Mad Scientist Tag- Featuring Creative Cafe' - Kit Monster Bash

Hi Everyone!  This month's Creative Café kit has endless possibilities for all your Halloween creations!  This week, I'm working with the add-on set called Monster Lab!  I just love the Mad Scientist in this kit, and couldn't help but feature him in my first project this month.

I decided to make a tag and got out my Silhouette Cameo, and all my distress inks to help create the fun elements of my tag.  Here's a quick look!

Be sure to head on over to my post today at The Rubber Cafe'- to see the techniques behind this tag.

 

 

Using Diecuts to Create a Layered Card around Negative Space

I love using punches and die cutting in my card and paper crafting projects - I'd have to say it's an addiction with me!  So I'm always looking for different ways that I can do just that to create a simple card.
Here's my card today - I saw this idea awhile ago watching uTube, and decided to give it a try with today's card.

I used a Nestabilities die to create my window or negative space however you could achieve the same with a punch or even a x-acto knife.  The key is to pop-up the top portion of the piece with the window and layer behind it another piece of white card stock the same size.  Giving you dimension and an element to work around on your front layer.

 see the rest of my post over at the Rubber Cafe' here!

You Make me Happy!

Hi Everyone! 
Today I'm sharing  a card from the last months' kit -   I just love the phrases from he add-on set last month, and I also played around with creating a distress ink background.

To start here's my card:

 

To see the rest of the post head on over to the Rubber Café here

 

Farm Fresh Diorama Card- Creative Cafe' - Kit for August

Greetings Everyone! -

This month's kit is a fun one and today I have a Diorama card for you that works just perfect with all the scene building stamps in the Home Grown and add-on Farm Fresh stampsets.

 

Here's a look at my finished card...

If you've never seen these or made one before - they are so great for providing layers to your card, yet still allow you to fold flat for mailing!  Head on over to my Rubber Cafe' post here and see how I put this together!

 

Too Much Sun- Citrus Wreathe

It's the weekend again - and I'm back to share another card using our latest kit from the Creative Cafe's- Too Much Sun!

Today I decided to make a wreathe out of the lemons!  You know what they say when life gives you lemons... well I made a wreathe instead of lemonade.

 

 To see how I put this card together - head on over to the Rubber Cafe' blog here!

 

 

Creative Cafe'-Toomuch sun Card set and box

Hi Everyone!  Happy Saturday..   Today I have a quick post to share - these are some fun and easy note cards I made using this month's Creative Cafe' kit- Too Much Sun!. 

 

Today I'm featuring the add-on set;  The Perfect Sentiment, and I just love this set- and perfect it is for these everyday greeting cards, using the sentiment "best wishes".   

 

Here's a look at all 4 of my cards together. They are a perfect 3x4 note card- using the gorgeous solid card stock from the kit and mounted on a white card.

 

 

see the rest of my post over on The Rubber Cafe' blog here!

Bold & Beautiful Tote- striped Crochet tote

Hi - I hope everyone had a safe and happy 4th of July!  Today I'm moving away from a paper crafting project, and instead thought I'd share bright bold crocheted tote I just finished up!
I've been working on it over the last few weeks- it's been easy to pick up and work away at while I watched TV - I've been super busy at work, and with the long days, it's been something nice to work on to clear my head before going to sleep each night.

 

I got the pattern for this from Crochet World it's almost all of the same colors- but I also changed the pattern up in that I could not get clean straight vertical rows - like you see in the upper half of the bag on the original pattern from Crochet World - Aug 2014

  

 

now here's a look at mine- I used a lot of my yarn stash up, and what I purchased was Red Heart worsted wt.  I love the colors they used, but I did replace the Orange and Corals with Reds, that I purchased as I could not find the right colors.

 

You'll also noticed I did not do any of the vertical stripes, I found I could not get them to stay nice and straight and I think that is from the different types of yarns, some were softer then the Red Heart yarn, and made it challenging to keep the panels from getting wonky so I opted to keep all the stripes  horizontal.

 

a closeup of the rolled roses I made- I used to distract from my less than perfect joined rows.