I Heart 2 Stamp Sketch Challenge

Okay, this is going to be my final post for this evening this is the card I created for the challenge over at I heart 2 stamp. I used Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday, along with some distressing ink, my EK Retro flower punch, hemp cord, FooFaLa button, and my Little Leaves Sizzix die from Stampin' Up. I ran my tracing wheel around all the pieces of patterned paper and did some faux stitching.

Enjoy!

Mom & Dad Mini Clear Album

This is a book that I created of my parents before they had kids back when they were first dating and married. It has many more pages this is just a few. This was my first attempt at making a clear acrylic album. I like how it turned out and may have to just do a few for my sisters for Christmas this year.

I need to start spending sometime scrapbooking as it seems all my time lately is going to card making, job hunting and studying for my class.

Enjoy!

New York Mini Album Continued

Here are some more of the pictures in my book.

New York Mini Album

A friend and I were talking about scrapbooking and creating mini albums or what I call "Event Books" and I told her I would post some of the pages from my book when I went to New York City not long after 911. All I can say was that it was amazing and I will never forget walking onto the platform in front of where the twin towers once stood.

I could not put all the pages on this so will do a second post.

Mr. Campy Wins At Paper Popsicles

I was doing my normal checking out the challenge blogs I do to see if they had posted the new challenges for the week and when I stopped at "Paper Popsicles" there was my MR CAMPY card and my name in the winner's box. How exciting is that.

This was the card that I sent to Lindsay along with the Christmas Card that I posted. He wrote back that he loved them and told me about the DT call they were doing. He did stress that he was not in charge of the DT call he was the messenger.

Enjoy again~

Winter Wonderland (I wish) - Week 4

It is really hard to make Christmas Cards when it is 87 degrees out and humid. Since today is cooler than yesterdays 95 degrees thought I would get this card done and posted. The challenge for week 4 over at "Winter Wonderland" is called "A Blue Christmas" we are to create a Christmas Card with Blue being the dominating color used. I went into my big clear plastic tub that I have labelled Christmas and pulled out everything that was blue or could be changed to blue. The tag and papers are from BasicGrey's Figgy Pudding Collection from last year as are the postal rubons. The happy holidays is a Making Memories rubon, the snowflakes were done on the cuttlebug and then I used Rangers distressed inks in Broken China, Faded Jeans, & Vintage Photo. I added a couple of KaiserCraft crystals to the snowflakes and some May Arts ribbons along with one of my vintage photo's.

Hope you enjoy!

Don't forget to read the post right before this one I have blog candy.

Day 116 & UNITY MAY KOM BLOG CANDY

In honor of my blog reaching 10,000 hits today I am going to offer some AMAZING BLOG CANDY. I sent an email to "Unity Stamp" and they are offering as a prize the May Kit of the Month as a prize. If you have not seen it go to their website and check it out. What you need to do is create a post on your blog giving my blog candy link to your readers and then leave me a comment here with that link.

I will pick a winner sometime on Friday.

Good Luck!

Now on to Day 116 at "365 Cards". The challenge for today is "Keep it to Yourself Wedding Card", which means we are to create a wedding card but not put any wording on the front. You just need to know by looking at the card that it is for a wedding. You may however put a sentiment on the inside.

For my card I used Neenah Avalanche White Linen, Cuttlebug Heart Embossing folder, 2 different May Arts Ribbons and a pair of Wedding rings that I bought at Michael's in the cake decorating area. Enjoy~

Day 115 - Piece It Together

All I can say this morning is Dang it is hot here in Minnesota and the weatherman says we are going into the 90's again today with lot's of humidity and that means my hair is going to curl even more than normal.

The challenge over at '365 Cards' was to create a card using paper piecing. I knew immediately what stamps and papers I was going to use. I know that it is no longer Cosmo Cricket week, but I could not pass up a chance to use my Double Deck with Girl Friday one more time. I added a computer generated sentiment and colored in the stamens of my flowers with my black glaze pen to make them pop and shine just a little bit.

This card is also for CAS20 over at SCS as today's challenge is to do a card using paper piecing. If you have never been over to SplitCoast Stampers drop by. They have some amanzing card makers over there. I especially love the Clean and Simple challenges.

