I'm proud to announce a new member of my design team: Johanne Larouche!

Howdy,
Guess what!  My light bulb went from dim to bright if only for a moment!  LOL!   I was looking at all the amazing cards submitted to my card sketch challenge on Paperthreads.  I got caught up looking through Johanne's gallery and oohing and awwwing over her wonderful creations.  All of sudden my light bulb lit up and I decided to ask Johanne to join my team.  I was thrilled she said yes.  She will add a fabulous French flair to my team!   I'm soooo happy to have her aboard!  Check out Johanne's bio below along with a few of her amazing projects.   On the Paperthreads forum Johanne is known as Jojogeo.

 Below is what Johanne has to say about herself:

"I am a mother of 2 young adults.  I have been living with my husband for almost 30 years, traveling in different country and living in many provinces of Canada.  I love any kind of manual activities:  embroidery, sewing, weaving making cakes and paper crafting. Making cards and scrapbook pages have been part of my life for quite a while.  My husband bought me my KNK for our 25th wedding anniversary which has open doors I never knew it existed. One of my short term goals would be  to experiment in using my KNK for paper embroidery and cake decorating.  I am very proud of becoming part of Shelly's Art Creative Design Team and am looking forward to present my work to my friends of the paper crafting world."

And now for some terrific projects by Johanne:

 

Johanne used my Infinity Card:  Birthday file to make this great birthday card.  The happy birthday phrase is included with the file.   The flourish is from Sam and Hailey's designs Swirly Style 4.   The flowers are mine but aren't in the store just yet. I love how Johanne used stamps to spruce up the spaces and also the photographs of past birthday cakes she had made.   Isn't Johanne super talented?!  Oh and case you haven't seen on of these card before.  You start with the main panel and then open other panels to get a different panel and then you keep opening again and again..the fun never ends!  I just love these cards..it's sooo much fun to receive an interactive card like this!  If you would like to purchase my file to make your own infinity card please click on the words above the preview.

Infinity Card:  Birthday

I know this blog post is getting long but I have to show you at least one more wonderful project by Johanne before you go.

Johanne created the above card for my sketch challenge this month.  She did a great job utilizing Aussie Caz's terrific sketch didn't she!  Here is what Johanne had to say about her card:

"For this card, I used Shelly's Art Flourish Set SS00224. I applied Crackled accent on it and it gave the card some 3D look. I made the word ''Merci'' and applied some Crystal Stickles on it. To finish the card, I applied 3 of Kylee's crystal dews in the color pesto. The papers are from Tim Coffey from KE Company."

I just love the crackle paint on the flourish.  I definitely need to dig out mine to duplicate this look in the future.  I just love the texture and depth it adds!  (sorry the flourish isn't available in my store yet).  I love that french word "Merci"...it seems sooo much more elegant than our language!  I must be going batty as I know Johanne sent me the translation for the other sentiment but I can't for the life of me find it.  I'll blame the e-mail gremlins!   If I do find the translation...I'll edit this post to add it later. Edited to add:  Lisa gave us the translation "After love and help, thank is assuredly the third most beautiful verb in all languages."  Thanks Lisa! 

Now can you see why I jumped at the chance to have Johanne on my team!  You'll be seeing more wonderful projects by her in the future so stay tuned! 

Sorry I haven't been blogging much.  We just have been very busy lately.  Hopefully, July will be better and I can be in touch more.

Tyler has been keeping really busy too.  The day after Tyler got done with regular school..he started basketball school.  It was a 3 day adventure for a couple hours each day and he seemed to really enjoy it.  I don't have a sports mode on my camera and I was trying to keep Adoree out of harm's way with all the basketballs flying around so I didn't get a lot of good sports shots.   I love my camera but the next one we buy will have a sport mode.  I did get one funny shot and thought I'd share it with you.  Not sure what Tyler was laughing about but I love the body language here!

Below is a nice posed picture.

Okay I've made this post long enough so I'll say toodles!  Thanks for stopping by!  See ya soon!  Have a wonderful week!

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Membership Club previews, CDT projects, and puddle jumping.

Oh my goodness has it really been close to a month since I've blogged!  Yikes!  I'm sorry!  Well I haven't been twiddling my thumbs.  I have been busy getting files ready for my quarterly membership.  It is in full swing and I have given 4 files to membership participants thus far.   I'd like to show you what they received.

