Tutorial Time with Speedy TV

Happy Friday!! A three day weekend for me and Im doing a 

happy dance... Our Tutorial Time Challenge  is using

 Chalks and blender pens.

 I embossed the bg then went over

 it several times with yellow, brown and green chalk

. The sunflower is from our new Bring on The Sun Set

. Don't Sunflowers always make you smile with 

their cheery faces? Not a lot of shading since I have
limited colors. I stamped and colored

 two images, then cut out the flower itself and foam dotted

 it on for added dimension. The sentiment is also from

 the same set and I stamped the two little bees on it and tied it

 on with a double strand of ribbon.Image is mounted on a

 piece of B&W diamond check that I salvaged from a 

box of Sees candy then mounted that all on black.

 My talented teammates have lots of Wonderful inspiration

 so stop by to join us this week.

The winner will take home this Beautiful set!

Entering Challenges:
Southern Girls: All about flora

Tuesday Throwdown #113

Our Tuesday Throwdown Challenge is brought to you by Team B 

this week. Our Challenge is Color Crazy and our sponsor is

 Digital Delights. This is colors you don't ordinarily use. I
don't often use yellows and oranges. The plaid
dp contributed to my choices of color combo to use.
 You may need blinders as I have used some very 

bright colors this week.

I have used the Haystacks the Scarecrow. After coloring I cut him

 out with the Spellbinder Scalloped Oval. I cut my card front in

 half and attached the plaid dp then using two ovals I

 attached one to each side. The plaid is punched with

 the MS daisy punch. 

On the inside I made a pocket and 

stitched on the whole thing. This card is for my grandson

 and the pocket had some money tucked
 into it for him.

Come by and join in the fun.
Entering Challenges
The Stamping Boutique: Anything goes..birthday related
The Crazy Challenge: Anything goes

Friends of Speedy TV #

Isn't is amazing how the weekends speed by!! So our
 new  FOSTV challenge is a Labor Day theme.

Labor Day was founded to celebrate the economic and social 

contributions of workers. It is usually a day of enjoying your 

favorite pastime or just resting. Using an image

 from the Island Life Set, looks like where
I would like to spend my labor day!
Things have been quite hectic lately and
I struggled with what to do sooo I decided to

  make a real C&S card. 

After scoring the 3 lines I stamped,  water

 colored the image and made some clouds,,, Done!  My sentiment 

is from the Today, Tomorrow and Always set.

My card is not curved But all my pics always look like they
are. Anyone have any advice??

Entering Challenges:
Crafty Cardmakers: Seaside
Oh La LA Creations: All at Sea

Card Mania: On the beach/In the sea

 

This is the winners prize this week.

Check out all the stamp sets and other paper crafting needs at 

Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co.

Anni-VERVE-sary Spotlight Hop

Verve is featuring their new stamps this week and the designers

 have some dynamite creations. You have a chance at winning their

 fabulous collection by commenting on one of the lucky blogs.

 You can also enter using one of your Verve stamp sets. I have 

used the  Love's Flowers Set. After stamping my flowers on
 several papers I cut them out and layered them
back together. The ribbon was dyed to match then some
stitching and distressing  to finish it off. 

Do stop by all the Verve Divas Blogs today see all

 their fantastic creations!!

If you are looking for my Tutorial Time post it is next

 

Tutorial Time with Speedy TV #13

This week Lois Bak made a tutorial for a criss cross card.

 You can find her detailed tutorial Here.

LOTS of pics today...enjoy

My criss cross card is actually a pocket to hold 4 recipe
cards. I love love to cook and am always game for trying
out new recipes. I like to make fun recipe cards
 for gifts. For this project I have used the

  fabulous new Hot & Spicy Set, perfect for my recipe

 cards. I  colored and cut out lots of the chili images, and

the sentiment for the belly band.
Marks Finest Papers a Heinrich Co.has a
wonderful selection of stamp sets and New Releases
each month. You are sure to find a set for every need!

Chilies and Spicy food is native here in the Southwest

and my personal favorite to cook and eat!
I made my criss cross card according to Lois's
directions. Adding a piece of  Southwest
cooking dp to the front. My sewing machine is
making me crazy,,,stitching all messed up so had
to do faux stitching on the project. The little
belly band holds it together.

As you can see I used different Spellbinder dies

to cut out the recipes, for the belly band and

a couple to make the tabs. Do you like Salsa?

I can eat bowls of it!  Lately the trend is to make 

Salsas with fruits other than tomatoes. I have made some

 recipe cards with a few of my favs.

I think you can see the recipes well enough to give
them a try, the peach is really delightful These recipes
 are mild for those who don't want much heat but  if

you like it really spicy you can
 amp it up with more chiles...

