Sketch Time with Lasting Memories!

I'm so sad the weekend is almost over! I am hoping to have quite a few posts today sharing the cards I made yesterday! 

Here is my first share of the day - today's Lasting Memories challenge! 

We are challenging you to use the following sketch ~ use it as is, flip it, rotate it. Get creative! I decided to rotate the sketch, as you can see below lol. I can't figure it out how to rotate it back in blogger lol. Oops!

 

Here is my take! I so love this page, it will be the first page for Amber's book.  I still need to add the journaling at the top. There is so much I want to write but I couldn't gather my thoughts when I put the page together a few days ago.  If you can't see the tiny type stickers - the whole title reads She's the One! Everything but the title is from the Basic Grey Max & Whiskers collection. 

Check out what the rest of the DT has made and enter your creation HERE!

A different kind of card for me...

I have been a busy bee today! I'm hanging out at a friend's house crafting and have made 8 cards, starting to lose a little steam now so she suggested I blog one of my cards :)

I created this card for The Paper Variety Sew Much Fun challenge - thankfully faux sewing is allowed since I can't sew to save my life LOL.  I decided to incorporate a sewing theme as well.

I found the Hero Arts Sew Artsy set at a LSS on sale and bought it a few weeks ago and then the fabulous flower you see above is from Precocious Paper, an awesome Etsy shop selling handmade flowers.  These petals are from the DIY Sewing Pattern Petals kit, I really liked making my own flower.  The cool brad, ribbon & pins are from a Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients kit from a few months ago and the paper is Material Girl by Cosmo Cricket.  This was definitely out of my element but I really LOVE the results!

TFL!

Birthday Sundaes DT Call & Blog Candy!

A new weekly challenge blog is starting in March!

Birthday Sundaes is ready to celebrate and is looking for some designers to help with that!

Requirements~

• 4-5 creative individuals who maintain an active blog
• Term ~ end of March through July 31, 2011
• Create a minimum of 3 cards per month following the specified challenges, if unable to post a card the challenge must still be posted on your blog.
• Become a member of the Birthday Sundaes Design Team blog, this is where challenge cards are submitted. Challenges are due on the Private DT blog the Friday before the challenge goes live.
• Expected to comment on your fellow DT entries as well as our entrants. We will have a number commenting system in place for the participant entries.
• Design team experience not needed!
• The perks are to have fun and build up your birthday card stash! At this time I cannot guarantee any perks in the form of supplies, however your blog will be listed on our sidebar.

How you can apply~ please submit the following information to birthdaysundaes at gmail dot com by March 8th:

• Name
• Email address
• Blog address
• Current & Prior DT Experience, if any

The new DT will be notified by March 10th and announced on the Birthday Sundaes blog on March 13th! The first challenge will be launched on March 20, 2011!


and here are the deets for the Blog Candy!


Everyone loves Blog Candy right??
How would you like to win some??
All you need to do is help me promote Birthday Sundaes!

A little about the new challenge blog:
Birthday Sundaes is a weekly challenge blog beginning March 20, 2011.  The goal of Birthday Sundaes is to build up those birthday card stashes!  I just love to make birthday cards and hope you do too! Types of challenges Birthday Sundaes will be hosting are color, supply, recipe, inspiration & technique challenges incorporated into birthday themed cards.

How to Enter:
1. Become a follower ~ you'll always know the latest Birthday Sundaes news this way!
2. Post a note on your blog about Birthday Sundaes (along with the blog badge, if possible). Feel free to mention our DT call too!
3. Link your post to the linky tool on the Birthday Sundaes blog by March 7th to be entered!

A random winner will be drawn and posted on March 8th!

The winner will receive this hot off the presses My Mind's Eye 6x6 pad.  Trust me, you need this!  It is so pretty and will make fabulous birthday cards!

It's Spring Time with Paper Cutz!!

This week at PaperCutz Challenge, we are challenging you to create a card, layout or project with the theme of SPRING!!  I think everyone is probably ready for spring, right???

