You is Kind

One of the best movies I have seen this year was The Help.  Loved that movie.  Regina over at The Cutting Cafe has brought us a cutting file with those words that really were just so inspiring.   You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important.  Wow, if we could just teach all our children those things when they are young they would all be self confidant when they grow up!  I got my inspiration from a blogging buddy, Craftdee Donna.  She had found these little notebooks and altered them.  I found the same ones recently and used one for today's project.  We are featuring Large Circles over at The Cutting Cafe this week.

Well now of course, I used some My Mind's Eye paper, my lacy circle and regular circle nestie.  I inked it with some Tim Holtz walnut distress ink.

I used my cropadile to place eyelets for my brown dotted sheer ribbon to tie through.   That butterfly is from a set from Close To My Heart that I stamped with Stazon onto a piece of plastic packaging then cut it out. 

Now, my pen doesn't quite match. Before I give this away I will find a pen to match it.  

I am going to add this to the challenge over at Cooking it up with Katie it anything but a card. 

Anything Goes at Anita Be Stampin

It is time for another challenge over at Anita Be Stampin.  The challenge is the easiest of all challenges. It is an anything goes challenge.  For this weeks challenge I used an old favorite.  I used Rosie's Sweets.  Every time I use these stamps I just want to tell you how high quality they are.  I just love them!  And you get so many stamps in the package.  I pulled out some gorgeous papers from the My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Collection.  Of course my Copics and some seam binding.  

I also pulled out one of my favorite tried an true tools, the cropadile and put an eyelet on both sides of my front open card to pull the seam binding ribbon through.  

Sometimes you have such gorgeous papers that you just don't want to cover them up.  That being said, I really let the paper showcase this card.  Here are the Copics I used to color Rosie up.

You will want to head on over to Anita Be Stampin and check out my teamies creations.  While you are there you may want to scroll down and check out the Design Team Call Anita is having.  

This is today's second post so you might want to scroll down and check out the Challenge over at the Outlawz.    

November Novelties Color Challenge

It is time for a new month of color challenges over at the Outlawz.  November brings us November Novelties.  What is this, you ask?  This is the twist that goes along with our Color Inspirations.  November we are sponsored by the fabulous Paper Shelter.  I had SEW much fun coloring this image Cute Dressmaker.  She is just SEW cute!!  I used some of my favorite My Mind's Eye papers, some red ric rac and of course my sewing machine.

What is the color inspiration?  These gorgeous colors were brought to us by Sara this week, just wait til you see all the teamies amazing creations with these fun colors. 

 

The November  Novelties is to use twine.  Do you ever go through a challenge and get your card all done and then remember there was a twist. Umm yeah, even when it is my own challenge I forget!!  LOL, well I was lucky cuz the twist was TWINE.  Love when you luck out like that!!

I had fun with the inside of this card too.  I used a Tim Holtz die cut for the inside with more of that MME paper. 

Now, our sponsor, The Paper Shelter is sponsoring us with a $20 gift certificate.  You could get your own Cute Dressmaker image!!!

Of course I want to add my card to the challenge at the Paper Shelter for their Anything Goes challenge. 

Free December Daily Sets

Who loves free?  You have got to run on over to The Cutting Cafe.  Regina is offering her December Daily sets free through Wednesday, November 2nd.  If you have ever wanted to try out the Cutting Cafe digitals, here is your chance to try some for free!!!

We are back!!

Our summer vacation is over!!  We took a little break over at Anita Be Stampin, but we are back with a new challenge.  We are ready to start seeing your fabulous projects again.  We have a brand new challenge for you with the release of Broomhilda and Frankenbride in digital format.  The challenge is to make a Spooky Halloween themed project.  I played with Broomhilda this week. 

I don't have any Halloween themed paper so I used this black and cream paper, sewed along the edges in orange, added some orange paper, ribbon and button and a sentiment from The Cutting Cafe.  Now I would love to see what you have for us!  

Anita is starting the challenges back up with a Bang!! This first challenge will have a $25 ABS gift certificate for the winner.  The challenges will now require you to use an ABS image on your project.  You will want to check out the rules in the side bar of the challenge blog. 

Don’t have any ABS images yet, but you want a chance to win? No worries! You can always join the Anita Be Stampin Papercraft Planet group where members have access to a free digi image.

Also, for a very limited time you can snag the Batty digi image absolutely FREE at www.anitabestampin.com.  This cute bat image is perfect for this week’s challenge! ;) 

Now I am going to add this to the challenge at  

iCopic has orange and black

Octoberfest with an Oddball Twist

It is Tuesday and time for another Color Challenge over at the Outlawz.  The Oddball twist this week is to recycle something onto your card.  I used cardboard to cut out my gears with my Tim Holtz sizzix die cut.  And of course I used his distress ink to ink up the edges of everything. 

I used this darling image from Bugaboo, our October sponsor.  The prize for the month of October is 7 digi stamps from Bugaboo. How fabulous is that?!!  I used Deacon Wings and cut him out.  I didn't want the heart on my card. The background is from The Cutting Cafe, Monster Love Background and the sentiment is fromSpooky Square Sentiments.

 And here is your color inspiration for this weeks challenge. 

You will want to take the time to play along this month for your chance to win.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Craft your passion has use Kraft paper.

Crafty Cardmakers has Cute with a dark twist. 

iCopic has black and orange as its challenge.

Make it Monday with the Kraft Journal has Anything Goes.

Make My Monday has black and orange as its challenge. 

FALL Recipe Challenge

This is my favorite time of the year.  I love when the green leaves are changing colors; from green to yellow, to orange and even red.  I just see God's masterpiece everywhere I look.  It amazes me how many colors of green that He created and then how those greens can change to other colors.  Amazing.  Over at Guylou's Inimitability Gina has brought us a real challenge this month.  She challenges us to make a FALL project.

F-Fabric

A-Amber

L-Lace

L-Leaves

I took G's image Thanksgiving Goodies and printed it on fabric.  I took a piece of cream fabric, used my ATG to apply adhesive to my cardstock and attached the fabric and then ran it through my printer.  I worked really well.  I used some AMBER colored thread to make a border and then pulled the threads from the edges.  I then sewed it to the other material, added some leaves, added the backing and sewed a border.  It really is more square than my pic looks!!

This really is a fun little project for some easy Fall decorating.  I hope you will head on over and check out the other FALL projects by my teamies.  There is some fabulous inspiration on the challenge blog. 

I also know that we are having a design team call right now, so if you would like to be a part of this fabulous team check out the deets on how to apply.