Congratulations, Graduate! Owl

Hello! Today’s I’ve got another card using the new Owl Graduate from the Chicken Girl digis May Collection printed on Copic Medium Weight cardstock, colored with Prisma pencils and cut out with Labels Eight. I sponged the edges with Palette Haystack. Then I cut the greeting out using the Labels Seven dies since they look like a book. I thought that was the perfect touch for a graduation card.
My DP is from the adorable new Basic Grey Max & Whiskers line and my ribbon is the red faux suede, just loosely knotted. Very simple but I think it is adorable!
Thank you so much for stopping in today! See you again soon!

Five Minute Friday: You’re Special

Happy Friday! Yippee! It’s a holiday weekend (here in the US!) I love holidays, especially when the forecast is beautiful!

I have a super quick card (because it is Five Minute Friday!) using a sketch from the PC Go To Sketches magazine.

Did you know that several of the patterns from Very Square can be lined up? Well, yes, they can and the polka dots are one of them. So that’s what I did here. I stamped the pattern in Palette Claret and because they’re clear it is super easy to line up. Then I used my Jumbo Scalloped Petite Borderabilities to cut the edge. I put some bling in the holes it cut near the peaks. Then I wrapped a piece of 3/8” white satin ribbon on the edge and used the last of my Lemonade Woolies. Lastly I stamped my greeting from All Occasions Messages (also in Claret) along the top of the ribbon.

It look me longer to write up this post than it did to make the card!

A few store updates: DeLovely has sold out and Cosmo Cricket is telling me they won’t be restocking until the end of August! I am leaving it active so you can click the restock notice if you’d like to be notified when it does become available again.

There are lots of new additions – Unity, ribbon and Copics (restocked) so be sure to check the new section of the website!

And, TODAY is the last day to submit newsletter name suggestions with your chance to win a $25 gift certificate. DETAILS HERE.

I hope you have a great weekend! I’ll be back Monday with a a Chicken Girl card for you! Thanks for stopping by!

Color Throwdown

Hello! Today I’m sponsoring Color Throwdown (using Chicken Girl Design). How exciting! I hope you stop by and play along! You could win a 6 free digis! WOW!!



I did some Photoshop work on my Monkey Around digi to make my card today. First I decapitated my monkey (something I would normally never do!) and then I did some editing on the sentiment because the original sentiment was too big for the space I wanted to put it. (It’s a little naughty now. HAHA!) Anyway, this sort of thing is why I LOVE digis! It gives you so much flexibility and you don’t need a lot of compute skills to do it. All I used were my eraser tool and my cropping tool.
I loosely based my card on a sketch from the last Go To Sketches issue. I printed out my 5 monkey heads on Copic Medium Weight paper, used my small square Nesties to cut/emboss them and then colored them in. They’re popped up using some 1mm dimensional dots. Then I used my long rectangle Nesties to make the scallops on the top/bottom of the blue and on the bottom of my sentiment tag. My DP is from Kioshi and had almost all the colors from the challenge in it. Score! I finished it off with some small blossom gems.
In addition to the Color Throwdown DT showing you samples today, some of my DT girls are playing along as well (they’re not all using CGD digis so there’s lots of variety for you!) Go check them out!
Carolyn
Tracy
Lori
Gretchen
Loretta
Kendra
Carlie
Laura
Michele
Christy
Deb
Tammy
Have a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Name The Newsletter contest

Just a reminder, in case you missed it in the last newsletter, that we’re holding a newsletter naming contest.  Deadline to submit entries is this Friday!

Come up with a name for us, and if we decide to use it you'll win a $25 gift certificate to i {heart} papers!

To enter, send us an e-mail (service@iheartpapers.com) with "Newsletter Name Contest" as the subject, and your brilliant idea for a newsletter name in the body of the e-mail. 

I’ll be back tomorrow with a card for the Color Throwdown!  I’m sponsoring it this week so be sure to check back!

Pink Mint Motif Quilt

Can you keep a secret? I am LOVING these two new Mint Motif sets! For today’s card I used my second smallest Square Nesties to die-cut various little squares stamped in Palette Belle Rose and Toile Pink. This pattern is one of the repeating ones in the set so if you line it up carefully, it will seamlessly line up. I pieced them together and added small pearls at all the corners. Then I made a custom tag using my Round Top Tag, including a strip from one of the leftover cutouts from the squares.

Then I finished it off with some sheer pink ruffle ribbon and a brad from Bittersweet Glazed brads.

I love how versatile these two sets are! Thanks for stopping in today! See you again soon!

OCLDT14: Happy Father’s Day

Hello!  Happy Saturday!  Today’s card uses (sorta) the OCLDT14 sketch.  That was my starting point and when I saw it I knew I wanted to use these bracket chipboard pieces I’ve had forever (well, since my SU! days).  I covered the set of them with some Kioshi paper and then I couldn’t get the second bracket to work on my card.  So, here it is, minus one bracket!

The image is from Beach Days, stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black on Copic Medium Weight cardstock and colored like me when I was a little girl, with Copics.  I used some Stickles to make her shine (rock candy Stickles on the ice cream cone).  I used my Large Circle Nesties to make the focal point.  The greeting is from Fishing With Dad.  (My father and I never went fishing.   Eww.)

I also used one of my new Quickutz folders called A2 Swirls.  It reminded me of beachy waves.  The ribbon is this sheer white ribbon that I colored with my Copics.

If you play along be sure to tag your creation OCLDT14 and upload it to Mr. Linky here.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great weekend!

Five Minute Friday: Patterned Squares

Hello!  Happy Friday!  I’ve got another Mint Motif card today using Very Square and Very Square Sentiments.  One of the things I like about several of the patterns in Very Square is that they are repeating patterns so if you’re careful, you can line them up.  Good thing they’re clear!  So, that’s what I did here.  I stamped the square and greeting (I omitted part of the greeting) in Palette L’Amour Red, trimmed it down and layered it with some alternating Labels One dies. 

Have a great weekend!  Thanks for stopping in!