Snc - CCC Day 5

Here is my Day 5 card for the Christmas card challenge!  Our prompt for today was gifts.

I cut the presents from Basic Grey Jovial 12x12 paper and then used a 6x6 pad to build the rest of my card. The light panel was punched using my Fiskars Threading Water punch and the strip above it is a BG ribbon doily.  I added stickles to the gifts to made them stand out more, love how they look!  The sentiment is from a Hero Arts Christmas stamp set.

TFL!

Happy Father's Day!!

This is my 900th post!!!!!!! Wow!!! I began blogging in 2006 but it was only a handful of posts for a few years and then it became a regular part of my life in 2008.  Here's to 900 more! Woohoo!

I've been on a roll today with making cards so this is a first of 3 posts so that I can get all my cards in before the challenges end.  First up we have a card for my stepdad.  I had such fun making it this morning (don't you wait til the morning of when you need a card? no??  why not?!) I find I work much better under pressure :)

I am sharing this card with The Pink Elephant #152 - Masculine and I Spy Sketches #20 (whose sketch was based off a Lori Boyd card who is the TPE owner!)

Here is my card~

I made an absolute mess while creating this card. First I put together the base of the card and splatted it with Studio Calico Mister Huey's Mists in Manila. Then I masked the image panel with a rectangle and sprayed the mist over it. After that I colored the image, paper pieced the shirt and stamped the sentiment. Next up I cut these tools from MFT Die-namics using silver cardstock from PTI and spritzed them with the mist. Then I had to clean up my huge mess since the mist was everywhere!!

Here's a close up of the tools!

Here is the sketch from I Spy Sketches - I flipped it so I could hang the tools on the bottom of the panel.

TFL!!

Supplies~
Stamps: Moka Tim from Taylored Expressions, Hero Arts sentiment
Paper: PTI cardstock, Basic Grey Granola
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics (C9, C7, C5, E11, E00, B99, B97, B95, E59, E57, E55)
Other: ribbon from stash, brads from stash, border punch from Fiskars, MFT tools die-namics, Mister Huey's Manila Mist

Skating by to say Hi for FBW #176

It's time to flutter!

This week's Flutter By Wednesdays Challenge is open, just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation. You can enter {HERE} and also we have a guest designer this week! Her name is Amanda and you can see her creation on the FBW blog and say hello to her at her blog {HERE}. You can see the rest of the FBW team's samples by visiting the links on my sidebar.

I am so in love with my card this week!  I've made lots of cards with no coloring lately and it was like getting back on a bicycle with my copics LOL!

This cutie pie is Roll With It from the MFT Pure Innocence line. She was so happy to finally see ink and I even gave her a sidewalk! I used the current Sketches by Carly which I've posted below. One of the baskets I filled with paper is one collection from each company that I have paper from...in hopes that I can try to use some of it up! This paper is from the American Crafts City Park line. I thought it was perfect for this image!

Since I want to use paper up, I decorated the inside of the card too :)

Here is Carly's sketch. As you can see, I flipped it. I love all the layers!

Thanks for fluttering by! I'll be back later this morning with my Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past hop card!

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #31

Good morning! 

I'm here with another fun challenge for Birthday Sundaes!  This week the challenge is to create a tall (or long) birthday card.  Click {HERE} to enter your card and to check out the wonderful samples from our Design Team and Guest Designer!

We are being sponsored by:

The winner will get to pick 3 digital images of their choice from the Sweet 'n Sassy shop!

SNSS also provided the Design Team with images to use - thank you SNSS!

I used Fall Arrangement which I've had in my digi collection since sometime last year and this is the first time that I remember using it.  I am so pleased with how the image looks, I haven't been coloring much but taking my time really helped me get back on track. I was inspired by the tiny flowers on the image to use this patterned paper from an old DCWV fall stack.  The layout was inspired by a CPS sketch from a few weeks ago. 

I am also entering my card into Challenge #11 - Fall Flowers/Pumpkins at Crafting for All Seasons.

Card Supplies~
Papertrey Ink cardstock - Plum Pudding, Summer Sunrise, Kraft
Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps - Fall Arrangement digital image
sentiment from Hero Arts
Copics
DCWV patterned paper
Fiskars threading water border punch
leaves from stash
mini pop dots

Ribbons for Birthday Sundaes!

Good morning!

Sorry for the quiet blog the last few days. I have been recovering from bronchitis and haven't been very crafty at all.

Today's Birthday Sundaes challenge is all about the ribbons! Use ribbons on your birthday card and don't forget birthday wording on your card front! This week we also welcome Laurie to the team officially, click {HERE} to see her creation as well as the rest of the DT samples!

