High Hopes Sneak Peeks Day 2

**If you are here for my Gilli challenge card please scroll down, thank you!**


So it is only Wednesday and this is my 5th post of the week- kerazy!!!! I have been giving myself lots of crafty therapy time and it shows in how many cards I have made. Love it!


For today's sneak peek card I used Santa and his list and again went a little crazy with my Christmas stash of paper and accessories.I coloured Santa up with my copic markers then cut him our using one of my nestabilities. I added some silver stretchy cord to my card to help give it a festive feel. Nothing says Christmas like lots of cards with gold and silver stretchy cord hee hee! He could also have been my card for our current 'Home for the Holiday's' challenge. It will be going until Oct so you still have lots of time to join us! 


My sketch today came from the Card Patterns challenge blog- another fave of mine. I am also submitting Santa over at the Twin Touch marker challenge blog. I am curious about these markers and figured I should try to win some to see what they are all about! Pop on over if you want to enter too. 


Want some more eye candy? Oh and don't forget our 'Spread the Word' contest. Pop on over to the HHS challenge blog for all this and more- woot woot!

Cheers, Andi

My Gilli challenge card- let's emboss!

Last night I was partying hard with the Gilli ladies as we were celebrating Gilli's 1st birthday. Anary was giving away amazing goodies! If you missed it don't worry- there is still lots of birthday fun to be had! If you haven't commented on my Gilli house post click here to see it and leave a comment to win. Hop over to the DT blogs to comment on their Gilli homes to win as well. Lots of prizes to be had!

After the wild party and meeting a girl named Tina who gives me a run for my money at being naughty (Hi Tina!!) I needed to rest up and so Cozy Gilli came out with me to help make my challenge card. Anary sent us all on the DT some of the new Authentique papers from a few different lines- Thanks so much Anary! I used sheets from the Journey Line on my card today. After colouring Gilli with my copics and using my new fave hair colour combo (E25, 33, 50) I paper pieced her Snuggli and then ran it through my swiss dots cuttlebug folder. Sheila at SGD has her copics on sale right now at 25% off- time to stock up!  

As I am sketch challenged I used the CPS sketch to make my card and embossed my side panels as well. I actually also cut out Gilli using my rectangle Nestabilities but I didn't have much luck running it through a second time to emboss it. I always chop off part of the paper. Oh well. At least I was able to trim it down and save it. Otherwise I would have hid the mistake with some fancy flower and ribbon placement hee hee!

I am also entering my Gilli card over at the Twin Touch challenge blog. I want to try those markers!!! 

For more Gilli birthday celebrations and also awesome DT embossed samples to get your inspiration flowing visit the House of Gilli blog today!

Cheers! Andi

Quick Unity KOTM card to share

**If you are looking for my High Hopes post or my Gilli Post please scroll down**

Just wanted to pop on and share a quick card I made today to play along with the Play Date cafe and the Unity KOTM sketch challenge. I am totally lying though- it seriously took me hours. No joke. Let's just say this in card number 12 before I got one I liked hee hee. Mojo didn't want to play nice today but I got the upper hand hee hee. 

I stamped my KOTM image in versamark then embossed it in white embossing powder. I flipped the triangle on the sketch so that I could have the colours showing I wanted to highlight my soft purple paper. 

Well that's all for me tonight- hope you are having a relaxing day! Andi

Day One of High Hopes Stamps Sneaky Peekies!

 

Not only is it challenge day for HHS but it is also day one of sneak peeks before their new release this Thursday and it is amazing!

Today's challenge is 'Home for the Holidays' and I coloured up my lil mousie with bright colours to match my bright Christmas paper. I love how he is waiting eagerly for Santa to come. I coloured him with my copics and matched him up with the paper from My Mind's Eye. I know it came out a few years ago but I think you can still get it. I bought tons of it and now I am making myself use some of it lol.  I am going to admit something that will probably not surprise you- I usually create my cards the night before a deadline. It just works for me- if I do it earlier I just spin in my chair with no mojo. Except this time...I have ALL MY RELEASE CARDS DONE. All of them! I just loved this release so much and had so much fun colouring them that I went nuts! You will see what I mean when you see them all. I also listened to Sarah McLachlan all day long- her Christmas songs- to get me in the mood. Perfect way to spend a rainy day me thinks!

