MyGrafico Monday ~ Feature file Easter Clip Art

Easter Candy and Cakes by Cupcake Cutiees

Oh I just love these cute little Jelly Beans...

I used the print and cut feature with my Cameo



I cut them in a few different sizes, then I cut this card with the scallops

and the jelly beans fit right into place... it could not have worked out any better...

I used my Stardust Chalk from Stamp N Plus Scrap N with water in a small spray bottle

and OMG !!! I love how it makes your project shine/shimmer ... wish you could see it !!!!

The title 'Happy Easter' 

was made by using my Amy Chomas Creations pen holder for the Silhouette Cameo

then cut the shadow ... then cut the shadows' shadow ... heehee hope thanks since ?

I don't recall the font I used, it was something I had on my computer already ...

Happy Monday Everybody !!!

Have a wonderful week...

it's spring break for my kidos... so off to the sun we go...

TTFN

Chalk Ah Lot Cafe Challenge ~ Anything Goes

This is week 2 of this challenge over

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Chalk Ah Lot Cafe Challenge Blog

Chalk ~ Anything Goes

I ran across this great sentiment over at Stamp N Plus Scrap N 

' Life is Like Fishing  ... you never know what your going to get'

and I just knew I had to have it...but then I had nothing to put with it...

so I HAD to have this little dog that's fishing  ...  again from

Stamp N Plus Scrap N, Pepe and Fufu Pup

I used the chalk direct to paper/card stock technique, by coloring in the stamp

as well as coloring the water in 'general'  ...

I used the chalk colors ~ Sky, Teddy Bear, Dusk and Blush

It's kind of a simple card...

I used VersaMark and heat embossed the sentiment, OK so I am not the best at this stamp'n thing  ... but it is getting better  ...  just bear with me  ...

Well, I guess I am doing good enough to become a 'Senior DT' for

this Chalk team...oh, I am so excited ... I never knew this was coming  ...

Oh and while you are here  ...

put it on your calendars  !!!

There will be another

3 DAY blog hop 

April 3rd, 4th, & 5th

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Chalk Ah Lot Cafe Challenge Blog

and there will be a LOTS of blog candy

so take the time each day to hop along with us  !!!

I think its going to be pretty fun  ...

and really easy to cash in on some goodies  ...

 I think I heard that there will be LOTS of Chalk going out

this hop....

Hope you all having a nice weekend  ...

I am busy crafting my heart out  ...

Thanks for stopping by

be sure to leave me a comment

I love to hear what peps have to say  ...

Liebster Blog Award...

I have a funny to tell you

and BIG sorry to

SunShine HoneyBee

about a month ago I recieved this awesome comment from SunShine HoneyBee

that she had given me this award....

well me being me had NO clue at to what is was

and said my thank yous and moved on...

Well today I got another one

from one of my wonderful followers

Tee 

Well, so with that...

'Liebster' in German means 'dearest',

The idea of the award is to draw attention to blogs with less than 200 followers and pass the award on to 5 other bloggers all in the spirit of fostering new connections.

The rules for the award are :-

1. Show your appreciation to the person who gave it to by thanking them and linking back to their blog.
2. Post the award to your blog.
3. Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and follow.
4. Leave a comment to the 5 bloggers to let them know you have chosen them for the award.

So I have some 'thank you's to give...

Thank you

SunShine HoneyBee

Thank you

Tee

Now in light of keeping this Award going, I would like to give this award to :

Linda

You always keep me smiling, no matter what your blog post are about, I can hear your giggle and inspiration

Dees Deelights

You have been so generious in your free files, I love to see what you create.

Casper

You always have something kind to say, no matter what.

Tameko

You inspire me.

Jovita

I love being on a design team with you, you are so talented.

Barbara

Your such a fighter, keep it up. Your work is beautiful.

So I picked 6, don't shoot me...lol...but I want to keep it real...and these crafters are wonderful...

Monday ~ MyGrafico project Easter

Today's file from MyGrafico is all about Easter!!!

Easter Digital Stamps by Blackleaf Studios

With this file I created a card front...

