Monday? Already?

Wow, where did the weekend go?  I can't believe it's Monday once again!  A quick H{ippity} hop post this morning with an altered frame I made for a friend, using the "Now and Always" set and the "Devoted" set.   My Mind's Eye paper, stickle, paint, buttons and lace (and a bit of sanding)  finish off this project.

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I just can't wait to see it hit 50!

As always, the full list of wonderful participants can be found on the {ippity} blog!

Button up!

Here's a bit of stampin for a challenge over at Our Creative Corner. The challenge was simply to use buttons on our cards...a wonderful challenge for me cause I'll take any excuse to reach for my beloved button jar! I used some vintage chatterbox for the background and several {ippity} stamp sets to complete this card. A couple buttons and twine were the perfect finish! Thanks for stopping by! If you're looking for the {ippity} hop...it's just one post down!

Couldn't sleep last night...

I suppose it might have had something to do with the Sabres loosing to the Ottawa Senators (Grrrrr!) Oh well, I spent my time wisely and got a few more of this week's challenges done for 365 cards. This first one was for day# 340. The challenge was to have a heart be the dominant shape on the card so of course I automatically thought of the "Straight from the Heart" {ippity} set. I used the large heart on the background paper (which is the back side of the cool rose paper in the card below), colored the tree image with copics and chalks and then added glossy accents to the "heart" leaves.



The second card I made was for day# 338, the color scheme challenge - that's right, purple, pink, red and white...I fell in love with this piece of prima paper and just had to use it on this card! The hearts are from the "Devoted" set and are embossed with ranger Adirondack embossing powder in eggplant, with a touch of a white gel pen and some distress ink. I used the background stamp from the "Because of You" set on the strip of pink cardstock and the sentiment from the "Straight from the Heart" set is stamped with white SU! craft ink. Wow, that's alot of {ippity!}! The card base is simply embosed with the swiss dot embossing folder and sanded.



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First H{ippity} hop of February!

Good morning everyone and happy Ground Hog Day Eve! Are you having fun with the hop yet? Getting loads of inspiration? For this week's hop, i played with the "Because of You" and "Devoted" sets, both of which can be found right here. The patterned paper I used is a beautiful new line by KaiserCraft - I had some scraps left over from a make and take at CHA. This first card is based on a sketch from Stamp TV. I used my favorite embossing powder - the verdigris finish was perfect with the birdcage stamp and was a great match with the papers:



The second card was made for the {ippity}Challenge this week, which was to make a shaped card. I used the opportunity to pull out my new "on the edge" Tim Holtz die to create the shape. Tim was passing these out at the Sizzix booth, and autographing each one. They're very cool and I can't wait till all of them come out. Now that I'm looking at this card closer, I'm thinking I need to add a bit of micro beads to the centers of the flowers!



Now it's time to hop on over to the next blog - you can find the links to this week's participating blogs over at the {ippity} blog!

A dollar store alteration

I spent the evening last night having fun in my craft room, making a present for a friend. (After spending a thoroughly enjoyable 2 1/2 hours watching the Sabres beat the Maple Leafs) I painted, I sanded, I distressed and I crackled... You see I bought this wooden frame from the dollar store ages ago, ( I know it says $2/6, but it was a $1-really) thinking I would make something with it someday...



When I first saw the "Devoted" kit, I thought it would make an adorable wall hanging. When I dug these frame out of my stash, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. First, I altered the frame: white acrylic paint, vintage photo distress ink, crackle accents and some sanding, produced the exact effect I wanted. I covered the backing that came with the frame with some adorable Cosmo Cricket paper from the Earth Love line, and then I added my stamped images. The tree is stamped on grungepaper, cut out and inked, the house is stamped, colored with copic markers and elevated with pop dots. The sentiment is cut out with nestabilities, label # 4, then detailed with some chalk and distress ink. I attached the metal hangers (oh how I miss Daisy D's!) and finished it off with some Ribbon accents and buttons.

a word and a card.

Happy Saturday everyone! It's a beautiful, sunny day here in Jersey and I'm listening to some Simon and Garfunkel in honor of my "one little word" for 2010 - Harmony. What's yours?
Hubby's out for a while and the kids took a road trip to Buffalo to visit family and friends so all is quite in the Ostrowski houshold...even Murphy doesn't seem to want to wake up this morning.



My son called this morning, he got a parking ticket (his first) and he's not happy. Then he called again - while going in to the 7-11 to get a money order to pay for aforementioned parking ticket, he locked his keys in the truck. (First time doing that too) I don't think he's having a very harmonious day, poor kid. I on the other hand am still in my robe, sipping coffee, listening to music and blogging away - a very good start to a peaceful weekend!

Sharing one of the things I made last night, another V-Day card, this one based on MojoMonday, sketch # 120. I am so lovin' that row of little hearts! I used the "Devoted" and "Straight from the Heart" {ippity} kits, some My Mind's Eye scraps, Nestabilities labels 3, and an old time tool called a "magic matter" to make the thin green mat around the label. Thanks for stopping by!

CAS?

So I found this cute sketch on the CPS Blog - #148, and I though to myself -perfect! time to make a CAS card, clean and simple - the idea that less is more, down and dirty, get 'er done, 10 minutes or less...yeah...didn't happen. By the time I was done embossing, sanding and glittering, more than 10 minutes had passed- a lot more. Oh well, I have a feeling this is about as close to CAS as I'm going to get. I used the adorable butterfly stamp from the "devoted" set by {ippity} and gave him a couple layers for dimension. (Shameless plug here: if you like the butterfly stamp, take a look at the rest of the set on my {ippity} blog!)