My card layout today came from my friend Jen's blog- Deconstructing Sketch. I am HOPELESS when it comes to creating without a sketch. My cards all look the same otherwise hee hee. She posts a new one each Thursday so I get fresh inspiration every week. Love that!

If you want to play along with us and win some new HHS rubber hop on over here to the challenge blog. You will also get to see all the DT creations and all of them are with the new release. 

Hope you have a fabulous crafty kinda day! Andi 

Gilli New Release Blog Hop- Gilli has a home!

Welcome to the House of Gilli design team hop! You just came from visiting the House of Gilli blog! Isn’t Gilli’s house a cool place? Now it is my turn to let you into my house!

During this hop leave some love in each place you drop by including this one. One person will be chosen randomly from the comments to win a GC for some Gilli's! So spread the word and come have fun with us!

For my special Gilli home today I coloured it up in what I think of as Cottage colours. I used creams, yellows and blues. My copic colours are - B91, 93, 95, 97, 99..E50, 51, 53..YR20, 21, 23...C0, 2 and of course some glaze and glitter to make my window's shine. I also used some Stampin' Up paper that I received last year and have been hoarding due to it's prettiness. I also used some of my precious SU paper clips and a silver flower. My last touch was some yellow twine to bring more sunshine to Gilli's home. I like to think Gilli would have a warm and welcoming home and I hope I got that across with my colours!

The nice thing is that this hop will last a whole week (09/19-29), so you have time to come for a visit anytime ! We will be waiting! Grab a cuppa tea and hop with me.

Oh I almost forgot…if you would like to have your own “House” read on! This stamp will be sold exclusively from our shop and can be ordered by emailing Anary who is the amazing owner of Gilli stamps. Please email her at gillishop@anary.com. 

You may be wondering...who am I visiting next? Well- grab a refill if you are like me and need one already then pop on over to Ann's blog.

Cheers! Andi

Card for a Quinceañera....

Today is my day to post over at the SGD blog and I wanted to share the card I made for the Quinceañera my oldest attended last Saturday for one of her friends. This is a very special birthday party as it is typically held by Latin American families when their daughter turns 15 to celebrate her leaving her childhood behind and beginning the next phase of her life as a woman.

It is a formal celebration so my daughter got to dress up in her 'fancy' clothes and wear heels. I wanted to make her a fancy shiny card to match her dress and after being inspired by Anja's card on the SGD blog a few week's ago I got busy.

I used the Butterfly kisses embossing folder by Craft Concepts and blinged up the butterflies on the top half of her card to symbolize her entering her womanhood. I hope she liked it!

I hope she liked the card and I am glad I remembered to take a picture of it before it was given away lol!!

Have a crafty day! Andi

She's getting married!

I am so excited today because one of my close friends is getting married! Tanya is one of my favourite people and this wedding is probably one I will bawl my eyes out at lol. I am extremely blessed to have a met some amazing ladies at work and the six of us became fast friends. We have been there for each other during the good times and the bad and Tanya is one of the best listeners and supporters any of us could ever have. Yep- I am going to cry. 

Tanya's wedding also represents a milestone for me. I started a weight loss journey on May 31st and buying a new dress for her wedding was one of my mini goals on my way to reach my goal weight. Well I am so proud to share that I am down 4 dress sizes now! I actually could even fit in to the next size down but it was tight. Yippee!! I can't wait to get all prettied up and hang out with my group of gals and watch our friend start a new chapter in her life. In my sexy dress of course hee hee! 

I used a stamp set called Wedded Bliss from Flourishes. I have been buying quite a few of their stamps in the last few months as they are great to colour and their solid image ones have been nice too. Plus they include lots of amazing sentiments. I paired it with some of my new 6x6 paper from MME called Lost and Found 2 Blush.  I used black bazzill for the base, some SU pink satin ribbon and sprayed Pearl glimmer mist all over it to give it a beautiful sparkle. Even my hubby loved it!

Well I better go and start getting ready for TK's big day. I hope you have a wonderful day too!