I used my water color pencils to color the little critters, then used a blender pen to ... well blend it together... the stamp is from Stamp N Plus Scrap N

and the paper is from the stash.

I used some pop dots for each of the items, giving it that 'home/hand' crafted look...

I love how this turned out...

Remember this week is a Challenge week at MyGrafico Blog

something Easter or Spring...

so hop on over and try to win this set by entering your creation...

BTW... I am not a mind reader, so please leave me a comment on any of my blog posts that you like...

It really helps me to know that you like what you see...

I love all my followers and would love more...so please pass to word.

I hope you got a chance to see the video tutorials that I did yesterday, if I get enough peps to comment I just might have to do some more...lol...

it was kind of fun....

Have a nice week everybody...

TTFN

My FIRST EVER Video Tutorial

My 1st Video Tutorial

well its not a tutorial

its more like a snap shot of my 

Chalk Goodies that I got when

I started the Chalk Ah Lot Cafe Design Team... 

Its not perfect...but I am working on it...

Please leave a commit so I know if you like it or if it's horrible...

I have LOTS of room to grow here...but I thought this might be a fun

adventure...

I hope to have more tutorials in the future...

TTFN

KtsAngels

Chalk Ah Lot Challenge Sunday ~ Chalk Anything Goes

 Hello, good Sunday...How was your St. Patrick's Day? Mine was great...spent some time crafting then went to my monthly crafting group. Got home to spend some time with the family....

Enough of that...

this weeks Challenge for Chalk Ah Lot Cafe.....

Chalk ANYTHING GOES!!! 

Well I used the powdered chalks like this....

*direct to paper 

*direct to vellum

and

*spray water and Start dust Powdered Chalk mix...

Used my Cameo to cut the lace and the other things...I don't own are pair of scissors...lol...I do but I don't use them for ANYTHING like this...hehehe....ok maybe to cut the twine...lol... 

Each time I look at this card I really get to liking it more...I like how it turned out...wish the pictures showed how nice it really is...
Anyway I used my stamp 'Best Wishes' from Stamp N Plus Scrap N stamp store
I did some dry embossing....either plain white card stock or AC Card Stock...
with these chalks you can make a plain white paper to match you other projects...
as you will see as soon as I get my video tutorial short enough to share...or to do 2 of them ...
Parts A & B....
but I have to work on that right now...

Part 1

Part 2
so check back by to watch my tutorial on how to make these cool flowers...
and in the mean time go check out the


Chalk Ah Lot Blog Challenge
Remember it's Chalk ANYTHING GOES...

Good Monday ~ MyGrafico DT Project time ~ Feature File Week

This weeks digi file is AWESOME...so cool, so beautiful. I loved working with it...

we used Vintage Bundle Clip Art and Digi Paper by Lil Ellaboudy Design..

Can I say BEAUTIFUL!!!

I made a simple card for with this set for this weeks design team project...

I used 2 of the digi papers and one of the frames...

I put some black card stock with a scaloped border

used a Stamp'n Up Stamp for the Sentiment...

There you have

This weeks design team project...feature file!!!

remember to challenge yourself and submit it to 

MyGrafico Challenge Blog

It's fun and easy

just use the Linky Tool!!!

Chalk Ah Lot Cafe Challenge - Glue and Chalk

Good Sunday my friends and followers

It's Chalk Ah Lot Challenge day!!!

Week 2 of Chalk and Glue

Todays technique I used Teddy Bear Chalk with some white glue

I mixed it not so well to get the streaky look...

I used an old cruddy clumpy paint bush and 

bushed the chalk and glue mix over the paper

one way then the other way after each layer has kind of dried.

I heat embossed the sentiment from Stamp N Plus Scrap N  with black embossing powder

used so ribbon, brads and die cut from the my stash...

There you have a new way to use these

GREAT Powdered Chalks

It's time for you to jump into the challenge

by using Powdered Chalks with Glue and show us what you've got...

Hop on over the the Chalk Ah Lot Challenge Blog and Link up your project...

