Sailor Moon Card

Any chance I get to create a special request card, especially a Sailor Moon card, I am all over it! If your not familiar with Sailor Moon its a Japanese anime show/comic etc etc. I have always been a big fan! I created this card a little while back, but had no idea where the pictures went, well today I found them, a very exciting moment. Sorry about the coloring, the blue background on the card is a lot lighter but the picture came out so dark, couldn't do a redo since the card has been sent off to special fan :)

CS: Prism. Die Cuts: Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts (Stars). Punch: Fiskars (Circle). PP & Popdots: Unknown. 

Close up, much better color of the blue background.

Mist Splatter Cards & Good Bye TwoPeas

I can't believe its Thursday already! I am on vaca from work, I have to get a plan going so I can utilize the most of my time :) Which really means plan lots of crafty time hehe :)

If you haven't heard the news yet, Two Peas in a Bucket is closing there doors. I am still in complete shock! I have been on two peas since 2005 and have had a wonderful time there! I meet so many amazing and inspiring ladies, I am going to miss it so much! Thanks Two Pea's for all the great memories and I wish everyone all the best! Goodbye Two Pea's and Hello to new adventure and finding a go to place!

Masculine cards have always been a struggle for me, am I the only one? I am a family of all girls, my grandparents had all girls and they had all girls lol The only boys are my grandpa and adopted awesome cousin! Ohh so often I have lots of girl things to make! To me that's easy with flowers, cutie animals and bright colors!

So off to my craft room I went in search of making a masculine card for father's day! If your like me you have tons of mist, but I felt that it looked to light and flurry when sprayed.

I came up with a fun idea. Instead of spraying the mist I took off the top and splattered it on the card! This can be a messy project so make sure your craft area is protected and you don't mind getting your hands dirty or stained. I may do a video so you can see it in action!

CS: Michaels. Die Cut ABC: Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts/We R. Mist: Maya Road & Tattered Angels. Washi Tape: Bella Blvd & Queen Co. Icon: Maya Road (Robot). Stamps: Hero Arts (Happy Fathers Day) & 7 Gypsies (Speech Bubble).

Vertical way to do the card ;) 

Happy Birthday Design Team Cards

Hello Everyone! Well Its been interesting here, I got bitten by a tick and now I am a "Lymie". So I am on my medication and taking it easy. But I wanted to share some of my recent design team creations for The Creative Nook. As soon as I got this Happy Birthday Die from Elizabeth Craft Designs, I knew what I wanted to make! The cards came out really cute and I have to say the candle design is my favorite!!!

White CS: Michaels. Ribbon: May Arts. Die Cut: Elizabeth. CS: Prism.

White CS: Michaels. Die Cut: Elizabeth (Happy Birthday) & Quickutz (Flame). CS: Prism. Pen: American Crafts. Markers: Copic. Punch: Fiskars.

Bridal Shower Thank You Cards

I was cleaning some of the boxes out in the garage,  things are still a little scattered from when we moved to our new duty station. I found all our wedding stuff, I was able to finish our shadow box, it has my bouquet, announcements, invitations, garter belt and hubby's boutonniere. This card is a thank you for everyone that came to my bridal shower/bachelorette party.  Embossed the pink cardstock and just repeat stamped the "thank you". I hand colored the girl in the dress, but I can't recall if it was copic markers or watercolor pencils. Thanks for checking out my blog!!!! Happy Wednesday! Inlaws came to visit and its a little hectic here! :D

CS: Prism. Stamp: Stamping Bella (? Girl in Dress) & Hero Arts (Thank You). Embossing Plate: Sizzix. Bling: Unknown. Die Cuts: Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts (Fancy Label & Flag). 

Close up. 

Princess Card

Happy Wednesday! The week is flying by and the snow has started to melt. I made this card for a friend who need a tooth fairy princess card! It was a last minute request but I couldn't say no! Thankfully I have tons of cricut cartridges and was able to find a princess! So it all worked out and I love how it came out! I am adding this to my collection of future cards to make :) Do you have a favorite go to card or cricut cartridge?

CS: Prism. Die Cuts: Cricut (Princess) and Quickutz (Wings).

side view

Happy BEEday!

Happy Monday! So excited to be starting a new week! I plan on being in my craft room all day today (hopefully)! I had so much fun making this card! I have lots of dies and I want to get into using them, so I challenged myself to only use my quickutz dies for this card! I really like how it came out! Do you have lots of dies or something else you collect in your craft room? I would love to hear what some of your favorite must haves are! Happy Art Making!

CS: Prism & Michaels. Die Cuts: Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts. Embossing Folder: Cricut. Pop Dots: Glue Arts. 

