A Welcome Home Gift

Hi! It's Barb and I am here to share another project I made using the Quick Quotes June Club Q kit. The original kit includes the supplies you need to make a house shaped mini album. I decided to take those supplies to make a gift. Yesterday, we moved out of our house and handed over the keys to the new owners. I know they are moving here (Texas) from Georgia so wanted to help make them feel at home a little quicker. I made this gift set for them....

Inside the gift bag was a treat from one of my favorite places... Nothing Bundt Cake! Yummy! And then I took what would have been one of the pages in the mini and made it into a cute holder for the tags.

The house on the front of the bag was the front cover of the mini album. I cut down the sides so that it would fit the bag and embellished it with the die cuts that came in the kit.

I cut out a vellum quote that was in the kit, adhered it to cardstock and then added some foam adhesive to give it a little dimension.

I also used foam adhesive to adhere the fence to the front of the house.

The pouch was created using a page from the mini album. I added the vellum quote to the front. It was the perfect thing to hold the tags I created. I love that is was quick and simple to create but looks like it took a lot of effort! Those are my kind of projects!

The first tag is a welcome tag. There is a pouch behind the scalloped edge that I put a note in. I included contact info for me and my husband in case we would have package/mail that we would need to get forwarded to us. (Last time we moved, we had a lot of mail left at the old house even though I had filled out the forward address thing with the post office. I am not taking any chances this time!)

This tag was made to give them information about people that we had used for the house. There is a pocket so that I could add the business cards of everyone who had worked on the house... the landscapers, pool company, window cleaners, etc.

This last tag was to help them find some of our favorite places to eat. I remember when we first moved to Texas from Indiana, we had no idea where the best places were to eat so I wanted to include this for the new owners. There is a pocket on the tag so we could tuck in the names and addresses of our favorite restraunts!

The June Club Q kit made this project so easy to make!

Quick Quotes Supplies Used:

June Club Q Kit (Papers, die cuts, vellum, ribbon

PowderPuff Chalking Inks: Biscotti, Blue Hawaiian,

Other Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Core'dinations

Label Maker: Dymo

Gems, gift bag, letter stickers

Owl Be Seeing You!

Hello! It's Barb here and I can't wait to share my project with you today! This month I was lucky enough to work with the Quick Quotes June Club Q kit and it is packed with Summer Samba goodness! Let me start by sharing my project and then I will talk about my thought process...

This darling little owl was so much fun to make! The papers in the June Club Q kit were perfect for this little creature!

It all started with these two pleated flowers. I was actually putting them together for a layout I was working on but when I looked at them, I thought they looked like two big eyes instead of flowers and instantly, I thought of an owl! With a few cuts using my Cricut, I was able to put this all together.

I cut two circles from white paper to make the centers of the eyes. The orange buttons came in the kit already, all I had to do was add the gems to finish them off!

For the belly of my owl, I used my Cricut to cut out raindrop shapes. I then used a black marker to outline the edges, inked them with PowderPuff Chalking Ink in Blue Hawaiian and layered them starting at the bottom. For the top row, I cut off the tops of the raindrop shapes so I could have a nice straight line at the neck. I also cut the wings from vellum, inked them with PowderPuff Chalking Ink in Maraschino Cherry and then ran it through my Cuttlebug.

The leaves were created by cutting green cardstock and vellum at the same size/shape. I then covered the vellum with PowderPuff Chalking Ink in Green with Envy. I used a spray adhesive to get the vellum to stick to the cardstock.

To make the canvas to put my owl on, I took PowderPuff Chalking Ink in Lemonade and covered the entire surface and sides.

I then created stripes with removable tape. I colored over the stripes with PowderPuff Chalking Ink in Biscotti.

Once I removed the tape, I had the background I wanted.

I hope you liked my project and it inspires you to try something like it!

Quick Quote Products Used:

June Club Q Kit (paper, buttons, die cut flower, vellum)

PowderPuff Chalking Ink: Blue Hawaiian, Lemonade, Maraschino Cherry, Biscotti, Mango Mai Tai, Green with Envy, Mocha Mama

Other Products used:

Cricut: Create a Critter, Indie Art, George and Basic Shapes

Cardstock: Core'dinations

Canvas

Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots

Gems

Trim

Black Marker: Copic

Stinky Fish!

