~INSPIRATION AT THE CUTTING CAFE...VALENTINE'S~

It's Thursday so that means more inspiration at The Cutting Cafe!! I love Thursdays so you can be inspired by everyone's creativity!!! At that's exactly what you'll find over at The Cutting Cafe's blog this week. So make sure you go and check out all the lovely work from all of our Design Team! While you're there remember to leave a comment and you may be a lucky winner of 3 sets of your choice from The Cutting Cafe store!!


I've been working on a project for this week that's not quite through drying yet, but I wanted to get something up so you didn't miss your chance to see all the great inspiration. So I went back in my archives and found one of my all time favorite cards using one of Regina's Valentine sets! Which did I tell you that she has an AWESOME SALE going right now on?? Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the inspiration POST HERE!!

 

I knew immediately which set I just had to work with, and that was the Fun with Valentine's Day--Printable Stamp Set and the It's All About Love--Printable Stamp Set!! These two sets are so fun and whimsical, or you could make them sweet and elegant, it's completely up to you!

~ Supplies Used~

The Cutting Cafe -- Fun with Valentine's Day; It's All About Love

GinaK -- Pure Luxury White Cardstock

Core'dinations Black Magic -- Hocus Pocus

Computer Generated Font -- Duchess

Stampin' Up -- Basic Black Ink

Stampin' Up -- Lavendar Lace Ink

Stampin' Up -- Perfect Plum Ink
VersaMagic -- Red Magic Chalk Ink

The PaperStudio -- Spare Parts -- Silver Brad

Stickles -- Lavender

Glitz Stickles -- Grape, Ruby Slippers
Marvy Uchida -- 3" Circle Punch

~INSPIRATION AT THE CUTTING CAFE~

Happy Tuesday everyone!!! 

Phew we've made it to Tuesday. For some of us, we're having a short week this week, and then next week its back to a full one. I already miss my husband being around the house, the holidays has a way of spoiling us! Today was Christopher's first day back to school after his car accident. It's definitely been a long few months, but a very THANKFUL one more importantly. We've got a few more months of rehab ahead, but he's a strong kid, so I know he'll pull through.  Also..I'm happy to announce that I've been chosen to rejoin the design team at The Cutting Cafe!! I'm so excited to be with Regina and all the ladies once again. I love all of Regina's files and stamps, so it's never hard coming up what to do with them, my hardest choice is which file to use, as you'll see below lol

With that being said, its Inspiration Time at The Cutting Cafe!! This week we were asked to work with the Loopy Loop Bow Flower! I love this file because it's so versatile, and it comes with the bow it two different forms...with the holes and a plain one. This file comes in PDF, WPC and SVG format, for those of us with electric cutters and without. For my bow, I used the PDF file, to show how easy and cute it comes out even if you use your old faithful scissors. This bow will work with whatever project you have going, it's all in the papers you use. So get those Valentine ideas flowing, and fit this lovely Loopy Loop Bow Flower into your sketch!!

For my project this week, I made a little set for my aunt's granddaughter, Olivia. They like to send mail to each other, so I thought they could use this during their craft time while she's at my aunt's house. Olivia has been under the weather recently so I hope this brings a smile to her face :) 

and more pictures of inside the box using even more files from The Cutting Cafe!!!

Box made using the 8 by 5.5 inch Box with Dividers

  Cards using the Color Me In Sentiments...Printable Stamps

 Regina personalized some handmade labels for Olivia to use from the Handmade Just For You Labels

Thanks for checking out my project, and be sure to head over to The Cutting Cafe tomorrow (Wednesday, Jan 4, 2012) for more inspiration and a giveaway!!!

