Fluttering By...

Hi everyone :-) 

I am here to share a beautiful butterfly Birthday card with you for Where Ideas Bloom. I just got this die and was excited to create with it, plus I had the perfect sentiment! I made this card for a friend celebrating her birthday and know that she'll cherish the card and not throw it in the trash... so I went to town with embellishments lol... 

I used White flower Spray, White Flat Flower Sequins and Sookwang Tape from the store. 

Thanks for visiting me today :-) 

~Steff~

Birthday Wishes

Good morning :-) 

I am here today to share a colorful birthday card I had to make for a friend. But I must admit that I had  trouble with this card as it's hard for me to work with bold colors lol... Never-the-less I went to town with it by adding beautiful flowers from Where Ideas Bloom Baby Yellow flowers, Forget Me Not, 

Fushia Pink Spray and Sookwang Tape to adhere my layers.

Thanks for stopping by today :-) 

~Steff~ 

"Use Your Stamps" Mondays #11

Hello crafty friends :-) 

Today I'd like to share my projects for my "Use Your Stamps" Monday challenge on my YouTube channel and you can find how to play along right HERE

I am having a lot of renovations in my home as we speak so everything is a hot mess and all my craft supplies are boxed away :-(  SO... these two cards were made from literally scraps of card stock and ONE sheet of 6x6 designer paper etc that I could access (Yes that's how desperate I was to craft!) LOL... But I love how they turned out :-)

I used fun foam to give my diecuts dimension.

Second card...

Thanks for visiting me today and leaving a comment.
I'll talk to you soon :-)

~Steff~ 

Use Your Stamps Monday #2 and #3

Morning crafty friends :-) 

Ok so I know it's not "Monday" I had a frustrating day with technology yesterday and when I got things sorted out and working... all I wanted to do was walk away from the computer lol... hence why this is going up "Tuesday" UGH! Better late than never :-) 

So because I forgot last week post yikes (getting old?) we are going to double it! 

"Use Your Stamps Monday" is a personal challenge I have with myself to use them more often but I welcome you to join me. Check out my YouTube channel HERE 

Last week 2 birthday shaped cards using Spellbinders "Beaded Square" Dies.

This week I did wedding cards using Spellbinders "Floral Labels Four" embossing folder and "Labels Four" dies. 

Ok, so we are all caught up LOL... 

Thanks for visiting me and see you tomorrow :-0 

~Steff~ 

Have a Cupcake :-)

Hi everyone :-) 

It's Wednesday in yet another fast week!

I have another celebration card to share and inspire you with... Look at this yummy Cupcake from the Where Ideas Bloom store! And it's GUILT/FAT FREE!!! lol... 

I colored the cupcake wrapper with markers, add a glitter bow from the store, for the frosting and heart I heat embossed it with glittered embossing powder and added liquid pearls for the sprinkles... Yummy right?!?! 

As you can see I did quite a few layering and added flowers and pearl stamens from the store as well. 

Thanks for stopping by and hope you would check out Where Ideas Bloom store and blog ;-) 

~Steff~ 

Celebrate Your Day

Hello my crafty friends :-) 

Hope you all are having a lovely week so far and "hump day" lol...

Today is my turn on the Where Ideas Bloom blog and I have created a Birthday Card with fun and bright colors! 

This card is quick and easy but the "wow" factor here is the wooden Balloon diecut piece from the WIB store that I color with my Memento markers and outline with Ranger Enamel White Accents.

Playing with bright colors is a first for me, I hope you like it and go check out the WIB store. 

Thanks so much for stopping by :-) 

~Steff~ 

Happy Birthday card feat. Bo Bunny Primrose

Hello my blogging friends :-)

 

 

I was commissioned to make a birthday card and they left the design and colors totally up to me! Gasp... what a dream lol... so this is what I came up with

 

 Shaped easel card, so much fun and potential...

 

 

Bo Bunny Primrose is my new fav paper collection... main reason, full of my fav color brown!!! Then fav color combo, brown and pink! So in love with this collection :-)

 

 

The "happy birthday" layer can open for a private message to the recipient.

 



 

I was happy that they love the card :-) whew lol...

 

Thanks for stopping by and talk to you soon.

 

~Steff~

Last Birthday Project...

Hi everyone :-)

 

Okay so this is the last of the Birthday projects I had made for my friends... again I have a card and also a canvas requested from my friend. She wanted soft pinks, black and white color combo, so I used the Prima Rondelle papers and chipboard pieces.

 

card

 

 

Canvas

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope to see you soon :-)

 

 

~Steff~

Cont'd Birthday projects...

Hello again my blogging friends :-)

 

So as promised from my last blogging about birthdays HERE , this is the canvas, an altered balsa box I made to go with the card I made for her.

 

 

Canvas

 

Altered Balsa box (long tube kind)

 

side view.

 She LOVE purple :-)

 

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you soon!

 

~Steff~

Birthday card...

Hello my blogging friends and visitors :-)

 

So this month is "my month" as I like to say, because it's my birthday month... 21st to be exact, I'll be 41yrs young :-) OMG!!! I still remember being 16yrs old and wanting soooo bad to be 18 - now I want the years to slow down a bit LOL... Time is flying :-(

 

So I have a couple friends that share birthdays really close to mines, they are both the 20th and we became friends on YT and found that out later on that our birthdays were that close! I made them cards and other projects that I'll share in a couple post because one of them follow my blog and I want it to be a surprise :-)

 

Here is the first card...

