Heartfelt Creations Tag: Needed to Repreive Myself

I thought the card I did earlier this evening was just plum pitiful...so I really needed to work a little a reprieve myself.  I think overall I did with this tag for the Heartfelt Creations challenge over at Joan's Garden. 

I used all types of products including:

Waxy Flax - Close To My Heart

Tim Holtz embossing folder

Tim Holtz distress Inks

Of course...Heartfelt Creations Stamps and die cuts for Spellbinders

One of my new staples : Gold Smooch

Copics

Cardboard Letters from Swirlydoos

and some of primas yummy pearls.

Hope you think a bit more of me after this project than the one before, LOL. 

Winter White Card

So, you see there are a lot of challenges right now using an all winter white color scheme...so I thought I would give it a try.  Do you have any idea how hard all white cards really are?  This is my first attempt and I think I'll need to keep trying....just not loving this card, but I hope it will inspire you to give an all white card a try...it really is a challenge.

This card qualifies for the following challenges.

At Joans Gardens : Heartfelt Creations
Flourishes : White
Charisma Cards: Sketch
Simon Says Stamp and Show : Holiday Greetings
Spoon Full of Sugar : Christmas Card
Paper Play : monochromatic
Stamping Sisters in Christ : White with a splash of red

Heartfelt Card Challenge

So there is some light snow on the ground today, so in my book that equals = stay in and craft :).  This is a simple card I did using Heartfelt Creations Sunflower stamp and Nestie Die / Blossom 2.  Don't you just love the way the two work together to create an easy but stunning flower. 

This card qualifies for the following challenges:

Simon Says Sketch Challenge
Stamp and Create : Holiday Card
Joans Garden : Heart Felt Creations

Plenty for Twenty..Just in time for the Holidays

This is the season that it's time to give and sometimes get. During December if you place a $20 order on my website for anything...you'll get a FREE D Size retired stamp set from Close To My Heart.  Corporate will hand pick you a special set and include it with your order free of shipping, tax and handling...they'll just throw it in as a gift to you.  WOW...the retail value of the stamp set is $22.95, so how can you go wrong. 

Click Here to head over to my website and check out all the goodies we have to help you complete your holidays layouts or even cards.  You'll fall in love for sure. 

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me  (lorileng@bellsouth.net) ...Hugs, Lori

Everybody's Doing it: Tags , Do you love a challenge/

Challenge: Make it Sparkle



So you have to admit, tags are so darn hot for the holiday season, right?  You can check out Tim Holtz's blog everyday and see so many new techniques that he teaches using tags...and you can play along with various challenges for blogs using tags. 

One that you have to go check out if you haven't already is SWIRLYDOOS. First I think their store is amazing, I mean amazing.  Their gallery has great inspiration on it, forum is a lovely place to chat with other papercrafting lovers and their blog is sure to keep you up on everything.  This month on their blog they are running the 25 Tags of Christmas.  Everyday they have a different challenge to make a tag, and link it back to their post.  They choose a winner by random generator and everyday someone wins ones of these fabulous prima christmas ornaments boxes, valued at $29.95.



I encourage each of you to jump into the festive season and start playing along.  It's super easy, inspiring and FUN! and you might just win.  I've included some of the tags I've made for the contest so far...it's just on day four so you have plenty of time to get on board and discover SWIRLYDOO'S.




Challenge : Monochromatic Red or Green





Challenge : What does Christmas Mean to You

Challenges These Tags Meet:
Creative Inspirations : Christmas Gifts
Wild Orchid: Victorian / Tag 3
Creative Inspirations : Christmas Decorations no cards
Fussy and Fancy : Anything but a card
Bunny Zoe's Crafts: Anything but a card
Really Reasonable Ribbon: Anything but a card / Tag 1 or 2

Close To My Heart December Blog Hop : AMORE

Welcome to December's Close To My Heart, Stamp of the Month, Blog Hop!  What a mouthful, LOL.  If you just joined us from Judy's blog then you're on the right path.

