Happy Birthday tag

Hello All!

Just a little post to share a little project.  :)

My Mind's Eye "Be Amazing" polka dot paper was distress along the edges and Tim Holtz inks in Aged Mahogany and Victorian Velvet was applied.  The white doily is Spellbinders Stately Circles.  Inspired By Stamping stamps (Vintage Frames) was stamped in Memento's Rich Cocoa.  The flowers have been in my flower stash for so long...years.  Felt good to finally use them!

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great Friday and an incredible weekend!
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

This tag is entered into the following challenges:
Inspired by Stamping, Tag and Customer Gallery
The Shabby Tea Room, polka dots
Simon Says Stamp, tag it
Craftin Desert Divas, Birthday
Word Art Wednesday, AG
613 Avenue, AG

Crafting Musketeers February Challenge: Butterflies

Hello Crafteteers!

A new month and a fun new challenge at Crafting Musketeers: Butterflies!  I think this may be a tough challenge for everyone...do paper crafters like using butterflies?  ;)

Spellbinders die set Arched Windows One cut the lovely patterned paper from My Mind's Eye pad Follow Your Heart "Be Amazing".  Distress ink was applied and a gold leafing pen was used along the out and inside edges as shown.  Spellbinders die set Tapestry was embossed on plain white paper and Distress Inks were applied as shown.  Shimmer mist was also applied to the embossed paper. The Spellbinders butterflies dies Les Papillions Two provided the pretty butterflies.

I look forward to seeing all of the beautiful butterfly projects this month at Crafting Musketeers!  What a wonderful way for us to start to thinking of spring!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

This card is entered into the following challenges:
Crafting by Designs, Think Spring!
613 Avenue Create, AG
Word Art Wednesday, AG

Product used:
Spellbinders (Les Papillions Two, Tapestry, Arched Windows One), My Mind's Eye (Be Amazing mini paper pad), Tim Holtz Ink (Broken China, Peeled Paint, Scattered Straw, Barn Door), Crafty love  :)

CAS wedding card- Craftin Desert Divas DT challenge card

Helllloooo Crafters!

The design team has been busy with a new challenge over at Craftin' Desert Divas: Say it with a Sentiment.  Awesome challenge!  And I had just the card for it...

Recently I was asked to make a wedding card for a work colleague.  I said yes, of course, but then quickly realized I never made a wedding card before!  Luckily I own a couple of JustRite stamp sets and I just happened to have three sets that worked for this card:  Vintage Pearls Labels ("To have and to hold"- sentiment on the card front), Kindness (the gorgeous stamped background surrounding the front sentiment), and Antique Valentine Tags One (the fancy heart scroll and "Congrats" sentiment on the inside).  All of the stamped images were embossed in silver and Stickles was applied to add more shimmer.

Spellbinders Labels 20 was used on the front and inside, as shown.  The pretty lattice paper is from My Mind's Eye mini pad, Be Amazing.

So there you have it- my first wedding card!  Guess what else it is?  My first design team member post for Craftin' Desert Divas!  YAY!!!  

The challenge runs for two weeks and I hope to see your project in it!  :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a good week!
Hugs,
Kathy Jo

Baby Shower gatefold card

Hello again!

A work colleague is having a surprise baby shower tomorrow.  This is her first child and it looks like it will be a boy.  Guess what I made for her?  (lol)

This was a last minute card.  I was checking my blogs this morning and saw Lisa's post for Paper Playtime's challenge- use three different patterned papers.  I thought "Hey!  I have three different patterned papers."  ;)  Then I saw Craftin' Desert Divas new challenge which is babies.  I thought "Hey!  I have a baby shower card to make for Friday...perfect!"  Then I remembered the email on Friday stating there was a last minute change and it is now Tuesday for the shower.  D'OH!  So, I went up the the craft room and started at it.  Two hours later was this baby shower card.  (That is actually very fast for me.  I am usually doing laundry or I get distracted by dies and start playing with scrap paper...and then I realize I have been in and out of the craft room for a while.)  Anyway, on to the card!

The card is a gatefold (base is 8.5 x 4.25 and then scored at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8).  I used Anna Griffin dots and damask paper on the small folded sections.  The striped paper is MME's Be Amazing.  Ivory paper was die cut from Spellbinders' Stately Circles.

The outside has a die cut stack starting from the bottom: ivory (Stately circles), stripes (Standard Circles LG), ivory (Stately),  and dots (Circles LG).  The Bundle of Joy sentiment was stamped in Versafine's Vintage Sepia and then embossed in copper.  The stamp is from Michaels $1.50 CA ($1 US) bins.  Kaisercraft copper pearls were applied.  Stickles Waterfall was inserted in the stars.  A baby blue bow with a button/twine embellishment was the finishing touch. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great work week and back to school week!
Hugs,
K-Jo

This card is in the following challenges:
Craftin' Desert Divas, Babies
Paper Playtime, 3 different papers
D.L. Art, linky par-tay
Word Art Wednesday, AG