Boy's Birthday

  Whew, what a hot past couple of days. Good thing we have Friday night late creates at Make Time To Create. Dolly & Mary are doing this every Friday night this summer. The best remedy for a hot day. That is where I made this fun card for a male birthday. The paper selection MTTC (Make Time to Create) is awesome. They have new products coming in all the time. I wouldn't normally put these greens and blues together but I think they work very well together. Love the new buttons from American Crafts. They have a silver sheen to them and really make the card pop along with the shiny star brad. The buttons come in several different packs. Some all silver some silver, gold and bronze, and other multi-color packs. They are new to the shop. I also used the happy Birthday sticker out of the Party Time Boy from Pebbles Inc., which has several other birthday sayings. There are so many things to pick from and coordinating accessories to choose from to make your card or scrapbook page awesome.
  What I also like about MTTC is that Mary, Dolly or any of the girls in the shop are willing to give you input to help put a project together. Just last Friday one of the girls at late create was having a problem with her cricut and one of the veteran scrappers and Mary came to the rescue. It was awesome to see everyone come together to help this young lady get her project going on the right track again. Great people to hang out with.
  Hey I need your vote. I am getting some designs together for a class and need your input. How many people would be interested in doing square cards as a class or just regular invitation size cards for a class? Vintage cards • Modern cards • Cute cards • Glitzy Cards? Generic, Birthday or combination?
  Let me know so I can put something together. Hope to see you some Friday coming up. Have a good week!

Products Used:
American Crafts - Elements Buttons - Metallic
Creative Impressions - Star Brads
Pebbles Inc. - Party Time Boy - Sticker
Paper- 3 bugs in a rug - Dawson Collection - Star Paper, Jim Holtz Distress Collection - Green Paper

Country Garden Seeds

  Wow, how the time has flown by. I didn't realize how long it had been since I posted. Graduation, parties and preparing for a party has kept me busy. They all went great. Now I can't wait to get back to creating.
  The designers for Make Time to Create and Dolly recently met to discuss upcoming events and ideals for products from the store. The girls brought some pieces they had been working on and they were really neat. This is one of the cards I designed with the new paper from BoBunny. It wasn't hard to make and the paper and accessories that go with it are so pretty. I love the dollie and who can do without a strip of lace to pretty up a card. This card took about 10 minutes to make and was so easy. Make Time To Create has new products arriving all the time so drop in and take a look. Later this week I will post the other card so check back with me.

Products Used:

Paper: BoBunny - Country Garden Seeds
Butterfly - BoBunny - Country Garden Noteworthy
Stamp - Stampin Up
Pearls - Melissa Frances

Nature's Blessings

  Hello all. Today's card is another example of the new products at Make Time To Create. The papers are so endearing and peaceful. The black roses and the little characters hovering over the gardens. This paper has a lot of possibilities. There are several different sections on the paper giving you different themes to work with. The black paper at the bottom with pink designs is so elegant and just begged to be put together with the lace and the black accents on the Prima paper. The brads are from My Minds Eye and fit really well with the chipboard underneath them. I have decided to leave the chipboard blank until I send it leaving my options open on what type of card it will be. This is a 6"x 6" card so it does take more postage to send it but I love working with the square cards. It has more room and seems to balance out well. The chipboard comes with 4 different boards with lots of different images that go with several of the new papers at the shop. It is so easy to use and looks beautiful to me. Come join us in some of the classes or at the late creates on Friday evening. That is where I made this card and had wonderful company also. Best thing is I get to see what others create and get inspired. Until next time.

Products Used:

Prima Paper - Almanac Safter

Chipboard - Jodi Lee - Nature Garden

My Minds Eye Brads  - Stella Rose

Sun Kisses

  Sun Kiss is the name of some of the new paper Make Time to Create has in their store. It is so warm, just like a kiss from the Sun. The name fits. Pretty sunflowers, butterflies and bees. You can't help but be inspired by the paper and accessories that go with it. Dolly and Mary have really outdone themselves with the products they have ordered in the last weeks. Not just the paper but chipboard, tags, little miniature clothes pens  and stamps that all coordinate. You have to go experience their store.
  This card reminds me of my daughter. So sweet and caring and lots of natural sunshine. It won't be long and she will be off to college and this card will be perfect to send. Below are the products I used from Make Time To Create, Newburgh, IN. Come back and see the next line of paper - Almanac I will be blogging about. Enjoy your day and send a card out to left up a soul.

