Hummingbird Card

So here was a quick fun card I made. And can you believe I didn't use my cricut {gasp}. I know hard to believe. LOL I used the Faux Bleach tutorial from splitcoast stampers as well as the Crimped Diamond Tutorial


Supplies:
Recollections Cardstock (card base)
Shimmer Ribbon J's $1.99 Ribbon
White Embossing powder
Alcohol Inks
Humming Bird stamp - Inkadinkado
Crimper

Stylish Blogger Award

I feel so honored to be given another blog award.



Thank you so much Kate! I was so honored when I received a note from Kate that she had something special for me on her blog. So I ventured over there and she had this wonderful blog award for me. You can check out her fantastic work at Sassy and Scrappy Kate.

So the rules of this award are that I tell you 8 things about myself and share this award with 8 fellow bloggers.

1. I love being crafty - that is my super stress reliever.
2. I LOVE photography.
3. I sleep, eat, dream papercrafting.
4. Pink, teal, purple are all my favorite colors (I even have the Pink E).
5. I don't have any kids, human kids that is .... we have a cute little furbaby named Rocky (you can see him on my sidebar).
6. I met my husband online. We just celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary
7. I haven't even started scrapping our wedding album yet.
8. I love my job - my "real" job that is.

I am now passing this fabulous and stylish award to the following (in no particular order):

Shirley - Okieladybug Scrap N more
Diane - Capadia Designs
Dawn - Scrappy RN
Mya - Cricut Inspiration
Maria - Stamp Cut Create
Laura - Laura's Piece of Paradise
Diane - My Time to Craft
Nadia - With glittering eyes

I hope you all can take some time to check out these ladies and leave them some blog love. They are so talented and really wonderful women as well!

Celebrate more shakers

So I told you I'm on the shaker kick. LOL Here is a birthday card I made and turned the circles into little shakers. OMG what was I thinking??? To keep each of those circles as seperate circle what a PITA but I'm pleased with the way it turned out.



I wasn't happy with the plain "celebrate" letters but I didn't want to shadow them so why not heat emboss them?



I have a zebra stamp from the $1.00 bin at Michaels and stamped that on the letters and sprinkled with clear embossing powder and then heated the powders. I'm really pleased with the way that they turned out.

Thanks for stopping by. :o)

Supplies:
Recollections Cardstock (card base)
DCWV Spring Stack (hat)
Star confetti
$1.00 Stamp
Clear embossing powder
Tinsel pom pom

Shakers!!!!

So I have been on a shaker kick. These are so much fun to make. So I made these cute little purse boxes for valentines day and stuffed them with post-it note holders (pictures to come another day) and yummy chocolate candies. I made them for my mom and her friend and kept them pretty simple cause it was a last minute gift idea.





side view


Shakers are made with acetate, foam tape, and glitter/confetti/micro beads etc.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Supplies:
Tag Bags Boxes & More (TBBM) Cartridge
Double sided foam tape
Acetate (overhead projector sheets)
Heart Confetti
K&Co Valentine Stack
M's Valentine's Ribbon

Just Because

Well can you tell I'm having fun making my own "paper". Well I had so much fun making the paper for my card I posted yesterday that I had to try another product. Over President's Weekend Michaels was having an awesome sale with an addition percentage off your sale items so I picked up some Smooch spritzers and oh boy am I in love.

It's not really that splotchy ... that's the shimmer being reflected from the flash. Here's a side view



Thanks for stopping by!!! :o)

Supplies:
Hampton Arts Butterfly Stamp
White Embossing Powder
Smooch Spritzers
Ladder ribbon
scraps of paper

Stamping and Embossing

So AllisonF from the cricut messageboard (you can also find her here ..... Allison's Blog sent me this stamp set



she said she wanted to see what I could make with it. So of course the wheels started turning and I'm having sooo much fun with it. As a matter of fact I'm having a hard time putting down my embossing powders. LOL

I made these three cards with this wonderful stamp set and have sooo many more ideas floating around in my head.

Thank you Card


I Love You Card


Hello Friend


Supplies:
White embossing powder
Versamark ink
Cuttlebug
Paper is scraps
Ribbons are scraps
Heat Set crystals

Liebster Blog Award

WOW! I know I have been neglecting my blog lately but I haven't stopped creating. As a matter of fact I have a bunch of projects coming this week. But Jani from Paper Compulsions gave me this wonderful blog award. Thank you Jani!!!!

The Liebster Blog award is given to bring new blogs to light. It's a great way to share blogs that might not otherwise be seen or ones you want to share with others.

Be sure to go to Jani's Blog and check out her wonderful creations (and leave some love too) :o)

As a recipient of this award I must share the love and pay it forward by:

1. Creating a post where you blog about the Liebster award and reveal your 3-5 blog picks.

2. Let them know you chose them

3. Copy and paste the blog award on your blog

4. Have faith that your followers will rally and show their crafty love back out to those you awarded.

So in alphabetical order:

Card Creations by Lorraine - Lorraine

Goody Bag Diva - Allison

With Glittering Eyes - Nadia

Please take a minute to visit these wonderful ladies blog and be inspired by them (and leave them some love too) :o)

Thanks again Jani!!!!

Card Contest

So did you all hear about the card contest PC is having? Well Jinger posted the contest on Facebook and you had to use one of the following carts:

* Wall Decor & More
* Don Juan
* Winter Lace

You also had to use a product by Anna Griffin. All cards (originals) had to be sent to PC by today. Well sure hope mine made it in time ... yep hubby forgot to mail it priority with delivery confirmation .... SOOOOOO I guess I'll never know. LOL And we only had like a week to get the cards done.

