Felties

To help out my sister who has recently started making beautiful handmade hair clips, I made these cute little felt pieces.  Check out her stuff here!

Materials Used:

• Cuttlebug and various Cuttlebug flower dies
• Random assortment of felt, thread, buttons, gems, beads and sequins

Mini Card Sets

A couple card sets.  Each set contains 4 cards, measuring 3x3 inches.

Materials Used:

• Random assortment of stamps, ribbon and gems
• Recollections 65lb cardstock
• Various designer paper scraps
• Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
• StazOn Ink - Saddle Brown
• EK Success border punch
• Cricut "Live Simply" (mushroom), "Simply Charmed" (bird), and  "Wild Card" (card box) cartridges

Rosette Cards

Very simple cards that put the focus on the paper.

 

Materials Used:

• Recollections 65lb cardstock
• Recollections Mosaic Memories paper (MME's Stella and Rose)
• Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
• Fiskars border punch - Scallop
• Buttons and twine

Fish Bowl Card

A cute little tri-fold card.

Materials Used:

• Recollections 65lb cardstock
• Acetate
• Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Broken China, Shabby Shutters and Victorian Velvet
• StazOn Ink - Saddle Brown
• Stickels - Diamond and Lime
• Cuttlebug embossing folder - D'Vine Swirls and Tiny Bubbles
• Fiskars Texture Plate - Scales (?)
• Cricut "Create a Critter" cartridge
• Pearls and twine

Cakepops

Chocolate cake, mixed with chocolate icing, dipped in chocolate, and rolled in sprinkles - how can you go wrong?

My first successful cakepop!

Now, picture 120 of them...

Rolled Rose Wreath

It took a week, but I finally finished the rolled rose wreath.

Materials Used:

• 15 sheets of 12x12 papers from  K&Company "Poppy Seed" specialty stack (9 flowers/sheet)
• 12" foam wreath form painted with black acrylic paint
• 48" of 4" sheer green ribbon
• Hot glue to attach all pieces together

Valentine Banner

To cheer up the grey walls at the office, I'm going to be hanging 4 of these Valentine banners!

Materials Used:

• Various K&Company papers (mainly from Valentine Sweetheart) for the rosettes
• 1 sheet of K&Company "Sweet Talk Postage Stamp" paper for the rosette centers
• Distress Ink - Vintage Photo
• 24 red and pink glittered foam hearts
• 4 7ft pieces of twine, 6 hearts strung on each
• Hot glue to attach all pieces together

Random Cards

A small collection of random cards created in Jan 2012.  My goal was to focus more on stamping and  patterned paper.

Materials Used:

• Random assortment of stamps, ribbon and pearls
• Recollections 65lb cardstock
• Recollections Mosaic Memories paper (MME's Stella and Rose)
• Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Rusty Hinge, Broken China and Shabby Shutters
• StazOn Ink - Jet Black, Dove Grey, Timber Brown, Saddle Brown and Cherry Pink
• Glimmer Mist - Dazzling Diamonds
• VersaMark Ink
• Recollections Embossing Powder - Clear Bark
• Flower and circle punches by Recollections and EK Success

Mad Hatter "UnBirthday" Card

This is a card that I made some time ago.  I think it turned out pretty well, so it gets to be my first creation post! 

Materials Used:

• Disney Classics Cricut cartridge
• Recollections 65lb cardstock
• My Mind's Eye "It's my Party" paper stack
• Stickles - Diamond
• Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

...and so it begins...