Happy Valentine's Day; geometric candy holders

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Sending love to each and every one of you!

I made these sweet and fun treat holders using some great tools from WRMK. The Trim and Score Board and the Triangle Score Guide. The tools are fantastic and fun and Monday I will have a darling project for you, a video tutorial, and a chance for you to WIN BOTH OF THESE TOOLS!

Once you make a few of these, they are easy to create and kind of addicting! The little man has been having way too much fun making all sorts of shapes!

And the papers I used are the latest from Lawn Fawn called Beachside. The color palette is fresh and fun and the prints are the perfect size for any project from cards to layouts! This line is new, so it will be shipping soon!

Its another swim meet weekend here! It is the end of the short course season, so its regionals. Last chance to qualify for state, which is next weekend. The little man already gets to go to state, but he has a chance to get times for a couple more events! Wish him luck!

See you Monday for a video tutorial and chance for you to win!!

thanks for stopping by!

~kimberly

Supplies:

InLinkz.com

WCMD one-layer cards

The fun of WCMD just continues on! In this post I am showing some super duper simple cards.

All one-layer. These cards make it easy to create several dozen!

I love images that can stand alone on a white card base. These cute images from Lawn Fawn make a perfect focal point. When using simple images like this, stamp them towards the top of your card. I added a shadow under the tree with a Copic marker (BV20) to add depth, without bulk.

I stamped small snowflakes with blue ink, scattering them around the images. I have a slight addiction to enamel dots. In this situation, that won't do. If I am making 30 cards, I will never have enough dots, and it will cost me more to mail because of the bumps in the envelope.

Mail-able Card Idea #5:

Instead of adding enamel dots or sequins, which add bulk, and can add cost to mailing, use small stamped images. For more depth from these images, stamp without re-inking in between impressions.

This card is crazy simple. But, if you have a hefty list of people who need cards, this may be the answer for you. The sentiment is all one stamp. Ink. Stamp. Repeat. 

To step it up, I added some score lines using my Scor Pal. It highlights the sentiment, adds depth, but no bulk.

Mail-able Card Idea #6:

Create a pattern using a scoring tool. Add lines, or even create a plaid pattern.

My next two posts will have video tutorials and "fancier" looking techniques. see you soon! thanks for stopping by!

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PRIZE DETAILS:

Leave a comment on each of my blog posts today by 10 PM CST Sunday, October 5. Each comment will get you another entry. I will draw a name Sunday night and announce the winner here on Monday.

~kimberly

Supplies for Merry and Bright card:

InLinkz.com

Supplies for Be Merry card:

InLinkz.com

Go To Gal May Challenge: Lawn Fawn

What is a Go-to Gal Designer Challenge you may ask? Once a month the Paper Crafts &Scrapbooking Magazine Go-to Gals will challenge each other to create a project focusing on products from a particular manufacturer. We plan to feature one manufacturer the last Wednesday of each month. Just for fun! This month we are featuring Lawn Fawn!

Ahhh, Lawn Fawn. The epitome of the cute style. So classy. So much fun! Playing with Lawn Fawn products always puts a smile on my face. 

For my first card today, I started by trimming a piece of yellow patterned paper from the Hello Sunshine Collection Kit. Then I die cut it using the darling speech bubble from Large Stitched Journaling Card. The patterned paper layered underneath on the card base added a touch of whimsy. And note the depth I added by adhering the yellow patterned paper with foam adhesive.

From another piece of paper in the Hello Sunshine Collection Kit, I fussy-cut two butterflies and foam mounted them to the top of the speech bubble. Happy and spring-y. And the circle centers on the butterflies? Dots from the letter stickers I used to spell out hello.

On this card I layered paper from Let's Polka on my card base. Love that collection. Perfect for card makers, even in the 12x12 size. There is a 6x6 pad too. Oh heck, just get both. :)

The speech bubble was created by die cutting paper from Hello Sunshine with Speech Bubble Border. Pretty cool die template. It allows you to create a border up to 6" long. And it can be turned to face whatever direction you need. Very clever.

