Fall Leaves

Welcome to my blog crafty friends!!  

It's my turn today on the Kat Scrappiness blog and I have 

a sparkly card to share with you!  

The new Fall Crafters Essentials dies has a maple leaf shape in it that I am in love with! 

I'm not usually a fan of fall colors but I do love seeing these 

leaves in a variety of oranges and browns.

I wanted a pile of leaves that look like they just fell off the tree so I got out a variety of glitter paper in brown, orange and gold. The tree die is also from the Fall Crafters Essentials die set and it's perfect for all of your Fall cards and projects.

 I thought the sentiment from Happy Fall Y'all was so appropriate for this card, 

and it's true, you're never too old to play in the leaves!

I finished the card off with some clear jewels scattered around the sentiment for some extra shine!

Make sure to check out and follow the new Kat Scrappiness Fan Group Facebook page if you haven't already! You will find inspiration, sales and lots of other fun activities!

In other news, Kat Scrappiness is also hosting a blog hop in December to benefit a local charity called "The Coffee Oasis" and we would love for you to be a part of it!  You can get all the details here as well as linking up your blog or YouTube channel to join in!

Thanks so much for joining me today!

Don't forget to use code Lisa10 to save 10% on your order!

BUT.......

If you want to save 15% use code "CUSTOMERSROCK" through tomorrow!

Have a great day everyone, I already am!

🍁Lisa 🍁

Pink Pumpkins

The Card Concept Challenge blog is celebrating their 100th challenge!

That is quite an accomplishment so Congrats are in order!

When I saw the inspiration photo I knew I had to play along!

One of my favorite color combinations is pink and gold and I love the shabby chic 

vintage style of design! Here is the gorgeous inspiration photo for this challenge.

I am in love with all the elements of this picture! I find white pumpkins to be so 

elegant and the pink and gold combination is so pretty together!

Here is the card I've created for this challenge based on this photo.

My style is shabby chic vintage.

I layered my pumpkins with a gold base then patterned paper and then a vellum top layer. I love the layered look and I decided to machine stitch them together with gold thread.  Vellum is so hard to adhere with adhesive and I love the handmade look of the machine stitching. I also gold heat embossed the sentiment and machine stitched the vellum tag down as well.

For a sparkly finishing touch I added some pink jewels.

All products linked below.

Thanks for stopping by!

Enjoy some crafty time today, I already have!

💖Lisa 💖

Products Used:

Background Die : Kat Scrappiness Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Dies

Jewels : Kat Scrappiness Pink Jewels

Embossing Powder : WOW Gold Embossing Powder 

Stamp Set (sentiment) : Paper Sweeties Happy Fall Y'all

Pumpkin Dies : Gina Marie Patterned Pumpkin die set

Patterned Paper : Papertrey Ink Bitty Big Sweet Blush Paper

CAS(E) This Sketch 294 with Groot

I have not played along with CAS(E) this sketch in a while so I stopped in to take a look at this week's sketch and realized how much I missed it. I love the inspiration I get from a sketch, it's like taking the guesswork out of a card when your mojo is on vacation!

My daughter Taylor is a planner girl and she recently found this adorable clipart of 

Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy for her planner and 

I immediately thought how cute he would look on a card.

I knew he would be perfect to sit along side the sentiment of sketch #294!

Since Groot's signature tag line is "I am Groot" I thought it would be funny to 

make my sentiment "I am Cute" and let's face it he is CUTE!!!!

I used an older "Your Next Stamp" alphabet set to stamp the sentiment.

It was the perfect simple font for the card and I used Mowed Lawn 

distress ink since it matched the leaf theme.

My wood grain embossing folder was the perfect touch for the bottom panel of the 

card to go with the theme and give it some texture.

A few leaves growing out of Groot from an old Stampin' Up 

punch and my card was finished!

I really had fun making this card! Thanks for stopping by to take a peak!

Please consider leaving me a note if you stop by and give me your blog

name so I can visit you too!

Now go get crafty, I already did!

🌱Lisa 🌱

I Love You S LO W Much!

It's Tuesday so it's my day to share another project with you from the Kadoodle Bug Design Team!

Where are my sloth fans? Is there such a thing? 

🤷🏼‍♀️ 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🤷🏼‍♀️ 🤷🏼‍♀️

These cute little sloths seem to be everywhere these days and after making this card, 

I just might be a sloth fan too!

