Hybrid Pot O' Gold

Happy Friday to you! Nice to see you again!

Today I am going to show you how to make your own Hybrid pot of gold. Wouldn't this be cute waiting on the table when your kids get up St. Patrick's Day morning?


You could fill it with gold coins, Hershey nuggets, Rolo's candy or anything else that your heart desires!

I was inspired to make this pot o' gold after seeing Amy Stoffel's new kit at ScrapMatters called Lucky Charm:


Aren't the colors so vibrant?

Next I went on a hunt through the SM store for a template. I knew it needed to be something that I could put gold coins in but it also needed to be a template that I could turn into my pot so I looked for a template with a rounded bottom panel.

And here's what I used - Krisi's Kreations' Egg Baskets template:


What? You don't see how I turned the egg shape into a pot for my gold?

After printing the basket template out onto paper using my printer's draft option (so as not to hog up my ink), I traced the egg basket template onto black cardstock.

After cutting out all the black cardstock, I cut the egg shape side panels down into a pot shape.


Then I measured across the top of my pot and went back to my Photoshop and resized the rainbow elements to "fit" as handles - when I cut the rainbows out, I left a tab of plain paper under each end of the rainbow so that I could attach it to the inside of the pot using double sided tape.

To form my shamrock, I printed out a 4 x 4 inch square of the green paper from the kit and punched out 3 small hearts. Join all the hearts together using a glue dot, cut a small strip of green paper for the stem and add a button to the center.

I used my scallop circle Nestibilities to cut out the felt - the flair is printed from the kit and attached using 3D foam squares. I used a teeny punch to add the holes to the felt piece. This is attached to the pot using 3D foam squares also.



Last thing I did was use some silver ink around the edges and on the top rim of the pot - this gave it a little more definition.

And that's how the egg basket template ended up as a pot o' gold!


That's it for me today! See you again soon with some cards and other projects!

Hybrid tea bag holder

Hi there! Long time no see! Popping in to post a project I created over the last few days for a challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room. The challenge was to create a project with the theme "Buttons and bows" using these as inspiration:


And Jady Day Studio at ScrapMatters (collab kit with KimB's Designs) just released THE most perfect kit for what I had in mind...



And here is what I came up with for The Shabby Tea Room challenge:


I used a tutorial by Sophia Landry to create the holder. The tea bag and sentiment stamps really gave me trouble today - it just wouldn't give me a nice crisp stamped image. *sigh*

If you look really close at the tea bag, you can see that I re-stamped the tea bag stamp onto a piece of vellum and cut it out. After attaching it to my focal piece, I used a finger dauber to ink some black ink onto the vellum to look like tea in the bag. I really like how it looks in person!!!

The rolled rose on the top of my tea bag holder:


I just LOVE how pretty this looks in the off white color with the sage green leaves and pink pearl in the center!!!

Additional supplies used: rolled rose die and layered label die from My Favorite Things, felt, adhesive flat pearls, stamp set by Fiskars, ribbon, button, green twine, pink cardstock from Stampin' Up!, double sided adhesive tape, tape runner, Tombow mono adhesive liquid glue.

All in all, I am happy with how the project turned out (minus the bad stamp job!!) but I'm still new at this whole stamping thing - had a few suggestions to not press as hard on the stamp since it is a soft clear stamp, lightly sand the stamp, use versa mark ink. I'll take any other suggestions any one has that can help me!

That's it for me - thanks for stopping by!

A card challenge card!!

Happy Saturday to you!

Just a quick drive-by posting today with a card for Stamping Scrapping Challenge Central.

The challenge was to create a black and yellow card. My favorite STEELER colors! Go Black and Gold!!!!

Here is my card made using Trixie Scraps Designs' Defining Me digital kit:



Additional supplies: Big Shot, Scallop circle and circle dies, Black cardstock and wordart rub-on from Stampin' Up!,
black brads from Joann Fabrics, black ink to ink the edges, white gel and black glitter pen, Tombow adhesive runner, pop dots

I adore how this card turned out!!!!

That's it for me today - have a good one!!!

Another card??? I can't stop myself!

Yepp, I'm back again today with another card! Not sure where this creativity is coming from but... I LIKE IT!!!

I have really began to look forward to the Taylored Expressions sketch challenges - the creativity just flows. I like to take their sketch and create a template based on their sketch. The whole process of creating the template gets me thinking about how I am going to use it.

I'm the type of person who needs to "think" about what I am going to create before I actually start. If I try to create without thinking it through, it usually turns out to be a disaster.

But anyway, here is the sketch from Taylored Expressions:


and here is my card based on the sketch:


I used Erica Zane's EZ Wishes digital kit - and those of you who have never tried printing and using digital papers and elements with your traditional stamp supplies really need to give it a try!



That's it for me for today - have some things to do so that I can go to our local Relay for Life. Last year, I bought my daughter a beautiful green bracelet with a silver bead with "Hope" on it. Hoping to score either a pink or blue one for myself - maybe with "Love" on it.

I am, after all, really a romantic at heart and totally believe in the theory of everyone having a soul mate. Sappy, I know. I can't help it. I'll let you know how it goes!

Clean & Simple 102

Happy Friday evening! Back again with a card that went together so fast - a card for the Clean & Simple blog sketch challenge.

Here's the sketch:


and here's what I came up with using Wimpychompers Creations' Dog-gone Cute digital kit from ScrapMatters.




The saying is one that I found online - it reads: Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies.

The card is completely digital, including the "inking" of the edges of the card.

