Inspired By Stamping Release - Happy Holidays

Hi There!

I started with some bright and fun Christmas patterned paper and added to my white card base.  I added three panels on the left side using some fun washi tape which has been cut at various lengths. A snowflake was die-cut and embossed to provide a decorative base for the sentiment which was stamped using the scotch tape method. Finishing touches include some fun candy canes, decorated with a white button and red twine bow.

For some inspiration, I used the sketch from Merry Monday. 

Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Thanks for joining me today. I will be back tomorrow with a recap card from the release.

~Tammy~

Inspired By Stamping September Sneak Peeks

Hi! 

The first card I have for you today is using a christmas stamp, but as you can see below, I did not make a "Christmas" card. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we all know someone who has been touched by this.  I wanted to create a card to celebrate all cancer survivors and honor the memory of those that have passed. In this case, I am getting more bang for my buck by using the stamps for things other than Christmas here.

I chose to create a 5 x 5 card and really wanted the focus to be on the message, so I kept  it fairly simple. I started with a white card base adding another white panel  to the center of the card front that has been randomly stamped using a doily. Using Angel Pink ink, I stamped inside my die-cut circle the hash mark ring which is from the soon to be released Halloween tags set and completed the focal image with the Hope sentiment. For a finishing touch, a pink ribbon was created embellishing with a button.

Being a military spouse, I know what it's like to have a loved one away often more than I care to think about, so I created a Welcome Home card with a patriotic feel.

I took a panel of red patterned paper and added it to the center of my Buff Ivory Coverweight Cardstock.  At the top, two scallop borders were cut from navy blue stars patterned paper. Red and white buttons were added as a decorative touch.

A star was cut from burlap and added to the center of the card to serve as my focal image for the Welcome Home sentiment that was created.  A final decorative touch included some beautiful blue rhinestones.

I created some mini grocery bags using Lunch Bag Kraft to display these fun little sayings. They are the perfect size to hold little treats at Halloween.  These are easy to whip up and could make darling little treats for the neighborhood kids, school classmates and staff....how about a Halloween party?

I will be back tomorrow with another post! Hope you will come back by!
~Tammy~

Paper Sweeties Fun Wishes

Hi!

I am over on the Paper Sweeties blog today with another creation using Emma in celebration of their second release that is just a few days away! I won Miss Emma and one of her sweet outfits during the launch of Paper Sweeties last month. They are adorable and so fun to paper piece! :-)

I started with a cream card base and piecing together the pink stripe and aqua polka-dot patterned papers from my scrap pile.  A paper doily was added to the center of the card front adding a strip of yummy tickets.  A row of chocolate buttons were added to the bottom of the tickets. 

 Emma was paper pieced with some fun papers hanging out in my scrap pile. I used colored pencils and mineral spirits to bring her to life. Her pigtails were adorned with some pretty pearls! Finishing touches include a die-cut heart made from burlap, beautiful pink and aqua flowers and some leaves that have had a touch of glitter added for a little extra sparkle and shine.  The sentiment "Fun Wishes" from You Are Fabulous was added to the lower left corner for a finishing touch. 

I am also joining over at Pixie's Crafty Snippet Challenge. More goodies from the stash pile.
My Mum's Craft shop - Buttons

Be sure to check out the Paper Sweeties blog for the latest on these cuties! 

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

~Tammy~

Paper Sweeties Blog Hop - Have a Beautiful Day!

So glad to have you along on the Paper Sweeties blog hop with  My Time Made Easy ™ LLC

9/11

Today is a day of remembrance, and a time to thank all of those who have served our country. Past, present and future, the words ‘thank you’ don't seem to be enough. Many people have given so much of themselves, to work tirelessly to preserve our freedom and protect our country.

Today on 9/11 we take a moment to remember those who lost their lives that tragic day, and the families they left behind. We take another moment to honor all of the individuals who helped that day, and who are, or who have served our country. Today we remember.

In honor of all these individuals and their families My Time Made Easy ™ LLC and Paper Sweeties has organized a Blog Hop with *NEW* products & projects to inspire you to create gifts for our Troops, or that special someone!

My Paper Sweeties creation had to be Patriotic as we reflect on this tragic day 11 years ago that I know will forever be etched in my memory.  

I have used Paper Sweeties Emma! Isn't she lovely?  I started with a Lunch Bag Kraft card base and added some white paint for a shabby touch. I pieced together a wonderful collection of papers from my stash that works well for this Patriotic little number. I then added some eyelet lace trim in white to the center of my card front.  A length of red polka-dot ribbon was wrapped around the card face and tied in a bow embellished with a white button which has been laced with hemp twine completed in a double bow. 

I then took a paper doily and added a Lunch Bag Kraft circle to the center and adhered to the left portion of the card embellished with one darling papercrafted Emma and red, white and blue buttons to frame her with!  A patterned paper fan rosette with button was added to the lower right portion of the card. 

