It's Your Day *TSTR #162 "Pretty Shabby"*

Hello, I wanted to share with you today my shabby chic card inspired by this week's The Shabby Tea Room #162 "Pretty Shabby" Challenge. So when I check out the week's photo inspiration, I tend to lean towards the photo completely. I guess it is because when I am making cards in general I am inspired by photos...so once again here is what I think looks like the photo (below). I used lots of Cheery Lynn Diecuts on this 5 x 5 card. The butterfly, the roses, the kraft leaves, doilies and the beautiful window. The branches behind the leaves are from Spellbinders "mixd media elements" by Donna Salazar.

This week's challenge was to use the colors in the photo as well as something recycled. My recycled item was popsicle sticks. I used 4 in total. Two are the base and two were cut up in 2 inches and layered sideways for the steps with pearls on the ends. 

Here is the photo inspiration...see what I mean! lol

All the bottles were cut with my cricut "walk in my garden" vases at 1 inch in turquoise and white cardstock. I then added diamond glaze to the tops for a glossy and water look. All the tiny flowers were made with a punch bunch and I added pearls in the centers. 

Here you can see the true dimension to this card. I made the tag with a new diecut from Heartfelt Creations and the sentiment was stamped from a wine stamp set. I tend to use the computer quite a bit for my sentiments and almost did again but then I found the perfect size stamp for this small tag. :)

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you get inspired by the photo as much as I did too! 

Have a great evening. 

Hugs...

Heartfelt Wednesday's *Bon Voyage*

Can you believe it is another Heartfelt Wednesday? I tell you I sometimes don't know where the days go? Well, I usually work on my projects on Saturday's since that is the day I'm off to work on them for sure....and I usually finish them in the same day...thank goodness because we have deadlines to make for the DT....Well, this card was made way earlier....I guess it is because it comes easier for me with this new "Balmy Breeze" collection. I just love the water and everything about it. So this card is more for a man with no flowers, ribbons or anything girly. I rarely do cards for men because I have a hard time making them but, i really like the way this card came out today. :)

Lots of embossing on this 5 x 5 card, but the good news it only took about an hour or less to make. 

Beautiful stamps and so refreshing even if it is black and neutral colors. Love the little anchors too. My daughter helped me with the title/sentiment. She speaks fluent French...so that was her inspiration for a title. Thank you Roxy! Muah!

Thanks for looking...have a great week! Be sure to stop by Heartfelt Creations Blog for more beautiful cards and projects from our DT. 

xoxo

By The Sea *GDT Cheery Lynn Designs*

Hi...Happy Saturday! It's Lisa back again guest designing with another card for Cheery Lynn Designs using some fabulous diecuts! Since, I had some store credit for designing this month, here are a few of the beautiful diecuts I received just a few days ago. It is soooo hard to chose a few when I want them all! I have been in this beach mood lately, but I didn't want to use the same old beach theme colors like blues and oranges. So I chose red...after all it is my favorite color and I just love those red beach chairs that you sometimes see at resorts. 

I wanted to use a window and I love the beautiful fancy scroll work on top. This diecut is called "Window A" and the possibilities with this diecut are limitless. The doily in the background called "French Pastry" is one that I have wanted for a very long time because I use doilies so often for many of my projects and now I can make it in different colors to match perfectly. :)

The flowers are part of the stacker collection and this one is "Stacker Flower #2" I was happily surprised to see the size of them...I was thinking that they would be a bit smaller....I'm so glad they were larger than I thought. :) I cut up the "Fanciful Flourish" in a couple pieces to layer the greenery a bit. I then added some real shells. The stamped images are from Heartfelt Creations it is part of their new collection this month. Last but not least, I added a tiny tag with a sentiment printed from my computer.

Hope you enjoy the rest of your day and weekend. I will be attending a local scrapbook convention today and hope to buy more new Cheery Lynn Designs Diecuts....Love them! 

Maybe see you there! 

Hugs, Lisa

Products Used:

SF-2 Stacker Flower #2

DL 102 French Pastry

FRM 141 Window A

B117 Fanciful Flourish

Heartfelt Wednesday's *New Balmy Breeze Collection* Count The Waves

Welcome to another Heartfelt Wednesday! 

