Flyin' Birthday - OCL July sketch challenge

It's time for the July sketch challenge over at
Our Craft Lounge! WOOHOO!
Here's the details on how to play along....
Winner will receive one stamp set of your choice from Our Craft Lounge!

Guidelines and Rules• Follow the sketch (you may do whatever inspires you, but it has to be based on the sketch).• Use any OCL stamps/set that you wish.• Leave a link on this thread.
Dates and Deadlines: You have until July 25th (midnight Pacific Standard Time) to share your creations and be entered in the contest.
A winner will be chosen and posted on this thread on July 26th at 5pm PST.


Here is the sketch:













I used the OCL set Flyin' Birthday for a congrats card. I made a few changes to the sketch, I made an A2 instead of a square card and I used 3 embellishments along the bottom instead of 5.

I hope you can play along, you have almost a month!

Supplies: Stamps - OCL Flyin' Birthday. Paper - SU! Chocolate Chip, GP white, Cosmo Cricket Get Happy. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, Walnut Stain, SU! Chocolate Chip marker, Copics. Acces. - brown brads, ribbon, brown twine (Wal-Mart),
Crafty Sparkles Ice Crystals, button. Tools - blending tool, Scor-Pal, Nestie classic scalloped rect. (lg), Marvy small scalloped punch, sewing machine, Big Shot.
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I hope you have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

Crafty Secrets challenge time!

The Crafty Secrets DT girls are doing another challenge, we're all doing a tutorial for you! I decided to do a tutorial on the lace flower embellishments I've been using a lot lately. I put this one on top of an altered recipe box, it's on the handle of the box.

Here are the supplies I used: lace (this is from a flea market), white cotton string, ribbon, needle & thread, vintage button, E6000 (or other strong adhesive), silver spoon (another flea market find). Here is a before picture of the vintage file box, it's bigger than a regular recipe box, it holds the big index cards. My mom had this and I snatched it up!
For the lace flower, cut your lace 5 - 6", wide lace needs to be longer for the flower to gather nicely. Do a running stitch along the edge of the lace gathering it up as you go.
When you get to the end pull the thread and gather the lace, pulling as hard as you can with out breaking the thread. I use quilting thread, it's strong.Line up the 2 ends and stitch together, knot it and cut the thread.
Tie a bow in your ribbon and glue it on top of the lace flower. Thread the string through the button and tie it in a bow on the back of the button, glue that on top of the ribbon. I let this dry over night.I bent the spoon to form more of a handle and glued my lace flower embellishment on the spoon.
Here is a closeup of the button, I love the cut-outs in it!


I glued the spoon handle on top of the recipe box.

I covered the box with paper from the CS Radiant Paper Pad, I used Mod Podge to glue the paper on. I used the Crafty Secrets Creative Scraps (Garden, Domestic Goddess & Girlfriends), Tim Holtz style, using his Fragments. I glued a Fragment on the part of a Creative Scrap I wanted to use with Glossy Accents, let that dry, cut around the Fragment and glued it on the box lid. I put a Tim Holtz Keyhole in the center of the lid.

I used more Creative Scraps on the box, I mounted them on black card stock before I glued them on.
I threaded the buttons with the cotton thread and glued them on the box.I love the look of the Creative Scraps used this way!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Make sure you check out the other DT blogs below, they have some great tutorials to show you and Heidi has a give-away going on too!!

Anna Wight
Heidi Blankenship
Linda Duke
Lisa Zappa
Marisa Grossman
Melissa Phillips
Michele Kovack
Michelle VanEtten
Vicki Chrisman
Vivian Peters

Crafty Secrets Blog

Pat the Dawg House treat

Good Friday eve morning!

This is Friday for me, YIPPEE!! We are going on a little trip to Branson Friday, we're taking the 2 oldest grandkids with us for a little fun and shopping!

I wanted to use the Our Craft Lounge Pat the Dawg House set again. I made a card and a treat pouch for someone who's in the dawg house.

The card is 3 x 6, it will fit in a regular 3 5/8 x 6 1/2" envy.

The pouch is a simple treat cover. Cut your card stock 11 1/2 x 4", score at 1 1/2, 6 & 7" then fold.

