Tickled Pink {Tut} X2

Hello fellow bloggers.  I've posted this tut over at the Tickled Pink Blog (hopefully it posts ok?) & I thought I'd post it here for you all too! I am here to show you how I made a coupla things on one of my {PINK} creations. This card landed me 4 top spots in various challenges.

I was sooooooooooo excited!

Goes to show what a great stamp & a little mojo can do together!

BE AWARE:

This is a photo filled post.

First things first, my sandals. I saw these on a card somewhere in blogland & thought they were so KEWL, so I simply had to give them a try.(forgive me I can't recall where I saw them initially but I am feverishly re-searching blogland every chance I get-UPDATE- I have seen more & more lately- these people are reading my  mind! LOL )

These are the supplies you will need.

- 2 colors of paper (paper scraps are good for this)

-ribbon (1 long piece [4-6"] or 2 shorter pieces [2-3"] )

-crystal effects or glue dots

- tape/tape gun

-cropadile

-scissors

-6 eyelets

-pen

See the  {sandal} shapes at the bottom of the pic....I freehanded those.....I started with the smaller one then realized that would not work very well, so I went for a larger size, measuring 2-3" in length.

Once I had my original 'freehanded' sandal shape, I then traced another one on the blue paper & then I flipped the paper (double sided DP- gotta love it) & traced two more sandal shapes on the green.

Since I wanted the blue to be my base, I cut the green DP a bit smaller than the blue (inside the trace lines) and adhered it to the blue like so (with my tape gun)

Then I took my handy dandy crop-a-dile and punched holes where the flip flop straps would attach to the bases.

TIP- remember to put one hole on top,  nearer the inside of the flip flop template where one's great toe would be on the one side of the strap; while allowing lotsa room for the other toes on the other side of the strap

Then attach your eyelets accordingly.

Now, in the picture below you see I have 3 pieces of ribbon for the straps....I attemped to use the two smaller pieces but my eyelets would not allow for all the material to go thru it, so I opted for the one longer piece of ribbon. Still, my eyelet was not happy (as you can see in the following pic), and only allowed for a few strands of the material to come thru....so I made due with that.......

........and I crystal effected the little sucker down. I find crystal effects to be the most solid type of adhesive I own. Better than my hot glue gun & glue dots................not sure if it's better than Alleene's or not, but I tell ya, when I want something to stick & NEVER come off, I turn to my crystal effect bottle!

As I said above, the crystal effects can be substituted for a glue dot.....but it is not as strong, as you can tell by my other sandal below ..

HHmmmmmmm which one is adhered with crystal effects.

Now don't laugh at me with my completed sandals below. I know I said I wanted the blue to be my base, but I neglected to make the 'other foot template' LOL......so you get this.

I also made these in the meantime!!

Oh what fun, expecially for summer!

Notice I held off on the eyelets & I only used tape to hold the ribbon on the bottom of the sandal.

AND YES. ....one of each foot ! Yay, I got it right.

Challenges for my sandals below:

Really Reasonable Ribbons- keep it clean

Creative Craft Challenge- anything but a card

Less is More- things that move

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Next I have my surfboard card.

Because the card I made ABOVE was for 'anything but square', I opted to make my own Surfboard; that is after googling it & seeing this super cute card HERE on Joanna's blog. I see that she used the Cutting Cafe template, but I figured....pffpptttp, how hard can it be!

Well, let me tell ya, it's a good thing I have a huge, gigantic stash o' scrap papers cuz i must have experimented with 12 different sheets before coming up with a decent shape! So , again bear with me.

The supplies you will need!

-scissors

-cutting mat

-big edge cutter

-oval shape (I am using my Creative Memories shaper & CM cutter[red thing])

-paper (9.5" X 12") depending on what size you want your surfboard to be

First I folded my paper in half .

Then I placed the oval cutting shape on the edge of the paper and used my cutter to cut from the folded end , up around the top curve, to halfway down the oval shape. Then (in the next pic) I took my half cut shape & placed it into my big edge cutter & cut from the bottom of my paper to where I stopped with my CM cutter.

Then from there, I simply shaped it to resemble a surfboard with my scissors.

In the end, my surfboard measus 8-9".

Easy Peasy, right!?!

 TA-DA!

