Despicable Me Minion

After having a Despicable Me movie marathon I was inspired to create this card. 

I don't know what it is about the minions but I love them!!!

I have seen many different cards on Pinterest using the circle framelits to create a face of a cartoon character so I thought I would give it a try with the Minions. 

Also, what a better time to create this card than when Friday Mashup has a challenge to create a shaped card! 

I hope you love this card as much as I do!

Stamp Set: Petite Pairs

Paper: Daffodil Delight, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Basic Black, Basic Grey, Early Espresso

Ink: Basic Black Marker

Punches: Various Circle Punches

Bigshot: Circle Framelits, Circle card Thinlits Die

Accessories: Candy Dot Brad Bases, Neutrals Candy Dots

FM146 Love you a latte!

It's Friday!!! That means we have another fantastic challenge of at Friday Mashup!

This week Tara gave us a great color combination to work with. She also added in the challenge of creating a 3D Paper Peicing project. I looked through all my stampsets and this was the only one I felt I would be able to paper piece with. Unfortuantly only the hearts are 3D. 

After seeing all the wonderful creations from the team I think I want to give this a try again. They used stampsets I had but never thought could work for this technique!

Tara had a great tip for using Stampin' Up!'s coaster board. I wish I had thought of that!!
I used dimentionals but it just doesn't give it the same wow factor.

Here's your Mashup Challenge:

1. Create a project with "Cherry Cobbler, Primrose Petals, Soft Sky & Marina Mist."

2. Create a project using "3-D Paper Piecing". 

 3. Or Mash it Up and create a "3-D Paper Piecing Project with the above Colors."

Stampset: Pun Fun (Retired)

Paper: Whisper White, Marine Mist, Cherry Cobbler, Primrose Petals, Soft Sky, Regals DSP Stack, Subltes DSP Stack, In Color 2012-2014 DSP Stack

Ink: Staz On, Soft Sky Marker, Cherry Cobbler Marker

Punches: 1" Circle, 2-1/2" Circle, Hexagon

Bigshot: Circle Framelits

Tools: Paper Snips

Accessories: In Color Dahlias, Primrose Petals 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon


I used a sketch from Mojo Monday, which I found on my Card Sketches Pinterest Board.

Wahoo My Paper Pumpkin Kit Part 1

Before we get to my cards today I just wanted to inform you I am going to try to post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I hope by telling you this you won't be frustrated when I don't post on the other days of the week.

Last week I got together with my mother and sister to Scrap and Skype and we decided to create with the Wahoo Kit we received back in October. As usual I like to make at least one card the way it was intended but then create some cards out of the box.

Since we are creating months after the kit was sent to us there were some great ideas pinned on Pinterest. Below are cards I cased from others. Wednesday I will share with you the cards I made with the other half of the kit.

Original Design from Kit

 This card was cased from Valerie Duram

Stampset: Delightful Dozen, Good Life My Paper Pumpkin

Paper: Real Red, Silver Glimmer, Whisper White

Ink: Basic Black, Real Red

Punches: Heart

Bigshot: Hearts a Flutter Framelits

This card was cased from Mercedes Weber

Stampset: Delightful Dozen

Paper: Basic Black, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White

Ink: Basic Black, Tangerine Tango

Punches: 1" Square, 1" Circle, 1-3/8" Circle, Owl Builder

Accessories: Bakers Twine from Wahoo Kit

This card was cased from Heather Heroldt

Stampset: Wahoo My Paper Pumpkin, Happiest Birthday Wishes (Retired), 

Paper: Whisper White, Midnight Muse, Cajun Craze, Old Olive

Ink: Midnight Muse, Cajun Craze

Punches: Owl Builder

Accessories: Button and Twine from Wahoo Kit

Owl Get Well Wishes PPA188

My sister and I are both sick and our misery together inspired me to create this card. I don't know if the Owl and the sentiment go together but it is exactly how I was feeling. I never knew my feelings could be expressed in my cards. 

I am going to be sending this card to my sister and since she loves Owls I know this card will brighten her day. 

The sketch I used to inspire this card was from Pals Paper Arts.

I couldn't decide which layout I liked better, what do you think?

Update: In my hast in getting this posted I forgot to give credit to Diana Gibbs for the original punch art owl inspiration. You can find her blog post here.

You can also follow me on pinterest to find many more punch art ideas.

