One Sip at a Time...

Making coffee cards, is always so pleasing to me!  

It's as if I am smelling the scent of fresh brewed about now.

Loving this new Unity Stamp Company kit called "One Sip at a Time"!

Comes with four charming sentiments in this kit...

Colored with distress markers.  Little vintage twist to this fall, coffee themed card.

Little bit of stitching, a tag with twine and a small black safety pin to add

a little charm to this beautiful stamp!

This kit is on sale, and there are plenty more stamps being released.

One Sip at a Time

Come join the Insta Hop with Unity Stamp Co and Brutus Monroe.

I'm participating in it, and it goes through until October 1st!

Prizes to be awarded and details for the hop are noted on my blog post,

and also on my Instagram account @karemalcreates!

Hugs & Smiles,

Karen

Merry Christmas...a little early!!

Are you up for another Cheery Lynn Design challenge?  This week we are adding "lace"!

It's right there down at the bottom section of my Christmas Card!  

To match my lace...

I made three different flowers: Sweet Williams, Shasta Daisy, and Cherry Blossoms

 in various shades of reds and pinks with hints of green and yellow !

The Oval Stacker die was great for laying the Merry Christmas Hanger sentiment.  

I added Stickles to the top of the sentiment for some pop & some shimmer!

Then, I tucked the Fanciful Flourish and Dimensional Small Leaves #2 here and there.

Top area of the card is two tiny French Pastry Doilies.  I cut them in half and tucked them beneath!

It's a little early for Christmas, but I especially had fun creating 

(and not at the last minute) as I typically find myself making Christmas cards way to late!

Here is a list of dies I used on my card:

Sweet Christine

Build a Flower #1

Fanciful Flourish Left

Cherry Blossom

Shasta Daisy

Sweet Williams

Dimensional Small Leaves #2

Oval Classic Silver Stackers

French Pastry Tiny Doily

Merry Christmas Hanger (set of 2)

Come join and play in the challenge for a chance to winning a 

$20 gift certificate to the Cheery Lynn Designs  on-line store!

Have a wonderful week!

Hugs & Smiles,



Enjoy the Journey...

Hope you are enjoying your weekend!  

Sharing my Cheery Lynn Designs challenge card with you

 featuring "Creative Corners"!

Instead of having them appear on the outer edge of my card,

I decided to highlight them right behind the Circle Stacker!

Love how subtle they appear, but yet they pop right out at ya!

Made a scrunchy flower using my Stacker Flower #2 die, 

and added a brad for the sentiment!

You'll see the Horizon Fishtail Banners, and Horizon Square Boutique Stacker

compliment each other oh beautifully!

List of dies used:

Horizon Square Boutique Stacker Frames

Square Classic Silver Stackers

Stacker Flower #2

French Flair Classic-SM Silver Stackers

Horizon Fishtail Banners (set of 3)

Fancy Corner Cuts #2 (set of 6)

Circle Classic Silver Stackers
Fanciful Flourish - Left

Enjoy your day and hope you'll get some time in
to craft and participate in this week's challenge
for a chance at $20 gift certificate 
to the Cheery Lynn Designs on-line store!!

Hugs & Smiles,

Life is Sweeter...

Hope you are having a marvelous weekend...

It's time for the "dry embossing" challenge over at Cheery Lynn Designs!!

My vintage style card features the Petite Heart Emboss Plate.

I added a little distress ink to the tops of the petite hearts so they'd stand out some more!

I also added the Burble Emboss Plate to the top of the Pair of Ferns.

Love the little bit of dimension and texture it adds!

The Cherry Blossom flowers were dyed with various Ranger Distress Stains...

Here's a list of dies that I used:

Mini Fanciful Flourish Right

Mini Fanciful Flourish Left

Circle

French Flair

Canadian Kaleidoscope Tiny Doily

Petite Heart Emboss Plate

Burble/Cheesecloth Texture Emboss Plate

Cherry Blossom

Tiffany Border

Pair of Ferns

Have a wonderful Sunday and 

Happy Mother's Day to all Mom's!

Hugs & Smiles,

Cheery Lynn Designs - New Release Day is Here!!

Yes, it is the 15th of April and the good news is that

Cheery Lynn Designs has a whole lot of dies releasing today!!

You'll be totally thrilled, once again, with the variety, great quality, and amazing designs...

For now, I'm sharing a card that I made using some of the NEW dies!!

Here are the some of the BRAND SPANKIN' NEW dies

I'm featuring on my card....