The stars were punched out from more Hello Sunshine paper, foam mounted, and given enamel dots to make them pop. The sentiment is from So Much To Say.

Be sure and visit the rest of the amazing team. We all just happened to be in Utah at the annual Editorial Board meeting for Paper Crafts &Scrapbooking Magazine. We are planning the next year for the magazine, and probably having a bit of fun too! :)

• Teri Anderson
• Heather Campbell
• Kim Kesti
• Betsy Veldman
• Laina Lamb
• Laura Williams

thanks for stopping by!

~kimberly

Supplies for Hello card:

InLinkz.com

Supplies for Happy Birthday card:

InLinkz.com

Trend watching from CHA

CHA was an absolute blast! Hard to complain about sunshine, temps in the 70's and 80's and palm trees! It truly was wonderful to see friends and new products! (and eat out and not have to cook...) I thought I would share with you the trends I noticed at the show. And I will be back soon with all my favorites in another post. Well, these are all on that list too, but I have even more cool things to share!

1. Gold, gold, gold!

From washi tape, to vellum, to gold foil papers! It's all about the gold! Watch for other metallics sneaking in too.

Gold Doilies-Studio Calico

Washi tape-Little B

Foil papers-Fancy Pants

Gold bows-Maya Road

Vellum-WR Memory Keepers

2. Pinks
Bright and intense, pale and soft, and everything in between, pretty much everyone had a shade of pink.

Bright-American Crafts Amy Tangerine Plus One

Basic Grey-Highline

In the middle-Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine and Polka Dots

Chickaniddy-Twirly Girly

Sorry, my photo was awful.

3. Black as the neutral. 

We have watched this move from kraft to grey and now black.  All the vivid colors being shown this time around are really popping against the black.

Pink Paislee-Hello Sunshine

Simple Stories-DIY Boutique

Basic Grey-Highline

4. Brush script or handwriting

Love this trend. Its stemming from the chalkboard trend. Which moved us into using handwriting and drawn fonts. I love this. Big time.

Basic Grey-Highline 

This is a background stamp, but there is the same design in the patterned paper from the collection.

WR Memory Keepers/Lifestyle Crafts-6x6 Embossing Folder

American Crafts Amy Tangerine Plus One

Technique Tuesday stamps

5. Chalkboard

Yay! So happy to have this one continue.

Penny Black

My Mind's Eye-Chalk Studio

Melissa Frances

American Crafts-DIY Shop

There is so much more goodness in this line!

Martha Stewart-these are new reusable silk screen stencils and washable chalk paint, simply wipe away with water and add your next design!

6. Shaped enamel dots and gems

Fun ways to expand your basic dot collection!

Basic Grey-Spice Market

Basic Grey-Capture

My Mind's Eye-Now and Then

7. Stencils

By far the biggest trend I saw. Everywhere. Used with inks, sprays, modeling pastes, and a million more creative ideas.

Hazel and Ruby-repositionable stencils! Peel, use, remove, use again and again!

Jillibean Soup. Again repositionable, but they also have coordinating stamps!!

Mod Podge/Plaid Crafts

Heidi Swapp/Pink Paislee-mini stencils! How cute!

Other observations:

• Washi tape-metallics, shaped, sheets for die cutting
• Arrows
• Dies for everything
• Lots of basics-stripes updated with diagonals and thick stripes, and polka dots updated with hearts
• Pocket page scrapbooking-tons, loving the die templates from Technique Tuesday to make your own cards
• Home decor-chalkboards, pallet wood for altering, canvas items
• Woodgrain-real wood sheets, decoratively cut 12x12 wood sheets, wood 3x4 cards, woodgrain papers, stencils, stamps

There you have it. My look at the trends from CHA. See anything that looks fun? Anything you cannot wait to get your hands on? Stay tuned for more paper crafty goodness!

thanks for stopping by!

~kimberly