Shake, Rattle and Roll on the EAD Blog Hop

Welcome back to another new week and that means ....

I hope you've arrived here from the talented

Judith's blog, Jay Gee's Nook

because you'll be on the right track to win a great prize!

If not, how about starting back at the beginning at the

EAD Designs Blog

I only had time to get one project done for this week's hop, but I have

big plans for the rest of the fun Stickerz in this collection.

Isn't this monkey just adorable?!

It's from the Baby Safari Stickerz collection by EAD Designs.

I recently purchased the 6x6 pad from Bo-Bunny called Zoology

along with a matching chipboard mini album with the intention of

doing small layouts of my first grandson CJ's first trip to the zoo

(back when he was only about 18 months old...he turns 9 in March!)

I had to pull out some of the papers from that set for this card

because they were perfect.

The paper with the arch border is from Momenta.

The sentiment is also a part of the EAD Stickerz set as well.

Here is the sweet set called Baby Safari

That's it for me...I hope you enjoyed your visit.

It's time to send you on to my talented teammate

Lauren's Creative

Make sure you check out both of my posts today as I am also

sharing projects for The Twinery/Momenta blog hop as well.

Make sure to leave a comment before you leave...I'd love to have you

win the terrific prize over at EAD Designs.

Project Recipe: 

Patterned Paper: Zoology from Bo Bunny, Family Forever from Momenta

Embellishments: Baby Safari by EAD Designs

mini brads from Recollections, Seam binding from Hug Snug

Tools: Lacey Circles & Standard Circles dies from Spellbinders, Big Shot

Lattice Arch border punch by EK Success

'Tis the Season ...

Welcome back to The Open Window.

I've got just a couple of quick projects for you today.

If you visited yesterday, you saw the cards I did using the rub-ons

from Bo Bunny.  The papers that I've used today are also from

that same collection called 'Blitzen'.

There are so many warm elements between the colors and the designs,

so I combined 3 different sheets along with a label cut out as well.

The trees were created using a die cut from Lil' Inker Designs.

I highlighted the wreath, the greenery under the turtle doves & the trees

with Stickles in 'Stardust'.

Additional bling comes from the brads, add bakers twine

from The Twinery and done!

   

I'm not sure if this has happened to you, but my favorite Swiss Dot EF

will no longer EMboss!  I have no idea why and I even asked my friends

over on FB to see if it's ever happened to them.  So far, I'm the only one!

All of my other EF's still work fine, so it has to be a worn folder.

It does still DEboss, though and I really wanted the idea of snow falling,

so I went with it!

These trees were cut using the same die cut using beautiful paper

from My Mind's Eye's 'Lost & Found Christmas'.

The stamped sentiment is from Market Street Stamps.

I hope you enjoyed these couple of projects.

I created them especially for the challenge over on the

CARDS magazine blog this week calling for Christmas Trees

as the focal point.

I hope you will take a moment and check out my guest post

over at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps today.

Another winter-themed project awaits!

Tis the Season Project Recipe:

Designer Paper: 'Blitzen' by Bo Bunny

Embellishments:

Bakers Twine in Honeydew from The Twinery 

Stickles in Stardust, gemstone brads from American Crafts

Tools: Tree die from Lil' Inker Designs, Big Shot

Wishing You Project Recipe:

Designer Paper: Lost & Found Christmas from My Mind's Eye
Stamps: Essential Holiday Elegance by Market Street Stamps

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento from A Muse Studio

Embellishments:

Bakers Twine in Maraschino from The Twinery

Tools:  Swiss Dot EF by Sizzix, Tree die from Lil' Inker Designs

Big Shot

Go Fly a Kite at CAS-ual Fridays!

Well...it's definitely Friday the 13th in blog land!

If any of you have been 'away from the planet'...

Blogger has been down for over 36 hours and

has wreaked havoc for me as a DT Coordinator!

But I am happy to say that we are now able to

share the much anticipated 2nd challenge from...

We had an amazing 

ONE HUNDRED & EIGHTY ONE

players for our very first challenge!