I have a daughter who is always taking silly pictures and I have to admit.... they are so much more fun to use in my scrapbooking layouts! Normally, when I use the One Fine Day paper line, I am making sweet, pretty pages but today, I wanted to try to grunge them up a bit! Here is what I created....

After adding a few paint splatters, some messy stitching and a lot of PowderPuff Chalking Ink, I was able to create the look I was going for!

The chipboard flower and circle are from the Quick Quotes Bag O'Chips Stackable Flowers. I used the PowderPuff Chalking Ink in Baja Blue to color the petals of the flower and Mango Mai Tai to ink the chipboard circle and patterned paper.

I took the lid off the water bottle I had sitting at my desk and added PowderPuff Chalking Ink in Mocha Mama to create the circles on my layout.

And of course, I used the PowderPuff Chalking Inks to add some color to the ordinary, white office tags.

I used Mango Mai Tai to ink the edges of the tag and added a little Biscotti PowderPuff Chalking Ink to the center. I wanted to "soften" the look of the ink so I used a little trick I know.

I misted the tag with water and used my finger to blend the water around the tag.

After the tag dried, the ink appeared to have a softer, more blended look.

I hope you can use my tricks in one of your crafty projects! Have a wondrful weekend!

Barb

Quick Quote Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper: One Fine Day 200, 300
Chipboard: Bag O'Chips - Stackable Flowers
PowderPuff Challking Ink: Biscotti, Mocha Mama, Mango Mai Tai, Baja Blue

Other Supplies Used:
Cardstock: Bazzill, Core'dinations
Letter Stickers: Basic Grey, Studio Calico
Brads: Basic Grey
Punch: Martha Stewart
Paint: Plaid
Decorative Tape: Studio Calico
Smooch Accent Ink: Clearsnap
Other: Tags, Net, Machine Stitching

Laughter of a Child...

Oopsy Daisy! I guess I have a little too much going on here to keep up with my posting!! Please forgive me! I would love to share our new challenge with you at Frosted Designs! We would love to see how you can incorporate quilting into your crafty projects! This challenge is open to so many possiblities! Here is what I created....

This LO is of my beautiful little girl when she had a sweet toothless grin! We had taken her to the American Girl store in Chicago where she picked out her twins... Zoe and Chloe! And of course, she had to get the matching dress!! 

Almost all of the products used on this layout are Quick Quotes products. I LOVE this quote! QQ always has a quote when I can't come up with the words myself! I inked the edges to make is stand out a bit more!

And yes... I was crazy enough to cut out, ink and adhere each of the pieces that make up the background!! It was a lot of work but soooo worth it! I love the way it turned out!!

You will definitely want to stop over at Frosted Designs to see all of the inspiration from our Design Team! Everyone had their own take on the challenge and the projects are amazing!! I hope you can find some time this week to play along! We have a great prize up for grabs from Vintage Street Market!  :)

Mother's Day Inspiration!

Hello! Happy Friday! I am so glad you decided to stop by today! I have two Quick Quotes projects to share with you! Let's start with my Mother's Day Inspiration!  My mother is the most amazing lady. She has a heart of gold and is always there when I need her. I wanted to create a special card for her. Quick Quotes has so many beautiful lines of paper sometimes it is hard to select just one! For my Mother's Day Card, I decided to use the Dreamscape Papers! Gorgeous!

To try something different, I created a trifold card. The papers in the Dreamscape collection are very elegant and I didn't want to overwhelm the card with embellishments so I kept it fairly simple. I also wanted to be able to write a nice note to her so I left the space in the middle of the card for me to handwite a message.

This flower was simple to create. I took 3 circles/ovals in various sizes. I then used the PowderPuff Chalking Ink in Bicotti around the edges before rolling the edges up a bit. After that I layered them and added a flower center to complete it. Quick Quotes double sided papers work perfectly for these type of flowers because you get to see the other color/pattern when you roll the edges of the flowers.

Since we are focusing on the PowderPuff Chalking Inks, I thought it would be fun to show you how perfect they are for vellum when embossing! Here is a tutorial I for making the vellum embossed square you see in this picture.

I started with 1.5 inch vellum squares. Using the Very Berry PowderPuff Chalking Ink, I gently rubbed the ink pad over the top of the vellum square. These inks work perfectly for this type of project! If I had a spot that was too dark, I gently rubbed the ink pad over it again to even it out. Be sure to let the squares sit for a few minutes to dry.

I then placed the vellum inside one of the small Cuttlebug folders and ran it through my Cuttlebug to emboss it.

To finsh them off, I used my Purple Passion PowderPuff Chalking ink to lightly go over the embossed part of the vellum and around all the edges.

Here are the vellum squares all completed. I used a spary adhesive to attach them to my card. This is the perfect way to make a matching embellishment for any project!

Quick Quote Supplies Used:
Dreamscape Papers: 100, 300, 400
PowderPuff Chalking Inks: Very Berry, Purple Passion, Biscotti, Blue Moon

Other Supplies Used:
Cardstock: Core'dinations
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug
Flowers, Chipboard: Michaels
Flower Centers: Prima
Punch: Martha Stewart
Other: Ribbon

AND.... it is time for the Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge! I am especially excited about this one because Quick Quotes is this week's sponsor! The winner of the challenge can win a $15 Gift Certificate to the Quick Quotes Store! Our challenge this week is LACING! Yes... the actual act of lacing something, not lace, like the trim!! Here is my layout.....

I used the One Fine Day paper line for this layout. The colors were perfect for the photos and I love that the flowers have a tropical feel to them... perfect for our Cabo pictures!

 I cut strips of patterned paper, rounded the corners and inked the edges. I then added various brads and fiber/embroidery floss to lace it all together.

The larger blue flower in this photo actually started out white. I inked it with PowderPuff Chalking Ink in Baja Blue. I then misted it with water and let it dry. I love how soft it looks!

Quick Quote Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper: One Fine Day - 400, 500
Ink: PowderPuff Chalking Inks- Baja Blue, Blue Hawaiian, Mango Mai Tai, Limeade

Other Supplies Used:
Flowers: Michaels
Fiber: EK Success
Other: Brads, flowers, embroidery floss

Thank you for stopping by to see both of my projects today! I hope you and all the mothers out there have a wonderful Mother's Day!

Quick Quotes NSD Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog! If this is your first visit, welcome! And if you are one of my friends that have visited often, glad to see you back! I am excited to be part of the Quick Quotes National Scrapbook Day Blog Hop! If you didn't start at the Quick Quotes blog, click HERE to go there and start from the beginning!

Our challenge for the month of May is Fussy Cutting! At each of the designers blogs, you will see what they were able to create using the amazing papers from Quick Quotes!  Here is my Fussy Cut Layout!

The Quick Quotes One Fine Day papers were perfect for this picture from our vacation to Kauai last spring! 

I fussy cut the flowers from one of the papers, inked the edges using the Quick Quotes PowderPuff Chalking inks and then added some Smooch Pearl Accents. I then layered them using foam adhesive to add some dimension! I love how it turned out!

Here is the blog hop sequence:

Christine Meyer

Marcia Dehn-Nix

Suzanne Spokus

Adora Concepcion

Misty Willis

Barb Craft - You are here!!

Tanisha Long

Rhonda Van Ginkel

Julie Walton

Your next stop is Tanisha's Blog!

Be sure to hop all the way through for your chance at winning a great prize!  Since Quick Quotes is celebrating National Scrapbooking Day (and 6,000 fans over on Facebook!) they are giving away a grab bag full of crafty Quick Quotes goodness!  And since the PowderPuff Chalk Inks are our featured product this month, there is sure to be some in there! Remember, to have a chance to win, you need to  leave a comment on each of the Designer's blogs and then head back to Quick Quotes and leave a comment with your favorite project or tip from the hop! Hop is open for comments until Sunday, May 6 at 11:59pm. Happy Hopping!

Frosted Designs had a Recipe Challenge!

Happy Friday everyone! We have a fun new challenge up at Frosted Designs! It is a Recipe Challenge! From this list of 8 items, you need to pick 4 of them!

rub ons

ribbon

brads

stickers

glitter

the color purple

butterfly

flower


I used: flowers, butterflies, stickers, ribbon and brads!

