Stacey's Crafty Creations: March 2012

Friday, March 9, 2012

Chocolate Makes My Mouth Happy

This awesome sentiment by TLC says it all! I have used it before and it rocks! Anyone that knows me knows I have a thing for chocolate. It may possibly, sort of, maybe, kind of come up in conversation every now and then! Soooo I have recently received gifts that included Godiva , Ghiradelli & Lindt Chocolate. Could it get any better than that?!!! So this is one of my Thank You cards.

This is another time when I used a 4x6 paper pack and pieced the paper together with stitching so you never know. I really love doing that!

If I was more confident in my coloring I would have had chocolate all over her face and hands. It would be more accurate of how I look when I eat chocolate! LOL! I was afraid of messing it up so you get the cleaned up version! The chocolate is on pop dots to make it... well, pop! It is the most important feature!

Inside

Inside- Top

Inside- Bottom

Another excellent Sentiment from TLC!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Bazill

Designer Paper: DCWV Garden Party Paper Pack

Image: Mo Manning

Sentiments: Create with TLC

Pencils: Prismacolor

Pearls: Recollections

Brad: Paper Studio

Ribbon: Misc from stash

Die Cuts: Lacey Ovals & Classic Ovals

Punch: Martha Stewart- Hearts Border Punch

Thank You Sticker: Misc.

Challenges I would like to enter this card in:

Bronte & Bella's Challenge: Try Something New- Color Scheme, Image, Mixing stitches (on the inside)

C.R.A.F.T. - Inspired by a song: (The Candy Man)

Delicious Doodles – Inspired by a Song (The Candy Man)
Crafty Purple Frog - Pink & girly

Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge - Pink & Girly

Paper Crafting Journey - Anything made with paper goes

Sassy Studio Designs - Use 2 or more polka dot items (The ribbon, and on the paper & her overalls)
Scrappy Frogs - M - Seeing Spots

ColourQ - Color Challenge*

Paper and Such Design - Paper Piecing
ATCs & Cards With Attitude - Anything
Paper Shelter Challenge - Anything goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - Link Up Party
Fairy Tale - Paper Piecing
Totally Stampalicious - Spring is in the Air
Hotshot Crafts - Ribbon
Totally Papercrafts - Favorite Things (Pearls, Die-Cuts, Chocolate, Sewing & Bows)
Scrapper`s Delights Paper Crafts - "Bling It Up!"
Creative Card Crew - Humour
Stamps & Fun = Creativity - One Bow
Pile It On - Spots and/or Stripes
Jelly Park- Favorite product or technique (Pearls, Sewing, Die Cuts, Ribbon)
The Pink Elephant: 3 or more layers
Top Tip Tuesday: Stitching TIP- When paper piecing if a piece does not blend right and sticks up, you can just take the piece of the image that is lower cut another piece out and pop dot it so it now is 3D. It will blend and make your image pop!

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Quilted With Love

It has been a few weeks since I posted my last card.

I am currently off any design teams, which is very nice not to have the pressure when life is crazy. It is bad because I lack motivation to post anything especially when life is crazy. Which these days, seems to be pretty much always. I actually have a few cards made, but just have not been up to posting. I always say I will do better.

Anyway, wish I could say I have something totally different for you to see, but I got into using these fun bright papers. My friend I made this for has a French Country, Shabby Chic, Bohemian Retro style in her home. Sounds very busy, but it looks awesome! So this card seemed to be perfect for her. It is very much like the little Thank You card from the last post. I used to buy 12 x 12 paper packs to get the most out of my buck, but these days I love the smaller paper packs. DCWV has a bunch of the 4x6 stacks which are nice but don't fit perfectly on a 6x6 card. So that is where quilting has come in handy. This sheet was perfect because it had all the patterned squares I only had to sew them! This will be the last of these papers for a little while anyway!

When I made this I knew I had those retro looking centers, but for the life of me could not find them. I searched EVERYWHERE! Then when the card was finished and photographed I found them, so I switched it out, but I think I like the silver flower better.