 These recipes are fun because you can
change them up a bit by adding other fruits and you
 can use them on meats, rice, tortillas, breads,
fruits, even cheesecake.

I should have colored some of the chilies yellow

 and orange but don't you think they were the perfect 

embellies for these recipe cards?

 The criss cross pocket with recipes 

will go into one of the  recipe books 

I am making for my girls.

This weeks winner will take home
this lovely stamp set!

Entering Challenges:
Inspire Me Fridays: Anything Goes

Totally Paper Crafts: Zesty Summer Colors

Pixie Dust Studio: Food Theme

Tuesday Throwdown

Today is  Tuesday Throwdown Team A's week to post 

but since I had chose the image I am joining them 

The theme is Hip to be Square...use squares. Our sponsor 

Stamping Boutique gave us these cute images to use. I have used

 I love you this much Cynthia. After coloring her and adding 

Stickles to her wings I cut her out with

 a Spellbinder Fleur De Lis die. The lined dp forms lots of squares.

 I cut it up into squares and covered the base. After attaching the 

image and jeweled sentiment  I added a little lace 

and a bow tied with a button.

The team has lots of fabulous inspiration so hop over 

and join the easy peasy challenge!

Friends of Speedy TV

Hope you all had a great weekend!  Our FOSTV 

challenge this week is a Beach Theme.  Don't you think kraft

 paper looks like sand? A little embossing  to look
 like waves and then touched it with a little
blue chalk.The Sentiment is from the Island Life Set,

 stamped and cut with a Spellbinder label # Mega 21.

 After weaving the twine in the bottom holes I foam dotted 

it all on the base. The Sea Horses were stamped and spritzed 

with water to make them run a bit. then cut out and foam 

dotted on.

 The  Sea Horses are from this months new release

 Oh Crab set. You can see these and all the new released at

 Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co.

Stop by a join the challenge this week.

 The lucky winner will receive this Stamp Set.

Tutorial Time with Speedy TV

 It is time for a new Challenge today. Pat Garvin has put
together a Great tutorial on Faux Patina. If you haven't
 already tried this technique stop on over and check out
her step by step tutorial. It is  new technique to me
but I had fun and pretty happy with how it turned out.
 After doing the faux patina on my card stock
 I cut it out and added the brads then foam dotted it
 onto the creme base. My bird image is from the
 Pussy Willow Set cut out with a Spellbinder

 Scalloped Oval.The wire trim was cut with a

 Spellbinder Scalloped die.

You can find this image and many other Great sets at
Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co.  They
 also have a large variety of paper crafting products for
your every need.

 The team has a Fabulous variety of creations using

this technique. Stop over and give it a try!
The weeks winner will receive  this stamp set.

Tueaday Throwdown

We have crazy fires raging all along the
river. It is very dry and has been very hot for the past
 week averaging about 117 degrees. It is monsoon
time and beside the humidity the monsoons bring lots
of  lightening. They say this fire was started
 by lightening.The whole sky is lit up red tonight
 When I went to look early this am it is now
 several miles long. Not sure about any
property damage.
UPDATE: fire is controlled just Lots of smoke


 So onto this weeks challenge..  Team B's  theme is
 Sweet Treats.Our sponsor is My Grafico. 

The variety of cute cupcakes made it easy to make a sweet

 card. After water coloring my cupcake I cut it out. Using 

the Spellbinder Beaded Circle I punched a star in each bead 

and foam dotted on my cupcake. 

The dp was scraps so no names. I reduced the little

cupcakes, colored and attached to the stars pennants.A little lace

and ribbon to dress it up a bit. I hope you will stop by and say

 hi to the new ladies on the team.

Friends of Speedy TV

Good Morning friends~~ Today  Friends of Speedy TV

 has a color challenge...Pink, Green and Creme or Grey.

 I really like this springy combo. Used a perky little check

 and a leaf and floral print for the base.  A center strip was

embossed and then cut with a MS daisy punch. I stamped the

pretty Dogwood flower and then masked adding the other

two. Colored with the Copics and cut out with the

Spellbinder large labels and matted.

Be sure to check out Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co.

to purchase the stamp sets and for all you other needs.

I used the MS daisy punch for the edging then

ran the hand dyed ribbon around and tied a bow. 

The tag was attached with the brad then the image

was foam dotted on.

Hope you stop by and join in the Challenge this week.

This weeks winner will take this lovely set home

#11 Tutorial Time with Speedy TV

This weeks Tutorial Time is coloring on Velllum. 

I started out stamping my little gnome image on the vellum.

 I used some copics and some SU markers to color him.

