Wedding Day, Sweet Chickies

This is a wedding chickies card for a sweet friends.  She is a friend in my blingy circle, so the card fits DeNami's Product Challenge #7 perfectly.

I received a cute bride and groom chickie stamp from DeNami in their recent promotion.  I stamped the image and surrounded it with a blingy heart.  I hand cut the image with the border and layered it with another piece of patterned paper.   I added a few accents, a few more bling, and hope that our sweet bride will like this card!

Thanks for looking!

Supplies List:
DeNami Wedding Chickies Stamp
DCWV Luxury Stack, Glitter Stack
Recollections Pearls and Rhinestones
Prima Flowers
Cuttlebug With Love Embossing Folders

Live Simply * Love Abundantly

Maybe because it's allergy season and things seem a little hazy for me all the time, this week has just flown by and I barely noticed ... which means it's time for another Play Date Cafe Challenge (PDCC74).   This week's challenge uses the gorgeous combination of purple, blue and white.   These are truly my favourite colours!

For this week's card, I layered cardstock with patterned paper.  I inked the embossed white cardstock with both blue and purple ink to create a gradient look.  I doubled-matted the quote sticker, and added the butterfly, the flower and tiny pearl accents.   To add a little more sparkle to the butterfly, I added a little Stickles.

Thanks for looking!

Supplies List
DCWV Pocket of Posies
K&Co Susan Winget Botanical Stickers
K&Co Poppy Seed Stickers
Prima Flowers
Cuttlebug Swirl Embossing Folder
Colorbox Pigment Cat's Eye Queue Fiesta

Long Stemmed Sentiment Card

This is my first time playing in the Play Date Cafe Challenge.  The gorgeous trio of colours are from Play Date Challenge PDCC73.  To make this simple card, I stamped the flower stems on the white cardstock, the flowers on the red cardstock and the vase on the plum cardstock.  I did a little bit of paper piecing and assembled the flower vase.  I added some glitter to the vase, and coloured in the leaves in order to dress up the image.  As for the background, I used Cuttlebug to emboss one of the strips, and used patterned paper for the other strip.  Lastly, I've added three jewels and a ribbon to finish up the card.

Supplies List:
Technique Tuesday Long Stemmed Sentiment Stamps
Technique Tuesday Black Ink
Colorbox Pigment Cat's Eye Queue Fiesta
Making Memories Patterned Paper
Cuttlebug Bloom Dots A2 Embossing Folder
Tombow Dual Brush Pen

Happy Bird-day to You!

I am in love with the 'Chickie' stamps, and last week, I created a birthday card using DeNami Sketch #7 which is designed by the talented Michele.

This is a versatile sketch that is great for any special occasion.  I decided to make a cheerful card based on this design.

I stamped the image and double matted it.  I also double matted the patterned paper in the back as well.  I colored the image with matching colours and added the border for a little more festive feel.

Thanks for looking!




Supplies List:
DeNami Stamp
DCWV Pocket of Posies Stack
K & Co Poppy Seed Border
Cat's Eye Ink, Technique Tuesday Ink
Tombow Dual Tip Brush
Ranger Stickles

Happy Birthday, My Sweet Friend

I bought a set of beautiful stamps and haven't been able to use them yet.  Since there are a few upcoming birthdays (for a few sweet friends), I have decided to finally break into them.   This is the first in a series of projects I'm making with these stamps. 

I stamped and coloured the image in order to match the background paper and the overall colour theme.  I don't own any Copic Markers yet, so I'm using the water based Tombow markers.  One thing I learned is that the hybrid ink I used still bleeds a little into the colouring, so I may try some different markers next time.   

I doubled matted the image, and also double matted the patterned paper in the background.  In order to make the image 'pop' a little more, I used dimensional foam squares.

A very simple card for my very sweet friend...  :)

Supplies:
Denami Sweet Treats Stamp
Technique Tuesday Ink
Tombow Dual Brush Pen
DCWV Pocket of Posies Patterned Paper

Valentine's Day Card

I made this card based on a design from the Outlines Stamp Gallery. I went back to find the link but I cannot find it anymore. The original card has similar design - with the stamp image being stamped twice, and the different components are cut out. I've made a slight modification by matting all of the components to make them 'pop' a little more. I've also turned the direction of the hearts inward and added the inking and distressing.

This is also my first time using Distress embossing powder. Although I have almost destroyed a corner of my living room carpet, the result came out quite well. I love the subtlety of the colours and the texture.

Next time, I just have to remember putting a heat resistant mat over the carpet before I use the heat gun.



Supplies List:
Outlines Stamp E-234 Inspiration Square Lg. 1
DCWV Luxury Mat Stack
Recollections silver cardstock
Brown cardstock
Rangers Distress embossing powder
Cats Eye azure ink

Valentine's Day Project

I wanted to make something 'sweet' for my little helpers.. besides those baked goods. I came across this beautiful sparkly ribbon that was on sale at Michael's and got an idea. Why not make something sweet with this ribbon that reminds me of frosting or icing?

I also needed a gift bag for the little puppy keychains I bought for my sweet ones. A while back, I was very excited to find a Sizzix XL die for making takeout boxes, and got even more excited when Cuttlebug came out with this new extended cutting pad that will allow users to use Sizzix XL die. I decided to make a gift box out of the takeout box. The die makes one half of the box only, so I had to run another strip of paper through again to make the other half. I also trimmed the top of one of the halves to make the top close easily.

I used a tape runner for gluing the box together, and it was not strong enough. A wet glue would work better in this case... or a couple of glue dots might do the trick. As for decorations, I used more stickers on one of the boxes, and used the Sizzix 3-D flower die to make the roses on the other box. The Imaginisce petal roller tool helped me roll up the petals easily to form the rose.

I hope my kids love these sweet treats.

Supplies List
Card:
Pink cardstock
Pink Stickles
Jolee's Boutique Valentine's stickers

Take-out box:
Pink cardstock
Sizzix XL takeout box die
Sizzix Bigz 3-D flower die
Cuttlebug with extended cutting pad
Jolee's Boutique Valentine's stickers
Pink Stickles

Happy Valentine's Day!

As usual, we celebrated Valentine's day with.. more food! We baked some cupcakes and my little helpers helped with the sprinkles. That was for breakfast... I know.. once a year they get to do this wild thing. I guess my justification is that they will be loaded up with sugar at school anyways.

As for dinner, I had to work so I made something simple - ribs, cornbread, mashed potatoes. I surprised everyone with the chocolate dipped fruit (strawberries and organic apple slices from Costco) .. and yes, I delegated the cleaning (especially the pot that was used to melt the chocolate) to my dearest hubby. :) It was a sweet day for sure!