Happy Spring!

Hope everyone is having a fabulous first day of spring!  I know I am - the sun is shining and the high today will be in the 70s!  I want to share with you a CAS card I made for today:

I just can't get over those sweet bunnies!  Here is another look:

I am going to play along with this week's Lawnscaping Challenge.  The challenge is about making a clean and simple card.

Thanks for coming by and Happy Spring!

-Allison

Anchors Away!

Happy March everyone!  I don't know about you, but I feel like this year is flying by!  Hopefully that means warmer weather will be coming (and staying) soon.  I have a quick card to share with you today that I made for my sister's birthday.  I wanted a simple card with a nautical theme and here is what I came up with:

Can you tell I'm dreaming about warmer weather :)  Here's a look inside:

Thanks for visiting and happy crafting!

-Allison

Love You Tons

Hey Everyone!

Hope you all are having a great week so far!  I have a card to share with you that I made for my hubby for Valentine's Day.  

For this card, I used the Stitched Journaling Card die (Lawn Fawn) to create a background for the scene.  Since the card is for Valentine's Day, I thought it would be fun to have the elephants "peeking out" from hearts.  I colored the journaling card with Distress Paint (Spun Sugar).  I used the largest heart die (Lawn Fawn) to create two openings for the elephants.  I wanted to make the hearts pop, so I made a second journaling card using a brighter Distress Paint (Pickled Raspberry).  I loosely attached the two journaling cards so I could find the perfect spot for the elephants. Once I found the right placement, I taped the edges of the cards together.

To keep with the love theme, I stamped the heart trail from the Bee Mine stamp set (Lawn Fawn) between the elephants.  I made a few smaller hearts from the distressed journaling cards and added them to the scene.  I love the combination of elephants and polka dots, so I layered the card using gray polka dot patterned paper and mounted the scene on kraft cardstock. 

Since I used dots and hearts for this project, I am going to enter the card into the current Lawnscaping Challenge.  

I'm also going to play along with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge (use Kraft cardstock) for this week.      

Well that's all I have for today.  Thanks for coming by and happy crafting!

-Allison

Lawnscaping Challenge #75

Hello Everyone!

Today I have a card to share with you that I made for the current Lawnscaping Challenge.  This week's challenge is about making a project using hearts or dots...so fun!

 I just got two sweet little elephants in the mail the other day, and I knew they would be perfect for this project.  Here is what I came up with:

For this card, I used Lawn Fawn's Love You Tons stamp set and coordinating dies, Sunny Skies stamp set, and the Stitched Journaling Card die.  After coloring the sun and elephant with copics, I adhered them to the journaling card with foam tape.  I made a few hearts out of pink cardstock using heart die cuts.  To add some pop, I added clear glitter around the hearts and sun.  I finished the card by embossing the sentiment from Sunny Skies.  

Thank you so much for stopping by today and happy crafting!

-Allison  

Snow Day

Hello everyone!  Hope you are having a great week so far!  I woke up so excited for the "snow storm" that was suppose to hit our area, but so far, it has not been very impressive.  Oh well...I'm still treating it as a snow day :)

I want to share with you a card I made with a stencil I recently purchased at a local craft store. 

 

For this card, I used the vintage lace stencil (Christy Tomlinson) and started by inking the stencil with peacock feathers and dusty concord distress inks.  I felt the colors needed to be softened, so I added iced spruce to help blend the colors.  I could have played with this stencil for hours!  Lately, I've seen so many amazing projects using stencils and I think I'm going to take the Stenciled Online Card Class to learn some new techniques.  

So back to the card...I colored a butterfly die cut (Memory box) with teal copics.  I used plum cardstock for the card base and embossed the sentiment (Papertrey Ink's Mini Blooms) on kraft cardstock.  Here's a closer look:

 

 Well that's all I have for today...thanks for stopping by and I hope those of you who are getting snow have a fun and safe snow day!

-Allison 

Thanks

Hello there!  I hope everyone had a fun holiday season!  Between classes, family visiting, and work, there has been very little time for crafting in my world.  As much as I love the holidays, I am glad that things are starting to slow down.  One of my goals (not calling it a resolution...they never last for me) this year is to send notes to connect more with family and friends that I do not see regularly.  

Now that the pressure (and fun) of holiday card making is over, I'm spending time building a surplus of thank you and everyday cards to send.  I want to share a thank you card I made:

For this card, I used Papertrey Ink's Mini Blooms stamp set.  This is probably one of my favorite sets...I just love those dainty flowers!  Since I have been using winter colors for so long, I decided to incorporate spring colors to brighten the card.  I used Mister Huey's mist (Audrey) to add some color to the background.  After peeking at pictures of the new release mists and projects at CHA, I decided that I need to use these mists more often! Here's another look:

Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting!

-Allison

Reindeer Treats

Hi everyone!  Are you starting to get in the holiday mood yet?  I know I am!  I'm in graduate nursing school and I just finished my last exam (yipee!).  Now I feel like I can actually start celebrating the holiday season.  One of my favorite activities during the holidays is making treats for my family and friends.  Today I want to share with you a tag I made to go along with a sweet treat - white chocolate peppermint chex mix.  

For these tags I used Lawn Fawn's Into the Woods stamp set, Milo's ABCs stamp set,  Winter Gifts stamp set and dies, and Peace, Joy, Love sequins.  I started by stamping and die cutting my tag.  I colored and cut out the reindeer and added a felt scarf.  I made some rolling hills with gray card stock and used iced spruce distress ink to give dimension to the scene.  I adhered the reindeer with foam tape and stamped the sentiment in enchanted evening by PTI.  I finished the scene off with silver and blue centered snowflakes.  

Here's a closer look: 

I am going to enter this project into the current Lawnscaping Challenge.  This week is a color challenge using arctic colors - how fun this time of year!  

Thanks for visiting today and happy crafting!

-Allison