Sites of the week

First, I have to wish Tony a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! XOXO

WOW! I was amazed at the response here and through email about the Copic/Alcohol Ink book that I shared with you last Friday. You can read that post HERE. For those of you that are interested in purchasing a book, please EMAIL ME {link under my pic} with “Coloring Book” in the subject line. The books are $10 each and S/H will be $2 for those within the US. If you are outside of the US, I will have to get back to you on the shipping. I accept Paypal. Please note that all books ordered by Monday will ship on Tuesday. Here is a picture of the cover of the book published by Design Originals {click HERE to see the info page on their site}…

Yesterday, I showed you a couple cards from the upcoming The Cat’s Pajamas release {Feb. 27} and today I get to show you one of my favorite projects that I have done with this release…a mini gable box. You can make 2 of these out of a sheet of 8.5″ x 11″ paper…talk about easy mass production. These are very easily personalized and embellished. For this project, I just used a rectangle Nestabilities die to cut out the window in the front, but I think it would darling with the Labels 1 dies or even stars!

I am guessing that I will get a handful of people asking me how I Cuttlebugged this project. I embossed the box from either side and left the bottom of the box un-embossed.

YES, YES, YES…I did a template for you! Click for a larger view
Please note that this is for PERSONAL use only. THANK YOU!

YAY! Alma, Queen Bee at The Cat’s Pajamas, gave us the green light to go ahead and start showing projects featuring the upcoming releases. I have A BUNCH of cards sitting here, but I am just going to show you 2 today. The first card uses stamps from the set Bean & Bunnies & Peeps, Oh My!… {makes me giggle every time I see or say it!!}. For this card I used three of the stamps in the set. The first is the grass, or nest {whatever your creative heart desires}, then the chick on her eggs finally the sentiment.

Alma sent all of us the Honey Pie paper pack by Cosmo Cricket to pair with the new sets. I have been ogling these papers for awhile, so I was in heaven getting to play with them a few times over with all my projects. The pattern that I used on this card is my favorite in the whole pack and may just have to hoard any scraps that I have left…LOL! For a finishing touch, I paired a button with some linen thread, which I thought was a perfect match to the “feel” of the paper {which I also stitched around for this same reason}.

The next card features lovable Poochie in a carrot car. This image is from the Spring Fling set, and it cracks me up! The mushrooms, grass and sentiment are also from the same set.

In addition to the Honey Pie paper pack, we also had a chance to work with Cosmo Cricket’s Baby Bee collection…so cute! I love the muted colors and I think that this orange with white polkas paired well with this image. I am not sure if you can see in the pic, but I popped up the tail of the carrot and rubbed it in a VersaMark Dazzle {Frost} ink pad, so it shimmers. Again, I used a button as one of my finishing touches. I am totally into buttons right now, as is the rest of the paper crafting world! Here I used a Prima flower and some May Arts twill as the back drop to the button, which is threaded with Scrapper’s Floss. I did some crazy stitchin’ across the card above the sentiment. This was really an afterthought. I kept looking at the card knowing that it needed something, so I added the stitching and called it a day!

See ya tomorrow for ABC Friday and another peek at the upcoming TCP release which is next Friday, February 27.

Did you see that Emily is offering up new Bella challenges on the Bella blog? Each Monday a new challenge will be announced and then we send her our entries for a chance to win Bella bucks. As if I needed another excuse to play with Bellas, Buggs or any of the other adorable lines over there. For the challenge this week, Emily and Nicky have asked us to put red and purple together. At first I thought that it just screamed “Red Hat Society,” but I knew that I could make it work. I used LoveBeetle Hugabugg {I can’t get enough of these BUGGS!!} and whipped out a few different shades of Copic red and purple. I would love to have this car…

The purple polka dot paper is from My Mind’s Eye. I actually almost put this paper back, but I am glad that I didn’t! I don’t have a whole lot of purple DP, so I thought this would be a good “go to” piece. Turns out that I think that I will use this again and again. I really do like it! The rectangular red panel is embossed with the Spots and Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder and topped off with Elegant Eggplant {SU!} grosgrain ribbon. After I finished adhering the red panel and the main image panel, I felt as though there was something that was missing. What’s a girl to do when this happens?…I put my “more is more” hat and got to work. I added three Elegant Eggplant circles on the right hand side with Real Red hearts in the centers. I then added the brads on top and bottom; note how I offset them. I did not add a sentiment, as I wanted this card to be one that I could send to one of my girlfriends for no particular reason…it’s good to have these on hand, I think!

Hope you are all having a wonderful week! I just have to share this because it made me laugh {i love that site!}

Too bad, I will never know it for sure!