Safari Animals & Some Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons!

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Hello my friends.

 Happy Friday!!! As you all know, I love the weekends. I look forward to them because that is the time I get to relax the most, craft away and spend quality time with family. But now that the weekend is here, I just wanted to update you all on a few things. Starting next week, I will be starting the "Ask Jo" feature. So please start filling out the form and getting your questions into me. I am very anxious about this and I know many of you are too. This is also a good way for you to let me know what you would like to see more of. I will also be bringing in the Funday Friday challenges. So I hope you are all ready to play along and have some fun!

Now on to some really exciting news!!

Lisa, the owner of the fairly new online store, Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons has asked me to be a Guest Designer and so today that is who I am guest designing for.  Lisa has the CUTEST cut files, digital stamps and paper and if you have not been to her site, you need to go NOW! You will not be sorry and her prices are very reasonable. She also gives way a lot of Friday Freebies! Who doesn't like free stuff right? So go check her out! Now onto my first project.

I used Lisa's cut file Side Step Card and her cut file Safari Love to use the giraffe. I just love this giraffe! So stinkin cute! I cut my card base out of some brown bazzill cardstock and I used two patterned papers(tans/browns) from Colorbok for my front panel and steps. I cut all the cutting pieces from my pazzles inspiration machine. The giraffe was cut out at 3 and 3/4", and the tag was cut out at 1 3/4"(inside frame) and 2" (outside frame). On this particular tag cut, it says "Wild about you" but I only cut the word "Wild". I cut it out on vellum and then used some glitter to sparkle it all up. I duplicated the hearts from the cut file to add more to the card. I stamped out the words, "For You" using Lawn Fawn's Claire's ABC's stamp set.I did this to not leave my first step bare.

 Here is a closer look at the giraffe. I just love him hehe. I added some dew drops to his body and gave him a googly eye. He is also popped up on some foam tape. Below is another picture of the side of the card.

 

For my second project, I created this adorable zebra card. The zebra also comes from the Safari Love cut file set. He was cut out at 3 1/2" using some bazzill black and white cardstock. Don't you just love that rose in his mouth? How cute is that? I gave him some googly eyes as well and he is on an action wobble and mounted on a standard A2 sized card. I inked all around him using some tea dye distress ink to make him stand out more from the card.

 

 

I have two layers on the cardbase. My first layer is black cut at 4 3/8" by 5 1/4" and my second layer is the white layer which was cut at 4" X 4 3/4". I ran the white layer through my ebosser and embossed it using the "Plaid" embossing folder by Anna Griffin. My sentiment "SWAK" is from the brand new stamp set "Snail Mail" by Cardz TV Stamps. My sentiment is mounted on foam tape and I added a few black liquid pearls to accent it. Below are more pictures of the inside which uses another sentiment from the "Snail Mail" set, "Just a note" and shows this adorable zebra wobbling away!

 

Well thats my cards for today! I am extremely excited to have been able to be a  Guest designer for Lisa and I highly recommend that you go visit her wonderful store Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons. She has so many cute files. So what are ya waiting for? Go look!!! LOL

Thank you for stopping by today and have a wonderful weekend!

Cardz TV Challenge #18 "I'm So Thankful"

Happy Friday! Today starts a brand new

Cardz TV Stamps challenge!

CTVS Ch#18 "I'm So Thankful"

Starts: Friday, Nov 2nd @ 12:00 am EST

Ends: Thursday, Nov 8th @ NOON EST

Details: Create a card, layout or craft project for Thanksgiving

Prize: 1 set of Cardz TV Stamps of the winner's choice

(shop Cardz TV Stamps... HERE)

Winner (chosen by random.org) Announced: Friday, Nov 9th @ Cardz TV

Here's my "I'm So Thankful" project:

 

My card is a standard A2 card 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. The papers I used here are Bazzill and Recollection's. I used my fiskar's fall leaf punch and punched a cute border on the top and bottom of my patterned paper and added some Rock Candy distress stickles to add some shine. The Turkey is a die cut that I had in my stash for a long time and it is from Debbie Mumm. I just mounted two scalloped circles behind the turkey to give him extra feathers. I colored the outer layer of "feathers" with my copics, G21& E33. My sentiment is from the "Encouraging Thoughts" stamp set from Mary's Cardz TV! The sentiment is up on foam dimensionals. To finish off the front, I added some leaves that I had on hand with a cute brown button that I added some "Cappaccino" twine that I got from The Twinery.

 

 

Here is the inside. I followed the same papers from the front of the card and I added another brown button with twine to the top. The sentiment is from the "Happy Day's" stamp set, again from Mary's Cardz TV.

