Sweet Summer Fun

This is a card I made for TGF's DT call. They wanted to see summer colors. Orange and yellow specifically. This image is from "Wonderland", one of the few rubber mounted images I have from TGF. I made the "oranges" by punching a piece of CS halfway down. I drew/colored the lines. The little jewels are from HL. I distressed the edges and stapled a small scrap of yellow ribbon to the white CS. I colored the image with my PrismaColor pencils. The sentiment is from the SU set "Very Punny".

Friends and Coffee...

I love the "Around The Town" line of stamps from Modern Sugar Blvd. So many cute little shops and so many creative possabilities! I made this card for this week's challenge on the MSB blog. It's a cute sketch and I had a lot of fun making this card. Hope you all like it too! :)

A little birdie challenge

Modern Sugar Blvd weekly challenge:

Scrappractical Storage

I wanted to share a storage idea I came up with recently. In my never-ending quest to make good use out of all the "stuff" that comes along with papercrafting; I am always looking for new storage ideas. Here is a very scrappractical way to reuse Cuttlebug folder packages: I have had a hard time finding proper storage for my EZ mounted stamps. I put my acrylic stamps in a binder on acetate paper. Easy-peasy. The EZ mount stamps (like these TGF stamps) don't stick to acetate. You need a thicker plastic. I was using an old SU stamp set storage case for a while. It was just so bulky.

Then while opening a new cuttlebug folder I had a lightbulb moment. The stamps fit perfectly into the "dip" of the plastic part of the packaging.

Since the plastic part has folds to hold it in place onto the cardstock back it makes a great "sleeve". The cardstock (turned around) also fits the stamp image card.Now when I need these stamps I just grap this package and slide the cardstock up to get what I want. It's also nice because the punch out on top of the cardstock can be used to hang my stamp sets.

I hope I explained this clearly. I am counting on the pictures to do most of the work. You could add paper to the Cuttlebug cardstock to cover the wording. Pretty it up a bit. I decided that I wouldn't bother wasting supplies since this is supposed to help me save money! :)

This may not be a new idea, but I still feel pretty inventive. And frugal! :)

Sorry for the short posts

I have been having computer trouble lately so I haven't been using my home computer to post to my blog. Because of that I don't always have all the info I need when I'm auto-posting. So I apologize for the lack of info lately. Hopefully I'll be up and running soon and my posts will be overflowing with details! :)

Another MSB weekly Challenge

Just a quick post since I am not using my home computer. (Ah, technology!)

Here is the card I made for the upcoming MSB weekly challenge:

I want candy!!

No, really. I want candy. Here's the jar I made just to house some yummy treats:I made this little good-y holder using one of Modern Sugar Blvd's newest images. Sooo cute! I colored the image with my PrismaColor pencils and then used Crystal Effects on the "candy" part. The CS is from SU. I'm not sure where I got the PP, probably HL. The ribbon is from Walmart and the sentiment is from the SU set "Very Punny".

Now, who wants to send me some candy? :)