Happy 4th of July!

Found this paper in my hoarding pile. Looked like pretty fireworks so I added some bling and wa-lah!

Hope you all have a safe 4th of July!

Safe Sparklers

**Sorry for the late post....Blogger refused to let me post =( **

Ok, so here's a non cardy thing for the 4th of July. I made a total of 7 of these and I love them! I mailed off 5 (Kristin, Beka...look for the box in the mail) and the last to are for my rugrats.

Every morning like a crazy crafty stalker I check out the daily deal on pick your plum dot com. It's a website that has these insane deals such as the ric rack I used here, I've also gotten vinyl sheets for a quarter a piece and grosgrain ribbon for a crazy cheap deal. The ric rack for instance was 10 cents a yard I think. They have a certain amount of whatever is for sale and they sell it for 24 hours or until it's sold out......very cool!

When they have an item they have pictures of things you can make with the craft supply. They had the sparkler made outta ric rack and I knew I had to make it. (You can google ric rack pick your plum and you can see the pics)

Super easy to make, 3/8 inch dowel, scrap piece of felt about 2 1/2" by 7", 6 pieces of ric rack and glue.....easy peasy lemon squeezy.




I actually added glitter glue for a more sparkly effect, well that and I have a girl who loves all things sparkly =)



They're cool, you wave 'em around and they sparkle and completely safe....unless you count the kids using them as swords which guaranteed mine will do once they get their hands on them.

I really don't care for fireworks so this is the perfect thing for me =)

Happy Thursday....Weekend is almost here!!!!!!!!

Summery Flowers

Happy Tuesday! Did you survive Monday, I did.....bearly.....

For this card I pulled out the Prima flowers I got a few months back and put them to use. The sketch I used was from Clean & Simple and the colors were from SPCC but I changed 'em up a little. Instead of of Certainly Celery I used Pear Pizzazz and I used Peach Parfait in place of Pumpkin Pie.

One of my favorite things is embossing folders because they make adding texture so super easy. A plain card goes from blah to awesome with just a simple roll through the machine.

Notice the ric rack? I did some organizing this weekend and now have all my loose ends of ribbon wound around popsicle sticks so they are visible and I can see what I have. If I don't see it, then I usually won't use it. Hence all the ribbon I have, it used to be in drawers but now it's nice and organized so I can see what I have.


Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait
{Ink} SU! Chocolate Chip
{Stamp} SU! So Happy For You
{Extras} Cuttlebug embossing folders Swiss Dots and Swirls

Firecracker Monday

Can you believe it....7 days until the 4th of July! Where has this year gone to? On a good side only 4 days until we can order from the NEW SU! catalog =)

I used THIS sketch from Eat, Sleep, Stamp and I think I might have my stampin' mojo back. I made 4 cards...yes 4 cards this weekend. That's more than I think I've made all month so I'm back on the right stamping path.

This card uses my cute Firecracker Changito and I colored him and the firecrackers in with SU! markers and blender pens. Of course some bling is needed when speaking of firecrackers so I used a Versamark pen and highlighted the ends of firecrackers and one of the firecrackers and added SU! heat and stick powder and added Dazzling Diamonds glitter to it.......firecrackin' fun.


Since Fillmore is the only place in Ventura county to buy fireworks, we now have roughly 20 firework booths set up along about a 4 mile jaunt.....insane if you ask me but then again I'm not a fan of fireworks.

Happy Monday everyone and hopefully it goes fast!

Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla; Paper Pizzaz star scrap paper
{Ink}SU! Chocolate Chip, Basic Black, Basic Grey, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Versamark pen
{Stamp} Stampendous Changito
{Extras} Sizzix die Stars #2, SU! Heat & Stick powder, Dazzling Diamond glitter, Irridescent Ice embossing powder, Blender pens, white gel pen

Finally....my firecracker!

Have you ever found a stamp and found out it was retired/discontinued/company closed???? 3 years ago I did! I was cruising around the gallery on splitcoast stampers and came across a card made with this cute firecracker stamp. I sent the artist a message asking what brand the stamp was and where she got it. I got an sweet answer of Stampa Barbara for the company but they closed many years ago and she got this off of eBay....great sky high prices!

I've watched only a couple come on and they in fact went for over $20 each time, much too high for my liking for buying just one stamp, even if it is cute =)

After 3 years I had kinda given up, I had put an alert on eBay so that it would let me know if any Stampa Barbara firecracker stamps came up for auction.....lo and behold a few weeks ago this wonderful one came up! Only paid $8 including shipping...oh yeah baby...uh huh....I got ....wahoooo!!! (You didn't see my crazy dance through the screen did you ?!)



I still haven't had much time to play with it with work, migraines, end of school, migraines, jury duty, and oh yeah did I mention migraines =( So here's my first card with it, I really thought it was a bigger stamp but I still LOVE it!

Ingredients: {Paper} SU! Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Whisper White {Stamp} Stampa Barbara Firecracker {Ink} SU! Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake, white gel pen, sudio G burgundy {Extras} Versamark pen, SU! Irridescent Ice embossing powder, scallop scissors, swiss dots embossing folder