Friends are Flowers

Hey everyone! Here's the video I promised for my ColorQ Challenge/ Freshly Made Sketch Challenge card. I hope you enjoy!!!

http://colourq.blogspot.com/

http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/. 

ColorQ challenge and Freshly Made Sketch Challenge

Hey everyone!!

So back to work means little time for crafting and posting during the week :( But since it's now the weekend, I've had plenty of time to craft and film some videos for you!!

I went to Walmart today to get some medicine since I wasn't feeling too well this morning (I feel just fine now... weird) and I ended up in the craft aisle... I bought B is for Boy, the Cricut lite cartridge (which I have been waiting to get for months and finally decided to actually get). But I also noticed that they had a whole new line of Studio G products for Valentine's Day!!! Everything from Studio G is only $0.97!!! Granted it's probably not as good of quality as Stampin' Up, but there's some cute things in there that won't break the bank if you don't have a lot of money to spend on crafting items. I'm uploading a video of some of their new products, so I'll post that as soon as it uploads.

So anyway, I finally had a chance to visit my craft room, and I decided to do the colorQ color challenge over at http://colourq.blogspot.com/. The challenge this week is to use the colors Pretty in Pink, Gray, Pumpkin Pie, and Melon Mambo.

I also decided to try using a sketch for inspiration, so I chose to do the Freshly Made Sketch at http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/. 

Here is my finished product.

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, and Whisper White by Stampin' Up

Ink: Melon Mambo, Basic Gray, Versamark

Stamp Sets: "You are Loved" - Stampin' Up

Love Blossoms Wheel - Stampin' Up

"Flower and Friendship" by My Pink Stamper

Ribbon: Melon Mambo 1/2" Grograin Polka Dot

Melon Mambo and Silver embossing Powder

Corner Rounder

Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz buttons

I have a lot more videos for you! I changed my craft room around, I filmed the Studio G products, I have a short video of another card, and I also have a video for this card. I will post them as soon as I get them uploaded!

Have a wonderful night everyone :)

- Ashley

One in a Melon Birthday Card

Hey everyone!

The new Stampin' Up 2012 Occasions  Mini is now available to purchase from!!! Hurray!!! So now I can share all the vidoes I made last week with you! Today I'm showing you a video of the watermelon birthday card I posted last week. This card was for my sister's birthday right after Christmas. It uses two new stamp sets, "Mouthwatering" and "Loved Ones" as well as some new ribbon and new scented embossing powder. I also used a new set of My Pink Stamper Stamps. I hope you enjoy!

- Ashley

Snowman Thank you Card

Hi everyone!!

So I'm back. I haven't been on in a month and now you have 2 posts from me in one day! I just wanted to share a video with you that I made today. I made this card with my students that last day of school before break. They each got to make their own card. I let them pick their stamp sentiment and their cuttlebug folder, but the rest we all had the same. It turned out really cute! You could use this card for lots of different reasons. I have shown you a version that can be used as a winter card that you can send out during these cold months, or as a thank you card.

One of my best friends just donated a table to Andy and me for our new apartment, so I think I'm going to use this card to give to them as a thanks for giving us the table :) Perfect timing on this card!!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

I used Stampin' Up paper and Shimmer Paint.

Cuttlebug folder - Snowflakes

www.mypinkstamper.com "Winter Punnies" Stamp set

Papertrey Ink paper and Ribbon

Heat embossing

Andy and I are off to see Wicked tonight! My Christmas present from my baby :) Can't wait! I hope everyone has a wonderful night!

- Ashley

It's been a while...

Hey all!! Wow... it's been a month since I've had the opportunity to post... I've just been sooo busy getting ready for Christmas and doing everything for my students, I was pretty much running around nonstop for about 2 weeks... But now I'm on Christmas break for another week and a half, and I've already got a bunch of videos filmed and ready to post! I just have to wait until January 4th when the new Stampin' Up Occasions Mini ordering starts because I've showed pictures of their new products in my video. I can post the pictures for now though and you can look for the videos in January. I will have some videos that I can post before that within the next couple days though because I've not got lots of time to craft, and I'm super excited to have more time finally!!!

