Thankful

Happy Tuesday blog readers! 

Today, I am sharing a little creation that puts pieces and parts from other cards.

The polka dots add a little graphic detail and fun while the flower adds a pop of color. I layered the die cut "thankful" in black on top of gold!! It turned out so well!

Stamps are Altenew, dies from PTI. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Eva

A Challenge Card (ctd386)..Who Me???

I am having the best weekend I have had in a while! It was a three day for me with some not so fun but necessary things to do on Friday, but the rest has been a rare gem! Yesterday was a day of fishing with the family for the first time in way to many years. Today was crafting! It doesn't get much better!!! 

I saw this Color Throw Down challenge and decided to play along.

Below is my entry for the challenge...I was super excited to have colors that fit this challenge!

Thanks for stopping by the ole blog!

Have a super day!

Eva

Oh Baby!

It' another hot and humid day here in Kansas! Good news is that its a perfect opportunity to finish and package a baby shower gift. For as long as I have been stamping, baby cards have not been something I have done. No one was having babies so no need for them! Its a good thing I picked up one stamp set from a garage sale to have on hand!

I decided to do a little ink blending, one of my favorite things to do. Blended on the card base then placed the stencil over the top, used the same colors and blended some more.

I used my only baby set from PTI for the onsite and sentiment.

I recently finished my first quilt. It was a smaller quilt to make it manageable...perfect for a baby boy! I used one of the jelly roll strips and tied a bow around it.

Next comes the packaging. I love using Laurie Willison's card hanger die. It allows the card to become part of the packaging while leaving the inside sentiments private. So clever!

 Below is the finished bag. I do have to say, I'm still very challenged by the tissue paper thing, lol!

Thank you for stopping by my blog! 

Have a super DAY!

Eva

Change of Scenery...

I thought it might be time for a little change of scenery here on the blog. Seems as though I have forgot all about this blogging thing since right before Christmas. Time flies!!

This Valentine card was made with a PTI die and stamp set. 

I added a little bling and twine for texture and interest.

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Have a great week.

Eva

Curtain Call: Clearly Christmas

I know this is going to be very hard to believe but...it's true, I only have about 3 stamp sets that are Christmas related {{GASP!!}}.

I am a fussy stamp shopper when it comes to Christmas stamps. I want my stamp sets to be able to be used for more than one time of the year, more than one occasion. Picky, I know!

What that means is that my blog viewers then see the same set used ALOT...as a matter of fact some of you are probably wondering if I own any other stamps besides these wonderful weiner dogs.

But they are OH. So. CUTE.

I decided to play along with the Curtain Call Challenge and have 2 entries to share. One on this post and one on another coming shortly!

This first card makes me pretty proud of my coloring!! I was just so pleased to get the brown and black to blend without it turning into an all black dog. 

The stamped dog and sentiment are from the Holiday Hounds set from Newton's Nook.

The chevron panel is from Reverse Confetti...I love the versatility of this and I am sure I will be purchasing more of these little guys in the future.

I cut the snowflake with an MFT die out of silver glitter paper and inset it into the chevron panel.

Not only is this cool but you should see the left over snowflakes...I'm sure they will appear on another project.

 The background has little versamarked Heidi Swapp stamp on it and the loopy pieces are a die from PTI.  Remember as a kid you were made fun of for "cross-dressing"?? This card makes me feel like I am wearing Calvin Klein mixed with Levi's!! A little bit of everything, LOL!!

Off to start up the next post to get the next card entered into the challenge!!

Eva

Blend, Blend, Blend

I must admit, the other day I was looking at all the cards that I have made recently...in hopes of finding something I have colored...and well, it seems I REALLY like this ink blending thing. I had no idea how many cards a recently have created that I have used this technique!

You all will be seeing blending, blending and more blending...and stencils!

This is a stencil from Heidi I love her stencils!

The ink is all SU! and the sentiment is from PTI.

I used Martha Stewart glitter on the pretty little star.

There have been a lot of cool things happening here in Kansas now that it is fall.

I hope to post pictures from The Barn Sale, Stamp Away Weekend and Mentor Craft Day in the next few days. For now, time for a drive to Emporia for work!

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Eva

Happy Friday! The weekend is here, YIPPEEE!

I sat down last night to post my Thursday card and well...my OCD, Sheldon Cooper tendencies kicked in and I ended up organizing my photos. I did this for so long, my computer ran out of juice...so here is my Thursday card today!