I used my new Peony Nesties from Spellbinders, I can't wait to use these with some Grunge paper!! Here's a close up of the Sparkly Fluff on the Pat the Dawg. I love this fluff, I'm always looking for ways to use it!

This is the inside of the pouch, I got some Sugar Babies, I haven't had those in a long time, they are as good as I remember! I stuck the candy in the pouch with my ATG gun.

Supplies: Stamps - OCL Pat the Dawg House & Pat the Bad Dog. Paper - My Minds Eye Just Dreamy 2, Pumpkin Pie & GP white. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, Spiced Marmalade, black Spica Glitter Pen, Copic markers. Acces. - small cello bag (for candy), Sugar Babies, Sparkly Fluff Brown Sugar, lace flower, shank button, ribbon, Makimg Memories clip, Stampendous Dot Sparklers orange, brad, dog house charm,(Hanna Stamps has all of their charms 50% off!!) tiny tag. Tools - SU! slit punch, Scor-Pal, tracing wheel, Peony Nesties, Creative Memories circle cutter, blending tool.

I hope your Friday eve goes by fast for you, thanks for stopping by!

Stay coooool

Mmmmmmm CHEESECAKE!

Good Monday morning!
I got my new stamp set from Crafty Secrets, Mouse Party, what a sweet set this is! It's a medium set with 25 stamps, WOW, what a set!

I have to say these are the cutest little rodents I've ever seen!



I did some masking on this card. The cheese chunks and mouse are masked. I paper pieced this little guys suit. Some of the mice in the set are looking up, so I had to make a tall cheesecake

You can see more cute samples over at the Crafty Secrets blog and on the DT blogs!


Supplies: Stamps - CS Mouse Party. Paper - CS Pastel Paper Pad, GP white, SU! long note. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, Faded Jeans, Copic markers, Copic Multi liner (for balloon string), Spica Glitter Pen black. Acces. - Crafty Sparkles Breezy Blue & Lemondrop Yellow, cheese charm, vintage photo corner, yellow Dew Drops, small Making Memories tag, blue brad, white cotton string, button, Prima flower, May Arts ribbon. Tools - Nesties Long Classic Scalloped Rectangle (sm) & Long Classic rectangle (sm), Zutter Round it All, scalloped border punch, tracing wheel.
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I bought this cabinet at our new antique/flea market here in town. I've never seen one and thought it was so cute and handy for the laundry room! It's wood and looks handpainted. The picture isn't the best, the light wasn't very good in my laundry room, I did use the flash on the open shot. The doors open and you pull out the rack to hang your delicates on to dry, I love it!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I'll leave you with a red lily from my yard. See the rain drops? I'm afraid the rain has stopped for the summer. We will start watering almost daily now. When the temps get in the high 90's with no rain, things burn up fast!

It's supposed to be 99 today stay cool people!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!

Sew Special pocket

Good evening my blogger buds!

I had a nice weekend, I did a little shopping in
the new flea market here in Greers Ferry, WOOHOO, we finally have a nice place to browse
right here! They were trying to talk me into renting a booth there, I think it would be fun, but, I worry about the winter months here. This town is pretty much a ghost town in the winter. I'd hate to pay rent on a booth and not sell anything. I'm still on the fence about it. I sure could get rid of some stuff though!



I picked up a little advertising sewing kit for .10 at the thrift shop in Clinton. I decided I would use my Crafty Secrets You're Sew Special stamp set and make a pocket card with a tag inside.I think it would make a cute little gift for a friend.

The pocket is made with a sheet of the double sided paper from the CS Radiant Paper Pad. I love using this paper for pockets, both sides of the paper are visible, I added a small piece of music paper from the same pad. I made the lace flower in the center of the yummy May Arts gingham ribbon.
I used a Tim Holtz mask and blended Distress inks on the tag. I love the fun stamps in this set, the pin's, zipper, dress form, buttons and sentiments, I love it! I sprayed the whole thing with Snowflake Glimmer Mist, to give it a little sparkle.

