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Easter Mini Kits

**SOLD OUT** Thank you everyone!

Are in the house...ready to ship out to you! Ideas on how to use these kits below.

 Here's what you'll get... all the supplies to make the carrot box and bunny box(yours will not be assembled yet, but they are so so easy to put together), three yards of ribbon, 2 pink gingham ribbon pieces in a generous length, 1 glittered cracked egg, 3 glittered small eggs, 2 polka dot paper eggs, big glittered bunny with bow tie, 4 sentiments, 4 scallop tags (blue, green, pink and yellow), 2 flowers, green pearl pin, 4 felt bunnies, 1 paper chick, 2 yellow ducklings, 3 mini eggs, tons of buttons and two scallop cards. $12 Looking for ideas just scroll down and see the two cards I made using this kit or scroll down to the last two posts for cards/boxes I made using this kit.  

All the parts for these two cards are in the kit. I made a photo album over on the side bar to the right so you can refer to it when you get your kit. Enjoy :)

Making plans

for Easter projects today. Started to pull out some supplies and goodies i've been collecting. I feel a mini kit coming on. I sure wish I felt spring coming on just as much.

 
Eating up these felty bunnies. Aren't they just the most adorable thing you've ever seen?

Sally N. CONGRATULATIONS You're the winner of yesterdays card... shoot me an email with your address and i'll send you your card.

Sally N. said:

An unexpected text from a good friend at a very needed time...definitely made my moment, my hour and my day.

Sneak Peak

at some things i've been working on... check back tomorrow for the reveal of these cute little flowers. They'll be offered in a mini card kit full of pink green and touches of black. Felt, glitter and velvet buttons it's gonna be full of card goodness. Mark your calendars to check back tomorrow, I'm putting the loving touches on them today.

Yeah Karla... It's finally your lucky day, I know you've been waiting and commenting so patiently! Niguel picked your comment number and you are the winner of yesterdays card... I'll put it in your kit this month, congrats.

Elsa wants to know...

about using die-cuts! Here's what I can tell you, I barely touched a die-cut before I started designing for Sizzix. Now I have been shown the light and can't believe the things you can do with die cuts. I {heart}them! I've decided to make this a regular posting feature because there are just to many things you can do with your die cuts. In the coming weeks you'll see lots of information on die-cuts coming your way. For today i'll start with the basics, layering colors to embellish.

Start by cutting your die-cut in several colors. Remember pattern down if you are cutting patterned paper.

Use up your scraps you don't have to cut the whole die, only the pieces you want. See how the top of the die is missing.

Pick one color to build on / for a base. I usually pick the color that makes the most sense to be on the back layer. In this case I picked green and will cover everything but the leaves and swirls.

Cut away pieces of the different colors. Here I have already cut away the pink heart and attached it to my base layer. Then I cut apart all the yellow, orange and pink flowers.

Here are all the colors layered on the base.

Now put your die on your project and add any other embellishments you want. Here I added little contrasting circle centers, rhinestones, pearls, paint and chalk on the green and the heart.

There you have it... once you do a couple it really does go very quickly.

You can find the die I used Here.

This week i'm giving away this card to someone on my email list so if you haven't joined yet please do. I'll pick someone on Sunday night. Hope you enjoyed this post! 

Mother's Day

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My blog reader friend Suzanne wanted some ideas for Mother's Day. Here's what i'm doing for all my favorite mothers. I have something else planned for my Mom but I know lots of good mothers out there and now I have gifts for them. While I was at Target I spied these cool looking Boxes of Soap. They were in the regular soap aisle, they were 2.88 for a 2 pack. They came in several scents, I picked vanilla cherry blossom. Came home pulled out the scrap box. Cut some paper 8 1/2x 3 1/4, wrapped it around the soap box and attached it with double sided tape. Then I grabbed some ribbon and buttons and stuck them on. Punched out a few tags from the reverse side of the pattern paper I used and stamped it Happy Mothers Day. If you don't have a stamp, just print something on your computer, if you don't have a computer then i'm sure you have beautiful hand writing. Well I guess if you didn't have a computer you wouldn't be reading this, you get what I mean... use anything you have. And if you're doing this with kids like Suzanne wants to, i'd show them how to wrap the paper around and then throw a bunch of stuff (anything you have) out on the table and let them go for it! Oh, how about cutting plain paper, let them draw/color on it and then wrap it around the soap. The possibilities are endless. Here's mine... and I made a quick card from scraps too!

dlkozisek@yahoo i'm happy to tell you that you are the winner of last weeks card giveaway send me your addre  ss and i'll send the card   off to you!  

I'll be back tomorrow with more bloggin suggestions. Not sure which one i'll pick yet! 

My Newsletter is going to be late, but it's coming soon. Since i'm not feeling all that great I slacked off a little this weekend! You know life stuff... Smiles to you!

Luch Box Love

Yesterday Niguel jumped in the car and started crying. It was the second time in as many days. Niguel is a rule follower and she is very sensitive to any injustice. Her class is having a little trouble and she feels very upset by the firmness her teacher has had to take with them. I can't imagine that any other child in the class gave this one more thought when they left the classroom. But to Niguel her perfect world has been terribly wronged. To top it off she heard a few of her classmates say some unkind things about her. These are tough lessons she will have to learn and we spent a good deal of our evening talking about life experiences and how she should be proud of herself. Please don't think that i'm one of those parents that thinks my child wears a halo. This girl drives me craaaazzzzeeee at least once a day. She's a normal girl that gets in plenty of trouble but never, never, never at school! Oh, so on to my point... I thought she could use a little love in her lunch box today and made her this card with a little note from Mom inside!

