It's been a long time.... Free File Friday

I am back! Well, at least for today. I've been so busy. Sorry.

Here's a Fancy Pattern just for you. Use it as a flower...or leaves. Up to you have fun! 

Just click on the image and it should download as a Cameo file. You can continue the pattern, or just cut out the single item.

Another Flower for you!

Just click on the image and it will download a Silhouette Studio file.

I hope you enjoy it. Please post a comment with a link to the project you used it on...

There may be a prize involved?!?!?!?!

Cuttlebug Tuesday! and some chit chat.

I did a little crafting over the weekend. Well actually I did a lot of crafting. I am getting ready for a craft show in October and have a lot to get done before then. But I was able to take my crafting our of my room for once. 

I meet  bunch of fun ladies at a local community room, where we chatted and crafted and chatted some more. I was able to get this card done in the 6 hours of crafting time :). I also started my ATCs for June....YES JUNE! 

Oh, in other news I am going back to school. I am going to get my MBA! I know scary. That program starts in September.

For this challenge we ask you do make a layered flower with your Cuttlebug or Cricut.

Recipe:

Solid Paper: Papertrey Ink and Basic Grey

Pattern Paper: Basic Grey

Ink: Distress Ink

Die Cuts: Daisy from Papertray Ink

Stamps: Amuse

Other: Pearl, pop dots, Washi tape by Michaels and Etsy, brown paper bag (Uline) and SU 7/8" circle punch

We'd love for you to play along at The Cuttlebug Spot.

Prickley Pear day 4

Good Morning!

Welcome to the Prickley Pear Rubber Stamp Release Party! We have 5 beautiful new
clear sets and dies we are so pleased to announce. Our Scalloped Circles Set,
New Butterfly, New Build a Bird, Blobby Flowers and Hearts! Visit the Design
Team's daily releases and our blog over the next 2 days to have chances to win
one of these beautiful sets.

Each day you have more than one chance to win. Start at the Prickley Pear Rubber
Stamp Blog. Simply post our logo onto your website, become a follower and leave
a comment on the Prickley Pear Blog for one chance to win. Then hop on over to
the day's release blogs and make comments there for more chances to win. Sounds
easy enough. And the bonus is that you'll see some fabulous paper projects
featuring the new sets. So lets get started!

Go to the

PRICKLEY PEAR BLOG

for all the details

Today we (are supposed to) show you the "Blobby Flower". I do not have the "Blobby Flower" so instead I decided to show you the flowers set from PPRS. All of the flower stamps/die sets are WONDERFUL . Cut out with the die, stamp with the coordinating sets. THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER.

OUCH PINS!!!

The challenge for the Cuttlebug Spot Design Team this week was to work hat pins into your card. I love working pins into my cards whenever I can.

Lucky for me I just got new rubber in the mail from Prickley Pear and I got this really pretty doily. Man, doily's are so hot right now. I see them everywhere.

As you can see I used mine as a flower. I think it really worked well.

I stamped it in Versamark on pink paper, embossed in clear and then used concord grape distress ink over the embossing.

Do those leaves look familiar? They are the butterfly punch from Stampin' Up.

Recipe
Dies— Scallop Circle nestibles

Stamps—Doily Prickley Pear, Sentiment PTI

Paper—Solid SU and PP French Paper

Ink—Versa Magic and Distress ink

Punches— Martha Stewart grass, SU scallop border and SU butterfly

Other—Foam tape, Mark Richards pearls, Pearl pins and clear embossing powder

Don't forget to stop by The Cuttlebug Spot Blog and play along with the DT

A little sunshine on a snowy day

Happy snowy Monday. Yes, we are getting more snow in MN. I guess we are supposed to be getting 6-8 inches more. That is on top of the 18 we just got.

When is it going to end? On a brighter note, Wednesday is my last day of work for almost 2 weeks. The University gets the week between Christmas and New Years off. It is so nice.

Here is a card I did over the weekend, just to get my mind off of the snow.

It is a new stamp set form Prickley Pear. You can find it here.

Happy day!

Prickley Pear and PK Glitz Flower card

Did you see that Prickley Pear has some really

cool stamps with coordinating dies?

They released them in May and now have 6 different sets.

See them all here!

So much fun!

