'Sew' Fun with The Craft's Meow

It's day #2 of the January New Release Previews from

Make sure you stop by the TCM blog, because we are revealing

new sets each day.  Our design team is simply...fabulous

and I know you'll be inspired.

This month, TCM welcomes

Jennifer Ingle

as our Guest Designer.

Her design work is, well ... AWESOME!

Today's set is called 

'Crafty Shelf'

designed by NinaB Designs for TCM.

Whenever I find stamps with sewing elements, it makes me

think of my grandma.  She taught herself to sew and I was

the beneficiary as I had the most 'one of a kind' Barbie wardrobe on the planet!

I created this card using fun, bright paper from My Mind's Eye

and kept it simple.

How would you like a chance to win this set ?

All you have to do is stop by the TCM blog and leave a note

to say you stopped by for a visit.

Each day of the previews will bring another set up for grabs.

You have until 9pm PST, January 18th to comment to be eligible.

I'll be back tomorrow with another fabby preview.

Don't forget, a brand new color challenge is up and running over at

See you soon ! ! !

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Bazzill

Patterned Paper: 'Sunny' by My Mind's Eye

Stamps: Crafty Shelf by The Craft's Meow

Embellishments: gems from Little Yellow Bicycle
markers from Copic

Great is Thy Faithfulness

Are you ready ??

It's time for the January New Release Previews from

If you've been visiting the TCM blog, I'll bet you've been

'intrigued' by the sneak peeks and today, we start revealing

more each day.  Our design team is simply...fabulous

and I know you'll be inspired.

This month, TCM welcomes

Jennifer Ingle

as our Guest Designer.

Her design work is, well ... AWESOME!

Today's set is called 

'Beautiful Hymns'

designed by NinaB Designs for TCM.

{I apologize in advance for the lighting in these photos...dreary days here}

I love sets that have vines, ivy ... any type of free form stems

that can be stamped as an accent.  I used the one from this set

by stamping it in green & teal.

I still love this patterned paper from SEI and thought it paired

nicely with the 3-D sticker from KandCompany.

The hymn featured in this set is called 'Great is Thy Faithfulness'.

It's a song I grew up singing in church and still means

a lot to me today.

How would you like a chance to win this set ?

All you have to do is stop by the TCM blog and leave a note

to say you stopped by for a visit.

Each day of the previews will bring another set up for grabs.

You have until 9pm PST, January 18th to comment to be eligible.

I'll be back tomorrow with another fabby preview.

Don't forget, a brand new color challenge is up and running over at

See you soon ! ! !

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: GinaK Designs

Patterned Paper: 'Couture' by SEI

Stamps: Beautiful Hymns by The Craft's Meow

Embellishments: die cut sticker & gems from K&Company
Ink: A Muse Studio

Celebrate Today with Zva Creative & The Play Date Cafe

Hello and welcome back to The Open Window.

I must admit, I haven't had a lot of time to spend on my

blog since the New Year began, but that is about to change I will be sharing

over the next 5+ days here, so buckle up !

We've had a very special 'guest'

staying with us since New Year's Eve . . .

My son Alex is staying with us after being away for

an extended period of time and it's been really great

having him here.

I've been spending a lot of time with him and

enjoying each minute of it!

His oldest nephew CJ had a great first day with him

{as you can see}

Now on to the challenge from

This week's colors are . . .

Plum . . . Mustard . . . Rose

I created this card using beautiful gems, pearls & that gorgeous rose,

all from Zva Creative.  

I love being a part of the Zva team!

The 'mustard' on this project came out a bit more peach in the photo.

To create this card, I embossed the panel using Sizzix's

'Leaves & Swirls' embossing folder.

From there, I layed out my design until I was happy with it,

then attached each flourish.  The rose center is one big

beautiful pearl !

The stamps are from The Craft's Meow.

I really hope you can play along with us this week.

The colors are marvelous and I'm looking forward to

some beautiful creations in our gallery.

Come check out what our design team created.

Have I mentioned lately just how talented these ladies are ? !

I'll see you back here Thursday morning for some

pretty fabulous previews from The Craft's Meow

January release !

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: GinaK Designs
Stamps: Good Times by The Craft's Meow

Embellishments: gems & pearl flourish & silk flower

from **Zva Creative

Tools: Leaves & Swirls EF from Sizzix

** Zva product codes:

White Pearl Flourish CRB-04CB-108

Purple Gem Flourish CRB-05CA-107

Pink Pearl CRW-05CA-116

Silk Rose FL-04CA-136

 

Retiring Stamps from The Craft's Meow

Welcome to The Open Window

and

I wish you a

BELATED HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Today is the beginning of a great week

as I am hopping along with my friends over at

The uber-talented Jessica Fick is the designer

on the hop just before me, so hopefully you

came by way of her blog.

If not, get started over at

The Craft's Meow Blog

because there's a great prize to a lucky commenter!