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Happy Pinwheel

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. Today I am up with a new card! I've had this idea of making a card with clouds but I couldn't find the right elements and then I remembered I have this adorable pinwheel die cut from Quickutz and Tada!!! Thanks for checking out my blog! Happy Art Making!!

CS: Michaels & Prism. PP: My Minds Eye. Pen: American Crafts. Brad: Inque Boutique. Scissors: Martha Stewart. Stamp: Lawn Fawn. Ink: Tim Holtz/Ranger. Die Cut: Quickutz. Other: Toothpick.

side view :)

Happy Holidays!

Well yest the holidays have come and gone, but I still wanted to share the cards I made. It took me a little while to figure out what I wanted to do but I am really happy how they turned out. I had to make 50 cards, thankfully I had a helper to die cut the snowflakes. I am not sure if you can tell but the blue cardstock under the embossed sheet is a shimmer cardstock! Thanks for checking out my card and I hope the weather is warming up where you are! Happy Art Making!!!

CS: Prism. Craft Card: Michaels. Embossing Folder: Cricut. Die Cut: Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts (Snowflake) & Sizzix (Tag). Stamp: Lawn Fawn. Ink: Ranger/Tim Holtz. Bling: Unknown.

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group shot!

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Little Bebe

This was such a fun project for me to work on, usually I am  making little girl gifts and it was good to switch is up :). I really enjoy sharing my passion and letting others have a special place to hold their memories. This was an 8 x 8 album, which is a great size for gifts and can hold multiple photos! A tip I have for making mini albums as gifts, is to keep an open mind about picture size. I go with the standard 4 x 6 when making photo mattes and like to have "open" pages (pages without mattes) so photos can be added however the person likes. Do you have any tips for making mini album gifts?!

Products: Maya Road, Junkitz, Making Memories, Doodlebug Design, Sizzix, Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts, Tim Holtz, Sassafrass, Prism, Glittermist, Fancy Pants, My Minds Eye and Paper Source.

Inside pages.

Inside pages.

Inside pages.

Back cover page.

Front cover page.

Wedding Frame

Happy August 1st! I can't believe its already August, this year has flown by fast. It's pouring here and I'm getting ready for a little road trip this weekend for a wedding back home. I can't wait too see my furry family and friends, plus hang out with my mummy! She is my BFF and I made her this recent project for her from my wedding :) This is project 4/50. Happy Art Making and I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, see you next week!

This is the project in the frame :)

PP: Basic Grey (Stella Ruby-Dining with the Daveys). CS: Prism. Rubons: Junkitz. Die Cuts: Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts. Transparencies Frames: My Mind Eye (Bohemia-Backyard Adventure). Mist: Maya Road (Copper Metallic).

Some close ups.

Time with the Girls

I made this last month and I'm not sure why it didn't get posted, but here it is yay! :) this layout was really tough at first, having such non girly photos and of course the range colors never mesh well so printing them in black n white leaves more room for play with the paper. I picked this paper cause I liked the soft tones in it. This layout was really fun to make, plus I got to go through my treasure box (a draw with lots of random goodies!) and put lots of fun stuff on the page. I used the December Sketch from My Sketch World, go check it out and be inspired!

Well of course this page has my favorite cardstock, PRISM! The patterned paper and large journaling cards are from Fancy Pants. The tags, little green journal ticket, silver metal strip, paper clip and the ceramic white little flowers are from Making Memories (Travel). The white puffy wings are actually from a Hello Kitty wallet, they fell off and they were too cute to just throw away so I put them treasure box for a special day to put them on a project. The large scallop was die cutted with this Die from Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts. The twine was so much fun, I glued down to the edges of the insider large pieces of paper. A simple technique that adds some exciting texture! Enjoy xo -Kat

Hot Wheels

I've had these pictures, well forever! When I was younger I took lots of pictures of cars, there was all sorts of random pictures, I even had car logo epoxy stickers all ready to go for the mini album. I was able to get to them recently, yay! Then I found the perfect mini album, a car shaped chipboard album, I was so excited and ready to go. I used K & Company paper and lots of random :) embellishments from Junkitz to Making Memories. The car die cut is from Quickutz which I cut with the Doodlebug fuzzy paper, my favorite! My other favorite is the thickers from American Crafts, the new fabric ones are awesome. Hope you enjoy :)

Friends Word Book

I made this scrapbook for a friends birthday present. I am so happy I was able to use this word book, she loves purple and when I was it was like ahhhh ohhhh!!!!! I created this book in about an hour, maybe a little longer, hehe. I bought the word book at a scrapbook expo :) There is lots of goodies in the word book: junkitz, slice, quickutz, ki memories, doodlebug design and creative imaginations. Sorry the pics are out of order, blogger is being special!