First up we have an infinity card decorated up for a birthday!   Have you ever seen a card like this?  It is very cool as it opens and opens and opens again and never seems to end.

In the file I have included the base to the infinity card and the exact rounded rectangles and squares to match each section of the base.  Then I have designed die cuts that fit perfectly in the spaces of the infinity card.   This card looks complicated but in reality it is just 4 pieces of paper.  You can see the cover above complete with a little mouse enjoying a bite of cake.   Then when you open the front two panels...you see this:

Next open the center panels up and outward and you see this:

The present is actually split in half allows the two centers to open like a book which reveals this:

I decided to add a simple Happy Birthday to the top panel and then a sentiment can be stamped and/or written in the box below.  If you open the panels outward again the card starts at the beginning and you can keep opening panels until you get bored.  Adults and kids alike can spend many minutes just playing with these cards.  The file is a great way to use up bits of coordinated papers too.

The next file offered is a shamrock box perfect for St. Patty's Day decor or treats.  You can tuck a battery operated tea light or stick up air freshener in the middle to decorate your home.  Give a lucky gift by tucking some treats inside.

Lastly I gave membership participants a foldable tag card.  This card will fit in a standard A7 envelope.

I'd like to share with you some photos of how I decorated the card for my MIL.  I hope she liked it!
front:

Inside top:

Inside bottom:

complete inside:

Let's see I used Copics to color Swiss Pixies: Rosalie with Roses stamped image. The sentiment is from Amy R: Spring Sentiments. I used shimmery paper which was kinda slick so I guess I should have stamped with Stazon ink...oh well live and learn. I replaced the scallop border with some ribbon and added a button with stickles and a clear dew drop added to the center. The flower is from my stash but I paired it with the leaves from my rolled up flowers file. I cut the leaves out of plain paper and used homemade glimmer mist to color them. I wanted to add a photo that could be removed to the inside top so I used my folded photo corners file to do just that. On the inside botoom, I stamped the sentiment on the scallop circle embellishment which I got from my card base 5 file.

So if you like any of the files you have seen above and would like to add them to your collection..please consider purchasing my membership. Right now this is the only way you can get these files.    In addition to the ones above you'll get at least 16 more.  I have files planned that are suitable for the card maker and scrapbooker.  It's a great deal at just $10.00 Click here to purchase.  I will put a slide show on the side of my blog so you can see what files are available through membership as I offer them.

Next up I have some great cards by CDT Lisa Lindesmith.  Lisa likes to cut many flowers at a time to use in multiple projects.  So here she cut my daffodil from my Think Spring file out of patterned grid paper and designed two cards using them. 

The doily came from I Scrap Design's freebie during customer appreciation day and the button card is a digital stamp.  I love the the button Lisa added to the center of the flower and the embossing pulls everything together quite nicely!

 This one uses the same daffodil with the provided center.  I love the stacked buttons and the scallop punch (Martha Stewart).  Lisa is very smart cutting multiple flowers to have on hand when she is ready to craft...don't you think?!

If you would like to purchase my Think Spring file...it's a great deal on sale for 30% off the entire much of March.  Click the words above the preview below to purchase.

Think Spring

Well the tulips are popping their leaves out of the ground and the birds are singing at my house.  The weather is finally warming up and it looks like Spring is indeed in the air!  Yeah!  Now to dig out my Spring clothes and hope it doesn't snow.  Doesn't that seem like the way things are...you buy an umbrella and it doesn't rain,  you buy a snow blower and it doesn't snow, you dig out Spring clothes and it snows...Mother Nature can sure be tricky sometimes huh!  Oh well the world just wouldn't be right without all our weather ups and downs now wouldn't it.

I know this blog post is long enough and I need to go make supper and a grocery list so I'll leave you with one fun photo.  Daddy took Adoree to a shoe store to look for work shoes for him but came back with rain boots for Adoree.   Rain boots aren't actually what I consider necessary foot wear so I haven't ever looked into buying any for my kids.  I have to admit though Adoree looked ultra cute in those pink boots with the hearts and she just loves them as you can see in the photo below.  I'm very happy Daddy bought them for her!

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!  I promise I'll try to do better at blogging in the future!

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