Christmas in August!

Since I missed the whole Christmas in July thing, I decided to join in the Scrappin-n-Chattin 30 day Christmas Card Challenge this month.

Here are my Day 1 and Day 2 cards~

I'm also sharing the card above with these challenges:
Addicted to Stamps Challenge #35 - Christmas in July
Paper Playtime Challenge #80 - Anything Goes
Lexi's Creations #70 - Christmas in July
2 Sisters #102 - Christmas in July

I'm also sharing my reindeer card with these challenges:
Truly Madly Crafty Challenges - Animals
Sisterhood of Crafters - Diamonds, Pearls and Lace...oh my!
Critter Sketch Challenge #126 - Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin - Christmas in July 

Supplies~
Card #1
Stamps: Yuletide Greetings (Inkadinkadoo)
Paper: Winter Park (Echo Park)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento Ink)
Other: Mister Huey's Opaque White mist (Studio Calico), pearls (Queen & Co)


Card #2
Stamps: Jolly Christmas (Hero Arts)
Paper: Eskimo Kisses (Basic Grey)
Ink: Tuxedo Black and Rhubarb Stalk (both Memento)
Other: pearls (Queen & Co)

TFL!

BFFs ~ a layout!

Good morning!

I'm sharing the page I created for the SNC 52 Week challenge and it's also for the June Sketch at My Scraps & More. Yes, I scrapped before Friday! It's a miracle! I told the girls at SNC that I wouldn't know what to do with myself on Friday night now LOL! Maybe I'll get wild and scrap a 2nd page. hehehe

This is a picture of my best friend, Courtney, and I.  Self portrait of us at the beginning of the year and it's been sitting in my 'to be scrapped' file since the May crop.  The papers are all from the Authentique Genuine collection. I sprayed the background paper with Mister Huey's Mists in Passport - most of it ended up covered up lol. I used my Gypsy to die cut the flower paper using a cut from Storybook and the flower buttons and flowers are from some ancient stash! I used some stickers from the Authentique collection to the right of the picture (click on the picture to see larger version).

TFL and stay cool!! It's going to be another hot day here in New England!


Supplies~
Paper: Genuine (Authentique)
Other: Thickers (American Crafts), stickers (Authentique), Mister Huey's Mists - Passport (Studio Calico), buttons from stash, flowers from stash, Storybook cartridge for the die cut shape (Cricut)

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

Gelato ~ a layout

Sorry for the silence this week, I was so proud of myself for starting to blog often and then my allergies reared their ugly head on Sunday night so I've been a bit off this week.  I did do a lot of resting and had some fun blog surfing! I've missed having the time to do that.

Here we are at the end of another week - with my weekly layout done late on a Friday night.  It's week #23 - I still have plenty more weeks to learn to get it done earlier!  I was thumbing through some pictures and came across a few pictures from our 'minmoon'.  We stayed a hotel near a casino about an hour from here and had fun hanging out at the casino that night and the next day.  The pictures aren't that great since it was my old phone but at least I have some pictures documenting that time :)

All supplies (except the mist) are from the Studio Calico April kit - "City of Lights".  This was my first month's subscription from them and I finally opened it tonight.  I am loving their kits! They are full of things that I normally wouldn't pair together and there are so  many fun things in it. Since I didn't want the cardstock to be plain, I decided to finally try the spattering technique that is so popular these days. Oh my, what a mess I made LOL!!  Luckily it all cleaned off my counter top pretty easily although I still need to wash off my cell phone case.

For the layout, I used this week's Sketches in Thyme sketch except I rotated it to fit my page. I love how this turned out!!

Tomorrow I'm off to my friend's to craft for the day. Naturally I over packed but I hope to get a lot done, including my projects for this Monday's blog hop!