Fancy Folds Anyone

The challenge this week over at Phindy's Place Challenge Blog was to create a Fancy Fold Card. I've done a few different fold techniques and didn't realize how many different options there were until I looked at all the delicious eye candy the DT submitted as inspiration. All I can say is that they were truly inspired and all their projects were nothing short of amazing. Thanks to Cec's suggestion to Google "Fancy Fold Tutorials", I found this tutorial submitted by Jo over on the Digital Delights Challenge Blog in their tutorials section on how to make a Fancy Fold Doube Card. When I saw the card she did, I knew exactly what papers I had to use and of course the perfect image for the card.

Summer Driggs has a blog called Summertime Designs, and among her free kits is a kit called Sweet Cakes. The kit was the result of an idea from looking at her baby's footie pajamas when playing airplane with her (you know when you lay on the floor and lay the baby on your legs straddling your feet). Having seen these same patterns in footie pajamas, I fell in love with them all. This card gave me the opportunity to use several of the papers, making it a really busy card. Of course, the 12 or so Winter Cuties weren't enough, and I needed the perfect excuse for another image. You really, really need to check out these awesome cuties over at the Phindy's Place Store and she's adding more and more. I may go broke buying them along with a few other Phindy Phans.

Well, "nite, nite Santa" was that perfect excuse. I looked at that image and knew I needed it, so that I could paper piece the footie pajamas with another of the Sweet Cakes papers. The sentiment on the front was a freebie from Create with TLC, and I used my Cricut and my Make the Cut software to cut out the cupcake(using even more of the papers) and the lettering for the inside message. I added a little white space on the inside left panel for some serviceman or woman to write a message home to their little cupcake. I used some tiny yellow ribbon tied in a bow to keep the card closed.

I absolutely love the way this card turned out and can't wait to do another Google on Fancy Fold tutorials. Thanks for stopping by, and hope you liked my card. I love hearing comments.

Let's Add A Little Dimension

That's Miss Tracy's request for those wishing to participate in the challenge at Sassy Cheryls Challenge Blog this week. It was left to each of us to determine exactly what dimension meant for us. I think I got all my bases covered on this one.

Earlier this week, Cheryl added this image of "Fred and Ginger", the dancing snow couple, and I knew I had to own it. I've colored them with a combination of Prismas and Copics(Prismas where it was too tiny for me to attempt with Copics). My papers are all digital that I printed from Summer Driggs Winter Gifts Kit. I added some French lace across the punched ribbon. To make sure I had the dimension requirement covered. I added glass beads as snow around the dancers and then cut some holly leaves with my Cricut and added baby red buttons for my holly berries. I haven't thought up the perfect sentiment yet, but I think it might make a great anniversary card for a couple with a winter anniversary. What are your suggestions?

Don't forget to go check out the Sassy Cheryl's Store, and just in case you're not into coloring your own image, I should tell you you can also purchase the images already colored by the one and only Sassy Cheryl herself.

Halloween Anyone?

It's Anything Halloween this week over on the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog. The DT has provided some outstanding eye candy and inspiration, so be sure to go and check it out.

On Tuesday, I went to Tuscaloosa to help my niece get Coleman's birth announcements put together. Since there are no LSS stores here, you know I'm not going to where there's both a Hobby Lobby and a Michael's without checking them out and with coupons in hand. I never go into Michaels without checking the $1 stamp bin at the front of the store. Knowing that there was a Halloween Challenge over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog, I went looking for some Halloween Sentiment stamps. I found two traditional sentiments right off the bat, but then I picked one up that said "Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun" and knew I had to have it. Then when I got home, I decided to check out the Tiddly Inks Store to see what new images Christy had added. Imagine my surprise when I found this image called Ghoulfriends. I knew it was a sign.

I colored her up with Copics, and she just had to have purple hair. The paper is from KI Memories, and I used my Dripping Goop MS punch to layer some goop and the Inverted Scalloped Circle Spellbinders for some extra dimension and shape. And of course, I used my new sentiment stamp to finish off my Halloween Card. How much fun was this?

Make Something Cute - Card 2

This is my second card for the Make Something Cute challenge at the Phindy's Place Challenge blog this week. I narrowed my second image down to this cutie called Peppermint Perfection. I think the only thing missing is the peppermint drool that would normally be running down his face and all over his jammies. I colored him with Copics. The papers were left over from a paper stack I bought several years ago to make some Christmas invitations years ago, but they were perfect for this image. I cut the candy canes using my MTC software with my Cricut. I found the peppermint font as a freebie on fonts.com and used it to create my sentiment.

Don't know if I'll have time for a third card, but I can assure you it won't be because I can't find a cute image. Don't forget the super sale over at the Phindy's Place Store. I can promise you won't be disappointed.

