Scrap, Color, Read & Repeat

Monday, September 17, 2012

Daydream Designs Blog Hop!

Daydream Designs is hosting a blog hop today with some of the DT! They have some wonderful fall and owl projects to share with you! You have until tomorrow evening to hop along.

Here's all the info you need if you'd like to hop along to win some wonderful prizes from the Daydream Designs store:

OUR SPONSOR:

THE PRIZES: (Winners will be announced on Thursday, September 20.)

1. Leave a comment on each of the blogs below.

One random winner will be selected to win one FREE set of choice
(including digi paper packs) from Daydream Designs.

Amy

2. Leave a comment on each blog above AND create your own
fall-themed project to link on the last blog of the blog hop,
Vicki's Pink Posh Cards.

If you participate in both of these ways your name will be entered

for random selection to win THREE FREE sets of your choice (including paper packs).

And for this blog hop EVERYONE CAN WIN!

Pick up the FREE digi at the end of the first blog in the hop:

Diane's Daydream Designs.

Happy Hopping!

Cut it Up Challenge #1

Hi friends!

Here is a double page layout that I created at a crop on Saturday for the first challenge at Cut It Up Challenges. The challenge is Anything Goes - just include a die cut. I used circle die-namics and the new flower medley die-namics from MFT.

(click to view bigger version)

The layout uses Week #228 sketch from Nuts About Sketches. This was my birthday celebration just a few weeks after we closed on our house in 2009 - before we officially moved in. It was fun to look at these pictures and see how far our house has come since then! Patterned papers are Imaginisce - All Kinds of Happy and Bazzill cardstock.

TFL!

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

FBW #205 ~ Favorite color!

Happy Flutter By Day!

Today's Flutter By Wednesdays challenge is to use your favorite color along with a butterfly or fairy. This week we have a sponsor ~ Paper Makeup Stamps! One lucky winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to use on PMS digi images. Enter your creation {HERE} and check out all the wonderful DT samples too!

PMS was kind enough to provide the team with images to use, however I chose to use something from my vast collection of PMS. I chose to use a WordArt for my card - Sing, Love, Dance, Live.

And some long time followers might be wondering when my favorite color changed from pink lol. Last winter I fell in LOVE with some butterfly material at Joann's. It's black with white, yellow and grey butterflies. It has yet to be turned into curtains for my scrap room but I'm hoping my mom will be able to make them soon. I plan to repaint my pink craft room grey in the next few months and add black/white accents and pops of color. This Authentique paper is some of my favorite - its from the Blissful line.

My card was made using this week's Feeling Sketchy sketch ~ it was the perfect starting point for my WordArt!

Thanks for fluttering by today!

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

More Celebrate Cake ~ FBW #204

Happy Wednesday!

Just a few more days til the weekend, yes I'm already counting down LOL!

Today I'm sharing my card for this week's Flutter By Wednesdays challenge. This week we have a birthday themed challenge - just remember to include a butterfly or fairy on your project! You can enter HERE and check out all the DTs card on the FBW blog too!

For my card I used another from the large pile of SCACD stamps I cut apart on Monday ~ More Celebrate Cake, isn't it cool? I love it!

'
I used the JUGS sketch for my card layout~

TFL!

Supplies~
Stamps: More Celebrate Cake (Susana Loves Stamps), Hooray for Birthdays (Scrappy Moms Stamps)
Paper: Copic xpress cardstock, Glitz Yours Truly
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Other: mini flag die-namic (not sure which set it came from), Smooch Gold, brad & ribbon from stash, Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Monday, September 03, 2012

Sweet Christmas Wishes

As promised, I am back with my DT post for Daydream Designs!

For today's card, I am using the Sweet Christmas Wishes set, it comes with the cupcake and the sweet sentiment. I just {love} cupcakes and this one is especially yummy. I had a great time coloring it (except for discovering my R24 marker is bone dry!!) I added cut apart a second cupcake to add the holly leaves by themselves as an embellishment.

I started with today's Feeling Sketchy sketch and incorporated the following challenges as well:

Created with Love Challenges #7 - Christmas plus a die cut (circles were cut with MFT Die-namics)
The Pink Elephant #164 - Use patterned paper
Christmas Card Challenges #40 - Use 3 of something (2 sets of 3 rhinestones for the holly berries)

And with that, pj day is officially over! I have to go get cleaned up and then clean up the kitchen before we head to my parents for an outdoor dinner. It's so beautiful here today! I really enjoyed having some time in my craft room during daylight hours!

Mariposa Stamped Images Holder

Happy Monday!

Today I'm sharing the first project I created for September. Yesterday I started cutting apart all of my rubber stamp sheets from Susana's Custom Art and Card Design. While I've used several stamps I bought from there, most of the stamps I bought on sheets just stacked up (I know shame on me!!) The ones I cut apart so far have been stamped and then filed into a 3 ring binder (my new method of stamp storage). I had a pile of stamped images on my desk this morning and decided to make a holder for them using the Slip Cover template from My Time Made Easy. I made one a few years ago and it's starting to show its age from being toted to crops.

First I stamped Mariposa from the Eyes of Beauty and Dreams Collections on a piece of Copic Xpress cardstock. I then stamped the flowers from the Fall Flora Fairies and Spring Flora Fairies collections. Next I stamped the butterfly (not sure which collection this came with). I colored all the images and made the grass with my copic markers. I finished off the images with Crystal Stickles. I added ribbon and buttons from PTI along with some brads in the button holes from my stash.

Below is a view of the open box~