Easter Fanpage Hop

Hello Crafty Friends I hope you all are having an awesome weekend!!

And speaking of awesome, I hope you all didn't miss the awesome line-up in the KaDoodle Bug/ Little Scraps of Heaven fanpage hop!! If you haven't there is still time!! 

Start here at he KBD fanpage...

Files used:

Chick and eggs- Eggsploding Sweetness (KaDoodle Bug Designs),

Bunny, flowers, & planter- Gnome in my Garden Collection (Little Scraps of Heaven Designs),

Stitched scalloped ovals & rectangles- Faux Stitched Mats (Little Scraps of Heaven Designs)

Additional tools used

Anna Griffin Embossing folder

CARD #2 

 File used: Scales and Cottontails

Additional tools used 

Sizzix Originals Designer Bookplates Die (retired)

Embossing Folders:

 Bunny- Swiss Dots (Cuttlebug), 

Dragon- Japanese Scales (Cuttlebug- Asian Bundle),

Jolie Lace (Cuttlebug- Anna Griffin)

Punches:

Cherish (Martha Stewart/ EK Success)

Four Petal Eyelet (Martha Stewart/ EK Success)

Lacy Days of Summer (Fiskars)

Card #3

This adorable Bunny is KaDoodle Bug Designs Hop FREEBIE #1 

called Eggie Buddies- Carrot Bunny

Additional tools used

Doily-Pocket Die (Teresa Collins/ Craftwell)

Scallops Sizzlit Border Die (Hello Kitty/ Sizzix)

Stamp sentiment- Bunny Lovin' (Virginia Turtle)

And, as always...

All paper piecing have been airbrush with my eBrush machine by Craftwell

For more info on the hop visit the KaDoodle Bug or Little Scraps of Heaven fanpages!!

Hope you all have an awesome weekend and have fun hopping!!

~ Mitsy

Romantic Rose Thank You Card & Free SVG

Supplies Used

eBrush (Craftwell)

Craftwell's FREE SVG template by Judith Kim

Teresa Collins Cut'n'Boss machine (Craftwell)

Teresa Collins pocket dies (doily, leaves, and framed ticket/ label)

Spectrum Noir Markers (CR3, FS8, GB10, TN7, CG2, DG3)

Moment ink pad (Tsukineko- Tuxedo Black)

Sentiment Stamp (Virginia Turtle- Hedgehugs & Daisies)

12x12 sheet of acetate (overhead projection sheets or tansparencies would work fine)

Light box & stylus

Foam adhesive

Hot glue gun and glue sticks

Double-sided adhesive

Blue painter's tape

Flower stamens

Feathers

First, I downloaded the free SVG file from the Craftwell blog. Then I cut it out of acetate with my digital cutter. I separated and re-sized into 6"x 6" squares. I  made sure I used a sharp blade and did a multi cut. At least 2, but 3 times is better. This will make your stencils.

I taped my first stencil down to my work surface using blue painter's tape to hold it securely n place. I then sprayed down my first layer using my eBrush aand Spectrum Noir in CR3. The first stencil was the biggest flower of the templates.

This sis the result after just spraying the first stencil!! Looks good already!

I repeated the steps with second biggest flower stencil and instead of CR3, i used FS8. I know totally different color families... but hey. it works! I can start to see the flower building!! Looks awesome!

For the smallest details of the flower I actually layered 2 different colors on top of each other. I first used GB10 then TN7... Those two blended together to make that reddish brown above. This flower is looking outstanding!!

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I saved the leaves for last to make sure the flower lined up properly. For the leaves I also used 2 different greens. Spectrum Noir CG2 and DG3. I ebrushed a base of CG2 then only accented it with DG3 around the edges. AND OH MY... the results... GORGEOUS!!!

Then I took each stencil (one at a time) and layered it over their matching image, taped it to my paper with blue painter's tape, and then flipped it over and used a stylus to emboss and raise the image. 

Check out these results!! It gave the flower a lot of POP!! LOVE IT!!

Then with my Pocket Dies from Teresa Collins and my Cut'n'Boss. I cut out my pieces. I cut my doily into fourths... you'll see why in the next pic.

This is how  I assembled my card. the doily wasn't big enough to cover the whole back and my rose image would have been completely covered. So this is a good way to fake the appearance of a having a huge die without actually having one! 

Check out all the layers and dimension!!

I lastly attached my feathers leaves, and paper rose, Which I also ebrushed with the same Spectrum Noir markers above (CR3 &  FS8). I then stamped my sentiment. This is from Virginia Turtle's Hedgehugs & Daisies set.    I love the font used... It coordinates with the card perfectly!! 

Here is the beautiful end result!! I just love it! I am definitely going to using this stencil over and over! It is very romantic!

Special Thanks to Judith Kim for making such an AWESOME file!!

Hope you all enjoyed this tutorial!

~ Mitsy

LIONS

Goooooood Morning Sunday! Well, the day started ugly... thunderstorms, heavy rain, nervous doggy... then all the kiddies wanted to do a dog pile on me... what a great start, right?!

Anyhoo, I crafted till the wee hours of the morning. It was the only me time I could get to myself, by myself. I was able to make 2 cards, YAY!! I used Little Scraps of Heaven Designs' Lion file. Tricia was nice enough to give this file for free... on one condition... you had to promise to create something with it and post it to the LSHD's Facebook fan page. 