I had a great time making this card.  Poppy Fields by Penny Black is one of my favorite stamps.  I also used some more old ribbon and paper stash, yay me!

I used this week's Paper Works Co. Sunday Sketch.

If you'd like to play along, please click HERE. Also check out more spring inspiration from the design team. Links on my left sidebar!

Have a GREAT Friday!!!

Going Green for the Blast from the Past Hop!

Are you having fun on the hop?  I hope so, I can't wait to check it out tonight!

Welcome to my stop on the Blast from the Past Hop!  If you're here Karen's awesome blog, then you're right on track. If not, please start HERE at Taylor's blog.

This month we were challenged to use the color green or to go green on our projects.  I went with the color green and I also used Sankari's fabulous sketch!

I used the Udderly Sweet set along with the Garden Variety Project Pantry kit.  I had a lot of fun making this :)  I think the veggie brads just make the card!

The sketch~

Your next stop on the hop is Natalie. There is also a full list of participants below!

Reduce, Re-Use and Recycle with Lasting Memories

I finally got my layout done for this week's Lasting Memories challenge!

This week we'd like to see you reduce, re-use and recycle your scraps or something you have laying around that you could incorporate onto your layout! You have until Saturday night to enter your page for a chance at the Top 3 and to win a prize from Heart Song Designs!

I had this idea in mind for a page to hold my wedding cards (well it will be pages since we have a lot of cards!) So far I got this one done and I used the Wedding Bells digi from Heart Song Designs.  For the recycling challenge, I cut some flowers out of a tissue box.  I saved a bunch of this box design so I have plenty for the rest of the pages lol!  I popped the bells up and strung them through baker's twine from The Twinery...does anyone have any tips on getting it through holes easily?  I struggled with this for quite awhile - the bells took a bit but weren't as hard as trying to get it through the whole page so I finally used brads to hold it to the page.

Now run and make a layout for the challenge! You can enter it HERE!

Flutter By Wednesday #143

It's time to flutter!

This week's Flutter By Challenge is an open challenge - just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your project. You can upload your creation HERE and check out the inspiration from the FBW DT using the links on my left sidebar!

I kept with my purple & Aurora theme from the other day since I had stuff still out of my desk.  She is another one that hadn't seen ink yet and I paired her up with some more old paper from my endless stash lol. This is Aurora - Out on the Town. She is the cutest thing!

Edited to add - I totally forgot to mention that I used the current Cardabilities sketch!

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Aurora - Out on the Town ~ Victoria Case for SCACD
Paper: Georgia Pacific cardstock, misc. cardstock, Colorbok & Remember When patterned paper
Ink: Memento
Copics: E00, E25, E29, YG23, BV11, BV25, RV17, RV19, Y32, Y35, R20
Other: labels 11 nestabilities, American Crafts ribbon, sassy pink smooch, Martha Stewart punches, Basic Grey pearls, mini pop dots

TFL!

Aurora with Butterfly

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! I had 3 days off and had fun each and every day!  I did manage to get one card done yesterday but then couldn't upload it since I got a new laptop (yay!!!) and it wouldn't recognize my SD card so we had to change my pics over to a different one this morning.

Back to the card...Danni and I like to challenge each other occasionally to make cards with various stamps/companies since we have a lot of the same things. This weekend we used The Aurora Collections by Victoria Case for SCACD and the color purple.  I have a lot of older stash and purple and never use it.  

This is Aurora with Butterfly from the first Aurora Collection. The paper is from my 'older than the hills stash' (a Danni expression lol). BTW, you can see Danni's cards HERE!

I used an older Card Patterns sketch.

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Aurora with butterfly ~ Victoria Case for SCACD

Paper: Georgia Pacific cardstock, misc. cardstock, dp from Provocraft

Ink: Memento

Copics: E00, E27, E29, RV11, RV19, V01, V15, Y15, YG03

Other: Moonlight & Sunshine Smooch, American Crafts ribbon, misc. flower & brad from stash, Martha Stewart punch

Lasting Memories #26

This week's challenge is to Reduce, Reuse, or Recycle your scrap or something you find around. For full challenge details and information on this week's sponsor, please click HERE.