This week we are sponsored by~

 

If you play along with us this week, you have the chance to win this fabulous stamp set~

Here is my sample...not the best in the world but it was all I could manage the other day. I didn't want to miss another deadline for my own team!  It did work out like I planned, but I did envision grander plans using ribbon lol. I used what was still on my desk from a few previous cards - love this Crate Paper pad. May need to get another one!

Supplies Used~

• Spectacular Sayings stamp set by My Pink Stamper
• Crate Paper Random 6x6 pad
• Memento Tuxedo Black ink
• Butterfly punches by Martha Stewart
• Crinkle ribbon from My Craft Spot
• Queen & Co black pearls
• Fiskars Apron Lace punch

TFL!

Thinking of You {FBW #173}

It's the last Wednesday of September and it's our last open challenge for Danni's birthday month at Flutter By Wednesdays.  Just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation! 

This week we have two fabulous sponsors for you too - The Greeting Farm and Paper Makeup Stamps! Two of my fave stamp companies!! Click {HERE} to upload your creation and to see the great prizes you can win! 

I am still not quite back in the swing of crafting yet so I went with a very simple card using all scraps & supplies that have been laying on my desk.  My poor markers have been neglected for weeks now. Hopefully I haven't forgotten how to use them LOL

Supplies Used~

• Crate Paper Random 6x6 pad
• Martha Stewart butterfly punches
• Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type letters
• Queen & Co pearls
• Fiskars Apron Lace border punch

Other Challenges Entered~

• One Stitch at a Time #81 - Use Your Favorites (these punches are my fave to use on cards!)
• The Corrosive Challenge #133 - Punches and/or Dies

Thanks for fluttering by! Check back in a few hours to see my Guest Designer post for The Paper Variety!

Belated Birthday Card Challenge for Birthday Sundaes!

Good morning!

Today's Birthday Sundaes Challenge should be helpful for lots of people :o)  We are challenging you to create a belated birthday card, don't forget that the birthday wording should be visible on the front of your card. The Design Team really came up with some fun ideas. Click {HERE} to see the samples and enter your card!  Did you see our Guest Designer Sabrina's Spotlight? If not, click {HERE} to check it out!

Here is my take on the challenge~

I found the sentiment in a Fiskars Make a Wish Quotes set that I picked up quite a few months ago at Joann's. I think this is only the second time I've touched this set!  The fabulous paper is new Crate Paper Random that I got from SCACD last week, love the mix of patterns in this pad!  I dug the primas out of my stash and blinged them up. The border punch is also by Fiskars and called Apron Lace.

I used last week's SCS sketch as a jumping point - a great sketch to use something other than an image. I have really been enjoying making cards without coloring, although I'm not sure I make them any faster LOL!!  I spend lots of time looking through all my pretties to decide what to use.

TFL!

Cooking It Up with Katie - Announcement & Card!

{Please scroll down to see my Flutter By Wednesdays card!}

Hi again!

I have some exciting news to share!! 

I'm a new Design Team Member 

for Cooking It Up with Katie!!

If you know me, you know I don't like cooking in the kitchen but crafting recipes are right up my alley!

Thank you to Katie for asking me and I'm looking forward to sharing these challenges with you all!

This week's challenge recipe is:

Wet (image or technique)

Brad

Border

The sponsor is Stamping Dragon and we were supplied with some fun images to use.

The image I chose is called Rupert's Bathtime. 

I had fun coloring him!

If you would like to play along, please enter your creation {HERE} and check out the DT samples while you are there too. Links to the team members are located on my left sidebar. 

Supply List~

Stamps: Stamping Dragon - Ruperts Bathtime 

Paper: Copic Xpress Blend it cardstock, Fancy Pants Beach Bum

Ink: Memento London Fog (each layer was inked with this)

Other: Making Memories brads, Fiskars Threading Water border punch, Nestabilities Labels Fifteen

An Anniversary Card

My mom and stepdad celebrate their 22nd wedding anniversary tomorrow. I made this card today to give them along with a gift certificate to one of their favorite restaurants.

I inked up the circle and adorable bunnies from the Papertrey Ink set - Daily Designs. The paper & embellishments are all from the September 2010 TE Key Ingredients Kit. 

I used the Woodware USA sketch challenge from Monday, sneaking this in a few hours before it ends!

Supply List~
Stamps: Papertrey Ink Daily Designs set
Paper: Crate Paper Restoration & cardstock from TE kit
Ink: Memento London Fog
Other: copic marker for heart, embellishments from kit, 1 3/4 circle punch, Marvy scallop circle punch, Fiskars border punch

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #23 - Pink, Green & White!