What will you do with Chalk and Glue?

St. Patricks Day is coming!!!

I was feeling a bit Irish today...and put this together before work today...lol..had it in my mind for a few days now but just could not cut the specialty papers .... I only had 1 in each color...its not that I have any other paper to use...lol...its a problem with me...I have a paper problem...I just might need it for a special occasion so I keep everything...but this time I did not and I love how it turned out...tell me what you think....



This is my Fav pic that i did of this project...



The bottom...no really its a container to hold some yummies in... it stands about 6 inches tall...



the top...lol...if you did not know that...I am sorry...lol




Just another cute picture of it...



This is and altered file from SVGCuts Made in the USA  

a few adjustments...made the brim a bit longer and bigger...and bent it up for that look...

oh and used SVGCuts Haunted Hemlock Cards for the cute little buckle...

the shamrock flourish is from Silhouette America Online Store...supper cute...

I have a subscription that the dh gave me for my birthday...its a gift that keeps on giving...LOVE IT...

TTFN...

working on Sunday and Monday posts now...be sure to check back by...

Pink Buttons and Bows ~ Happy Birthday Lily ~ Blog Hop

If you are here to see MyGrafico Monday Challenge Please Click HERE

Welcome to our blog hop today!!! Its my granddaughter, Lily's,first birthday and what better way to celebrate is with a little help from my friends and having a party! A beautiful baby girl with all pink buttons and bows thus we will be celebrating first birthdays using the color theme pink with a dash of buttons and bows not to mention a splash of blinng.  

Sit back, grap a cupcake and punch and enjoy Lily's first birthday.

 If you just happened upon my blog by mistake, I want you to get your big girl shoes and panties on and start at the beginning which is Lynne at Lynne.

SEW, if you came from Shannon then you are in the right place.

For our blog candy, it is going to be a pink package with buttons and bows of course with a bit of splash of bling and Stickles by becoming eligible with just leaving a comment on each baby step along the way and becoming a new follower if you sew desire!! How easy is that!!!!

Happy Birthday Lily !!!!

 Today I bring to you a birthday wish to a dear friend's grand daughter, Lily... the blog hop is just so fun....she is having a bunch of us make birthday cards to send to her, then she will forward them to her beautiful grand daughter...

Well I saw this file from SVGCuts and said to myself, what a great Pink Buttons and Bows project that would/could make....

I got the pedestal svg file from Poplar Street Tulips SVG Kit, I used DCWV and AC Card stock... used the bow file from Silhouette America, Lori Whitlock is the creator of it... 

I added some twine and a cute little flower button. Oh I just love how this project turned out....

 



Then I went back to the posting about the blog hop and it was at that point that things dawned on me .... I needed to make a card to put on the pedestal...a card to send to dear little Lily...

So I put together this cute little easel card.

It is a file from SVGCuts Carmel Apple Pie SVG Kit 

Of course I put a Happy Birthday Spin on it, by using some other files from

 SVGCuts Birthday Elements SVG collection

I was sure to ink the edges and used LOTS of pop dots to give it dimension...

Sorry the picture does not do it justice, cuz it really is almost as cute as the pedestal it's sitting on...

I am sure you will be seeing more of this pedestal on my future postings as I think it will be great to display different items...so it stays here... sorry Miss Lily....

I hope you have enjoyed my projects for today, thanks for hopping....

Thanks for stopping by and

Happy First Birthday Lily!

Your next stop along the way Janet S....

MyGrafico Monday St. Patty Challenge

If you are here for the Pink Buttons and Bows Blog Hop... PLEASE CLICK HERE

MyGrafico Monday Challenge

This week I put together this little notebook....

 This is the back side of the notebook

This is the inside of the project. . .

In it has pages with some of the clip art at the bottom... 

Hop on over to the Challenge blog and enter your St. Patty day project or card....

You'll be glad you did....

Happy Crafting...

Chalk Ah Lot Cafe Challenge - Glue and Chalk - Oh and a Winner

Good morning...its Sunday and its been a rough weekend for me, I normally would have had this post up by no later than 5 am Arizona time, but life happens and well here it is....