I should have a layout to share either today or in the next few days. It took awhile for me to come up with a plan and now I need to finish finding all the pieces. To see how the rest of the DT interpreted this challenge, please check out the Lasting Memories blog or click the links on my left sidebar.

PaperCutz #79

TGIF!

It's time for another PaperCutz challenge! This time we are challenging you to create a child's birthday card with a country or western theme. You can enter your creation HERE and check out the rest of the DT's creations while you are there.

I decided to ink up Taylor from the Victoria Case for SCACD collection. This card is geared more towards a teen than a child but I really LOVE how it came out!! I really took my time with coloring and think she looks great.


The fabulous layout is from last week's Sketchy Thursday at Eat Sleep Stamp. I flipped it to accommodate my image.


Supplies-
Stamps: Taylor (Victoria Case for SCACD), Birthday Greetings (Sweet 'N Sassy Stamps)
Paper: Basic Grey Granola, Georgia Pacific cardstock
Ink: Memento
Copics: E00, E30, E31, E35, E39, R20, R29, B21, B23, B97, B99
Other: flowers & brad from stash, SU corner rounder

Have a great day!!

Flutter By Wednesday #142 – Rainbows or a Rainbow of Colors!

Happy Wednesday!

Today we have a super fun (in my opinion lol) challenge for you at Flutter By Wednesday! We would like to see rainbows or a rainbow of colors along with your butterfly, fairy or angel!

My original plan was to use rainbows & butterflies to create an outdoor scene but then yesterday I had a great idea to break out my Leigh Fairy from PMS (who hadn’t seen ink yet!) and create a card for a special friend of mine. I used the PMS Raindrops & Rainbows set as well for the rainbow and word art that I put inside the card. Yes I decorate the inside of another card, nothing fancy but it’s not plain yay me! It’s a little hard to see but I used crystal stickles on the wings and clouds and diamond glaze on the puddle & raindrops.

To play along, please enter your card HERE and for more inspiration, please visit the rest of the DT. Links on my left sidebar!

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Leigh Fairy, Raindrops & Rainbows set – both from Paper Makeup Stamps
Paper: Memory Box Brioche, Georgia Pacific cardstock
Ink: Memento
Copics: R00, R20, E00, E33, E35, E37, Y32, Y35, Y38, B000, B02, B04, R29
Other: crystal stickles, diamond glaze, labels 8 nestabilities, EK Success scalloped border punch

TFL!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope you all had a sweet day!

This is the card I made for my husband. I found this House Mouse image in my stash so I'm not sure of the name...the paper is from Bo Bunny Crush. I love all the heart patterns in this pad.

I even decorated the inside! The stamps are from an old CTMH set. The ribbon is from American Crafts, I won it in a blog candy package from my friend Jennie a few months ago.

I'm entering these challenges:

Crafty Catz #69 - Valentines/Love

2 Sisters #26 - Hearts

Crazy 4 Challenges #74 - Hearts

And a few photos from our night lol...our family photo. This is our first married V-day and our first with our puppy!

Our yummy dinner prepared by my husband!

TFL!

The Pink Pup - Lasting Memories #25

I had such fun putting this layout together for our 25th challenge at Lasting Memories. This week's challenge is to use red, white and/or pink. For me it was all about the PINK lol!

We also have a surprise - our first sponsor! Glitterbabe's Digis owned by the fabulous Stef! She generously let the DT each pick out a digi to use. Since I had the pink already in mind, I selected the Dahlia image which comes in black & white AND pre-colored. Well the pre-colored digi matched my pics perfectly so that's what I used on my hidden journaling box up in the right corner. The journaling says how excited I was to buy Amber lots of pink things to wear lol. I love dressing her up!


Check out Lasting Memories to see what you can win and how to enter, it's super easy!

