My lil' Slice of HEAVEN!

Good morning! I can't believe it has been over a year since I got my new room at home! I can't believe how my room has changed in just a year! Thought I would post pictures of my little place I call heaven! :) I just love it! I really can't wait till we build someday, so that I can really make it the way I want it!

Entering...(painting along with 12 x 12 plain paper rack)

Peaking in a little more...

Main station with most of my albums and supplies...


Closet area and 8.5 x 11 paper rack along with all my paper stacks...


Work area...This is where the ideas flow...


Computer area...

Leaving...

Have a fabulous day!

CI Paints Challenge Team A

Check out the Creative Inspirations blog, it's THURSDAY, so that means another fun challenge on the blog from the design team. This week's challenge for Team A is "Fruit Salad...let fruit inspire your project". This round I am on Team B, so we will be posting our challenge next Thursday.

We also have had some neat turtorials being posted! Check it out!

Have a shimmery day! :)

Crazy for Cupcakes

Happy Wednesday everyone! Can you believe it is the middle of the week already! After making this card I am hungry for a cupcake! :)

Just look at all that shimmer!! YUMMY!

Details:
Card Size: 4" x 5 1/2"
Paper: Random Scraps
CI Paints: Buttercup, Lavender, TuTu Pink, Chocolate
Border Punch: Diamond Lace from EK Success
Stamps: SU Set "Crazy for Cupcakes"
Misc.: Purple Ribbon, Light Purple Gems

Challenges:

Sentimental Sundays: Celebrations

Caardvarks: Birthday Card

Bee Crafty: Dimension

It's a Girl!

I can't believe our little Ava is 6 months old already! I just love being a mommy!! It is by far one of life's absolute greatest blessings!

I used the Cricut cart "New Arrival" to cute out "It's a Girl", then used CI Paint "Tutu Pink" to add shimmer to the word girl! How fitting for a little girl!

Details:

LO Size: 12" x 12"

Cricut Cart: New Arrival

Border Punch: SU

Misc.: Prima Flowers, SU Rhinestone Brads (Fire Circles), Pink Gems

Using CI Paints to Alter Paper

I was asked to do a tutorial for CI Paints on Tuesday's, so check out their blog to see my first tutorial! Hope you enjoy!

Sneak Peak:

Flower Pot Card

I have been working on making some flower pot cards for a long time now. I keep putting off! I got in the mood to make them on my rain day the other day....so here they are! One for my grandma and another for the lady that works for me. Both birthday cards, which happen to be the same day!

Being I needed these today, I wasn't able to put as much into them as I wanted to, but was happy to finally make them!!

This first one I used Cricut card George and Basic Shapes to cut out the leaves, centers and flowers.

1. Cut a sheet of cardstock 9" x 3 1/2". (Pot)

2. Score the piece of cardstock in landscape position at 2" and 5 1/2".

3. Fold the 2" score line in a mountain fold and the 5 1/2" score line in a valley fold.

4. Punch the edge of the 2" front flap with a border punch of your choice, I used EK Success "Dotted Wave".

5. To create the flower pot shape, place the carstock in your paper trimmer with the top 2" flap flipped up and the bottom flap folded behind.

Line up the 2" score line with the cutting track and the 5 1/2" fold line with the 1/2" mark on the trimmer.

Place the cutting guide over the card and cut.

Turn cardstock and repeat.

6. Adhere a 3" x 3 1/2" piece of patterned paper to the bottom front of the flower pot. Flip the flower pot over and trim away the excess paper from each side.

7. Tie ribbon around the top part of the flower pot to hold the pot together.
8. Adhere a 2 1/4" x 4 1/4" piece of cardstock to a piece of 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" piece of cardstock. This will be the insert piece with the flowers attached at the top.