Stampset: Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Whisper White, Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry, Smokey Slate

Ink: Coastal Cabana

Punches: Word Window, Owl Builder Punch, Two Step Bird Builder, Scallop Edge Boarder

Bigshot: Chevron Embossing Folder, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Starburst Framelits, Circle Framelits, Window Frames Collection Framelits

Tools: uni-ball Signo Gel Pen

Santa Christmas Gifts

I have something small to share with you today. I had to hold this back until after we celebrated Christmas just incase my parents or my partner seen the post.

I made this little Santa ticket holder for my parents. I had hockey tickets for them inside. Isn't he super cute!

I also cased this gift card holder from LeeAnn Greff from a pin on Pinterest. This was super simple to create. Just follow the instructions on your envelope punch board for a gift card holder.

Sorry today's post is so long but I have a lot of food to make before our friends come over for the evening. If there is anything you want to know about these leave me a comment and I will be sure to reply.

Christmas Snowflake CASE

This is the card I sent out to the ladies I swap with monthly. I cased a layout for a card Mary Fish created and it turned out super great and in my opinion you would never know this card was a case.

I hope everyone enjoys their card! I can't wait to get my happy mail to see what everyone else has created this month.

Have a fantastic Thursday!!!

Stampset: Tags 4 You, Festive Flurry

Paper: Whisper White, Island Indigo, Silver Glimmer, Winter Frost DSP Stack

Ink: Island Indigo

Punches: Braket Label, 2" Circle

Tools: Stampin Trimmer

Accessories: Simply Pressed Clay, Buttons Simply Pressed Clay Molds, Island Indigo Baker Twine

Owl Punch Art Birthday Card Cheat Sheet

Sorry for the late post tonight. I thought I scheduled this to post at 8:00am but instead it was scheduled to post at 9:30pm. I am not sure how that happened...

Here is the Cheat Sheet for the Owl Card I showed you yesterday. I hope it is simple for you to follow along with.

Feel free to contact me or comment below if you have any questions or comments. 

I hope you have a fantastic day!!!

Paper: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Whisper White
Punches: 3/4" Circle, 1" Circle, 1-1/4" Circle, 1-1/4" Scalloped Circle, 1-3/4" Scalloped Circle, 5 Petal Flower (retired)

Bigshot: Largest Oval Framelit, 4th Largest Oval Framelit, Top Note Die, Fancy Fan Embossing Folder

Owl Punch Art Birthday Card

I made this card back in October for my sister and her Birthday. She loves Owls and I have been meaning to make a Owl birthday card for her for a long time. She absolutely loved the card and was super happy with it. I am pleased with how it turned out.

I did case the card from a few cards I seen on Pinterest. There was no name to the original creator. If you know who created the card I cased from please let me know so I can give them credit. 

Tomorrow I will share with you the cheat sheet for how I created the card.

I hope you have a great day!

Stampset: Remembering Your Birthday
Paper: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink: Early Espresso

Punches: 3/4" Circle, 1" Circle, 1-1/4" Circle, 1-1/4" Scalloped Circle, 1-3/4" Scalloped Circle, 5 Petal Flower (retired)

Bigshot: Largest Oval Framelit, 4th Largest Oval Framelit, Top Note Die, Fancy Fan Embossing Folder

Starburst Merry Christmas

I cased this card from Rachel Tessman at Stamp Your Art Out. She has a fantastic tutorial on her blog that makes creating the starburst technique on this card super simple. 

This is my first time using the starburst technique but I love it and will have to use the same technique again soon.

Stampset: Greetings of the Season, Festive Flurry

Paper: Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Season of Style DSP Stack

Ink: Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler

Punches: Scalloped Border Punch

Tools: Stampin' Trimmer

Accessories: Gumball Green 3/8" Stitched Ribbon

Punch Art Turkey Cheat Sheet

Good Afternoon! 

I just wanted to take a moment to thank all the soldiers and family members of the soldiers who have fought for our peace and freedom. I appreciate your courage and strength! Thank you for your service!

Here is the Turkey cheat sheet as promised. The card I created with this turkey can be found here. If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

I hope you are all having a good long weekend, or a good day at work for those of you who are not fortunate enough to be able to take today off.

Paper: Very Vanilla, More Mustard (retired), Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Basic Black, Early Espresso, Spice Cake Designer Series Paper (retired)

Punches: 1-3/4" Scallop Circle, 3/4" Circle, 1-3/8" Circle, 1" Square, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Owl Builder, Crop-a-Dile

FM135 Thanksgiving Turkey

I am not sure what I would do without the Friday Mashup. If it wasn't for them I am not sure if I would be consistent with posting on my blog. For right now I can guarantee you I will have one post, each Friday, for you to view. Hopefully once I finish this course at the U of C things will slow down and I will find myself back in the craft room. 

