Christmas in July Sale 40% off all my designs, iris paper folding, and freebie.

Don't spending the upcoming holiday season running around frantically making last minute gifts!  Start now and you'll be finished ready to be festive instead of frazzled this Christmas.  As an added bonus if you start now you will recieve 40% off all my designs.  Click here to go shopping.  But before you go I have a few projects to get your creative juices flowing!

I went to a crop and wanted to make some quick gifts for the hostesses.  My notepad with cover file was perfect!  I needed 3 and I was able to fix exactly 3 on a 12 x 12 piece of paper.  Yeah! 

I used a Transparent Touches kit (May Kit #1) .  I absolutely love pink, brown and orange together!  I haven't purchased many rub ons but I just love the ones that came in the kit..they were soo easy to apply!  I never thought I would use brown glitter glue but I love the look of it on the scrolls.  If you click on the photos..you should be able to see the sparkle better. The hostesses just loved these!  I think they would make great Christmas gifts for teacher, hair dressers, post office workers etc.  They would be great to add to stockings too!

Looky!  I did it...I really did it!  I have been wanting to try Iris Paper Folding forever.    So when I saw the hot air balloon card by Blue Moon Creations..I just had to try it.  I love the way this card turned out...looks like I spent hours upon hours but it wasn't that bad at all!  What a great way to use scraps!  I  used my card base 3 file (coming soon to the store).  The strips on the side are perfect for using scraps!  I was delighted to find this awesome free sentiment at an incredible website called Create with TLC.   In case you can't read it "Wishing you all of the ups and none of the downs."  Let's see the cloud background was made with Copics airbrush system using Tori Hemingway's tut here.   I love the look and it doesn't take much effort at all!  The hot air ballon basket is from Bird's Cards wonderful blog.  There are soo many great balloons on this site..you're sure to find one you like.  I colored the basket with my copics too.  I love my Copics!

I will get to the freebie soon but wanted to give you a sneak peak at what is coming to my store soon.

These sentiments were a request by one of my creative team members.  What a great request it was!  These sentiments are perfect to add to Shirley's RAK cards as well as solider cards or anyone who needs some encouragement.

Esther Woo Benjamin for Eddita's Christmas card swap last year sent us all an amazing Iris paper folding card.

Isn't that the cutest thing you have ever seen!  Want to make your own?  Well be patient...you just may get your wish!

CDT member Kelly Stone gave this little guy a try too..her results are below.  She is definitely the Queen of Embossing...love that look Kelly! I also love how she used glitter glue in the "eye"...great idea if you don't have any metallic paper!   Here is what Kelly had to say about her card "I added some Sparkly Fluff to the hat trim and embossed/sanded the background paper. Stickles in the iris center and a googly eye finished it off."

So I had to try out this little penguin too!  It was soo easy to do!  I made this at the crop.  A friend of mine...Lisa...had just the right enhancements to make my penguin adorable!  Don't you just love the little puffy heart, eye and fur trim she donated!  Thanks so much Lisa! 

As you can see I didn't stray too far from Esther's example!  Why mess with perfection!  LOL!  I loved using the scraps for this cute little guy.  I had my doubts the scraps I chose would look okay but it seems even if you mix many patterns with this technique it still turns out great!

A little info:  Esther got the original pattern for this penguin at Circle of Crafters.  She sized it to fit on her card and made the cutlines for it.  So I talked with Esther and she is graciously giving you the cutlines for this card as a freebie.  Yipeee!    But first let me give you a little more info.  These can be found in your freebie file too but just in case you want to see what Iris Paper Folding is all about before you download.

Step by step Iris Paper folding tut can be found here.    If you look at the colum to the right you will see many more patterns on the circle of crafters website.

In case you'd rather watch a video you can see an excellent one here. 

Click HERE to download your freebie penguin card.  It comes complete with the Iris paper folding pattern, card base and penguin cutouts.  Thanks a million Esther!  If you make this little guy up yourself...please e-mail me the results at shellysart@verizon.net...Esther and I would love to see your project!  Remember this would also be super cute on a layout too! 

Merry Christmas!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful weekend!
Shelly

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Christmas in July Sale 40% off all my designs!

Howdy everyone,
        No you aren't seeing things!  Yes those are Christmas trees in my Ad above!!  If you are anything like me..you are scrambling to get those Christmas projects done a hour before Christmas.  Yikes!  Why not enjoy your Christmas this year by starting early on those Christmas projects.  For many of you the weather is warm and thinking of Christmas might just get you thinking of cooler days too!  So what could be better you'll get a head start on Christmas and save money at the same time!  Go visit my store and receive 40% off all my designs now through the 31st of July!  Click here to start shopping!  I promise to have a few projects to share and a freebie tomorrow or Sat at the latest so please check back.  Oh and many of the other Paperthreads Designers are hosting sales too so you'll find lots of great deals to put in your shopping bag!
Thanks for stopping by!
Shelly

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Frugal Fridays: $1.00 Santa Scroll today only!

