Beauty that Surrounds

Beauty that Surrounds

By Tammy Louise

I made this beauty for the Summer CHA with the Shape EZ poinsettia template.  The flower has a complete tutorial on the blog above so if you too are interested in how that part of this project is assembled, join me there.  The rest of the card was simple to make with the Snowflake die and the square double scalloped die!  Clean and simple huh?

INGREDIENTS: 

Shape EZ Pointsettia template

Apple of My Eye collection by Monika Martinson sentiment

Snowflake and Double Scalloped square Shapeology Die

DCWV

 MEDIUMS: 

Momento and Ranger Distress;

 EMBELLISHMENTS: 

Really Reasonable Ribbon Satin

Really Reasonable Ribbon double ruffle satin ribbon

Mark Richards Glitter Dome pearls

WOC pearl brad

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

                           No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. - Jean Toomer

If you enjoy a good 3D project or just need a special box or bag, stop by my Etsy Store 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!  Product gallery is above on the tab of this blog!

 Thank you for visiting,

 

Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop!

Really Reasonable Ribbon September Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to another amazing Blog Hop here at the Really Reasonable Ribbon's Ramblings Blog! 

 For all of our challenge lovers, be sure to stop back on the 15th when we post our next challenge. New challenges are posted on the 1st and 15th of each month. We would love to have you join in. 

 Today you will see some great projects using our October Non Traditional Holiday Color Mix from the rest of our very talented design team. They can really use some ribbons!

Isn't this assortment great??  It contains 9 styles and a total of 17 yards.  If you aren't already a ribbon club member, why not join us today!  You will get a fun new ribbon assortment shipped automatically each month.

Now let's get hopping and see what our fabulous design team has created this month!

If you reached my blog from the blog of fabulous  Heather, then you are on the right track!

When you've left a message here, don't stop hopping until you reach the end and your next stop is the fabulous Jeanne. 

If you loose your place or a link is missing, go back to the beginning at Really Reasonable Ribbon's Ramblings blog and catch yourself up. 

Now, be sure to leave some love at all the stops along the way. Your comments are most appreciated!

Thanks so much for hopping with us today. We hope you'll stop by and so some shopping at Really Reasonable Ribbon soon. 

The entire hop order is here:

Bonnie 

Heidi 

Jenn 

Misty

Ginny 

Cherry 

Heather 

Tammy YOU ARE HERE!!!!!!!

Jeanne 

Tracey 

Cheryl 

Don't forget, we are now carrying a large variety of mulberry flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.  Get all your favorite ribbons and mulberry flowers in one place!
Here is my project today:

Hi ribbon lovers and all of my lovely followers,

It's time to HOP! 

It's a warm and colorful fall day in October and I created a Christmas Card for a dear friend using some really nontraditional colors to do it! The Really Reasonable Ribbon October Ribbon Club Assortment is where you can find these gorgeous bright and coordinating ribbons!  Aren't they just the cutest?  The stripes and tree prints are to die for and the lime greens and watermelon pink mixed with the turquoise are indeed very nontraditional but make for a very light and cheery holiday card right!  Wouldn't you just love to get something like this in the mail and post it on your wall at Christmas time?  Me too! lol

I just covered the front section of the card with each one of the ribbons in the club this month horizontally. Then I used a sheet of paper in the same size and die cut out the hexagons.  I used some beautiful thread to frame it with and glued some cut off bulbs to decorate with then put the bottom of the bulbs in the center of the adorable little buttons.   Just a bit of my eclectic feel to the card.  I used some twine and made intersections in the face of the card to give it even more texture and color.

INGREDIENTS: 

All of the October Really Reasonable Ribbon Club Ribbons (list is lower)

Everyday Honeycomb Sentiment by Raindrop Echo Design

Georgia Pacific 100 lb paper

DP inside Winter Blues by Michelle Roos

Honeycomb Die Set Shapeology Die

3/8" Multi Dots Grosgrain Christmas 

5/8" Shimmer Satin Azalea

3/8" Christmas Trees Multi Satin Ribbon 

Delicate Stitched Satin Apple Green 

Catherine White Crochet Lace

5/8" Double-faced Satin Light Silver 

3/8" Christmas Lights Multi Satin 

5/8" Shimmer Satin Turquoise

3/8" Christmas Vertical Striped Grosgrain

  

 MEDIUMS: 

Studio G pigment ink

 EMBELLISHMENTS: 

Bakers Twine available in loads of assortments at Really Reasonable Ribbon

Really Reasonable Ribbon October Ribbon Club Assortment - Non Traditional Holiday Color Mix

Trim a Tree Bulbs

Buttons Galore & More color blends buttons "Cherries Jubilee and Blueberry Pie

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year. - Charles Dickens

 

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,

 

You Moove Me

Ladies and Gents, it's fall!  