At Friday Mashup this week the challenge was to create a project with a "Game/Woodsy type Animal (Deer, Moose, Turkey, etc)." or create a project using a "Woodgrain Look". It was certainly a challenge at first because I do not have a single stampset retired or current with a Game/Woodsy animal. I went through my pinterest punch art board and found a punch art of a turkey. I loved the Turkey and knew he would be perfect for my card this week.

I am sorry to all my fellow Canadians for the late Thanksgiving card!

To get the woodgrain effect I embossed my Core'dinations paper with the Woodgrain embossing folder and then sanded lightly. 

On Monday I will share with you my cheatsheet for making the Turkey. 

I hope I will get a chance to make a card this weekend because I want to show you how you can make a flower using the same folding technique as I used for the feathers/tail on the Turkey.

Have a great long weekend and don't forget to remember our fallen soldiers on Monday.

Stampset: Tags 4 You

Paper: Very Vanilla, More Mustard (retired), Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Basic Black, Early Espresso, Early Espresso Core'dinations, Spice Cake Designer Series Paper (retired)

Ink: Early Espresso

Punches: 1-3/4" Scallop Circle, 3/4" Circle, 1-3/8" Circle, 1" Square, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Owl Builder, Crop-a-Dile, Bracket Label

Bigshot: Wood Grain Embossing Folder, Square Framelits, Magnetic Platform

Tools: White Gel Pen

Red Fox Tags 4 You Birthday

This is the card I made for my brother-in-law for this Birthday. I found out his favourite animal was a Red Fox. It was perfect because I had just pinned a photo of fox punch art Deidre Mooney had created. Deidre didn't share how she created the fox so I had to figure it out on my own. 

You can follow me on pinterest to see many more punch art ideas here.

Tomorrow I will share with you my cheat sheet for the fox.

See the photos below to see how I got the layering on the sentiment.

Stampset: Tags 4 You

Paper: Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, Early Espresso Core'dinations

Ink: Early Espresso, Basic Black Marker

Punches: Modern Label, Extra Wide Oval, Large Oval, 1-3/8" X 5/8" Oval, Owl Builder, Blossom Petals Builder, Stocking Builder, 1" Circle, Label Bracket

Bigshot: Wood Grain Embossing Folder, Square Framelits

Tools: Crop-a-Dile, Sanding Block

Happy Birthday Pinterest CASE

This is another card I made on World Card Making Day. This card was cased from Angela McKay. 

The card has a very simple layout I think I will be using over and over again.

Follow me on Pinterest for many more ideas much like this one.

Today I found out how to adjust the size of my blog so I can now have my pictures appear bigger on my blog. I would love some feedback. Do you like the pictures bigger? Does my blog still upload quickly? Has the bigger pictures slowed my blog down? 
Any feedback would be awesome! Thank you and have a great day!!!

Stampset: Your Amazing

Paper: Very Vanilla, Bermuda Bay, Summer Starfruit, Birthday Basics Designer Series Paper

Ink: Bermuda Bay

Punches: Hexagon (for the end of the flags), 1" Circle

Bigshot: Apothecary Accents, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder

Accessories: Candy Dots Brad Bases

Lovely as a Tree - Sympathy

Hello! I hope you all had a great weekend.

This is another card I cased which I originally found on Pinterest. This card was posted by LovinTX on Spiltcoast Stampers. I loved the card and it was fairly simple to re-create.

The mat I used was cut at 4"X2-3/4". I sponged the rectangle with Sahara Sand and then stamped the tree images using what I call the "Stamping Off" technique. First you ink up your image, then you stamp on a scrap piece of paper and then you stamp onto your project. It gives you lighter stamped image.

The main tree what colored with markers. When using markers, make sure to breath onto the stamp before you stamp. This will make sure your ink is nice and wet.

Stampset: Lovely as a Tree, Simply Sketched

Paper: Very Vanilla

Ink: Always Artichoke (Marker), Chocolate Chip (Ink and Marker), Sahara Sand

Accessories: Stamping Sponges

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Greetings of the Season Snowflake Card

This is another take on the card I made yesterday. 

I struggled with this one because I never liked how the snowflake looked.  This was as happy as I could get with this card. I tossed up the idea on sharing this card or not but I think it is important to share everything I create so you know we all have "off" days. 

