WELCOME HOME card.....inspired by teri anderson

hello to all,

it has been a while , i know.

 i have been lost in the yard, practicing what i have been learning about gardening :P making homemade potions, and planning and planning and planning where the plants will go, their needs and so on. (wink)

i have learned a lot but there is much more to keep learning.

i check my blog and the web at night and while browsing the paper crafts magazine site i read about a challenge/submission. below, is the pasted copy of what i read:

 Inspired By

Ever browse through a Paper Crafts magazine or special issue and created a card or project inspired by one of the designs you saw in the publication? We want to hear your story and see your creation! Maybe you took the design of a birthday card and made it into a Valentine, or maybe you switched up the colors to take a Mother's Day card to a Father's Day card. Submit an image of your Inspired By project, tell us where we can find the original in our magazine, and you just might have your card featured in the Paper Crafts Connection section of one of our issues! 

and..... since i was having a "paper withdrawal" anyway-- hehe,  i decided to make it my inspiration,

below is my take on it.

 Welcome Home

5.25"w x 4.0" h

some of you might recognize these houses. they are from the dcwv "songbird" collection. i chose this row of birdhouses for my card.

the background paper is from my mind's eye: "everyday flair" and, the orange border is the reverse side of that same mme pp. the thin red strip is from my scraps and so is the brown border (punched with a martha stewart border punch). the blue zig zag border was done with decorative scissors.

the "welcome home" phrase came from the "cake basics" cricut cartridge. i used the gypsy hide contour feature for this because i wanted the phrase to be separated. 

in the cart you get both together: one on top of the other and it was not going to work for my card.

the clouds were punched and stamped, the heart was also paper punched. 

oh! i almost forgot to mention that my go-to gal was teri anderson. i found her project on page 72 of the july/august 2012 issue. i will edit this post during the weekend to add a pic of her project. it is late now and tomorrow i have other things to care for :(
ETA: teri's card

teri's card is titled: "see you soon" and i titled mine: "welcome home", get it?

 i am so silly, :P

(i do not think i will submit it to the magazine because the magazine prefers current products and this songbird paper is pretty old, in the crafty world anyway, hehe, but then, who knows---maybe i will submit, just for fun). 
you should too.

well, i hope i have inspired "you" the same way these gals have inspired me. :P

thank you for stopping by
and have a great weekend!

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PAPER DOLLS DRESS UP SERIES---episode 13

we have come to an end.

we thank you all for visiting and following this fun series. we thank you for taking the time to comment.

we hope this series was helpful and you had fun with us.

remember we started we a spring tag? well, we decided to end it with another tag. this time with a summer themed tag.

since this was the last page were to choose a border from that page. i have to confess i forgot i had to use it- shame on me :( and this is what i made. 

Seahorse
5 inches tall 

ETA:  seahorse image found on page #43 (PPDU).

now onto my dear friends (teammates)

sheena's

http://lilflowerslynne1.blogspot.com/

kristie's

http://just2ducky.blogspot.com/

dawn's

http://craftycraftymom.blogspot.com/

and thank you again!

for all the support and love and the time you took to visit us.


ETA:
a HUGE thank you to my teammates who worked so well to present this PDDU series to you all. i couldn't have better mates. they rocked this cartridge!
thank you sheena, thank you kristie, and thank you dawn,
thank you so much!
hopefully, we will do this again and  hopefully we can add some other ladies to join us.
a big hug to my mates!

NOTES:

1- i will be linking this tag today july 18th, to "Hooked on Hexagons Challenge in the Moxie Fab World"---http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2012/07/hooked-on-hexagons-challenge.html. challenge ends on July 30th.

PAPER DOLLS DRESS UP SERIES---episode 12

hello all, 

we are almost done with the series. one more episode and  "see you later, alligator"-- hehe

 next time i need more teammates to make it go faster :P

anyhow, i hope you all had a great 4th of july. 

for this episode i had to work with page #77 (which is image #49 on the overlay).

