Saturday, April 8, 2017

Hippity Hoppity Blog Hop with Connie Can Crop


Welcome to the 

Hippity Hoppity Blog Hop



Here comes Peter Cottontail

Hoppin' down the bunny trail

Hippity hoppity, Easter's on its way!

Thanks for joining us for a fun hop full of Easter Bunny 

inspired projects!!

Wishing you all a blessed Easter with your family and friends!!


You should have arrived from Marji's blog!

If you just happened upon this spectacular hop, Connie Can Crop is the first stop in this hop.

This is a one day blog hop, but you have until Sunday to finish hopping and leaving your comments for all of these amazing crafters.
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I was inspired to create a wood grain rabbit.  I complimented it with all sorts of embellishments and die cuts.  I also added my own pearls around the edge of the filigree die cut.



I used a wood grain paper for the rabbit and ran the white card stock through the Big Shot with a wood grain embossing folder.  The wood paper is the latest collection from Quick Quotes called Windsong.


Ingredients:
Tim Holtz mini bunny die and frame die (both movers and shapers)
Art-C ephemera kit
Martha Stewart flower
Quick Quotes Windsong papers
Quick Quotes Java chalking ink
K & Co embellishment
die cuts
wood grain embossing folder
white card stock

Hop on over to Holli's blog!

Here's our amazing line up in case you get lost:



I would like to enter this in the following challenges:



winner:





Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia


Friday, April 7, 2017

Yellow Lilies: Quick Quotes April Challenge Spring Flowers

Welcome to this month's Quick Quotes challenge, Alicia sharing today.  I chose FLOWERS as Quick Quotes April's challenge theme.  I created a mini bouquet of lilies for my inspiration and a wrap for the milk bottle vase.  




The steps are to create these beauties is not difficult but can be time consuming:
  1. Die cut Quick Quotes Mulberry Paper Pack (tip use washi tape to hold your dies in place)
  2. Ink edges with Desert Sun PowderPuff Chalking Ink
  3. Ink other flower parts and create details with a marker
  4. Ink wood skewers with Light Moss PowderPuff Chalking Ink
  5. Shape flowers with tools or fingers
  6. Attach leaves and flowers to skewers with glue and/or glue dots



Here are some of the details:


I hope you are inspired to create a project with flowers for this month's Quick Quotes challenge.



Quick Quotes Products:

other ingredients:
Sizzix Susan's Garden Lily die set
Stampin Up Badges & Banners stamp set with badge punch
Distress Walnut Stain pen and ink
Distress Mustard Seed ink

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:












Thank you so much for stopping by!  Don't forget to play along this month!



Road Trip with Cheery Lynn and Lawn Fawn dies

 Good morning!  Alicia blogging today with a fun card.  My son already had his Spring Break but I can tell by the traffic going south that many are just now traveling.  I thought this was a fun way to celebrate this season.


I actually made two versions using both the positive and negative pieces of the cut.  On this second card I used the second piece of the Lawn Fawn-Road Border set.


I cut the bus three times out of three different papers:  metallic silver, pink shimmer and black.  I saved every piece and put it back together.  I made two different buses and have an entire set left.


And the final result...



Dies R Us products used:


Cheery Lynn Designs - The Grove Bus
Cheery Lynn Designs-The Grove Bus
Lawn Fawn - Road Border Dies
Lawn Fawn-Road Border
Tutti Designs - Dies - Nesting Stitched Rectangles
Tutti Designs Nesting Stitched Rectangles


Other products:
Close to My Heart The Long Way Home sentiment
Mix'd Media Black ink
Judikins clear fine detail embossing powder
DCWV Tie-Dyed Stack (papers)
Recollections bling
misc papers


Don't forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog.  There's a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store.  For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below.  
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I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/challenge-153.html until 4/9x

http://stampartpapel.com/retarte-94-anything-goes/ until 4/9
winner!

http://lemonshortbreadchallenge.blogspot.nl/2017/03/challenge-38-anything-goes.html until 4/9x

http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2017/04/through-craft-room-door-challenge.html until 4/10x

http://cceestampers.blogspot.com/2017/04/ccee1714-read-road-map.html until 4/13 jff?

http://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2017/04/neonsbrights-challenge.html until 4/14x

https://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/challenge-176.html until 4/15x

https://classicdesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/2017/04/1st-april-2017-classic-design-team-open.html until 4/28

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

My Guy with Atlantic Heart Sketch Challenge

Good morning!  Today I have my inspiration for the brand new sketch at Atlantic Heart Sketch Challenge.  I have been wanting to create a masculine card and I think this fits the bill. I started with a card kit and added my own pieces to work with the sketch.




