New Challenge Blog!

My friends Abby and Suzanne have created The Paper Variety, an awesome new challenge blog that starts September 15th! Tomorrow they will be announcing their Design Team!

For helping spread the word about their new blog, they are giving away this awesome new collection by Echo Park!


So what are you waiting for? Go head over to The Paper Variety!

PTT #14 with a few other challenges :)

It's time to party with Party Time Tuesdays!

This is the last challenge until October, we'd love to have you play along! The challenge is to use brads on your birthday card (along with the required birthday greeting/sentiment).

This is very CAS for me, it was tough to leave the 'white' space empty LOL! The images are Danni's Flutterbies from Paper Makeup Stamps, I had such fun coloring them. I added some Smooch Illuminate but didn't get the camera to catch the sparkle all that well. The flower brads are from Making Memories.

I also incorporated the following challenges:
Flutterby Wednesday #119 - open week (just use a butterfly, fairy or angel)
Makeup for the Weekend #40 - birthday card
Get Sketchy #53

If you'd like to play along with PTT, please link your card to the PTT blog by Sunday night to have a chance at the Top 3! You'll find oodles of inspiration on the blog as well!

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Danni's Flutterbies ~Paper Makeup Stamps; Birthday Bash~Verve Stamps
Paper: Flaming Butterfly ~ Nikki Sivils
Ink: Memento
Copics: R24, R27, B24, B26, YG21, YG23
Other: Smooch Illuminate, flower brads from Making Memories

Lasting Memories Challenge #5

Happy Sunday!

I have another announcement to make ~ Karen asked me to stay on with Lasting Memories full time and I said yes! I am really starting to enjoy scrapbooking again and inspiring all of you to get those memories scrapped too!

Today's Lasting Memories Challenge is two-fold..."Take a Sentimental Journey" and use computer generated title and/or text. I have to admit, I didn't quite follow the sentimental journey part, trying to find 'old' pictures to take a journey with is like trying to find a needle in the haystack in my room right now. So....I went with these recently printed pictures of my cutie patootie niece.

The journaling reads: "When I saw Gracie's kitchen, I knew I had to get pictures of her playing in it. I wanted to be able to use my 'From My Kitchen' Cricut cartridge. She's having a ball frying an egg, although I don't think she's ready for customers just yet!"

I used the Cricut Cartridge 'Ashlyn's Alphabet' for the title and the 'From My Kitchen' cartridge for the eggs and oven. The font of the journaling is Baby Boston which was downloaded from the internet, although I can't quite remember where.

It was quite fun to use the computer for journaling, I typically handwrite all of my journaling. I got to play around with a bunch of fonts before I decided which one I would use. My tip of the day is to use spell check before you print it out though LOL! Wanna guess how I learned that tip?

I hope you will take a 'Sentimental Journey' with us this week! Please have your layout linked to the Lasting Memories blog by 9 pm EST on Friday night for a chance at the Top 3. For more inspiration, check out the blog and you can find my team members' blogs on my left sidebar.

Have a great day!

24 Hour Challenge

Every month, Scrappin-n-Chattin has a 24 hour challenge. We pick 3 collections to work with and April, our hostess, picks 3 sketches. Then our partner picks a collection and a sketch for us to use, and then we have 24 hours to complete the layout. My partner picked Sketch #2 and the Crate Paper collection - Sweet Branch for me.

Here is the sketch ~ from the Scrapville Blog.

Here is my version~

Once I got the pictures printed the way I liked them, it actually went together pretty quickly. At first I printed out color versions of these pictures, but they were way to bright and vivid for this pretty paper. The black & white looks so much better! I really love how this turned out, these are the first pictures that I have scrapped of my niece. She will be 4 months old tomorrow :o)

I'll be back in the morning with a new Lasting Memories challenge!

Exciting Announcement!

Guess what?

I have been invited to join the Paper Cutz Challenge Design Team!

Go check out today's announcement and new challenge HERE!

Happy Anniversary!

