We've Moved!

Hi everyone, I'm super excited to be a Guest Designer today for Lisa Norris of Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons.

Back in May Lisa made this super cute Moving Truck file and gave it away as one of her Friday Freebies. She has so many great files to choose from. We just moved yesterday.. (glad that part is over) and I can't wait to set up my new craft room and start playing again.

But before I packed up my current craft space I thought it would be fun to let people know that we were moving. So I used this file and made a shaped card. I added some yellow Stickles on the lights and gave the tires some dimension with some pop dots.

 On the inside I cut a second layer in white and added all our new info to it.

I love how this turned out and can't wait to play with more of Lisa's files. Make sure to head on over to the Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons Blog and don't forget to get your Friday Freebie. Also, check out the Pretty Cute Stamps Blog for some great stamps to match your files.

Happy Father's Day!!!!

Hello everyone, hope all the men in your life are having a great Father's Day. Since my Dad lives in another province, I made him a card and sent it in the mail.

He loves eagles so I started by cutting out this Bald Eagle from the Silhouette store by Jennifer Wambach. I used the Houndstooth embossing folder for his outer wing and a popdot for dimension.

Then I added some tree tops from the Tree file from Silhouette and inked them with Tim Holtz Peeled Paint. I didn't really have any sentiments that matched but I found this one by Just Rite from the Bird Houses set.

This card reminds me of the other day at the lake, there was an eagle sitting on the tree tops watching over everyone, just like a Father watches over his kids.

The inside sentiment is from Pink By Design's Spring Has Sprung set and the other stamp is one I had in my stash.

Wishing all the Dad's out there a Happy Father's Day!!!

Playing with Vinyl

Over the last week I had a few extra days off and took some time to play. I tried my hand at glass etching and then decided to play with some vinyl. This is the largest piece of vinyl that I have ever worked with, I made a few errors but they were easy to fix. I knew exactly which sentiment I wanted to cut out so I found a 16x20 glass frameless picture frame, fired up the Cameo and went to work.

I have some fabulous and creative co workers and one of them is a fantastic seamstress. I wanted to give her a little gift to say Thanks for her hard work and the beautiful job she did with one of my tops for work.

I used the Power of one woman vinyl graphic by Snapdragon Snippets and it turned out pretty great (if I do say so myself).

While I was at it I decided to make a sewing shadow box as well. I cut out the Vintage Dressform svg by Jennifer Wambach, added some paper from my stash and threw in some colored pins... I love how it turned out too.

I hope that they will make a great addition to her sewing room and she will enjoy them as much as I had fun making them.
I will be entering these into the challenge #21 Anything Goes over at Silhouette Challenges. Make sure to head on over there and check out all the great projects and enter one yourself.

Butterfly Wine Glasses

Well I finally tried my hand at glass etching and this is the result. There's a bit of a learning curve with this stuff but I think they turned out pretty good for my first time!

My friend loves butterflies and a good bottle of wine, so I bought some glasses and made a vinyl stencil with a butterfly that I found in the Silhouette online store.

I wanted the butterfly to be further down the glass but it was so curved I couldn't get the stencil on without wrinkles... Lesson learned. I still am very pleased with the way they turned out.

I used a brand called Armour Etch and it was super easy to use. I have a few other items that I would like to etch now that I know I can do it. Let the fun begin!!!!

My next post will be my first attempt working with a larger piece of vinyl. See you then.

Christmas Hand Sanitizer Holders

Hello everybody, hope everyone had a great New Years Eve and beginning to the new year.

Just wanted to share a few more Christmas projects over the next few days that have finally arrived at their destination.

I just love this Hand Sanitizer Holder by Lori Whitlock the combinations are endless.

For the first one I used Miss Kate's Ho Ho Ho file from the Silhouette online store. The ribbon and paper are from my stash and I added Wink of Stella around the black and on Santa's sack.

For this one I used the Echo Park Ornament also purchased at the Silhouette store. It's hard to tell but I used double sided tape and Glitter Ritz in white to match my paper.

Have a great day and keep crafting!