The leaves just outside my window are a brilliant red and others nearby are orange and light yellows!  My favorite time of year for sure!  The Really Reasonable Ribbon Claudia White Crochet lace, Tiny Sheer Pink/Orange Floral organza and leaves ribbons pink matched perfectly to this altered phone book.  To find such a great pattern on a book that can be altered and then match it perfectly to a ribbon from Bonnie's store was such a THRILL!  The huge assortment of ribbons at Really Reasonable Ribbon still astonish me.  Every time I look, she's adding something new!  You can find any style you need, plus Wild Orchid Crafts flowers, plus buttons Galore and More, and even more wonderful tooles like the new Zutter bow It All!

INGREDIENTS: 
 NB labels 18
Pink and orange printed organza ribbon, Pink leaf ribbon pink  and Lace from Really Reasonable Ribbon
You Moove Me by Crissy Armstrong
Contest Ribbons Sentiment by Raindrop Echo Designs
Contest Ribbon and Scarecrow Shapeology Dies

 MEDIUMS: 
Copics: 
Nose and utter R20,R30, 
Spots RV00,RV32,RV34,
hide E0000,E000,E21, E04, 
grass G20,G21,
bow Y21,Y35,Y38 ,
hair is E50,E41,E42, 
bell YR20, YR14, YR24
Ranger Distress Ink, Sakura White Glaze, Luminarte Radiant Rain Twiinkling H20

 EMBELLISHMENTS:
Tulip beads in a bottle
Martha Stewart clay mold
Stickles

There is a Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge, Fall or Halloween themed plus ribbon of course, over at the challenge blog and you have until the 15th to play along.  I'd love to visit all of your blogs!

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

With courage you will dare to take risks,

have the strength to be compassionate,

and the wisdom to be humble.

Courage is the foundation of integrity.

- Keshavan Nair

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,

 

Tied in a Knot "For You"

My Candy ends tomorrow here! 

Happy Sunday!  Let's talk yellow and purple today with the Really Reasonable Ribbon Seam Binding Forwythia ribbon and some of the gorgeous Jumbo Leaves in Moss Green!  I wanted to add some subtle texture with my ribbon without spending an elaborate amount of time doing so.   When the Kimonos are all tied up, the knots look just gorgeous and perfectly plump in the middle.  This is exactly what I tried to add to my project for today.

I shared a brief tutorial today for these knots on the Really Reasonable Ribbon Ramblings Blog.  Come by for a peek!

                                                                     

    There's always a great challenge to play in at the Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge blog too.  So make and share so I can come by and  visit!

  INGREDIENTS: 

Shape EZ Tea Cup flip template
LOTV stamp
Fiskars Cameo Ovalteens Sentiment
Creative Papers Online Stationary SET and webbing paper (inside)

 MEDIUMS: 

Copics
Studio G pigment

 EMBELLISHMENTS:
The Paper Studios Pearls

Stickles

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: 

                                    When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for,
                                    when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
                                                                   - Audrey Hepburn

 
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,

 

Just Because

I stamped the sentiment over and over alternating them on the bottom for added design and reiteration of the meaning of the greeting card.  It just added the perfect touch to the empty space at the bottom.

It's Friday!  Yeah!  This has been such a busy and long week!  We've made the decision to drop public school and join in on the K12 program.  It's a free home school program and I just know that after all the kinks are out and mom and dad have loaded all the Adobe Readers and Java Readers and other printing requirement software, this is going to be a fabulous choice for our autistic son.   Today I am shareing my use of some of the fabulous ribbons I found at Really Reasonable Ribbon last month.  The Big Sky Hand-Dyed Silk and the Netting went perfectly with the Paper cord (on sale now) for the Rick St Dennis I lovs you dis Much image I've colored up.  

