Halloween Decorations & Card

I've been trying to finish up some decorations using Silhouette files to send to my daughter at school and they are finally done, yay!!  They are just some simple fun things to hang on the walls, windows and doors of her dorm room, along with a few frap bottles that I filled with candy corn for her, her boyfriend and her roommate.  I also sent her a card using a new awesome flourishy bat design that I just downloaded the other day, what perfect timing!

Now I can work on some requests from my kindergartner for her room, lol!

And here's the tag that I used on the candy corn bottles, it's a Dustin Pike  image that I colored in Paint.

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3D Halloween Tree

Kenzie Daley designed this 3D tree file for the Silhouette Online Store and I knew when I saw it that I just had to have it.  I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE it!  I only made it a smidge over 7" tall so I was expecting it to be a bit of a challenge to assemble, which it was, but once it came together it was definitely worth it.  I punched some tiny ghosts and spiders with my Creative Memories shape maker and hung them with some thread.  I think I might add some tufts of cotton "webs" and maybe a few accents of Stickles to give it a little more spooky Halloween pizazz, but I'm trying to finish up a bunch of other decorations for my daughter's dorm room so it'll have to wait for now.

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THINK PINK Blog Hop!

My friend Deb is participating in the THINK PINK blog hop this weekend. 
She's got some beautiful creations posted and a chance for you to win some awesome blog candy.  So hop on over for details and check it out!!   http://tidbitsplace.blogspot.com/

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Happy World Card Making Day!!

In celebration of WCMD I am participating in an offer Dustin Pike made on his BLOG if we submitted a card we made using one of his digi stamps.  I made this for a friend who is celebrating her "29th" birthday, again, LOL!  I used Basic Grey  papers from the Lime Ricky line, and a sentiment from Inkadinkado.  And since I don't have any fancy schmancy copics I decided to give GIMP a try and digitally color the image - wow was that easy!  I jut need to figure out some shading techniques but for solids it worked out perfectly.

This was my first try at the free standing pop up card pattern (which I found on SplitCoastStampers.com) - very easy and very fun!

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Fun Banners

My peep Diana just moved and I wanted to help celebrate and make name banners for her daughter and son for their new rooms.  

Kenzie's room is all Tink'ed out so I added some fairy dust sparkle to hers.  I used CTMH cardstock for the backgrounds (which cuts absolutely beautifully in my Silhouette), and Creative Memories papers for the mats, Stickles on the borders and some pretty primas and sparkly WM ribbon. 

Ryan's new comforter has planes on it so I used that in my design for his.  I used more CTMH cardstock, Distressed Stickles on his name and some Glossy Accents on the windows of the plane.

These were quick and easy and oh so fun!





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Origami Ornament

When I was a kid I had a pen pal who lived in Japan.  I remember that she had the prettiest handwriting, and she would often include tiny folded origami creations with her letters.  I was mesmerized by both, and I think that's where my fascination with paper began. 

I dabbled a bit with origami when I was younger, trying to create fancy folded treasures, and when I stumbled upon this ornament pattern I decided to give it a try again.  ( I found the instructions here: My Paper Adventures ).  It was actually very easy but does take a lot of time because there are 60 petals total in the 12 flowers that create this design. It's great busy work for when you are doing the sofa slug thing watching tv all night, lol.

The directions don't give a dimension for the petals so I tried using 2" squares (and K&Co paper of course!) which worked out as a good size.  I think you could go a tad smaller if the paper was thin enough for easy creasing, or you could even go bigger using card stock weight for a really bold sized ornament - that might be fun to try next!  (...oh geesh, that might be alot of paper though, lol!!)   I didn't use the adhesive that is shown in the directions - I'm a liquid glue gal so I used my Scotch Quick Dry glue and it worked really well as long as I only used a dab.  The danglies on the bottom were part of a decoration I picked up in WalMart in the trimmings area of the craft department, but I cut off half of the strands that were attached so it wouldn't be too huge or heavy.

I sent the finished project to a GIBBS friend who unfortunately missed out on the exchanging part of the last GIBBS swap.  I sent it as the item for "GIBBERS do it Old Tool Style". 

Kimi I really hope you enjoy it, my folds are a bit off, but remember: MWL!!  {{hugs}}

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Fishy Field Trip

Yesterday was my daughter's first aquarium adventure!  She loved the fish but kept asking where the penguins were, and when we finally found them the poor thing was too tired to really enjoy them.  We will have to go back again soon and do our visit in reverse order next time!

Have a GREAT weekend!
Denni

Skinny Card

In a recent swap my task was to make a set of 12 skinny cards and use the color combo of lime green and teal. I used my Silhouette to cut the flowers and my Creative Memories punch to make the mirror paper dragonfly. I can't remember where the patterned paper came from, maybe K&Co?

 Half way through the cards though, my Janome Sew Petite machine jammed so badly that I couldn't fix it. I bought this machine second hand a couple years ago and it has never quite worked right. After hearing me struggle so much with it my hubby encouraged me to replace it since fixing it would probably cost the same as investing in a new one. The replacement model is Janome's Sew Mini but it's really the same thing - except this one works perfectly!!! Woohoo!!

These colors are not ones I would not typically choose but I do love the brightness of them - sometimes I guess I just need a nudge to step outside my comfort zone :)

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Groupie ATC Birthday Card

From the set of ATC "groupies" that I made last week for Kay's swap (see here) I chose the one with the "friendship" theme to use on her birthday card.  I love adding a bit of feathery fluff on my crafting lately and I think that's why this one was my favorite, and then of course I used more K&Co paper for the card base, lol! 

I'm new to ATC's and had fun turning one into a card - seems like such a simple idea I'm not sure why I've never tried it before, but I think I'll try it again since I just found out that I also missed my buddie Deb's birthday this week too.  Ooopsies!

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Made Just For You

This is the card I sent to Tammy with all her goodies.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE those frame and sentiment cuts!  I didn't use my Silhouette much in this swap so it was nice to finally put it to work on the card.  I used the same paper that was on the cover of the Wings mini album - just can't get enough of that pack!

Tammy got her box last night and I feel such relief knowing it got there in one piece and that she really liked everything I made for her.  Phew!  My poor hubby could not understand why I was constantly checking the tracking info and pacing all day waiting for her mail lady to arrive, and then after she got her box and sent me a beautiful email he was even more bedaffled why I got all teary eyed reading her response.  Silly boy, doesn't he realize that when it's made with love (a GIBBS motto deb and I have chanted since round 1!) that you are sending a part of your heart?  LOL!  So glad all my crafting has a happy new home!  Enjoy it all Tammy and thanks for being a great partner!!

Happy crafting!