I LOVE how this card turned out...so did others as it left my "sell basket" very quickly after it arrived!

I used a Memory Box stencil for the card front. The ink is Tangerine Tango and Coastal Cabana from SU! along with Brilliance Moonlight White.  I blended and blended and blended and had some very inky fingers by the time it was all over...but it was well worth it!

Below I tried to catch the shimmer of the Moonlight White...it is just stunning in person.

I stitched the edges, added a sentiment from PTI on vellum and a Paper studio wooden button to finish off. Every card should have a little chevron love!

 This weekend is our 4th Annual Fall Crafting day at church, I host one in the Fall and one in the Winter and it has really evolved over time. This time we are going to attempt weaving plastic mats from Wal-Mart sacks for the homeless and fidget blankets for elderly and surgical patients. We have a group coming from Great Bend to do some awesome projects with us and to cook a yummy Cajun meal. Hopefully, I will have some pictures to share of all the creations we complete and good times.

Thank you for stopping by and have a super weekend!

Eva

Here We Go!!!

Off she has gone...my beautiful young daughter has headed off to college and is going to conquer the world!!

Last week was tough on this momma!! I look back and I am so very thankful that I stopped focusing on papercrafting when I did! It allowed me the time to be with and know my girl, to watch her grow into the beautiful young woman that she is today. Funny, looking back the things that happened that seemed to pull me away from constantly creating were God's way of saying "I have more important things in store for you".

So, I am back to creating and blog posting...maybe someday I'll catch another design gig, LOL!!!

As I made my girl her first piece of mail last night, I realized that I now feel a new purpose in creating. 

With that I am committing to posting at least once a week on Thursday's. 

I'm calling it "Thinking of You Thursday". Each week Ill make a card to send to my girl and on Thursday Ill post the most recent mailing! This should get me started on the whole blogging track again!

But for now (Monday) here is a little something I whipped up recently.

Lots going on here...

 First, I used a stencil and glossy cardstock to make the background. Its so yummy!

I added the little handmade banner (yup no die for that one...its amazing what a gal can do with a centering ruler and sharp small scissors!!) Added a little stitching with my sewing machine.  The leaf die was from SU.

The small flower dies are from PTI along with the congrats die. It is such a pretty card!

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you soon!

Graduation 2014.......

Yeah A Blog Update! I promise, someday, they will be on a regular basis again! Thank you to everyone who keeps me in their feed and continues to subscribe!!

Today, I have several graduation cards to share...and I'm super excited about my card hanger die from Soapbox Creations!!

My Cricut and SCAL made these cards more manageable! All of the graduation specific words and shapes were cut with my Cricut from black and white line images I found online.

I also used the PTI stars cover plate and Simply Stars stamp set.

This is one of my favorites...of course it was for one of my favorite graduates! That boy who hangs around here and swoons over my girl!! 

This was the last purple, white and black card I made (school colors)...I kinda really liked adding the name to the front of the card!! It sure helped when it was time to distribute them at the school!!

This card was my FAVORITE of them all...and its not even the right school colors!!

Of course, it had to be extra special as it is going to an extra special...extremely strong and kind young lady!!

You notice, although it is my favorite, I had to put it at the bottom of this post, hoping she does not read my blog...as she hasn't received it yet!! The colors will give it away.

Here are pictures of all the gift bags with the cards hanging on the outside. I {{{L.O.V.E.}}}

 this concept....{{{ SERIOUSLY LOVE }}}

it!! I often put much more work into the card than what is inside the bag.

 The card hanger die puts the card front and center and calls ALL the attention to the art.

The card hanger die is the brain child of my friend Laurie over at 

Soapbox Creations.

The card on the gold bag is larger than the rest of the cards so I improvised with my small slot punch from SU!...and some slow punching on glitter card stock.

Thanks for taking the time to check out my post!!

Have a fabulous day!!

Eva

So excited...

Hello! I hope everyone had a GREAT week! Lots of snow here in Kansas this week, enough to warrant the state offices having not one but TWO full days off work!! It gave me a little time to prepare for tomorrows fun day of crafting at church! I hope to have lots of pictures to share.

This card was one that I pulled together with pieces and parts. I just received the Sunshine set from PTI and decided to play. Coastal Cabana from SU! seems to be one of my favorite colors these days- its such a pretty blue! I added the die cut "Birthday" cut from a scrap...and had the butterflies lying around from a previous project. All in all not to shabby for tossing together parts!

Thank you for taking the time to stop and look.

Have a blessed weekend!

