Top Tip: Mini Pop Dots Made EASY.

Okay, well, since I missed the deadline for last week’s Top Tip by MINUTES – I’ll just have to post my idea for last week’s tip for THIS week!

Ok, have you ever gotten any of those TINY pop dots? At first you think, “GREAT! I can pop dot even SMALL things with these!”

Then reality hits and you realize that getting those dots out of that sheet is a lesson in frustration. Well….no more. :)

I have devised a way of extracting those tiny dots and –gasp- getting them on your project with relative ease.

A Preview:

Want the tutorial?

Go here.

(Just a reminder that you will be redirected to my now Wordpress (b/c Windows Live Spaces is gone now) account to view the tutorial. Please come back here to comment if you can!)

Thanks!

Have a good night queenies!

Want to Win a Silhouette? Of COURSE you do.

So, there are a total of 16 Silhouette giveaways (some of them have closed – there used to be 18!) going on right this VERY moment! 

There is a list on HowDoesShe? that lists all of the giveaways and links to their blog for your entering convenience! So I DID it!

Here is a list of the blogs giving away a Silhouette:

1.  HowDoesShe {{You better enter into this one!}}

2. Crafty Crow

3. Living Locurto

4. Our Best Bites

5.  Amy’s Finer Things

6.  Crafts By Amanda

7.  The Shopping Mama

8.  Kevin and Amanda

9.  Prudent baby

10.  Twig and Thistle

11.  BLue Cricket Design

12.  Somewhat Simple

13.  Cake Spy

14. The Hungry Mouse

15.  McMama

16.  Hip to Save

17.  Ruffled Blog

18.  Crafty Pod

 

( I believe that Hip2Save and Ruffled Blog are over!)

So, if you have a spare hour (or two!) head on over to these places and enter to win yourself a Silhouette!

Later queenies!

Cards for Some Challenges.

I am so mad. I missed the deadline for Top Tip AND Tiddly Inks! Stupid work and stupid life getting in the way of my craft blogging time! Grrr. If you’ve had this happen go ahead and share with me! I’ll make a funny frustration badge for the best “delay of CRAFT” story! (Announced Friday)

Okay, well hopefully some of the challenges that I made these cards for will still be open.

Also, since I didn’t even SEE my house in the daylight today I’m back to late-night photo taking for this time. :(

Card 1:

6x6 card, Inside Sentiment: “But home is found in your HEART.”

Cardstock: Brown: DCWV, Orange: American Crafts, Trees & Stripe: K I Memories, Stamp: Tiddly Inks, Coloring: Copics, Squares: Grungeboard by Tim Holtz for Ranger, Brads and Ribbon: Stash

Entered in (NOT Tiddly Inks, grrr….)

iCopic: Orange, Yellow, and Brown

Charisma Cardz Challenge: Anything Goes

Stamptacular Sunday: Fall Colors

Next:

6x6 card, Inside Sentiment: “I forgot your BIRTHDAY!”

Stamp: Whiff of Joy, Coloring: Copics, Number cardstock: K I Memories, Plaing cardstock and ribbon: stash

Entered in:

Oh, Alice!: Windows

Card 3:

6x6 Card

Stamp: Magnolia, Coloring: Copics, Embossing Powder (hard to see on snow flakes): Stampendous, Everything else: Stash.

Entered in:

Raise the Bar: Bundle Up

Secret Crafter: Purple and Silver

And last but not least:

A2 card

Cardstock: DCWV, Star stickers: The Paper Studio, Punch: Martha Stewart, Stamp: I can’t remember, Coloring: Copics, Sentiment created by me, Ribbon: Stash

Entered in:

Allsorts: Plain and Siimple

Paper Sundaes: Things with Wings

Flutter by Wednesday: All things Winged

Thank so much for looking!

And remember…it’s good to be queen (even when you are ROYALLY late for some challenges!)

Early Christmas Giveaway!

There is an awesome giveaway going on over at Craft Gossip where you can win an early Christmas gift of ANYTHING YOU WANT (under $150 plus up to $20 shipping)!!!!

So, all you have to do is post about what you want.

