There's a new Kit on the block...

Be sure to check out "The little shabby box" It's a new kit club but not just any kit club it's a CARD kit club. Yup that's right. I have been doing a lot of card classes lately and a lot of my friends that aren't local to me have e-mailed me for directions and supply lists for my classes so with a lot of push and begging from yall I took the leap and started "The little shabby box" I was just gonna keep it as an Etsy shop but decided if I'm gonna leap then leap good so I started it's own site and blog. The Kits will go up on the 15th of each month. The Fall kit is already up. I will be posting some sample cards made with the kit this weekend. So be sure to check out the The little shabby box blog. Be sure to read the first blog post as there is a DT call and I know some of your are amazing card designers. I am only looking for a couple card designers and already have a lot of submissions but I didn't want any of you to miss out on the call. Hugs and thanks for the gentle nudge.
Here are a few photos of the kit.
Thanks again to all of you who pushed and nudged.. hehe Love ya lots
Elisa

Wishing you Sunshine...

With all the amazing weather we have been having lately I couldn't help but use the "Wishing you Sunshine" stamp set from My Stamp Box.


To get detailed directions on how to make this card and what I used for the clouds check out the My Stamp Box blog.
Thanks and I'll be back tomorrow with some more cards featuring My Stamp Box stamps.

Woot Woot...

I can finally shout it out loud for all of my scrappy friends and family... I am now a designer for My stamp box... I fell in love with there stamps when I received a couple sets in my DT box from Clear Scraps and when I heard they were having a DT call I just had to send in some of my work in hopes that they would love my work and I would be lucky enough to be asked to be on their DT... When I got the e-mail from them I was so excited and stunned at the same time... I got my first DT box last week and have been busy creating some projects. Which I will of course share with you soon...

Take a look at the amazing DT that My Stamp Box has...

Returning Designers:

Allison Cope (coordinator) - Canada
Cherie Nymeyer - Canada
Gudrun Loennecken - Norway
Jolene Johnston - USA
Lara Brooks - Canada
Leica Forrest - Canada
Marci Knecht - USA
Trace Geworsky - Canada
Tracey Taylor - Canada

New to the mSB Design Team:

Elisa Kammerdiener - USA
Ellen Sosnoski - USA
Kim Sonksen - UK
Liz Jacob - Germany
Nathalie Kalbach - Germany
Tina McDonald - Canada
Virginie Delbecq - France

Amazing talent on this list and I can't wait to be inspired by them all...

Congrats yall... hehe

Making Cards...

Today I sat down and made up a few cards. One of which is for this week's sketch over at 2 Sketches 4 You. I just adore the sketch that Kazan came up with.


Here is my take on the sketch...

Products used:
Bazzill Cardstock
Clear Scraps 12x12 sheets cut down to 3x1.5 using my Purple Cows 1050 trimmer
Cosmo Cricket Pattern paper
Cosmo Cricket rub-ons
Cosmo Cricket Stamp
Staz-on Black ink
ColorBox Black Bird chalk ink
Making Memories mini brads
Kaiser Crafts Black Gems
Vintage Black Lace

If you have some time join in on the sketch over at 2 Sketches 4 you. They have a great sponsor this week.

I will be back this weekend with some more cards...

Halloween Cupcake Creepers...

I have been making lots of great crafts and embellishments for my Etsy shop and these cute little chipboard Halloween Cupcake Creepers are now in my shop... I love the crackle effects on them.
If you are in my area I have a card class at Lila's Scrapbooking and More on Monday at 5pm that I think has a couple spots left. You will be making 5 cards and 5 treat bag toppers. It will be a fun filled class.

I'll be back tomorrow with some cards.

New Ad is up

The new ad is up over at Ad This. Here is my take on the ad.

Products used:
Core'dinations cardstock
Bazzill Cardstock
BoBunny Pattern papers and tags
Bo Bunny Flowers
Felt shapes unknown
Making Memories mini white brads

Here is the ad. I love all the white space on the ad and the clean lines... Check out Ad This and join in on the fun. You have till this Saturday to post your take of the ad for a chance to be the next guest designer.

Thanks for looking.

busy busy busy...

I have been so busy this past week cutting and prepping for my card class at Lila's Scrapbooking and more. There are 18 people signed up already and only 2 spots left. So if you want to get started on your Christmas Cards early this year then hurry and sign up. It's my first Christmas card class of the year. My classes for September will be a Halloween card class and another Christmas card class. Samples are already up in the store. I will take some photos of my class on Monday as well as all the new samples for the next 2 classes and post here on Tuesday.

