Playing again!

I have to appologize.. I have not been around and I hate it when other people set up these blogs and get everyone excited.. and then seem to drop off the face of the earth...or err cyber land. Well i am back.. I have been playing, and creating, and working, and relaxing and being a mom. I am looking forward to summer with all that fun that goes with it.. I recently survived another Birthday.. May 15th.. I turned the big THREE-ZERO (SHUDDER). I have been shopping and Ebaying and a good friend of mine after almost 3 years of hinting.. finally decided she LOVES making cards! Geeze Louise. Oh well.

but as you can see, I haven't been doing nothing this past little while! I have been trying to remember to take pictures of the things I have made, but not always have I been able to find the camera fully charged and if needed batteries!

I hope you enjoy the cards I have shared in this post.. I hope I have inspired you to create something and if you like a layout i have used go ahead and copy! Isn't that was inspiring others is all about?

Good luck have fun and happy stampin!

Great finds and deals!

Okay I know I haven't been around for a while.. I have found another part time job and I I have been crazy busy! So I haven't had time to do much card making BUT I have been shopping! Bad girl i know Okay here goes a list of my cool deals and finds!


Dollarama I found some very pretty paper from RECESS at Carson-Dellosa (tm) the paper is clled Sugarplum paisleys sparkle slant and it is SOOOOOO PRETTY! A package of 25 sheets for $1.00! Wow i couldn't pass that up so i bought 10 packages, I also found a package of the old school writing paper and it makes really great background/mat paper for layering instead of black. Same deal 25 sheets for $1.00, I bought four packs which is all they had.
Also I am addicted to primas, they are such beautiful little flowers but I am cheap and buy them very seldomly and use them like they are precious or something. So i fbought some very pretty flower bunches from dollerama and took the flowers all apart so i can poke a brad through the center to pretty up a page.. So instead of paying so much for the little flowers, I bought 6 bunches of them for $1.00 per bunch and now I have lots of flowers to use on my spring cards this year!

Zellars! A steal and a half I found there this morning, I have been looking for magazine storage things... and have been looking everywhere for some pretty ones.. Well I found in the clearance section a package of 5 peices of storage heaven, three nesting boxes, a desk organizer for pens, scissors etc, and a magazine holder! They were discounted for $17.39 to $8 something,, I was okay that is a good deal, I got up to the till and it rung in as $5.20..well OMG I asked her to ring in another one and I went back after paying and got it! So wow! Thought i'd share my great finds and deals with you. Maybe this will be an ongoing thing and each monday I will let you know what I can come up with for savings, tips and tricks!


I hope I have inspired you to think outside of the box and look at regular items in a new and different way!

Happy Stampin!

Karyn Hick

Piece of cake challenge!

Lori Reinholz, a lady who I met through a yahoo stamping group I had joined a while back offered this challenge for one of her other groups to try.. We were to take a peek at a website that a lady had for advertizing her decorated cakes.. Well these cake are.. some very beautiful and others are really... well wacky! Think Cat in the Hat and that is what some of these cakes are like! So I went through a found a Tinker Bell cake! So here is my offering for the piece of cake inspiration challenge. It is a magnetic post it note coster for the fridge, How cute is that, I have been busy creating stuff for a craft table I am doing at a local mall and the challenge was to make a card but after telling lori what I was up to she said I could do anything paper related...as long as I could take a picture of it! It looks SOOO much better in real life. Thanks Lori!

Here is the website! Take a peek and maybe try to get inspired to creat your own piece of cake!
http://cakenouveau.com/cakes.html

Have fun and Happy Stampin!

A great Blog to visit!

I have been busy crafting, blogging and looking for inspiration and I went to visit a fellow crafters Blog to see what she has been up to and she mentioned she is starting a list of Canadian Blogs which i think is a GREAT idea and asked her to put my blog on there.. which means I need to get busy taking pictures of the things i have been comming up with and posting them here for all to see!

Well here is my Friend's Blog. Nancy is a great crafter and I am proud to pass her name along!

http://www.nancyscreativemess.blogspot.com

Happy stampin everyone and Happy New Years!

Card Candy!

Have any of you ever heard of card candy? No! Well this is so cool. You go into the scrapbook section of your local store and you see packages of little embellishments in the same theme, valentines, love, Christmas, halloween, vacation, baby, birthday, school...I could go on and on..

well that is card candy and can cost anywheres from $5 to $8 depending on where you go.. Well with all those scraps you have hanging around you can make your own so easily.

To make the snowman and reindeer i used Stampin Up's designer label punch. The antlers are punched using a punch from Martha Stewart. Reindeer ears are from a brown prima flower petals, eyes are googly eyes from $ store, The nose is red candy cane stickles. The snowman ones eyes are black brads with white gel pen dotted on the edges to show light reflection, the nose is orange glitter gel pen. For the cup i used Stampin Up's larg tag punch and also Stampin Up's scallope square punch. The foam is some cotton ball and the marshmallows are liquid applique (don't you just love that stuff!) I actually giggled the whole time making these the googly eye just set me off every time! LOL

I hope i have inspired you to take a second look at those punches that are gathering dust, and try your hand at creating some of your own card candy. If you feel very energetic and can make up many of these they would look SO cute as gift tags under the tree on all those pretty presents!

Happy Stamping!

Karyn Hick

Christmas one sheet wonder

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did a trick called kill two birds with one stone for this card.. I wanted to enter the card challenge for CCC and came up with this card.. I also needed to make a card for TTTC for the mingle there, The technique for TTTC is one sheet wonder. If you don't know what one sheet wonder is it is so simple.. you stamp all over randomly or do the same background technique over one sheet of cardstock and cut it up into card or scrapbook sized pieces. This makes making many cards using the same colours, image, technique, etc go fast as all the back ground paper is done for you and all cut up, all you have to do is layer, glue, and embellish.

If you haven't tried one sheet wonder (also called done with one and some other names) and struggling with your Christmas cards this year then give it a try you will be amazed by how fast your card to do list gets smaller by using the one sheet wonder idea.

Hope I have inspired you to try this technique!

Happy stamping!

A Christmas puzzle

I finally used my cuttlebug to cut puzzle pieces with the sizzex puzzle piece die. I applied regular elmers glue to a piece of cardboard/chipboard like from toy packaging and applied my paper, rolled that through the cuttlebug to squish the exess glue out (don't apply too much glue or you will have a real big sloppy mess!) wash the sandwich pieces if glue oozed out.. then using your puzzle die (cuttlebug offers one too) and center it on your papered chipboard, roll through the machine and tada! Puzzle pieces!

You can purchase puzzles like from the 2nd hand store and paper and embellish them, or buy the package of white chipboard puzzled from the craft store and paper them but by doing it with the die it works out cheaper and it is easier and faster than any other way i have tried.

I embellished each of the same shaped pieces the same way and the center placed a pointsella prima flower, These flowers are so pretty and they are two layers and each had a hint of glitter on the edges of them. They sparkle and shine.

Using the crop-a-dile to punch through the puzzle to attach brads and flowers was easy, that tool slices through like butter, it is a must have too as far as i am concerned.


I hope i have inspired to you try to make puzzle pieces.

Happy creating!