Scrapping Fun with Tonya: Pearls

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

My Hero

Welcome to another challenge at Red Carpet Studio!

This bi-weekly challenge is inspired by your favorite movie Superhero!

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, RCS would like to do a shout out to all our followers who have courageously fought through a personal challenge be that a disease or a personal hardship.

THE CHALLENGE: Create a project inspired by your favorite super hero!

Challenge Guidelines:

Project must be posted during the duration of the challenge, no back linking.

Project must fit the theme of the challenge.

Link up by OCTOBER 19 at 11:00 PM US CST.

Number of challenge entries is limited to three per participant.

This challenge's sponsor is Stephanie from the DT.

A randomly selected participant will win a crafty prize from our sponsor!

My creation.........................

The basic card is a file from the new Cricut Artfully Sent Cartridge.

The front panel was not part of the original card. Using my Explore and Cricut Design Space, I created my own. :-)

The cape and banner originally had some text attached. I didn't want that look, so I used the contour feature in the software so that I could personalize it...like the front panel.

This card is made in honor of my husband. He is the strongest and most courageous person I know. He has battled cancer, a heart attack, and was diagnosed last winter with a chronic health disease (that we at first thought was cancer - again). He gets up everyday, no matter his health, and goes to work. He takes such good care of us (the kids & I) and puts up with my addiction to collecting crafty supplies & my love of animals.

Supplies:
Cricut Artfully Sent Cartridge
Cricut Explore
DCWV Cardstock
Cardz TV Stamps
Miriam's Pearls
Fluid Chalk
Memento Ink
Versamark
Embossing Powder

Make sure to link up your creation by SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2014 by 11:00 CST to qualify for this challenge! We can't wait to see what you create!

Friday, February 7, 2014

I'm a 'sucker' for you

Happy Friday!!!

It is SO cold here today....single digit highs. But the sun is out...so ALL is well in our Winter World. And because of the temps (and I cleaned the house like crazy yesterday washing the family's bedding and other laundry), today is a scrappy day for me. YAY!!!! Before I get to scrapping my bottom off, I wanted to share with you a cute little card I make a few days ago...

My inspiration for this card was two fold....the current PKS Sketch challenge (see sketch below) and Valentine's Day.

I used Miss Kate's Lollipop Couple for my focal point (and hearts). For her cute little face, I used Peachy Keen Stamps January SOTM. I highlighted the face with white gel pen and dry chalk. The lollipop is on pop dots, along with the 'floating' hearts..

The paper is from some loose 6x6 in my stash. The flatback pearls are from Miriam's Crafting Supplies.

The inside says "I'm a 'Sucker' for you."

Just perfect for a special little one. ;-)

Friday, January 31, 2014

More Cupcake Love

Happy Friday!

I wanted to share a card I created for a special little someone........

I used my Cricut (cupcake/speech bubble) and Peachy Keen Stamps (face/sentiment/hearts).

The card base is 4.25 x 5.5.

I used PKS's Sweet & Innocent faces for the cupcake. I colored her eyes in with a white gel pen and a green glitter pen.

To add more interest to the card, I stamped a heart from the January 2014 SOTM set in Versamark in on kraft cardstock.

The sentiment is also from the January 2014 SOTM set.

I think this card is just the sweetest....perfect for that special little someone who will be receiving it in the mail soon.

Flower Fun!

Happy Friday!

I am excited to Guest DT at Miriam's Crafting Blog, and to share my flower project with you!

Miriam generously supplied me with some goodies from her store, including these gorgeous bronze flowers. When I pulled them out, I KNEW I had to use them.

I am a paper crafter...so it took me SEVERAL attempts to finally decide what I was going to do with the flower.

The first thing I tried was putting a red eyelet in the middle and adding Stickles (my go-to crafty item) for some pizzazz....

I am totally in love with this flower...but I just couldn't figure out what to do with it so that the project was just as pretty as the flower itself.

Then it hit me!! COPICS!