Products:
Prima Paper - Sun Kiss Kindred Spirit, Sweet Tea
Melissa Frances - Trinkets and Baubles - small pearls
Stampin Up stamp  - Remember when
Brown Ink - Archival
EK Punch

New Stamps

  What a great weekend. The beautiful sunny days and warm but not hot weather. I got a lot accomplished this weekend in the yard and inside our home. The sun just makes you want to do something.
  Quick update on Olivia's trip to China. They have been to the great wall in Beijing, down by the ocean with middle schoolers, College to have English conversations with the other kids, an island off of Hong Kong to pray with teens that are to be there for 2 years with drug and alcohol problems, the park participating in a dance class, haggling in the market, and eating a lot of strange food including fish eyes. This morning going to church and the flight home begins later today. Sounds awesome. Thank You for your prayers for our teens!
  Now to our card. This one is just elegant. I love the Stella Rose products. It isn't hard to make a pretty card with and they have coordinating accessories. Right up my ally. Make Time to Create has a lot of new paper and coordinating accessories coming in and going out as fast as they can get them. One of the many things I like about this shop are the examples all around the store to motivate you and help you see what can be done with the products. Dolly and Mary are happy to help put things together and have classes on different things from making cards, a page or learning how to use Copic markers. Pop in and check them out in Newburgh, In, Sharon Road across from the American Legion.

Products Used:

My Minds Eye 6 x6 Pad - Stella Rose Hazel Papers
My Minds Eye Stella Rose Brads for the Thank You Tag
Clear Stamps - Jodie Lee for the girl
Brown Ribbon

China Bound

  Hello all, Saturday Olivia and four other High School girls left for a mission trip to China. They will be going to Beijing and Hong Kong. They are taking things for the ministry in their checkin bags, like devotionals, clothing and other items for personal use for the Chinese. They were so excited. They each had to raise the money for their trip and put a lot of hard work and study into the culture. Brian Keaney will be with them and is a veteran at traveling the world and mission trips. Please keep them in your prayers if the Lord puts them on your heart.

The card below is the thank you card and prayer concerns sent out for Olivia and the girls.

This was a fun card to make. The card was already shaped like a ticket which made me think of the tag attached to your luggage. The beautiful paper is from Make Time To Create, perfect since it had the different luggage on it. Just love the checks also. The ribbon from Stampin Up as well as the saying. The airplane and Trip of a Lifetime are raised Stickers from Jolee. Have a good week and remember the world is bigger than the US we can influence other countries for the good.

New Paper IN!

  Late Create was on at Make Time to Create, Newburgh, IN last night (Friday). It was really exciting. I was greeted with a shout from my fellow crafters who made it there before me. They were already creating like crazy and fired up.  They should be. Dolly and Mary had lots of new paper, stamps and accessories come in this last week and more to come!  Weeeee...  We had a great time looking through it while they prepared for the crop the next day.

  The card above is made with some of the new paper and stamps. I wanted to keep it closed  a little so you could see the lady inside hence the lamb carving. It was so easy to come up with something since the paper was so pretty. I loveeee vintage paper and stamps. They have plenty to pick from but there is also a large selection and styles of paper and accessories from baby, children, travel, sewing, fishing, hunting, camping and just some fun graphics etc... You can spend hours looking in their shop at the products. I also like the fact that there are many samples made with the different papers and products to give you ideas and if you don't have time Dolly has some cards made up for sale. You can't beat that. Go check them out.

  Well my daughter is going to China on spring break and I have to go make some thank you cards for those who supported her trip with financing it and committing to pray for them. Have a good weekend and be posting soon.

Items Used:

PAPER  The Paper Loft - Gentle Times (Garden Stroll), BoBunny - Weekend Market

STAMP - Prima - Jodie Lee

Brown Ribbon - Make Time To Create

Spellbinder - Circle Scallops

Melissa Frances - pearls

Adironack - Brown Ink