Butterfly Tag

So here is a tag a recently made. I was playing around with different stuff that I haven't used in a while.
I took Tim Holtz's ink and inked the outer parts and blended inward. I haven't used embossing ink and powder in a while. So I used my bright red with gold flakes embossing powder and made the big flowers. I believe the stamp is from Making Memories but I am not sure.
Next I took tin foil and used alcohol inks to color it. Then I used my cuttlebug to to cut out the butterfly and emboss it.
I added the little roses and the fancy red fibers to finish off my project.
I hope everyone likes.
Challenges for this project:
1) Pile it on- Cute and Charming (Sun)
2) Incy Wincy Designs- Anything Goes (Mon)
3) Pollycraft Monday Challenge- No designer papers (Mon)
4) The Crazy Challenge- No ribbons or buttons (Mon)
5) Creative Card Crew Challenge- Bloomin' Marvelous (Tues)
6) Creative Belli Blog Challenge- Embellishment that starts with a B (Wed)
7) Little Red Wagon- Glitter (Wed)
8) AIFactory- Anything goes (Thu)
9) Charisma Cardz Challenge- Anything Goes (Thu)
10) If the Shoe Fits... Scrap it- Flowers (Fri)
11) Paper Cutz Challenge- Critter (Fri)
12) Stampin for the Weekend- Tag it (Fri)
13) Crazy 4 Challenges- Bling (Sat)
14) Paper Sundaes Challenge #37- Things with Wings (Sun)
15) Sentimental Sunday- Let's See Some Dimension! (Sun)
16) Digi Doodle Shop- Emboss it (Wed- Katie)
17) Stamp Insanity- Emboss (Katie)
18) Tellen's Place- Bling (Katie)
19) Scrap and Stamp- Embossing (PIO)
20) The Craft Den Anything Goes Craft Challenge- Cute (Scrappy)

Great website that I just found

So I was just on Club CK's message board and found this great little website...
http://scrapwithstacy.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-tim-holtz-blog-candy-giveaway.html
Super cute stuff and she is giving away Tim Holtz stuff!!! What could be better than that!!!

Get Well Card

So here are get well cards I made tonight. I used blue cardstock to make an easel card. Then took this cool patterned paper for the background. I took my copic markers and colored in this super cute little nurse stamp. I will have to post the name of the stamp co at a later time. Added some reflections felt ribbon. I added different words to say get well. Added a brad on the white cardstock to keep it from falling down. Sprayed with my favorite glimmer mist, Marshmallow. And Presto!!! My card for now. Hope you like!
Challenges this applies to:
1) Stamp with Fun: For a girl (Mon)
2) The Shabby Tea Room: a Wee Bit of Metal (Mon)
3) Color Q Challenge: Challenge #47 (Tues)
4) A Spoonfull of Sugar: The choice is yours (Tues)
5) Quixotic Challenge #38: Shiny Happy People! (Wed)
6) YNS Challenge #23: Bold, Bright, Summery Colors! (Wed)
7) Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: Anything Goes (Thur)
8) Cute Card Thursday: Dieing for a Punch (Thur)
9) Fun at Fairy Knoll: Anything Goes ( Fri)
10) Paper Cutz Challenge: Metal (Fri)
11) Stampin for the Weekend: Anything Goes (Fri)
12) Bee-Crafty: Anything Goes (Sat)
13) Kraftin Kimmies Stamps: Pearly Whites (Sat)
14) Ann's Creative Nook: Under the Weather (Sun)
15) Let's Ink it Up: Anything goes with yellow (Sun)
16) Sentimental Sundays: Clean and Simple (Sun)
17) Sundays With Crissy: Favorite Time of the Year- Flu and Pneumonia Season bc I get to make people better in the ICU (Sun)
18) Color Cue Challenge: aqua, gold, red, cream (Sept 7)
19) Just Scraps: Fussy Cutting (Sun- challenge site)
20)

A new little something

So this is an adorable stamp from unity stamps.
I took an acrylic tag and used alcohol inks from ranger ink for the background. I then stamped the image on the other side of the tag. Colored it in with a black sharpie marker. Then I used white cardstock and stamped a basic background stamp on that. Cut it to the same size of the tag. Distressed the edges.I used glue dots to adhere the two together. A little bit of ribbon and that's all she wrote.
Challenges for this week:
1) Cupcake Craft Challenge: Distressing (Mon)
2) Scrap Creations: Anything goes (Tues)
3) Tuesday Taggers: Lots of Lovely black (Tues)
4)Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge: Anything Goes (Wed)
5) Cute Card Thursday: Whateva! (Thur)
6) Delightful Challenges: Distressing (Thur)
7) Dutch Dare Card Challenges: Anything Goes (Thur)
8) Some Odd Girl: So Punny (Thur)
9) All Sorts: Dressed up (Sat)
10) Digi Doodle's Shop Best: Use your favorite stamp (Thur)

