With Love

February 14, 2012 by Tammy

I do apologize everyone. This post should have been up yesterday but somehow I managed to screw that up. We have a new challenge for you at Lollipop Crafts. Our theme is With Love…..your challenge..a love inspired project that is not a card. It could be a 3D project like a bag or box or perhaps a tag or a frame. We are being sponsored by Karber this week

and on Thursday, Alanna and her team will have a lot of information and new inspiration pieces for you.

My project this week is a Vintage Valentine Tag. I don’t know what it is about these, but I just love making them. For something totally different, instead of just the traditional pink or red, I opted for blue in there as well. The image is printed off of the internet. I cut the heart out using my Cricut and did some inking and misting for a bit of texture. Then I just added some fun elements, vintage music sheet, there’s a doily hiding out in there , bling, flowers, some lace and distressing. I hope you enjoy it.

Make sure you stop by the Lollipop blog to enter this week’s challenge!

Entered into the following challenges:

B’n'W Challenge Blog: A month of love and hearts

Crafty Bloggers N etwork: Love is in the Air

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Ohh La La Challenge Blog: Be My Valentine

Make My Monday: Hearts and Flowers

The Crazy Challenge: Valentine’s Day

Cutie Pie Challenge: Anything but a Card

Catered Crop: Hearts

The Squirrel and the Fox: Valentine’s Day

Drunken Stampers: Texture

Little Claires: Romance

Our Craft Lounge: Vintage love

4 Crafty Chicks: Love is in the Air

Crafty Purple Frog: Flower Power

Craft Us Crazy: Anything Goes

Crafting for All Seasons: Love is in the Air

Paper Shelter: Be my Valentine

Penny’s Paper Crafty: Love is in the Air

A Floral Thank You with Sarah Hurley

March 10, 2011 by Tammy

So today’s marks my debut as part of the Sarah Hurley DT. Our theme this week is Flowers…
Without further adieu here is mine… (shout out to Lori Padberg. It was one of her creations that inspired mine. I loved the simple look of it)
I used some digital paper & sentiment from Sarah’s line which can be found here.

The flower is from my stash and I just inked it up a bit with some red ink. I did some die cutting as well for the flowers and used the spellbinders to showcase the flower. And of course some embossing using the fleur de lis embossing folder from Cuttlebug. A really simple card but I quite like it. Make sure you stop by the Sarah Hurley challenge blog to get your own flower entries in! We can’t wait to see them!

I’ve entered into the following challenges:

Anything Goes Challenge Blog: diecuts

Creative Craft Challenge: thank you

Desert Island Crafters: use 3 items from the itinerary ( 2PP, distressing, inspired by nature)

Gingerloft: Flowers

Do You Stack Up: Layers

The Rubber Cafe: Use your favorite Die (I love this new Nestabilities set I got)

Southern Girls Challenge: Flowers

Arrr Matey

March 8, 2011 by Tammy

So today Sarah Hurley is releasing a new set of digi stamps…and it’s all about the Pirates! These stamps are colored and plain for those that like to feel like a kid again and color your own. So the Design Team was asked to come up with some projects highlighting the new line (which by the way you can find here). Now normally, I’m not really the type of person to create something digitally and then just print it off. I usually like to get my hands dirty, so I thought I would blend the two. I took some of the images and put a scene together that I would then make into an invitation. All the images on this are found in the new collection. I then printed it out onto some Kraft cardstock and then just proceeded to distress it…I ripped first then went over it with the distressing tool, and then I inked it with my ever loving Tim Holtz distress inks in Old Paper and Walnut Stain. I love how it turned out!! All the printing I did using a font on my computer. I hope you like it too and make sure you stop by the blog and check out what the rest of the DT came up with ….fabulous!

I entered this into the following challenges:

Tiddly Inks: Kraft with me

Oh La La Creations: It’s a man thing…Okay a 6yr old is a little man;)

Paper Playtime: Anything Goes with a Digi

Stamping Vacation: Very Vintage Torn Edges ( I know it’s not a card but I thought I’d give it a shot)

There She Goes: Get Krafty

Aly’s Sunday Challenge: Anything Goes

Creative Cowgirls: The beach/tropical/Hawaii

Lovely Lady

March 7, 2011 by Tammy

Welcome to Monday! It’s challenge day at The Crazy Challenge and this week, we’re looking for all the lovely ladies out there! I must be on a vintage kick, which for me is surprising, because I never really thought of myself as the vintage type..anyway, here is my card.

The image is downloaded from the internet (I really wish I had a stash of vintage images from a book or something). The music sheet is left over from a Tim Holtz Christmas Tag..it was printed out onto vellum and then inked and distressed to give it a vintagy feel. The bling, pearl strand, ribbons and flowers are all from my stash.

Make sure you stop by the Crazy Challenge Blog to check out all the details on this week’s challenge. We’re being sponsored by Hobbismo and there is a great prize to be won!