~JERI~

SUPPLIES USED

The Cutting Cafe-

Loopy Loop Bow Flower - Template - Cutting File

8 by 5.5 inch Box with Dividers - Template - Cutting File

Color Me In Sentiments Printable Stamps

Handmade Just For You Labels

DCWV - The Spring Stack

The Spring Stack Cardstock

Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

Small Butterfly Punch (not sure of brand, unmarked on punch)

Multiple Flower Punches - I believe they're Marvy Urich punches

Crayola Crayons

Twine from The Twinery

Signature Heart Accents - Heidi Grace Designs

Large Turquoise Gem from stash

Stickles - Silver

Pink Satin Ribbon from stash

Lace from stash

Handmade tag

Jolee's Pearl and Turquoise half Pearls Bling

I'm entering it into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine Challenges - Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - Use your new stash (Twine, Jolee's Bling)
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays - Something New (Twine, Jolee's Bling, Cutting Cafe Files)
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes

~Having Fun With Penguins~

Wow it's been awhile. Surprised I remember how to post on here. So much has happened over the past month or so. My youngest son had a wreck last month and it totally knocked the sails out from beneath me, but I think we're slowly getting back to normal again. A few more weeks and he gets his cast off and starts rehab. It could've been so much worse, so we're blessed that he was able to walk away with a few broken bones. 

Anyways, with everything going on my mojo totally left me. I wasn't sure when and if it would return. Then an email came through from The Cutting Cafe, and it was some fun new items Regina was releasing. In it was a set called Fun with Penguins, and she was so right, it was so much fun to play with!! As soon as I seen that cute little penguin, something sparked and I had to play with it!!! So with that, I set off to see what fun I could have with him, and fun I had. Put it this way, I think I cut him out with my Pazzles and Make The Cut around 9pm last night and the next time I looked at my clock it was 4:30am. Then I came back in tonight and put him together once everything was good and dry.  Everything I used on my cute little penguin comes in the set, including the sentiment you see on the flag, but you'll have many choices if you want to give as a birthday present and so forth.

I hope you enjoy checking out the pictures and hope you'll check The Cutting Cafe store for your own dose of fun and crafting mojo!!! Most all of the files and sets come in PDF, WPC and SVG format.

and below you can see the Glossy Accents I added to the front and back of the body to give it a shine

~SUPPLIES USED~

FUN WITH PENGUINS SET - THE CUTTING CAFE

PAZZLES AND MAKE THE CUT

 RECOLLECTIONS - BLACK CARDSTOCK

COLORBOK - WHITE TEXTURED CARDSTOCK

DCWV - THE CHRISTMAS STACK (PRESENTS)

 ICE STICKLES - GLITTER BLUE, CRYSTAL ICE,GOLD ICE

STICKLES - ORANGE PEEL, SILVER

GLITZ STICKLES - RUBY SLIPPERS

RED EMBOSSED FELT

GLOSSY ACCENTS

WHITE POMS POMS

WIGGLY EYES

SPARE PARTS - MINI BLACK BRADS

VARIOUS RIBBONS

CELLOPHANE BAGS

HERSHEY HUGS KISSES

CHALLENGES ENTERED

 Cooking It Up with Katie - Anything Goes

Divas by Design - Anything Goes

Fab N Funky Challenges - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes

Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Stampin' Royalty - Anything But a Card

Whimsy Stamps - Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time - Seeing Red

~Lili Of The Valley...Love Grows..Inspired by my fabulous friend Wendy~

Happy Monday night to everyone!!! I swear it's only May 2nd, and it feels like it's been May for a few weeks now. It seems like April and May has been like a run on sentence...here in my home anyways..lol If it's not ONE thing, it's a million I tell ya!! Anyways, I'm running late, as usual, but wanted to post my card that I made for my husband for our 19th Anniversary today and then it's on to another card that I'll be posting hopefully tomorrow...God willing!

 Anyways, this card was inspired by my dear friend Wendy, and you can find all her wonderful creations HERE and her Etsy store is HERE! She has been such an inspiration to me over the past year or so since I came across her blog through a challenge she entered, that I will never be able to thank her enough for all her help, tips and advice. I may not always take her shopping advice though..lol I try and she tries to save me money, and my husband thanks her for it, but I'm stubborn in that department still lol So thank you Wendy, yet again for being my inspiration with this project!! You can find her beautiful card that this card was CASE'd from HERE.

