Sept. Stick It Down Reveal

   This month over at Stick It Down sketch blog we have a special sponsor, SpiegelMom Scraps. She is offering a special coupon code to all the SID peeps so they can enjoy a 20% off with code SIDSMS.

   Here is this month's sketch.

   Here is my take on the sketch. I created this fun Love card and used the Authentic You sequin mix from Spiegelmom Scraps.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio and Bazzill Basics), pattern paper (Studio Calico), die cuts (Pretty Little Studio), wood veneer (Pretty Little Studio), sequins (Spiegelmom Scraps), and washi tape (My Mind's Eye)

   Here is a closer look. 

Ombre Love Card

   Over the weekend, I got to play along with the My Favorite Things "Camp Create". This post is for the awesome ombre challenge

   You know me I am in love with ombre and it is so easy to do with watercolor crayons. 

 Supplies: cardstock (Canvas Home Basics), stamp (Gel-a-tins), ink (Tsukineko), doily (Doodlebug Designs), watercolor crayon (Faber-Castell) and punches (EK Success)

   Here is a closer look.

This card is so simple but is very stunning.

Always Together - SBC #484

   Today's sketch #484 reveal over at Scrapbook Challenges is one that is great to show of that one very special moment you happen to capture. 

   I ended up doing a page about my parents. I entitled it "Always Together" because that is how these two are. The only time they spent a day apart was when my dad had to take me done to Ohio for eye surgeries.

Supplies: cardstock (Die Cuts With a View, Bazzill Basics and The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Prima, Crate Paper and Studio Calico), washi tape (Little B and The Paper Studio), sequins (Studio Calico), chipboard (Crate Paper), wood veneers (Crate Paper), enamel dots (DIY), stickers (American Crafts), electronic die cutter, cartridge,and software (Cricut).

   I for one hate finding the the perfect alphabets stickers for my titles and discover I don't have the right letters so on the word "Always" I had to use a "1" for an "L", combined a "U" and part of an "Z" to make the "Y",  and an upside down "5" for an "S". 

Don't forget to link up your creations on the Mr. Linky at Scrapbook Challenges to have a chance at winning this month's prize.

You Are My Favorite Memory... Love Card

   Over the weekend, I found myself in my studio with nothing to work for a design team. Since there was no "work" I was able to play with some challenges that I never get to do. 

    

   This card I am sharing with today was one I created for the Simon Says: Touchy Feeling challenge, this was my first time playing along with one of their challenges. 

 Supplies: cardstock Bazzill Basics and The Paper Studio), journaling card (Project Life), embossing folders (American Crafts and Mometo (sp)), ink (Close to My Heart), twine (Bella Creationz), doily (Studio Calico), wood veneer (American Crafts), brad (American Crafts), washi tape (My Mind's Eye), manual die cutter (Spellbinders), die (American Crafts) and glue (Ranger)

    My take on this challenge was adding different textures to the card. I embossed cardstock, faux letterpress cardstock, wrote with twine and added some fun embellishments. 

Here are some close-ups. 

   Since the inside of the card is a dark gray I added a journaling card to the inside to write on.

    If you like this card and want to own it, stop by my Etsy store. 

More cards

Here are a few cards I created this month from various inspiration sites. Only the first one is being entered in a challenge. I missed the deadline for the last two by a week or two. 

This was was based on Sketch~N~Scrap card sketch.

 It was made just from three project Life cards, a doily and twine. 

Supplies: journaling cards (Project Life), doily (Doodlebug Designs), twine (Timeless Twine), stamp (Studio G) and embossing powder (Stampabilities) 

   This card was a just for fun project. I wanted to use the last scraps from Lillybee Designs papers I have been hoarding the last couple of years. I am sorry to say it is all gone because they are no longer in business. 

Pattern paper (Lillybee Designs), doily (SRM Stickers), sticker (My Mind's Eye) and die cut (My Mind's Eye)

The next two cards were created from sketches from CAS(E). I don't usually play with their sketches because the are not my style but this year I want to dabble in more cleaner cards. 

This was sketch #109

Supplies: cardstock (American Crafts), washi tape (Studio Calico and Doodlebug Designs), doily (SRM Stickers), stamp (Studio Calico), stickers (Basic Grey), ink (Memento) and sequins (Hazel & Ruby)

This is based on their sketch #107.

