Friday, October 9, 2009

$ saving tips and tricks......

Keep paper scraps organized so you can find what you need quickly and easily. Whenever I start on a project I immediately go to my scrap pile. I can honestly say that I have made about 200 cards and I have never used a brand new sheet of paper for them. They all came from my scraps! Except the card itself---but I just get those at Walmart.

I bought this inexpensive storage bin at walmart and I got the cropper hopper storage folders to go in it. I have a seperate folder for each color and try to keep my scraps at a minimum by just storing those that are 3x3 or bigger. I honestly spent about 1/2 hour organizing my scraps and after each project I spend about 2 minutes seperating them and putting them away so I'm always current and it's always organized.


Here's a scrap card!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Laugh out loud card!

Here's my first tip for blogtoberfest! Use liquid glass to make your embelishs stand out and to give dimension. I have used liquid glass in the center of the flower and on the dots.


Supplies all Close to my Heart:
White daisy cardstock
Emporium paper packet level 2
Dream big stamp set
Twilight marker
Cranberry and chocolate ink pad
Foam squares
To find out were you can purchase liquid glass visit my website at http://bvargas.myctmh.com/.

BLOGTOBERFEST!

One of my fellow (Teresa Black) Close to My Heart consultants came up with such an awesome idea. For the whole month of October some other CTMH consultants and I will be posting tutorials, tips, tricks on anything dealing with papercrafting, scrapbooking, card making, you name it! It will be different each day.





Heres the list of partcipants so far, I will do my best to update them daily. These ladies do awesome work.

http://www.fabulouslyartsy.blogspot.com/



http://www.godblessyourart.blogspot.com/



http://kristaritskes-simplycreating.blogspot.com/



http://scrapsfromthebeach.blogspot.com/



http://www.leapinforstamps.blogspot.com/



http://little-scrapper.blogspot.com/



http://www.blessedscrapper.com/



http://caretoscrap.blogspot.com/



http://ori-jen-alchaos.blogspot.com/

In order to celebrate Blogtoberfest I will be having blog giveaways so make sure you check in regularly. I will be giving away

-several Close to My Heart Stamp sets

-an Everday Celebrations Kit (everything you need in order to do 16 beautiful cards)

-an embelishment kit that includes: ribbon, sparkles, rub ons and much more

Happy creating and hope to see you soon! I promise I will post very soon!



Thursday, October 1, 2009

Great giveaway!!

Cutting about is giving aways a Gypsy! Make sure to check it out for your chance at a new gypsy.

http://cuttingabove.blogspot.com/2009/09/cutting-above-gypsy-giveaway.html