Cupcakes for Teachers

The aide, for my son’s classmate, asked for a few cupcakes to give to a few of the teachers for Teacher Appreciation. Of course I couldn’t just give her cupcakes without making decorated boxes for them!

I used a cupcake box from Creative Cuts & More and School Notes from Our Craft Lounge. I stamped some of the images with Versamark onto the box. I also stamped some images, colored them with copics and cut them out and attached them to the lids with glue dots.



A view from the top.

This is also for the Ways to Use it 376 of using Green.

Only 4 more days of school left! I had better get started on those end of the year teacher gifts!!

          Thanks for stopping by!

                          Amber

May all your dreams come true

It’s time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge over on the Paper Pretties Blog. This week our challenge is to use bright colors on our card.

I used one of the sentiments from Fairy Special for my card. Found some bright color design paper and added some sparkly bright brads.

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC207.

Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.


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                        Amber

Friends are treasures

Today’s card came together thanks to some of the challenges over at SCS this week. The color challenge375 (navy, pumpkin pie & baby blue), the sketch385 and the ways to use it challenge375 (Colorful Complements)!

My color complements are mainly blue and orange with a tad bit of red as seen by the flowers.

I used the stamp set, Treasured Friends, by Our Craft Lounge and masked the girls into the beach scene. Stippled on a sunset and the ocean and used mudd puddles Cabana sand for the beach. Added some mudd puddles shells on the twine from May Arts. And found the perfect paper from DCWV Tahiti Beach stack!

          Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber

Way to Go!

It’s another Pretties Wednesday Challenge over on the Paper Pretties Blog. This week our challenge is to create a Graduation card.

I used for Graduation Fairy Sofie my card. Paper pieced her gown and used Shimmerz on her wings and hat. Colored the rest of her using copics. Pattern paper is DCWV Summer Dream Stack. And ribbon is from May Arts.

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC206.

Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.

 
          Thanks for stopping by!

                      Amber

OCL is Pinning it!

It is Friday! And what does that mean? A new Our Craft Lounge challenge has been issued!

How fun is that? A reason to be on Pinterest all day long! Okay, not really as am sure we all have tons of ideas pinned that we have just been dying to recreate. Now is your chance!

As you know, this week was Teacher Appreciation week. I had a few things pinned to pick from but went with this: http://pinterest.com/pin/162833342747051286/.

I changed it just a tad by making a frame tag. I used OCL School Notes. I stamped the pencils to make a frame and colored them in with copics. I took an xacto knife and cut out the inside of the framed area. Stamped an apple, colored it with copics and attached it with a pop dot. I was going to write the saying myself but made it more personal by having my kids write them. It meant so much to the kindergarten teacher to have it hand written by her student. It showed us both how far she has come since that first day of school. I even managed to find an orange cup as orange is the teacher’s favorite color!

My son did one for his teacher but I am showing the one we also gave the aide he has in his class that is mainly for a handicapped child but still helps out with the class when the teacher needs her to. There is lemonade drink pouches in the cup, hence the aide being in “”.

We only have 2 1/2 weeks of school left so now I have to start working teacher gifts! Stay tuned for those.

You have until 11:59pm Thursday, May 17th to enter.   Participate as many times as you like!   A random winner will be selected and posted on The Lounge at the beginning of next month. Here are the rules: use any stamps that you wish – get BONUS POINTS when you use OCL stamps!  Link to your card/project at the bottom of The Lounge post using the link tool provided – **be sure to link DIRECTLY to your challenge card – not a general blog or gallery link & add the appropriate photo.  Use the challenge as your basis – do whatever inspires you, but please base it on the challenge. If you upload to SCS, please use the Keyword OCL117.  We can’t wait to see what you CREATE!

      
           Thanks for stopping by!

                   Amber

I was featured!

So a while back I got this email with the subject line:
May we feature Amber’s Antics in our Best of the Web?

Of course my first thought was, it’s spam as I didn’t recognize the name of the sender but that didn’t stop me from opening the email just to see if maybe, just maybe it was legit. And it was!

Be@Home, which features anything from interior design tips to room trends, and from time to time,  crafting-related content, was interested in featuring me on their Best of the Web, their weekly series recognizing the most interesting websites on the web! How cool is that? Check out the above link to see my feature.

So of course I had to check out the rest of their blog and found this post on Crafting solutions. It is a cool idea about using a portable closet to organize your crafting materials and still keep your house spic-and-span. You just have to check out the article to see it for yourself.

        Thanks for stopping by!

                         Amber

Happy Anniversary

Time for another Pretties Wednesday Challenge over on the Paper Pretties Blog. This week our challenge is to create an Anniversary card.

I used Love Birds for my card. Colored the birds with prismacolor pencils and blended with odorless mineral spirits. Colored the rest of the image with copics and used Smooch for the inside of the flowers. Cut the sentiment apart to make it two lines to fit better in the oval Spellbinder. Added some bling from Want2Scrap and some ribbon.  

How to Enter: If you would like to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project using the above challenge and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword PWC205.

Don’t forget to include a link to your card on the Paper Pretties Blog, so everyone can see it too. You don’t have to use Paper Pretties stamps to play, but of course if you have them we would love to see you use them. One random participant will receive a Paper Pretties Stamps set … see the Paper Pretties Blog for more details.

              Thanks for stopping by!

                              Amber