Add a Little Dazzle and Neat & Tangled Blog Hop

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a good week. :)

This week, the Neat & Tangled DT is teaming up with the Add a Little Dazzle team. Add a Little Dazzle sells cool craft metal sheets (be sure to check it out!). Each day this week, members of the two teams are hopping. If you're hopping along, you should be coming from Yana's blog.

Here's my project:

I kept things pretty simple. As soon as I saw the Fancy Pants Oh Deer! reindeer, I knew I had to use him! I used the "warm" from the Warm Wishes stamp set and paired it with two stamps from the Simple Christmas set. For the hearts, I die-cut the A Little Dazzle Scarlet Red sheet with the Neat & Tangled My Plate is Full dies.

Don't the hearts look like Valentine's Day chocolates? It makes me kind of hungry. Ha! Here's a close-up:

Be sure to comment all along the way to be entered to win a $25 prize pack from Add a Little Dazzle and a $25 prize pack from Neat & Tangled. Next up in the hop is Lee-Anne!

Thanks for stopping by! I'll be back tomorrow with another post. :)

A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...

Hi everyone!

It's day three of Neat & Tangled's release week. Today, we're sharing projects using the Time Warp and A Long Time Ago sets, designed by (my dear friend) Miriam Prantner. This set is  must-have for Star Wars fans, but it's great even if you haven't seen the movies before. You can see the pictures on the Neat & Tangled blog.

I decided to not go with a space background and instead went retro:

I stamped the Time Warp first in yellow and the sentiments from A Long Time Ago over it. There are some hilarious sentiment pairings in this set....I went with the snarky birthday sentiment. ;)

I layered some of the Me-Ology papers from Fancy Pants. The retro girl image is from the Me-Ology Ephemera. Here's a close-up:

If you love these sets too, be sure to head over to the Neat & Tangled blog and comment to win.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Supplies
Stamps: (galaxy from Time Warp; sentiments from A Long Time Ago) Neat & Tangled
Cardstock: (white) PTI
Patterned papers: (Me-Ology) Fancy Pants
Ink: (Melon Mambo) Stampin' Up; (Yellow Brilliance) Tsukineko
Embellishments: (girl from Me-Ology Ephemera) Fancy Pants

A Die-Cutting Bonanza

Hi! I hope you're having a great weekend, and if you're in the U.S., a great Fourth of July. We went over to a friend's house in the country for a cook out, go-kart rides, and fireworks. It was great, well, until my little guy burned his hand when he grabbed the tailpipe of the go-kart. Ouch! He's okay now.

I'm on the Scraptastic Club blog today sharing a couple of cards using the gorgeous Either Way Kit and Add-On. These kits have great embellishments, and I wanted to combine them with die-cuts.

First, I die-cut several of the papers from the kits. I tried to keep it to just a few colors--coral, aqua, pink, and gold. I used Paper Smooches' Hearts, Cardbooking, Stars, and Pinked Circles, and MFT's Circle STAX.

Next, I went to work layering the different shapes and several of the embellishments from the kits. I decided to go with a simple grid for the card:

Here's a close-up:

For the sentiment, I used the Either Way Stamp Set. I flipped over one of the circle stamps and stamped with the backside in a pink. I stamped over that with the "hello" sentiment:

I had quite a few leftover shapes, so I made another card using the same die-cuts, but other kit embellishments:

I used the Either Way Cut Aparts for the sentiment. Here's a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!


Supplies
Cardstock: (white linen) Ellen Hutson, (Watermelon) The Paper Source; (Rustic White) PTI
Kit: (Either Way July 2014 kit) Scraptastic Club
Stamps: ("hello" and circle from Either Way) Scraptastic Club
Ink: (Melon) Fresh Ink; (Pale Tomato) Hero Arts; (Dewey, Opaque White Mister Huey's) Studio Calico

Scraptastic May Release

**For my Paper Smooches May DT  Blog Hop post, please click HERE. 

Hi everyone!

It's time for the May release of the Scraptastic Club kits! The This Life Noted kit is already sold out (subscribers get first dibs), but if you like the PL-type kits, you can subscribe for next month. ;)

Here are the May kits. Click on them if you want to see the photos larger. :)

The May This Life Noted Kit:

The Daylight Main Kit:

The Daylight Kit Add-On:

The Story I Heard Main Kit:

The Story I Heard Add-On Kit:

The two stamp sets are The Story I Heard and Daylight:

           

If you want to try a month, you can buy a single kit. I am always shocked at how much product comes in the kits--seriously, they are a great deal in my opinion. :)


I'm sharing a card I made using two of the April Scraptastic Club kits:

I covered one of the patterned papers with an acetate overlay from the Let Me Go Kit and Let Me Go Add-On. I love how different the background looks with the overlay. :) I trimmed down one of the journaling cards and added some layers from the Let Me Go Kits and one of the Cut-Aparts. 

For the banner, I trimmed triangles from one of the patterned papers and another one of the Cut-Aparts. Here's a close-up:

If you want to see more of the Scraptastic Club Galleries or products go HERE. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Supplies

Cardstock: (white) PTI

Kit: (Let Me Go Main Kit and Let Me Go Add-On) Scraptastic Club

Mist: (Dewey, Opaque White Mister Huey's) Studio Calico

Sequins: (Avery Elle)

Oh My Stars!

I am a die cutting junkie. All metal dies in my Cuttlebug....marvelous. But, I have a Cricut Expression that hasn't been used nearly enough. I even have several cartridges, so there are no excuses.  It was becoming a Provocraft show-down.

I decided to take a Cricut 101 class at a "local" scrapbook store (about 45 min. away) taught by Betsy Veldman. Of course she was great and I learned a ton about the Cricut! I finally figured out all of the functions, or at least enough to use my machine.

So...the Cricut stays. And I've finally made a card I'm happy with using the Cricut and some my other dies, and I decided to enter it into the Die Cuttin Divas stars challenge:

I used the Plantin Schoolbook and Joys of the Season Cricut cartridges for the big star and the little stars. The die is Papertrey Ink's Fillable Frames #10, and the doily die is My Favorite Thing's  Dainty Lace Doily Die.  Isn't this Fancy Pants paper pretty?

 There is a strip of pink glitter separated by score lines (can't quite see them on the photo).

I added a little stitching using denim thread....love that thicker thread...too bad my machine doesn't!

Thanks for looking!

Here are the details on the card:
Cardstock: pink (Core'dinations); green and red (AC Cardstock)
Patterned Paper: Wishful Thinking (Fancy Pants)
Stamps: Fillable Frames #5 (PTI)
Ink: Warm Red (ColorBox); Brilliance Peacock (Tsukineko); white (ColorBox)
Dies: Plantin Schoolbook & Joys of the Season (Provocraft); Fillable Frames #10 (PTI); Dainty Lace Doily (MFT)
Other: glitter (Michaels); aqua mist button (PTI); pink denim weight thread (YLI)