Last, but not least, a hand-cut sentiment banner was created using the scotch tape method for customizing your stamps.  

Thank you for joining along with us for this special commemoration blog hop ! I hope you have enjoyed your visit!

Please see what all the following designers have made using the *NEW* products:

My Time Made Easy ™ LLC

·  Lauren Meader – owner My Time Made Easy

·  Kimberly Morrow

·  Lisa Kind

·  Tangii Crain

·  Tina Hale

Paper Sweeties

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – owner Paper Sweeties

Andrea Ewen

Char Cundy

Jeanne Jachna

Jinny Newlin

Pattie Goldman

Additional designers:

Tammy Hobbs  (That's me)

Melissa Phillips

Nicole Segnere

Rebecca Deeprose

I was personally inspired and adding this to Your Next Stamp element challenge. Pixie's Crafty Snippet Challenge.

I hope YOU "Have a Beautiful Day"

~Tammy~

The Kraft Journal 87 - Autumn Colors

Hi there!

Woohoo! This card was selected as DeNami Designs Top Three on 9/25/12!

(This is my second post of the day for my Shabby Tea Room Guest Design Post you can click here! :-))))

The Kraft Journal is having an Autumn Color challenge, I thought this challenge was the perfect time to get a head start on Thanksgiving Cards! J  

I started this card by using Lunch Bag Kraft cardstock cutting a piece of fluted corrugated kraft cardstock which has been painted with white acrylic paint then adding to the Lunch Bag Kraft card base. Next I  die-cut a piece of pumpkin orange cardstock using my lacy oval nestability to frame the beautiful fall print patterned paper which was cut using a standard oval nestability to serve as the focal point for the golden leaves and paper pieced  small brushed pumpkin from DeNami Designs.  

Using Lunch Bag Kraft cardstock, I  hand-cut a banner for the Happy Thanksgiving sentiment also from DeNami Designs.

For a finishing touch, I embellished the card with buttons, a brown gingham ribbon and twine bow. 

I hope you will play along with our Autumn Colors challenge this week at The Kraft Journal.  All those that participate in our challenges for the month have a chance to win a $15.00 gift certificate from The Kraft Outlet....and you also get a chance to be considered for The Feature Me Friday artist post on The Kraft Journal blog! 

I am also entering this into The DeNami Theme challenge - Anything Goes, and Inspired By: Textured Dish Towels.

Thanks for visiting me! Have a fantastic week! 

~Tammy~

The Shabby Tea Room - Creative Candy

Hello Hello~~~

I am back with my second post for The Shabby Tea Room this month. I am still trying to figure out where last week went. Just gone!

As always we have a gorgeous inspirational photo to get those creative juices flowing!  You will need to use the colors in the photo and include LACE, FABRIC and a BUTTON! 

Here is what I have for you. I apologize for the poor photograph as it was raining cats and dogs when I took it. No helpful natural light. 

Here is the inspiration!

Look at all the yumminess in the inspiration photo. 

I started with a cream card base and I layered on top my beautiful blue patterned paper.  I cut four scalloped rectangles from my beautiful calico material and added to a coordinating blue paper embellished with a doily!

A length of pink scalloped ribbon was wrapped vertically around the card front and tied off in a bow embellished with a button, twine, and a tag.

A tag was created from cream cardstock using a Sizzix die and stamped with some Crafty Secrets goodies from the set Material Girl. A trim of pink, gingham ribbon and a button was added to the top of the tag for a finishing touch. 

Don't forget to head over to The Shabby Tea Room to see all the delightful Creative Candy from the design team. 

I am joining over at Pixie's crafty Snippet challenge.  We will see if I can a turn on the swings. 

Hope your day is a crafty one. I will be back in a few hours with this weeks The Kraft Journal post. 

Till then!

~Tammy~ 

Wohoo Wednesday - Stretch Your Stamps

Hi!

(So happy to find that this was chosen for the Quasar Award at Papercraft Star on 9/11/12)

I have a simple tip and trick on how to ink only part of your sentiment stamps without cutting them apart. Many times we have the perfect sentiment in our collections, but we only need to use part of it or maybe would like to use different colors to add visual interest. This really stretches the use of your stamps and no need to cut the words apart to achieve this goal.  It’s the perfect way to customize what you have.

Gather some well loved sentiment stamps!

You will need scotch tape, ink, and the item you are going to be stamping on. In my case, it’s a tag that I have created.

You are going to place a piece of scotch tape over the portion of the stamp you DO NOT want to ink up. This is a pretty neat trick to achieve only stamping part of your sentiment.

As you can see the left side with the ink pooling is the side with the Scotch Tape.

Be sure to pull the tape off before you stamp the image.

The cool thing about this technique is it allows you to mix fonts and sentiments from different sets to keep it interesting and get more bang for your buck!

Here is the completed sentiment tag! The edges have been distressed and the flower was stamped using the “Stamping Off” technique.

Here is a card I created using this fun sentiment tag!

