Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest Mikaela Titheridge

Hey Craft lovers! welcome to todays Crazy Crafters Blog Hop! Today we are hopping with special guest Mikaela Titheridge over at The Crafty oINK Pen! It was an absolute pleasure looking through her amazing blog at all her wonderful projects! No matter how far back I went I kept coming back to the same project of hers and I knew that this was the one I had to case for today's project.

I love the simplicity of this card and the use of embossing folders, I only have two myself at the moment and I always forget to use them, reaching for my stamps and pretty papers instead. I wanted to make use out of the folders I have so I thought this card would be a great way to get me into using them.

     

     

I love the way this turned out and I think I will have to use the embossing folders a little more from now on. My cousin's baby boy turned 1 yesterday and i needed a card for him so I thought this would be a cool layout to work with. 

I hope you enjoyed my contribution to this hop! Make sure you don't miss any of the amazing projects, so whether you started here or have been hopping around the other blogs already please use the list below to navigate your way around to them all! I know I will be!

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Nailed It Clear-Mount Bundle [144735] $73.25	Number Of Years Photopolymer Stamp Set [140653] $47.00	Large Numbers Framelits Dies [140622] $54.00
Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [143231] $16.00	Urban Underground Embellishments [142786] $11.50

I hope your weekend has been amazing, I'll see you soon Happy Crafting!

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest Rachel Tessman

Goodmorning! and welcome to another Crazy Crafters Blog Hop! It is so amazing being part of the Crazy Crafters team and being able to do these hops with such amazing people! Today we get to hop with special guest Rachel Tessman, she has such an amazingly wide range of projects on her blog it was seriously hard to decide which one I wanted to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit). After scrolling through her extensive blog, going back and forth for sometime I decided on the below card, I love the fold and use of DSP and wanted to have a go.

While I love Rachel's bold card I wanted to soften things up a bit for mine as I am in love with the Falling in Love DSP and wanted an excuse to use it. This paper pack is just so stunning I can't get enough of it!

     

     

I started out with the basic fold of this card using this beautiful lace DSP, once I had the skeleton I went through my dies to decide on which one to use. My first instinct was to reach for my Detailed Dragonflies as I am obsessed with that set. However after I rediscovered this one in my stash I knew this fold and this DSP would make a super cute wedding card.

I love the way this card came together and I hope you do to, it was so much fun playing with this Double Fold Gate Card, I have been mostly making simple fold cards lately and although I love the simple cards it was super fun playing with this fun fold, I think I will need to make some time every now and then to have a fun folds play day.

I hope you have enjoyed my little contribution to this amazing hop, but don't stop here, if this was your first stop make sure you use the list below to find the beginning and view all the amazing projects, and if you have come here through the hopping process use the links to continue on your way to the next amazing blog and don't forget to leave the amazing girls and guys in this hop a quick note, we all love reading your sweet comments.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Falling In Love Designer Series Paper [142788] $19.25	Bloomin' Love Photopolymer Bundle [140818] $60.25
Floral Phrases Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141767] $31.00	Blushing Bride 3/8" (1 Cm) Stitched Satin Ribbon [141692] $15.75

That's all from me for today, I hope you all have an amazing Sunday happy crafting.

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest Janneke de Jong

Welcome to another amazing Crazy Crafters Blog Hop! Today we have the absolute pleasure of hopping with the amazing Janneke de Jong! Once again our goal this hop was to select one of her amazing cards to CASE (copy and selectively edit) I had such a hard time choosing just one of her incredible cards to work from this time. However I eventually settled on the below image, I absolutely love her use of black, white and gold in this as well as her crooked placement, something I struggle with, usually even when I plan on using this placement I always end up gluing it down straight. So with today's card I wanted to challenge myself to actually use the offset placement in my card.

I hope you are enjoying the blog hop and have been to see the other projects from the talented crazy crafters and of course our special guest, if this is your first stop don't worry the links below will help you find all the other projects. Now for my card I really love Janneke's card and I used many of the elements in my card, using her black and gold scheme, offset placement and sequins to finish my card.

     

I really love how Janneke softened the back two layers by using the semi transparent paper over it, however I didn't have any unfortunately, so I took some window sheet and sponged white craft ink to the back of it. The ink was rubbing off too easily so I decided to try and heat set it a little to see if that would help, which is definitely did, and it warped the plastic at the same time. I decided I liked the effect though, it helped to add a little more texture to the card and allowed those background pieces of dsp to poke through a little more.

Finally I found some black sequins in my project lift kit I brought but haven't used yet, I am not usually one for adding sequins to my cards but I loved the effect on Janneke's card so much I had to add them in too.

I hope you have enjoyed my take on Janneke's card and hope I did it justice, but now it is time to leave my blog and venture onto the next blog in the hop. Please use the below link to follow on with the hop or to jump to a blog you might have missed.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Heartfelt Sympathy Photopolymer Stamp Set [138764] $30.00	Gold Sequin Trim [132983] $8.75
Hello Lovely Project Life Accessory Pack [142687] $31.50	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129] $8.75

That's it from me, I hope you have had a wonderful weekend and that your week is just as wonderful, happy crafting.

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest Georgia Giguere

Welcome to the second Crazy Crafters Blog Hop for February, this time we are have the pleasure of being joined by special guest Georgia Giguere. After scouring her blog of amazing projects, I finally managed to narrow it down to one card I wanted to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) for today's blog hop. I highly recommend having a look around her blog sometime when you have time to spare as she has some amazing cards there, you can get to the blog post that inspired me by clicking the image below.

I hope you have been enjoying the blog hop so far, whether you have been with this hop from the beginning or have only just stumbled across it I highly recommend using the list at the bottom of this post to find your way to all the other amazing creators taking part today.

For today's card i was inspired by Georgia's layout and I wanted to have a play with it, my first instinct was to make a valentines day card with this layout, which I did sit down and do until I realized the day of this hop would be after the fact. I will still put a picture of that card at the bottom but I didn't want that to be the main card knowing it wouldn't help anyone until next year.

Instead I decided to play with the Dragonfly Dreams Bundle, I am in love with this bundle it is so much fun and as much as I love using butterflies in projects it's fun having the other option. So without further ado here is my card for the hop, I decided to go with a cooler colour scheme then Georgia's card using one of my favourite colours Island Indigo.

     

   

          

I had so much fun playing with this layout and am so grateful to Georgia for allowing us to Hop with her and CASE her cards. As promised here is the valentines day one I made as well, if I remade this one I would make the forward heart grey for a bit more contrast.

     

     

That's it from me for today, make sure you use the list below to check out all the other blogs! If you wanted to make either of my cards you will find lists of the products at the bottom of this post, have a great day and I will see you soon.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

This are what you will need for the Dragonfly Dreams card

Dragonfly Dreams Photopolymer Bundle [144728] $81.25	Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139950] $35.00
Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705] $58.00	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $11.50

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

This is what you will need for the Love is in the air card

Sealed With Love Photopolymer Bundle [144705] $77.75

Bloomin' Love Photopolymer Stamp Set [140643] $30.00

Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705] $58.00