 If you love this card, its a die-cut and you can find a slightly bigger version of it Here.

Elsa Hagner... Come on down your the winner of yesterdays card give away! Email me your address!

Hope you all have a day filled with Smiles! 

3 Things

I wouldn't want to scrap without. I have about 10 things on my workspace that get a heavy workout every time i'm crafting. I thought i'd share 3 of my favorites with you today.

*Edited* I know i've said it before and I won't say it again till next quarter... :) I can still take a few more sign ups for my Creative Cards homeschool. If your're interested please go Here . And if you've already read this a thousand times, please forgive me.

May I introduce you to my good friend the Scallop Circle Punch! I have this baby in the Mega and Giga size and i've worn out two of the Giga ones. It just looks great on everything and if you take a gander at my galleries you'll see this shape all over the place! Grab one of those discount coupons from your craft store and get yourself one of these! I hear there is even a new Mega Giga Size!

   

Another favorite is the Color Box chalk ink cat eyes. My favorite is the Lime pastel and I also use this alot! It compliments my favorite color Bazzill cardstock (Green tea) well. Use it to ink the edges of everything... it goes on super creamy and smooth. My other favorites are creamy brown, chestnut and pink. So much goodness for a very little price!

This little item is probably my oldest crafting friend. I remember glittering the heck out of every school project I got my hands on. Big 'ol lines of Elmer's glue and tons of glitter sprinkled on top. I haven't let up since. God must have given me daughters solely based on how much I love glitter. I never ever wear it as part of my wardrobe or makeup! I just not that flashy! Well unless it has fallen on me from crafting. Since i've grown up a bit I indulge in ultra fine glitters. I really like the Sparkle and Sprinkle ones I mentioned yesterday and the Martha Stewart ones are nice as well.

 Here's my latest creation with my three favorites!

Since I just can't keep all these cards today i'm going to give this one away to someone who leaves me a comment.

Hope you have a beautiful day! Smiles!

Happy Friday!

A big first time "Hello" to Chica and Jo  readers... welcome to my blog. Grab some coffee and stay awhile there are lots of things to browse in all of my photo albums and side bars. If You like what you see check out my links for Cute Kits on the right side bar. Please bookmark my site and come back often. And one last thing, please join my email list (its on the top right side of my blog) I'm always sending out announcements and newsletters, and i'm giving away the card below!

So here are the results of my personal challenge to use the oldest items I could find in my stash. Here it is...

The paper is from 2004 from NRN and Sonburn Designs. I really don't know if they are even still in the scrapbooking business. Flowers are from Prima, one of their first releases, the Rub-on is from Heidi Swapp its fuzzy and it must be at least three or four years old. The ribbon and rhinestones are new. And that border punch is from Fiskars.

This is the card that i'm giving away this week. Sign up for my email list and on Sunday i'll pick one person from the new sign ups.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I'm hoping to get in some craft shopping time tomorrow, and make a few more things from my stash of supplies. Maybe something for the house??? Join me, make something from your stash and send me a photo. Take Care!

Antiques

Today I finished the scrapbook page of Niguel that was inspired from This Post. What I have really loved about scrapbooking more is using up some of the things that have been just sitting around for far to long. Seriously I have some stuff that is soon to turn to antique. Vintage isn't something I find at flea markets, I can dig to the bottom of any jar in my craft room and find it. When I scrapbooked this past weekend I opened my tote and there like a time capsule was all the stuff from the last time I went to The Scrapbook Oasis with Steph. It was a mere two and a half years ago. Now it hasn't been that long since i've scrapbooked but obviously that long since I drug out the old tote! Sad, sad little tote!

Here's the page...

Swirls - I painted them yellow, they are at least 5 years old!

Yellow acrylic flower - I bought that little guy at a bead store 3 years ago.

Sticker sentiments - Probably a year and a half old.

Buttons - Now those really are antique and vintage they are from my grandma! I strictly use them on things that are for me personally. I love every single one of them!

Here's a close up of the flowers. Tomorrow i'm challenging myself to find the items i've been holding on to the longest and make something from it. Want to join me in the challenge? So glad I gave away that sticker binder!

Have a great day!

Technique

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Just a couple of things before I get to the technique.  And I have just a few spots left in my Creative Cards Homeschool for this quarter. July kits are shipping now. Go Here  for more information. 

OK here we go with the tip!

Have you noticed the price of some of the new embossed or glittered papers out there? I know i've seen some for $2.80 or even $3.25. Thats just nuts in my opinion. I offer you this solution, get the same look and feel for alot less. Here we go...

  

Glossy accents and Stickles glitter glue. If you don't have these rush to your nearest craft store and get yourself some!

Start with some plain patterned paper. This sheet cost me 70 cents. FYI its Adorn it "Nancys Flower Patch"

Apply a thin bit of Glossy Accents over selected areas. It will be foggy when its wet and then dry crystal clear and look like it is wet embossed or like epoxy. Pop any bubbles with a pin. Let it dry completely, like overnight if possible.

Now add your stickles glitter glue to the parts you want glittery. A little goes a long way with this stuff. I've always been happier with the results when its used sparingly, don't make a big blob.

 Can you see the difference?

See how pretty it looks with a little extra time and effort. Those two bottles of product will make you lots and lots of glittery shiny goodness!

Now you are ready to use your paper on any project you like!

Have a great day! Smiles...