Cutting Cafe/Fall Time Bingo Set

I delighted in making these cards with The Cutting Cafe's Fall Time Bingo Set printables. They fell together with such ease and all I really had to do was add a small die cut to enhance the theme of the specific bingo card. You can see the Cafe set right here.

Here are the 5 cards I created.

I used background papers that were given to me by my dear friend Margie. She gifted me with several paper packs but I grabbed up this particular pack because the color themes went so well with the bingo sets. And as always, emboss emboss emboss is my motto.

The coffee cup and the leaf came from Stamping Solutions. The pumpkin was cut from Happy Hauntings. That cute tree was laying in a box lid and I can't seem to track down the cartridge source.

Here are two of the cards. I love how the edge punches enhanced the over all look.
I love the FALL bingo card and the punched leaves just look perfect on the card.
Please take a look at The Cutting Cafe for all things wonderful...Regina's printables offer something for every kind of card or sentiment you would need.

Thanks for visiting.... I hope you each have a wonderful week.

Cutting Cafe/Thoughts of You

LittleN has won the sticker packages.... please email me so I can make arrangements to mail them to you. Congrats.
Regina at The Cutting Cafe has an absolutely wonderful printable set for sympathy and related thoughts. Here is the set. In my recent reorganization of the craft room, I ran across a sheet of dimensional white daisies. I bought these years ago and I just knew I was going to rush right home and create something wonderful. As so often happens, the sheet was covered up with other projects and then eventually it made its way into a drawer full of other goodies. Here are 4 cards I made using the daisies and some of the thoughtful sentiments from The Cutting Cafe. One card has the sentiment outside while the other 3 have inside sentiments.

In sorting through drawers, stacks, closets to reorganize the collection of delights, I ran across some stickers. I actually had plans for these, but like many other things, they were put in a drawer. Now I would like to offer these up for blog candy. Just leave a note on this post if you want to be in the draw on September 20th. There are two sheets of hearts and one sheet contains beautiful red and gold guilded vellum hearts. There are 3 sheets of flowers and finally there is a package of vellum sentiments. Thanks for visiting...

Cutting Cafe/With Gratitude

I get so much inspiration working with anything from Cutting Cafe. Regina offers printables for literally everything you would need to use for cards, scrapbooking and other creations. This printable is called With Gratitude. You can see that set right here.

My card is a myriad of sentiments all piled on one card front. I love the array of blocks applauding someone being thoughtful. There is a lot going on with this card but I think when it comes to saying "thank you", this is right on!....

Thanks for your visit and if you have left a comment, I appreciate it.....

Cutting Cafe/Baby Girl

When I see something precious to use in creating a baby card, I hop right to it. This is one of Regina's new background printable. You can see the set right here.

The cards were created with such ease and yet I think they display so beautifully. I cut the mounts with a Nestie, all layers have been embossed. I threaded a pretty pink ribbon through the top printable, tied a bow and added some ribbon roses. I love my baby girl cards. Now I just have to find someone to send them to.

All Above Love/Cutting Cafe

Oh how I LOVE anything Regina offers in The Cutting Cafe. Here are just 4 cards I put together so easily using the It's All About Love set. You can see this darling set right here.

These cards are A2 size, the front of the card has been embossed and I used a EK Success round scallop punch to allow for an inside punch die cut of lips and I've added a small heart punch to overlap the opening. The round sentiment on the front are from the Cutting Cafe set, a heart has been set in the center of the sentiment, and the mounts are all embossed.

This is a close up of just one of the cards.
TFL, hope you will take a peek at this darling set from Cutting Cafe.

More Cards

More slam-dunk card creations. These were created at the same time as the previously uploaded group. It's just mega fun to pull up leftovers and create something.

Card Frenzies

I have stacks and piles of paper leftovers and I am always amazed how quicky I have a finished stack of cards just using the this n' that things.

I love these two cards....so girly girl.... I used a lot of embossing, a lot of edge punches and the pink rosettes are perfect for that girly girl touch.

This is a gate fold card. I embossed each side, and I added a Cutting Cafe circle sentiment and a heart punch...both embossed as well. You can see the Cutting Cafe set right here.
Another gate fold style, this one in red, white and blue colors to celebrate a birthday. A large punched flower is placed on the left outside fold and it extends over the other fold. I used a rubber stamp for the inside sentiment.
This is a Easel style card.... done in lavendar and purple and just right for a Mother's Day Card.

