Free Hugs Repurposed Plant Pot and Video!

Hello! I'm back today to share a sweet little no fuss diecut cactus and DIY plant pot. I really do love having plants in my house, but... and not for lack of trying... they never survive 😢 It is really safer for all those sweet plants out there if I stick to the faux variety, lol. So, I decided to craft a cute cactus from a Cricut cut using my Cricut Explore. Of course, this little guy needed a lovely home, so I repurposed a clay pot I had laying around my house with the Tattered Angels Naturally Aged Paint System Bare Metal Weathered Bronze. This is a super cool set of 4 paints/mists that combine to create a bronzed metal look. When combined with the clay pot it looks so awesome!

I used the Cricut Cartridge Cactus Love to cut this sweet 3D plant. It is really easy to put together. I added a Prima Flower and a little cork butterfly with some gems and sequins from Buttons Galore. I happened to have a styrofoam cone in my stash and cut it down to fit inside the pot. Instead of leaving it white I added some Tattered Angels Kraft High Impact Paint and then covered it with Emerald Creek's Baked Texture Dirty Sand Embossing Powder by Seth Apter. I love when I can use a product for more than its intended purpose, and this Dirty Sand Powder looks amazingly like sand when it's dry! I just sprinkled it on and glued it down with some tacky glue before adding my cactus.

I've been experimenting with cutting vinyl with my Cricut more - I know, that's not anything new, but for some reason I thought it was harder than it was! I'm really loving it and thought this free hugs was super cute! It's from the Humming In My Garden cartridge.

You can see how everything came together in the full process video HERE or click below:

Thanks so much for stopping by! You can find this project and see what other Crew Members came up with for this fun spring pot challenge over on the Creative Studio Blog. You may just want to create something crafty using some fun pots around your own home!

Wish Layout with Altered Chipboard!

Hello! I sure hope you had an awesome weekend! It was a little drizzly Sunday here so we stayed in our p.j's and did stuff around the house, crafting, a little cleaning... and enjoyed a bit of a lazy day. Today, I'm giving you a look at the layout that I'm sharing on the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog today using their gorgeous chipboard and stencil from the shop. I love this photo of Erica just taking the time to pick up a dandelion and blow the seeds. It reminds me how important it is to take time to connect with nature.

Here's a look at the video where you can see exactly how I altered the chipboard and put everything together:

Be sure to stop at the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog for closeups, details and a full supply list. Thanks so much for stopping by, and have an awesome week friends!

Emerald Creek Craft Supplies - New Products & Canvas Art with Videos!

Hello friends! Well, it's my last Design Team post over on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog - I've had an amazing year with them, and of course I'll be continuing to use their amazing products and work with them here and there. I'm really excited to see what the new DT comes up with! And, I'm super excited to be one of the first people to try out some of the amazing new products that will soon be released! This month it's all about what's new, and here's what I've had fun playing with this week - Seth Apter is releasing more amazing powders and Gwen Lafleur has also come up with some gorgeous products - powder and gemstones, all produced by Emerald Creek Craft Supplies!

Here's the video where I give you a close up look at what I'm playing with today!

And, of course, I couldn't stop playing, so this is what I created with these new goodies - a lovely 6x6 canvas!

Here you can see the video where I show you how I put this pretty canvas together-

Emerald Creek Supplies used:

STAMPS:

Christmas Polka

EMBOSSING POWDERS:

Coming soon-
Lapis Lazuli by Gwen Lafleur

Baked Texture Rustic Indigo by Seth Apter
Baked Velvet Mediterranean Kit by Seth Apter
(includes Lime, Dusk and Aegean Sea) 

EMBELLISHMENTS:

Coming soon-

Amber Crystals Gemstones by Gwen Lafleur

African Amythest Gemstones by Gwen Lafleur

Other Supplies:

7gypsies Artboard

Tattered Angels Mists

Canvas Corp Brands corrugated cardboard

Various wood veneer and diecuts

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to head over to the Emerald Creek Dares Blog to see closeups and check out this month's challenge details. There is an amazing prize to win!! Have an awesome weekend friends.

Southern Ridge Trading Company- Altered Ornaments!