That's it for me this evening - unless I decide to make a kitty version! *wink wink*

Taylored Expressions Sketch challenge #122

Thank goodness it's almost Friday! What a day I've had - actually it was yesterday since it's 12:10am here.

Had a vision appointment Monday evening, woke up Tuesday AM with my right eye bothering me, blew it off to not having worn a contact in that eye for quite a while but woke up this morning to stabbing hot pains in my eye. And my eye kept watering and watering.

Now, I'm not one to run to the doctors but by the end of my work day I knew I needed it checked. So I stopped to see my eye doctor. And lo and behold, it ended up I had a teeny piece of plastic or glass IN my eye. Not floating around in there, but actually in my cornea. The doctor said when he removed it that it left an indentation in my cornea. it'll heal but still hurts like a dickens!

Enough boring tales from me - today I played along with Taylored Expressions sketch challenge #122. Here's this week's sketch:


and here's what I came up with off the sketch:
Supplies:
Strike! digital scrapbook kit by The Design Girl
A little Offset alphabet by Christy Lyle
font: 2Peas Gimme Coffee
Black card stock and round corner punch from Stampin' Up!
Tombow adhesive tape runner

I made that little pink shape behind the ball using a preset shape in my Photoshop program.

I really like how this turned out! That's it for me today - see you soon with another posting. Maybe I'll get ambitious and create something other than a card!!! LOL

Everything but the Kitchen Sink sketch challenge #19

Well, as far as creating cards, I've had a dry spell with the ole mojo.

But as soon as I saw the card sketch challenge posted on Everything but the Kitchen Sink, the creativity sparked a little!

Here's their sketch:


and here is what I created based on their sketch:

Not bad for my first time paper piecing!!! I used papers from ScrapMuss Designs' Music of my Memories kit from over at ScrapMatters to paper piece the to go cup.



Additional hybrid supplies used: Staples Double sided Matte Presentation paper, Scallop oval Nestibilities,
Sizzix Big Shot, Latte Love stamps from Fiskars, twine, dot rub-ons, black ink and brown ribbon from Stampin' Up!, Tim Holtz' distress ink - vintage photo, pop dots.

and that's it from me for today - but stay tuned (all 1 of my readers LOL) for a new adventure for me and few of my fellow Hybrid Chicks from The Digichick! It'll all be unveiled on Saturday, July 17th on the Hybrid Chick blog!

Curious??? check out The Hybrid Chick on Saturday!!!

It's a ScrapMatters iNSD Blog Train

Just a very quick posting from me this morning!

If you are here for the Blog Train - Welcome!!You should be arriving from Amber's stop on the train http://ambersscrapspot.blogspot.com/ .

If you have arrived here and haven't been following the train, make sure you go to the ScrapMatters blog to start the train so that you aren't missing any of the goodies that will be available on this train!

Here is the preview of my blog train stop freebie:

*Sorry - but the blog train is over and the link has been removed*

This freebie coordinates with the printable that I created using the ScrapMatters Design Team collab "Moments that Matter"


The printable set that the Hybrid Team and Designers put together as a Free with Purchase:


I call my printable a "Will you be my....?" box - I thought it would be a super cute way for the Bride-to-Be to ask her friends or family to be her bridesmaid/maid of honor/matron of honor. My blog freebie could be printed out and added to the top of the box to "pop" it off to make it more 3D.

The box from the outside:


and here's what the inside would look like assembled:


This was really easy to put together and it could be changed to whatever color you'd like just by changing the buttons.

Supplies needed to put this box together: Adhesive of choice, ribbon of choice, buttons of choice, glue dots.

First, print (on your printer's best print settings - I highly recommend Red River paper for printing your projects or Epson Matte Presentation Paper for the best color), cut all pieces and assemble the box.

Punch holes in the journal tabs that spell out "Will you", "be my", "bridesmaid" or other wedding party postion and then the "Say Yes!" tab.

Next, cut a length of ribbon atleast 12 inches long. Slide the journal tabs onto the ribbon and space to your liking. Leave a couple of inches at the top so that you can adhere it to the inside of the box lid with a glue dot.

Then I strung thin twine through the buttons from the front to the back and tied the buttons to the ribbon just above each tab.

Trim the bottom of your ribbon.

And there you have it - a fun way to ask a friend or a family member to take part in your special day!

Hope you enjoy it! Your next stop on the blog train is the Fabulous Jenna http://www.sweetazshooga.com

If you get lost along the way, you can go back and start at the ScrapMatters blog

Happy Saturday to you!

Hey there - welcome back! I have a few new cards and a project to share with you today.

First up is this card I created using Wimpychompers Creations' You Make Me Bananas kit and a border from Britt-ish Designs' Doodlie-Do Page Borders (which I use ALL the time on my projects!!!!)



Next up is another card I created using a new technique that I found in the resource section at Splitcoast Stampers - creating a brick wall. I used ViVa Artistry's Altered: Stoked kit.



This card made it to the Gallery Standouts site - which is indeed an honor!!!

My box of cards that I am making (and collecting at card swaps at my monthly Stampin' Up! card club) is filling up FAST this year!!!

One last project that I have to share with you today is this one - which at first I didn't like how it turned out. But the more I see the photo, the more I like it!



Don't you just love how girly it looks with the maribou?

Tip: use a low temp hot glue gun to attach the maribou to your projects.

Credits for this project are Simply J Studio Fry Box Template and Sya Blueprints and Juno Designs collab A Different Kind of Love

Well, that's it for me on the sunny warm Saturday in PA - it's almost time for the Hockey game! Go Pens!!!