Spring has to be coming! Right??

It has been a weather rollercoaster here in New England these last couple of weeks and there is no chance of it slowing down any time soon!  We get a couple of days of mid 60's to 70's, then the bottom drops out and we get rain and freezing temps.  After horrible March winds (can you say out like a RAM instead of LAMB?!?!) and flip-flop weather, we are getting a few inches of snow tonight!!! What???????

In an effort to bring sunshine and warmth, I'm sharing this little set I made.  I dug into the washi tape and ribbon roses I was hoarding had in my stash and a set of stamps that needed a little love.

The leaf is an MFT die.  I lurve using it with these roses, especially when I can use a wacky color!  The yellow pops even more thanks to the navy polkas dot leaf. ;-)

The sentiments are stamped on bits of oaktag leftover from another project.  I made another set using this basic sketch, but with different colors.  I can't decide if I want to keep the set together or make two more with other color combos and break the cards into 4 variety sets.  We'll see how motivated I get this weekend I guess!

Spring Organizing over at TTT

Hi Folks!  Spring has sprung and the cleaning has begun. :)  My room is all cleaned up and ready for guests.  The "studio" tour and organizing ideas are being spotlighted over at Tip Top Tuesday.  Hop on over and join in the fun!

Yup, that is a Christmas tree and yup I'm leaving it up all year.  When the lights are on, it means an artist is at work. LOL!!!  Now stop getting distracted and check out the tour. ;)

Star Date 1.18.11

The Craft Room... the Final Frontier. These are the escapades of the starship Fuzzy Slippers. Its continuing mission: to explore the strange concept of completed projects, to seek out new supplies and new blog inspiration, to boldly go where I have never gone before - a clean craft area!

Seriously, my mission this week is to see how many things I can make from this:

And this too....

I cleaned my studio, I mean cleaned for me anyway.  The studio is the place projects have gone to die lately.  I have a ton of supplies here and half made projects that I can't remember what they were!!!  So I'm going to see what I can make from what I have in these piles.

At least I have a bunch of colored images to work with on this.  Time spent this summer coloring may pay off. LOL!  Hope you enjoy my weeks challenge.  I'm shuffling off to the salt mine studio to see what I can cobble together.  Stay Tuned. :)

Ooo-ooo, while you are waiting- would you pretty please vote for me over at Lamb Around??? I am so honored that Fuzzy Slippers has been nominated for Best in Show *blush* and now it's up to the viewers to vote for me.  As they say in Hollywood, "it's an honor to be nominated", but gosh it'd be pretty cool if I got some votes too. :)
 

You're My Most Favorite Thing!

It's Challenge Day over at Top Tip Tuesday.  Carol is leading the tip tut this week and we're all joining in the fun by making something Christmasy!

What can I say!  I adore hearing Julie Andrews sing My Favorite Things.  (Tom- SPOILER ALERT if you are reading this you need to scroll down to the next picture).  I think this is the card I will give my sweetie this year.  This may be the first Christmas that he gets a card on Christmas instead of the day after. LOL!

Funny how I keep making blue cards when it is my least favorite color!  But this image from Amuse is just so gorgeous in blue.  Huh, maybe blue isn't so bad. ;)

The pattern paper is an old BG line mounted on a blue pearl Bazzill paper.  The image is on that fabulous multifunctional swiss dot line by BB.  The image is Amuse with liquid pearl accents for the snow.  The sentiment is from MFT.  The fun button, ribbon, and bakers twine is from The Store.

I'm hoping to play favorites with my card here:
All Thingz Related- Crafts
Sugar Bee- Take a Look Tuesday
The Shabby Tea Room- Country Kitchen
Kitchen Sink Crew- Monocromatic 
Fussy and Fancy Friday- Winter Wonderland
Mark's Finest Papers- Holiday Card
Moxie Fab World- A Study in Blue (using image below as trigger) 

Make sure to stop by TTT for the challenge!  I can't wait to see what y'all create. :)

10 Minute Cards 2.0 & 2.1

EDIT- I won Top 5 at Cupcake Inspirations for these!!!  :)

A couple of weeks ago I made this card in 10 minutes.  Time to showcase another 10 minute card!  I've made some with this technique in the past, but don't be mad...I forgot who makes this daisy paper!!! (If any of you in blogland know, would you pretty please post it in the comments??).

