Bee Joyful!

So..... I wanted to make a card for a challenge, but you know how your card can seem to have a mind of it's own? So that's what happened this time. I had a card sketch, but the card totally strayed from the sketch.

I wanted to make a happy card for a friend who has been looking sad lately. So i wanted to do a "bee" happy bard with a bee on it, but I only had the sentiment "bee joyful" (MSE stamp). So I decided to use that. The bee is from a Prima stamp but it's only part of the stamp - I cut it in half. (It said "love" underneath.)

I used my EK Success punch with my "favorite" paper from Making Memories and another paper from the set for the thin circle around the sentiment.

The pink paper on the purple is actually two strips cut at a slant, but then I added the ribbon so it looks like one paper. The ribbon is from a grabbox from MSE. (Read my post about it here.)

Other supplies used:

Martha Stewart Circle Cutter

Marcella by K black ink

Ranger Adirondack ink in Sunshine Yellow

Marcella by K pink heart paper

EK Success corner rounder (small)

Glue dots (to hold down the ribbon)

Thanks for stopping by! I'd love to get a comment from you!

Please follow my blog! Have a great weekend!

-Haylie

Busy, busy!

I'm swamped with schoolwork now, but I really want to make time for card-making! So here's what I've managed to do lately:

First of all, I really wanted to use this Colorbok kit (it's called Home, but I can't find it online) that my friends got me over the summer for a birthday present. I decided to make a card using mainly things from the kit. Here's what I came up with:

All the elements, except for the card base, the white gel pen I wrote the "you" with, and the embossed heart are from the kit. The gel pen is a Uni-ball Signo Broad gel pen and the heart was stamped with a MSE stamp ( I think it was the Baby Girl stamp set, but I might be confused) and embossed using clear Zing! embossing powder from American crafts.

I'm pretty impressed with my handwriting, considering I usually have appalling handwriting!

Here's the next card. It's sort of polka-dot themed.

The "happy for you" is from MSE's Joy stamp set and I cut the circle with Martha Stewart's circle cutter. The green polka dot paper appears yet again!(Making Memories basics kit) It's really my favorite, paper for some reason! The dot is from Mse's birthday stamp set, and I randomly stamped it all over in black ink. The bow uses a random ribbon I think I found on a gift given to someone in my family, and I decided to recycle is. I do that all the time- how about you?

So have a great night- I gotta get back to studying.... (yeah, right).

-Haylie!

Blog Award?

Ok, so apparently I got a blog award! I'm not quite sure what that means, but Jen from Frame Fanatic told me she gave me this award! Which is pretty cool!

I think this is sliiiiightly late (lol, like 2 weeks late), but better late than never, right?

So here's what you do: you list 10 things you like and then 10 blogs you follow!

10 things I like:

1. chocolate

2. reading

3. card-making

4. ice skating

5. eating!!

6. skipping

7. dancing

8. makeup

9. summer

10. smiles :-)

I skipped out on mentioning G-d and my family, because that's obvious!!

So here are 10 blogs I like:

1. Just Visiting

2. Card à la Carte

3. Buttons & Bling

4. Simplicity

5. Syzygy of Me

6. Will Stamp for Wine

7. Prairie Paper and Ink

8. Adrienne's Sentiments

9. Creating Somewhere Under the Sun

10. Happy Stamper

Rules for the award!

1.Post who it was that gave you the award.

2.List 10 things that you like.

3.Give this award to 10 other blogs and let them know with a comment!

( I didn't do the last one... tee hee!)

Anyway, i hope this wasn't pointless.. have a great day!

-Haylie!

Birthday Cupcake Card

Quick post!

So I made this card for my friends whose birthday is coming up!

I used a K&Company fruity paper. I have no idea where all the rest of the papers are from. The cupcake is from Jolee's Boutique by EK Success. The stamp is from MSE's birthday set and I stamped it in my favorite brown in Ranger's Adirondack ink in Espresso.

Here's the card- ENJOY!!

Please comment and follow!!

-Haylie!

Embellish Background Stamp Color Challenge and Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #16

Whew... that title is a mouthful!

The first challenge I'm participating in is Embellish Magazine's Color Challenge:

The colors are white, black gray, and yellow, which is a great combo! You also need to use a background stamp.

For my card, I used a squiggly stamp from a Martha Stewart stamp set and stamped it in rows on a yellow paper using a black ink (which looks gray, but it's not!). It was fun to create my own background! Then I punched the gray paper with a Fiskars threading water punch. The sentiment is from MSE and it's from the Baby Boy stamp set, and stamped in black ink. The large flower and the small flowers are from K&Company's Wedding Collection embellishments. I stamped a circle from the same Martha Stewart stamp set and stuck it between the top flower and the bottom one (which came together) to add some more black to it.

