Tea Drinky Holder Thingy

Today is Tuesday and it's Tutorial Tuesday over at the Whimsy Doodle blog and I'm excited to say that this project is featured over there! YEAHHH I'm Soooo excited! Thank you Nikki

This was very easy peasy to make. I simply cut a piece of carstock to measure 2 3/4 inces by

8 1/2 inches and then scored it with my score pal at 2.5 and 6.5 inches. fold, glue, punch and you are set! This is one of those powders to add to your water, but isn't it sooo stinking cute?! A great little gift to five when you cupcakes or sweets for a friend.

Supplies:

Stamps: Have a seat digi set by Whimsy Doodles

Ink: lazer jet printer

Paper: kiwi kiss, lemonade DP by Basic Grey

Ink: stazon black

Accessories: nestabilities, fancy scallop punch, ribbon, eyelets, cropadial, 1 3/8 circle punch, watercolor pencils, blender pens

Thank you sooo much for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

Feelin' SCS CAS-N-Sketchy

I was browsing the challenges on SCS and I really loved todays sketch 275 and I also liked Mondays CAS challenge...to use only a sentiment stamp...so I combined the two challenges and this is what I came up with!

The paper I used is called "The Whimsy Stack" by DCWV. I loved the colors in the papers and the swirl...not to mention that it was already glittery and shimmery...BONUS! So once I cut my pieces all I did was attach. I cut out a scallop rectangle with my large rectangle nestabilities and then a simple textured white piece of bazzil paper. Add some delicious flowers and a designer brad and dimentionals...Voila, your card is complete!

Supplies:

Stamps: {Moments} by Little Paper Shop

Ink: stazon black

Paper: Green galore, tangerine tango, DCWV whimsy stack, white from bazzil

Accessories: brad by DCWV, big shot, nestabilities, prima flowers, crop-a-dial

Thank you so much for stopping by! Happy Stampin'

Silvia

Honey I baked...for LPSC46 that is!

Hi there, it's that time of the week again! We, at Little Paper Shop, are having a fun fun fun challenge for you at LPS...you either make a baked goodie or use an image of a baked goodie! No LPS stamps, no problem, we would love for you to play along with us anyways!

I choose to bake and use a baked goodie image! The cookies are a scrumtious peanut butter...hmmmmm and I love the little image...it's from out new {Christmas Tags} Stamp set and it is yummy!!!

And this is a close up of the little tag. I know it's small but with all I had going on this weekend and week this was all I could muster! Sheeeesh I'm busy! This is my last week of pre-school until January and I am looking foward to the slowness! My son also gets out of school this Friday so there are goodies to bake for the party and to give the kids for treats...okay enough complaining about how busy I am! I hope you like my cookies!

Have a great weekend and please play along with us, we have an awesome prize for you, it's your very own {I Heart} Just go to the LPS blog and link us your creation...don't forget to use key word LPSC46 on your creations!

Supplies:

Stamps: {Christmas Tag}

Ink: Stazon brown

Paper: very vanilla, real red

Accessories: crop-a-dial, star eyelet, scallop punch, red double faced satin ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Silvia

TLC249 & TLC250

Hey all, don't forget to check out my COPIC SKETCH blog candy going on now until Christmas DAY!!!

This is a post for this weeks and last weeks Technique Lovers Challenges. This weeks TLC 250 was to make a shipping tag box...super cute! And last weeks TLC249 was to make a necklace out of metal washers...I actually made 4 but already gave away 2 and one is not complete yet. Anywho, here are pics!Here is a little ensamble...I wish I had made the little packaging out of the same paper I made the necklace, but unfortunately it was just a scrap! Cute non the less and I know the recipient will love it!

Just a little close up of the box...I loved how super simple it was...I dodn't have tags so I just cut my papers as per the measurements and went with it...didn't cut the corners because I liked the look of the square ends.

Here is the necklace I made. I actually used some eyelets to attach the leather. turned out cute if I do say so myself! I hope my friend likes it!

And this is a close up of the card...super simple, yet still ohhh so pretty!

