imbricate: adjective

lying lapped over each other in regular order
pronunciation

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Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Link Up Party

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - #55 New Beginnings

 

Well, the baby gift card holders were a big success at the Art MoB and I sold all of them so here are their replacements :)

Cricut - Doodlecharms

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

How can you not think about winter after seeing the inspiration picture? All the leaves have deserted the trees and are swirling around in the wind over here in the mountains. We have gone from chilly weather to downright...bbbrrrrr! But I am sure we will have some warm days here and there, until then I am wishing for snow. I know, there is something seriously wrong with me!

I made a gift card holder:

 The gift card sits in the sleigh, just glue down the sides and bottom of the sleigh body.

Embellished it a little :)

Cricut - Winter Woodland cartridge, p. 53

Ranger - stickles, liquid pearls

entering my Sleigh Gift Card in:
Challenges 4 Everybody - #34  Anything Goes

Wellesian: adjective

From Orson Welles (1915-1985) American

Think: cinematic pyrotechnics done to technical and dramatic perfection.

( weird that they offer it as a word, but it's not IN their dictionary )

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Fab 'n' Funky - Challenge #179 - Christmas In July

Cut it Up - Christmas in July - Challenge #23

Although the mittens might look like they are hanging

 freely, they are actually attached.

And when you remove the gift card from inside the buggy you have a small hidden sentiment. Inside the card you have plenty of room to write in.

Cricut - Stretch Your Imagination, p. 71

Ranger - stickles

S.E.I - stickers

Robins Creative Cottage - sentiment stamp

Really Reasonable Ribbon - lace, twine

Hero Arts - small sentiment stamp

encroach: verb

to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another

 

to advance beyond the usual or proper limits

 

pronunciation

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Hi everyone, it's time for the Frosted Design Monday Inspiration girls to shine a little bit of sparkly polka dots for you!! 

You need to use Polka Dots on a card, layout or off the page project! 

Go HERE to play along in our challenge!

 

 

 

 As with all my Gift Card holders, the GC itself slides into the front of the card so the person giving it has plenty of room to write their message.

Cricut - Doodlecharms

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Our sponsor this challenge:


also entering this in:
Really Reasonable Ribbon - #74 I'm Seeing Dots & Ribbon

goldbrick: noun

a worthless brick that looks like gold

 something that appears valuable but is actually worthless

 

a person who shirks assigned work
 

pronunciation

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entering this in:

 

Moxie Fab - Gift Card Holder challenge

 

 I love to make shaped cards, I think they are too darn cute. So much so that I have made 3 of them. A little girl, little boy and androgynous.

( The androgynous version will be printed in an upcoming Cricut magazine. )

 

The GC slides into the front of th card behind the bow.

Cricut - Doodlecharms, p. 106

Really Reasonable Ribbon

My Little Yellow Bicycle - stickers

Faber Castell - PITT pens
Easy Bow Maker

atone: verb

to supply satisfaction for

 to make amends

pronunciation

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LittleScrap Pieces - Fun Friday Shape UP!

Moxie Fab - The Gift Card Holder Challenge

Sparkles Monthly Challenge Blog - #44 Monochromatic

I think this gift card holder would be perfect for someone going back to school.

Since I didn't have a zipper to use, I took some small ric rac and colored it with a metallic gelato.

  

Cricut - Doodlecharms, p. 119

Autumn Leaves - stamp sentiment
Really Reasonable Ribbon - ric rac
Faber Castell - gelato, PITT pen
Echo Park, S.E.I - pattern paper
Helmar - 450
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I made it to the top 3 finalists for designing a wooden book for Genuinely Jane Studios, would be honored if you would go visit there and cast your vote for me...( I designed the camera. )

sui generis: adjective

constituting a class alone : unique, peculiar

pronunciation
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Moxie Fab  350 Cards and Gifts Week - Gift Card Holder Challenge
365 Cards - Day 131 Put it in your Pocket
All that Stickles - Cotton Candy Linky party

Inkspirational - Challenge #19

You know, put a pink glittery balloon on a gift bag and I'd be happy. Nope, it doesn't take a lot for me :) Of course, one that holds a gift card makes me a little happier and this one does slip out of the bag for ease of shopping! :)

 I love this background paper, it's a flocked embossed texture that feels so good to run your fingers over.

Added lace to the inside of the bag to emulate tissue paper. I do recommend adding a bit of wax paper into the bag to keep the glue from adhering the bag together. The handle is created the same way from a piece of twine.