9. Stamp your sentiment on the lower portion.
10. Cut flowers or use primas.

11. I used my cricut to cut out the leaves on the one flower pot card.

12. To help align the flowers to the top portion of the insert, place insert piece in flower pot first and then lay it on top of the envelope you are using. Then place flowers, you can use glue, brads or dimensionals to attach the flowers.

Have a wonderful Monday! Can't take credit for the idea of this card, as I got a tutorial on it from a friend!

Pitch a Tent, It's Campin' Time!

It's the first week of the month, so that means at Designed 2 Delight there's a new free digital image! This week's image is entitled "Wish Big". You've first got to "hunt" for the image, as she is having a blog hop with her new design team. The last blog will have a link to the digital image. If you play along this week you will recieve next week's digital image free via e-mail. Play along....it's so much fun and her images are awesome!

Also new is the Double Delight Challenges blog! Using Faith's image each week they give a challenge to go along with it for DOUBLE the Delight! :) This week's challenge is tent cards or tent topper cards. At the end of the month they will do a drawing for a gift certificate to the Designed 2 Delight Digital Store! How exciting!

I used Adobe Photoshop to color in the image and to add "big", so that it would say wish big.

I made two cards with this image:

Close-up of the cards:

I used some of my CI Paints to add some shimmer to my embossed paper and the image itself! I just love the SHIMMER!! CI Paints: Tutu Pink, Tickled Pink, Sage, Amethyst, Lavender, Pumpkin, Turquoise, Buttercup, Sunshine

Challanges:

Deisnged 2 Delight: Image
Double Delight Challenges: Tent Topper Card

Pile It On: Your Favorite Things (CI Paints)

Prairie Fairy: Anything Goes

Beary Scrap: Emboss It

Craftalicious: Cute

Stampavie and more: Sparkling

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Blog Truffles!!!

Just a reminder....make sure to sign up for these awesome paints!! (ends tomorrow)

On the Creative Inspirations Paints blog you can sign up to win some fabulous CI Paints! On July 5th they will draw a name at random and the winner will be able to choose 5 paint colors of their choice! How cool is that?! Check it out and good luck!!!

You'll love the shimmer!!

Kassi has posted a tutorial on how to paint flowers with the paints. One of my favorite things to do!!

Thank You Cards

Needed to make 30 quick Thank-You cards for my brother-in-law. He wanted them very plain and simple! So this is what I came up with. They are for the money he recieved for his grad party, so I used his school colors, a thank-you stamp, black ribbon, and swiss dots cuttlebug folder to make these quick cards.

Birthday Party Time!

Things have been so crazy here. Been working a lot of hours and trying to keep my little guy busy with things to do! I can't believe he is going to be 2 next Tuesday! Where o' where does that time go?!?!

So we are having a birthday party for him today!! I can't wait! It also is going to be a surprise 50th Birthday party for my mom!! hahaha....I can't wait!

Here is just a quick poster I made for his party. I used this adorable dragon digital stamp from Dustin Pike! My little guy loves his images. This morning I quickly put some finishing touchs on the poster and Sawyer was sitting on my lap and he said "Mommy, so pretty!" He just about melted my heart!

Have a wonderful day! I know on this end we will! :)

"Beary Big Gift"

Another fabulous digital image from Faith at Designed 2 Delight! I just love her images, it's so fun to play along every week. This week's image is called "Beary Big Gift".

As always I had to find a way to use my CI Paints! I just love these paints to give my projects a little shimmer!!

Challenges:
Designed 2 Delight: Image

Pollycraft: Pinkalicious

Practical Stampers: Border Punch

The Sweet Shop: SSS62 Sketch Challenge

Paper Cutz: Circle, Stars or Squares

The ABC Challenge: X is for Xtra Dimension

Graduation

My cousins graduation party was this past Sunday, so I needed to make her a card. On the same lines as the one I made my brother-in-law. I really like how it turned out.

And of course I couldn't make a card without using some of my CI Paints!! I used a water brush to go over some of the stamped imaged to give it a little shimmer!!