Too Cute Onsie Album

Hello Everyone, I have been crafting like a made women this week... here is a Onsie Chipboard Album from Want2Scrap©. I made this for my neighbor, her daughter Drina had a little boy so I thought I would make her something special.

The letters on the front are chipboard Chubba Bubba also from Want2Scrap©. The adorable die cut Nested Duck is from Spellbinders®

The ducks are are 72 Count Black Rhinestone Bling, don't they make the perfect eyes?

The sail boats are made out of Nestabilities Classic Circles and Nested Pennants, with the matching Nestabling from Want2Scrap©

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, and Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there tomorrow!
Crafty Smiles, Terre

Quietfire Designs 2012 Christmas Hop!

Sorry Everyone I was so busy I forgot to pick my winner but here is the winner from my blog:

Beach Girl 115 said...

So beautiful! I love both your card with its awesome poinsettia and the glittery snowflake tag.

October 19, 2012 5:32 PM

 

It is Beach Girl 115....please email me with your name, address etc so that Quietfire can send you your goodies. Thank you everyone for commenting, I hope you stop back by to see some of my other creations. Crafty Smiles...Terre

 

Happy Thursday Everyone! Today it’s my turn in the Quietfire Designs Christmas Hop. This is Day Four of the Christmas Blog Hop and if you missed any of the days, here’s our schedule:

• Monday, Oct 15th: Yogi ,Wanda
• Tuesday,Oct 16th: Robyn, Holly
• Wednesday, Oct17th: Sherry
• Thursday, Oct 18th: Monica , Terre (you are here)
• Friday, Oct 19th: Suzanne

Remember to leave comments as you go, to be eligible for the draw where you can win a grab bag of great Quietfire Design rubber stamps! Each Designer will randomly choose a winner from the comments on their own Blog Hop post, so make sure you’ve commented by midnight Friday, October 19th.
Before I show you what I have created, I want to show you the 2012 Christmas Stamps from Quietfire:

So are you ready for some creativity? I have created two projects to share with you so for my first one I used Christmas Waves A Magic Wand



I just love all the rich colors you find at Christmas, you can see from this card I have used a rich Christmas Red to create my S5-055 Layered Poinsettia and the leaves are done using a blueish green, reminds me of the Blue Spruce trees from back home in Colorado. I also love stamping on Kraft cardstock and inking the edges, perfect for your Christmas sentiment.

Here is a close up just to show off that amazing Christmas sentiment!

 

Are you ready for my second creation? Ok here it is!

For this tag I used Christmas Cuddlers Word Set, I used the word Snowflakes, I hand trimmed the word flake from a yard sale find dictionary and added some snowflake bling from Want2Scrap along with the Fa la la collection of Christmas paper from Lawn Fawn, can you say cute, cute, cute. This will just be perfect on someone's Christmas present!

Here is a close up so you can see all of the beautiful swirls in the word Snowflakes!

 

Hope you have enjoyed what I have created and don't forget to leave a comment we will be giving away free stamps on each of our blogs. Good luck! Crafty Smiles Terre

The Mad Hatter Loves His Bling!

So who doesn't just love Halloween In Wonderland by Graphic 45, The Mad Hatter is such a humorous looking foe and very suiting for this amazing Top Hat Chipboard album by Want2Scrap™. This album is filled with lots of creative goodies so sit back and take a stroll through Wonderland starting with the Chipboard Alphabet-Stylish, just look at all those curves and swirls.



I wish I could show you all of these amazing pages but the post would be very long so I will just have to pick a few of my favorites, like the Mad Hatter with his Marquis Silver Rhinestone Design, even the Mad Hatter needs a little bling, don't you think?

Now what would Wonderland be without the Rabbit and Alice, after all they are on a tight schedule. Just look at those Baby Bling Red Rhinestones, they just make this page twinkle and shine....hmmm just like bling!

Now Alice is a busy girl trying to keep up with that Rabbit and not to mention going to tea with the Mad Hatter and what about that looking glass....

Just look at how those Funky Swirls Silver Rhinestone make the Cheshire Cat grin, he must like bling too!

Now we all know that Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dumb where not the brightest of characters that Alice came across but they are still an important part of the story.

Just look how nice the Nestabling™ Petite Scalloped Circles Small Silver Rhinestones fit on the Spellbinders™ Sprightly Sprockets and the 72 Count Silver Rhinestones add just enough sparkle to make those sprockets shine.