The sentiment is a rubber stamp from Michaels. Lots of embossing, some edge punching and a lovely lavendar ribbon with a small ribbon rose.

Thanks for stopping by. I have a lot more Slam Dunk cards to show you too.

BBTB2/Rock Princess/Dripping Heart

I have a wee bit of news to tell you this Monday morning. This will be my last post as a designer for Bitten By The Bug2. I have been on the design team for BBTB/BBTB2 since October 2007 and I have loved every single challenge over the years. I loved creating with the selected design, I loved the month end blog hops. I have met so many wonderful visitors and bloggers who came to see my cards...and I truly cherished every single comment left by each visitor. As you can imagine, as a designer we thrive on the sweet visits and comments. But now it is time for me to take a break from the design team so I can pay attention to a few other things in my life.

With that said, Heather is the hostess this week on BBTB2 and she asked the designers to use the Rock Princess cartridge and to design with the Dripping Heart design. If we didn't have that cartridge, we could select something that has a similar design. I used Home Accents and I snapped up that wonderful butterfly cut on that cartridge. I love this cut....it is delightfully artsy. Be sure and join in on the challenge. Remember you don't have to have Rock Princess and you can make a new card using a cut that is similar to the Dripping Heart.

Here is sort of a side view of the layers involved in the butterfly. I cut the larger butterfly at about 4-1/2 inches, and then the next 3 layers were cut 1/2 or 1/4 smaller. Each layer has been embossed with Swiss Dots which gave a better final result. I added some jewels for bling cuz every butterfly has gotta have some bling. The butterfly sits on 3 Nestie layers, and the rubber stamped sentiment "Cherish" is a layer beneath an open slot.



A full view of the Butterfly.


TFL, I hope you will come back and see me just for my cards. I will still be on the design team for Regina's The Cutting Cafe for the current term, and I will add cards that I make along the way. I just finished another round of "Card Frenzy" so I will upload those a little later this week.

Cutting Cafe/Think Pink

This week at The Cutting Cafe, we designers can pick a printable that we would like to work with. I love everything that Regina gives us to design with and I love bringing something back up to the top from previous designs on our Cutting Cafe menu of choice. The two cards I am featuring here are from the Think Pink series. I have made many cards using the printables shown because I think they are beautiful and just perfect for when we need a card with such an impact. You can see the set right here.

I fussy cut the beautiful pink ribbon that is dotted with precious little flowers. To enhance those I added some tiny pink jewels... and of course my trademark embossing is on many layers. Along the one ribbon you can see the word HOPE and so I brought out one of my most favorite rubber stamps for my sentiment. A Martha Stewart fancy edge punch details the side of the card, and the sentiment sits on an oval scalloped Nestie.

Thanks for looking. I hope you like my pretty Think Pink cards.

BBTB2/Heritage/Tree

A WINNER for the blog candy: I am happy to announce that BeeCherryLady has won the draw on the little handmade Scarecrow bag. Leah, please email me with the deets so I can make arrangement to mail the little bag. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and left a comment. Happy Monday, Happy Month-End and Happy Blog Hopping!....I am first out of the challenge list at the BBTB2 blog, and if you have come my way from there, welcome to my offering for our challenge. Julie , our hostess, has selected the Heritage cartridge and she asked us to design with the curly tree. I cut two samples to make sure the paper and blades were going to behave on this curly tree and once I had everything in sync, I cut a smaller tree and a larger tree out of the brown cardstock. I was very happy when all the cuts were perfect. That pretty entry gate and spooky little house in the background were also cut from the Heritage cartridge while the cat and little ghostie came from Happy Hauntings. The crescent moon came from New Arrival. There are 3 layers of background mounts. The yellow top mount has been embossed and snuggled into a decorative corner on the white layer. The house sits upon an orange plaid Nestie shape. Cute little black cat that sits upon the tree top has a jewel collar.

Now I ask you to hop right over to our newest design team sister, Agnes, and see what delight she has created for you to view. You can find her right here.

Join our challenge. You don't have to have the Heritage cartridge, just pick any tree and make a new card for us to see. Link up your blog post with our Mr. Linky at BBTB2, and be SURE to mention on your blog that you have entered the BBTB2 contest.