I purchased a small airbrush gun months & months ago. But I have been afraid to 'waste' the air can. You know what I mean, right? You have this wonderful product that you just don't want to use due to fear of an inferior final product??

Yeah, me too!

So, with the airbrush, I thought I would the flower as a mask.... great idea, huh? I thought so!

I used a dark pink (RV34) Copic marker. I have been on a kick the last two weeks of using Valentine colors and making cards for the family. Naturally, I used a pink Copic. ;-)

What's great about this method IS that I have a background paper for my creation AND a great flower for another project.

After I was sure the Copic ink as dry. I cut the paper to 4 x 5 1/4 & inked around the edges with fluid chalk. Stamped "Thinking of you" in Memento ink. To give the 'flowers' a bit more pop and definition, I added some flat back pearls from Miriam's.

Here's my card.....................

It's it beautiful? I LOVE it!

Thank you for spending some time with me today, and don't forget to link up your project HERE.

http://scrappingfunwithtonya.blogspot.com

Sunday, January 26, 2014

"The Breakfast Club"

Madonna, 1987 Olympics, Garbage Pail Kids, Big Hair, Neon.......

Ahhhh.....Memories of the 80's!

I LOVE the 80's....especially the movies....

'The Breakfast Club' is one of the iconic movies from the 80's...alongside 'Dirty Dancing,' 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' & 'The Goonies.'

This week's challenge is inspired by this movie......

Create a project inspired by the morning...this could be PJ's, coffee, anything that makes you think of breakfast time.

Breakfast for me is happy, rosey-cheeked children, birds singing & the smell of bacon and coffee in the air. And since I LOVE coffee, that was my initial inspiration.

To begin....I started with the Sihouette store. I found this card file by Samantha Walker in the store, along with a DCWV kitchen paper pad in my stash...Voila! My idea was born....

I LOVE how this card came together. It's so fun...and girly.

The banner was another Samantha Walker file. I used my Silhouette software to subtract the letters from the 'flags' of the banner.

(inside of card)

(close up of tea cups on inside of card)

For the tea cup 'overlay,' I used Samantha's 4 Flourished Tea Cup Set Silhouette file and sized them to fit the tea cups for the card insert.

Pearls are from Miriam's Crafting Supplies.

(front of card with tea/coffee cups and types of coffee)

Be sure to link up your creation at Red Carpet Studio.

Thank you for spending time with me today.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Peacy Keen - "Just A Recipe"

Happy Wednesday!

It's a B-E-A-U-tiful fall day here in the upper Midwest. Enjoying it tremendously!

On this lovely day I wanted to share with you my PKS challenge creation. This week's theme is "Just Cards: Can I Have That Recipe?"

I am a mother of many. :-) So when I think of recipes, I think of my kids. And one recipe that we were exposed to when we first moved up here a number of years ago was Puppy Chow. In the South, we never eat it. It was all barbeque and sweet tea. ;-)

I used three PKS stamp sets, PKSC-21, PKSC-20, and PKSC-04. I'm not extremely happy with the way my puppy's head turned out in the picture. But I don't think I'm ever happy with my coloring. :-)

I added some liquid pearls in Hot Cocoa. The papers are from a DCWV Halloween/Fall stack.

For the details on the inside of the card, I merged to files in my Silhouette Cameo. The paw prints are just darling, aren't they?

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Red Carpet Studio Challenge

It's time for a challenge over at Red Carpet Studio Challenge Blog

Our sponsor.............

My creation.......................

I love, love this card. The circles, colors fill my heart with joy. Really! :-)

The challenge theme is to use Numbers/Letters. I decided to use both. Letters in a die cut and numbers in my paper.

I used......

Mojo Monday sketch

Paper from MME - My Favorite Things.

The Today circle and banner are cutting files from Scraptastical Kreations.

I edged the pieces with fluid chalk in Chestnut Roan..accented with Liquid Pearls.

Happy Crafting!

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Peachy Keen Stamp Challenge 13-35

Happy Wednesday!