Do you remember Alice trying to find the Rabbit in the rabbit hole? I am sure that this Rabbit hole never looked better with the Beautiful Bling Strip White Pearl/Black Rhinestones or the Brackets Fancy-White Pearl Large what do you think?

How about that Queen? Off with her head or maybe we could bling it up with some Swirls-Silver Rhinestones and a Nestabling™ Fancy Tags Three Silver Rhinestones, sound good to me.

We all know that Alice wasn't afraid of the Queen of Hearts after all she was just misunderstood, right?
I know if Alice had the chance she would have added a few Nestabling™ Scalloped Hearts Red Rhinestones for the Queen or maybe even a Nestabling™ Labels Twenty Silver Rhinestones just to impress the Queen of Hearts. I better mention that to make sure that this amazing album stays secure I used Beacon Adhesives Zip Dry and the stamps where from A Jillian Vance Design Swirly Monograms Stamp Set. Here is a close up of those hearts, see how they shine.

Well I am off to see the Wizard..hint hint, could it be my next album? You will just have to wait and see

 but in the mean time you can see all the amazing album and bling at Want2Scrap™ to create your own keepsake album. Happy Crafting...

Want2Scrap™ Supplies Used:

Chipboard Alphabet-Stylish

Marquis Silver Rhinestone Design

Baby Bling Red Rhinestones

Funky Swirls Silver Rhinestone

Nestabling™ Petite Scalloped Circles Small Silver Rhinestones

72 Count Silver Rhinestones

Beautiful Bling Strip White Pearl/Black Rhinestones

Brackets Fancy-White Pearl Large

Swirls-Silver Rhinestones

Nestabling™ Fancy Tags Three Silver Rhinestones

Nestabling™ Scalloped Hearts Red Rhinestones

Nestabling™ Labels Twenty Silver Rhinestones

Cross Promotional Partners Products Used:

Spellbinders™ Sprightly Sprockets

Graphic 45 Halloween in Wonderland

A Jillian Vance Design Swirly Monograms Stamp Set

Beacon Adhesives Zip Dry

Holiday Treat Holder

Today I am sharing a creative holiday treat holder, this was created using the empty plastic Crystal Light container. I started by measuring and cutting my pattern paper from My Minds Eye and using a heavy craft adhesive I secured my pattern paper to the container. I stamped this adorable holiday stamp from The Rubber Cafe, Having A Ball using Scrap Happy Glue instead of ink. Set the stamped images aside for about 45 seconds then add You're So Fine Glitter, Big Apple Red using your finger, just rub the glitter over the stamped image. Using the S5-026 Labels Twenty die template from Spellbinders™, I die cut my stamped image using the Grand Calibur.I air brushed just a hint of blue around the outer edge of my stamped image to make the red glitter pop. Every holiday project needs a little bling so where do I go for bling? Want2Scrap™, they have Nestabling™ that matches Spellbinders™ die templates just like the Nestabling™ Pearl Labels Twenty shown here.I tied a red silk bow and poked two holes in the lid to make a hanger so that my treat holder can be hung on the Christmas tree. Thank you for stopping by my blog post today, Crafty Smiles, Terre.

It's Ornament Time

Happy Friday Everyone! If you live in the Phoenix area you could come to the Mesa Stamp show this weekend and meet Melissa in person, I am going to be stopping by on Sunday so lookout Mesa, here I come.

Today is the day to get your ornament prepped and ready to start creating, they are simple to make and everyone enjoys getting a handmade gift. I just love the new Christmas stamps here at The Rubber Cafe isn't this just adorable, Warren and Frosty.

 Using my Grand Calibur die cutting machine from Spellbinders™, I die cut/embossed S4-292 Beaded Circles. I placed by die template over the stamped image then die cut it, it seems to be easier to line things up doing it that way. I colored Warren and frosty using my Copic Markers, then air brushed it, added some cute Candis (little green circles with polka dots), they are made by Craftwork Cards and you can find them right here at The Rubber Cafe.

 The next cute ornament that I have to share is call Deck The Halls, isn't he just adorable poking through the holly wreath? I used the same steps and product for this ornament as I did for Warren and Frosty.

 The only difference is I used the Red polka dot Candi Craftwork Cards for the outside of my Beaded Circle.

 Just look at all the pretty colors in this one package, can you just see yourself having fun creating with these little treasures?

I have given you pictures of the products I used to make is easier for you to see first hand these great images, dies templates and who could forget about the amazing Scrap Happy Glue.

I'm Gourd, How About You?

