Lucky Me tribute to Jessica Fick

Back In August I was a lucky blog candy winner of Jessica Fick. She creates awesome card kits for Gina K Designs. Now I've finally gotten around to posting my tribute to her designs.

http://iembellish.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-candy-winners-announced.html

I chose to do a spin on Feel the Magic Card Kit. Here is the link to her card kits http://iembellish.blogspot.com/p/card-kits.html

Thanks again Jessica!

Caardvarks with Hero Arts Clean & Simple Challenge

I just love this this tulip stamp set. Tulips have a clean & simple elegance that I feel fits the Caardvarks with Hero Arts challenge. Check out the challenge for yourself :)

http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/2010/09/clean-simple.html

Parker's 4th Birthday

For my son Parker's 4th Birthday I made him two cakes. The first one I made and gave to him on his day you can see here ...

http://skulladay.blogspot.com/2010/07/bitrhday-skulls.html

The one you see above I made for his party. One of his presents was the Playmobil Ghost pirate ship and island. I baked a sheet cake and covered it it cream cheese icing that I tinted blue. I frosted it to look like choppy water. The sand was created my crushing vanilla Oreo cookies. I made the treasure chest with a mini Snickers bar. The X, fishes and octopus were made from Airheads candy. Then I decorated the rest of his cake with the skeleton pirate toys.

His birthday was at the end of May, but I decided to post these pictures because I was so tickled to see the other cake and treasure map card posted on http://skulladay.blogspot.com today. We did some shopping earlier in the day and saw a bunch of fall and Halloween decorations. So once we got settled at home we checked out their blog. Parker's favorite holiday is Halloween!

Magnetic Bookmark

I rarely get a chance to sit down and read a good book. I recently picked one up and every time I set it down my 4 year old little boy wanted to pick it up and take my book mark. Ugh! I've tried a couple different ones with ribbons and the basic one. Welp so far this one seems to be doing the trick! I made this by recycling 2 magnetic business cards. I pulled the business cards off the magnet part, then glued paper to them. I left about a 1/4 inch gap between them then artisan tape to "glue" them together. The gap makes it fold over nicely without extra bulk of paper. I added another strip of decorative tape for more interest and inked up the edges. Viola! This was a quick and easy project. I am now thinking I'll have to make some as gifts, perhaps monogrammed!

Congratulations

I think this little teddy bear is just precious!

For this card I used white cardstock as the base then used a brayer to make the front of the card yellow. For the "quilt" I cut up a bunch of one inch squares then glued them to a plain piece of copy paper. I then used the Top Note Stampin' Up! Bigz Die and liked both pieces so much I had to use both of them.

JustRite Friday Challenge 032: Color, Thank You Card

I love warmth of fall earth colors. Today I needed to make a masculine card and this challenge from JustRite Stampers seems to fit perfectly with the color combo. I randomly stamped a circle border from "Big Occasions Centers & Borders" to create the background. I layered a brown satin ribbon over a light olive grosgrain ribbon. the label was made with a punch, it consists of two layers, a brown layer and a wood sheet layer. I used a die to make the thank you. If you look closely you can see the shadow underneath the label from using foam tape to pop it up. Check out the challenge....http://justritestampers.typepad.com/justrite-inspiration/2010/08/justrite-friday-challenge-032-color.html

Give Thanks For Simple Blessings

For the JustRite Friday Challenge 032: Color I used their Favorite Occasions Borders & Centers
set. I love the color combination of Olive, Chocolate and Pumpkin. The brown paper was made from a paper towel that I inked all up and then used clear embossing powder to give the shine. The other "paper" was actually plain white textured wallpaper that I inked up to give more dimension and coordinate with the colors for this challenge. Yes really, wallpaper. I had the perfect ribbon in my stash. Check out the challenge for JustRite Stampers..... http://justritestampers.typepad.com/justrite-inspiration/2010/08/justrite-friday-challenge-032-color.html

{Caardvarks} Christmas Tags & Minis

For this card and tag I tried a faux bleach technique with the snowflake stamps. The sheen the glossy cardstock has is no nice. I used a swirl embossing folder and inked with a soft blue and white to give the feel of wind blowing snowflakes around for the tag. The silver ribbon just glistens beautifully.

Check out the challenge .... http://caardvarks.blogspot.com

Caardvarks Christmas Tags & Mini with JustRite Stampers

I used a plain basic tag that you can get from any office supply store as the base for my Christmas tags. The top one I used a flower embossing folder and ink to highlight the raised design and added glitter glue in random places for some bling. The second tag I used a houndstooth embossing folder and ink to highlight the design. Both cards have the cute Gingerbread man stamp from Justright Stampers set "Favorite Occasions Borders & Centers". I just love the artisan tape from that is below the ribbon. Check out their site ... http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/

Lucky Me

OMG look look look...
http://iembellish.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-candy-winners-announced.html
I have been picked to be a lucky winner of Jessica Ficks's fabulous card kits! I feel so totally lucky right now!
Wow, seriously look at her blog you'll love the kits!
Thank you so much Jessica!!!