Anyway, I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas/Hanukkah and got lots of craft stuff! I got some Cricut cartridges, a crop-a-dile, a big bite, and a Xyron machine. I also got a tripod so now I can film videos much easier for you guys :)

I also got $150 in gift cards to Michales, and I've already been shopping and spent most of it already, though I've got about $38 left still... And I'm going to buy some more Jetmax storage jars for all the Papertrey Ink buttons Andy ordered for me. I've got about 20 packs of buttons coming!! I also have over 20 packs of paper coming from Stampin' Up as well!! I can't wait! And they'll still be here in time for me to use them for about a week before I have to go back to work :)

So I don't go back until the 9th, and Andy has the week off right now, so I've been hanging with him for a bit. I moved in with him on the 10th! So now I get to be with him all the time :) I love it! It means I also have my own craft space now that I'm out of my parent's house. I have a video ready to post that shows my craft room, but I've got to wait :( Also, my friend Melanie was in from Texas for a couple days, so we crafted yesterday and went shopping! I got a bunch of stuff from Michales and Jo-Ann!

Anyway, my sister's birthday was on Wednesday, so I want to show you the card that I made for her 31st birthday! I'll post the video for you next week, but here's the picture.

I used a new stamp from Stampin' Up as well as some new embossing powder.

I also used a stamp from www.mypinkstamper.com

I also used elegant edges to create the background for the watermelon.

The paper is all from Stampin' Up and the patterned paper is from the DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl stack

I'll give you more information on the video

I didn't take a picture of the inside, but you'll see that in my video as well :)

I've got a Valentine's Day card for my niece that I'll post later or tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by, sorry it's been so long.

- Ashley

Snowflake Card

Hey everyone!

It's almost time for bed... and back to work after a long weekend :( Oh well... I got back from Pennsylvania yesterday, and I went right into my craft room after talking to my parents for a couple minutes, and got back to crafting! I made my very first holiday card :) It's a snowflake card, so it's for any religion. I'm really excited with the way it turned out, and Andy even told me it was his favorite card that I've ever made :)

Anyway, on to the card...

I made 4 different designs and took pictures of them all. I'll post them tomorrow once I've gotten them uploaded onto my computer. I also made a video of the other Thanksgiving card I made. I know Thanksgiving is over, but I still wanted to show this card, and it had to be done with a video, so I'll post that tomorrow :)

Anyway, goodnight all!!!

- Ash

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hi everyone!!! I hope you're all having a wonderful Thanksgiving! I want to wish a very very happy birthday to my best friend since I was in 7th grade, Tara!!! I love you Tar ^_^ Who's going out for Black Friday tomorrow? I will be doing some shopping online perhaps, but you will not see me waiting in lines at the stores... I'm trying to get Andy to take me to Michales in the afternoon for the 50% off Jetmax modular storage. I might be moving in with him in a couple weeks, so I will actually get to finally set up a real craft space instead of having all my stuff packed into drawers in our back bedroom... Their storage units have pretty good reviews, and people say to get them when they're on sale or when you have a coupon, and since they are on sale... The only problem is we are in Pennsylvania for the weekend, and the closest Michales to his brother's house (where we are staying) is in Erie, 70 minutes away... instead of 3 miles down the road at my house, lol... bummer.

Anyway, we recently found out that our friends were pregnant!! I'm so excited for them, I made this that same week and sent it to them when we found out. I think it turned out so so cute, I love it!!

I think that I used the Vintage Creme by Papertry ink for the card base.

The layering mat is from the DCWV Baby Girl Nursery stack.

The clothesline is cut from the Baby Steps cartridge. They don't know what they are having yet, so I tried to stay more neutral on teh colors, hence the reason I picked green.

I used Stickles on most fo the image on the front.

The inside sentiment is two different stamps from the My Pink Stamper stamp set "Sweet Baby." It looks like I stamped it in Old Olive from Stampin' Up possibly? I can't remember remember, it was about a month ago when I made this...

Speaking of Stampin' Up, their new Occasion Mini just arrived at my house 2 days ago, and I'm in love!!! I want pretty much the whole catalogue :( I need to stop spending money, but they just have way to many cute products... Oh well, I'll figure it out...

I also bought some really cute clothes today from Deb and Body Central.



Both these skirts are from Body Central. I also bought the olive sweater to go with the ivory skirt and the same gray sweater to go with the black one. Andy already said they were hot and he's excited to see them on me, lol.

I also got this sweater in both black and white... for only $5.00!!!! at www.debshops.com

I also found the Cricut Pink Journey Solutions cartridge itself on www.cricutmachine.com so I bought it!! I've been looking at trying to get this cartridge for a while now, but so far it's only been offered with the Pink Cricut or really expensive on ebay... but yay, I got it for $26!!!!

I miss my craft stuff... we're going to be in PA until Saturday, so no crafting for this long weekend for me... :( Oh well... Hopefully I can get some things done next week :)

Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Black Friday to all!!

