Tuesday Teapotters - Orchids

I haven't made it to a teaparty in a couple of months due to a busy summer schedule.  I had to make this one, because we're going to VA to visit my brother.  Shortly after retiring from the Navy last year (which he served for 23 years), he found another bump on his back (the second one within a year).  In February they removed an eye shape 4x1 inch selection from his back.  It was a cyst that surrounded a lymph node - skin cancer.  Due to the treatment my brother cannot work during the year.  The teapotters are bringing him some cheer.  

Even though he was in the Navy and a big tough guy, he has a love for orchids.  He has more than 30 orchids in his apartment.  They are so beautiful!!  

Here's the inspirational teapot:

What a cute teapot!!!

The airplane teapot is because he worked on planes, jets, helicopters, and other Navy aircrafts.  I decided to go with the story of the orchid that was written for the teapotters and save my fighter jet plane card for his birthday next month.

The digital image is from Just Inklined called Wild Orchids.  Using water color pencils and regular color pencils to color in my image.  Yuupp, they are my favorite.  I know it's looks a little feminine with all the pink, but I wanted to complement the image.   I also know he is man enough to rock the pink.

Anyone can join a teaparty.  Once you join one, you are a teapotter.  It's always feels good to send some lovin to people who need it.  Just want to say thanxs to all the teapotters who are participating in this teaparty.  Thank You!!

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Challenges I would like to enter:
Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - #85 With Sympathy

stamps used: Just Inklined - Wild Orchids (digital)

paper used: MFT sampler, Scraps

die-cuts used: MFT Mini-Album Bracket Stax, Oval Stax 1 & Stax 2, Leaf-Filled Flourish

embellishments: ribbon 

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog #10 -Just A Bit Sketchy

It's hard to believe the summer is half way over already....time flies by so fast.  I'm not ready for summer to end, even though fall is my favorite season.

I hope you are ready for another challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.  We are getting sketchy this time.  Sketch challenges are my favorite.

We are being sponsored by Delicious Doodles this challenge and they are giving the winner 4 images of choice.

Here is the sketch:

As you can tell, I flipped the sketch to it's side.  I used the digital stamp In The Harbour by Delicious Doodles.  I love the way this came out.  I used watercolor pencils first, then regualr color pencils to add more details.  After the coloring was done the struggle came with finishing the card. I had no idea where to take it or what papers I was going to use.

I'm very happy with the finish project.  Most of the papers were scraps I had in my scrap boxes from previous projects.  I found a piece of map paper and knew it would be perfect.  Can't go wrong with blues and grays for boats either.  Then I added some burlap for some texture.

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I'm entering in the following challenges:

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - #43 Life's A Beach 

Crazy 4 Challenges - Marine Life

Sister Act Card Challenge - #15 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamps Challenge - Pin It !!  (brads)

stamps used: Delicious Doodles digital stamp In the Harbour

paper used: SU Gray and DP papers and some other scraps

die-cuts: MFT Postage Stamp Stax, MFT Circle Stax 1 & 2

embellishments: Tim Holtz brad, burlap

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog - #9 Anything Goes!!

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog - #9 Anything Goes.  I know I could have done anything for this challenge, but a card was calling my name.  My oldest son did in-line speed skating for years.  I really enjoyed watching the skaters.  Before I knew about in-line speed skating, I grew up watching skateboarders.  If they had the passion for it, they were beautiful to watch.  Very smooth almost elegant to a point, if you can say that about skate boarding.  

Our challenge is being sponsored by The Crafting Boutique.

The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift certificate.

I used the Kenny K image Airborne for my card.  They have a couple of different skateboarding images, but I like this one.

It couldn't be a skateboarding card without skulls and crossbones. It's gotta look dangerous!! The paper is from Echo Park and I won it from my friend Julie over at Muddy Paws and Inky Fingers her blog hop, blog candy.  Threw in some chevrons to pop in some color.  Few squared brads in the corner.  It's not actually the way I envisioned it, but it works.

Here is the inside.  

This is for a great skaterboarder - Ty !!! 

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I'm entering in the following challenges:

Catered Crop - Die Cuts and punches

Come and Get It Challenges - Masculine Challenge

Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #13

stamps:  Kenny K - Airborne

paper used: Echo park paper - Apothecary Emporium 6x6 pad, SU black, & gray, MFT smooth white, and scraps

die-cuts used: MFT Circle Stax 1 & 2, MFT chervon stripes

embellishments: making memories - mini square brads

No Cards Allowed - Challenge #8 Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog

The summer seems like it is flying by!  Today my 2nd born son turns 17.  It is hard to believe how fast they grow up.  Next Monday, on the 24th my 1st born turns 19.  I'm getting old :(  Happy Birthday Noah!!

Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog - Challenge #8 is No Cards Allowed!!!
We are being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps and the winner will receive 7 digis .  I have quite a few of their digi stamps and love them.

I admit I could have easily done a papercraft, but I wanted some gift bags for the boys birthdays.  I like doing other crafts, but lately that means school projects.  lol.
Here's the finish product.  This is the small bag.  (I got my bags at Bags and Bows online.)

