Happy TTT Birthday Samantha

Happy Birthday to you . . . Happy Birthday to you . . . Happy Birthday dear Samantha . . . Happy Birthday to you!  There's another challenge today at Top Tip Tuesday and I have a Tutorial to support the challenge too!

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Fred She Said $20 voucher! 

 

and

 

Ooh La La Creations is offering you any 1 of their CDs! 

Be sure to stop by and play along with the 

Circles

Challenge and get inspired by the other DT projects as well!

My project today is chuck full of circles, on the card base, topper, sentiment, button dots and even the half circle scallops and the ribbon too!  Get out some of your favorite circles and show us what you can do!

For the full tutorial, see the Top Tip Tuesday Challenge and or it will be posted later on my tutorials tab as well.

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Celebrate every Birthday as if it were your first! 

If you enjoy a good 3D project or just need a special box or bag, stop by the Whimsy Stamps Store available today for my Shape "EZ" product line of Cut templates like bags, boxes, flowers, and cards with tons of add on's! These templates can help you make any project just the way you like it. Over and Over again! The NEW Shape "EZ" cut files are available today!

 Thank you for visiting,

   

Happy Birthday HOP!

My 450 Follower Candy here

Welcome to Denise's birthday party hop!

If you've come here from Ann's blog, then you're on the right track. 

If not, start at Iris's blog so you don't miss a thing!

Today (May 16) we are celebrating the birthday of one of the best stamp company owners out there: Denise Lynn of Whimsy Stamps! To show our appreciation for Denise's kindness, the Whimsy family and previous guest designers are holding a birthday party blog hop using some of the amazing Whimsy Stamps products that we have grown to love.  Thank you, Denise, for giving us the opportunity to represent a company with great products, wonderful customer service, and most of all, an owner who truly cares about its artists and designers.  You are the best!

To show some appreciation to the Whimsy customers for helping us celebrate Denise's birthday, we are giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to Whimsy Stamps store.  Just hop along, leave a comment on the birthday blog posts by May 21, and a random winner from the comments left on participating blogs will be chosen to win the gift certificate.  The winner will be posted on the Whimsy Stamps blog on May 22.

Challenges Entered:

Just Keep on Creating - Anything Goes

Paper Shelter - Birthday w/Sentiment

Cute Card Thursday - A touch of sparkle

Delightful Challenge - Add Ribbon

Little Miss Muffett - Anything Goes

For today's birthday hop I've made a rich and swirly half fold card that I learned from Angie Hunt in her monthly card class!  Thanks Angie!  Just to get started I used one of my newest favorite stamp by Crissy Armstrong called Birthday Hippo.  He is colored with Copic markers.  The paper is part of my recycle bin, (Yeah!), and the pearls are The Paper Studio.  The Sentiment is by Raindrop Echo Designs w/Whimsy, (the Bottle cap set) and the Bottle Cap Die is Shapeology w/Whimsy!  The final touches were with Stickles, Clear Star Glitter pen, Pentel white ink and some pearl Beads in a Bottle by Tulip.  I hand rolled my flowers with paper from my favorite online store Creative Papers Online.  In the end some leaf punches by Martha Stewart and Satin ribbon from Offray and my Birthday card for the boss lady is all set!  Hope you enjoy it!

Happy Birthday Denise, I wish you only the most wonderful day!  For all of my other blog friends out there, there isn't a more compassionate, understanding, professional and generous boss lady!!  Thanks for everything you do!

This hop is rather large, so here's the hop order in case you get lost:

Iris Weichmann

Pops Morfitt

Bev Rochester

Erin Bailey

Heidy Blom

Ann Vento

Tammy Louise Cunliffe

Mariska van der Veer

Lori Pachkowsky

Dena Concienne

Simonne Clay

Patricia Garcia

Alberto Gava

Stephanne Maraver

Thanks for joining us today!  Feel free to head over to Denise's blog to wish her a happy birthday :)

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

You were born an original, don’t die a copy.
- Unknown

 If you enjoy a good 3D project or just need a special box or bag, stop by the Whimsy Stamps Store available today for my Shape "EZ" product line of Cut templates like bags, boxes, flowers, and cards with tons of add on's! These templates can help you make any project just the way you like it. Over and Over again! The NEW Shape "EZ" cut files are available today!

 Thank you for visiting,

 

Happy Birthday Celebration!

