Happy Holidays - Simon Says Challenge

Hello everyone,

I am here playing along with Simon Says Challenge - Anything Goes.  Simon Says blog is showcasing Hero Arts Stamps.  I have plenty of Hero Arts stamps and embellishments, I just had to join in on the fun.  

If you love Hero Arts Stamps, A2Z Scrapbooking Etsy store has lots of Hero Arts products. If you would like to order the supplies I used, you can hop on over to A2Z Scrapbooking store and purchase everything.  If you purchase $25.00 or more, you can use the coupon code "Donna15" to get 15% off.  

Here is my creation for the Hero Arts Anything Goes challenge with Simon Says. I used the Hero Arts Fancy Cut Holidays Stamp and Cuts.  This is a whole set, you get the "Happy Holiday" dies and it has several cling stamps you can choose from.  I chose the stocking and the holly leaves, and added the Hero Arts red gemstones.  

There's not much time to join the challenge.  If you want to join there is a $50.00 gift for the winner.

Thanks for stopping by, please come back and see me soon!

Craft Room - Storage Ideas

Hello bloggers,

I am hear with Craft Hoarders Anonymous blog, to give you a tour of my craft room for all you to see.  I call this my women cave.  I do all my creating right in this room.  I also come in here to relax.  Most of the white bookcases you see are from Ikea, they are called Expedit.   

This is the left side of the room.  The black cubes, which are also from Ikea, hold everything from spellbinders, pens, embossing folders, punches, and embellishments.    My 81/2 x 11 paper is in the pink magazne holders.  I bought these from Ikea too.  The rest is my 12 x 12 paper.  

This is the right side of the room.  You can see all my ribbon, stamps and dies.  In the cubes there is more paper, glue, more dies and stencils.  On top of the second bookcase, I store my Cricut Expression and Silhoutte.  

Here are just some of my punches that I have.  The bars are from Ikea.  I could use about four more of these bars, but I had to settle on storing them in the drawers below.  I do my embossing on this top.   The jars are storing my paint brushes and some of my tools for the cricut and silhouette.  

Here are some more punches.

I have my Stampin Up stamps stores in two drawers.

Tim Holtz and Stazon Inks.

My Big Shot and Cuttlebug always ready when I need it.

Well, this is the tour of some of my craft room.  I hope I have inspired you to get organized.  I must say, my room is not always this clean.  When I start working on a project, I have everything out. Head over to the Craft Hoarders Anonymous blog to see some of the other Design Teams craft room and more storage tips.    

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you will come back again soon!

Happy Halloween

Hello everyone,

I am back again with some fall goodies and a card.  I love making Fall and Christmas cards, this is my favorite time of year!  I hope you can get some inspiration here and don't forget to check out the other design teams projects on the A2Z Scrapbooking Supplies blog.

My first project is little bags that I cut out with a Quickutz cutting die.  I used the digital spooky dies from Hero Arts digital collection.  I printed them out and cut them out with a circle punch.  I glued two of them onto a Tim Holtz rosette and the middle one I cut out a spider web and spider from a Quickutz die.  Don't you think they turned out so cute?  These are perfect to give out to the children that will come to you house during Halloween or nice favors to give out at school. 

My Halloween card is a background stamp from Hero Arts.  It is simple and clean.  I added the pumpkin for a little color. 

Just a reminder if you purchase any of the new items from a2z Scrapbooking Etsy store you can get 15% off your total order of over $25.00 by using the code “Donna15″.  Hop on over to a2z Scrapbooking blog and link your project, you have until September 30, 2014 at 11:59 EST to enter. I can’t wait to see what you create.

If you are interested in joining this wonderful design team, a2z Scrapbooking is having a design team call to start on November 1, 2014.  Detail are on the a2z Scrapbooking blog. 

Supplies used:
Quickutz bag and spider web, Tim Holtz rosette, SU paper pumpkin pie, G45 Halloween and Authentique Enchanted

Craft Hoarders Anonymous - Challenge #16 - Who Loves School and Office Supplies?

Hello Bloggers, 

I am back with Craft Hoarders Anonymous with another challenge which is "Who Loves School and Office Supplies".  Most paper crafters also love school and office supplies. We love crayons, markers, shaped paperclips, notepads, folders, and more! If you hoard school and office products, get them out! Use them up! Use at least one item that is really a school or office supply on your project.

Here is my take on the challenge.  I used the Sunny Day Collection for the background.  I fussy cut the bucket and the water well and popped it up on the card to give dimension.  I stamped the Heartfelt Creation Butterfly Medley Precut Set.  I colored the flowers with copics and added some stickels and Wink of Stella on the flowers.  I then cut the butterfly out with the Spellbinder butterfly die.  I can't wait to see what you create with your school and office supplies.  

Closer look, can you see the wink of stella glitter?

