Encouraging Cross card set

Good morning!   There's a release of new products at Doodle Pantry today and I was able to create a set of 4 Cross shaped cards using the new Card Cut Cross SVG and the Floral Cross image set from March release.
Here's the first 2.
All the cross shape pieces were cut using the Zing e-cutter and Make-the-Cut.
All I did was center and line up all the cut pieces! So easy and so pretty!

 I even prettied up the insides!

 Here's the other 2.

 insides:

 They were pretty quick to pull together with the SVG cut matching the shape of the Floral cross exactly.
Supplies used-

• Images and SVG: Floral Cross, Card Cut Cross SVG
• Cardstock: PTI new leaf, dark chocolate, white, blueberry, digi paper from the Floral Cross set
• Accents: miscellaneous ribbon and buttons, mini brads, foam dimensionals, SU flower punch and oval punches, EK fern punch
• Other supplies: printer, Zing e-cutter, Make-the-cut software

Thank you for visiting me today.  I hope you are inspired to go get crafty with your stash!

Somethin's Fishy Birthday card and magnets

Time to make FIL a birthday card and since they are fishers constantly entering local contests and have many a fish mounted on their walls, his card had to have a bass fish on it.
I also wanted to make a nice set of matching magnets.
I am on a magnet making CRAZE, I know!

My card is for the Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 Challenge that Doodle Pantry is sponsoring this week!
They had an awesome sketch for it and it worked so well for my image.

Here's the card.  You can't tell from this angle, but I printed a couple of the Bass Fish out and fussy cut and layered them up.  I used a glue dot in the middle of the fish and then dimesionals on the tail and head so it appears he is flapping off the card.

 and here's the inside.  The inside sentiment is from PTI little hexagon stamp set.

Here's the magnets.  Sorry for a dark photo, I took picture in the evening.

How I did these:
1. I modified the digital color image and erased the water parts so that just the fish was left.  I saved just the single fish image
2. In Photoshop, I created the background on layer 1 to match the digital paper in the set
3. Inserted/placed the single bass fish on layer 2
4. I created my own text on layer 3 and colored it white
5. For each saying, I "saved as" the modified image(s) from Photoshop as JPG, so that I could use them later
In a new Word document, I placed all the 8 new combined fish images and sized them down to about 1.25" wide.  Printed the images and then made the magnets per the Sun and Moon tutorial.
Easy peasy!  Just a little time consuming, but that's OK, they turned out great.

Supplies for card and magnets:
Image and digi paper: Bass Fish
Stamp for inside sentiment: PTI Hexagon stamp set
Cardstock: Neenah white, PTI kraft and SU Taken with Teal
Ink: Printer and Taken with Teal for the inside sentiment
Accents/Tools: Linen thread, sewing machine, bitty brads, foam dimensionals
Magnets:  Glass ovals and rectangles, Glaze, Rare earth magnets, printed images

Purple Peacock Wedding Shower Card

Hello!
I made a wedding/shower card for a shower this past weekend.
The colors in the digital set Pretty Peacock were not quite what I needed for the card, because the bride likes different colors, but I really wanted to use the image and papers in the set.

So I changed the colors using Photoshop and did a tutorial for it over on the Doodle Pantry Blog HERE if you are interested in seeing that.  I also referenced a outline color change tutorial done by someone else for the outline image changes.

If you just want to see the card, here are all the views of it and supply list at bottom.
I changed the black outlines to purple/violet and then modified the digital paper to be a coordinating shade.
The card was pretty simple to put together, with the handy SVG shape Card Cut 2 SVG. Sure made it quick, but really pretty!

INSIDE:

Material supply list for my card:

Images and digi papers: (modified colors digitally) Pretty Peacock

Shapes and cuts:  Card Cut 2 SVG 

Cardstock: Neenah white and PTI royal velvet and wisteria

Ink: Printer 

Accents and Tools: Wild Orchid flowers, pearls, stickles, sewing machine, SU ribbon, foam dimensionals, Crealies die CLCS12, Tacky glue for flowers 

Thank you for visiting today!  I hope you are able to checkout the tutorial over at the Doodle Pantry Blog for the paper color changes.  Wishing you a wonderful, safe and warm week!

Moose Magnets and a Card

Good morning!
I love Lodge style themes and happen to have that theme going on in my own house, and I needed some Moose magnets for my fridge.
I used the new Northern Outdoors Silhouette and SVG set, the Classy Styles Digi Paper and the Layered Frames SVG/PSD/PNG to digitally create the images within Photoshop (I layered and masked/clipped the frames and papers), then printed them out the size of my glass pieces, and then made magnets out of them.
I used the instructions and got all supplies (glass, glaze and magnets) at Sun & Moon crafts.