Thank  you to all who are already enjoying

the concept...believe me, there is more fun to come!

So this week it is 'Buttons & Twine'!

We are happy to welcome our sponsors

and

Make sure you check out the details over at

CAS-ual Fridays!

I had a great time playing with the fabby DP

from Bo Bunny's Ad Lib Collection.

The stamps are from A Muse Studio

'Vintage a muse' Set & 'Hand scripted' Set.

You can see & order these stamps and more

from my web store here.

Pop on over to see our new challenge,

some amazing inspiration from our design team,

a great prize and a discount on baker's twine

AND

our very first players who made it into the club!!!

Today's Project Recipe:

Designer Paper: Bo Bunny 'Ad Lib' CollectionStamps: A Muse Studio 'Vintage a muse' & 'Hand scripted'
Ink: Memento
Tools: Fiskars Corner Rounder

Embellishments: Baker's twine by The Twinery,
Buttons from DeNami Design

Fresh & Bright...The Play Date Cafe

I'm not sure if you've been able to tell, but I have

really been diggin' bright colors this week.

I think it's been a long winter and I am just ready

for some color.

It's great timing because this week's color challenge

over at The Play Date Cafe scratches me

right where I itch!!!

Three of our Senior Designers are

responsible for choosing our weekly

color stories and we each have our own

style and color palette that is all our own.

This palette....is pure Ruby 2 Shoes!

I decided to go with a distressed, aged look for this card.

One of my very favorite tools in the studio is the

Distrezz-it-All by Zutter.

It saves that cramp you get in your hand with tiny little

distressing tools and can handle a single sheet of

cardstock all the way up to chipboard.

This card is all about layers of designer paper and

embellishments.  The sweet little lucite cherries are by

Mary Englebreit and were the perfect little addition.

Of course I tied it together with a little baker's twine 

from The Twinery.

We have the talented Maria Gurnsey joining us as

our guest designer this week.

In honor of Maria, I used her 'namesake' 'Gingham Gurnsey'

stamp to create the tag under the 'my friend' sentiment.

Check out that story and learn more about Maria

when you visit The Cafe.

We have the most talented design team

waiting to inspire you, and here they are....

Sarah AndersonRuby McGuire

 Savannah O'Gwynn 

Andrea Ewen

Colleen Dietrich  

Fiona Shultz

Jaclyn Miller 

Jinny Newlin
Libby Hickson  

Michele Gross

Tracey Kuzniak

and of course, our sweet guest...
Maria Gurnsey

 So glad you stopped by and I hope you'll 

leave a quick little note to let me know

you were here : )

Today's Project Recipe:

Cardstock: The Paper Company

 Designer Paper: K&Company 'Sweet Nectar' & BoBunny 'Abbey Road'
Stamps: Papertrey Ink 'Friendship Jar & Ippity 'Gurnsey Gingham'
Ink: VersaMagic, Ranger Archival, Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Tools: Spellbinders 'Labels One', Big Shot, sewing machine
Distrezz-it-All, Martha Stewart punch 'Loop Heart'

Embellishments: Baker's Twine by The Twinery in 'Caribbean', 

Pearls by Martha Stewart, Cherry by Mary Engelbreit

Life IS Beautiful....

Technically, this makes two posts in one day

but the first one went on just after midnight.

I have been so inspired by Sarah's colors over

at The Play Date Cafe.

Here we are in the midst of autumn and yet

working with these soft tones has really been lovely.

It's been a blast pulling out a lot of the new things

I bought on my recent birthday trip to Archivers.

Starting with the base paper from My Mind's Eye.

The top panel is a die cut from Bo Bunny's

'Mama-Razzi' set.   Embellishing this layer

 was not difficult because of

the wonderful colors already offered.

The butterfly image is from Memory Box Stamps.

I inked it in a variety of shades until I got what

I wanted (which was debatable at the time!)

Before clustering those stunning

Prima 'Madrigal Blossoms',

I 'wrapped' it in 'Cappucino' twine

from The Twinery.

Hope you enjoyed it....

Now off to get my to-do list done!