PTT #5

Today's PTT challenge is "Anything Goes Birthday", don't forget the birthday greeting/sentiment!

I created a card for my boss' birthday that is this coming weekend - it's not easy to keep coming up with these masculine cards...I need to make another one in a few weeks LOL


I used one of Mercy's fab sketches for the layout, MTSC78.


I also found these challenges to enter:
Charisma Cardz #25 - for the boys
Paper Sundaes #24 - birthday
Stamp with Fun #65 - birthday

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Alphabet Soup ~ Stampin' Up
Paper: Quite Contrary ~ My Mind's Eye
Ink: Memento (and yay, I inked all the edges and didn't end up wearing any of it LOL!!)
Other: EK Success border punch

To play along, please check out the details on the Party Time Tuesdays blog and for more inspiration, you can check out the design teams' cards - links on my left sidebar!

TFL!

Make Mine Chocolate!

What can be better than a yummy baked chocolate treat? he he he

Here's the other card I made over the weekend using Cuppie in the Kitchen and paper/buttons/ribbon from the June Key Ingredients Kit from Taylored Expressions. Loving this kit!


I used this week's Taylored Expressions sketch challenge for the layout~


TFL! Come back tomorrow for a new Party Time Tuesdays challenge card!

Life is short...eat dessert first!

I love that saying LOL!

Here is a card I made at my crop yesterday. All the paper and ribbon are from the Taylored Expressions June Key Ingredients kit. The adorable cuppie is from the Cuppie in the Kitchen TE stamp set.


For the layout, I used this week's Pals Paper Arts sketch ~


TFL! Hope you all had a great weekend!

A little news to share...

I've been selected to be a Guest Designer for July and August for...


How exciting! I've never designed for a layout challenge before and am looking forward to it! The first challenge will be posted next Sunday on July 4th!

I've got a busy day ahead of me but I'll be back later with another post! I went to a crop at friend's yesterday and did 21 8x8 pages for my niece's baby book and 2 cards, so I've got plenty to share this week.

Have a great day!

The Riverwalk

A bunch of dear friends from a Yahoo group held their annual retreat this past weekend and ever since then I've been feeling a little blue about missing it for a 2nd year in a row. I sure hope that things work out so I can see them next year.

To make me feel a little better, I decided to scrap some pics from the very first retreat I went to in San Antonio back in 2006. These pics are from The Riverwalk where we dined and celebrated Shirley's birthday and our friendship. So many amazing memories from that trip and the other retreats in Los Angeles and Boston. Yes, I've traveled coast to coast to see these girls!

I am entering this layout in the "Lasting Memories" design team call...Karen wants to see what represents our style and such. I love to scrap multiple pictures and use lots of flowers and brads so that's what I did tonight. And yes, I recently left my dts since I feel I didn't have enough time with planning my wedding, but I discovered that I really do love to be super busy and having idle hands drives me nuts LOL!

(click to see larger version)

Background paper is Bazzill and the dp is Basic Grey Stella Ruby.

TFL!

Olive the Otter

Isn't she the cutest otter you've ever seen?

Olive arrived in the mail today and I inked her up right away (that is a definite FIRST lol!!!) I was heading out with my sister and decided to use Olive on her birthday card.


I used the sketch at Cute Card Thursday ~


I also decorated the inside a little bit ~

My sister just turned 29, so I just had to use this stamp when I saw it LOL. I also added some comments about her turning 30 next year {giggle} and yes, I can tease her all I want since I'm 3 years older! he he he

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Olive the Otter ~ Paper Makeup Stamps, front sentiment ~ Studio G, inside ~ Birthday Greetings from Sweet N Sassy Stamps
Paper: PTI cardstock, SEI Happy Day designer paper
Ink: Memento
Copics: R81, R85, B000, B01, E31, E25, E29
Other: Scalloped border (EK Success or Fiskars, can't remember which lol), MM brads

TFL!