Wooohooooo, it's Friday!!!

After work, I am going to pick up my wedding gown!!! So very excited...the wedding is 3 WEEKS from TOMORROW!! So much to do still too!

This is a card I created last weekend for my mom & stepdad's 21st wedding anniversary. I think it came out so pretty thanks to this lovely Linen Closet stack from Die Cuts with a View. I need to figure out how to make the sparkle show up better in pictures, the 2 bottom panels are glittery paper, as is the brad. The card was well received when we had them over for dinner on Monday.

I found this fun card sketch from Sassy Lil Sketches ~ (btw, did you see they have a blog hop going on? I need to remember to hop this weekend!)

Have a super day! I'll be back later with a fun announcement!

Max & Whiskers Birthday Card

Happy Thursday!

It’s almost the weekend, yaaaaaay!!!!

Here’s a quick card I made on Sunday night for one of my co-worker’s birthday ~

 

Everything but the scrappers floss and sentiment is from the Taylored Expressions Pet’s Place Project Pantry Kit.  I just love these kits!  They make cardmaking so quick and easy. The sentiment is from a new Fiskars set called Make a Wish Quotes.

The wonderful layout is from the Clean & Simple Stamping Blog~

Off to work! Have a great day!

My New Etsy Shop!

After gentle prodding from some friends, I have finally decided to try and sell my cards!

I set up an Etsy shop today, it still needs some work (and product lol), but if you'd like to check it out, here is the link ~ http://www.etsy.com/shop/istampalot

Have a great night!

Reading with Jena

A quick share for tonight!

I created this card last week using ‘Book Jena’ from Little Paper Shop, I thought she was so cute when I saw her! I just {heart} reading!  All elements except the image and scrappers floss are from the Taylored Expressions Summertime Project Pantry kit. I’ve been enjoying the bright fun colors that this kit has to offer. 

The layout is from the Little Paper Shop Challenge ~ LPSC80

TFL!

TE Blast from the Past Hop #3

Welcome to another fun filled Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Hop!

We have another great sketch from Sankari this month~

My card uses my favorite TE Christmas set ~ Season's Sweetings

My favorite part of this card is the trim on the tree. I finally opened up my sparkly fluff, if you click on the picture you should be able to see the sparkle :)

The paper is from my American Crafts Jolly stack, love the sparkle and shine on the paper....it just doesn't show up well in photos.

I hope you enjoy hopping around today, I can't wait to check it out tonight!

Winner of my Birthday Blog Candy!

{Please scroll down to see today's Party Time Tuesday challenge card!}

Thanks to everyone that participated in my Birthday Blog Candy!!

We had 9 entries:

1-Kim
2-Meera
3-Jan
4-Michelle
5-Suzanne
6-Mary
7-Kim P.
8-Sandi
9-Erin

Random.org picked #7 - Kim P.


Congrats KIM P!!! Please email your snail mail address to kreatedbykristie at comcast dot net and I'll get your package out to you this weekend!

PTT #13

Welcome to another Party Time Tuesdays Challenge!

Today's challenge is to create a birthday card for a child, as always please include a birthday greeting/sentiment on your card front! We all had a great time with this theme, be sure to check out the PTT blog for oodles of inspiration from the design team and our GDT for this week, Kimberly!

For my card, I decided to ink up Gus from Paper Makeup Stamps for the very first time! I know he's a monster, but isn't he cute? I think so!


I used this week's PCP sketch~

To play along with us, please link up your entry on the PTT blog!

Have a wonderful day! I'll be back later with another post!

Challenge Me Sunday #2

Here is another challenge filled card for today!

I started with the sketch for Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps~


and came up with this!

I just love the bright and cheerful colors! The paper, ribbon and candy dots are all from the Summertime Project Pantry Kit at Taylored Expressions. The image is Cocktail Emily from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps.