 So be sure to look at some of those projects folks are entering in all of these challenges. You never know what creative talents you'll come across. I have learned so much from so many in the blogging and challenge world!! Speaking of challenges, we have a great one at Craft Us Crazy right now... Moms and Flowers..and I think this card fits that theme perfectly!!! 

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

 The printed papers that I used are from the Basic Grey line... Lollipop Shoppe. The solid metallic type paper is from DCVW..I'll have to see which stack...it's leaving my brain right now. The beautiful image is from Lily Of the Valley called Love Grows and you can find it HERE.  The Happy Anniversary sentiment is from the Love Sentiments set at Doodle Pantry and it can be found HERE. I changed it from black to a deep red and put a drop shadow on it, hopefully you can see it. I colored this beauty with Copics, and I have to say this is probably one of the first images that I've colored that I've really liked, and hope you do as well!!
Thanks for looking and I hope to see you joining us over at Craft Us Crazy!! We have some great sponsors this challenge, so head over and check out all details!! Let me just say..

 is there anything else to say!!! I didn't think so...so hurry over for your chance of winning some great prizes from one of these awesome sponsors!!! 

 I'm entering this into the following Challenges --

Bunny Zoe's Challenges - One For The Boys (Card for my Husband)

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge - Cards for Men
Kaboodles Doodles Challenge - Embellishments that begin with "B" - Mine is Button in the flower
Make It Monday
 Pollycraft - Anything Goes
Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central - Anything Goes
Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Hearts
There She Goes Clear Stamps - 3D Flowers
Lili of the Valley - Love is in the Air
Charisma Cardz - April Showers/May Flowers - I went with Flowers
Paper Cutz - Anything Goes

~Monthly Inspiration at The Cutting Cafe & Giveaway~

We're having a new monthly inspiration over at The Cutting Cafe!!!  The DT challenge was to use Shaped cards and the samples are super spectacular!! I chose to post a few shaped cards that I posted over the past that were my favorites. I love the shapes of them and they're soooo easy to work with!!

So head on over to the link below and you could possibly win your choice of 3 shaped card templates just for leaving a comment!
Just click here to see all the DT creations!! Such yummy and awesome talent and creativity!!

Ribbon Banner Shaped Card

 FRAME SHAPED CARD -- My absolute favorite!

~ELISHA JEAN & THE CUTTING CAFE WISHES YOU HAPPY SPRING!!~

Happy Hump Day and Happy Spring!!

It's a beautiful day here in Arizona! Bright and sunny with a nice breeze! Weather just like I like it. Hopefully it won't be too harsh of a summer or Monsoon season this year. The Cutting Cafe has some adorable new little girl images. Regina definitely took me back to my paper doll days with these little beauties!

For my project this week, I chose to make a Spring sign and really wanted to work with Elisha Jean from the Everyday Elisa Jean and Friends release. I gave her a nice paper pieced dress from my DCWV Spring Stack. Again back to my paper doll days! I then pulled out this cute Spring Title Printable Stamp, also from The Cutting Cafe, choosing to use the colored version printed multiple times to give it depth, and then using patterned paper for my background on my sign from my DCWV Spring Stack!

I used Copics 
Hair - C3, C5, C7
Skin - E25, E33, E34
Bow, Socks & Shoes - Y17, E17, R20, R22
I used various ribbons from my ribbon wall and a piece of chipboard to give my sign sturdiness.
Elisha Jean looks so cute on my Spring sign but she and her friends, Ruby J and Mikala Ann, would make adorable paper dolls for that special girl in your life!!! 

~CEL-E-BRATE GOOD TIMES...with Limited Runs & The Cutting Cafe~

Happy St. Patricks Day!!!! Hope you remembered to wear your green today!! Unless you're into the kinky stuff and like to get pinched ... lol 
Anyways...two weeks sure has flown by! To hell with the weeks, this year is flying by! We're already half way through March. Anyways, we've made it to Thursday, and that means its time for a new challenge at Craft Us Crazy!! This weeks challenge is CUPCAKES and/or a CELEBRATION theme! I used a cute image from Limited Runs Stamps called Tall Drink #2 and a few great printable/cuttable files from The Cutting Cafe called Happy Birthday Frame Word Block and Frame Shaped Card. We hope you'll be able to join us because we have a great sponsor for the next two weeks.....

