one cute chick

Good morning.  Today is another new challenge over at Inspired By. In this pic I was really inspired by the monochromatic green, the curves to the hills, the openness of the hills (like a ranch or garden) the pop of yellow and brown and the wood.

Laurel sure knows how to inspire (as you all know) because each week I am inspired by so many things in the pics, I really can’t narrow it down to one thing and usually (like this week) create more than one card or project inspired by the pics….looooove that!

I had so many ideas in-mind when I saw the pic that I created all three of the cards and I still have so many more ideas and March is a busy birthday month so it will be very helpful starting point for those cards.

My first card today is the one I submitted for the team (and was super excited to try to execute because I love this time of year, springtime, chicks, bunnies, gardens and green....hope for warmer days) but not the first one I created.  I thought my first card idea would need more explaining because it’s completely inspired by the pic but not as obvious, so I thought I’d share it here on the blog.  

But first, let's take a look at the card I submitted for the post on the blog.

One Cute Chick card

Here is the inspiration pic, love.

Using my Silhouette Cameo I cut the hills using the Stitched Hillside Banners

I cut the chick from Couple of Chicks.

The sentiment is One Cute Chic

The clouds were from Cloud Raining Hearts 

 The stamp frame is Stamp by Silhouette

And the paper peeking out behind the hills is Pebbles Blue Blankie and I love this gingham for Easter.  

Here's a close-up of that cute paper, love the softness of the gingham and it's nice and big..smile.  I pop-dotted the clouds to layer onto the paper and over the stamp frame.

And, here's that cute chick, just love him so much!

I hope you'll pop on over to The BLOG to see what the amazing team created and to see our guest for this week, she's amazing indeed!

Bunny Stop Here pop-up card

Open it up to see the bunny pop up in the carrot garden.

This is my first card that I created inspired by the picture.  But, since it wasn't predominately green in the color scheme, the curves were created with scallops and the stitching was focused because of the inspiration piece, I thought it would need more explanation than just the post on the design blog.

I was inspired by the open hills (made me think of a garden) monochromatic color scheme (blue scallops and the garden leaves), the rounded hills made me think of scallops, the pop of yellow and orange inspired the sun and carrots, the wood (fence on the front of the card and carrot garden sign) and the stitching (front of card, sun and scallop background) so much to be inspired by!

It's a little hard to tell in the pic, but the scallops are monochromatic blues for the background and the garden is monochromatic too.

Monochromatic garden 

The stitching was also a big inspiration and starting point for these two cards so I shared a pic of the stitching that I used to give the background even more details.  

I used the following cuts from the Silhouette Design Store: Scalloped Big Border, Pretty Sun, Carrots, Modern Carrots, bunny, pop up card, Easter banner words, cute fence



Lastly, my card I created (with a specific recipient in-mind) was also completely inspired by the challenge pic this week. I was inspired by the green monochromatic colors, the curves inspired the coffee cart awning, wooden coffee cart inspired by the house, scripty letter sentiment were inspired by the hillside angles and tree colors and the pops of yellow on the hearts of the coffee cups.

Coffee & More Coffee card  

I used the Silhouette Design Store cuts: Coffee Cup To Go, Polaroid (to create the coffee cart)
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee sentiment 

Inside of card
stamped sentiment: Sassy Coffee Stamps from Teri Anderson, could NOT love this set more and you'll be seeing cards with it in the very near future, for some upcoming stuff ;)  but I couldn't resist to use it for the inside sentiment.

Thank you for stopping by and I can't wait to see how the pic will inspire you this week.

Danni

hello friend

I wanted to pop in real quick to share a card I created using a sketch by Laurel Seabrook.  

Hello Friend card

Isn't this sketch awesome?  SO many cards could be created with this one sketch, love it!

card supplies:  

papers:  Pebbles Night Night, American Crafts

special papers: vellum

Tools for sentiment and cuts:  Silhouette Cameo

 Thank you so much for stopping by my blog!

Danni

What Does The Fox Say?

Good morning!  Today I am sharing a project I created this week, inspired by the newest Photograph challenge at InspiredBy. 

Make sure to hop on over to the blog because the projects from the designers are SO fun and inspiring again this week!

My project this week is a kindergarten classroom (or toddler) rhyme time game, targeting struggling readers and ELL learners. Every time I looked at the picture, the succulents “growing” was the first thing that I focused on.  So, I decided I wanted to focus on “growth” and that’s when the game came to-mind. 

This week, I was inspired by the foxy succulent, the colors (black, orange and green) and the succulent. 

What Does the Fox Say? Rhyme time game

I used the Fox from Sweet Elsie to be the focal that we would be rhyming for the game.  I cut a circle Game Title using the What does the Fox Say cut.

As I pull the rhyming pieces out of the box, the children will find the picture on their game card and “smack it” with their fox smacker, repeating the rhymes aloud as they find them….fox/clocks, fox/blocks, fox/socks etc.

 In the pic below, I am demonstrating how the game is played:

When you pull out an object from the box, the child uses their "fox swatter" to swat the socks on their game board and when they locate it, say "socks/fox" rhyme.

"rocks/fox rhyme"

"clocks/fox rhyme"

After designing the box to hold the game, I decided to create the game boards using the notepad paper from the Awesome Pencil Card project by Silhouette.  I googled pictures that rhyme with fox, printed them, adhered them to the notebook paper and then laminated each game board.

I created the rhyming pieces from various Silhouette cuts:

Socks

ABC blocks

Clock

Lock

Box

I then decided to create the Fox rhyme time smackers using the Fox cut.  I cut 2 fox heads from each color (black and orange), adhered the white detail pieces on the front, adhered them to a dowel and then adhered the blank fox cut to the back of the dowel.