I wasn't going to enter because I didn't have any Anna Griffin products but happened to be at Michael's and they had a paper pad on clearance and I just knew I had to enter.

This is what I came up with:







Materials:
Bazzil Pink Cardstock (Card Base)
Recollections Cardstock (Shimmer Black)
American Crafts (Silver)
Anna Griffin - Peyton Stack (pattern/pink paper ... Diamonds and heart)
Cricut Carts:
Wall Decor and More - heart and "love"
George and basic shapes - card base
Cuttlebug
Shrinky dinks (charms)

Got Spirit?!?

Happy New Year!!!

I know it's been a while since I've posted but things have been crazy busy with the holidays and getting "orders" completed but I think things are finally slowing down and can get back to blogging.

So at work we have a spirit team that is supposed to promote a fun atmosphere at work and plan activites. So of course what better way to do that then have personalized T-shirts???



The design was made on my gypsy and then used the freezer paper method to paint them on the shirts.

Materials:
T-shirts
Fabric Soft Paint
Fabric Paint (for the outline)
Freezer paper
Cricut Gypsy:
* 3 Birds on Parade
* Alphalicious
* Base Camp
* Cursive 101
* George and Basic Shapes
* Opposite Attract
* Zooballo

Then the idea came up to have spirit awards. So of course I'm addicted to making shrinky dinks. Takes me back to my childhood. So why not mimic our shirts and came up with these.



The charms at the bottom can be changed for the year/activiy that the awards are for.

Materials:
Shrinky Dinks (Rough 'n Ready)
Alcohol Inks
Cricut Gypsy:
* 3 Birds on Parade
* Alphalicious
* Ashlyn's Alphabet
* Base Camp
* Blackletter
* Cursive 101
* George and Basic Shapes

Under Construction

Hello friends!!! I'm in the process of moving things around on my blog in anticipation of adding lots of new items so please bear with me while changes are being made!!!

Happy Crafting :o)

Blog Award

I'm really behind in posting this .... thank you Grace!!!!

So Grace so graciously gave me the "I've got Attitude" Blog award.



I never thought of my blog having "attitude" but more of "inspiration" but I'm truly honored for this award.

To accept this award, I have to list three things that make my blog unique. Then I have to pass it on to five new recipients.

What 3 things makes my blog different or unique?

1. The name/content. Craftography = Crafting and Photography which of course are my two passions which I love being able to share with others to inspire them in their projects.

2. I use my cricut and gypsy (or Design Studio) on almost all of my projects.

3. My projects and designs are random. I haven't quite found a style that's "me". I love everything (well almost everything) that I create and love to share it. A lot of my projects come from my mind just from seeing a picture or color and I run with it.

And now for my five worthy recipients of this award:

Allison Goody Bag Diva
Nadia With Glittering Eyes
Theresa aka Treefrog Binky Designs
Okieladybug Okieladybug's Scrap N'More
LorraineB Card Creations by Lorraine

Thank you again, Grace. I appreciate all of the wonderful comments and love from all of my followers. Thanks for all the encouraging words!!!

Vacation

Hi All!!

I know I haven't posted in a while. I've been on vacation. Got to go to North Carolina for 11 days to visit friends and family. Then when I got back I had another 5 days before I had to go back to work so I got to spend some time with DH and then just relaxed. But I'm back and ready to jump back into the craft world. I do have a couple projects I'm working on and will post those as soon as I finish them. So in the meantime I thought I'd share a couple pictures from my most wonderful vacation!!!!













Thanks for stopping by!!!!

Papercraft Star - Challenge 17

This week at Papercraft Star the designer's were asked to create a project using this picture as inspiration



Of course being so close to Halloween and the picture having the traditional Halloween colors I only thought it appropriate for my project to be focused on Halloween. So I came up with this card



Supplies used:
Recollections:
* Orange and White circle paper
Bazill Bling
* Orange
Bazill
* Black
Happy Pumpkin Day Stamp (American Crafts)
Witch Stamp (American Crafts)
Ribbon - Joann's Sheer Ribbon
Baby Oil Gel
Prisma color Pencils

Papercraft Star - Challenge 16

This week's sponsor is Bugaboo Stamps if you haven't checked them out yet you have to head over there her digi stamps are soooooo cute.



This week was a sketch challenge and to use a digi from the Bugaboo Stamps gallery





I chose the "Night Night" Moon baby digi to use for this challenge. Isn't she just the cutest little baby? I had so much fun usiung her for this week's sketch challenge.

Supplies used:
Recollections:
* Purple Shimmer
DCWV
* Spring Stack
Sentiment Stamp - oh baby
Bugaboo Digi Stamp - Night Night Moon Baby
Heat Set Stars
Ribbon
Baby Oil Gel
Prisma color Pencils

Papercraft Star Challenge 15 - Seven Natural Wonders

This week's challenge at Papercraft Star is:

Base your project on one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World:

Grand Canyon
The Great Barrier Reef
The Harbor at Rio de Janeiro
Mt. Everest
Northern Lights
Paricutin Volcano
Victoria Falls

This week I based my project off of the "Northern Lights"



Everytime I see pictures of the "Northern Lights" the purple colors just stand out and the colors are so bright and vibrant which is why I chose to use the bling.

Be sure to enter your project this week.

Supplies used:
Recollections (M's paper stacks)
* White Stack
DCWV
* Shimmer Stack (purple)
Cricut Gypsy
Cartridges used:
* Christmas
Cuttlebug
* snowflakes
Ribbon - Michael's Holiday ribbon
Martha Stewart Glitter
iRock Clear Heat set crystals