Make A Card Monday!

Hello everyone and happy Monday!

This last week completely escaped me as I worked on getting things together for my oldest daughters birthday party this coming Saturday. 

She wants a Maleficent party which I'm having a blast creating things for. 

While I was shopping at Michael's for spooky inspiration I just couldn't stay out of the stamp isle and I happened to stumble upon these stamp sets from Art Impressions.

That's right! Art Impressions is now in Michael's stores! 

How awesome is that? I can see my collection growing by the second!

I picked up the beach babes set (pictured in the middle) I wanted to grab that set with the airplane but it was already sold out, so I'll be searching for that every trip.

So taking a little break from the Maleficent projects I created this little card.

 The girlfriend stamps kill me! I just adore them. 

I kept it very clean and simple. Stamped it onto SSS white cardstock 

and colored directly on the card base. 

SSS cardstock is the best I've found so far that wont the copics wont bleed through to the inside of the card.

 I tried to not be very fussy about my coloring and stick to two colors and not blend as much like the art impression sets look. 

I also added glossy accents to the sunglasses as well as the drink glasses.

 These little ladies will be perfect to enter into this weeks Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge being that this weeks theme is "You Gotta Have Friends"

Using Kraft ink from MFT's new Hybrid ink collection I stamped the girlfriends again on the inside and used versafine to stamp the sentiment.

That's all for the card today.

Head on over to the SSS Wednesday challenge to participate you have until Wed  8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Birthday card using Lawn Fawn stamps

Hello everyone and happy hump day!  I have an adorable card to share with you today.

I finally messed around with some of my older stamp sets and stumbled 

upon my Simon Says Stamp Happy Every Day stamp set. 

It has this great solid stripe in it that I wanted to use to create my own rainbow pattern paper with. 

So that's where my first idea was born. 

I went through all of my ink and ended up choosing all Stampin' Up! ink for the stripes.

Here is a list of the colors I used:

Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, 

Wild Wasabi, Pacific Point, Perfect Plum

I cut my flag shape first from Neenah Solar White cardstock, then stamped my stripes across.

Using the MFT Pierced Circle Dies I cut a circle from the center.

Then I used my 1/8" hole punch to punch out two holes for my thread to eventually go through.

Then came the struggle of deciding on an image to use with my newly made rainbow paper.

Once I saw this Lawn Fawn dino staring up at me from the pile I knew he was the one!

As cliche and silly as that sounds it was soooo true.

 I stamped him with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored him with my Copics.

And because I couldn't leave well enough alone I added some bling

with my Wink of Stella clear glitter pen to his rainbow

scales as well as every other stripe on the

rainbow pattern paper.

Rummaging through my stash of paper I chose Bazzill wax lips cardstock for my card base.

I had some scrap black recollections cardstock I needed to use up so I used that

to mat my flag pattern paper onto, leaving myself a small red border.

At the last minute I chose to emboss the sentiment using green and purple that I got in the clearance bin at Michaels (sorry I can't link to those)

Then for the inside of the card, I certainly couldn't waste that rainbow die cut circle so I stamped my sentiment on that using VersFine Onyx black ink.

The sentiment also came from the SSS Happy Every Day set that I used the stripe from earlier.

Stamped some little dino tracks using MFT Kraft Hybrid Ink across the bottom of inside of the card.

And there you have it! An adorable dino birthday card that could be given to anyone!

Hope you all enjoyed this card and I'll catch you back here next time.
 I'll be entering this card into the new Simon Wednesday Challenge:Anything Goes!
You can check out their challenge blog and play along here.

 

Simon Says Stamp Challenge-Use an arrow

Hey there! Simon Says Stamp has a super fun challenge going on over on their challenge blog (www.simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com). This weeks challenge is to use an arrow in your project. The card I made for this challenge I'm actually going to send to my little sister, the Greeting Farm Riley stamp reminds me of her.