A promise is a promise! And here is my take on it! I love how they came out!

I experimented with eyelashes and a mouth on this one. 

And on this one I decided to give some whiskers a go. I know all lions with a mane are boys but I couldn't resist making "him" in pink! Boy wear pink, right?! Then I cut off the body and cut down his legs to give him paws and made him into a peeker. <3 it!!

Gonna see if I can craft anything else today. Great weather today for it. Hopefully the family doesn't go stir crazy and want to go somewhere in this nasty weather... here's hoping! 

#lazymode

Happy Crafting Everyone!!

Didn't make the cut :(

Kind of bummed... I didn't get picked for the LSHD design team. I guess there was really stiff competition for this call because they assigned a  sort of challenge to help them determine their newest members. And here is my submissions...

AND

And here is a close up 

On this bear I added 3D laquer to her eyes and nose to make 'em pop and added little earrings. I love how she turned out. 

And even though I didn't make the cut I still had a great time and that's what really matters. This is not at all gonna stop me from crafting.

I hope my work encourages and inspires others to be creative. 

Happy Crafting Everyone!!

needs more something

It's been a long time... Where do I begin? I had another baby and now am a proud mama of 4. Baby Jordan was born the day after New Years... not quite a New Years baby but he was our town's first baby of 2013. So,yea me!! And yes, only now I'm posting about it. It has taken me a whole lot longer to get to the swing of things.

My crafting was put on the back burner till fairly recently. And, I'm glad to say, I have officially started crafting again (insert another "yea, me!" moment here)! Thanks to Little Scraps of Heaven Designs, they gave me an extra incentive to craft at full steam. I read on their Facebook page that they were looking for a couple new design team members and were holding an open call. But the thing was,I only saw it the day before all entries were due. Yikes!!!

Here is one of the project I submitted. This one I did the day of the deadline. I still feel it needs a little bit more. I think I'll be tweaking this soon.

For this layout I used the Make Em' Laugh pattern set for the clown car and girl clown and a file called Circus Seal.Which happened to be a previous freebie. 

I'll be posting more creations real soon so check back often!

                                                                Happy Crafting Everyone!

My Chocolate Fix

Hellooo Saturday!! Even thought it's getting hard to sit for long periods at a time and even harder to bend (6 months preggos and counting) ... I was able to complete a layout for Little Scraps of Heaven Designs' challenge. I want my free file, darn it! LOL!! What some people for free stuff... smh... oh well, here it is...

I used the 'My Chocolate Fix' set to make the title, bears, and cakes (but not the whipped cream- I used the the icing from Design on Cloud 9's 'Gingerbread House' set... but ssshhh... don't tell them that!). I also made my own fork svg file. If you would like to download this file for free click HERE.

Thanks for looking!! And Happy Crafting EVERYONE!!

Going Batty

Well, I did the Little Scraps of Heaven's weekly challenge again. This weeks challenge was a 'grey-scale' layout challenge and you could use one color as a "splash color". I chose the color orange. Which was perfect for a Halloween theme.

I used pattern sets from LSHD to create this double layout. The big cutesy bats & pumpkins were from the 'Going Batty' set. And the tree, clouds, tombstones, & little bats were from the 'Ghouls Night Out' set.  The font I used for the title is called 'BlackCastleMF' which you can download for FREE from 1001 Free Fonts. I used a double shadow on the font to get this look.

closer view of 1st page

closer view of 2nd page

I know I've been doing more projects with Little Scraps of Heaven Designs ... but can you blame me?! Their characters are just soooooooo cute!! And even if I don't win the weekly challenge I still get to chose a single pattern for FREE!! So I still win! Yay!!

Thanks for stopping by & HAPPY CRAFTING!!

I won!

GOOD MONDAY MORNING EVERYONE! I woke up to great news... my project was chosen for Little Scraps f Heaven's weekly challenge!! Yay me!!

OK... My day started out awesome...Woohoo!! I hope everyone out there has a good one!!

John Deere Inspired Picture Frame

Here's another project I made. A personalized picture frame for a sweet little boy who had a John Deere themed birthday party. 

Killed two birds with one stone with this one... because I also submitted it into Little Scraps of Heaven's weekly challenge today!! 

I purchased a Hallmark shadowbox picture frame and personalized it with the birthday boy's theme and colors.The tractor, trailer, & hay bales were from LSHD's "Hayride Fun" pattern set. The clouds and sun were pattern I had drawn by hand and hand cut.

RAWR

It feels like I'm constantly running behind... Have you ever felt that way? It seems like the more kids I have the more I need to catch up on things.

Case in point... Here's a layout I did last week for a challenge I did for Little Scraps of Heaven Designs. I've been loooooving my sizzix eclips and all the cool things I've been able to do with it! That with the ecal software and awesome cutting files...shoot... makes crafting so so so easy!! And super cute too!

My 3 year old loves dinosaurs and she always pretends that she's a brachiosaurus (her favorite dinosaur). My problem...you can never find any girly ones. Most dinos come in earth tones or primary colors. Not very  girly. BOO, two thumbs thumbs way down!! Luckily I found  a solution. This pink cutie I cut from LSHD's Dino Land pattern set. The best part of using digital cutting files I can customize the size and colors. Voila... instant girly dinosaurs! Yay!!