Another Birthday party!

So my daughter had another birthday party over the weekend!  So I decided to make a card using my Taylored Expressions pennant and flag dies.  Since I didn't have stamps to stamp out the birthday girl's name I wrote it out with my gel pens!  My daughter was so excited to give the card... it makes her happy to give a handmade card! That's my girl!

Supplies: Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients Kit June 2011, Bazzil card-stock, Stamps are from CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge set.

Enjoy

Nicole

Kids making valentines

This year my 3 year old made valentines for the first time ever!  I reluctantly gave them to the teacher really wanting to keep them all for myself and save forever! LOL  Then my middle daughter Anna decorated her valentine box with little monsters too.  This year the Taylored Expressions stamps were a BIG hit with the kids.  We all had fun making various crafts and cards with them.  The little monsters set was voted favorite of all with the dashunds coming in a close second!

Here are some pics showing what the kids made!

Zachary coloring his favorite monster for his valentines!

Here are three of the final projects he made!  Attached bags of fruit snacks and he was happy!

This is the valentine box Anna made... work in progress here.

Here are some of the images she colored to add to her box!

My oldest daughter Taylor also made valentines using the monsters but we didn't get any pictures of them!! :(

Enjoy!

Nicole

Valentines Day!

I am under the weather right now but I would like to share with you the Valentines Day card I made for my oldest daughter Taylor.  She has beautiful red hair and I made Mokia to look similar!  She LOVED IT!!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Moka Cherie by Taylored Expressions, Hearts a Plenty Dies by Taylored Expressions, Bazzill Cardstock, choice buttercream card stock by Taylored Expressions, ribbon and designer paper from Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients Kits from January 2011.
Enjoy!!
Nicole

One more valentine....

Sorry for the delay in posting... our house was hit pretty hard with cold and flu due to this crazy weather! Here in Michigan we have a saying... if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes!  This winter has been crazy like that!  We have had little snow and when it does finally snow... within two days it looks like spring again and its pouring down rain.  This is NOT my idea of winter.  Needless to say my children and hubby have severe allergies and this has not been a fun time for them.  My husband came down with the flu and that was awful!  Thus far I have been able to stay healthy (knock on wood). 

Enough about that... lets talk crafts! =) When I make cards I often cut out a lot of different pieces and try out various designs before I choose what will be my final product.  I will often make a "dummie card" which is stamped various times and has holes in random places etc from where I tried various ideas and didn't like it.  Often times I end up with various components I really like but just don't' fit my specific card at that time... so this card is made up of pieces from my CPS 252 card I made.  I didn't like how the Moka girl looked on it but when I put these love elephants (from Taylored Expressions) and added the red hearts to the TE heart border die I liked it!  So this is one of this semi scrap/dummie cards! I have bags of dummie pieces that my girls just love to make things with...  someone appreciates my creative mishaps! LOL

Supplies: Paper: Bazzill cardstock, Taylored Expressions Key ingredient card kit January. 

Stamps: Animals in love - Elephants  Dies: Taylored Expressions Jumbo heart border die, nest abilities scalloped circles. Copic markers. doodle bug twine, buttons (no idea where they came from).

Enjoy!!

Nicole

CPS Challenge 252 Sponsored by Taylored Expressions

Today I am sharing my creation for the CPS challenge #252 sponsored by Taylored Expressions!  You can enter your own creation by clicking on the words above!  I can't wait to see what everyone makes!
Since the challenged by TE I decided to use my new goodies I purchased from them....ok and also because I am addicted to them and can't quit using them!  I made several cards that all fit this challenge but this one is the one I decided to submit!  The rest will follow tomorrow.

For this challenge I used a variety of papers from my Taylored Expression January Key Ingredients Kit.  The card stock is Bazill, Patterned paper is Crate Paper - Paper Heart, I also used heart trinket pins, heart button candy dots.  For the stamps I used Moka Cherie (simply love them) and the Fly your flag 3 stamp set and coordinating die.  These dies are so much fun I got all 3 of them and this one looks great on the heart trinket pin!  I have also used toothpicks and bakers twine.  Since the papers were so busy I went light on the embellishments. If you have any questions please leave a comment or send me an email! 


This little card will go to my daughter Anna for Valentines day! She is a blond just like the little Moka here! Since she doesn't view my blog I can post it now! LOL  Sorry Taylor.... I'm not posting your card until after Valentines day! =) I know you check my blog on your iPhone!
Enjoy
Nicole

First Blog header complete!!! YAY

I am so excited to display the new blog header I made using Little Miss Sweet Stuff digital scrapbooking kit designed by Amanda Rockwell.  There is a link on the side of my blog that will take you to a site where you can view her designs and purchase them!  I paid $4.80 for the kit and used Photoshop Elements 9 to create it.  I learned how to work with PSE from a blog called Digital Scrapper.com   

I have always admired other stamper's fancy blog headers and graphics... now I can make my own! So exciting!!!

Coming Soon this week...

   New creations using Taylored Expressions goodies!

   First time using digi images

Let is Snow!!!.... Make it Stop!!

Some people have lots of snow while others haven't got much... we are in an area of Michigan that hasn't got much.  Currently it is 5 degrees outside and I just want snow!  I want to be able to go outside sledding and enjoy the weather with my children!  So I am keeping the tag positioned to display Let It Snow!! I made this tag reversible so you could also say make it stop! ;) This was one of my holiday cards... since I had troubles no one got to see it on my old blog so I thought I would display it here!

 

I am working on perfecting my photos so hopefully they will improve soon!

Supplies:  Cardstock: Bazzil, patterned paper is by Echo Park-Winter Park purchased from Taylored Expressions. Ribbon: Stampin Up, silver twine Stampin Up. Inks: Momento Ink, copics, sprica glitter pen(red), craft white ink from Stampin Up. Stamp Set: Inkadinkadoo (not 100% sure since the card was thrown away). The stamp set was purchased at Michaels for $9.99 and has 14 stamps total.  Has reindeer, ice skating polar bear, Merry Christmas, Ho Ho Ho, tree, kitten in stocking, and sledding penguin to name a few.

Enjoy!

Nicole