Q-Tee Lamb Name Card Holder (Paper Craft Planet 3D challenge)

Hi Everyone,

I am so excited to be the hostess of the 3D challenge over at Paper Craft Planet this week! YAY! (if you haven't checked out this awesome group - you MUST! Its chock full of fun and creative and easy to follow 3D projects). So this week for my challenge, I thought it would be fun to spice up and make some creative name card holders!! I saw this cuteeeee Lamb Name Card holder and couldn't wait to try it! My daughter has been really into tea parties and I have been wanting to throw a little tea party for her playgroup - so I thought it would be fun to have some cute name card holders at each child's place at the table (and also works as a little favor they can take home!)

My favorite part is personalizing the little name card holder with a little personalized hand stamped name tag. I used the JustRite Curlz font to create this name tag (if you haven't checked out all of the amazingly beautiful JustRite font sets that are available - you can see them all right here). I added a little liquid pearls and pearls and then attached it to the lamb by just opening up the clothespin to hold onto the name card holder :))

In the link of how to make this lamb name card holder - there are all the instructions attached so that you can create this really easily. The only things that you need are: clothespins (2), Q-Tips, oval cutter/nestie (or can trace a shape), a circle punch, bow for the head and some glue ( I used Zip Dry to adhere to q-tips together). Here is a little picture of the face that I drew on a punched circle with a little bow attached with glue dots :)

I seriously LOVED making this cute name card holder and hope that you will play along! Can't wait to see your creative name card creations!!!! Just make sure that you upload to the Paper Craft Planet gallery using the tag 3D62 so that I can put it into the album and then link it to the discussion here so that we can all see it!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Hope your day is going great!

Big hugs,

Sankari :))

Welcome Little One

Happy Sunday Everyone!

Hope your weekend is going great! Ours has been busy but fun and wonderful! One of the most special things that happened is that a very special person came into the world! One of my dear friends had her baby on friday and holding her little one, I was just amazed by the miracle of life and birth. What an amazing journey to come out into the world and then the amazing journey continues everyday as we learn and grow and become. Today, I am off to a baby shower and then next week another baby shower (is it baby season? what's going on?! :)). My friend is having a little boy next month and I couldn't wait to make her card.

I used the Hangin' Out stamp set from Taylored Expressions with some DP from Martha Stewart. The card is really simple - and what I love about it - very quick to make (bonus!) The hills were created using a wave cutter from CM. Then I stamped the hanging stand of the clothesline and threaded some embroidery thread through and "hung up" the onesies that were paper pieced. The rest is just some liquid pearls, a punched out sentiment and a rounded corner - quick and simple :)

This one of my FAVORITE stamp sets from Taylored Expressions (which is saying alot, since every single stamp set is my favorite - but this one is really has a special spot in my heart :) It is so versatile (not just for baby showers but for weddings, anniversaries, thinking of you, congratulations, etc.) I love all the little stamps in it also that you can stamp inside the onesie - like the three stars that I stamped on one of them. And I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the little puppy dog that is part of the designer paper, perfectly fit into the onesie when I paper pieced it! LOVE that! :)))

Well, I am off to get ready and roll out to the baby shower!

Hope you have a beautiful rest of your weekend!!!

Enjoy every second of the day!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by :)))

Hugs,

Sankari :)))))))))

Calling ALL TWILIGHT FANS!!! - Cinema Saturday #79 - New Moon

Welcome Everyone to our 79th challenge over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog where every week we pick a different movie from which we create a card, layout or 3D challenge from. This week we are featuring the blockbuster hit that is the second installment of the Twillight Series: New Moon!!! We hope all you Twi-hard fans will join us this week and we thought a fun challenge requirement would be to add a little bit of silver to your card creations! We have a wonderful bit of blog candy for this challenge! Kathy from PixieDust Studios is an amazing designer who creates wonderful digital stamps. She has created the sweetest Edward and Bella stamps and the winner of this challenge will receive some yummy Twilight digi stamps designed by Kathy herself!!!!

I watched New Moon with one of friend's daughter who is a young teenager - the movie theater was filled with teenagers who were very "appreciative" of Jacob's physique :) I loved the scene of Edward and Bella in the field - where their love feels and seems eternal and timeless and I love that Kathy has a stamp of this very scene!!! The fact that they are digi -makes it really easy to use. I colored mine in photoshop and then printed it out twice. I stamped the sky background using Taylor's Cloudy Background stamp and then I cut out the second image and adhered it ontop of the first one. I used Jen's Sketch FYTT from last week:

I used Kathy's beautiful stamp to create this card with the sentiment that I typed out using a Bleeding Cowboys font that reads: "Love Sparkles".I had so much fun creating this and I know you guys are going to knock our socks off with your creations this week!!!

Please check out all the challenge details over at the Cinema Saturday blog and also all the blog candy details!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

big hugs!

Sankari :)

A JustRite Merry Christmas

Hi Everyone!

This week over at the Christmas Stamping All Year Long blog, Patty of "Mis Creaciones" is our host this week and she's got a fun challenge for us!!! The challenge is to "Create a Card" challenge, which means that you make a card by using the following instructions or recipe!

Base: Kraft - 4 1/4 x 5 1/2
Mat: Red- 3 1/4 x 1 3/4
Any patterned paper: - 3 1/4 x 4.5
Ribbon or Fabric: White
Buttons or Brads: Red

I absolutely was amazed by how quickly this card came together! It was so quick and easy to make this Christmas card - love when that happens. Seriously - you must try this!!!! Sometimes when I am making a card - I just bumble around trying to figure out how to do it, which papers to use, which is big, what color should the ribbon be etc. - but this time everything is all laid out for you - you know what color the base is, how big the mat should be, what color the ribbon is etc. --- really makes everything quick and fast!

I used the super super cute snowman from the JustRite stamp set: Old Fashioned Christmas Borders & Centers Round 3 1/4" :

I love making Christmas cards during the year - its really such an easy way to keep the holiday stress down!!! Please check out the Christmas Stampin' Blog for more details!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Good Morning Everyone! Its Saturday and that means its time for another Cinema Saturday Creative challenge! Every Saturday on the Cinema Saturday blog, Brooke and I pick out a movie from which to create a card and we invite everyone to play along! This week we are featuring the movie: Much Ado About Nothing:

This movie was made in 1993 and features the talent of Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington and even Keanu Reeves. If you haven't seen this adaptation of this Shakespearean play onto the silver screen and you like this kind of period pieces - you must watch this movie - its really well done and so full of joy, wit, humor - along with some elements of Shakespearean tragedy/betrayal - but in the end everything returns unto joy :) This week, we picked the challenge requirement to be "to use parchment paper" in our creations. You can create your own parchment paper with some distressing or tea staining technique, etc.

So the inspiration for my card comes from my favorite couple in this play/movie - Beatrice and Benedick (played by Emma Thompson & Kenneth Branagh <--- who used to be married) and they do such an incredible job to bring these characters to life!

I LOVE LOVE how they are both convinced by their friends that the other one is in love with them and they in turn who used to despise each other, begin to fall in love with each other. Their quick wit that they used to joust with each other begins to be used to detail their love for each other - it is just so sweet!

This is why I used the beautiful sentiment: "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides" which is from the gorgeous stamp set: Feel the Sun from Verve stamps. When Benedick and Beatrice realize that they both love each other and are loved by each other - for real - there is this joy and rejoicing and merriment in their hearts (and in the hearts of all their friends). It is such a beautiful sentiment that describes this joy as feeling the sun from both sides! LOVE this sentiment!

I created this card inspired by that using the Viva La Verve Sketch on SCS for this week. The colors started as one of the colors from the hobby room that is an inspiration pic for the VLV sketch, but got "distressed".

I LOVED making this card while watching the movie (you can watch the whole thing on Youtube, starting with this link for Part 1 of the movie!).

We would love it if you would play along this week! Check out the Cinema Saturday blog from more details and to see the beautiful cards from our three guest designers this week!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you guys are having a fabulous weekend!!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

RELEASE DAY -at Taylored Expressions!!!!!!!

Good Morning Everyone!!!

YAY! Today is release day over at Taylored Expressions! Today the Baker's Dozen and I are showing sneak peeks from the Father's Day A La Carte stamps that you can purchase individually.

The card I made today uses Taylor's Friday Sketch Challenge #112 and uses this super classy car that you can use for any kind of card - but especially comes in handy for making manly man cards :) I pulled out my CC Lil' Man papers and ribbon for this card.. Also I stamped part of the image on the silver aluminum sheets to give more of a metal-ly feel to the car :) And here is a question I have for all of you card makers - when making manly man cards - do you say "yes" to ribbon - or do you pull out twine/rope etc.? I am never sure, because my manly man cards always end up looking swirly girly whirly. And after long debate with myself, I finally went with ribbon - but then I added some metal eyelets to make it more manly, :) I can't wait to give this card to my FIL, who LOVES working in the garage with his "classic" cars :)

The second project that I made today is a little giftset for my DH for our upcoming anniversary. I know that yesterday, I made a card that I was going to give him on our anniversary in a couple of weeks - but as I was making today's card, I decided to give him this one instead :) I simply love all the different possibilities with the Hangin' Out stamp set that we showed sneak peeks of yesterday :) and created this clothesline card using socks and the sentiment: "We make the perfect pair" I was inspired by the awesome Jackie Pedro's adorable beehive card, where she used the Branching Out stamp set - and thought it would be fun to create a little clothesline tied to the tree image from the Branching Out stamp set:

One of my favorite things at the Taylored Expressions store are the Favor Boxes that Taylor has - there is such a variety and it makes it so easy to create a quick little giftset. I used the gable box favor box and decorated it with some of the ingredients from the Cuppie In the Kitchen Project Pantry papers that were sneak peeked yesterday. I love this sentiment "tiny little thing, great big blessing" which can be used with some of the baby images in this stamp set. I paired it up with the gable box, in which I am going to put a chain that I gave to my DH when we got engaged but it broke last year. As chains go - its a simple thing, but I bought it in India when we were there together and gave it to him after our engagement - so it represents so much - and what a blessing it has been in my life to meet and be with my DH.

Here is the card and giftset together:

I still can't get over how many things Taylor is releasing today!!!

- Four new stamps sets!!

• - Garden Party Blooms
• - Garden Party Critters
• - Hangin' Out
• - Cuppie In the Kitchen

Along with

- A Cloudy Days Background stamp set!

- Father's Day A La Carte stamps: Dad's Tools and Real Classic stamps sets

- And 2 Project Pantry kits that coordinate with the stamp sets being released!!!

That is a ton of crafting mojo there!! I can't wait to see what the Baker's Dozen has come up with today - hop on aboard and come surf with me!!

Alex Maldonado

Charmaine Ikach

Carolina Buchting

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Karen Motz

Melissa Sauls

Jeanie Winter

Jami Sibley

our wonderful guest designer: Sandra McLean

and of course!: Taylor VanBruggen

And don't forget to stop by the Taylored Expressions store today and check out all the brand new items waiting to get crafted :))))

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 2

Good Morning Everyone!!

Today is a long post day :) Sorry couldn't help my excitement :))

Why, you ask??! Well, today is Day 2 of sneak peeks over at Taylored Expressions, where today the Baker's Dozen and I are showing samples from 2 new stamp sets: Hangin' Out and In the Kitchen that will be in the Taylored Expressions store tomorrow at 8am PST!

And can I just say, that I am SOOO beyond excited about today!!! Aside from the fact that I am excited every TE release :) I am especially excited because one of today's stamp set started out as an idea that I had and sent to Taylor way back in the beginning of the year - who played with it and made it awesome :) and then sent it to our very talented and amazing illustrator Nancy McKinney who then designed and created the stamps in the Hangin' Out stamp set, which is part of the Whimsical Wishes stamp line :)))) There is nothing like a clothesline to bring back the memories of summer for me - my mom and I used to hang out our laundry in the common clothesline in our apt. building growing up - and my favorite part was folding the sun dried, laundry fresh smell of the clothes at the day's end. Although, you might think from that description that I love to do laundry - my DH can assure you that is FAR from the case!!! But who wants to do laundry, when you can stamp yourself some clean clothes!!! LOL!!!

I love this stamp set because there are so many different images to make it versatile - you can create a welcome baby card, a thinking of you/let's hang out/missing you card, a congrats card (for either a baby shower, a bridal shower or a wedding or anniversary) and the list goes on :)) I couldn't stop stamping after I made this first card - and so I kept going a created a couple more :) Here's a picture of my Hangin' Out stamp set cards:

For this first card I used the super cute Cloudy Background stamp set that Taylor designed for my background. This is a 5.75" stamp (seriously perfect for any cloud background that you want to create!!). I stamped in Dandelion Yellow from Memento and created a sunny yellow sky with clouds for my little clothesline scene. The stamp set comes with a pole that you can stamp twice (or once :) and you can in this way, create your own size clothesline. I made this clothesline a little short and stamped this whimsy blowing in the wind dress onto some Jillibean paper and then created some rolling hills, which of course I had to liquid pearl-up :) I finished it with the sentiment: "I miss hangin' out" and then stamped a little birdie on the pole :)

This next card is one that I made for my DH for our wedding anniversary that is coming up in two weeks :)) (hard to believe that we have been married for 9 years - it almost feels like yesterday :) I stamped the clouds with a darker blue so to contrast the clothes :) I paper pieced the boxers and then colored in the bra/panty set :) I ran some embroidery thread like in the card above for the clothesline and I did the hills in the same way and then finished it with the sentiment: "We make the perfect pair" - I can't wait to give this to him for our anniversary :))

The next card that I made is for my friend who is having a wee one soon (and if you are reading this - please act surprised when you see it :))). I love the sentiment "welcome little one" - babies are just such precious miracles. I paper pieced the onesies and stamped the cute little images and colored them in the onesies.

There are some more Hangin' Out creations - but those are for tomorrow ;)) But in the meantime - here is a project that I created using the second stamp set that we are sneaking today - In the Kitchen stamp set , starring Cuppie and designed by Jessie Oleson!!! Taylor has put together a beautiful Cuppie in the Kitchen Project Pantry Kit to go with this stamp set and it goes just beautifully!!

Check out all the things that you will find in the Cuppie Project Pantry Kit:

• 12 sheets of cardstock (10 colored, 2 Choice Neutral)
• 20 sheets of 6x6 double-sided patterned paper from MME
• 5 yards of ribbon (1 yard each of 5 different styles)
• Assorted coordinating buttons
• Red Glitter Candy Dots
• 1 bottle of Lime Stickles
• 1 bottle of Mint Liquid Pearls (yayayay!!!)
• 3 Mini Kraft Bakery Bags!!!

That is a ton of stuff to get your crafting on!! :) Speaking of which - I wanted to make a quick and easy project and also wanted to use the ton of recipes on my computer that I save as a word document that I am hoping one day, I will organize and cook with! So far - it has sat in my computer and I have not had any Julia Child moments in the kitchen ;) , so I thought to print out a few of my favorite desserts (the ones that are both delcious and take no time!!!) and create a little recipe book with it. I paired it up with a little Bazzill chipboard notebook:

I love all the images of what Cuppie is doing in this stamp set! I printed out all the recipes and matted them and then stamped the images of Cuppies in a row and stamped them and colored and cut them out them while watching a saved episode of FlashForward :) I love this image of Cuppie reading a cookbook :) Here is one of Cuppie and an easy cobbler recipe:

Here is one of my FAVORITE images!!! Who hasn't wanted to do this?!!! Just jump into a bowl of batter (especially when it is chocolate 0r my favorite: butterscotch!!) Here is a recipe of Cuppie doing that with a Blondies Brownie recipe:

Here is a picture of Cuppie stirring chocolate batter with a Chocolate Charlotte Ruse recipe. As I was coloring this image, I was thinking how AWESOME it would be to stir a big bowl of chocolate - so BIG that I would have to stand up on a ladder to do it!!! YUMMO!!!

Here is a picture of Chef Cuppie with a Cheesecake Pie (No Bake) Recipe!! That is my favorite kind of baking - the one, where there is no baking :)) but you end up with a YUMMY dessert! :)

Here is picture with sweet little Cuppie eating cookies that are cooling down :)) I paired this up with a simple oatmeal raisin cookie recipe that my kids love :) Doesn't this make you want a cookie - mmm esp. one that is hot and soft from the oven!!! Sigh... I might have to go do some baking now! :)
You don't want to miss all the AMAZINGGGG creations that the Baker's Dozen design team created using the Hangin' Out and In the Kitchen stamp set!!!! YAY!!! I can't wait to go surfin!!

Alex Maldonado

Charmaine Ikach

Carolina Buchting

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Karen Motz

Melissa Sauls

Jeanie Winter

Jami Sibley

our wonderful illustrator: Nancy McKinney

and of course!: Taylor VanBruggen

And stop by tomorrow for RELEASE DAY!!!!

There is more fun-ness, whimsy and TE in store tomorrow!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions Sneak Peeks - Day 1

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Its release week over at Taylored Expressions and the sneak peeks are starting today and can I just tell you that I am so excited about this release - there is so much cuteness and happiness in all the sets and its just so much fun to create with these adorable images. All sets will be available at the Taylored Expressions store on Friday May 7th at 8am!!

Today the Baker's Dozen and I have two brand new things to show you! The very first is that today, we are debuting "te" stamps which are completely designed and illustrated by none other than Taylor Van Bruggen!!! She is kicking off her line of stamps with 2 adorable coordinating sets: Garden Party Blooms & Garden Party Critters and her first ever background set: Cloudy Days!! YAY Taylor!! These sets are so cute!!! I simply adore how happy they are and how they coordinate with each other! I adore the sentiments and the versatility of the these stamp sets (happy birthday, thinking of you cards, thank you cards, inspiration cards, encouragement cards, etc.)

The second thing that we are introducing today is the Project Pantry. When you are looking for just the right ingredients to create the perfect recipe, where do you look? In the Pantry of course! So Taylored Expressions is introducing a new line of kits called the Project Pantry, which has all the ingredients for all your paper crafting needs! These kits will be a variation on our Key Ingredients and the Taylored Card Kits. Each month during Release Week over at Taylored Expressions, there will be a new Project Pantry kit available for purchase with or without stamp sets included! All the cards for today's post are created with the Garden Party Project Pantry kit papers and ingredients - and after making these cards - there are a TON of material for more cards!!!

These kits include:

• 12 sheets of cardstock (10 colored, 2 Choice neutral)
• 20 sheets of 6x6 double sided patterned paper from WeR Memory Keepers 72&Sunny collection)
• 5 yards of ribbon (1 yard of 5 different styles)
• 1 jar of Easy Green loose glitter
• 1 sheet of coordinating cardstock stickers
• 4 coordinating charms (1 each of daisy, ladybug, butterfly and bee)

These kits are really full of value and they coordinate PERFECTLY with these stamp sets! And Taylor is offering a special deal when you purchase the stamp sets and the Project Pantry kit together! - It makes creating cards a snap and a cinch :)

This first card uses the Garden Party Project Pantry kit with the Garden Party Blooms stamp set - I ADORE the flowers in this set and stamped and cut them out and curled them a bit. I love how it looks with the papers in the Garden Party Project Pantry kit! I created a little thank you giftset for a special friend of mine and used this cute little Flower Favor Box (that will be available on Friday 8am at the Taylored Expressions store for purchase - comes in set of 10!) These favor boxes are a cinch! to decorate!! Seriously beyond cute! You could put candy etc. in them, I put a little bracelet in mine for my friend:

Here is another shot of the card (and yes, my liquid pearls addiction has returned - or was it ever gone? :))

Here is a second card that I made using the stamp set: Garden Party Blooms and can I just tell you that my most favorite sentiment is "sending you sunshine" (i {heart} sunshine :)) so I had to make a card using the sweet sun image and this sweet sentiment. I thought it would be fun to create a little scene - so using the papers in the Garden Party Project Pantry kit - I created this little scene. I stamped and cut out the flowers and outlined the hill with it. I love the colors in this Project Pantry kit - and loved making this card (all the while humming - you are my sunshine :)

I also couldn't wait to ink up the cutie cute images in the Garden Party Critters - this stamp set is jussssssst the cuteeeestt!!! Seriously!! I created a little cardset of 4x4 cards using the Taylored Expressions Friday Sketch Challenge #111 for these cards:

Here is a closer peek at them: I layered the bee-hive on this card for a fun "don't worry bee happy" card :)

I think after creating this card, I have been using the word "cinch!" alot :))) - isn't it the cutest word - and isn't this the cutest inch worm ever!??!!

And lastly - I love this little image of the cutest snail - and I simply love the papers in this stamp set - it made creating these cards not only easy - but bright, cheery and fun too :))!!!

Check out all of the amazing creations that the Baker's Dozen has created using all of these amazing images and papers!!!!

Alex Maldonado

Charmaine Ikach

Carolina Buchting

Donna Baker

Jackie Pedro

Jodi Collins

Karen Giron

Karen Motz

Melissa Sauls

Jeanie Winter

Jami Sibley

and of course!: Taylor VanBruggen

And stop by tomorrow for Day 2 of Sneak Peeks!!! Trust me!

There is more cuteness and fun-ness in store!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #77 - America's Sweethearts

Hi Everyone,

I am sorry that I have been MIA for so long - right after the last blogpost I got under the weather and have been taking some time to get back to 100% before blogging. I have to say I missed my little craft table and its been crazy getting caught up with everything.... which I think will never happen ... sigh! Well, today being saturday, its cinema day :) Every saturday on the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog, we pick a movie and then create a card inspired by the movie. This week's movie pick is the 2001 movie America's Sweethearts and the challenge was to create a "love card" inspired by the movie.

I have always enjoyed John Cusack ever since high school (wow! that just brought back images of pajamas parties and sleepovers :) This movie also has Hank Azaria who does a number of voices for the Simpsons and always makes me smile with his crazy accents. I created this card inspired by Julia Roberts character Kiki who is always so sweet (perhaps too much so) and her love for "Eddie" emerges from a sweet friendship: so I created a love card with the sentiment: "love is sweet" using the sketch from this week's Taylor's Friday Sketch Challenge #111. The sentiment is from the Love is Sweet stamp set and the square stamp with the sweet roses is from the CreativiTEA stamp set both from Taylored Expressions.

Card Ingredients:

Paper: BG Origins

Stamps: Love is Sweet stamp set and CreativiTEA stamp set both fromTaylored Expressions.

Ink: Memento Cottage Ivy and Tuxedo Black

Accessories: brown edging trim, ribbon from stash, heart punch from MS, corner rounder

I enjoyed making this card and it was good to get my blogging hands inky again after so long :) I hope you are all doing well. Hop on over to the Cinema Saturday blog to check out more details and play along with us if you have a chance.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! So glad to be back in blogland :)))))

Big hugs to all,

Sankari :)