Well, I know, as much crafting as I do you might assume I have one of these already but you would be WRONG. I want a Slice Cordless Die-cut machine! Yeay!

The bundle featured here is on Overstock and has the embossing tip, writing pens, idea book, and a bunch of cardstock all in one with the machine. It ships for $2.95 everyday.

You also get another entry if you review the Christmas crafts section of the sponsor’s website Craftbits .

After looking at several of the tutorials my personal favorite is the “Birthday Card Candle” . It’s a really quick and fun way to preserve a flat embellishment from a card (especially a handmade one!) on the side of a candle! This tutorial has good directions and the project seems fast with great results.

A few more cool ones that would be really good for kids are:

Felt Tree Ornament

Magnetic Advent Calendar (SO cute!)

Go check them out.

And remember…it’s good to be queen.

A New Photographing Attempt

So, I have decided that, whenever possible I am going to photograph my projects outside. This has actually helped my photo quality immensely.

See?:

Approx. 4 x 8 1/2 Card

Stamp: Tilda with Mistletoe , Coloring: Copics, White Cardstock: The Paper Studio, red paper, striped paper, buttons, embroidery floss: stash.

Entered in:

Totally Tilda: Make Your Own Flowers

Fussy and Fancy: Christmas Colors

Alphabet Challenge: Unused Stash (never used my MANY colors of embroidery floss :)

Make 'It' Crafty: Anything Goes

Secret Crafter: Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz Challenge: Anything Goes

Next:

5x7 Card

Stamps: Christmas Street by Motivet and a “Draw your World” window from the Einstein kid’s section of the American Museum of Natural History website, Coloring: Prang 16 watercolors and Copics, Sentiment: created by me in Paint, Papers and ribbon: VERY old scraps from stash

Entered in:

Fussy and Fancy: Christmas Colors

Making 'It' Crafty: Anything Goes

Secret Crafter: Anything Goes

Charisma Cardz Challenge: Anything Goes

Stamp Something: Use a Digi (I used TWO!)

Last:

A2 sized Card

Squirrel and Nuts: The Paper studio, Rub on Sentiment: Memories Direct, Fiskars border punch, DCWV orange paper, Handmade wood grain paper and cardbase: OLD from stash

Entered in:

Charisma Cardz Challenge: Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly: Animal Magic

Polycraft Challenge: Cute and Cuddly

Whew! That was a lot of link-making! Hope you enjoy!

Till next time….enjoy being a queen!

Decorative Edge Scissors: So Easy!

So, there is one age-old scrapbooking tool that I simply LOVE – decorative edge scissors!

So, here is my tip for Top Tip Tuesday using one of my fav designs: the small scallop.

I always find that it is hard to cut a straight line with a deco edge scissor, so here is my simple tip to make that a lot easier.

Sneek Peek:

Go here. Hope you enjoy!

P.S. Just FYI, you will be redirected when you click the link to go to the tutorial. Please come back here to comment. Thanks!

Later Queenies!

Rainbow Connection Inspiration Card

Hello!  Just popping in to post a card:

A2 size card.

Card base: DCWV, Frog stamp and castle background: Tiddly Inks, Cloud stamp: OWH blog, Rainbow: The Crafty Nomad, Sentiment: Rainbow connection quote, Frame: Jillibean Soup stamp, Pearls: Reminisce, Coloring: Prang 16 watercolors & Metallic watercolors

So, in an unusual turn of events, I was not that inspired by the pet challenge at Tiddly Inks (of who’s challenges and digis I love).  So, I looked through my TI stamps trying to find one that spoke to me – and this little frog princess just HOPPED out at me, so I went looking for a sentiment that might inspire a card.  Lo and behold, the first thing that popped up was this Rainbow Connection quote by the most famous frog ever: Kermit.  BOOM, the stars collided and this card was born. :)

Hope you enjoy!

Entered in:

Tiddly Inks: Our Pets

I Did It! Creations: Keep is Simple (it’s pretty much all digis & was quick and simple to complete!)

Oh, Alice!: Crowns

And remember….it’s ok being princess - but why –when you could be queen?