May Arts/Authentique/Imagine Crafts Blog Hop

It's time for another fun May Arts blog hop!  This time we're combining our gorgeous ribbons with beautiful Authentique papers and Imagine Crafts inks and sprays.

Just because summer is over, there's no reason to put away your summer papers and bright ribbons. Here's a way to bring a little sunshine into your family's lives on those dreary winter days.

I have some old  (I mean, they were on the clearance aisle to start with and have been sitting in my office for about 3 years old!) Martha Stewart boxes that were craving a make over.  So, for my project, I pulled one of the boxes out of the dungeon and decided to give it a paper and ribbon face lift.

See what I mean...yes, it looked that bad!

Now, thanks to May Arts Ribbon, Authentique's pretty papers and Imagine Crafts Shimmer sprays, and a little adhesive;  I've created a"Happy Box" and cheerful tags to tuck into backpacks, lunch boxes and even your spouse's car to brighten their day.  Having a supply of tags handy makes writing a little note of encouragement to brighten their day stress free and fun.

Much improved...yes?  Loving those happy ribbons!

Even the inside got the ribbon and pretty paper treatment.  And those tags were so much fun to create!

The box can be refilled or re-purposed for as a treasure box or keepsake.  The supply list is at the bottom

Here's the line up for the week: be sure to check in to each Ribbonistas blog daily for your chance to win one of 3 awesome prize packs full of May Arts ribbony goodness, pretty Authentique papers and Imagine Crafts surprises.

Monday

Charlene Driggs (that's me!)

Emily Lanham

Gini Williams Cagle

Tuesday

Jen Shears

Jenifer Cowles

Wednesday

Jennifer Davey

Karen Baker

Karen Hanson

Thursday

Mallika Kejriwal

Mary Brockway

Friday

Rhea Weigand

Shellye McDaniel

Tracy McLennon

May Arts Ribbons used:

3/4" Chevron
5/8" Faux Canvas
1/2" Sheet Two Tone Stripes
3/8" Woven Check
1" Solid Reversible Dots
3/8" Double Faced Satin
3/4" Elastic Plaid Ruffle

Thanks for joining us and be sure to comment to win!

May Arts / Lawn Fawn Blog Hop

May Arts and Lawn Fawn are celebrating another week of fun inspiration and giveaways.

Summer's in full swing but it will be back to school time before we know it!

I started thinking ahead with a cute pencil box for those brand new pencils.  Going back to school is much more fun when the munchkins have fun things to take to school with them.

Isn't this fun?  I think I'm addicted to this May Arts Orange Wired Chevron.  I just love the bright color and how easy it is to work with.   I used a cut file from the Cutting Café (it comes in PDF form if you don't have an electronic cutter) for the box. 

After that, it was all fun with pretty papers from Lawn Fawn's Dewey Decimal Collection and Lucky Stars Stamp set.

 

The paper didn't have any stars on it, so I just grabbed my favorite Hero Arts Chalk Ink pads and added some using the star stamps in the Lucky Stars set.

 

 

To create my shooting stars, I stapled three pieces of May Arts Wired Chevron together, then wound them around a pencil.  I die cut some stars with Spellbinders dies then covered them with Stickles.  A bit hot glue holds them securely to the ribbon.

 

 

A strip of the May Arts Wired Chevron atttached with Scor-Tape adds bold color and texture to the box sides and top.

I hope you've enjoyed my project. 

Supplies:

May Arts Ribbon - Wired Chevron 443-58-28
Lawn Fawn - Dewey Decimal Paper Collection and Lucky Stars Stamps

Partners in Craft - Hero Arts Chalk Ink; Spellbinders Stars dies; Scor-Tape

Other - Cardstock - Papertrey Ink; Stampin'Up, The Cutting Café (pencil box cut file)

There will be 2 Giveaways for this hop...one between Monday and Friday and another between Friday - Monday.

Each giveaway will be for 3 spools of  May Arts ribbon (your choice) and a Lawn Fawn stamp and die set!!  Now that's worth hopping for!!

Be sure to hop each day to be eligible.   I have a full list below in case you missed someone along the way. 

Monday

VirginiaFynes

SandyAllnock

 
Tuesday

Lalo IK

Karen Baker
Christina Colon

 Wednesday

Jenifer Cowles

Jen Shears

Gini Williams Cagle

 Thursday

Erin Thiem

Emily Lanham

LeahFarrar-White

Friday

DeeDee Catron

Charlene Driggs  (That's Me!)

Clean & Simple Monday - Back to School!

It's back to school time...our grands still get a couple more weeks of free time.  They go back when we used to - after the Labor Day holiday.

Here in the sunny South though, most kids have already started or are starting school today.  The Clean & Simple DT over at SCS are celebrating with an inspiration challenge based on the word, "School" (CAS184). 

Here's my take on the challenge:

 Supplies:

Stamps - Papertrey Teacher's Apple

Ink - Amuse

Paper - PTI Kraft, Brown; Graphic 45 An ABC Primer

Other - May Arts Twine

Psst....did you know the SCS DT is looking for a few good CAS stampers for the new Fall DT?  Head over to see the details...hurry though...deadline is approaching!

It's Giveaway Day for The Cutting Cafe!

Today's the last day you can comment at the link to the right to have an oppportunity to win TWO awesome Cutting Cafe sets.  You may comment until 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time.  Be sure to click over to take part.

To keep you inspired, I created a card for a special teacher using two more new sets from The Cutting Cafe...

I used the awesome  All About School printable stamp set for the outside

 

           and for the inside, I used the adorable School Borders set.  

Don't those little school buses look sweet just chugging along the bottom of my card?

   

I used the Friday Sketchers 114 sketch and  the Back to School challenges -  on Stamp TV (stvinspirebt11) , Create with Connie and Mary (CCMC111)

I also want to say a very special THANK YOU to everyone who played in the Teapot Tuesday Destination Challenge to send cards to Andrew, it's not too late to play and not too late to send a card to this special little boy.  Just scroll down to the #1 post to read the details.

Be sure to stay tuned....I've got a blog-a-versary coming up next week and the big, huge present will go to one of my lucky followers/commenters!