Mini Milk Cartons

I know that I've made the milk cartons before ~ actually they are one of my favorites to make ~ but these are just a little different.  These are mini milk cartons.  Betty brought over a little carton that she had juice in once and said that she'd like to have some of those made up if I could make a template.  So I thought that was easy enough.  WRONG!  I tried to make the template but when I took the carton apart it was just not working for me.  Then I thought "dummy!  Just take the template that you have and just make it smaller!"  Really?  Sometimes I scare myself - I just know that Danielle uses my hair brush sometimes Ü

So that's what I did.  I just "mini"mized it...

Adorable huh?  I used Wild Wasabi and Soft Sky to make the base cartons.  I also added a little handle to it and attached it with eyelets.  I stamped the flowers from my Fresh Fillers set with Old Olive and Ballet Blue inks then I sponged some Close to Cocoa around it to give it a "weathered" look. 

I made the "flower" from some Georgia Peach DP and used my scallop circle and small oval punches and added a sucker to it for the flower bud and I was complete. 

Here is a close up of the "flower".

These are really fun to make - I've always liked making the milk cartons.  Now the mini ones are so adorable I just might make those, and the handle is just adorable too!  Maybe since we really don't get too many tick or treaters I can make these for Halloween.  I would of loved it if Danielle brought one of these home in her trick or treating years, and yes - I would of taken candy from my child Ü  Ok, not the candy just the container...

I have company coming tomorrow to craft.  A friend who I met on line years ago and she stopped by last time she was thru Kentucky - well this time she mentioned stopping again and I thought instead of going to lunch to have her over to craft for a while.  So that's what I will be doing tomorrow.  I will have pictures on Friday to show you. 

And on another note:  I want to say Happy Anniversary to my wonderful hubby.  These past few years have been trying on us but we are still here and I love you very much!

Happy crafting and I'll see you Friday!!

Under the weather...

No, not me.  The stamp set silly!  I needed to make some get well cards and the first set that came to mind was Under the Weather.  I think it's a cute little set that would make me smile if I was feeling sick.

I can not take full credit for this card.  Well, this card-yes I made it.  But I saw a card in the SCS gallery by Wendybell and I loved it so I had to some-what case it. 

The base card is Really Rust that I stamped the image from Fresh Fillers with Really Rust ink and then the Ah-Choo from Under the Weather in Ruby Red ink.  I set the card aside and took a piece of Really Rust cs and stamped the bowl of soup image with Really Rust ink along it.  I had to make a mask to do so, then adhered it to a piece of Basic Black cs.  Then I stamped the image again with black ink onto white cs, colored it, cut it out and pop dotted it to the black and rust piece.  I took part of the sentiment and stamped it with Real Red ink on to white cs and placed it just under the black and rust piece and added it to the card.  I added Basic Black and white cs to the inside and the rest of the sentiment and I was complete.

This was a quick card I made using Splitcoast's sketch SC217.  I stamped the images from Under the Weather and colored them in.  I punched them out with my 1 1/4" square punch and adhered them to a piece of Pumpkin Pie that I punched out with my scallop square punch.  The base card is Riding Hood Red that I layered with a piece of Pumpkin Pie that I ran thru my cuttlebug with the circles folder.  I added a length of ribbon to the card before I layered a piece of Summer Picnic DP and then added the images to it.

This is a card that may look familiar, I've made one like it before.  I just moved things around and switched colors.  I stamped the images from Under the Weather, colored them with pencils & gamsol and cut them out then layered them on to a piece of Bazzill textured cs.  The chicken "feet" are stamped from The Best of Cluck in Chocolate Chip ink.  The base card is Garden Green that I layered with a piece of DP from Summer Picnic.  I stamped part of the sentiment and added a couple pieces of ribbon to that layer and then I adhered the stamped images to the card. 

Please stick around - I will be announcing something BIG later this afternoon and you won't want to miss it!

Happy Monday!

Happy Monday everyone!! I hope that your weekend was a fantastic as mine was.