This month's stamp set has so many versatile uses and with Valentines Day right around the corner, it's a must.  I random stamped the back of my card using the top portion of the larger heart.  The sentiment is from this collection.  The flower was made using the stamp set too.  I just took the smaller heart and used the top third and stamped it in a line along the edge of a piece of cardstock.  Then I cut out the scalloped edge and added some cocoa ink to the edges with a sponge dauber for depth.  Next I punched out a circle from my CTMH circle punch and started working the flower.  With a heavy drop of glue in the center of the circle I twisted and folded the scalloped border into a rose.  Once I had it completed the shape I wanted I held it in place for a minute or two for the glue to set...and bang...I've had an adorable flower.  I added some mocha opaques to the center and you had a beautiful embellishment.  You can easily do this for your card or layout. 

If you would like to pick up your AMORE stamp set for a discounted price or even free...feel free to check it out on my website http://www.lorileng.myctmh.com/ or email me lorileng@bellsouth.net for more information.

Now it's time for the creativity to continue...HOP ON OVER TO LAURIE'S BLOG and see what wonderful creation she has imagined up for you.  Also please be sure to leave some blog love if you enjoyed this post...it's always nice to get feedback.

Thank you Heartfelt Creations

A couple of months ago I was so blessed by Heart Felt Creations...I won their whole monthly line for leaving a comment on their blog. I was so pumped and then came vacation, Halloween and now Thanksgiving...can you believe I'm so horrible that I hadn't made a thank you card yet with the beautiful stamp set/ and nesties they sent me.  So tonight my project was to make a long overdue card. 

These are the challenges this card qualifies for:

2Sketches4you : Sketch

Flower Soft : Thank you

Simon Says: Snow

Stamp Something : Thank you

A Spoon Full of Sugar : Anything Goes

Paper Take Weekly: Cut it out

Alota : Christmas

Crafty Catz: Christmas

Craft Your Day's Aways: Texture

Crafty Creations: Christmas

SNOW

This is a layout I created using My Mind's Eye new Christmas Line " Dear Santa".  I cut multiple snowflakes using my good ole Cricut and then folded and layered to create a 3-d snowflake.  I then used Diamond Dust to the edges of the paper, snowflakes and some of the embellishments to add that snowy sparkle.  I adore the picture I used for this layout.  It's of my husband and our youngest son several winters ago...and I thought it was so cool the way the snow really shows up in the picture.  It looks like it was some type of effect I added using the computer, but it isn't.  This was the actual picture.

Close up of 3-d Snowflakes

Diamond Dust added to Chipboard Letters

I hope everyone is having a blessed Thanksgiving and are getting to be with loved ones....don't eat to much turkey :)

Exploring Websters Pages

I've loved Webster's Pages Paper for some time, but just it's just been one of those lines you tend to save instead of breaking it out and using it.  So with the journey I'm on to really explore my scrapbooking skills, I thought...now is the time to use that paper up...and so I've started.  This is the first layout I've done using Webster's Pages and I love it.  Once you get past the whole...don't cover up anything beautiful...then you'll find you have a wonderful creation with lots of layers.

Detail of Layered Ribbon and Handmade Flowers

This layout qualifies for the anything goes challenge over at Beary Scraps.

For My Friend...Pavlo

This is a layout I did for a friend of the family...Pavlo.  He is such a wonderful person and moved here from the Ukraine several years ago with his wife, brother and children in tow.  Recently his mother passed away and he and his brothers flew back home to attend the funeral.  It really struck me how difficult it would be to loose your parents and be a world away.  I'm so blessed that I can drive down the road and be at my Mom's in five minutes.  So I started thinking what could I do for them...I was going to bake something, but their wives are some of the best bakers you would ever want to meet...so not such a great idea.  A card just didn't seem enough since I hold them in such high regard...and then I thought I would make a memory scrapbook page that I could frame and they could hang up in their shop...a reminder of their sweet mother who raised such strong Godly men.  So this is what I presented them with and I think they loved it. 

I used some of the Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology and Tim Holtz Distress inks as the base page.  Then I water distressed...something new I'm so LOVING...Prisma flowers were used around the picture...OH and I did use the new Photoshop Elements 9 to do a little doctoring to the picture.  Really this is just layers upon layers with paper, sewing, flowers, embellishments and more than anything LOVE.  I truly have been so blessed as of late by SwirlyDoo's, they have inspired me to really take my scrapping to a new level and I believe it shows.  Many of the products I used you can pick up at Swirlydoos and do be sure to check out their gallery also.