A Fishy Valentine....

Happy Valentine's Day! I made these little fishbowl treats for my preschooler to take to his class, they say "Glad we're in the same School".  Inside are swedish fish, of course! The bowl template I purchased from Lettering Delights and cut with my Silhouette Cameo.  The little tags I printed with my printer.   

I haven't made kids clothes in a long time for my little guy, and I was inspired by the fish bowl to make him this outfit to wear to school on Valentine's Day.  The shirt I purchased a blank from Walmart and shortened the long sleeves to make it a short sleeve shirt. I cut the fish bowl from fabric I had in my stash using my Cameo Silhouette and a cutting file from the Silhouette store.  The shorts are a cute pattern I picked up from Pattern Emporium on Etsy.  

phew.......it was super fun and in fact, now I have the itch to make more clothes. Hope you enjoy! 

Word Art Wednesday - Vinyl Word Art on the Silhouette Cameo

My craft area is messy.  Very messy.  I so admire crafters with the neat, organized drawers and labeled bins.  The most I can do in my craft area is keep one little wall neat.  And for decorating that wall I decided to use today's verse over at Word Art Wednesday, which is from Proverbs 10:12.  

I hope you will play along with us - it is very simple "anything goes"... just create an uplifting and positive card or other artwork and post it at Word Art Wednesday challenges.  You can use this week's verse below, but it is not required.  The challenge this week has two lovely sponsors.  Mark's Finest Papers is providing a free stamp set and Crafty Secrets is providing a digital image to the winners. You should definitely check it out!

Karen M. (Papercraft Memories) created the beautiful graphic for today's verse from Galations:

The beautiful verse and graphics inspired me to create vinyl word art for the blank space under some paper pieced dresses I had made and framed awhile back.

I used my new Silhouette Cameo to turn this png file into a cut file using THIS TUTORIAL from Silhouette School Blog.  I have only worked with vinyl a few times before on my Cameo, but it was actually simple following the tutorial.  I was very happy the outcome:

I did have to turn the dotted line into a flourish because I just couldn't get all the tiny dots to come out nicely in vinyl.  If not obvious by now, I love love love my Silhouette Cameo and if you are on the fence, go for it~ 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Your Next Stamp - Valentine

So Im pretty obsessed with this sketch and here's my second card for the YNS Challenge #7 based on this fun sketch and I wanted to post it right away...

Here are the Copics used to color this little guy:

Challenges entering:

Your Next Stamp - Sketch and color challenge #7 (Feb. 19)

Your Next Stamp - Sketch Challenge

So I have been wanting to play along with Your Next Stamps 2015 Challenges.  Last week I made the card below for Challenge #6, but got so busy I didn't have time to post it or enter it in the Challenge!

Sheesh!  So this morning when I had a little [stolen] time to craft, I decided to make a card for the YNS Challenge #7 based on this fun sketch and post it right away...

I had lots of fun coloring this YNS scuba fish and using the sketch. In fact, I plan to make another card with this sketch! yay! 

Here are the Copics used to color this little guy:

Challenges entering:

Your Next Stamp - Sketch and color challenge #7 (Feb. 19)

The Greeting Farm - Tag your It

This weeks challenge over at The Greeting Farm is "words" so I made this tag for my new planner journal I talked about in my blog post here.  I love the blue colors and purple together!

The image is from this Magical Kit I treated myself to awhile back, but this is the first stamp I used from it and can't wait to try some of the others.

I colored the image with some of my favorite Copic colors, E000, E00 and E21 for skin. And I used the Yr24 line for her swimsuit and flowers. 

Thanks for peeking!

Challenges entering:

The Greeting Farm   - Get Wordy Challenge (Jan. 29)

7 Kids Challenge - Challenge 117 Anything Goes (Jan. 27)

Thanks so much for peeking! 

Whimsy Doodles - Love is in the Air

Hello all! So my preschooler is sick home from school for the last two days (again!) and I needed to have some crafting time or go crazy…I decided to make a Valentine's card for the Love Is in The Air challenge over at Whimsy Doodles Stamps.  They have such adorable images!  

Stash Used:

Image:  Whimsie Doodles Flower Girl

Copic Colors:

Skin - E000, E00, E21 (my fave)

Hair - W4, E44, E47, E49

Leaves - YG03, YG01

Shoes - C5, C7

Ink - Distress Antique Linen; Distress Tea; Memento Sky

Paper Used - Doodlebug

Stitched Square Die - My Favorite Things

Notebook Shape - Silhouette Cameo store that I cut with Doodlebug paper

Pink Flowers - Cabochon from Michaels (you can see better in the photo below)

Candy Dots - Speckled Fawn

I sponged the distress ink on the sides, with the die still in the frame.  This makes the nice white "border".   And layered and layered….:-) I had way too much fun making this card.  It definitely took me away for a little while…...Hope you join in the challenge as well.  

Challenges entering:

Whimsie Doodle - January Challenge Love is in the Air (Feb. 13)

Loves Rubber Stamps - Challenge 135 Letter B (Jan. 26)

B= Black Ink; Black Construction Paper; Black Copic; Bling; Blender Pen

Time out Challenges - Use Hearts Challenge (Feb. 2)

Simon Says Stamp - Have a Heart Challenge (Jan. 28)

Got Cards?

Happy Wednesday everyone! Today's verse over at Word Art Wednesday is from John and is about God's loving hopes for each of us.  It was the perfect verse for the cover of this card holder I made for my Auntie Donnie as a Christmas present.  Its a little late!  

After a year of card making, I have a big box of cards collecting.  I hate to seem them just sitting there, so I thought it would be nice to gather some together in a nice box as a gift.  I scoured the internet for tutorials and ended using the fabulous tutorial from Lime Doodle Design.

Here is the inside of the card holder I made.  And here are the four cards I chose for the gift.  

I hope you will play along with us in this Challenge- it is very simple "anything goes"... just create an uplifting and positive card and post it at Word Art Wednesday challenges.  You can use this week's verse below, but it is not required.  The challenge this week has a lot of lovely sponsors. You should definitely check it out. 

Karen M. (Papercraft Memories) created the beautiful graphic for today's verse from John:

Thanks so much for stopping by!