Design Call Card

Hey, everyone!

The Angel Company put out a Design Call before the new catalog came out. As an Angel, I could submit cards using certain specified stamp sets. I submitted two cards but neither were chosen. It was still a lot of fun to play along! Here is the first one using Good Timber.

The inside reads:

Good timber does not grow with ease, the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. -J. Willard Marriott

I used my Clear Gel Pen for some shimmer on the trees and sentiment. It sparkles a lot in real life. I will show you the Wild For You card tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by!

Angel Hugs,

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

Hey, everyone!!
I wanted to thank my hostesses who have joined me for the 3 for 3 Hostess Club this year! It is so much fun to offer this each fall. This is my second year and I love it! I created a thank you card for each hostess. You can see it below:

I used the Willoughby cardstock and designer paper pack to create this card. The stamps are all from The Angel Company. The branch stamp is from Good Timber, the sentiment is from Tag Tidbits and the pumpkin is from Sweet Goodies. I used the tag from the Willoughby collection and the design is based on a sketch from The Angel Company Idea Book.

I also made each hostess a sample card with a card kit (including stamped image) for them to create their own. This is a fun design with the ribbon. You can see the different designer paper here. This particular paper pack is retired but you can get two other paper packs similar to this.
Do you recognize the sentiment? I used the Pay With Purchase (PWP) stamp set that TAC offers in the front of the Idea Book. You can get this stamp for only $2.95 with any $30 purchase and it comes with holly and ivy, also.

These are just a couple different angles of the same card. The patterned paper piece is raised up with foam tape and the sentiment layer is also popped up on dimensionals. I hope you like it and that it inspires you to create something new and fun today! Leave me a comment with a link so I can check it out!

Hugs,

Card Class TODAY!!!!

Hey, everyone!

I made some thank you notes for my customers this month. I asked my daughter which ink to use with my new PWP stamp and she said Orangerie and I loved it! I grabbed some white cardstock, black cardstock and my now retired paper pack Finger Paints. I love the bright colors in that pack! This thank you card looks very fall-ish, huh? LOL This stamp is only $2.95 with any $30 order and while the Double the Fun Promotion is going on, you can purchase TWO PWP for every $30 order!
I am having a card class at my home today! There are six ladies coming and I am so excited! I can hardly wait! Here are the cards we will be making.

The card on the left is using the Good Timber stamp set and Burnt Umber Palette Hybrid Ink. The designer paper is Amberley Grace.

The card on the right features the Sweet Goodies and Tag Tidbits stamp sets. I stamped the "box image" in Burnt Umber and the sun image and sentiment in Orangerie Palette Hybrid Ink. The designer paper is Amberley Grace as well. I used my circle punch and two scalloped square punches. All is available from The Angel Company.

These are the other two cards we're making today! I used the Gerbera Daisy stamp for the focal image. I stamped it in L'Amore Red and Viridian Leaf Palette Hybrid Ink. The sentiment is from Build-A-Flower and I stamped it in the same ink colors.
The card on the right is another Amberley Grace designer paper card. I stamped stars from the Wild West stamp set and the Just A Note sentiment is from Tag Tidbits. All can be purchased from TAC.

If you would like to purchase a card kit for these four cards, leave me a comment or e-mail me at hoosier_card_angel@yahoo.com and I will be happy to get these mailed out to you. The cost is $10 for the kit if you are local and can meet me for pick up. If you would need these mailed out it would be $10 plus shipping costs. I do accept paypal but no credit cards please.

Have a great day!

Hugs,

THREE FOR YOU!

Hey, everyone!

Thursday night started a flurry of activities that was just the beginning of a full weekend of running! Do you have times like that where you feel like you meet yourself coming and going? I did manage to get in a little crafting time. I needed some help on each of these projects; something was just missing! My friend, Christina, came to my rescue once more! She's such a great friend...if you know her you love her and if you don't you're really missing out! She's awesome!!! She is busy with things of her own and yet she still finds the time to help me out again and again! So, thank you, Christina for helping me!!!!

The first card is a birthday card for my cousin who celebrated her birthday February 28. I hope she likes it. I am in the green mood since it's March now and I always think of St. Patrick's Day and the colors that go with that. The stamp set is ICE CREAM and it's such a wonderful set. The sentiment is from a retired GWP stamp. So you see you can use these stamps for so many wonderful things even after they are retired.

This card is for my uncle John. We are praying and believing God for a miracle!! Things look worse now than ever but God can heal him if it's His will. This card features GOOD TIMBER. The verse says:
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. -I. Willard Marriott

If my uncle were a tree he sure would be some good timber by now! Please say a prayer for him and my aunt Debbie and their two sons and family. I know that it would mean so much to them and it means a lot to me, too!

The last project was going to be a card but I decided the verse said all I needed to say and I turned it into a bookmark!

I hope you'll check back again soon. I have a really special surprise to show you! My husband made it for me and I am beyond thrilled!!!

Hugs,

Double Challenge

Hey, everyone!

