Hot Air Balloon & Cloud Mobile

Hello World! It has been a whirl wind here, both good and bad. I was sick for about 3 weeks, no fun for sure, but glad to be better and back! Lots of great things are coming to my blog and I am so excited to share them with you!

For right now I wanted to share an out of the box project, it's a chipboard mobile! That's right its made entirely of chipboard. I had so much fun creating this, its definitely a technique I will do again. I had made a video but for some unfortunate reason it got deleted (insert sad face here). I am hoping to get my hands on the supplies, so I can do a quick video on this.

I used my local scrapbook store (The Creative Nook) AccuCut Machine to die cut out of chipboard these hot air balloons and clouds. (The "X" shape that holds the mobile together is also die cut from the AccuCut Machine).  I used a combination of misting water and Tim Holtz Distress Stain to create the washed out, colored look on the chipboard pieces.

Distress Stains: Tim Holtz Die Cuts: AccuCut. Chipboard/Twine: Unknown.

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Halloween Decor and Card

Guess what holiday is approaching?! If you guessed Halloween, your right! I popped into my local scrapbook store (The Creative Nook) and some new Halloween goodies arrived. I couldn't help myself and had to get some for my design team projects this month. The store has a great collection of accucut die cuts, so I completed my creations in house. I love that they have a table and you can come and play!

I didn't want the wall/door decor to be too heavy. So I die cut it with the Accucut machine with Foam Board. Ohh yes you read that correctly, I said Foam Board! The machine cut right threw it, I was amazed, I had never tried it before and it worked perfectly.  The purple piece is cut with chipboard and I put little googly eyes in it ;) I wanted to highlight all the cool dies the store has to offer and the possibilities are endless there! Don't forget to check out the card I made too, with the scraps! I made another card but for some reason all the pictures came out fuzzy, so I will have to retake them and update this post. :D

CS: Prism. Embossing Folder & Ink: Tim Holtz/Ranger. Ribbon: May Arts. Google Eyes: Michaels. Die Cuts: Accucut (Cat, License Plate, Scalloped Board & Pumpkin), Unknown (Fence). PP: Unknown. Scissors: Martha Stewart.

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CS: Prism. Ribbo: May Arts. Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug. PP:Unknown. Die Cuts: Accucut (Bat) & Quickutz/Lifestyle Crafts (Cloud). Circle Punch: Fiskars.

BoBunny Layout and Card

Its Wonderful Wednesday and summer is in full swing here; playing outside in the sprinklers, tank tops and afternoon showers.

I absolutely adore the local scrapbook store, The Creative Nook, and being on the design team is so much fun! Everyone is great, I get to see the new goodies come in and I always enjoy when I go visit. Here is a recent layout and card I made to be displayed in the store. Its been a while since I have created a layout and I love it! I need to spend some time just printing pictures so I can scrap more :)

Every time I create something and there is extra's I put them in a drawer which I call a "treasure box". I have had the sizzix flip card die for some time and wanted to try it out!  So with die in hand and the goodies from my treasure box I created the card below!

PP: BoBunny (Pop Quiz). Chipboard Element: Accucut (Heart). Pen & Chipboard ABC: American Crafts. 

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CS: Prism. PP: BoBunny (Pop Quiz). Ink: Ranger (Tim Holtz Vintage Photo). Die Cuts: Provo Craft (Butterfly & Scalloped Circle). Embossing Folder: Provo Craft (Butterfly Dots). Stamps: Hero Arts (Birthday Pendent). 

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Coffee Birthday!!!

Happy Thursday! All I have to say is Snow Snow Snow! So we are all staying cozy and I am scrapping away! I needed to make some more masculine birthday cards and here is one that I came up with. Masculine cards have always been a toughie for me, but I like how this one came out! I have so more guy cards to post too, but will later on! Hope everyone is staying warm! Thanks for checking my blog out! Happy Art Making!

CS: Prism. PP: Basic Grey. Stamps: Inque Boutique (cup) & Hero Arts (sentiment). Ink: Ranger/Tim Holtz.

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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.

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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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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.

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Back cover page.

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CHA approaches

I made it back safely from trip overseas! Guess what I get to come back to, tons of previews for CHA, yay!

Bella Blvd has done it again, they have some amazing collections that they are coming out with. You can check them out at there blog and there even giving away chances to win some of the collections! There's a birthday girl collection that has cupcakes, ahhh adorable, and a birthday boy so cutie!

Tim Holtz has done it again some really cool dies! Check them out HERE! I love this one, gotta try it out with chipboard!

Yeah the goodies continue!!!! My Little Shoebox has some amazing collections, I couldn't pick just one to showcase here. This is vintage shop and it has owls in it, so cute!

Lily Bee is new to me ( I know I've been out of the loop for a while), but they have some great stuff! This is my favorite so far, its Persnickety! They even have a stamp that goes with it and it has a polaroid image!

Studio Calico, wish they sold it close to me, but have some neat-o stuff! Frames that look like polaroids, a great star mask, mistables and washi tape! This is the yearbook collection :) 

There are so many releases I can't post them all :) I'm seeing a trend in the polaroid icons and washi tape!!!! I think I'm gonna need a bigger craft room. 

Enjoy! Happy Art Making

~Kathy