Supplies:

Stamps: {Flourished Dove} and {Make A Wish} Both by Little Paper Shop

Ink: Baja Breeze, stazon timber brown

Paper: Baja Breeze, very vanilla, garden party by DCWV

Accessories: crop-a-dial, scallop circle punch, curcle punch, organdy ribbon, scallop punch, crystal effects, dazzling diamonds glitter, eyelets, jewlery clasps, leather

Thank you sooo much for stopping by and don't forget about the Copic Blog candy here!

Have a blessed day!

Silvia

Recycled Little Paper Shop a Sketch challenge {11-30-09}

Little Paper Shop Monday is upon us and Little Paper Shop has a sweet little card set for you! This weeks LPSC40 challenge is to make a card using a previous sketch challenge to create a holiday themed card. I choose to go with one of Cindy's sketches because I think it's super cute! So I made a little gift set! It's a Thankful card set...and since Thanksgiving was just this last week I thought it was appropriate! I know you want to play along! This weeks FAB prize is the {I Heart} set...you sooo need this in your collection!
Here is my little card portfolio...super easy to make! This little card set is going out as a Thanksgiving day gift to my sons teacher...I was slacking a little before Thanksgiving! Been a little busy! I love the tree from the {Chirp} set and the sentiment is from the {Topiary} set.


This little card portfolio is super easy to make! All you do is take a pice of 8.5 x 11 piece of cardstock and fold it in half at the 5.5 inch mark. Rotate your paper around and score again at the 2.5 inch mark. Now fold the portfolio at the 5.5 inch side and cut from the score mark to the end to make the nice even V shape in the middle. Clear as mud right? open back up and fold flaps up, use your crop-a-dial to punch holes and set the eyelets...voila, card portfolio complete!

And here is a pic of the 4 cards. They are simple, but still cute! You can hardly see the versamark trees but they are there!

Supplies:

Stamps:{Chirp} and {Topiary} by Little Paper Shop

Ink:versamark, stazon black, ruby red

Paper:ruby red, basic grey indian summer, very vanilla

Accessories: Crop-a-dial, eyelets, ribbon, scor-tape, prima flowers, buttons

If you need more inspiration with this sketch please check out LPSC25 blog post when the sketch was origionally placed. Lots of gorgeousness there!

Thank you sooo much for stopping by! Have a blessed day!

Silvia

WT246- A Sweet Challenge

Hey there my lovely friends! First and foremost I would like to wish everyone a very Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving! I thank the forefathers of America for their vision for a freedom of religion! A freedom to choose, a freedom to speak what you want! I thank them for going through with their vision no matter how arduous the journey may be! I am thankful to be able to celebrate this Thanksgiving and Lord willing many more to come!

Now onto my sweet challenge! Todays Splitcoaststampers ways to challenge 246 was to use sweets in your project! I have been wanting to try a candy bar ribbon slide for quite some time (even confiscated a candy bar from the kids trick or treating basket and stashed it!) and now I had the chance to do it...I think it turned out super cute and I'm going to give it to one of the guys at the gate of the base...might make a few more, they were super fast and are super cute and make a nice little gift for the guys and gals here that help make this place safe for us all!

And here is my project! Super fabby fab!

Really it took me less than 15 minutes to make this lovely little boy! Hmmm maybe I'll make a little tutorial for these little guys! With different measurements for different candy bars! LOL I think I'm getting ambitious! I already have another tutorial I'm working on, so please be on the lookout for that! P.S. The tag reads Holiday Blessings.

Here is the ribbon slide open.

I think it turned out super cute. I lvoe the colors and those felt snowflakes just add such a nice touch!

Supplies:

Stamps: {Christmas Tags} By Little Paper Shop (30% off right now! But hurry, sale ends soon!)

Ink: Baja Breeze

Paper: Baja Breeze, whisper white, retired DP by SU!

Accessories: Felt flurries, big shot, embossing folder, eyelets, ribbon, crop-a-dial, word window punch

Thanks sooo much for stopping by! Happy Stamping!!!

Silvia

Sneaky Peaky Hosting LPS {10-2-09}

Hello there my friends... today is day 3 of Little Paper Shop release countdown... and it's also my turn to host the Limited Supplies Challenge 240 over at SCS...so in honor of both...I have made a super cute card!

