Watercolour Valentine Cards!

Hello and Happy Valentines Day 💓!! We are still in the midst of a cold snap here in Calgary, so we are celebrating with crafts inside today and of course a little chocolate 😉🍫 I'm sharing a pair of pretty watercolor Valentines on the Canvas Corp Brands Creative Studio Blog using some Tattered Angels Mists and Tattered Angels Mini Origins papers. These papers are great for watercolouring and have a fabric-like texture - so cool!

I stitched around the edges of the watercolour panel to give even more texture. Since I was featuring the coffee themed mini origins papers I chose coffee love stamps from my stash!

I added some watercolour diecuts misted with the Tattered Angels sprays and used Glossy Accents to highlight various areas of the cards.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to head over to the CCB Creative Studio blog post to get a list of supplies used and see all the other creative crew members' projects! Have a wonderful Valentines Day friends!

Canvas Corp Brands - Christmas Bulb Challenge!

Hello! Hope you all had a great weekend. We took it easy, did some crafting - of course - and watched some Christmas Classics. My favourite thing to do is snuggle up on the couch in the living room with the Christmas Tree on. I have to remind myself to just sit and relax sometimes! Since we're in the festive spirit, I definitely wanted to share a tutorial I have over at the Canvas Corp Brands Blog where I'm creating three Christmas ornaments for this month's Christmas Bulb challenge. I'm using beautiful pre-printed canvas in the Canvas Corp Jolly Christmas Mix & Match Pad from the Canvas Corp Brands Shop. These are quick and easy to stitch up for your own tree or as a gift set.

Here's inspiration for our challenge! We'd love for you to join us. You can link up HERE. Just use at least one product from Canvas Corp, 7gypsies or Tattered Angels!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to check out the Step by Step tutorial, closeup photos and a supply list on the Canvas Corp Brands Blog. Have an awesome week friends!

Linked to:

SSS Monday Challenge - Warm Winter Wishes

Canvas Corp Brands November Yarn Challenge!

Hello friends! I don't know about you, but here in Alberta Canada the weather is getting chilly and I'm bundling up when I take the kids to school! Looking at our hats and scarves has got my ideas flowing and this month's Yarn Challenge over on the Canvas Corp Brands Blog is great timing 😉 There are so many fun ways to use yarn, and I'm sharing how to use it in your cardmaking to create a set of fall cards. You can check out the full tutorial over on the Canvas Corp Blog HERE and see closeups and details.

 

I'd love to see what you come up with for this challenge! Check out the details on how to enter for a fabulous prize as well as see what our other Design Team Members have come up with HERE.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget to check out the tutorial for these cards and a supply list on the Canvas Corp Blog HERE. Have an awesome week friends, and stay cozy!

Canvas Corp Brands Creative Crew Challenge - Think Pink!

Hello! I sure hope you've had an awesome week 💗 Mine was great, but flew by so fast! Today I'm sharing a pretty gift bag for my daughter's teacher. Her birthday was today and Amie, who is 11, just adores her.  She's had an amazing school year so far - isn't that awesome when that happens?!! Amie even went in early with some class mates to decorate the classroom and the teacher was so surprised and thought it was very sweet. This gift bag goes along with our Pink Theme for our Crew Challenge this month on the Canvas Corp Brands Creative Studio blog in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.

I fussy cut a lovely tea pot from the printed Bags and Beans Canvas sheet and painted it with the Tattered Angels Mists. I then added some French knot embroidery stitches and glued it down with tacky glue. I used the Tattered Angels Mists on a piece of plastic packaging to add a ‘smooshed’ effect to the canvas bag as well as the Happy Birthday tag and then used the Mists again to colour the seam binding ribbon to match.

I was able to stamp directly onto the white paper mini bag using Archival ink and a fabulous coffee stamp from Emerald Creek Craft Supplies, designed by Pam Bray. I then used the Tattered Angels Mists and paints to add colour to the image. The bag is the perfect size to slip a gift card into.

I tucked the decorated mini bag into the tiny tote and added a happy birthday tag for a very special gift card presentation. A few sparkly SpiegelMom Scraps sequins and a pretty pink handmade flower from Little Birdie Crafts finish it off.

Canvas Corp Brand Supplies:

Canvas Corp Canvas Mini Tote 5x4 Canvas Corp Mini Bags White Canvas Corp Main Collection To You Tags Canvas Corp 12x12 Bags and Beans Canvas Sheet Tattered Angels Rose Gold Glimmer Mist Tattered Angels Tutti Frutti Glimmer Mist Tattered Angels Chalk Chalkboard Mist Tattered Angels Light Pink High Impact Paint

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to head over to the Creative Studio blog to see all the other amazing pink entries, and I hope you have a fabulous weekend!

