Shimmery Wedding Congrats

My apologies friends!

I completely spaced the winner for the 

Summer Coffee Lover's Bloghop.

I truly enjoyed hopping around and seeing everyone's coffee inspired projects.

Even more fun was receiving your comments!

They totally made my day!!

So without further ado...

butterfly843 is the lucky winner of the 

Lawn Fawn Scripty Love die!!!

I have contacted her through email.

Again a big MAHALO to everyone that stopped by and left a comment!

On to today's card...

I love the Scripty dies from Lawn Fawn and know that I'll be collecting

every word they come out with...LOL!

I die cut the word twice from the DCWV Glitzy Glitter Matstack and 

again in black to create some shadowing.

The ring was stamped, colored with a silver pen and fussy cut

 from Lawn Fawn's Happily Ever After.

I did a little snip, snip to create the plain wedding band.

The background is a Sizzix Mini Hearts embossing folder.

Tried to keep it simple with all the bling and shimmer.

I'm in love with the Neenah Metallics Cardstock which was found at my

local Wal Mart...can you believe it?!

I'll be entering this in the latest 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Anything Goes

and using this for inspiration

I went with a Clean and Layered look.

I hope you'll come back on Friday for an exciting blog hop

with the Lawnscaping Challenge!

There's tons of prizes from some great sponsors!!

Mahalo for stopping by!!!

Sending Love and Season's Giving Blog Hop WINNER!!

I'm completely blown away by everyone's comments

and can't thank you all enough for taking the time to stop by

for this year's

Season's Giving Blog Hop.

Each comment meant so much to me and I hope you all continue

to drop on by!

The random winner is...

Juliana TJanuary 4, 2015 at 1:58 PM

Happy New Year! I love shaker cards and this one's a honey!

Juliana T. was e-mailed!

I love to have random giveaways especially to my favorite store

Butterfly Reflections Ink

so stop by often since you never know when a gift certificate will be up for grabs!!

On to today's card...

Lawn Fawn You've Got Mail, Lawn Fawn for Studio Calico Future is Bright,

Simon Says Stamp inks

I decided to go CAS with a bokeh look to enter the next

The Card Concept Challenge

I was playing off that hint of blue with the shades of pink and green.

Tip: To create the bokeh effect use a mix of light and dark 

shades of ink (even second generation stamping could work)
 to create that blurred/out of focus effect!

That's it for me today, but I'll definitely be back with more!

My goal this year is to make some project videos which I'm currently

doing some research on. 

If y'all have suggestions on what you'd like to see leave a comment below!

I'm not the most tech savvy, so the hubby is getting me trained...haha

Mahalo for stopping by!

Toodles!!

Trying Something New

Hello there!  I've been admiring the challenge called The Card Concept since its beginning, and finally made myself try a new style.  I admire that the challenge explains and shows examples of the various card styles and then encourages you to try one out.

Here's a snippet...

Can you guess which style I tried?  I'm hoping it's not too far off...remember this is my first go at this...haha!


So without further ado I've decided to try the freestyle collage...

Avery Elle Simply Labels and die, Avery Elle Laurels, Avery Elle Icon Fill in the Blank die, Tim Holtz Bubble Stencil, Doodlebug BonBon Twine, Doodlebug Sprinkles in Lily White, Memento ink in Rich Cocoa, Bamboo Leaves and Pear Tart, white embossing powder

So keeping to the theme colors I stamped out the Avery Elle label and die cut.  Then, stenciled the background after I white, heat embossed the laurels for a little "leafy" sprout among the die cut flowers.  I believe the flowers are actually an asterisk shape, but doubled them up to create whimsical blooms.  I used a sponge dauber around the laurels with a touch of brown for a little more detail.

This will also be entered in the

I actually liked how it all came together pretty quickly with having a theme color in mind.  Maybe that's the trick when doing freestyle collage!  

That's it for me!  Happy Hump Day and mahalo for stopping by!!!