Thank You!

Hello Hello!

I have a quick little post for you this morning! I have lived in Hawaii for 9 years and we are soon going to be leaving the Land of Aloha and I have many people I have to thank that have in some way touched our lives during this time, so I have been working on some thank you cards!

Here is a card that I used the Everything But the Kitchen Sink Sketch for my inspiration.

My stamps are from Practicing Creativity Designs - You're Dandy.

I love how PCD stamp, I was able to bend the kite just slightly

so it actually looks to be floating and not just a stiff rigid image

if I were working with rubber. 

I added a little peach pearl to my bow of my kite! 

Martha Stewart chunky glitter made those clouds sparkle!

The peach layer is embossed with larger polka dots 

which compliments the border. 

I also love to use buttons a lot, so I added those

on for a finish touch!

I am also playing along the Fabulous Friday Word Challenge.  

You have to incorporate the word Thanks or Thankful

or a form of it into your project.

I hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday!

~Tammy~

{Recipe}

Stamps:  Practicing Creativity Designs :You're Dandy

Paper: CS: Stampin'  UP!,

Ink: Momento: Tuxedo Black
Other: Nesties: Dies: PTI, Buttons: PTI, Glitter: Martha Stweart

Jolly Wishes...

Hi there, Friends!
I am holding my breath that this post will do so correctly! I have no idea what is going on with blogger, but my last post was a mess, and would not let me correct or change a thing. So, I am going to try and write a boring old left justified post. (yawn) It was crazy, and to make matters worse it was for my Wilson Designs release post. Eek! Hope you go over and check out Kim Wilson's cute line of stamps! They are a Hoot! :-)
I have a quick little card for you today using Wilson Designs' Snowy Wishes and Everything's Owl-Right.

I used the snowflake to create my background on my card panel as well as inside my Snow Globe! I then created my Snowlady. I added some pearls for a pretty little feminine touch! I added some rhinestones to the snowflakes on the inside of the snow globe as well as some glitter snow! At the base of the snow globe I used the flower center from Everything's Owl-Right to create a random polka-dot pattern.   

To Finish things off, I added my Jolly Wishes greeting to my card front.

Here is a close up!

I went back and forth to add some rhinestones to the sentiment panel, but I left it alone! I always like to add bling, but I went ahead and kept this more clean and simple! 

I am adding this to the Everything But The Kitchen Sink Challenge which is a color challenge this go around.

This card also works well with another challenge that I saw on Courtney Baker's blog. It's Jay Gee's Nook You can check out her inspiration challenge photo! Isn't it so pretty?

Well, I'm sending you Jolly Wishes!

Thanks for stopping by, I always love hearing 

from you!

Hope you have a great weekend!

~Tammy~

Wilson Design Stamps can be found here!

EBTKS Challenge #25

Do you ever just love it when things sort of fall in place
you weren't planning on?

Who doesn't?
I am able to play in the EBTKS Challenge because of it! 

Normally when I work on holiday cards I usually

stamp one layout and then do assembly style and

my friends and family pretty much get the same card.

This year I am all over the place with my cardmaking.
I have been working on cards when I can

and mixing it up. I am also challenging myself to try and work out of

my scrap pile to get that knocked down a bit, so my cards
are going to vary this year. Which has been really fun!

Having said all that, this is one of the cards I came up with 

using my scraps and it so turns out it pretty closely matches the EBTKS 

challenge. It sort of freaked me out

when I saw some of the postings

in my google reader this morning. Not a perfect 

match, but I march to the 

beat of my own drum anyway! What can I say, 

I love it when things fall in place!

Love the fun that embossing and bling offers!

Again, love working with scraps....fun, easy and

a quick card!

Have a wonderful Saturday!

~Tammy~

{Recipe}

Stamps:   DeNami: Solid Decorative Crest, Halloween Petit Four Stamps

Paper: Stampin'  UP!: Cardstock, DP: Making Memories

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black and Stampin' UP!, Only Orange

Other: Marvey Scallop Circle Punches, Rhinestones: Hero Arts

EBTKS #20 Buttons!

