Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Magazine Special Blog Hop

Good morning! Welcome to a very special hop - to celebrate the amazing people that have are connected someway to Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking Magazine. Even with the news settling in, the crafty world is still reeling a little with the news - but the best plan seemed to be to channel that sadness into something amazing to celebrate the amazing part that this community has played in all of our lives.


This is a HUGE hop, but if you started at the beginning, you should have arrived here from Wendy McGaffey.

I chose to use a card I made for the last publication call that never made it to acceptance emails. I felt like this captured what I loved about this community - it brought us all together, from so many corners of the world! I did travel the world with this publication, from the amazing projects of those from around the world that were published, or entered any of the many contests and challenges there were opportunities for. I was stretched, I grew, and I wanted to be better - spurred on in many ways by this amazing magazine, the editors, the Go-to-gals, and everyone else who submitted and cheered each other on.

For this card, I stamped this amazing image from Neat and Tangled on watercolor paper, and painted it in with Watercolors. I went for an ombre effect, making the top darker, and fading as I went down. The sentiment was heat embossed in white on black cardstock, trimmed, and adhered with foam adhesive. Added a little black mat, then mounted with foam adhesive on my pattern paper from Glitz Designs.

Thanks so much to everyone who has played a part in my life, and the life of so many others through this publication! Wishing each of you the very best, and looking forward to following you all through social media - so thankful that it makes the world a little smaller too!

Your next stop in the hop is the amazingly talented Cristina Kowalczyk. The entire blog hop list is below if you are following the entire thing! :-)

AEI{HEART}U Challenge - Inlaid Die Cutting

Good morning! It's time for a new AEIHeartU Challenge, and this month the theme is a fun technique called "Inlaid Die Cutting":

I love this technique, because it is a fun way to have lots of layers of paper, and still have a completely flat and mailable card! 

For my card I started with the Pinked ELLE-ments Dies and cut an angled panel out of gray and cream cardstock, then Simply Said Hello Word Die out of the cream, as well as red and blue cardstock, then fitted them together on my card front.

Finally, I stamped the word "gorgeous" using Simply Said Hello, then added bit of sparkle with some shine mist spritzed over the top. This last photo shows really well how perfectly flat my card is:

Thanks for stopping by today - I hope you'll join us and play along!

Merry and Bright Chalkboard

Good morning! Hard to believe that it is Friday already - hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Just sharing my card this morning for Unity Friends with Flair:

I also thought I would play along with the current Unity {be inspired} Challenge:

I used the October 2013 Kit of the Month for this one - one of my favorites for Christmas images! I did it up with a chalkboard technique, then added some pretty May Arts ribbon from my stash, a bit of silver thread, and some silver jingle bells tied on.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!!!

My Craft Spot Black Friday Sale

Hello! Hope you are all enjoying a super Happy Thanksgiving with your families! Also wanted to share a special sale with you - over at My Craft Spot! Here are the details:

Click HERE to go shopping!

 You must enter through the above link to get this discount or enter the following html in your browser:  

http://mycraftspotshop.com?code=MCSBLACK

Click HERE to go shopping!

MCS Challenge - Thanksgiving/Fall

Good morning! A new challenge is starting this morning at My Craft Spot, and this week the theme is Thanksgiving/Fall.

Today is the day we are leaving the wonderful town that has been home for these past 2 1/2 years. Our hearts are so full of thankfulness for the wonderful friends, memories, and church family we have enjoyed in our time here, and also thankful that since the Lord decided to move us, he moved us back near our families in Washington as well. Definitely a bittersweet parting - but we are thankful for it all nonetheless. This card couldn't sum it up better:

Super simple, but I love the non-traditional colors! I layered two pattern papers from an MME paper pad, heat embossed my sentiment from Fall Leaves on vellum, then attached them with some simple machine stitching. That's it! These would be super simple to mass produce as well! :-)

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!!!

Rustic Deer Note Card

Good morning! Stopping by to share another card that I had all ready to submit to the recent publication call to Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking Magazine - and now have free to share here...kind of sad still, but trying to think positive!

I am also linking this up with the Simon Says Monday Challenge - To the Moon (because of the stars!):

I used a fun stamp set from Unity Stamp Co called He's a Wordy Buck - LOVE deer, and this one is so cute and fun! I heat embossed him on vellum with Ranger Platinum embossing powder, then stitched him to a rustic woodgrain panel of pattern paper from a Crate Paper paper pad. I also distressed the edges of the woodgrain paper. Finished off with a tiny Tim Holtz paper clip, some jute twine, and wood veneer stars.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a wonderful weekend!

Beautiful Day Fall Leaf

Good morning! Happy Friday! Just sharing my card this morning for Unity Friends with Flair:

For this card, I used the leaf from the August 2013 Kit of the Month, and a sentiment from the September 2013 Kit of the Month. I stamped on my cardstock, then debossed with a PTI woodgrain Impression Plate, then added some Stickles. Pattern paper is by Glitz designs, and a bit of washi tape and a few sequins finish it off. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful week!