Lots of Stuff!

It's kinda pathetic that it took this long for me to get back into card making, and only when I was sick. Yes, sadly, today I stayed home from school because I felt sick and while I was supposed to be sleeping, I made a few cards! I'm loving how much color there is in them!

Goodness, I'm sure you all see how often I use my K&Company paper packs! (Que Sera Sera and Wild Saffron) I got them for about $3 to $5 each and I seriously use them for EVERYTHING!!! So I barely need to tell you where my papers are from!

Here are the cards:

Supplies:

Making memories flowers, paper and brad

Hero Arts stamps

Ranger ink

Kraft cardstock and off-white cardstock

Brown marker (crayola)

EK Success corner rounder punch

Supplies:

Que Sera Sera papers (green and pink)

Brown cardstock (scallop) with Fiskars threading water punch

Wild Saffron paper

MSE stamps

Ranger ink (pink)

Colorbox chalk ink (brown)

Random textured cardstock- rubbed with sandpaper

Supplies:

Beige, brown, and yellow cardstock

Que Sera Sera paper (cut at a curve)

Hallmark cupcake sticker- sooo cute!

1 inch circle punch with blue textured cardstock

Uni Ball Signo Broad gel pen

Supplies:

Brown and yellow (Making Memories) cardstock

Offray ribbon

Making Memories brad and flower

off white cardstock

MSE stamp

Colorbox chalk ink

EK Success corner rounder punch

This last one I made a little later, because I forgot to make a card for my friend's family who hosted my over my winter vacation. (How rude of me!) I love the card, although it didn't photograph all that well.

Supplies:

Off white cardstock and light blue cardstock

Wild Saffron paper

Embroidery thread

Making memories purple paper and Fiskars threading water punch

EK Success corner rounder punch

It's sorta weird, but I've been sitting on the floor, watching TV and making cards. Weird combo, I know but apparently it works!

Also, I'm not sure if anyone's interested, but I had to make a collage representing myself or how I'd like to be seen for an Art History class in school and I decided to make mine look "artsy." I know it's not a card, but I used a lot of card elements in it so I thought it would be cool to show on here! (If you like any art things, I can also show all the projects I've had to do for art class in school- so much fun!) Let me know if you like this too! (I blacked out my full name and family picture, but you get the idea.)

Supplies:

TOO MANY TO MENTION!

And there's still more! I made a poster thing for my mother, who is getting some sort of higher degree in college (not sure which letters it is, but whatever!) It's (obviously) on hypertension, and it came out pretty good, if I do say so myself! It's due tomorrow, so I hope she gets an A!

Supplies:

Obviously- the K&Company packs, with some Marcella by K papers (like the heading- isn't that the prettiest paper ever?)

And, last but not least, I've been obsessed with making paper flowers! I saw it in a Jennifer McGuire video, although I can't find it now :-( It took some practice, but I think I got the hang of it! My friend loved them so I made her these:

So pretty, huh? I love making them with a large scalloped circle punch (I only have a 3 inch one, but I use it all the time! Count how many are just in this post!) and adding Stickles to the edges! (it's on the green one!) Oh, and I think you know where the papers are from!

Whew! Long post! But I feel good!

Comments are welcome! (Pretty please!)

Good night!

-Haylie!

My Mommy's Birthday Card!

I know, I know, I haven't posted in forever! Trying to get back into the swing of things after finals, vacation, and all that craziness!

While I was away on vacation, I finally got around to buying those products I really needed to repurchase but had been holding off on, like foam adheisve and a good brown ink pad! So it got me excited to start making cards again!

I started with this card, since it was my mother's birthday on Saturday. (Happy Birthday!!!)

I know it's a little "childish" but I love the cheeriness of it!

I used these Hallmark glittery cupcake stickers that my sister got for me as a birthday present back in the summer and I never used! I'm so glad I did- they're just adorable! I love how the frosting is like different hairstyles!

(I heat set the sticker a little, because the glitter was flying all over the place, and it really helped!)My mother loved it (or at least she told me she did- what else would I expect her to say?) and I'm happy with the card!

I hope to be posting more soon!

-Haylie

Supplies:

Cardstock/ patterend paper- I don't really know where any of it's from! Most is either basic cardstock or stuff I've had since I made a scrapbook in 5th grade! The green paper is something I got in a grabbox which I've wanted to use for ages!

Uni-ball Signo Broad white gel pen- whoohoo! I finally got a new one!

Hallmark cupcake sticker

MSE Birthday stamp

Versamark Ink + White embossing powder (heat set)

Fiskars Threading Water punch

:-(

Sad story: I won a prize from E.A.D. designs but I didn't find out until today! Whoops... so I lost the prize :-(

I don't blame her... I should have checked up on it.

Oh, well.....

-Haylie

Thanks!

So I haven't posted on here in a while, because I was really busy and my computer wasn't accepting my camera so I couldn't put my picture on my computer! But it's okay because it worked today!

Last weekend I went away as a "delegate" for my school at a convention of private schools! I had a really great time meeting girls from all over the US and Canada.

Before I left, I made a quick thank you card for my host, who turned out to be the sweetest girl ever! (We were set up in homes in the place we stayed.)

Here it is:

Supplies used:

brown cardstock

EK Success 3 inch scallop circle punch

K&Company cardstock (Que Sera Sera pad)

Uni-ball white gel pen

Ranger ink

MSE stamp

random ribbon!