 

 

Card base is a deep eggplant color purple (looks black here).

Designer paper: DCWV The Chateau Lavendar stack.

Spellbinders dies: 5x7 Elegant labels Four, Les Papillions Two (Butterfly).

Embellishments from my stash.

 

Thanks for looking and the other projects will follow in other posts :-)

 

~Steff~



Happy Birthday card

Happy Monday my friends :-) Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

Just a quick post to share a card I made over a week ago, I'm making cards to have ready for whatever moments :-)

 White cardstock for my base and the beautiful designer paper is Kaisercraft Lilac Avenue collection (love), I used EK Success border punch to give that pretty deep scallop edge. Also, on the side of the white cardstosck I used another EK Success punch, so pretty! I made another fabric flower using Sizzix Layers #5 die.

 

I love all the purple and lilac on this card :-0

Thanks for stopping by and leaving sweet comments, always appreciated!

~Steff~

Happy Birthday Card

Hi everyone :-) it's a lovely Saturday in my country, the air is very cool that I had to pull on a light sweater yay! Love this weather!!!

Ok, so I had to make a birthday card for a relative of mine and and decided I am going to enter it into my very first blog challenge over at a Die for a SKETCH challenge #9. Thanks Nancy for the push lol... so here is my card.

 I used black cardstock as my base and designer papers are from DCWV "Le Tres Chic". Tim Holtz Baroque die behing my hand cut cupcake (I didn't have a die for that) :-) Happy Birthday sentiment is from StampinUp. Spellbinders "Floral Doily Accents" corner pieces.

Inside is also finished with matting and designer papers.

Thanks for visiting today and hope to see you again soon :-) 

~STEFF~

More Handmade Birthdays gifts :-)

Hi friends :-) just want to share a couple more handmade items I made for a couple of my scrappy buddies. The first is an Origami box inspired by my YT friend "Bonnie" aka Sassyscrapper on YT she has a wonderful tutorial on how to create the Origami box and it is super easy to follow! 

Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPJd4Lwcr3s&feature=plcp 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOkppdjNjxA&feature=channel&list=UL

Please copy and paste in your browser, the tutorial is in two parts.

The other item is a 3D birdcage that I made using the Tim Holtz's Birdcage die and I also did a tutorial showing how to accomplish this and here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULT9x0AUczk

So here they are...

 Origami box lid

 I made a tri-fold tag to go along with the Origami box.

 Tri-fold tag open

 3D Birdcage.

 A view of another side of it

 and a card

Some Items used:

Origami box and tag - K&Co "Classic K. Charlotte" papers (older stack)

Stamp - "Happy Birthday to you" from JustRite Stampers

Embellishments from my stash.

3D Birdcage - DCWV "The Crafty Stack" papers (older stack)

Tim Holtz Birdcage Die

Large Flower on top - WOC 40mm Trellis Rose (fav)

Card - Same paper line

Martha Stewart - Vintage Doily Punch

Stamp - "Happy Birthday" Stampin Up 

Frame - Sizzix & Hero Arts stamps and die sets

Embellishments from my stash.

Thank you so much for your visit. Please leave a comment as I do love to hear from you :-)

See you soon!

~Steff~

Prima 'Romance Novel' craze...

So, I know you all have heard and seen the Prima 'Romance Novel' collection which is like impossible to get your hands on! Seriously - it's like sold out everywhere!!! If you get your hands on any of the paper pads,  consider yourself very very lucky - like one of my subbie said "you would have to give up your first born to get the Romance Novel" LOL... so true lol... Now, if you have a favorite shopping site or local store that carries the Prima line, you should definitely contact them to have them order and get it as Prima will release a second go round for the Romance Novel I think in early November. Believe me if you don't pre-order you are going to miss it again and this time will be final!!! So run, go! Make your order if you love this collection, what's not to love??? Marion did an excellent job on this collection :-)

Okay, enough jabbering :-) here are my two projects I use the Romance Novel collection on, along with a few pieces of the Tea Thyme chipboard pieces. The first is a Birthday card and second is an Altered Wooden Dresser I made for my friend Lydia *ItripleDogDareU* on youtube for her special birthday :-)

Products:

Card base - Romance Novel 12x12 "Wordsmith"

Layering - Romance Novel 12x12 "Love Story"

Spellbinder Grand Label Four dies

Prima Resist Canvas - Banner and Tickets #560997 (colored with LSG 'Rudolph's Nose Red')

Prima Alphabet Stickers

Prima Rea Thyme Chipboard Stickers #558956

WOC 35mm Pink Gardenia 

Trims, flowers, paper doily and bling from my stash.

 Products:
Romance Novel 12x12 "Time Travel" fussy cut flourish.
Covering of surfaces - Romance Novel 12x12 "Emotion"
Prima Tea Thyme Chipboard Stickers
Prima Stamp set #950248
Other embellishments from my stash.

I'm happy to say that Lydia receive her birthday goodies and was very happy and surprised :-) 

I was very pleased and I hope you guys like what I created and leave me a comment. 

Thank you so much for stopping by and showing my blog some love :-)

* Steff Munnings*