At first I wasn't sure about the sentiment for this card but when I placed the gorgeous rich colored buttons from Buttons Galore and More on the project instead of flowers, I just knew it would be perfect for an all occasion multi gender card. I've had the entire set of 4 little clowns from Rick St Dennis Etsy Store FOREVER and I never colored them because I just didn't have the time. I'm so glad I decided to do an image just for me!  I colored it first with some of my new favorite copic colors and then I went to search for papers.  I usually work the other way around but this worked out just perfectly!

INGREDIENTS: 

Design paper is Authentique "Loyal" collection

Martha Stewart "Optic Dot" punch

Sentiment is from the Whimsy Snippets Set 2 by Raindrop Echo

Isn't he just the cutest?

MEDIUMS: 

Copics: 

Shirt BG90,93,96

Cuffs E50,51,53,57

Pants: B00,12,14

shading: W0,1,3,5

Shoes: E31,Y28

Gloves E41,42,43

Cheeks R20,21,30

Hat and strap B91,93

EMBELLISHMENTS: 

Craftpon button leaf

Buttons & More Galore Blueberry Pie and Latte

Diamond Stickles

INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.”

William Cullen Bryant

 
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,

 

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #80

My Current Wee Candy till September 30, here!

RRR Challenge theme #80 "Shabby Chic"!

Ribbon and flower ingredients are from the Really Reasonable Ribbon Store!  I've used the Sheer Box Pleats Pink and white leaves.  I'm a ribbon lover that just can't resist my little surprise package every month full of layers, texture and color!  Bonnie's ribbons are gorgeous and ever so affordable!  Now I can get all of my WOC flowers there too!  I needed them and my favorite Cherry Jubilee button set !  

  Won't you join me for the next challenge here for Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge Blog.   Hope you get inspired to!  

Create anything you like;  card, layout, multi media piece, tag, ATC, hair bow, you can dream it, you can enter it!   Just be sure to follow the theme above and use ribbon/lace or trim somewhere on your project to qualify.

  

Stop here also to find loads more inspiration from the talented RRR design team for the challenge to get you started.  All of the sample projects feature ribbon from  Really Reasonable Ribbon. 

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Now, let's see you get Shabby and Chic!
We will be selecting our top three favorite projects to feature so stop back to see our picks along with our next challenge theme. 

Here's what you need to do:

* Create a new project using the posted theme. A layout, card, ATC, home decor item, hair bow, or anything your can think of.

* You may enter as many times as you like, but you're asked to provide newly designed projects. No back-linking please.

* All projects must also include some sort of ribbon/lace/trim.

* Post your project on your blog or an online gallery (using code RRR76)  Please provide a direct link to your post, not an entire blog.

Thanks so much for playing and good luck!

I'm not necessarily the Shabby Chic type of designer.  However, I am a very shapely card maker as you all may know and I've learned from discussions within the design team that it isn't always a light muted blue or pink that makes it Shabby Chic.  You can use vibrant and rich pigmented colors as well.  

The Merriam Webster online dictionary defines the word SHABBY as "The Threadbare faded from wear".  And the word Chic is defined as "Smart elegance and sophistication especially of dress or manner :  style chic

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So what did I learn?  Shabby Chic is a sophisticated worn look that has a faded elegance! 

Yep, any colors can be distressed to look worn!

In my opinion, Any baby wearing an elegant little dress with scalloped lace on the sleeve and beautiful rich colored flowers is what I considered sophisticated!  So here's my interpretation of "SHABBY CHIC" for today's challenge.  

Joanna Sheen - Ribbons
Lacy Sunshine - Anything Goes
A Creative Romance - Dies and Punches
Cut It Up - Labor Day, new baby
Daring Cardmaker- Signature Style
Art Card Challenge - Baby Girl Theme
Delightful Challenges - New Beginnings

INGREDIENTS: 

Shape EZ Dress template and rolled flower and tipped flower
Sentiment is Everyday Buttons by Raindrop Echo Designs
Design Paper is Recollections Coral Damask, GCD Fantasy Garden by Kathy Davis,
Spots and  dots Cuttlebug emboss folder
Sheer Box Pleats Pink ribbon 

 MEDIUMS: 

 Ranger Distress Ink Victorian Velvet,
Color Box chalk Sweet Melon

 EMBELLISHMENTS: 

Shapeology dies/Elegant Butterflies, Leaf Trio, Welcome Baby, Button, Heart Pedestal Tag
Whimsy Charm
Really Reasonable Ribbons Buttons Galore and more Cherries Jubilee button
Prisma Craft Thread
Lace, tear drop pink jems, snowflake and doily /stash
  Jump ring and heart hanger stash
Stickles
Kaiser Craft Rhinestones
WOC white Cosmos Daisies, 15mm open roses mixed pink tone/altered w/copic

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust


You can find this any many other "Get to know Whimsy Artist" projects in issue #13 of the
Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Online Free Magazine here!

