PPA Best-Dressed pick!

Hello Everyone,
In March I entered a Pals Paper Arts colour challenge and was one of the Artists' Pick of the week. Well now the same project has been selected as a Best-Dressed of the Year! I am amazed at how excited I am by this - woohoo. This was a project I got from Andrea Walford - she and her sister are amazing paper-crafters; definitely check out their Papercrafters' Library. It is an amazing site. Well this is just the "kick in the pants" I need to get the New Year mojo going. Happy New Year Everyone!

Meg

Paper Players Challange: Golden Vanilla Cherry! A trilogy...

Hello Everyone,
Obviously entering the Paper Players challenge twice wasn't enough - I had to go for the Trifecta. I bought this stamp at a local crafting store called Heather's Stamping Haven. This stamp is by the Stamp Barn which is a local stamp company. It reminds me of a typical Canadian winter country scene. When I saw the colour combo at the Paprer Players, This card just popped into my head. I think it is the epitome of CAS - I hope you like it.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

Paper Players Challange: Golden Vanilla Cherry! The Sequel

Hello Everyone,
As I mentioned in my last post, I loved that challenge so much and my new PTI goodies, I had to make two cards. So here is the second - thanks for stopping by.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

Paper Players Challange: Golden Vanilla Cherry!

Hello Everyone,
I love this week's challange over at Paper Players - a CAS combo of Gold, Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla. What a delicious combination. I used my new PTI wonderful words stamp set and dies to make this card. I love the classic look and feel of it. I was so pleased I made two! See my next post for the other one!

Happy Stamping,
Meg

PPA 123: Puttin' on the Glitz!

Hello Everyone,
I was checking out PTI's Make it Monday video and learned how to do a masked glitter background. It creates such a gorgeous effect and is super-easy, once you know what you are doing. You should check it out. So, When I saw that this week's Pals Paper Arts challenge was puttin' on the ritz - I knew I had to try this technique. I used a nestability Snowflake to create the mask and went crazy with the purple and silver glitter. This card sparkles like there is no tomorrow in real life. Anyway, thanks for stopping by.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

O Tanenbaum

Hello Stampers,
I saw this die at Heather's Stamping Haven here in Ottawa and just loved the whimsical simplicity of it. I am loving these flat steel dies - they are so easy to use and store. This particular die is from a company in the Netherlands called Marianne Designs. I think what appealed to me most about this tree is that the shape of it reminds me of the silhouette of a fir tree with big pillows of snow on the branches. Anyway, I cased this card from Christina at My Paper Secret. I loved the simple cheeriness of the card. I used Old Olive, and Certainly Celery for the trees and the sentiment is from "Curly Cute" stamp set. Hope you like it.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

Christmas Wine Tag

Hello Everyone,
I recently ordered some things from Papertreyink for the first time - I can tell you it won't be the last; the quality of their dies and stamps is exceptional. I got this wine tag die and am loving it. This is a tag I designed using the Wonderful Words stamp set and Holiday Die collection. The little holly leaves were made with a Cheery Lynn die and the Berries were punched with a single hole punch and glitter foam I got at the $ store. Easy and what a great way to dress up a bottle of wine.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

I am back...Paper Players Challenge: CAS White, Navy, and Silver

Hello Everyone,

When I saw this week's Paper Players Challenge, I knew I had to enter. I haven't blogged in awhile. Life this school year has been much busier and while I am still crafting away, I have not posted anything. So, here it goes. I finally broke down and purchased a few things from Papertrey Ink. I love their thin dies and they make the snowy hills on this card so easy. Of course I had to use my new favourite holiday set "Christmas Lodge". Ironically, when I first saw this set, it did nothing for me. Then I saw the cards people were creating with it and knew that I had to have it. It has been one of my best-sellers at classes and workshops too. I hope you like the card - it was inspired by many in the gallery at splitcoaststampers, so go check it out and get casing!

Happy Stamping,
Meg

Out of Nowhere

Hello Everyone,
This card really seemed to come out of nowhere. The pink pirouette frame was a cut out I did with my silhouette - I just wanted to see what it would look like and decided a soft pink would be pretty. Then I thought the cut was so intricate and beautiful it didn't need an image - maybe just a sentiment. This one from Word Play looked like the perfect match and I decided to stamp it with melon mambo - then I thought that a melon mambo background would offset the soft pink perfectly. I had this pre-cut in my stash and was going to trim down the excess, but decided to run a ribbon strip along it instead. This morning as I blog-hopped, I came across Papertrey Ink's make it Monday video on Nicole Heady's blog - this showed how you could use copic's to create stripes on plain ribbon. I have some copics, but none that seemed to fit the emerging colour scheme, so I decided just to try my melon mambo stampin' write marker. Well that worked out perfectly! I still thought the main panel looked like it needed something more, when I spied a felt flower I had rolled for another project, but never used - it looked bare on its own and lo and behold in my scrap basket were some extra toppers from this project - perfect leaves! So on it went; I mounted it all on a Whisper White base and voila! I love the way it turned out - the card that came out of nowhere! TFL.

Happy Stamping,
Meg

PPA 105: Delightful, Lucky, Indigo Doilies!

Hi Everyone.
I saw this card on Splitcoast and knew it would make a great card set; so when I saw the colours for this week's Pals Paper Arts challenge, this card popped to mind. I love the simplicity of it and the colour combo is striking. I am looking at using designs like to sell in sets - they are easy to make in mass quantities. Thanks for looking!

Happy stamping,
Meg