Fun Summer Purses Mem Dex Cards

 Hi everyone,

Hope you all are doing well today. Today I am bringing you some fun Memory Dex Cards (MDC) for summer. I have a few techniques you can use to create a stunning and fun mem-dex card for your craft swaps with your crafty friends or maybe something decorative for your rolodex. 

Here are the items I used from Clear Scraps. I am loving this 5x9 flower stencil. 

Purses Chipboard Dividers 3 pk.                             5x9 Flowers Layering Stencil

     

MDC 1 - 

For the first one trace just the purse portion of the mem dex divider and then adhere to the chipboard purse divider. 

Next I used some gold embossing powder to emboss the handle of the purse. I next placed some stickers from my stash to decorate the Mem Dex Card Divider. I used these cute stickers a Summer dress, sunglasses with some cute shoes and perfume are perfect for a cute summer look, and I added some beautiful flowers to finish it off.

MDC 2 - 

MDC 2 -

For the little clasp purse I placed gesso on top first. I used some clear gesso and let dry for few hours or you can dry with a heat tool.

For this one I painted with a lovely turquoise blue. Once this was dried I placed my stencil on and used a sponge applicator to apply versa mark on for embossing. 

I embossed with gold embossing powder and also embossed the two little round clasps. 

Here is the finished "So Chic" Mem dex divider. I just love how this one turned out. I really like the flowers stencil so versatile and fun to use. 

 

MDC 3 - 

For the last mem dex card divider I traced onto embossed paper, cut and adhered on to the chipboard purse. I did emboss the handle with gold first and then went over it in black embossing powder. 

Here is the 3rd chipboard mem dex purse finished. I used some chipboard flower pieces from my stash. 

Here are all three mem dex dividers finished. I just love how each one turned out.

I hope you enjoyed today's step by step tutorial sharing how to use some fun stencils to create these beautiful and fun Purses Chipboard Dividers using some of Clear Scraps products. I just had so much fun creating these. 

As always Thank You for joining me today. 

Happy Crafting my Friends, 

Shake It Up!!!

Good Morning all,

I am so excited to share with you all that Trinity Stamps is doing a Give Away for $25.
Currently I am in a Instagram Hop and would love to invite you to join in this fun Shaker Hop. Come on over leave a comment and follow me.
Here is the link to my Instagram - Creativelife_deborah

Here are a few cards I created using Trinity Stamps stamp and shaker bits. I created some happy birthday cards for my two of my daughter's that have birthdays coming up, and a card for a friend of mine.

Here are the items I used for my cards.

Challenges entered: 

Love To Scrap Challenge - Ch. #132 For the Girls

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. #628 Anything Goes

Through The Purple Haze - Ch. #166  Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by, looking forward to seeing you over at the Hop. 

Have a Great Day!

Deb 

Turning Green

Hi all,
Hope you are doing well. With the Covid virus upon us and everyone in a slump let's do some crafty projects to keep our spirits up. Over at International Art & Soul we are seeing "Green", LOL The intaas -  #79 challenge theme is "Use Green As Your Main Color" especially with Spring right around the corner and St. Patrick's Day coming along too.
Green is one of my favorite colors, however I don't use it very much in crafting. This challenge did take me over to pinterest to gain some inspiration.

I decided to create a card using my distress ink Peeled Paint, and I used a stamp I've had in my stash for a few years and never used. I know right, shame on me. hahhaaha
The stamp is from , I used versa mark and clear embossing powder and then inked around the image creating a light center and then going light again on the way out. After I did the inking I also used my stampendous  Fran-tage embossing powders around to give a little bit of glitter to the image. I used TH Industrious stickers, the corner pieces on the card and then used my green ribbon for my bow and backed it up with green cardstock from BoBunny, along with some black 'Thinking of you" stickers I had in my stash. Super easy peasy card took less than 10 minutes to create.

Challenges entered:

Crafter's Castle: March Challenge #27 - AG
Love To Scrap Challenge: Ch. #131 - AG
The Creative Crafters: Challenge #26 - AG

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I hope you get to stop by and check out the rest of the inspiration over International Art & Soul Challenge Blog - intaas -  #79 challenge theme is "Use Green As Your Main Color"

Have a great and wonderful Day

& 

Happy Crafting! 😍

Christmas in July with International Art & Soul

Good Day All,

I am a bit late with my post, I apologize. Today I am sharing my Christmas in July card I created for the new Challenge at International Art & Soul Challenge #62.  I love Christmas in July even though I am totally not ready for Christmas, but it's kind of fun to start creating our Christmas cards and getting into the spirit. However, I know this is the only month I will think of it and then I will turn towards the next crafting project and forget about my Christmas cards until it's too late. lol 

For my card I created a  little easel card it measures 4 1/8 x 5 1/2. I used white cardstock as my base, then used burgundy cardstock as a  mat and placed Heartfelt Creations Snow Kissed Collection dp on top. After I had everything placed I looked through my stash and found a super cute stamp & die set by Art Impressions (Hampton Art) it has these cute snowmen w/snowflakes and dies to cut them out. 

Once I  cut out my snowman and snowflakes I added glitter to the snowflakes stamped in a light blue, and added glitter to the snowman body and around his clothes. I also added a bit of glitter to the branches and snow mounds. 

 Easel card standing up. 

For this card I am entering the following challenges: 

jingle belles: Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge (below is the card showing what to do to get 3 in a row - I did a snowman, glitter and stamping.)

 

Crafty Calendar Challenge - July Challenge/ Christmas in July

Crafty Cardmakers: #237 Dies or Punches 

I hope you can join in the fun Christmas in July Challenge just click on the link  - International Art & Soul Ch. #62 Christmas in July. I know you will be inspired by our design team and others who have joined in the fun. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Crafty Day.

Deb ~

Halloween In Pink

 Hi Ya!!!

How's your weekend going? Mine is going pretty good. It was so lovely today in Texas just beautiful. I hope you all are okay where ever you are and to all my crafty friends in Florida I am praying for you all.  

Today I am up at Really Reasonable Ribbon, yep, I created another Halloween card but in different colors. I thought this would be a fun and challenging creation.  Especially when I saw a few challenges that wanted a pink Halloween card or project. I had to take on the challenge. :D 

For my card I used one of the pink diamond satin ribbons from the Pretty Pink Diamond Satin Assortment and the spider web black satin ribbon. 

For this card I used spiderweb embossing folder. I embossed the Witch Hat from Graphic 45 stamp Happy Haunting in pink and embossed the the little stars in the sky. I fussy cut the little bats that are from another stamp in my stash and placed them around the Pink Witch Hat image. I created a beautiful pink bow using the pink diamond satin ribbon with the Bow it All V3.0 Tool. I also used the rest of my Spider web ribbon it's behind the my image. I also used an edge punch for the bottom layer of my card. 

Supplies:

Reasonable Ribbons - spider web black satin ribbon and  Pretty Pink Diamond Satin Assortment
Stamps - Graphic 45 stamp - Happy Haunting
Paper - Recollections - Midnight Magic
Inks - Distress inks picked raspberry; black memento ink; distress inks - faded jeans & chipped sapphire; copics
Accessories - Spider embossing folder, Fleur De Lis edge punch; embossing powerder clear and pink; crystal stickles; 

Challenges entered:
Simon Says: Halloween Inspiration; Wednesday Challenge Blog
Crafty Ribbons Challenge: Challenge #170 Halloween Colours
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: SOSS #69 - P is for Pink Halloween
Crafty Gals Corner: Challenge #92 - Punches/Die Cuts
Crafty Creations Challenge: #325 Halloween
Crafty By Designs: October Anything Goes
Mojo Mondays - The blog mojo mondays #469 Contest

Thank you so much for stopping by today I really appreciate you all. I would like to invite you over to Really Reasonable ribbons to get more inspiration from my teamies and to join our fun Halloween Challenge follow the link -  Really Reasonable Ribbons Challenge Halloween. 

Have a great weekend

Hugs

Deborah xxx

Happy Halloween

Hi Ya!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful week. Today is a new challenge over at Really Reasonable Ribbons our theme - Halloween!! Yep, so you get to share all your spooky ghoulish creations with us, How FUN IS THAT!! :D

So of course I used the Too Cute To Spook ribbon assortment for the Halloween Tag I created. I just couldn't help it. I used the spider web black satin ribbon with the beautiful double faced satin tangerine.   If you haven't got these awesome ribbons yet, you gotta get them. They are just beautiful and so great to use for your Halloween projects. I also used a TH Stamp and numbers along with Recollections Halloween paper and some die cuts.

 Such a fun tag for Halloween. I stapled the spider web ribbon on small stamped tag.

I embossed the stamped image with black embossing poweder and used

 TH inks around my image. I wanted to give it like a sunset type of look. 

And with spider webs on the stamp I had to use the spider web ribbon. Right??? 

I fussy cut the little sentiment on the top popped it up with 3D adhesives and I fussy 

cut the scary pumpkin on the bottom. The fence is a cut from my cricut. For my 

background I used Anna Griffith die spider web die cut and a spider from 

the collection. I added black stickles to the spider. 

I love how it all came together. 

Supplies:
Reasonable Ribbons - spider web black satin ribbon and double faced satin tangerine
Stamps - TH stamper Anonymous - x-ray collage  Halloween
Paper - TH paper ;Recollections Halloween paper; Ranger Manila tag; TH distress watercolor cardstock
Inks - Distress inks dried marigold, mustard seed
Accessories - Anna Griffith Dies - spider web and spider; Cricut image - fence w/crow; TH Ideaology - alpha-parts Ransom; black embossing powder and black stickels

Challenges entered:
Simon Says: Halloween Inspiration; Wednesday Challenge Blog
Crafty Ribbons Challenge: Challenge #170 Halloween Colours
Crafting With An Attitude: Challenge 20
Crafty Gals Corner: Challenge #92 - Punches/Die Cuts
Crafty Creations Challenge: #325 Halloween
Crafty By Designs: October Anything Goes

Thank you so much for stopping by today I really appreciate you all. Head on over to Really Reasonable Ribbons Challenge Halloween to join us for the Fun Halloween Challenge. You can also see what fun creations my teamies have for you.

