Week in Review (April 7-13) & Card Give Away

So my plan to do all of the challenges this week obviously didn't work! With my daughter's birthday on Wed. and her party on Sat. I had a lot going on. Next week. Next week I will do all of the challenges lol! Maybe. We'll see how it goes :)

Card Give Away- Leave me a comment on this post and tomorrow I will pick a winner from the number of comments left using a number generator. That person then gets to choose their favorite card of the week and I will send it to them. Hope you all enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

Week in Review (April 7-13) & Card Give Away

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Dollar Find Friday (Mini album & Fabric Container)

I found these beautiful fabric covered containers in the dollar spot at michaels. And they had matching ribbon! I decided to make a thank you mini-album/card for my aunt that took me and my oldest daughter out last weekend for her birthday. I got the idea for the mini album from a tutorial that Nichole Heady did a few months ago. I went kind of simple for this week's project.


STEP 1



Supplies:
Container
ribbon
fabric glue
rhinestones









Step 1- measure ribbon so that it will fit all the way around the fabric container.

Step 3- Glue ribbon in place

Step 4- Add rhinestones to the flower centers on the ribbon.

You could fill the container with a lot of different things! What would you add???

STEP 2

Supplies:

Stamps- Best blossom & Lexicon of love

Paper- Mellow moss & Very vanilla

Mellow moss ink

2 in. scallop punch

1 1/2 circle punch

1 3/8 circle punch

5 pictures (1.625 x 1.625)

Ribbon

Step 1- Punch out 12 scallop circles in Very vanilla. Punch 11 1 1/2 inch circles in Mellow moss. Punch out the five pictures with the 1 3/8 circle punch.

Step 2- Stamp Thanks from Lexicon of love 6 times onto very vanilla

Step 3- Punch out with the 1 3/8 circle punch

Step 4- Adhere the "thanks" circles to mellow moss circles.

Step 5- Adhere those to scallop circles.

Step 6- place face down and put a strip of adhesive in the centers of each scallop.

Step 7-Adhere the ribbon across the scallops (works better if the ribbon is face up unlike what I did here)

Step 8- Adhere the pictures to the remaining mellow moss circles and then on top of the scallops.

Step 9- Decorate the last vanilla scallop. This will be used as the "cover" of your mini album.

Step 10- Adhere the rest of your scallops on top of the ribbon and other scallops.

Finished product.

Dollar Find Friday (Mini album & Fabric Container)

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I'm officially old!

My baby girl turned 5 years old today! Where in the heck did that time go?!?! I now have 2, 3 & 5 year old girls. My post is a little late today because we've been spending lots of extra time with the birthday girl!

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When I first saw the sketch challenge I was a little intimidated. (Aren't I always lol!) I tried to talk myself out of doing it but I vowed to do all of the challenges this week so........ I pulled out my favorite go-to supplies. They consist of the stamps sets Natural beauty and Embrace life and the colors Groovy guava, Ruby red and river rock.

Here is what I came up with- I have to say, I'm actually pleased with the way that it turned out!

Supplies: Stamps-Natural beauty, Embrace life. Paper- Groovy guava, river rock, ruby red, white, Ginger blossom DP. Ink- Black stazon, groovy guava, ruby red, river rock. Accessories- corner punch, oval template, scallop scissors, hardware, brads, ribbon, dimensionals, rhinestones, stardust gelly roll pen.

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And of course the most important thing that I'm sure you guys are waiting for- the winners!!

Winner of the card give away is comment #13- Carol M

Winner of the cloud template supplies comment #28 Stephanie

So ladies, e-mail me your info and I will get those out to you by Saturday! Thank you all again for your wonderful comments, they made my day.

I will also be doing another blog candy give away on Monday so check back then. Oh and don't forget about Dollar Find Friday too!

I'm officially old!

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Color Combo

Today's color combo challenge was to use Real red, Glorious green and Night of navy. I can't say that I was crazy about this combo but I vowed to do all of the challenges this week. Here is the card that I came up with, but I'm not really feeling it. *sigh*



Supplies: Stamps- Bodacious bouquet, studio g. Paper- white, real red, glorious green, night of navy. Ink- night of navy, glorious green, real red. Accessories- paper crimper.

Color Combo

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My week of challenges has begun...

The challenge for today was to use layered ribbon as an embellishment. Since I've been in a little bit of a creative funk I cased this beautiful card by sparklegirl .

Here is my card. I changed the color from blue to sage shadow, used different stamps and added the ribbon layer to fit the challenge requirements.


Supplies: Stamps- Inkadinkado, TAC This is me. Paper- Chocolate chip, very vanilla, CC designer paper, sage shadow. Ink- Chocolate chip. Accessories- clear embossing powder, dimensionals, rhinestones, stardust gelly roll pen, stickles, paper piercer, ribbon.

I will be doing the drawing for the winners of my card give away and cloud tutorial on Wednesday. If you want to be entered, don't forget to leave a comment on my week in review post!

My week of challenges has begun...

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Week in review and card give away + BONUS!!

Sorry for the late post today. Now that the weather is starting to be nicer we've been getting out a lot more and spending lots of time outside! Here is a picture of my week in review. It looks like I didn't get to much done this week huh? My goal for this week is to do all of the challenges to get my mojo in high gear.


Card give away- Leave a comment on this post and I will use a random number generator to pick the winner. That person will get to choose the card of their choice (excluding the one on the bottom left) and I will send it to them.



Bonus- The person that was chosen as the winner for my cloud tutorial never e-mailed me her info so this RAK is back up for grabs. It contains- two cloud templates, four make up sponges and my tutorial card. Leave me a comment on this post and I will choose the winner later this week!

Week in review and card give away + BONUS!!

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Dollar Find Friday (Flower pot frame)

I love those decorated wooden shapes that you can find at JoAnn's and Michaels. They are so darn cute and so cheap! I buy them but then don't know what to do with them. Here is something that I came up with....






Supplies-
Decorated wood flower
Flower pail
Green acrylic paint
Wooden skewer or dowel
Floral moss
Picture (sized to fit in the flower shape hole)











Step 1- Paint the skewer with green paint.











Step 2- adhere picture to back of flower shape. I just used plain old masking tape.

















Step 3- "stuff" the moss into the pail. The moss is going to help to steady the wooden skewer when finished.


















Step 4- Trim the grass


















Step 5- Adhere the skewer to the back of the flower shape. I found that hot glue worked great.


















Step 6- Place the flower securely in the moss. If you want, you can cut out a leaf shape out of card stock and add it to the skewer. ( I just used plain tape adhesive but I'm sure that double sided sticky tape would be best for this.)



Thanks for looking, I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial!

Dollar Find Friday (Flower pot frame)

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