I am sorry I didn't get a chance to post anything for my StampTACular Tuesday yesterday! This is the first chance I have had to post anything on my blog! I wanted to share a few thank you cards I made for some really great ladies who had a FunShop with me in February! I hope you enjoy them!
This card features two of the stamps in the GOOD TIMBER (T-2700) stamp set. I used Viridian Leaf Palette ink (TT-213) and Burnt Umber Palette ink (TT-218) for the stamps. I sponged Reflection Blue Palette ink (TT-205) for the sky. The Thank You sentiment (TG-2972) is a free GWP stamp with any $30 purchase.

I just love this parrot from the Happy Day stamp set (T2736)! It's so fun to color. I used Noir Palette ink (TT-220) to stamp the image. I used Viridian Leaf Palette ink (TT-213) to stamp the sentiment (TG-2972). The sky is sponged with Reflection Blue (TT-205). I punched the image out using my Clever Lever Super Jumbo Circle Punch (D-73). The scalloped circle was punched with my Clever Lever Mega Scalloped Punch (D-700).

The sentiment (TG-2972) is stamped in L'Amour Red ink (TT-195). The image is from the Ice Cream stamp set (T-2630). I used Noir (TT-220) to stamp the girl out. I paper pieced the feet, arm and face. My gray tombow marker (F-07) gives a little hint of shadow.

This is the final Thank You (TG-2972) card I made. I stamped the flower and sentiment in L'Amour Red ink (TT-195) and the stem was stamped using Viridian Leaf (TT-213). I added Prisma Glitter (A-287) to the center of the flower.

These were really fun to make! I hope this gives you ideas on how to use the Gift With Purchase stamps you may have received for your $30 purchases. I have one more challenge to share with you today...the Scripture Challenge!

This week, the word is PEACE. I had fun with this challenge!! When I think of peace in terms of colors, I think of blues! I love blue and I just sort of put that together with the feelings I get when I am at peace!

My journaling reads:

Many times in my life, I have heard the word "peace" without truly understanding it's meaning. Sometimes I thought peace meant not fighting, or something my mother wished she had more of...as in peace and quiet. Peace was a symbol to be drawn on notebooks and displayed with two fingers. As I got older, I found out that peace is more than that. It's the feeling you cannot explain when God helps me make a difficult decision. It's the ability to be so heart-sick with grief that I don't know how I'll make it through another moment and then I suddenly feel God's presence and I know it will all be alright. As a mother and wife, daughter and friend, I realize peace is something to be sought after like a precious treasure and then once it's found, it's to be shared and used again and again. I also know that I have never known peace like the peace that comes from the Prince of Peace!

I hope you will enjoy your day!! There's more to share soon! Be sure you stop by Christina's blog to see what she is sharing...and Amber's too.

Hugs,

More Swaps!

Hey, everyone!
I told you I was in a LOT of swaps! LOL But it is very fun! I am enjoying it. The first swap item I want to share with you today is a Sympathy card. It is mounted on a white cardstock base. The card measures 4¼"x5½" (when folded). I cut the green piece (Mulberry Meadow, retired) at 5"x3¾," the purple (Mulberry Meadow, retired) at 4½"x3¼," and the white rectangle is 4"x2¾." I stamped the image using one of the trees from the Good Timber stamp set by The Angel Company. It's one of my favorite sets. I left the verse/sentiment off so that the recipient can personalize it when they get it.
This next card is just something fun that I made for another Angel who is swapping something with me. The card is just a regular A2 size card and the paper is just something I have had in my paper drawer but wanted to use. The lady bug stamp was something I had purchased at Wal-Mart several years ago. I've since unmounted it and love it! It's fun to color in and it would be fun to paper piece it, too. The thank you sentiment is a retired Gift With Purchase stamp. Remember, you can get a FREE GWP stamp of your choice for every $30 you spend in product before any shipping and applicable tax costs.

The final swap item I will share with you today (though there is still lots more to come) is a 6x6 scrapbook page for a swap on Paper Wings. I am using the Juliette paper here. I love this paper! I am just about out of it so I will definitely need to get some more! This is great paper! I punched circles out of the designer paper, folded each circle in half with my bone folder and then I cut them in half, to adhere down the side of the page. It made a really nice scalloped edge. The pumpkin is paper pieced because I couldn't get the right color of ink for this particular project. I think it still turned out cute. I am eager to see what the other pages look like! I should get them back in a little while. This recipe is really yummy but makes a LOT, so it would be terrific for entertaining around the holidays.

I hope you have enjoyed what you have seen so far! Thanks for leaving the comments. It always makes me smile to read them! Soon I will be posting some more Christmas cards, as well as some fall and Thanksgiving themed cards, along with gift card holder cards and a few more that you'll just have to wait for.

Next week my friend Christine and I are going to post the same challenge on our blog! Every Tuesday we'll have a new challenge along with a completed project by us using the challenge for inspiration. It will be so awesome if you participate in the challenges and link back to us from your blog. Be sure to let us know you are playing along because there's a little reward in it for you!