Supplies~

Stamps: Dahlia image by Glitterbabe's Digis

Paper: Bazzill white & pink, misc. red cardstock

Other: Stampin' Up eyelet border punch, Stampin' Up Ticket corner punch, heart brads from stash, Vinyl & Foam thickers

A Bookmark

I've been wanting to make myself a bookmark and so I did after finishing up a layout earlier.

I used the Melissa Fairy and the Read a Book word art from Paper Makeup Stamps. I'm so proud of myself for using all scraps for this!

Supplies~

Stamps: Melissa Fairy & Read a Book word art - Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper: Basic Grey Wisteria & Georgia Pacific cardstock

Ink: Memento

Copics: E30, R20, E35, E37, E39, YR20, YR23, YR24, BV20, BV23, BV25

Other: Smooch Moonlight, misc. ribbon & eyelet from stash

TFL!

Saturday Afternoon...

I spent my morning doing laundry and was told that I needed to get crafty this afternoon...wasn't having much luck deciding on what to do so I settled on coloring a new copic chart and putting all my markers in their new storage. Last week we went to Jerry's Artarama so I could get a few new copics and Mike spotted these storage cases. Perfect timing as my basket couldn't fit one more marker in it. I think these will work out great since I'll be able to find what I need quickly!

Here's how they look on my desk (behind the chart). I also picked up some gamsol and stumps to try with my prisma pencils. In case you are wondering that is a bathroom caddy to the left, it was hanging around so I decided to put it to use, inside are my big acrylic blocks and pop dots and in the pockets I have the smaller blocks and tape runners. It's working out great! The small containers to the right of the copics hold some glues and the gamsol/stumps. I recycled them as they were containers that held crystal light type drinks.

I think I'm ready to create now!

Flutter By Wednesday #141

Today's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is to...

USE AT LEAST 3 HEARTS

(along with a butterfly, fairy or angel)

You can enter your card HERE and check out all the inspiration from the Design Team - links on my left sidebar.

I hope to have a card up later this week...was out all weekend and then I had an out of state conference for work yesterday. Super exhausting since I was gone from 5am-7pm and fell asleep after I ate last night.

Have a happy day!

Lasting Memories #24

Good morning!

I hope you are all having a great weekend! I haven't crafted as much as I hoped, but the weekend's not over yet! Since it's Sunday, it's time for another Lasting Memories Challenge!

This week's it's to use your Cricut and/or Die Cuts! I have to insert a PSA here ~ if you have a Gypsy for your Cricut, learn how to use it LOL! You'll see below...that big yellow bone, should have been 5 inches wide, not 5 inches tall rofl! I haven't gotten all of my cartridges loaded, I've played around with it a bit but haven't tried cutting anything from the Gypsy yet. I had to rework my layout to accommodate the big bone since I didn't feel like digging to find the same shade of yellow cardstock. I have to say I really like how it turned out!

I am really enjoying scrapping our puppy! I used Basic Grey Max & Whiskers paper for the background and the Bloomers & Glazed Brad for embellishment. The bone was cut from the Cricut Paper Pups cartridge.

You can enter your layout HERE and while you're visiting, check out what the rest of the DT created!

My PTI Favorite!

Did you hear??? PTI is having a HUGE contest in honor of their 4th anniversary!! You can read all the details HERE!

One way to win is to repost your favorite PTI project from 2010, so I am sharing the favors I made for my wedding. I absolutely love how the bookmarks came out and can't wait to make some more! I used the All Booked Up stamp set and coordinating bookmark die. The cardstock is all PTI as well. The bookmarks were stuck in the placecards that were made with the PTI placecard die. The original blog post with this project is HERE.

Happy Anniversary PTI!

The Unscripted Lollipop Sisters!

I love it when I can come up with fun post titles!

I really wanted to participate in Lollipop Crafts 'Sisters' challenges this week and finally got a chance to play tonight. I inked up PMS Hugging Fairies for the very first time *pats self on back* and used more of my BG Wisteria scraps. The buttons are from that collection as well.