When I started creating christmas cards for my friends I didn't realize how addictive it could be and it's slowly been getting larger. We all start somewhere and it's been growing.Creating Digi's just happened to be a blend of using my drawing and computer graphix together to create "Limited Runs"which is my digital stamp store. I've also started Freebie Fridays and will be doing this for a Limited time too. Each may be posted from 1 day to ??? (Limited Time Offer) May you all enjoy my digi's as much as I love to make them. So if your looking for some YUMMY cupcakes I've got over 70 Varieties to choose from with more always in the works. Don't worry there are also others available too from Cute to a little scary. Pop by and you'll see what I mean!!! And we have occassional large seasonal Digi's for those who scrapbook digi's that are 8 By 8 Inches too these will pop up from time to time and be Limited Runs too.  

Be sure to check out The Cutting Cafe and Limited Runs for some awesome digis and printable/cutting files. Limited Runs is offering 3 Digis to the winner and a digi stamp to each Top 3! There's also an inspiration challenge at The Cutting Cafe where you could win 3 stamp sets of your choice and a buy one get one deal on all background files. 

Now on to my card....

 ~SUPPLIES USED~

Limited Runs - Tall Drink #2 

The Cutting Cafe - Happy Birthday Frame Word Block

The Cutting Cafe - Frame Shaped Card

Copics - BV04, 08, 11, 13

C1, C2

E25, 33, 34 - Lt. Choc

E29, E39 - Dk Choc

DCWV - Nana's Nursery Baby Boy Stack - Patterned Paper

GA Pacific Cardstock

DCWV - Christmas Cardstock - Solid Brown 

Stampin' Up - Lavender Lace Ink

CTMH - Organdy Ribbon - Purple

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:
Amber's Crafts and Stuff - Anything Goes
Freshly Brewed Challenges - Spots and Dots
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges - From the Kitchen
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Happy Birthday
Going Grey with Scrap-Creations - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Happy Birthday
Try It On Tuesday - Chocolate Therapy
Kaboodle Doodles - Happy Birthday
The Shabby Tea Room - Birthday and/or Celebration
Stamps R Us - In The Kitchen
Meljen's Designs - Dots 
Do You Stack Up - Add A Bow

~CUTTING CAFE MONTHLY INSPIRATION....BACKGROUNDS~

Welcome to another Cutting Cafe Monthly Inspiration!!! This month Regina challenged us to use backgrounds. I chose to use the Time 2 Background Printable Stamp. Unbelievably the school year will be coming to an end soon. It feels like this year, especially the school year, has just flown by so far. And what does that mean...GRADUATION! So I figured I'd get a few cards made up in case my boys had any friends graduating this year, and if not, I can put it up for my nephew that will be graduating next year, since it's done in his school colors. Anyways, graduation makes me think of TIME...time that you've spent studying, time that you've spent planning out your future, time that you've spent in school since you were a wee little thing, and the time that you will always feel you're up against as you're moving down your new path in life. 
Along with this background image, I also used the Happy Graduation Huge Circle Set and the Ribbons Sentiments Banner Set & Shaped Card that you can find at The Cutting Cafe as well. I love the Ribbons Sentiments Banner set, it's so versatile and along with the backgrounds, you could make so many quick cards to keep on hand. 

Be sure to check out the Cutting Cafe Monthly Inspiration post at The Cutting Cafe on Wednesday, March 16th for your chance to win 3 stamp sets of your choice from The Cutting Cafe store and some brilliant inspiration from our design team. 

