Polk-A-Dot Scrapper

Special Birthday Card

A very special person is turning 80 years old in a few short months.  Her awesome daughter and one of my closest friends came up with this amazing idea to have all her Facebook friends send cards to her mother to help her celebrate.  Of course I was game, but I had to make one instead of visiting the local Hallmark store.  The front was inspired by Paige Dolecki's card from a few years ago.  Check out her blog and the post here.  The inside was all from my head!  So here goes..

 

The card is from Close To My Heart and came in a workshop on the go that I bought for something else.  I ripped and embossed pieces of Champagne Close to My Heart Cardstock for the sand.  I inked them with Fun Stampers Journey Oatmeal Cookie ink.  The blue background is from blue cardstock that I bought from JoAnn Fabrics.  I cut the Happy Crab with my Silhouette.  I popped the layers up with foam dots and inked them with Fun Stampers Journey Cranberry Bliss ink.  The inside is an additional piece of the ripped cardstock and a crab punched with my Martha Stewart Crab Punch.  All of the sentiments, from the AmyR Oh So Beachy stamp set, were inked with Fun Stampers Journey Black Licorice ink.  The happy birthday sentiment was really happy "belated" birthday, but I cut it apart so the fonts would match. 

 

Link to Supplies (if available)

Close to My Heart Champagne Cardstock

AmyR Oh So Beachy Rubber Stamps

Darice Embossing Folder Dot Background

Fun Stampers Journey Inks

Martha Stewart Crab Punch - discontinued

Googly eyes

Silhouette Design Studio Happy Crab

 

Happy Scrapping :-)

Polk-A-Dot Scrapper

Christmas Projects Complete

Finally finished the last of my Christmas cards!!! 

For the card I used May Arts ribbon, the moose is from the Silhouette store and the paper is from My Minds Eye.

I also made a few gift card holders.  So super quick and easy!!

This is the insde.  I decided to cut a gift card insert so the card woulnd't be floating around on the inside.

Supplies:

Basic Gray 26 and Pine Paper

Stampin Up Owl Punch

Cricut Machine for the antlers.  I cut a snowflake and cut parts off for the antlers.  I also used it for the scalloped circle behind Rudolph

Silhouette for the gift card insert

Close to My Heart Merry Christmas Stamp

Envelope Punch

Pink Glitter Wink of Stella

I followed the tutorial found on the Loven Stamps Blog.  Great tutorial give it a shot!! I made 3 of these in less than an hour from 1 sheet of 12x12 paper!

Gift Card Holder

Ok, so I really hate those boring gift card holders that you get at the store.  I also just didn't feel like buying a box of cards to only give out 5 because we're putting a gift card inside, so I decided to make my own.  Well, all the ideas on pinterest and I just oculdn't make a decision.  I didn't want just a tag with the card in it.  I didn't like the cards with the holder on the front, because we all know teenagers aren't opening the card if the cash is on the front.  So, I decided on a normal A2 size card and I found an insert in the Silhouette store and cut it down to fit.  So the pictures were quick that I took with my cell phone, it was midnight after all an I needed to be at work this morning, but ya'll get the idea.

Supplies - 

MFT Fishtail Stax Dienamics 

Jillian Vance - Polka Dot Rectangle Backdrop Die

Pink Stamper - A Punny-licious Chriastmas

Stampin Up Key Tag Punch (Retired)

It's time for a Birthday Card

Woohoo!!! My other half is getting older, he's 36 today!!! Sounds like a great excuse for a birthday card for me!!! Normally I make him cards that look like they're for a 36 year old, but this year, NOPE! I had to use this cute owl print and cut image from the Silhouette store!!! A few balloons cut on my Cricut Machine, some stamps, an enamal dots made for a quick A2 size card!!  Can't wait to give it to him today, he's gonna love it!

