January Craft Hoarders Blog Hop

Good morning friends and welcome to the January Craft Hoarders Blog Hop!  I didn't receive any new "stash" presents for Christmas, but I'm ashamed to say I did check out a couple of sales!  I'm really not ashamed at all!  I just wanted to make you think I am.  Let's face it...once a Hoarder, always a Hoarder!  A girl needs cardstock and bling and new dies; these are all necessities right?

This morning I'm sharing a card I made using the Graphic 45 Botanical Tea paper pack I've been hoarding for awhile now.  I used a tiny bit of the paper before but just couldn't bring myself to use more!  So I decided it was time to pull it out and just go for it.  When I first cut into a page I sigh and  hope I won't "NEED" this page for something important tomorrow!    My card is just a lot of layers and some fussy cutting and a torn page here and there and I filled the torn part with purchased flowers from long ago before I made flowers of my own!  I used dimensional tape to pop up the sign, butterflies, teapot and the bird.  I edged everything with Walnut Stain Distress Ink to give it more dimension.

You should be coming here from Jacquie Southas  blog  After visiting me, hop over to Amber's blog next.  To start at the beginning of the hop, and for the full list of Bloggers, go to Gloria's Blog!  Please follow along the hop for lots of inspiration! 

Participating Designers
Gloria Stengel
Debbie Seyer
Jacquie Southas
Glenda Brooks
Amber Milone
Tracey Sabella
Donna Idlet
Wendi Robinson
Teresa Horner
Barbara Rankin
Karen Zueger-Brownell
Christy Houser

Birthday Time.....

Good morning everyone!  As we step into this brand new year, I just want to do a quick post to wish you health and prosperity for this year!  I have been working on a new mini album and I wanted to do a tag for one of the pockets I plan to do. I have used the Heartfelt Creations Ornate Borders and Pockets Die to be the top of the tag and a piece of the paper from the Once Upon a Time collection also from Heartfelt Creations.  The little butterfly is sprinkled with glitter and sits on a smaller tag from the collection.  All I did was cut out the tag and add the butterfly.

Tie a pretty bow with scrunched seam binding and it is ready to go.  I love doing tags this size because they can go down into a gift bag or a pocket on a mini album or they can be a stand along gift for any occasion.  

That does it for me this morning.  Be sure to check back in the morning as I will be participating in the Craft Hoarders Anonymous blog hop!  See you then!

January 2016 Dies R Us Challenge "Use Something New"

Happy New Year readers!  I'm here to share my card made for the new Dies R Us challenge: "Use Something New".  I'm hoping you got some new goodies in your stocking so go ahead, break into that package and let's play!

I used my new Memory Box Leavenworth Butterfly Trio and Cascadia Butterfly Trio along with the Sue Wilson Graceful Lace Trim die and made this card for someone very special. I used lots of glitter and a computer generated sentiment along with an embossing folder and the card is ready to go.  Quick and Easy!

Now get busy and create a project for this challenge and link to the Dies R Us Challenge Blog!  You have until January 13th. to play along.  I can't wait to see what you create!  

 WINNER'S PRIZE:  $10 Voucher to the Dies R Us Store.

Here's a quick review of the rules:

• ENTRY LIMIT:  3
• MUST USE DIE CUTS on your creation.
• DIRECT link to your creation, not your entire blog.
• LINK BACK to our DRU Challenge Blog in your post.
• NO BACKLINKING (no creation made prior to our challenge posting)
• No limit to sharing with other challenges.

A Team Members

Barbara

Jenny

Maria

Vicki

Glenda (That's Me)

Dies Used:
Memory Box Leavenworth Butterfly Trio
Memory Box Cascadia Butterfly
Sue Wilson Configurations - Graceful Lace Trim (Temporarily Out of Stock)

woyww #343

Good morning fellow deskers!  I'm so happy to have the time to play along this morning.  I have been busy trying to put away some decorations and get ready to face the new year.  It is definitely not as much fun as when I pulled it all out!

If you want to know about this little bit of madness, just head over to Julia's blog as she is the creator and have a look around.  You will find we are a friendly bunch of crafters and always willing to share what is going on in our world!

