Always Yours Collection with S.e.i.~

Hi, guys ~ my turn here with a card using the, very pretty, Always Yours Collection by S.e.i.  This collection is beautiful!!  It comes with soft. pastel colored papers that remind me of vintage wall paper.  The papers are fun to create with, while mixing it up also.

The Always Yours Sundries pack is full of very pretty embellishments that look great on any project.  The ribbon in the pack is white but can be easily dyed with Tumble Dye.  Tumble Dye is great for a speckle effect on your finished card. All you do is take the lid off the spray bottle and tap on the lid to get a speckle effect.  You might want to practice before you speckle your project.

The leaves are cut from the Florets Collection, using a steel die.  The "follow your heart" is stamped on white cardstock and cut out by hand.  Did you notice the lace paper borders?  So pretty!!!!
Look like a ton of fun!!!

Thanks for stopping by~
Connie

Scalloped Tablet Stand by Clear Scraps!

Hi, Connie here with a really fun and functional project.  I love organizing and having a place for things and when it is a cute place, that makes it even better.  The Tablet Stand by Clear Scraps, you're gonna love it!!!



This is such a cool product.  You can make it your own by decorating it to your liking.  It can be used for many other things~
holding a book,  will hold two phones (one on each side while charging), a notebook or tablet, a photo~just some ideas!!



You can paint, spray paint, alcohol ink, decoupage, add paper to the acrylic Tablet Stand. So many ways to make it yours :) 



Ready to be charged and still looking cute!!!   I'm going to set this up as a charging station for our phones and tablets ~ perfect!!!

Clear Scraps products used: Scalloped Tablet Stand, 6" Chevron Stencil, Chipboard Word (Imagine)

Other:
Beacon, S.e.i. and Quick Quotes

Thanks for stopping by~
Connie Mercer/DT Member

Blogs 4 Boobies Blog hop~ Stamp out Cancer with hand stamped cards!

Hi guys!!!

The Blogs 4 Boobies Blog Hop is still going strong.

The hop starts at Skipping Stones Design

and you are welcome to bid on the beautiful cards being up for auction to raise funds to

 Stamp out Cancer!!!

To get the full scoop you can start at my blog HERE~

(all bids need to placed at that link)

This is what I have up for auction (details on my blog). High bid is $30 so far.

   I would love to raise more than that .

I'm willing to add to my auction card set and clipboard,

If I can get a $50 bid. I will add more crafty goodies to the winning bid package

so bid away :)

Thank you !!

A Father's Day card with Quick Quotes!

Hi, Connie here with a Father's Day card for that special Dad!!!  I created with the Farm House Collection by Quick Quotes and all the stamping was done with Quick Quotes PowderPuff Chalk inks.  I happened to have the perfect stamp set that says it all~ I'm nuts about you!

All of the nuts and tools were stamped out using different colors of Quick Quotes PowderPuff inks, then cut out and pop dotted on the card front.  

Quick Quotes Products used:

Farm House 104

Joy Ride 400

Quick Quotes PowderPuff Chalk Inks: Milk Chocolate,  Mahogany, Java, Midnight Confession and Warm Sand

Other:

Darkroom Door/Tool Shed 

Corner Punch

S.e.i./Tumble Dye (splats)

Thanks for stopping by~

Connie Mercer/DT Member

Blogs 4 Boobies Blog Hop~ stamping out Cancer!

Hi guys!!

 A BIG welcome to the Blogs 4 Boobies Blog Hop~

This is a Blog Hop to raise funds to help stamp out Cancer!!! 

 We all have a friend or know someone that has Cancer and if you are like me

 you hug them tight and pray!!!  Dedicated to ~ Dia, Frank, Nick, Sara and Susan! This fight is for you, and many others, that are battling this disease. 
 I hope you will consider bidding on my card set and

with that in mind let's get started~

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Card #1 

Made with Skipping Stones Design ~ Funny Coffee

Card #2

This has some October Afternoon scraps of pattern paper with cardstock.

Card #3

Card #4

If you win the Bid this is what you will receive~4 cards with envelopes (decorated) and a small acrylic clipboard by Clear Scraps.  Plus a vintage key tied to the clipboard.

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Bid Process~Very easy!

To my  blog visitors and followers make a bid, for the card set, in the comment section of this  blog post. Bidding starts at $5.  Put your email address next to the bid as a way of "signing it" or authenticating the bid. 

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Winner Process~

The winning bidder will receive a paypal invoice from Skipping Stones Designs aka Heather Engebretson and she will collect the money. All of which will be donated on July 1, 2016. to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

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Shipping Process~

Once the winning bidder pays via PayPal  and I receive notice from Skipping Stones Design I will ship your Card Set with Clipboard to you.

Shipping to USA addresses only.

TADAA!!! That is how you stamp out cancer!!

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Skipping Stones Design Blogs 4 Boobies Sale

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Start here at Skipping Stone Design's Blog~

Next up is:     Ilina Crouse

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These cards fit in a standard envelope (provided in the bid) and will require NO extra postage, when you go to send them out to your friends :) that means no trip to the post office for extra postage.   

Thanks for stopping by and BID Away!!!!

Cog Collection by Darkroom Door~

Hi guys!

I have a card to share with you using one of the releases from 

Darkroom Door called Cog Collection  I did scratch my head on this one, but came up with this.

My take on this ~ live simply even though sometime things are complicated.

Instructions:

Stamp Carved Leaves Vol.1 on beige cardstock. Stamp two leaves on the front of the card, using two different shades of green ink. Stamp a third leaf and cut it out.  Using the Chicken Wire background stamp, stamp over the leaves on the card front. Giving the effect the leaves are behind the Chicken Wire. This card is 5" X 5".  Stamp the Cog in brown ink, using the same beige cardstock and cut it out.  Shade the cutout Cog with brown ink. Stamp the words "Live Simply" on the beige cardstock and trim out. Mat the words on black cardstock. Adhere the Cog next to the leaves on the card front. Adhere the third leaf on top of Cog and then the words. Mat card front on yellow cardstock and then black. Then adhere card front to yellow cardstock. Stamp small butterfly on the same yellow cardstock and cut it out. Adhere to front of card. Speckle with black ink or similar product. Apply Wink of Stella to leaves.  Add corners.

Cog Collection

Darkroom Door products:

Wings

Enjoy the Ride

Carved Leaves Vol.1

Cog Collection/Eclectic

Chicken Wire/Background

other:

S.e.i. / Tumble Dye ( for speckling)

Ranger ink

Quick Quotes PowderPuff Chalk ink

Wink of Stella

cardstock

For more inspirational ideas using the Cog Collection stamp go HERE~

Thanks  for stopping by~

A Journal notebook with S.e.i.~

Hi guys!! I'm here with a journal notebook using the Florets Collection by S.e.i.  In the collection it has a sheet of cork paper.  It's not paper, it is cork but the size of paper.  I really wanted to create something with this, very cool, sheet of cork.   I decided to cover a composition notebook with it ~

I started out like this~

I used double sided tape to hold the cork paper in place. Place the double sided tape as close to the edge of the composition notebook as you can.  The cork will chip off, if it is not right on the edge.  Cut some one inch strips of paper to cover up the seem.  Take a pillow box and cut it half and use the bottom to hold the flowers.

The Florets die cut flowers can be arranged like a bouquet.  The centers are in the Florets sundries pack.  I also added Bright paper doilies under the pillow box for color.  Speckled with black Tumble Dye to finish it off. Looking forward to using this journal notebook.  

Thanks for stopping by~
Connie