Sorry this is such a lame post! School has been so busy lately!

Please leave a comment! :-)

-Halyie!

Purse card!

My neighbor asked me if I could make a card for her friend's birthday. She was organizing a bunch of people to chip in for a nice bag for this woman and they're giving her a gift certificate for the bag. So my neighbor asked that the card have a purse-theme or bag-theme. So, of course, I went straight to my subscriptions on YouTube to see if any of them had any cute idea. And I found the CUTEST idea from Dawn Griffith on her YouTube channel! The best part is, it's not just a card, it's a gift card holder! Exactly what I needed!

Check out the video on it here and subscribe to her channel! Here is the blog post on it. All measurements can be found on her blog post or YouTube video.

So here's my take on the card:

Close-up:

The inside:

I added a little gift-card pocket by using a 4 1/2" by 2 1/2 (I think!) piece of cardstock and scoring it by 1/4" on 3 sides. Then I cut away the bit where the score lines overlapped in the corners, then folded the scored parts in, added a ton of adhesive, and stuck it down. Oh, and I cut an opening with a 1" circle punch.

The card in it is just a random card I had so I could make sure it fit.

What it looks like when I hold it up!

Oh, it's so cute!!

I had to improvise a little because I don't have a die cutting machine so I don't have the Top Note die. But I found a picture of it online, and I resized it and fiddled around a bit and it turned out okay.

Supplies used:

K&Company Wild Saffron paper

Cream cardstock

MSE stamp (Birthday)

Uni-Ball Signo white gel pen

random ribbon (haha!)

velcro

EK Success 1" circle punch

Button Ups adheisive button

I showed it to my neighbor and she really loved it so I hope her friend does, too!

Again: ALL CREDIT FOR THIS ADORABLE IDEA GOES TO DAWN! Let her know what you think :-)

Thanks for stopping by!

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think!

-Haylie

Skipping Stones Design Challenge #48 SSSC21

My family planned a surprise birthday party for my aunt on Saturday night at her daughter's house. It was so much fun- all my cousins and their children were there and I had a blast! My mother, of course, asked me to make a card for her sister. I really only had a few minutes before we had to leave, so I quickly used a Sweet Sunday Sketch from Skipping Stones Design that I had copied down the other day. It's the last sketch Karen Giron will be doing as SSD's guest designer.

I've always loved cards like this- with squares for backgrounds! (My squares are 1 1/4" and the card is a standard 5 1/2" x 4 1/4")

My card:

A close-up of the sentiment: (It looks a little unfocused in the picture.)

I love how this card turned out! My aunt seemed to love it, but then again, I guess her job as an aunt is to love anything her nieces make for her... hee hee!

I just wish I had made my stitching lines a little straighter...oh well :-)

Supplies used:

Kraft cardstock

MSE stamp (Birthday set)

K&Company Que Sera Sera paper pack

K&Company sticker (Tim Coffey)

Uni-ball Signo Broad white gel pen

Black ink

So there you go! Hope you enjoyed. Please visit the rest of my blog and leave lovely COMMENTS!

-Haylie

CPS #190

I know someone who was really upset yesterday because she was having trouble in school with people being mean to her. :-( So I decided to make her a card! I love this sentiment: "Sending you love, friend!" and I really wanted to use it! I used this week's sketch from Card Positioning Systems (CPS).

Here's a close-up:

In the end, I liked the card, but it was too "old" and not fun enough to give to a teenager to cheer her up. You know what I mean?

So I asked my mother what she thought and she agreed with me, so I ended up giving this ( <--- click it!! It's the second card in the post) card to her instead, which I already had lying around. It used the same sentiment, so I was happy. She seemed really happy to get the card, so now I feel good!

But I still have this card so I decided to share!

Supplies used:

Brown cardstock

Light purple cardstock

Patterned paper ( I got it in a grabbox, so I'm not sure where it's from)

American Crafts Letterbox paper (Sincerely) <--- most useful paper ever!

Fiskars Threading water punch

Ranger Adirondack Ink in Espresso

MSE stamp (from Love Friend set)

Offray ribbon

Uni-ball Signo Broad white gel pen

I hope you enjoyed! Please feel free to check out the rest of my blog!

Leave comments!

Have a great weekend :-)

-Haylie

Great Giveaways!

Hey, so I hope it isn't annoying when I make a post about a giveaway, but I'd really love to win these, so sorry!

The first giveaway is at E.A.D. Designs and it's a Tria marker givaway! I'd love to win this because I don't own any fancy-shmansy markers like these or Copic markers. I'd love to try them out!

If you'd also like to be entered click on the link! The blog says all you need to know to enter!

The second giveaway is from The Stamping Boutique- and it's $250 worth of products! Including 36 Copic markers! How awesome?? Check out the blog to enter!

The third is from Little smiles From White Ribbons! It's a bunch of cools stuff including Jenni Bowlin, Basic Grey, and American Crafts products! Go check it out!

The fourth is a Tim Holtz giveaway from Scrap With Stacy! How sweet is that? I wish I cold win all that awesome blog candy! Go to her blog to fin out how to enter!

I hope this was a chance for you to find out about giveaways that you didn't know about!

(P.S. I'd like to do a giveaway of my own, but I want to wait until I have more followers! Please spread the word about this blog so I can start doing giveaways!)

-Haylie!