Here I used the

PPRS_Clearly Beautiful_Hibisucs

Recipe:

Pattern Paper-DCWV

Solid Paper-Archivers

Ink-Versa Color Pinecone and Anirondack Cranberry

Stamp-Prickley Pear

Die cut-Prickley Pear, edge punch Fiskars

Ribbon-American Crafts

Other- Glitter, Pop dots, sentiment (Making Memories), SU clip

Cut green plaid paper slightly smaller than card. Cut red patterned paper to roughly 4X 3. Using edge punch punch the left edge. Mount that on a piece of red paper cut a little larger. Mount that tot eh green paper with pop dots. Die cut out the flowers four times (2 out of patterned paper and 2 out of solid red) Stamp the patterned paper with the clear stamp, add glitter to center. With a pop dot mount that onto the solid red flower you cut out. Curl up petals. cut out 2 leaves out of coordinating green paper. Add glitter to veins. Before putting your flowers on the card. Add a small piece of ribbon inline where the flowers will go. Them mount the flowers. To finish it off add a sentiment mounted on red paper and edged in brown ink. Clip that to the background.

Don't forget that Prickley Pear is teaming up with

PK Glitz for the next couple months. PK Glitz glitter

will add that little sparkle to any project.

It's OCCSC Thursday!

Happy Thursday!

I hope you are having a great week.

Did you look at my post about CHA? It was so much fun.

I got a lot of great ideas and spent the time with some of the best girlfriends.

But all good things must come to an end. I had to go back to work.

But at least I'm back to my normal schedule.

Here's the sketch for the OCC...

I hope you play along with us this week.

Here's my card. I finally got to using the Nesties and Stamps

from Heartfelt Creations this is the set I used.

I stamped the flowers with white ink, and colored

it with Copics. I love the look of white ink on Kraft paper.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Prickley Pear ATC Trade

Using the Wildflower Garden Stamp and part of the saying

from the Wildflower garden sentiment.

ATC size

I cut out the ATC from Green colored cardstock. Stamped the flowers in

Versamark and embossed it with white embossing powder.

Then with a sponge I added white ink over the flowers,

green ink over the stems and pink over the bottom.

And then sprayed the whole card with shimmer spritz spray.

With Copic markers I colored the small piece

of lace before I glued it on. I also added

a small rub-on square from American Crafts.

I stamped the sentiment out on glimmer cardstock and

then using my word window punch from SU

I just punched out the in the beauty from the stamp.

Attached it with a button tied with string to the card.

Look at packaging in a different way

I used the chipboard backer the Prima Flowers came on for this project.

Card front using recycled material.

Use the Prima flower backer. Cut one end off. Distress the edges. Add glitter around the scroll work. Punch small holes in the other side. Run the ribbon around the back and loop into small knots on each end. Add two flowers onto the knot on the left side. Run the pin through them and top off with a crystal. For the stamped card, swirl a couple colors of distress ink on to your work mat. Take ATC size paper and dip it into the swirled distress ink. Stamp the round image with versamark and emboss with clear. Stamp the floral image with Momento ink. Add stickles to the stamped flowers. Take the edge punch and punch a long strip of pink about 12" long. Gather like a pleat. Sew the ATC onto a piece of pink cut slightly larger. Add the pleated paper to the right side. Add a couple gems. Glue that whole piece to the background. To finish it off, add glitter to the left side of the pink paper.

Supplies:
Stamps} Distress Border Circle and Flower corner

Paper} Solid: Pink-DCWV, White Neenah
Ink}Distress ink-Tim Holtz, Black-Momento
Tools} VersaMark, Clear Embossing Powder, PT Glitz Glitter, May Arts Green Ribbon, Prima Flowers, Mark Anderson-Crystals, Fancy Pants-Pin, Sewing, Fiskers Edge Punch and Stickles

OCC#10 Sketch challenge

Oh boy this one was fun! My spot Dots stamps just

arrived form PTI and I just had to play with them.

And I wanted to do something different so I punched out

butterflies and used them as flower petals.

I really like how this card turned out.

All I see is Polka Dots!

I love polka dots.

So when I saw the challenge on Becky's blog,

I know I just had to enter.

How fun red polka dots on a white background and

white polka dots on a red background.

I also had a chance to finally make one of those

squished paper flowers that I've been seeing around, it was so fun.

Recipe

Paper: Solid {Papertrey Ink}, Polka Dots {Martha Stewart}

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Pin: Fancy Pants

String: May Arts

Button: Vintage from stash

Don't forget to stop by Becky's blog and play along.

Prickly Pear Update!

Pretty purple card using the new Delphinium stamp, Wildflower saying, and the ATC swirls.

