The Twinery and CardMaker Blog Hop!

Hello friends and welcome to the fabulous blog hop with The Twinery and CardMaker!  If you're here from Theresa's blog, you're in the right spot!  If not, head over to CardMaker to get started!  I am so excited for this hop and know I will see so many wonderful creations when I hop myself!  :)

For my card, I chose to layer a couple of pieces of patterned paper and added a "Thankful" sticker at the bottom.  I stamped a couple of acorn stamps and pieced them as well as some leaves and added them to the card using foam tape for dimension.  I finished the card with some fun trim and cute little twine bows.

A Prize for hopping today will be 4 spools of twine - Solid Mandarin, Gold Shimmer, Copper Shimmer, and Solid Maraschino ($60 retail value). Please visit The Twinery blog to ​find out how to enter to win the spools of twine.

Next up is Anita! Thank you so much for visiting today and have a great day!

Boo!

Hello friends!  Today I have a cute little Halloween tag I'm sharing over on The Twinery blog.  I hope you can head over there for the details and to check out more inspiration from the DT!

Have a great day and thank you so much for visiting!

The Twinery and Ruby Rock-It Blog Hop!

Hello friends and welcome to the first of a 3-day The Twinery and Ruby Rock-It blog hop!  If you are here from Beckie's blog, you are in the right spot!  If not, head over to The Twinery blog to get started!

Today I'm showcasing products from the Oriental Chic collection and had so much fun playing with these great papers and embellishments!

For my first two projects, I chose to make identical tags using one of the foil papers.  All I did was cut out a strip of two of the fun images on a 12x12 sheet and they fit perfectly on the medium kraft tags!  I layered a sticker fro the collection and tiny tag stamped with an Asian motif and font atop the tag and finished it with some sparkle twine.

My final project is a card I made with another of the foil papers - can you tell I love the foil papers on kraft?! :)  I accidentally cut the top of one of the stickers when trying to open the package (I get a little rambunctious with scissors when I have new products to play with...) but found I could tuck the cut edge against the edge of the patterned paper and nobody is the wiser!  

I layered one of the wooden embellishments across the card that I stamped with the same Asian motifs and fonts as I used with the tags and finished the card with some gold gems and sparkle twine.

Thanks so much for visiting today!  Next up is Melaina.  Be sure to comment along the way for the fabulous prizes up for grabs!

The Twinery and Pretty Little Studio Blog Hop!

Hello friends and welcome to The Twinery and Pretty Little Studio blog hop!  If you're here from Maryanne's blog, you're in the right spot.  If not, head over to The Twinery blog to get started!  I've been a huge fan of PLS for years and participating in this blog hop has been such fun!  I chose products from their Silly Monkey line because "silly monkey girl" is a nickname we've used with Amelia since she was a newborn!  :)

The first project is a card that can be used for a new baby or other congratulatory occasion.  I started off with a green card base and layered two of the patterned papers from the collection pack over it.  I stamped the bottom of the grid paper repeating the words "hurrah!" and "bravo!"  I added the adorable Silly Shadow die cut and finished it off with some star stickers, some sequins, and some Solid Peapod twine.

My next project is a fairly simple tag.  I took a large white shipping tag and stamped it with the birthday sentiment, some balloons, and some stars and swirls and added the Silly Pepper die cut to the bottom.  I tied the tag with some Marigold Solid, Peapod Stripe, and Marachino Solid twines.

My last project is an 8x8 page for Amelia's scrapbook.  I used the cute heart paper from the collection pack as the background and punched a couple of hearts from the red polkadot paper.  I mounted two photos of Amelia when we visited Patrick's Point this summer wearing her sock monkey fuzzy romper thingie.  I love those fleece zip ups and this one had sock monkey feet, a little emblem on the chest, and ears on the hood.  Adorable.  I added some Marachino Solid twine to the edges of the photo and finished with the Silly Maddie and Sparkle die cut.

Thank you so much for visiting today and don't forget to check out The Twinery and PLS blogs for prize info!  Head on over to Rhonda's blog next and here are the rest of the hop participants for today - 

The Twinery - http://thetwinery.com/blog

Pretty Little Studio - http://prettylittlestudio.com/plsblog/

Monique Liedtke - http://moniquesscrapbook.blogspot.com/

Monika Wright - http://www.iloveitallwithmonikawright.com/

Penny Smith - http://www.pennysmithdesigns.blogspot.com/

Melyssa Connolly - http://www.fantastink.blogspot.com/

Maryanne Jenkins - http://www.maryannjenkins.com/

Jennifer Cuthbertson - http://www.jencuthbertson.blogspot.com/

Rhonda Van Ginkel - http://snapwhiz.blogspot.com

My Friend

Hello friends!  Today I'm up on the Waltzingmouse Inspiration blog with a fun gift bag project.  I hope you can head over there and check out what it was for!  

