Today my post about the Petaloo and Little Yellow Bicycle cross promotion went live on the Petaloo blog. I'm showing a picture of my project here but you can learn a lot more about it and see more pictures if you head over to the Petaloo blog.
They are also having a fantastic giveawayon the Petaloo blog! Little Yellow Bicycle too! So be sure to stop by both blogs and leave a comment to win!!
Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
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This week on the Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog we have a totally different challenge for you. We want to know what your favorite tool is and for you to make a card using it. I recently got a new Silhouette Cameo digital cutting machine and I love it!! I've had the smaller Silhouette but the larger mat on the Cameo is so worth the upgrade. So I made my card using flowers cut from my Silhouette Cameo.
The flowers all came from one file from the Silhouette store and only cost me 99 cents. The file had all different kinds of sizes and shapes of flowers. I didn't have to do a thing but load the file onto the virtual mat and press cut.
Then after cutting them out, I had some fun with my Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists. I sprayed on the base color, dried it with my Ranger Heat Tool and then sprayed with a complementary color of Glimmer Mist. I gave it a final dry with the heat tool and then stuck the flower layers together with glue dots. As a final touch I attached some white pearls from Hero Arts for the centers of the flowers.
I finished off my card with some May Arts ribbon and Ranger's van Dyke Brown ink on the edges of the patterned paper. The title, "Wonderful You" came from two different Authentique word/letter sticker sheets. After I stuck them in place I used my Copic Black Multiliner to create faux stitching.
I hope you like my project this week and it will inspire you to show us what your favorite tool is. Just make a card and attach a link to this blog post and you could be in the running for a $50 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp!! It's a fantastic prize and there is a winner every week! You never know, this week may be your lucky one. But you've got to create a card special for our challenge showing us how you use your favorite tool.
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As Valentine's Day fast approaches I am inspired to share a Valentine project that I did for a Petaloo and Jillibean Soup cross promotion. I posted it on the Petaloo blog in December along with some Christmas projects but I thought that I needed to wait to share the Valentine project on my blog until after the holidays.
I can't tell you how easy and fun it was to make this cute little Valentine's mailbox. The makers at SVG Cuts have thought about every little detail, including a door that actually works and opens so that you can collect your Valentines cards.
When I saw the Jillibean Soup collection Hearty Barley I knew that I wanted to use it to make my mailbox! The woodgrain on the kraft paper is a perfect complement to this fun gift!! Also the journaling cards included in the Hearty Barley line double as Valentine cards and fit perfectly into the mailbox slot.
I embellished the front of the mailbox with Petaloo's Rose clusters and Mini Rose Clusters as well as Stickers from the Hearty Barley 12x12 Cardstock sticker sheet and Die Cuts from the same line.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful crafty day!
Supplies used: Petaloo Pink Petite Rose Clusters and Pink Mini Petite Rose Clusters and SVG Cuts Valentine Mailboxes, Jillibean Hearty Barley Collection
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I have a fun challenge to share with you today. I love my cutting machines and I just discovered a fantastic new blog/site that will make them even more fun!! Lori Whitlock has recently created her new blog/shop and has issued a box decorating challenge along with Tamara, her first design team member. She has provided the free box to cut in two different styles, web and ghost, and has some wonderful giveaways to two lucky participants.
So here is my box all decorated for Halloween. I am thinking that these will make great little Halloween gifts for some special people I know.
The little witch and frame is cut from files from Silhouette and the word Boo was a file that I created myself from text and welding. The next picture shows the top of the box better and you can see the web that is cut out. The cute little pumpkins are part of a ribbon from May Arts.
I have to tell you that this box was the easiest box I have ever put together. Just fold on the perforated lines and adhere a couple of tabs and you have it assembled in about 2 minutes. As always the hardest part is settling on the papers to use. For this box I reached into my Halloween papers and selected a line from Echo Park. The little spider is on the sticker sheet from that collection. I love that it looks like he is climbing down the box.
Be sure to stop by the Tamara's challenge post to see the other boxes that were decorated and then browse her blog to get even more inspiration. There is so much eye candy there it hurts!! Then head over to Lori Whitlock's website to see all of her latest cut files and to fill up on even more inspiration. Lori also designs for Silhouette so you might even be familiar with her work from there.
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