Race for a Cure

Hello my treasured friends!

It has been a week since I’ve posted, and I’ve definitely missed you all! October is a super busy month for me, and boy oh boy, I sure do have a lot of crafty projects to complete! In honour of Breast Cancer Awareness month, I had to create something. Breast Cancer has touched the lives of many. I truly believe that with everyone’s support, we can conquer cancer and find a cure! The CIBC Run for A Cure happened the first weekend of October, and I never had the chance to finish the project. I was so busy with work and school. 

I will be entering this into the following challenges and link ups:

--> Celebrate the Occasion Challenge 33 - Breast Cancer Awareness

--> Link up for Pink hosted by Jolie and the rest of the fabulous team

--> Made by Momo Breast Cancer projects

Here's the sentiment on the inside from My Creative Time's Race for a Cure Charity set:

Trail of Treasures:

• Card Base – standard A2 sized card 4.25 x 5.5” and inked with Tim Holtz Victorian Velvet Distressing Ink 
• Card Layer – cut from Me and My Big Ideas Breast Cancer stack at 4 x 5.25” and used my Creative Memories Corner Rounder
• Shoes – cut from Formal Occasions cartridge, used twine to thread on the ‘laces,’ and added Recollections heart bling
• Ribbon – used ribbon to create the Breast Cancer ribbon, then added pink irock gems
• Sentiment – My Creative Time's Race for a Cure stamp set 

Remember to exercise and drink plenty of fluids each day. A healthy body is a healthy mind.  

Until next time's treasures,

Tracey xox

CTO Challenge 32: Any Occasion with Ribbon - Mr. and Mrs.

Hello my treasured friends!

There's a lot of fun challenges going on this week that I would love to participate in! If only I had more time! Make sure to check back this week for more posts, and if you have not done so already, make sure to enter into the giveaway here. You have until the 30th!

For this week's Celebrate the Occasion Challenge, you can create a card for ANY occasion, just make sure to include ribbon! Isn't that great? We make cards for all sorts of occasions! I was having a hard time deciding which occasion to create a card for! In the end, I created a wedding-themed card that I also entered into the My Craft Spot Ribbon Challenge. 

 

I'm just loving how it turned out! Here's a close-up of the Pink by Design sentiment.

And here's the stamped sentiment on the inside of the card:

CTO Challenge 26: Happy Birthday Fashionista!

Happy Tuesday crafters and welcome to another Celebrate the Occasion challenge!

For this week's challenge, create a birthday themed easel card. This is the first time I've ever created an easel card and let me tell you, it was super easy to do! I LOVE how it turned out and I think that there will be more easel cards in store for all of you! :) This week I decided to shift my focus from cute cards to elegant. I wanted to create a really girlie card, so that's exactly what I did -- a birthday card fit for a fashionista!

Isn't this so pretty?? I heat embossed the sentiment, popped up the birthday gift, and the sentiment. I also used my Tattered Angels glimmer mist to glimmer up the birthday bag - I cut out a rectangle, added some tissue paper, some floss, and stamped the sentiment. Here's another view:

I'm just loving the brown, black, pink, purple, and cream combination! Below is what I used for my card.

CTO Challenge 24: Surprise! A Brand New Bike For You!

Hello everyone!

Thank you all for the sweet comments - I've hit 100 followers! Yay! With school and work it's definitely hard to manage my blog and to participate in challenges, but because of all of you and my passion for crafting, I'm still here! :) So moving on, happy Tuesday and welcome to Challenge 24 over at Celebrate the Occasion. For today's challenge, it is to create a birthday card for a child. Here's what I came up with:

Isn't this card so super sweet? The little boy is blind-folded for the uncover of his birthday gift - a brand new bike! I used some fabric to tape over his eyes for his 'blind-fold.' I also cut up some packaging ribbon and attached it to the bike for a 'bow,' to make it more birthday-like. This card will fit in a 3.5 x 6" envelope.

Here's what the cutie looks like underneath the blind-fold:

Surprise! I used Peachy Keens PK-642 Boy Mates Face Assortment for his adorable peachy face!