Thanks so much for visiting today and I hope you have a wonderful day! 

The Twinery and Serendipity Stamps Blog Hop!

Hello friends and welcome to The Twinery and Serendipity Stamps blog hop!  If you're here from Kathie's blog, you're in the right spot.  If not, head over to The Twinery blog to get started!

I've had a lot of fun being a guest designer with Serendipity Stamps this month on their challenge blog where the challenge was to use some twine.  You can see those card projects where I used their wonderful stamps here and here.  For the hop, I decided to make something focusing on their dies - door hangers!  I had a college sorority reunion a couple of weekends ago and we rented a big house in Palm Springs where we spent the weekend acting silly and reminiscing about all of the fun we had living in our sorority house.  For the rental house, I wanted to make some little keepsakes and decided on the door hanger project.

The door hangers themselves were relatively easy to make.  I cut a sheet of 8.5x11 card stock in half from top to bottom and then trimmed sheets of patterned paper to layer over the card stock.  I grabbed a large circle die and cut the hole for hanging over the doorknob and then it was all about decorations.  I asked some of the women for photos from our college days to add to the hangers (photos have been blurred to protect the innocent...) :) and added various stickers, glittery stars, sequins and twine.  Our sorority colors are cardinal and straw so I used maraschino and marigold striped twine to accent each hanger.  Our sorority mascot is an owl so you can see the wonderful owl die featured on all of the hangers.

I ended up making a total of 6 hangers (the rest are similar so I'm sure you get the gist of the project) and the women ended up flipping coins for who got to take them home.  I'm so happy they enjoyed the project and I hope you did too!  Now you can head off to Birgit's blog for more inspiration!

As usual with these wonderful hops, there will be prizes.  Please check out The Twinery and Serendipity blogs for all of the details!

Thanks so much for visiting today and here is the complete order of the hop if you need it -

The Twinery - http://thetwinery.com/blog

Serendipity Stamps - http://serendipitystamps.com/blog

Jeanne Jachna - http://akeptlife.blogspot.com/

Tobi Crawford - http://tobicrawford.blogspot.ca/

Holly Craft - http://todayscreations.blogspot.com/

Denise Hahn - http://www.inmyblueroom.blogspot.com/

Sue Eldred - http://sueeldred.com/

DoBea Alberts - http://www.plumpoppystudio.com/blog/

Kathie Bailey - http://justaninkling.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Cuthbertson - http://www.jencuthbertson.blogspot.com/

Birgit Edblom - http://bigganed.blogspot.com/

The Twinery and Poppystamps Blog Hop!

Hello friends and welcome to the first of two days of fabulous blog hops with The Twinery and Poppystamps!  I was so excited to work with Poppystamps dies and twine and hope you are inspired by the projects you see over the next couple of days!

Before getting started, I must apologize for the quality of these photos - I shot all of these this week expecting to be able to edit them as I usually do but I am having a lot of problems with iPhoto crashing and can't get any editing done.  I hope you can see the projects beyond the not-so-great photos and I will replace them with edited versions as soon as I can!

The first card showcases the Samirah Butterfly die and I had so much fun popping some of the little circles out.  A side benefit of these wonderful butterflies is really fun confetti!  :)  I layered a piece of floral patterned paper on a red card base and added the gold glitter sentiment, stars, and a coordinating sticker.  I cut two butterflies out of two different shades of pink/coral card stock that matched the patterned paper perfectly and popped out some of the holes.  I wrapped some Rainbow Teal Shimmer twine around the butterfly "bodies" and left the ends loose to make antennae.  I finished by folding the wings of the butterflies up a bit so they pop off of the card.

This week we are actually heading to Missouri for my husband's aunt's funeral.  She has bravely battled cancer for several years and finally went home.  We are so sad but know she's in a better place and is out of pain.  She's up dancing with the angels!  Anyway, I made this card for my mother in law (it was her sister) and hope this can cheer her up just a bit during this tough time.  I used a gradient of blues/greens watercolored over watercolor paper and stamped the sentiment in pale brown ink.  I cut out the flowers using the Fairy Flower die and finished the card with some Solid Natural twine.

Ah, I just love this die - Brevilla Houses - it will be so versatile!!  I layered a piece of patterned paper over a kraft card base and then cut the houses out of woodgrain patterned paper.  I added a coordinating sticker and brads to the card, stamped a sentiment on a coordinating die cut and layered it over some Solid Cappuccino twine.  Love this!

