Jewerly - Rings

Hello Everyone! 

Lately I have been away from the paper crafts and into my jewerly crafts.  I have been makiing elastic rings with swavorski crystals, seed beads and glass beads.   Most of the supplies I have gotten from the dollar store except the crystals... I get those off ebay since they are cheaper.   I am going to start making window sun catchers once I get the supplies for that. 

Here are the rings I made so far.  My favorites are the pink one and blue,black and clear one. 

Here is a picture of just my favorites: 

Here are my favorites not on my fingers: 

Hope you all are having a craftistic day!  Let me know what you think of my rings.

Easter bags and bday card.

Hello Everyone!

Yesterday I had decided to make a birthday card for my nephew's birthday that is on the 15th.  He's going to be 6 years old.. (boy time flies) and he loves dogs, so I was trying to find a puppy svg file when I remembered on the sweethearts cricut cartridge has a puppy on it for puppy love.... so I thought that would be perfect.  

I cut the puppy out at 3 1/2 inches and the paper I used was paper that I had on hand from creative memories and the dollar store.    I used some glitter glue for the tounge.   When it was first made I loved it until my  daughter got her hands on my vintage photo distress ink and started banging it over the puppy which created the lines.. *sigh*   however I didnt want to make another one so I figured my nephew is not going to care either way. 

Here is the photo of the card.   I used an ek success punch I had for the bottom on the card and then pasted the chocolate cardstock behind it just to make it all coordinate. 

Then the next project that I started to make (since my daughter fell alseep)  were the easter bags that I decided to make for my 2 neices and nephew.. only got the 2 girls done.    So I had gotten these bags from the dollar store they are favor bags, and I just reinforced it with pink creative memories paper I had.   The eggs were from a scrapbook calendar that I cut out.  

I am planning on putting some easter treats in these bags.. I have some playdough eggs that I had gotten from the dollar store and I will probably put an kinder surprise egg in each and then whatever else easterish I can  find that will fit nicely.   

Hope you all like it!  Thanks!  Let me know if you have questions or what you think of my projects.



Stamped Images and Colouring - Copic Markers & other

Hello All,  

I know again it has been a while since I last posted, I have been busy with my daughter and couldn't seem to find the time to do anything crafty as if I take it all out to do while she is around things will start disapearing off the table.... or she'll want to sit with me or fits.  Today she spent the day with her dad sooooo that means I got to do something crafty.   I decided to use these new stamps that I had gotten about a month ago from a Lady that had an online store and she has recently closed shop so now she is selling her stock cheapish.. so I got some things.  I will first post the picture, then say what copic markers I used and what non-copic markers I used (I only have 6 of them), as well as what stamp I used underneath the picture. 

First one: 

I used Copic markers for this picture were E00, E02, B12. B05, BV00, BV04.  Then the yellow and green and brown colours were just crayola markers that I had.   The image was from the Penny Black - Beach Day stamp set.  

Second Image: 

For these birds I used BV00 for base colour and BV04 for the darker colour.  The second bird I used B12 as the base colour, then B05 as the darker colour.  The image was from Autumn Leaves - mindy Zoo stamp set.  I really like these birds and think they turned out pretty cute. 

Thrid Image: 

For this image I only used one copic marker which was the BV00 for the purple monkey, the balloon and brown monkey I used regular crayola markers.   The image was a wood mount stamp that I got it is Stampendous - Changito's Love Balloon. 

Fourth Image: 

In this image I used a green crayola marker for the leaves, then I used B12. B05, BV00, BV04 for the folowers.  To stamp the images I used Memento - Tuxedo Black for all of the images.  The paper I stamped on was white cardstock from a neutral package I got from the Dollarama store.. which I LOVE! they have all kinds of good deals.  I got 50 8'1/2 x 11 cardstock sheets for $2.00.  Figured I couldnt go wrong with that.. and it worked great for the colouring. 

Hope You all had a great Weekend!  Let me know what you think. =)  Toodles all. 

Long time no Post - Mini book

Hello All, 

Wow it has been a while since I last posted.  Sorry all, I have been busy with moving and other personal issues.  Time sure flies when your busy. 

I decided to write this post as I watch a Tim Holtz video on him making a mini book using one 12x12 sheet of paper.   I made a couple of these books, one of them I followed the way he did since I had some really thin paper that I used and it worked awesone.  

