Operation Smile Blog Hop

Welcome to the Operation Smile Blog Hop! 

We are featuring the current Operation Smile stamp set for this blog hop. It is such an awesome stamp set with four sentiments that can be used for so many occasions plus medium and small size floral and leaf clusters. It is one of my favourite stamp sets.

You should have arrived here from Gina Brandstetter's blog.

If you get lost, there is a list of all participants on Melinda Everitt's blog. 

I have done a lot of fussy cutting with this stamp set and I really didn't want to do that again. I chose to use the Multi-Square Window Thin Cut and create a partial shaker card using some of the images. 

I stamped three of the images using Intense Black and then coloured them. The sentiment was masked so I could stamp it in two colours. Some of the papers from the Jingle Joy paper pack are useable for any occasion and I chose two of those patterns (checkerboard and hearts) for the backings of the shaker sections. The stamped sections are raised but there is no acetate in front of them. I added a few Gold Glitter Gems to the centres of the flowers and brushed some of the lines with the Gold Shimmer Brush. In the shaker sections, I added some Gold Confetti Stars. The window front was mounted on Lagoon cardstock and then on Black cardstock to complete the card. 

I also created this card a few months ago using this stamp set and distress oxide inks... just added here for interest (supplies not listed).

I hope you enjoyed my projects. 

Your next stop is Darlys Recker's blog. I'm sure she will have something terrific to share. 

Products used are Close To My Heart unless otherwise indicated: 

Paper: Jingle Joy Paper Pack, White Daisy Cardstock, Mint Cardstock, Lagoon Cardstock, Black Cardstock, Neenah Solar White Cardstock

Stamps: Every Bit of Wonderful 

Inks: Intense Black, Lagoon, Black 

Accessories: Multi-Square Window Thin Cut, Foam Tape, Gold Confetti Stars, Acetate (not CTMH), Gold Glitter Gems, Gold Shimmer Brush, Tri-Blend Markers

Enjoy,

Alyson

Share a Smile Blog Hop

Welcome to the Share a Smile Blog Hop! The Share a Smile campaign is so awesome - not only does it benefit Operation Smile, which is an amazing charity in itself, but the products that are available are just so adorable that I don't know how anyone could possibly NOT want them! The Punny Pals stamp set has the sweetest animals and sentiments to go with them and the fact that you can get thin cuts for each of the animals now so you don't have to fussy cut them... well, it just doesn't get any better than that! 

You should have arrived here from Haley Dyer's blog. 

If you get lost, there is a list of all participants on Melinda Everitt's blog.

I couldn't decide which of the Punny Pals I liked the best - the koala with KOALA-ty issues was right up there, along with the toad and his TOAD-ally awesomeness. However, the pig finally won out for me this time. I wanted a female pig for a friend, so I chose a pink and grey colour scheme for my card with lots of layers. 

I hope you enjoyed my project. I wish I had time to create more... there is still more time in October, though! 

The next stop on this blog hop is Michele Rowley's blog.

I'm sure she has something wonderful to share with you. 

Products used are all Close To My Heart

Paper: Basic Fundamentals, White Daisy Cardstock, Heather Cardstock, Bashful Cardstock, Raspberry Cardstock, Bashful Glitter Paper

Stamps: Punny Pals

Inks: Tuxedo Black Memento Ink

Accessories: Art Philosophy Cartridge (ret.), Punny Pals Thin Cuts, Scallop Borders Thin Cuts, Rose Embossing Folder, ShinHan Markers, Bashful Pearls, Thin Foam Tape

Enjoy,

Alyson

Auction Item for Thrive and Survive Event

As some of you may know, my awesome upline, Brae Montgomery and her team won one of the Thrive and Survive events from Close To My Heart! That means that a member from the corporate staff (Kristine) will be coming to Barrie in September to work with us and teach us business AND creative classes! How AWESOME is that. Plus, Brae has gone one step further and has planned a FULL WEEKEND CROP as well, so the entire event runs from Friday evening through Sunday evening :) There are consultants attending from as far away as St. John's, Newfoundland. What a wonderful opportunity for each of us! We will meet consultants from across the country and get to mix and mingle with people we have only contacted through Facebook and email before! 

An auction is being held for Operation Smile and I have decided to create two items for that auction. Below is the first of the two items. It is a frame with 12   3x3 cards attached. I was at a loss as to what kind of title to use so I decided to go with a generic title of FAMILY, figuring that anyone could use that title because once the cards were removed, they could add their own photos and memorabilia to the frame. The small box contains an additional 12 cards - one extra of each of the cards shown on the frame - plus the 24 envelopes.

This photo shows all the cards open and the box in front of the frame. 

I hope this will fetch a pretty penny for all bids go to support Operation Smile. 

I have not listed the products used because I used several stamp sets and I didn't keep track of all of them... It is the Seaside Paper Pack and co-ordinating cardstock and well as the Paper Fundamentals Cardstock in the same colours. 

Enjoy, 
Alyson