Wow! that's some pretty paper...

This is one of those times where I had no idea what I was going to make and then it was perfect!

I just used random things on my desk and this wonderful card made it's self.

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Recipe:

Tools: paper Trimmer, EK Success. Martha Stewart Scalloped circle

Paper:

DP by Webster's Pages and SU! card-stock

Stamps:  SU!

Embellishments: Pop-dots

Ink: razzleberry, ink SU!.

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Easter Basket {picture}

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Tea swap

Hello Crafters,
I am so excited to participate in a tea swap this month over at the Paper Craft Planet. I joined the "Anything Goes" group in Fall of 2010 and have had so much fun chatting and swapping with the ladies over there.
The next swap I signed up for it tea themed. I was so excited that I made my project the day I signed up! here is a picture of the package I am sending.  A cup cozy a cloth tea bag envelope and a tea theme card.

I made the cozy using a pattern from "House on Hill Road" and the envelope is a patter I made-up.

 Here is a close up of the card. It has the image stamped on fabric and stitched on to the card.

Recipe:

Tools: paper Trimmer, EK Success. Martha Stewart edge punch,

Paper: Kraft, green and Peach

Stamps: "Chai Latte" Inque Boutique

Embellishments: fabric, Seam binding and button

Ink: Staz-on Jet Black

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Blessings this St Patrick's day!

I made this 4X4" card for a special lady named Bridget. She loves St. Patrick's day.

I'll tell you how I did it.

1. I punched out 4 wide hearts in green and used a glue stick to adhere them to my 3.5" X 3.5" focal point. Arranging them to look like a four leaf clover. I cut a thin strip of matching green for the stem.

2. I then placed my focal point in an embossing folder the pressed the whole thing in my epic six machine.{A BigShot or Cuttlebug can do this easily.}

3. The focal point will be slightly distorted and a mat can now be cut to frame your focal point. Ideally the mat should measure 3 3/4"X 3 3/4" but it may not look even after the focal point is embossed.

4. I then glued my layers down on a 4X4 cards. Voila!

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Recipe:

Tools: paper Trimmer, EK Success.Embossing folder, EpicSix

Paper: Kraft,Olive green,Ruby red

Stamps: NONE

Embellishments: NONE

Ink: NONE 

Green Glamor.

Can you say Green Glamor! Today I am all about green and beads. Do you bead? I have made many pieces of jewelry over the years. But! I have never used beads on a card, today's is the first. I also have a beautiful glass bead necklace to show you! Let check out the card...

This beauty is for Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #80 - Becoming Jane, Embellish Butterflies Color Challenge , Out of the box #20 and the Anniversary Sketch at 2 Sketch for You!

Did you see the beads on the butterflies body? I love the way it looks. The Cinema ladies have a Jane Austin theme going on with Becoming Jane. Fabulous chick flick, about the life of Jane Austin! The lace flowers are very appropriate for tea time with Jane. The first Cinema Saturday challenge was a Jane Austin movie did you know that? I didn't, wish I done that one too!!!

 Okay More beads...

These are some hand made glass beads I bought in Mexico. Don't these green and blue beads look great together? I had them in a long strand before but my little one broke the string. So I have given the necklace a makeover.

 

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Recipe:

Tools: paper Trimmer, EK Success. Small butterfly punch, Martha Stewart. 

Paper: Kiwi kiss, Crumb Cak3 & cake Card stock, SU! Lace acetate, Making Memories.

Stamps: NONE

Embellishments: White Grosgrain ribbon, Walmart. 1/2 Pearls & pearl beads, Dollar shop. Black flower, Queen B. Satin Kraft ribbon, Martha Stewart.

Colors: NONE

Pearly Escapes

Hey Krafty friends!
I made this pearly card with ranger liquid pearls.  Just got the stuff a few weeks ago and MAN it is fun!
This card is based on the CPS160; sketch . I used the "Your Dandy" stamps from Practicing Creativity again...I just can't get enough of them. The beautiful May Arts ribbon is also available at the PCD site.

Here is a close up of the liquid pearl. This shade is called Opal.

I have added a fresh bottle to the blog Candy!

Only, 2 days until the draw.

You can really see the texture of the ribbon too!

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Don't forget about the Blog Candy giveaway! Go here to enter.

Vintage Dandelion

I don't often make Vintage style cards but I definitely love the way they look.

I made this card with the you're Dandy Stamps from PCD and the CPS 159 sketch.

I am adding this lace to the blog candy!

Happy Krafting, Shaz

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Don't forget about the Blog Candy giveaway! Go here to enter.

Asian Wedding Card

I made this card for the Caardvark "Are you ready to GET PUBLISHED?!" Challenge to make a wedding card. This is a wedding card inspired by India's hindu religion. I have gone to a few India themed wedding and felt like a pearly white wedding cards are out of character. 

Hindu wedding in particular are extremely colorful.

 The people of India look at the Peacock as a sign of Love and Affluence. Red is also a color of significance for India's culture, it represents joy. I love how vibrant the image looks. To get my "birds of a feather" Peacock from Basic Grey to stamp out this bright I used "Creole Spice" Kaleido-color ink on glossy photo paper. The card-stock is from Stampin' Up in Kiwi Kiss {ribbon too}and Real Red. I used Designer paper from Me and My big Ideas' "Modern Milan" collection.

Happy Krafting!

~,Shaz

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Prince Ian, my love.

Back again, with a second post of the day.
My prince has arrived and it is Ian from the Greeting Farm.

Club Anya and Friends had two of the fun-nest Challenges. 

Make an Easel card.

Use purple and Green

I also Piled it on with 

No winter Colors

and DCBD Sketch Challenge #163

I tried something kinda new for mw here. I printed the digi Stamp on Photo paper. It is great for making the colors vibrant but not so easy for the blending with Copics. Hmmm... Back to the drawing board.

Or if it isn't Broken Don't fix it.

Happy Krafting!

~,Shaz

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Take a Leap into the water!

Gotta love a cute little frog!

On this card I applied a layer of clear embossing over the frog to give him a wet look.

{material} Designer paper,green, brown and yellow card stock from Stampin' Up! Image of frog and sentiment are from a set named "By the Pond" by the Greeting Farm. 

I also have a little giveaway today so comment HERE for a card kit.

I will be drawing TODAY at 10 p.m.!

Happy Krafting!

~Shaz~

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Sketchy Guy Cards!

The Greeting Farm 12 days of Sketches Challenge has my imagination on running!

I made 4 card in 2 hours... WooH... That is magic!

There are two more card and they are for the guys.

Sketch #2:Edward World

buy it Edward's World card {$2}

Sketch #3:Special guy

buy it Special Green Guy card {$2}

I have also entered both of these card into the "Anything Goes" Challenge.

The Creative Card Crew is also looking for some new designers. This will be my entry. ~ Wish me luck!

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a Merry Christmas!

~*~Shaz~*~

Merry Christmas from Reeta

The gang over at The Greeting Farm are having 12 sketches for Christmas. This is the first on the twelve. I used the colorQ # 11 color prompt and the Anyone for Anya "Last Christmas" theme.

{material} purple onion background stamp, Reeta Sprout from The Greeting farm. Markers from Stampin' Up!. Sentiment stamp from Studio G. Cardstock by Stampin' Up! Ink by Close to my Heart. Flower  hand made. fabric brad is a found item.

{tools} Coluzzel oval cutter. Sewing Machine. Crop-o-dile.

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a Merry Christmas!

~*~Shaz~*~

Wrapping the perfect gift

I thought I would share 2 unique ideas for wrapping the perfect gift.
I am down to five gifts to be wrapped, Yeah for me!
Here is what I have done wrapping the perfect gift cards. 
For wrapping the perfect gift cards I created a passport folder to hold 2 gift cards and a card. 
The card and holder is for my husband so I tied to stay away from glitter and flowers. 

The card is based on Laura's Sketch 41.  I used 2 tutorial for the passport folder.

Double Gift Card Holder and Faux Leather Wallet

The second ideas is for wrapping the perfect gift basket.

I love gift baskets but I always think the stuff in them is a little weird and expensive too!

I saw some that look great but the had an ugly bowl. I would never want to see some of those bowls

after I eat all the goodies. So I wrapping the perfect gift basket and it only cost $3.00. YES, wrapping the perfect gift basket only cost $3.00! 

I went to the dollar store and picked cello wrapping, tinsel and the ornament for $1.00 each.

I hope you liked my ides on wrapping the perfect gift!

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a Merry Christmas!

~*~Shaz~*~

Christmas gift package

The Greeting Farm had a great Challenge for "the complete package", and boy was I stumped. After much thought I came up with this ...

These tins and book clip coordinate with the gift holder I made on my blog-aversary post. {here}

They are a Christmas Gift for my "Mommy-Buddy".  I stamped and colored Anya's head for tags to embellish the tins. I put a eyelet in the hat  to lace the tags to the tins.

The packaging is a re-use package from my birthday. I re-moved the original labels and replaced them with hand-stamp labels. {check out the close ups}

I also wanted to let you all know that there is a sale over at Purple Onion Design Stamps are 25% off until Dec 15th! You could also enter a draw over at the blog by post the blinkie like me. Head on over!

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a wonderful day~Shaz

Cherry Blog-aversary to me!

