Happy Fourth!!

Mason has been so excited for this day all week long! Dwight has been gone all week and he comes home today--YEA!!--and he gets to go swimming--one of his FAVORITE past times--AND he gets to do fireworks (had to wait on daddy for that one!!).

So, in honor of this exciting day and to celebrate our country's independence I thought that this would be the perfect time to share a recent project that I made. I entered it into The Angel Company's monthly contest and WON!!! The category was Patriotic Paper Play and I won last month. So exciting!! You can see it on TAC's website here but I also wanted to share some pictures of it that I took before I sent it off. The supply list is at the bottom of this post.

To create the blue & white paper I used a piece the blue piece of Lilly Anna and stamped the stars on the front side of it with Reflection Blue Palette ink. Then, I turned the paper over and stamped my images to make this a double sided paper. If you don't have double sided patterned paper, it is easy to create your own!

To attach the centers of the pinwheels, I pressed a thumb tack into the eraser of a pencil (I covered the pencils with white floral tape to hide that it was a pencil). Then, I used a pop dot to attach the button with a ribbon tied through the holes. The pinwheels really do spin!

Here is the supply list:
Lilly Anna Paper
Scarlet Paper
Premium White Paper
Linear Sentiments Stamp Set
Simply Christmas Stamp Set
Reflection Blue Palette Ink
Sunflower Palette Ink
L’amore Red Palette Ink
Sky Blue Scrapper’s Floss
Audrey Embellishment Jar Buttons
Cha Cha Eyelets
Pop Dots
Ribbon
Bucket
Star Nestabilities (used with my Big Shot Die Cutting Machine)

It's Hip to "Be Square"

So, one of my FAVORITE sets in the new Angel Company catalogue is also one that we got at seminar!! I was SO excited!! It is an owl set called "Be Square". I LOVE owl images!!

This is the first card I made using this set. I colored the owl with my colored pencils and Odorless Mineral Spirits. The paper is pulled from my "old" stash. Time to use up some of those patterned papers!

Isn't the owl sooo cute?? The sentiment is from the "What a Hoot" set.

If you would like a copy of the newest TAC catalogue, they are available for only $4.95. Let me know! I'd love to get one to you!

Seminar Roommate Gifts & More

Here are the gifts that I made for my roommates at The Angel Company's seminar. I found some glittery lotion at Target and then used my Scor-Pal to custom design a box that would fit it. Not too hard to do using that tool! I love how they turned out!

I used the Level C Hostess C from the Serendipity Catalogue (which is still good until next Spring) called "Be of Good" as the main image. The boxes are decorated with the small stamps in the "Butterfly Bits" stamp set.

See the white dots in the centers of the images? Those are made with my white souffle pen which I LOOOOVEEE!

Did you know that you can stamp on tissue paper? It was so simple and so fast and just like that I have custom tissue paper that matches my boxes!

When TAC sent us our seminar packet, they also included a chipboard heart and told us to decorate it however we wanted. I used the same pattern that I used on my mother's day card and then added some of the words from our Seminar stamp set and tied it on to my bag so that it would be easy to find.

And, this is my name tag. The only thing I did was add the bow to the front with the button & black scrapper's floss. I thought it was cute.

The NEW Angel Company Catalogue!

I just returned from TAC Seminar and am so excited to get to share with you 2 cards that I made that are published in the new catalogue!! I sent these cards in last November for a design call that was originally for a February publication. That publication was changed and none of those cards were needed and so I really wasn't expecting to see them in this new catalogue! I was so surprised when I heard that I had cards in it!

You can find my cards on page 76 (using the Just A Note & Forever Family set & page 83 (using the Doodle Bugs set). Here's a sneak peek:


Want to see what the front cover looks like?? Here you go!

I have copies of this catalogue available now. They are only $4.95! I just LOVE some of the new stamp sets!! The new owl image is my absolute favorite and they gave that one to us FREE at seminar!! Can't wait to play with it!!