Have a great weekend

Hugs

Deborah xxx

Create A Beautiful World - TH 12 Tags of 2016 February

Good Day All,

Hope you are having a good weekend. It's been good here, nothing really new, just been playing around in my crafty area. I have a few things to share with you all today and so here is the first post. Ohhhh, yes, it's the first post of the day. lol

I wanted to join in the TH 12 Tags of 2016 for February. I just love the techniques he uses and shares with us every month. This month was combining two different techniques together.


So for this months challenge Technique Remix here is what I made using what I had on hand.

Supplies:
Ranger - Craft tags; Liquid Platinum embossing powder; Texture Paste
Tim Holtz - Remnant Rubs - Botanical; Ephemera Pack - Thrift Shop; Idea-ology - Pen Nibs; Idea-ology - Foliage Flowers Leaves; Distress Markers - wild honey, broken china, mustard seed; Distress Inks - peeled paint; fores moss; vintage photo;
From Stash: Seam Binding - dyed with TH Distress inks - broken china and peeled paint;
Stencil from Momenta - Floral (used for my background and for the embossing)

My Version of the 

TH 12 Tags of 2016 - February

Here is sideview of the tag. 

Showing the raised embossing of the stencil pattern. 

Here is a close up of the seambinding I dyed using 

Distress Inks - broken china & peeled paint.

Also showing the Butterfly & the pen nib I used. 

Another close up of the raised embossed pattern with the Remnant Rubs and 

the metal Foliage Flowers Leaves .

I just loved how this tag turned out using the Botanical Remnant Rubs. I hope you all get are inspired to try this technique as well and check out Tim's blog for more idea's on how to use your supplies. 

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day. 

Hugs, 

Deborah xxx

One for the Men

Hi Ya'All, :D

Wow!! Great to  be back. I apologize for not keeping up to date with all my postings. I have let my blog posting slide a little......Okay, A Lot. I know it's not an excuse but it sort of is, "I am addicted to FaceBook. Yes, I admit it. I can't help it, I know I have a serious problem. And I need to really start setting a time limit on FB. So easy to get away from you and everyone has such "Awesome Ideas", the inspiration is just phenomenal and the Art work is just "Amazing".  So with that being said I am going to try to place my FB tag on the side, if I can figure it out cause we know how computer savvy I am, right?? Hahahaaa  I will be posting more this week as I have lots to post for you guys.

First things First, One Stitch At A Time Challenge #239 "Anything Goes With Men". Yep, Father's day is next weekend. Can you believe it??!! Oh gosh, time has gotten away from me.

Well for this card I used Doodle Boys paper pack by Panda Bear Designs, from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet Store I usually do an image with my cards, so this time I thought I'd just do paper only and a Happy Father's Day Stamp.

So here is my card - I just loved these papers, especially for Father's Day. Such great images and colors for Father's Day Cards, don't you think?

Inside of the card

Supplies:

Paper - StitchyBear Digital Outlet Store - Doodle Boys paper pack by Panda Bear Designs
Stamps - Father's Day Stamp from my stash (can't remember if it's SU stamp)
Accessories - TH distress ink - Tea Dye; Bronze embossing powder; From my stash - Buttons; MS metal corner pieces; and Spellbinders die - Fleur de lis Squares.

Challenges entered:
Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge Blog: Challenge 84, Anything Goes with a Twist...Make It Male
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: SoSS # 36 - D is for Dudes
Creative Corner Challenge: Just for Boys
Jo's Scrap Shack: FFC #92 - Father's Day
Simply Create Too:Ch #87 -Masculine 
Left of Center Creative Challenges: Challenge #82 For the Boys with Rick St. Dennis
Kitty Bee Designs: Aloha Friday Challenge #49 - Masculine/For The Boys

Well Hope you will join us for this fun Anything Goes with Men Challenge. I will be commenting this week so would like to see your creations posting on One Stitch At A Time. :D  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Hugs and Stay Crafty

Deborah xxx

Sending A Little Angel

Hi,

Today is the Mid-Post for Quirky Crafts Challenge - Clean and Simple. Hope you can join us, if you haven't done so already.

I used Stitchy Stamp - Little Angel for this CAS card. I think this is the cleanest card I've ever done, even Cleaner then my last CAS card. Still hard for me not to add bling, stickles and glossy accents to my image. I kept grabbing my stickles, and then reminding myself I cannot add details. lol

Well here it is, hope you like it.

Supplies:

Stamp: Stitchy Stamps - Little Angel

Paper: Neenah white cardstock

Ink:Copics

Accessories: Versa mark, black embossing powder; 

Challenges:

Sister Act Card Challenge: Challenge #88
Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog: Girly but no pink
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge: Challenge #1
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge Blog: Challenge #57 Anything Goes

Please head over to Quirky Crafts to join in the fun "Clean and Simple" Challenge. :D Go over and take a look at what the Guest Designers and Design Team has created for your inspiration, please leave them some love.
Thank you for stopping by
Deborah xxx