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Showing posts with label You Had Me At Chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label You Had Me At Chocolate. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

True Love: Kiss Me, Hug Me, && Luv Me

Hi everyone!

I'm honoured to be asked by Emma (My Creative Time) to be a guest designer for her and her line of stamps! I was introduced into the blogging world by curiosity -- searches on YouTube led me to find Robyn (mypinkstamper), and that was where I discovered Emma a little less than a year ago. Emma was my favourite member of Robyn's design team -- always creating such beautiful creations. I gotta say Emma, you're a true inspiration :) Once Emma started her own line of stamps at the beginning of this year, I knew that she wouldn't disappoint us!

So for today's Throwback Thursday Challenge, the challenge is to create something 3D -- a gift item, card set, etc., using ANY older Cricut cartridge. So for my project today, I created a set of three cards for a card set. All of the cuts are from the Create a Critter cartridge (my fave!) and all the sentiments are from Emma's first release, You Had Me At Chocolate which you can order here.


So for my first card, I made it for the Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge. I had no idea that my inspiration would come from that! I created the card first and decided that it needed a stamp saying, "kiss me." I wasn't quite sure if I had any stamps that said the following but to my surprise, I found it on Emma's set! Then I saw the Luv Me, and Hug Me sentiments, and from that I knew what I wanted to do for the card set! :)

Here is the first card that I created, using the kiss me sentiment. You can view the post here.


The second card I made for this card set, I used the luv me sentiment, and inked it up the "luv" and the "me" each time separately to go around the heart. In between each luv me, I separated it with small doodles of white hearts.


Materials Used:
  • DCWV Playtime Stack
  • Recollections Cardstock
  • You Had Me At Chocolate stamp set
  • Create a Critter Cartridge
  • Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge
  • Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge
  • Flocking Powder
  • Ribbon
  • Mini brads
  • Sukura Gelly Roll Pen

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Kiss Me: Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge 50 with a Twist

Hi everyone!

Welcome to all of you who are new to my blog, and thank you all for the sweet comments! I hope that from my blog you'll be inspired to create meaningful projects for others. I'm definitely enjoying my time off school right now -- as I get to craft! I have lots of projects that I need to motor through as well as tons of activities and such, so we'll see how much I can do. But this is the third post in the last week which is pretty impressive for me!

I decided to take part in Peachy Keen's Sketch challenge this week cuz I could not resist! It's their 50th challenge, so the challenge is to follow the sketch, but there's a twist: you gotta include the colour gold in your project. So here's the sketch:


I made a frog prince card for a friend's birthday last year -- she needs to find a Prince Charming! I wanted to use the same cute frog from Create a Critter again, so that's what I did! Here's what I came up with:


The patterned paper (with the little frog faces) is from DCWV Playtime stack. This sheet of paper is one of the main reasons I got the stack (well actually, I love the entire stack) but I loved these cute little frog faces! So I knew I would have to cut the cute frog again out of my fave cartridge! And every frog prince needs a kiss to turn back into a prince right?! You can't really tell in the picture but I embossed the sentiment from one of my favourite stamp sets -- Emma's You Had Me At Chocolate and used Crystal Accents to add some gloss to plump up all the lips. I cannot live without Crystal Accents -- they just add so much to any card! And lastly, I used my adorable Peachy Keen stamps to bring my little froggie to life. I used PK-493 Everyday Character Face Parts and MORE!

So until next time's treasures, ta-ta my crafty friends! :)
Tracey xox