"What's Your Style" with Craft Hoarders Challenge Blog

Are you a hoarder of you paper crafting products....most of us are....so it is exciting to share that today is the first challenge for the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog!!!! The first challenge is called "What's Your Style" ... and all I could think of was that I love it all!!!!! I have several paper manufactures that I have to have every collection and then I hold on to it for that "special" project, lol....I am sure you know what I am talking about....Today I decided to pull out some of the Graphic 45 French Country and do a layout of my husband and our friend....what sweet Memories it brought back to me....and what a very "special layout" it is.

Here is a few photos of close up...I love to fussy cut, so I add that to everything I make, so I also have a collection of fine scissors for all those intricate cutting details....

 and can you say metal, I love, love metal....great way to add some masculine pieces to a fabulous project....

and chipboard, oh yeah... what can I say....I love it all....So again I ask....What is Your Style....I hope you play along with us at the Craft Hoarders Challenge Blog, check out the Challenge Rules HERE.....can't wait to see what you will be sharing with us and remember Do you, because no one is you-er than you!..... and remember there is a prize...

being offered by Gloria of Scraps of Life... so here is the list of the Craft Hoarders Challenge Blog Designers....Group A will be sharing their style with you this week  then on Monday Feb 10 Group B will....so check each of them out...Hugs Pammejo

Group A
Donna Idlet - http://myblogidlet.blogspot.com/
Glenda Brooks - http://glendabrooks.blogspot.com
Gloria Stengel - http://gloriascraps.blogspot.com/
Karen Zueger - http://lostcoastscrapper.blogspot.com
Pam Bray - http://www.pammejo-scrapbookflair.com/
Tammi Bennett - http://www.tjsmemoriesblog.blogspot.com/

Next Monday-Feb 10 Group B will be sharing their style with you.
Group B-
Amber Milone - http://pinkchicpaperdesign.blogspot.com/
Christy Butters - http://creatingwiththegirls.blogspot.com/
Debbie Seyer - http://www.debbieseyer.com/my_weblog/
Ginny Nemchak - http://pollyspaper.wordpress.com/
Jan Marie Ennenga - http://re-creations4him.blogspot.com/
Kathy Clement - http://www.kathybydesign.com/kathy-by-design-news/

Happy Birthday Card with SinCity Stamps

I know you thought I left the team but as a designer of stamps, chipboard, stencils, and mask for SinCity Stamps I have been asked to do some guest spots....so today I would like to share with you my Happy Birthday Card....

Do you ever wish you had the perfect background for your card ... well today I am gong to share with you how to make one....I started with the Natural Beauty Stamp Set, stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then stamped it on a scrap piece of paper prior to stamping on my white card base....this will give a muted look to the image. 

Re-stamp on the white card stock with the Natural Beauty flower...this time don't stamp on the scrap paper but right on to the white card stock so the images will be darker.

 I colored the background and flowers in using my Copic Markers.....

Make sure to stamp one extra Natural Beauty Flower on scrap paper, color it in with markers and fussy cut out....

 Place the fussy cut flower on to the top of you finished card base that has been stamped with the Happy Birthday image from my Fall Collection 2 Stamp Set. 

I hope you will try making your own backgrounds...remember you can use any markers or watercoloring pencils to color SinCity Stamp images in. Make sure to check out the SinCity Stamps Store and check out the stamps, stencils, chipboard, etc. Don't forget the SinCity Stamps Blog for fabulous inspiration from the new Design Team Hugs Pammejjo
Supplies:
Sin City Stamps - Natural Beauty Stamp Set
Sin City Stamps - Pam Bray's Fall Collection 2 Stamp Set
Copic Markers
My Minds Eye Find Your Winds and Fly Paper Pad
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Clear Stickles

Thank You Cards with CSW Distributors

I am sharing with you a fun Thank You Card, super easy and sweet...Started with embossing grey paper with Cheerful Embossing Folder from the Elegance Collection and placing it on the card front. Add a pink square that is embossed using Crazy Daisy Embossing Folder from the Fine Designs Collection....love the look of using two different folders together...don't you?

Add a pattern doily from the Fantasia Collection and a small rectangle from the Scallop Nesting Rectangles Die Set to the front of the card, love how it gives that pop of color....Fussy cut a few flags from pattern paper using the Precision Scissors....add to the front of the card with some fun embellishments.

So while you are making one...you mine as well make several, right....lol, you never have to many Thank You Cards.....Hugs Pammejo
Supplies:
Couture Creations Supplies:
CO723222 Doily Dies
CO723255 Crazy Daisy Embossing Folder
CO723282 Cheerful Embossing Folder
CO723047 Scallop Rectangle Nesting Dies
Pink Gemstones

CO721985 Double Sided Tape

CO721955 Sharp Point Scissor

CO721957 Self Healing Mat
CO723039 Precision Trimmer CO721986 Handheld Essentials

Cards with Punched Shapes Create Challenge

I am sharing my Thinking of You Card that I made using McGill Small Flower Punch to make a bouquet of flowers for the CARDS WITH PUNCHED SHAPES, I hope you enjoy...there are so many things you can do with punches....so I hope you have some time to play do the challenge with Create and make sure to email your project and Instagram name to paiget@northridgepublishing.com by Saturday February 8th 2014 ...have fun....Hugs Pammejo!