Other challenges entered:
Corrosive Challenge #78 - Drinks are on us!
Aly's Sunday Challenge #23 - Get Dotty
Paper Cutz Challenge #55 - Anything Goes

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Cocktail Emily ~ Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps; sentiment ~ MFT Girls Night Out
Paper: Sweet Summertime ~ Echo Park Paper Company; Choice Snow White ~ Taylored Expressions
Ink: Memento
Copics: R00, YR16, E27, Y11, Y15, YG25, BG07
Other: Labels Eight Nestabilities, diamond glaze, ribbon & candy dots from kit, prima flowers, diamond & yellow, SU corner rounder

I've got a few more cards to make but they probably won't get posted tonight...it's the Army Wives season finale, can't wait!

TFL!

Challenge Me Sunday!

I'm finally feeling well enough to sit at my desk again, yay! However, my coloring skills need work after not using my copics much in the last 3 weeks.

I made this card for a few challenges ~ although I just realized I was too late for one of them, oops!

I finally inked up Jami from the Hearts & Hugs Series 2 Collection from Victoria Case for SCACD. All of the paper and embellishments are from the Pet's Place Project Pantry Kit from Taylored Expressions.

I used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch ~
Other challenges:
Lollipop Crafts #3 - Pets (although it ended last night, sigh)
Craft Your Passion #19 - Anything Goes
Paper Cutz #55 - Anything Goes
Stampin for the Weekend #45 - Anything Goes
For Fun Challenges - recipe challenge (1 ribbon - paw print ribbon, 2 designer papers and 3 embellishments)

Off to grocery shop and then I'll be back at my desk to create for another challenge or two! TFL!

It’s My Birthday Blog Candy!

ETA- For some reason I cannot get the InLinkz tool to post here, probably since I typed this up in Windows Live Writer...will try again later. For now please link your card in the comments section here (don't forget to enter it over at the PTT blog too!)

Today’s my birthday YAY! I have always loved celebrating my birthday and I thought it would be fun to share it with my blog readers!

Here is the candy being offered~

It includes:
14 sheets of Basic Grey Sultry 6x6 paper
The Greeting Farm Fleur Anya rubber stamp
A package of Recollections white flowers
A package of Queen & Co. pearls
2 bottles of stickles – Cinnamon & Cotton Candy
10 yards of ribbon in white, pink, brown & cupcakes
20 misc. flowers in pink & brown

I’m sure you would love to know how to enter, right?

1. Create a card based on this week’s Party Time Tuesdays challenge which you can see HERE
2. Link it to the Party Time Tuesdays blog and my blog via the InLinkz tool
3. You will have until Monday night at 8 pm to enter. Winner will be announced during the next PTT challenge on Tuesday!
4. If you already entered a card yesterday, please link it up here if you want a chance at the candy, that goes for my PTT DT too!
5. Any cards not following the PTT rules will be removed, sorry! It’s only fair to those that do follow the rules.

Thank you for helping me celebrate my special day!

Be Merry, Be Bright

Here is today’s Christmas card, I just love how it came out! I inked up an American Art Stamp (Gingerbread Man) from my uninked stash of stamps and used Jolly dp by American Crafts, it’s so sparkly (except it’s not showing good in the photo, sorry!)  I found the adorable gingerbread men brads when I was unpacking a few weeks ago :)

 

I used this week’s Midnight Madness sketch and am also entering it into The Paper Variety’s Christmas card challenge.

TFL!

Have you heard?

The Paper Variety is looking for a Design Team!

You can check out the TPV site HERE and check out THIS announcement on Abby's blog. She's one of the co-founders and a member of my Party Time Tuesdays DT. I am so excited to see this blog launch, they will be offering all kinds of paper crafting challenges :)

PTT #12

I'm not sure where to start LOL! I've been left speechless by my wonderful team!

When I asked Di to become our team leader for PTT and she accepted, she asked me if she could take over the blog for this week. This was quite some time ago and I said sure, just figuring I would take a break from getting it organized. Well Di and the rest of the team surprised me with a special dedicated blog post! What an awesome thing to wake up to this morning!

