Fun Friday with Timeless Twine!

Happy Friday, everyone!  Today it's Fun Friday over on the Timeless Twine blog, and we're asked to think outside the box and do something we don't normally do.  I do some altered art, although not a lot recently, but when I saw this cupcake, I knew I HAD to work with it for my Valentine's decorations.

I think it turned out so fun and colorful with the "sprinkles" on top of the cupcake!

Thought I'd share some more pics of this project with you:

I forgot to take a photo of the front of the cupcake before I started painting it, so I just flipped it over so you could see the base.

I used acrylic paints when painting this and was sure to cover my craft area with newspaper.

Supplies Used
Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Bright Red, Pure Pink, and White
Bella Creationz Clearly Beautiful Loose Mixed sequins
Bella Creationz Metallic Poppin' Pink sequins--coming soon!
Bella Creationz Metallic Raspberry Pink sequins
Bella Creationz White Frost sequins--coming soon!
Pink glitter from stash
The Rubber Cafe Scraphappy Sheer Glue
Timeless Twine Strawberry Cupcake

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope wherever you are that you're nice and toasty warm!  Have a great weekend!

Pinterest Christmas inspiration

I know Christmas was just a couple of months ago, but I'm trying to get a jump on my cards for 2015.  For my card, I used this card I found on Pinterest for my inspiration:

Here's my interpretation:

Supplies Used

Creative Imaginations Loolah Self-adhesive Rhinestones

Cuttlebug Christmas Countdown embossing folder

Ranger Archival Ink in Red Geranium

Ribbon and cardstock from stash

Sizzix Framelits Die Set--Fancy Labels

The {Stamps} of Life sentiment--Club Exclusive

Challenges Entered

Christmas Cards All Year 'Round February Challenge--Red & white

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long--Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs--White on White with a TOUCH of Color

Quick Quotes Friday Challenge 48--Use red & white

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' February Card Challenges--Anything Goes

Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog Challenge #26--Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy scrapping!

Hap-hap-happiest Christmas

I hope it's nice and toasty warm where you are!  On Saturday, we had seventy degree temperatures here in Arkansas, then Sunday the temperature dropped over forty degrees and brought with it sleeet and snow.  BRRR!!!  My husband and son have both had snow days from school the past two days, so I've spent some time in my scrap room.

I really liked this week's sketch at Mojo Monday

and created this Christmas card

Supplies Used

Bella Creationz Metallic Silver Stars sequins

Brad from stash

DCWV the Mrs. Claus's Kitchen Stack

Pink & Main Christmas Quotes stamp set

Ranger Archival Ink in Red Geranium

Wood veneer from stash

Challenges Entered

Allsorts Challenge Blog Week 298--Any Occasion than Birthday

Craft Your Passion Challenge 249--Always Anything Goes

Mojo Monday--Sketch 385

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' February Card Challenges--Bonus Christmas (must use stars)

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy scrapping!

We go together

like PB&J!  My husband and I, that is!  LOL!  One of my goals this year is to use some of the many stamp sets I have that have never seen ink, so I decided to pull out this one to make my husband a Valentine's Day card this year.  I used this sketch from ShowCASe Your Style:

Here's my final card:

Supplies Used

Bella Creationz Metallic Plum Purple sequins

Crayola colored pencils

Kraft and Purple cardstock from stash

Ranger Archival Ink in Coffee and Jet Black

Studio G purple ink

The {Stamps} of Life pb&j2enjoy and hearts2love stamp sets

Timeless Twine Chocolate Chip Brownie

Challenges Entered

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' February Card Challenge--Anything Goes

ShowCASe Your Style Challenge #8--Sketch

Simply Create Too Challenge #79--Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge #93--Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy scrapping!

Stick It Down February Card Team reveal

It's time for the Stick It Down Card Team reveal for February!  Here's the sketch for this month:

One of the February Card Challenges in the Yahoo group Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' is colorful, and I thought this sketch lent itself to that challenge perfectly!

Once I found the cute rainbow stickers in my stash, everything else came together very quickly.  The colored squares are cut at 1x1.

Supplies Used

Cardstock from stash

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder

Jillibean Soup Watermelon Gazpacho Soup 6x6 mini pad

Jolee's Boutique Rainbow & Cloud Repeats stickers

Timeless Twine Key Lime Sorbet

You've got until February 28 to get your creation linked up on the Stick It Down blog.  Thanks for stopping by today!  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

planNERD Sunday at Timeless Twine!

Today I'm here with the first planNERD Sunday of February from Timeless Twine!  If you use a daily or monthly planner and you're looking for some stamp sets to help decorate your planner, Bella Creationz has some WONDERFUL ones!  I've never decorated my planner before, so this will be a work in progress.

I use a Daytimer planner with monthly and daily pages:

As you can see, the inside pages of the planner are rather plain.  Thought I would dress them up a little!

I really love the pictures and quotes on the monthly divider pages, but I thought they were a little plain.  I spruced up February's page by outlining the large flower with Raspberry Pink Timeless Twine and adding a few Sparkly Clear sequins from Bella Creationz.

I also added some Aqua Blue and Purple Passion Timeless Twine to the monthly calendar page and used the planNERD and planNERD 2 stamp sets from Bella Creationz to quickly put in some deadlines for the month so I could see things at a glance.

I also used Metallic Silver Stars sequins from Bella Creationz to mark off the projects that I'd completed.  My daily pages are still a work in progress, but here's my page from yesterday:

Just a few simple stamps from the planNERD and planNERD 2 sets makes a world of difference!  I really like the "Hydrate" stamp with the glasses at the bottom, as I'm planning to start keeping up with my water intake, but I'm going to have to find an ink color that's a little darker.

I LOVE the "Project" stamp!  It reminds me of all the places I need to make sure my projects get to once they're finished and published on my blog.

Supplies Used

I'm really looking forward to doing some more embellishing in my planner.  I never knew decorating a planner could be so much fun!  I hope you all have a great week!  Happy scrapping!

Throwback Thursday with Timeless Twine

Welcome to Throwback Thursday with Timeless Twine!  Ashley here from Marine Life's Scrappin' Life with the first Throwback Thursday project of February.  For Timeless Twine, Throwback Thursday means the Design Team picks a project we made previously and makes it even better!  We'll be showing before and after pictures so you can see the difference.

I went through my card stash to see if I had something I could rework to make it better, and I came across this card I made for Valentine's Day:

I knew I could probably make this better, so I pulled out some cardstock, Stickles, and my Strawberry Cupcake Timeless Twine, and Happy Days stamp set and went to work!  It turned out like this:

I just love the pink & red combination of the Strawberry Cupcake Timeless Twine!  The inside sentiment is from the "Happy Days" stamp set from Bella Creationz.

I know you've all got projects out there that you weren't totally happy with, so drag one of them out and rework it.  You never know what you'll come up with!  Thanks for stopping by!  Happy scrapping, everyone!