The balloon is sitting on a glue dot and I tried to shape the balloon over it to give it a more rounded look. I spread some stickles over the balloon and then outlined with the same color. Filled in with some glossy accents.

Ranger - stickles ( cotton candy ), Glossy Accents

Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine

Making Memories - ribbon

Cricut - Everyday Paper Dolls, p. 43

Maya Roads - envelope
CARDZTV - stamp sentiment
Heidi Grace - paper is old, from 2007..I've been hoarding it that long! lol

admonish: verb

 

to indicate duties or obligations to

and

 to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle, earnest, or solicitous manner

also

 to give friendly earnest advice or encouragement to

 

pronunciation

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Bitten by the Bug2 - Welcome Baby

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - #43 Hearts

Sister Act Card Challenges - #3

Little Scrap Pieces - Bundle of Joy

 

 

I've had a couple of inquiries about how does the gift card fit onto the front of the cards, so here is a quick tutorial

 

Add lots of embellies!!

Little Yellow Bicycle - Snuggle bug, Girl

Cricut - Doodlecharms cartridge, p. 95

Prima - flower

Maya Road - butterfly pin

May Arts - leaves

Helmar - 450, Liquid Scrapdots

Faber castell - PITT pen

Scor - Buddy

Ranger - Distress ink

Zig - marker

 

Trending words

Diaphanous: adjective

characterized by extreme delicacy of form 

(yes, it also has other meanings, but this was the meaning for how it was used)

pronunciation

 

when: Lookups spiked on April 9, 2013

 

why: The pop star Shakira – a new judge on NBC's singing competition The Voice – praised an 18-year-old contestant by saying, "Your voice is so diaphanous at times."

 

Diaphanous is currently in the top 1% of lookups and is the 144th most popular word on Merriam-Webster.com.

 

I love the idea that media does increase our curosity and learning experience.

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Card Makin' Mamas - Time for Ribbon

Bitten by the Bug2 - Welcome Baby

Sister Act Card Challenge - #2

Craft-room challenge - So Sentimental

 

 Here the GC is removed, and the card itself can be used as a tag or embellishment for the baby's scrapbook.

Little Yellow Bicycle - stickers

Really Reasonable Ribbon - ribbon

Cricut - Doodlecharms cartridge, p. 106

Faber Castell - PITT pen
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The tulips will be gone all too soon...but I love how the streets look...

This is the way to paint the back of a building now, and am so proud that there is no graffiti on it too...respecting the mural artists!

 

 I know we are all use to seeing signs church signs with inspiring words, but it made me smile that this was a Dry Cleaners signage.

 

Mirandize: verb

to recite the Miranda warnings to (a person under arrest)

pronunciation

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This week over at Frosted Design, we have a travel theme challenge for you. Remember you can enter a card, Lay Out or an off the page project as long as it has something to do with travel.

 Play along with us and you have a chance to win:

A Travel Mini Album Kit by Artsy Albums

Please pop over and take a look at my fellow Monday inspiration ladies have come up with for this challenge. I like to think my card as traveling with versatility :)

 

DCWV - Shimmer Stack

Cricut - Everyday Paper Dolls, p. 71

Flashing Tape - hardware store

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots

The Cricut has a slit cut for the door so I just went with that idea, and printed my sentiment on a banner and slid it through the opening. It's lifted up with Helmar's Liquid Scrapdots, outlined with American Crafts Slick Writer.

 

To me, this sentiment makes it a more versatile card, it could mean:

"Happy Travels, here's some spending money"...or

"Here son, some money to fix your car up with"....or

"Get well soon, here's a gift to make you feel better"....or

 "Hard times happens, here's a little something to get you back on your feet"...

lots of ideas here!

 

So, do you have any travel plans for the summer?

 Jamie and I are going to Florida for a week, and I cannot wait! It will be so much fun to have someone to bum around with! 

nepenthe: noun

 a potion used by the ancients to induce forgetfulness of pain or sorrow

or

 something capable of causing oblivion of grief or suffering

pronunciation

 

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entering my card in:

 

Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge #110 Pastels

 

 

And once you remove the GC, you have this, which I thought would be a real sweet display in the baby's room or it could be added to the baby's scrapbook like a tag :)

 

Really Reasonable Ribbon - lace and twine

Hero Arts - stamp

Candy Buzz - font
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Simon Says Stamp Challenge - April Showers and/or Spring Flowers
Cute Card Thrusday - Challenge 264 - Butterfly kisses
Inkspirational - Photo inspiration challenge

As you can see the colors and the flowers inspired me, but instead of a blue sky I chose blue butterflies instead.