Supplies:

DCWV Box of Cards

DCWV Celebrations Stack

Close to My heart Cricut Artiste Cartridge

Cricut Expression 2

Silhouette Cameo

Close To My Heart Birthday Celebration - D1529

Close To My Heart Little Princess - C1414 (retired)

Enamel Dots

NEW FAVORITE INK

So I've got to shout out my friend Connie Powell!!!! She's a brand new crafty coach with Fun Stampers Journey. You can check out all their goodies online.  So they're a new company and let me tell ya I didn't know I thing about them, I was helping out a fellow crafty friend.  First stop was their True Color Fusion Ink.  TALK ABOUT A NEW FAVORITE!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yes, it works with copics no heat setting needed.  I gave it a test run on a card last night.  Check out that post here.  I also used it to distress a portion of the front of the card.  I used the Lemon Drop Yellow, talk about POP!! Loved it! It created an awesome monochromatic effect which was just what I was looking for.  I have a stamp to check out too, but I haven't made it to that yet.  The inks alone make me very happy with the Fun Stampers Journey products.  Be sure to check them out!!!

Back to School

It's that time of year when all the kiddos are getting new gear to take them back to school.  I usually send my Godson off with something for the new year, this year, it's a lunch box, and as usual some school uniforms.  I won't have time to get to him to buy them so I'm sending a card his way and he can shop for himself, you know kids love that!  So I fell in love with this card that Amy R of Prairie Paper & Ink created a little over a week ago and had to do it myself! Check out her card here.  I'm not a huge card maker, I'm all about scrapbook pages and lately organization.  So It took me a while, to get it all together. 

So talk about complete devistation!!! I had just finished the hair and skin and wasn't about to do that over when my grass green copic marker leakes all over the apple.  There was no fixing that so onto finding a way to hide it!

Here's the card front:

 

Here's the inside:

All the goodies:

Simple Stories Smarty Pants 

Spellbinders Nestabilities Card Creator Dies - A2 Matting Basics A

Jillian Vance Polka Dot Rectangle Backdrop Die Set

Pollycraft Brains Rubber Stamp

Stampendous Detail White Embossing Powder

Ali Edwards I love School Stamp Set

Prima Sugar Dots

Retired Stampin UP Tag Punch

Blue cardstock is discontinued from Stampin Up and the Red is JoAnn's brand

Copic Coloring:

Skin: E33, E35, #37

Hair: E29, E57, E25, E44

Jeans: B95, B97, B99

Pencil: E31, Y21,Y26

Shirt: YR16, YR 18 , YR14

Tie: B39

Shoes: E29 and Multiliner

Ready for some Football!!!

So I've been home with the flu for the past week.  Thankfully I can work from home at my full time job so I've been able to work get paid and rest.  I'm thankful for that.  In the mean time I came up with this great idea for a Super Bowl party page.  I'm rooting for the 49ers this year since that was my Dad's team, but I'm a Skins fan all the way! 

For the party invitation I used The Greeting Farm Sitting Casual Stamp set and the Authentique 6x6 Paper Pad Free Bird Poised and Warmth.  I colored Ian with copics.  His clothes and the sofa are paper peiced using the Echo Park A Boy's Life paper pack.  The Sentiment is stamped on the Stampin Up key tag punch which has been discontinued.

I also made little flags for cupcakes using a stamp from The Greeting Farm Sitting Casual Stamp set.

Finally I created a scrapbook page because of course as a scrapbooker you take pictures of Everything!!!  All of the stamps are from The Greeting Farm Sitting Casual Stamp Set.  I used the Teddy Bears On Parade Cricut cartridge for the Teddy Bears. I cut everything else with the Silhouette.  The footballs, grass, and goal post are from Miss Kates Cuttables Football MVP.  Miss Kate has the best SVG files and great prices!!  I'm in love with her website.  For the title I used the Porky's Font from Fontspace. For the banner I learned a great trick over the weekend.  I used a paper plate and wax paper.  I poured Modge Podge on the wax paper and dipped twine it it.  I let the twine dry to it would start to harden.  Before it was completely dry I stuck it to the scrapbook page so it looked like the string holding up the banner.  It was so easy and turned out so cute!!! I'm super thankful for that great tip from Michelle and Scrapdoodles in Fredericksburg.