Today is My Blog-aversary and I am sure you saw the giveaway to celebrate. Today is the Last Chance to enter for the draw, So click here to enter. Hank and I were talking about it earlier in that week. It does not seem that long since I started blogging. I totally enjoy the comments and ideas I see while I blog. Some blogs are my new crafting buddies. Like... the gang over at The Color Throwdown!

Have you seen the color throw-down challenge today?

I am sure it would be great for a Christmas card but I had a little gift I needed to wrap. The gift has cherries on the package that totally matched the throw-down colors! So with the help of the ladies over at The color Thow-down... I made a pocket to hold the gift I picked up for a Mommy-buddy.

Most of the stuff I used here is in the blog-candy package.

{ Anya stamps, pearls, charms and ribbon are all in the Blog-aversary candy giveaway}

{material}

Sentiment stamp, designer paper, black, green, red. and white card-stock are from SU!

Red pearls, ribbon & floss can be found at Hobby Lobby. Vintage charm is a found item.

{tools}

Shapes cut with the Noteworthy Sd card for the Making Memories Slice.

Round tab, small oval & curly label punch from SU!

If you have any question please feel welcome to leave a comment.

Have a wonderful day,

Shaz

Show time for Grandma

Yesterday was my Mother's 60th Birthday. We had a little surprise party for her.

A few of her friend joined the family for dinner.

My husband, Hank, made my mother some home videos, of her beautiful grandchildren.

I chimed in and made a holder for the double DVD set.

This is a multi challenge project.

{1}Color Thowdown #69

{2} Mojo Monday #113

{3}Pile it on #24

{4} Cinema Saturday#58

{material}

Corduroy button, ribbon, polka dot background stamp, chocolate vanilla, red and green by cardstock by SU! Brown ink by CTMH. Show-time Anya by TGF colored with Copic markers. Tiny red pearls and twine are found items.

{tools}

Hydrangea tio Punch and zigzag punches by Martha Stewart. large star punch by SU!

Don't forget about the Blog-aversary giveaway here !

Have a great day,

Shaz

Wild about TGF!

My new favorite stamp company The Greeting Farm has a contest going on right now.

Over at the blog on Friday they announced a Guest Design contest.

The theme is: Where the wild thing are. How FUN is that!

We have to use an Marina Neira image and GO WILD!

{remember I won Mariana's "Laurie with gift"digi stamp}

Here are a couple of cards I made for the contest:

Traditional Laurie Christmas

{material} Red and Kraft cardstock from SU!. Geometric patterned paper by Martha Stewart. White grosgrain ribbon from Wal-mart.  Mini vintage frame found items. Sentiment stamp is "Cute and Curly" by SU!. Image colored with copic and SU! markers.

Laurie Little Christmas

This card has a touch on Liquid class on the eyes of Laurie!

{materials} Brown and yellow cardstock by SU! Designer paper from My mind's eye. Brown taffeta ribbon by Martha Stewart. Red pearls are found items. White ink by SU! Sentiment stamp by Studio G.

Wish me Luck!

Shaz

{12}thank you's in 1 hour

These great little card only took one hour for me to make.
The cards measure 4 X 4 inches square.
I used CTMH 12 inch stickers to decorate and using dark blue ink I stamped"Thanks so much".
The "Thanks so much" stamp was free with Verve stamps order.
How great is that... Everyone can use a thanks stamp!

See you soon,
Shaz

1 tall Raspberry/ Chocolate Christmas card {to go}

This looks like a cupcake or something yummy to eat...LOL The card is 8 1/2 in. tall and 4 in. wide.

I made this yummy card with Dawn Mcvey's Raspberry Suite Color challenge. I love these colors! I was also inspired by the Stampin' Sisters in Christ, Challenge for a nativity theme card.

I really enjoyed both of these Challenges ...I may make some more!

Shaz

copic{couple}

I hope you all had a great week-end. It is defiantly Autumn here in southern Ontario. So we took some time to stroll in the park and look at the leaves with the kids. I know it is monday, so take a peek at Fridays post if you need a boost! I have some card maker's bloopers.

I am a new copic marker user, I am more comfortable with watercolors or colored pencils. I don't really know what I am doing with the markers but whatever... now is the time to learn.

Here is a card I made by embossing Anya and Ian. I colored them with the copic markers .

My main purpose was to blend colors from different color families.

I think it turned our pretty good!?! ***If you know of any great tutorials let me know.***

Hope you are Smiling! :)

SHaz

{material}

Copic markers. Ian & Anya Dressy stamps {TGF}. Sentiment stamp,Curly label punch & Card-stock {SU!} Patterned paper {Basic Grey}. Soft brown Ribbon {Martha Stewart} Brad {a dollar shop}