I’m featured in the first edition of bizzyhands online magazine!

About a month ago, a fellow Etsian FaerieMajikk let us know in the forums she was starting an online magazine and was looking for Etsy artists to feature in the first edition.  We were asked to submit our work, and if we had anything inspired by hearts and flowers. I was thrilled when I got notice yesterday that my Valentine Paper Fortune cookies were selected for the first issue! There are a number of Etsians featured, and a few articles and lots of eye candy! You can download a flippable version of the catalogue or see it in pdf form here at http://bizzyhands.faeriemajikk.com/ Enjoy! Happy Saturday! Ciao for now, Technorati Tags: Etsy,Bizzy Hands online magazine,online magazine,FaerieMajikk,A Paper Buffet,paper fortune cookies...

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Love is in the air and a Caption Challenge

This stamp from The Artful Stamper is just an image; when I saw it, I came up with my own caption and had it turned into a simple text stamp. “Love is in the air”…it still makes me giggle   The card base is SU Chocolate Chip and I used Real Red as the mat and the ticket punch for the edges. The word window punch was used for the sentiment.   Each boxer short was stamped twice and popped up on dimensionals, I really love this effect and it works really well with this card.   The inside was kept simple, with the sentiment and a punched heart in Real Red.       Here’s my challenge: How many...

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Loving the Like-O-Meter

As soon as I saw this stamp in the new SU catalogue, I knew immediately what I wanted to do. The Like-O-Meter makes the perfect slider card! I used my craft knife to cut out the thermometer part and used my small circle punch and a pop dot to create the slider. I used the smallest arrow punch from the SU arrow punch and glued it to the circle slider.     I like you a lot, but not like a stalker. By far my favourite saying.           But I’m also partial to “you don’t annoy me”             Card base is SU Kraft paper, with Real Red matting and DP is...

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It’s hip to be square!

I’ve been really drawn to square cards lately.  Sometimes it suits the layout much better. I got my SU order from Sale-A-Bration last week, and had a lot of fun getting them inky right away.  Can I say a big “THANK YOU” to SU for finally making stamps we can put on Acrylic blocks! I think I will eventually switch everything over because I cannot put the rubber on a the wooden block straight to save my life. Seriously.  If anyone but me uses my stamps, everything is crooked. I love the “I {heart} hearts” set and made quite a few cards. It had been a while since I used the glue pad/glitter combo, so I thought I’d give it a whirl....

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Big Birthday Weekend!

This weekend was busy with milestone birthday celebrations; my friend M celebrated the big 3-0 and my Godson Ethan celebrated his first birthday! Coincidentally, both M’s and Ethan’s actual birthday is tomorrow. Here’s the card I made for M, using my new SU Whimsical Words stamp I got from the Sale-A-Bration sale going on right now; I really love this set! I used the same layout that I did last week, with more of the Me and My Big Ideas paper.  I made this card a standard A2 size and used Real Red as the background matting and scalloped circle.           I heat embossed the sentiment and used some glue-on...

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The Canadian government will match Canadian donations for relief in Haiti

Only 2nd to Afghanistan, Haiti receives the highest amount of Canadian support/funding/ resources than any other country. The Canadian Government announced today they will match dollar for dollar, up to $50 million dollars, what Canadian residents donate to accepted charities, such as the Red Cross. You can read more about this in this article from The Toronto Star. Our C-17 DART (Disaster Assistance Response Team) has just landed in Haiti and our government will be providing $5 million dollars in humanitarian assistance. My friend Eunice is attending medical school in the Dominican Republic.  She messaged me today to say that she is ok, but was very scared when they were on Tsunami watch for 5 hours after the quake. If you can donate, please do!! Click on the link to the RED CROSS...

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She loves me- a Valentine for your guy

I have had this idea in my head since the Christmas holidays, and it took a quite few tries to get it just right. We’re all familiar with the game “he loves me, he loves me not”; hoping and wishing the last petal will be “he loves me”. I wanted to create a masculine Valentine’s card with this theme, nothing too glittery, no bows, no bling. (It was hard!!)   I used the Fifth Ave set from SU and used my MS markers to ink up only one petal on the daisy stamp.  Then I heat embossed the centre with gold embossing powder, and stamped the stem.           Here’s a close up and you can click on the...

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My lip balm Tutorial is on Totally Tutorials!

Here’s another great chance to learn how to make your own beeswax lip balm! Click HERE to visit Totally Tutorials (I love this site) and click HERE to go to my tutorial for the lip balm. I’ll be back later today with a great masculine Valentine’s card :) Ciao for now, Technorati Tags: TotallyTutorials,tutorials,lip balm,beeswax,beeswax lip balm,organic lip balm,A Paper Buffet...

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A Paper Cookie and an Etsy top 10!

First, I have to toot my own horn and shout: “I made the Etsy top 10 List this week!!” This top ten list is chosen by Timothy Adam of  Timothy Adams Designs; an awesome Etsy seller who does so much for the Etsy community.  It is truly an honour to be recognized and have someone who people really look up to say “hey, I like this, check it out”. So what did he pick?: None other than the Latte Love gift set! Now that my gushing is over…let’s move on to my Valentine’s day project that I’m super excited about… a paper cookie. Yes, that’s right, a paper Fortune cookie to be exact! I receive emails from that crafty Martha Stewart,...

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Rhinestone Birthday

I was finally able to get back to the craft table last night; after the whirlwind of launching the new A Paper Buffet site, it was nice to get inky! I received a card from my boss and really liked the layout, so I planned to case it; when I went to my LSS to pick up some paper, I found the perfect BG Bling to use for my cased card.  I chose some black and white flocked paper (been so long since I did a black and white card…I’ve come a long way baby! lol) and here’s what happened: This card is pretty big; 5.5 by 5.5 but it works really well with the layout.         The sentiment is from Gina K. Designs; I...

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A Paper Buffet.com is now open!

That’s right folks; after over a month of building, the independent website for A Paper Buffet is open! What does this mean? More product, easier navigation, account member privileges (earn points towards discounts, collect them up until you want to use it!) and shopping in both Canadian and American dollars! I’ll be continuing with my Etsy store, and will be trying to carry all products in both stores, however some will be unique to each site given the demographics.  I will be adding a Custom work gallery to A Paper Buffet so customers can see previous custom work for invitations, and other custom products. I’ve got a million ideas...

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