Love Birds...

Hi and happy FRIDAY!!! I'm so thankful that this week is over and I don't have to think about my job for a little while!! Why didn't I marry a rich guy??? I settled for handsome, caring and funny instead...dang it! ;)

Today I wanted to show you 3 older stamps along with 2 from last year. I just LOVE the cute little Tweety bird and couldn't wait to use him again. I came up with the idea for this card and when I went to look for the stamp I wanted to use, realized I DID NOT own it...gasp!!!!! I know, I'm as shocked as you are...it's practically shameful to be honest. ;)

Well, I didn't let not owning the little Tweety Birds with the heart stamp stop me from making my intended card, I simply improvised! I used the single Tweety Bird along with one bird from the Tweety Bird Border and the teeny heart to make my own....yes, it was doing things the hard way and I would have rather had the stamp I wanted to use, but this worked out in the end and got me thinking outside of the box. I think they look too adorable perched up there on the Winter Branch (I masked off several limbs before stamping). And how perfect is that sentiment...one of my faves :)

Well that's it for me today, hope you liked this little creation and I'll see y'all on Monday!!



DeNami Valentine Blog Hop - Jan 2014

Are y'all ready for the very first DeNami blog hop of the year?!?! I know I am and can't wait to hop along for some serious eye candy!! lets get off and running....

When: The blog hop starts on January 12, 2014 at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until January 13th, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).Why: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!

Prizes: We are giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to our website! We'll be giving away one gift certificate to a random participant (DT members not eligible) and then we'll also be giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop!

You should have arrived here from the super talented DeNami DT, Deb and her adorable cutie patootie daughter, Leah's blog!! (I think we need to start a petition to get Leah her own personal blog to display her beautiful art work...) If you didn't arrive from there, no worries, just head over to the DeNami blog for a full list of participants and you can easily get back on track :)

Ready to see what I came up with? My first creation is a cute little card that can easily be changed up to fit just about any occasion...

 

DeNami Items: sending you love, teeny heart

The other creation I have to show you is a large (6") tag that I made...

DeNami Items: clear gusseted bags, teeny heart background, Love Flourish, elegant oval frame,

Well that's it for me today, I hope you liked my card and tag now off you go to visit with the talented  Jennifer!! Have a great day :)

 

Are you in the mood for love....

Ohh my goodness, have you looked at the calendar lately?? We are well into January already and do you know what that means??? That means DeNami's spring 2014 release sneak peeks are underway AND Valentines day is right around the corner!

Let's get to DeNami's sneak peek first. Starting this past Monday Paulina and the design team have showcased some of the DARLING new images on the DeNami blog. Follow along and leave comments to be entered into random drawings to win some of the new release...how fun is that?!? As soon as I finish up here I'm headed over to DeNami to do just that!! Don't forget, the new release will be available in the shop on Friday!

Now then, let's discuss valentines day. I haven't made any new DeNami Valentines day cards yet because I'm waiting to get my new images. But just in case you want to get a head start, I've pulled a couple of my faves from the archives. 

This is a little easy to make card that I did a start to finish video on :)

 

love flourish, teeny heart, teeny heart background

I just puffy heart the rosevine heart, here's a couple of easy to make cards featuring it...

 

Rosevine heart, love flourish,  rosevine cluster

How about a classic Valentine...

heartfelt greetings, solid decorative crest 

Well I hope these gave you a little inspiration to kick start your Valentines day cards. February 14th isn't that far off...ohh my, and here I still haven't recovered from the Holiday card season quite yet, lol!!  As soon as I get my little hands on the new DeNami images I'll have a little more valentine inspiration to share :)

TSTR - Pumpkin Patch

Welcome to another fun packed Monday everyone!! Seriously, this is the only thing that I look forward to when it comes to Mondays...blah!

 

 

Today over at the Shabby Tea Room we are showing off our Pumpkins ;) Isn't this inspiration pic pretty?? Burlap is all the rage right now and having it made into pumpkins is a perfectly adorable use for it isn't it??

 

 

This weeks theme: Use Pumpkins, Burlap and/or Twine

 

For my card I started off with a kraft base and layered on some yummy chevron patterned paper. I "sewed" a piece of burlap to a piece of kraft using my Sew Easy tool and some orange twine. I layered that with a doily that I distressed and some grosgrain chocolate ribbon. To finish it off I added a panel I made using the Pumpkin Patch digi stamp (I added some of the hearts myself using DeNami's Teeny heart stamp) a little flag using sentiments from Paper Sweeties "Sweeties Wagon" set and a fluffy bow/button treatment.