Here's the sketch:

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A close up of my cut:



Ingredients:
Card kit with orange patterned papers
Stampin Up banner punch
Quick Quotes 49 Shades of Gray paper
Cricut cut from Father's Day cart
Creative Memories distress edger
buttons and twine

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

I used Queen:  Somebody to love...that person is my guy.  I also found the black grungy paper was very "rock"...I hope my husband likes it. 



Thank you so much for stopping by and don't forget to play along at 

Alicia

Monday, April 3, 2017

Dip it in Chocolate: Tim Holtz Crazy Bird Bunny


I am really excited about this card.  I just thought it was too cute.  I used distress inks to color the background and the bird/bunny.  I manipulated the hat with cuts to fit the ears in place.  I fussy cut the egg and colored the feet.  I stamped and embossed the sentiment.  I completed the card with a die cut grass edge from Frantic Stamper.  I hope you think this card is as cute as I do...



Ingredients:
Frantic Stamper Stitched Grassy Hill edge die
Stampin Up Hey Chick stamp
Tim Holtz Crazy Birds stamp and die
Distress inks: Wilted Violet, Worn Lipstick, Broken China, Mustard Seed
Funny Bones sentiment
Mix'd Media black ink and Judikins clear detail embossing powder

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:






http://snarkystampers.blogspot.com/2017/04/all-hail-queen-of-snark_18.html







Thank you so much for stopping by!

Alicia



Sunday, April 2, 2017

Dies R Us Design Team announcement

I am pleased to announce that I have been selected for the Die R Us design team for a second term!  I am so very excited.  I loved working with the quality of ladies on the last team and can't wait to work with the new ladies.  You can find the announcement and list HERE.  I am already following all the new ladies might I suggest you follow the link and follow all the newbies, too! I am so excited for a second term!  Thank you!


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Saturday, April 1, 2017

Get Well Soon with CAS Sketch

I have been working with some card kits again.  I am able to lift a bit more and have used up a lot of these kits.  I hope my projects will be more creative soon.  In the meantime, here is a simple little card.


Here's the sketch I used:


Ingredients:
Misc papers and white card stock
Cricut cut from Paper Lace 2
ribbon
Quick Quotes powderpuff chalking ink Fuchsia 

I would like to enter this in the following challenge:


Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Quick Quotes Sunset layout


Alicia here today with a sunset layout from my recent trip to Jamaica.  I thought the beautiful peach papers in the new Windsong Paper Pack highlighted the glowing sunset at the beach.  I added several different papers and used various border makers and cutting templates to create interesting shapes while still focusing on my photos.


I used an ombre technique on the grunge board letters.  I started with the lightest Desert Sun PowderPuff Chalking Ink, next I chalked with Peach Tree PowderPuff Chalking Ink and finally the darkest Sunset PowderPuff Chalking Ink.  The effect is very sublte as are the shades in the Windsong Paper Pack.


Quick Quotes products used:

other products used:
Kiwi Lane bracket 2T
EK Success border punch
Creative Memories cutting system hex shape
Tim Holtz grunge board alpha

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:


Thanks so much for stopping by!


Monday, March 27, 2017

Quick Quotes Mulberry Collection with Stuck?! sketch

I used my border project from Saturday's Virtual Crop to make this layout.  Only one more page to scrap in album one of two in my honeymoon album.


Here's the sketch I used:


Ingredients:
Quick Quotes Mulberry paper collection
Creative Memories sticker letters, border maker and custom cutting system circles
Kiwi Lane designer templates

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:


Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia

Frantic Stamper Max Dark version

I have another adorable doggie from the Frantic Stamper collection.  On this one I tried some darker browns.



Ingredients:
The Frantic Stamper Puppy Love Max
Too much fun rubber stamp (sentiment)
Versamark Ink
Recollections Clear Bark embossing powder
The Paper Loft Huckleberry Pond & Hooked on Fishing 6x6 papers
Creative Memories circle cutter and heart  border punch
Various Alcohol Markers: 
Copic: R37
Hobby Colour: Jet Black, Umber amd Mocha
Sakura Gelly Roll white
misc ribbon
kraft card stock and glossy accents

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:



http://giveacrafteracookie.blogspot.ca/2017/04/cookie-challenge-66.html



Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia