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Welcome to my first post as a design team member for Just For Fun Rubber Stamps and it is also my day to post on their blog!

When I saw the following images, I knew I wanted to make a shabby chic card. Well at least try my hand at one as I have the hardest time with that kind of design even though I love it. This is what I came up with.

I used the following images, CB9020 Romantic Cube, the cherub only, and E2658 Love for my standard size card.

Stamped the sentiment in black, cut it out with Spellbinders™ oval and layered with scalloped oval. Before removing the oval die cut, I sponged the inside with some light pink ink. The cherub I also stamped in black and colored it using copics, gold & silver Smooch on the bow & arrow and Angel Wing Shimmerz on the wings. (which of course is hard to photograph)

Distressed the pink and purple pattern papers, added faux stitching with a white gel pen and accented with two different types of lace from May Arts. The gold heart on the bow is actually a button with the backing cut off so it would fit better against the bow. I used the Craft-Dee BowZ to make my 2 loop bow.

           Thanks for stopping by!

                    Amber

A Girly Card

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Did anyone do any Black Friday shopping? I prefer Gray Thursday. Hubby went out at 2pm on Thanksgiving day while my oldest and I (mother/daughter bonding time) went out at 5 pm to a different store. We were in line for the same item just incase hubby wasn’t able to get it. But he was #4 in line and was able to get the family Christmas gift cheaper! So we have been enjoying our family gift (50” TV) all weekend long!

Anyways on to today’s Paper Pretties challenge. Girly Cards! To me, girly is bows, bling and elegant. I went with a black/white color theme with a sentiment from Cursive Greetings II for my focal point. Added some ribbon from May Arts and some bling from Want2Scrap.

 

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC234.

Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.

Just an FYI… you might want to visit tomorrow!


           Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber

Clean and Simple

So it is time for another Paper Pretties challenge. This week we are asking you to make a Clean and Simple card. (did you just hear me groan? I am not a master at CAS cards but will admit the one I made for today’s challenge is pretty awesome!!

I used Make a Wish Sophia for my card. Colored her with copics, stickles and flower soft on her party hat and a touch of stickles on the candles. Then I added some May Arts ribbon with a nice big bow and oh, my!! A clean and simple card that is just wow, wow, wow.  (at least for me it is!)

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC233.

Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.

A Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends! Hope you have a great time with family and friends this Holiday.

 

           Thanks for stopping by,

                          Amber

OCL Freebie

Our Craft Lounge has a FREE digital image on the OCL blog!  The name of the image is Love Floats and it matches two of their other sets ~ Love in the Air and Spilling Over.  So run over there and grab it and join in this weeks challenge of making a project with an OCL image.

Would you like to see the image you can grab from The Lounge? Then check out my card. I colored my hot air balloon with copics and added stickles to the hearts. The entire image is actually layered on the image for some dimension. Found some misc. paper, did some layering and added some brads and May Arts ribbon.

Can’t wait to see what you do with this digi!

 

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        Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber

May your feet…

Another Wednesday, another Paper Pretties challenge! This time it is a color challenge: black, white & one color.

I went cas and used the Dreams set. Cuttlebug’d the white cardstocks and layered with just a hint of teal. Added some May Arts velvet ribbon to finish it off.

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC221.

Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.


          Thanks for stopping by!

                        Amber

OCL challenge - Happy Birthday

There is still time to play in this past week’s Our Craft Lounge challenge over at The Lounge. The challenge is What Floats your Boat and ends tonight at 11:59 tonight.

I decided to go with something that floats in the air and used Love is in the Air. I tried something a little different on my hot air balloon, covering some areas with crystal effects, letting it dry and then sponging on color. The areas I had added the crystal effects to resisted the color and kept the color of the cardstock which was white. I then cut out the hot air balloon completely and attached it using zapdots. The clouds were stamped on some fuzzy paper and cut out. Used some May Arts ribbon to finish off the card.

Play along with us this week and be entered to WIN a $20 gift certificate from  Our Craft Lounge. You have until 11:59pm Thursday, August 23rd to enter.   Participate as many times as you like!   A random winner will be selected and posted on the OCL blog at the beginning of next month.

Here are the rules: use any stamps that you wish – get BONUS POINTS when you use OCL stamps!  Link to your card/project at the bottom of the post at The Lounge using the link tool provided – **be sure to link DIRECTLY to your challenge card – not a general blog or gallery link & add the appropriate photo.  Use the challenge as your basis – do whatever inspires you, but please base it on the challenge. If you upload to SCS, please use the Keyword OCL130.

Can’t wait to see what you created and as always

         Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber

OCL/May Arts Back to school survival kit

Today is our last day of the Our Craft Lounge and May Arts week. It is also challenge time over at The Lounge and of course the challenge is ribbon!

So school starts next week for us and I made a special gift for a very special friend but don’t want her to know what it is so, Kyla, if you are reading this.. stop right now. Everyone else continue on as I am loving what I created. (which is always a good thing if you can love your project so much when you are finished that you don’t want to give it away.)

Anyways, Kyla’s baby starts Kindergarten this year. I know she is dreading it but yet happy for him. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a few tears shed so I made her a Kindergarten Mom’s Survival Kit.

