Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Ice Cream Challenge Fun over at Celebrate the Occasion this Week.

To see my Ginger Snap Scrap Design Team day post click here.

I am back with another Celebrate the Occasion Challenge for you this week.
This week the theme is all about ice cream!
Who doesn't love ice cream? Being it has been such a hot summer, this challenge was perfect to try and think about something cool.
I came across a cute cut file for an ice cream truck and little girl.
The ice cream truck just did not work out how I wanted it to, but the little girl sure is cute.
I then cut a couple ice cream cones from the Birthday Bash cart and added them on top of a mat from Elegant edges.
Looks like she is dreaming of a cool treat to find some relief from this heat.

Hope you will hop over and join me and the rest of the DT for some cool treats and show us your ice cream inspired project.

Here's How I did it...
A2 card base on white card stock
Pattern papers all form my scrap stash
Little girl sized and cut from svg file over at Bear Hugs
Peachy Keen face stamps for face
Mats sized and cute from Elegant Edges
Ice Cream cones cut at 1" from Birthday Bash
Sentiment from Scrappy Moms Stamps
Stickles and gem stickers for fun.
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Paper Piecing with My Favorite Things

Today is my  DT day over at Ginger Snap Scraps. 


Today I did a card using a favorite stamp line of mine, My Favorite Things and their Pure Innocence stamps, to do a card using the paper piecing method. 
I like stamping and coloring,  I am just not that good at it yet. So a good alternative is to paper piece some of the stamped parts of an image.


For those of you that are not aware of how to do this, it is quite simple. 
You stamp your image on whatever paper your are going to use for the base. 


Now for the fun part. For my card, I wanted to use the cute flower pattern paper for her dress. So I stamped the image onto the pattern paper (Just love this paper. It's from Bo Bunny and can be found over at Ginger Snap Scraps) and then cut around the part of the dress I wanted to have this pattern. 
Once cut out, I just glued it onto the base image. 


Now, I do suggest if you will be doing any coloring with markers to the image, do this first and then add our paper piecing items. I continued and did the same for the top part of the dress and the kite. I did pop up the kit with pop dots for some added dimension.


It's a great way for anyone to use these stamps and create one of a kind looks without having to worry about blending marker colors. 


Here's How I did it....
Base card is yellow Bazzill card stock
Pattern papers all from the Bo Bunny Hello Sunshine Paper stack
Image and sentiment is from My Favorite Things, Aim High
Sparklies from my stash
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Have you heard the buzz?

Have you heard, there is a new challenge blog coming. Yup- Sonia over at SKdigis will be starting her challenge blog the beginning of September. So now is the time to hop over and become a follower so you don't miss out on any of the the fun stuff when it begins.

In the meantime you can check out and start playing with her digi's now.

I think her Queen Bee image is so cute!
I brought this image into the silhouette software to color and cut it and the shadow out.
front of card
The more I use my cameo and the software, I am more and more impressed with what this machine and it's software can do. As I was playing I decided to also cut the fun shaped mats, scallop borders and sentiments.  One machine that does it all.
inside card
It ended up that I printed and cut everything for this card from the Cameo. The only extras I added was the button.

I hear there are will be a whole series of the Queen Bee....stay tuned!

Here's how I did it...
Card base is white card stock and A2 size
Pattern papers are all digi papers from the Silhouette software
Queen Bee image from SK Digis and colored in Silhouette software and then cut out
The bee is popped up on the shadow with pop dots
Mats and black scallop borders also from Silhouette software
Sentiment is my own printed from my computer
Button from my stash with a twine bow from Twinery
Stickles on the crown

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

GSS Christmas in July Blog Hop- Day 2!

Welcome back to day 2 of our Christmas In July Blog Hop with the Ginger Snap Scraps Design Team!
If you came from Ashley's blog then you are in the right spot!
If you want to start form the beginning, click here.

Wow, there were so many great projects yesterday, I can't wait to see what everyone has done for day 2. 

If you missed yesterday, no worries, let me bring you up to speed.

This weekend, the Design Team is featuring projects all about Christmas! Yes, I know, already! But it is only 5 months away!

I found this a great little nudge to get started on holiday cards. I figure one here and there will build my stash so I am ready to send cards in December.

So my card today is a 6x6 card with a kraft paper base again. I really do love kraft card stock.

I used many scraps of several papers for this card, but the red and red star pattern papers were from the Authentique Glory paper Pad. I love this stack and have used it so much that I had to order another one already. You can get one too right now over at the GSS online store.
I used the Elegant edges cart for the mats, the boot was cut at 3.25" from the Just Because Cards cart and the holly leaves from the CM Tis the Season cartridge. I added a brad, some twine, sticker pearls and a bow from my stash. The sentiment is from my very own BugBites stamp set, Mistletoe .
Now I don't want to keep you waiting, there is so much more to see from the DT.
But first there is blog candy!  

GSS is giving away 2 - $10 gift card to Ginger Snap Scraps!
Just leave a comment here and let us know that you did the following:
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Thank you for stopping by. Now, let's get hopping over to Connie's blog to see what she has in store for us!
Here is the entire line up in case you get lost along the way...
Barb - http://bugbites411.blogspot.com -- you are here
Connie - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com-- your next stop

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