How did I do this?  Well, I opened the image up in Photoshop and colored it.  Not as easy as it sounds.  I have a wacom pad and pen to make it easier, but it's not.  Each piece of the cupcake has be a separate layer.  That way if you need to change or delete something, you don't have to start all over again.  Coloring in the lines was more difficult, because when you go over the black lines, they are now the color you went over them with.  I knew what colors I wanted, but finding them wasn't easy.  It took me several hours over several days to do this.  Hopefully the next time won't be so painful !!  teehehe

Here's the scene shot:

If you want your image to look like it does on the screen, you have to flip the image.  When you print it on the transfer paper your image will be reverse.  Like this:

Follow the instructions in the transfer paper box, when cutting out your image and ironing it on to the fabric.  They are usually NO steam transfers.

Here's my little group.  I made 10 bags total.

Not everyone has crazy mad skills in Photoshop or do they want to go through the hassel of trying to color their image in Photoshop.  So I printed a blank image and colored it in with Sharpie markers.  I did try Copics, but they wanted to bleed and run through the fabric more.  This is image was colored with markers.

I stamped a sentiment on the bottom of the big bags with black staz-on ink.

Hope to see many of you entering the Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I'm entering in the following challenges:

Love to Scrap - Rockin' Rubbah!

It's hard to believe it's already June!  I'm still painting the inside of my house, so time for crafting hasn't been happening.  I hope you love our new challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog - #7 Rockin' Rubbah.  I have rubber stamps flowing out of my crafting drawers, so this was no problem for me.

This challenge is being sponsored by Heartfelt Creations and the winner will receive a $25 gift certificate.  Get out your rubber stamps and ink them up!

My mom celebrated her 60th B-day on May 31st and I had to make her a card and it needed to be special.  I didn't want to make just a regular fancy card, so I went to my design binder.  I know many crafters have a binder or two filled with templates and ideas they want to try.  So, I went through and found the triple tier slider card, it looks like a birthday cake when it is opened, it was perfect and something new for me.

This card has 3 layers (I bet you can add more).  It took me several days to do this card, but I also have two young kids, so sitting down for a long period time doesn't happen.  Each layer is a tri fold card, which is smaller than the previous layer.  That way you can slide the top layers inside the next layer and conceal them.  Kinda like a wallet.
Here's the 3 layers before putting it together.

bottom layer

I used the very cute image from MFT - Cupcake Cutie stamp set.  Added some stickles and die-cut flourish.
The image was colored with watercolor and regular color pencils.

middle layer

The happy birthday is from the same stamp set, with the addition of the die-cut 60. The slide guidelines are in the bottom and middle layers.  I used scrap pieces for the sliders.  I lined the front of the card of each layer where I needed it to be when pulled open and when closed to mark my guidelines and where to stick the slider. Then I cut the my lines for the sliders from the bottom to the top lines I marked. The guidelines are about 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart, depending on the layer.

top layer

Using the balloon stamp from the stamp set, I stamped it several times on the dp and fussy cut them out.  I put some floss behind each balloon for strings.  Die-Cut two tab pullers for the top and added some stickles.  This way the tab pull is on both sides of the card.

Here's the card all put together.

With the second tier pulled out.

 All three tiers pulled out.

 I found a very helpful tutorial for this card when searching the web, just in case all the pics and causal info didn't help.
Stamp with Heather  She did a birthday card that is cute.


I notice I couldn't really leave a special message for my mom on this type of card, so a created a pocket on the back.  This way I could slide a message tag in the pocket.  It worked out perfectly.  This card does end up being very thick with all the cardstock being triple layer inside another triple layer and added layers for each front.

Hope to see many of you linking up to the challenge!

thanks for looking and reading :o)

I'm going to link my project to the flowwing challenges:

Alphabet Challenge Blog - H is for "Happy"
All Sort Challenge - Week 209 Girls
Card Making Mamas - CMM70 Rubber Stamps
Creative Card Crew - Challenge #37 Punches/Dies (I used lots of dies)
Simon Says - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #9 Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge - Challenge 109 - Numbers
Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenges - Challenge #169 Anything Goes


paper used: SU-Black, Bazzill-Sage Green ?, Printery Collections-fogli

embellishments: Black Diamond Stickles, Black Floss

stamps and die-cuts used:

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Color My World - Challenge #6

Hello crafty bloggers!  It's another challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog - Color My World.  I want to thank all of you that have been joining our challenges, it has been great looking at all the inspirations and creative talent.  The challenge for the next two weeks is to use either primary colors OR pastel colors, not both.  We are sponsored by Fred She Said and the winner will receive a $10 gift certificate for their store.

Here's the brightly colored card I made for this challenge. No pastels here.

When I looked through Fred She Said store I noticed quite a few floral stamps, so I decided to use some flowers for my image.  I know I could have just used a few colors, but a rainbow of primaries were screaming to be seen.  Haha.  Good-luck to everyone! 