For my card I used Taylored Expressions sketch challenge 84 and Whimsey Stamps challenge to use eyelets on my card. I used the Bella rose designer series paper and a piece of Confetti white cardstock. I then used the nesties 3 lables to cut directly into the background...I really think this looks neat! I then stamped the tree and the girl and used my colluzle to cut it out and trimmed around the parts that *stick* out. The rest was simple, cut, color, glue! LOL ohh yes I also sponged around the edge of the tree with summer sun...for a warm glow!



For this card I also used the Flourishes Newsletter FTTC35 challenge out of the frame.



The set I used for this card is called {Katie Christmas} and will be available from Little Paper Shop tomorrow! I know you love this set and want to see more of what was made with it...and I know you want a chance to wint his set...I know you do! So hope on over the the Little Paper Shop Blog and simply leave a comment for your chance to win...and be sure to come back tomorrow and a HUGE release and a look at another wonderful set!



Supplies:
Stamps: {Katie Christmas} by Little Paper Shop
Ink: Stazon brown, kiwi kiss, riding hood red, summer sun, close to cocoa, chocolate chip
Paper: Bella rose dp, confetti white cardstock
Accessories: nestabilities lables 3, coluzzle, glitter, reinkers, blender pen, big shot, gold eyelets, big shot



Thank you sooooooo much for stopping by! I hope you have a blessed day!

May the Lord's blessing be upon you prepare for this Christmas season and the whole year through!



Hugs,

Silvia

LPS January Sneak Peek 2

For todays sneak peek I thought I would show you this super cute doggy card! I know I just love doggies! This brand new set is called {Puppy Love} and it is just AWESOME! Little Paper Shop has managed to come out with yet another great release! It has a couple doggie images and some super cute sayings...I just know you're going to LOVE it!

I wanted to do some paper piecing for this set...the heart was just screaming to me! My friend Wendy came over to stamp with me the other day and she was kind enough to give me some super yummy Basic Grey designer paper and I ceased the monent and went for it! Isn't his little heart just too cute?

Now let me explain the reason behind the 2 giant eyelets! LOL I was just going to use one and silly me went ahead and added it without measuring the card for placement...well it was WAY too high and it looked plain silly if I had added it to the card like that...so I went ahead and added another eyelet and I actually like how it looks!

Again, MOST of my stuff is packed away and I am say to say that I am down to bare masics for my stamping right now! BOOO HOOO, but hopefully you have enjoyed my cards so car!

Supplies:

Stamps: Puppy Love by Little Paper Shop

Ink: Stazon brown

Paper: Certainly celery, pink pirouette, confetti white, Basic Grey designer paper

Accessories: crop-a-dial, jumbo eyelets, organdy ribbon, blender pen

Thanks for stopping by!

May God Bless you today and always,

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

LPS January Sneak Peek 1

Hello ladies ad gents! It's that time again...Little Paper Shop is going to be releasing 3 BRAND NEW sets on the 15th and I get to start showing them to you today! Aren't you so very excited!!! I know I am! I lvoe these new little guys and I am soooo excited to share with you what I have created so far! The fisrt set I get to show you is called {Make Your Own Mug} and it's created by a BRAND NEW illustrator! You may already know who she is as she has been a party of the Little Paper Shop Design Team for some time now, bit has finally taken the jump to Illustrater and boy am I glad she did! Who is she? Her name is Elyssa and her blog is called Confessions of a Teenage Scrapper trust me you will want her set! This girl came out with a bang!!!

For my first project I decided to create a box for some coffee, my sisster-in-law owns a coffee shop and she sells ...what...COFFEE and I thought this little box would be perfect for her to put a little bag of grounds in there to sell... I tink she will like it! The box measures 4x4 and I simply cut my designer paper slightly smaller that than each side and adhered it. I then stamped the coffee gound images using brown stazon ink directly on the designer paper. for the images I stamped them on whisper white paper, colored them with water color pencils and then used blender pens to smooth it all together and cut them out!