~SUPPLIES USED~

The Cutting Cafe - Time 2 Background Printable Stamp

Happy Graduation Huge Circle Set

Ribbons Sentiments Banner Set & Shaped Card

Birds Cards - Free Graduation Digital Images - Graduation Hat & Diploma

DCWV - Christmas Cardstock Stack - Solid Cardstock

Copics - R22, 24, 27 - C2

Stampin' Up Classic Ink - Real Red

Colorbox Cat's Eyes Ink - Black

InkEssentials - Glossy Accents
I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges - New Beginnings (Graduation)
Paper Sundaes - Keep It Simple
One Stop Craft - Clean and Simple
Pollycraft Challenge - Teen Cards (Hope this is acceptable)
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Anything Goes

~HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM THE CUTTING CAFE~

Happy Sunday!!! Boy did this weekend fly by rather quickly, at least to me it did. I can say it was an entertaining weekend but I'd be lying. I'm actually glad it's almost over. But anyways, I did find some time to make this birthday card with the NEW! Ribbon Sentiments Banner Set & Shaped Card that was just released over at The Cutting Cafe! Regina has done it again by creating a wonderful stamp set! You can't go wrong with 48 images and a shaped card cutting file for only $4.99! So many possibilities with this set and so fun to play with. I used a freebie image from Cuddly Buddly, I thought it was cute little birdie. I can see many more cards made with the Ribbon Sentiments Banner Set in my future! I have quite a few birthdays coming up in the next couple of weeks. So one down...upteen more to go! 

 I hope you enjoy my card and hope that it inspires you to find some time and create something for yourself or someone special! And if it doesn't, then there's creativity and inspiration surrounding us all over blog land and especially at THE CUTTING CAFE! I hope the upcoming week is a great one for everyone! 

~SUPPLIES USED~

 The Cutting Cafe - Ribbons Sentiments Banner Set & Shaped Card

Cuddly Buddy - Freebie Birdie Image

DCWV - The Summer Stack (Printed Paper)

The Summer Cardstock Stack (Solid Paper)

Papertrey Ink - White Cardstock

Stampin' Up - Classic Ink Real Red

Stickles - Orange Peel, Xmas Red

3/8" Red Nylon Ribbon

Glossy Accents

Creatology - Wiggle Eyes - 4mm
Green Buttons from Stash
Hemp Cord

Copics - C2, R27, RV21, Y11, Y13, Y17, YR12, YR68 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges: 
All Sorts - Luck O' The Irish
ECP Challenges - GREEN
Send A Smile 4 Kids - Anything Goes
Card Makin Mamas - Something Green
Delicious Doodles - Use Green
Fairy Fun Fridays - It's My Party/Party Theme
Totally Papercrafts Challenges - Shaped Cards
Aud Sentiments - Birthday Theme
Crafty Purple Frog - Something with Wings
PaperCrafting Journey - Things with Wings
StampInsanity - Anything Goes with a pop of Green
Creative Card Crew - No Flowers
Paper Sundaes - Keep It Simple

~OWH BUNNY HOP BLOG HOP WINNER~

Thank you to everyone that joined along with us this weekend during the Operation Write Home Bunny Hop!! I appreciated each and every one of your comments and hope that you'll help support Operation Write Home whenever possible!

Now the winner of a $10 Gift Certificate to the wonderful THE CUTTING CAFE is .... 

ALLISONG of ALLISON'S CREATIONS

Congratulations Allison!! 

Please contact me at Craftyjsplace@cox.net to redeem your gift certificate!!

And thank you again for stopping by my blog!

~OPERATION WRITE HOME BUNNY HOP & CANDY TO THE CUTTING CAFE~

Good morning and happy Saturday!!! Today is the day...what day ya ask?? The Operation Write Home Bunny Hop!! You should've began your hop at OWH Stars and Stamps, if you didn't, please hop back to the front and start your hop over, as we would hate for you to miss any of the creations from all of the fabulous talent in this blog hop! If you did, then you should've arrived here from Maritza's fabulous blog.

Before I post my card, I want to post two important deadlines... 

