Bee HappiLeaCraftin with Tamara

I want to apologize to anyone who is following my blog.... I can't believe I have been so slack this year! I haven't posted since December! Here are the cards that we have done in the group up to April. I have to admit again though just how much I love Pinterest as a lot of my cards are CASed from there. Everyone has such great imaginations and I just can't get mine to work most of the time!   These were the 2 we did for April. Again, simple but very pretty!  These 2 were the ones we did in February. I cased them from Pinterest  Everyone in my little group got the Watercolor Winter Kit at the end of the year in 2014 and that is what we started the year this year with. A good start to the cards for 2015 with the kit having 20 cards alone. Everyone should have lots by the end of the year ;)  These ones were the ones for March. We went fairly simple this month :)

It seems I have fallen a little behind in posting thing on my blog.  There hasn't been too many things but I like to try and keep up to date with my blog! Here are the cards we did in my Card Club for May! I have to admit that this card it a CASE but I just love it. I found it on Pinterest of coarse and used slightly different stamps as I didn't have the ones she used but the colors and layout are totally CASEd. I love the Triple Layer Card and had done one a while back but decided to do one again for Card Club. I really love how easy it is to do but how difficult it looks, my ladies were a little worried that they were going to have to try and match it up, lol   ☺Happy Stamping☺

It's been a while since I've had a chance to post anything so I will take this time to do just that! Here are the 2 cards we did for April's card club, really quite simple. This one was called a "Z" fold where I found it but its rather simple. Cut a 81/2 sheet of CS in half on the short side so it measures 4 1/4 x 8 1/2 then score at 2 3/4 & 5 1/2, and decorate! For the Punch Art Snowman..... For his body I used the circle framelits and for his top hat I used the vest from the owl punch and the word window. I also use the word window for his scarf but did another card and used ribbon and liked it much better. ☺ Happy Crafting ☺

I loved this idea as soon as I saw it! There is no way they would guess it is a gift card inside! This was the perfect thing to do for my friends son, we are exchanging gifts and I wanted his to be harder to guess at.   These are really easy to make and the Gift Card Box Tutorial can be found on SplitCoastStamper in the Tutorial Forum of the website.   This is the box closed. I put the ribbon around it to act as a belly band to help keep it closed and to have somewhere to secure the tag to.    Here is the inside view of the box. I used Icy Squares because it was easier for the box to close than to use anything else.  I used DSP for the inside piece but still wanted to add a little something so the little Merry Christmas was perfect. The inspiration for the tag came from a group of tags I found on Pinterest. I really liked the simplicity of them and choose one for this project.   Enjoy making this amazing project and fo...

Today was a very productive day! I called it my "case day" as there were so many beautiful cards I've seen over the last few months. I managed to do 4 of the cards I had found on Pinterest to do. You can find the cards I did on my bored Christmas Cards.   This was the first card of the day and I chose to do it because I wanted to try this "Tea Bag Folding" . This fold was fairly easy compared to some of what I had seen. You can see the original card  that I cased on pinterest pinned to my board Christmas Cards.      Here is Case Day's 2nd card, changing it from just red to red & green. Check out the original card . Case Day's 3rd card, the original card  can again be seen on my board on Pinterest     Case Day's 4th and final card for the day. I am really loving these cards and will definitely be doing more. See the  original card  and decide which card you will case ;) 

I had seen this original card on pinterest and loved it right away! I thought it would be the perfect card to give a friend for her Birthday, her favorite color is yellow and she loves snow flakes. It's perfect!! I pretty much did the same thing as the original card but used different DSP & Ribbon. I just love how this card looks! It is retired Summer Sun CS & Ink along with the DSP (that I can't remember the name of at the moment), the other 2 snowflakes are stamped in Pumpkin Pie & Rich Razzleberry. 

In my last post, Fancy Fold Card, I wasn't completely satisfied with the outcome of the card. I liked the inside but was unsure about the front, so I tried again. I used the same template as the first card but this time I just used DSP instead of Whisper White, then placing the DSP around it. It was much easier and faster but I think I like the first inside better. However I like the front of this card much better. I still used Mojo Monday sketch 319 but placed things before I started gluing and did a little more planning ;)   As you can see, I went all the way around and sponged everything, doing all the fold lines as well. That definitely added a little something.   I most certainly love the way the inside folds and I will get it mastered one of these days! 