I'm making flowers and little butterflies for a new mini album I'm starting.  The colors I'm using are Ranger Distress Inks Bundled Sage, Victorian Velvet and Broken China. Of course there is a bit of glitter, some Gala Glitz and some Glossy Accents sprinkled all around .  I have quite a way to go before I will be ready but it all pays off in the end.  So far I have the mini-album and pages all made and ready for pretty pages with flowers and butterflies sprinkled throughout.  This books take a great deal of time and it will be a good project for January.

Well that's it for me this morning.  I'm off to have a good look around!

December Heartfelt Creations Alumni Design Team Blog Hop

Good morning everyone and welcome to this month's Heartfelt Creations Alumni Design Team Blog Hop.  As most of you are aware, we lost Penny O'Dell this month and this blog hop is being dedicated to her memory.  We miss you Penny!

We all need sympathy cards at some point and I believe that a simple design with a mostly white background is classic.  I used watercolor paper for the base card and all the layers as well as the flowers are made with it.  It is a beautiful off white color and not too stark; just a warm look to provide a great background for my flowers. I stamped and cut out the flowers and leaves.  Once my flowers were shaped I sprayed some color spray right in the centers of the flowers and when the flowers dried I glued white seed beads in the center.   When I was doing the leaves I used a water brush and just ran the brush along the side of the ink pad and then onto the leaf.

There is a $25 gift certificate from Heartfelt Creations to be given away to one lucky person so you must visit as many of the participating designers as you can and leave a comment on each blog because we never know from which blog the winner will be chosen.

If you arrived here from:Amy Doria's blog you are right on track and your next stop will be: Vicki Dutcher's  blog.

You have until Midnight,  January 1st. to leave a comment on as many of our blogs as you can.  The winner of the $25 gift certificate will be announced on Saturday,  January 2nd.  Good luck to everyone!

Heartfelt Creations Products Used:
HCPC 3450 Cross & Lilies PreCut Set
HCPC 3651 Botanical Rose Cling Stamps
HCD 758 Botanical Wings Die

Participating Designers

Emillia van den Heuvel 

Caroline Duncan

Amy Doria

Glenda Brooks

Vicki Dutcher

Regina M. Hamilton

Kathy Clement

Gloria Stengel

Kerry Urbatch

Sarah Miller

Alissa Wells
Gini Williams Cagle

Lisa Allen

Sending Christmas Wishes to All of You! WOYWW#342

Good morning everyone!  Bella and I are sending Christmas wishes to all of you from our house to yours.  How do you like Bella's Christmas dress?  My sister (the enabler) sent it to her.  She really loves wearing it but she was not happy about sitting on the table where I take my photos.  She didn't feel at all stable so we really had to hurry to get this shot.  We will be busy until the 29th. when I will be back to share the December Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop!

Now if you would like to participate in What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday; just head over to Julia's blog.  We would love to have among us; we are a pretty easy group of crafters  just sharing what is going on in our worlds.

Here in the Brooks household everything is ready to have family here for our traditional Christmas Eve celebration and then Bella and I will be spending a nice quiet Christmas day together watching old movies.  We snuggle down and stay in our pj's and do nothing all day long.

That does it for me!  I want to wish each and everyone of my blogger friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  Now don't forget to come back for the Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop on December 29th!

WOYWW #341.....

As the Christmas Holiday draws near, I find I'm a little better organized than I thought.  All the Christmas cards are in the mail and the Christmas fudge has been made and distributed and I can breathe for a bit!  I decided to clean my craft room so I didn't take a photo of my clean desk for today. Julia is the creator of this little bit of madness and she has all the details on her blog. I'm totally addicted to this weekly world wide blog hop and hope you will decide to follow along.

I have been working on videos of mini albums that I have done recently using the Heartfelt Creations Papers, stamps and dies.  I'm no longer on their design team but I have remained a Heartfelt Creations girl!

This mini  album is made using the Blazing Poppy paper and dies from Heartfelt Creations and I have to say, I love this one!  Below is the little video I did for YouTube so I hope you enjoy it.

Please be kind, I'm still learning about making videos and I have senior moments when I can't think of a certain product I have used so just bear with me.  I love making the mini albums and it is difficult to photograph one so a video is better. Have a Happy WOYWW!  I'm off to visit as many of you as I can.