I’ve entered into the following challenges:

Aly’s Sunday Challenge: Anything Goes

Allsorts: Card for a Teenager (I’d like to think that there is a teenager out there somewhere that would like this card..LOL )

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes with something Old…well this whole card is pretty much old stuff

Little Claire’s Designs: flowers

One Stop Craft Challenge: Black/White & 1 other color : mine is red

Simply Create: flower power

Shelley’s Images Blog: 3 layers

Bows & Berries: Anything Goes

Vintage St. Paddy’s Day

March 6, 2011 by Tammy

Hey there…so my last tag challenge as the Tag Diva for Challenge Masters, is to create a green tag..it can be any subject as long as it is mainly green…you can check out all the deets here by the way…

So this is the one I created. I colored my tag using Pine Needles, Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint Distress Inks with a little Vintage Photo thrown in. I had printed off a vintage pic from the internet because I really don’t have a lot of St. Patrick’s Day images. I used the vintage photo on it as well and then the rest of the tag was just made using some bits and bobs from my stash. The DP is some BG I’ve been using for other projects..The flower I inked up a bit to blend it with the tag and same with the lacy ribbon on the bottom (it was originally beige). I hope you like it and stop over and join our challenges this week as well!

This is entered into the following challenges:

Aly’s Sunday Challenge: Anything Goes

Corrosive Challenge: Going Green

Crafty Ho’s: St. Patricks Day

Creative Inspirations Paint: Gone Green

One Stitch at a Time: Use a Charm

Scrappy Frog: St. Patrick’s Day (not sure if it counts because it’s not a card)

Crafty Emma: St. patrick’s Day

ECP Challenges: Green

Fairy Knoll: Think Spring

Fairytale Challenge Blog: Children (for a child or use a child image)

Mami Doodles: Monochromatic Green (with a touch of Irish)

Tellen’s Place: Embellish Embellish Embellish

Craft Us Crazy: Be one with Nature (you can’t think of nature and not think green! )

Do You Stack Up: Just Green It

The Paper Variety: Let’s See Your Green

A Spoonful of Sugar: Tags (use one or make one)

Woodware USA: Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs: Spring is in the Air

Penny’s Paper Crafty: Go Green

Alphabet Challenge: R is for Ribbon

Paper Cutz: St. Patrick’s Day

Critter Challenge Sketch Blog GDT

February 28, 2011 by Tammy

Hey guess what! I’m the Guest Designer on the Critter Sketch Challenge blog this week! Thank you to owner Melanie and her great team for having me. Our challenge this week is to create a sentiment card…the challenge is being sponsored by Robyn’s Fetish (I love her stamps!)

So this is a great challenge to enter!

This is my card…

I got the idea from the spring issue of Cardmaker magazine. I really loved the look of the inspiration piece and this challenge was perfect for it.

I stamped the cross first in brown and then the sentiment over top in black. Then I cut it out using my Spellbinders. I added a bit of ribbon, and some bling (this is my new thing..using the bling..LOL). The butterfly came in a swap and it was already embossed but white, so I inked it up to fit with this card and then blinged it.

Supplies:

DP: Basic Grey

Cardstock: unknown

Pearls: Kaisercraft

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress ink in Walnut Stain, Memento Black

Ribbon: Savvy N Sassy

Stamps: Unity Stamp Company

I’ve entered this into the following challenges:

Corrosive Challenge: Distressing

I Did it Creations: Use a punch or die

Do You Stack Up: Anything Goes

Sentimental Sunday: Anything Goes

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge: use a frame

Crazy For Challenges: Flowers

Simply Create: flowers

Fussy & Fancy Friday: Embossing (it’s small but it’s there in the butterfly)

Paper Crafting Journey: Anything Goes

Partytime Tuesday: Anything Goes

Dream Valley Challenges: Anything Goes

Paper Play Challenges: Let’s Get Sentimental

Vintage Valentine

February 6, 2011 by Tammy

Hi everyone! It’s a new Tag challenge over at Challenge Masters, and this month it’s all about the love, romance and Valentine’s Day. I had to make some tags for the Kinderstampo Tag Swap and so I thought that I would incorporate both challenges into this…

I am really loving how these turned out. I love the vintage look but am not the best at re-creating it. However, once I got started, I couldn’t stop and ended up making 12 of them…here are just a couple of samples.

For these, I just cut the heart shape out using my Cricut. I then heat embossed it with an old french script writing background stamp that I had..after that it was glimmer mist time. I printed off some vintage sheet music from the internet, which I then distressed and ink with Tim Holtz inks for that vintage feel. The cliparts are from the internet as well. Just some free site I found by googling. The rest are just bits and bobs that I had lying around in my stash, pearls, bling, little fabric flowers, flowers that I bought from the wedding section at Walmart and then just inked and glimmer misted to give a vintage feel to. I really love how they turned out! If you decide to make some, please enter my challenge at Challenge Masters so that I can see them! Click here to sign up to the free forum…