Ready for another T Slide card?

I hope so, because these are so much fun to make!!  Let's get right to it shall we...

How can you not love this image?  She is adorable!!  The image is Audrey with a cupcake from The Stamping Boutique.  It's a digi image that I had purchased a long time ago, but if you go there now it is on special and all this week all the digi's are $1.00 off.  I had to plug them, I really ♥love♥ their images...

Anyway, I colored the image with my pencils and gamsol and cut it out with my small scallop oval nesties.  I also cut out a piece of Cherry Cobbler in the same size to layer behind it, just a little off center.  The swirls that you see behind the image are from Butterfly Swirls from The Angel Company that I stamped with Close to Cocoa ink.  The sentiment is from SU! For a Friend that is also stamped with Close to Cocoa ink also and I hand cut around it and layered it on to a piece of Cherry Cobbler.  I love that new color!!  The DP is from SU! and I'm sorry but it is the discontinued Sweet Always paper.  I added some jewels and ribbon once the card was put together, as always it was an after thought ~ I always think that I need just one more thing to a card when I "think" that I'm done Ü

The sentiment inside is from TAC's Everyday Events that I stamped with Close to Cocoa ink on Close to Cocoa paper.  I used my Modern Label punch to punch the sentiment out and I layered it on to a piece of Cherry Cobbler that I punched out with my Marvy Super Jumbo Scallop Oval punch. 

I still don't like the slider part.  When you open these cards it's fine, however when you go to close them the tab on the right side get's hooked up.  I have something different in the works for that so look for the tutorial tomorrow...

So that's all I've got for today ~ hope that you can wait til tomorrow for the tutorial.  Have a super great day an thanks for stopping by!!

More Time Well Spent

Yuppers, I think that this is probably my most favorite set of all time. Ok, well ~ maybe not, but I sure do love it. Each time that I need to make a card I seem to be reaching for this set. It's fun ~ and can be a bit colorful which is a nice addition to the rather gloomy weather that we've been seeing!

My DD asked me to make a card for her friends birthday that she went to last weekend. She told me that she is really not too girly so I thought that I'd have to keep this card in my stash and start over. When my DD came home from school and another of her friends was tagging along they both noticed the card at the same time and in unison they said "She's going to like that". Of course I was happy, but then I was sad too because I wanted to keep it. Oh well, another reason to make another.

As far as the card goes, I used Pixie Pink for the card base. I had some more of that yummy DP I purchased for Gabby's DD's card so I had to use that too. It's from Creative Imaginations and it's just a really fun print. I placed a layer on the card and turned it over and used it again, but this time I used Pink Passion to ink the edges first and attached a length of ribbon to that layer. I stamped the flowers and butterfly, colored them with pencils and cut them out. I used pop dot's on some to give it a little depth. The saying I stamped from For a Friend, inked the edges as well with Pink Passion and placed it on the card using pop dots as well. The photo corner I made from a piece of scrap and placed in the upper right corner. Once everything was in it's place I added a touch of stickles here and there for a little punch of color.

Well, yes. I've been on a card making mission it seems like since last October. I've been wanting to get back to my scrapbook but it seems that there has been non stop holiday's since. So, finally a light at the end of the tunnel! I'm done with cards thru Easter. Thank goodness the next holiday I make cards for is in July so I just might finish my album by then!!

This page actually needs something else, but I just cant put my finger on it. So I stuck it in the album and I'm sure that it will come to me one day ~ when I'm in the middle of something I'm sure. I get sidetracked so easy!

This page has pic's from when I was a little girl. My Dad in the yard taking care of his plants. I will tell you that man had the greenest thumb of anyone I knew. Our yard was actually photographed and put in Better Homes & Gardens. And yes, that is me. My DH and I have known each other for as long as I can remember. When he saw this he said "there is the tattle tale". That's because when I was little, well, I used to be a tattle tale. I was riding that same little trike and I caught him and his cousin smoking and I said "oooh, I'm gonna tell" and turned my trike around and peddled off. And to this day he won't let me live it down. So every time he says that I say "I'm gonna tell!" :)

The BG paper is from SU! It was from the Petals and Paisley collection. I hoard paper because it's pretty and never want to cut into it! I'm sure none of you know what I'm talking about ;-)

I added another layer to it, then another from the same collection. I stitched around it with my sewing machine. I stamped random flowers from the Autumn Leaves clear stamps (I found at Walmart really cheap!!) and then some from One of a Kind and I cut those out. I took a piece of YoYo Yellow and added the journaling to it and made a pocket so it will slide behind one of the photos. The photo corners were made from pieces of scrap also. A little chalk and stickles and I was thru. Like I said, it still needs something. What do you think?

More to come tomorrow! Til then ~ happy stamping!!

Time well spent with a friend

I needed to make a card the other day for a new stampin' buddy that came over and stamped with me last week. When she came by she stayed for a while, we all had lunch and played with her new alcohol inks. It was such a nice day. Well when she was here not only did she give me 3 cards that she made, but she also gave me a cute little pail and a MFT stamp set! Hell-o!! That was so nice. And no, I don't have any - I know **GASP** - MFT stamps so this was my first. I will post a picture later of everything. But it was so kind of her. As we were sitting in my craft room we were chatting away about different things. I mentioned to her that I had seen someplace (more than likely on SCS) that a lady made a ribbon holder out of PVC pipe and that I wanted to make one of those someday. I just did not want to buy the PVC pipe because most of it would go to waste. Ok, now you are all asking "huh? PVC pipe? How??" Well, of course the pipe you would need would have to be one of the larger ones, and you slice it down the center to make 2 - 1/2 sides, like you would a grapefruit. So you just drop your ribbon spools in there and they fit nicely. The waste? You have a 8 foot length (you can only buy the size you need to hold a ribbon spool in that length, well at least at our Lowe's) that would go to waste. Yes, I don't have THAT much ribbon. Anyway - back to the story. Her hubby is making it for her and she said that I could have the other half. When I offered to pay her she said no. She is one nice lady I'll tell you!! Who, oh yeah. I forgot that part! It's Betty - and you can check out her blog HERE.

Now, if your still with me ~ on to the card :0)

I used the set Time Well Spent. I just love that set! The base card is Old Olive. I layered it with some DP that I received from a RAK. Then I made another 2 1/2" piece of Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive and another piece of the DP and tied the ribbon around it. I had water colored the flowers and layered them on to the card, some with pop dots for the 3D effect and gave it some sparkle with stickles. I then used the word Friend from For a Friend and stamped that in Rose Red on to a piece of white cs. Above that I stamped "thanks so much" from my Michael's $1.00 stamps in Positively Pink ink. I sponged some Rose Red around that and layered it on to some Old Olive and Purely Pomegranate cs. I also added some stickles to the dots under the word friend for a pop!

I sure hope that she likes it!! It's one of my favorite sets. Come back tomorrow to see what she gave me - and a chance to see what I will be giving away for my very 1st blog candy!!!