For You!

Sorry it took so long to get back to posting. I actually fell asleep. Anyway, this card will be entered into 2 challenges on the same site:

I (heart) sketches:  the weekly sketch challenge and the monthly stamp challenge.
 

The stamp is the monthly release from I (Heart) Sketches. I colored it in oil pencil. The purple border is scrap paper. The flowers are from my stash. I think I got them at a garage sale. The vertical stamp is from the Fresh Vintage Stampin' Up set and is stamped in Wonderful Wisteria (I think that's the name). Sentiment was printed off the computer.

Here you can see that I added glossy accents to the flowers.

Rather cute don't you think?

Have a great evening!

Miranda

Mom

I trust everyone had a good weekend. It's been rainy and dreary here. You know, the kind of weather that makes you want to curl up under a blanket and veg out all day. It's still like that today. Meet Sugars, he's got the right idea!

This coming Sunday is Mother's day, and just about every blog has a Mother's Day challenge. Since I have already made my Mom's and MIL's cards, I decided I would make a very clean and simple card for the challenges and I actually think it turned out beautiful.

This is a 5x7 card with a basic white card base. I then scalloped the edge of the front of the card and added kraft paper to contrast. The flowers are a 6 petal cut from 3 Birds on Parade. The biggest flower is adhered directly to the card. The medium flower is adhered with on layer of foam tape. The smallest flower is adhered with 2 layers of foam tape. The fibers are strands of burlap. I hand printed "Mom" in pink passion marker from Stampin' Up.

 

This card is very basic, but I think it turned out beautiful. Sometimes less is more.

 

This card will be entered into the challenges at:

1. BBTB2: Mom is the best

2. FCCB: #159 -- Mother's Day

3. Cardz TV: There's no other like my mother

4. Exploring Cricut: Mother's Day Challenge

5. My Craft Spot: For Mom

 

I have one more card that I will be posting here in a few minutes.

 

Have a great day!

 

Miranda





Lady Bug Card

Ok, let's get the technical mumbo jumbo out of the way. I will be entering this card into the following challenges:
1. Cardz TV: Make a card, layout, or craft project for Mother's day
2. Little Scrap Pieces: It's a bug's life
3. 3 Girl Jam: Anything goes with Ribbon

Ok, this card was actually kind of an experiment. I saw a card on the web that is very similar to this one. It appears to be a card that was done at a Stampin' up retreat (http://stampndesignstore.blogspot.com/2011/03/butterfly-bee-lady-bug-cards.html). I could have paid for the template, but figured it would be easy enough to figure out. Which, after some thought, it really wasn't that hard to figure out. So, here is the card:

Say hello to little miss lady bug. I believe the black paper is from recollections. The red paper is glitter paper from DCWV. The black buttons are from my stash. The eyes are while gel pen with black sharpie. The crinkle ribbon I received in an RAK.  Thanks Karen!!! Now for the inside:

AS you can see, this card is simply shapes. The base is three 4" circles welded together with a 2 inch circle welded to the top of the center circle. The two outer circles are folded back on each other and adhered to itself. I added the black half circle so that the wording couldn't be seen peeking through from the inside. I then cut a small wedge out of the circles to represent the  opening of the wings. I printed the sentiment out on the computer and adhered to center circle.

The sentiment: I was going through some things at my Mom's house the other day when I came across a box of stuff I had made in elementary school. Included in this box was a hand made card made of  white constructions paper with ladybug stickers all over it. On the inside, was this sentiment. I'm sure it was something the teacher provided, but I think it is very cute.

I think it needs a little refinement and definitely more buttons. Oh, well, there's always next time.

Hope you like it.

Miranda

Masculine Anniversary Card

My 5 year anniversary is coming up on the 20th and the challenge at BBB2 is a wedding/anniversary challenge. So, I used this as the perfect time to come up with a card for my husband to celebrate our anniversary. Now, we have been married for 5 years, but were together for 5 years before that and were friends for 2 years before that. So, we really have given each other some of the best years of our lives. Anyway, here is what  he will be getting:

I you have been following my blog for a while, you know that my husband and I love to fish, so it made sense to make a fishing card for him. The back ground paper is from recollections. The brown paper is scrap, the "wood" paper is a scrap piece of light tan paper that I ran through the embosser with a wood grain folder then inked the debossed side with crumb cake ink from Stampin' Up. The sentiment was printed off the computer. Now, the fish was cut with the Camp Out Cricut cartridge at 2.5". The paper is actually paint chips from Glidden. Every time I go to Lowes or Home Depot, I go to the paint department and chose some pain chips to use in my crafting. I inked the edges and cut outs with an olive green sharpie to bring out more of the green tint in the paper. The fishing rod is a dowel that is wrapped in twine. Nothing special about the twine, I got it in the automotive department at the dollar store. 