Iniside of the card, I used a paper clip for office supplies.

Make sure you LINK your project up using the Link Tool on the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog and don't forget to visit the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Design Team and check out what they have to share! 

Amber Milone

Christy Butters
Debbie Seyer
Donna Idlet - YOU ARE HERE
Ginny Nemchak

Glenda Brooks
Gloria Stengel
Jan Marie Ennenga

Karen Zueger

Kathy Clement

Pam Bray

One lucky winner will win $30 gift certificate from Lindy's Stamp Gang.  You have two weeks to create a project and enter the challenge. This challenge closes, Sunday,September 28th, midnight PT.

OUR SPONSORS:

About Lindy’s Stamp Gang

Lindy's luscious luster is all uniquely two-toned! With vibrant shimmery sprays, flat sprays, vintage sprays, embossing powder and lots more!

Lindy’s Stamp Gang is the creative” baby” of Lindy Plakinger. She passed away in 2008 after bravely battling illness. She was a self-made cartoonist, loved drawing, crafting, designing new products, and creating her funny cartoon characters! One of her greatest joys was traveling to stamping and scrapbooking conventions across the US, demo-ing to her heart’s content with her sister, and giggle partner, Vicki!

Lindy’s Stamp Gang will continue, as was her hope, and dream. Her husband and daughter have taken over the company keeping her creativity alive. Tracey, (her daughter), has always been a “jar filler” in the background of Lindy’s Stamp Gang, but is now trying to fill some incredible shoes!

For more Lindy’s Stamp Gang please visit!

Website: http://www.lindystampgang.com

Blog: http://www.lindystampgang.org

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/lindysgang

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/lindysgang

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/lindysgang

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lindystampgang

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lindystampgang

Crafty Secrets/Heartwarming Vintage Company has been owned and operated since 1993 by Sandy Redburn, who started out publishing supplier resource and marketing books for professional crafters and small businesses.

Over the years the business evolved to focus on Sandy's passion for antiques, vintage images, paper, ephemera and old books which became the basis for the Heartwarming Vintage Collection of paper arts products and Clear Art Stamps. Sandy has a blog and writes an online newsletter which has over 12,000 subscribers as well as an e-newsletter for retailers of their products. Be sure to join in the fun with our monthly Blog Linky Party, the first Monday of each month when we invite you to upload your Crafty Secrets creations for a chance to win a $50 shopping spree in our online store, and every participant receives a $6 shopping credit.

Website: http://craftyvintagegirl.com/index.php/

Blog: http://www.heartwarmingvintage.blogspot.ca/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crafty-Secrets/129235430422442

Heartfelt Creations® is a leading Rubber Stamp & Scrapbook manufacturer for the craft industry. Heartfelt Creations was established in 1997 as Golden Rule Supply manufacturing Rubber Stamps. In January 2006 Golden Rule Supply became Heartfelt Creations.

Heartfelt Creations provides a unique line of artistic stamps, detailed dies and designer papers. Many of our stamps coordinate with our exclusive Spellbinders™ dies. The innovation of our stamps paired with matching dies offers a whole new dimension of possibilities and quickly adds eye-popping 3D depth to any project. Our designer papers are designed to coordinate with our product collections adding the perfect complement to any Heartfelt Creations stamp or die.

Website: http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/

Online store: http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/product-home

Blog: http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/blog/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HeartfeltCreations

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/hcofficial

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/heartfeltcreations

a2z Scrapbooking September Challenge - Autumn and Christmas

Hello everyone!

I’m here with a2z Scrapbooking today with a new Challenge, Autumn or Christmas.   This is the second challenge for the a2z Scrapbooking design team.  We had so much fun last month with all the wonderful projects from all of you who participated.  Don't forget to come back on September15th to see who won the $25 Gift Certificate to the a2z Scrapbooking store for the month of August.

I decided to make a Christmas card using the Hero Arts Brush Strokes.  I love this stamp set, it is so versatile.  The circle looks like the paper is textured, it is not, it is the stamp that is.  I have used four stamps in the set.   You can find this set in the a2z Scrapbooking store if you would like to add this to your collection.  If you search on my blog for this set, I have used this set on another card.  

 

  

I hope I have inspired you to create something Autumn or Christmas. If you have not had a chance to check out the new Holiday Catalog, please stop in to see all the wonderful new stamps and dies!  And don't forget, if you purchase any of the new items from a2z Scrapbooking Etsy store you can get 15% off your total order of over $25.00 by using the code "Donna15".  And I forgot to mention Lower Case Greetings in on sale in the store for just $8.00.  Hop on over to a2z Scrapbooking blog and link your project, you have until September 30, 2014 at 11:59 EST to enter. I can't wait to see what you create.