 

 

This week our wonderful sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps!!

 

 

As if raising five children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the world of paper crafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations. That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and we're still growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to find all that you need and more to create your paper projects. Jodie works very hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!

If your taste runs to rubber (and you know who you are), you can find Bugaboo Stamps stamps at Totally Stampalicious. And finally, join the Bugaboo Stamps DT for weekly challenges at Catch the Bug.

Our links are:
Store : http://www.bugaboostamps.com/
Catch the bug Challenge blog: http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/

Well, that's all for me today, hope you can join us at The Shabby tea Room this week!!

The Project Corner - Valentines Day

If you're looking for my Adorable Animal blog hop card, it's one post down. Make sure to leave a comment on all of the hop posts for the best chances to win a DeNami gift certificate! 

Hi everyone and welcome to The Project Corner. I'm a few days early with this post, but Valentines Day  creeped up on me pretty quickly and I really wanted you to see the cute kid friendly projects I came up with. I know that many of you have little ones at home and are always trying to find little projects for them. So today I have two cute and easy little Valentines Day projects for the kiddo's to make (with a little help of course).

This first one is super super easy....

I simply stamped the large butterfly and fussy cut it out. After it was colored (unfortunately I didn't have a kiddo handy to do this) I punched 2 holes and using a pipe cleaner, attached it to the sucker. I brought the pipe cleaner up and twisted it around the "head" of the butterfly and formed her little antenas. To finish it off just add some googly eyes and well-ah...a pretty little Valentine Butterfly perfect for Grandma, Daddy or even a teacher. *note: after your child colors the butterfly, have him/her write a message on the back.

This second project is a little bit more involved, but with a little help or if you have an older child, I think it can be managed perfectly. I actually made this for my hubby for our 22nd anniversary last fall but it can EASILY be made with a Valentine in mind. We are way cheesy and enjoy quirky little things like this....

Stamps Used:
Teeny Swiss Dot
Teeny Heart
Teeny Heart Background
Small Heart outline
Meduim Brushed Heart
Solid Heart Outline

I simply took two pieces of cardboard (one 8 1/2 X 11 and the other slightly larger - 9 X 11 1/2) and covered them with black cardstock (wrapping it around the edge and then placing a piece over it on the back side to cover the edges). I then stamped my panels (made slightly smaller than the 8 1/2 X 11 panel) and adhered them to the front cover (the smaller piece). As you can see, I simply found some fun images via Google and using the Word program on my computer made a fun and cheesy "story", but how fun would it be to fill your book with some drawings or coloring pages by your little one? *tip - go to google, click the images tab and then type in "coloring pages + Valentine" and it will give you loads of fun coloring book pages to print off for a fun afternoon of coloring enjoyment ;)* To finish it all off I simply punched some holes and bound my book using random twine & ribbons. I had such fun making this project and hubby LOVED it. This would even be a fun project for just about any theme...birthdays, Mothers Day, Fathers Day....

Here's a few cute images to get you started (click on them to enlarge then right click and choose "save picture as". Now you can go into your pictures file and simply print it to the size you choose.)

Well that's it for me today.  I hope I've inspired you to start a project with your little ones.  :)

XOXOXO's

I decided to revive a little layout I did quite a while ago. The little band of fringe makes me smile, what a fun element!

And seriously, how can you not like pink and chocolate...it's one of my favorite color combos and you can never go wrong with it! This is such a quick little card to put together. The fringe is way easy to make using your paper trimmer. I simply used the measurement lines to evenly space them apart and the ribbon hides the varying lengths of the cuts (I can get them close, but not perfect). After adhering the fringe I fiddled with / feathered it so that it doesn't lay all flat. Go ahead, give it a try...it's easier than you think and is a very unexpected element to your card that adds lots of depth and fun texture.

Thanks for stopping by!

I choose you...

As I was looking through my little basket of DeNami cling stamps trying to find my leafy squares, I came upon this one and was hit with a warm childhood memory and came up with a really cute, yet, cheesy idea....