Hope you all have a Great Day!

Remeber the Tickled Pink Challenge is still going on- ANYTHING GOES

And

The Tickled Pink Monthly Christmas Challenge- EMBOSSING!

JUSTWORDZ with a bit of Sass (y)!

Does anyone just HATE the dentist!!?

So there I was a few weeks ago, in to get a filling on my front bottom tooth. He gave me freezing, my heart started to pound, my hands got clammy and I got super nauseous; they figured it was from the freezing?  After about 10 min, he was able to finish the procedure, only to have the darned thing fall out 2 weeks later. AAHH!!! I went back yesterday, no freezing....again, heart started to pound, hands got sweaty and nausea all over again. I have come to realize I have dental anxiety. Stemming back from when I was young, I had the same problem..............now it's rearing it's ugly head. BLEH!

I go back on Sept 1 for another attempt this time with some Ativan (anti-anxiety med) on board. I'll keep you posted!

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This week at JUSTWORDZ we want to show you some creations with sentiments along the "I'm Sorry" line. I have used one of my newly purchased Simply Sassy Sugar Nellie Stamps called Apple of my Eye that can be purchased at FunkyKits HERE. I am new to the Sassy Stamps & after seeing the new release previews over at the Simply Sassy Blog I knew I had to get them....................all of them...........yup, bought the set!!! Hey as my hubby says, go big or go home baby!

For the front of my card I have used the JUSTWORDZ everyday sentiments to spell "I'm so sorry" & if you scroll down you will see what the inside of my card says; again with these very versatile JUSTWORDZ sentiments!

 Now over at the Simply Sassy Blog they have a new header girl challenge going on, so I thought I'd enter my creation into that for a chance to shine on the Sassy Blog! How exciting would that be hey?

Also, I used the fabby sketch from The Sugar Bowl to pull my card together! AAhhhhh ain't nutin' like a great sketch!

Remember this is your last chance to win a set of JUSTWORDZ sentiments by leaving comments at all  the DT girls blogs! Hop over to the JUSTWORDZ blog & get all the details!

JUSTWORDZ DT GIRLS

(comment on each if you want to win these great stamps)

TARA @ http://creativeprincess-homemadehappiness.blogspot.com/

DORA @ http://myfirstblog-dora.blogspot.com/

ANNIEBEE @ http://anniebeescraftroom.blogspot.com/

TAMMY @ http://thepurplemuse.blogspot.com/

Other Challenges for my card:

Paper Crafting Journey- anything goes

Diva's  By Design- birthdays

Fab&Funky- stitch it up

Anything goes- Birthdays/celebrations
Color Create- color inspiration (see below)

Tickled Pink Challenge #33- Anything goes!

Wooooweeeeeeeeeeeee we had some great enteries for the last Tickled Pink Stamps Challenge ! Thank you all for playing along! If you haven't popped over to the challenge blog today (YET) you simply must do so, as I have some very exciting news over there!! go go go go quick quick quick  (lol)
Onto this weeks challenge; we have another amazing theme (as you can see from my title). We want to see

ANYTHING GOES

 I did not have to go searching far for the perfect image. I have chosen Lil Victorian Steampunk Lad Eric from the Tickled Pink Stamps Store. I just love his uniqueness with the large bug eye glasses and hard hat helmet! He is all set for the steampunk ways.....haha!!! I also knew that I had to match him with an awesome steampunk house I found at the Make It Crafty Blog! AmaZinG place to find the perfect backdrop to match AMaZinG images!!

Of course to match my thoughts of how unique this wee man is , I had to use a SU Define your Life sentiment on the inside of the card!

The following few pics are some of the cards finer details.

The chipboard gears I got off eBay. I sponged them with vintage photo ink (twice) then doused them with crystal effects . Then I added a bit of glitter. The bottle caps are recycled off my ceasar cocktail drinks that come in bottles. (FYI- Ceasars are vodka, clamato juice & spices--similar to Bloody Mary's)

I had a lot of fun making this card &  I have BIG plans for more stamps & digi backgrounds in the future !

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PS- Don't forget about our Tickled Pink Monthly Christmas Challenge still going on. Theme is Embossing!
as well as Tickled Pink Digi Days until Aug 21st!