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Next, I had to use the new Card Cut 4 SVG!   It goes so well with the Carousel series images I am working on.  I used Carousel Horse 2.

I used PTI cardstock, the pre-color image and digi paper included in the Carousel Horse 2 set, pearls, ribbon and button from PTI, and foam dimensionals to pop up the first layer.  Of course, I had to add a little sewing around the main image too.  :o)

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Thank you for taking a little time to visit my humble crafty blog!  I hope you are inspired by something and hope to see you soon!

Mice Magnet set winners!

Don't you get blustered when you think you scheduled a post, and then find out a day or two later that it didn't?   Yep, That's me today!

The WINNERS drawn for the Mice Magnet sets I made are commenter #'s  13 and 20, who were Terriavidreader and Georgia Ehrmann!
I will be mailing these out just as soon as I hear from you. Please email me from the same email that is used on your Doodle Pantry account and include your mailing address.

Thanks so much to everyone for coming by and visiting me and for making such nice comments!

Spring buddies cards

Hello!
Today, I am pretty excited.  My card made it published to the Complete Cardmaking Magazine, along with 7 other Doodle Pantry Design Team members, as a feature spread.  This magazine comes with a CD of images provided by the featured companies, how cool is that?
Here is where you can order a copy from MoreMags.

Here's the cards I made.  
All the supplies details are to be found in the magazine details.
I made one card using the outline images and watercolored it with my Tombow markers and a waterbrush, and then made a small set of 6 cards using the pre-colored images. All patterned papers are from the digital sets I used, Bunny Wabbit Color+ and Fuzzy Duckling Color+.

Here is the hand watercolored card.  The sentiment is a freebie you can get here.

 Set of cards using pre-colored image graphics included in the products.

I hope you can get the magazine, there are so many fabulous ideas in there and getting a CD filled with digital stuff is awesome!

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Some cards and 2 Mousy magnet sets giveaway

I am excited that I got to create some stuff to share today!

MOUSE MAGNET SETS   (I am giving 2 of these magnet sets away!  If you want one, just comment on this post and I will randomly select 2 winners next week, Feb 8)
Who likes mice when they aren't nesting in your walls and running through your cupboards?

These magnet sets are using Berry Nice Mice, Cherry Nice Mice, So Sweet Mice and the new Salty Snack Mice.  I printed the images with a Dell laser printer onto Neenah cardstock.
35 mm squares

 30 mm circles

I made several sets of 8 mouse magnets each. I used THESE glass square tiles and THESE glass circle tiles  that I bought from Sun & Moon crafts, and the magnets that I used on the back are also from Sun & Moon crafts. These magnets are the best!  They are super thin and stronger than those big black glob magnets at walmart or local craft stores, and I like that they are silvery in finish and not black chalky feeling.
I used Sun & Moon glaze to "glue" the printed cardstock to the backs of the glass and then used the same stuff to "glue" the magnets to the back. They took a couple hours to completely dry.

I will give 2 Mouse Magnet sets away!  One set is circles and one is squares.
I will randomly select 2 commenters on this post on February 8.  I do not have any container for them, but I will make sure they are securely wrapped for shipping so that they don't break in transit.

SCHOOL KID VALENTINES
I make my kids valentines cards that they pass out at school. Sure, I could buy the ones from the store and make it less time consuming, but I like to be different, and my kids LOVE that they get to "help" choose images and put them together.
I used the new MINI MAZES to make a strip of 3 little mazes to put on the inside of their valentines. My kids LOVE mazes and I figured their friends do too!
I used Silly Critters from last month for the fronts/outsides.

TEACHER VALENTINE CARDS
The kids teachers get special cards this year.  I used Lori M's Card Cut Window SVG set and combined with several Doodle Pantry floral pre-color images.  How fun it was to make these cards!  I got to use my new Zing cutting  machine and Make-the-cut to create these.
I made the teachers matching keychain/zipper pulls using glass domes and bails and hooks.
This one uses Bird of Paradise Color image

 Here is a pretty using the Jacaranda color image.

 Love the bright and cheerful yellow of the Palo Verde.

 And the red poppies flowers printed a nice red, but the photo didn't seem to capture it, looks more orangey in the photo.

For the insides, I used a new FREEBIE sentiment for Valentine's Day and some cute flower and sprig dies I got from Taylored Expressions.

Thanks for visiting me today and I hope you are inspired to bless someone with a handmade card or gift!