Eva

My favorite of this week!!!

Well, the week is over and I must quickly get my creations posted and linked ...fast!!

This is by far my favorite card of the week!! Inspired from Jennifer McGuire's bonus video.

Both the butterfly stencil and the patterned stencil are Heidi Swapp products. 

I used my Hero Arts Inks on this project...I so LOVE them!! 

Below is a close up. I die cut the "birthday piece" 4 times and glued each one together. I covered it with black liquid pearls for a different effect.

The "happy" along with the "birthday" are from PTI.

Thanks for looking!! Have a fabulous day!

A week of stenciling...

If you would have told me two weeks ago that I would spend a week of free time playing with and seeking out stencils...I would have told you no way.

 

But I have been totally inspired by the videos and examples in this online card class.

It has been awesome!!

Since I was a later comer to the class (waited until it already started to sign up), I didn't get to shop in advance for supplies.

Real embossing paste currently is hard to find in local craft stores!!

(I have already provided a wish list to my local Hobby Lobby store of all the cool things I have seen online from CHA...yeah I know...hopefully the buyers have my same taste!)

Anyway...I found a Martha Stewart product at Michaels that I decided to try and I like the way it turned out....TONS of texture!! Its great! 

Below is a picture of the Martha Stewart product I used.

 

As always, thanks for stopping by! Have a super-duper weekend!

 

Eva

Hello Cupcake...

I was looking around on Instagram the other day and a friend had pulled out this old Hero Arts Cupcake stamp set. I felt a little inspired and took the set out and played for a little bit.

I had just received my new handy dandy stripes set from MFT and this was a perfect opportunity to pull out my new die and stamp set from PTI for the sentiment.

Below you will see a close up of my cupcake. I used Liquid Pearls White Opal for the icing to make it look YUMMY!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a FABULOUS day!

Eva

I'm Back!!... and with a Challenge Card!!

It's been a LONG, LONG time since I updated my blog! I have made a few cards since my last post but more importantly, we graduated a high school senior, had an awesome party and went on a vacation!!! Throw in high school softball, a few summer tournaments along with one week of VBS and we have been very busy.

But, all good things must come to an end and all that ball will be completely over in just a few short weeks. I'm starting to gear myself up to get back to stamping....hoping to be able to finish house remodeling with some card making on the side.

 

I saw this current challenge from The Play Date Café and decided that I would play along. Something about the color combination inspired me! (I think it was the Green)

 

 

I have had BIG cravings for cherry limeades lately....oh the Sonic ones are so yummy!

I have found that I can make my own at our local Dillon's fountain if it is not Happy Hour at Sonic.

 

 

So the color combo and my recent addiction of cherry limeade were my inspiration for this card.

I used Friendship Jars from PTI along with the Newsprint background. The fun little cherry is also from PTI.

 

The sentiment I made myself from the computer, printed on vellum.

The colors, I had to make a few substitutions.

For Orange Zest, I used Pumpkin Pie. Chartreuse, I actually used a Chartreuse ink along with Lucky Limeade (imagine that, LOL). The Jade substitute was my newly acquired Bermuda Bay ink (L.O.V.E that color1) and Hawaiian Shores paper. Added some stitching around the edges and called it done! 

 

 

Thanks for stopping and checking out my card and blog!

 

 

 



Cake Inspired...

I LOVE Pinterest...but who doesn't!! There are so many really cool things there. The cakes are one of my favorites, but I do have to say, I do not have patience to be a cake decorator.

I think it would be fabulously fun, and if I took classes to learn the tricks I might feel differently.

So instead, why not build cards from those cards!!

The cake pictured above is a picture off of Pinterest. I'd love to say that you can click on the picture and it would link you to the original website but that is not the case. As a matter of fact, I could not find my way to the original owner, so if you are the owner or know who is...and where I can find the original, please leave a comment so I can link up and give credit where credit is due!!

I made two cards from my inspiration piece. I just flipped around the placement of the blue card stock and use crystals instead of pearls along with a different sentiment.

Super simple! 

 

Thanks for looking! Have a GREAT weekend!!

OH Scrap!

I'm just posting a simple little scrap card today.

This is one of the cards you make with all of the little strips of paper left over from using those 6x6 paper pads.

I love this card! I wasn't so sure about the staggering of the paper strips (sometimes I struggle with randomness,lol). The flower adds the magical touch to this card. This set of flowers came in a package of 6 with each being an amazing color. So glittery!!

Thank you for stopping by today!!!