A Little More Jillian Vance and My Last Guestie Project for Heart2Heart

Today is the start of a new challenge over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges!  It's also my last day as the February Guest Designer and it's been a lot of fun!  You still have some time to play along with all of February's weekly challenges!

This week the sketch is Everything But The Kitchen Sink which for me translated into Coffee... 'cause... well... you make it in the Kitchen...lol!  So I used some of my leftovers from last week's Sponsor Solo projects... And that pretty heart paper from the Paper Fundamentals papers at CTMH was perfect for this lagoon colored cup!

If you remember, I cut 7 colors.. 8?  IDK.. you can count them if you want.. using this Grandpa's Glass Cup of Love die from A Jillian Vance Design so that I could create a stained glass rainbow card which you can see the cards I created here if you'd like.  This is one of the frames that came from those cuts and I used it here and just filled in the white cuts for the coffee cup and didn't bother with the outside pieces.  I felt it brought the cup pieces to the forefront just a bit.

And that little piece at the bottom was the perfect size for this sentiment... a few paper flowers and sequins and done!  AND I put almost all of my other pieces to use on bases that will be used in the future:

I only had to cut extra white pieces for the frames and I've saved those as well as some others from the quilt die for future projects.. kind of like I used them on yesterday's card for the Calling All Sistah's Encouragement Challenge which you can see here if you'd like.

So I hope you enjoyed your visit today and I hope you'll join the gals over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges in this and future challenges.  Such a fun variety of Challenges and I love that you have all month to play along with every weekly challenge for that month!  It's been fun and I'll be playing along in the future as well... and maybe you'll even see some of these in my projects!

Shaker Love!

 

So, yeah... I've been making a few shaker cards lately... but I did just go crazy buying sequins at Paper Sweeties and Pretty Pink Posh.... so... I have to use them!!  Paper Sweeties has some limited edition snowflake sequins that are oh so pretty... 

 

Here I used that piece I cut out of my embossed background before I used it yesterday.  I stamped my cute little penguins from CTMH's Season's Greetings stamp set (as well as the sentiment), colored with the Shin Han markers and a little bit of Wink of Stella and cut them out.  The pink paper is old Fundamentals.  The frame was cut from glitter paper in design space.  I placed a rectangle on the screen.. made it the size I wanted... duplicated it, sized it a bit smaller (left the frame wide enough to fit some pop up tape).  I placed the rectangles one on top of another, selected both of them and chose to Align and Center.  Then while both were still selected, I Attached them so they would cut at the same time.  I still have the inside piece of glitter paper to use on another card... perhaps a shaker... perhaps this weekend :).  If I was really thinking ahead I could have placed a third rectangle on top and made a second frame for later use... Note to Self.



 

From an angle you can see the penguins a little more clearly... the caveat to the shaker is they are hard to photograph.. but oh so cool and pretty to look at and play with.  Oh... another tip I learned long ago from my crafty friend Melanie who you can find here, I always adhere a few sequins towards the top of my shaker base so even when it's just standing still they appear to be floating... (and... I usually adhere a few outside the box... cause the almighty sequin just can't be contained!)

 

Thanks for stopping by again!  Don't forget to come back Monday!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #133!

 

Welcome to Challenge #133 at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!  Still on break from Christmas cards although getting back to it soon.  I made this one using Paper Sweeties Happy Cake Day and Let's Party Sweet Cuts and Images.  Also, one of my new favorite sentiments sets, Sweetie Pie (which also has a cute little Emma outfit on it).  The papers are from the old retired CTMH Paper Fundamentals set and the Badge Button is from Lawn Fawn.  The twin is a little Paper Sweeties and a little of the packaging that came in a recent Lawn Fawn purchase... it was holding my items together and of course I saved it and now I've used it!.. I really like the way all the mixed colors make a cute little rainbow bow.  As always I've added some Paper Sweeties sequins and it's a celebration!

 

Don't forget to check out all of the great artwork over at Atlantic Hearts!

Happy Cake Day!

 

So before I get back to Christmas cards, I'm enjoying some brightly colored birthday cards.  For this one I've used Paper Sweeties Happy Sweet Cuts, images from the Happy Cake Day stamp set and ... of course... a few sequins...

 

The papers are from CTMH's old retired Paper Fundamentals.  The new packs are really nice, but I also still love the old papers and this one with the hearts on it is obviously one of my favorites...lol!

 

I also used a little piece of one of the straws available in the Paper Sweeties shop... I pinched the end so I could slide it under the cake and added some little blue tinsel garland.  The cake I watercolored and then used liquid glass and prisma glitter to make it sparkle just a bit more.

 

Thanks for stopping!