We took our dog to the Kentucky Horse Park for some exercise. Now, for those of you who know me ~ my dog does not exercise. She basically sleeps and eats. Sometimes more eats than sleeps. But it was such a beautiful weekend that we thought we would take her for a ride. She loves to go for rides. As a matter of fact she is the reason why I drove out here from California instead of fly. And 2500 miles under her and she still loves to ride.

Well ~ it was not the best thing for her. Really, she only walked about 500 feet and she was done for. That night she pretty much laid down and did not get up. I was really worried about her. Finally after laying next to her til 3:00 in the morning I got her to get up and go to bed. Sunday you could see she was a little sore, but she was getting around better. And as I sit here and type she just climbed the stairs to be with me. It's a killer moving muscles you have not used in a while. I know ;)

Yesterday I did sit down and create a few things. You probably want to look at those and not my mumbo jumbo talking ~ so here they are.....

I am in a little rut right now with stamps. Every time I look at what I am bored. Now, I have plenty of stamps ~ even plenty that have not even seen an ink pad ~ but I'm just bored with everything. I am trying to go thru and use what I have so I won't buy right now. I made a promise to myself that I will go thru all my stamp sets and make a card with them before I buy something else. Trust me, it's so hard.....

But that brings me to this card.

I don't think I ever remember using this set. I'm sure that I have but it must of been a while ago, a long while ago.... Remember it? It's called Farm Fresh.

I wanted to make some quick cards for the Peddler's Mall and this is one of them. And this is what I did.

The base card is Bordering Blue. I stamped the flowers with Versamark from my Victorian Frame set. I layered a piece of Garden Green cs that I tied a piece of string to then the image on top. I stamped the image with Bordering Blue ink and colored it in with my pencils and gamsol and layered it on to a piece of Ruby Red cs. Quick like I said.



Now this card I made with the same set, Farm Fresh but for the background images I used my Fresh Fillers set.

I stamped the Fresh Fillers set on to the card base Certainly Celery, then on to the piece of Not Quite Navy. I stamped the images from Farm Fresh with Mellow Moss ink and then Ruby Red ink. I cut out part of the image in Ruby Red and layered that over the Mellow Moss image. I added a couple eyelets and layered the image onto a piece of Ruby Red cs that I made a tag out of. I added a piece of ribbon and I was done.

I hope to get some more cards made today and I'll be back tomorrow to show you! Have a wonderful Monday!
Hugs,
Joani

On the Move

I thought that I'd make a card using Beate's great tutorial on SCS. It is called Reverse Spotlighting. Beate is a great "teacher" and if you have a minute, please check out her blog.

Now, this is the very first time I've done this ~ and I am not too sure that I like this card. I used the set On the Move. A set I've had for a while and it has never touched ink! **gasp!**

To fill in the bare spots on the card I used Fresh Fillers with Pink Passion ink. Now, if a set ever gets a lot of ink it's that one! I just love the little swirls and the little flowers... The telephone I stamped in black ink on the tan CS and Pink Passion. I cut out the Pink Passion phones and used that to mount behind the tan. I layered that panel on to Certainly Celery which was layered on to Chocolate Chip CS. I added the silver eyelet in the bottom corner and the peices of ribbon to each corner.

It's my first try. It's not what I wanted it to look like, but I was in a hurry and thought that as long as I got the feel of doing the card I'd do better next time...

Pucker Up Baby!!!

Ok, I must admit ~ I am a lover of pink and brown, but my DD just loves it. She wants her room painted pink and brown, complete with polka dots. Well, I'm not ready for that. But til then this will have to do.

I made these little lip balm holders for my DD to pass out at school. I found the directions on SCS, thanks to Renee O and her wonderful directions. Of course everything I do never turns out at good as I've seen ~ or like I want it to be. But I am pretty satisfied with these.

The stamps I used on the holder were all from the Fresh Fillers set. The initials are from Technique Tuesday's Big Timberline lowercase letter tall set. A first time using that set I might add. I've wanted to use it for some time now. The paper I used was also from SU! Don't ya just love the Au Chocolate paper?? I save it and never use it ~ so I had to blow the dust off it this time :) The ribbon is from Walmart, and the lip balm I actually got on sale at Kohl's - 10 for only $2.00!!!

I hope that you enjoy. I'm off to finish the "books" that I'm making to go with these... I'll post more later.