Stampset: Greetings of the Season

Paper: Whisper White, Pool Party, Island Indigo, Winter Frost Designer Paper Series Stack, Silver Glimmer Paper

Ink: Smokey Slate

Punches: 7/8" Scalloped Circle, 1/2" Circle, 2-1/2" Circle

Bigshot: Festive Flurry Framelits

Accessories: Large Rhinestone Basic Jewels

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Greetings of the Season Holiday Ornament

On October 5th it was World Card Making day. I took it upon myself to create as many cards as I could on the one day. I made many multiples of the same card but in total I made 31 cards. Many of my cards had to be cased in order to me to produce them so quickly but I would like to take the time to share with you my creations. This is the first of many I will be sharing with you. 

This card was cased from Jamie Hurley. You can see her card on my Pinterest board here.

This card is simple to make. In order to do the punched out ornament first punch out the ornament and then punch out the circle. This ensures your ornament will be centered.

The Very Vanilla layer measures at 3-3/4" X 5"

Since I didn't have any other small ribbon, I used some leftover twine from the Boutique Boxes kit. If I had some of the new Silver 1/8" Ribbon (132137) from the Holiday Catalog I would have loved to use that.

Stampset: Greetings of the Season

Paper: Very Vanilla, Silver Glimmer Paper

Ink: Cherry Cobbler

Punches: Christmas Ornament, 2-1/2" Circle

Accessories: Season of Style Designer Washi Tape, Bakers twine from retired Boutique Boxes Kit

Punch Art Minnie Mouse Cheat Sheet

Good afternoon! I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving yesterday (I am Canadian and we celebrate much earlier than the US!). It was great to have a long weekend but I still have a lot of work to do in order to catch up. 

I am not sure if I told you, but I am taking an evening class at the U of C. This class is taking a lot more of my time than I ever expected. It seems I am always studying, or working on assignments. I will do my best to keep updating my blog with inspiration but please have patience with me. I am finding little time to create right now.

Here is my cheat sheet for the Minnie Mouse card I created here. I hope this sheet helps you create your own Minnie Mouse Card.

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette

Punches: 1/2" Circle, 1" Circle, 1-3/8" Circle, 2-1/2" Circle, Extra-Large Oval, Large Oval

Accessories: Retired Scalloped Dotted Melon Mambo Ribbon

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Morning Meadow, Sweet Essentials, Thinking of You Card

This is another card cased from a card I found on Pinterest. I see lots of cards I like on Pinterest! I have been finding cards I like and remaking them with Stampin' Up Product. This card CASE comes from a lady named Tilly, she is from Kaiwaka, New Zealand. 

Thank you for the inspiration Tilly!

You can follow me HERE on pinterest.

In order to get the tree branch the way it is, I colored the stamp with markers and left out a lot of the branches and flowers. 

For the tag, I used the Chalk Talk Framelits but I cut the shape down, rounded the corners on the bottom and punched a hole in the top with my Crop a Dile.

Stampset: Sweet Essentials, Morning Meadow

Paper: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Pear Pizzazz

Ink / Markers: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green

Bigshot: Magnetic Platform, Chalk Talk Framelits

Tools: Small Heart Punch, 3/16" Corner Punch, Crop a Dile

Accessories: Cherry Cobbler Bakers Twine

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Pennant Parade Birthday

Here is a quick card for you today. I cased this from a card on Pinterest. When I went back to see who originally created the card the pin doesn't take me back to their blog. Sadly their photo also doesn't have a watermark of their blogsite so I cannot give them credit. If you know who's card I cased please let me know, I would love to give them credit!

You can find me on pinterest here.

Have a great day!!!

Stampset: Remembering Your Birthday, Pennant Parade

Paper: Whisper White, Island Indigo, Coastal Cabana

DSP: Polka Dot Parade

Ink: Island Indigo, Coastal Cabana

Tools: Scallop Edge Border Punch, Petite Pennants Builder Punch, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack

Accessories: Retired Daffodil Delight Brads

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Best of Greetings - You Made My Day

Last night I got to "Scrap and Skype" with my Sister and Mother. Since my sister lives in Ontario and my Mom and I live in Alberta we set a time, atleast once a month to chat and create.

My Paper Pumpkin has been great because all ofus get a kit and we can all create without needing a lot of supplies. It is neat to see how my mom and sister put a spin on the cards. They are so creative!!!!

I love to be able to spend the time with them both and catch up with my sister. It seems we often get caught up in our lives and lose touch.

I am dedicating this card to my mom and sister because "Scrap and Skyping" with them Made My Day!!!

Stampset: Best of Greetings, Happy Day

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay

Ink: Basic Black, Versa Mark

Bigshot: Squares Collection Framelits, Magnetic Platform
Tools: 3/16" Corner Punch, Heat Tool, Whisper White Embossing Powder