Katie's Challenge

Katie challenged everyone on the team to alter the packaging of the clips/brads that came in our August kit. It had me stumped for quite a while! LOL! I had lots of ideas but couldn't figure out how to make them work. Then inspiration struck!




It's a Post-It note holder with pen! The small Post-Its fit right in there. I added some Making Memories flowers out of my stash for a little decoration. The pen is attached with one of the buttons from the August kit. First I ran some ribbon through the button then I used glue dots to stick it to the outside of the package and tied the pen on.



Stick this in your purse or in the car and you will always have paper and a pen when you need it. :) So handy!

Alright, I'm taking tomorrow off and will try and post something Monday but most likely it will be Tuesday! See you then!

Challenge Day- Stitching

This weeks challenge is all about stitching!
Here is my example using the September Bella kit-


Professafella is the add on for September. And yes I know you've already seen this card! :) Thats why I did another using the August Sweet n' Sassy kit-



Now break out the sewing machine! Or needle and thread! Or paper piercer and pen! The challenge is to use stitching somewhere on your project. Machine, hand, or faux stitching. Remember to use your 3 Little DReaMs kit, if you have one. If not(and why not!) please use Stamping Bella stamps or Sweet n' Sassy Stamps. Each time you participate in one of these challenges and upload a picture to the Yahoo group or to SCS (using keyword 3LDAUG) you get a chance to win a fabulous prize! If you have any questions, just ask.

Also, be sure to check out what the other DReaM Team-ers have come up with. They all have links over on the side bar. Everything I've seen so far is fabulous!

Oh, one more reminder- TODAY is the LAST day to pre-order your September kit! There is usually an extra or two but, they will be gone before you can blink! Plus there are some new shipping options, so go check it all out!

I'm headed out of town today but I have a post scheduled for tomorrow and will be back for sure on Tuesday! Thanks for stopping by!

Professafella

Here he is again!



I pierced along the bottom of the paper and in the corners to give it a little extra "something". The only thing not available in the 3 Little DReaMs kit for September is the blue button and the string. I still have an incredible amount of supplies left! I'm always amazed at how much you can get out of one kit.

Tomorrow is Challenge Day! Make sure you come back and see what the challenge is. Also make sure to participate! It's been fun seeing all the great creations everyone comes up with. Plus each time you play, you get a chance to win a prize from the fabulous Queen of the Kits- Katie!

Teachabella

3x6 card featuring Teachabella! Would you just look at that yummy ric-rac?! It's so cozy and soft. I don't want to use it, I just want to pet it! LOL! I love this size of card. It fits perfect in the #7 (or maybe #6? I don't have a box handy)envelopes. I get mine at Walmart- 100 for less than a dollar! Can't beat that. Everything except the string in the button is from the September 3 Little DReaMs kit. I have 1 more sneak peek for you tomorrow and then on Friday it's Challenge Day!

Have a Wonderful Wednesday!

Good Luck

Another sneak peek for Septembers kit!


This is Professafella. Isn't he handsome?! :) The only things not in my September 3 Little DReaMs kit were the good luck sentiment and the brown thread. I used sketch SC187 from SCS. The striped paper I turned and cut at an angle to give it a different look. The stripes are normally up and down, regular stripes. I wanted something a little different though.

So tell me, have you ordered your kit yet? The 15th is the last day, better get a move on!
Thanks for stopping by. I still have more from the kit to share, so make sure you come back!

Back To School

Adam goes back to school a week from today! Wow, summer sure has gone by fast. Are you ready to see a sneak peek of the September 3 Little DReaMs kit?



Everything here is from the kit! The only thing not in the kit is the bucket. I picked that up at Target- love the dollar spot! I used 4 different sizes of circle punches to cut out the papers and then just glued them on the bucket around the entire thing. I also used some glue dots and stuck some buttons randomly on the sides. Here is a couple close up pics of the sides.


We have Back To School night this Friday, where we'll get to meet his teachers and see his classroom. This year he has 2 teachers. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. I made this bucket for them and we will take in with us Friday. I still need to make another one this week so they each have one. I filled it with hand sanitizer, band-aids, tissues, treats, etc. Hopefully it will come in handy.

You still have time to pre-order this Bella kit or the Sweet n' Sassy kit for September. Both of which are full of fun stuff. I'll have some more from this kit (plus the August kit too) so make sure you come back tomorrow. Or better yet, subscribe using the link at the top of the page so you don't miss a thing!

It's Challenge Day!

Woo-hoo! Today's challenge is a sketch challenge.
Here is the sketch-


And here is my example-



If you have a 3 Little DReaMs kit, make sure to use it. We want to see what you make with the kits! If you don't have a kit please use Bella stamps or Sweet n Sassy Stamps for the challenges from now on. I know last week I said you didn't have to, but now you do. LOL! Just keepin' ya on your toes! ;)

When you complete your card for this weeks challenge, make sure you post to the Yahoo group and make sure if you upload to SCS, to use keyword "3LDAUG" so we can find you. Don't forget, the September kits are up for pre-order and they are both awesome! Great for back to school and fall.

Make sure you check out what the other Dream Team members have created also. Their links are over in my side bar. Along with the link to sign up for the Yahoo group if you haven't done that yet!

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you make something with the sketch!
Let me know if you have any questions!

Who's ready for a challenge?

Today marks the beginning of weekly challenges for the 3 Little DReaMs Yahoo Group! Not a member of the group? You can be! There's a link over there------------>
Join us, it's going to be fun! A new challenge will be posted each Friday.

The Design Team Members will each have a month of challenges for you. August just happens to be my month. So today I present the first 3 Little DReaMs Challenge- Embossing! Heat embossing or dry embossing, whatever you would like. Here is my example:



All supplies are from the July kit. I stamped the dragonflies in VersaMark and embossed them with clear embossing powder. The sentiment was stamped in VersaMark, also, and embossed with white embossing powder. The pink paper on the bottom I ran through my CuttleBug with the Swiss Dots folder. Just a hint, textured cardstock is a bit trickier to emboss on, so take your time and don't rush the stamping. Make sure you get a good clean image before you put on the powder.

You don't have to use a 3 Little DReaMs kit to participate in the challenges, but if you have one might as well use it! Don't have a kit? Well, that's alright(I guess. ;) Only kidding) but go check out the kits and you will be impressed. There is an incredible amount of goodies in each kit! And today is the first day to order September kits! Hurry go get yours!

We would love to see what wonderful embossing creations you create! So please post it on the Yahoo group(we have a folder just for August challenges) or if you choose to post it on SplitCoast, please use keyword "3LDAUG" so we can find it and give you some love. Everyone who participates in the challenges will have a chance to win a prize! Yep, Katie has so generously agreed to offer a prize(of her choosing) to a winner each month! Yay!

Now break out that heat gun! Or CuttleBug! Or brass stencils! Or whatever you want to emboss with! Then let us see your awesome creations so we can OOOoooo! and Aaahhhh! over them!

Thanks for stopping by today!
Sorry for the excessive use of exclamation points!

Ready, Set, Emboss!

Glitter!

Here is my glitter card!



I don't usually do glitter. Not much call for it in a house full of boys! LOL! It was fun to make(and messy). I used some fun-flock on the cattails too, but I couldn't get a good pic of it. So it's furry and glittery. A bit much going on for one card but, that's alright! I wish I had made the "pond" bigger it probably would look better. I made the water by freehand cutting the blue cardstock that came in the kit and then used a light blue pen to doodle ripples.

Thanks for stopping by today!
Have a Wonderful Wednesday!

Ducky Congrats

I wanted to make a baby card. I wanted to make a unisex baby card. This is what I ended up with! Green is a good unisex color, isn't it?




Everything is from my July 3 Little DReaMs kit. I love the shimmery paper that came in the kit by SEI. However, it is a bit hard to photograph! :) I tied a small length of the ribbon through the polka dot button but left the rest "naked"! And I decided to use some of the green cardstock for the base of the card instead of the white cards that come with the kit. Just for fun! There is seriously so much you can do with these kits. Do I sound like an infomercial yet?! Sorry, I just really like my kit! :)


And now the question of the day-
How did I color my images? Are you ready? Are you stumped? Did you guess correctly?


I used BIC Mark-it permanent markers! I found this tutorial the other day and figured I'd give it a try since I already had the markers. And it worked! It was so easy. I didn't heat emboss all of them. I just used Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black. It's my all time favorite black ink. I had some smudging but not bad. I'm just lazy and don't like to emboss but I did emboss the duck image. Just a few suggestions from my experience- Make sure you use a good thick white cardstock if you don't want to use watercolor paper. And if you are using a yellow marker, make sure you do heat emboss your image first. For some reason the yellow makes the black ink bleed really bad. If you don't mind embossing, that is definitely the way to go!

So there you have it! Now for the winner!
Since NO ONE guessed correctly, I put everyone in.
My random monkey picked-

Diane said...

I love your card! He's so stinkin' cute and the colors are nice and bright!
I'm going to say Prisma Color Pencils.

July 18, 2008 9:34 AM

And by random monkey, I mean Adam! :)
Diane, email me and I will get your stuff out to you!
Thanks for stopping by, hope you all have a great weekend! I will probably be offline the rest of today and tomorrow, but I should be back Monday.

Turtle-rific!

Here is the second card I made from my 3 Little DReaMs kit.


The only thing not in the kit is the white grosgrain ribbon. I colored over the water with my clear glaze pen(seriously love that thing, so handy!) and used my trusty Coluzzle to cut out the ovals. I went around the green oval with my old-school scallop scissors. I'm taking a stand and not buying the Nestabilities! Well, someday I might break down and get them, but not anytime soon!

Here is a close up of the water-


Ready for your tip today? It involves the Coluzzle, this is something I love to do with my clear stamps!

When you are cutting out a shape with the Coluzzle and want your sentiment(or borders work too) to follow the same direction as your cut, use your Coluzzle template for a block!



Just bend the stamps (love that about clear stamps) to fit the shape the way you want! That is how I got my sentiment above my turtle. The turtle in the water is one stamp and the sentiment is another, but I wanted them on the same oval piece. I cut the paper on the third oval, so I just lined up my stamp right inside that line. I also used a permanent marker to make the different lines different colors so I could see easier where I was cutting. Easy-peasy! I hope that makes sense! If you have any questions, just ask!

Oh hoppy day!

I got my July 3 Little DReaMs kit in the mail over the weekend. So much fun stuff!



Here is the first card I made with my new goodies. Everything on this card is from the kit. How cool is that? I am loving this Pond Pals stamps set from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, so stinkin' cute! I'll have more to show you from the kit in a day or two!

Thanks for stopping by!

Ahem......

May I have your attention please......
Click here and then come right back........




Did you do it?




Did you see?








Can I get a Wahoo?! Oh yeah, uh-huh, I did it, uh-huh, oh yeah! Alright, I guess I'm just a tiny bit excited! Big, HUGE, GIANT Thanks to Katie for giving me this opportunity, I am grateful beyond words.

I'll post something crafty soon. I have my dentist appointment in the morning and then I promise to make something!
Thanks for sharing my good news!
Mwah!