New Sprays

Hello everyone!! Its almost Halloween and I fall is finally in the air. The past couple of days have been wonderful weather. I have felt very motivated to craft this week and use some new goodies I got. I bought a couple new Heidi Swapp sprays and they are beautiful!! 

So I made three different cards using the sprays.

This card I used the white spray. You cant really see it in the first picture but you can see it better on the second one. The spray adds a beautiful sparkle to your cards.

On this card I used the coral along with peach and mustard.

Last but not least on this card I used the citron.

All the colors are wonderful and I have had fun playing with them. If you havent got your new colors stop by COOL SCRAPBOOK STUFF in Poway and pick it up while there still in stock! Have a great Halloween.

~Tori

Sweet Cards

Hello Friends! Where did September go!! I cant believe it is already October, the year is flying by. Well I am very excited to be guest designing for Sweet Stamp Shop today. I love the stamps and always have lots of fun making cards with them. If you love to stamp you will be salivating over all the different stamp sets they have. I used two different stamp sets for my projects and both of them are beautiful! I hope you enjoy my crafting creations.

                    

For the sweet jars I decided to use a SRM glassine bag and color with my distress inks, which I wouldn't recommend. I would use an alcohol ink so it stays on your bag unlike the distress ink will eventually rub off.

                

I Like using stamps in a way you wouldn't normally expect. I wanted to use the building as a background stamp instead of using it just as a building. I think using a stamp in different ways makes it more versatile. I do like the stamp as a building but i wanted to do something different. I used Hero Arts Shadow Inks and I am in love with them. They are such beautiful colors and blend well together.

               

I thought I would share some bonus cards with everyone!

I hope you had fun looking at my projects and feel inspired to go make your own wonderful cards. If you haven't checked out Sweet Stamp Shop you should stop by and see all the fun stuff they have. You can also go to their blog for more fantastic ideas plus tips and tricks. Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Happy Crafting

Tori

Back to school

Hello friends! Its been awhile since I last posted anything fun for you. I haven't been feeling very crafty so I decided to do a challenge to help get the juices flowing. I am playing along with Curtain Call this week and I had a lot of fun with this challenge and you can also play along here.

I had a fun time making this card and it was nice to finally get to use all the product I have recently bought.

So here is my card...

The apple paper I used is called "Autumn" by Authentique and it is the new fall line they have out.

The ruler, sequins, and gold borders are all Teresa Collins.

The stamp is Sweet Stamp Shop and the set is called "Chalkboard Sign."

I hope you enjoyed my card!

Happy crafting

~Tori

Use What You Have Challenge #12

Hello friends! I hope all are well and creating wonderful things. I am still out of town and decided to join Sweet Stamp Shop in one of their "Use What You Have" challenges. The challenge is pretty self explanatory, you use the crafting supplies you have. Since I am out of town i only brought some of my crafting supplies literally making me use what I have for this challenge. I decided to use my Hero Arts neon inks for this challenge.

So here is my stash I brought with me. Its pretty sad that this is only part of the crafting stuff I own. It seems like there is a lot of stuff there. 

I love the neon colors of the Hero Arts ink pads. 

I would have loved to use some of my SSS stamps but being out of town I have to use what I have :)

I hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week.

Happy Crafting!

~Tori

Summertime!

I love the summer (except how bloody hot it is) so in honor of summertime i made a mini album. I will be teaching this album as a class sometime in the near future. I used a paper line called The Pier by Crate Paper. This paper line is beautiful and certainly reminds me of lazy days at the beach. Hope you enjoy!

Happy Crafting

~Tori

My baby turned 1!!!

So sorry I havent posted in a really really long time. I am out of town and have been busy but I have a few new post coming out soon so stay tuned. My little Ava turned one on the 14th! I can hardly belive it, i feel like she was just born. Anyway i thought I would share with you pictures from her birthday.

 We went to the zoo and had a very fun day.

I will do a different post with better pictures of the birthday banner I made.

 Yes I made the cake hahaha and it was extremely hard to write with frosting.

 Isnt she so cute!

 Ava with all her birthday gifts.

Have a great day!

~Tori

Lace by the Yard

Hey everyone, I hope all is well. Sorry its been a while since my last post but I have been busy. I made a beautiful lace skirt that I wanted to share with you. I was planning on doing a tutorial on the skirt but it turned out to be more complicated then i had originally planned. I hope you love the skirt as much as I do. Sorry about the pictures they are not my best work. I found this beautiful lace at Joann's and knew it would make a lovely skirt.

If you are interested in making a skirt like this I used a bottomweight fabric with a little bit of a stretch. I wanted to use something stretchy but also with a nice weight to it. I used an elastic waistband and then just layered the lace down the skirt. Once i figured out what I was doing then the skirt wasn't difficult just tedious with all the layering. 

XOXO

Tori