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It's just hard for me to try to keep up with everything else with family, kids sports, and etc for this blog. Someday soon, I'll update it with my cards. Thanks for visiting.

IC161 My Polka Dot Dress

Finally I get to play with a challenge. My kids have been keeping me busy doing things with them before school starts back on Monday. They are hanging out with their dad today. Onto my story. This is a card I chose for today's Inspiration Challenge by Cake Nouveau. It is on Page 3, 2nd row, 3rd picture. I thought it would be fun to create a different kind of card other than the everyday standard types. I got the template from one of my quilt magazines and just altered it a bit. I traced the template onto white c/s and placed the shoulder part of the dress on the fold. Cut out. I used my small circle punch for the neck. I punched out several circles using the CM circle punch with 4 different colors of c/s. I glued them into their places. My husband suggested that I made the top part of the dress to make a 3D appearance to make the middle. I traced and cut out another piece from the template. Once the circles were mounted, I added a drop of diamond glaze to each circle and used my finger to spread it around to get a shiny but flat look. I added pop dots for the top piece of the dress. I also added the bow using glue dots, so you can still open the card without it coming off. This was really fun to make and I'm glad that I was able to complete a challenge. I hope you like my dress. Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day.

Please look past the smudge mark below my name, its on my camera chip...thank you!

WT205 Kobys Quilt and blanket

WOW! I had one heck of a day..The phone kept ringing, the doorbell rang, school called, and etc. Why is it when I see a challenge card in the morning, I can never get it down until later. Anyhow, here is my story.

Today's Ways To Use It Challenge was to use Fabric on our cards. I was excited about this one because my son just made a cat quilt for one of my pen pals here on SCS. I had just sealed it up to be mailed. Well, I took my scissors and cut the box to get the quilt out. Warning! Do not try to quilt while you have a cat in the room. She kept taking my chair. This was not the 1st project I had in mind. I actually had made a mini mini quilt to look like my son's quilt. I didn't like the way it came out. So, I decided to just do a card like this. I cut my fabrics to 1 inch squares and glued them onto chipboard. I added a 1/4 inch border around all sides. Trimmed. I attached it to the base of the c/s. I stamped the cat onto watercolor paper. I colored it using prismacolor pencils, odorless mineral spirits, and blending stumps. Heat embossed with clear powder. Cut out. I stamped the cat again, and colored it gray. Cut out. I added a piece of foam tape for a 3D look. It is attached to the quilt with fabric glue. I really didn't want to add any ribbon to this card, so I just used my window punch, eyelets, and hand wrote my friends cat's name. Thank you so much for this challenge. I hope my friend likes it. Do you? Have a wonderful night!

Remember the days that my kids were out of school a couple of weeks ago due to the wicked ice storm? Well, they kinda got tired of the video games and wanted to learn how to sew. Dallas who is 11 wanted to make a cat quilt for a friend of mine on SCS because she just adores her cat Koby. He had already made our cat one.
This quilt is made from Moda cat print fabrics. The blue and the star prints are misc fabrics. He really enjoyed sewing this. Thanks for viewing his quilt.

Dallas had to sew all the squares individually. But I just helped get the points to match. He also did the borders. He even quilted the top, batting, and the bottom together. WOW!

This quilt is called "Sunshine and Shadows". The pattern starts at the top left hand corner.

WT207 My Pocket Friends

Ok, I think I figured it out. I am not a day stamper obviously. My mojo starts flowing about 2pm. Trust me, I looked for things around the house like the cans, magazines, and etc. It wasn't until I walked by my laundry room and saw a pair of my son's jeans that had big holes in them. Sometimes, I think I try to hard.

Sorry for the blur, I had to adjust my camera from the other night.

Here is my story:

The challenge today for Ways To Use It, was we were suppose to use anything that is frugal and not having to buy things to make our card. Well, after seeing my son's jeans, I started to cut out the pockets. I had to sew more inside twice around in order for it to fit on this card. Cut to size and then sew on the lines. Sponged with brown ink. I changed threads to brown too. I then used the lace border punch and used the cb mini button emboss folder on it. I attached it to the top of the jeans with Tombo Mono glue and also stitched the seam. I added rhinestone brad flowers to the edges using the piercing tool. I stamped the sentiment from Pocket Fun, trimmed to size, and sponged around the edges with pink ink. Attached. I stamped the girls onto cream c/s because I wanted them to match the lace on the pocket with black ink. I colored them using prismacolor pencils. I cut them out with scissors and used my kraft knife for the tiny areas. I didn't want alot of cream showing. I added chalk to their cheeks. I used 2-way glue for the hair tie, bracelet, heart, flower, and added sprinkles of glitter to them. They are held on with foam tape. I ran the pink b/g c/s using the cb paisley emboss folder, added rhinestones to the corners, and attached to the base of the card. I really had fun making this card once I got started. The card actually didn't take me long at all, but the idea did. Thank you for the fun challenge. Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

What do you think? It does look better in person though.

Busy Month

I wanted everyone to know that I am trying to get back to updating my blog. As for now, the cards I have made with just have the pictures shown. It will have the story next week. It's been very hectic at my house all week. Thanks for your understanding. Have a great weekend!

TLC199 Nothing Fancy

 

Well, I didn't have the tag punches that was suppose to be used in the challenge for the Tag Punch Starburst. I did something similar called Survival. I used my mini tag die cuts from Sizzix. It worked out ok, even though the points seem a little off for me. As long as I got the chance to play and figure out the concept, I am happy with my outcome. I used the teal mulberry paper underneath the teal c/s. After I put it together the both pieces I added the stickles all around the edges including the center around the snowflake. I added the CB snowflake folder to the background and added criss cross ribbon for the middle. This is just to show you that I did try the challenge. TFL! Have a great night!

Once the bigger tag was punched out, I had to trim the sides on ALL of them with scissors. It was tedious, but it was ok.

SC210 FS100 WT200 Movie Stars

 

Whew! Still got a slight headache going on, but seemed to get this challenge done...took me longer because I did a lot of resting today. Am I the only one that suffers from Migraines? I get them twice a month, anyhow...here is my story. The Featured Stamper today was JulieHRR.

The base of the card is kraft, so I am working with the brown c/s. I started with DCWV dp and used the cb swiss dots folder. Then I mounted it to the brown c/s. I used a zig zag stitch with my sewing machine on both dp's. I sponged all the edges using brushed corduroy ink. Now the tricky part: I had to make my own film strip using the punch that is in the picture (I'm sorry I don't have the name of it) and using it on brown c/s for each film strip. Trimmed as needed. I hand cut out the squares using a kraft knife. I took 2 baseball pictures of my kids and cut to size. I stamped the same boy from a studio g stamp onto vanilla c/s and colored the image using Prismacolor pencils. I used the versamark pen, clear emboss powder, and heat tool on them as well for both. I secured the stamped image/pictures with 2-way glue. I stamped 5 stars from the Teeny Tinies set with old olive ink onto vanilla c/s. I used the versamark ink, clear emboss powder, and heat tool here too. Cut out. I didn't know where to put the stars, so I just did it like this...I hope they look ok. They are held on with pop dots. The sentiment Movie Stars is computer generated and trimmed. I added eyelets and sponged the edges as well. Both are held on with pop dot squares. This was really a fun challenge once I got going. This will go in my scrapbook for the kids when I get to them. It really didn't take me all day to do this...just in between naps. I hope you like it. Thanks Roxy for the great challenge! Have a great night!

I just uploaded this card late last night (like into the wee hours of the morning) works perfect for the Ways to Use It Challenge), we were to add Stars of any kind to our card, so I decided to add this for a triple challenge.