• Easter Card Deadline - March 18th
• Mother's Day Deadline - March 31

 If you'd like to participate in Operation Write Home, the best starting spot is the "Get Involved" page on the OWH website. It gives you all the information that a newbie would need to get started. And if you should have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask..there's always someone that can help you and plenty of heroes that could use a card to send to a loved one back home, or a loved one that's overseas as well. 

So for my card, I chose an Easter card to post. I do have glitter on my card, but it's Stickles and then covered with Glossy Accents, to keep any flaking of the glitter. We can't put our heroes in harm's way by covering them in glitter now can we? 

On a personal note - As a military spouse and soon to be military mom, I would like to Thank everyone that participates with Operation Write Home, or any other organization that helps our heroes while they're away from home. It's awesome and heart warming to know that there's folks out there willing to give of their personal time. So thank you to each and every one of you from my family to yours.


Now on to my card and a chance to win some candy.....

If you'd like to win a $10 Gift Certificate to THE CUTTING CAFE, please leave a comment below and I'll draw a winner on Monday, March 7th, 2011. 

Thanks for stopping by and joining the Operation Write Home Bunny Hop!!!  

Your next stop is the lovely and talented Linda at Catered Crop! 

~Supplies Used~

The Cutting Cafe - Happy Easter Inside and Out Greetings

 Easter Frames Printable Stamp Set

 For The Love of Eggs Printable Stamp Set

Colorbok - Solid Print Cardstock

DCWV - Nana's Nursery Baby Girl

Stampin' Up - Classic Stampin' Pad - Apricot Appeal

InkEssentials - Glossy Accents

Stickles - Orange Peel and Yellow

Tim Holtz - Walnut Stain Distress Ink

Tim Holtz - Tiny Stapler

Ribbon from Stash

~Stop by and say Hi at The Cutting Cafe~

Good Morning and Happy Saturday!! I hope everyone's weekend is off to a great start!!! It's supposed to get chilly here, but we'll see. Think I'll run out to some yard sales and see if anyones getting rid of some treasures...some crafty treasures!! Before I do that, I wanted to share this really cute bike set called Let's Go For A Ride that Regina released over at The Cutting Cafe! I think it's just the cutest! She's got so many different bikes, scenes and sentiments in this set. You're surely to find what ya need to come up with your own little bike card.

I chose this little scene and bike to send to my nephew and his wife. They're such sweethearts and two of my very best friends. I love and miss them so much, and I wish I could hop on a bike right now and ride over and see them. Unfortunately I'm in AZ and they're in GA, so it would be quite the ride, but if I thought I could make it, I'd be on my way. So hopefully they'll enjoy this little card when it stops by!

Anyways, back to my card. I took the images and manipulated them a bit in my Paintshop Pro program, and added in the sentiment over the sign that's already there, and finished it off into a bigger sign. I also took a cotton ball and put it on the clouds, thought it would give it some texture and just a fun addition. It kind of reminds me of the Pee Wee Herman bike haha

Well I hope this little card inspires you to make something fun today and let someone that you may not get to see as much as you'd like, know you're thinking of them! 

~SUPPLIES USED~

The Cutting Cafe - Let's Go For A Ride Printable Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - White Cardstock

Stampin' Up Cardstock - Basic Black

DCWV - The Stack 6 (Patterned Paper)

Stash - Red Ribbon, Cotton Ball & Red Buttons

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Walnut Stain

Stampin' Up Classic Ink - Bashful Blue

Pebbles Inc - I Kan' dee Chalks - Blues

InkEssentials - Glossy Accents

Stickles - Yellow & Lavender

Copics - BV0000, BV04, BV11

C1, C2, C3, C5, C7, C9

E00, E11, E33, E37

R22, R24, R27

Y11, Y13, Y17, Y26

YG09, YG13

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - Friendship

Tellen's Place - Buttons

Do You Stack Up - Anything Goes

Paper Romance - Anything Goes

The Paper Shelter - Seeing "RED"

Totally Gorjuss - Black and -- I chose Red

Stamptacular Sunday - S.O.S - Someone Special - My nephew and niece
Creative Inspirations - Stripes