Baby invitations

So I just went to a class last night called easel does it at my local scrapbook store. One of my favorite teachers taught it Amy, her blog is listed on my favorite blogs ( scrappin in style, http://scrappinstyle.blogspot.com/). Sorry I wish I was better with html. Anyways she has the cards we made on her blog, so you can take a look and see what we made. BTW they are gorgeous.
When I got home and the "world went to sleep," I started scrapping away. I made 20 big and 25 little pink baby girl invitation cards. They are not totally complete. I need to put the baby info on them whenever that happens. The little pink cards I didn't take a picture of because they look the same on the outside. They are just 3 inches by 4 inches. I don't have the inside done either!
And the great thing about this is I only used 15 sheets of cardstock. The big card measures in at 4.5 inches by 6 inches. So I used the left over 3 inches to make the small card. I also looked through all my scrap paper to use on the face of the little cards. So I saved even more money and used my stash.
I am going to do boy cards sooner or later... Stay tuned!
Challenges for this project:
1) Color Create- Hot pink, warm orange, and Saffron (Thur)
2) Dutch Dare Card Challenges- Anything goes! (Thur)
3) Paper Play Challenges- Anything Goes (Thur)
4) All Sorts Challenge: Baby/ Child ( Sat)
5) Crazy 4 Challenge- Girly Love ( Sat)
6) Just Us Girls- Template (Sat)
7) Kraftin' Kimmie's Stamps- Mostly monochromatic (Sat)
8) Practical Scrappers- 7 or more (Mon)
9) Digital Tuesday Stampers- Dazzle me (Tues)
10) Kah-Wink-E-Dink - Anything Goes as long as it is cool (Tues)
11) Party Time Tuesdays- Anything Goes birthday card (Tues)
12) TCP Tuesday- Inspirational Photo Challenge (Tues)

Machine Love

So I worked on this cute little card last night.
I used the cuttlebug to make the background. Then I used the new Tim Holtz die to create the machine gears. I didn't use paper I used transparency. I used gold, coppeer, silver, and watermelon alcohol ink to color the gears.
On the background I shaded the design to give it more diminsion with Tim Holtz soot black distressing ink pads.
I took black cardstock and placed different rub-ons to make the lettering. Cut to size of the words.
I used pop-up dots to create diminsion off the card on the gears and wording. I wanted the word love to stand out so I used a clear sticker with the word love on it. Then took white enamel accents to make the dots on the word love.
I hope you like and always thanks for looking!
Here are the challenges this card are for this week:
1) Creative Belli: Alter it- transparencies (Wed)
2) Stampavie and More: #102 - Anything goes (Wed)
3) Shelly's Images: Any Day Any time (Thur)
4) Stampin' B's: Polka Dots (on the word love) (Fri)
5) Crazy 4 Challenges: Black, White, and Red (red letters of love)(Sat)
6) Just us Girls: Ink, Spray, Smash (Sat)
7) Mark's Finest Papers (Speedy cat): Punch it (Sat)
8) Ann's Creative Nook: Anything goes (Sun)
9) Crafty Ho's challenge Blog: Black, White, and ____ (Sun)
10) Sentimental Sundays: I can see clearly now (well it WAS clear) (Sun)
11) Sundays with Crissy: Monochromatic Mostly! (Sun)
12) Cupcake Craft Challenge: Acetate (Mon)
13) Practical Scrappers: Embossing (Mon)
14) Riley and Company: Cut it Out and Pop it up! (Tues)

Craving!!!

So lately I have been craving something out here on the west coast they don't have! GOBS! Nobody even knows what the hell I am talking about... The yummy chocolate and the soft white fluffy filling.... I miss them. So I found this recipe today from one of my very favorite ladies Paula Deen...


(Photo from Food Network's website)

Here is the site link: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/two-brothers-chocolate-gobs-recipe/index.html
She calls them Two Brothers' Chocolate Gobs
And here is the recipe:

Ingredients
Cake:
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup boiling water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup cocoa
Filling:
5 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

In a large mixing bowl, cream together the sugar and shortening until fluffy. Add eggs and continue to beat. Stir together buttermilk, boiling water, vanilla, and blend this into the creamed mixture at low speed.

Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and cocoa. Add to mixture 1 cup at a time, blending well at low speed. Batter will be very thin but do not worry. Drop by teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 5 minutes. Allow to cool and transfer onto waxed paper.

To make the filling, place flour into saucepan and slowly add milk, stirring until smooth. Set over medium heat and cook, stirring until very thick. Mixture should become as thick as solid vegetable shortening. Remove from heat and allow to cool completely. In a medium bowl, cream together sugar, butter, shortening, and vanilla using a handheld electric mixer. Add the cooled flour mixture and whip until fluffy. Spread onto bottom side of cookie and top with another cookie to make a sandwich. Wrap individually in plastic wrap and store in refrigerator.

Well there you go... Yummy!