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Challenges for my card: to
Bearly Mine- bring on the bling
Papertake Weekly- BINGO (buttons, ribbon & a free spot {I choose die cuts}} )
Try it On Tuesday- anything goes
Craft Us Crazy- anything goes

Halloween 2011 in Completion & holiday trauma!

Well, I must say I thouroughly enjoyed my holidays.....I still have photos to show, but that' ll just have to wait as this is a photo filled post already.

I do have a coupla stories to share however. On Friday me & my daughter Hannah went to the city for a girls day, dinner, shopping and a theater show "HAIRSPRAY"! We were so excited, until we got a blow out tire from a gigantic screw on the road! Damn. No dinner. We had to wait over an hour for a tow truck to arrive. Took a taxi to the show and picked up McDonalds on the way. So much for our Red Lobster planned dinner. On the upside, we DID get to go shopping at Walmart at midnight when hubby picked us up after the show! Phew, what a long day!

Then yesterday (Sunday) we went to the Quary (manmade water filled crystal clear lake) to go swimming. After a 15 min van ride & 10 min bike ride, we finally arrived at our destination....& after 20 mins of unloading, getting organized, watching the kids jump off the rocks into the water.....Hannah stepped on a piece of glass, thereby cutting our day short! It was off to the hospital we went where she got 6 stitches! My poor girl!

YIKES! I'm kinda glad I'm back to work today! lol

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Now that the August Tickled Pink Stamps new releases (Spinks &  Spooks-Lil Haunts 2 collection) are all done, I'm free to show you my complete PaperBag-Mini Album I made for my kids Halloween Pics (coming up this October).

I started this creation in my original post HERE but could not show you EVERYTHING for fear of giving you too many sneaky peekies of the new release!  So here we go;  with the top picture being the front cover of the mini-album & the second picture being the pages inside.

PS- Reminder that Digi Week is back at Tickled Pink Stamps (monthly from 15th-21st)

BELOW- is page #1 & #2 (close ups can be found here) featuring Zombie Kellita

The next two pictures are of the insert page I made. It is tucked into one of the paper bag openings. Two pages awaiting photos to be adhered!

This is a shot of the next two pages featuring Wizard Eric (close ups can be found HERE). My 3 yr old is planning on dressing up as a police officer (we got the costume already- what can I say I'm a PLANNER-haha)..........do u think his little picture will look ok here?!>!>

These are my next coupla pages with a purple, black & white theme feature Lil Little Lolita Lilith from the Lil Little Collection. Isnt's she priceless!!

Challenges for my Lolita Lilith page: (to follow)

Kaboodle Doodles- bag it or tag it

Craft your Passion- anything but a card

Paper Playtime- anything goes

This page is another insert I made & tucked into another paper bag opening, featuring Lil Haunts Frankie Frankenstein from the first Lil Haunts Collection.

I used my Tim Holtz picket fence die cut thru my cuttlebug & it worked like a charm! Then I painted it with tattered rose crackle paint & I attached it to the insert so I can just pull on the fence to take it out & attach a photo! Cool ya?

Challenges for my Frankie Frankenstein page: (to follow)

The Crazy Challenge- movies (Frankenstein)

Cards for Men- anything goes

AllSorts- anything but a card

Next are my pages featuring Mummie Christina  (close ups can be found HERE). Pay NO attention to the ruler in the picture, I used it to prop open my book.

And here are my last two pages featuring Vampire Lestat (close up pics can be seen HERE). As you can see in my bottom pic, the bouquet of flowers has lost a rosebud....or perhaps it just died off?

I did not do anything to the back cover. Perhaps I'll just let the kids doodle, write their names, or something of the sort! I am def. going to be making another paper bag mini album in the future!

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YIKES, I still have holiday photos to show you, guess your just gonna have to wait!

FRIENDSHIP @ JUSTWORDZ

Second post today: Scroll down for my last Spink & Spook, Tickled Pink Stamps Lil Haunts 2- new release !!

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This week at  JUST WORDZ the DT are here to show you some sentiments using frienship words from the JUSTWORDZ everyday sentiment set.