 

I love how you can use the LSD to get the butterfly wings to tilt up as much or as less as you want:

 

Ranger - Distress Paint
Hero Arts - stamps
Color Box Chalk - ink
Sakura - Glaze pen
Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots

convalesce: verb

 to recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness

pronunciation

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Spring has sprung Challenge

 something that moves on your card/project!

 

I love a little movement on a card, especially for children's card since they like to have interactive toys...errr....cards.

I used the Cricut cartridge, Doodlecharms to create the shapes. I cut the house apart so that the Gift Card can be slid into it.

 

Here is a close up shot of the Action Wobble:

( I did have to trim the wobble a bit to fit the shape of his head! )

And here you can see that the gift card holder is all on the front of the card. The card itself opens up so that you can write your greetings inside it.

I can't wait to see what you come up with for this challenge, I am always looking for new ways to create movement, I know some people make those slider cards, which look so darn cute! Or maybe a butterfly whose wings have movement? So many possibilities, I hope you hop over to the Try it on Tuesday blog to get inspired by what the DT has come up with and play along with us!

Big Shot

Fiskars - wood embossing plate

Ranger - Distress Ink, Distress Stain

border stamp, ribbon - misc.

Faber Castell PITT pen

American Crafts - Slick Writer

 

 Sponsor

$25 Gift certificate  ( WOW, right? )

 

Love her wooden shapes, be on the look out for a huge project of mine starting May 10th which will feature the wooden bird shape!!

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Some things are simpatico, aren't they? I was commissioned to do a rooster get well card and then Brenshevia showed this awesome tutorial on making sunbursts. I mean..roosters = sunrise...right? Or am I right? lol So after cutting my rooster out in the Cricut Craft Room, Animal Antics; I set about making my sunrise. Go HERE for the tutorial over at Frosted Designs :)

entering this card in:

Sister Act card Challenge - #1 Anything Goes

 

I hand stitched along the sun and glued down the same floss along the creases of the sun rays. Now when you add a die cut on top of that texture you may have a tiny problem. If your die cut is glued flat, it will crease or bend if you pop dot up the die cut then you have issues with those tiny parts like the tail father and feet where the pop dots would show.....

you have Helmar's Liquid Scrapdots...to dah...problem fixed. So not only can you elevate your die cut to match the height of the thread but you protect all those tiny areas and it cannot be seen!! I truly do believe it's why my cards and signs sell so well, no visible pop dots!! And to think I use to pop dot everything...now it's all about the LSD, man! lol ( Drug pun not entirely intended )

Faber Castell - PITT pen

 

Oh, an another reason to love making sunbursts...great usage of those scraps of paper.

No 12x12 sheet was harmed in the making of this card! ♥

 

redbrick: adjective

built of red brick

or

  of, relating to, or being the British universities founded in the 19th or early 20th century

pronunciation

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Fab 'n' Funky - Challenge #165 April Showers

( Currently it's raining and I sure could use some galoshes/wellies to get out and about today. I thought I'd carry the theme of showers even farther along by using a Rainy Day sentiment. )

Card Makin' Mamas - No Pattern Paper
( second entry )

Inkspirational - Challenge #14 Color Inkspiration -  pink, banana, and slate

( Was not sure if slate was grey or blue, but it seems the DT projects used blue, at least that's what if looked like on my computer screen. I didn't have a slate blue ink so I used Broken China. )

Technique Time Tuesday - Water Stamping

( OK, so my stamping techniques really stink, hence why I try to learn new things. This one really bombed for me, lol Here is a picture of the rain boot after stamping with my Hero Arts background stamp following the steps...I just need to practice more. But I HAD to try it, I mean water stamping and a Rainy Day card just went hand in hand. )

 

 

Since you could not make out the flowers from the stamps; I glued some on where they were suppose to be and added a pink rhinestone to the center of each.

I altered the Prima rose by removing the rose core and added a matching rhinestone to it.

 

Cricut - Paisley cartridge, p. 49 ( taken to the CCR to stretch the boot to fit the envelope )

Prima - large flower, leaf

My Mind's Eye - rhinestones

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Sharpie - ( 'cause I wasn't going to waste my PITT pen coloring in the sole of the boot!! )

Ranger - Distress Ink

Hero Arts - stamp

Helmar - Gemstone Adhesive

Petunia Bounce, Honey Script - fonts

 

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Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Happy Birthday

 

 

Cricut - Doodlecharms, p. 109

Really Reasonable Ribbon

CARDZTV - stamp

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Y&C Calligraphy marker