Good morning!! {sorry in advance for the goofy posting - I copied and pasted some info and I can't get rid of the white background}


I love my card that I am sharing today. I had so much fun putting it together! 


Birthday Sundaes has a color challenge set by me this week - some of my favorite colors :) 


Your birthday cards must be made up of the following colors: pink, green, and white.  {Any shades of pink/green are acceptable! Neutrals can be used, if needed.} Any cards not following the color challenge will be removed.  Don't forget to include birthday wording on your card front! Click {HERE} to enter your birthday card!


We also have a prize this week! Design Team Member Sue is offering a set of Large Oval Scallops Nestabilities. Thank you Sue!

Did you check our Guest Designer Spotlight on Rachelle? Click {HERE} to check it out and check out today's post to see her card and the rest of the design team!

And finally my card!

I based my card on Tracy's sketch challenge this week, so glad I had time to play along!

Supply List~

Stamps: MFT Pure Innocence Rose, Verve Big Wish

Paper: Copic Xpress Blend it cardstock, Echo Park Victoria Gardens

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Other: pearls, Fiskars border punch

Birthday Sundaes Blog Hop!!

Good morning!! I am so excited that today is finally here!  Are you ready to hop??

If you came here from the Birthday Sundaes blog then you are on the right track! If you just happened to stop by for a visit, please go check out the Birthday Sundaes blog to see all the details of our hop and this week's challenge.  There are a few prizes to be won and you won't want to miss your chance!

Our blog hop theme and challenge is 'Cakes and Cupcakes Birthday Cards' (and don't forget a birthday sentiment/greeting!) We are saying farewell to some members and welcoming some new members to our DT. You can enter your creation HERE.

Here is my card - I love cupcakes so I had to use one of my favorite Stamping Bella stamps - Cuppacakeabella.

I love how my card came out, especially the cupcake! It was fun to paper piece it, something I don't do often enough.  I also realized I miss my Bellas and need to get them inky more often!

and here is what I am offering for blog candy~

 

Some of my favorite birthday stamps from Paper Makeup Stamps!  They do come unmounted and I can include some EZ Mount if the winner needs it. The winner will be announced next Sunday, August 7th!

Now it's time to hop along to Michelle, one of our design team members who we are saying farewell to.  I will miss seeing your inspiration every week, Michelle!

Card Details~
Stamps: Stamping Bella Cuppacakeabella, Sweet N Sassy Stamps #1076 Birthday Greetings
Paper: Image was stamped on Cryogen cardstock, Papertrey Ink Kraft cardstock, My Minds Eye Lime Twist Life of the Party
Ink: Memento
Copics: E00 (skin), E25, E29 (hair, dots on dress), R43 (dress/shoes), BG11, B32, BG34 (cupcake top)
Other: Fiskars Threading Water border punch, Smooch, Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder

Thanks for hopping by!

Precious Baby Girl

Quick share for today - a layout of my niece and I at my bridal shower. She was about 3 months in these photos and she's over a year old now! 

I picked this page kit out of a prize bin at the LSS crop - everything is from the kit except the flowers & pearls. I used the Fiskars Threading Water punch on the edges of the blue strip. The layout is an older one from Sketchy Thursdays - I forgot to write the dates on them when I printed a bunch of sketches to bring to the crop.  

The designer paper is from MME Wild Asparagus as is the 'precious' title.  I cut up some ribbon from the kit that said baby girl to include as part of the title. The cardstock is Bazzill, the great thing about scrapping at a scrap store is always having cardstock available that matches everything!

TFL! Hope your week is off to a good start!

Flutter By Wednesday #160

I can't believe we are at 160 FBW challenges!

Today's challenge is an open one - just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation. This week we are sponsored by Through the Craftroom Door - click HERE to enter your project and to check out the prize details!

Here is my creation ~ a layout of my niece. Pictures are from my bridal shower last August. While I was opening gifts, she decided to go play in my friend's dog's toy bin and I had my sister snap a few pics.

The layout is based on an old Sassy Lil Sketches layout, I had it printed in my crop file and didn't write the date of the sketch on it. The paper is from the My Mind's Eye So Sophie line. I had fun mixing and matching the patterns that were included in the collection. The flowers and butterfly are from Prima.

TFL! 

PCC90 - Mother's Day

It's Friday! Yippee!!

Tomorrow is National Scrapbooking Day! How are you celebrating?  I hope to be in my craftroom a good portion of the day catching up with some of the online classes I am taking. I'm lucky to be squeaking out my page a day for LOAD at this rate LOL! I need to do a serious clean up in here to make it easier to find things (again!!)