It had me thinking of the little valentines I gave and received in my younger days. Thin baseball card sized valentines tucked into a small white envelope that were for the most part, pretty cheesy. I couldn't help trying to recreate such a fond memory. I thought about how to make my sentiment and as you can see in the end I went with just a hand written one vs. using an alphabet stamp set to make it. I wish I had nice handwriting, but again, I was thinking back to my youth and me sitting at the kitchen table agonizing over which valentine to give to Ron Davis, the love of my life at age 6 (and first ever kiss from a boy!) and how the writing on the back of my valentines looked worse than a doctors, lol, so I think it all worked out. I tried to make it kind of wavy to represent the smoke from the train however it didn't turn out as I'd envisioned, but all in all I'm pretty happy with it.

What are some of your favorite Valentines Day memories???

You're sweet treat

Ever since I came up with the adorable stocking card I made for Christmas, I've wanted to play with the layout a little more. I liked the idea of a flat panel...kinda postcard style card and wanted to see what else I could create using that concept.

It didn't take me long to come up with this sweet little treat.....

You don't want to know how many boxes of conversation hearts I went through to get all those pink hearts ;)

 

I started off with a kraft panel and layered on a cream panel that I had stamped a pretty little pattern on. For the 3rd panel (pink) I stamped the teeny heart background, randomly stamped the sentiment, I edge punched it and added a length of ribbon before adhering it to the base panels. I attached the little glassine bag using my ATG and the ribbon doubles as a pretty embellishment, but also helps hold the bag in place. I added adhesive to only half of my punched circle layer so that I could filled down the top of the bag and tuck it behind the top half of the punched circle to keep it closed. I can add a little hand written note on the back or leave it just like it is, either way, I'm thinking the recipient is going to love it!

 

Thanks for stopping by!



heart treat box

Last Friday the uber talented and DeNami DT member, Dana, showed us an adorable little heart treat box she whiped up. Her tutorial was great and really made me want to play with that cute little heart shaped box. DeNami is offering it up the template FREE...can't go wrong there, can we ladies?

 

 

I downloaded it and printed it out on cardstock....that's where I ran into trouble. I cut out my pieces and just stared at them. I had such a hard time deciding what to do with them! In the end, I treated them like a blank card front and just stamped a little scene and added embellishments. I started by distressing the hearts with a little light pink ink and the base & handle with grey ink. I punched the holes and added little green brads to 3 side panels and pink to the front panel.

 

For the front I stamped the teeny heart background then added grey, pink & green washi, a green heart and layered a grey and white scalloped circle with the ohh so adorable new Cupid Chickie. And you know me, Icouldn't NOT add ribbon, lol!

For the other 3 sides I stamped the heart flower trio and the new grass border along with the teeny heart randomly "sprinkled" on.

After glueing it all together I added wire and curled the ends for a finished look. As you can see, I didn't fill mine with candy. I added some pretty DeNami multi colored iridescent shreds then piled in some other wonderful DeNami products...Washi Tape, buttons & twine. I wouldn't mind not getting chocolates and flowers with those kind of goodies in MY treat box ;)

Thanks for stopping by!

Valentines Day Card video

Do you remember how I announced in the last "DeNami Happenings" feature that I had some fun things planned for the Addict blog? Well, start to finish card videos is one of them. While I had a couple of "hiccups", I hope you enjoy it.

With Valentines Day right around the corner I thought I'd take the opportunity to show you an easy peasy start to finish Valentines Day card that doesn't take much time at all to whip up.

Cardstock measurements:
Chocolate - 5 1/2" X 8 1/2"
White - 4" X 5 1/4" & 2 1/2" X 5"
Red - 3 1/2" X 5 1/4"
Pink - 2 3/4" X 5 1/4"

Supplies used (with links to the DeNami web site):
F231 Love Flourish
A91 Teeny Heart
N134 Teeny Heart Background
PC21 White Cards
PC32 Chocolate Brown Cards
PC48 Petal Pink Cards
PC16 Red Cards
RB-7317 Chocolate Brown Grosgrain Ribbon (3/8")
SS07 Strawberry Freeze Glitter
GL01 Quickie Glue Pen

Weather it's a layout I've done in the past that you're interested in or a particulair stamp you'd like to see used in a future video, just let me know! Hope you liked my little start to finish card video and I hope to make it a regular feature here on the Addict blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

Polka dots

I'd like to start out this little post by welcoming Stacy from Sweethearts and Sweettarts and Barb from Kinsale Creations to our little DeNami Addict family! These ladies are mucho talented and super sweet! Wendy and I would like to thank Stacy and Barb for showing their support of our little blog by placing our blinkie on their blogs! Remember, if you'd like your blog featured...just grab our blinkie :)

Today, I have for you a little card that I made for two separate challenges...