Fall Card

Can you believe it's HALLOWEEN tomorrow.  The year is flying by that's for sure.  I had a second about a week ago to make a fall card.  I used the September Stamp of the Month from Close To My Heart for this one.  The happy sentiment came from an Amy R stamp set.  The leaves were cut with the Close To My Heart Cricut Art Philosphy Cartridge.  

On a side note, the card base is the new David Tuterra card bases at JoAnn's.  I have to say honestly I'm not a huge fan of these card bases.  They seem a little flimsy if you ask me.  They are also pretty expensive and for now you can use a coupon, but they never go on sale.   

Design Team Time!!!

WOOHOO DESIGN TEAM TIME!!! I decided to incorporate the Create Your Classroom stamps into a Halloween invitation and party game.  You can't have  a party with no games!

The front of this is all cut using the Silhouette.  The sentiment is from the Create Your Classroom Back to School stamp set.

I used the CYC Back to School stamp set for the background and the invitation title.  The loose leaf paper look came from the Silhouette, I used the print and cut feature.  The spider web border is from a Martha Stewart double border punch.  The little bat is the Stampin Up Bitty Bat punch.

So now for a fun game to play.  Who doesn't love to shout BINGO, even if it's only for bragging rights.  No harm in a little extra Halloween fun with a Halloween Bingo game.  The bingo board is from Silhouette.  I used the print and cut feature.  They have quite a few bingo boards available, back school, halloween, fall etc.  It's so easy to print and cut, I love it!! The bats are the same Stampin Up Bitty Bat punch from Stampin Up that's on the inside of the invitation.  The bingo dotters are the pictures that are available on the CYC Back to School stamp set.  Each one was stamped and colored with Copic markers and then punched with a circle punch.  

Happy Fall and Halloween to all my blog readers :-)  

Don't forget to check out the other design team members.  You can get links to all of their projects from the Create Your Classroom Blog.

Long Weekend (so is this post)

Gotta love a long weekend.  So it's Columbas Day weekend for me.  I love the extra few days to be crafty!! I've had so much fun and done so much shopping in the process.  I found a new scrapbook store in Leonardtown, MD. The Scrapbook Nook, is FABULOUS!!!!  It's in this little shop called Cecil's Old Mill.  It's an old mill here in southern MD that has been turned into a crafty haven.  There is everything in there from scrapbooking to crochet, it's just super cute.  Around here it's hard to find a lot of the nice stamps that you see on online so I do a lot of online shopping, now with the Scrapbook Nook being around I'll be sure to check with them before I buy.  It's worth the drive to support my local scrapbook store.  I picked up a few sheets of the new Doodlebug Halloween paper, a really cute Girlfriends stamp by Art Impressions.  You can't beat something cutsey about coffee and caffine.  That's what us ladies love!! I also grabbed a couple of cute stamps for winter by Darcies.  They even had copic paper!!!! I was so excited to see it.  I usually drive into VA for that or I order it.  I caught a good sale at Michaels today too.  I picked up a Halloween punch, more Halloween paper, I fell in love with the Martha Stewart Halloween line and it was all 40% off today.  Now on to the craftyness.....

This stamp is from Inkadinkado's Trick or Treat stamp set.  I bought it at Michaels.  I colored it with Copic Markers.  The edges were inked with Buttercup Ink from Close To My Heart.  I cut the tree using the Silhouette.  The pattered paper is from Martha Stewart's Haunted Photo Mat. The setiments came from the Pink Stamper Set Spookalicious.  The little things that look like brads are my new favorite thing, CANDI.  I love it!!! It's made by the UK company, Craftwork. 

I used the Stampedous Kitty Candy Kiddo and colored her with Copic markers.  Her dress is paper peiced.  All the patterend papers came from the Martha Stewart Haunted Photo Mat pack.  I used the Spellbinders Big Scalloped Squares to cut her out and inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Spiced Marmalade. The sentiments are from the My Creative Time Treats for my Sweet Stamp set.  I used the Martha Stewart Spiderweb Deep Edge Trim Punch.

I'm hoping to get more cards done this weekend and maybe even start a few scrapbook pages.  There are going to be a few happy little kids this Halloween when they received these.  I had so much fun making them.  It's always fun to make a little something from the heart for the people you love.