I haven't had a chance to play along with the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger in several weeks and I missed it! So I was delighted to be instantly inspired by this weeks trigger!

Isn't that just beautiful!?!?!? My wedding cake couldn't have been more different! LOL not that it wasn't beautiful it was just very simple and square and had red roses on top of it.

This cake evokes everything a fairytale wedding should be!

White on white, black tie, flowers and shimmer!

You will see this reflected in my card!

I used SU's shimmer white paper for everything and sprayed the flower pieces with Marshmallow glimmer mist for even more shine!

I found it is very difficult to photograph a white on white card with shimmer! But I gave it my best effort!

 This picture was the best that you could actually see the shimmer on and now I am not even sure you still can! I started with a shimmer white base. Added another shimmer white layer that I embossed with CB folder Birds and Swirls. I then trimmed a doily and stamped this sentiment on it - it's a SU set - can't remember the name of it! My friend Paula gave it to me! I like the texture the doily adds.

 Here is a close up of the sentiment and you can see the soft silky white seam binding I tied around it - I am in love with seam binding!!!!!!! I stamped the sentiment in Tim Holtz Distress ink in Pumice Stone - I just love this non color!

And a close up of some of the flowers. I die cut a bunch of Tim Holtz Tattered Florals from SU shimmer white and then sprayed them with glimmer mist, layered them up and added a sparkly brad in the center.

Thanks for looking!

You can still play along with this week's Trigger until Sunday night! Just check out all the details HERE.

 WOW another post! See what happens when I clean my craft room?!?!?

I have a double challenge card for you today! I wanted to enter the Gina K stamp TV color challenge and so I had the colors wine, ivory, and gold in my head.

Then I saw the Waltzing Mouse Sketch challenge and that led me to Delightful Decorations by Stampin up.

Normally I try to use the company's stamps for their challenges but A) I don't have any Waltzing Mouse stamps...yet I placed my first order and they are on the way, B) I didn't have any Gina K that fit with the colors in my opinion. so oh well!

Here is my card.

I stamped the ornament image from Delightful Decorations and Tags Till Christmas in Encore gold ink then embossed with my cruddy clear EP - I am hoping it gives it a vintage look ;)! I then punched them out with the coordinating punch! I just love coordinating punches/dies!

I decided they needed some branches so I stamped the branch from Peaceful Wishes in Pallette Kraft ink several times. I then layered the ornaments and popped up the middle one. Below them I stamped Merry Christmas from Four Christmas in Matte Gold ink and then added a little bling to either end.

WOW! I used for different stamp sets on this one card!

Thanks for looking!

Here is my 1st Twilight Project! It was inspired by the books concept as a whole. The colors are from the book covers and well blood red, shiny silver volvo, black of night, sparkly vampires in the sun! I used Baroque Motifs which I FINALLY bought and am so glad I just love it! I started with a silver base added a black panel with the big flourish stamped using Pallet's Stamp&Stick Gluepad. I then dumped MS black glitter on it! I am having trouble keeping the glitter stuck to it! Hmmm not sure why?!?!?! Anyone used this particular product - I just bought it tonight! I also stamped cherish in veramark down in the corner then tried to emboss in red - perhaps I should have used white craft ink to get it to show up more?! I still have so much to learn about stamping! I have only been at it a year! anyways the card! I stamped the medalian in veramark on Real Red and used silver EP to emboss. Added some sheer shiny wedding ribbon and there you have it!

