52 Week Challenge - Week #5 & 24 Hour Challenge!

Well lookie here, it's only Saturday and my 52 Week layout is DONE! Whatever will I do with myself on Friday night now? LOL!

We had our monthly 24 Hour Challenge on SNC, I missed the deadline to get my layout entered for it but I still wanted to get mine done since I loved the collection and sketch picked for me by Amanda. She picked Echo Park Country Drive and this sketch from Creative Scrappers:

I've had this collection on my 24 Hour list a few times now and this is the first time it got picked. I've been saving it to use for pictures from my day trip to meet Sue!

I started off with inking the edges of all the papers with Tea Dye distress ink. I think it helped the papers not blend in together since they are a bit on the busy side. The thickers are from a kit I took apart and I used some flowers from Recollections and the blue one is one I've been hoarding from Precocious Paper! The butterflies were punched from a few of my Martha Stewart punches.

I can't wait to scrap more pictures from this day now that I finally started :)

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Cooking It Up with Katie #75

{Please scroll down for my Flutter By Wednesdays post}

Are you ready to Cook It up with Katie? Let's get to it!

This week's recipe is to include the following:

• something girly
• a bit of green 
• and a group of something (at least 3 or more of one thing)

Our sponsor this week is Sassy Studio Designs, check out the Cooking It Up with Katie blog to enter your creation and see what you can win if you play along with us this week! 

Here is my card for this week's challenge~

The pretty flower embellishment is from Precocious Paper. It's something I've been hoarding for months LOL!  The sentiment is from My Pink Stamper's Spectacular Sayings set.  I used last week's Skipping Stones sketch for the layout, you can find the sketch {here}.

Have a great day!

Time to Celebrate

Sharing a page I made at a crop a few weeks ago, these are pictures from my bridal shower last summer.

I'm glad I brought this collection with me to the crop, I had one collection set aside and while I was packing I came across 3 different MME So Sophie collections and I decided to take them with me.  The MME paper was perfect for some of the shower pics! The title came from one of the collections as well. I used some holiday sweet spots from Precocious Paper as accents. 

I loved all the little touches my friend and sister added to the shower such as the picture frame that everyone signed and the frames all around with pictures of my now-husband and I in them.  

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Man and his best friend

So I'm quite late with my Lasting Memories challenge post...it's been a whirlwind weekend and I can't believe it's just about over already!

We are challenging you to a recipe this week - 1 diecut, 2 brads and 3 layers - fun!!

Here is my take ~

I was so happy to finally use my sweet spots from Precocious Paper! Love these, they were part of a holiday set and the two brads on the top spots were perfect for this page :)  Had to get a little girly stuff in there for my pup lol!  The journaling reads "I just love this picture of my husband and our dog, Amber. I captured this moment at my parents' house while we were celebrating Pat's birthday."  I had a lot of fun with the title, I went back to my 'roots' and stamped it with 4 different sets from Close to My Heart - Swirl Stroke caps, Swirl Stroke lowercase, The Works Alphabet and Simple Stitches.

This is the sketch that I based my page on (from Get Your Sketch On - a cool newer sketch blog!)

To link up your own Lasting Memories challenge, click HERE and check out the DT samples while you are there!

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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!