Supplies: Stamps - CS Sew Special, SU! Itty Bitty BG (splatter stamp). Paper - CS Radiant Paper Pad, SU! Confetti White. Ink - Ranger Distress Vintage Photo, Faded Jeans, Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick. Acces. - flat pearlsnk, buttons, pins, Sweet Chips Chipboard Die Cut Shapes, May Arts ribbon, handmade lace flower, pink felt flower, pink Martha Stewart bakers twine, ad sewing kit, Snowflake Glimmer Mist. Tools - Tim Holtz Flourish Mask, blending tool, Scor-Pal, sewing machine, tag corner punch, circle punch, Zutter Round-it-All.

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This is the goodies I got at the new market here in town. A melon baller, I'm going to use it for a glitter/embossing powder spoon. A piece of red & white gingham fabric, I'll make some flowers out of that, the same way I gather lace to make flowers, I'll cut strips of the fabric and gather it. I like to make these when I'm watching TV. A set of coasters, they are gorgeous, the lady said they were paper mache' and they are stamped Japan on the bottom.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have happy week!

SCS Featured Stamper is....

my friend Kisa! Yep, she's this weeks Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast.
I've been over her galley and I finally picked out a card to CASE, that's all you have to do to play in the challenge! Go to Kisa's gallery and pick out your card, CASE it and upload it to your gallery and link it in the FS forum, easy peasy!




I had fun with this card, I used the Our Craft Lounge, Pat the Dawg House set. I stamped the main image several times to get the bones, I cut them and piled them in the doghouse and popped up some of the ends with dimensionals. I made the dog sign the same way, I stamped one of the sentiments that had dog in it (I taped off the other words in the sentiment so when I inked it up the other words wouldn't ink up too, then I pulled the tape off before I stamped it) in the little sign on the doghouse, cut it out and popped it up. I put a Prima flower over the little stamped flower in the image.

This is the inside of the card. No bones about it, what cute sentiments for a dog lover, huh?

Supplies: Stamps - OCL Pat the Dawg House. Paper - MME Penny Lane, GP white (Wal-Mart), Notecard from Hero Arts. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, Copic markers. Acces. - Glossy Accents, ribbon, Prima flower, Adorn-it gem, brads. Tools - classic scalloped rectangle Nestie, Marvy scalloped punch, hole punch, slit punch.

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Here are a couple more pictures of my creative mess room, this white shelf was a Pottery Barn purchase a couple of years ago, me and my friends jumped on it when they went on sale, it was almost free This is the top of one of my shelves. The cases are used for storage, the hot box case has vintage lace and ribbon in it. I'm always picking it up at sales and flea markets, I sure don't want to run out of it

I hope you have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

Crafty Secrets DT Challenge & irises

Sandy Redburn, owner of Crafty Secrets wanted the DT to do a birthday challenge. We could make anything as long as it had a birthday theme. I decided to make a gift box and card.

I used a big matchbox and covered it, inside and out with paper from the Crafty Secrets Classic Paper Pad. I sprayed a paper doilie with Gingerbread Glimmer Mist and glued it to the side of the box. I started adding the embellishments tto the top. The aqua velvet flowers, buttons, ribbon and crystal swirl. I made the lace flower by gathering the the lace and I glued on the tan felt flower and button. I stuck 2 pins in the flower. I punched 4 butterflies from Crafty Secrets paper and glued them on the white cotton string. I sandwiched the string between 2 butterflies, then I added some crystals down the center. The tag with the sentiment on it is a white tag sprayed with Patina Glimmer Mist.The card is made with the same materials, I made a smaller lace flower and I used a Sweet Chips chipboard frame sprayed with more Patina Glimmer Mist for the Happy Birthday sentiment. The sentiments are stamped with the Crafty Secrets Card Sentiments stamp set.
The coursage pin is covered with glue and then dipped in white gold glitter.

Make sure you check out the other design teams blogs for their birthday challenge creations --->Vicki, Anna, Lisa, Heidi, Marisa, Vivian, Michele, Linda, Melisa, and Michelle.
Anna is hosting a Crafty Secrets give away on her blog too, the winner wins a Crafty Secrets $30 gift certificate from Sandy Redburn, WOOHOO!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I thought I'd leave you with a couple of iris pictures from my mom's yard.
I have a terrible case of poison ivy I've had a shot and taken the dose pack for it and I still have it. I don't know why it's so hard to get rid of this time do you have any suggestions on how I can get rid of it?? I'm all ears!!

Have a great Monday, thanks for stopping by!