This weeks challenge over at Chalk Ah Lot Cafe Challenge Blog is to use chalk with GLUE... ahhhhh...
so I worked and worked with this...it's kind of like chalk with paint...but the glue seems to keep the color more true to color... as you saw on my blog hop day 3 I used chalk with paint. The color of chalk I used was purple and as you saw it came out more of a blue, still very pretty but I like the glue cuz of that...the down fall to that is the glue seems a bit 'lumpy' but that could be good...as it gives it a texture...so its good...
Any way I worked it with like 3 different cards and just could not get it to look right and then my little helper (my guardian angel) told me to try this....

I mixed Teddy Bear powdered chalk and some just plain white school glue (no name brand here, lol)
I then used an old paint brush that was kind of stuck together...that had not been cleaned out really good the last time I painted with it...I think this is kind of important...I did not want perfect streaks... I painted on plain white card stock that I get from Sam's Club (so pretty cheep stuff, well kind of, lol) in one direction. Then impatient me, used the heat gun to dry it faster...then I painted in the opposite direction over the same card stock. Again used the heat gun to dry it... I distressed the edges and inked them... I crinkled the paper in my hands to go with more of the distressed look...oh yeah before I crinkled the paper I stamped my sentiment  (from Stamp N Plus Scrap N)over the dried glue/chalk streaks... I had bought a ton of coordination's card stock so I have to start using it...you will see more of it...lol...anyway I cut the bottom of the card to an A2 size and dry embossed and sanded it down to get the blue to come thru...added some brads to my glued paper.... this is kind of an important part... I had to adhere the glued crinkled paper to the coordination's paper after it was sanded ... I tried my tape gun and that did not have enough 'sticky' to it so I used my xyron to get a good hold to the papers...

Well that was alot of info, so with that....I would like to announce the winner to the Chalk Ah Lot  blog hop and the winner is........................................... announced on the Chalk Ah Lot Challenge blog...

I wanted to make sure I said a happy

 'Thank You'

(I am doing the Happy Dance) 

to all my wonderful comments and followers.

I was able to achieve my goal of

100 followers

 and you all did it for me...

My next goal is to have 150 followers 

and I will have some Blog Candy for when I hit that goal...

so please tell your friends to become a follower to my blog.

There is blog candy for this goal

Thanks for coming by today.

Happy Craft'n

c ya all tomorrow for a blog hop and MyGrafico DT project...

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Got ya huh...

All the winners for each blog is posted on the Challenge blog but my winner is

Sunshine HoneyBee

Sunshine HoneyBee please go to the Chalk Ah Lot Challenge Blog for instructions on how to claim your prize...thanks for hopping

Dr. Seuss Blog Hop

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” ― Dr. Seuss

Don't hop on pop but hop on top of the Dr. Seuss Blog Hop, where a bunch of talented people came up with their own interpretations of the wonderful imagination of Dr. Seuss. The skies the limit when you have an imagination like Dr. Seuss and talent like those in this hop. Our hop today is hostessed by Jearise in Lorby's World and that is were to begin if you've happened here by chance otherwise continue on my friend.

  Jearise in Lorby's World has some fun blog candy for this hop. She has a stuffed Cat in the Hall and a fun Thing 1 and Thing 2 craft plus a $10 gift card to Michaels. I know they're silly but doesn't that follow in the steps of Dr. Seuss?

Theodor Seuss Geisel  1904 ~ 1991

Born in 1904, Dr. Seuss wrote more than 60 books for children before dying in 1991.

His writings have become classics, bestsellers and will forever be read and cherished by all.

Four major motion pictures have been made based on Seuss's classic books (How Grinch Stole Christmas, The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears A Who!, The Lorax).

An entire area of Universal Studios Islands of Adventure theme park is based on Dr. Seuss.

Today I wanted to do a card for Dr. Seuss, signifying his sucess...

I have two more to share that really touched my heart,

'You know your in love

when you can't fall asleep

because reality

is finally better

than your dreams.'