Here's a peak to the sentiment on the inside of the card. I used the Pink By Design Big Thoughts set for the 'Happy Bithday':

Materials Used:

• Card base - I used a tag from the Once Upon a Princess cart and welded it in my gypsy, then I copied the image and reduced the size a tad to get the layer
• Patterned paper for layer from DCWV - All About Boys Stack
• Tim Holtz Distressing Ink: Vintage Photo and Broken China
• Ribbon cut from Formal Occasions Cartridge
• PBD Small Banners set to spell out 'surprise'
• Bike cut from Boys Will Be Boys Cart
• Boy cut from Baby Steps Cartridge
• Face from PK-642 Boy Mates Face Assortment
• Pink By Design Big Thoughts Stamp Set
• Glossy Accents for Bike
• Gift Wrap Ribbon 
• Black Sukura Pen
• Buttons
• Fabric
• Floss

Come along and join in on this challenge here! You have until Sunday, July, 7th at 11:59pm EST to play along with us! Have fun and good luck!

Until next time's treasures,
Tracey xox

Window shopping anyone?

Hi everyone!

It's Friday and there's SO much going on in the crafty blogging world! Pink Cricut is having her UStream for her June release tonight, and Peachy Keen Stamps is about to reveal their June release! Lots and lots going on! I can't wait to see what they've all come up with cuz I know they'll be fabulous as always! I just wanted to share a quick card with you all today. We all love shoes, and when we're window shopping, we always spot a pair that we want to either pick up or try on! This is one of the projects I entered into Sarah's design team call. We'll find out tonight who's lined up next to join her team! *fingers crossed*

 

This is a 5x7 card - I welded the window to a rectangle in my Gypsy and inked the edges. You can't tell by the picture but I added a piece of acetate to create the 'glass' of the window and attached it with glue dots to the inner base, then on my patterned paper I marked the areas of the window so that I could place the shoes 'inside the window,' then used glue dots again to attach the patterned paper.

Here's the inside of the card:

Materials Used:

• Window from Christmas Solutions Cartridge
• Rectangle from Plantin Schoolbook
• All the shoes cut from Formal Occasions Cartridge
• Create-a-Critter Cartridge for label shape inside the card
• Zebra print paper from DCWV All Dressed Up stack
• Pink by Design February Stamp of the Month: Designer Boots for inside sentiment, and I only inked up shoes and stamped it repeatedly for the edge border
• Creative Memories Round Corner Punch
• Irock Gems in Black and Pink
• Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Folder 
• Blue and Pink Floss
• Crystal Accents
• Flower Brad
• Acetate
• Glitter

Cute, huh? Hope you all like it! Make sure you come back and visit this weekend for Father's Day card ideas! On a side note, I just started a Twitter account. If you use Twitter, I'd love to hear from you! You can find my account on the left side bar.Thanks and enjoy your weekend!

Until next time's treasures,
Tracey xox

To the newlyweds: Wishing you happily ever after

Hi everyone!

With blogger down for a day and a half, hasn't it thrown everyone off a bit? Thank goodness it's back up! I wanted to share with you a tall wedding card that I made using the horse and carriage from the Formal Occasions Cricut cartridge which I'll be entering over at the Paper Playtime challenge blog. I just love all my crafty friends cuz without all of you, I would have never discovered all the great work, ideas, challenges, and hops going on! So here it is:

This is a 4 x 9" card. I added a brown layer and used my Creative Memories Scallop edge punch (which is retired now), and added blue crystals. For the tag I used the Once Upon a Princess cartridge, and ran it through my Cuttlebug. I'm not quite sure what the embossing folder is called, but if anyone knows, do share! I then took a sponge and inked up the edges, and lightly went over the embossing to give it the vintage effect. I love how it turned out! For the horse and carriage, I cut the first layer out of acetate to give my windows a 'window-y' effect, and cut out the darling couple out of the Sweethearts Cart. I used Crystal Accents to  finish off the horse & carriage, added ribbon, and finished it all off with some doodling.

I love how this card turned out and I think that I'll play up this idea for the next wedding card I make -- I'll add a castle to really play up the fairytale wedding!

On the inside of the card, I added a cream layer and again used the same edge punch.. Using the Pink By Design Here Comes the Bride stamp set, I used the 'happily ever after' sentiment, which I adore!!

Now isn't that a pretty wedding card?? If you'd like to play along with the challenge, you can enter here.

Good luck everyone!

Until next times' treasures,
Tracey xox