Magnolia Stamp Lovers- Buttons and Bows

Our current challenge on Magnolia Stamp Lovers is to use buttons and/or bows on your project. Buttons and bows can be so cute, so I knew I had to use a really cute Tilda on this project. This

adorable little Tilda is called Sweet Tilda and she will be available to order soon on Stamping Scrapping. I have colored her with my copics- R 85, R83, and R81 for her dress, E35, YR23, and Y21 for her hair, E02, YR000, E000, R20 for skin, and E49 for her shoes. The card base if from the cricut cartridge wild card and I wove ribbon through the scallops. I finished it off with various pink buttons and not really bows, but knots. I'm not super good at bows, so I went with the safer option and just did knots.

Be sure to check out the challenge and link your project, the winner will receive a Tilda with Roses stamp and a rose scented scent my cards!!!!

Girls Night is Just Rite

Well, the new Just Rite stamp sets have started arriving at www.stampingscrapping.com. I just received my new Girl Time set last week. These stamps are awesome for making cards or invitations for all your fabulous girlfriends. I couldn't wait to play with them!For this card, I stared with the doily card from the Cricut Wild Card cartridge. I then cut a circle from George out of patterned paper to layer over the card. The sentiment is from Just Rite. It is more hot pink in person. ( I know it looks a little red in the picture) After I stamped it, I cut it out with a circle nestabilitie and then matted it with a scalloped circle nestie out of pink cardstock. To glam up this girls night out card, I topped it with some ribbon and petaloo flowers. Now, I just need to set up a girls night out so my card won't go to waste!

House Mouse

I made this card for the House Mouse Challenge blog. The challenge for the week was to create a shaped card. I thought I would use one of the cards on the Wild Card cartridge, but when I looked at it I just didn't see exactly what I wanted. I decided to cut the frame for the band aid card which is a doctor's bag and make a card out of that.

So, that's what I did. I cut the frame, and put it on top of a piece of folded cardstock and traced around it. Then I put the frame itself around the stamped image. I love this crocodile paper and I think it is perfect for a doctor's bag. Hope you like it.

More cards

I decided to get a head start on the some of the cards I need for my Cuttlebug card exchange group. Here are a few I came up with for some of our upcoming card exchanges. This is the same owl card I made down below, but I made it a little more girly. I used this one for our get in shape swap where we had to make a card in any shape other than a rectangle. The tree is the matching envelope that Wild Card cuts to go along with the owl card. I cheated a little on this one- not much cuttlebug, just the little border at the top to be the owl's tiara.

This next card is my favorite. I'm not sure which exchange I'm going to use if for or if I can even part with it. I just love it! The tree is from Wild Card and the little birds are from Home Decor. I have no idea what to use this card for, I just wanted to make it because I thought it would turn out cute.

This next card is one I am using for the fun with ink swap where we needed to use ink with our Cuttlebug folders. I inked the large houndstooth folder as well as the smaller folder with a brayer, put the paper in, and ran it through the Cuttlebug. I think it worked really well with the houndstooth folder and made the pattern stand out a little more. As you can see, I've made several cards with birds on them. There are so many cute bird items around right now, I decided to have a For the Birds swap to see what everyone could come up with. I thougth it would be fun to use the birds from Joys of the Season and make a few non Christmas cards with them. For this one, I used the 2 Turtle Doves to make a valentine's themed card. You would never know the birds came from a Chrismas cartridge, they work perfectly for Valentine's Day. I also used the partridge in a pear tree for another card. I cut the pear off the end, so I guess it's just a partridge in a tree. I used the coredinations chocolate box cardstock for the background of this card. The paper is chocolate brown, but when you sand the embossing, the light blue core shows through. Well, this is officially becoming my longest post ever, so I will finish up with one last card. This is the one I am using for the Valentine's Day swap. It features the chandelier from Home Decor. I think I will put something cheesy on the inside like You light up my life Valentine. I mounted the chandelier on a label nestabilitie die and sanded the embossing to make it stand out. The paper and ribbon are from Close to My Heart. I messed up when I cut the card base, so it opens from the side.

Just Rite Stamps

I finally got some just rite stamps and have had a lot of fun playing around with them. I got the Christmas set on Christmas eve, so I haven't made many Christmas things with it, but there was one stamp I thought I might be able to use for something else. So, I took the eat lots of chocolate stamp and used it for a Valentines card. All of the borders were too Christmasy, so I left it off and used the embossing from the nestabilitie as the border instead. When you sand the embossing, the white core really makes it more noticeable.

The next set I wanted to play with was the ovals. I got the birthday set and thought the stamp with the candles would be perfect on a card with lots of candles. Where would I find a card like that? I looked through the Wild Card manual and thought the Hanukkah card would probably work. Here is what I came up with. What do you think? Can it pass as a birthday card?The next card I made was just a fun card. I used a Stamping Bella image and colored her in with colored pencils and a little mineral spirits. I found some houndstooth ribbon that works perfectly with the houndstooth cuttlebug folder. I think I will add some of my coffee card scents to this one.