Patterned Papered Dreams

I'm over the moon

I truly am! I couldn't believe it when Cath Edvalson from the Moxie Fab World asked me to be one of her Moxie Fabbers of the Week. Seriously? Little ole' me? Well, to say that it is a big honor for me to be there would be understating it. It's the BIGGEST honor to be there!!! MFB is the happiest place to be if you are a papercrafter: inspiration, trends, encouraging, challenges, gorgeous products, yet more inspiration, visits to CHA, peeks inside Paper Crafts Magazine and even some beautiful poems along with the most dreamy images... Yes, Moxie Fab World is the place to visit uf you want to be a happy crafter. So thank you Cath, for letting me be a part of your magical place.

And of course, I've made a card for the ocassion. It had to be a Halloween card, because after all, today is Halloween!! So this is my Happy Halloween for all of you, Moxie Fabbers :D

And now, if you would like to know me a little better, I invite you to read the Moxie Fabber of the Week interview and see for yourselves what a clear case of verbal incontinence I have ;)

Thank you so much for visiting and have a Moxie Fab week!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: (sentiment) Hero Arts, (patterns) Papertrey Ink; Ink: Versafine (black), Jenni Bowlin (orange); Dies: (banners) Papertrey Ink.

Texture?...

... "That means layers, and vintage,  and everyone knows I'm unable to do that, so this challenge is not for me", I thought when I saw the Textured to Perfection challenge at the Moxie Fab World. But then I remembered that one of the things I've always loved from the MFB is actually the way Cath encourages us to stretch our style. So I sat at my desk with a bunch of textured stuff and my two go-to supplies (stamps and patterned paper) and set to work. And I came up with this:

I started with a corrugated cardboard pannel, where I spread lots of Antique Linen distress stickles with my fingers. Then I die cut a double ended banner from fun foam and a kraft tiny heart, and stamped my sentiment (from this Hero Arts set) on sticky back canvas. And the turkey... it was so fun to make this little guy!! Here's how: For the feathers, I cut a bunch of string pieces, folded in two to get a petal shape and secured the tips with scor-tape. Then I adhered each of the feathers to a piece of patterned paper (the green cap Tombo glue works great for this) and trimmed around. Next I adhered the to the card.

And now the body: I used Paper Smooches stamps for this. For the body I used the circle in Sunny Side Up and the beak and feet are from the fun little turkey in My Peeps (some basic masking involved here).

And that's it! If I could do texture, so can you!!

Thanks so much for visiting and have a wonderful week! I'll be back later with a very special post...

Supplies: Stamps: Paper Smooches, Hero Arts; Ink: Memento, Archival; Patterned paper: My Mind's Eye; Dies: PTI; Canvas: Ranger; Other: Distress Stickles, fun foam, corrugated cardboard, string, googly eyes.

PTI October Blog Hop

Hi there and welcome! Today I'm joining the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop again. Last month was my first one and I really enjoyed it -so many fantastic and inspiring stampers out there!- so here I go again! For this month there's another beautiful inspiration photo:

And here's what I created from it, inspired by the round shapes of the pumpkins, the colors and the woodgrain fabric from the bigger pumpkin:

I started with a round die cut base and stamped it with Background Basics: Tin Types. I hadn't used it for months and almost forgot how easy it is to line it up! Then I die cut a second circle and impressed it with the Woodgrain plate, still my favorite ever. And finally I cut a third circle, stamped it with the circle from Modern Wood Mats and added a sentiment from Fillable Frames #7. The little heart was die cut from Orange Zest felt. There you go!

Thank you so much for hopping and have a fantastic day!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: All PTI; Ink: Jenni Bowlin (orange), Fresh (green), Versafine (brown); Dies: Circle Nesties, PTI heart; Impression plate: PTI; Felt: PTI.

I love teal

Hi there! Don't you love teal too? It's such a beautiful color! And here's a fun fact: in Spanish we don't have a specifical name for that particular shade, there's no translation for teal! Weird, huh? Anyway, that's not a problem for playing along with this week's Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World. Look at this beauty in teal and grey!

