Double Slider Halloween Card

This time Joy challenged us to make a moving card. I admit that I was really scared when given this challenge, but I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Unfortunately, even with a video tutorial it took me three tries to get the slider part working. And they call me an engineer!! HA! I don't think it's supposed to be that hard. I was just tired. Yeah, that's the excuse that I'm going with. I kept the front pretty simple. The witch is from the Chic and Scary cricut cartridge. I used papers from My Mind's eye, Creative Imaginations, and Pink Paislee. 

 Then I added my sentiments to the inside. This is a double slider card, so when you pull on the orange tab, both panels pop out. Since it's kind of shocking that another panel comes out, I thought adding a ghost saying 'boo' was appropriate. I hand cut the ghost, freehand since it's such a simple shape.

The stamps are from the Halloween Puns stamps. I embossed both of the sentiments with black embossing powder to make them pop a little bit more. 

Blog Hop Winner!

Sorry I am a couple days late with this. The weekend just totally got away from me. In fact, I don't even know what happened to Friday. Anyway, as promised, here is the winner of the blog hop prize from Hydangea Hippo: 

 DandyDo said...

I am a new follower.

Dandy Do

March 17, 2012 11:20 AM

thanks to everyone who participated, I had a great time reading all of your comments. And if you had a blog, I tried to head back to it and check it out too!

Oopsy Daisy Gate Fold Card

This week when Joy asked us to do a card with a special fold, I admit that I panicked a little bit. I have never done a card with a special fold before. See, I haven't really been making cards for that long, so I haven't really felt the need to try it yet. I am glad for the challenge though, because this card turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. 

I used some Echo Park paper that isn't quite as neon in real life as it looks in these photos. I also used the 'Oopsy Daisy' stamp from the 'You're So Punny' set.

Head on over to the Joy's life design team blog for more details on this card. 

Joy's Life Blog hop and a Giveaway!

Welcome to the Joy's Life Design Team St. Patrick's Day Blog hop! You should have arrived here from Lori's blog. If not, you might want to head on over to the Joy's Life blog and start at the beginning. 

Here is the card I created. I used my cricut - the Walk in the Garden cartridge and the Lacy Labels cartridge, along with the "Lucky Me, having you in my life" stamp from the You're So Punny stamp set.

Here is a closeup of the sentiment. I don't do a lot of St. Patrick's day, or a lot of green, so I went with a sort of olive green color and paired it with the kraft to tone it down a bit. Then I decided to keep this card pretty clean and simple because I just love the sentiment and the stitching on the hearts. (I machine sewed the hearts together so that I could fan them up a little bit)

 Check it out! I also have a giveaway!

 Jennifer Priest at Hydrangea Hippo has agreed to sponsor my giveaway today with YOUR choice of $25 worth of product from her etsy shop. Be sure to hop on over there and check it out, she has a ton of new stuff in stock. My favorites are the trims and the pins, but you get to make your own decision about what's the yummiest!

If you want to be entered to win all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. For an extra entry, become a follower, then leave another comment that you did so. (or that you are already a follower)

I will use a random number generator to choose a winner and post the winner here next Friday March 23. Be sure to check back to see if you are the winner. (if your email address is linked in your comment I will also email you)

and now on with the rest of the hop! you should have arrived here from Lori's blog. and you are heading next to Nina's blog.

but if not feel free to head back and start from the beginning. Here is the whole list for reference.

Joy
Ashley
Amy:
Jennie
Julie
Laura
Lori
Megan ---- you are here
Nina
Patty
Sarabeth
Stacey
Susie  

 Joy  

 Be sure to check out all the other ladies because there is a ton of great inspiration and some really awesome prizes!

Fun news!

First, some fun news from Joy's Life - she is releasing a few new stamps including images!!

Second, I am the featured guest designer on the We R memory keepers facebook page. 

I used the Cotton Tail collection and created this layout

and this card

Finally, I have been taking this new E-class that my friend Leslie is doing. It's free, and there is still time to join, so you should check it out. It's all about growing as a person using journaling and art journaling.

I have never done art journaling before, but I am looking forward to it. This is what I created for my first assignment, I went a little of task. This is more a Zentangle than art journaling, but it's something that I have been wanting to try for a while. The idea behind zentangle is meditation through drawing intricate doodles. I think it is something I am going to keep doing, it really is relaxing. I seem to be better at calming my mind when I have something else to focus on that isn't thought intensive, but is still SOMETHING. anyway, so the prompt for this assignment was a quote about stained glass so I thought it would be a perfect application to zentangling. Im pretty happy with it, I never thought I could do something like this. 

Sewing, Stamping and a cricut cut

Here is my latest Joy's Life stamps card. It features stamping, sewing and a cricut cut! 

I used the You're So Punny 'CHAIRished friend' stamp on this card. In fact, I designed the card around the stamp because I was so inspired by the fun pun! Check out the Joy's Life DT blog for more details on how I created this card.

St. Patty's Day Card

I don't normally do anything for St. Patty's Day, and I don't really even care for green, but I guess I got caught up in it this year. I made this card for a couple of challenges.

I used some old Little Yellow Bicycle papers, a ribbon from a william's and sonoma gift box (that I have had since my wedding shower!), and a couple of Joy's Life stamps. (I used the happy from the everyday occasions and the rest is from the holiday occasions.)

The card was featured on the paper issues blog!

This is for the Really Reasonable Ribbon monochromatic green challenge. It is also for the Create blog St. Patty's day challenge.  Also the papertake weekly anything goes challenge, the creative inspirations green and white challenge, the charisma cardz ribbon challenge, the do you stack up green challenge, the phindy's place monochromatic green challenge, the pile it on green challenge, and the simon says stamp and show anything goes challenge.  wow, there were a lot of green challenges this week - hence the me getting caught up in the challenge thing, I just couldn't keep ignoring it. Also, since I am generally so bad at green, I thought it was a good REAL challenge for me! I really like how this turned out.