To get that nice little rectangle in the middle I actually used a rectangle nestabilties die and an exacto knife. I tried to hold the die as still as possible, but it slipped a little hints the placement of the mug and beans...LOL

Once the rectanle was cut I used some sticky trip and a small piece of acetate and adhered it to the inside...VOILA perfect box with a window! LOVE IT!!! I guess I sould of placed the die on the inside and then ran it through the machine, but hey I like to do things the hard way...LOL

And here is a view from the top so you can see my GORGEOUS ribbon skills LOL

Supplies:

Stamps: Make You're Own Mug by Little Paper shop (Available Jan 15th)

Ink: Stazon brown

Paper: Designer papre by cosmo cricket

Accessories: Crop-a-dial, jumbo eyelets, chocolate satin ribbon, rectangle nestabilities, craft knife, acetate, sticky strip, water color pencils, blender pens

Don't forget to check out what the other ladies on the DT did! YOu can start at the Little Paper Shop Blog

Thanks for stopping by!

May God Bless you today and always,

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

LSC194

Just a quick post today...Mela is Sleeping and when she gets up ww are going to spend some time with hubbies family!

The challenge for today was to make a card using acrylic stamps only! So I went for the Little Paper Shop stamp set called Little One...DH needed a new baby boy card for an ex-air force guy...so this was perfect!

The card was super easy to make...base is wild wasabi and then some certainly celery designer series paper inked in black. some barely banana cut to 3.5 x 3.5 and a 3x3 textured wasabi layer. the plane was stamped on DS paper...from a pack I can't remember...might of been a simply scrapin kit. I also stamped the plane on brely banana and cut it out to layer on the windows...added a sentimen, ribbon and eyelets and called it a day.

Supplies:

Stamps: Little One by Little Paper Shop

Ink" Stazon Black

Paper: wild wasabi, barely banana, certainly celery designer series, scraps

Accessories: Crop-a-dial, fresh favorites eyelets, wild wasabi rbbon

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

Christmas Goodies

So here are some projects I've been working on...I like them and I think they are super cute! I have been in kind of a funk...I don't know if it's because I'm starting to pack some of my things or if I have been selling some of the craft things I have in stock or what...the most probable cause would have to be the HUGE mess I have in my stamping areas...always a culprit! (is that even how you spell that??!!?!?!) Any who here are two things I was actually able to make this week!

Project Number one is a pretty cool and easy peasy project! I got this tray super cheap and then with just a quarter sheet of card stock cut out the Merry Christmas using the Olivia Cuttlebug Alphabet through my awesome well loved SU! Big Shot...my FAVE toy right now!!! Used my Crop-a-dial to punch some holes, threaded some ribbon and added a snowflake that I got last year...4 for a buck...too cool huh? gorgeous, quick and cheap...my favorite type of craft!

This is a close up of the snowflake and tray...doesn't it have pretty designs on it! Gotta love a good find! I must go back and get me some more!

These next projects are oldies but goodies. I Love making these clips...they always pack such a punch...plus I made 5 in about half an hours time...mostly because I was trying to get the rhinestones out of the brad section to make them more flat! All Supplies for this project are from SU! except for the binder clips themselves...the Clips measure 2 inches wide and are just perfect for to hold a 4x6 picture or thank you note to a hostess of a dinner party.

This is a close up to you can see the pretty stone in the center of the snowflake and the glitteriness...a girls gotta have some sparkle in her daily routine! On a side note...these were all make from two sheets of 6x6 paper with lots left over...can you say teacher's gifts?

I hope you enjoy both projects...thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'

May God Bless you today and always!

Silvia

Banners Away!

So my sister-in-law is hosting an engagement party tonight and earlier this week she asked me if I could make her a banner and another sign for her wall...I said sure no problem! So what did I make?

Isn't this banner awesome! I went to my friend Nikki's and she was gracious enough to let me use her Cricut...Love it...hmmm I might need an expressions after all! Who knew! LOL

I used orchid Opulance cardstock and cut the letters in 5.5 inches tall...I think? Could of been 5 inches. Anyways, Once all the letter were cut I came home and used my cuttlebug folders through my big shot...fisrt I inked the top portion of the folder also with Orchid Opluance and then ran it through. After that is was Glitter time! While all the glitter was drying I cut out 15 top note dies on shimmery white cardstock and then sponged the edges with Orchid Opulance craft ink...my fav way to sponge!

