Bingo 2

I'm off bowling tonite but I got TONS of stuff done this weekend that I need to upload and show you! I cranked out close to 50 cards this weekend and then putzed some more at home yesterday. So for now I'll leave you with a quick bingo card that I made last week for my scrap room tree. This one was done with last year's Crafty Secrets "Vintage Christmas" set. I broke down and bought a Martha Stewart snowflake punch, and have been punching out snowflakes and glittering them up with Red Martha Stewart glitter.











The paper is from K & Company (Michaels), as is the round "joy" sticker. I also added some cool buttons to the top. The black swirl on the bottom is also from Crafty Secrets "Flourishes" set. I can't believe how quick these are to crank out. Really it's just a strip of paper to cover the top "Beano", and then you can just add an image and embellish the top strip!

So tonite my goal is to raise my bowling average. It's supposed to snow 3-5 inches so I'll be coming home to some shoveling, for sure!

Happy Monday, all!

L.

Unity Birthday Birds

Are you sick of birds yet? Well at least I'm not showing Christmas cards today, right? I cranked these birthday bird cards out last month at a get-together with some fun girlies that I used to work with at Archivers in Woodbury, MN. I've gotten smarter about what I bring with to a gathering. I had the card design all planned out and ready to go, and then just brought the supplies with to make a bunch of them.






Remember that cool Unity "Birds of a Feather" set that I've been using for Christmas cards? Well this cute bird is from the same set! I've been getting so much mileage out of it. The sentiment is from A-Muse.

I'm trying to use up embellishments; why do we buy all this stuff if we're not going to use it? After you use it you're sick of looking at it anyway, so USE IT UP! I've got a ton of white kaiser flowers, also, so I used up a bunch on these cards & added button centers.

For the layout, I just used a nestabilities scalloped circle die, and cut out patterned paper. EASY layout!

Crafty Secrets Ornament Bingo Card

It's FRIIIII-DAY! Ask me how excited I am! I have the day off today, and am heading to St. Cloud with friends to stamp the weekend away! So I thought I'd leave you with a bingo card before I head out! I'm making great strides on my stamp room bingo card tree, and I PROMISE to show you the finished project before Christmas! It is coming along nicely, and I've also enlisted the help of a sweet friend who volunteered to help me decorate it! I cannot WAIT to see what she does with the bingo cards I sent her! I've got quite a few of my own done and will post them soon!



This one was done last week when I was in paper-piecing mode! I stamped the ornaments out, then stamped them again on patterned paper, cut them out and layered them onto the white paper ornaments. I colored the point in with warm grey 2 Copic & a Sakura Gelly roll glitter pen to make them silvery. The paper and snowflakes are all by K & Company's Christmas Cheer line, from Michaels (COUPONS, girls, COUPONS!)!!!



Have a WONDERFUL weekend!

L.



Stamp Set: Crafty Secrets Christmas Joy and Crafty's "Flourishes" set

Merry Christmas Birds

Birds, birds, its always birds! That's 'cause I love 'em and they always steal the show on a card.

These 2 little Merry Christmas love birds are from Crafty's Christmas Image & Journal Notes booklet. I framed them with some leftover chipboard frames that came with one of Crafty's rectangle chipboard albums that I used as wall hangings! I cut out yellow patterned paper and mod-podged the paper onto the chipboard, then used my vintage christmas flowersoft to outline the image. I stamped more holly around the image edges and colored them in with Copics.

I have a bingo card to show you tomorrow, I just need to photograph it! Happy Thursday!

Papers: Various Crafty Secrets Paper Pads
Stamps: Crafty Secrets Christmas Joy
Accessories: Vintage Christmas Flowersoft, Vintage Buttons

L.

More birdies!

Okay, this is a shameless plug for Crafty Secrets, but I honestly have to tell you how impressed I always am when Sandy and Cindy from Crafty Secrets show us the new stamp sets. Sandy has such an eye for cute, sweet vintage artwork! Amongst her many talents and generosity, she truly has an eye for heartwarming images! These birdies are no exception! I wish you could be there to hear the squeals when Sandy lets the design team preview the new sets! Many times she'll ask for our opinions and have us help tweak them ahead of time. What captured my heart with this set was not only the cool ornaments with all the accessories and swirls to fit inside, but the 2 sweet birdies that came with it.

I thought these birdies deserved the spotlight on their own, because they truly can stand alone and make a great card! Here I stamped off a row of them sitting on the holly leaves. This set also comes with some cool branches, so you could create a christmas tree scene or a row of branches for them to sit on! I went with the holly because I wanted the red berries to contrast against the burgundy patterned paper. The set also comes with that cool swirly star, so I cut out a couple of stars for accents. And I'm back on the chipboard swirl kick; this time I colored it yellow and glittered it up with Martha Stewart yellow gold glitter.

Copic colors: Buttercup yellow, light camel, mint blue, spring dim green, sanguine & abyss green.
Patterned papers: Crafty Secrets Radiant Paper Pad
Stamp Set: Crafty Secrets Christmas Joy

What's today, Wednesday? I'm losing track of time this week! Happy Wednesday, all!

L.

Paper-Pieced Crafty Secrets Ornaments

Oh man, I wish I could get good photos of how glittery and sparkly this card is. These cool, retro-ornaments are from Crafty Secret's Christmas Joy set. I stamped the ornaments on white cardstock, then stamped it again on patterned paper from Crafty's "Earthy" paper pad, cut them out, and then layered the patterned paper on top.

I created the blue background snowflake paper with a cuttlebug embossing folder, using Stampin Up Soft Sky cardstock. I took a creamy caramel (SU) ink pad and ran it over the top of the snowflakes to distress them and make them pop out a bit.






I edged the entire card with Martha Stewart White Gold glitter...this stuff looks SO much like vintage glass glitter that they used to use on ornaments! (If you click on one of the photos you'll be able to see the glitter better.) I stamped the little swirls from this set on top of my patterned paper, and then blinged them up with clear Mark Richards Crystal Rhinestone stickers. To make the tips of these ornaments shine, I colored them in with a warm grey 2 Copic marker to get a silver tone, and then colored them in again with clear Sakura gelly roll glitter pen.

Have a glittery Tuesday, all!

L.

Crafty Secrets Christmas Cards

Good morning, all! Hope you had a warm, cozy holiday weekend! It snowed in Minnesota, so it's looking like it will be a white Christmas for us! I sat down last week and finally got to play with my Crafty Secrets "Christmas Joy" ornament set! I've had it sitting on my desk for ages but finally sat down and USED it! Coincidentally, our fearless design team leader, Vicki Chrisman, issued a challenge for us to post Christmas cards this week! So I was ready to go on this one! I'm going to post vintage Christmas cards all this week, so stay tuned for more ways to use this cool ornament set. I have a bingo card to post, too!



I used papers from Crafty's Radiant paper pad; it comes with sheet music in the back of the pad, so I layered the sheet music underneath the cute little birdies. I love this cool sentiment that comes with the set. And of course, I HAD to put Vintage Christmas Flowersoft around my image! I know, that's really odd, me using that stuff, right?

The Crafty girls are all busy making vintage Christmas cards, for the challenge, so make sure to check out their blogs today if you're into vintage!



Vicki Chrisman
Anna Wight
Pam Hooten
Heidi Blankenship
Marisa Grosson
Vivian Peters
Michele Kovak