We would love to see what you can create using this recipe!! Be sure to link up your project at Frosted Designs for a chance to win some Graphic 45 Papers!

I don't know what kind of creative plans you have this weekend but here are two fun things happening in honor of National Scrapbook Day!

Quick Quotes is having a Blog Hop! Click HERE to get the details!

Frosted Designs is having a Weekend Crop starting Friday night at 6:00 on the Frosted Designs blog and 8:00 on the Frosted Designs Facebook!! We will also have activities all day Saturday and Sunday! We would love to see you join us!

Family is all About Doing Things Together!

Today at the Quick Quotes Blog, the Design Team is sharing some layout inspiration for you! Be sure to check it out HERE! This is the layout I created for you. We are featuring our color vellum quotes and I have to be honest, the more I use them, the more I like them! They are so beautiful and they completely take care of my issues with creating titles and journaling!

We spent an afternoon at the zoo when we were visiting my family last summer! I love that my kids have such great memories of their grandparents!

Anchoring the vellum quote was easy to do. I punched two holes in the top and used ribbon to tie it to a piece of cardstock! I inked the edges using the Quick Quotes PowderPuff Ink to make it stand out a little more!

Quick Quote Supplies: One Fine Day 200, 300, 400; Color Vellum Quote: Family is all About; PowderPuff Chalking Inks: Green with Envy, Mango Mai Tai, Baja Blue, Biscotti;

Other Products: Punch by Martha Stewart; Pearls by The Paper Studio; Flowers by Michaels; Decorative Tape and Ribbon

So Sweet You Are...

Hello Everyone! The weather where I live has been pretty amazing... 80s-90s and it has me thinking about summer! So, I got out some of my favorite Quick Quotes products and created a fun summer layout!  But before I share it with you, I have a confession.... I am terrible at journaling! There! I said it! I never know what to say and I don't like the look of my own handwriting so I often avoid it. However, this is the very reason why I love the Quick Quotes Colored Vellum Quotes. They are not only beautiful, but they say all the things I wish I could think of on my own! Here is a layout I created using the new Summer Samba line. I LOVE this line! It is so bright and colorful... perfect for my summer photos! 

This picture was taken at the beach last summer and I wanted to use it in a layout as soon as I had it printed but instead, held onto it until I could figure out exactly what I wanted to do with it. And once these papers arrived at my house, I had a plan!

When I took this photo, I positioned my daughter off to the side on purpose, just so I could get creative with the journaling. Thank goodness Quick Quotes came to the rescue with this darling vellum quote! It said exactly what I was thinking! I printed this photo off as a 5x7 and laid the quote directly on the photo. I used brads to anchor it down!

I also had to show the gorgeous butterfly from the Quick Quotes Bag O'Chips Butterflies. I adore these! They are so easy to work with! I painted the butterfly white before I debossed it using my Cuttlebug. I then added Quick Quotes PowderPuff Chalking Ink in Lemonade! Beautiful!

Thanks for stopping by today! I will be back tomorrow with another Quick Quotes layout!  :)

Quick Quotes Products Used:

Summer Samba Patterned Paper: 200, 300, 400

So Sweet You Are - Color Vellum Quote

PowderPuff Chalking Inks: Mango Mai Tai, Maraschino Cherry, Lemonade

Bag O'Chips: Butterflies

Other Products Used:

Punch: Martha Stewart

Gems: Creative Charms

Flowers: Michaels

Other: Brads, paint

Quick Quotes April Challenge!

Hello everyone! I'm thrilled to be hosting this month's challenge at Quick Quotes! Our challenge for April is to incorporate a "grid" using paper blocks or strips in your project. Projects can include layouts, cards or altered art. Of course we would love to see Quick Quote products on your project but that is not a requirement to play along with us! I used the new Summer Samba line for my layout...

Isn't this picture too funny?! We took it when we were in Cabo last November. Lauren is too silly!!

I love the color quotes that coordinate with the papers! This quote couldn't be more perfect for little miss Lauren!! lol!!

And of course, since I am hosting the challenge, I would love to see all of my scrappy friends play along! You could win a $25 gift certificate to the Quick Quotes Store!

You can check out the Quick Quote challenge HERE!

And Frosted Designs has a new challenge... Banners! Check it out HERE!