Obviously, this is the inside of the card. The fish are stickers from Stickabilities, that I have had in my collection since 2 houses ago. So, that would be 4 years in this house, 2 in the previous house, and 2 in the condo. Wow, almost 10 years.

I will also be entering this card into the challenge at Paper Playtime. The challenge is embossing.

Hope you like it.

Miranda

Mother's Day Gift

I have finally finished the project I will be giving to my mom for Mother's day. Her card has already been posted but here is a refresher pic:

So, here is the actual gift:

This is a 9x12 canvas. The base paper is from Recollections. The doily stamp is from Stampin' UP and stamped in crumb cake. The blue butterfly is part of the base paper. The blue rose is from the Michael's dollar isle. I got the brown rose from Sa Crafters. The "Family" is a chip board sticker from the Prima Engravers collection. The metal butterfly on the "h" is from Maya Road. I added pink rhinestones from studio g to the metal butterfly.
Now for the wooden frame. The frame is from Michael's as is the letter. I added a piece of doily transparency from Michael's to the back of the frame. The edges of the letter were painted in acrylic paint by Americana (burnt umber). The face of the letter was a blended color I made with white, water, and laguna blue paint. The letter was then adhered to the frame.

I love the way this turned out. It is very simple, but my mom is the queen of less is more. I am actually thinking about doing one to keep for myself.

I am going to enter this into one challenge:  Die Cuttin' Divas Challenge 116:  Anything goes.

I hope you find it as beautiful as I do.

Have a great evening!

Miranda

Wishing You a Special Day

I have been working on my Mom's Mother's day project, so I really haven't been doing much as far as challenges go, but I did whip out a quick and simple card. I'm going to show it to you, but please be warned that everything is off kilter. I think my ability to judge a straight line in impaired today. So, here goes:

 

The base is kraft. The stamps used were Vintage verses and Fresh Vintage from Stampin' Up. The border stamped on the kraft paper was stamped in Early Espresso. The ribbon was out of my scrap jar. I cut the rounded rectangle from Stampin' Up Very vanilla paper. The back ground was stamped in crumb cake, pink pirouette, and certainly celery. The Sentiment is stamped in pink passion and early espresso. The rectangle is popped up with foam tape.

This was actually kind of an experiment in layered stamping. I'm not really sure how I feel about this one, but I will be entering it into the challenge as CAS(E) this Sketch.


Please feel free to leave comments, suggestions, questions....

Have a great day!

Miranda

Today's Haul

It has been so long since I have had any extra money for crafting, I can't even remember when the last time was. Anyway, I found $20 in a pair of capris I haven't worn since last year and decided I needed to spend it on crafting stuff. And, since this is a blog about crafting on the cheap, I thought I would show you what I was able to get with my $20.

First stop was Big Lots:

As you can see, I spent a grand total of $14.93 at Big Lots. Now, I did also get a Coke that was $1.55, so I spent a total of $13.38 on craft stuff.  Here is what I picked up:

The Water Color Pad has 12 sheets of paper that are 11 x 16 and was $5. The DCWV paper stack was also $5. The metal butterflies were $1.50, and the other package was a dollar. The last package is  pack of "sticky Stax" Large Journaling Tags. There are a Total of 36 with 4 different styles. They kind of remind me of Post-it notes.

Next stop: Michaels. I went there specifically looking for some needed embellishments for the project I am working on for my mom for Mother's day. I spent a total of $5.60, bringing my overall total to $18.98. Here I picked up:

The most expensive item is the wood frame which was $2.49 but only $1.49 after the 40% coupon.  These Items will be used on my mom's gift.

I made one more stop at Wal-Mart. I needed something for my sister to display her tag on. I ended up getting two of them, they were $0.97 each:

The total came to $2.03.

My entire shopping total came to $21.01. I went over by $1.01, But considering what I bought, I think I did pretty good. I am hoping to be back later with something, but I'm not sure. I'm pretty tired and my head is killing me.

Have a great night!

Miranda