I can't begin to thank you girls enough for the special words, beautiful cards, and especially the friendship and everything you have done to make Party Time Tuesdays a success. It makes my heart so happy and I feel so special!

Onto to the challenge ~ It's My Birthday challenge and it's a color challenge! Please create a birthday card using my favorite colors ~ pink, brown & white. Be sure to include a birthday greeting/sentiment on the card front and then link it up to the PTT blog!

You can see all the awesome birthday cards created by my fabulous team and our GDT, my good friend Danni, on the PTT blog! Links are also located on my left sidebar.

Edited to Add: Since tomorrow is my actual birthday, I've decided to host my first ever blog candy! Stop back tomorrow morning to see how you can enter to win!

Have a fantastic day, I know I will!

Get Sketchy with CSAYL!

Despite my feeling poorly the last few weeks, I’ve not given up on the Scrappin-n-Chattin EDCC yet, yay me!  I found oodles of Sandylion 3D stickers that I bought a few years ago and challenged myself to use them up, so I’ve been able to make quick cards with them every day.  I made this the other day and finally had a few minutes to sit down and post it since I am feeling much better today.  I started a vitamin supplement the other day and it seems to be helping!

I created this card using this week’s Get Sketchy #51 and the challenge at Christmas Stampin All Year Long to use 2 or more designer papers.

I just {heart} snowglobes! They are so fun to shake up and watch the snow fall :)  I thought they’d be perfect for the sketch.

It’s time for me to go make today’s card!  TFL!

Lasting Memories Challenge #4

Today's Lasting Memories challenge is all about Simplicity!

Unfortunately I've not been feeling too good the last few weeks so I don't have a layout to share with you today. Hopefully I can get it posted sometime this week.

Please visit the Lasting Memories blog to see all the wonderful design team creations and the challenge details!

Kristie's Kraft Sale

The time has come for me to clean up my craft room a bit...

You can check out THIS page to see all the crafty goodness that's available.

Hope you are having a great weekend!

PTT #11

Happy Tuesday!

This week’s Party Time Tuesdays challenge is the every popular “Anything Goes Birthday CARD”, just remember to include a birthday greeting/sentiment on your card front and you’re good to go!

We also have another guest designer joining us this week and her name is Jan! She’s a frequent PTT player and Top 3 winner! Please be sure to check out the PTT blog for her fabulous creation along with the DT’s awesome samples!

Here is my card~

Yes, another easel card LOL!! This one has been made for almost a month, I made it for my mom to give my neighbor for her birthday.  I so love how it came out!  It was my first time using the MFT Lovin’ from the Oven set, it was fun to paper piece the image!  The sentiment on the card base is from the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps birthday greetings set – my favorite go to sentiments set!

To play along with PTT, link up your newly created ‘anything goes’ birthday card (with a birthday greeting/sentiment on the card front) to the PTT blog by next Monday night. If you’d like to be considered for the Top 3, have your card posted by 8pm EST on Sunday. 

Winter Pup

3rd post of the day - scroll down to see what you missed!

One last card before bed...Scrappin-N-Chattin (a great yahoo group) is hosting a Christmas EDCC (everday card challenge) this month. This is card #7, I've not had the time to post the others and I was also thinking I might save them for my 25 Days of Christmas in December, so you'll have some inspiration while working on your own Christmas cards.

I decided to play along with the Stampin' B's challenge this week - use a dog image.

I used this week's Unscripted Sketch~

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Winter Pup ~ Hero Arts; Amuse Holiday Greetings

Paper: Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses

Ink: Memento

Copics: E33

Other: siren & moonlight smooch, provocraft snowflake stickers

TFL!

Kei with Butterfly Balloon

Good evening!

I made a quick card to share with you all tonight, it's for a bunch of challenges.

This is the Midnight Madness sketch that I used~

Other challenges I played along with:

Flutter By Wednesday #116 - butterfly, fairy or angel with your favorite color (um...in case you can't figure it out, it's pink LOL!)