To keep the playing cards nice for a long time to come, I laminated the cards (you can see the glossy ones behind the front two), that way, I am able to use these with my grandson and in the classroom.

Isn't this inspiration the cutest?

 I can't wait to see all the "foxy"/animal cards, layouts and projects this week! 

Thank you for stopping by to visit!

Danni

Hello coffee ♥️

Good morning! I’m back today with my card for this week’s challenge at Inspired By.   This week’s challenge was really fun and inspiring.  The DT gave lots of interpretations and projects and they’re all amazing, definitely check them out!

At first glance I thought I would stick with the circles but then as I took time to look again, I decided that there was way more to be inspired by (in addition to the circles).   At first, the cheesecake kinda made me draw a blank but then it came to me... what goes more perfectly with dessert than coffee?  (I don’t need dessert or any excuse to drink coffee, but I digress....smile).  So I decided on a coffee theme (I give lots of coffee gift baskets and cards, and it’s always great to have cards or tags on hand to do so). 

 I wanted to really stay true to the colors since it’s a big focal and the fork kept sticking out to me so I decided I needed to add stripes to represent the tines of the fork.  Lots of things in this one inspired me and I really look forward to seeing how it inspires all of you!

I hope you’ll hop over to the blog, check out our awesome guest designer and play along with us this week.

Danni

Inspired by...got mail?

Hello, Happy Wednesday! Wednesday means another challenge over at Inspired By.  This week’s challenge is such a cute one and I can’t wait to see all the inspiration from everyone.  Here is the inspiration picture Laurel chose for this week

Isn’t it the cutest? 

Woodland animals, Valentine’s, critters, love, “happy mail”, winter, there’s so many ways to be inspired by this cute picture and I am really looking forward to seeing everyone’s creations.

I created two different cards inspired by the picture because it gave me a perfect reason to use two digital cuts from the Silhouette store that I hadn’t found the time to use yet. 

Don’t Worry card

On this card, I used the Raccoon Woodland Creature by Sarah Bailey.  There are so so many cute raccoons on the Silhouette store, but this one by Sarah just had the cutest little expression, one that I had in my head when picturing the sentiment for the card.  I used the Love Mailbox by Loni Stevens on this card so it had the “Love” word on it, contrasting with the “bandit” idea.

I wanted to use the raccoon with the idea that he doesn’t want to “steal the love”, alternately he is mailing the love, in a sense “giving it”.  Raccoons are the cutest little bandits with their masks, so I decided to add some “smart-looking” glasses, like he had gotten smarter.  I played with a bunch of sentiment ideas, but finally decided on:  Don’t worry, I’ve mailed it in (like he’s given up the stealing) and inside of the card reads:  Love, The Love Bandit.  

I hope it all makes sense outside my mind…giggle.

Sending Hedgehugs card




This card was completely inspired by the cute digital cut that I hadn’t used until this challenge.  I am  creating several cards using it for friends and family, looove.  I used the Valentine Hedgehog by Sarah Bailey for this one.  I also used the Mailbox digital cut from Snapdragon Snippets.  I have used this one before and knew it would be perfect for this inspiration picture with the cute little letters in the picture.  SO much to be inspired by with Laurel’s challenges.

For the inside of the card, I wanted to create a fun presentation for the sending hedgehugs sentiment, so I cut a much larger envelope and embellished it with the rest of the sentiment. 

I can’t wait to see how this challenge will inspire you and to see what you were inspired by. 

Happy creating♥

Danni

puffy heart embellishment tutorial

Good morning!

I am back today to share the quick puffy-heart picture tutorial.  I am not a sewing pro by any means, and these are fun with fabric but I wanted some puffy embellishments for the cards so I translated it with patterned paper. (They use up scraps too, bonus!)

 Please let me know if you have any questions, if the pictures don't answer them.

Once you have filled and adhered the heart together (leaving a little trim of patterned paper above one of the hearts) stitch completely around the bottom heart.  When you are done stitching, you will have a section that has not created a finished seam on the back of the hearts, however, most of it is sewn closed and the hot glue I use to adhere these (start with pushing from the bottom of the heart upwards to dry) closes them off and there is no batting showing.  If you want a heart that is sewn closed you would align the two hearts perfectly (and could use card stock for one of the hearts since you won't be seeing it)

Here is the card I created using one of these puffy hearts

Heartfelt love card

sentiment: heartfelt love

sentiment inside reads:  today & every day

I hope you have a chance to try some of these out on one of your projects.

Happy creating♥

Danni

CAS challenge...love

Happy Superbowl Sunday!

What a game huh?  Wow.  Entertaining, fun and filled with excitement!  Superbowl games can be that way every year if you ask me, we've been so spoiled the last two years!

I am back with a card I created for another challenge this week, AAA card challenges.  The challenge is to create a CAS card with a love theme.  I have been cleaning up my desk from creating all weekend when I decided I needed to use up some scraps (I have the hardest time ever throwing out a single scrap).  This CAS love-themed challenge came to-mind because the challenges love white-space and that means scraps are perfect for the white space.

                                                          Love card

Love card details

I used a scrap piece of patterned paper, layered it with a scrap piece of vellum.  I cut the heart from a Lori Whitlock design from the Silhouette store.  I resized the heart in her 3D Yin Yang card design to create the heart and used the Hanging Hearts file by Jen Martakis to create the hanging bow.

This was such a fun challenge and a fun site with loads of inspiration for CAS cards.   

Danni