A Royal Birthday Crown! {JAI#100}

This is just a quick post for the Just Add Ink #100 theme challenge to celebrate their 100th birthday, and  the Royal theme is "Just Add Crowns". You must use a crown on your card, layout or 3D project. Fun right? Well I decided to make yet another one of these cute little boxes that uses two pieces of the milk carton die! So quick and easy and sooooooooooo darn cute. Don't ya think?

I made one just like this for my girlfriend last year in a gift set, and also made a ton of them for  Halloween table favors, Thanksgiving table favors, and Christmas table favors in my card classes. This one is simply black & white (Love that) with a touch of pink on the tag bow.

It also uses one of the SU trinket crowns, SU basic pearls, and pretty ribbon.

The flowers were punched from DSP scraps using the 5 Petal Flower and Boho Blossoms punches, then basic pearls were added to the centers.

 Here is a close up of the cute little SU 'trinket crown' hooked on the pink bow, then tied to the black ribbon that gathers to the box top.  The tag was stamped with the SU stamp set "You're  a Gem".

These cute little boxes have so many uses, and they are super simple to make. I hope you give it a try and also check out Just Add Ink other 'crown' jewels.

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All you need is LOVE theme challenge {PP#77}

Today's post is for The Paper Players theme challenge {#77} "All you need is LOVE".  Well I haven't done many heart cards but what could say Love more than a new baby?

I just made this card yesterday for a baby shower I have to attend this week for a friend's DIL and she knows it's going to be a girl... so Pretty in PINK was in order. Here is my card.

I used the new "Framelit Label" dies to create dimension by popping up the pink label and double popping the whisper white focal point. I colored the focal point "Bringing Baby" (SU A La Carte stamp) with a blender pen and write markers.

I used one more whisper white die cut for the inside sentiment distressed the edges wtih pretty in pink ink and stamped the cute little bunny from "Forest Friends" (retired).

This is going into a basket full of the shower gifts along with a bookmark for mom, and a sweet little 4 1/2" square box I made to hold 3 tiny books for baby. The box is adorned with some pretty in pink DSP, edged in ribbon and topped with a DSP paper bow with a new "Everyday Enchantment" butterfly brad (SAB) in the center.

Box opened.

I think this was a project filled with LOVE to fit The Paper Players theme challenge.  What do you think?

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Apothecary Art Card Class Card

Happy New Year everyone!

Whew... I just feel like I can't catch up! After 10 days off for the holidays then back to work at full tilt, I'm just plain exhausted. I can't seem to get anything done. There are so many challenges I want to participate in, but here I sit in my easy chair on a Friday night. Well at least I can catch up on some blogs, but before I do that, I'm going to do a quick post of one of the cards we did for my first Wednesday of the month club... here.

I started with a sage (?) card base and added a strip of Everyday Enchantment DSP (SAB) to bottom front. Then I die cut 3 labels from the new Framelits Labels dies in whisper white and early espresso. I stamped and colored the flowers with coral and artichoke ink using blender pens. This was popped up with dimensionals over the (SAB)Everyday Enchantment DSP strip. I added a touch of dazzling details to the flower centers and added a cute little bow from the (SAB) calypso coral ribbon with crystal effects.

The inside used the third label die cut that I glued over the scrap strip of DSP. I stamped with another one of the stamps from the Apothecary set. I also colored the flowers but left the inside for a small personal note.

 Done!

I only preordered few items from the Occasions mini to fill a customer order; can you believe it?  I'm trying to wait for SAB...yeah right.

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Great Surprise - I made the "Best Dressed List for 2011" at the PPA

Wow Wee! What exciting news for me today. I just received an email telling me that one of my challenge cards was chosen by Nina Dee as a winner on the  "Best Dressed List for 2011" over at Pal Paper Arts!   challenge blog. How exciting is that!

Here is my card that was chosen for the month of August by Nina.

This was my very first attempt to make a 'lollie' card.

You can read all the details of my ''lollie' card from my original post here.

More exciting news.... my VERY talented SU up-line Nance Leedy from Canopy Crafts was also chosen as the winner for April. How wonderful! If you would like view all the other monthly winners stop by Pals Paper Arts for the complete list.

 Once again I want to say THANK YOU to all the Pals Paper Arts design team members for such wonderful inspiration every week of the year, and a special Thank You to the very talented  Nina Dee from "Designs by Nina Dee" for choosing my card as one of the monthly winners. Please stop by and visit Nina along with all the other fabulous members of the Pals Paper Arts design team.

Happy New Year.

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Established Elegance

This is such a busy time for me but I decided to post this card that I made for a friend to give to her goddaughter for her 18th birthday. I used the Established Elegance stamp set and the inspiration came from Ann Schach here. Here is my card for my friend.

I started with a pretty in pink base embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder. I used some bordering blue cs to mat the DSP (retired) and stamped a few images from Established Elegance on the DSP and glued to the card front.

I added some scrunchy baja breeze seam binding to the top edge.

I stamped the dress form and flower from the same set and embossed with the oval from the Textured Impressions set and distressed the edges with soft suede ink, then added with dimensionals. A few flowers colored with stamp write markers were added as well a sentiment with a few rhinestones and the number 18, both mated and popped up.  I also 'attempted' to make a seam binding rose (ugh) and added a soft pink pearl.

A peek at the inside and done!

The colors really are much prettier but my photography STINKS!

Hope she'll like the card I made for her Godchild's 18th birthday!

This is my last post for 2011. Have a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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