FCCB #337 - Halloween!

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Fantabulous Cricut Monday challenge!

Challenge #337-Halloween
Make a project using anything Halloween related. But there has to be a least one cut from the Cricut Library!

This Weeks Sponsor is-

https://www.printablecuttablecreatables.com/

And the prize is-

$25 Virtual Wallet!!!!

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images. If it isn't a card, you will get two entries into the drawing!

For this week's challenge I'm using some fun halloween files from the Printable Cuttable Creatables website - Halloween Witch Cauldron, Monster Mash & Tentacle Monster, along with the Mini Monster Cricut Cartridge to make a fun and not too spooky Halloween card!

I thought I'd make a little monster soup by tucking these cute monsters into the cauldron. They don't look too upset about it 😉

I couldn't resist adding googly eyes to this glitter covered spider! I layered the diecuts over a background of smooshed inks using Tattered Angels Lime Green and Iris Mists. Then, I added some pretty SpiegelMom Scraps Sequins (don't forget to use the code KARLA15 at the SMS shop for 15% off!)

Inside, I added a sentiment from the Mini Monsters cartridge and added a bit of silver Wink Of Stella to the edges of the gray letters. I love the way this cut layers the words!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to head over to the FCCB post to see what all the other designers have come up with for this spooky challenge, and have an awesome week friends!

 

Lasting Memories - It's All About The Pink Layout!

Hello! I'm so excited to be joining the Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge Blog as a Guest Designer for another challenge week! This month the theme is Fall Events, and since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this week our challenge is to create a layout about breast cancer or create a monochromatic pink layout. I am so fortunate that I don't have someone who has suffered from breast cancer in my immediate family, so I decided to create a pink layout in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. These photos are from when my youngest daughter, Erica, now 6, was born and her two older sisters came to meet her! I combined two different pink papers, using the fronts and the backsides and then layered the base on a pink watercolour background. 

I decided to use the October Sketchy Challenge from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine and really love how easy it is to create with this sketch! I used some Tattered Angels Light Pink High Impact Paint to paint my cute wood veneer bird embellishment and then sponged pink Distress Ink around the edge. I even used the same pink ink to add a date stamp.

I grabbed a few pink embellishments from my stash and layered them, along with some pretty SpiegelMom Scraps pink sequins. (PS Use the code KARLA15 to save 15% off in the SMS Shop!)

I added a few more embellishments along with bottom of the photos and layered them over a journaling card from a cut apart sheet. You can see the Tattered Angels Tutti Frutti Glimmer Mist I smooshed onto the white cardstock background peeking out from behind the embellishments.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to head over to the Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge Blog to see what all the other Design Team Members came up with for this challenge, and enter your own for a chance to win. You have all month to enter and four different challenges to participate in. I love that this gives you a jumpstart to scrapbooking Fall Celebrations! I'd love to see what you come up with 💘

Linked to:

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything But A Card

Creative Scrapbooker Magazine - October Sketchy Challenge

Canvas Corp Brands - Fall Blog Hop!

Hello Friends! Thank you so much for stopping by today. You are in for a treat! Today I am participating in a MEGA BLOG HOP!!!!!! There are 18 fantastic designers world wide that have come together to showcase terrific fall projects that you can recreate and put your own artistic touches on in your craft room. You have seen a lot of these designers featured on The Canvas Corp Brands blog using Tattered Angels, 7 Gypsies and and Canvas Corp products! Do you see a trend? This is the CCB Fall Blog HOP! Each of these designers have created a project to share with you on their blog. Some are offering prizes - including me! so please hop on through to each blog. If you are inspired we would love if you would share the hop with others 💓 We would truly appreciate it!

For my project for this fabulous fall hop I’ve created a pretty autumn wreath using some dollar store goodies I upcycled with lots of fun products from the Canvas Corp Brands Shop. Fall is my favourite season! I can’t help getting excited about the fall colours, sweater weather, and Pumpkin Spice everything! 

Here are the steps I used to create my fall wreath:

I sprayed a white dollar store grapevine wreath with Tattered Angels Rose Gold and Woven Burlap Glimmer Mists and let dry. Then I glued strips of Canvas Corp burlap around, using hot glue to attach the ends.

Next, I sprayed faux leaves and berries (dollar store finds) with Golden Lime and the Rose Gold Glimmer Mists and the acorns and pinecones with the Woven Burlap and Dark Vintage Green Glimmer Mists. The mica in the mists gave the fall foliage a lovely shimmer and shine and adds such a nice effect!