 

Oh did I forget to mention that my turkey is on an action wobble??? Here he is gobblin and a'wobblin!!!

 

I hope you all decide to give this challenge a try! Afterall, One lucky winner will receive a set of Mary's stamps! If you do not want to wait to see if you are a winner and want to purchase stamps right now, you can by clicking HERE!

 

Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy your weekend!!!

Hugs,

 

 

Want to play with us? You can enter your project below or hop over to Cardz TV to check out what my Design Team Sisters have created and enter your project there!

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Cardz TV Challenge #16 "Buttons & Boo's"

Today is the beginning of a brand new challenge for

Cardz TV Stamps Design Team Ch#16:

"Buttons & Boo's!"

Starts: Friday, Oct. 5th@ 12:00 am EST

Ends: Thurs, Oct. 11th @ Noon EST

Details: Create a card, layout or craft project for Halloween using Buttons! 

Prize: 1 set of Cardz TV Stamps of the winner's choice

Winner (chosen by random.org) Announced: Friday, Oct. 12th @ Cardz TV

I am so excited about this challenge because I got to use an action wobble on my card and we all know how fun action wobbles are! So here what I created...

 

My card is standard size 4 1/4 by 5 1/2. My solid cardstock is Bazzill and the cute ghost paper is from Colorbok. I thought this paper was just perfect for my card! I used my Martha Stewart "boo" punch to make the top border on my purple layer. The ghost was cut out at 3" from the Happy Hauntings cartridge. My sentiment is from Mary's Cardz TV Stamps from the new set "Oct. 31st".

 

I really LOVE Mary's stamps! She has the best quality stamps and always thinks of everything! This set in particular has to be one of my favorites. The sentiments are just perfect for Halloween and that cute bingo card.. ahhh...the endless possibilities!  I HEART Mary! Thank you Mary!!!!

 

For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that I have been trying to use something that I've had for ages in my stash of tools and supplies on my current projects. So for this card I used the MS Punch and some "fun fur" fibers that I've had for years. I added a bit of the purple fibers above my sentiment.  To finish off my card I added two purple buttons that have some twine going through them that I purchased at The Twinery.  Oh and I did mention in the beginning of my post that I used an action wobble right?? hehehe.. here is my cute ghost wobbling away!

 

So what are ya waiting for? Get your Halloween Mojo going and link up your creation by Thursday, October 11th by Noon to get yourself in the drawing for one of Mary's amazing stamp sets! I cannot wait to see what you create! To help with some inspiration, stop on by at Cardz TV and see what beautiful projects my design team sisters have created!

 

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful weekend!

 

Hugs,

 

 

 

 

Cardz TV "Anything Goes" Challenge

Hello my friends!!! T.G.I.F.!!! I always love when the weekends get here, don't you? This weekend is even more special for me because this is the weekend that my mom and brother are leaving to drive here to Texas to come live! I have not seen them in 8 months so I'm sooo excited!!! This is also a very special post for me because it is my first challenge with Mary and CardzTV! as a new design team member!!! I'm so happy to be on this amazing and talented team!

The challenge is "anything goes" and it starts right now and ends on August 2nd at midnight EST.... Mary will announce the winner on August 3rd (by random.org) and one lucky participant will win one set of Mary's amazing cardz TV stamps! How cool is that? All you have to do to win is play along with us and link up your card before the deadline.

  If you don't want to wait to see if you are the winner and want to purchase some cardz TV stamps, right away, simply go HERE and shop away!

  So for my anything goes project.... I made this card ....

 

My card size is 4 X 6 1/2. The cardstock I used is from bazzill and the patterned papers are from Echo Park's "This and That" collection. I cut out this cute owl using my Give a Hoot cricut cartridge and cut him out at 3 3/4". He can be found on page 55. I also added some googly eyes to him, I just love adding googly eyes to all my little animals! My owl is also on an action wobble!!!! I couldn't get a good picture of him wobbling!

I also cut out the oblong frames using my elegant edges cartridge and they are popped up on foam tape. I used a banner stamp from the "Dilly Dally" set from Making Memories to stamp my banner onto some patterned paper and cut them out. I used some lawn trimmings for the string to hold my banner and to finish off my card, I used the cutest sentiment "Owl be there for you" from Mary's CardzTV stamp set, For the Birds

Well that is all I have for you today but please stop by Cardz TV and see what my other design team sisters have created and link up your own project for a chance to win some of Mary's awesome stamps!!

Thank you for stopping by my blog today!