- Ash

Birthday Card

Hey everyone!!! It's the last day of work for the week!!! I'm so super excited! I am going down to Pennsylvania tonight with Andy to be with his family for Thanksgiving. I'm just glad to get away from work for a couple days. I've already got everything ready for next week just about. All my copies are made, I've got my lesson plan submitted, and my homework for next week is all put together. Yay!

Anyway, I couldn't get my video to finish uploading before I went to bed, so I tried again today, and as promised, here is my video! It's a birthday card I made for my friend Melanie. I hope you like it :)

I hope you all have a wonderul Thanksgiving!!!!

More of the Card Box

Hey everyone,

I finally was able to upload my pictures to my computer so I'll be able to post some of those. I've got a video to share, but it's not uploaded yet... Watch for that in a little bit.

Anyway, Andy and I went to Walmart to get his oil changed today, and I happened to walk by the ribbon aisle... I bought about 14 spools of ribbon in all different shades! I'm so excited to use them! I lined up all my ribbon in color order today and they all looked so pretty! We've also spent much of today watching the NASCAR race... Andy is in love with NASCAR, lol, so I guess I've got to like it too.

I wanted to share some more of the cards that I included in my friend Kelly's card box for her birthday.

I figured I should probably include a thank you card in her card set, so here it is. It's a 4 x 4 card. I used the DCWV Shimmer stack for the green layer, but I can't remember what the pink layer is.

I used core'dinations all in the family colors for the green and pink layer in the watermelon, but the white layer is from the Core'dinations pearl pack.

The watermelon is also cut from the Preserves cartridge (which is such a cute cartridge!)

The ribbon is from Papertry Ink.

I also use Stickles on the seeds in the watermelon.

The "Thanks a Melon" stamp is from MyPinkStamper Stamps Fruit and Veggie Puns set.

I had to make my own envelopes for these since I didn't have any laying around. I used the cricut, but can't remember which cartridge I used since it's been a month...

I guess I was on a pink and green kick when I made her cards... Anyway, this is the other monogramed card I made for her. I thought it would be nice for her to have two choices. This card is a standard 5 1/2 by 4 1/4 card. The card base is a Papertry Ink color (can't remember which one...)

I believe I also used the DCWV Shimmer stack for this card as well. I ran the white layer through the cuttlebug swiss dots folder to give it some texture.

I used a scallop edge punch on the boarder to give it a little more detail and then placed a vintage creme (Papertry Ink) layer behind the scallop edge.

I think the circle with the K was cut from the Storybook cartridge.

The ribbon is also Vintage Creme from Papertry Ink. I love thier colors, but thier paper is kind of thick for the cricut... I think they make nice card bases though.

This was the last card I made for her and I think it is by far my favorite card that I have made so far. I just think it's so cute!

The girl and cat are cut from Kate's ABCs (a beautiful cartridge!) at 4 I believe (it could be 3 3/4 though)

Most of the paper I used to make the little girl was from Core'dinations, though the brown background layer was cut from Stampin' Up (possibly Chocolate Chip?)

The card is a 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 card.

The glitter patterned paper layer is from the DCWV Nana's Kids stack and I think it is just the cutest paper!

I used the magenta, yellow, and icicle stickles for her hat to make it stand out and give it a little more shimmer.

The ribbon is from Papertry ink.

The inside sentiment is from a Close to My Heart set. It was a promotion where if you spent so much, you got a free stamp set. It came from the free stamp set and I thought it was just a nice anytime sentiment to put inside.

So yeah, I think this card turned out just so incredibly cute that I made a couple more for myself... I'm running out of the DCWV paper though so I might have to go get another stack just for that paper! Lol.

I'm still waiting for that video to finish loading, but it should be up later. It's just a short video where I finally show you one of the boxes of mini notecards that I've been working on. It's my first video so it's kind of bad... but I hope to make more in the future!!

Have a great night everyone!

- Ash

Another Halloween Card

Hey everyone! It's been a couple days, but I've been pretty busy. I'm typing this up on my new computer though and I'm really satisfied with it!! Friday I stopped by my Stampin' Up demonstrator's house to pick up my club order. I ordered the water colors palette, and then some sponges so that I could do sponging around edges of cards.

Saturday was the Michigan State game, so we were gone pretty much all day. I also got to pick up my engagement ring from Helzberg. It's been there for a week being resized because it was too small :( I've missed it, but I'm so glad to have it back!! He asked October 10th by the way.

