ABC Wall Hanging

Hello! I have been working hard on this project, and finally can share it! It was a gift for my sister-in-law at her baby shower. Each square is 6 1/2", and I used Lasting Impressions paper for each square. The back is covered with fun foam, that you can buy at JoAnn's or Michael's or your local craft store. The letters were cut using my Cricut Expression. The shapes for each object were made using Lasting Impressions brass templates. A few letters I had to get creative with, because I didn't have any templates that matched certain letters. K (Kite) is a template that I made, as well as Q (Quarter), X (Xylophone), Y (Yo-Yo) and Z (Zipper). I am very pleased with how it turned out and I know it will look great in the baby's nursery. My sister-in-law loved it! Have a great weekend!

Sweet!

Hi there, Just sharing a quick card I made recently. I used Lasting Impressions paper and templates to make this card. The strawberry is an old template and so is the oval templates that I used. The paper is on sale at Lasting Impressions, it's from a 6x6 paper pack that is only $2! An amazing deal! Hope you had a great weekend and are staying warm!

More Christmas in July!

Hi there, thanks for stopping by! Here a few Christmas gift tags I made for the Lasting Impressions blog. It was hard to get in the Christmas spirit when the heat index is pushing 110 but I enjoyed staying indoors and crafting to make these tags! Hope you have a great weekend! I'm heading to the Creating Keepsakes Convention in Valley Forge, PA for a long weekend. I am looking forward to getting away!

Flower Pocket Card

Hi, Hope you are having a great week! I made this card for a friend. I was sending her a few little goodies so I wanted to include a pocket to hold everything. I know there are tutorials out there for making this kind of card but I just kind of winged it... and wasted a lot of paper in the meantime. Don't you just hate that!!? I love how the card turned out though, and the picture does not do it justice. The paper is by Lasting Impressions (although I think it may be retired), it has repeating gardening words on it and the flower template is by Lasting Impressions as well. Have a great weekend!

Christmas in July

Hello, Thanks for stopping by! Here are a couple cards I made when I was thinking about Christmas in July. It's never too early to start making your Christmas cards! These two cards were fairly simple to make, I used Lasting Impressions templates and their line of distressed papers. They are one of my favorite lines of paper, and they all coordinate so well together.

Hope you had a great weekend, I have lots more Christmas in July projects to show you later this week!

Just for you

Hi, Hope you are having a great week! I wanted to share this card that I made for a friend. I added stitching around the edge of this card with thread, I love how it turned out. It is time consuming but I think it's worth it. I poked holes using a Lasting Impressions stitching guide template and then sewed the thread through the holes. I used several different Lasting Impressions templates for this card, SG300, L528 and L9012. All the paper I used is from Lasting Impressions too. I have the day off from work today and am going to do a little cleaning and organizing in my craft room, and hopefully have some time to create!

Exciting News!

Hi, Happy Monday! Here is another card I made using the same bee template I used on my last card. I did not like this template at all when I first saw it but it is quickly becoming one of my favorites! I used several different Lasting Impressions templates for this card, L9402, L9369, and L9640 and the bubble swirl edge on the side of the card was made with the M24 template.

Now for my exciting news... I have been named to the Lasting Impressions design team! I am so thrilled to be a part of the design team. I love Lasting Impressions brass templates. Lasting Impressions has a new website, and to introduce it they are giving away two $20 gift certificates to their store. All you need to do to enter is leave a comment on their blog or Face Book page for a chance to win. Contest ends Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Be sure to check out the new website, there is a gallery where you can submit your own embossed cards. I'd love to see your creations!

Bee Happy!

Hi, This card took me so much longer to make than I expected! Does that ever happen to you? You envision the card design in your head but then when you try to put it on paper, it seems to take forever!! I used a Lasting Impressions stitching template to punch holes in the cardstock, and then hand stitched floss through the punched holes. I dry embossed the bee and added it to the card, and printed the "Bee Happy" sentiment from my computer. Have a great week!

Challenge Card

Hi, I made this card for a challenge on a Facebook Group I belong to. The challenge was to make a card using Orange, Pink and White. It also had to have two circles (behind my flower), a square (behind the circles), flowers, ribbon, a sentiment and two buttons. This was a tough challenge for me! It was a lot to fit onto one card! I like how it turned out though. All the paper and brass templates I used are from Lasting Impressions. I'm not sure who makes the Pink ribbon, the orange ribbon is from Lasting Impressions as well. Have a great day and stay cool!

Cute Cupcake

Hope you're having a great weekend! This is a card I made for a friend. I found the cupcake template on Ebay. I'm normally strictly a Lasting Impressions brand template type of girl, but this cupcake template just called out to me. I'm a sucker for images of food with faces!! This template is by ATD. All the paper is by Lasting Impressions.

Have a great rest of the weekend!