Well, school started this week and it's been crazy around Graham Manor.

I have a high schooler who is on the dance team, first year homeschooling a Kindergartener and Second Grader, and to top off the beginning of the week, I took the 3 year old for his annual physical, only to discover a pistachio up his right nostril.

With that type of week, I am finally getting to show you my Peachy Keen Challenge creation.

This week's challenge is a photo inspiration........

Here's my creation..................

I have only make one other tag in my crafty life. :-) I LOVE this one.

I took plain manilla tag and inked with distress inks. Then, I took a peachy background stamp (PK-624), stamped with Versamark and embossed with a clear powder. While the powder was still warm, I added some dry Star Dust Stickles.

I popped a few ghosts from the PK-131 stamp set. The sentiment is from the same set, stamped in Memento Ink (Tuxedo Black).

A bit of twine and pearls..... Fin!

Think this little cutie will be sent in a care package to my BEAUTIFUL granddaughter this Halloween.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Happy Fall, Y'all

Happy Tuesday!!

I was updating our budget recently and noticed that it's just about time to start thinking about school supplies, fees, and clothing. And that means, here in Wisconsin, that fall is rapidly approaching. Now, I am not in the mood to start decorating with pumpkins and gourds. Well, I can't, or my hubby would give me the look. You know the one, don't you? So, I am channeling that energy into my creations. Best of both worlds, I must say.

Isn't it just darling? :-)

I created this cutie for the Peachy Challenge Sketch challenge. The sketch was a square, but squares are not my 'thing.' So I used a tradtional card shape.

The focus of my creation is the scarecrow. He's from the PKSC-09 stamp set. I stamped him with Memento Tuxedo black. He was colored with Copics.

Recently, I was able to attend a Copics Workshop. Since then I have been coloring everything I can. Most of my projects will probably have some sort of colored image on it, until I work the excitement out of my system.

The sentiment for my card is from SY-907 stamp set. I think it fits this image perfectly.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Relax and Enjoy

Happy Wednesday!

Today I'm sharing with you a creation inspired by the Peachy Keen Stamps challenge 13-26 -Anything Goes!

As a little girl, I LOVED hot air balloons. I had stationary, book covers, folders... you name, I had it in hot air balloon print.

For this challenge, a Peachy Keen Stamps is required. I used the sentiment, Relax and Enjoy, from the PK-206 stamp set. It think it's perfect! I stamped the sentiment in Memento Black ink on white cardstock. Then I enhanced it with Antique Linen Distress ink to better fit the feel I wanted.

I added some Diamond Stickles to the balloon. It wouldn't have been complete without Stickles.

For this card, I used a new technique to me - clouds for the background. It took me three different attempts to not have some seriously noticable errors in it. =)

The hot air balloon is from the Silhoutte Online Store, and it included two clouds. I cut those out with a scrap piece of grey cardstock. Then used them as templates with Stormy Sky distress ink for the background. I like the softer, relaxing feel that the Storym Sky gives you compared to a more traditional blue, such as Broken China or Tumbled Glass Distress ink.

I used 3 Girl Jam ribbon in Hot Chocolate to marry the background and sentiment pieces.

The hot air balloon is on some foam squares to bring it up off the background. I think it gives it more of a 'floating in the air' feel. Don't you?

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Made Especially For You's Blogoversary

Welcome to Made Especially For You's 2 Year Blogoversary Blog Hop!

If you've come from Ashley's blog, you're in the right place!

I am excited to celebrate this event with Ashley from Made Especially for You. If you don't know her, she is an awesome gal. =) She is a smart and very talented crafty girl.

I first 'met' her as I particpated in challenges she hosted at Made Especially for You. Then I got to 'know' her better as a design team member at Red Carpet Studios. Then we started this year off with a joint venture, All that Stickles. It's been kind of a wild ride, but she is fun to ride along with.

Instead of having a theme for the hop, Ashley put together a bingo board full of some of her favorite crafty things and we were to choose at least 3 of them and create a project.