Karber Digi Design Team!!

I am sooo pleased to announce I'm a member of Karber's digi design team!! Karber's super sweet stamps are adorable and work with so many different types of projects! They too offer prize challenges and you can use either their digi stamps, rubber stamps, or their clear stamps to enter! Please click the HERE to see their current challenge.

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This week I chose to make a Valentine card for my debut design team design using the Lollipop Leslie digi stamp. I'm a big fan of Fox's 'New Girl' show and knew exactly what I wanted to do with this image as soon as I saw it! Hello, adorkable!! If you have no idea what I'm talking about, definitely Google it! Basically it's someone who is an adorable dork. I love Leslie's huge glasses, they give her so much character! I wanted them to be big, red, and shiny! I Copic colored her in and printed a second Leslie so that I could paper piece her glasses with a two small circles of see through plastic underneath. You can't see it too well straight on in the image above, but you can see it in the picture below.

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I hope you love Lollipop Leslie as much as I do and enjoyed my take on an unconventional Valentine.

Inky and glitter fingers for all!
-Gaby

Made Especially For You design team!

I'm pleased to announced that I'm now a member of the Especially Made for You design team!! Please click the image above for a link to their blog. The Made Especially for You blog has challenges with prizes for you to participate in, as well as heaps of inspiration!

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This week with my debut project we were challenged to make a Valentine card with a tag! I started off with the stitching on the Kraft card base by just using my Tim Holtz ruler and poking a hole in every other hole in the ruler's guide. Using an embroidery needle I just ran some off white embroidering floss through. I took a dinner plate and drew a quarter of a circle to make the arch in pink and cut it out leaving the straight edge of the paper as it was. I die cut a doily, a heart, and a tag with my Cricut and adhered them on top of each other. I stamped a stamp from last month's Studio AE set on the tag and tied some Divine twine at the top of it. Then I flicked some mist paints from October Afternoon in Doily and Tattered Angels in gold by unscrewing the sprayer and flicking the tube that normally rests in the bottle. This way I got bigger dots of paint for a bolder look. I tried my best to angle them in a diagonal line ...only a few went astray! ;)



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Prize: The winner will receive up to three sets of digital Valentine's Day sentiments!


Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Sweet Stamping Treats Design Team!!

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Well I've been pretty inactive on my blog lately, though not at all inactive at my craft nook! Reason being is that I was lucky enough to get picked up on a couple design teams! Seeing as everything has to be hush-hush till the official announcements, I couldn't post anything I was working on. However, today I get to officially announce and post my very first project from the Sweet Stamping Treats digi stamp company!! You can find their store and blog by clicking here!

This week we were challenged to use their sweet stamps to make a Valentine card. I chose their super cute Tweet Hearts Roses digi. I cut two sets of two different sizes of smaller hearts on my cricut with different patterned paper. Then I layered them down and adhered them with tape runner glue. I wanted the Tweet Hearts Roses digi stamp to really stand out, so of course it went in the middle. I also punched a small heart in the bottom right and tied a piece of light pink twine through it. To balance the twine and heart out, I placed some mini red bling in the upper left part of the heart. Then I just adhered it to the other hearts with foam adhesives. Lastly I stamped a sentiment in memento black ink. Easy peasy and super sweet, err tweet! :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Inky and glitter fingers for all!
-Gaby

Insprired Stamps DT Call

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I decided to toss my hat in the ring last minute. I am not the kind of person who likes to do things last minute, but after hemming and hawing over it I thought I'd give it a go. For this card I wanted to make Inspired Stamp's Winter Ruth into a Valentine/Love card. Her hands are interchangeable with items like an ornament, cross, heart, present, a cupcake and a bible. I used the heart for this one and added some Hero Art's hearts at the top on the little flags I hand cut. Also, I wanted to give her a warm and cozy feel. Since I had some more snow pen left over from Christmas, I thought I'd give her a (faux fur) furry collar and also put some on the bottom ruffles of her dress. Then stamped the sentiment from my new Ali Edward's stamp on the flag going horizontal.