* B435 Tea Rose Small

* B436 Tea Rose Medium

* DL278 Horizon Fishtail Banners

* DL276 Mandy Doily

* B456 Add a Flourish (set of 2)

Within the next coming week's, I'll be sharing even more of the new dies 

on my weekly challenge projects!!

I used both the Tea Rose Small and Medium dies and sprayed them

with Glimmer Mist and Distress Inks to match to the designer papers!

Each die strip comes with a small 3-leaf set too...love that!!

I layed these lovely Tea Rose flowers on top of the new Horizon Fishtail Banners...

You have to see the intricate details and sweet scalloped borders on this die...SWOON!!

Isn't the new Add a Flourish terrific?  I love the delicate design so much!

Not to mention, the new Mandy Doily!  You can also use the 6-petal flowers

that pop out as small flowers for your projects too!! 

List of all the dies I used on my card:

* B435 Tea Rose Small

* B436 Tea Rose Medium

* DL278 Horizon Fishtail Banners

* DL276 Mandy Doily

* B456 Add a Flourish (set of 2)

XL-2 Square-Scalloped Nesting

XL1 Square Classic Silver Stackers

XM4 Circle 

L7 Oval Classic Silver Stacker

For more inspiration, visit the Cheery Lynn Designs blog, 
to see what the other designers have created!!

Have a wonderful day!!

Hugs & Smiles,

Because You Have Loved Me...

Pretty in Purple...

weekly challenge at Cheery Lynn Design's

begins today...right now!

I've got a fun tag to share with you today!

Main color, of course, is PURPLE with shades of green and tea to compliment!

Used the beautiful Chrysanthemum die in two shades of purple

with the Chicken Wire and French Pastry Doily and sweet Tiffany Border.

Every bit of this tag was either distress inked or glimmer mist with various colors!

Love the sweet quote created by Samantha Walker,

as well as the beautiful font!

Added a few Exotic Butterflies fluttering about!

List of dies used on my project:

Chicken Wire

French Pastry Doily

Chrysanthemum Strip

Rose Leaf Strip

Mini Fanciful Flourish Right

Mini Fanciful Flourish Left

Circle

Tiffany Border

Small Exotic Butterflies #1

Enjoy your day & hope you can get some crafting time in...

by joining the Cheery Lynn Designs Weekly Challenge 

for a chance at a $20 gift certificate!

Hugs & Smiles,

Anything Goes...

Hi there!  Sharing today's card made for the next 

Cheery Lynn Designs challenge, which is "anything goes"!

My inspiration was drawn from the beautiful vintage style roses on

this paper pad by KaiserCraft called Key to my Heart!

The card features a big rose and some smaller rose buds, just starting to bloom right out!  

I really enjoying making handmade flowers, so these roses were super fun to make!

The main rose was made using the Gardenia strip and the center part is actually the Medium Rose die

in colors of lipstick red, coral, and light pink!

The smaller rose buds were made using the Large Rose die.

The outer edges of the petals are covered in Wink of Stella "clear"!

Love the vintage look it gives to the flowers!

I have some olive branches spreading out from under the roses...

Quite a bit of layering using various doily dies like the 

Ankara Lace, Felicity Tiny Doily, and the few Circle dies!

Finally, I tied the bunch of roses with some crinkly ribbon

distressed in colors to compliment the roses and paper!

List of dies used:

Ankara Lace Doily w/angel Wing

Circle

Felicity Tiny Doily

Medium Rose

Large Rose

Gardenia Strip

Olive Branches

Siena Double Edge Border

Have a fabulous day!

Hugs & Smiles,

Blessed Easter Season!

Happy Friends with Flair Day!

I've got an Easter card to share with you today!

It's from one of the NEW Unity sets called "Everything Easter"!!!

What can I say...it's full of a variety of amazing sentiments and gorgeous font styles!!

I incorporated a bit of Spring into my card with the Prima "beautiful" designer papers

and cluster of flowers using my Cheery Lynn Dies!!

Love the beautiful background papers that capture the fluttering butterflies...

Don't forget the Unity garage sale is going on....

Grab this set!!

Just click on the photo to be taken to the Unity on-line store to buy one!!

Have a wonderful Friday!!

Hugs & Smiles,

Karen

Unity Inspiration Hop!

Hi there, and welcome to another Unity Inspiration hop!

I have a vintage card to share with you featuring 

a new Unity stamp set called  "On Vintage Wings"!!

I adore the sentiments and font styles...perfect with the birdie and butterfly!

On Vintage Wings

Stop by the Unity website for the 'garage sale'

to check out all the mark downs...

Now, hop on over to fabulous Laurel Seabrook, to see her amazing project!

Hugs & Smiles,

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 101 - Halloween!!