Happy Tuesday Morning! (Well it's morning for me here in Hawaii!)

One of my favorite all time embellishments to use on cards is buttons, so I was excited when I saw the new challenge from Everything But The Kitchen Sink.  

Aren't those squirrels cute? 

The girl squirrel has a little bow in her hair! 

Have a crafty day!

~Tammy~

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Hi~

It's Card Style Week at Moxie Fab World and one of the challenges Cath is having is Classy and Elegant, so I was able to incorporate the elegant colors from Kim's Off The Wall Craftiness Challenge #16 and the layout from  Everything But the Kitchen Sink Challenge #19 to bring you this card.

If you notice my background, it was stamped from Giga Guidelines from PTI then I used clear embossing powder to heat set on pink card stock. So soft and elegant!  The sentiment for this card is from Define Your Life by Stampin! UP!.

Hope you have a fabulous weekend!

~Tammy~

{Recipe}

Stamps: PTI: Giga Guide Lines, SU: Define Your Life, Roses in Winter

Paper: Stampin' UP!: Pink Pirouette, Basic Gray, Whisper White

Ink: Tim Holtz: Spun Sugar, Palette: Charcoal,: Stampin' UP!: Rose Romance,VersaMark

Other: Ribbon: Ric Rac, Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Pop Dots , Glitter

EBTKS #18 Aluminum Foil

Aloha all!

Whew, I just made it in time with little foil to spare! Seriously, I have a sliver left till I can get to the store. It's a good thing I have down sized a husband for awhile and I am not fixing big meals right now!!! {wink} 

My project didn't call for a lot of foil, just trial and error...come on you all know what I am talking about who did this project {grins}!!! After thinking over some ideas, I finally figured how how I wanted to use the foil, and then designing it didn't take me as long as trying to photograph the little number. I promise it's way cuter than I am able to do it justice!

The sponsor for this Challenge is WPlus9 and I just love Dawn's stamps. I incorporated one of her new lines with Celebrate from Mehndi Medallions. If you get a chance check it out. 

As we say here in Hawaii, it's Aloha Friday no work till Monday!

~Tammy~

3 in 1

3 in 1

This weekend was a busy one and the week ahead will be the same, so I am combing three challenges in one card so I can get the submissions in. J

The first challenge I will talk about is a new one for me called Everything But the Kitchen Sink (EBTKS) sketch Challenge #17.  I saw the Sketch and I knew this would be a fun one to play along with.

Next Challenge is Kim’s Off The Wall Craftiness Challenge #12 using the colors, mint green, black, and/or white, and red if we wanted. Here is her inspiration photo. I love her photo collages she chooses each week! J

The third Challenge is Jenny’s Wee Memories “Let’s Get Sticky”

Our challenge was to incorporate stickers, of any kind, into the project i.e. Vinyl stickers, Rub-ons, Rhinestone and/or pearl stickers, diecut stickers, etc. Anything with a sticky back! So my lovely and beautiful Red Rhinestones by EK Success covered that option. There is even one added on the flower on the purse. SAWEET! J

Note: The light is bouncing off the ribbon, so it’s not showing up, and I have tried multiple times, but there is nothing I can do to get this photographed with my current settings and equipment. On the Real Red strip of card stock I have white satin ribbon going down the side then I have layered mint green 1/8 mini dot ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks to all the sponsors! Have a good week!

~Tammy~

{Recipe}

Stamps: Papertrey Ink: Distressed Stripes, B Line Rubber Stamps: Dress Row Form, Gina K Designs: Retro Boutique

Paper: Stampin' Up!  Basic Black, Real Red, Certainly Celery Whisper White (inside card)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Real Red (inside card)

Other: SU Dimensionals, EK Success Rhinestones, Ribbon: White from Fabric Store,  1/8 mini dot mint green Ben Franklin Crafts, copic markers