Connie Can Crop Challenge # 60 - Use Your Stash

Time for a brand new challenge over at Connie Can Crop. This month's theme is, Use Your Stash.

 

This months sponsor is BugabooStamps.

 

 

I dug deep into my stash to follow the theme all month, this is my first Use Your Stash project.

 



 



The papers are from Boxer Scrapbooking (?) I think that was the name of the company, I have had these papers since the 2011 Great Lakes Mega Meet.

The pearls are from Queen and Co., I got them at the 2012 Great Lakes Mega Meet.

The stamps are from DoCrafts, I think that I received them in 2014 or was it 2013?

BTW, the little bit of a crooked sentiment panel on the paw print card is, "artistic license", that's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Please come and join us at Connie Can Crop and Use Your Stash!!
 

Free Time Fun

June has arrived and all of my design team projects are wrapped up so I have had some free time to play with my toys.

Last summer I spent some time visiting my BFF in South Carolina and helped her out with a trade show in Columbus, OH she is the world famous decorative painter, Renee Mullins from Plum Purdy.

To make a long story short, she ended up giving me her brand new Cameo, I used a Lori Whitlock file from the Silhouette Store to create this shadow box.

 

About the same time I also won a facebook giveaway from Docrafts and I have been wanting to use the Docrafts toys to make this shadow box ever since then.

 

All of the papers on the inner boxes are from the Docrafts collection as are the cat images and if you can see my stamping so the little cat footprints.

 

This shadow box is far from perfect, I need to get some heavier paper and better glue before I make my next one. I live in the middle of nowhere on the way to nowhere, the closest place to buy craft supplies is Jo Ann's which is about 45 miles away. I hope to be able to stop in to find what I need to make another shadow box when we do our Sam's Club shopping this month.

 



 I will be entering this into the: DL Art June Linky Challenge.

Happy Birthday Renee

My girlfriend's birthday is coming up so I made her a couple of things.

 

The papers for the gift bag and rosette pin are from Craft Smith's Tea Party pad, the card is a decoupage set from Docrafts I won one of their facebook giveaways earlier in the summer.  

 

The gift bag and it's tag are cuts from Cricut's Tags, Bags, Boxes & More2.

 

The rosette pin is a cut from Cricut's Ribbons and Rosettes, the Birthday Girl is a print and cut from Silhouette's online store. I kept trying to figure out the print and cut feature but gave up and just did a cut and assemble. A few hours after I finished this, I sat down and played around until I did figure it out. I added a couple of stick pins, stars, ribbon, twine and some gold keys that you can't see in this picture.

 

Renee loves cats so I thought this would be the perfect card for her. This is from Do Craft's Little Meow Collection.

I am entering this into these challenges:
Glitter n' Sparkle's Challenge #155 Use a Punch or a Die Cut

Little Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #18 Anything Goes

 

HIMCR #214 - Freestyle!!!

HIMCR #214 -  Freestyle!!

 

The sponsor is Sami Stamps!

The giveaway is a $12 Gift Certificate to Sami Stamps!

 

I decided to make a mini album with this week's image, this image is prefect for summer memories. I used a couple of the items I picked up at the HOOT convention in Ohio, the white dots on the ice cream were made with DecoArt's Snow Writer which is a dimensional paint and you can't see it in the picture but on the cone I added some DecoArt Craft Twinkles.

All of the embellishments and printed papers are from docrafts Little Meow collection which I won via facebook and docrafts.

 

I sprayed the solid papers with my ebrush and a variety of markers. I used my Cinch to bind the pages.