Homemade Valentines

It's that time again, when I get to show off my craftiness a bit! and you get to ooooh and ahhhh a little bit :)

Let's Scrap Sarah

My latest Sarah Hurley project, the challenge is "MUM's the word", you can enter the challenge over at Sarah Hurley's Challenge Blog. Window cards are one of my new favorite thing to create, so I started with a 6 x 6 card base made from some pretty red paper. I knew I would be putting a large print onto this card so I chose a subtle print for my base.

After trimming out a 4.5 x 4.5 square from the card front I inked the entire card as well as the 5 x 5 center square. Normally I would be using distress inks, but I wanted a more chocolate tone to my brown so I chose my studio G small square instead.

I had originally planned to add that pretty sparkly brown ribbon, but in the end it just didn't fit in, same with the bright green circle. That pretty red shape is from a Papertrey Ink limitless layers set.

I absolutely LOVE my cheapo Staples glitter pens, they last forever and the colors dry fast. I randomly filled in some of the apples on these trees with the red and traced the wood grain lines on the tree trunks with the pearlized brown. The doodles for the leaves are the brush end of my marker, you can do this same technique with Copics, but I am a scrapper on a budget and I don't have any yet.

After adhering the big green circle to the front of the card I stitched a few lines over the ribbon and pop dotted the other elements after inking them.

Like a fool I waited until the whole card to be done before adding my handwritten elements so they are a little wobbly. I keep saying to myself, DO THAT FIRST... someday I will start taking my own advice.

Arrrrgggg!

Sarah Hurley's new Pirate Collection dropped today! Here's my DT card:

Go here to get your piratey goodness: SARAH HURLEY

Now I love all Sarah's images, but I really wanted to have my pirates on a big ship and the collection included a really cool island but not a ship. So I drew one to add on my card. As always, I start with tracing paper. I find that it's easier to get the image on my paper if I create it on tracing paper, it saves the step later on. Here's my ship in the beginning sketch stage.

I transfered the image to plain white cardstock and colored it with colored pencils and Sharpie markers. I wanted the wood to have a really grainy feel that you just can't get with markers. Then I cut it out with my baby Cutter Bee scissors and an exacto knife. Finally I added pop dots to adhere it to a sheet of Sarah's sky background paper.

This card came out so soft and springy, I am in love with stitching on everything!

The Basic Grey Kioshi collection is so beautiful, it's very wahsed out and flowery. Check it all out and the Basic Grey design team's projects here: BASIC GREY

Spring Has Sprung!

Remember those flowers I posted yesterday? Each bunch was $1.00 USD at a discount store so I could not pass them up. We still have FEET of snow on the lawn and driveway and when I woke up this morning it was -5 degrees, so I am in desperate need of some spring.


I started with this paper form the Lost & Found collection. These birds are so cute and I love me some glitter, I trimmed out the journal section. Now here is where I goofed up. I wasn't sure what kind of card I wanted so I didn't stamp it right away. HUGE mistake (rookie mistake really, I know better). My advice? ALWAYS stamp your image on your paper before making anything!


I ripped apart the flowers and trimmed some of the parts down and randomly hot glued them to the back of the cutout. This is where you have to let go of your fear of not being perfect. It doesn't matter if the stuck out all wonky on the back and look weird because when you turn it over it will look great...


See? GREAT! At this point I knew I wanted it to say Spring has sprung, which is a little stamp from a set I have had for ages, I think I got it at Michaels Arts & Crafts Store but I can't be sure.


I pop dotted the back and trimmed all the excess flower petals that were poking out all around the back before adhering it to the card front. The card is a standard 5.5 x 4.25 (after the fold, half of an 8.5 x 11 sheet). Normally this would fit into a standard A2 envelope (invitation size), but the flowers make it impossible. I recommend using the larger photo mailer size so you don't crush the flower edges.

St. Patrick's Day

Green is my favorite color! I love St. Patty's day because everyone gets to wear my favorite color, and it's a good excuse to get together with friends, have delicious food and frolic like teenagers. yay!

Spring Cards

This is just my teaser post for you :) More after I finish editing!

2 YO Valentines

Lili was helping me make cards tonight, this is her Robot Valentine :) Sorry guys, not for sale.

U ROCK!

All the pretty Valentines day cards I had down at A Daisy Daze SOLD OUT! Yay! SO I am working this weekend to fill 'em back up because there is a long way 'till Valentines and people have been asking.

Find A Daisy Daze Here:

On Facebook: A Daisy Daze
Order Online: A Daisy Daze


I hate that there is a fuzzy unfocusedness to this photo but I think you get the point. There will be 2 of each card I make this time around instead of just one. I will post one on my Etsy shop and have one in the store, that way you online shoppers will have a chance to grab the goodies that all the locals do, Your welcome :)

New arrival in the sock monkey family! I think I will name him Zeb, he is totally cute and I love him :) thanks MOM!!!!!

Dresses Continued...

Here is the link to the swap: Dress up your craft space!

The template was created by: MEL click her name to go to her cool blog and get your own free templates for all sorts of great stuff!

This is the front of the box, I still need to add the flowers and the handle...

All the little dresses line up so cute inside!

These are the finished dresses with their flower and blingy broaches.

Darling Dresses

I LOVE using tracing paper, so any excuse to trace it up makes me happy. This project is a swap I created at the behest of @RyeRye, who is such a great group founder. I just love her ideas and whever I am stuck for inspiration she is always there to give me a little pick me up :)


These little dresses have many different uses. I created them as cards, so my partner can use them as a card, or pin them up in their craft space as a little clothesline decoration.


After cutting out all the little dresses I cut out aprons and pockets and sewed everything with my sewing machine. Then Inked everything with my favorite Distress Ink (Vintage Photo).


I ran out of zip dry so I used Glossy Accents to attach the little flowers and the bling centers.

There is an awesome box template that all these cards fit right into, it will be posted above since blogger can only handle 5 pics at once.

Also I will post the link to the swap and the templates so you can make these yourself!

Are you sick of Valentines yet?

These ones will be headed to A Daisy Daze today :) There is a NASTY snowstorm going on out there, it looks like a good day for sleeping and hot chocolate.

Fire Sale

I dropped off these pretties (sorry about the blur) at A Daisy Daze in Lyndonville to sell and as I was talking with the shop owner (and my friend) a man bought one! It was pretty exciting, I was giddy for a few short moments, then I had to come home and do laundry. The rest are still available in person at the shop on Memorial Drive in Lyndon. It's a neat feeling to know that my stuff is out there in the world now, instead of just virtual space :)