Moxie Fab's 365 Cards Week - Celebrating Relationships Challenge - Grandparent's Day

The Moxie Fab World Celebrating Relationships Challenge was to make a card for National Girlfriends Day, Grandparents Day, or National Dog Day.

Right away I had ideas for Girlfriends Day and Grandparents Day. The first card I tackled was for Grandparents Day as I had a Sketch Support card sketch I wanted to use for their DT call (see my entry here).

This is the sketch:


Tres cute eh?

This is my take on it:

This was my first adventure into paper piecing. I don't have a digital cutter so the houses are all hand mad and pieced by hand. I really love how cute they turned out :)

Hope you enjoy!

Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger and Paper Variety Thanks

This is the first time I decided to combine challenges. The first was the Paper Variety challenge - to make a project using Thanks or Thankful. I knew I wanted to make a thank-you card for this one.

Then I saw the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger. Initially I had no idea what to do until I thought about how the dots and sticks shown below on the bag looked like lollipops.

I had been wanted to make some distressed lollipop flowers for a few weeks, but couldn't decide what I wanted to do with them once I made them. Originally the plan was for this card to be a Happy Birthday card... but the Thank You sentiment seemed to fit a bit better. I would have used Happy Thanksgiving as the colors are so fall like - but being a Canadian my Thanksgiving is WAY past.

So here's my card and details:

Thanks for looking, hope you enjoy!!



Moxie Fab World - 365 Cards Week - Random Fun Challenge - Button

I am loving the 365 Cards week over at Moxie Fab World and all the fun challenges they are providing us.

The Random Fun challenge was this:
Create a paper crafted card that incorporates a button(s), a mustache(s), or an alcoholic beverage.

Right away I thought of the phrase "Cute as a Button".... and since I have a friend who will be having a little girl in March, I made this girly baby card for her....

I really love this fuzzy button I have. I got it in a 1 lb grab bag of buttons. I used embroidery floss for the tie on the button.

The patterned paper is DCWV The Glitter Stack, and I titled with my Copics (T10).

Thanks for looking, please leave a comment and follow my blog!

Moxie Fab - The Celebrating Hobbies Challenge - National Sewing Month

In honor of the issue of the new 365 Cards book from PaperCrafts, Moxie Fab issued three different challenges in card making.

Now, I don't make cards. I think, prior to this, I have made maybe 3-4 cards MAX.  I just didn't feel that making cards was much fun.

So I wrote down on my challenge log all the card projects and willed myself to submit at least one.

I visited the Quote Garden and got totally inspired.

The first card I made was for the Celebrating Hobbies Challenge.

The challenge is to:
Create a paper crafted card that you could give to someone for National Sewing Month, Book Lovers Day, and/or Camera Day.

You have until Dec 12 so get cracking and play along with me.


National Sewing Month instantly inspired me. I actually have about 5 sketches of different cards I would like to do for this, hopefully I get to them all!

The quote I found was "May your bobbin always be full" (unknown author). I immediately thought of transforming it into a birthday card for my friend (and cake genius) Laura, and since I went to her party on Saturday, it was the first card I completed.

Pretty simple card, but it conveys the message. I cut the "bobbin" out of some plastic packaging material - you know, the rigid stuff. I tried to ink it, etc, but it won't take pigment inks, and it also doesn't take water colored markers :(

Then I wrapped it with some embroidery floss (I love this stuff, got a big pack of it and am using it everywhere) and made the long string coming off. I used a liquid glue... likely not the best choice but it was all I had :)

Finally I hand cut the double layered tag and punched the hole with my Crop a Dile Big Bite. I was going to use an eyelet to affix it.... then I realized I don't have any! Add that to the xmas list lol!

Hope you enjoy, please comment and follow my blog!

Thanks!

Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: Beads & Baubles

Well, let me tell you, when I saw the Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World this week, I was instantly inspired... it was just so... Krissy.