I sprayed the Tattered Angels Mixed Media Mini Origins 'The Vines' paper with various colours of Glimmer Mists and then fussy cut them out. This mixed media paper is just amazing to work with - so thick and perfect with water mediums. I added some Emerald Creek Thanksgiving Embossing Powder to parts of the leaves and heat embossed to add even more glittery goodness and added a bit of ink around the edges.

I finished off the wreath by gathering some Canvas Corp Red Hemp Rope into a circle and hot gluing it to the wreath, adding all my glimmered elements and some pretty Little Birdie Crafts handmade flowers. This wreath came together nice and quick and I just love how it turned out!

Here are a few closeups:

BLOG CANDY!

Be sure to comment below for a chance to win an envelope of Happy Mail! I will be sending out a small package of goodies with some fun crafty surprises included to one of the people who leave a comment by Monday, October 8th!! Winner will be announced Tuesday, October 9th

Here’s the full blog hop list-

1. Scrappy Cafe (Betz Golden)
2. Papierstau (Sanna Lippert)
3. Marie Nicole Designs (Marie Heiderscheit)
4. Steph Ackerman
5. The Crafty Robin
6. Monica Taylor
7. Karla Yungwirth That's Me!
8. Lynne Joncas
9. Priya Satish
10. Erin Reed
11. Natassa Blazaki
12. Peggy Lee Baker
13. Nadine Carlier
14. Jaine Drake
15. Christine Santos
16. Viktoriya Porechnaya
17. Hema VelCraft
18. Linda Israel

I am so excited to get out all my fall decor now and celebrate the season! 🍂 Be sure to hop over to the next stop on the list - Lynne Joncas and see the amazing project she’s come up with. 🍁 I hope you get lots of inspiration to start your next fall project!

Linked to:
SSS Wednesday Challenge - AG

Canvas Corp Brands - Lost In Translation Twist & Pop Card!

Hi friends! I hope you've had a wonderful week - I can't believe how fast it's flown by! Today I'm sharing a twist & pop card created for the Canvas Corp Brands Crew Challenge - Lost In Translation. Every month we have a challenge open to the Design Team and as soon as I saw the theme of this one I had an idea of what I wanted to create. Our challenge was to use a word that was not from our native language, so I chose Arigato, and the Japanese symbols that mean the same thing, which translate into Thank You in English.

I layered 7gypsies papers, the Tattered Angels mushroom painted with glimmer mists and preprinted flowers fussy cut from Canvas Corp's Compose Your Life paper on my card base and then heat embossed the sentiment from Pretty Cute Stamps Sushi Sentiments stamp set on a kraft Canvas Corp tag sprayed with Glimmer Mist.

Inside, I followed the directions from a previous Twist & Pop Card video HERE and added more fun crafty goodies from the Canvas Corp Brands shop. I always love the magic that happens when I open up these cards! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to head over to the Creative Studio Blog to see what other crafty Crew Members came up with and get a list of all the supplies I used. Wishing you a very happy crafty week ahead friends!

Kitty Bee Designs #125 - Birthday!

Hi Friends! I hope you've been having a lovely week so far! I've had lots of fun creating projects lately and here's one more for you!  It's time for the midweek inspiration for Challenge #125 Birthday over at the Kitty Bee Designs Challenge Blog - Aloha Friday!

Challenge #125

Super big thanks to our sponsor for this challenge

Nitwit Collections - https://www.nitwitcollections.com/shop/
and

Scrap N' Dipity - http://scrapndipity.com

For my project I'm using the gorgeous Sunflower Cottage Collection from Nitwit Collections. They have amazing digital scrapbooking and cardmaking collections, and I thought the beautiful sunflowers and butterflies would make a perfect birthday card to go along with this week's challenge theme!

 

I used my Cricut Explore to print & cut the lovely elements in the kit and typed in the Happy Birthday in a scripty font.

I added some pretty Stickles and popped the wings of the butterflies up. Since they were printed on white cardstock they are stiff enough to keep their shape. 

I used some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists on the background and the white doily to add colour and shine to my card. Some SpiegelMom Scraps sequins add a few extra pops of colour. I just love the striped bag and the pretty flowers!

Inside, I stamped a sentiment from Pink & Main with gold embossing powder and added another diecut flower. I was really impressed at how well the Cricut Print & Cut option worked, but you could cut these out by hand if you like with a border too.

I was really pleased with how beautiful the printables were and love how everything coordinates. All I had to do was layer it all together!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to check out the Kitty Bee Designs Aloha Friday Challenge to see all the inspiration from the other awesome Design Team members - and enter your own project HERE for a chance to win!! Have a wonderful weekend!