 When we did get home, I decided I wanted to start working on my Thanksgiving cards using my new Stampin' Up products!! I only made one design so far, but I really like it. I've alreay got my idea for the next card and I can't wait to try that one! I ordered some action wobbles to put on it, so I'll have to wait until those come in to do that design.  I'm going to use my cricut for that one, and for this one I used all stamping techniques. I wanted one of each... and I don't really have too many people to send cards to anyway, mainly just my fiance's family and his friends that live out of state. The card I made today has two stamps from the "Thankful For You" stamp set by cardztv. (www.cardztv.blogspot.com) It also included a stamp from Close to My Heart.

 This afternoon I went to another craft class at my Stampin' Up demonstrator's house. We made 2 Christmas cards and then we made a candy holder treat thing that I'm going to make to give to all my third graders. I'm going to start working on their Christmas presents soon I think because I don't want to be doing it last minute. (I did that last year, and was up really late the night before I wanted to take them into school...) Anyway, I'll take pictures of our crafts from today and post them later.

I still have a couple more Halloween cards I want to share with everyone, so I'm going to finish those up first.

This is a standard 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 card.

The base of the card is Orange Zest from Papertry Ink.

I ran the black mat through one of the Cuttlebug Mini Monsters compaion folders.

The boy was cut from Mini Monsters at I believe 4"

The ribbon is also orange zest from Papertry Ink.

The pumpkin paper border is the Halloween design series from Papertry Ink.

The button is also orange zest from Papertry Ink.

The saying is from MyPinkStamper stamps Spooky Puns (www.mypinkstamper.com)

My other Halloween card is sitting on my sister's memory card in her camera, so I can't post that one right now... Oh well

Monster Card

Evening everyone! I'm just about to head to bed, but I wanted to post another card. My new laptop arrived today, but I haven't had the time to transfer all my files from my old laptop on to my new one, nor have I had time to play around with it :( Oh well. Tomorrow starts the weekend, so I'll have time then. Anyway, here's another one of the Halloween cards I made.

This card is a little different. I used a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 base, but then I cut the monster from Mini Monsters in the card feature. So my card is actually the monster cut in card format. I used core'dinations paper for most of the card. The 4 x 5 1/4 green base was run through the cuttlebug. Then I added stickles to his horns and tail. The ribbon is from Papertry ink (raspberry fizz)

The stamp on the outside and on the inside are from My Pink Stamper Spooky Puns (www.mypinkstamper.com)

Anyway, I'm off to bed because I'm super tired. One more day in the week!!!

- Ashley

Halloween Cards

Hey!

I started a new project today, 3x3 mini note cards. I finished the actual cards, but I think I'm going to print out a monogram A for them before I call them finished. Hopefully I'll have time to do that tomorrow, plus make the box to put them in (inspired by Mary at www.cardztv.blogspot.com). This is my second set, so I'll post a picture of both when I'm done! I think I'm going to make a set for each of my coworkers at school that I'm close with and give them to them for Christmas. They're really easy and don't take too long to make. I'm becoming obsessed with them, so I'm sure you'll see many more sets to come. I'm going to a scrapbook club with my Stampin-Up demonstrator tomorrow though, so not sure I'll be able to finish tomorrow :( Last week was our first meeting, and because of the specials, we had to meet again so soon. I'll post pictures of both layouts. Kits to make them are available for $8.

Anyway, I wanted to start posting a couple of my cards. Since Halloween is over, I'll start with these.

I made about 5 of these cards and sent them out to people. I kept one to save in my stash to look at later. 

Card base - Orange Zest by Papertrey Ink

Blue Mat - Core'dinations paper embossed with the seeing spots folder

Ribbon (which I later tied a knot onto - I ran out while making these) from Joann Fabric

Hello Kitty cut out from Hello Kitty Greetings at I think 4 1/2. 

Sentiment from My Pink Stamper Stamps Spooky Puns (www.mypinkstamper.com)

Stickles used for the glitter on the kitty.

Heat embossed with clear sparkly embossing powder

I only made one of these, though I wish I had made more. 

All paper used was Core'dinations (which I absolutely love!!!)

Witch bird cut from 3 Birds on Parade

Ribbon from papertry ink

I also used the Drippy Goo Punch by Martha Stewart

Stamp sentiment from My Pink Stamper Spooky Puns (www.mypinkstamper.com)

The background mat was sanded to show the under color. 

That's it for now, but I've got more and I'll post them tomorrow! Have a wonderful night :)

- Ash