ColourQ had some seriously yummy colors to play with

The Paper Players theme is one of my favorite things...Polka Dots

Here's what I came up with...

I just love how simple and clean this turned out.

With Love...

Have you heard that DeNami Designs is having another AWESOME challenge? This one is a sketch challenge...my favorite kind!! WOO-HOO!! Here's my first entry...yes, I said first, unfortunately I had too much fun and made three...again...sigh

I just "love" this card. I love finding ways to use the little glass bowl and thought, why the heck not fill it with hearts...like a blow full of love, right? After I did that I got to thinking a little more..I know, I'm still in a little bit of shock myself ;)  Anyway, I got to thinking that the hearts could be falling into the bowl too, so I made a heart out of teeny hearts falling into the bowl filling it up...

I used three different shades of pink / red inks for all of the hearts and used a little light blue and crystal lacquer on the bowl for a "glass" look. I added a little liquid pearl to the corners of the focal panel to finish it all off.

2/16/12
I took a couple of extra picture...trying to capture the card better...my picture taking skills seriously lack.

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!

Happy Valentines day!!!

Since it's Valentines day I thought I'd better show one of the valentines that I had yet to post...Valentines kinda snuck up on me. To make matters worse, it's hubbys birthday too. As I sit here (on Monday afternoon) typing this post, do I have a valentines or birthday card made for him...that would be a big fat NOPE. I need to get busy...dang job and life sometimes gets in the way of what's most important...making cards!

I just LOVE this all in one chickie stamp and thought with valentines day I'd see it alot in this past weekends blog hop...but it was a no show. I masked off the sentiment and stamped the chickies then using Satzon I stamped the sentiment on white grosgrain ribbon. The only red I have is from Momento so I really took a chance stamping the teeny heart on the ribbon...you can see that with in a couple of hours it didn't work out so well. I still kinda like it though...almost an abstract look. Everything doesn't always turn out perfect, sometimes you just work with it.

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!

Love and sparkles

Being the Valentines season just gives me one more reason to use pink, glitter and hearts!! Well, it's not like I usually use an excuse really...I mean, heck, who doesn't LOVE them some pink glittery anything, right?

I did a little background stamping on a pink card using the teeny heart and "love" sentiment from the Heartfelt Greetings set, then stamped the N21 heart border on a diecut in pink and filled in the hearts using the DeNami Strawberry Freeze glitter...the pinkness of the glitter is pretty faint with all the other pink around it. I added a strip of DeNami pink grossgrain ribbon under the diecut and trimmed the ends in a "V" pattern. After adhering it to the card face I added two little pink bows in matching ribbon.


Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!

Rockabye Baby.....

The results of our blog candy give a way are in!!!!!! Tune in tomorrow for the results...what a better way to start off a week!!

Last week I got me some happy happy news...my little sissy-in-law has a bun in the oven - WOO-HOO!! But wait...it's not just one bun...she went all out and tried for the whole package...there's 2, a boy and a girl! She and her hubby are gonna make awesome parents and of course I get to be an auntie again...hmmm, running outta fingers and toes to count all my nieces, nephews and great nieces and great nephews on...dang, that really makes me sound old!  I'm so excited I just had to make her up a little card.

Believe it or not, this is all one piece...yup, the queen of layers did a one layer card (insert harp playing angles...cause it's a miracle)! I puffy heart making my own background paper and that darling scallop border makes a wonderful accent strip that you can fill with anything.

And for the inside....

If you look closely you can see where I jacked up my little card...hey, it happens right? But like a seasoned card maker I made a little sumthin' and kinda covered it up...think she'll notice?

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!

Puppy Love

My great niece just started first grade and I decided to throw together a quick little card for her...

I can't get enough of these little puppies...they are too cute! I paired them up with the tiny heart and the paw print then altered the sentiment stamp to fit with the card theme. Some of my hearts are a little misshapen...I got carried away with the glue...she'll never know the differance ;)

Supplies:
PF30 playful puppies
A85 paw print
A91 teeny heart
D78 happy day
SS18 amethyst glitter
GL01 quickie glue pen

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!