Torendi design team competition. **Vote for me!!** :)

Hello! I have something exciting going on today! Torendi, the new fabulous and cool crafty store, is having a design team competition, American Idol style. That means voting, and that means I need to ask you for votes! The poll is on the upper right hand corner of the Torendi blog. I would love your vote. It would mean the world to me! There will be 3 weeks of competition where people are eliminated each week. Please keep me from getting kicked off the proverbial island! I would love to hang on this island for quite a while! 😉

This is the card I made for the first week of competition. It is full of goodies from the Torendi store, including their first kit, “Taste of Torendi“.
I used my Quickutz cork for the first time. I love this stuff. It is seriously cool! The card base is this rad textured American Crafts card stock, and the patterned paper is the ultra cool The Boyfriend from Cosmo Cricket. I have been hoarding it until now. It is all just too cute! The inside of the “polaroids” is also The Boyfriend.
I cut out the push pins with the Silhouette and colored them with my beloved distress inks and a sharpee. The polaroid frames are distress inked also to get that “polaroid” look. The Thickers are also from Taste of Torendi. I just love them! They are so fun!

I hope this card made you smile! Paper airplanes +polaroids + push pins = smilies, in my world! Please take a second to vote over at Torendi and also to check out the awesome stuff they have over there! Thank you so much!!

Card stock: American Crafts (earth tones) – Taste of Torendi Kit, Neenah Paper Classic Crest (solar white)
Patterned paper: Comso Cricket (the boyfriend mini deck) – sold at Torendi
Cork: Quickutz 4×12 adhesive sheets
Stickers: American Crafts Thickers (chit chat, tangerine) – Taste of Torendi Kit
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink (fired brick, broken china, shabby shutters, milled lavendar, pine needles)
Marker: Sharpee (metallic silver)
Dies: Quickutz (instant photo 2×2), Silhouette Digital Design (push pin)
Tools: Cuttlebug, Ranger inking tool and foam, Quickutz Silhouette
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Have an amazing day,

Whoo loves you? I do!!

Whoo loves you, rub-ons? I do! I’ve gone a little rub on crazy now. Still in the over rubbing paranoia stage of rub-ons, but they are so fun!
Hot pink wood grain? Yes, please! Also, American Crafts makes ribbon that feels like a shoelace. Very cool. Is it weird that I thought about putting it through my Chucks instead of putting it on this card? 😉
There are rub-ons hidden on the inside! Wooo! Okay, I am definitely in a punchy mood tonight. I’m getting all wacky over here. It’s time to watch watch House with the hubs. My goodness, I love that show! Then it’s time for some How I Met Your Mother. I need my Doogie fix for the week!

Card stock: Papertrey Ink (raspberry fizz, lemon tart)
Stamps: Hero Arts (designer wood grain)

Ink: Versamark

Embossing powder: Ranger (clear)
Ribbon: American Crafts (Cloud Nine Blue Skies Ribbon Assortment Box)
Rub-Ons: American Crafts (Skip Blue Skies Minimarks, Alex Black Minimarks)
Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities (scallop ovals)
Tools: Cuttlebug

Thank you so much for visiting!
Have an amazing day,

I don’t have to faux anymore (but I still will)

“I can sew! I can sew! I can sew! I can sew! I can sew!” *sung to the theme of “You Can Fly” from Peter Pan**
Sewing is so fun! Watching the paper run through, that wonderful sound, the pretty stitches … The only part I don’t love – the bobbin running out! I guess, I am learning my lessons as I go. I won’t say that I didn’t have some choice words for that bobbin at the time, though ;).
I made this flower by cutting four messy circles. Then I put slits in them and hooked them all together. Then I messy sewed them together, allowing the pieces to overlap as I went. I have to admit that I had a hard time attaching this flower to the card has I wanted to put it in my hair instead! I also cut out leaf shapes and sewed down the length of them to give them the “leaf crease”.
I used some beloved Blue Skies paper and AC Thickers. I love that I can break out the Spanish with my Thickers. I made this card thinking of my abuela, Bila. She was an amazing seamstress, and I know she would have loved to have seen me sew for the first time.

I hope you all had wonderful weekends! I feel so crafty-blessed this past week. I was featured the Paper Crafts Connection September Gallery challenge, the CARDS magazine blog banner challenge, the Get Sketchy challenge, The Color Throwdown Challenge, and the Embellish Magazine color and polka dot challenge. What a week! I still can’t believe it. I feel a little weird posting all of that, as I would never want to be boastful, but I really wanted to thank these wonderful blogs for having these fun challenges! So thank you to all of you that host these wonderful challenges! I know that all of us out here in blog land love participating in them!

Paper: Papertrey Ink (hibiscus burst), American Crafts (blue skies- don’t worry be happy)
Etc: American Crafts Thickers (daydream foam chestnut), Papertrey Ink button (new leaf), DMC embroidery floss, Janome sew mini, Joann Fabric Quarters (green assorted, yellow assorted)
Thank you so much for visiting!
Have an amazing day,