For all the details, make sure to visit the store blog.

This month we are featuring

RETIRING SETS

These sets can be found by

 CLICKING HERE

and are an

ADDITIONAL 15% OFF

the SALE PRICE

Oh so cute and yummy!

This set is called 'One Scoop or Two'

and is a fun & fabby set to be sure!

This is one of my favorite sets called 'Travel Time'

Yep . . . It's retiring, so grab it now !!

The sale runs from January 7th - 12th

It's time to send you on your way to see my very

talented friend, Karen Baker

She is the next step on the hop.

Have a terrific day!

Welcome Jenni Bowlin Studio!

Well . . . it's been far too long !!

It's been a busy holiday season at my house and I've not

had nearly as much time to create as I would like.

But I have a great reason to be doing so today

as we have a brand new color story up over at

and we are happy to share that as this challenge

runs right in the middle of Christmas, we are giving you

TWO WEEKS

to play along.

Our final sponsor of the year is the fabulous

Jenni Bowlin Studio

Each of our designers played along using new stamps from JBS.

I went quite Clean and Simple with this card using JBS's

Typewriter and Job Ticket stamps and the colors for this week.

Notice anything odd ??

I didn't notice until about 24 hours after I made the card.

Rather than 'fix' it, I decided to have fun and have a

LITTLE GIVEAWAY!

Leave a comment on this post with the 'typo' on this card

and I'll randomly draw from the comments for some

YUMMY BAKER'S TWINE

from 

 

After you leave your comment, make sure to get on

over to The Play Date Cafe and play along.

Someone is going to win

which will be a fabulous shopping spree for the New Year!

Don't forget to leave your comment here for a chance to win

baker's twine from The Twinery!

See you soon!

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Bazzill
Stamps: Typewriter & Job Ticket by Jenni Bowlin Studio

sentiment by The Craft's Meow

So 'Nauti-Cool' !

Happy Monday and what a fun continuation of my weekend!

I have had the honor being the Guest Designer over at

and today is a set that has quickly become a favorite

in my personal collection called 'Knotty'

I made use of some of my favorite die cuts from Lil' Inker Designs

and Die-Versions to spotlight these fun stamps.

I think the design speaks for itself and the recipe is at

the end of this post.

and of course . . .

I head back to the Clean and Simple design . . .

I love the colors using the kraft base and the beautiful

soft robin's egg blue.

I embossed the top panel using an EF from Lifestyle Crafts.

The accent lines on the base card were stamped along with the

anchor, waves & sentiment from the set.

Here's the fabulous set that has so many possiblities . . .

I love the tiny waves !

I'll be back for one more day {Wednesday}

with my final post for Avery Elle.

I've had a ball so far and I hope you will stop

by the Avery Elle blog

and say hello !

Nauti-Cool Project Recipe:

Cardstock: American Crafts
Stamps: Knotty by Avery Elle

Tools: Seaside Sunset die by Die-Versions, 

Rainbow & Clouds die by Lil' Inker Designs, Big Shot

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Bazzill & The Recollections
Stamps: Knotty by Avery Elle

Tools: Circle EF by Lifestyle Crafts, Big Shot

 

Guest Designing with Avery Elle

It's Day #2 Guest Designing with the folks over at

I'm just gonna say it . . . I had lots of fun creating this card

I used a Spellbinders die to create a frame from coordinating paper

then stamped the the hearts in their own 'geometric' pattern.

Look at that . . . talk about matchy-matchy !  Even the baker's twine !

Here's the set I used called 'Lots of Love'

I'm really happy to have two more days left sharing on behalf

of Avery Elle.  I'll be back on Tuesday & Wednesday but until then,

I hope you will stop by Avery Elle blog 

and say hello.

Have a great day !

Project Recipe:

Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye
Stamps: Lots of Love by Avery Elle
Ink:  Memento by Tsukineko

Tools: Lacey Squares die by Spellbinders, Big Shot
Embellishments: baker's twine from The Twinery
pearls from Recollections

 

Honored to be Guest Designing with . . .

Surprise !

It's usually pretty quite here at The Open Window during

the weekend, but I have some very special posts I'll be sharing

with you over the next few days.

I'm honored to be a Guest Designer over at

and it's Release Week with brand new stamp sets

that I absolutely adore !

Today, I am sharing a card I made using a new set called

'Lots of Love'

Another Clean & Simple design for me.

I used my Heart border punch from Martha Stewart

and glued a few of the tiny heart punch-outs

next to the sentiment.

This card would also be great using each one

of the three heart images too.

Here is a look at the set I played with . . .

It's absolutely terrific !

I hope you will make a visit over to the

Avery Elle blog

and tell them I said hello !

I'll be sharing more fun cards over the next few days,

so I hope you'll stop by again.

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Bazzill
Stamps: Lots of Love by Avery Elle

Tools: heart to heart border punch by Martha Stewart