Flutter By Wednesdays #185

Happy Wednesday! 

We were so happy to see so many fluttery entries last week. It's good to be back! I enjoyed fluttering around seeing so much inspiration!

This week's Flutter By Wednesdays challenge is to use BRIGHT COLORS along with your butterfly, fairy or angel. Please enter your creation {HERE}. To see what the FBW team did with bright colors, visit the links on the FBW blog or the links on my sidebar.

Here is my take on the challenge~

I think I achieved the bright alright! LOL!  I used my Cosmo Cricket Delovely 6x6 pad and Papertrey Ink black cardstock along with one of my favorite butterfly punches :)

I used this week's CPS sketch for inspiration. I couldn't find my corner rounder so I decided to tear and ink the edges of the 4 square panel. I also popped up each square with pop dots but didn't end up taking a picture to show off the dimension.

I am also sharing my card with the following challenge:
Shopping Our Stash #34 - All That Glitters, Sparkles or Shines - everything on my card is from older stash and I'm glad I found these rhinestones that shine :)

Thanks for fluttering by!

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #6

It's time for me to share my last Guest Design Team post for Shopping Our Stash. I have so enjoyed being a part of the team this month! 

Here is today's challenge: Use only scraps for your project - (card base or similiar "base" ok to use new) but use some of the scraps- paper, ribbons, the odd sinlge embellishment, etc OR recycle something- redo a former card, use something that was intended for a different purpose- ribbon from a package, coffee cup sleeve, corrugated paper, button from a shirt, etc. 

Please click HERE to enter your creation and check out the rest of the DT's samples!

The card base is new and everything else are scraps from a recent layout which I will share soon. I still need to take pictures of the 8 that I did on Saturday.  This was a very different card for me since I limited myself to the scraps and no card sketch.  I like how the ribbon looks on here and think I will try it with a Christmas card. 

Supplies~
Paper: Bo Bunny Tutu Double Dot cardstock, Bazzill cardstock, Wild Asparagus dp
Other: prima flowers, pearls, zig writer, ribbon was from a page kit, CM circle punch

TFL!

Tools of the Trade with Shopping Our Stash!

Good morning!

I'm here to share another Guest Designer post for the Shopping Our Stash Challenge!  

For Challenge #5, let's use some of those tools we *had* to have but don't use often-could be your eyelet setter, circle cutter, decorative scissors, fastenator, tiny attacher, cropodile or maybe you have an embossing folder that has not yet been used, nestabilities that haven't been opened, or even your paper piercer can be called into use on your project! Use a tool that is rather neglected!

Well this proved to be a bit of a challenge for me LOL! So many tools, so little time...

I settled on using a stencil that has been in the package unused, a nestabilities set that hasn't seen much love and my poor Cropadile that has been collecting dust.

To create this card, I put my card base in a box and laid my Crafters Workshop Flurries template over it and sprayed the middle with Spring Violet Glimmer Mist and then sprayed the other two sections with Frost Glimmer Mist.  I removed the template and let the card dry, then sprayed the entire card with Glacier Glimmer Mist.  This was my first experience with Glimmer Mist and the first attempt didn't go well.  I used the Georgia Pacific cardstock and sprayed way too closely.  This is my second attempt with Papertrey Ink cardstock and sprayed a bit further away with a much better result. {click on the picture to see the shimmer even better}

I cut the sentiment panel with my Small Deckled Mega Rectangles and  then I stamped a sentiment from the Hero Arts Holiday Sayings set and inked the edges with Memento Paris Dusk.  I added the snowman eyelet using my Cropadile...the first attempt with that didn't go well either since I lost the directions and the poor snowman got stuck LOL.  I managed to save him.

What tools have you neglected lately?  Why not join us at Shopping Our Stash and show them off!

I am also linking this to Crafts & Me Challenge #39 - Bling it On.

TFL!!

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #3

Good morning!

I'm so excited to share my Guest Designer project for Shopping Our Stash with you!

The challenge for this week is: UFO Sightings from Area 51 (better known as Unfinished Objects in your craft room).  I'm sure at least one or two of you can find something you started and never finished right?  I know I have several...I loved them unfinished so much that I even moved them that way when I moved 2 years ago and they were at least a year old at that point!

Here is what I chose to finish up for this challenge:

I am not quite sure what I originally intended for these pieces...I think I was working with a sketch from the old SCS Bella forum for these fun witches from Stamping Bella named Witchybella. I improvised and came up with these...

It was fun to mix newer products into these old pieces. I embossed the black background with a Tim Holtz Alterations folder. I used copics to color in the images and put Smooch on the tights/shoes. The tombstone brads are from my stash as well. I am now way ahead for Halloween, wow! LOL!

I sure hope you will join us with your UFO projects this week at Shopping Our Stash! You can see lots of wonderful samples on the SOS blog.

Shopping Our Stash - Show Your Stash!

I am so excited to have been named a Guest Designer for Shopping Our Stash for next month!

To kick things off Shopping Our Stash wants everyone to show their stash...I saw this and said EEEK! LOL! My room is a big mess...I've been in it for about a year and a half now but have never fully unpacked and I keep adding to the stash. I also have stuff in boxes in our spare bedroom and at my mother's. 

 Let's go for a tour, shall we:

I love this Welcome sign! I found it in the Joann's Valentine's clearance stuff a few months ago. 

 Here is another angle of the little nook when you first step into the room.  I have my ribbons sorted by colors into jars from IKEA. Same with the flowers.  The bins hold buttons, adhesives, and stamps.  The rest if cheap cardstock and miscellaneous paper. 

 I had to have a shot of the windows. My mom made me these curtains last year.  This year I added the flower garland.  The mess on the floor is stuff I've started to sort through several times and then I find better things to do lol!

 This is the back of the room. You can see a better shot of the countertop HERE. The bins have swap stuff, stickers and miscellaneous scrapbook supplies sorted by season & theme. The piles on the floor are paper (shocker!) and I have containers of scrapping projects all lined up. 

 This wall is almost all stamps!

 One of my favorite parts of the room. The bins are all stamps sorted by companies and the bottom row has card kits, name brand cardstock (PTI & SU) and the bottom bin is full of 6x6 pads. I love butterflies and I have some special ones here. The clipboard was made for me by a friend on a card group and the pins on there were my grandmother's.  The butterfly cupcake is from Pier 1 as is the frame on the wall. 

A shot of my desk and the other side of the room.  The cards are displayed on picture hangers from IKEA. The first tower is all miscellaneous supplies.  Then 12x12 cardstock in the 2nd tower and 8.5x11 cardstock in the last set of towers. Tucked behind the basket of Nestabilities are more 6x6 pads lol. The closet is a work in progress...LOTS more paper on the shelves and stacks on the floor! 

I'm off to create now, thanks for taking the tour!

New Challenge Blog Coming!

I was going to post this last night and then got caught up in all the Royal Wedding recaps since I missed the wedding yesterday morning. I wish I did get up to see it live!What a beautiful ceremony and day Will & Kate had! May they have a long and happy life together :)

So have you heard about the new challenge blog called Shopping Our Stash??




No, you haven't? Let me tell you about it...it's a weekly challenge blog for inspiration and motivation to use our stash.  Come on, we ALL have a stash right? Some of mine is even 7 years old!  I think this is a fabulous idea and cannot wait for it to start! The first challenge will be posted on Tuesday, May 24th!

To help promote SOS, the owner is offering up some fabulous blog candy which you can see HERE. Carla is also looking for a Design Team and you can see that info HERE.