 I also colored some vellum with the yellow and brown

 alcohol inks. After coloring the image he was cut out with 

a Spellbinder Label # 22 Next I punched out some flower, 

I embossed the brown and cut out to make sunflowers.

 A little MS punched garden fence, some fun checks from 

Memory Makers with a little paper rick rack embellie to finish

it off. My image is from the Newly Released Garden Art Set 

and the sentiment is from the Today Tomorrow and Always Set.

  All stamp sets and your other paper crafting needs can be found

 at Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co 

. Hope you  will join us this week.

Cr84FN60

Joining in Mona's CR84FN60 color challenge. 

Using up some of my stashed dps. So for the base

I've used a piece of Webster's Pages.My flower and

sentiment  are made with Gina K pure luxury. The purple

felt was cut with a Spellbinder Lacy Squares

and stitched on.

The blue was embossed with SU hearts edged with a

MS looped border punch and smeared with some cream 

paint and a lace strip added down the center.

 The bow is made with some hand dyed ribbon.

The leaves are made with SU old olive paper.

My heart was cut out of some recycled paper.

The sentiment was computer generated and cut it out 

with a Spellbinder tag.

Entering the UnstampaBelles : Paper Flowers no stamps

Tuesday Throwdown

Good Morning Friends, I do not have a card today
 but wanted to let you all know that
 Tuesday Throwdown  is pleased to announce our new
changes. We now have two teams with lots of
new talented ladies. 

The teams will be alternating weeks. Many of your favorite

 designers are returning along with a super group of new
ladies. I am on the B Team and will be posting next week.
 You all can join the challenges weekly as usual.  

The new challenge  is Moving Along

 sponsored by Robyn's Fetish. Stop on over and leave some
love for the team and let the new ladies know you are
 as glad to have them aboard as we are!!

I'll be back next week with my new card.

Friends of Speedy TV #32

It's Monday already and a new challenge at FOSTV,

Very simple theme, use chalk. After embossing the base

I used chalk to highlight the embossed areas. Coloring the image

 with chalk was a little more difficult since I dont have many 

colors to do the shading and highlighting.

 My image is from the

Welcome Poppies Set, found at Marks Finest Papers a Heinrich Co.

 Cut out with a Spellbinder label #18. I cut and layered the

 fish tail flags, embossed and added the little metal word. Stitched 

on the red dotted dp and foam dotted on the image. Our 

team has lots of  great inspiration to your creativity going.

Be sure to stop by and join us this week. 

This is the Stamp Set one lucky winner will receive.

Tutorial Time with Speedy Tv # 10

Wohoo its Friday, I so love  weekends!! I have time to

 garden, to create and my husband and I can work
together on projects around the house. 

This is a bit of a long post with several pics.

 Today the talented Jane Chambers has done a super tutorial

for our challenge,a  Double Diagonal Pocket Card. I 

have never done one  but with the Jane's easy tutorial I was

 able to whip it up rather quickly! For the base of the

card I cut and folded the double sided dp acording to the

 turtorial. I added the striped pieces to edge the two

pockets. For the front I cut the stamped sentiment,

cut out with the Spellbinder Square Fleur Di Lis

them mounted on the embossed pink. That was

all added to the grey piece cut with the

Spellbinder Floral Oval. Next I punched the pink

with a MS arches punch adding the striped edges to

that as well then ran the ribbon down the center

and wrapped around the card tying up with the bow.

 Using the delightful Relax A Bit stamp set,
I stamped the tea cup, teapot. teabag and several of the
sentiments for my tags. After water coloring I cut them

 all out. In my stash I found the Fabscraps High Tea dp,

 just perfect to go with my images!! Using the Spellbinder

 Label# 16 I cut the top of the tags then stitched 

on each of them. 

On the first one I  punched the bottom with a 

MS zig zag punch then cut a flower out with a

 Tim Holtz die my niece just gave me, adding a big button 

center then mounted onto a grey piece cut with a Spellbinder

 Beaded Circle. Used some cheesecloth behind the teacup 

and added the teabag. Finishing it off with the sentiment,

 buttons and ribbons.

  On the second one I punched the 

edge,used some of the striped portion of the dp then

 added some fun doodle dots, the teapot and the torn out

 sentiment mounted on a grey piece cut with a Spellbinder 

Fancy Tag. The little rolled flower was cut with a Spellbinder

 die and then finished embellishing with a little lace, 

buttons and ribbons. I will tuck in a few packages of

my favorite herbal teas when I give this card 

to go with some homemade cookies. 

 All the images and sentiments can be

found at Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps a Heinrich Co.

The team has done a great job on creating lots of 

inspiring creations, so you will want to stop by to see them!

If you come join in the fun you could be the winner of
this beautiful stamp set.