 1st Birthday party!!!!!

Yep!  Top Tip Tuesday is One Year Old!

Wow!  1 year old!

This week we want to see your

Easel card or easel topped box

I still can't believe how many sponsors and what great gifts they are sharing for this celebration!  Come and play, I can't wait to see all of your creations and leave you all some hugs!

Stamp and Create.com 

The Crafty Pad

 Prize - 2 Digi Images

Pink Gem Designs 

4 digi images of winners choice 

Fred She Said $20 voucher!

3 images of your choice from Limited Runs

Simon Says Stamp

Simon Says Stamp is offering a $20 gift voucher to spend in their store!!

Prize offered to 1 lucky winner is : 3 packs of die cuts.

Arty Farty
£70 Goody bag!

WSDesigns

Prize TBC

WOW!  Did I tell you or what?  So I've shown you all the great prizes and you have one week to show us your stuff!  Don't miss this one craftier s!  It's gonna be a winner!

My lovely card is a celebration triangle easel made just for this special occasion, usually when I create from the Rick St Dennis collection of show girls, I already have a specific person and occasion in mind!   I'm always happy to color one of these and show her off before she goes into the craft sale inventory!  They never last long they are such terrific images to color and they are so different from anything else out there!

 INGREDIENTS: 

Image is Fedora - Fashionplate by Rick St Dennis ETSY

Sentiment is Fiscars

Bazzill Stock

DP from stash

NB die Label 14

 MEDIUMS:

Copic Sketch: B24,26,93

RV13,17,34,29

BG05 eyes

C00,C2,C4, E00,E11,E43,E25,E19,R20 cheeks

Signo White pen

Gelly Roll - Clear Star

challenges entered:
A Spoon Full of Sugar ~ Party Time
Creative Card Crew ~ Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes/ shaped card

 EMBELLISHMENTS:

Wild Orchid Crafts flowers

Beads/corded pearls from Hobby Lobby stash

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

 No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

 Thank you for visiting,

 

It's Bea's Diva Birthday!

It's time for a Diva by Design Challenge!

This is how the Teddy Bo decopauge project prints up!

Our challenge for the next 2 wks is a super easy one! Lets celebratebirthdays! You could make a LO, a birthday card, a tag, an altered gift whatever you like as long as there is a birthday theme there somewhere. We are so lucky this wk to be sponsored by the fabulous Digis with attitude, whose images a few of our DT have used!

The Super talented DT have great projects to share as well,  Wow!  

Difference in color from print to adding Copic (see paws)

Come by and join us for the challenge this time, you have 2 wks to enter and don't forget our only restrictions are to stick to the theme, no backlinking and only enter twice! Thanks so much for coming by and good luck! 


So a few details:  I die cut the flowers from 4 matching DP, curled them with the embossing tool and dotted the inside w/liquid pearl, cut out the deco images assembeled them in order but embossed the top to be rounded.  Colored over the  printed ink to add some richer brown hue and assembeled the card!  Super simple to complete and fun!  I think it's more like therapy for me to have intricut cutting to do! lol 

Challenges entered:

Inky Impressions ~ Happy Birthday

                                        INGREDIENTS:

Basic Grey Pattern paper "Sultry elite DP

other DP from scrap box

Bazzill Stock

Sizzix flourish 10

Spell Binders Nestabilities die classic scallop large and classic circle

Image Teddy Bo

Sentiment is Raindrop Echo Design w/Whimsy

Magnolia tag die cut

Provo Craft Cuttle Bug flower Die cut

Opens on the side 

MEDIUMS: 

Copic markers YR00 and E50

Signo white pen

Printer ink

close up front

close up showing layers

 EMBELLISHMENTS:

Handmade flowers

Gelly Roll "Clear star" pen

Tulip Beads in a bottle "pearl white"

Ribbon from Offray

hand made flowers 

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: 

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda

Thank you for visiting,

 

A Special Treat!

This has been a great week, thanks for joining me again and . . .  Hi to all my friends and family!

I was inspired the other day by a template creation so I though it would be the perfect occasion to practice with some new embellishments and get extra creative!

So I started from scratch and drew up an ice cream cone and the ice cream scoop also, put them together, outlined the template on bazzill stock, cut straight line across the top, flipped the scoop and traced it again.  The base was done and the rest is just 1/8 inward the whole way.  Took some photos along the way for later reference. I thought the image withing the round circle on the top was like the cherry and the lace was like the whipped cream!  I even added a tear drop charm to symbolize a drip of ice cream like the adorable image used here.