Krissy is my younger sister and I chose to use this inspiration photo to make a layout of photos of her from my wedding...

I feel like this layout has all the same descriptor words I would use for my sister: a la mode, fashionable, trendy, fun, funky, bright, happy, unique... etc.  I really wanted to take both the mixed-media feel and the colors from the jewelry trigger to incorporate in the layout. I chose the green/teal and white background to mimic the photo, and tried to add as much gold, pearl, bling as possible to really get the feel of the bracelet, and I think I did it!

Now for more on the details:

Paper is Cosmo Cricket. Everything else is random-ness pulled out of the stash. I used paper flowers, ribbon flowers, buttons, charms, clear stickers, Jolee's glitter stickers, bling, glass pearls, and other random stickers to keep the mixed media feel going. The metal chain is real chain I picked up in the jewelry department at Wal-Mart.

The paper roses were made from a tutorial over at Scrap A Little. You have  to check out this website, she has 20 tutorials on handmade flowers!  I brushed them with some Star Dust Stickles after the glue dried to add to the sparkles on the page.

The large ribbon rose is made using a Gluber from Cosmo Cricket.... I totally suggest you check them out and google for some tutorials on all the fabulous flowers you can make with ribbon and trims found at your local fabric store. The other small ribbon roses I received in a 1 lb bag of buttons, which is where all the gold and pearl buttons came from too!

This page ended up really thick, so I will have to use foam strips to space out the binding on my book to keep other pages from getting crushed. If you can't find a tutorial on this, there is one over in the forum at Two Scrapbook Friends.

Finally, the title and all the little clear stickers are Creative Memories Nancy O'Dell Hummingbird collection. I really love this collection as it is so elegant and fun to use. I didn't like how huge the Y was, and didn't want to use a basic serif y that was avalable, so I tucked the bottom of the y down under the page. I decided only to use her name as the title and to forgo journalling as the page was already so busy.

So I hope you enjoyed and have a good feeling for my sister and her personality now :)

Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger "Autumn Woods"

When I saw this Trigger inspiration photo over at Moxie Fab World, I was immediately inspired.

First, the colors took me back to my beautiful wedding bouquet with its variations on oranges and greens, with a touch of yellow, red and brown. I also loved the squares and the dimensional aspect of it all, and was determined to combine this into a fantastic layout... and here it is!

This was a great challenge because all the paper I used came out of my scrap bin! I am a hoarder when it comes to scraps, I know there are some pieces I will never be able to use but I can't throw them away, so into a big basket they go! Luckily I had lots of coordinating reds, oranges, yellows and a bit of green and brown left over from other projects.

I used my Creative Memories square punch to punch all the squares. I then inked the edges with Distress Ink - Walnut stain. I used 1/8" adhesive foam squares to "pop" out some of the squares, adding to the dimensional feel of the layout.

I finished off with a few photos, including one I fussy-cut.

I had a lot of fun with this one, and still have to add the title. It will be made of letter charms strung on a piece of twine (somewhere in the mail on the way to my house right now) and wrapped around the photo of me with the flowers. 

Moxie Fab World - Tuesday Trigger - Finesse the Dress

This week's Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World was to make a project based on inspiration from this dress:

And here is what I came up with:

This is my page about my ring bearer. The pages for his sisters will be exposed later on this week.

The inspiration I had was the colors mainly. The background paper is more teal and less blue IRL and there is a very lightly chalked background similar to the pattern on the dress. I may go back and draw over it with my Copics. There is also some teal in the star stickers. The two grey accents were both punched with the new Creative Memories border punches. I was at a crop, and I don't have a lacy punch and neither did anyone else, but I like the "picket fence" punch as its a little more masculine anyways.

Once I had it on the page it needed some brightening up, so I added the orange accents as that was the wedding color and it would make this page blend in better with those of his two sisters.

I am really happy with how this turned out and how cute my little man is!