Donating Cards

I am going to post a little business related news today. Now until the Fourth of July I am going to donated a card with every card you buy from my studio I will donated a card to Operation Write Home (OWH)
If you are interested in buying cards to support this you can check out my selection that I sell here.
Card Selection.

Celebrate Card

This card I created from a scrap pack I got at Hobby Lobby by K & CO. years ago. I pieced pieces together to make  a quilt design. I did this for the Frosted Designs Friday challenge.

Artful Delight Projects

This is my first time ever doing both sketch challenges over at Artful Delight. The sketches can be found here

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My Dad

I am sure you have a love one that makes a funny face whenever you take a snapshot, for me it is my Dad. If I take ten photos of him half of them would be funny. Since he always does this I thought it would be a great layout to capture him. I used #11 sketch from Let's Get Sketchy

Card Sketch

Hi, am just popping in to share my newest card sketch I created for a card game over at Club CK.

Remember you can find this and more of my sketches here on my blog under the " Card Sketches" tab.

Mother's Day Hop

Welcome to your third stop. If you didn't come by the way of Melissa Johnson., go back to the start to Amanda because you don't want to miss any of these projects.
I am going to share with you a card and a necklace I made for my mom this year.
The card was made with three different collections from Cosmo Cricket (Early Bird, Salt Air and Jolly By Jolly - the banner was made with it)

 Up next is a rolled flower necklace. I know it is not the kind of necklace you had in mind but my mom like camouflage material so I thought she would love this.

All you need is:
1 1/2" x 15" strip of fabric folded in half width-wise.
Chain
Hot glue
Beads
Felt

Steps
1. Cut a 2" circle out of felt.
2. Glue one end of the strip in the center. Twist stripe and glue down. Let it coil around itself.
3. Trim any excess felt off the flower.
4. Cut a strip of felt and glue to center of chain so it looks like a tab. Glue tab to back of flower.
5.Glue on you beads.

Your next stop is to Robyn .
Enjoy.

Robin's Nest Review.

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to win a gift card over at Robin's Nest. It was the first time I ever bought stuff from them and let me say I was impressed with most of the stuff I ordered.
Here is what I got.

Front side of paper

Reverse side of papers

Stickers, clipies and ribbon

Pros:

1. The papers are great quality, sturdy and most of them are double sided, which I didn't know until I got them. 
2. The Santa clippies are made with a sturdy chipboard that has a slight give which makes it easier to side over ribbon or paper. 
3. I just love that blinged out ribbon it came with the extra bonus rope. I already use some of the rope. 
4. Shipping was very reasonable. It only cost $5 to ship it to Michigan from Utah. 

Cons:

1. Sad thing was the stickers. They looked like something you could print off yourself at home and their print quality was poor. It looked like on the birthday ones their printer was running low on ink which left ink lines through the images.

Conclusion:
I am happy with my stuff but will stay away from the stickers next time I order from them.

Disclaimer: I was not paid for this review theses comments are my own.

A Look Back and Ahead

Little over a week ago Diana from Design by Diana celebrated her 3 year blogiversary with a blog hop and sketch challenge. I wanted to create a page using these photos I picked out a week ago and came up with this cute baby page of me. I also used this challenge with two challenges over at Club CK.

I made the stick pin with some basic die cut flowers. tulle foam tape, head pin and a little gem.

Coming up this week:
Product reviews from Robin's Nest,
Review on the i-magicut Ribbon Cutter & Sealerand
Mother's Day blog hop May3-4
 

Hexagons

Have you notice how popular this geometric shape is? I for one love this trend but the sad thing I am having a hard time finding stuff with it. The current Friday challenge over at Frosted Designs is to use Hexagons. Since I knew for me it was going to be a challenge just to find the beloved pattern in my stash, I almost past up this challenge. At last I found a 2 inch scrap of brown pattern paper by American Crafts. I came up with this birthday card for my brother. I used CPS card sketch #262 Part 1.

Supplies: Washi tape (Target) Pattern papers: American Crafts, Basic Grey,Simple Stories) Accents: Scenic Route, Basic Grey) Baker's Twine (My Mind's Eye) Stickers: Glitz Designs) Stamp: (EK Success) Other: blank ink, hole punch and tickets

Party Day

While my brother's birthday is coming up and my Mom neeed a birthday card so I made her this card. I used the Paper Bakery Sketch (can be found here) and the grid challenge from Quick Quotes ( the blue pattern paper was a diagonal grid.)

Supplies: Cardstock - the Paper Studio; Pattern Papers - Quick Quotes; Rub-on - Crate Paper; Buttons - Making Memories; Bakers Twine - We R Memory Keepers; Balloon die cuts - George and Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge; Staples

Layout and Card

    As you know I like to do challenges. I created this layout using CSI #15 case file, Sketch Inspiration #316 sketch and I am sure there is one more but my mind is drawing a blank since as I am typing this it is after midnight.
Here is the case file

Here is my page.

   Now, on to a Christmas card. Yes, you read that right. I cute card for this week's Club CK card challenge, Frosted Designs #16 card sketch and Crafty Steal's Blog challenge to use brads.

Please stop by Crafty Steal's blog and vote for your favorite project.
Thanks, Mandi

Sketches In Thyme DT Call

I saw the call for a new DT over at Sketches in Thyme and I knew I wanted to try out for it since I love to use sketches,
I had to make a page based of their sketch here.
Here is what I came up with.

For this page I used some of the hottest things in the scrapbooking industry. Pom-poms,chevron, washi tape, burlap and misting.
Thanks for stopping by.

Easter Blog Hop

 If you didn't arrive here from Emily's blog then go back to Jordan's blog to start from the beginning. She will have the list of all the blogs to visit in this hop.

Welcome to the color Green.I picked this color because I thought it would be challenging to create an Easter page without making it look like something from St. Patrick's Day.

I needed some help with the design so I used this sketch from the Paper Bakery. 

Supplies: Coredinations, American Crafts, K & Company, Scenic Route, Simplicity, My Minds Eye, EK Success, the frame and ribbon I don't know the names of the manufacture. 

Your next stop is Heather M she has the color Violet.