Hope you like it! :-)

The next card is for Waltzingmouse's Sketch Challenge #16:
Here's what I came up with:

It's sort of a mix of themes, because it's bright and fun, but also a little bit "serious" because of the middle paper and the Kraft base.

The leaves and hearts papers are from Marcella by K&Company and I'm not really sure where the rub-ons (the sentiment and the star) are from, but probably K&Company, too. The birthday hat is also from K&Company, from the Confetti collection. The middle paper is from a Marcella by K&Company pad. I doodled a dashed lone and a zig-zag on some purple cardstock with a Uni-ball Signo Broad white gel pen. I just added some scrap scalloped gray paper from the previous card for some added interest!

So, I hope you enjoyed!

Please COMMENT and FOLLOW!!!

-Haylie!

Embellish Paper Piecing Color Challenge-

Hello!

I'm happy I've started to follow the Embellish Magazine blog, because this color challenge is so much fun! I've never done paper piecing before, but I love the look. This is what I came up with:

Here's an up close look at the birdy:

It was so much fun to make and I love how it turned out!

The polka dot paper is from Making Memories and the other two papers are from the Wild Safron pad from K&Company. The bird stamp is from Autumn Leaves and the sentiment from MSE's Birthday stamp set.

I also used that paper to make a card that I made about 2 weeks ago and forgot to post.

Here it is:

I made this right after I came home from being gone all summer, so I used all the new products I had bought over the summer. I stamped and embossed the circle using a Martha Stewart stamp and Zing! embossing powder. I cut the circle using the Martha Stewart Circle Cutter I recently bought (and really like). The sentiment is from MSE's Love Friend set. I don't know where the ribbon is from; I got it in a random Grabbox I ordered. The heart is from a Colorbok kit.

Anyway, Yom kippur starts soon. Wishing everyone who's fasting an easy fast!

Please comment and share!

-Haylie

Embellish Color Challenge and stuff :-)

So school's started and it's so much fun! Senior year is awesome! It's been three days and I've already had a day off for Labor Day and now Rosh Hashana! Shana Tova, everyone!

So I saw the Embellish Magazine blog's color challenge and I immediately thought of the planner I've been using. How cute is it? If only it came in a patterned paper...

So onto the card I made...I'll admit it's a bit weird, cuz it's a baby card but not in baby colors... but it's cute. I used MSE stamps; the sentiment from the Baby Girl set and the feet from the Baby Boy set.

So I've been loving the Que Sera Sera designer paper pad from K&Company for a really long time now. It's pretty and colorful, but the best part for me is the backsides, because they're solid colors and have a nice subtle design so you can use them on everything. The squares on the card above use it, and so do all the cards below.

I bought this paper punch and this one for only $4 each at a local discount store. It was pretty sweet, so I made a card using each:

I used an MSE sentiment from the Joy set and the dot stamp from the Birthday set. The circle uses the Que Sera Sera paper.

This card uses the Que Sera Sera paper as the background, and the sentiment and hat are from MSE's birthday stamps set.

And then I made a card which was originally the contest card, until I realized I used brown, not black. So I just made it anyway and forgot about the color theme.

So the holiday is about to start- gotta go!!

Hope you enjoyed!

-Haylie!

Wow, it's been forever!!

Ok, so I feel like I haven't been on here in awhile!! The last post I made was my entry for Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration. I was so excited to make the tope ten!! Thanks to everyone for their sweet comments :-) Challenge

So basically, I was gone for the whole summer- since the end of June. I just came home in Friday and it's crazy!! My craft space was in the process of moving from the basement to the attic, but I didn't have the chance to finish while I was packing for camp so when I came home I found that my mother had moved everything for me, so it was a HUGE mess, so I'm in the process of cleaning that up and orginizing it all!

Before I left, I made a bunch of cards to send to people over the summer, for birthdays and just to say hello because it's so not "campy" if you just call the person- you have to send a letter!!

I didnt make too many, just a few but I didn't have time to post them before the summer, so here we go:

Last summer I needed so many baby cards, so I made a bunch this year and didn't even need them! typical....

I like that this one has both pink and blue, so you can use it for a baby boy or a baby girl!

Happy Birthday Cards:
This first one I didn't use, but I'm giving it to someone I worked with who I just bumped into yesterday, and it turns out it was her birthday!! So it all works out!

This one I gave to someone's little sister who I just met this year, although I've been friends with the older sister for a few years. And only this year did we realize we had the same birthday!! So it was really cute! (Come to think of it, I should probably change my info on this blog to 17 years old and a SENIOR in high school- ahhh!!!)

Regular anytime cards:

Ohhh, I really like this one:

So that's it! It's great to be back! I'm nervous for my senior year of high school, but it's all good!!

-Haylie!