I did got some time to play with this weeks card sketch from Kazan at 2 sketches 4 you.


Here is my take on the sketch...

Products used:
Bazzill cardstock
Foof-a-La Pattern paper
My little Yellow Bicycle scalloped tag
KI Memories chipboard tag & "shower" strip
Studio 18 Rhinestones
Making Memories ribbon
Tsukineko "Rich Cocoa" Memento Dew drop ink

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend.

Cards and more cards...

I just love the sketch over at 2 sketches 4 you this week... Laura did an amazing job with the sketch.

I loved it so much I did 2 cards using the sketch. I also dug into my scrap stash for these cards. Gotta love using up some odds and ends you have laying around. hehe


Here are 2 other cards that I did using up some scraps and left over embellishments and a couple of my Cuttlebug folders.
It's never to early to start some Christmas cards. hehe

Thanks for looking

and the winner is...

So this morning we put everyone's names in a bowl twice. Why twice because my boys thought it was a good idea. So as Joshua got to mix them up Isaiah got to pull a lucky winner.

Woot Woot... That lucky person is Beth. Woot Woot. Beth if you can so kindly send me your snail mail addy I will get a box off to you later this week with some fab Clear Scraps products and a few of my favorite things to use on them.

Thanks for everyones amazing comments. Yall made my day.

Clear Scraps Stockings and give away

One of my CHA projects or should I say 5.lol The stockings aren't new but all the Holiday mini shapes are all new from Clear Scraps. I used the stocking album for these and there are little clear boxes attached to the backs of each of these so little goodies and or a small gift can be put in them. You can click each photo to make them bigger if you like.

Lots of different products were used on these. Below is the list of all the products
Clear Scraps Stocking album
Clear Scrap Holiday mini's
Hambly pattern paper and Overlays
Pink Paislee pattern paper
Ranger alcohol inks (blues, metallic gold)
Making Memories brads (brass, gold, silver and black)
Creative Impressions star and snowflake brads
Blue Metallic dots (unknown but will find out)
zip dry adhesive

Would love to know what you think of them so leave me a message from now till midnight Monday and I will draw one lucky person on Tuesday August 11th to receive a package with clear scraps products and some fun embellishments that work well on Acrylic.

New ad up on Ad This

The new ad is up over at the Ad This blog... I am so excited that my little challenge blog has been going strong for a year now and this month it has been featured in Scrap Street magazine. So excited about it and will be keeping my fingers crossed for another amazing year. Be sure to go to Ad This to see all the layouts and for links to Scrap Street.

The twist is to have fun with the ad and to use at least 2 photos, journaling and your favorite embellishments.



Here is my take... I so love these photos of Isaiah and Rocky. I used rub-ons and chipboard as my favorite embellishments but if you know me you know that there is much more then just those two. lol

Products used:
Heidi Swapp pattern paper
Bazzill Cardstock
Anna Griffin Journaling square
Prima chipboard alphas
Cosmo Cricket rub-ons
Magic Mesh
Love Elsie buttons

Thanks for looking and I hope to see yall joining in on this weeks challenge

Today's Card

Today's Card is inspired by this weeks sketch at CPS. Be sure to hop on over there and see all the designers cards as well as everyone's cards who linked up this week.



Here is my take on the sketch...

Products used:
Purple Cows Ultimate trimmer
Purple Cows Perforated click blade 2802
Purple Cows short wave click blade 2803
Purple Cows straight click blade 2801
Clear Scraps 12x12 Clear Sheets
Hambly Overlays
My little shoebox mini alphas
Kaiser crafts "slit pea" rhinestones

Thanks for looking.

Playing with some goodies...

Well so far today my plans that I had didn't turn out so I am scrapping and playing with some goodies that I got in my Purple Cow DT box... That box or I should say boxes were packed with amazing goodies from some amazing sponsors. Today I pulled some product out of that box and was determined to get busy. hehe

Below is a card I created using this weeks 2 sketches 4 you card sketch by Kazan.