Butterfly Challenge Card

Happy Friday! This is a card I made for a challenge with a Yahoo Embossing Group I belong to, called "The Bossy Group." Each month, one person hostesses a challenge, she picks a brass template, embosses the image of the template, and mails the image to each of the participants. This month, the image was these butterflies and a sentiment. Each participant has to make a card using the image they receive. I really enjoy these challenges. It is so much fun to see how creative everyone is, and how everyone's cards turn out differently! I get a lot of ideas on how to use different templates.

Have a great weekend!

Prince

Hi, I'm back! Finally done moving, and getting settled in my new home, and have unpacked my craft room! I am still hanging things on the wall but will post pictures of my craft room later this week. I am LOVING it! For now, I am sharing a dry embossed card I made for a swap. This card was designed based on a sketch. The crown looks sparkly, it's not, I made it using plain silver paper. I think my camera added the extra sparkle! I used a Lasting Impressions brass template to create the frog, crown and Prince sentiment. The paper is all from Lasting Impressions too (except the silver paper, I'm not sure who makes that). Off to check out some other blogs, I can't wait to see what everyone has been up to! Have a great rest of the weekend!

Sketch Cards

Hi, I've been gone awhile! I'm packing up and getting ready for a move and have been so busy. It is hard to pack up everything after living in the same home for 10 years. I am looking forward to getting settled in my new craft room! Last month, I visited my friend Cin in Canada. We had so much fun playing in her wonderfully organized craft room! We know each other through the Yahoo Embossing group that I've mentioned here before, and we made cards to swap with each other, based ona sketch. Cin used a template that I gave her, which is 3 flowers and leaves (see pic above) and saw a bunny instead of flowers! She used the template to make a bunny card. I was amazed, I guess I am very literal and just never see things for anything other than their true intention! The chick card is the card I made for Cin based on the sketch. Happy Spring!

Gift Card Holder

Hi, Thanks for stopping by my blog. I can't believe it's been over two months since I posted something! Wow, time flies!

I wanted to share a gift card holder I made for a friend. I found the template for the gift card holder at Splitcoast Stamper's website. I dry embossed the poinsettia and added a button. The Merry Christmas stamp is by A Muse. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas holiday! I am off to check out my favorite blogs and see what I've been missing!

Thanks!

Hi, Thanks for stopping by my blog. This is just a quick post to share a Thank You card I made for a friend. I used two different Lasting Impressions brass templates - one to emboss the Thank You sentiment and one to emboss the seashells. I used more of my favorite Lasting Impressions distressed paper on this card. Hope you're having a great week! I'm looking forward to going to a Capitals game tomorrow, so glad the season is in full swing again!

Fall Thank You

Hi, Wow, it's been awhile since I posted anything! I've been creating, so I guess I have no excuse for not posting! Promise I'll post more soon. It's finally feeling like fall here, so I thought it was a perfect time to post this card.

Here is a card I made using two older Lasting Impressions templates. The paper is also from Lasting Impressions. It's some of my favorite paper from them, I love the distressed look. I embossed the designs and then rubbed them with sandpaper, that technique causes the white to show through the paper. Have a great weekend!

Changing a template

Hi there, here is a card I made using a new Lasting Impressions template. The first picture shows how the template looks normally. I didn't like how the 'a' in the word Thanks was out of place above the rest of the words. That bothered me, so I changed the look of my card, simply by moving the template under my paper as I embossed. I'm happy with how it turned out. I'm really enjoying using this brightly colored paper, I stocked up on it when Lasting Impressions had a big sale so I'm trying to make sure I use it rather than just hoard it! Have a great weekend!

Template Challenge

I belong to a yahoo embossing group and each month we have a challenge to create a card using the same template. August was my month to host the challenge and I used this happy birthday template by Lasting Impressions. The first card is the card that I created. I'm not crazy about it, I think it's plain and boring! That's why I like these challenges, I get lots of new ideas for using my templates! I wanted to share a couple of the cards that other participants made. The second card is made by Donna, and the third card is made by Cin. I love their cards, thanks for sharing them with me ladies! Hope you have a great week!

Lemon Ice Cream

Here is the latest card I made for the monthly Iron Chef recipe card swap that I participate in. My category was cold dessert, and the secret ingredient was lemons! Our hostess, Jessica, sent everyone some patterned paper and challenged us to use the paper on our cards. The paper is blue, brown & white! Doesn't exactly go with yellow or a lemon theme, so it was definitely a challenge for me. I am pretty happy with how my card turned out though. I dry embossed the "Lemon Ice Cream" title, the lemon and lemon slices using a Lasting Impressions brass template. I put the recipe itself into a pocket I created with brown cardstock. Hope you're having a great holiday weekend!

Embossed Card

This is a card I made for a 1-on-1 embossing card swap. You could choose any theme, so I chose to use some of my new Lasting Impressions templates for this card. I love how it turned out. I just love that new tree template. Hope you're having a good weekend. It's a rainy day here, so I'm spending the day in my craft room, still trying to un-bury my table from wedding related projects. Hope to work on something new this afternoon.