Cardabilities #100 is up today...

Today is our 100th sketch on Cardabilities and how exciting is that!!
We are sharing cards that we created using digital images
from Pickled Potpourri designs and i chose the beehive to use.

The new sketch is below and has lots and lots of possibilites
that you can see from all the ideas that we have to share on
our Cardabilites blog.  I used some really cute papers that
i had from Carte Bella and also a few of my favorite Spellbinders
dies for the top and for the doily under the beehive.

I used Copic pens to color my image and added tiny flowers
and borders that i cut with punches that i had in my stash.
The twine is from Really Reasonable Ribbon who by the
way has amazing ribbons for sale and the brads are by
Basic Grey.  This was really fun to create and i loved adding
all the bits and pieces to the digital image to create a scene.

Thanks for stopping over and be sure and create something
and add it to our blog so we can see what you do too!!  

Dragonflies and Roses...

There is lots of new things in the Butterbee Scrap shop and 

this beautiful dragonfly really caught my eye and i found a 

fun and easy way to decorate it with glitter and other fun things

that i had in my crafty room.  

For my necklace i used one of the brand new Bronze Dragonfly charms and

 some glitter glue and sprinkled the colors one at a time into the channels and then

let it dry.  To seal it i put a thin layer of glossy accents and let 

that dry too.  It was really easy and it went super fast.

 For it's head i added a few rhinestones and a turquoise

rhinestone to match the glitter.  And finally for the necklace i added tiny flower

shaped filigree pieces and rhinestones and attached them with

matching jump rings to the chain.  The beautiful toggle clasp is also something 

that you can get in the shop and makes it easy to put on.

Here is what i used to decorate my Dragonfly.

My next project was the easiest card i think i ever did.
I used one of the metal roses and put a layer of pink stickles
over all of it and added some more glitter on top of that and let it
dry.  Then i added a tiny pink stone in the center of it.  To
make the card just cut strips of coordinating papers and glued them and then
added ribbons and a bow.  Tuck the bronze metal leaves under
the bow and then add the pretty pink flower to finish it.

  The stamp is from one of my favorites from Quietfire Design
and they have lots of beautiful hand done calligraphy stamps
for lots of occasions.  And it's perfect on my card too.

Thanks for stopping by....

Card Club for May

It's been a while since i have posted anything for Card Club

at Scrap N Yap so i thought today i would do a quick

post to share with some of the things we did with 

Stampendous stamps and the fun glitters and embossing

powders that they have.  It was really fun and they

were so quiet and working it was almost scary.... but we 

all laughed alot and shared our stories to catch up

with life so another great class went down in the books.

Lots of lace and butterflies so it was great!

Thanks Stampendous and Fran for creating

all these fun things to work with :)

I loved the simpleness of this one... oh and the colors too!

I am a glitzy, melty, glittery kind of girl so

this was really fun to do.  I use 4 of the embossing

powders and glitters and some of the mica flakes

to do the front. It was really fun..... 

Hope the weekend was great for you all and

I have lots of crafty things to share this week

so be sure and check back soon :)

Happy Birthday with Quietfire Design

Today i have another card to share with all of you with

the new Cling sets from Quietfire Design.  This is a birthday

set called Happy Birthday Plain and Simple and it's filled with 

different designs to use for all those birthday

cards that you make and send out each month.

I kind of have clocks on a lot of my projects this

week and i am not sure why but it seems i bought

lots of things with them on or in it.. crazy how that

works out sometimes right? I really loved the colors

and the patterns in this paper and the stamp that

i picked from the set really went well.  I hand cut

the clocks from the papers and added a bit of

twine and a few flowers from my stash. Oh and 

the black rhinestones are from Want2Scrap...

Thanks for stopping and don't forget to leave

a message and say hi.... I always love to hear from you :)

Steampunk inspired necklace and card

It's Wednesday and time for another share using

some of the amazing things from the Butterbee store!!

This week i ordered some fun clock pieces and gears

and i had lots of fun making a card and a cute necklace

with the gears and a heart clock charm.

All those beautiful clock charms that you see are

called Creative Clocks and they go perfect with 

these papers from Graphic 45.  The black bias

ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbon and the 

die under the clock is called Stately Circles and

it's from Spellbinders of course :)

The necklace was super easy to make and all i

did was attach all the gears that you got in the set

with assorted jump rings that i had and attached

a bit of chain and a clasp for the back of it.  I think 

that if you want to fancy it up a bit you might add

some crystals or beads to the front but i thought

it looked good just the way it was.. Who knows i

might change my mind.  Here is list of all the things

that i used from the Butterbee shop for it...

Gears, Creative Clocks, Copper Jump Rings and

a matching lobster claw for the back. There is also

these antique brass toggles that you can order if 

the shop is out of the other...

Thanks for stopping by... classes coming up this
weekend at Scrap N Yap so i have lots of cutting
to do.. have a wonderful day :)

Believe in yourself from Quietfire Design

Today i have a quick post to share for all of you about the

new Cling stamps from Quietfire Design.  Yep that's right

i did say Cling and wow they are new and they work amazing!!

I used the Believe in Yourself stamp and I thought it would

be great for a graduation too to give a special someone.  I used

a new paper pad by Bazzill Basics, Dies from Spellbinders and

ribbons and flowers from Really Reasonable Ribbons.  

The ink is from Tsukineko Versacolor in pink and i embossed

it with clear to make it really stand out.  I really love this stamp

set "If you don't believe in miracles" and you can see

the other stamps in the set in the photo below.

Thanks so much for stopping over and don't forget

to check out all the other ideas on the blog for

more inspiration with the new cling stamps :)