Supplies: (pattern paper (Pink Paislee), washi tape (Doodlebug Designs and Studio Calico), stamps (Studio Calico), embossing powder (Gel-a-tins), ink (Close to My Heart and Memento), sequins (Tree House Studio), punch (EK Success)

My Life and Cards

   Like I said in yesterday's post today's post was going to be late. This morning was bad everything that could go wrong did. Woke up at 6 to get ready for my eye doctor appointment to check my contact lenses. While I was getting my contacts in I heard my parents saying the less than three year old refrigerator broke. All of all frozen food was throwing (bone broth, berries, eggnog, coconut water, etc.) Luckily, we have another refrigerator so we saved as much as we could and put it the other one. After all that, we kept calling the eye doctor because the roads were bad and wanted to make sure they were open.  They finally opened at 30 minutes before the appointment but we got it moved to hour and half later. After that, I noticed lost my contact in my bad eye. Looked for a half hour couldn't find it canceled the appointment and ordered a new one. Half hour later I found the stupid contact lens got the appointment back. Went to it, found out I need a newer prescription and a better fitting lens. So next week I am getting a new set and will be back there in two weeks for another contact exam. $300 and one irritated dog later the refrigerator is fixed. 

  

   Now onto the promised cards.

   When I saw this sketch from Sketch~N~Scrap I knew I wanted to do it. It is such a simple design it was easy to translate it in layers. 

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Webster's Pages),  doily (Doodlebug), sequins (?), rub-on (Studio Calico came from their kit club), tag (Elle's Studio), diecut (American Crafts), and enamel dots (My Mind's Eye), punches (EK Success and We R Memory Keepers)

   I have been in the mode lately to finish off 

This card sketch is from Scrapping Everyday Miracles. 

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), patten paper (Crate Paper and Close to my Heart), doily (Doodlebug), tags (Elle's Studio), diecuts (My Mind's Eye), journaling card (Project Life), sequins (Hazel & Ruby) and staple.

   Thanks for stopping by and I hope I inspired you to try some of these challenge sites. 

Forever I Do - Scrapbook Challenges

   While, it is later but later than I planned for this post. Sizzlin Summer #6 sketch reveal is on I change a bit. 

 On this page, I change the the photos from portrait to landscape and only use one photo.

Supplies: cardstock (American Crafts), pattern paper (Teresa Collins and Webster's Pages), diecuts (Teresa Collins), sticker (American Crafts and Glitz Design), gelato (Faber-Castell), bling (Eyelet Outlet, Jolee's Boutique, and KaiserCraft), punch (We R Memory Keepers), journaling card (My Mind's Eye) and doily. 

In the little cluster I first started with a doily, layered a frame diecut that s colored with a gelato. On top of that I cut this cute little banner quote from a journaling card. Instead of my usual sequin scatters, I opted for some pearls. 

That is it for me tonight. I am signing off before my alarm (my dad) goes off in the morning.

Love = Cooties

   Cooties. I know it is a strange blogging topic but that is what I am blogging about today. Today is another reveal over at Child's Play Challenges. The topic is the children's game '"Cooties". I never played the game but I remember the commercial for it from when I was little. This was a challenge for me since the only thing I could think of doing was a bug layout but really did it come down to scrapping a bug when I had hundreds of meaningful photos to scrap. I finally thought of love since that has been referred to cooties forever.

   Here is the inspiration piece 

  I decided to scrap this year's Valentine's cards. That just screams love thanks to Hallmark. :) .

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Basic Grey, Carta Bella, Crate Paper and Studio Calico), trim (American Crafts),stickers (American Crafts and Simple Stories), pinwheel (Queen & Co.) tags (Chic Tags), enamel dots ( My Mind's Eye), ink (Close To My Heart)  stamps (Stampin' Up!), washi tape (Doodlebug Designs),  pen (American Crafts) and doily (Doodlebug Designs)

I have to tell you a little secret about this page. I forgot to cut the bottom strip off the background paper. I didn't know it was on it until I showed the completed page to my mom. I never saw a paper with the same pattern and colors on the cut off strip before. To fix the problem I trimmed the excess off the top. Now, I know look on the Basic Grey papers for that information strip before I start glueing. LOL 

Thanks for stopping by and be sue to link up you takes on the month's challenges over at Child's Play Challenges. 

Oh We Are So Sweet Together - Card

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I am so happy I got to play with the current challenge over at my friend,Heather, blog. Even, though I wasn't crazy over the colors in the color I thought it would be fun to do.  

This is my second card I made for this challenge. The first one might never see the light of day again. It was turning into a train wreck so I thought it was best to start over before the challenge beat me. 