After sponging I set my crop-a-dial to desired hight and punched holes for the silver eyelets on all the top notes and then set the eyelets.

Put it all together and you have an awesome banner right? Well I thought it still looked a little plain...so I found some pretty flowers added a button to the centers and of course more GLITTER! Can a girl ever have too much sparkle?

Now for the little stamped girl...you're probably thinking...hey that's not weddingish or engagementish...well I though gosh this would be a shame to trash it after one use...so pretty and so muh work...that I thought Hey I could probably use it for other occasions...so I started thinking and decided it would be good for a birthday or a bridal shower ad even a baby shower...so I will just switch out images and call it a day! This particular image is from an MFT set called "you take the cake" and I water colored again with the craft ink and aqua painter...added more glitter and cut her out!

Now, since I had all my supplie already out I went ahead and made a birthday card...never know when I might need to use it! LOL

Supplies:

Stamps: MFT You take the cake

Ink: Orchid opulance, yo yo yellow

Paper: orchid opulance, shimmery white, basic black (for card only)

Accessories: Crop-a-dial, silver eyelets, orchid opulance ribbon, mono multi, dazzling diamonds glitter (for card only blck eyelets)

The card is also for a couple challenges...Angelosities blog challenge using her sketch 25 ando also the MFT November guest designer contest...watercoloring!

Thanks stopping by!

May God bless you today and always,

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

Just one and a Tag

Thursday's challenge on SCS is the Ways to challenge. Todays ways to challenge 189 was t use just one word as the main focal point. I just got home from a long day of being out and about with my friend Wendy, but I really wanted to play...might even have to play again in a little while...after I do some chores of course!

Anywho here is a quick card for you...littlerally a 5 minute card! Cut cardstock, round corners, tie ribbon, stamp Upsy Daisy flowers in Pink Pirouette, stamp friendship sentiment in Pacific Point, add the embossed dots using the crop-a-dial...take picture and that's all it took! In mere minutes a day you too can make gorgeous cards!!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Wonderful Words, Upsy Daisy

Ink: Pacific Point, Pink Pirouette

Paper: hisper White

Accessories: corner rounder, Pacific Point Ribbon, Crop-a-dial for embossing

And now for the tag!

Here are the rules:

Link your tagger and list the rules on your blog.
Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog-some random, some wierd.
Tag 7 people at the end of the post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
Let them know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

I was tagged by my good friend Deb check out her blog: With a Stamp and a Song

Here are seven odd/wierd things about me!

1. I had natural child birth 3 times because I'm affraid of needles!

2.I love candy with carmel and chocolate (Turtles are my fav!)

3.I need to feel a HEAVY blanket on me when I sleep

4.I like fall so that I can wear long sleeve t-shirts

5.I carved my first pumpkin this year

6.I would love to make wedding invites and favors (call me if your planning a wedding!)

7.My husband is working on getting his masters in Devinity right now (Jesus Saves!)

And here are 7 people I'm Tagging

1.Miss Boo: Designs by Boo

2.Shelli: So Shelli ( figured why not, right?! I would love to know some odd/wierd facts about shelli!)

3.Jami at Stamp Happy

4.Inking Idaho

5.Stampin when I can

6.Sandra at Scrapbooking-san

7.Beverly at Beestamper

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'

May God Bless you,

Silvia

On a little side note, my brother-in-law was kind enough to point out to me tonight that most computers today, most programs for that matter, have a spell check feature...I really don't know what he was trying to get at! I guess he doesn't know that I have 3 small kids and am just typing as fast as I can to get it posted with no time to proof read or spell check! But you know what Gary, Jesus loves me and my imperfections, He accepts me for who I am, mmistakes and all...why can't you? (HEHEHE!!!)

Hosting SCS

Challenge...Limited Supply challenge 190 that is! Since my very first challenge I started with a color and for my next challenge in November I have a color I thought I would have a theme...a color limit...I love hosting! So fun!!! Anywho here are the deets!

Eyelets, ribbon and one sheet of designer paper...that's all! Yup you read it right! Of course you can use your basic cardstock...as long as the card only has those things mentioned above...and be sure to use the color blue somewhere in there too!