Some close up details!

Hope you enjoyed this quick little tip! It’s a fun way to customize sentiments without cutting your stamps apart.

I am going to join this card over at Papercraft Star - Something Girly

 

and Pixie's Crafty Snippet Challenge.  All items created from the scrap pile from pervious makes.

Thanks for stopping by!

~Tammy~

Some More Exciting News!!! The Kraft Journal 86 Shape It Up!

**This is my Second Post of the day...For my The Shabby Tea Room Guest Designer post click here or scroll down**

Hello Friends~

I can finally spill the beans on some news I have kept under my cap for awhile now! I am joining The Kraft Journal Design Team! Since I love all things Kraft this is a perfect match for me! I hope you will join along with me in the weekly challenges. 

So let's get started!

For today’s Shape It Up challenge, I thought I would create a "shape" card! I started this card by using an apple template with a Buff Ivory Cardstock base and pieced the apple, stem and leaf with patterned paper, adding  Lunch Bag Kraft cardstock to the upper portion of the apple. The Lunch Bag Kraft cardstock has been punched using Martha Stewart's drippy goo to resemble a Caramel Apple. I was totally inspired by a talented blog friend Martha. Click here to view!   

A distress tool for the cards edge was used and then I added some vintage ink to further complete the distress look. Next I stamped a whimsical sentiment “school days” by Unity to the upper left portion of the apple. For a finishing touch, I embellished the apple card with some red buttons and twine. 

Please be sure to visit The Kraft Journal Challenge Blog to check out all the beautiful work by my new teammates. I hope you will help me kick off my new adventure by participating in The Shape Up challenge! I can't wait to see what you create. The only requirements are to follow the challenge theme and use Kraft somewhere in your project or products from The Kraft Outlet.

I am also joining in at CAS-ual Fridays - Top of the Class. The Pink Elephant - Use Patterned Paper

Hugs,

~Tammy~

The Shabby Tea Room - Labor Of Love

Hi everyone!

This month I have the pleasure and honor of guest designing for The Shabby Tea Room.   Today we have a gorgeous inspirational photo for you called Labor of Love! For the challenge,  you will need to use the colors in the photo and include a banner.

Here is what I have created for you today!

Here is the inspiration. 

As you can see, I was totally inspired by the photograph! The best part is I shopped my scrap stash for every last piece for this number! Most of the papers I used here were pieces leftover from invites I created for my son's birthday party last fall. The blue stripped paper is by Lush and it's just that.....velour stripes! Yummy! 

The banner is made from pieces and parts as well as a page from an old vintage book. The fence was created using a cereal box headed for the recycling bin. I added some white paint and sanded it to give a worn look. 

Please be sure to stop by The Shabby Tea Room to see the beautiful inspiration they have for you!  Thank you to Debbie for having me guest design this month! 

I am joining over at Pixie's Crafty Snippet Challenge to play on the monkey bars! Also at The Pink Elephant - Use Patterned Paper.

Hope you have a wonderful crafty week!

~Tammy~

September Cupcake Craftoom - Pretty Pastels

Hi!

Welcome to the September Cupcake Craftroom monthly challenge! This month's challenge is Pretty Pastels. I have used some new papers in the Cupcake Cards and Crafts store. 

Here is what I have to share with you using a sample of this collection.  

I started by creating a card base using the Pastel Blossom sheet as my card base. I then took the Lemonade Polka dot patterned paper and cut a negative in the center using a scalloped nestie. 

As you can see from this close up, I  had some fun with twine and I used that in the background for my darling little dinosaur from Paper Smooches which was paper pieced using the Pastel Chevrons print. I added some buttons, and I created a sentiment banner also from Paper Smooches using Light Pistachio. 

You have all month to show us your work using pretty pastels. We hope you will link up and play along with us. We can't wait to see what you create! 

Joining in at  Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

I hope your September is off to a fine start! This month is super packed with activities! I am not sure I have switched off of Summer mode yet!

Big Hugs,

~Tammy~

You Light Up my Life

Hi!

I am still running from one activity to the next, but I did manage to squeeze in some time to make a quick card! I saw the Tuesday Morning Sketch for the week and I had in mind what I wanted to do with my little spin on it.

I started with a Lunch Bag Kraft card base from The Kraft Outlet and added some vintage white paint to the edges. From my stash, I added a piece of Graphic 45 paper to the card base and started embellishing with some pretties. Just a look at some of my favorite things! :-)

I took some recycled corrugated cardboard and die-cut a butterfly and added some vintage white paint embellishing with a mini clothes pin and a rose from The Inspired By Stamping store and added to the center of my burlap rectangle.

Finishing touches include buttons, pearls and a sentiment from Practicing Creativity!

Here is the inspiration sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches. 

I am also joining on the playground for another go at the swings at Pixie's Crafty Snippet Challenge.

I hope you have enjoyed this quick little make. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Hugs,

~Tammy~