Hello! I’m getting super excited about Christmas coming, and even though I still have a ton of things to do, I’m enjoying the holiday season! These pretty ornaments that I made for the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog today were quick and easy, and a wonderful holiday project!

Here’s a look at the video where you can see how I put them all together!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to pop over to the Southern Ridge Trading Company blog  where you can see how the ornaments look hanging on the tree and get a list of supplies. You can check out the Southern Ridge Trading Company Store where you’ll find lots of fun wood veneer, chipboard and even stencils to create even more fun projects!

Linked to:
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Christmas

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

Gerda Steiner Designs - Impossible Penguin Card!

Howdy friends! Wow, where is December going?!! I'm having so much fun doing Christmas things, but really, there is just never enough time... Oh well, I guess I'll just enjoy as much as I can 😉 Today, I'm over on the Gerda Steiner Designs blog with a sweet little Christmas card using the super cute Decorating Penguin digi stamp and an Impossible Card fold. If you haven't tried this fold, you are going to want to check it out - so easy, but it looks so complicated.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to head over to the Gerda Steiner Designs blog to see closeups and details, and have a very Merry Christmas!

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

Southern Ridge Trading Company - Halloween Mini Banner & News!

Well, I guess this is the week of exciting news for me 😉and today I'm sharing that I've just joined the Southern Ridge Trading Company Design Team! SRTC is a Canadian based business that carries a huge selection of wood veneer, chipboard and stencils - perfect for all your crafty needs! I have used the SRTC products in the past and love the quality and designs, so I can't wait to bring you fun projects using it! Today, I'm over on the SRTC Blog where I'm sharing this fun Halloween Mini Banner.

Here's a look at my mantel, decorated for the fall and Halloween season (since Erica who is 6 was helping me decorate and decided we simply had to put up everything right now...) with this fun banner across a framed subway art print.

Here's the video where you can see the process I used to create this mini canvas banner-

Supplies Used-

Southern Ridge Trading Company:

Happy Halloween Chipboard Set

Herringbone Stencil

Soda Fizz Stencil

Canvas Corp Brands:

Mini Canvas Banner

Purple Cord

Tattered Angels Mists- 

Iron Chalkboard

Iris Baseboard

Golden Lime Glimmer Mist

It's Orange Glimmer Mist

Emerald Creek Craft Supplies:

Embossing Powders-

Stamps-

Paper Artsy Paints by Seth Apter:

Terracotta

Magic Moss

Midnight

Buff

Little Birdie Crafts:

Handmade Flowers

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to stop over to the Southern Ridge Trading Company Blog to see lots of inky closeups and get all the details!

Tattered Angels - Using the Tarnished Silver Naturally Aged Kit!

Hello! I hope you're having a wonderful day so far 💙 I wanted to pop by to share a very cool kit with you from Tattered Angels - the Tarnished Silver Naturally Aged Paint System! Here's a peek at the background I created, but be sure to head over to the Creative Studio Blog to see details and closeups of all the surfaces I tried it on!!

Here's a look at the VIDEO showing you how easy it is to use this kit!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you get a chance to try out the Tarnished Silver Kit or one of the others that are in the Canvas Corp Brands shop - you will have so much fun! Head over to the blog post HERE where you'll see details and closeups, and have a wonderful day!

Emerald Creek Craft Supplies - Elegant Unicorn Card!

Hi friends! I sure hope you had an awesome weekend!! We've had record high temps here in Alberta and we have been trying to create a balance between keeping cool, but enjoying the warm weather, and not complaining because soon enough... you know! I'm over on the Emerald Creek Craft Supplies blog today to share a card using our theme this month - Outdoors! I feel like I've done a lot of camping layouts lately, so I wanted to use this awesome Unicorn Stamp from Emerald Creek to create a sunshine and rainbow card - and since I could think of a whole bunch of stamp sets that I could combine to create this card I thought I would use them all together along with some beautiful Emerald Creek Embossing Powders for a wonderful, bright, sunshiny card!

Here's a look at the VIDEO where you can check out the whole process!