Hero Arts Brush Strokes AC026	Gemstones	Lower Case Greetings
Royal Red	Hero Arts Silver Shadow Ink Pad AF257	Hero Arts Forever Green Shadow Ink Mid-Tone AF229

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Happy Thanksgiving - Mema's Fall Color Challenge

Hello Bloggers,

Mema's Crafts Challenge this month is a color challenge.  I love color challenges, and Mema's Crafts has selected Fall colors which are my favorite colors!  This months challenge is sponsored by Digi Stamps 4 Joy and the can be found here.

Here is my take on the color challenge, I hope you all will join the fun.

Inside 

Recipe:

Stamps:  Digi Stamp, Hero Arts Celebrate Everyday and 

May the Bounty Message 

Ink:  Copics and Prismacolor pencils
Paper:  Reminisce Shades of Autumn

Accessories:  Spellbinder Circles and Lil' Inker Stitched Circles

Please stop over at Mema's Crafts and see the design teams projects.  I hope you will be inspired and enter your project.  I can't wait to see what you create.

Craft Hoarders Anonymous - Challenge #15 - All the Pretty Flowers

Hello bloggers,

I hope you all are enjoying your long weekend.  Are you ready for the children to go back to school.  I am sure some if not most of your children have already gone back.  I can't believe my grand-daughter is going into the third grade!  Time sure does fly when you are having fun.

This challenge is for all of you flower hoarders! Maybe you hoard pre-made flowers. Maybe you hoard flower punches or dies. Maybe you hoard flower stamps. "Dig" out those flowers and use them on your project!  This challenge is sponsored by Heartfelt Creations and Crafty Secrets.  We will have two prizes for this challenge.  For more details and rules, go to Craft Hoarders Anonymous blog.

Here is my take on this challenge.  I love fall colors and I especially loved the Crafty Secrets papers.  There were so many to pick from, but I decided on these.  If you love to make fall/Halloween cards, Crafty Secrets has a wide variety of elements and papers to chose from. The flowers are from Heartfelt Creations, Arianna. Loved making them, I printed out some of Crafty Secrets paper, stamped the flowers on it, and then cut them out with the spellbinder die Arianna Blooms and inked them with Tim Holtz, vintage photo and used the 3D Stamp paint, Copper. Love how it turned out, I love the orange and black colors together.  Well it's your turn.  Get your hoard of flowers out and start making your project, i can't wait to see what you create.

Close up of the flowers

 Inside of the card

Supplies used:  Crafty Secrets Creating with Vintage (CD) - 

Frame Halloween, Lady Witches, CS4 postcard, 

orange diamond paper, orange black stripes,and 

orange damask (used for flowers), 
Heartfelt Creations Arianna Flowers and Spellbinder die Arianna Blooms 

There are 2 sponsors for this challenge

Prize 1:

Heartfelt Creations® is a leading Rubber Stamp & Scrapbook manufacturer for the craft industry. Heartfelt Creations was established in 1997 as Golden Rule Supply manufacturing Rubber Stamps. In January 2006 Golden Rule Supply became Heartfelt Creations.

Heartfelt Creations provides a unique line of artistic stamps, detailed dies and designer papers. Many of our stamps coordinate with our exclusive Spellbinders™ dies. The innovation of our stamps paired with matching dies offers a whole new dimension of possibilities and quickly adds eye-popping 3D depth to any project. Our designer papers are designed to coordinate with our product collections adding the perfect complement to any Heartfelt Creations stamp or die.

Website: http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/

Online store: http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/product-home

Blog: http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/blog/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HeartfeltCreations

                                                         and Prize 2: 

                                       an assortment of collage images

Crafty Secrets/Heartwarming Vintage Company is owned and operated since 1993 by Sandy Redburn, who started out publishing supplier resource and marketing books for professional crafters and small businesses.

Over the years the business evolved to focus on Sandy's passion for antiques, vintage images, paper, ephemera and old books which became the basis for the Heartwarming Vintage Collection of paper arts products and Clear Art Stamps. Sandy has a blog and writes an online newsletter which has over 12,000 subscribers as well as an e-newsletter for retailers of their products. Be sure to join in the fun with our monthly Blog Linky Party, the first Monday of each month when we invite you to upload your Crafty Secrets creations for a chance to win a $50 shopping spree in our online store, and every participant receives a $6 shopping credit.

Website: http://craftyvintagegirl.com/index.php/

Blog: http://www.heartwarmingvintage.blogspot.ca/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crafty-Secrets/129235430422442

Make sure you LINK your project up using the Link Tool on the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog and don't forget to visit the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Design Team and check out what they have to share! 

Amber Milone (on vacation)
Christy Butters
Debbie Seyer
Donna Idlet - - YOU ARE HERE

Ginny Nemchak
Glenda Brooks

Gloria Stengel 
Jan Marie Ennenga

Karen Zueger

Kathy Clement

Pam Bray

Entered this card:

Crafty Secrets Linky Party