'Today you are you

that is truer than true

There is not one alive

Who is youer than you.'



This is the inside of the card, another of one of his Great poems...



Can I just say I love, love, love my Cameo... I found these great images online from various places by doing a goole search. I brought them into Silhouette Studio Designer Edition.

Once there I was able to resize and organize and even trace the hat image to cut,

Oh and yeah I used my handy dandy Chomas Creations Pen Holder to write(cut) the poem on the inside

I printed what I wanted, then did the cuts with my Cameo......

added some pop dots and a little ink...

whah la... there you have a simple, yet personal card.

Dr. Seuss, May you always be remembered for your inspiration to many...

keep the love of reading alive in each of us....

 Thank you for joining us because... 

“You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Your next stop is  Ellen - CardMonkey 

If you get stuck behind the great parade down at Mulberry Street, here's the links that you can follow on the Great Thing-a-majigger as you are on an adventure. "The Cat in the Hat knows a lot about that!"

 Jearise

 Lynne

Ashley

Georgiana

Laurie

Beckie

Lisa

Doris

Cathie

Cori

CallyAnn

Nikki

Janet R ---> Hopped From Here

Katie ---> You are HERE

Ellen CardMonkey ---> Your Next Stop

Jamie

Shelly

Angie

Kimberly

Chalk Ah Lot Cafe Blog Hop Day 3

Hello! Welcome to Chalk-Ah-Lot Cafes First Blog Hop! Feb 28th - March 1st That gives you 3 days to play!

I saved the best for the last...heehee...today I have an altered project for you...I got this white eraser board vinyl... I had it my head what I wanted but it just ....  came out better than expected...

 I used a purple color chalk and mixed it with some paint (Buzz N Magic Paint) by the same company that sells the powdered chalks....and when I say it does not take much chalk to get the color you want, I mean its not but a pinch of chalk with a glob of paint... This is and 8x10 old basic frame that I had laying around...up-cycle ... my fav thing to do...

I wanted to add some cut files to this project so I used SVGCuts Cheryl's Cute Bugs collection and a

3D bow from the Silhouette America Store.

I cut some purple vinyl with my Cameo to add the word art at the top...

OMG....was this fun...I love it so much....I don't know what to do with it now cuz its too cute to give away!!! hehehe ... well it will find a great home in my house somewhere I am sure...but for now... I have it in my crafting corner so I can admire my piece of art... 

I want now to tell you how greatful I am that you hopped on by this week...I hope you had a chance to check all the team members posts over the last 3 days...so really cool talent in this group... I love it ...

Be sure to leave contact info so we can get your prizes to you!!! every blog on this hop has some blog candy... With that....go Hop'n !!!!

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win a different prize at each design team's blog.

Prizes include Mini Stamp sets Barbara's & Martha's

Prize Buzz N Magic Glue Cindy's

Prize Buzz N Magic Paint Jennifer's

Prize Cloud Stencil Tammylee's

Prize Lined Grid Katie's

Prize Set of 2 Metallic chalks Tameko's

Prize At the challenge blog we are giving away a 4 pc chalk set.

You must be a follower to win prizes. Just comment on each blog and becoming a follower on each person's blog The names will be drawn by each team member for their blogs. All winners will be announced on March 3rd on the Chalk-Ah-Lot Challenge Blog.

Hop now!

Tammylee

Barbara

Cindy

Jennifer ---> came from here

Katie---> ME

Martha ---> your next stop

Melissa

Tameko

Chalk-Ah-Lot Cafe Challenge Blog

We have a special promotion!

4 basic chalks for $6 plus shipping, This does not include metallic or stardust.

Also Stamp Special on GRAB BAGS Stamp N Plus Scrap N offers 15 handcrafted unmounted rubber stamps on double sticky cushion for wood mounting in a 6in by 9in manila envelope these stamps are old stock in good shape approx retail value of $40 to $50. The only thing they may need is trimming. 15 images for Five Dollars or 45 images for Twelve Dollars WOW!!!!!