 I hope you and your family have a blessed Easter!

Easter

My house is a little crazy right now so you will have to excuse me for not posting this last Thursday when it appeared on the Quick Quotes blog! Since Easter is this weekend, I thought it would be fun to share an Easter themed layout I created using the Quick Quotes Summer Samba paper line! I love the bright colors... perfect for spring!

I know I have said this before but I have to say it again... I LOVE the chipboard embellishments from Quick Quotes! They are so easy to work with and there are so many things you can do with them! I used the butterflies from the Bag O'Chips Butterfly collection!

I painted the chipboard butterfly with white paint and let it dry before I inked it with PowderPuff Chalking inks in Lemonade and Blue Hawaiian. I outlined the wings with a black pen and then added Stickles to the body and wing of the butterfly to add a little sparkle.

For this butterfly, I painted the butterfly with white paint. Once the paint was dry, I debossed it before inking it with PowderPuff chalking ink in Limeade. I finished it off with some Stickles on the body.

Quick Quote Products:

Summer Samba 100, 200, 400

Bag O'Chips: Butterflies

Powder Puff Chalking Ink: Blue Hawaiian, Lemonade, Limeade, Maraschino Cherry

Other Supplies:

Flowers: Making Memories, Michaels

Letters: American Crafts

Brads: K&Co., Making Memories

Stickles: Ranger

Trim, Flower: Creative Charms

Twine: We R Memory Keepers

Paint: Plaid

Pen: Copic

Sizzix: Swiss Dots

I hope you all have a wonderful week! Be sure to stop by Friday... I am hosting this month's challenge at Quick Quotes and I can't wait to share the details with you!

Barb  :)

Hangin' Out!

Is it just me or are these week's flying by?! It is Friday again which means we have a new challenge up for you at Frosted Designs! This week we are asking you to use Grids on your cards, layouts, altered art, mixed media, or anything else you can think of! Here is my layout....

Aren't these girls the cutest?! This photo of Lauren, Abby and Natali was taken when we were back visiting Indiana last October. Lauren was so excited to reconnect with her friends! It is amazing... we have lived away from them for nearly 2 years now and when these girls get back together, it is like they were never apart! They are so sweet!

For the background grid, I penciled in the ends of each of the lines and then lined up a ruler and used my paper piercer to evenly space holes along the lines. After I had all of my lines punched, I used some embroidery floss to sew in the lines! I LOVE how this one turned out! I think it is fun and youthful and perfect for a tween layout!

Now we would love to see what you can do! The Frosted Designs Design Team has created a variety of projects to inspire you! Be sure to check them out HERE! And... Oh My Crafts is sponsoring this week's challenge with a $25 gift certificate! You know you would like to win that prize!   :)

Have a great weekend!

New Beginnings

Hello everyone! I am sorry my blog has been a little quiet this week but our family is wrapping up our Spring Vacation trip! We had a wonderful time with a great mix of play, relaxing, and great food! I will show you some pictures next week!

It's Friday, and that means there is a new challenge up at Frosted Designs! We thought we would celebrate the fact that spring is just around the corner and challenge you to use something with wings on your card, layout or project! It can be anything at all, as long as it has wing... butterflies, birds, angels, dragonflies, etc. Here is my layout....

This isn't my usual style but I really had fun creating it and love the way it turned out! The picture is of my oldest daughter (Courtney) who is in the orange dress. Without planning it, her and all of her friends each picked a different color of the rainbow so when they all lined up for photos, it was so pretty! And of course, they all had to have these very long, very full dresses! As they were walking to get closer to the lake, I snapped this photo. It really made me think about how even though they had been best friends through high school, each one had different plans after graduation and it would be a whole new beginning for each of them... thus the title.  

I cut out several butterflies of various sizes using my Cricut machine. I then placed them on the LO where I wanted them using repositional tape. Once I had them where I wanted them, I misted the white background with 3 different colors of Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. After giving it a few minutes to dry, I removed the repositional tape from each butterfly and glued it to the layout by the center of the body. This way I could lift the wings. To keep the focus on the photo, I decided to add a simple title and a simple bow.

Be sure to stop by Frosted Designs... the Design Team created some AMAZING projects for this challenge! You don't want to miss them!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Barb  :)