Instuctions:  (on how I did it)

First try it on a 12x12 sheet of paper that you dont care about.  Then fold the 12x12 sheet of paper in half then fold the side flaps in half to form a W, then flip the page and do the same folds on the other side. 
Or you can score every 3 inches on one side then rotate the paper and do it again.  3
Once it is all folded unfold the paper to make your first cut.   Cut down the center fold(or score line)  all the way to the last score line (DO NOT CUT IN HALF)

Then you flip the paper over and cut on the first score line (3 inch mark) and cut all the way to the last score line.  Do the same to the last score line.   Which will make another W. 

Then start folding from the right hand side of the W and fold forward, backwards, then with you get to the side fold, fold under, and repeat all the way to the end.  

Not its time to glue.  when I glued the first one I followed the way Tim did it.  Which is opening the book where you have 3 squares before it folds under on either side.  He put adheasive on all 3 squares then folded the first flap behind so that you would have a thicker front and back cover.  Watch the video for it to make more sense. 

When I made my second one I glued it so that I had a single page, then pocket on top and to the sides.  Since the second paper I used was solid white and thicker so I didnt want a super thick front page instead I am going to make a chip board cover to make it an actual book where I can put more tags in my book for more pictures or journaling.  

I will post pictures once I get my camera back. 

Thanks all! 

Hope you all are having an creative day! 

Claudia and Company Casting Call for Design Team

Hello Everyone, 

I was just doing my usually thinking of a project I want to make to post for My Pink Stampers blog hop and when I came across this SITE.  Which is Claudia and Company's Blog who is doing a casting call and they are looking for people of all skill levels.  I was thinking about trying out however I still have not figured out how to take good picture of my projects and dont feel I have good enough skill level yet to be part of a design team.   So I just wanted to let you guys know incase you were interested.  They have some really AWESOME perks if you make it.  

If your not interested in trying out for the DT you should check out there online store as I think their prices are pretty cheap and  some good product. 


Take care all,  Hope your having a CRAFTY day!

Digital Stamp Sites some with Freebies

Hello all, 

Today I was looking for some inspiration after watching all the youtube videos and not yet wanting to ready all my blogs I follow updates, as there is a LOT.  I went searching and in my searches I stumbled upon this site Top 100 digital stamping.  Which had some links that didnt work, some crappy site and some gems that I found so I decided to post of few of the gems that I found.  The sites I like have free digital stamps as well ones that you can purchase, however with me not having a alot of money I go for the freebies and drool over the ones you have to purchase and add to my one day list.  Anyhow I listed the good ones that I like somne most of which are blogs. 

Bugaboo Stamps
MelJen's Designs  - blog who post freebies every now and then however as well as projects she did using other digi stamps. 
Fresh Brewed Designs - Almost didnt put this site as some of there stamps I did not like however there are some good ones. 
Fairy Doodler - blog so there are free digi stamps as well as project challenges - very cool one.
Karber Digital Images - Store and Blog, no freebies that I found however some really good images.
Fred She Said Designs - Store with no freebies I found however a lot of really great images.
Just some lines - has freebies and some cute images

There were some others that I did not post however they were on the first page of the site as I didn't thnk about sharing it till near the end of it.  Let me know what you think. 

Take care

Happy New Year all! Best of Luck in 2011

Hello All, 

Sorry I have not posted in a while I have been busy with my daughter and thinking of crafts to do.  Last night I managed to find some time for myself, I made a few things.  I am going to try and turn these items into magnets.  I had some dominoes that I had gotten from the dollar store last year when I made magnets out of photos and used diamond glaze on them so that the image was enlarged.   Sooooooo I decided I didn't want them black and started out as a curiosity thing so see what was under them as I thought originally they were plastic... however with sanding them down I found out there actually wooden.  So after they were sanded down I liked them a lot better.  I used some pink designer paper I had gotten from the dollar store a few months back and used my atg gun to adhere the paper down, then I stamped "Love" onto white card stock them put diamond glaze over the entire top so I am just waiting for them to dry.  I am also trying something new with one of my new dollar stamps from Micheals that says "dream" all fancy.  So I stamped it on white cardstock and put diamond glaze on top when it is dry I am going to cut it out and put it on some designer paper then use a flat magnetic back.   I will have picture when they are done, and I remember where I put my camera.  I tell ya after having a baby my brain has never been the same.  lol.  So far I love how it has turned out.  I am planning on doing a lot more crafts this year, and hoping that I will be able to update my blog more often.   I have also been making some svg files, I am going to cut the images out to see how they look and I will post the project and if you like it you can email me and I will send you the image.  I am hoping to be able to get that done by the end of the week, however if I end up getting a job by the end of the week it may be challenging to get it up by then. 

I would like to wish you all the best in 2011 and I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors.