Simple Birthday Card @ CSDivas

Come check out my first post as an official Design Team Member at Creative Scrapbooking Divas!!

For my first project I made a Simple Birthday Card.

This is just a sneak peek.  Click here to see the full card and details.

Hope you like my card.

Happy Crafting!!

~Michelle

Exciting News!!

I have some exciting news!!  As you may know, I was featured as a Guest DT at Creative Scrapbooking Divas at the beginning of September.  My exciting news is that now I am a DT Member now!


Click the link to take you to the announcement!

New Design Team Member - Michelle Sanchez

I am excited to join this group of creative Divas!! 

Thank you for sharing in my excitement!!  And be sure to check out the Creative Scrapbooking Divas blog as well as mine for posts of some inspiring projects!

Happy Crafting!!

~Michelle

I Got A Smash Book!!

Have you heard of the new thing called a Smash Book?? 

I am not sure how new this is but I am just recently heard about it!  And let's just say, I love it!  Love the idea of it too!  So.......you know what that means!!  Yes, of course, I had to get one of my own!! 

So here it is!

They come in several colors and the papers inside vary per book.   

If you are still wondering what it is, check out this You Tube video!!  Smash Book

I am thinking that this one will be for my husband.  I want to compile all of his favorite pictures of our trip to Israel in 2009.  I think he will like it!!

I just thought I would share my new purchase!! 

Happy Smashing!! 

~Michelle

CSD's Challenge: Black, White & Read All Over

Here is my entry for the Creative Scrapbooking Diva's "Black, White & Read All Over" Challenge.
These are the rules:

• MUST use colors black, white, & red only, with red only being about 20% of the layout.
• Option A: Do a newspaper type theme...write your journaling like a paper article, use the comic strip format, (like I did) or make your page a newspaper ad.
• Option B: Use a pattern paper with a newspaper print or feel to it. Not a letter, but dictionary pages are ok.

It says 'layout' but I haven't really been doing layouts these days.  I still have a lot of pictures from our trip to Israel that I have to get working on again.  So instead, I chose to do a card.    Not sure if this will be accepted in the challenge but I enjoyed working on this card.

The 'Extra Extra' reminded me of "Extra Extra!!  Read All About It!!"  

Since the color red should only be 20% of it. I used a dotted heart stamp in the front and inked around the black and white paper very lightly.



I put a red heart on the inside of the card with the word "love" in black and still keeping with the black, white and red theme.
 
  

EXTRA EXTRA LOVE!!  ;)

 

Card Recipe:

Paper/Cardstock:  White cardstock for card; Black cardstock for matting and the Wedding Words paper from Recollections was a single sheet of 12 x 12 paper I purchased just for this challenge.

Stamp: SU I {Heart} Hearts stamp set

Ink: SU Ruby red ink

Cricut and SCAL to cut out the heart and words.

 

Hope you like my card!

 

Happy Crafting!!

 

~Michelle 

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Pillow Boxes for my Bible study group

Here are the pillow boxes I made for my Bible study group which starts in 2 weeks.  I made a total of 20 pillow boxes, 2 with each patterned paper. 

Warning!  Lots of pictures to follow!

This butterfly one is my favorite!

 
 

I really like this one too!  Love the petite flowers on the white.

That is all of them.  Now I need to buy the candy and fill them.

I am so glad I finished them ahead of time.  Last year I was finishing them up the night before and filling them. 

I hope you like them!

Here is the recipe:

Paper: SEI Bright Blossom pack

Pillow box: SVG file from Lettering Delights.

Sentiment: SU Matchbox Messages

Ink: SU colors

(wild wasabi, pumpin pie, baja breeze & rose red)

Twine:  The Twinery

(lemon drop, buttercream, blossom, pink sorbet, caribbean, peapod & honeydew)

Happy Crafting!!

~Michelle

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Got Coffee?

Here is a quick step card that I did earlier today.

The cup of coffee is from The Stamps Of Life  - Coffee4Two stamp set.  

I colored it with my copic markers using: E31, E33, E41, YG67 and G24.

The "Got Coffee ?" was cut out using my Cricut and SCAL.  I distressed the letters with my color box chalk ink in dark brown.  (I use it quite often)  

The step card was cut out using an svg file with SCAL and my Cricut as well. 

I got the step card set from SVG Attic.

 Hope you like it!! Happy Crafting!! ~Michelle
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Exciting News!!

I have some exciting news! 

I am a Guest DT at Creative Scrapbooking Divas !! 

My project is being featured over at Creative Scrapbooking Divas, so go check it out!   I am also hosting a challenge!  I hope you will join in and post a project!  There will be a prize!

Here is a sneak peak at my project!

Happy Crafting!!

~Michelle

Favors for this Year's Bible Study Group

I will be putting together about 30 of these for my women's Bible study group starting soon. I will be changing the color of the cardstock to white so that the blue will pop more.




Here are a few more pictures showing a little more detail.














Thanks for looking!!

Happy Crafting!!

~Michelle

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Last day of The Twinery: Anniversary Celebration Blog Hop

Today is the last day of The Twinery's Anniversary Celebration Blog Hop!!  If you have not participated in the blog hop this week, you must check out the daily celebrations they have had going all this week!!  Lots of prizes to win!!  Hurry before it's too late......it all ends tonight!!

As you go through the posts for this week.....you will be inspired by all of the awesome talent by those apart of the blog hop!  The Twinery has some wonderful colors of their Baker's Twine and can be used for all sorts of crafts!  The options are limitless!!  Hurry.....don't delay!!  Join in on the fun!!

Latest additions to my craft space

Here are the latest additions to my craft space.  My husband surprised me with these three pictures.  He knew I would absolutely love them!  Nothing is more important to me than my faith and of course that picture  had to be the one higher than the rest.  ;)




















I had bought 4 of these cube units from Michael's on clearance.  I was originally going to return this one......and my sister told me not to and now I am glad I didn't.  I placed in sideways next to my craft table and placed my laptop on it.  Now I won't have to bring out a small folding table out when I want to use my laptop for the Cricut Design Studio or SCAL.  With this right next to me.....I will probably use the two programs even more now. 





It is nice because I can keep my magazines closer to me when I need inspiration.  (I moved my magazines from the other cube units I have on the opposite wall.)  I also keep my giraffe bag handy with all my most used tools too!  I hate clutter......so this really helps me keep everything in order and in it's place! 





Thanks for looking and happy crafting!!

~Michelle

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We've Moved! Card

I wanted to make We've Moved cards and mail them out to my friends and family........but this past month has been busy!  Hard to believe we have been in our new home for a month now!   I figured I would at least make one for now and post it and then I can mass produce them once I have the first one made.  So here it is......

I used the Houses4Us stamp set from The Stamps of Life.  I really love the stamps and am a club member.









The supplies I used  are below.  I also used pre-made white cards I bought at Michael's and a standard black ink pad to stamp the images.  I really like The Green Stack by DCWV, the prints are just so cute!   I used my distressing tool for the tan card stock in the back as well as the DCWV printed card stock.  I used the Color Box Chalk in dark brown on the back piece of card stock as well as the "We've Moved" circle.  I cut out the house, fence and tree and used a pop dot for the tree and the "We've Moved".   The green strip, I finally used my Cuttlebug.  (I don't remember which embossing folder it was that I used.)




These are all of Copic markers I used to color all of the stamped images.



Thanks for looking!  Hope you liked my card!

~Michelle

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My New Favorite Stamp Cleaner

I finally used my Stampin' Scrub that I purchased from Stampin' Up!  Why did it take me so long.....(about 4 months) to use it!  It's the best thing since sliced bread!!

The stampin' scrub works with the stampin' mist cleaner.





You have to rinse the stampin' scrub before your first use and then pat it dry.  Then spray the mist a couple times on the bottom part of the scrub and then it's ready to use.





Once you have used your stamp......wipe it on the bottom part where you sprayed the mist and then dry the stamp on the top part.  And the great thing about it is that after you have used it up and it's dirty......you can wash it and start with a new clean scrub!

I love it!

Happy Crafting!!

~Michelle


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