We're absolutely delighted to bring you the Balmy Breeze Collection. Old world vintage has been combined with tranquil seaside scenes (including a rustic compass, beach chair, fantastic surf, beaming lighthouses) and the Balmy Breeze paper pack, composed of a neutral color palette of peach and mint hues. This set is perfect for the crafter that loves creating vintage projects or for the stamper looking to create a project for her favorite man.

Leave a comment on the Heartfelt Creations blog by April 16th and you will be eligible to win the entire release valued at $180.91

There are lots of minty blues in this collection but there is also this peach colored patterned paper that I wanted to use for this particular photo because of the colors of the sunset. So I kept most of the colors in creams and kraft paper. 

The stamped chair is really feels like your at the beach and I just love the small anchors with matching diecut. The tags are part of the new collection and it is great for journaling and titles. Especially for me since I tend to run out of room....lol

These flowers are "lily petals" and there is also a matching diecut. I have used them before for a beach theme. I also had to add some real shells and fishnet. The swirls are from "bella rose" diecut and I just cut off the swirls from the leaves.

Check out those beautiful seagulls, decorative lattice and compass...all part of the new collection. If you are like me...there is lots of stamps to make all your beach themed projects come to life. 

Dont forget to check out the new collection and your chance to win it too at the 

Heartfelt Creations Blog. 

Have a great day! 

xoxo

Butterfly Kisses For You *GDT Cheery Lynn Designs*

Good Morning everybody! I was so lucky to win the Easter Challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs last month and to my surprise I was asked to Guest Design for Cheery Lynn for the month of April. :) So here is my first card for the month using lots of Cheery Lynn products. I started buying them last year and I'm slowly building up a collection...I sure do love them because they are so delicate and really cut so nice. It is really hard to pick which ones I want because I want them all! This card was inspired by today's challenge at Cheery Lynn Designs Blog "Nature" and springtime. I bought this paper years ago and it has been sitting around for quite some time...but it was perfect for today's card. Purples, blues, yellows and white really made me think of spring.  

So, I used 5 different Cheery Lynn diecuts on this card. 

B127 Tropical Flourish

DL153 Polynesian Sails Oval

DL113 Exotic Butterflies Small #2

DL129 Border Carnivale

DL103 Italian Flourish

The card is 5 x 6 inches and I cut the edge with my MS punch, I have been looking for new edges to my standard 5 x 6 inch cards and I love the look of using the punches. Plus it works so great with all the diecuts too. The little tag I printed up on the computer with purple ink.

Here you can see a closer view of all the beautiful diecuts. All the flowers are part of the patterned paper and I just fussy cut them out and layered them throughout. I also added little pearls on the butterflies, tag and on the top left hand corner. 

I hope you feel the warm spring coming your way soon!

Thanks for stopping by! 

xoxo

Heartfelt Wednesday's *Missing You...*

So today for Heartfelt Wednesday, I wanted to share with you a very special layout that I made in memory of my daughter's loss of her boyfriend last month. This is a photo of Nick and Erica a few months back and it is one of very few photos I have of them together. They looked so happy together and it still is a great loss to everyone who knew and loved him. So I titled the layout "Missing You" since that is how we all feel.... The beautiful papers are from Heartfelt Creations called "posy patch" and they are just lovely. I fussy cut out lots of flowers and I added lots of diecuts. 

Here you can see the "posy patch" paper of the bird and flowers. There are great stamps if you want to color the bird and flowers a different color. However, I wanted to use the papers to show the beautiful pre-made colors for you. Behind the bird is a diecut called "timeless amour" it is a beautiful heart that is a must have in your collection for all kinds of occasions. 

The sentiment is a stamp from "classic messages" I just love the font and I layered it with "fancy framed tags two"...the bling is from ZVA and you can also buy it through Heartfelt Creations.

I framed the photo in teal and then used "romantic rectangles" in black cardstock. You can also see I stamped flowers in teal for a bit of contrast. There are "vintage floret" flowers stamped on the "posy patch" paper and I added gala glitz in the centers. 

It has been a really long time since I last made a 12 x 12 layout because I have seemed to have lost my mojo for them for a while....however, I am so glad it came back to make this photo special. 

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to stop by Heartfelt Creations Blog for new projects from our DT.

xoxo

Sweet Baby *Mojo Monday #287*

Hi, this morning I wanted to make a new card for a friend of mine who is going to be a grandmother...wow! Does our children grow up fast or what? So this past weekend was the baby shower and unfortunately I wasn't able to go but I wanted to make a card for her daughter and send a gift. She is planning to have a boy...however, I started to make a blue card and ended up neutral.

This card sketch is from today's Mojo Monday #287. It is already the beginning of April....spring is around the corner for everyone...I'm lucky it get it early here in Arizona :) The papers are from Anna Griffin and they are so soft and beautiful for a baby card. The sentiment is from Verve stamps called "treasured words" I love all the different cards you can make with just one wonderful stamp set. 

I couldn't help myself and add lots and lots of pearls throughout. The sentiment is stamped on "lacey circles" and the side matching oval is "lacey ovals". I had literally one cream flower left from a Prima set and I added one more pearl in the center. 

Here is a side view and I'm working on the inside now....

The fabulous sketch for this week...Thank You Julee!

Have a great Monday! 

xoxo

Happy Easter!

Well, I sure hope everyone is having a nice Easter with family and friends. I usually cook dinner early so we can nibble all day...except this year my daughter isnt coming over till later and my other daughter has to work. :( So I decided to make dinner later....also because silly me put myself on call at work till 6pm...duh??? I didnt even realize it was Easter....Oh well, so far I have been lucky and not called into work...one more hour left...lol In the meantime, since I didnt want to start dinner and get called in...I decided to make one more Easter card for the year. I think I will give it to my daughter who cant be with us tonight...

You know I really didnt have any ideas on what I wanted to make today...i just kind of threw all this pieces together and I used some super old patterned paper that I totally forgot about....you know what I mean? lol

It is a 5 x 5 inch card and I used lots of diecuts throughout. The bunny is a coloring book image that I found online and attempted to color it with copics...guess it will have to do...

I added pearls around the image and liquid pearls on the egg and around the sentiment. The flowers are part of my old stash and I just added rhinestone brads in the centers. I did use liquid applique for the bunny tail....I just love that stuff!

Well, have a great rest of the day....Happy Easter!! 

xoxo

Happy Easter *Easel Card*

Good Morning and Happy Easter Weekend! This week has been super busy at work and I was trying to work on this week's Mojo Monday #286 sketch. Im in the spring mood and with easter right around the corner...I wanted to make another bunny card with eggs. I looked around my scraproom to see what I had and then I remembered these foam pieces that I bought years ago from Michael's. It came in a big foam box so I have lots of them left. I thought why not use some more up? I added little flowers to the top of the foam using my "punch bunch" and then added liquid pearls in the centers. 

So this is my First Easel card. I have always liked the way they looked but never gave it a whirl....I cant believe how really easy they are to make? This card is a 5 x 5 card. I also used lots of punches for the grass, lace and fence. The diecut sentiment was made on the computer using 2 fonts and the background tree is from "memory box" called "swirly tree".

I basically did the inside like the front to match and I used a bigger "labels twenty" for writing inside too. Don't forget to use some foam underneath for the card to stand up. 

Here is a closer view of the foam pieces, simple and yet adorable. All the patterned paper is from Martha Stewart. 

Here is the choices of sketches for this week Mojo Monday...the ideas are endless.

Thanks for stopping by....

Have a great day and Happy Easter! 

xoxo

Heartfelt Wednesday's...Beyond The Horizon....Hope Awaits

So today, I wanted to share my zodiac sign with you. I'm a cancer, I was born July 20th...and all of us crabs love the water. This card reflects my love for the water....and it is this week's project for Heartfelt Creations. I loved the stamped image and once again like the week before I wanted to focus on the beauty of the stamp. I did color it a bit with copic markers but it was not too bad...especially since I can't color to well! I only used 3 markers....one for the water and 2 for the wood/boat. 

I have had these swirls from my designing with Donna Salazar Designs and I thought they would go great with the whole water scene. I added the dots on top of the chipboard using the leftover pieces of punched cardstock. The sentiment was printed on the computer on the 2nd smallest lacey circle, the font is called "beachtype medium". Perfect!

With a little bit of fish netting and more diecuts from spellbinders...this card is ready to go. 

I get my strength from the water and it inspires me...

Hope you are inspired too! Be sure to check out more creations at the Heartfelt Creations Blog!

Have a great week....xoxo