I really enjoyed coloring these two lovely ladies. I tried to mimic my sister and I, she's the one on the right a little deeper skintone and lighter hair. She loves to wear grey, usually the darker the better lol. I liked this combo of light gray with the blue violet copic. I used Smooch Illuminate on their wings but it's not showing up.

I incorporated the Unscripted Sketch from last Saturday and rotated it to fit my image.

Copics Used:

Fairy 1

Hair - E25, E27, E29

Skin - R00, R20

Dress/Shoes - V12, V15, V17

Fairy 2

Hair - E35, E37, E39

Skin - R01, R20

Dress/Shoes - T1, T3, BV23

TFL! I'm hoping to have more time to create and share this weekend!

A Valentine with No Hearts!

TGIF!

This week's PaperCutz challenge is to create a valentine with NO hearts. Yes, it's possible LOL! You can enter your creation HERE and and while you are there check out the DT's work and see how they interpreted the challenge.

I used Rose Fairy from Paper Makeup Stamps, love the way she turned out!

Card Supplies~

Stamps: Rose Fairy - Paper Makeup Stamps

Paper: Georgia Pacific, PTI True Black, PTI Black & White Basics, Bo Bunny Crush

Ink: Memento

Copics: R01, R20, E15, E17, E18, YG17, RV34, R37, R39, N7

Other: Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type letters, misc. pearls from stash, Labels 4 Nestabilities, Smooch Illuminate

TFL!

FBW #140 - Open Challenge

Happy Groundhog Day, it's also Flutter By Wednesday!

We have an open challenge this week, just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel. It's also a sponsored week!

We are sponsored by Michelle Perkett Studio and she generously gave the FBW team a few pretty fairies to play with. Check out the FBW blog for the rules to play along and also check out the DT links to see what they've done with Michelle's images!

I used the Arianna image, isn't she wonderful? I had a great time coloring her up.

In this side view, you can glimpse the fairy dust paint that I used on her wings. To color her I used copics - R00, R20, R83, Y32, y35, BV11, BV13, B26 and G99. The sentiment is from the Verve Kind Words set.

Other challenges I am entering~

Crafty Catz #67 - Flowers

Paper Playtime #36 - January's Digi Monday

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes + Flowers

Top Tip Tuesday #20 - Anything Girlie

Have a great day!

January Month in Review

Checking in with how I did with my goals for January!

January

• Spend more quality time with my husband - Yes :)
• Create my wedding thank you cards - for those that don't know the wedding was in September 2010! - I made them! Now to just write in them and mail them out.
• Organize my printed photos and print new pictures on a monthly basis - no
• Take the Copic class that I won on FBW in September 2010 - no
• Complete the Sketch 106 class from November 2010 - no
• Complete the Colour! Or is it Color? class from November 2010 - no
• Unpack and finish moving stuff from my mom's (seeing as I've lived here over a year!) - Unpacked one box so far
• Get my scrappy room in working order so I don't feel so overwhelmed in there - working on it!
• Complete one item on the house to-do list each month - yes
• Pay off 50% of my debt by December 2011 - paid off 2 Christmas bills and am on track for my goal
• Read more books - 4 books (a few cozy mysteries - Death by Darjeeling (I've read books #5 & 6 before starting at the beginning - great series), A Killer Plot (great start to a new series - can't wait for the next one in March!), Gingerbread Cookie Murder - love Joanne Fluke & Leslie Meier- (great addition to their series).
• Commit to making less commitments! - so far, so good! I did sign up for Project 2011 Scrap Our Stash for February - hopefully that will keep me from buying, I was a bit bad with the clearance sales this month LOL! Also got to visit a stamp store that's kinda far and I bought a lot there!

My Word ~ Create

• Create a healthier version of me - def. need to work on this!
• Create a tidier home - making some progress!!
• Create for myself - I had myself a grand time this month!

Total Craft Counts~

Cards - 50 (38 of them the wedding thank you cards)

Layouts - 8

Pictures Scrapped - 27