Supplies: pattern paper (Fancy Pants Designs), sticker (American Crafts), chipboard (Crate Paper), transparency (Webster's Pages), tag (Elle's Studio), veneer (Studio Calico), sequins (?), doily (Sunny Side-up Bakery), card base (Studio G) washi (Target), twine (DoodleBug Design.) and ink (Prima)

I am so happy how this came out. I love the shape of it and the all the fun elements. I think my favorite element is the card base. I got them from my Secret Santa last year. The holes were already there but I wanted them to pop so I covered the inside with a solid paper.

Last of the Valentine Cards

As I promised, here are the rest of the valentine cards I made last week. These cards are going to be entered in Just Two midwest scrap Girls Challenge valentine challenge.
This one is for my mom. I had the letter stickers for a while and I haven't used them in a couple of years because so many of the letters were gone.  Just played letter doctor to my needed letters for the card.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio and A Muse Studio), pattern paper (Crate Paper and Pink Paislee), stickers (American Crafts, My Mind's Eye, and K &Co.), punch (EK Success and We R Memory Keepers), diecut (The Robin's Nest), twine (Timeless Twine), mask (Studio Calico), mist (Heidi Swapp), sequins (Treehouse Company), stitch template (American Crafts), ink (Stampabilities), stamps (Stampin' Up!), washi tape (Doodlebug Design Inc.) and doilies (Sunny Side-up Bakery and Doodlebug Design Inc.)

This one is for my brother. The heart was fussy cut from the paper I used on my dad's card.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio and American Crafts), pattern paper (Crate Paper), twine (Timeless Twine), sequins (Treehouse Company), stitch template (American Crafts) washi tape (Doodlebug Design Inc.), ink (Close to my Heart, Prima and Stampabilities), stamps (Stampin' Up!), embossing machine (Sizzix), embossing folders ( The Paper Studio and Sizzix) and flair (Zappy Dots)

The last card is for Buster. Yes, he is a dog but he is a very special part of the family so he gets a card too. It might surprise people that he actually looks at it and wants it by him so he can see it.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio, American Crafts and A Muse Studio), pattern paper (Crate Paper), stickers (Jolee's and Paper House Production), punch (We R Memory Keepers), ink (Stampabilities), stamps (EK Success), washi tape (Doodlebug Design Inc.), marker (American Crafts) and doily (Doodlebug Design Inc.)

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I got you in the mood for the upcoming holiday.

August Timeless Twine Challenge

I can't believe it is August already. It is a new month and that means there is a new challenge at Timeless Twine.

I love this challenge for two reasons (1) it is a sketch challenge and  (2)  I created the sketches.. 

I ended up using the card sketch from my project. The twine I used is from the new Sorbet collection.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Crate Paper), twine (Timeless Twine), pearls (Eyelet Outlet, stickers (Basic Grey) and stitching template (American Crafts)

To be eligible for the Timeless Twine prize link up you newly created creation here. All you have to do is use one of the sketches and Timeless Twine. You can only use our twine but if you don't have any you could use floss. 

Double, Singles and a Card

A couple of weeks age I created this page of my mom's birthday from last year.
For this page I used Pamela Young's #237 sketch. I am entering this in About A Girl  bold challenge.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio) pattern paper (Die Cuts With a View, The Paper Studio and Crate Paper), mist (Heidi Swapp), mask (The Crafter's Workshop), washi tape (7 Gypsies and Echo Park), grommets (We R Memory Keepers) , brad (Crate Paper), stickers (American Crafts and ?) stamp (K & Company) ink (Stampabilities), journal card (Webster's Pages) border punch (EK Success) and modeling paste.  

This page is of a photo of me when I was a baby. I am entering this page in About a Girl doily challenge

 This is the last page I created that I can share at this moment.  This page was a tough one for me because I ran out of creative juices and the patterns and colors were not helping it at all. To make this page cohesive I added little embellishments which complemented everything.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), pattern paper (Die Cuts With a View, Studio Calico, and Echo Park), twine (Timeless Twine), flair (Fancy Pants), rub-ons: (Doddle Bug Designs), gears (The Paper Studio), journal spot (The Robin's Nest), stickers (American Crafts and Simple Stories), and embossing powder.  

 Here is a card. I had the base of this done for a month but never finished it until this week. Thanks to a friend of mine who sent me the love tag I was able to complete this card in a matter of minutes.

Supplies: cardstock (Bazzill),  pattern paper (Crate Paper and Webster's Pages), electronic die cutter and cartridge (Provo Craft), mist (Heidi Swapp), stamp (Deep Red Stamps), dew drops (The Robin's Nest), ink (Close To My Heart), doily and tag. 

Thanks for stopping by. I hope these projects inspired you to do a creative project today.