It's Friday, I'm Gourd how about you? I had several titles for this weeks post but I settled for this one. Today I have an elegant Fallish card to share with you. I used I-952 Gourds and I-986 Roaring 20's Placard stamps from The Rubber Cafe.I die cut Labels Twenty-Two from Spellbinders™ using my Grand Calibur die cutting machine, air brushed with my Copic Markers.

.Here is a close up of my elegant gourds, I used some pattern paper from My Minds Eye and topped it off with some decorative ribbon and Fall decorative straight pins. Thank you for stopping by my blog post  Have a great weekend.

Quick & Easy Treat Holders

So are you ready for some quick and easy treat holders? I created a couple to share with you today so grab a cup of coffee and sit back and get your creative wheels turning. I started out by stamping several stamps from The Rubber Cafe onto white tissue paper (recycled by the way), I used H-917 You Need To Dust, D-488 You Shake My Bones and CL-002 Trick Or Treat.

Once I stamped all of my Halloween images, just in a random pattern, really no rhyme or reason on how I stamped them, I picked out a green Copic Marker and air brushed the tissue paper green.

After I was finished air brushing, I put some wrapped candy inside the end roll of the toilet paper and taped the stamped tissue paper to secure. Just roll around the end roll and secure. Tie ribbon on the ends to keep the candy inside. Quick & easy and a fun project for your kids to help with for those class parties.

The second quick & easy treat box is really made simple with Spellbinders™ new LF-010 Square Bracket Edge Box die template. Using my Grand Calibur die cutting machine, I cut both the box bottom and box lid at the same time. The box bottom was cut out of white card stock, I stamped the same cute stamps that I used in the first quick & easy treat holder from The Rubber Cafe..

I also used a green Copic Marker and air brushed the bottom of the box.......the lid I used some pattern paper from My Minds eye.

to finish my treat box off, I adhered some orange buttons and put some candy corns inside...yum..yum my favorite. Well I hope that you are inspired to create some quick & easy treat holders just like I have. Crafty Smiles.

Designer Connection Blog Hope......THINK PINK!!!!

October Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop

Sponsored by Westcott Brand Cutting Tools

Westcott Brand is proud to be the official sponsor the October Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop! 

. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, the theme of the project challenge was… PINK!

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For my banner of HOPE I used the following product from the manufacturers sponsoring this Blog Hop.

Westcott Brand® Titanium Bonded Non Stick Scissors

Westcott Brand® 12” Titanium Bonded Trimmer

The Duck Brand® Duct Tape Sheets

VELCRO® Brand Sticky Back Hook and Loop Fasteners

Also used in this Banner of HOPE is an amazing stamp set created by a 12 year old girl named Jillian, yes I said 12 years old, here is a link to her website, A Jillian Vance design. The stamp set used in this banner is all from Jillian.

The two side pennants have interchangeable messages that are backed in Velcro so they are easy to change.
Using the Duct Tape sheets of Hot Pink, I die cut them using S4-124 Classic Scalloped Circles Large and stamped the messages on white card stock and die cut them out with S4-110 Standard Circles Small from Spellbinders™.

 In my banner I also used S5-028 Nested Pennants and S5-029 Nested Lacey Pennants from Spellbinders™, I die cut them using my Grand Calibur die cutting machine from Spellbinders™. What is banner of HOPE if it doesn't have that BLING, especially NESTABLING™ from Want2Scrap™

What is a blog hop is there isn't a prize well read on as you won't want to miss this amazing give away....

Online Promotion/Giveaway: Just follow the links and you will be direct to http://www.facebook.com/WestcottBrand and http://westcottbrand.blogspot.com/ for more information on how to win this amazing prize.  The giveaway winner will receive a Deluxe Assortment of Westcott Cutting Tools (assortment may vary). In order to be eligible to win, they must comment on the DCC Blog Hop Post on  http://westcottbrand.blogspot.com/  prior to November 1^st. Westcott Brand will promote the blog hop throughout the month of October and choose/announce the random giveaway winner on November 1<sup>st

PLEASE NOTE!!!!!!!</sup>
 actual assortment may vary slightly

                                   

Those of you new to one of the Designer Connection Blog Hops, see my side bar and look for the Designer Connection logo, you can either go forward or backwards through out the blog hop by simply clicking the arrows. I hope you have enjoyed my Banner of HOPE and I will be sending this banner to Charity Wings Organization to help earn money for a cure. Click Here to see all the amazing projects that have been donated
Crafty Smiles...Terre