My Shepherd

is on a dcwv mat to hang on my craftroom.

the whole hanging measures approximately 5.5 inches tall 

(not counting the wire hanger)

he is so, so adorable. i love how i clothed him too.

that dcwv mat i used, do you remember them? i bought them a few years back. it is thick chipboard covered with their textured white core cardstock. i bought them in all colors. they came in boxes. well, since i am a hoarder of all kind, i still have some. i used the tim holtz embossing folder called cracked. it comes in a set of two. the other one is called checkerboard and i love both.

the trees i already had in my "stash for another day" cuts, but i cut everything else for this assigned page.

i used twine and glued it with tombo adhesive to give it form: one for the sash i used on his clothing and, the other one for donkey's leach (whom i adjusted a bit using my gypsy).

i also tailored his clothes a bit using scissors. 

---remember you can click on the picture for a bigger view---

you can see here a bit of how i played with the twine.

 that little yellow diamond shape is from a mini paper punch from g studio. i like buying those for small details like this one. 

his face was stamped with peachy keen stamps and a bit of white ink pen for the eyes and, i also used stickles for the bling.

the star was done with the martha stewart paper punch "happy birthday" but i just punched out the star part and fixed it with to my needs with my x-acto knife.

the donkey was cut on american crafts cardstock and the boy's clothing in recollection. the doll was cut in kraft cardstock.oh! the crown was cut using a core-dinations glitter cardstock.

(the reason i am starting to list the supplies is for my own future reference, lol---since i forget a lot)

 i move on to my teammates projects now:

sheena

http://lilflowerslynne1.blogspot.com/

isn't this card so pretty? 

love the simplicity of it and the sentiment font is beautiful too.

kristie

http://just2ducky.blogspot.com/

i think kristie used peachy keen stamps for the eyes too...hehe

they have so many face stamps, oh my! i do not even want to look there anymore, hehe

dawn

http://craftycraftymom.blogspot.com/

front of the card

inside of the card

---a pop up card-

YAY!

well, this is it for today's episode. i will see you next wednesday for the finale of 

"PAPER DOLLS DRESS UP".

hugs to all and thank you for stopping by the hut!

if you have time, go to my teammates blogs to see more pics of their projects.

 i bet you won't be disappointed.

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PAPER DOLLS DRESS UP SERIES---episode 11

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY TO ALL!!!

and WELCOME again to our PDDU series. we are already on episode 11, two more and we are done with it.

we decided to use blue, red and white in honor of today's holiday. i bet you will find lots of this around our blogs. :P

to celebrate it, i made a card

 (what i believe i do best :P) 

A Living Legacy

2.75 inches wide by 5 inches tall

i think the card's name is so very appropriate. i found it on my stash of g-studios clear stamps. 

i was assigned page #73 for this project and i found a mrs. claus, a gingerbread man, a reindeer, a christmas tree, mrs. claus outfit and its accesories. well, what was i going to do with christmas in july? hehe! and then for the 4th of july?

well, i chose mrs. claus headwear, rotfl.

yeap! i took that "bun" of hers and welded it using my gypsy (if you do not have a gypsy you can use the cricut craft room) and transformed it onto a flower (which looks to me like a poinsettia, lol) and used it for my 4th of july theme card. 

you see? gotta color outside the lines sometimes, wink-wink.

the banner is handmade, the star was punched out and so was the flower center (i popped that one up with a foam dot adhesive). the ribbon? i used that ribbon? because it reminded me of fireworks. i believe is from ek adornments (i think is discontinued). 

i hope you have a great 4th of july and take another minute of silence to honor the meaning behind the holiday and those who fought for it and gifted it to all of us proud americans.

now onto my teammates fabulous projects:

sheena's

http://lilflowerslynne1.blogspot.com/

so so cute!!!

kristie's

http://just2ducky.blogspot.com/

isn't this doll so beautiful?

(you can click here to see kristie's last week's project.

she was vacationing last week)

dawn's

http://craftycraftymom.blogspot.com/

what an awesome santa!

hoping you are getting a nice dose of ideas. :P

PLEASE, Have a great holiday!!!!

and do not drink and drive and no texting or talking on the phone either while behind the wheel. it just takes a second for a bad accident to happen.

---thanks for stopping by---

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