I hope you all have a marvelous Monday!!!

Hugs,

WATERFALL CARD TUTORIAL

Hey, everyone!

Are you all ready to make a Waterfall card? I thought these looked so cool but I was a little intimidated to try one! I decided to just go for it and I am so glad I did! It really was so much fun and so easy to do! We can make one together! Let's begin!

The first thing you want to do is get all your supplies gathered up. Here's what you will need:

1 piece solid color cardstock measured at 5 1/2" x 4 1/4"

4 pieces of white measured at 1 7/8" x 1 7/8"

4 pieces of solid color cardstock measured at 2" x 2"

1 piece of coordinating cardstock measured at 5 1/4" x 4"

1 piece of solid color cardstock measured at 9" x 2"

1 piece of solid color cardstock measured at 3/4" x 4"

The second step will be to adhere the coordinating cardstock to the solid color cardstock base. You will also stamp your image on the white squares at this time. I am using a stamp from the Good Timber set (p. 44) and Palette ink spot (p. 117). You can add doodle dots or squiggles around the edges of your squares if you want, or sponge the edges.

Next you will adhere all the white squares to the solid color squares. Then score your 9" x 2" strip of cardstock at 2", 2 3/4", 3 1/2" & 4 1/4". Fold along the score lines.

We will now attach our strip of cardstock measuring 3/4" x 4" to the lower portion of our card. Using the crop-a-dile, I will set the brads to hold the strip in place. The crop-a-dile (p. 115) is a wonderful tool that I would rather not be without. It has also made setting eyelets so easy for me and I can punch holes through fabric, cd's and other thick objects that ordinary hole punches won't allow me to do.

Next, we will insert our long strip with the score lines on it. Be sure that the top fold of the strip doesn't stick out at the top of the card. Once you decide where you want the slider to go, hold it in place and carefully add a strip of adhesive the width of the slider on TOP of the horizontal strip we just set with brads.

Now we are ready to start adding our squares to the slider. Only put your adhesive on the top of each square. You do NOT want to apply adhesive to the entire square! Starting at the bottom of the slider, you will attach the square to the bottom score line.

Continue adhering all of your squares to the slider. You can test it out now to make sure it is working properly for you.

We are nearly done, now! You can take your circle punch and centering it along the bottom edge of the card, punch a semi-circle so you can get ahold of the slider better. For our final step, punch a hole at the bottom of the slider and insert an eyelet. After setting your eyelet, add your ribbon.

You can add a sentiment to the slider at this time if you want! I used a stamp from the Treasure Seeker stamp set (p. 64).

Ta-da! You are all finished and now you have a beautiful waterfall card! So fun and so easy to do.

If you have made one of these cards using today's tutorial, I would love to see it! Please leave me a comment and let me know where I can see yours at! As always, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! You can e-mail me at hoosier_card_angel@yahoo.com and I will be sure to e-mail you back!

Tomorrow's tutorial will be for the Shaving Cream card we made in my class at Memory Lane Scrapbooking. It was a lot of fun to make the cute little cupcake cards! Tomorrow we will be featuring this technique a little differently!

Have a great day!

Hugs,

Bridgett

Look at what I made!

Hey, everyone!

I bought this miniature scrapbook about 3 or 4 years ago. It came in a little package with some miniature stickers to decorate it. I think my daughter (a toddler at the time) swiped them! I hung on to the little book thinking of things I could make it into. Maybe school pictures of my daughter's preschool friends with all their information on the page: their name, age, grade and teacher. Or I thought I could put my favorite quotes and scriptures inside it, slip it into my purse or bag and could instantly be inspired when I read it. There were other ideas I had, but I never acted on any of them...so there it sat so plain and pitiful, begging to be made into something beautiful!!

Here is the finished product:

I had so much fun with this! It was really neat to work on it and come up with different papers from my drawer of scraps! This quote from GOOD TIMBER is one of my favorites! I hope you will be inspired to change something you've been holding onto for a while into something beautiful and useful! I am still thinking about what I can use this little notebook for!! Any ideas? Leave me a comment and I'd love to read your ideas!!!

Have a great weekend! Check back soon for more fun stuff!!

Hugs,
Bridgett

Couple Projects!

Hey, everyone!

I am in a couple swaps (okay...a LOT of swaps) and I thought I'd share with you a couple of the projects I've been busy with! The first one is a Christmas tag. It was fun to make and much prettier in person. I used the following TAC stamp sets on it:
My Journey
The Only Thing
Wild For You
The theme is Red & Silver! (Sorry for the blurry photo!)

This is the second project I want to share with you. It is a 2 page 12x12 "Baby's Firsts" scrapbook swap. I love the fall season and Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday of mine. I chose this theme and used the TAC stamp set GOOD TIMBER for this one. I love the way the colors come alive! I had fun doing this and hope it is well received.

TFL! I'll share more soon!

Hugs,
Bridgett