Tape + Felt.

Two of my favorite things to make cards with are washi tape (aka Japanese masking tape) and felt.

They add so much texture to a card, don’t you think?

I especially love all the things you can do with tape: make borders, adhere messages, hey — even make some grass for a cute little felt worm to hang out in!

And! The tape is transparent, so you can see the layers beneath. And you can even sew on it.

What’s not to love?

Resources: The felt snail and worm are from Sassafras Lass. I’ve had them for a while now, not sure if they’re still available. The tapes are from my ever-growing collection. In the snail scene, I first inked a piece of ordinary white paper with Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters Distress Inks from Ranger using an foam ink applicator. Then I stamped it with the Hero Arts Friend Definition stamp, and finally punched out the grass with a Martha Stewart punch. The notecards are old ones from Hero Arts – I’ve been saving them for a special occasion and thought they went perfectly with the tape! Yay! Last but not least, the circles that I added to the photos are from Katrina’s Dot Your Dots Collection over at Pugly Pixel.

And yeah, I’m a little slow getting cards out sometimes. Too many things going on I guess. But hope a cute card with lotsa tape makes up for it! :)

Hope you have a great weekend,

Friday Fun and TWO giveaways!

Wow, has this week flown by! I had so much fun with the Lawn Fawn/Hero Arts blog switcheroo — wish it wasn’t ending. And! It was so great getting to know Kelly from Lawn Fawn better — it turns out we have soooo much in common! We really had a blast! So I wanted to make her a little card using some of the patterned paper that I’d been hoarding because I bet she’d love it — here it is!

As soon as I saw this set I thought it would be perfect for stamping the dress on felt! Wouldn’t it make a super fun winter dress? I can just imagine wearing it on a romantic date with J!

And! Today is Kelly’s birthday, yay!  I asked her to pick out some of her favorite Hero Arts stamps for a giveaway — and it turns out that they are some of my favorites too!  To enter the giveaway, just click on over to the Hero Arts blog and help me wish Kelly a happy birthday!

And that’s not all!  Kelly is giving away my favorite stamp Lawn Fawn set over on the Lawn Fawn blog — so be sure to click on over there, too!

Thanks again Kelly for a great week — you really and truly are “sew lovely”!  Hugs!

Here’s to friendships, and crafting and Friday’s!  Yay!

Happy happy,

Felt pumpkins!

I have been wanting to make a little patch of pumpkins out of felt forever, and yesterday I finally had the chance as part of the Hero Arts & Lawn Fawn blog switcheroo!!  Yay!

I put together a little video to show how I made them — check it out and let me know if you have any q’s!

And! Guess what?  You can win the sneak peek, not-yet-released stamp that I used on the pumpkins over on the Lawn Fawn Blog! Kelly is just so sweet and generous, isn’t she? I just love this set, it’s one of my new all-time favorites!

Then I had to take a few minutes to make a spooky card to go with the pumpkins!

It has been raining like crazy here from tropical storm Hermine — I don’t think it stopped all day yesterday, and it’s still raining this morning!  So I had to break out the lights to take these photos.  Then it hit me — why not make it look spooky?

Wha ha ha!

Stay dry and make pumpkins,