This adorable little sloth file from Kadoodle Bug Designs is available for only $1.00.

Click on this picture to see her and so many more adorable SVG and clipart files:

This card came together so quickly with the help of some of my 

FAVORITE Kat Scrappiness dies!

The BEST part is that you can save 10% on your order at Kat Scrappiness 

if you use my code Lisa10 at checkout!

You will find tons of crafty supplies for sale including stamps, ink and so much more!

For the border of my sloth panel I used the largest die from the Stitched Postage Stamp Rectangles and I inked the edges with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide Ink.  I wanted a little more color for the background so I cut another panel out of some Bitty Big Sweet Blush polka dot paper from Papertrey Ink. I used the Stitched Postage Stamp die again and then 

cut the panel  down with one of the dies from the Stitched Scalloped Border Dies.

I inked the edge of the polka dot paper with the same ink for consistency.

All that was left was the sentiment and after searching tons of sloth sentiments...

Yes that is a searchable thing 

🤣🤪😂😉

I settled on "I love you s-l-o-w much"

The "I Love You" and the word "much" are from an older Lil' Inker stamp set called Rainbow and Cloud Sentiments and I stamped the word "slow" with a Stampin' Up set called 

Rough Type just to make it look a little quirky!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, make sure to leave me a quick hello so I know you were here and so I can come visit your blog if you have one!

I hope you go get crafty and enjoy your day, I already am!

🌸Lisa 🌸

Paper Sweeties October 2018 New Product Release Rewind!

Thanks for joining me on day #3 of the October 2018 *NEW* product release for

Paper Sweeties!

Today is Release Rewind day and I will be sharing 2 cards with you

that combine some previous stamp sets with the 2 new ones!

The first card I'm sharing today is a circle easel card and it was so much fun to make!

It looks a lot harder to make than it actually is and if you search easel cards on YouTube you'll find multiple tutorials that show how to make them.

I used both of the new stamp sets on this first card

Happy Fall Y'all

and

I'm Nuts About You

Here is my first card:

I started by stamping the leaf image from Bee Happy all over the two scalloped circles to give the background some interest and the acorns from I'm Nuts About You were the

perfect size to hold up the easel part of the card.

My favorite part of the card has to be Miss Madison's cute acorn hat.

It just so happens that the top portion of the acorn from I'm Nuts About You

is the perfect size for a hat for Madison!

The beautiful sentiment is from Happy Fall Y'all and

Madison's outfit is from I'm So Proud Of You.

Madison also looks so cute with her little apple basket and cute little

pumpkin from Happy Fall Y'all!

The only thing left to do was add some beautiful Creamsicle Sequins to the card!

My second card for today features the power couple

Madison and Jake!

I spent the entire day knitting an Irish Fisherman Cable Knit sweater for Jake 

and a matching poncho for Madison!

Ok so maybe it was an embossing folder but still it was time consuming!

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

But seriously, how cute are those matching outfits!!!!!

Here is the card I put them on:

I stamped the sentiment from Happy Fall Y'all on to a die cut from the 

Oval Scallop Frames and inked the edges so it would stand out.

I wanted the couple to stand out from the wood background so I backed them with a piece of vellum that I die cut from the Rectangle Scallop Frames set.

The bow in Madison's hair is from the Happy Fall Y'all set as well and I placed a 

Gold Sequin on it and also one on the sentiment tag for a little something extra!

Thank you so much for joining me for the last day of the 

New Product Release over at Paper Sweeties!

I hope you'll hop on over to the rest of the New Release Team's blogs to see all of the 

creative inspiration they have for you!

NEW RELEASE TEAM

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jinny Newlin
Karen Letchworth

Larissa Heskett
Lisa Bzibziak
                       Lisa Golzbein (you are here)
Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Nancy Salkeld

All products used today are linked below.

Thanks for stopping by and please consider leaving me a comment so I know you were here!

Please leave me your blog link, if you have one, so I can visit you too!

Enjoy your day, I already am!

💗Lisa💗 

Happy Fall Y′all Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties	I′m Nuts About You Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties	I′m So Proud Of You Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties	Bee Happy Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties	Madison
Jake Stamp--Paper Sweeties	Oval Scallop Frames - Paper Sweeties	Sweet Cuts Rectangle Scallop Frames	Creamsicle Sequins--Paper Sweeties	Gold Sequins - Paper Sweeties

Paper Sweeties October 2018 New Product Release Party!

                                            

Welcome back to day #2 of the October 2018 New Product Release Party
with Paper Sweeties! Today is the day that you can get your
hands on all the crafty fun we sneak peeked yesterday!

This month there are 2 new Fall themed stamp sets available:

Happy Fall Y'all

AND

I'm Nuts About You

For my 2 cards today I used both stamp sets.  On the first card I used most of the sentiments from the I'm Nuts About You set with the pumpkins from Happy Fall Y'all.  The leaves under the pumpkin were taken from the Bee Happy stamp set.  To get the variegated look on the leaves I used distress inks on some watercolor paper and splattered some black paint on it to give it a more organic look.  After the paint dried I stamped the leaves and cut them out. I colored the pumpkins with Copic markers and popped them up on foam tape over the leaves.  

For some extra added sparkle I added some Gold Sequins around the pumpkins.

I love using sentiments as focal points on cards.

I went very clean and simple with my second card and used the 

little acorn from I'm Nuts About You.

I thought it would be interesting to color the acorns in some 

non traditional acorn colors and make a rainbow pattern with them.

I layered the main panel on some very colorful patterned paper for a 

pop of color in the background.

I also love the fun font of the sentiment.

Come back and visit tomorrow and you'll see another card I made using 

a more traditional color for those sweet acorns!

Thanks for coming by today and taking a look at my cards for the New Product Release, I hope you'll join me tomorrow for the New Product Release Rewind! 

Make sure you check out all of the other projects from the New Release team.

You can click on their blog links below:

NEW RELEASE TEAM

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jinny Newlin
Karen Letchworth

Larissa Heskett
Lisa Bzibziak
                       Lisa Golzbein (you are here)
Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Nancy Salkeld

Thanks for stopping by and please consider leaving me a comment so I know you were here!

Please leave me your blog link, if you have one, so I can visit you too!

Enjoy your day, I already am!

🎃Lisa 🎃 

Gold Sequins - Paper Sweeties

Bee Happy Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties

Paper Sweeties October 2018 New Product Sneak Peeks!

Welcome to my blog if this is your first time here,
if you've been here before welcome back!

This is my first blog post as a Design Team member for Paper Sweeties and

I'm so excited to share some Sneak Peeks with you!

It's day #1 of the October 2018 *NEW* product release.

There are 2 new stamp sets being released TOMORROW in the shop and they are
full of fun Fall images and sentiments!

I can't wait to show you the cards I've made for the Sneak Peek!

For the first card I used the new stamp set Happy Fall Y'all!

I decided to dress Miss Madison up in the new Fall outfit from the stamp set!
She looks like she's ready for apple bobbing and a visit to the
pumpkin patch in her pretty plaid shawl and matching bow!
This stamp set has the cutest little pumpkin and a sweet basket of apples.
I stamped the basket onto some patterned paper that looked like wood for a more realistic look.
I just love that sweet sentiment in that adorable Paper Sweeties font!
I finished off the card with a pretty little twine bow and some Creamsicle and Gold Sequins for some extra added sparkle. Oh and one more sequin for her hair bow!
Here is a sneak peek of the new stamp set Happy Fall Y'all that will
be available tomorrow to purchase!

For my second card today I used the pumpkin image from Happy Fall Y'all. 

I stamped the pumpkins in a random pattern on kraft card stock and then colored

them in with my Polychromos colored pencils. 

I love the smooth shading you can achieve with these pencils 

and how it looks on kraft colored card stock.

I also used 2 different sized hearts from other stamp 

sets to fill in the blank spaces around the pumpkins.

The larger heart is from the Planner Series: Coffee stamp set and the smaller heart

is from the Sent From My Heart stamp set. I colored in the hearts to match the pumpkins.

For some added interest I used the end of a paintbrush to add 

black and white dots to fill the empty spaces.

I added an orange card base and my card was complete.

I hope you enjoyed both cards for sneak peek day and I hope you'll join me again tomorrow for another sneaky peek at another fabulous stamp set being released!

It's called I'm Nuts About You and

I'll have 2 more cards to share with you using this stamp set!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, don't forget to check back tomorrow for Release Day!