PTT #4

It's a Color Challenge over at Party Time Tuesdays this week!

Show us your red, white & blue birthday cards!

I made this card for my nephew's 16th birthday, it got the stamp of approval from Mike for being appropriate to give to a teenager LOL. The fun layout is from Card Patterns.


Card Supplies~
Stamps: Alphabet Soup ~ Stampin' Up
Paper: Basic Grey Marrakech, misc. cardstock
Ink: Memento
Other: misc. buttons & ribbons from stash, SU corner rounder

To play along, please check out the Party Time Tuesdays blog for details, and for more inspiration check out the fabulous design team cards. Links are on my left sidebar!

Have a great day!

Happy Father's Day!

I finally got my card done for my stepdad about 5 p.m. today lol, yes I was a last minute slacker!



I used this week's Unscripted Sketches layout.
And I found these challenges:
CAS-tastic Wednesday Challenge - Father's Day
One Stop Craft Challenge - One for the Boys

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Say It In Style ~ CTMH
Paper: Quite Contrary ~ My Mind's Eye
Ink: SU Chocolate Chip

TFL!

PTT #3

Are you ready to party?

This week's Party Time Tuesdays challenge is "Anything Goes Birthday", just remember to have a birthday greeting/sentiment on the front of your card.

Here is my card~

I made it for Mike's birthday yesterday...really not crazy about it, but he liked it The layout of the card is Unscripted Sketches #58. I think next time I use this set (Tech Talk by Gina K Designs), I will have to chalk or sponge the laptop 'screen' to give it a little "oomph".

For more inspiration and to play along, please check out the Party Time Tuesdays blog!

All good things come to an end...

for now anyways...

Due to my upcoming wedding and all the planning that still needs to be done, I have decided to step down from the Flutter By Wednesday design team and the Squigglefly design team.

Many thanks to both teams for allowing me to design for them! I appreciate all of the support I've had from my fellow team members and readers too!

PTT #2

It's time to party with Party Time Tuesdays!

Challenge #2 is to include a number on your birthday card - an actual number or paper with numbers, your choice! Don't forget the greeting/sentiment!

I had this card in mind when I came up with this challenge, my adorable niece's birthday is on the 20th and I wanted to get her card done early LOL

This is Izzy with a Birfday cake from Stamping Bella, I thought she was so cute and appropriate for a little girl! Paper is from the Making Memories Sabrina collection. I did start off with this week's sketch from 2 Sketches 4 You, but then I went in a different direction lol.

Other challenges I am entering this card in:
Critter Sketch Challenge #17 - create a child's birthday card
Cupcake Craft Challenge #94 - Dazzle Us (lots of spica pen work on the cake, polka dots and happy bday!)

To play along, please link your newly created birthday card to the Party Time Tuesdays blog by Sunday night at 8pm (if you would like to be considered for Top 3!) Also check please out my wonderful design team, creations are on the PTT blog and their direct links are listed on the right sidebar of my blog.

Have a great day!

Squigglefly Challenge #52

It's Challenge #52 over at Squigglefly today!

Maria issued a picnic theme challenge - use a food or drink image on your creation!

I dug into my stash and pulled out this fun cupcake and sentiment from the Jane's Bakery set, this is such a fun set! No sketch, amazing huh? I still had the Crate Paper Bliss collection on my desk, thought that would be fun paper for my party card.

The images were popped up with mini pop dots and the cupcake was accented with cotton candy and fuschia stickles.

If you'd like to play along, please link your creation (using a Squigglefly image!) to the Squigglefly blog and for more inspiration, please visit my fellow team members' blogs - links are to the left!

Have a great day!

EDLC Day #6 & Sketchy Thursday's July GDT sketch

It's been a long, busy and productive weekend here!

I ended up with a headache so I'm getting my daily page done very late...I should be in bed already lol. Why do Mondays have to come so fast??