Hello! It's time for another Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge!

This week it's all about "Halloween"!!

Today, I'm happy to share a wicked spooky card with you...

Tearing, stitching, and distressing to match the spider web background designer paper.

Quite a bit of layering, of different dies...even added a skeleton and paper-cut out banner

right in front of the tiny French Pastry doily.

Those Shasta Daisy flowers are distress inked in various colors. 

The centers are part of the Embellishment #1 dies.

Then, I added my own handmade stick pin in matching colors

 of orange, purple, and a bit of gold brass metal!

The sentiment is part of the designer paper cut-out! I hand trimmed all around the base!  

I love the way it coordinates with the French Flair Stacker die (bats flying toward the moon)! 

Here's a list of all the Cheery Lynn Designs Dies Used:

Walting Matilda Lace Doily

French Flair Classic Stackers

French Pastry Tiny Doily

Shasta Daisy

Embellishment #1

Mini Fanciful Flourish

Have a terrific Sunday!!

Hugs & Smiles,

Acorn Greetings!!

Hope you're enjoying your Sunday doing something relaxing and fun!!

I've got a Unity Stamp of the Week card to share with you today...

Love the acorns and sweet sentiment...I can feel fall just around the corner!

Colored in with an array of Copics, and using my 

new Prima Sunrise Sunset papers designed by Finnabair.

Little bit of sewing, distressing, and inking...

I added the sentiment, small flower, and bit of lace to the "thoughts" pin.

If you are interested in joining Unity's Stamp of the Week Membership, 

click on the photo below for all the details!!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

Hugs & Smiles,

All About Dad!!

Happy Sunday friends!

Just sharing an early Father's Day Card with you today...

made using Unity's Stamp of the Week set, along 

with Fancy Pants "swagger" papers!!

There are FOUR sentiments...so delightful!!

If you'd like to join the Stamp of the Week, you can click on the photo

and you'll be taken to the Unity site for all the details!!

Have a fabulous day!

Hugs & Smiles,

12 Tags of 2012: October!!!

So happy to be sharing this fun tag I made this weekend!  I always love participating in

 Tim Holtz - 12 Tags of 2012!!

This one is for October, and of course, its a frightfully favorite time of the year for me!

It was a very special time this weekend being shared with my sweet friends.  

We put together our very own kits after cutting, preparing, and sharing our 

Tim Holtz products with each other!  

We all came up with different tags, even if we pretty much used the same products, 

and we each added our own little flair... and this is how mine ended up!  

Lots of goodies used here... 

grungeboard, stamps, stains, distress inks, chit chat stickers, 

Kraft core paper, tissue paper, tinsel twine, distress marker, 

dies, stickles glitter, distress stickles dry glitter...WOW!!  

 Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday!

Hugs & Smiles,

Inspiration Monday - Something for Dad!!

Monday's here, and time for Inspiration Monday at La-La Land Crafts Blog!  This week's inspiration is "Something for Dad".  For me, I just had to go straight to Fedora Hat Luka, and make him a little vintage style!

Lots of different things used here on my card....like distress inks (huge clock die cut), Glimmer Misting (on muslin), Copic coloring (Luka stamp), wood embellies (clocks and star button), metal (circle sentiment), jute, and muslin (bow) used here on my card.  Had lots of fun mixing all this stuff together!  I even added a little Glossy Accents to the face of the watch!  The huge clock die (by Tim Holtz) was cut twice and layered to give some added dimention...and the card base, well that's from my Silhouette (designed by Samantha Walker)!!

Copics:

Hair -  W1, W3, W5, W7

Skin - E000, E02, R11

Outfit, Hat, Shoes & Socks - BG09, B37, Y21,

YR14, YR24, E25, E27, E89

PocketWatch - Y28, W1, W3

Hope this inspires you to make a card or project using La-Land stamps for that special GUY!!

Hugs & Smiles,

Unity Blog Hoppin' Vintage Style!!

Happy Hip Hoppin' Day!  Can you believe it's the last hip hop for 2011?  It's been a blast this year, but we even have more in store for 2012!  So, let's keep this hop going...

Today, I am sharing the button card stamp from the Dec 2011 KOTM "Filled with Love"!  So, many wonderful stamps come in this set, but this one really stood out to me...so, of course, I had to use it right away!

Paired up with October Afternoon "Farmhouse"designer papers, miscellany, and flower sack die cuts, I came up with this vintage style card!   I've added some machine stitching, even some DMC Floss, stick pin, lace, ribbon, jute, and buttons!

For more inspiration, and check out what fabby creation Lisa Henke  has to share with you today!!

Hugs & Smiles,