Cupcake Inspirations Color Challenge

Hello there! Today is officially the last day of my summer, as I go back to work tomorrow! Of course I had to play in this week's summery color challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations. This adorable dino shows exactly how I'm feeling trying to enjoy my last moments of carefree frolicking. I did stray a little from the colors today and used more of a lavender color rather than eggplant... I'll blame that on summer since I recently went through quite a bit of my stash and was reminded of these fun frames which I had to use for my card today!

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My cute dino is from Meljen's Designs, our sponsor today. I did a paper piecing and coloring hybrid on him and popped him onto one of those fun frames from my hoard, er... stash. This card was super quick to make since I just slapped on some stitched grosgrain ribbon, some cute flowers, buttons, and the sentiment from SU!'s Best of Greetings, paired with a little curly bracket.

I hope you'll stop by Cupcake Inspirations today and check out the fabulous creations from the rest of the Sweeties. Then, be sure to make something fun using these colors (or something really close) from the yummy inspiration cupcakes. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Pals Paper Arts Sketch Challenge

Well, hello there! I'm here today with another lovely sketch challenge at Pals Paper Arts from our Resident Artist, Margaret Moody. I'm loving today's layout...

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Hexagons are everywhere, aren't they? I love how their bold geometric pattern somehow brings a delicate detail to everything. Today I've used the Hexagon punch on some Whisper White card stock stamped with the Dictionary image in Basic Gray. I laid out my pattern on some Crisp Cantaloupe - are you loving this color as much as I am? And added a bit of Coastal Cabana Ruffle Stretch Ribbon underneath. I'm dying to do something totally creative with this ribbon, but so far, it's just been my go to trim to add on the edge of stuff... Next, I added some Smoky Slate Chevron Ribbon and the sentiment from Lots of Thanks. A few butterflies punched from Crisp Cantaloupe and Coastal Cabana DSP and adorned with rhinestones finish things off.

I hope you'll stop by Pals Paper Arts for some more fabulous inspiration from our Resident Artists. Then pull our your crafty goods and create something inspired by Margaret's sketch and link up!

Crafts from the Past: Cork Strip

Several years ago, I saw the idea of gluing wine corks on a yardstick to make a clever vertical memo board to hang in a skinny space. We're not wine drinkers around here, so it's weird that I love all sorts of wine cork crafts, but I do. As soon as I saw it, I knew that I wanted it for the piece of wall next to our refrigerator. This project is a little difficult to do when you aren't a wine drinker. I know you can buy corks, but that seemed a little silly to me, so I asked a few friends and sweet Meredith from school came through with a bag of corks that she'd saved up. Hooray! 

I didn't have quite enough to fill up a yardstick, but no matter. I just wanted a small strip. I cut off the edge of one of those 12 x 12 mountable cork pieces and hot glued the corks right on! It was such a quick and easy project. It's so cute that I don't even want to put any messages on it and cover up those corks!

It's kind of a strange space to photograph... My apologies... So what kind of fun crafts have you made using corks? Are you a wine drinker? Or did you have to rally corks from friends?