So there are lots of no nos, no punches, no cuttlebugs, and if you're using double sided paper...only use one side! I know rules are so hardt o follow! But please please try your hardest! You know you want to play!

Need Some Inspiration? Okay here are a couple cards!

This fisrt one also used the plaid from yesterdays challenge...Love this paper. a very cute sketch that I rotated...found this sketch on miss JulieHRR's blog...thanks for the neat sketch Julie! This card is already in an envelope addressed and ready to go! I hope te recipient likes it! The sentiment is from a set called Topiary by the Little Paper Shop...Love this little set!

Supplies:

Stamps: Dreams Du Jour (su!), Topiary (by Little Paper Shop)

Paper: Kiwi Kiss, really Rust, Natural vanilla, Designer paper by chatterbox

Ink: Kiwi kiss, chocolate chip craft

Accessories: jumbo eyelet, crop-a-dial, kiwi kiss ribbon, sponge

This next card I made with the intentions of using it for the sketch challenge on Wednesday but when I went to upload I saw that my skecth was off...so I used it for my challenge instead! LOL I have a ton of eyelets and need to use them up, or loose them! So I made this little beauty. I love all the eyelets...aren't they pretty! I made both of the circles using my Coluzzle cutting system and then layered them. The center heart is raised up on dimentionals...a lot more blue on this one! You can use as much or as little as you want!

Supplies:

Stamps: Heard from the heart (SU!), Sock Monkey (SU!)

Ink: Staz-on black, pink pirouette, ridding hood red, tempting turquoise

paper: Sahara Sand, tempting turquoise, shimmery white, tempting turquoise designer paper

Accessories: bold bright eyelets, crop-a-dial, sheer ribbon, sponge, coluzzle, aqua painter

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin and God Bless,

Silvia

Mad Flannel card

So todays Technique Challenge WT188 on SCS was mad for plaid to make a card using plaid...I had to think for a bit and then I remembered that I had the flannel plaid background stamp...more mute than what I think of when I think of plaid, but I think it worked out well for this card! I love the simplicity of the colors and how quick it came togeher...I don't usually get to stamp in the day, but the baby was sleeping and the big kids were watching a movie and this card only took like 10 minutes max! I love how they come so fast some times!

So this is my card! I used craft cardstock and chocolate chip ink for the flannel plaid BG and for the pine leaves. I then got some creamy carmel carstock and stamped the pine comes with chocolate chip craft ink and covered them in cleart embossing powder, heat set and then cut them out. I did the same for the sentiment with real red craft ink...although I didn't cut it out...went to my machine instead and did some stitching! I then inked up the edges with craft ink and crumpled the card a bit in places, added a ribbon, some eyelets and called it a day! I do wish I had some different color eyelets...some that weren't so barsh looking, but more subtle...ohh well such is live!

Supplies:

Stamps: Flannel Plaid Background, Peaceful Wishes

Ink: Craft chocolate chip, chocolate chip, craft real red

Paper: craft, creamy carmel

Accessories: ribbon, Embossing powder, eyelets, crop-a-dial, heat tool, paper snips

We attempted to go to the pumpkin patch yesterday, but when we got there they were closed...we were all very sad...the kids were in tears, so we knew we had to find some pumpkins to cheer them up! We went to our local nursery and bought some from there and came home a carved them.

I had NEVER carved a pumpkin before so this was just as exciting for me as it was fr the kids! We had such an awesome time getting all the pumpkin guts out and the carving it. I didn't realize this was so hard! Once we got them all prettied up we waited until dusk and then lit them...they kids were so excited about the pumpkins!

David is all smiles with his pumpkin! He wanted his carved just like a shirt he had...an orange shirt with a black face...so Andrew drew it on the pumpkin and they carvedit out together. Doesn't he look so pleased!

Emelia and I decided to make a ghost pumpkin and I think for my fisrt one it turned out pretty well! Although little miss priss wouldn't touch the insides...she did attempt to cut it!

Thanks for stopping by! We are hoping to go to the pumpkin patch tomorrow...so we'll see!