I have chosen an image from Prairie Fairy Designs called A Helping Hand. I printed the digital image on kraft paper & slighly colored certain spots with my watercolor pencils. I then 'fancy cut' out the image  and placed it onto another Prairie Fairy Designs marvel........a watercolored background. This was hand painted by the Prairie Fairy herself..........in fact I don't even know if is in the store yet.............if anyone is interested, let me know & I'll tell the Fairy to get her wings in gear & put it in the store ASAP.

I printed the background image on white paper & sponged & distressed the edges.

I chose this image to represent my daughter & one of my sons. Siblings, although annoying at times, will truly be Friends Forever as my JUSTWORDZ say!

 

I truly fell in love with this card, the more it came together, from the bits of jute in the corners to the seam binding, button, butterfly & that layer of script paper that has been hiding in my stash FOREVA!!  And of course my JUSTWORDZ sentiments on the watercolor background as well....



Now don't forget to hop over to the JUSTWORDZ blog (Kimberley's blog) to get all the deets on how you too can get your hands on a set of these awesome WORDZ!


JUSTWORDZ DT GIRLS

(comment on each if you want to win these great stamps)

TARA @ http://creativeprincess-homemadehappiness.blogspot.com/

DORA @ http://myfirstblog-dora.blogspot.com/

TAMMY @ http://thepurplemuse.blogspot.com/

Challenges for my card:

Charisma Cardz- distressing

Simply Create- time to distress

Flutterby Wednesdays- open

Use it Tuesday- Indian Summer

For Your Inspiration- photo inspire (see below)

My last of the Lil Haunts........

 Well folks here I am to show you my very last creation (yup another mini album page from my Halloween 2011 Paper Bag Album) with the very last preview image from the new line of Tickled Pink Stamp Ranges called Spinks & Spooks- Lil Haunts 2.

Today Vampire Lestat is taking center stage with  his red & black cape and pet bat! eeeek! (did I ever tell you we've actually had bats in our house---o boy that's another post! HAHA)
 The woven heart was a steal of a find at a local craft store. A whole buncha different sizes in one bag! GAWD I love when that happens. The Red swirl stickers are from the Tickled Pink Stamp Store!

Now, remember you must leave a comment on each new release image in order to be in the running to win a TPS image or two or three. FOLLOW THIS LINK to get in on all the action!

Don't forget about our Tickled Pink Stamps Challenge going on right now too, where we want to see you use a Lil Haunt- PS- Tickled Pink Stamps Digi Days start on the 15th until the 21st.....so you have plenty of time to get your digis and get in on the action!

Challenges for my card:

Charisma Cardz- distressing
Delightful challenges- things with wings
Southern Girls- B&W with a pop of color

Celebr-8 ODD style!

This is my 2nd post today- scroll down for my Tickled Pink DT card

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YIPEE! My first Some Odd Girl  Challenge    !!!! ( as opposed to the sneak peeks we showed you last week, that is) How excited am I?! Very excited & very nervous as this challenge (albeit for all the bloggers in blogland) was a definite challenge for ME too! Why? Because the theme for the next two weeks at  SOG is

TO USE COMPLIMENTARY COLORS

(colors that opposite each other on the color wheel - see below)

  WEELLLL I racked my brain for hours trying to come up with something for this...... cuz I really, really wanted to use some paper from a set of boys DP I bought last year. but none were matching. So I opted with the yellow paper with guitars on it (from that specific pack) & paired it with the color violet! There you have it: YELLOW & VIOLET As a smart woman once said "it takes a cool guy to sport yellow pants" (teehee, right Kristy). The scallop circle base is from Susie Sugar's Die Cut Dreams Store. Ribbon is from Really Reasonable Ribbons & the star is a chipboard piece from a multipack, that I sponged with SU ink. Sentiment are sticker letters as is the number 8.   

 I urge you to go check out the Some Odd Girl Store to take a look around & maybe even buy a few stamps to get started!! If you are anything like me, you will fall in love with Kristy's images just as I did!!   

Also, if you like my Chibi at the top of my blog.............and want one of those for yourself..........you can hop over here Get Chibi'd ! to get more information.

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Challenges for my card:
Desert Island Crafts- choose from list (colored my image with watercolor pencils & copics, 3 diff colors [yellow, violet & black], make it manly)
The Craft Garden- bold, bright & loud (photo inspire- below)


The HotSpot- use one or more of colors below