Joanne Lopez – Taniesa Vlasak

“Make It Merry” with Close to My Heart Stamp Set

Published on September 24, 2015September 24, 2015 by jlopezdesignsLeave a comment

Hi, Joann here today sharing two Christmas cards that I made using the Close to My Heart “Make It Merry” stamp set.

Here is my first card…

I used CTMH Artbooking Cricut Cartridge to cut my tag, which coordinates with this stamp set. I took CTMH Pear and Topiary Inks to stamp my image onto my tag (I tried to create an ombre effect, it’s acutally a bit more noticeable in person). I cut a piece of vellum a bit smaller than my colored card stock and then tied some ribbon to my top panel before gluing it down to my card base.

I finished it off by adding a bell to a bow I tied, scattered a few TCP Relish Mix and popped my label on some foam adhesive to add a bit more dimension to my card. That is all for this card!

Now my next card is mimicking a card that I posted on my blog a few days ago. I loved how it turned out, I did make a few changes to make it a little different.

Here it is…

I took some stitched circle dies I have to cut my circles out of some pattern paper. I stamped my sentiment, also from “Make It Merry“, onto some vellum with VersaMark and heat embossed it with some black embossing powder.

I drew some white lines and then glued my circles down, adding some dimension to 2 of them. I scattered some tone on tone TCP Relish Mix to match with the pattern paper. Super easy and simple!

Well that is all for today! Thank you so much for stopping by!

Supplies used

CTMH Artbooking Cricut Cartridge

Close to My Heart “Make It Merry” stamp set

CTMH Pear and Topiary Inks

TCP Relish Mix

VersaMark

Mini Note Card Set

Published on September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 by jlopezdesignsLeave a comment

Hi friends, Joann here today sharing some mini note cards that I created for my son’s teacher using CTMH Treats of Friendship stamp set!

I stamped my images on some watercolor paper and colored them in using some Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I stamped my sentiment and layered my top panel to some fun foam for some dimension and stacked that onto some colored card stock.

I finished my cards by adding a bit of glossing accents to my sprinkles…really liked the way they turned out. Well that is all for today, thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Supplies used

CTMH Treats of Friendship

Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers

Glossy Accents

CTMH Archival Black Ink

Wearable Flair? Yes!!!! Hello FlairTastic Friday!

Published on July 17, 2015July 17, 2015 by Taniesa2 Comments

Happy Friday Everyone!

Every Friday though the summer months we will bring you a new idea/concept using flair. Your not going to want to miss these fun posts! These ideas will come from not only our designers but also super neat flairtastic ideas we find from our customers and other talented papercrafters. Make sure that when you share any of your projects on Instagram or Facebook using flair, that you tag it #FlairTasticFriday. You just might see your own photo featured here on our blog!

This week we will be showing you a few ideas taking flair off your pages to actual wearable art!

First up we have an adorable project created by our designer Joann!

Joann added some flair from our Cute Bugs set for her adorable little girl. How precious are these? I think they would be great in the center of a bow as well. Totally adorable, Joann!!

Next we have a few ideas that have caught our eye… Take a look!

These adorable flair ribbons are just too adorable and would make a perfect wearable award or celebration pin. Love this for birthdays, weddings, achievements, and so much more. These were designed by Page Evans.

If you were an 80’s or early 90’s kid chances are you had a jacket similar to this one. I remember wearing my collection on my varsity jacket in high school. (photo found on pinterest)

What a great idea of wearing a bunch of pin back buttons of the same theme? We saw this photo on pinterest and fell in love with it!

I love that these are kid designed buttons. You can read more about it HERE. For a smaller option our “Make your own Flair Buttons” would be a similar and fun idea.

Last but not least we have a photo share from one of our very own customers!

Customer Liz ordered a custom button necklace with her loved ones names inside our glitter heart flair, we thought her daughter needed one as well. Aren’t these two just adorable!

Not only do we carry necklaces, but these adorable Hair ties as well.

We can make these hair ties with any flair in the shop or even a custom design.

Keep your eye out for our new wearable interchangeable magnetic jewelry coming to TCP’s shop in just a few weeks!

It must be the kid in me that loves flair so much. I loved wearing it then and I love wearing it now. Adding it to my papercrafting is an added bonus.

How do you wear your flair?

Stop by The Crafty Pickle Etsy Shop if you haven’t been by recently. We will be releasing a few little things between now and our next big release. We will also be having a big TCP Birthday celebration in August with giveaways and a brand new exclusive foil flair!

Dont forget to use the hashtag #FlairTasticFriday to play along with us!

