MISS LINDY J

Hole-y Mole-y!

It's been F-O-R-E-V-E-R!!! I guess I couldn't keep up with the goal I set myself for this blog. I DO have an instagram account where you can follow me and see pictures of things I'm working on as well as my life in general. Follow me on instagram at misslindyj!

I sent a couple of cards a few months ago to a friend and my cousin (when she was out of state). Here's for some viewing pleasure! LOL

(for my cousin)

(for my friend)

Can you guess what line the patterened paper is from? >=] Hahaha!

Until next time, enjoy!
 

Happy Mother's Day! (Card)

I just want to wish all the mothers out there a very happy mothers day!

I made four cards this year, same style, same papers (except for one).

Patterened paper used are from the Dear Lizzy line by American Crafts.

Until next time, enjoy!

Target Printed Paper Tape (WASHI TAPE!!) VIDEO

A first! Hehehe!

Enjoy!

-Lindy

Getting "Krafty" with Cosmo Cricket!

Hello everyone! It's been such a busy busy busy week! So busy I didn't even get a chance to make one of my best friends and the mister a birthday card! I know, I'm horrible!

Well fortunately have some cards to post on here anyways. I made them a while back and am just now getting a chance to upload them... I'm really horrible, I know!

From the title you can already guess it has something to do with kraft paper and Cosmo Cricket, another one of my favorite brands. Well one day I actually had "nothing" to do (it was the end of summer) so I decided it was a good time to try to pull stuff out of my "new goodies box" and put them to use. I made about seven cards using kraft cardstock and three different Cosmo Cricket collections, Upcycle, Social Club, and Salt Air. So... here we go!


Here we have thank you cards. I actually made it as one standard A2 sized card, realized it would be rather plain with just the sentiment and the bottom portion done, so I cut it in half and stamped and heat embossed the sentiment twice to give me two seperate cards. So efficient! ;P It's would be a great and easy gift to make multiples of and give to someone as a gift(or use it yourself)! Collection used: Upcycle

This one is just a silly one. I was trying to use a sea creatures themed stamp set and the colors of the stamped images turned out to "vibrant" for this paper. Oh well. I don't know if you can really tell but all the stamped images are polka-dotted! I had a polka dot stamp and inked it up, inked up my image, and "kissed" the stamps together to give it a polka dot effect. It probably would have shown up a lot better if I had used darker dots, but it would have looked a little funky and the octopus would have looked sick! Hahaha! Collection used: Salt Air


I wanted to use that dollar stamp I purchsed and that sentiment always reminds me of someone saying it regards to school, i.e. tests. Collection used: Social Club; Upcycle?

I made this card for my younger brother's birthday and I wanted to use the number border stamp I had in the N.G. Box. I just stamped it multiple times on the card base in versamark to create a subtle backgroung and I just love it! Collection used: Social Club



This set of cards uses the same paper collection and sentiments from the same stamp set. It just shows how a change of color theme can change the mood. Collection used: Salt Air

This card was inspired by Kristina Werner and I just love how simple, easy, and adorable it is! Love, love, love! Collection used: Upcycle

Well that was quite a few pictures and quite a lenghty pose but until next time, enjoy!

Oh Baby!

Okay... you caught me. This is going to be another version of the baby card from THIS post (the card that has the monkey hanging off of it).

Well this card is is going to a coworker, along with a gift, for her baby shower. I had the pleasure of creating her baby shower invites which I will have to post later.

Now there are two pictures of the card, one without a pregnant lady and one with.


 This card is obviously A LOT more girly than the monkey one! Hehehe!


 And here's the card with the little pregnant lady.

I had about FIFTY of the pregant ladies just "laying" around so I decided to use ONE. Hahaha! Why did I have 5o?? Well originally I was going to put them on the baby shower invites... but then she decided she wanted ballerina themed cards. And if you have a Cricut, you know it's not fun gluing the little pieces together. Oh well... the baby shower invites came out so adorable! But see that later... >=)

Until next time, enjoy!
 

Inspiration from the Younger Brother!

My younger brother, who is graduating from highschool in June, has been requesting me to make some birthday cards. So I ask him what he would like on the cards and once he starts to describe it to me, I tell him just to draw it out. Well my dear brother draws come pretty cute stuff, so I decided that I would just use his images to paper piece what he wanted. And now *drumrolls* the results!


 He drew the little girl hanging by the balloons! At first we were going to do a shape card, but I decided to make it into an 8.5x5.5 card. Had I know I was going to end up doing that, I would have made the shadow a different color! (Background: American Crafts Everyday collection; Jacket: Making Memories Just Chillin' collection)


This one is a ninja themed card. He originally drew this card with a ninja star, but I suggested him to choose another "weapon" so that way I could stamp "happy birthday" on to the weapon. I used embroidery floss on the handles and I think it came out soo cute! (The card was for a girl so it was okay! ;P) Oh yeah, the leaves were hand cut.


