Happy Easter

This weeks theme at Papercraft Star is Easter - include a bunny, chick or egg.

Easy right! Come play along with us! I love to see what you make! You have until 6am Eastern time Monday to link up your project. All of the designers have totally different styles which makes it so fun!

For the challenge I made a simple punch art tag using round and oval punches. I love the google eyes on the bunny. The eggs are made with digital images from our sponsor The House Across The Bay. The pink stripe is from  Elegant Stripes 181, the blue and purple is from Feeling Blue 053. The "Happy Easter" stamp is from MSE! The ribbon, twine, cardstock and tag were all from my stash.

Can you believe the color and blooms on my azalea!?! I can hardly wait to hide eggs for Parker this year!

Happy Spring

Happy Spring!
The challenge this week at Papercraft Star is Spring! Come play along with us for a chance to win some digital downloads from our sponsor The House Across The Bay!
The daffodil center of this card was repurposed from another card. I love the soft shades of yellow and the hints of glitter that it has. The Black Damask is decorative tape from Tapeswell. The New Leaf green satin ribbon is from Papertrey Ink. The base is Barely Banana cardstock from Stampin' Up!

It's time for a picnic!

I found a plain unfinished wood serving tray and spray painted it white. Next I added Tapeswell's Black Damask Tape to decorate the tray. I just love it!!! I added the tape to the bottom of a plain glass plate I found at The Dollar Tree. I also made the napkin ring and decorated the glass vase. Aren't my daffodils pretty! I just love spring. It's time to enjoy some beautiful weather by having a picnic!

I'm sharing this with Passionately Artistic, Tatertots And Jello, The Stuff Of Success and Toys In The Dyer.

Kindness

This week the challenge at Papercraft Star is Green. I had so many ideas about this one rolling around in my head on this one...golf, recycling, another St. Patty's Day creation. But alas my office is not yet unpacked and organized from our move. Sad face. So I'm sharing a card I made sometime ago. I love the sentiment "Kindness comes in many forms but always from the heart". One of the things I love the most about Papercraft Star is the kindness of the other Designers. I also love just how different all of us are as Paper Crafters! We all have totally different styles. So inspiring! I hope you will come play along this week. Our sponsor The House Across The Bay has so many wonderful digital images! The winner gets to pick two and the runner up gets to pick one from the shop! You have until 6am Eastern time Monday to play along.

Supplies:

Large Tag Punch and Extra Large Tag Punch from Stampin' Up!

Stampsets from Stampin' Up! (retired sorry I can not remember their names)

Certainly Celery and Chocolate Chip Ink and cardstock from Stampin' Up!

Ribbon and brads from stash

Lucky Me

The challenge this week at Papercraft Star is St Patrick's Day - Lucky. I hope you will show off your green! You have until 6am Eastern time Monday to come play along. You could win some digital downloads from our sponsor The House Across The Bay.  

I made the cute little leprechaun with a scalloped circle punch, hole punch and google eyes. His hat and mustache were cut by hand. The background stamp was created from a retired jumbo wheel from Stampin' Up! I also hand cut the hat shaped card. The clover was created with another retired stamp from Stampin' Up! I bought them so many years ago that I'm not sure of the name, I'm thinking Lucky Me?

I'm so happy to have Internet access again! When I logged into my email I had over 600 emails! Most were email updates from blogs or companies that I love. Things have not gone quite as smoothly with our move as we had hoped. No major issues, just adjusting to change. We almost have finished painting all the rooms on the first floor. Yay! It's starting to feel like our home. We still have unpacking to do and pictures to hang.  I've gotten the important rooms like the kitchen and bathrooms fairly organized.  At this point it looks like it will be another couple of weeks before my craft room gets touched :(

 It will be so awesome when it's done though!!!

Supplies:

Google eyes

Scalloped Circle Punch

Hole Punch

Clover Stamp and Jumbo Wheel Stamp from Stampin' Up!

Cardstock and Ink from Stash

Strawberry Muffins

The challenge this week at Papercraft Star is the Kitchen. I decided to a digital image from our sponsor, The House Across The Bay called Garden 117. I love the big juicy strawberries!


I made the card and box for the muffins as a gift to brighten a friends day. All the other supplies used came from my stash. I used a Stampin' Up! punch for the scalloped edges.


I'm sharing a recipe for my muffins. I hope you will enjoy :)

Strawberry Muffins
1/4 cup oil
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup white sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped strawberries
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees, oil an 8 cup muffin tin, or use paper liners.
In a small bowl, combine oil, milk, and egg. Beat lightly. In a large bowl, mix flour, salt, baking powder and sugar. Toss in chopped strawberries and stir to coat with flour. Pour in milk mixture and stir together.
Fill muffin cups. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 25 minutes, or until the tops
bounce back from the touch. Cool 10 minutes and remove from pans.

I hope you will come play along with us this week! You have until 6am eastern time Monday to share your project with us. We are also excited to announce a new Design Team Member Jinny Newlin! Please come welcome her!