Now onto the blog candy tub. I sewed up a cute fabric Halloween baggy for some darling little hands to hold. I embroideried a little scarecrow on the front and the orange checkered ribbon is just perfect for toting full of candies and precious treasures.
If you would like in the draw for the Halloween bag, please leave a comment. I will do a drawing on September 2nd ...so check back after 2PM to see the winning name. If you are the winner please email me as soon as possible so I can make arrangements to mail the bag to you. If I do not hear from the winner by September 4, I will do another draw.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you join our fun fun challenge at BBTB2.

Cutting Cafe/Ribbon Sentiments/Giveaway

Here I am, September 3 on the dot to announce the winner in the draw for the Cutting Cafe Ribbon Sentiments. I am pleased to announce that Sharon has won. You can see Sharon's work right here. Sharon, please email me so I can arrange to get the printable set to you. Congrats and thanks to all that visited and left a sweet comment
Sunday and I have a wonderful giftie for your viewing pleasure. Regina at The Cutting Cafe has a darling printable with 48 images called Ribbon Sentiments Banner Set and Shaped Card.. This set includes "ribbon sentiments" and I have used two for the cards shown below. I had the little dress die cuts laying around from play time off the Nifty Fifties cartridge. (That's in my era, and I had dresses just like these). I think these cards are girly girl kinda cards and I have the peeps in mind that will receive them one day. Here is the link for this set.

As you can see, my trademark mega-embossing is featured. My edge punches gives the frilly look and a little ribbon has been added to the dresses.

If you would like to be in the draw to win this darling printable set from The Cutting Cafe, just leave me a comment. I will do the draw on September 3rd.... Please check back on that date after 2PM, and if your name has been drawn, email me very soon so I can get the set to you.

Cards Cards

I had a pack of K&Co papers for children....and this pack happened to be in the pinks and soft girly girl colors. I could not resist taking the cover and cutting up the darling little blocks of big fat alpha letters and oh so critters, flowers and such. I just saw some girly cards coming out of the mix and here is what I came up with.... a lot of edge punching, a lot of embossing.

I added some buttons, some computer generated sentiments, and a ribbon or two. Hope you like...

BBTB2/HappyHauntings/Digistamp

Happy Monday to each of you who visits here. Heather, our BBTB2 leader, is the hostess for this week's challenge. We also have a nice sponsor that allows us to enhance our designs to another level. Heather asked us to design from Happy Hauntings and to use one of the frame cuts. Our sponsor is Stamping Boutique and we were given our choice of some of darling Halloween digis to design with. I loved the costume shoes, just waiting to be glitzed up for the properly dressed witch or monster. You can see the Halloween digi collection right here.

Here is my card: The three darling shoes were colored in with my Copic markers, some Stickles added to parts of the shoe and socks and the sentiment is a rubber stamp.

I put the design frame around my favorite pair of shoes. Some jewels bling up the frame.

Some little ribbons dress up the witchy shoes.
Tiny black stars give the socks some extra design.
Thanks for your visit and if you leave a comment I will love it. Please...join up with our BBTB2 challenge. You don't have to have Happy Hauntings, you can use any frame....Just be sure to mention on your blog that you have joined our challenge and make sure your card or project is a new one. Have a wonderful week.

Cutting Cafe/SomethingBorrowed

Regina has such a lovely printable for Wedding congratulations with wonderful sayings to use. .... I made several cards using the sentiments. The basic dress is cut from Dreams Come True but the panel of the dress is cut from Sweetheart cartridge. I embossed just about everything but that blue ribbon. The cuts are mounted on some Nestie shapes which I always love to add to my cards. You can see this printable here:

BBTB2/Baseball

Our hostess this week at BBTB2 is our talented design team sis, Karen, who selected Life's A Party as the cartridge. She asked us to design something with the baseball....and if we don't have that cartridge, we can use any baseball for our project. I do not have the LAP cart but I did find a baseball and some extras on A Child's Year. (on page 40)

The sentiment was computer generated except for "ballgame" which was cut from Don Juan cartridge. The silhouette of son and father are from A Child's Year, along with the baseball and bat.

Join in with our challenge. Make a new creation, and be sure to mention on your blog that you have entered the baseball challenge. We love to see what you've done. TFL...