Style using new Wildflower Garden stamp

Mother ATC using the new Small flower in vase stamp and ATC Transparency

And last, but not least....

I used a couple stamps here, the ATC swirls (this is a great stamp very versatile) and Bird stamp.

Miss U

Happy Monday! I'm hoping to start off your week well.
I hope you had a wonderful Valentines day.

This card is featuring the cutest Owl Miss You stamp.
Isn't this owl sweet. Look at the flower that the owl is hiding behind its back.
And those sweet eyes.

(ALL of Heidi's stamps are available in wood mount, cling or digi. Visit her store here.)

Recipe-

2 Cute Owl Miss You stamp

Solid paper: Archivers

Pattern Paper: PTI

Ribbon: Offray

Ink: Memories (black) and SU (purple, edges)

Other: Thickers (letters), Prima (flowers), Copics (coloring),
Making Memories (brad), Pop dots and Archivers (crystals)

PRICKLEY PEAR!

Time to show off some of the Prickley Pear DT cards that I have been working on, I hope you enjoy them.

King of Hearts—

Find the King of Hearts stamp here.

Size: A2
Cut 3 concentric circles out of card and the 2 colored papers (1.25" out of the white, 1"; out of the red, .75" out of the yellow). Glue those to inside of card. Print saying on computer, trim and glue to front of card. Stamp King on white paper color and trim. Cut red paper slightly larger than king stamped image. Print saying on computer, trim and glue on top of King. Mount with pop dots for dimension. Cover the colored paper inside of card with white paper.

Supplies:
Paper} Solid: (Red and Yellow) Archivers, White-Neenah
Ink} Memories, Copics
Tools} PPRS-King, Computer font courier, pop dots, Marvy circle punches


Love Cat—

Find the cat stamp here. It also uses one of my ALL TIME favorite stamps Linoleum Background. I use this stamp all the time. It is a great stamp to add just a little pattern over a solid, or even over another pattern (like I did here, you can kinda see it over the PP, I clear embossed it)

Size: A2
Cut size of card out of the green paper. Mount red panel on front with the edge punched. Cut another piece of green slightly smaller than the red. Stamp the linoleum stamp on the patterned paper with Versamark and clear embossing powder. Mount that on the smaller green panel. Stamp the cat on white paper and color with Copics. Mount him on a piece of red paper. Put a loop of ribbon behind the panel with the cat on it. Now attach that panel to the card with pop dots. Add a bow. Cut one of the patterned paper flowers out, and attach it to the front of the cat in the cats mouth with the leaf ribbon.

Supplies:
Paper} Solid: (Red and Green) Archivers, White-Neenah Patterned: Memory Box
Ink} Adirondack, Copics
Tools} PPRS-Scribble Cat and Linoleum stamps, SU Clear Embossing powder, EK Success Border Punch, Papertrey Ink red ribbon, May Arts Leaf Ribbon

Boy did I "Pile it on"

For this weeks Pile It On Challenge, I really "piled it on"
I used:
Pile It On-Buttons
CPS-Sketch
Use It-Ingredients: Nature
One Little Word-Good

Here's what I did




Supplies
Paper: SP-Archivers and coredinations
Ink: Stampin' Up, StazOn, Versamark
Stamps: SU (doodle this) and my cute stamps (butterfly)
Other: Prima flowers, SU clear embossing, string, vintage buttons, tan eyelets, a piece of driftwood (stick) and birch bark

I embossed swirls on the paper behind the stick.

I stamped the butterflies on the birch bark with Stazon, colored them with SU markers and cut them out.

For the words I cut a strip of coredinations 3/8" wide and ran it through my label maker (the kind that takes the plastic tape and you squeeze the handle and it impresses the letters into it). And then lightly sanded it to make the letters come out.

Cuddlebug Challenge #34

Requirements to use Basic Grey (love Basic Grey!) and Coredinations (new favorite paper) ... that you've been hoarding. I don't know why I hoard it. I just love to look at it. This pocket is made from 2 pieces of 6x6 basic grey paper.






Supplies
Paper: Coredinations (hot pink behind white-embossed on back), Basic Grey, Stampin' Up and unknown vellum
Green Ribbon: May Arts
Hardware: Stampin' up Hodge Podge Hardware and Basic Grey Brad
Stamp: Stampin' up "sweet"
Ink: Stampin' Up
Chipboard Flower Stickers: Basic Grey
Other: I used Fiskars Treading Water Border Punch