Santa's Kitties

At Christmas time I like to make little favor boxes to give as gifts to my coworkers. I have a few friends that LOVE their cats, so I thought it would be cute to make a cat shaped box for a few of them.

Using the Cat Bag file from Studio Ilustrado and my Cameo I cut out the cat in different colors. Then using Silhouette Double- sided sheets adhered to cardstock I cut out all the pieces that would be furry. Peeling off the backing and adding  some Martha Stewart Flocking powder in Swan and Pewter to make the soft fur.

Since my cats are suppose to be Christmas Kitties, they needed some Christmas bling. I cut out some of the Christmas Photo Props from Silhouette.

For the first kitty  I cut out the Santa hat, added some Wink of Stella to the brim, a pompom and embossed the hat with the corner of the Peachy Keen Cat Background stamp in white. What kitty doesn't have a bell, so I threaded a tiny jingle bell onto some twine and tied it around my kitty.

For the second one I choose the Elf Hat, I inked around the edges and added some Wink of Stella to the bell then cut out the scarf. I tucked a mouse into his hat that I stamped and fussy cut out from the same Peachy Keen Cat Background stamp.

I wanted to add some tissue paper inside of my cat boxes so I stamped the Cat Background stamp onto some white tissue paper and made my own designer tissue. Love, love how it turned out!

I think they will love getting these Christmas Kitties and I had so much fun making them.

I will be entering this into the Silhouette Challenge #20 Anything Goes over at Silhouette Challenges.

Little Monsters

From a month with no posts to 2 posts in one day.. lol but I just wanted to share the cute little tags I made for a special fun treat.

Almost a year ago a good friend gave birth to the most handsome twin boys. Well this year was their first Halloween, so I had to get them something. They got dressed up as these cute little blue monsters so I decided to make tags to match their little outfits.

I used the Cute Monster file from Michelle Rene and I just deleted some of the unwanted parts. I used Martha Stewart Flocking Powder in Fennel and gave them fury tummies. I added some googly eyes and some popdots to the mouth.

Originally my friend wanted to get photos of the boys in pumpkins but unfortunately it didn't happen. So I decided to put them in pumpkins for my tags using the Pumpkin Owl file form PPBN Designs. Made my pumpkins/monsters a shadow layer and added some ribbon.

On the back I cut out Spellbinders Pumpkin Circles for my sentiment spot. Then combining the Jaded Blossom Monster Mash stamp set and the Peachy Keen Frankly set to make my sentiment.

Here is a link to the original pictures before I spookified them!!

Easter Basket Update

I managed to get a picture of the fence basket treat that I made the other day, just some of the goods were already gobbled up.

I used the 3D Fence Basket file (#40671) from the Silhouette online store and then added the bunny from the Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons Hoppy Easter cut file.

I filled the basket with a assortment of goodies, I thought the carrot bubbles were cute. I also added some pb cups decorated with the Jaded Blossom Easter Candy set.

I love all of these companies and their creations that allow my imagination to flow... that is when I have some time for crafting.

Happy Easter!

Hope everyone's Easter was filled with family, friends, new memories and of course chocolate :) As a child I remember waking up on Easter morning and following the bunny prints around the house searching for clues to the next hidden treasure that the Easter bunny had brought.  It was so much fun! I still like to hide treats around the house.

So today I wanted to share with you a few treats that I made for Easter.

The first picture are some pb cups using one of my favorite kind of stamps from Jaded Blossom, Candy Stamps!

These are from the Easter candies set and colored with Copics. I added these to another treat that I made but didn't get a picture of. Oops!

I was at Michaels the other day and they had a really, really, really good sale on paper crafting items, so I just had a get myself the Fiskars  Corrigated Paper Crimper heeheee :)

So these are the first sour cream treat containers that I've made with my new crimper. I filled them with Jolly Rancher Jellybeans and Easter M&M's.

I am pleased with the way they turned out and boy are they fast to make :)

Then I made some Peeps on a stick, found this idea somewhere on Pinterest. I used short bamboo skewers and added 3 Peeps, placed them in a bag and tied a tag on with ribbon.