Here is the hop order for today and I hope you find lots of crafty goodness!  Thanks so much for visiting today!

The Twinery - http://thetwinery.com/blog

Poppystamps - http://poppystamps.typepad.com/

Jaclyn Miller - http://designsbyjax.blogspot.com/

Chunyuan Wu - http://dahliamemories.blogspot.com/search/label/PoppyStamp      

Lezlye Lauterbach - http://lezlyes.blogspot.com/search/label/Poppystamps          

Stacey Schafer - http://stampinwithstacey.blogspot.com/

Jean Manis - http://jeanmanis.com/category/poppystamps/                    

Melyssa Connolly - http://www.fantastink.blogspot.com/

Suzanna Lee - http://www.lifestrivialities.typepad.com/

Diane Barney - http://charmingly-creative.blogspot.com/search/label/Poppystamps         

Jennifer Cuthbertson - http://www.jencuthbertson.blogspot.com/

Katarina Damm-Blomberg - http://krumeluran.wordpress.com/

Cooling Off - Serendipity Stamps Guest Designer!

I am soooo very excited to be a guest designer for Serendipity Stamps' Challenge Blog this month!  This is the second of two posts for July where all of the designers are using twine!  Our first theme was "It's hot outside" and now we're cooling things off!  One of my favorite things to do to cool off at the end of a hot day is to hang out in the shade of my yard!  Serendipity has the most wonderful floral alphabet stamps that I thought would be perfect for this challenge!   

I kept things pale and simple for my first card, stamping the amaryllis onto some white cardstock and then adding just a bit of watercoloring in pale blue and green.  I mounted the letter over some gold shimmer twine and some pale blue patterned paper.  I finished the card with a few gold sequins.

For my second card, I layered a couple of pieces of coral patterned papers together and then stamped and colored the JOY letters.  I wrapped some silver twine for this one and did a bit of watercoloring as well.

Thanks so much for visiting today and a huge thank you to Mary, Jeanne, and the entire Serendipity team for having me along for the ride this month!

Star Garland

Hello friends!  Today I'm up over at The Twinery blog sharing one of hopefully many more party ideas with you!  Our daughter, Amelia, will turn one in September and I'm starting to worry think about her party!  We've decided on a circus theme and I think these star garlands will be perfect decorations!

I started off with 3.5' lengths of Twinery twine in primary colors (Marigold, Midnight Blue, and Maraschino stripe) and then used a star punch to punch zillions of stars out of coordinating cardstock.  Okay, not zillions but it felt like it!  Thankfully Amelia enjoyed watching the process because I have a lot more to work on before the big day!

I glued the stars together over the twine so they can twist and turn in the breeze without showing an "underside."  I think these will be perfect on the desert table and hanging over doorways.  I'll be sure to share photos of my other projects for the party as well as the party itself!

 Thanks so much for visiting today!

The Twinery and Chic Tags Blog Hop

Hello friends and welcome to a wonderful blog hop with The Twinery and Chic Tags!  I was amazed and the wonderful products that came from Chic Tags and couldn't stop creating!  :)  I pinky swear I will start my PL one of these days but I'm just too overwhelmed right now and can't seem to get going. I have excuse after excuse and right now it is that my craft table is cluttered and I don't have shelves in my closet to put the extra stuff away…  Yes, terrible, I know…  Anyway...

What I love about journaling cards and other decorative die cuts/tags is how versatile they are!  I started off with a kraft card base and added a piece of grid paper, layered a journaling card, some gold shimmer twine, a tag, and some fun, wooden sequins for this card.  I made it with my daughter in mind but it would be perfect for a significant other or a new baby!

I thought this card would be perfect for an engagement or a wedding!  I started off with a sky blue card base wound with gold shimmer twine and added the wonderful ampersand card (I just love that shimmery gold!)  I finished the card off with some fun circular die cuts and some gold sequin trim.

For this final card I thought it would be fun to make a little gift card holder out of a little bag.  I used the sequin and "lovely" rub-ons to decorate the bag and layered it over some pink patterned papers.  I finished the card with a circle die cut, some blossom stripe twine, and a few real sequins. 

Now it wouldn't be a blog hop without some prizes, right?  Well, here are the wonderful prizes offered by The Twinery and Chic Tags for this hop.  Head over to the blogs for more information about how to win (links below) - 

And finally, here is today's hop list -

Chic Tags

The Twinery

Amy Coose

Tifany DeGough

Jennifer Haggerty

Christine Meyer

Mandy Kay Starner

Jennifer Cuthbertson

Jennie McGarvey

Suzanna Lee

Thanks so much for visiting today!