Cigar Box 21 - Kiss a Frog

"You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your handsome prince" is a popular phrase related to the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale “The Frog Prince” used to encourage those who still seek true love.  

This past Christmas, a good friend gave me an adorable frog prince ornament that had a very special meaning - I had finally found my prince a few months earlier :)   

Sometime later, I ran across DCWV's "The Once Upon a Time Stack" at one of the local craft stores, and I spotted the frog prince page and coordinating pages.  Need I say more?

So.......

Once upon a time, Angie made a Kiss-a-Frog altered cigar box to match her Frog Prince Christmas ornament.  The Frog Prince is on the outside of the box, and the inside of the box says "Kiss a Frog" and "There lived a handsome Prince."  Angie and her Prince thereafter lived happily ever after.  The End. 

(That's my story and I'm sticking to it...)



Published in Just Cards! Christmas!

Christmas already????  Oh well.  Here are four (4) cards of mine that are published in the Christmas 2013 magazine.

Enjoy!

The card pictured below was made with two (2) empty

Diet Mountain Dew cans cut and run through the die cutter machine.

 

More Butterflies and Paint Chips

I seem to be on a butterfly kick at the moment.  They work so well with the paint chips :)

For this card, I went a little crazy and first punched 3 butterflies (Stampin' Up!) out of cork and adhered them flat.  Then, I punched 1 butterfly out of each color on the paint chip sample (this sample only had 3 colors), adhered with a glue dot in the center, added bling, then folded out the wings a little bit.

Sentiment is called Butterfly Greeting by DRS Designs.
Embossing Folder is called Lady Bug by Craft Concepts.

Paint Chips and Butterfly Punch

Inspired by Pinterest!

The original card that inspired me can be found on the following blog - along with a tutorial: Simply Creative.  However, the original was not made with paint chips....that was my idea :)  The embossing folder used is Flowering Spring by Nellie Snellen.

The possibilities and color combinations are almost endless!  You're on your way to Lowes or Home Depot, aren't you...ha!

A Little Bit of Thanks for a Whole Lot of Nice!

Just Cards!

Volume 29, Spring 2013
Page 105

The image used is Inkadinkadoo "Utopia" stamped in SU! Old Olive (not Old Navy...magazine typo);  the sentiment is from the SU! set "Quick and Cute" stamped in black; and the border punch is MS Edge Punch: Arch Lattice.

Giggles & Grins

Scrap & Stamp Arts
April 2013, Pages 27 and 29

SSA put out a call for funny card ideas for their Giggles & Grin feature.

This was right up my alley!

"100% Pure Bull" features stamps by Make An Impression and designer paper by Die Cuts With a View.

Money CAN Buy Happiness features image stamp by Inky Antics and sentiment stamp by DRS Designs and reads:

Money can't buy happiness - of course, it does buy rubber stamps, and rubber stamps make people happy, so money CAN buy happiness (if you do it right!)

So true...

My First Cover!

Just Cards 3D!, 2013, Volume 1
Cover and Pages 6, 31, 97, & 114

One of my cards made it onto the cover of a magazine!  Whoohooo! 

Just Cards 3D! showcases over 180 handmade 3D, interactive cards, and cards of differenc shapes. 

My tea cup card made it onto the cover and the "Everything Else" category.

My tri-shutter card made it into the "Expandables" category.

Enjoy!

Canvas Album Kit

One of my oldest and dearest friends (Kim of Cutters Creek) and I (we go back to kindergarten) recently took a class together at Photo Scraps.

We made a 10" x 10" Stretch Canvas Book (Family Album), which was from a Quick Quotes Premier Altered Kit.

We had a really good time.  I'm glad I took the class, because I'm not sure I would have figured it all out on my own :-o

Maybe someday I'll actually add photos...stop laughing...

CD Case Note Pads

 

I'm way behind on blog posts...trying to catch up a little :)

My crafting group of ladies got together a few weeks before Christmas and made a bunch of note pad holders using the Stampin' Up! empty cases (you can also use CD/DVD cases).  We also made matching ink pens (the ones where you can open them and insert matching designer paper into the shaft of the pen and screw it back together).

I made six - one for each of my coworkers; stuck a Target gift card in the inside pocket; then packaged them up with a White House ornament (I get them ornaments every year).
 

Then I put everything in these cute little Santa britches I found somewhere after Christmas last year for a bargain (been holding onto them all year).

Published Again!

 Magazine #5!  Yippee!  OK...this never gets old :)

I made this card over the summer.  It's a digital image from Paper Cupcakes.  I colored the image with Copic markers.

Still trying for the cover like my friend Mary or an inside spread like my friend Amanda :)

Enjoy!