See you for more FlairTastic Ideas next Friday!

Till Then….

Happy Crafting!

Greeting FlairTastic Friday!!!

Published on July 10, 2015July 9, 2015 by kzfoug2 Comments

Happy Friday Everyone!

This week we will be showing you some awesome greeting cards by our wonderful design team!!! Each Design Team member uses flair differently to make a fun greeting card …and with this flair it is nice and flat to fit on any card!!!

Here is Joann’s super fun FlarTastic Greeting Card I love how she used the vellum as an overlay to soften the background paper …so great!!! And how she used the Something Shiny Slightly Cupped Sequin to follow your eye down the card for interest!!! And bunching the twine behind the Orange Pop of Flair …i am so going to steal that idea!!!

And next we have Carrie

I am sorry but Carrie makes the prettiest cards I know …they are just so lovely anyone would love to receive a card from her!!! Carrie used Watercolor Butterflies Flair for her fun and whimsical Thank You card!!!

Here is mine Kristin

I used this fun and fast birthday stamp, Washi tape pack from Close to my Heart Suprise Single Flair

How sweet is this card by Treasa with this cute big candle right on the front and the Suprise Single Flair

Next …we have Stephanie’s so sweet circle shaker box card with the red white and blue Star Spangled confetti mix

How will you use flair on a greeting card?????

Stop by The Crafty Pickle Etsy Shop if you haven’t been by recently. We will be releasing a few little things between now and our next big release. We will also be having a big TCP Birthday celebration this month with giveaways and a brand new exclusive foil flair coming mid July!

Dont forget to use the hashtag #FlairTasticFriday to play along with us!

See you for more FlairTastic Ideas next Friday!

Till Then….

Happy Crafting!

Baby Shower Favor

Published on March 19, 2015March 19, 2015 by Taniesa1 Comment

Baby Shower Favor

Hi Joann here today, thanks for joining me!

Today I am sharing a cute little baby shower favor that I made using the CTMH Artiste Cartridge!

Isn’t this box adorable and wouldn’t it also be great as an Easter Box to fill with treats for kids?!?! To decorate my box I cut a 1 3/4 circle stamped an image using the CTMH-Holiday Tags stamp set and customized it with the due date using YES Months set for my month and finished it off with some scattered sequins.

Hope you enjoyed and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used

CTMH Artiste Cartridge

CTMH-Holiday Tags

YES Months set

Using the CTMH Artiste cartridge

Published on March 5, 2015March 5, 2015 by Taniesa1 Comment

Hi, Joann here. Thanks for stopping by! Today I have a quick and easy thank you card using the CTMH Artiste Cartridge.

I cut several of the diamond image (pg. 49) out of some different colored card stock and clear embossed a few of them using the Honeycomb Flair to add some texture. I randomly placed them to create a fun background for my card. I then cut “Thanks” (pg. 65) for my sentiment, 4 times and stacked them on top of one another to add dimension and placed it on top of the banner (pg. 35) in which was cut from vellum.

I finished off my card by adding a few adhesive pearls. That’s it, hope you liked it and as always, thanks for stopping by!

Don’t forget to check out TCP Close to My Heart page!

Supplies used:

CTMH Artiste Bundle

CTMH Stamp Set- Honeycomb Flair

CTMH Card Stock

Worlds Greatest Brother

Published on February 26, 2015February 26, 2015 by Taniesa1 Comment

Hi Crafty Friends!

Today we have a card for you by our fabulous DT member, Joann! She has a great card using both CTMH product and TCP flair! Take a look.

Hi, thanks for stopping by today! I am sharing with you another masculine card. A quick tip that I found was, pick your color combo out first and you’ll find out that the card will come together quite quickly.

I started off with a dotted stencil and some CTMH Lagoon ink to created a faded corner background. I cut the label using the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge and stamped the image with a coordinating stamp set Perfect fit- Frames Flair with some CTMH Slate Ink,

I also used the stamp set Perfect fit- Dad Holiday to stamp the “World’s Greatest” on some vellum, finished the card off by cutting a few banner shape pieces, some yellow orange twine and of course some TCP Family Themed Flair!

Hope you enjoyed today’s card and as always thanks for stopping by!!

Supplies used

TCP Family Themed Flair

Perfect fit- Frames Flair

Perfect fit- Dad Holiday

CTMH Inks: Lagoon, Slate

Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us, Joann. This has to be one of my favorite cards!

Happy Crafting!

Birthday Card by Joann

Published on February 17, 2015February 17, 2015 by Taniesa2 Comments

Hi Crafty Friends!