Products used:

Purple cows Ultimate Trimmer with Straight Rotary Blade, Perforating Click Blade , Short Wave Click Blade.
Dove of the East India Journey "Royal Mehndi & Cardamon" pattern papers
Dove of the East India Journey "Foreign Accents" clear stamps
Core'dinations Vintage Collection "Starry Night" cardstock
Core'dinations Essentials collection "Dandelion"
Color Box Chalk inks "Black Bird, Pumpkin Spice, Prussian Blue & Aquamarine"
The little shabby box "Rust" lace
Black embossing tape

Step by Step directions:

1. Trim Starry Night cardstock down to 5"x10".
2. Score at 5" and fold in half.
3. Ink the edges of your card with Prussian Blue and then go over it again with Aquamarine.
4. Using the Long wave click blade trim the bottom ends of your card.
5. Cut a strip of Royal Mehndi & Cardamon pattern papers down to 2 1/4"x12".
6. Cut down those strips to 2 1/4"x2 1/4" squares (You will only need 3 squares total).
7. Cut a strip of Core'dinations Dandelion cardstock down to 2 1/4"x12".
8. Cut dandelion strip down to 1 2 1/4"x2 1/4" square.
9. Using the Dove of the East India Journy clear stamps, Stamp with Pumpkin Spice on the Core'dinations square in any pattern you like.
10. Ink the endges of all 4 squares with Blackbird ink once dry adhere them.
11. Tie a bow around the center of the card with lace.
12. Add sentimate with embossing tape.

Here is another fun and simple card...

Products used:

Core'dinations Black Magic "wizard" cardstock
Dove of the East India Journey "Rajni's Pleasure & Palace Silk" pattern papers
Black Embossing Tape

Thanks for looking...

Clear Scraps New goodies...

I am just in love with all the new Clear Scrap goodies but two of my favorite items is the Cog Chipboard Album and the Clear N Chip Carson's Park. The two of them make an amazing album and using the Scrap Within Reach "Industrial Park" collection You simply can't go wrong.










The new releases are simply amazing and if you visit the Clear Scraps Site you can see the entire new release and I will have more to show this week and you can also view all of the Clear Scraps designers blogs from my sidebar to see all there fab creations. Let us all know what you think of all the amazing new goodies from Clear Scraps and ya never know you just may get an e-mail from me asking for your addy to send you some awesome Clear Scraps goodies. hehe

Ad This challenge and photoshop step by step

This weeks Ad at Ad This is a fun one... Challenge ends Saturday July 11th...


The twist this week is to change the color or colors of your photo or photos. Rather it be done in photo shop or by inking, painting, chalking etc.

Here is my take on the ad.


I changed one of my photos to black and white while keeping all of my kido's tongues red.

In photo shop elements here is the step by step.

• Open your photo and go to layer and click on duplicate layer.

• A box will open up asking to save as... You want to save as background copy.

• Making sure your background copy is highlighted to the right you want to click on enhance and then adjust color and then click on remove color.

• In your tool box that should be opened you will see an icon of an eraser. You want to click on the magic eraser and then move over to your photo and click where you want the original color to show through. Keep doing this until your photo is how you want it.

• Once done you need to click on Layer and go down to flatten image.

• Then save it

I also decided to do a digital layout since my computer was out of commission for a few weeks. I found this free "Happy go Lucky" digi kit at Shabby Princess. I also mixed in some embellishments from a free Scrap N Art Victorian kit "You don't say" by Angel Pruitt and a fun digital brush from 2 peas in a bucket Queen of Quirk "Give Freely Accents"

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

Finally...

Wow I have to say when your computer breaks down I sooooooooo feel your pain... Mine died on me a few weeks ago and I had to get a few things replaced on it etc got it back and it was still not working right so back again it went and I finally got it back yesterday and I am soooooo stoked.. LOL I swear it has been a huge pain in the butt to be without it for so long but that's life and life tends to suck from time to time...

Lots of stuff happend while I was without my comp... lol Michele my stepdaughter moved in with us. So we have been switching rooms and moving kids from one room to another etc... Never any fun but it's been great pruging things and throwing things out. LOL Plus shopping for new beds etc.

Now on to some fun projects I did with the Amazing Altered kit from Serendipity Scrapbooks.


The kit is truly amazing and filled with papers from Prima (Adriane Looman) Hambly and Glitz and embellishments from Basic Grey, Prima and Glitz and the amazing dotted embossed cardstock from Bazzill. Plus the fun album from Bo bunny and more embellishments

Wow...

I can't believe it's been almost a month since I last posted... Sorry about that but May was a busy month and then we had a family thing come up and had to deal with that and my step daughter also came up for a visit and then the modem died and we had to get a new one.. LOL I tell ya when life throws in a glitch it really can knock you out of your normalcy. So getting back into the swing of things... Here are some layouts that I have created with the amazing May kit over at Scrap within Reach.

I am working on some more cards with there amazing stamps that were in the kit... Let me tell ya they are awesome and ink up amazing.... I just simply adored the May kit. It was filled to the rim with papers, cardstock and lots of odds and ends embellishments. There June kit is also amazing. If you haven't checked out there kits yet you need to hop on over to Scrap within Reach and check em out.