Botanical Butterflies

I made this botanical butterfly card for this week's challenge at Papercraft Star. I just love the vivid colors of the butterflies, they look so real! I made this card using decorative tapes from Tapeswell. The patterns are called Old Script and Butterflies. I placed the Butterflies tape pattern on plain cardstock, fussy cut them out, then glued them to the cardbase. If you look closely you can see a slight shadow because the wings are raised up. I hope I've inspired you to make something with a butterfly this week! Come join us in this week's challenge at Papercraft Star! You have until 6am Eastern time on Monday to link up. Our sponsor The House Across The Bay has so many fabulous digital images! The first place winner gets to pick two downloads and second place wins one!

I'm sharing my card with Passionatley Artistic, The Stuff of Success and Tapeswell.

Supplies:

Cream Cardstock

Old Script and Butterflies decorative tape from Tapeswell

I Love You

This week the challenge at Papercraft Star is hearts. I decided to use my Stampin' Up! heart shaped treat cups to make a fun little Valentine's Day card for my son Parker. I know he'll love this card because I filled the treat cup with M&M's! Once the red tab is pulled, the candy will fall out of the inside of the card. Despite using pink I don't think this card is too girly. I think red and pink are the classic Valentine's Day colors. I used the Pink Damask tape pattern from Tapeswell to create the background. I used a retired alphabet die from Lifestyle Crafts to diecut I Love You, I think it was called Abundance.

I hope you will come play along with us this week! We have a fabulous new team member named Slyvia that is sure to inspire you! You have until 6am eastern time Monday to link up! Our sponsor The House Across The Bay has so many wonderful digital images and you could win some by sharing your talent with us!

I'm sharing my project with Toys In The Dryer, Passionately Artistic, The Stuff Of Success,

Lifestyle Crafts and Tapeswell.

Supplies:
Sweatheart Treat Cups and Full Heart Punch from Stampin' Up!
Pink Damask decorative tape from Tapeswell
Alphabet die from Lifestyle Crafts
Decorative Label Punch from EK Success
Red and White cardstock from stash
And most importantly M&M's

Just Moved

I decided to make a "just moved" card for this weeks Rustic Challenge at Papercraft Star. It's quite fitting for me this week since Chad & I are in the process of moving. We listed our home for sale had a contract on it within a week! We have been busy sorting and packing things. We found a craftsman inspired home in a great neighborhood. I love the floor plan and the huge rooms! I'm dreading packing up my craft room though!!! Ugh! Hopefully it won't take me very long to get my new craft room set up and organized. Hope, hope, hope. The new house has great bones, but we want to change a bunch of things right away. We want to paint and put granite in the kitchen and bathrooms. We want to get rid of the deck and pour a cement slab the length of the back of the house, then build a pergola over it. Lawn Doctor will need to come to help get the lawn into shape. 

I can hardly wait to shop for new furniture! I'm hoping the Paula Deen Round Pedestal Table with the tobacco finish will work for my eat in kitchen. I've been in love with it for quite some time now! We are gaining a huge formal dining room and another bedroom.

I hope you will play along with us this week at Papercraft Star! You could win some fabulous digital images from our sponsor The House Across The Bay. It's always exciting to see what everyone else makes for the weekly challenge, we are all so very different! It makes it quite fun! You ave until 6 am Eastern time on Monday to enter. The inspirational pictures are always posted far in advance to plan for the weekly challenges. I hope to see you there :)

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink stampset Board & Beams

Designer paper from Close To My Heart

Copic Markers

Happy Birthday Chad

Happy Birthday Chad!!!

I made this card for my dear hubby's birthday today. The diamond pattern was made by repurposing a beer can. After cutting it into a sheet I embossed it, colored it with Copic markers and carefully cut it to size. It's glued down to the cardstock with Scor-tape. I found the golf bag sticker at Hobby Lobby, it's Jolee's. Not sure if I spelled that correctly. The Happy Birthday sentiment was made with my new micro font die from Die-Versions.

Thank You For Your Support

This week theme at Papercraft Star is a Victorian challenge, something from the 1800's. 

I think the Victorian Women images are perfect to make a card for a friend. It took a while to put all the eyelets on the scalloped paper strips then lace with ribbon. I like the way it turned out though. I'll have to try this technique again soon.

 The corset is from the digital set Victorian Unmentionables from our sponsor The House Across The Bay. It's a black and white image that I lightly colored and fussy cut to put inside the card. I hand wrote "Thank You For Your Support" What do you think? Do you think it's funny too? I'm thinking next time I'll use the image for Breast Cancer Awareness.

 Or maybe a color it red for a sexy Valentine's Day Card.  ;)

Supplies:

Digital Images: Victorian Women 170 and Victorian Unmentionables 075  from The House Across The Bay

Pink Bitty Dots paper from Papertrey Ink

Pink Textured cardstock, ribbon, eyelets, flowers and pearls from stash

Scalloped edge punch