Emerald Creek Craft Supplies used:

(click on links to shop directly using Affiliate Links at no cost to you!)

STAMPS:

Unicorn Stamp Size Large

EMBELLISHMENTS:

Wish Script Charm

EMBOSSING POWDER

Winter’s Mistake

Northern Lights

Thanksgiving

GreenSparkle

Black Cherry Aroma

Vintage Beeswax Baked Texture

Charred Gold

Other Supplies:

Your Next Stamp Unicorns Rock Stamp set, Stitched Cloud Die, Gumdrop Enamel Dots

Stampin' Up Over The Rainbow stamp set

Pink & Main Believe Script stamp set

Waffle Flower Stitched Unicorn stamp set

Tattered Angles Chalkboard Mist - Chalk

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to head over to the Emerald Creek Craft Supplies blog to get all the details and see closeups, and enter your own project for a chance to win!! 🦄 Have a crafty week my friends!

Emerald Creek Craft Supplies - Hit The Beach Layout!

Hi there! I am so super happy it is summer - and feeling like summer!! I'm posting over on the Emerald Creek Craft Supplies blog today with a beachy layout for our theme this month - Beach! Think sea shells, water, sand.... These photos are from a camping trip where we spent some time at the beach and it was fun to reminisce while I created! I always try to get a Selfie in while Mike and I have a minute to ourselves. Of course, there are always lots of kiddo pics, but I think it's important to get those shots of us too!

Here's a look at the process video where you can see all the gorgeous powders I used to create this fun layout!

Supplies used:

Emerald Creek Craft Supplies -

*Affiliate links used to help support my blog 💛

EMBOSSING POWDERS:

Weathered Wood 

Dirty Sand 

Patina Oxide 

Deep Sea 

EMBELLISHMENTS:

Camera Charms 

Other Supplies-

SpiegelMom Scraps Sequins - 

Canvas Corp Papers: At The Beach

Blue & Ivory Ticking

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists

Tattered Angels Mixed Media Mini Origins Nautical Art Collection 

Wild Whisper Papers: Wild Whismy Paper Pack

Scrapbook & Cards Today Bonus Cutting Files FREE!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to check out my post on the Emerald Creek Craft Supplies Blog for closeups and details and information on how to enter your own beach project for a chance to win! Have an awesome week friends!

Linked to:

Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge - Love Your Selfie!

Bimini Moose - July Scrapbook Challenge

SCT Magazine - July Sketch Challenge

Canvas Corp Brands - To The Sea June Challenge Layout!

Hello! I hope you're having a great week so far! I volunteered on a field trip with my youngest daughter's kindergarten class today - it was very busy, but lots of fun! Hard to believe we are into June already and on our way to the end of the school year. We go to the end of June here... and before you know it it'll be beach weather!! Woo-hoo! I was so excited for this month's Canvas Corp Brands challenge - To The Sea and found these photos of myself at the beach last year on a camping trip. I love how they matched up with the sentiments and fun beach themed supplies I pulled from lots of fun CCB products, which include Canvas Corp, 7gypsies and Tattered Angels. The new Tattered Angels Color Wash Paints were a dream to watercolour with! I also added in some Emerald Creek Dirty Sand Embossing Powder and SpiegelMom Scraps sequins.

Here's a look at our mood board for June. We would love for you to link up as well!! Just by including one of our fabulous CCB products - that's Canvas Corp, Tattered Angels or 7gypsies - you'll be entered to win a fantastic prize pack! You can link up at our main post HERE.

Be sure to head over to the Canvas Corp Brands blog - The Creative Studio - for a step by step tutorial on how I created the layout, see closeups (the canvas looks so cool up close!) and get a supply list! We can't wait to see what you come up with for this challenge! Wishing you a fantastic week ahead. 💕

Linked to:

Bimini Moose Scrapbook Challenge - Scrapbook w/ optional Twist Summer

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Anything But A Card

Creative Scrapbooker Sketchy Challenge - April Sketch

7gypsies Handmade Junk Journal & Video!!