Today's PaperCutz Challenge is to create a card, layout or craft project for Mother's Day using any colors you'd like.  I made a card for my mom - yes, I am actually done ahead of time! If I didn't have this challenge to do though I'd probably be making it Saturday night LOL!

I have been wanting to use this Basic Grey Marjolaine collection on a card for her. She loves greens like the ones in this paper pad.  I was going to stamp an image but then decided to go with the matching chipboard since I will be hand-delivering the card. The sentiment is from a newer Fiskars set. I inked the edges of the card and patterned paper panel with Chestnut Roan chalk ink from ColorBox.

I was inspired by this sketch from Just Add Ink~

If you'd like to play along with us at PaperCutz, please click HERE.

TFL!

Magic Wings Layout

{Please scroll down for my Flutter By Wednesday post}

I can upload pics again, yay!! Catching up on some planned posts, one more after this one!

I scrapped last night and finally used one of the 2 page layouts from the Got Sketch 106 class that I signed up for in November. I have several more in the works all featuring pictures from my day trip to Magic Wings. I'm hoping to get this book finished up in the next few months as September will be 5 years that I went LOL. Hoping to scrap another page or two tonight but my Red Sox are on and my fave pitcher is pitching (Josh Beckett) and Idol is on too!

{click on photo to see pictures better}

Supplies Used:
Bazzill & DCWV cardstock
American Crafts Backyard dp
Marvy scallop punches
Fiskars Optic border punch
Jolees butterflies/flowers

TFL!

Angel Anya for FBW #138

Today's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is an open one! Just remember to include a butterfly, fairy or angel on your creation. You can enter it HERE and for some inspiration please visit my fellow DT members, links on my left sidebar!

I've been making lists of all my stamps (scary!!!) and came across Angel Anya who hadn't seen ink yet (she was so sad too!). I pulled out my DCWV Linen Closet stack once again, it's perfect for this lovely Anya. I paper pieced her dress with one of the tiny scraps I've been saving (see you really can use those for something!)

I used SC315 for the layout, so many possibilities with this one. Will definitely save it for future use!

Card Supplies~
Stamps: Angel Anya ~ The Greeting Farm, Everyday Sayings ~ Hero Arts
Paper: DCWV Linen Closet stack, Georgia Pacific cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Colorbox Chalk Creamy Brown
Copics: E00, E35, E37, E39, BG13
Other: gold & diamond stickles, fiskars apron lace border punch

I'll be back later this morning with the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past blog hop!

Get Well with something that flies!

Today's PaperCutz Challenge is to make a get well card and to use something hand stamped, digital stamped or Cricut cut image of something that flies! I thought this was a super fun challenge!

Here is my take on the challenge~ I had to pull out my favorite bird set, Birds of a Feather from Unity Stamp Co., I think this is the only image in the set that I hadn't used yet.

To play along and see what the rest of the design team created, please click HERE!

Card Details:

Stamps: Birds of a Feather ~ Unity Stamp Co., All Year Greetings ~ Fiskars

Paper: Image stamped on TE Choice Snow White cardstock, Basic Grey Pyrus

Ink: Memento

Copics: E25, E29, Y35, YR16

Other: Pyrus buttons, Nestabilities Labels 4, PTI button twine

TFL!!

With Sympathy & Flowers

I put this card together tonight for a few challenges...

Challenges:
Lollipop Crafts #5 - Sympathy
The Shabby Tea Room #25 - Old Meets New - (old is prima flowers, new is paper & stamp)
Sentimental Sundays #18 - Clean & Simple plus a sentiment
Anything Goes Challenge #14 - Say it with Flowers
FTL#106 - sketch (I flipped it just to be different lol)
Card Supplies: Stamps: Forever in Our Hearts ~ Verve Stamps Paper: DCWV Linen Closet Stack Ink: Memento Other: prima flowers, apron lace border punch, brads from stash

TFL!

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!

Optimistically Pink Tilda

Woohoo tomorrow is Friday!!! I'm excited since I'm going to an all day crop on Saturday (that I still need to pack for!)

Today I'm sharing another card from last weekend. I created this for the Optimistically Pink Challenge over at One Stop Craft.


Card Supplies
Stamps: Tilda blowing hearts ~ Magnolia, hearts ~ CTMH
Paper: Basic Grey Bittersweet
Ink: Memento, SU Creamy Caramel
Copics: E00, E02, RV14, RV21, RV23, Y32, Y35, Y38
Other: Apron Lace border punch ~ Fiskars, diamond stickles, Labels 4 Nestabilities

TFL!