Hello everyone,
No you're not seeing things! I really am posting this before lunchtime! I knew one of these days my dream of posting early on Fridays would come true! LOL!

Now onto the Frugal Friday special. I'm soo excited...This is one of my favorite files!    You can purchase my Santa Scroll file for $1.00. Hurry though the price will magically disappear at midnight EST today...7/23/2010.    It seems the papercrafting hobby has grown immensely over the past few years and in doing so many wonderful products have become available.  So even though Christmas time is all about giving...sometimes...just sometimes when I drool over the newest scrapbooking items I too "want it all!"  LOL! Click on the words below to purchase.

Santa Scroll

I honestly marvel at how much Kelly creates despite having a young infant!  She is definitely Super Mom!  I could learn a thing or two from her.  Once again Kelly has impressed me with a great yet simple card.  Kelly used a monochromatic color scheme and my card base 1 file to make this quick card. 

Here is what Kelly had to say about her card. " I have used Shelly's Card Base 1 (SS00170) and Jan's Itty Bitty Swirls (JB00101) to make a card for a male friend. I wanted to keep it fairly masculine so I stuck with orange and brown papers. The just because sentiment and swirl are both cut from vinyl and I added a gold flower sticker to the scalloped circle."

If you'd like to purchase the card base click on the words below.  These card bases are soo versatile!  If you have some extra time..make a few up and have them ready...later add a stamped image or sentiment and you're good to go!   I also have another card base in the store here.  I have a third on the way soon too.  I plan on making a whole bunch of these as I am always in need of a card...often rushing out the door to mail them! 

Card Base 1

Woo Hoo!  I'm going to a crop today and tomorrow.  I'm soo excited!  I haven't scrapbooked since the last crop in May!  I've got to get ready though....don't want to bring the kitchen sink!  LOL!  At least after this weekend I'll have some actual projects created by ME to share!  I bet you think I forgot how to scrapbook!   Oh and if you are into iris paper folding you will love what I'm going to share next weekend!

Okay I've got to go pack up for the crop but wanted to share a cute photo of the kids I found.  We were fortunate enough to get this motorized vehicle as a hand me down.  Adoree just loves it but she hasn't quite gotten the hang of steering yet.........she just keeps crashing into things....so awesome big brother is in charge of helping her reverse and such when she gets stuck.  Luckily he enjoys helping!  Yeah! Oh and sorry the photo isn't the greatest but I was laughing so hard at her antics that I couldn't keep the camera steady!

Have a glorious weekend and thanks so much for visiting!  Come back again..now ya here!
Shelly

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Frugal Friday: Christmas in July..Candy Bar Wrapper $1.00 today only, organizing paper scraps, and tooth fairy.

Howdy,
It's Friday again! July is half way over! Amazing! Do you all have the same speedy clock I have? Well it's time for my Frugal Friday special. Since the weather is soo warm I decided it would be a good time to focus on some Christmas items. Now is the time to get started early on those Christmas projects. So to help you out I have a Christmas Candy Bar Wrapper file for $1.00 only today. Just think if you start making these now..you will have enough to give one to all your friends and family by Christmas. Click words below to purchase.  Hurry though this price will magically disappear at midnight EST tonight 7/16/2010.  Before you go please scroll down as I have many things to share with you!

Christmas Candy Bar Wrapper

Well I finally got Manny Monkey in my store.  I am pretty happy with the way he turned out and I hope you are too!  Here is the card I completed.  I even did some stitching on the card.  It's my first ever attempt at sewing.  I am definitely not a seamstress but love the look at stitching on a card.  I was thrilled when my parents bought me a Janome Mini sewing machine.  I have to practice at getting the lines straight but I had soo much fun!

I used one of Penny Duncan's wonderful shaplies file for the background of Manny.  The paper used was from a Transparent Touches kit.  The image was colored with Copic markers.  Next time I create with Manny I want to put some flocking on him.  If you would like to take Manny home simply click on the words below.

Manny Monkey

Kelly Stone has provided me with sooo many projects I have not be able to show them all in one blog post.  So below is one more card.  She used Aussie Caz's awesome sketch in addition to some of my files.  I love how the flourishes turned out!  Genius idea Kelly!

Here is what Kelly had to say about her great card:

"For the June card sketch, I used most of the components supplied by Aussie Caz. I stretched the card size to 5x7, and substituted the scalloped circle from Shelly's Hummingbird card file (SS00123) for the plain circle. The swirl on top is from Shelly's Floral Mom Tag 2 (SS00093). I cut 2 of them, cut 1 into pieces and glued them together. The long vertical panel is embossed with the floral screen cuttlebug folder and then sanded. The hello sentiment is cut from vinyl."

If you would like to purchase any of the files Kelly used click on the words below.

Hummingbird Card File

Floral Mom Tag

In hopes of getting my craft room ready soon I've been collecting organizational ideas.  Any you guys want to share would be great!  I have always been at a loss when it came to organizing my paper scraps.  So when I found  Jennifer's post  (scroll down to find her post) on the Creating Keepsakes Club blog about how she stores her patterned paper scraps I couldn't wait to try it.  I've posted photos below.  I just love it!  It's very similar to how wallpaper books are bounded.  It's great because you can just flip through the books to see what you need and everything is uniform so things don't get ripped.  I need to purchase some more binder clips as I have more scraps to organize.  Jennifer cuts the scraps to the closest inch.  I am such a paper hoarder that I had a hard time cutting off some of the paper to get to the inch.  I also reluctantly got rid of anything less than 2 inches.  I gave these to the kids to create with.  These books will be kept in the storage drawer but once I get my craft room done I might hang them up as inspiration!

Here is the before picture all the scraps in this one overflowing drawer.

 
Now for the awesome make over!

Wow!  This post is getting long!  Sorry!  I have a one more photo to share as I promised to show what the tooth fairy left Tyler.   It was soo cute!  Tyler was watching the TV show Super Why and the kid on there wrote a note to tell the tooth fairy asking if he could keep his tooth.  So Tyler did the same.   He even wanted to leave the tooth under my pillow instead of his.  I am going to scrap this note and maybe even put his tooth in a memoriablia keeper to put on the page too.  Tyler was soo happy to have his tooth still  but what made him even happier was the gift the tooth fairy had left!  He says the electric toothbrush feels like Mr. Tickle..this is what the dental office uses to clean his teeth.  As you can see Adoree had to get into the photo too.  She is such a ham!

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Frugal Friday Special: Christmas In July..$1.00 Jingle Bells file, projects and 4th of July pics

Hi everyone,
I hope you had a wonderful 4th of July and had a grand time celebrating your independence! We had fun with our families and then saw an incredible fireworks show. Hubby was lucky enough to get some VIP passes so we had excellent seats. I forgot my tripod but luckily had the stroller to rest my camera on. I got some pretty good photos of the fireworks and have shared a few with you in the slideshow at the end of this post.

Now on to the Frugal Friday special. It's been mega hot this week so much so that it's best to stay inside in the air conditioning. So...I figured now would be a good time to think cool thoughts and get ready for Christmas. The holiday season will be here before you know it. So to help you get a head start on your Christmas projects this year I am featuring Christmas specials all this month. I hope to have a freebie at some point too. This Fridays's special is my Jingle Bells file. You can get it for $1.00 today only. Hurry the price disappears at midnight EST today 7/9/2010.  This would look great on the front of a Christmas card.  Cut out multiples and assembly in front of the TV before you know it you'll have all your Christmas cards done early this year! Woo HOO!  Click on the words b below to purchase. But before you go please check out the projects by my creative CDT. 

Jingle Bells

If you like variety I have many Christmas cards in the store.  Elizabeth Charleton did a great job creating one recently.  She used my Snow Angel Card.  I love how she embossed the card background with snowflakes and the glitter glue is also a nice touch!  (If you can't see the glitz click on the photo to make it larger) Click the words below if you'd like to purchase the card.

Snow Angel Card

CDT member Kelly Stone is also in a festive mood so she created a Christmas pinwheel.  She too used snowflakes in her background paper.  I love it!   Kelly actually made her own double sided paper for this project by gluing two papers together.  They were just thin papers not cardstock but it still held up well!  Attach a  dowel rod and this makes a great decor item or forget the dowel and adhere the pinwheel to a package.  Click words below to purchase the pinwheel.  This works for all seasons and holidays just change the paper.  It's a steal at 30% off all this month. 

Pinwheel

Kelly also shared an amazing project with me so I must share it with you all now!  She took my Clothes Line Baby Girl Card and transformed it into this adorable layout.  She is giving it as a gift so she put it in a frame now all the family has to do is add a photo of their darling baby girl and a work of wall art is born!  Isn't this just darling!  I love the mini clothespins!   I would never have guessed it was a card file at one time!  Here is what Kelly had to say about her wonderful project.

"For this project I have used Shelly's Clothes Line Baby Girl Card file (SS00063) and made it into a scrapbook page. I used 2 different papers from K & Company's BW Small Wonders paper pad and used a creme colored ribbon to hide the seam. The clothesline is made from twisted raffia and the clothes pins are real wooden mini clothes pins. The clothing is attached with pop-dots. The white pieces on the jumper have been embossed with the swiss dots cuttlebug folder. I added some stitching on the socks and bib with a white pen. The title is cut from vinyl. Then I made a spot for a matted 4x6 photo to go."

click on the words below if you'd like to purchase this file.