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I also needed to make some more Any Hero cards for Operation Write Home, so I thought I'd use Inspired Stamp's His Little One's Solider with a Helmet stamp. I die cut three different sizes of stars in red, white and blue and adhered them to each other. For the background of the card I stamped over and over in alternating order two scripture stamps also from Inspired Stamps. The scriptures were James 1:2 and Isaiah 30:15. Then I covered the edges of the card with see through washi tape. Lastly I made a banner and stamped thank you, as this card will be going to a random service member to thank them for their service.

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And my last project I entered with my application was this upcycled tag. I'm a huge fan of running plastic packaging though my cuttlebug for projects. Instead of tossing it into the rubbish, why not use it in a crafty way? That's what I chose to do for this winter tag using the Winter Ruth stamp and sentiment. I decided not to have her hold anything, but to leave it as is. I think it looks like she has her hands in her pockets, keeping warm. :)


Thank you so much for stopping by!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Whom do you love?

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I have heaps of left over googly eyes from making my husband Reinbeer for Christmas. So I thought I'd do a card with an owl since they've got such big eyes. I also just got a parcel today from Two Peas with Valentine's goodies inside. We all know my love of puns, so really it wasn't too hard to think of what I wanted to do for a card today!

I started off Copic coloring in the owl, nothing fancy, at all. Since the googly eyes were self sticky, I just peeled the backing off and adhered them directly to the Owl's eyes. I got the new Doodlebug Valentine's twine and thought I'd take it a lil over the top and add a teeny tiny bow to the owl's ear. Using my Cricut I die cut two hearts in two different shapes. Stamped the Kraft heart with Hero Art's woodgrain stamp using Versa Mark ink and sprinkled sea foam embossing powder on it. After I heat embossed it and let it cool, I glued it to the center of the red Doodlebug polka dot paper and set it aside. I cut a piece of Pebbles 'I Heart You 12X12 With Love Collection' cardstock about a 1/4 of an inch smaller than my Kraft card base and adhered it down. I used the branding strip on that same piece of Pebbles paper for the strip of hearts and punched a scalloped boarder of Kraft to layer it on top of. Lastly I wrapped some more of the Doodlebug Valentine's twine around it three times and adhered that portion of the card to the Kraft card base. Attached the two hearts and then the owl went on last. Finally I stamped the sentiment with Lawn Fawn's Smitty's ABCs and the card was done! :)

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Here's another variation I made with a Hampton Arts owl with balloon stamp and a boarder made out of Hero Art's Sweet Hearts Clear Stamp Set and Copics.

Thank you all so much for entering my blog candy giveaway! I can't believe I'm up to almost 40 followers! You all rock! To sweeten the deal ...If I hit 50 followers before the giveaway ends I'll add some extra "sugar" into the prize!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

Lawnscaping Challenge #24, Texture.

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Well girls and boys, it's the last Lawnscaping Challenge of the year and it's all about texture! I love texture on cards and scrapbook pages. Nothing else can quite make a paper project pop more than a touch of texture.

This image from Pintrest was my inspiration for this card. After seeing this, I really wanted to make a Valentine/Love card with embroidered hearts! :) The thing I love about Valentine items is that you can use them year round. This card could easily be a Valentine, but also works for a, "Hey, I love you!" card as well. Just as long as you don't stamp Valentine anywhere on it, but use excessive amounts of hearts.

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For my texture I decided to use embroidery, Grunge Paper, and foam adhesive. I also stamped hearts with Lawn Fawn's Teeny Tiny Backdrops in red ink over Fancy Pant's One Heart Love Story Paper. I think it added a wee bit of texture while still keeping the paper flat. For the Grunge Paper all I did was stamp the dog, fox and shakers on it and cut it out. Then I adhered it to the back of the regular card stock that I stamped and Copic colored for a bit of a dimension. After the glue dried I adhered the dog and fox with foam adhesives to the paper I stamped. Then glued the shakers on with regular glue to the animals. This way the shakers are still propped up a bit because of the Grunge Paper, but not with the foam adhesive because they were too small. The last thing I did was add a heart sticker that is sewn up the middle and set on a piece of foam adhesive.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope your holidays were/are merry and bright! It's amazing how time flies by so fast! I can't believe in a week's time it will be a new year already!

Inky and glittery fingers for all!
-Gaby

This card was featured on Lawn Fawn's Fawny Flickr Friday blog post on January 9, 2012!