Something “Fairy” SCARY!

Good morning people.  I am hopping on this morning to show you a card that I made for the Tickled Pink Challenge blog!

I’m in LOVE with this image.  I’m  a sucker for fairies as it is and when you put that together with my love of TPS stamps…well there is little that could go wrong really.

I decided that she is very small and she takes refuge under a scary, curvy black rose from all the SPOOKS on Halloween! I used the Curvy tree from Tiddly Inks as the stem.  I love mixing stamp companies and these two are really up at the top of my FAVES list.

I have been hoarding these big roses, not knowing what to use them on because they are FOAM.  That’s right, they are made of an off-white foam – I thought they took the ink and Stickles beautifully!

Without further ado:

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Stamps: Tickled Pink Stamps (Lil Allsorts, “Fairy Kira”); Raindrop Echo Design (Tag); Tiddly Inks: (“Twisted Tree”); Sentiment created by me :) | Coloring: Copics | Bling: Prima ‘Say it in Crystals” | Flowers: Prima (small); Michael’s floral (large roses) | Paper: Recollections

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Entered in:

Stamp Insanity: Anything goes

Tickled Pink Challenges: Anything goes

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Thanks for looking! (I love comments!)

Remember, it’s GOOD to be queen!

My Mind’s Eye August Sketches

I have a layout and a card to enter in the MME blog sketch challenges

Here is the page sketch:

And here is my version of the sketch:

I actually didn’t have a LOT of MME products.  My LSS doesn’t really carry much of it so the only things I had to work with were the Simply Delightful MEGA stack and the first Life Stories stack.  I used the iTop, punches and my “mad flower-making skills” to stretch that paper and turn it into embellishments.  everything is made or covered with MME paper except for the tiny flowers and the solid cardstock.

I am loving the little “age” circle with our ages in it from Life Stories. I’m really happy with the results.

And here is the card sketch:

And here is what I did with it:

I found the card a bit more challenging than the layout.  I realize that I rely on premade embellishments for card making more than I do for scrapbooking. But, I used the remnants from making my layout and I do like that paper. The tags, larger flowers and patterned paper are all MME products.

I love the stickles in the center of my flower punches!

Head on over to My Mind’s Eye blog and enter the challenge yourself!

Hope you enjoy!

Keep it royal people.

My Love Affair with Authentique (and Yellow!)

I have recently become obsessed with a new paper line called Authentique.  Their paper is LUSH and their designs are modern, a little grunge-y and SO versatile.

I have also had a recent love for everything yellow – which plays into my Authentique obsession in the form of their line called BLISSFUL.

Take a look:

I mixed their grey, yellow, and black motif with a yellow grip paper from one of my favorite other paper companies: Basic Grey (Origins).  They match PERFECTLY!

Also used: Thickers, pearl push pins, Martha Stewart punch around the page, The Paper Studio gems, and dollar bin flowers.

Want more?  Of course you do!:

On this one I used some plain Wassau grey cardstock and some more BG (Origins) grid paper(black) to offset the beautiful papers and title from Authentique (Blissful).  My Martha Stewart Score board and edge punch got a little play one this one as well.

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Got to get ready for work!  Later queenies.

TOMIC #10 Guest DT Project!

I am so, so, SO excited for today! It’s time for TOMIC #10 and I would like to share my guest DT project. YEAY!

The challenge is (make your own drumroll…):

Make a Scene with MASKING!

You know, masking isn’t really a technique that I use often, so this really did stretch my stamping muscles – but in a good way!

Here is my project:

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Stamps: LOTS of Magnolia; Raindrop Echo Designs sentiment | Ink: Memento in Tuxedo Black | Watercolor (Bricks and suitcases), Copics (Tildas/Edwin), and Zig Pen (outline) | Train: Cricut with MTC (coloring page) | Pearls: The Paper Studio | Martha Stewart : Train Border Punch |Spellbinders: Labels 10 | Cardstock: BBP, DCWV, The Paper Studio | Glimmer Mist | Ribbons and Ribbon roses: Stash

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I am really pleased with the blue paper roses that I made. I think I have discovered a technique that really works for me.

Also, I MADE the little bling-y swirls in the style of Say it in Pearls by Prima. I want to do a tutorial on them soon, so look for that!

I am very pleased that my little ribbon roses took the Glimmer Mist so well. They started out white and now I know I can make them any color I want with my mists! Very cool.

I hope you like it and good luck with the challenge!

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Side Note: Honestly, I am a little disappointed with how the pictures of this turned out. It is so cute in person and the photos DID leave a little something to be desired – even though I tried to photograph them a MILLION ways. I DID find out that my camera has this cool stitch thing where I can take a three photos in a series and they will stitch together in a long photo. Cool, right?

It’s good to be Queen!

Pretty Pink Layout

Just a little layout to share tonight! This is a layout of some pictures taken at my best friend’s birthday party a few years ago.

Hope you enjoy!

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Cardstock: SCWV, American Crafts | Felt Border: Felt Fusion | DSP: My Mind’s Eye and (I can’t remember the company who made the paper with the words) | Die Cuts: Indie Art, Home Accents, Very Merry Tags | Cricut | Ribbon: 3 Birds

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Entered In:

Craft Your Days Away: Birthdays!

Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle: Friendship

Raise the Bar: Anything Goes

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Be good to your subjects, queenies – you have to have SOMEone to scrapbook, right?!

A little TOMIC preview!

Wanted to give you a little teaser of my TOMIC Guest DT project!

Wanna see more? Come back August 8th, when TOMIC #10 is launched!

Can’t wait for you to see it!

Remember Queenies, it’s GOOD to be us!

Another Page to Share!

I am trying very hard to keep up with my vow to share more pages and not just cards.  So, today I have another page to share of my favorite subject: My nephew Gavin.

I am very proud of the embellishments on this page because I rendered them for cutting myself.  I used coloring pages of Superman in MTC.

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Cardstock: Recollections ; DCWV

Stickers: The Paper Studio

Other: Dollar Bin Paper (Target) ; Smooch

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Entered In:

Crafts 4 Eternity: Anything But a Card

The Poodles Parlour: Red, White, and Blue

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I have a very exciting new toy to show you and I can’t wait until it is finished! I’m going to post it the minute I can!  Until then:

It is GOOD to be queen!