I'm not sure what to call this card as the one I found wasn't in English! I was surfing on Pinterest one day and found an amazing card!! Of coarse I re-pinned it for later cause I had to give it a try myself. The only problem is, its in another language and the measurements are in cm instead of inches. I really wanted to try the card so I printed out her template and tried to convert cm to inches. I made a card with my dimensions and I am fairly pleased with it.   I tried to go fairly simple on the front as the inside is a little bulky. I used a Mojo Monday sketch for the inspiration on for front of the card.  Sketch 319     For the inside I pretty much used her layout but just used different paper.  I am in the Holiday spirit so really wanted it to be a Christmas card.  I haven't used the specialty paper in the Winter Frost Specialty DSP yet so thought it would work perfectly.   She had a template designed, but of coa...

     I am always unsure of what to give as a door prize as most of my ladies are just starting out. I also am just starting out as a demo so am always open to suggestions. I was talking with my upline (my Mom) and asked what I could give them cause they are new and don't have a lot of stuff yet, what kinds of things could I get for them. She told me not to buy stuff, make it! What a novel idea!!!      Between StampinConnection and Pinterest, I made this set. The instructions for the box was a video and a couple of the cards I found on Pinterest. I will try and get a link to the tags at least but not sure how to do the video. Here is the link for 2 of the tags on Pinterest   http://www.pinterest.com/pin/544372673678580410/   Here is the card closed with the belly band and the matching envelope if you choose to give it out as the money card or gift card holder.   Here is a view of the box card ope...

 I have to admit I struggled a little with this one. I thought I knew what I wanted to do but I was wrong.... Well half wrong ;)  I knew I wanted to do today's Mojo Monday Sketch #315, but I couldn't decide what stamp set I wanted to use. I played with 3 different set before I was happy with this one! I am really pleased with how this one turned out so I'm glad I didn't settle for one of the other ones I had played with   This is the second card I am doing with my Card Club. The first one is going to take us some time, which is good seeing as they few threw both cards last month is just over an hour. That was including a shot break for a snack. So the second one I decided to do somewhat simpler.         Card Instructions:      Seeing as I can't seem to figure out how upload my instructions on here, I will just have to settle for doing it this way for now.   The card base is cut out of Cherry Cobb...

Wishing Everyone a Happy Thanksgiving Long Weekend!!!   I was able to spend most of today in my craftroom getting ready for my "Christmas All Year" Card Club. I am really pleased with how the first card turned out. If I can be so lucky as to have the second card turn out half as well as the first, I'll be happy :)     It's not a hard card at all but I am working on some instructions, at least for all the dimensions. Want to make this card in the comfort of your own Craftroom? You can!! Just CLICK HERE for your very own tutorial :)

Mojo Monday Sketch - 301      Here is one of the 2 cards I am planning on doing for my second Card Club Meeting. I really quite enjoy doing Christmas cards and I have no trouble doing Christmas themed things all year long.  Hopefully I can turn this into something a little more long term.   Here's the Sketch I used for this card     

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge - 309 Wow! Hard to believe summer is just about over! My daughter is heading back to school and is extremely excited about it. I think she is the only teenager I know that get excited about going back to school. She has had her backpack packed up for over a week, and has it sitting by the door. She is excited about School and I am excited about Christmas being just around the corner. Only 112 days till Christmas!! Christmas is my most favorite time of year, not entirely sure why but it is. It could have something to do with my daughter's birthday being the day after Christmas, best present I ever got :D  I never seem to have any trouble making Christmas cards. I make them all year and have never made the same card a second time.  Here is the second card for Septembers card club! Here is the Sketch from Mojo Monday     

Recycle & Organize!      This is a great idea to recycle and organize all at the same time!! Take 3 different sized soup cans and just use your favorite DSP and whatever embellishments you want, and BOOM.... Your new desk organizer! I used retired Stampin' Up DSP & On Board embellishments but the new DSP is beautiful and there are some really nice embellishments and ribbons to choose from. To put the cans together after they were decorated, I just positioned them where I wanted them and used Hot Glue to adhere them together. Go to "shop now" and see it all :)

August's Card Club Cards These are the 2 cards we did at my first Card Club Meeting. I had 9 people come and that was very exciting for me. Next month is bring a friend so hopefully everyone will bring someone.   Envelope Gift Card Holder   Any of the current products used can be purchased on my Website happileastamppin.stampinup.net   Ingredients for the Penguin Gift Card Holder:   I apologize, but this card is pretty much all retired products, including the DSP which I can't remember the name of, but can easily be changed to current DSP.      Stamp Sets :  No Peeking & Jolly Old Saint Nick      Card Stock: Crumb Cake Envelope, Real Red, Chocolate Chip & Very Vanilla for Stamping & Crumb Cake for the band      Ink: Real Red, Chocolate Chip & makers for coloring the penguins      Punches: Decorative Label, Modern Label, ...