I saw this basket on Pinterest and couldn’t wait to make one. For directions on the basket, visit Rachel Ricks’ blog the little blue room. I used core’dinations The Chocolate Box for my basket. Sanded the the brown side to get some blue to show through, distressed the blue pieces with distress ink. Attached tag with May Arts twine which I also used on a note that I stuck in the basket.


A peek inside the basket and we see tissues, kisses and a note. Also a close up of the tag using The Art of Nature set.


A close up of the May Arts trim that I adhered to the inside of the basket.


Another shot of the inside of the basket to see what the trim looks like from the inside. Isn’t that trim cute?!


So what makes this basket a Kindergarten Mom’s Survival Kit? This note (that I also found via Pinterest) that is included in the basket is what makes this entire kit special. I typed up the note in Photoshop, adjusting font size etc. and then printed it on printer paper and stamped The Art of Nature on it which I colored in with Prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits.

*This note does not have to be just for a kindergarten mom but for any mom with a child heading back to school. Just change the title to fit the grade you need.

I hope this basket brings Kyla some comfort on that first day her baby heads off to school.

Don’t forget to comment on all my OCL posts this week (I was able to get one up yesterday) to be entered for the prizes!

At the end of the week, OCL will pick 5 winners for some awesome May Arts/OCL prizes!  But you can’t WIN if you don’t PLAY!

Same as last week, to win you have to COMMENT!  So leave a comment here, at the OCL Blog, the OCL Facebook page and the blogs listed below all week for a chance to win the CANDY!  The 5 winners will be picked from all of the comments this week.  The deadline is Friday, August 10 at 3AM (EST)/midnight (PT).  The winner will be announced on Monday, August 13th on the OCL Blog!  Be sure to check out The Lounge for the first two days of this party as I didn’t have a chance to play but I am playing again on Friday!

Amber Hillman ---- That’s me!

Debbie Fisher

Kendra Wietstock

Deb Felts

Lori Barnett

Tammie Edgerton

Michelle Pearson

          
         Thanks for stopping by!

                       Amber

OCL/May Arts Christmas Tag

I had a day off yesterday so I got to create all day long for today! Of course the biggest project I worked on, you will just have to come back tomorrow for my last blog post for May Arts/ Our Craft Lounge blog week. I’m so excited to show you!

But for today I have not one but two projects to show you! I needed a quick card to send out in the mail just because so I used the fun pom pom ribbons from May Arts in three different colors and stamped a sentiment from The Pond in white. Cute, simple, quick and just in time to get it in the mail!



For my second project, I was in the mood to make something Christmassy. The green and red ribbons were just screaming to me: Christmas! So of course I listened and made a tag using Merry Wishes. I used the ribbons to look like a gift on the tag. Is it bad to have a gift on a gift? lol Green hemp also from May Arts was used to hang the tag.
 

 

At the end of the week, OCL will pick 5 winners for some awesome May Arts/OCL prizes!  But you can’t WIN if you don’t PLAY!

Same as last week, to win you have to COMMENT!  So leave a comment here, at the OCL Blog, the OCL Facebook page and the blogs listed below all week for a chance to win the CANDY!  The 5 winners will be picked from all of the comments this week.  The deadline is Friday, August 10 at 3AM (EST)/midnight (PT).  The winner will be announced on Monday, August 13th on the OCL Blog!  Be sure to check out The Lounge for the first two days of this party as I didn’t have a chance to play but I am playing again on Friday!

Amber Hillman ---- That’s me!

Broni Holcombe

Debbie Fisher

Kendra Wietstock

Lori Barnett

Melissa Cash

Tammie Edgerton

Stephanie Serrano

Michelle Pearson

Debbie Corbari


         Thanks for stopping by!

                       Amber

May Arts/OCL Happy Birthday

May Arts has joined OCL again this week for some fun filled projects. There is also some May Arts ribbon to giveaway this week too!

I used the newly released set, Everyday Sentiments and cut it out with Spellbinder’s Fancy Tags Three. I used two different kinds of ribbon from May Arts on my card, .421 1/2”x15y Crochet in cream and 360 3/8”x30y Scalloped Trim in purple, layering them together. Added some prima flowers and black brads.

At the end of the week, OCL will pick 5 winners for some awesome May Arts/OCL prizes!  But you can’t WIN if you don’t PLAY!
Same as last week, to win you have to COMMENT!  So leave a comment here, at the OCL Blog, the OCL Facebook page and the blogs listed below all week for a chance to win the CANDY!  The 5 winners will be picked from all of the comments this week.  The deadline is Friday, August 10 at 3AM (EST)/midnight (PT).  The winner will be announced on Monday, August 13th on the OCL Blog!  Be sure to check out The Lounge for the first two days of this party as I didn’t have a chance to play but I am playing again on Friday!
Amber Hillman ---- That’s me!
Broni Holcombe
Debbie Fisher
Kendra Wietstock
Lori Barnett
Melissa Cash
Tammie Edgerton


       Thanks for stopping by!

                    Amber

Today a reader …

It’s another Paper Pretties challenge! Today we are challenging you to try a new technique.
I used Bookworm Polly for my card. Used only one of the sentiments from the set and for my new technique I made a dryer sheet flower. (was also the Try new technique 382 on SCS)




How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC214.
Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.

        Thanks for stopping by!

                  Amber