Supplies:

Cardstock from the March 2013 card kit

SSS White woodgrain cardstock

Sentiment is also from the March 2013 kit

Cardstock stickers from the March 2013 kit

The Greeting Farm-Riley

MME Dolled Up paper

Blue satin ribbon (dollar bin at Michael's)

ATG

Tombo

Foam Adhesive

Spellbinders Ovals lg

Big shot

Scissors

Copics

Sakura Stardust pen

I'm in LOVE with the white woodgrain cardstock from Simon Says Stamp! It's absolutely fabulous and I must have more lol. If you haven't signed up for the card kit of the month through them yet, you definitely should. I had been wanting to sign up for months and I finally did last week and I'm just thrilled with the amount of product they send you with the kits. It's great, I feel like I get a little present in the mail every month lol. The card kit is only $19.95 a month, you can cancel it at any time, and the kit always comes with a fabulous stamp set and tons of coordinating cardstocks and embellishments.  If you're interested and want to know more about the card kit of the month just click here and it will take you to their Q&A page about the card kit subscription. As always, thank you for following along with me today and I hope you'll come back next time.

Haul and Giveaway!!!

Alright, now it's time for more details on my recent haul. I was able to find some great deals at Hobby Lobby, Michael's, and SimonSaysStamp and here's what I bought and I'll post links to as much as I can for you if you're interested.

 The picture above is items from Michael's and Hobby Lobby. I bought 4 new Copics (E31, 0, C1, C3), and made sure to use my coupons :D I also got a new Martha Stewart Scoreboard for less than $10 but I didn't get it to fit in the picture.

 These 3 stamp sets from Recollections I found on clearance for $1.49 a piece! I couldn't leave without them. The robots will make adorable boy cards, the ocean creatures I will use for my daughters upcoming "Under The Sea" birthday party, and then the Halloween ones....well thats pretty self explanatory lol.   Then there is a sentiment stamp set from Hero Arts that was in the clearance bin, it's originally I believe $14.99 and technically it wasn't even on sale but because someone at the store messed up and through a bunch of them in the clearance bin I was able to snag this set for $7.49.    The bag of buttons is from Hobbly Lobby, which I used a coupon for so it was only $2.99. and of course the ATG tape was a necessity, I go through that like it's going out of style. I also got the canister of flowers on clearance for $2

  These paper packs I found on clearance at Michael's for $1.19, they are MME "moments" and "Miss Caroline-Dolled Up" collections. The recollections All Seasons Paper Pad was only $3.99 and it has 180 sheets of adorable pattern papers. Red sticky tape was on clearance as well for $1, and then I grabbed a couple of different brads for $1.99 each. I got glittered black brads, sea shell brads, and heart pearl brads. And the conversation heart stickers for $1 that i'll be using on my daughters Valentine school treats.

This is my most recent SimonSaysStamp haul, this is where I splurged a bit. Chevron backround stamp from Hero Arts, as well as banner die from SimonSaysStamp.

I have been dying to get my hands on this Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain stamp and I finally just couldn't keep it out of my cart. A few more stamps from C.C.Designs, the Coffee Kiki, Nora, and Bunny Lucy. Flirty Anya from The Greeting Farm, and this adorable little Elephant stamp from Stampavie

I also got 2 packs of pattern paper, Bo Bunny's Gabrielle collection and Basic Grey's True Love collection with matching cardstock sticker sheet.

I also got my first Magnolia stamp Tilda with dotbow. And as always whenever I order from SimonSaysStamp they always throw in a special little Thank you treat, this time it was some gorgeous blue rhinestones. 

Okay I know what you're thinking, enough already where's the giveaway?! So here it is...

These 4 adorable Valentine stamps! One lucky winner will receive all 4 of these little cuties. 

Just use the Rafflecopter box below to follow Craft About It on facebook for 2 entries and comment on this blog post for an extra entry. Don't forget to follow along with my blog for more giveaways and fun crafts.


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