Handbag Always and Forever

Z Becky Brown has challenged it's team to create inserts for Valentine's.  I had these sweet 8x8 (birthday) papers and thought they would make a great Valentine inserts.

Little Trick for making curved words

choose a circle die (or something that stickers won't really stick to) that is about the size of the arch you want to create would your letters.

Place the stickers about 1/4 onto the the circle shape

Position the letters till they are in the desired position

Gently press the stickers down and carefully pull the bottom off the die.

Materials
Handbag: My White Knight-Z Becky Brown
White inserts: Ziva Papers
Veneer's heart and arrows: Studio Calico
Heart Doilies: Celebrate It
Alpha's: SN@P Studio
Ink: Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Ranger

Cute as a button

Today's set illustrated by the EVER fabulous Torico will DEFINITELY appeal to the crafter in you...and we can't WAIT to see your reaction, so let's get to it!!

What can we say about this new set from Torico, other than…it’s Cute As a Button?! The perfect sewing set for ANY crafter, full from top to bottom, end to end, with as MANY stamps as you could POSSIBLY need to make the perfect card or scrapbook page, this whimsically cute set is sure to have EVERYTHING you need to celebrate the crafter in your life!

Cute As a Button is a 6x8 set that includes a total of 33 stamps and will sell for $24.00.

Pin It

I stamped the little thread card, cut it out and wrapped jute around it knot-ed in back and threaded through the needle.

Stamp set-Cute as a Button-There She Goes clear stamps

Paper-Miss Caroline-Echo Park

Ribbon-crochet, jute and wrinkle white (tea stained)-May Arts

Ink-Vintage Photo-Ranger, Tuxedo black-Memento

Would you like to win the new Cute As a Button  stamp set? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter’s blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog Hop Challenge post.

You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday, May 26th with the winner being announced during the release party chat.

Whiff of Joy Guest Designer Call

Well I didn't think I could be surprised by Canada Post but today certainly surprised me! I purchased some of the most gorgeous images ever from Whiff of Joy Stamps. I recieved an email last Monday stating my stamps had been shipped so I figured they'd never get here in time for the Guest Designer call.

I was wrong!! The stamps arrived today! I was shocked how fast they got here. Just 7 days!! Eeeeek I couldn't wait to get started. So if you can image I locked myself into my craft room and went to work. Here are my submissions for consideration to be a guest designer.

Here's a close up of the gown. I just painted over the dress with "Diamond Glaze" and sprinkled clear glitter over top. I wanted to try and make the colours muted and soft so I used water colour pencils to colour the images. My skills aren't perfect but I did manage to keep inside the lines. LOL

I honestly couldn't resist this image. Wow it's breath taking without colour. I was nervous to try and colour it because I wasn't sure I could do the illustration justice. I really wanted to make a card that was antique and distressed looking.


Here's a photo of all the cards together.

Supplies
Whiff of Joy stamps used are: Confirmand Melinda and Willow holding baby

Spellbinders Blossom flowers

Duddlebug Beetle Black buttons

Designer Papers-BasicGrey, Cosmo Cricket, Daisy D's and CTMH

Fiskars Border Stamp

Diamond Glaze

Martha Stewart Glitter

Check out their call for a guest designer here.