Hope everyone has a great day. I look forward to reading your comments.

Enjoy~

CPS121 Sketch

I originally thought this was going to be an easy sketch and once I sat down to do it I found out it is not as easy as I thought it would be. I have had this Cherry background paper for ever so decided today was the day I cut into this fabulous paper. I added some red linen card stock, I used some May arts ribbons and I stamped my cherries from the Unity KOM for June. I colored the cherries with some red 3-D crystal laquer then I colored the leaves in green and added some spica glitter to the leaves.

Hope you enjoy!

Day 114 - Lovin' Lavender

First off I must admit I am not a fan of lavender or purple so right away I knew I was in trouble when I saw the challenge for today over at "365 Cards". The challenge was to make lavender the dominant color on our card. I think I accomplished that and I threw in a little of my favorite color (green) and some purple for a friend.

I used papers from Prima called Nursery Tales. Very soft papers in pinks, grees, and lavenders. I used a lavender colored bazzil paper for the base of the card and Stampin' Up Little Leaves. I used my EK retro flower and ran it through my swiss dots embossing folder and then I sprayed it with fully purple glimmer mist spray and although you can't tell from the picture it has an irridescent look to it. I stamped thinking of you (Unity Stamp June KOM) on the paper. I think it turned out okay what do you think?

I will be back to post one more card for another challenge. Enjoy!

Day 113 - Super Sketchy Sunday

Well it is a new week and a new challenge over at "365 Cards". Today I used BasicGrey papers from the "Lime Rickey" collection. I love the sketch for today, so easy and once I decided on papers knew exactly what I was going to do. I used the EK Retro flower punch added a few buttons from BasicGrey and a rubon from Pebblesinc. and the card was born.

Baby update: I talked with my sister Linda yesterday and she said the baby was doing great. She had lost 1.5 oz. and now weighs 2 lbs. 11 oz. her name is Elyana Teresa. She will be in the hospital for about 6 - 8 weeks.

The other great news is that Micah (3 months old) got his first tooth yesterday. He had been drooling like crazy lately and a little on the crabby side and now we know why.

Enjoy!

Christmas in June

The challenge over at "Paper Play" is to create a Christmas card. It has been too hot and humid here in Minnesota to even think about Christmas, but since it is the Final Day of Cosmo Cricket over at "365 Cards" I thought I would pull out my 8x8 Cosmo Cricket paper pack from last year called "Wonderland" this has amazing papers in it as well as tags. I also used Cosmo Cricket Cardstock Stickers called "just your hoiday type". I inked everything up with Ranger Distress Vintage photo, added a Jenni Bowlin Bingo card, some May Arts ribbon and the card was ready.

Okay, that is one card down and ninety-nine more to go.

Who knows maybe I will email this photo to Lindsay over at CC he may enjoy this one as much as he enjoyed the Mr. Campy Owl card.

Enjoy!

Day 112 - Everlasting Love

I am so sad to see Cosmo Cricket Week come to an end I have enjoyed using all of the wonderful and fun papers that they have to offer. Thanks Pam for making this one of the most enjoyable weeks here at "365 Cards" since I started.

Today's challenge was to create a card and have the word LOVE on it. I knew right away that I would use the Everafter papers and that I would use a vintage photo on my card. With a few pearls (kaisercraft), some ribbon (may arts), a flower (kaisercraft), button(autumn leaves) and Love ticket (tim holtz) I was all set to go.

Hope you enjoy!

Eat, Sleep, Stamp - Sketch 42

I finally got around to doing this weeks challenge over at "Eat, Sleep, Stamp". The challenge was to create a card using the following sketch. I love this sketch so clean, so easy.

For this card I used Neenah Solar White & Red Linen cardstock, BasicGrey Offbeat collection, and my new Unity Stamp set. This is from the June kit of the month and if you haven't seen this set it is amazing. If you joined the kit of the month club this month you got a free butterfly set too. I can't wait to play with that one.

