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