Hello! I'm so excited to share my first junk journal! I have wanted to make one for a while, and I'm really glad I finally did it. The Canvas Corp Brands Architextures books are just the perfect thing to start with, and since I had my niece's birthday coming up - and one of the Vintage Pink books in my stash - I thought this would be the perfect thing to create for her! Here's a look at some of the pages I ended up with.

The beautiful background papers on the pages included with the book made it easy to create a great layout! Be sure to check out the video below to see all the pages closeup.

Here's a link to the video  (or watch below) where you can get a closeup of the 7gypsies Architextures Mix & Match Vintage Pink book - and then see all the pages I created with lots of goodies from the Canvas Corp Brand Shop! To see a list of supplies visit the video and check the description box.

Here's a photo of us all at the table at our local Earls restaurant! Of course Sydney loved her gift!!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to check out the 7gypsies YouTube channel for lots more inspiration!

Kitty Bee Designs #118 - For Mom/Feminine!

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 #118 - For Mom/Feminine- over at the Kitty Bee Designs Challenge Blog - Aloha Friday!

Challenge #118

Super big thanks to our sponsor for this challenge

Fred She Said Designs

and

Di's Digi Stamps

Today I'm using the beautiful Sentiment Flower Doodledallion set from Fred She Said Designs, which comes with digital outlines, printables, sentiments and precoloured versions of layers that you can put together in so many ways! I printed out the printable sheet with the square background and several flowers and then I fussy cut each flower to size and sponged on Distress Oxide Inks to give each layer a varied look. I used my new favourite mist - Tattered Angels Chalk Chalkboard Mist, which is a white, semiopaque mist that has a beautiful shimmer, to lightly mist all over my coloured pieces before layering them with foam tape. The Oxide Ink reacts with the mist, but also protects the printed image and my ink did not run at all! 

I used a new Altenew Scallop Builder stencil to layer on Ivory and Pink Distress Oxides on a kraft background. These builder stencils are so fun!! Next I cut out various flowers and stems from my Tim Holtz Funky Floral #3 diecut set using supplies from previous Scrapbook & Cards Today Sampler Kits. I added a bit of white gel pen for detail and added some sequins and enamel dots from the kits.

Lastly, I added a cork butterfly from SpiegelMom Scraps, which they sadly don't carry any more, and then layered a wooden butterfly overtop that I altered with Emerald Creek Charred Gold embossing powder. I love how it changed the look!

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!

Linked to:
SSS Monday Challenge - Stencil It
SSS Wednesday Challenge - Stencil It

FCCB #325 - Mother’s Day!

Happy Monday and welcome to another FCCB Monday challenge! Well, better late than never 😳... 

Challenge #325-Mother's Day
Make a project about Mother's Day.

This Weeks Sponsor

SVGcuts

Create a project inspired by Mother's Day

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've created a pretty Mother's Day card using the Kim Byers Mother's Day Cricut cartridge in Design Space for the gem diecut and the inside sentiment, free this week 😉and a free card cutfile from SVGcuts - Mia's Card. There are so many amazing freebies to check out from our awesome sponsor!! I first used Canvas Corp Ivory cardstock to cut all my diecut pieces, and then used Distress Inks to create an ombre effect for the background. I sprayed  Tattered Angels Mists and added Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam for lots of pretty shine to the top cut of the card base. If you chose to heat the Glimmer Glam it bubbles, and I love that effect!

I cut the back of the gem from a blue foil paper and then added Emerald Creek Hammered Metal Embossing Powder to the top cut for a lovely metallic effect. I sprinkled SpiegelMom Scraps sequins around for the finishing touch.

Inside, I used a Pretty Cute Stamps Mother's Day sentiment along with the You're A Gem diecut from the Kim Byers cartridge. I cut it out of the vanilla cardstock, sprayed it with Tattered Angels Mists and then gave it a top coat with Emerald Creek Fractured Ice embossing powder. And, in case you're wondering - the background papers I used in my photos are from the 7gypsies Architexures paper line. I love the vintage look they give!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fantastic week ahead!! Be sure to stop over at the Fantabulous Cricut blog to see what the other Design Team members have come up with for this challenge, and enter your own Mother's Day project with at least 1 Cricut cut for a chance to win a fab prize from SVGcuts!