  And here's my take on it:

 

That cute Paper Smooches turkey was heat embossed in silver. The little black dots on his feathers were made with Ranger Enamel Accents and the sentiment is from an older Kim Hugues for Cornish Heritage Farms set. I'm so happy I could find a few of those lovely sets through a stamping forum some months ago! They're hard to find :)

Thank you so much for visiting and have a wonderful weekend!

Supplies: Cardstock: DCWV, Canson; Stamps: Paper Smooches, Kim Hugues for CHF; Ink: Versamark, Versafine (black); Embossing powder: Ranger; Border Punch: Martha Stewart Crafts; Other: Uniball Signo white gel pen, Ranger Enamel Accents.

No orange

Good afternoon! Quickly popping by with a little card for this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge: Halloween with no orange.

I started with the idea of a black cat and a stamped stripe of geometrical pattern in purple. Ended up with this. You never know where you will end up when you start stamping, lol! Stamps are Hero Arts, they make the cutest Halloween stuff!!! I used this and this set.

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Hero Arts; Ink: Memento; Other: Copics, Basis Grey rhinestones.

Ooops!

Good morning! So I made this card for this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge but it looks like I didn't make it on time! Which doesn't mean I can't share it anyway :)

A bit of heat embossing and die cutting took place here, as you can see. I'm loving aqua+blue+any bright color lately.

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI, Hero Arts; Ink: Versamark, Memento (fuchsia), Versafine (black); Paper: American Crafts; Dies: Circle nesties, PTI button; Twine: Divine Twine; White gel pen: Uniball Signo; Corner Chomper.

Embellish Circles Challenge

Hi there! Hope your weekend was fabulous! I'm still stuck at home with a huge back pain but I still managed to get a bit crafty yesterday. I wanted to give a try at the current Embellish Challenge (details here).

  

And here's my card. Now that I look at it I'm wondering if I should have popped it on a white mat instead of leaving it one layer but right now I'm too lazy to make the changes.

 

All the stamps are PTI in this one. I used Polka Dot Basics I for the ground and Dot Spot for the flowers. The sentiment is from last year's anniversary set, Round and Round... it couldn't be any other way in this circles challenge ;)

Thanks for visiting and have a great week!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: Colorbox (red), Jenni Bowlin (green), Versafine (brown); Twine: The Twinery.

 

Paper Smooches Sparks Galore

Hi there! I think I have like 20 minutes left to post the projects I created for the current Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge. I also entered them to their Design Team call, wish me luck!!! I'll be posting supply lists and details later or I won't do it on time before Mr Linky closes ;)

Here's one little Christmas number

And another

The 3rd

And the last one, also Christmassy.

Thanks for visiting and have a fantastic day!

Geometrical

Hey there! *cough, cough* Yeah, today I'm homebound with a nasty viral cold plus the most awful pain in my lower back area. Not nice... But since I'm home, I get to blog at unusual times ;)

For this card I used the color scheme from the latest Paper Crafts Magazine Color Inspiration challenge. And since my gifts are geometrical shapes and are created with PTI stamps, they fit perfectly for the current A Passion for Papertrey challenge.

For this card I stamped the background basics images on scrap cardstock and then I added the dotted squares over them, cut and adhered to the card base. Then I stamped the bow twice: the orange one straight on the card and the burgundy, on a piece of cardstock that then I cut and adhered with foam tape. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches and I thought it was perfect for this card because it kind of mimics the loopy bows :)

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Papertrey Ink, Paper Smooches; Ink: Versafine (black), Colorbox (burgundy), Memento (yellow, pink), Jenni Bowlin (orange).

Winner of the 12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop!!

Good morning! Just a super quick post before heading to work to announce the winner of this fantastic special issue :)

I got number 142 through Random.Org but for the love of me I wasn't able to find the way to copy and paste that number generator thingy here! How on earth does people do that??? Ok, and number 142 belongs to this comment:

Love your cards! Thanks for sharing. :)

Posted by: Debbie | 10/01/2011 at 04:34 AM

Congrats, Debbie! Please, drop me an email with your shipping details at lorecl (at) hotmail (dot) com and I'll pass them on to the Paper Crafts peeps so they can send you the magazine.

Have a fantastic day! I'll be back later this afternoon with a card to share.