Bear Hugs gift box

Hello Ai fans!  

Today I'm sharing a fun gift basket with you.

I've used Bear Hug Set (Sku#4361) on my box.

His little arms wobble when you "tweak" them.

You can find the Action Wobble 12 Pack (Sku#4266) here.

I filled the gift bag with a bunch of chocolate treats .

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Decorated wine bottle

Well,  I did it!
I got off Pinterest and actually made something that I pinned!!

I've seen lots of repurposed/upcycled wine bottles and knew that I wanted to try something like that.  I've been sick of my fireplace mantel lately and wanted to update the items on it.

Here's what I came up with.

I covered the bottle with some burlap and hemp string.  I also added some pearls, rhinestones and lace.  

The flower was made with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die.  I used several different random pieces of fabric I had lying around.  I added an antique looking button as well as two hat pins.

For a first try,  I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out.

If you're like me and having been pinning stuff for "someday" I highly recommend setting down the laptop and giving something a try.  I was proud of myself when I finished this.

Bad day in progress...

Hello Ai Fans! Today I'm sharing a fun card with you. My card features FLAMINGO SET (#4192) This card is a little outside my comfort zone...It's pretty bold, but I had a lot of fun making it.  I am a huge animal lover so the Art Impressions ZOO CREW is a favorite line of mine.

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I Brake For Dessert!

Hello IBFS fans!!  Today I'm sharing a card with such a funny verse on it.  I needed to make my mother-in-law a birthday card and I thought she'd get a kick out of it.  The verse is called Live For the Day.

All of my dies are from Spellbinders.

I made the pin myself.

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PTT#35 Anything Goes!

This is my second post of the day.  Please scroll

down for my Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge post.

Hello everyone!  It's so good to be back!

I've been out of commission lately due to some 

massive flooding in my community.  We were without 

power, internet, phone, etc. for around a week.

I was one of the lucky ones.  You can scroll through my 

recent posts to see some of the photos if you're interested.

This weeks sponsors:

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Winner will receive a Gilli Goodie Bag

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One winner will receive a Creative Vision Clear Stamp set!

Thanks so much to our fabulous sponsors for letting the Party Planners showcase your products!

Now, on to the good stuff.  I've created two projects today.

The first is a card using an adorable princess from Gilli Stamps.

I gave this card to my boss at school.  She just had her first Grandchild about 3 months

ago and I thought she could use this for her first birthday.

My next project is a bookmark made using the 

"Bee" Happy sentiment from Creative Vision.

Thank you for your kindness

When I saw this sentiment from Rubbernecker stamps I thought it was very pretty.  I got to play around with a few new tools on this card.  I love butterflies and I just got the Cuttlebug die with matching embossing folders and the Sizzix Sizzlet butterfly die a couple of weeks ago.  They're close enough in size that I thought they looked nice layered with each other.  This was my first attempt at a zigzag card.  I thought it was a lot of fun to work with this style card.  I found the instructions on Francis Byrne's blog.

Card makings:

Martha Stewart border punches

Cuttlebug butterfly die

Sizzix butterfly die

ribbon

pins

metal tag

stickles

felt

Once Upon A Time

My sister has asked for an Anniversary card for her Mother and Father-In-Law. I believe this is 51 years for them but I'm not positive. I had just picked up some very pretty stamps in the A.C. Moore dollar bin and thought they'd be perfect for what I had in mind for their card. The two stamps were "once upon a time" and "home is where your heart lives". The Happy Anniversary is from PSX. I used the 'Aged Sheet Music Scrapblock for the background. On the front I stamped it in Versafine Black Onyx and on the inside where I knew my sister would be writing I used Stampin' Up's Going Gray. All of the mattes were cut with Spellbinder's Nestabilities and the flower swirl is from Cuttlebug. The beautiful roses on the front are from Stampin' Up and they are colored with a combination of Copic markers and watercolor pencils. The corners on the inside and out were cut from an EK Success Paper Shapers punch.