Floating By to Say Hi!

Hi All!  I hope your weekend is going well.  I wanted to pop in to share this card.  I have been wanting to learn how to make those great sky backgrounds with the big fluffy clouds and lo and behold, I found this great tutorial from Suzanne Dean - youtube video here!  Now, she shows the technique of making the sky around your image but for this card, I knew I was going to pop up the image and balloons so I went ahead and did the background first.  My image, "Balloon Ants," comes from Doodle Pantry and while I used the outline of the image, Laurie offers a colored version *complete with matching digi paper!!* as well.  I made the rest of the balloons by cutting them on my Cricut using the Celebrations cartridge and varying the sizes of the balloons to create a sky full of balloons some higher and some farther away.  The sentiment came with the image - Laurie rocks! not only do you get amazing images, but you get sentiments too and sometimes even matching digi papers :)  There is still time to enter the Doodle Pantry Challenge and all you have to do is use a Doodle Pantry image (have I mentioned Laurie has great FREEBIES too?).  Happy Crafting! <3 Lisa

Wee Memories Scrappy Saturday Challenge #62!!

Happy Saturday All!  It is time for a new challenge over at Wee Memories.



Our sponsor this week is Stamps of Life.
The theme is clean and simple - CAS  

For my CAS card, I used A Day For Daisies digital image, Lemon Fairy.  It's colored with copics and then, I added texture to the lemon using a Fiskars texture plate.  The sentiment reads, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and drink it up."  The sentiment is a Studio G clear stamp (for a $1!).   I fished the ribbon out of a Michaels $1 ribbon bin :)

I hope you will come play along with us at Wee Memories!!

Have a lovely weekend! <3 Lisa

A Fairy Special Bundle of Love

Hello All!  This sweet image, "Bundle of Love" is from A Day For Daisies.  It is one of several amazing images with coordinating poems that make up the July club kit.  Be sure to check them out!

I had a black box that a necklace came in and I kept it because it opened like a book.   The club kit images belong in a book so, using that black box, I created a one for my image :)  I made the chiffon flower by following the tutorial - HERE - from Crafter's Digital Art Center.  The box got a complete makeover -- I re-covered the whole box with a thin light green card stock and just before adding the polka-dot heavy card stock, I placed a pink ribbon around the whole box so that it could be closed with a bow.   Happy Friday and have a great weekend! <3 Lisa

Babycakes Maker and Doodle Pantry = Baking up some FUN!

If you are looking for the  A Day For Daisies Sweet Summer Blog Hop, please click HERE! 

Hello Friends and a warm welcome to you and my new FOLLOWERS!  I'm happy to have you all here :)  I have decided that once I hit 50 followers, I'm going to celebrate with some blog candy!  

I bought this neat little appliance called a Babycakes Cupcake Maker (see it HERE).  I am not much of a cook and I really don't bake well; I make more of a mess than anything edible...*but* this little cupcake maker may well be the answer to my baking woes!  It was super easy to use --ahhh, this is key for me -- and I would actually have to say it was fun :).  I *love* the tiny little cupcakes it makes!  I was so inspired by my new found toy, I had to pull out my Doodle Pantry baking ants digi stamps and whip up this cute little gift set!

I used DCWV printed cardstock from the Kitchen stack.  The first image, the ants stirring the batter, is colored with copics.  I cut it out and then positioned it on the paper that looked like a kitchen counter.  The rolling pin and whisk were cut by my Cricut using the From My Kitchen cartridge.  The sentiment is one from the digi set.  The second image, oven mit, is paper pieced and the ants are colored with copics.  I cut a small box with my Cricut and the Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More cartridge.  The sentiment is another from the digi set.  

The Babycakes maker bakes the cupcakes in less than 10 minutes!  I let them cool while I crafted my little set, and by the time I was finished, I was able to frost them up and include one in the pic :)  

Happy Crafting! <3 Lisa

Sweet Summer Blog Hop from A Day For Daisies!

It's HERE!

Hello All and welcome to the A Day for Daisies Sweet Summer Blog Hop.

If you have arrived from JenLee's  blog then you are in the right place!  Participants have a week to hop and be sure to leave a comment on each  blog to qualify for the grand prize -- July's Club KIT!!   

The challenge was to use 2 or 3 images from one of Tammy's collection and create 3 different projects.  My images came from the Triple Scoop Collection.

Gift Card Holder - Pansy Sundae

Party Favor Box - Daisy Cone

Card - Butterfly Cone

This was a lot of fun and I do hope you will play along!  Tammy has 2 freebies available to get you started and for sharing your 3 projects, you have a chance at a $12 gift certificate to the shop!    So, your next stop is our Guest Designer this month:  Audrey's Blog!  

Just to keep track, here is the Blog Hop Listing:

sherryann

Vera

Arielle

Candy
Janna

JenLee

Lisa

Audrey

HAPPY HOPPING!

Hello Kitty Baby Shower - Favors!

I finished the favors for the Hello Kitty Baby Shower!  I posted the invitations last week (HERE).  Next, I'm going to do a banner and possibly a diaper cake if time permits!

I cut 6" boxes using my Cricut and the Tags, Bags, Boxes & More cartridge and assembled them.  Next, using the Baby Steps cart, I cut 3.5" carriages in pink and green and layered them.  Then it was time to add Kitty and to create one that was looking over the side of the buggy but the only image like (Hello Kitty Greetings cart) that was one with a teddy bear on her head!  Cute, but not what I wanted....SO, I used the "shadow" cut of that image (and snipped off the bear) and then cut the paws from the same image and then cut the Hello

Kitty face.  I think they turned out pretty cute :)

Once Hello Kitty was glued in place, I glued the carriage to the back of the boxes.  Each box is big enough for 3 Hershey nuggets which I covered with matching printed paper.  The rhinestones are from Martha Stewart.  So, now I'm off to finish a project for A Day for Daisies!  There's a cool new challenge beginning Friday so please check back for details on that! :)

Happy Crafting!  <3 Lisa

GRRRRRReat!

Greetings Everyone!  I hope your July 4th was Spectacular!  This was a quiet weekend for my husband and I as this was weekend that my niece moved back to Indiana.  I had hoped things would work out and she would want to go to school here but ultimately, I just want her to be happy and comfortable.  If that means going home, then I support her and that means she can have vacations HERE :)  Right Lauren!? ;)  

So, onto my card!  

Today is the 5th of the month so that means NEW IMAGES from DOODLE PANTRY - Yippee!  Here is a card I made using "Quirky Alligator."  Isn't he adorable!?  He's colored with copics and I layered the image on a few different kinds of papers.  The card is Bazzill cardstock (Rainforest); the orange cardstock is Bazzill also but I am not certain of the color.  The plaid print is from DCWV Safari kids matstack.  The alligator skin paper was created using green crackle print paper (I think from Creative Imaginations?) and then I embossed it using Fiskars texture plates.  The balloon was cut from a balloon-printed transparency (from Momenta) and the buttons are from Basic Grey.  I created the sentiment by combining one of Laurie's (GRRRReat) and a clear stamp (Birthday Wishes).   Laurie has a section in the store, "Digi Grab Bag" and there you will find digis  have been marked down 50%.  This grab bag is available today through July 19th!  Check it out HERE!

HAPPY CRAFTING! <3 Lisa