Friends - Lucy and Ethel Layout with Couture Creations

Hi it is Pam today sharing with you a fun stitching technique using your Handheld Essential Tool Kit and some embroidery thread (I used two strands of thread)....using the paper piercer from the tool kit, pierce through the paper and flags that were cut from pattern paper using Couture Creations Precision Scissors and using a straight stitch sew through the pierced holes.

 Here is a closer look....remember to keep your thread straighten as you stitch....

I made a strip of green Core'dianations using the Crazy Daisy Embossing Folder, sanded it with Couture Creations Sanding Block and added it to my layout with Two Sided Tape. I ran the pink Core'dinations paper through my die cutting machine using the Scallop Nesting Circles and then embossing with the Crazy Daisy Embossing Folder and sanding them also with the Couture Creations Sanding Block and adding some clear gemstones when the layout is complete but then decided I needed a title and maybe some extra embellishments, wasn't sure if I liked the gemstones so I removed them and ended up with my Lucy and Ethel Layout as a finished project

....I hope you try stitiching on paper and my new finished Lucy and Ethel Layout.  Hugs Pammejo

Couture Creations Products:
CO723041 Scallop Circle Nesting Dies
CO723255 Crazy Daisy Embossing Folder
CO721985 Double Sided Tape

CO721955 Precision Scissor

CO721957 Self Healing Mat
CO723039 Precision Trimmer
CO723060 Sanding Block
CO721986 Handheld Essentials

Angelic Hearts Gift Card Holder with SinCity Stamps and Altered Pages

It is so hard for me to think that today is the last post I will be making as part of the SinCity Stamps Design Team but am SUPER EXCITED to share that I will be a regular Guest Designer on the blog.  I will be sharing not only my chipboard, stamps, die cuts, stencils, etc that I design for the SinCity Stamps but also will continue to support Donna and the team anyway I can.... Today I am sharing with you a sweet Angelic Heart Gift Card Holder that I made using the Angelic Heart Collage Sheet from Altered Pages and SinCity Stamps Natural Beauty Stamp Set.

I started by stamping multiple flower images on to a piece of white card stock using Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.....

Spraying with Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise Spray....allow it to dry completely....

Once dry fussy cut the flowers out, making sure to save two of the stamped and sprayed images....

Fussy cut out one of the heart images from the Altered Pages Angelic Hearts Collage Sheets....trace around it on to a piece of white card stock and fussy cut it out also, (make a small hole at the bottom of the white heart so you will be able to hang your baubles from)....it will become the back of your project....

Taking your Natural Beauty flowers that you have fussy cut out....adhere them to the back of the Angelic Heart Collage piece....once that is done...adhere the white piece you have fussy cut out and adhere over the back to cover up all the flower but making sure not to adhere the top because you want to form a pocket for your gift card and ribbon to go into.  Add the ribbon to the inside of the top part of heart.

Fussy cut out the last two flower images from the previously stamped and sprayed paper, layer with a pop dot and add to the top of a scallop circle....Place on top of the Heart Angelic Gift Card Holder and add a bit of Gold Stickles to the center, some gemstones to the front of the Angelic Heart and a few baubles to the bottom of the Angelic Heart. I hope you have enjoyed my gift idea and try making some for yourself....Please check out the SinCity Stamps and Alterered Pages, along with the blogs...you will excited to see what the designers have been making. Hugs Pammejo
Supplies:
SinCity Stamps Natural Beauty Stamp Set
Altered Pages Angelic Hearts Collage Sheet
Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise Spray
Tuxedo Memento Black Ink
Gold Stickles
White Card Stock
Clear Gemstones

EXCITING NEW!!!!! Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog

I am SO EXCITED TO SHARE....I am part of the new challenge blog...Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog.....how cool is that.....and to top it off I will be working with Gloria Stengel  who in her own right is an extremely talented designer (best known for her works with Graphic 45, Couture Creations, Hampton Arts, World Win Papers, to mentions a few) she has put together an amazing team. Make sure to check out Craft Hoarders Annoymous Challenge Blog to see the rest of the talented designer as each day until the challenges start we are each being featured. Of course make sure to click HERE to check out the Challenge Rules.....

The first and third Monday of each month we will post a challenge for you. It could be a sketch challenge, a color challenge, a mood-board challenge, a theme challenge, a manufacturer challenge, you name it. We want you to USE YOUR HOARDED paper, tools,adhesives, and do-dads.

LOL... not that any of us have products we have been hoarding for that one special project. I am so excited to have everyone participate in the challenges, it will be so much fun...so stop by the Craft Hoarders Challenge Blog and make sure to follow us. Hugs Pammejo

Design Team

Group A

Donna Idlet

Glenda Brooks

Gloria Stengel

Karen Zueger

Pam Bray

Tammi Bennett

Group B

Amber Milone

Christy Butters

Debbie Seyer

Ginny Nemchak

Jan Marie Ennenga

Kathy Clement