Make Something Cute

That was the challenge presented to those of us that participate in the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog. Now that might sound difficult to some of you, but if you're talking about starting with a Phindy's Place image, you got cute without even trying. The challenge was to narrow your choices down to 3 images just in case you could actually find the time to make 3 cards before the Thursday night challenge deadline.

Before I get to my card, I have to send you to the Phindy's Place Store, because Phindy's got a sale on Christmas images. Buy a dozen Christmas images, that would normally be $36, and you can get them for $30. There are over a dozen Winter Cuties that you just don't want to miss out on, so go check out the sale.

For my first card, I chose this image called Tasty Flakes. I loved this little girl the first time I saw her. If you were ever a child and exposed to snow(living in the Deep south they were few and far between), I'm betting you did the same thing. She's colored with Copics. I used my snowflakes embossing folder to emboss the first layer on the card. I then used some digital paper that was part of a Holiday Package that I bought from Create with TLC. I also had a snowflake Cuttlebug die and cut several out and layered them and then stickled them to give them some sparkle. The snowflake I used for the base of the sentiment was modified from a freebie from a kit called "Snow Much Fun" offered by ScrappingTable.com. The sentiment is hand written and then covered with white stickles.

That's my first card. Stick around, I'll be blogging my second challenge card shortly. Thanks for stopping by.

Invites and Announcements

I love babies, especially little babies. One of the best things about being a member of a large family, there are usually babies. The younger nieces and nephews are now giving us more great nieces and nephews. My niece and nephew(sister and brother) are the latest to get into the baby business. My niece had Coleman almost 4 weeks ago and her brother's wife is expecting Corbin in early January. What's really great about this is that both couples are good friends and the boys will be the same age and will grow up together and probably be as close as brothers.

A month or so ago, I posted the invitation for my niece's shower luncheon. We're giving the niece by marriage a shower in November and my assigned task was to create the invitation and get them in the mail. I dropped them in the mail on my way to finish the birth announcements. I wanted to do something different from the last invitation, but something that would also show that I consider this niece just as special. I found an invitation that had 3 ducks on it and decided that I could use Make the Cut to design a card with the ducks to be cut with my Cricut. I also needed some rubber ducky paper and was fortunate to find Simply Sweet Designs. She had exactly what I was looking for, and her prices were great. The Kit is called Rubber Ducky-Boy and I used the solid blue paper for the outside of the invite and the white background duck paper for the inside.

And now for the birth announcements. I'm so happy to say I've got this project finished too, and I love how they turned out. This time I used the Make the Cut software to design the onsie pattern and the bib. We started out with a blue gingham paper and a blue polka dotted paper from The Paper Studio. However, we couldn't find enough of either and it took a whole sheet of paper, so I went looking for some digital paper to print. When I couldn't find what I wanted, I contacted Paulette with Create with TLC, and she made me 3 different sized polka dotted papers. The bibs were first cut out with the Cricut, then the monogram was printed onto the bib, holes were punched for the ribbon and then the bib was run through the Cuttlebug to give it a dotted swiss pattern and texture.

Assembly required using the Scalloped Oval Spellbinder to cut a hole for Coleman's picture, and then sandwiching the picture between the patterned paper front and the solid white cardstock back. The pictures of Coleman were made by my nephew with Coleman in a basket in their front yard.

Thanks for stopping by. Now I can get back to making some cards for a few challenges. Next week I have another project that I need to get done, but you're just going to have to wait and see what it is. Thanks for stopping by.

Paper and Pieces

I really, really do love to sew, especially children's clothes. I haven't been doing much sewing lately since my babies have gotten to big for smocked dresses or button on the shoulder suits. That's about to change since we have a new great nephew and another on the way. In the meantime, the next best thing(and a whole lot faster), is paper piecing on digital images. This week Paper Piecing is the challenge on the Sassy Cheryl Challenge Blog. The DT did an amazing job in getting us inspired, so be sure to check out there cards. I didn't have to go shopping for an image for this challenge, but be sure to check out Sassy Cheryl's store, as she's just added some new images, you don't want to miss.

This image is called Pretty Sassy Cindy, and isn't she just so typical of the average 4 year old little girl? I found the flowered papers in Summer Drigg's Sweet Springtime Kit and is called Pink Flowers. The wonderful thing about printable paper is that you can make it small enough that the flowers aren't "too big" a print for the dress. I love these high waisted dresses on little girls. The rest of her is colored with Copics. The sketch is one I found on Kathy's Waffle Sketch File. The other patterned papers are also from Summer Drigg's Springtime Kit, and the Polka Dotted Paper is from her Winter Gifts kit. The sentiment is from Create with TLC and perfect for Pretty Sassy Cindy.

Thanks for stopping by.