As soon as I saw Sketchy Thursday's July GDT sketch, I knew I wanted to enter. I love the use of the strips of paper. The picture is of my niece and it just makes me laugh when I look at it. If I had the time and inclination, I would have used the Cricut vs. Thickers to make the title stand out a bit more. The dp is all from the Making Memories Sabrina collection.


TFL! Stop back tomorrow for a new Squigglefly challenge!

EDLC Day #5

Here are today's pages! I did another two pager and scrapped 9 pics!

Paper and brads are from the Crate Paper Bliss collection and the flowers are from Prima. The pics are from my bff's wedding, we all had such a fun time dancing lol!

Today's shopping trip was a success, I bought my wedding dress!!! So excited, it will be here at the end of July! Next up is to start getting the invitations together...and no I'm not making them lol. I bought boxed ones last fall and will just dress them up a bit!

TFL!

EDLC Day #4

Hurray for Friday!

Today was a very good day, I actually scrapped this page before work! All I added tonight was a little bit of journaling...had high hopes of adding some other embellishments but couldn't find what I was looking for.

This is my bff and it's another page for the California 2006 album, yay!


We checked out the place for our wedding and really like it, just have to keep our fingers crossed that we can get it for the date we want or move the wedding to the following week. Tomorrow my bff and I are going shopping for wedding dresses!

EDLC Day #3

I'm a little late today...laid these pages out this morning but I didn't venture in my scraproom until it was time to watch General Hospital on Soapnet at 10 p.m.

I decided to do a 2 page layout today so that I can make a bit of a dent in this album - the pictures were taken 4 years ago. The designer paper is from Carolee's Creations, I bought the paper specifically for this trip quite some time ago.

(You can click on the picture to see a bigger version!)

Yay for tomorrow being Friday! I get out at 3 p.m. and then Mike and I are touring a place to possibly hold our wedding. Woohoo!

I'll be back tomorrow night with Day 4's page!

EDLC Days #1 & #2

I am officially insane!

I decided to join in a 30 day daily layout challenge at Scrappin-n-Chattin. The payoff? I'll hopefully have 30 pages to add to my books by the end of the month and if I win, I'll hit the jackpot! The entry fee was $6 and the winner will win stuff from their wishlist (and we all have those, right??)

Day #1 - Dog Gone Cute
This is my adorable niece, Grace. These pictures are from when she was just about 4 months old, in 18 days she will be 2! I really love how this page turned out. I didn't use a sketch, how about that? LOL! I got the title from one of my title books and I cut it out with Ashlyn's Alphabet cricut cartridge using dp from Making Memories Sabrina collection. The border was cut with the Paper Pups cricut cartridge, first time ever using it!

Day #2 - Soon to be Mr & Mrs
This is a different layout for me, it's more 'pretty' than cute. I dug deep in my stash and pulled out this dp from Provocraft, the tag is from some sticker sheet I found in with these pics and the little squares are cut from a Fresh Cuts sheet (remember those??) The pics are my bff and her now dh. I flew out to California 4 years ago to be in their wedding and now they live here, which makes me so happy, as she is helping me plan my wedding!

TFL!

PTT #1

Happy Tuesday...June 1st already, wow!

I am so excited for today, the launch of Party Time Tuesdays!!

The first challenge is an easy one..."Anything Goes Birthday", just make sure to include a birthday greeting/sentiment on the card front.

My card is very CAS...it was for my little cousin's 3rd birthday the other day. I decided to keep it flat and just keep the focus on the monkeys. The layout is from Eat Sleep Stamp - ESS#83.


Card Details~
Stamps: Changito B-day ~ Stampendous
Paper: PTI Stampers Select White, Basic Grey Cupcake
Ink: Memento
Copics: R46, YG95, E25, E27
Other: SU ticket punch, Marvy scallop circle punch

If you'd like to play along, please link your card to the Party Time Tuesdays blog and for more inspiration check out the design team's cards. They are featured on the PTT blog (along with the June Guest Designer) and their personal blogs are listed on the right sidebar.

Have a great day!