Happy Stampin'

God Bless you,

Silvia

October LPS Sneak Peek #5

If you like sentiments...and birthday sentiments at that, this is the set for you! It's called Make a Wish and it's by Little Paper Shop being released on October 14th. It's a large set measuring 4x6 and contains 10 sentiments! I love love love this font, I don't think I can get enough of it...good thing Julia loves it too!

I started by picking out my designer paper, I knew I wanted something bright and cheery, cuz who wants a drab birthday card!!! I knew I wanted to use wonderful wings...I've been cleaning out my stamp stack (a listing of sale items soon to come!) and I saw this set that I just absolutely love and seldome use...I knew it would be perfect for this birthday greetings set! So I inked the butterfly in Kiwi Kiss ink and then using my chocolate chip marker inked up some areas that i wasnted to be brown, I then breathed on it to help blend the colors and stamped it on shimmery white cardstock...I wish you could see this in real like...the shimmer is just amazing! I then used an aqua painter and some tangerine tango classic ink refil colored the butterfly ever so gently and then went in and added more hughlights.

The last thing to do to this butterfly before cutting was to stamp the sentiment. I choose "Make a Wish" because it just fit so perfectly within the butterfly. I saw the little tutorial on SCS Wednesday for the scallop medalion and I just had to try it...good thing I had a piece of paper that measured to the perfect size! I punched it out and added little white dots and then some eyelets...although once I added everyhing you can hardly see the medalion! ohh well such is life I guess!

So that's my card! What do you think? I love these colors!!! Now go and check out the Little Paper Shop Blog to see what all the lovely Divas have created! They do amazing work!!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Wonderful Wings (SU!), Make a Wish (Little Paper Shop)

Paper: Tangerine Tango, chocolate chip, papaya designer series paper

Ink: chocolate chip, tangerine tango, kiwi kiss

Accessories: Crop-a-dial, satin ribbon, earth elements eyelets, aqua painter, chocolate chip marker, while gel pen

Thanks for stopping by!

God Bless you,

Silvia

Anniversary & New Feature

I made this card for some very close friends of the family. My sister-in-laws Aunt and Uncle...are they my family too? Anyways we care for them dearly and they will be celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary this year. This wonderful couple have gone through a lot this past year and a bunch of their friends and family are sending them anniversary cards to remind them we love them!

So this is the card I came up with...it just so happens to fit perfectly into todays Limited Supplies Challenge on SCS wink wink. I love the way this heart looks embossed and since the 25th anniversary is the silver anniversary I went with it! Added some Silver carstock and shimmery white cardstock, and called it a day! I really like how simple this card is, but it's also elegant...at least I think so!




Supplies:

Stamps: Always, Hugs and Wishes
Paper:basic black, shimmery white, silver
Ink:silver encore, versamark
Accessories:silver ribbon, siver eyelets, silver embossing powder, crop-a-dial

***All Supplies are from Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated***

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

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Wedding Shadow Box Fame

So a while back my sister out me in touch with a gal (hi Lauren) that wanted me to make her a shadow box frame for her bosses wedding gift...well I finally got theinvite from my sister today and went speedy quick to work...I have been looking ofward to this project for quite some time now!

Here are the deets!

Supplies:

Stamps: Dream by Little Paper Shop

Ink: Encore Silver

Paper: Blush Blossom, shimmery silver, paper vellum, transparency overlay by Hambly Screen Prints

Accessories: Silver eyelets, embelishments by Jolees, Crop-a-dial, wedding invitation

Now for some fun stuff we did yesterday, I say fun, but it was really quite a lot of work! We are going to be moving to Greece and therefor renting our house out...so we wanted to get some cleaning done! We started on the outside with the siding (is that how you spell it?) and decided to make it a family affair...cuz you know God gave us all this house and we all need to learn to take care of it, even the baby! LOL

Here's a picture of Andrew and all the kids getting to work...don't worry I helped too, I just wanted to get some pics to share with you guys!) When we got to the garage and we rinsed it off we were suprised to find that the garage door is actually white! Can you believe it, this whole time I thought it was kahki, or orange mud!