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,

 

NEW Whimsy Artist - Time For Tea Hop!

      My Current Candy runs till 8-30 and there will be three                                        winners in all!  here 

Hi everyone and welcome to the ...
 Time For Tea Designs for Whimsy Stamps
BLOG HOP

Last month we announced the very exciting news that Jo Davies of Time For Tea Designs has joined the Whimsy Stamps family of artists!

Jo’s debut release for Whimsy Stamps will be available to buy from the Whimsy store tomorrow (21 August 2013) along with the rest of the brand new August rubber and die release. In the lead up to the release, the Whimsy Stamps DT are excited to share with you an exclusive Time For Tea Designs for Whimsy Stamps BLOG HOP packed full of previews of these fabulous new stamps.

This month we are releasing FOUR Time For Tea Designs for Whimsy Stamps rubber stamps:

Bookish                                     Heart Balloon


Fall Love                                          Windy Day

The hop starts today (Tuesday August 20th at 12.00PM EST), runs through the entire August release week, and ends on Friday August 23rd at 12.00PM EST.

For this hop we have a GRAND PRIZE DRAW! One lucky hopper will WIN the entire new release of ALL FOUR TFTD STAMPS. We're not telling you at which blog the grand prize is being hosted, so be sure to complete the hop to find it!

Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

1.	Whimsy blog
2.	Deb Routledge
3.	Ann-Marie Sinfield
4.	Ellie Stover
5.	Tracy
6.	Kathy Tanner
7.	Debbie Eastman
8.	Jodi Amidei
9.	Tammy Louise Cunliffe  - YOU ARE HERE
10.	Patricia Garcia
11.	Shannah Bartle
12.	DeNetra Bates
13.	Melissa Andrew
14.	Jo Davies (Time For Tea Designs)
15.	Heidy Blom
16.	Iris Wiechmann
17.	Shanna Shands
18.	Janette Garcia
19.	Shelby Thomas
20.	Louise Roache
21.	Simonne Clay

Challenges Entered: 

Artistic Inspirations - Clean and Simple

Incy Wincy Designs - One layer Card

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Clean and Simple 

Joanna Sheen Challenge - dry or wet embossing

Our Creative Corner - Words, words, words

Pattie's Creations - any type of embossing

Let's all hop together with the new artist at Whimsy Stamps and her designs "Time For Tea"  Jo Davies is the artist!  Windy Day is the name of this little cutie who has blown me away!!! lol

I've made a clean and simple design today with water colors again for that easy breezy fell of the wind behind her blowing the color around!.   I've paper pierced some DP that matched perfectly with the wooden button from Craftpon Etsy store, embossed at the top with some adorable buttons and used some twine!  It isn't one of my favorite design card styles but this really pleased me.  The simplicity but antique look of it with that perfect sentiment just made me smile!

Speaking of CAS, tomorrow the rubber DT will be showing you some great samples of CAS to add to the current challenge at Whimsy Stamps Challenge Blog.  Be sure to join in on the fun and free stuff!

If you would like to hop along with us today, please CLICK HERE to start the hop at the Whimsy blog.  If you've reached my blog from Jodi's you're on the right track!  from here you go to Patricia's blog.  Good luck and have fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by and happy hopping!

INGREDIENTS: 

image is Windy Day from Time for Tea 

DP is All about a boy Echo Park

Sentiment is Time Flies by Raindrop Echo Design

 MEDIUMS: 

Versafine Onyx Black

Generals watercolor pencils

Copic multi liner black .3

Signo unibroad pigment ink

Sakura Glaze

 EMBELLISHMENTS:

Printed Wood Button from Craftpon Etsy store

Tulip beads in a bottle

Cuttlebug Just my type embossing folder

Really Reasonable Ribbon Jute String Natural 

 INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

    Couldn't have said it better myself!

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,