Aren't these cute?! What are they you ask? Why Lesson Plan Bookmarks of course! As a teacher we keep a book of our lesson plans and it's nice to have some way to mark the week you are on! Now I didn't come up with these entirely on my own (what teacher of crafter comes up with something COMPLETELY on their own? Not many.) My friend Tonya a SU demo gave me one similar when the new catty came out last go around (when I was in her stamp club). They are made using JUMBO paper clips from Wal-Mart and then a variety of punches and stamps and such. First I started with my base - black scalloped circles I punched mine out using SU's scallop circle punch. Then I had to build each side. One side I wanted teachery so I used Tart and Tangy and stamped the apple image in Real Red then punched it out using my EK Success 1 1/4 inch circle punch. I matted this on a 1 1/2 inch So Saffron circle - punched out uisng the Yellow Marvy Circle punch. I went over the apple with Crystal Effects (also known as Paper Glaze or Glossy Accents), done with side one and left those to dry. For side two I just wanted it to be pretty. I had my Black Scalloped Circle and so from there I added a 5 Petal flower punch in Real Red (kinda looks like a star) then on top of that I layered a circle. The circle I first stamped the circle medalion from Simple Delights in So Saffron on same CS for a subtle look and punched it out with the 1 1/4 inch circle punch. To this I added a little bitty circle image from One of a Kind stamped in Black punched out with an itty bitty circle punch from SU - I call it the Build a Brad punch cause it's the perfect size to use with SU's build a brad. I wanted to use a mini red brad to adhere the mini circle using a mini red brad to the so saffron circle. However it was so little I knew I would have trouble punching a hole in it............so I used my paper piercer!!!! I also didn't want to get up from my desk to get my matt so I used my mouse pad!!!! SO there are my two tips for you! 1) When wanting to put a brad in something very small try your paper piercer! 2) when you are not in reach of a matt to use you paper piercer try your mouse pad oh but make sure it's not one of those gel kind! That could get messy! So I assembed side two and then used Tombow Mono AQUA to adhere to the JUMBO paper clip - not sure the diffrence between Aqua and Multi but the Aqua bottle is bigger and it worked GREAT!

Here is a close up of both sides. I made 10 of these and it took less than an hour including drying time! WARNING the Crystal Effects stays tacky for a long time especially in humid hot sticky Missouri! I will be giving these to my team members (kindergarten) and other close friends at school as a start to the new year gift. And one for my PSF Cheri who I get to scrap with Thursday!!! Oh and I made one for myself too!!! Thanks for looking! Check back soon for my Welcome to Minnie Cline Cards using the same colors! Hmmmm do I detect a color challenge??? Check back for that too!

 So I got this new stamp set at Hobby Lobby for 30% off! It's by My Sentiments Exactly and I think it's so cute! Admittedly I am not that into the birds and owls and such but I HAD to have this one! The bird is attached to the swirlies and all those sentiments - they fit perfectly above the swirl! How cool is that?!

As mentioned in an earlier post this week is the Dare to Get Dirty week on SCS! This card is for Laurie's Got Vellum? challenge. I live vellum but don't use it NEAR enough! I love the softness it give to a project! For my color combo I turned to Serendipity Scrapbooks - the latest blog challenge is to use someone's blog layout/colors whatever and create a project with it! I went through everyone on the list and came up with two I thought would be neat to base a card on. The one I chose for this particular card is Chelle's blog check it out here! Do you see the colors? See the white flowers? This card was inspired by Chelle's blog for sure! 

This is a simple card but with some unique details. I love how the embossing goes across the layers - I used my Versamark PEN to draw the stems! *Note* if you have an embossing buddy - use it! If you don't - get one and use it! I have one and forget to use it then spend 40 minutes editing my picture in Photoshop! I used white brads to attach the vellum to my CS. This was really fun! The Dare to get Dirty challenges will be going on all week! I will have lots to catch up on when we get back! My girl Lauren (mytime) posts her challenge on Wednesday - I can't wait to see what hers is! Hopefully you can join in and do a challenge or two! They are so much fun!

Tools:

Stamps: Little Birdie by MSE

Ink: Basic Grey, Versamark - ink pad and pen

CS - Basic Grey and Really Rust by SU, Summer Sunrise by PTI, Vellum

Other - White EP, White Brads

Tools - Heat Gun

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