Clothes Line Baby Girl Card

I simply can not believe how hot it is outside! It's close to 100 here!  We only go outside long enough to water the flowers and the vegetables.  The kids are going stir crazy!  It looks so nice outside...they don't understand why they can't go out to play.  Now I kinda wish we had the bigger pool again so I could get in!  Naw...on second thought....I don't want to put a swim suit on!  LOL!  We are suppose to get some much needed rain this weekend and it's suppose to be a little cooler before the hot weather hits again next week.
I also don't want to see the electric bill this month!  Poor air conditioners need a break!


Tyler finally let me pull out his tooth the other day.  I took some photo and yes..the tooth fairy did leave something.  But...for now I'll keep you in suspense.  Meanwhile I do want to share with you my 4th of July photos in the slideshow below.  Sorry slideshow removed as I didn't save it and wanted to remove the music but wasn't sure how to edit it.

Thanks for stopping by!  Stay cool!
Shelly

 

 

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Celebrate your independence to craft with 30% off all my designs , projects and teeth!

Isn't it great we live in a world where we are free to craft and make anything our little heart desires?   Why not stop by my store and celebrate your freedom to craft today with 30% off all my designs.   Click here to go shopping.  But....before you go please check out some wonderful projects below!

Happy 4th of July!!! creative team member Elizabeth Charleton created this wonderful pinwheel in the true spirit of the holiday.  Way to go Elizabeth!    These can be attached to a dowel rod and kids love to wave them around showing their patriotism while having fun at the same time!  They are great for all seasons just change the paper...click words below to purchase my pinwheel file. 


Pinwheel

Karen contacted me with an idea for a family tree page.  She needed some silver charms.  I went ahead and created them.  I was soo happy they worked for her and she shared with me this wonderful family tree page.  Great job Karen.

Karen used my silver charms and wedding bliss digital scrapbooking kit.  Click highlighted words to purchase.

Creative Design Team Member Kelly Stone has been one busy camper.  It's hard to believe she has a small infant at home and works!  Super Mom she is!   I have soo many projects to share with you that I think I'll spread them out over the next couple of days so these posts aren't enormous!

Kelly did two cards for Shirley Clark's great RAK challenge.   Click on the link to read about these two wonderful girls.

  Here is what Kelly had to say about her card for Olivia.


"For Olivia's card I have used Shelly's Card Base 2 file (SS00182) and Ileana's Ice Cream file (IR00118). I used several different pink patterned papers and a hot pink ribbon. To decorate the ice cream, I used the swiss dots cuttlebug folder and pink stickles for the strawberry flavor, the d'vine swirl cuttlebug folder for the chocolate flavor, and hand cut some black paper to use as chocolate chips. The for Olivia title is cut from white vinyl."

I just love the chocolate chips!  Kelly is a whiz at embossing and vinyl.  I have yet to master vinyl.  

Click words below if you'd like to purchase my card base file.  


Card base 2

Next up is the vivid card that Kelly did for Danica.

Here is what Kelly had to say about this wonderfully vibrant card.

"For Danica's card I have used Shelly's Hummingbird Card file (SS00123). The background paper and red circle are from DCWV's The Green Stack. I have used the tiny bubbles cuttlebug folder on the blue flower and added a rhinestone sticker in the center. The hummingbird is cut from an irridescent green paper and the details are colored with markers."

I have seen many cards I just love by Kelly using that DCWV paper.  I miss my JoAnn's as it closed!  Oh well I don't really "NEED" any paper!  Click words below if you'd like to purchase this card file.

Hummingbird Card File

Yikes!  It's almost lunch time so the rest of Kelly's projects will have to wait for another day. I will leave you with a photo though.

I know you are thinking why in the world did I take a photo of the kids doing something mundane like brushing teeth.  Well..my kids fight more than I would like them to.  So when I find an activity they actually like to do together I want to capture that on film!  Tyler has his first loose tooth and there is a tooth coming up behind it already.  (He had me take a photo of it..but I didn't think you wanted to see this open mouth full of spit!) He won't let us pull out the tooth though so I hope it falls out soon!  Hmm what do tooth fairies provide now a days?  Growing up I got hair hickers and quarters.

Enjoy your 4th of July weekend!

Shelly

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Celebrate your independence to craft with 30% off all my designs

Isn't it great we live in a world where we are free to craft and make anything our little heart desires?   Why not stop by my store and celebrate your freedom to craft today with 30% off all my designs.   Click here to go shopping. 
Have a wonderful day!
Shelly

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