This week at Wags 'n whiskers challenge is your opportunity to show me all your Birthday creations!  Our Hostess this week is the lovely and talented Darlene from Dar's Crafty Creations, be sure and visit her blog here.                              .

On to the details of my newest piece of greeting art.

INGREDIENTS:

Wags 'n Whiskers image "Summer Treat"
Sentiment by Raindrop Echo Design w/ Whimsy
Bazzill Stock "Avalanche"
Hand made stencil
Penny Lane "Moving Dots" DP
Core'dinations stock
S.e.i. "Patchwork Stitches DP
"Walk in my garden" Cricut Cartridge for flower

MEDIUMS: 

RV0000,RV00,R20,R29
C1,C2,C4,E00,E11,E41,E42,E43,E19,E50,
G07,BG05,YG05,BG05
Signo White pen ink
Distress Ink:  Walnut Stain, Wild Honey,Black Soot,
Tumbled Glass, Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Fired Brick
Micron Archival ink black
Sharpie "black:
Best Occasions Rhinestones
Grosgrain bow stickers
The Paper Studio Pearls

EMBELLISHMENTS: 

Red Pearl Tulip Beads in a bottle
Bo Bunny Jewels
Charm by Cousin "Trinkets"
ribbon strings from stash

Come stop by for both inspiration and a challenge, I would love you to visit and enter your projects!

Challenges entered:
Scrap Creations ~ Summertime
Bling It On ~ Anything Goes
Anything Goes ~ D for Dangle and dots
Craft Your Passion ~ Anything Goes
Fancy Framework ~ Birthday
Penny's Paper Crafty ~ Birthday
Getting Cricky ~ Summertime
The Hot Spot ~ Floriday (the Ice cream stop)

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: 

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.
Sarah Knowles Bolton

Thank you for visiting,

 

Vamp for my Sam

Our second Friday in June already and it's going fast!  Next week my parents get in from Florida for a week!  I'm getting very anxious, I miss their quirkiness and honest personalities!  My weekend is going to be full of family and a bar b q for fathers day this Sunday.  My daughter, Sammantha, plans to come by today and help to clean up the new yard.  I say new because it was later in the summer last year when we moved in and there was no excess time to plant in the reoccurring blooms.  She was over yesterday and started pruning the roses for the season.

I've made this card for my Sammantha's birthday in October as she LOVES Halloween, this image from The Dragons Lair Sam the Vamp was perfect!  Maybe off seasonally, but I needed a change from the crafts for the end of June craft sale and also the summer time images that everyone is using in their challenges.  After all, some times I just want to craft what I want to craft!

I want to remind everyone about the challenge over at Stamping with the Dragon the theme is Friendship and I would love to see your creations!  There is brand new paper packs and a Fabulous Grab bag too!

challenges entered:

Aly's Sunday Challenge ~ show kids
The Corrosive Challenge ~ sketch
Creative Inspiration ~ fun fold
House of Gilli ~ buttons
Scrap Creations ~ anything goes
Totally Stampalicious ~ anything goes
Woodware USA ~ Birthday
Tuesday Throwdown ~ any 3 past chall(Fall,Distress,Die Cut,Anything goes)
Creative Card Crew ~ Ribbons and brads
Delightful Challenges ~ Anything Goes
My Time to Craft ~ 2 images

INGREDIENTS:

Image ~ Sam the Vamp ~ The Dragon Lair

Sentiment ~ Halloween Word Art ~ The Dragon Lair

Creative Imagination DP by Christine Adolph

Misc DP from stash "leaves"

Bazzill Stock

MEDIUMS:


Copic Sketch:  E21,E00,E11,E19,C00,C1,E0000,B41,R37,C4,C6,E53
Tim Holtz, Ranger Distress ink: Walnut and Antique linen
Gelly Roll "Clear Star
Signo Ink "White"
Royal Coad Dimensional Magic "for glasses"

glasses accent

kitty cat accent

EMBELLISHMENTS:

Forget me not Raffia
Recollections Pearl Stickers
Provo Craft Cuttlebug Textile
Recollections Glitter Chip Board
Spare Parts Paper Studio Leaf Brads

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Clean up more that just your yard . . . it will feel fab!

Thank you for visiting,