The sentiment on my tag says " For A Special PEEP" I got this stamp in the $1.50 bin at Michaels and stamped it in Brilliance Lime ink to give it that sparkle like the sugar on the peeps.

I stuck them into a 3D Fence Basket #40671 that I got in the Silhouette Online store and then added the bunny painting eggs from the Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons Hoppy Easter Cutting file.

Have a great day and don't eat too much chocolate!

Baby Shower Favors

Warning: This post is picture heavy but really adorable.

So today I'm going to share the favors that my friend's sister Katherine and I made for the baby shower.

Katherine made these adorable diaper favors and filled them with yummy candies.

I went to Michaels and purchased some baby bottles and ribbon. I picked up a bunch of Hershey Kisses and used several Jaded Blossom Candy Stamps, as well as a Hero Arts stamp for the bottom of each kiss. I then added some gift basket shred in blue and popped in the kisses.

I made the tag with the print and cut feature on my Cameo.

For the first kiss I used Brilliance Coffee Bean Ink and the little hedgehog on the Hero Arts Precious Baby Boy stamp set.

All the rest of the kisses I used Jaded Blossom Candy stamps.

For this one I used the Mustache Candies set, also stamped in Coffee Bean.

Here I used the Valentine Candies set with Brilliance Pearlescent Thyme ink.

The next set I used was the Baby Candies stamped in Brilliance Pearlescent Thyme and Sky Blue.

 The last set I used and this is my favorite of all the kisses I made is from the Kawaii Candies set stamped in Coffee Bean.

LOL... I love this little poop :)

As with any shower we played a bunch of fun games but the game I loved the most was this:

I used Google to find some games and saw this one and I just had to include it in all the fun! I made the sign and the poop ballot using my computer and printer and then stamped the little poop all over!

Then came the fun part making the poop combos and letting everyone try to guess which chocolate bars I used to make them. LOL this was so funny I couldn't stop laughing, this is a must play game for a shower.

 One of the other games we played was What's in your purse? I used the Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons Safari Love Cutting files and printed out a header for this game.

What a great time everyone had at the shower. It took a while to make everything but I had so much fun creating everything and using all the different files and stamps and of course did I mention that I LOVE my Cameo :)

Noah's Ark Banner

Hello everyone!

Today I'm posting the banner and a few other little projects that I made for my friend's Baby shower. The theme was Noah's Ark as she had twin boys! They are so super cute and bring lots of love and joy to everyone.

For the banner I opened up my Silhouette DE Software and purchased a few files from the Silhouette online store. I started by cutting the Top Note Nested Shapes in blue on my 12 x 24 mat for the main banner pieces, then cut out the inset pieces in a striped pattern paper.

Next I used the type tool, chose a font and typed out my text then made shadow layers for each letter.

I used the Noah's Ark file by Sarah Bailey and cut it out 6 times. I used  my Tim Holtz and Cuttlebug Wood grain embossing folders for all the pieces. For Noah I used the Peachy Keen In the Garden face assortment and used twine to give him a rope tie for his robe.

I bought some chip bowls and used some Silhouette Adhesive Vinyl in white to cut out their names.

My friend had her twins 3 months early (!) and so they were in hospital for some time. Only the hospital was almost 2 hrs away from where we live. So while they were in hospital Mom stayed at Jeneece Place.

Jeneece Place is a home away from home for families who travel for their child's medical care. It is owned and operated by Children's Health Foundation of Vancouver Island. I visited my friend while she was there and what an amazing place it is for families with sick children.

So at her baby shower we had a donation jar (bottle) for Jeneece Place.

Jeneece Place was the dream of this brave young girl. May she rest in peace

Now I couldn't forget the proud Daddy of the twins. Using the 3D Tool Box from Samantha Walker I cut out this Daddy's Diaper Toolkit, and filled it with all the necessary items he will need to lend a hand.

Tomorrow I will post the favors that I made using Jaded Blossom stamps and the print and cut feature on my Cameo.