WELCOME HOME...using my pink stamper stamps

hello all,

welcome to another of my to share projects. this time i am using a retired stamp set from my pink stamper: freedom rocks

i have this beautiful paper from my mind's eye i wanted to use today for my card.

Welcome Home
4" round

the border and flowers are die cuts from the same my mind's eye kit: ooh la la.
the enamel dots are also from my mind's eye: the sweetest thing collection.

and here you can see the my pink stamper's freedom rocks stamp. this is one of the many sentiments that come in the set.
i made the card base with my sweet treats cricut cartridge, the leaves i made with a ms paper punch and i inked all the edges with a brown ink pad. i also used a foam dot to raise one of the die cut flowers.

(the background paper is from the same mme collection)

and this is it for today,
i greatly appreciate your visit and
 "i cannot thank you enough" 
(another sentiment from the freedom rocks stamp set)

take care now and i hope your week is going good. 

A HALLOWEEN EMBELLISHMENT...using happy hauntings

Good Day friends!

i have been trying to be more productive here for you all :D

today i am sharing what you can call an embellishment for a scrapbooking page, journal, smashbook, or a front for a card, or whatever you want to use it for.

Fright Night

5 inch tall

the base, a rectangle, was made using sweet treats but you can use any other rectangle, lol. 

i cut it at 5x3 inches, twice: one to attach the pp and the other one to make a pocket  on the back to store some small pics or journaling. i cut the patterned paper a bit smaller.

the skeleton is from happy hauntings image#2 on the overlay and you will find the bones pressing "shift lock".  i then mounted him on foam tape for that dimensional look we all like.

the banner is from  gypsy wanderings and it is so cute. i had to cut the left side to make it work on my embellishment, and the right side i had to kind of hide it behind the skeleton, for aesthetic reasons, lol.----the "fright night" orange banner is from a k&co pack of embellishments i own.

i made that GORGEOUS black flower using just because cards. i wet it, i crumbled it and inked the edges with silver pigment ink from martha stewart, then added that googly eye in the center....just fabulous!

at the bottom of the patterned paper i used a border, also from martha's: the tombstone one---

oh!!! ---i forgot to mention that the so pretty glittered spider, is from a recollection pack i have in my stash. 

 and at the end, 

i was so very pleased with my embellishment and the process of it all was very satisfactory. nevertheless, i spent a few hours finicking with it. but that is me, lol.

you take care now while i come back with another project to share.

DAILY LIFE: miss lulu got attacked by another dog while walking her around the neighborhood. she is ok and did not get any punctures but i had to hit and kick the other dog for about 2-3 minutes to let lulu loose and i couldn't. in the meantime lulu was bleeding and i did not know from where: it was from her chin when the dog pushed her down on the pavement. i was screaming for help and a woman from across the street came over to help.  finally someone from the dog's house came over and after a few seconds, he was able to get his dog off my lulu. oh men! what a day. i took lulu to the vet, like i said we could not find any bites but the doctor gave lulu some meds: an antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory just in case.

it turns out the other dog goes to the same vet, is a female dog, was also rescued like my lulu. the real owner called me at night (the man was her father in law) to make sure lulu was ok and to tell me the office visit was paid for. it was a nightmare. from now on i am walking lulu with a wooden stick to hit anyone who even comes near us :)----it was ugly!

and.autumn is here and this is the view i am getting from my kitchen window right now:

the pic above is from day 1 (when i first took the pic on oct 3rd) and the one below is from day 2 (oct 4th)
see how much yellowish the leaves turned in one day?
---nature never stops to amaze me---

the tree is a locust tree.
we have another one on the other side. it has small green leaves which turn golden yellow before they fall. Next to the umbrella you see a yellow lantana. i have that plant for about 5 years now despite they are annuals where i live (zone 6b). in winter, i put it in the garage with my geraniums ( i save those too) and put it out in the spring: still in the same pot too, lol. gotta love a good performer.

this one is the golden leaves carpet on the patio,
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!
(the leaves get blown off the patio and onto the grass and then they get mowed away and put on the flower beds ---:D)

---hope you enjoyed this post and all the beauty in it---

see you later!

A BIRTHDAY CARD WITH SWEET TREATS

 a friend of my son's birthday is coming soon and i made this card for her. she was "daisy mae" on the musical "lil' abner" where my son was lil' abner.

Have the Happiest Birthday!

4.5" x 5.5"

i used the cricut cartridge sweet treats and this cake is image #17 on the overlay. 

it was cut at 2.75 inch.

the background was stamped and then stickles (glitter glue) were added on the dots. 

the tiny butterflies are from a paper punch i own. i love that little butterfly--- :-)

the sentiment is from my pink stamper from the fabulous phrases stamp set. 

this stamp set has fourteen (14) sentences. all for different occasions.

as you can see i also added stickles to the "blue icing" and to the butterflies.

the bottom orange strip was paper punched for a beautiful border.

this is the inside and this inside sentiment is NOT from my pink stamper and i really can't remember what is the brand and i am too lazy right now to get up and look, lol.

 this is the completed card. 

(i ended up rounding the corners).

 i just wanted to share it with you.

have a great weekend!

A BIRTHDAY CARD

Just Sharing an

Easel Card

for a B-day

 Using Sweet Treats 

Page #40

 Thanks for stopping by.

Love you All!

CELEBRATE

I am just experimenting with the Sweet Treats cartridge.

This card is cut at 4.37"H, the stamping is done with some 

G Studio and Martha Stewart clear stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

SWEET TREATS FAVOR BOX

This is a fun cartridge, I can see using it for many occasions.

I used my Gypsy again for this project. I am slowly falling in love with it, lol.

What I did:

I took a 12 x 12 piece of American Crafts cardstock and

cut the box base from page 47 of the Sweet Treats booklet at 4.68"H x 11.23"W.

Then, I cut the same box on designer paper from Die Cuts with a View: Peppermint Twist Collection (from last year) and cut on the scored lines to separate them. I inked the base and the designer paper.

I love inking; I love the definition that it gives to a project.

Then, I glued those pieces of the designer paper onto the box base.

I cut a strip of the same designer paper, at 12"L x 1/2", inked it and used it for the handle. I attached the handle with two small brads.

I cut 2 strips of the same red AC cardstock I used for the box base at 3"L x 3/4"W and,

2 two more at 2-1/4"L x 3/4"W. Then

took my "Sunburst" Fiskars punch and punched and inked those strips. I glued them at the bottom of the box.

I cut a piece of the same red cardstock at 3" x 2-1/4' to give the box bottom a bit more of stability. I used glue to attach it.

I punched two buttons with a Martha Stewart punch and threaded some red twine on the button holes and attached the buttons to the box bow with Glue Dots.

I used two Fiskars punches: a scallop one and a circle one to  make the front embellishment, paper pieced it, inked it and stamped it with a G Studio clear stamp. I did that for the front and the back. The size of the scallop is 2" and the circle is 1-1/2".

Then, I decided it needed a tag, so I cut the tag from the same page 47, at 2.16"H x 1.29" W.  I cut two sets because I wanted to glue the backs together so I would have the texture of the red cardstock on both sides and then I hand-wrote a "To and From" with black ink.

Thanks for stopping by!