Have a Fairy Happy Birthday!

Good morning!

It's time for another Birthday Sundaes challenge! This week we'd like to see your birthday themed easel cards!
Click {HERE} to enter your creation and to be inspired by the Design Team cards. The rules have also been updated and there's no limit on the number of entries where you card can be linked - just make sure to follow our challenge theme and the rest of the rules which can be found {HERE}.

We're also welcoming a new sponsor!

Trendy Twine will be sending the winner a Trendy Twine ValenTwine mini pack!

Here's my easel card using {these} directions from SCS~

When creating my card last night, I was also inspired by the Use Striped Paper challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters and the Things with Wings challenge at Crafty Catz.

Supplies:
Kirsten Silhouette - Paper Makeup Stamps
Birthday Cheer - Paper Makeup Stamps
Country Drive dp - Echo Park Paper Co.
cardstock from Papertrey Ink
Pixie Passion ink - Stampin Up
Tuxedo Black ink - Memento
Martha Stewart punch
Kaisercraft rhinestones
buttons from stash
Twisted Lime twine - Trendy Twine

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 :)

TFL!

52 Week Challenge - Week #4

Yay, I made it a whole month! *patting self on the back* lol

I don't seem to have a good track record when following through with challenges or classes so I'm trying very hard to stay motivated to get my layout done each week. I saw Frosted Designs sketch for this week and knew I had to use it!

Here's my take on it. I used more of my October Afternoon Holiday Style collection. It felt a little strange scrapping a picture of myself LOL. Usually if I'm it in, so is my hubby or my dog! Every year I add at least one new nutcracker to my collection - this year I added 3! Next year I'm going to have to find a new way to display them since I'm sure I find another to add.

TFL!

Flutter By Wednesday & CAS-ual Fridays

ETA: Thank you for the well wishes.  The headache is lingering but not as bad as it was this morning. I suspect my allergies are acting up.

Good morning. Just a quick post from my phone as I have such a headache right now and I got home late last night and didn't have time to properly type a post and take a good picture of my card.

This week's FBW challenge is to include embossing on your creation along with your butterfly, angel or fairy.  Click {HERE} to enter your creation.

I love my card for this week and I'm so happy to finally share it.  I've seen lots of cards around blog land using mostly white on white and I thought that look would be great for the embossing challenge. I was also inspired by CAS-ual Fridays Penguin Suit challenge. I think this may be the first black & white card that came together so easily for me!  Taking the picture was another story lol - i finally cleaned off a portion of my countertop and photographed the card there. I need my hubby to get my lightbox set back up STAT!

Supplies Used:
Papertrey Ink cardstock
Cuttlebug Stylized Flower folder
Hero arts sentiment
Recollections gems
Martha Stewart punch
Pop dots

TFL!

Bday Sundaes #40 along with DYSU #55

Happy Sunday! I hope you all have been having a good weekend!

We've enjoyed some snow and I've spent a lot of time in my crafty room reorganizing. I'm so excited for it to be done so I can share some pictures. I'll be even more excited when spring hits and I repaint & redecorate!

It's time for another Birthday Sundaes challenge!


This week's challenge is to simply create a birthday card and have your birthday wording/sentiment on the front of your card. Please do take a moment to review our rules if you are unfamiliar with them. As a reminder, any cards linked to more than 5 other challenges besides this one will be deleted.

This week we are sponsored by ~

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family. Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at our store HERE to browse through all of Melissa's lovely designs! You can also see Melissa's rubber stamps at her corner of Whimsy Stamps, too!

The lucky winner of this week's challenge will receive 4 images of their choosing!

Thank you to MelJens for supplying the DT with some cute images to play with. Check out the blog to see what everyone created this week and enter your challenge card!

Here is my creation using Daisy Pitcher ~

I was inspired by the Patterned Paper challenge at Do You Stack Up to use more of my Lily Bee Head Over Heels paper and the sentiment is from my new Scrappy Moms stamp set - Hooray for Birthdays.

TFL!

52 Week Challenge - Week #3

I put my 52 Week Challenge layout together tonight...took me what seemed like forever LOL! 

I knew I wanted to use this sketch from Artful Delight (designed by our SNC leader Abby!)

I finally decided to scrap some pictures from this past Christmas and it's the first time I got to use my new printer! My friend Suzy got an awesome printer and since she loved it, I decided to use a gift card to get my own. No more running to the pharmacy for just a picture or two to scrap!

All supplies except the kraft paper and Thickers are from the October Afternoon Holiday Style collection. Initially I wasn't going to get any but one day I went to the LSS and they had it in stock - it just jumped into my basket, I swear!  I also got those cool stitched Thickers that day - I think I need more even though I only opened the package tonight. The kraft paper is MME Funday and I took it from my Artful Delight January kit. I like that it has a light pattern to it so I could still journal on it and it broke up having so many busy patterns. 

It's supposed to start snowing overnight! I hope to get some good pictures tomorrow to scrap!