haven't a clue whom the maker is. Then i had a wonderful sentiment on acrylic that I stuck onto kraft SU paper about friends. Isn't that a great quote???

Lastly, I used a prima flower from the Da Vinci tube, 2 different colors of ribbon, and cut out the flourish stamp to add balance from top to bottom. Adding a few pearls that I painted with Shimmerz in Coffee, and a few little dots of cinnamon SticklesThis one was a trip to make and I hope you adore it, just like I do.
Thanks again for stopping by. I love the visitors and love to read your comments about my projects.
Happy Crafting

A little Sparkle

Thought I would try a different color combination and gosh I love how these colors look together. There is something about the SU Not Quite Navy, that I absolutely love. It really is stunning and I find myself using it a lot for the main card color.
I used 2 different patterns from the DCWV All Dressed Up Matte Stack and also used the Gable Green CS too. Stamping a beautiful image from Third Coast Stamps in Versafine Black Onyx, then sprinkling it with Dazzling Diamonds (yet another favorite of mine)
Now isn't this Eyelet the coolest thing you have ever seen? It is a part of the new Soho Designer hardward from SU. Quite "fabulous" with the idea I had for this card.
For the sentiment, I used onyx black again on a stamp from Innovative Stamp Creations and lightly shaded it with a Le Plume marker, then added some black stickles for a wee bit more sparkle.
Finishing the card off with two shades of primas that were painted with Shimmerz Buttercream. Added a piece of layered ribbons and this card was done.
I so hoped you enjoyed this card. Take a chance and use a color combination that you wouldn't usually work with. You will be surprised at the outcome

thanks for stopping by and
Happy Crafting