And I just had to share this one! David and Bella were so busy with their work! Bella was just too cute doing what the big kids were doing! She had so much fun and then took a wonderful nap after we were done! Mela was re-charging her scrubber with more bubbles...she seemed to be at the bucket a lot, I think she enjoyed playing in the water!

Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate your visit today!

Happy Stampin'

Silvia

Tuesday's Teacher

For you today I have a very special little project...but fisrt out Weekly Bible verse!


"Bretheren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern." -Phillipians 3:17


The Lord was and is so good in showing us how we should behave in our everyday lives and with everyone we come in contact with...from our children (who is mostly who I see!) to our husbands and other family and anyone else we may come in contact with. He demonstrated such grace throughout His short life. I am just astonished at how loving and caring He was eventhough He endured so much pain and suffering. Jesus lived to die...FOR US and yet He lived everyday to teach us because he knew His days here on this earth were few and precious! As I read my bible and because of the yearning in my own soul, I know that God created us to NOT be alone. We are to share our lives with others and we must know how to share the love that God has for us with others. We also need to be with others that believe as we do, not because we are better than other, but because we need to be reminded of how we should act and there is no better way to learn than by example.

I love going to church, but I have my moments just as anyone else...our church is about an hour from home and with gas price the way it is...the devil always tries to sneak in my head! Oh we shouldn't go every week, we really can't afford the gas, is my ration some days, but I know the Lord wants me there, not only to learn from others who believe in Him, but also to be encouraged and to learn from His word! Have you been around or spoken to a believer of Christ today? Did they show you the love that God showed us? May God Bless all those who read this!


Post it Note Key Chain Tutorial

*** all Supplies by Stampin' Up! Unless otherwise noted***


Supplies:
1 5/8 x 8 1/2 piece of cardstock
scrap pieces of designer paper
Post-it notes cut in half
scallooped edge punch
small and large oval punches
round tab punch
ribbon
crop-a-dial
eyelets
Various ribbons
D-ring
Brown stazon ink
Baja Breeze ink pad
Mark the date stamp set
mini Alpha stamp set
First you will want to stamp your carstock with whatever stamp set you want to use (Here I used Mark the date and used the polka dots. Then you will want to lay your paper flap against the scor-pal length wise (8.5 up top)
-score at 2 inches
-then move the paper to the 1/8 inch mark and score at 2.5 inches.


Now you will want to move the paper one last time to 1/2 inch and score at 6 inches and 6 3/8 inches (the line that has the little dot above it, before the 6.5 inch mark)

Before you do the next step you will want to have your post it notes ready! I took one post it note (got a pack of 4 with 50 sheets each at the dollar store the other day!) I counted 25 sheets and cut those in half and hole punched them with my crop-a-dial (this thing is like magic I tell ya!) then using one sheet from the already punched pile I used it as a template for the rest...for this ketchain you will want to have 200 sheets that measure 1.5x3 inches. (P.S. I adhered all the different sections together...once you lift them off they don't stick as well anymore!)

For this step you are going to place one of the post it notes that you have already cut in half and hole punched on top of the cover and use it as a guide to punch the top hole.

You will now take the same pot it and place it on the inside and punch the bottom hole (this will make all the punched holes line up nicely!) I then used some adhesive to attach the pack of post it in place to the cardstock base.

Decorate as you wish...put the ring through and tie lots of pretty ribbons.

Once you have completed decorating this little cutie, you will want a way for it to close, I was debating between velcro and a magnet and finally decided on a magnet as they tend to open a little easier with out too much effort...might regret it later though...LOL

And here she is...all prettied up! really like how this turned out, I love the new papers...they are called Holiday Treasures and are made my Stampin' Up! If you would like to order these please let me know (mabieme1999@yahoo.com) I used several of the punches to finish this off, I used both ovals for the purse handles and I used the scallop border punch and I also used the round tab punch to make the little purse (got the idea from a swap I recieved today! Thanks!) plus I used the punch that goes with the looks like spring set to embelish my flower...the only thing I'm bummed about it the back that I didn't stamp polake dots on the purse to match the base paper, but such is life!

I hope you make one of these little guys! They are fast, fun and easy...if you do make one be sure to let me know...I wanna see your pretty creations too!

Thanks for stoppin by!

God Bless you and Happy Stampin'