My sister Linda called today from California to let me know that her new grand-daughter arrived 2 months early. I haven't had a chance to talk to her yet but the mom and baby are doing fine. The baby weighs 2 lbs. 12 oz. and is 15" long. I will get more details hopefully later tonight or tomorrow.

Enjoy!

Saturday Card Club with Friends

I had so much fun today hanging out with my bff's Jeanne and Judy. We each brought projects to make. Hard to believe we got all of this accomplished in 4.5 hrs. with all the talking we did.

Jeanne's projects were this cute cupcake card and beach bag. Isn't the bag adorable? I was going to put a little piece of terry cloth in it to look like a beach towel and then decided not to. This is a SU sizzix die as is the flower. The umbrella is a Cricut cartridge. I computer generated the "Life's a Beach" onto a Fiskars tag.

Judy brought these 4 cute shoe cards. We had really good names for them but I can't say the word here on the blog. They are so sparkly in person you can't tell from the photos, we used lots of glitter and bling on these. She also taught us how to make the flower pot that has a pull out birthday tag. Too cute. The flowers are all made with a Cricut Cartridge too.

I brought the post-it-note holder that I saw on Michelle's blog, the cute little candy purse that Tami showed to me and then we did this heart card which is appliqued on (you can't see it in the picture).

So much fun I can't wait until we have our next card club.

Enjoy!

Lindsay at Cosmo Cricket

Okay to a couple of you that suggested I email Lindsay at Cosmo Cricket the Mr. Campy Owl card I wanted to let you know that I did send the email and I gave the link to my blog. Guess what Lindsay came, Lindsay saw, and Lindsay emailed me.

Lindsay loved all the Cosmo going on that he saw and his favorite card was the Mr. Campy Owl which I am reposting for anyone who missed it.

It was so fun to see an email from Lindsay in my in box.

Hope you enjoy!

Day 111 - Say it with Stripes

What a nice surprise today to open my email and see that one of my cards that I made for "365 Cards" was featured as a favorite on the blog of Miss Boo over at SCS. You can see the card here.

Now on to today's challenge. The challenge today was to Say it with Stripes and MAKE IT BOLD and it must have STRIPES. I looked through my collection of Cosmo Cricket papers and decided to use the Snorkel too (sorry Amy). I added some stickers from the same paper line and then for a final touch added some BasicGrey buttons.

Today I am off for a few hours to go over to my friend Jeanne's for Card Club. Her sister Judy will be joining us also. I have my 3 projects all ready for them to make and I can't wait to see what they have come up with for us to make.

Have a good day and I will be back later.

Enjoy!

Day 110 - My Guy

Today's challenge at "365 Cards" was to use Argyle and make it MASCULINE. Since this is Cosmo Cricket week I had the perfect paper to use since I had picked up the Lil' Man collection for Micah's scrapbook. Since I have already made 3 Father's Day cards this year I decided this would NOT be another one, but instead a birthday card. Besisdes using the Lil' Man papers I used some Neenah Natural White cardstock, BasicGrey Buttons, and some Making Memories stickers for the word DAD.

Enjoy!

Paper Popsicles Challenge meets Mr. Campy

Paper Popsicle has a great sketch challenge this week and I couldn't resist using some of my new Mr. Campy paper, stickers, and ribbon that I picked up today.

I used Kraft paper from Anchor Paper as the card base and then added a carmel brown (also from Anchor Paper) as backing to the Mr. Campy papers.

First I just added the owl but decided he looked lonely on the front of the card so I added a couple of tree branches and considered it done.

On the inside it says "Are we there yet" this verse reminds me of when I drove to California in 2005 with my son, my niece and my great niece Cassie. We told Cassie who was 4 at time that "are we there yet" was a naughty word and she couldn't say it. It worked pretty good too if I could of only managed to break the Mary Poppins DVD we would of had the perfect car ride.

Enjoy!

New Purse

I made this purse a few weeks ago and thought I had posted it here and I guess I just posted it to my SCS gallery and not here. The picture is really orange (I put orange paper around it thinking it would help it pop WRONG) so pretend it isn't orange. I will take new photos when I get more chocolate (I had a chocolate moment). The finished size is about 2 1/2".

Enjoy!