Please read our challenge rules - 2 entries per challenge.  A 3rd entry may be entered if you use a sponsor image and link it to the store.  

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps used:: Unity KOM July 2011, Unity Chunky Hello

paper used: SU red, lots of scraps

die-cuts used: MFT Square Staxs 1&2, MFT

embellishments:  Ribbon recycle from a gift, SU button, Yellow Floss, Rock Candy

Owl always be there...Challenge #5

Just realized it's been awhile since my last post....I've been too busy around the house this spring doing spring cleaning.  Time to start creating again.  Anywhoo, we are starting Challenge #5 at Love to Scrap! Blog Challenge.  This challenge is Anything Goes.  We are sponsor by Jellypark and the winner will receive 5 free stamps.  Start creating for the challenge, it's that easy.

I used the digi image Four Owls from Jellypark for my card.

Seeing the stitching in the owls I knew I wanted a vibrant card, at least the owls had to be colorful.  I used TopNote die-cut which had a stitching around the edges.  The dp is from my stack of discounted paper I got last year that I'm still working on using (over 300 sheets takes awhile to use).  Some ribbon with a brad wrapped around it to finish it off.  The sentiment is from Unity Feelin' Owl-y set.  I colored the owls with colored pencils.

Thanks for looking and reading :o)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Sister Act Card Challenge #5 - Anything Goes

Make My Monday - Anything that Flies

stamps used: Jellypark digi Four Owls, Unity Feelin' Owl-y

paper: Bazzill, discount paper, and scraps

die-cuts used: SU Sizzix TopNote, MFT Fishtail Flag Stax, MFT Leaf-filled Flourish

embellishments: candy brad, Ribbon Carousel Ribbon

Friends with Flair - Birthday Tag

It's Friday and we have been celebrating the wonderful husband's birthday today!!  He's 45,sshhh, I'm sure he wouldn't want everyone to know his age, and looking just fine :o)  We ran around today doing all the things he wanted to do.

I made a tag for one of his gifts using an Unity stamp so I could enter Friends with Flair.

For the dp I used some of the leftover wrapping paper, which was handmade from India, from World Market.  Since he loves photography, I used Unity's itty bitty Photos stamp for the image on his tag.  Yes, I cut off the word photos.

I took a heat gun to the ribbon to make it all wrinkled and put a brad through it to hold it in place.  Of course it had to have some film strips.  

Here it is on the gift.  Hope you all have a great weekend!!

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamp used: Unity itty bitty photos

paper used: Handmade gift paper, scraps

die-cuts used:  MFT Looped Border, MFT Solid Bracket Border

embellishments: Ribbon, Tim Holtz brads, film strip and mini gears, 3-D glossy, Stickles black (won from my blog friend Julie from Muddy Paws & Inky Fingers)

Tuesday Teapotters - Outdoor in PA

This week the Teapotters are traveling to PA to send smiles to David.  He was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer two years ago and has ungone several rounds of chemo.  It has showed up in major organs and now it's in his brain.  You can also join the Teapotters to send smiles and big hugs to poeple who need them. David enjoys the outdoors, we have an outdoor theme for him this week.  Here's the inspirational teapot:

Here's David's card:

I decided to use Fred Bear from MFT.  (It's sad they retired this line, I love Fred bear.)  He's going for a hike with a friend.  I placed netted ribbon from Ribbon Carousel on the bottom and layered some grass on top of the ribbon.

I used a word band from Tim Holtz collection to place on the bottom.  I thought it was a great sentiment.  As you can see, I popped up the image.

Inside the card I stamped Fred Bear and his friend peeking.

thanks for looking and rading :o)

stamp used: MFT Fred Bear Takes a Hike

paper used: Bo-Bunny Rust Dots, Brazzill, Discount and scraps

die-cuts used: MFT Fresh Cut Grass, MFT Cloud Trio, MFT You Move Me, MFT Hexagon Stax

embellishments: Tim Holtz word bands, Ribbon Carousel ribbon

Cut It Out - 21st Birthday

Another great challenge at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog!  Challenge #4 Cut It Out, that means get out the die-cuts and punches for this challenge.  We are being sponsor by Sassy Studio Design and they are giving the winner 4 images.  You have until April 27th to upload your Cut it Out project.

For my card I used the Seize the Birthday Sketch #13 Masculine Birthday

Here's my take on the sketch: On the side

I thought this image would be perfect for a 21st birthday for any guy.  A drink and a gal, what else do they need!!  I used two oval stax, a fishtail, squiggle, and some number die-cuts for the challenge.  I used white embossing powder for the happy birthday sentiment.

I made sure it was a foaming drink, by using white writer's paint.  I colored the image with watercolor pencils and regular color pencils.  I hope you will join us for our challenge.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

this card is being entered in the foloowing challenges:

Seize the Birthday - #13 Masculine 

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - #78 For A Guy

Love to Create Challenge - #61 For the Guys

stamps used: Lager Pin-Up Sassy, Unity Party all Day

paper used: MFT, Scrap, Discount paper

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