The Cutting Cafe/Mini Animals

If you've visited me you know that I love to whip up a big batch of easy to do cards basically in the same theme. Regina has one of the cutest little printable sets of mini-animals. I did about 45 cards yesterday using the set, and so I thought I would share a few of the cards. You can see this darling set right here.

Cutting Cafe/DressShapedCard

A girly-girl card....all done in pinks, embossing, ribbons and hearts.

I love this set from Regina's wonderful printable selection at The Cutting Cafe. This printable makes a darling dress card. Instead of a card I applied the shaped dress to a card front, added a lot of lacy paper edging, some ribbon and the title "Sweet" is cut from All Mixed Up cartridge.

TFL... you can see the printable right here.

Cutting Cafe/School

We are having a lot of fun at The Cutting Cafe Inspiration blog, posting darling little projects and cards created from Regina's wonderful printables. Our August 7 inspiration was to use a school theme for any project. I came up with a collage kind of card because I love making something that I can pile on the goods. Check out The Cutting Cafe, leave a comment on the School post and you might be a winner of one set from the Cafe's selection. THIS is a wonderful opportunity to win something you can use over and over again. My choice for the Inspiration came from School Days and you can view that printable right here. The designer projects are just nothing short of wonderful and inspiring.

Bookmark tutorial

I love making bookmarks and this quick and easy style is one of my faves. I used to make this kind of bookmark about 4 years back and the sample got lost in piles of projects. I was tidying up my workspace and I found a tattered dog-eared sample. So I am back again....making some fun and cute bookmarks.

You will need: Double Sided Cardstock, ruler, die cut, glue. (It isn't necessary that you use double sided papers but it does give extra design for the inside.)

Double sided cardstock. Cut a square 4x4.

I place a ruler in the center...or at 2 inches.
I fold up both sides ... often the sides will meet right on, sometimes there is a small space and that doesn't matter.
You need to anchor the folded point. I have used die cuts, or just plain little strips of some of the cardstock like shown below.
Now you decorate the front of the bookmark. I love making glitzy bookmarks but one word of caution...If you put thick die cuts, popdotted designs,ribbons, jewels...they look great but the book will not close nicely once you put the bookmark over the page edge to mark your place. Once I used a darling little bookmark that had a cute popdotted owl with jewel eyes and after I closed the book, the jewels poked a nice hole in the pages before the bookmark. So struggle as I might to not bedazzle my creation, here is a flat little bookmark sporting a cute duckie on a nestie round that was embossed.
Now you make some. You will be delighted how quickly these are put together. I love making them from many different papers.

BBTB2/PDDU/Pie

Happy Monday to all. This week our BBTB2 hostess is Krista who asked us to design from Paper Dolls Dress Up and to use the pie as our main decoration. PPDU has more little extra die cuts than I could possibly use but I do know that if I need a tiny little sumpin-sumpin for a design, that is the cart I look at first.

Here is my card: I cut the pie from PDDU, the apple as well as the card title are from Plantin Schoolbook. I found a little harlequin corner laying around so I added that in the upper left corner, and I embossed the card base with two different embossing designs. I found some squares of pre-backed pattern papers so I added those beneath the pie...The pie and apples are embossed as well. Apples have some red jewels for bling.

Thanks for visiting...and if you leave a comment, I will appreciate it. Join our challenge. Use Do a new design with a pie from any cartridge, link it to our BBTB2, and be sure to mention on your blog that you have joined our challenge. It's that wee bit of fame that we love to see.

BBTB2/LockerTalk/School

Welcome to our BBTB2 Monday challenge. Our hostess this week is sweet Lori who has chosen Locker Talk as our cartridge of choice, and we are to design using anything school related. School is about to start soon and when I am out shopping, the aisles with school supplies are crowded with moms and pops and kiddies all buying their supplies. I remember (so so long ago) how exciting it was to shop for school.

Here is my card: I cut the entire design from Locker Talk except the little sunflowers are dimensional stickers that I received as a gift when I was in Tucson. I cut away half of the front card fold and "hung" the design from that. You can see my usual embossing on just about everything.

I hope that you've been to Bitten By the Bug2 blog and looked at the wonderful projects from my design team sisters. I always love the way each of us creates something so different.

TFL, love your visits and comments. Please...create a school themed card and upload to our fun challenge. Just make your card a new creation and be sure to mention in your blog that you have entered the BBTB2 challenge.