So this daisy came on a sheet of 12x12 paper that had all these squares of daisies.  So I cut up all the square and went to work!  I used a glue pen and drew a little loop on each petal, dipped the paper in glitter, stamped the sentiment in the empty space, mounted it on green shimmer bazzill paper and then onto a pink card.

So quick and easy I made a few!  Then I ran out of the green shimmer so I moved on to some amuse polka dot paper.

I've been on a kraft card kick lately.  I mounted these daisies on the polka dot paper and then on to kraft cards.  I decided not to make these square, but I had some "space" left on the card.  I pulled out some cream ribbon from The Store.  I bunched the ribbon and attached it to the card for some fun ruffle.

Hope you all have a great rest of your Thursday!  Don't forget to enter my blog candy contest!

I entered this here:
Cheap Thrills Thursday- Under $20
Cupcake inspiration- I went with the daisy :)
PaperPlay- anything goes

What's in your pocket Baggins?

It's Stamp, Scrap, & Doodle Saturday!  The challenge this week, sponsored by Sweet 'n Sassy,  is to make a pocket card, a card with a pocket, or a layout with a pocket.  I came up with this little beauty after being inspired by Suzanne's gorgeous card here.

I used this tutorial on SCS and went to my store to get all the bits and pieces.  If you haven't tried making one of these (although I'm thinking I 'm the last person to discover them!) you gotta.  These little flower pots are fun.

I gave myself the extra challenge of making my pot hold flowers that looked like my bouquet from last week.  I thought this would be a pretty thank you card.  Well, that's all for today.  Hope you join us at SSDS this week!

I added this to the following challenges and parties:
The Corrosive Challenge- Die Cuts
Along for the Ride- Week 6

Tear it Up!

My fun news........

I'm one of the newest DT members of Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays!  This weeks challenge is Tear it Up.

I have a love/hate relationship with tearing.  I always have these great visions of things I can create from tearing paper, but I always seem to get too aggressive with the tearing. :)  I used Cosmo Cricket's Garden Variety papers for the various layers and Memory Box's Twizzle Tree stamp.  The ribbon and flower came from "The Store", so no idea on those, and I put my Copics away before jotting down which ones I used.  

Hopefully the weather is a fantastic where you are as it is here!  This is good, 'cause my beloved Clemson Tigers broke my heart in yesterday's game (along with several other pick's on my bracket) and I need something to lift my b-ball woes.  Who do you have going all the way in the Big Dance?

Be sure to check out all the other cards from the new DT at Stamp Scrap & Doodle Saturdays. We'd all love to hear from you and we'd love to see your card! Our sponsor this week is Sew Many Card.  Enter your cards and you could win 5 digis of your choice.

Spring Cleaning

 

I have come to discover that I own a shockingly large amount of supplies and have completely lost track of what I own.  I know, I'm the only one that has ever had this discovery! :)  After 5 moves to 4 towns in 2 states and about a bazillion dollars spent on organizing books/magazines, I have come to the conclusion that I am an out-of-sight = out-of-mind kinda gal.  I've also put the pieces together to realize that I think in rainbows and am VERY lazy about putting things away.  If it ain't easy, I ain't gonna put it back where it belongs.  Where am I going on this rant?  After yet another nutty where I was yelling in my studio about what I couldn't find, my husband took pity (or was it self preservation) and helped me move around my furniture and better organize my space. 

Bless his heart, he's such a good guy.  He calls this The Store. He says it looks like a store front and keeps asking me "How's The Store treating you today?".  I have to say, since getting this set up this way, I have used a TON more stuff and have had only a little itch to buy something new!  So here's something I made with the toys from The Store.

I used some cards from heaven-only-knows where and used my cricut to cut the green Amuse paper.  I stamped the cupcake on Memory Box paper with stamps from Papertrey and I colored the leaves with one of my green copics.

Part of my discovery when I was cleaning was that I have an inordinate amount of pink stuff.  I had no idea that I was such a girl!  Now I'm on a mission to use up those girlie embellies.  Got any great inspiration?  Leave me a comment so I can check out your stuff!