Make sure you visit all of the other New Release Team members blogs to 

see what they have created for the sneak peaks!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jinny Newlin
Karen Letchworth

Larissa Heskett
Lisa Bzibziak
Lisa Golzbein (you are here)
Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Nancy Salkeld


Thanks for stopping by and please consider leaving me a comment so I know you were here!
Please leave me your blog link, if you have one, so I can visit you too!
Enjoy your day, I already am!
🍎Lisa 🍎

Madison Sweet Cuts - Paper Sweeties

Paper Sweeties-Sent From My Heart Stamp Set

Planner Series: Coffee Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties

Gold Sequins - Paper Sweeties

Creamsicle Sequins--Paper Sweeties

Puppy Love

For those of you who are new to my blog Welcome 

and for those of you returning, Welcome Back!

Today I had a chance to play with some of my favorite Paper Sweeties stamps and dies so I thought I'd start off  by making my own background for this adorable puppy card.

I started off with some Kraft colored card stock and I stamped the paw print and bone from the Sweeties Pets stamp set.  I stamped the paw print in brown ink and the bone in kraft ink and I colored them in with my Polychromos colored pencils.  I love how smooth that color goes on.  I also stamped the heart from the Planner Series: Coffee stamp set in brown ink and colored it in with the colored pencils as well.  For some added interest in the background I spotted it with brown and white dots with the point from a paintbrush.  

I love the random look it gives to backgrounds.

The sweet puppy is from the Sweeties Pets stamp set and I stamped him in brown ink and colored him in with my copic markers.  I used a die from the Sweet Cuts Oval Scallop Frames to cut him out and decided to make a little shaker window to go on top of him.  

I die cut a scalloped frame several times and adhered some acetate to the frames and 

added some seed beads in clear and red for some fun!

For the sentiment I decided to use the sweet sentiment from the Sent From My Heart stamp set and frame it with the Sweet Cuts Rectangle Scallop Frames. 

I cut out the frame several times and layered it on top 

of the sentiment to give it some dimension.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my sweet puppy card and I hope you'll give your stamp sets a second look and make your own background 

with some of the smaller stamps. It's a lot of fun!

I hope you'll stop by again for more inspiration, leave me a note to let me know you were here and leave your blog in the comments so I can come see your work!

Enjoy your day, I already am!

🐶Lisa 🐶

Give Thanks Card with Video

Welcome back to my blog. 

Today I'm up on the Kat Scrappiness blog and I have a 

Fall themed card to share with you.

I used one of my favorite techniques on this card and 

I filmed a video to show you the process.

I love to make watercolored backgrounds with Distress Inks and then die cut shapes out of it.  Once the background is colored the way I like it, I splatter some black paint onto it to give it an organic look. For this card I chose some pretty Kelly Purkey feather dies that I've had for a long time. I thought they would go nicely with the theme for this card. 

For this card I used the vase and pumpkin images from the new stamp set called "Happy Fall Y'all". 

I colored the vase with 4 colors of Distress Inks and then I cut the vase out with a die from the 

Stitched Scalloped Oval Dies. The vellum background behind the oval was die cut using the 

Stitched Scalloped Rectangle dies. I arranged the feathers behind the scalloped circle and added some yellow and orange jewels around the vase for some added interest.

Finally I stamped the sentiment on to some brown card stock in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with white powder.  I didn't like how the sentiment looked after I hand cut it so I used my 

Scan n Cut to cut the sentiment out.

Here is the video showing how I made this card or you can watch it on YouTube.

Thank you so much for joining me today!

Don't forget to check out our monthly challenge.  

There will be a different theme every month and a chance to win a $25.00 gift card to the store.

Also if you use my code Lisa10 at KatScrappiness.com you can save 10% on your purchase.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Enjoy your day, I already am!

⚱️Lisa⚱️

Products Used:

• Distress Inks
• Happy Fall Y'all
• Orange Jewels
• Stitched Scalloped Oval Dies
• Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Dies
• Versamark Ink
• Yellow Jewels

Happy Little Stampers ATC October Challenge

Hello everyone!

I am back again with the 

Happy Little Stampers ATC challenge.

Every month Happy Little Stampers has an 

ATC challenge and the theme for October is Holiday.  

For anyone who isn't familiar with ATC cards, they are mini

works of art that measure 2.5" x 3.5" and are traded around the world.

Usually they are numbered and signed on the back by the artist.

For my holiday ATC card this month I decided to made a mini Christmas card.

I mounted my chalkboard style sentiment onto a red and white 

polka dot glittered card stock background.

I also added some holly leaves with berries to the upper corner in some green and red glittered card stock.  It was a very glittery project and I might be cleaning up glitter for months.