Today Joann is sharing a sweet birthday card that anyone would love receiving. She is using some fantastic Close To My Heart products. Take a look!

Hi, and thanks for stopping by!

I hope you’re not tired of my birthday cards…lol, I’m in the process of building my birthday card stash!!

I used CTMH-Honeycomb stamp set to stamp out my images with colors Lagoon, Slate, and Honey. I than stamped my Happy Birthday sentiment with VersaMark and used Ranger White Embossing Powder to emboss it on vellum. Finally, I took some brads to hold my sentiment piece in place.

That is all for today, hope you leave inspired and thank you for taking the time to stop by!

Stop by TCP CTMH page and pick up some goodies!

Supplies used:

CTMH-Honeycomb

CTMH Inks- Lagoon, Slate, Honey

CTMH- Joyful Birthday

VersaMark

Ranger White Embossing Powder

Simple yet stunning! Thank you so much for sharing Joann!

Don’t forget that we have our blog hop and challenge going on right now. Click HERE for that post.

Happy Crafting!

TCP’s Sketchy Blog Hop

Published on February 16, 2015 by Taniesa4 Comments

Welcome to another TCP blog hop!

Today our creative team will be sharing with you their take on a sketch created by our very own designer, Treasa!

This is the fantastic sketch she created for us:

How would you like to win a “Year of Flair?” There are two ways to win! Enter both ways to improve your chances! First, Leave a little love on each of the designer’s blogs as you hop along. Every comment gets you an entry into the drawing for the flair. Second, Participate by creating your own take on our sketch and link us in the comments to your photo (Can be posted on your blog, Flickr, Photobucket, Etc…) It can be any type of project, however the sketch inspires YOU. International friends are welcome to participate as well! You have until Wednesday Feb. 25th to enter. Winner will be announced on TCP’s blog on Friday Feb.27th

Winner will receive 12 monthly sets of TCP flair valued at over $50.00

On with the hop!

First up is Alicia!

If you get lost along the way here is the order of the hop.

Don’t forget to comment on the TCP blog too!

Happy Hopping!!

Handmade Valentine Treats with Joann.

Published on January 29, 2015January 29, 2015 by Taniesa3 Comments

Hi Crafty Friends!

Classroom moms, This one is totally for you!!! Our designer Joann has such a fantastic idea for some valentine’s she has created from some personalized flair. Completely adorable!!! Check it out!!

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Hi, thanks for stopping by!

Today I am sharing some fun treats! These will be great for classmates, students, and even coworkers. I received some personalized flair with the names of my kids from TCP etsy shop and used them to personalized some treats for Valentines.

Create amazing Valentine's using custom flair from TheCraftyPickle.com

Here are the steps:

Start with a 3 1/2 x 4 piece of White Daisy cardstock
On the 3 1/2 inch side score at 1/2 and 3
Rotate clockwise and on the 4 inch side score at 7/8
After you have scored everything place your piece of cardstock where the 3 1/2 inch side is horizontal and the 4 inch side is vertical.
There will be two rectangles at the bottom left and right corner, take some scissors and remove those two sections.
I took my corner rounder and rounded the top corners and the bottom corner (the part that will fold up)

I took a background stamp and stamped the image to create my background and took the little heart from the CTMH Countdown stamp set to add in random places. I punched (2) 1 3/8 circles from someCranberry and Cotton Candy cardstock, (2) 1 1/4 circles from White Daisy cardstock and stamped an image using the CTMH Perfect Fit- Dad stamp set with some Cranberry and Cotton Candy Ink onto the White Daisy circles.

I layered them and added my beautiful personalized flair. Finishing them off by cutting some gold pieces of cardstock into banners and a cherry lollipop!

I hope you enjoyed today’s mini project. Thanks for stopping by!

*Giveaway* Leave a comment on The Crafty Pickle blog to win a Close To My Heart stamp set and goodies out of The Crafty Pickle prize bin. Winner will be chosen Monday,Feb. 2 2015! Good Luck!!!

Supplies used

TCP Flair

CTMH – White Daisy cardstock

CTMH – Adventure Cardstock Combo Pack

CTMH Inks- Cranberry, Cotton Candy

CTMH Stamp Sets – Perfect Fit- Dad, Countdown

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What an amazing idea, Right?!?!? Did you know you could get personalized flair like this for your child’s classroom that is reasonably priced? We can even make them into Pin back buttons, Magnets, or bookmark paperclips! Just click the “request custom order” in TCP’s Etsy shop. Thanks for sharing your amazing idea, Joann!!

Happy Crafting!!!