Sketch Time with Lasting Memories!

I'm so sad the weekend is almost over! I am hoping to have quite a few posts today sharing the cards I made yesterday! 

Here is my first share of the day - today's Lasting Memories challenge! 

We are challenging you to use the following sketch ~ use it as is, flip it, rotate it. Get creative! I decided to rotate the sketch, as you can see below lol. I can't figure it out how to rotate it back in blogger lol. Oops!

 

Here is my take! I so love this page, it will be the first page for Amber's book.  I still need to add the journaling at the top. There is so much I want to write but I couldn't gather my thoughts when I put the page together a few days ago.  If you can't see the tiny type stickers - the whole title reads She's the One! Everything but the title is from the Basic Grey Max & Whiskers collection. 

Check out what the rest of the DT has made and enter your creation HERE!

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!

Birthday Sundaes DT Call & Blog Candy!

A new weekly challenge blog is starting in March!

Birthday Sundaes is ready to celebrate and is looking for some designers to help with that!

Requirements~

• 4-5 creative individuals who maintain an active blog
• Term ~ end of March through July 31, 2011
• Create a minimum of 3 cards per month following the specified challenges, if unable to post a card the challenge must still be posted on your blog.
• Become a member of the Birthday Sundaes Design Team blog, this is where challenge cards are submitted. Challenges are due on the Private DT blog the Friday before the challenge goes live.
• Expected to comment on your fellow DT entries as well as our entrants. We will have a number commenting system in place for the participant entries.
• Design team experience not needed!
• The perks are to have fun and build up your birthday card stash! At this time I cannot guarantee any perks in the form of supplies, however your blog will be listed on our sidebar.

How you can apply~ please submit the following information to birthdaysundaes at gmail dot com by March 8th:

• Name
• Email address
• Blog address
• Current & Prior DT Experience, if any

The new DT will be notified by March 10th and announced on the Birthday Sundaes blog on March 13th! The first challenge will be launched on March 20, 2011!


and here are the deets for the Blog Candy!


Everyone loves Blog Candy right??
How would you like to win some??
All you need to do is help me promote Birthday Sundaes!

A little about the new challenge blog:
Birthday Sundaes is a weekly challenge blog beginning March 20, 2011.  The goal of Birthday Sundaes is to build up those birthday card stashes!  I just love to make birthday cards and hope you do too! Types of challenges Birthday Sundaes will be hosting are color, supply, recipe, inspiration & technique challenges incorporated into birthday themed cards.

How to Enter:
1. Become a follower ~ you'll always know the latest Birthday Sundaes news this way!
2. Post a note on your blog about Birthday Sundaes (along with the blog badge, if possible). Feel free to mention our DT call too!
3. Link your post to the linky tool on the Birthday Sundaes blog by March 7th to be entered!

A random winner will be drawn and posted on March 8th!

The winner will receive this hot off the presses My Mind's Eye 6x6 pad.  Trust me, you need this!  It is so pretty and will make fabulous birthday cards!

It's Spring Time with Paper Cutz!!

This week at PaperCutz Challenge, we are challenging you to create a card, layout or project with the theme of SPRING!!  I think everyone is probably ready for spring, right???

I had a great time making this card.  Poppy Fields by Penny Black is one of my favorite stamps.  I also used some more old ribbon and paper stash, yay me!

I used this week's Paper Works Co. Sunday Sketch.

If you'd like to play along, please click HERE. Also check out more spring inspiration from the design team. Links on my left sidebar!

Have a GREAT Friday!!!

Going Green for the Blast from the Past Hop!

Are you having fun on the hop?  I hope so, I can't wait to check it out tonight!

Welcome to my stop on the Blast from the Past Hop!  If you're here Karen's awesome blog, then you're right on track. If not, please start HERE at Taylor's blog.

This month we were challenged to use the color green or to go green on our projects.  I went with the color green and I also used Sankari's fabulous sketch!

I used the Udderly Sweet set along with the Garden Variety Project Pantry kit.  I had a lot of fun making this :)  I think the veggie brads just make the card!

The sketch~

Your next stop on the hop is Natalie. There is also a full list of participants below!

Reduce, Re-Use and Recycle with Lasting Memories

I finally got my layout done for this week's Lasting Memories challenge!

This week we'd like to see you reduce, re-use and recycle your scraps or something you have laying around that you could incorporate onto your layout! You have until Saturday night to enter your page for a chance at the Top 3 and to win a prize from Heart Song Designs!

I had this idea in mind for a page to hold my wedding cards (well it will be pages since we have a lot of cards!) So far I got this one done and I used the Wedding Bells digi from Heart Song Designs.  For the recycling challenge, I cut some flowers out of a tissue box.  I saved a bunch of this box design so I have plenty for the rest of the pages lol!  I popped the bells up and strung them through baker's twine from The Twinery...does anyone have any tips on getting it through holes easily?  I struggled with this for quite awhile - the bells took a bit but weren't as hard as trying to get it through the whole page so I finally used brads to hold it to the page.

Now run and make a layout for the challenge! You can enter it HERE!