😂😂😂

I hope you'll play along with us this month

 and enter the ATC challenge at 

Happy Little Stampers!

The winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop!

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS 

AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER,

YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Have a great day, I already am!

🎄Lisa🎄

Happy Meowloween

Happy Tuesday everyone! If this is your first visit to my blog Welcome, 

if it's not than Welcome Back!

Today I have some Meowloween fun for you with this adorable 

Cat Bat from Kadoodle Bug Designs!

The file is called PG Spooky Halloween Kitties.

I just couldn't resist those cute wings and her little horns!

I wanted a glittery background for her so I used black acrylic paint on a star patterned stencil and while it was still wet I sprinkled it with Tim Holtz Distress Stickles dry glitter.  

It's hard to see in the picture but the stars are twinkling!  

I also added wet Stickles to the cat's wings and horns.

I added some patterned paper from Papertrey Ink from an old Halloween themed paper pad and I cut it out using the largest die from the Kat Scrappiness Distressed Edge Rectangle dies. 

I just love the edge that die gives to all Halloween cards and 

here's a great little tip.... it also makes a great pirate map! 

☠️Ahoy maties☠️

Finally for the sentiment I cut it out using my Scan n Cut.  

I love how I can customize any sentiment I want in a few easy steps in any size and color.

And Meowloween is a real word.........right???

Well for today it is!

Thanks for stopping by today and please come visit again,  I do love the company!

Leave me a quick note to let me know you were here.  

I'd love to visit your blog as well if you have one!  Inspiration is everywhere!

Have a great day, I already am!

😸Lisa😸

Angies Digital Stamps October Challenge

Hello crafty friends and welcome back to another monthly challenge over at 

Angies Digital Stamps! This month the theme is Anything Goes with an optional Halloween twist.
The challenge will run from 10/7-10/26.

The image I chose for my card is a sweet Heart Cupcake.
I've used this image before but with a very different color scheme.
I thought it would look really cute in an orange and black theme all dressed up for Halloween.

I just love how this sweet cupcake looks as the focal point on this card.

The patterned paper framing the background of the card is from Papertrey Ink.

I love the orange and black combination on Halloween cards.

The "Happy Halloween" sentiment is from the Toil and Trouble stamp set at Kat Scrappiness.

Make sure to visit the other Design Team members blogs and see the 

beautiful projects they've created!

Please remember you have all month to play along.

See challenge blog for official rules and have fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Have a great day, I already am!

🎃Lisa🎃

Matchbook Pop-Up Gift Card Holders and a Video

Welcome back to my the blog!

I'm here with you today and I have a fun project to share!

Since the holidays are just around the corner and gift cards are
such a popular gift giving idea,

I thought I'd show you a cute way to package them.
I made a matchbook to put them in so that they pop-up when you open them!

I made 4 matchbook gift card holders and decorated them with various 

stamps and dies from the Kat Scrappiness shop.

Here is a look at all 4 of them:

And here is how they look when you open them and the gift card pops up:

Aren't they adorable!

The fun part is that there are so many ways to decorate them and they can be used for any holiday or occasion depending on the paper and embellishments you use.

I also filmed a video to show you how to make your own.

I used 5 different stamp sets on my matchbooks, 3 of which were just released at 

Kat Scrappiness along with many various dies also available in the shop.

In the video I'll show you all of the products used on each matchbook and
I'll go through a quick tutorial on how to make your own!
It's really simple and they come together very quickly once you've made one.
I'll have all of the measurements in the video that you will need.

Heres a link to the video on YouTube.

As always, thank you for joining me today! I hope you'll give one of these matchbooks a try. It will give your gift cards a facelift and you'll have fun making them!
All of the products I used in today's project are listed and linked below.
If you want to purchase any of these fun products at Kat Scrappiness, you can use
my code Lisa10 and save 10% on your order!

Have a wonderful day, I already am!
🛍Lisa🛍

Products Used on Matchbooks:  

• 1/4" Scor Tape
• Cheat Day
• Coffee Monster by Gerda Steiner
• Design a Gingerbread Man Die
• Happy Fall Y'all
• Layered Coffee Cup Die
• Let's Get Caffeinated
• Merry Christmas Brush Script Word Sentiment Die
• Merry Critters
• Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive
• Punny Snacks
• Stitched Scalloped Circles Dies
• Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Dies
• Warm Fuzzies by Gerda Steiner