This was the latest card I made (which I made today). I believe he said his friend liked Taylor Swift so he drew something inspired by her. She is just too cute! (May I inform you my brother doesn't draw only "cute" things, he only does it for girls! Hahaha! He really is quite the artist.) I actuallydon't know what color he wanted her hair so I just made it brown, after all, it IS just an inspiration. (Background and Dress: Making Memories Just Chillin' collection)

So for taking so long to post something! But I hope you like it and until next time, enjoy!

My take!

This card was inspired by a card recently posted up by Kristina Werner. The post for the card can be found HERE.

I watched the YouTube video of her making the video, which can also be found on her page, and several hours later I had an urge to make a card. I tried to do it by memory rather than going to the computer to look at it and it came out a bit different! Hahaha! I should've checked but oh well, it's still cute! ;P


(Excuse the REALLY bad photo taken from my phone! The card's more vivid in person!) As you can see, it's similar, but not quite the same. The adorable little scooter was paper-pieced!

Card base: Standard A2 sized in Kraft cardstock
Pattern papers: 6x6 Joy Ride collection by Cosmo Cricket
Stamps: Snag 'em Stamps by Imaginisce called Scooter, Hello Friend by Studio G from the ditto. line
Ink: StazOn in Jet Black, Versamark(with white embossing powder)
Corner Rounder: We R' Memory Keepers Corner Chomper

I think that's about it, so until next time, enjoy!

Felties!

... And a mini card!

I meant to post pictures a while back of felties I made for a dotor's daughters but I keep on forgetting to post them. So... here they are!


These are the cupcakes I worked on. I should've gieven them eyelashes but I forgot!


These are the limbless bunnies! Hahaha! I love the little pom pom tail, don't you?

Well I have cards that I need to take pictures of and I recently found where my camera was. But if you're looking for a card, here's a little one. =P


Off to testS time. Until next time, enjoy!

Not my style...

It was a day that I was suppose to tidy up my room but instead, I put some cards together. There's a few cards that aren't my usual style, maybe perhaps for a challenge or so, but I just wanted to put quick cards together!


On this particular card, I wanted to use the text background piece on a card. Then, I decided to try a different look by distressing the edges with scissors and I did the same with the brown piece. Next, I was like hey, why not stick one of the embellishments I made on the card? Added a few buttons to pull the card together and there you go, a card with a color scheme I don't think I would have ever put together.


Now on this little number... you can't tell but the polka dots on the back were embossed with clear embossing poder that I had added glitter to. This card actually started out with the flower, just the main pink one. I saw the card that was embossed and was like, hmm... maybe I'll stick the flower on there. I wanted to use one of my American Crafts ribbon, too, and to help better tie in the ribbon with the card, added the brown scallop circle and green leaves to the flower. Voila. A card is born. Okay... make this one is a little closer to my style. ;P


Okay, now this card. First I wanted to use this embossed paper that I had embossed with my cousin's embossing contraption. For some reason I rubbed a lime green ink (that ended up yellow) on the raised portion to make it "pop." I stood there, wondering where to go from there... so the second thing I wanted on there was a die cut by K&Company from their Valentine collection. And there you go... another card. I don't know how to use these die cuts or incorporate them. I guess it looks okay?


Oh my gosh! Everything would've been okay on this card if only, if only my sentiment had stamped correctly! I tried to re-stamp it but came out with a blurred sentiment. Looking at it makes me think I need to go to the optometrist. Okay, maybe this card is more my style but I wish I would've trimmed the card! All that blank space is making me nervous! The only reason I didn't is that I didn't want to the destroy the stitching on the patterened paper. Oh well.

Last but not least...


Okay, I confess... this card has been sitting my desk for the longest, and I do mean longest, time incomplete. How incomplete you ask? It was missing and embellishment! Hahaha! Everything was done except I felt it was missing something... and I put it off to the side. And it's been sitting there, poor card, waiting to be finished. And what did I do? I just made a flower and put it on the card! Hey, at least it was a custom flower fit for the card! ;P Okay, I lied, this card is more my style. =)

So to everyone out there, try something different! Maybe you'll like it and maybe you find it's a little your style!

Until next time, enjoy!

Create-A-Critter Birthday Series: Card 4

Another day, another card. A Create-A-Critter birthday card! My my, where has the time gone? Well, today's card features bold, bright colors and a cute little bear from the Create A Critter catridge.


Patterened paper from A Boy's Universe collection by the Paper Studio; sentiment by Hero Arts which has been heat embossed with white embossing powder; tiny staples attatched using the Tim Holtz Tiny Attatcher "finish" off the card.

I recently (yesterday) visited my local Michaels and they were selling quite a few Cricut Catridges for $9.99 each! But it was a select few... so I picked up six! I'm crazy! I want to visit another Michaels that is A LOT closer to me to see if they may be clearancing some catridges! After Michaels, I visited a nearby Wal-Mart and I saw Cricut Lites on sale for $25. I had to hold off on those :/. Well, the point of the story was to check out your Michaels to see if they may be sellinig some catridges for $9.99! (I found them near the registers.)

Until next time, enjoy!