November Moxxie Blog Hop

Happy Friday Everyone!

Are you ready for another fun Moxxie blog hop?  For November we are focusing on the Forever Family line.

This amazing color palette is perfect for family portraits, heritage photos, and even a pretty fall-themed layout! The front sides of the paper are title papers for each member of the family, and the back sides have a variety of both masculine and feminine patterns for you to use to accent your photos. Card makers and papercrafters the designs are small, so even on a cut down piece of paper, you are still going to get the colors and textures of the large design.

In addition to these great papers, the embellishments will help give your creations a family-type flair. Use them as titles, journaling spaces, accent pieces, and embellishment clusters to finish off your pages.

The Moxxie Muses have put together some awesome ideas for this line and you could win the collection.  All you have to do is hop through the blogs and comment on each one.  For an extra entry, comment on the Facebook page and "like" us if you have not already.  How simple is that?   Comments need to be made by Tuesday evening and the winner will be announced on Wednesday on the Moxxie Blog.  Our international customers and fans are free to play along if you are willing to pay the shipping if you are the winner of the prize.

For my project for Forever Family I created a card using this wonderful collection and my Silhouette.

The Silhouette cut out the circles and I just folded them over and then I used the Forever Family Stickers for my sentiment.  I added some pearls.  I didn't have the correct color but I colored some plain pearls with my Spectrum Noir pens.  I love this technique!

supplies
cardstock- neenah solar white
paper and stickers- moxxie
gems- hobby lobby

Here are the blog links for hopping.  Just start at the top (Moxxie blog) and work your way down the list until you have visited all eleven blogs.  We are so happy to have you joining us and hope you enjoy the projects we have made.

Happy hopping!

 Got Moxxie

Susie Bentz

 Patti Hamil  

Cathy Harper 

Michelle James 

Rebecca Price 

Misty Rushlow 

Mary Pat Siehl -- YOU ARE HERE!

Dana Tatar --GO HERE NEXT!!

Rhonda Van Ginkel 

Ange Weisbeck

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I may pop in this weekend in order to enter a challenge.  I am really groovin' with the challenges lately!  Have a wonderful crafty weekend!  See ya later!

mp 

 

 

Thursday Paper Smooches Thank You

Hello Again,
I am popping in again today (this is my second post) to share a CAS card I made for a quick challenge over at Paper Smooches.  The challenge is to create a Thank You card using some fun Paper Smooches stamps.  See all the details HERE!  Well, I am knee deep in making some card sets for Christmas presents and I thought that I needed to make several Thank You cards for the holidays.  I don't know about you but I write so many thank you cards during this season.  I needed to come up with something that was CAS and cute.  So  here is what I came up with.

I really liked how it turned out.  The colors are perfect for the holiday season!  I also love the Christmas twine from The Stringery.  It is just perfect for all your holiday projects.

supplies
stamps- paper smooches
ink- jenni bowlin
twine- the stringery

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I will be back tomorrow with the Moxxie blog hop!!  See you then!
Have a wonderful and crafty day!
mp

Thursday Sparks Challenge

Happy Thursday

How is your week going? So far so good here but I have to say I am totally ready for the weekend!

Can you tell lately that I am totally addicted to stamping, cardmaking etc.  I really am.  I am having so much fun and that is all that matters to me!  Don't get me wrong- I totally love my scrapbooking and will NEVER give it up But I have been needing a change.  Stamping is just up my alley right now!!

Last week I entered the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge and here is the prompt:

You can see all the details of the challenge HERE

Well, I was playing around with my stamps (I bought some new ones!) and I saw the adorable little bird and I thought I would enter the challenge again but with a different take on it.  For this card I did some paper piecing for my trees and hearts.  I then colored in my bird red using my Spectrum Noir markers. I then added some twine from The Stringery! I still included the basic colors of white, and grey but just in different manners.  I really like how  this turned out!  I like it even better than my first one -- seen HERE

supplies
cardstock- neenah solar white
markers- spectrum noir
stamps- paper smooches
ink- hero arts, memento
twine- the stringery
paper- imaginisce

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with the November Moxxie Blog Hop!  See you then!  Have a wonderful and crafty day!
mp

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Hope you are  having an awesome Halloween.The boys went out for Beggar's Night last night and even in the wind and rain they had a blast! Jack was invited to a little party and Michael only went out for about 20 minutes and then he was too cold but as long as they had fun then it is ok with me!

Today is Jack's Halloween party at school and at his school they are not allowed to bring in candy, food or treats.  So I made this cute adorable card for his classmates and then we attached a fun Halloween pencil.  For this card I started with a 4 inch base.  I then used my Silhouette and cut out this adorable little ghost.  I then heat embossed the fun little sentiment and then  wrapped some yummy Halloween twine from The Stringery!.  I then adhered it to the base and added some fun googly eyes.  Inside I stamped Happy Halloween.  Jack signed his name and then attached the pencil.  He was so excited to hand these out today.  I wish I could have been there!

supplies
cardstock, googly eyes- michael's
stamp- hero arts
twine- the stringery

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with a new project.  See you then!  Have a wonderful and crafty day!
mp

Tuesday Home Decor with Imaginisce

Happy Tuesday

How are things going?  So far so good here.I want to t hank everyone for the your kind words.  I am feeling much better.  The anitbiotics are awesome!

We are getting some of the side effects of Sandy here in Ohio and the wind is crazy and we actually are projected to get some snow flurries.  We are not supposed to get the craziness like the east Coast.  My thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the effected areas.  Since our weather has taken a turn it has been nice to come home from school, get in my comfy clothes and head on to the basement.  I actually have been getting in some more crafty time and I have been loving this!!

I had some fun news this past weekend.  I was asked to join a new digi stamp company The Stamping Shack  They have the cutest digi stamps and I am so excited!  I love to color and I am so glad that I have decided to get back into it!  I want to thank Annette over at My Cleaver Creations.  She encouraged me to get back in the game and I am loving every minute of it.  I really look forward to creating some wonderful cards with their adorable and whimsy images.  If you haven't heard of them be sure to stop on by!

For my project today I have a fun and cute home decor piece.  I used the adorable Christmas collection from Imaginisce.  I made this piece for Cord Scrapbook Studio this past summer.  I had never made one of these wreath before but I really loved how it turned out!  I used a 4 inch square for the bottom row and then a 3 inch square for the top row.  I shaped them into cones and then hot glued them down.  I then cut out a 4 inch circle for the top and added the title Christmas Cheer using one of the awesome die cuts.    To hang it I added some coordinating ribbon.  I loved how it turned out and it was so easy to make!

supplies
everything is from Imaginisce except the ribbon (michael's)

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with a the Halloween cards that I made for my son to take to school.  See you then.  Have a wonderful and crafty day!
mp

Monday Noel

Happy Monday

How was your weekend?  Mine was OK.  Friday at school I wasn't feeling well .  I got into the doctor after school and I have an ear infection. Plus I had lost my voice. YUCK!  So other than my ear throbbing I had a great weekend.  It was rainy on Saturday and Jack's Lacrosse game was cancelled.  I actually was really happy about that because we all just hung out together versus all running here and there!  It was really quite nice.  Then Sunday hubby filled in for me at tennis.  I was not up to running around with my ear.  So I hung out at home and worked in my scrap room!   I LOVED it.

Over the summer I worked a lot on Christmas for Cord Scrapbook Studio.  I got to play with new awesome  collection from Imaginsce.  I always love their Christmas collections and this one did not let me down.  If you missed my layout from this collection you can see it HERE.  I  made this card using my scraps and one of the chipboard pieces.  I also added some gems and pearls using my IRock tool.  The card has one of my signature styles but I just love it!

supplies
everything is from Imaginisce

Have you started on your Christmas  cards yet?  I actually started them this weekend.  I will be sharing them soon.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I will be back tomorrow with another project from this collection.   See you then! Have a wonderful and crafty day!
mp

Saturday CAS Challenge

Happy Weekend!

Hope you are having a great weekend.  I am getting some crafty time in so it is all good!  I finished up some work and then I got to get out some fun supplies and start on some little projects just for me.  The first on is a really fun challenge over at CAS-UAL Fridays.

The challenge is to create a CAS card using kraft paper!  This is a challenge that I love!  I love my kraft!  Go HERE to check out all the details and to get some inspiration.

For this challenge I broke out my new stamp set from Paper Smooches, added some Christmas paper and added a little scalloped border in kraft.  Finally I had some pearls and colored them with my Spectrum Noir markers so that they would match the project.

supplies
cardstock- neenah solar white
gems- hobby lobby
paper- little yellow bicycle
stamps- paper smooches
ink- hero arts
tools- ek success border punch

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  See ya soon!  Have a wonderful and crafty day!
mp