Lollipop Crafts Challenge #1 - Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday #124 - Whateva!

Sweet Stampin Challenge Blog #38 - Pretty in Pink

Our Creative Corner - embossing (panel underneath image)

Basic Grey Challenges #26 - Pearls

Dutch Dare Challenges #83 - Anything Goes

Going Grey #21 - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Cute & Girlie

Card Supplies~

Stamp: Kei with butterfly balloon ~ Spesch Designer Stamps

Paper: Basic Grey Olivia

Other: stylized flower cuttlebug folder, copics, smooch, Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Hope you are all having a good weekend! TFL!

The Hovey Hut is celebrating 20,000 hits!

Anita of The Hovey Hut, a fabulous crafter, is celebrating 20,000 blog hits

and being a new DT member for Paper Makeup Stamps.

Click HERE to check it out! Hurry though, the deadline to enter is tonight!

PTT #10

Wow, 10 challenges already! It doesn't seem possible that it's been that many already!

Today's Party Time Tuesdays challenge is to create a summer birthday card, don't forget the birthday greeting/sentiment on the front! PTT is also kicking off a month long party with new Guest Designers each week - this week the GDT is Colleen! Check out her sample on the PTT blog along with the fabulous DT samples - amazing summery goodness!

Here is my card ~

This was created for my good friend Shirley's birthday, she loved it :) I also love how it turned out, easel cards are my new favorite to make!

To join in, please link up your newly created summer birthday card to the Party Time Tuesdays blog before 8pm next Sunday to be included in a chance for the Top 3!

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Swimming Lucy ~ Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps, birthday greetings ~ Sweet N Sassy Stamps
Paper: Bo Bunny, PTI
Ink: Memento
Other: copics, smooch, spica pens, butterfly from etsy, misc. brads from stash

TFL!

Fairy Sweet

I’m back with my 2nd post for today, so scroll down to check out my Lasting Memories layout!

I was awake much earlier than I needed to be so I scrolled through the Sunday challenges and saw this fun inspiration picture for CIC70 at Cupcake Inspirations….anyone have a cupcake handy? I’m hungry after looking at it LOL!

Here is my take~

I do believe I’m getting the hang of these inspiration challenges. As soon as I saw Tinkerbell, I thought of this adorable fairy Jolinne from MFT. Isn’t she sweet?  The designer paper (in my fave colors!) is from the Basic Grey Olivia collection.  I cut out the flowers with my Blossoms Two nestabilities and crinkled them before stamping a sentiment from the set.  Jolinne is colored with copics (E00, R20, E25, E29, YG25, RV11, RV14) and her wings were painted with Fairy Dust Creative Inspirations paint.

Have a great day!

Lasting Memories Challenge #3

Happy August! Wow, it doesn't seem possible that this much of the year has gone by already!!

Today I have a layout to show you for Lasting Memories's 3rd challenge ~

• Add a stamped image to your layout (this can be one image or making your own background, whatever you like)

I just love my page for this challenge! The pictures are from Magic Wings - a butterfly pavillion I visited with my mother almost 3 years ago...no title/dates since I've already done a bunch of pages for this album (and still have more to go lol!) I have a chart showing the different butterflies that are at the pavillion but I couldn't find one of them to write on the layout.

For my stamping, I used a quote from the Stampin' Up set Happiness of Butterflies. You should be able to read it if you click on the picture. I also used Tilda with Butterfly from Magnolia and perched her on a flower.

I am also entering this layout into the Flutter By Wednesday #115 since it's an open week!

Supplies~

Stamps: quote from Happiness of Butterfly ~ Stampin Up!, Tilda with Butterfly ~ Magnolia Stamps

Paper: Bohemia by My Mind's Eye

Ink: Memento

Copics: E00, R20, YG03, YG23, B14, B24, B26, E29, E25

Other: Martha Stewart butterfly punches, ranger white ink pen, Sundance smooch

Please visit the Lasting Memories blog to see all the fantastic DT samples and to enter your challenge layout!