DeNami Designs | Catered Crop

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
~ Colette

This is a remake of one of my favorite cards from 2010, "Oh Baby – Animal Magnetism." It's a really magical card (yes, I'm crowing about it) because it starts like this . . .

and with the magic of skinny little magnetic snaps, you can add these bottle cap magnets to the top of the card.

You know I love it when I can craft something to go with a card. So I love that these bottle caps can do double time as refrigerator magnets. They're udderly perfect for showing off pictures and creations from the little guys. I had so much fun with these critters, I milked it by making a matching bottle top.

I used several of Nana's ingredients for our Catered Crop Follow the Recipe (FTR) #9 Party (stripes, plaids and polka dots patterns; kraft, red, green, blue, and yellow colors; ribbon, and sewing). And, I used the boy theme from both Nana's recipe and the current DeNami Design challenge. Ah, you herd me right – two challenges in one. Have you joined the party, yet?

Here's the rest of the recipe.

Pattern Paper/Cardstock – October Afternoon Farm Fresh, Stampin' Up!, Prism, and Neenah
Stamps – DeNami Designs Farm Animals and Love Circle
Color Mediums – Memento and Copics
Other Mediums – JudiKins DG3 Art Gel
Fibers – Stampin' Up!, DeNami Design Grosgrain, Baker's Twine
Tools – Nestabilities, 1" and 1-3/8" EK Success Circle Punches, BasicGrey Magnetic Snaps
Embellishments – Bottle Cap Inc. 6-Petal Bottle Cap and Clear Acrylic Cabochon

The little flag pin is so easy to make. You can print or stamp your sentiment onto patterned paper. Then cut your paper into a flag shape, and just fold over the edge to adhere it to a hat pin. Tie a little Baker's Twine or thin ribbon, and, no horsing around, you have an adorable flag pin.

Hope you've enjoyed my punny farm animals. But I gotta moo outta here for now. Come take a gander tomorrow and I'll show you how to make these bottle cap magnets.

April 9, 2011 | Filed Under: All Occasions, DeNami Designs, Gift Sets | 12 Comments

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind,
of what, then, is an empty desk?”
– Albert Einstein

Yep, it's cluttered. Albert would be proud. I'm working on my project for DeNami Design's current challenge. It's a boy theme! Sound familiar? Yep, Our Catered Crop Follow-the-Recipe #9 Party also has a boy theme as one of its ingredients. Hope I see you there.

Back to the farm for me . . .

April 7, 2011 | Filed Under: DeNami Designs Tagged With: DeNami Designs | 1 Comment

Young boys should never be sent to bed, they always wake up another day older.
~ Johnnie Depp as JM Barrie, from Finding Neverland

Follow the Recipe

Thanks to Nana Campana (what a great name!), we all get to be a little boy crazy for our next linking party/challenge. Our design team was dazzled by all the funky and fun ingredients in her layout. We're excited to play with them and even more excited to see what all of you cook up with them. And, chefs, there are alligators! If there are in any University of Florida fans out there, here's your chance!

Isn't that crazy fun?! We get to do some distressing, make a ruffled ribbon strip, do some crazy stitching, thread our buttons with ribbons . . . and check out all that bling! Oh, I think I'm getting dizzy.

Playing with us at the Catered Crop "Follow-the-Recipe" linking party is easy-peasy! Here's how it works:

Use any of the ingredients (themes, colors, techniques, shapes, etc.) in Nana's recipe to make your project. You don't have to use the same brand names, use all the ingredients or even make a scrapbooking layout. Make whatever you like: cards, altered items, home decor, or, yes a layout. Just pick a few ingredients and then add your own spices to cook up something uniquely yours.
Add your project using the InLinz (froggy) button below and join the party.
Keep the party going by clicking on some of the other entries and leaving a comment or two.
Be sure to list your recipe or tell us what ingredient you used from the sample recipe.
Don't forget to link back to this post or include the "I Followed the Recipe" button on your blog (see the side bar to the right).

Here's your FTR9 recipe.

Pattern Paper – stripes, plaids and polka dots
Colors – kraft, red, green, blue, and yellow
Stamps – alphabets and stars
Color Mediums – stamping ink
Embellishments – bling, buttons, ribbon
Tools – sewing machine, distressing tools
Techniques – sewing, distressing, try threading your buttons with ribbons, ruffled paper/ribbon
Theme – Boys! and Alligators?!
Shapes – stars, circles, scallops, and swirls

I'm freakishly excited about our party's sponsor, DeNami Designs. There's always something fun going on over there: project ideas, free downloadable idea sheets, technique videos. And that's just on the store's home page. The DeNami Design Blog has an amazing, amazing design team with a really fun challenge coming up on April 5 and a blog hop on April 10 . . . more details to come!

If you haven't heard of DeNami Design, well, you may need to get out more. Since 1989 DeNami Design has been known for a timeless style featuring simply elegant art. From their extensive line of quality rubber stamps to their newer line of coordinating scrapbook papers, they specialize in stylish and sophisticated products. While you're checking out all the yummy goodies at DeNami Designs, be thinking about what you might do with a $30 gift certificate from DaNami Designs. Yep, one randomly picked winner will get to go shopping!

Just click on the link below to join the Catered Crop Linking Party. You have until Thursday, April 14, 8:00 PM CST. Swing back by here next Sunday when our Catered Crop Top Chefs will have their culinary delights to show you using Nana's recipe.

See you later alligators.

April 3, 2011 | Filed Under: DeNami Designs, Follow the Recipe Tagged With: Follow the Recipe, FTR9 | 3 Comments