ahoy ~ bumbo

Just a quick post this morning before I head out to work at Anchor Paper.

I have been busy as a bee making different colors of the wrinkle ribbon and thought I would share a picture with you.

If you are interested in purchasing some leave me a comment or send me an email and I can give you the information.

Okay, since I had all this fabulous ribbon sitting here in front of me I had to use it on a card so decided to use it on the card for the July challenge over at Claudia and Company. This months challenge was to use pink and aqua.

Isn't the image of this little boy just the cutest? I bought this over at Mo's digital pencil.

My scrapbook layout is for an 8x8 book I am doing of some of  Micah's baby photos.

The layout was inspired by the sketch challenge over at Design Dollies Sketchday.

I sprayed my page with two different colors of glimmer mist and although it isn't the exact look I was going for I think It turned out okay. t I need to figure out how you get the splotches instead of the full spray so  I will have to work on that.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my blog.

Enjoy!

~ supplies ~

card:

papers: neenah solar white cardstock, cosmo cricket delovely

ink: ranger distressed ink tumbled glass

accessories: cosmo cricket tiny type stickers, copic markers, vintage wrinkle ribbon, spellbinders oval

layout:

paper: neenah solar white linen, basicgrey oliver

ink: glimmer mist key lime pie and sea glass

accessories: basicgrey oliver die-cut shapes, bo bunny cardstock stickers

that face ~ thinking of you

Happy Friday! I am working this weekend at Anchor Paper on University and am thinking I might go to Archivers tonight for scrapmania. I have a baby album to do for my nephew Jason and his new son Adrian and I want to get it done before Adrian gets any older.

I have a couple things to share with you today and the first is this layout I did using the July sketch over at Sketches! by Tamara.

The pictures are some of the first ones I took using my son's new Canon Rebel 2Ti. A little fancier than my little Nikon coolpix.

And last but not least is a card using today's sketch over at Clean and Simple Stamping what is really nice is that not only do you get the sketch, but you get the dimensions of all the parts to the card. These are nice when you are not really good at things like math. :)

Okay that is it for me for today. So do you have anything fun planned for this weekend? Leave me a comment and let me know what they are and who knows you might win some fun wrinkled ribbon from me.

Enjoy!

~supplies~

layout:

paper: bazzil white, neenah epic black linen

accessories: american crafts dolce fabric letters

card:

paper: neenah natural white, french paper teal, october afternoon thrift shop

accessories: pebblesinc. rubons, cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder, martha stewart butterfly punches

happy birthday ~ sugar stick

I just re-read my title and it makes me laugh. I have a couple of cards to share with you today and both cards were created using the nestabilites "labels eight" largest die. I just love this little shaped card.

Okay, my first card is for this weeks challenge over at CAS~tastic and this weeks challenge was to use Kraft anyway, anyhow.

This next card is for Papertrey Paper Dolls and this week it was a sketch challenge.

Enjoy! Have a great day!

~ supplies ~

card one:

paper: proterra kraft, eames dark brown

accessories: pebblesinc. rub-on, stampin' up leaf die, k&company handmade mini accents, ek success 1/2" punch, signo white gel pen

card two:

paper: neenah solar white, bazzil red, pop-tone green, basicgrey lime rickey

accessories: martha stewart shred scissors, copics

stamp: claudia and company sugar stick girl with kite

siblings

I love the look of plain no fuss sketches and this weeks sketch over at "starting now" was exactly that. I really love Julie's style of scrapbooking and her sketches are always amazing.

I thought this page was going to be a quick 1 - 2 hour at the craft table, but I think it took me that long just to pick out papers.

Hope you enjoy! I will be back later with a couple of cards to share.

~supplies~

paper: bazzil white, basicgrey "lime rickey"

accessories: pti felt and flowers, basicgrey buttons, nestabilities, american crafts flair and ribbon, martha stewart butterfly, karen foster scrapbookers floss

laundry ~ roses

It is another beautiful day here in Minnesota and I have a couple cards to share with you that I did for this weeks challenge over at Sasya's Sketches.

I originally made this card and then wasn't sure if I liked it or not so decided to do another one which was really what I wanted to do in the first place. (but it looked so much like last weeks didn't want to go that route)

This is the sketch that I worked from.

And this is my second card that I made.

That is it for me for today I will be back tomorrow with a scrapbook layout and maybe a card.

Enjoy!

~ supplies~

card one:

paper: cosmo cricket (material girl) neenah (natural white)

accessories: cosmo cricket (material girl chipboard) natural jute, tracing wheel

card two:

paper: cosmo cricket (material girl) october afternoon (thrift shop) neenah (natural white)

accessories: tracing wheel, martha stewart (lace border punch)

mojo monday sketch 146

I have a quick card to share with you this morning and then I am off to do some stuff around the house and yard.

This card was inspired by the challenge over at Mojo Monday.

Enjoy!

~ supplies ~

paper: basicgrey  "basics manila paper pad", kraft, esse dark brown

ink: chalk ink "chestnut roan" ranger distressing ink "vintage photo"

stamps: hero arts "elegant weeds"

accessories: pebblesinc. "rub-ons", american crafts "ribbon", tracing wheel, pop-dots

beach boy ~ not the singers

It is another hot day here in Minnesota and I was up at the crack of dawn so I could get a few things done around the house and then get back to my scrapbooking.

These are some pictures of Micah from the other day at the lake. I don't know if you can tell by the picture but I love the way his hair curls on the top of his head when it is warm outside. If you look really close at this face you will see sand all over his mouth. Not sure but he might have been tasting it.

This layout was inspired by this months challenge over at Paper Poppy.

Thanks for stopping by ~ I hope you enjoy!

~supplies~

paper: bazzil white cardstock, sassafrass lass nerdy bird, french paper pop-tone orange and yellow

accessories: american crafts thickers, cloud 9 rain dots, signa gel pen and zig millennium pen

Project Tuesday ~ thank you

Well it is Tuesday and that means time for Project Tuesday and this week we are making a cute little "lip balm" holder.

I turned mine into a little purse after seeing some of the great creations over at SCS.

I hope you will play along with us this week and if you do ~ don't forget to link it up over at Project Tuesday so we can all take a look.

Enjoy!

details

cardstock: neenah (epic black and solar white linen) eames (weave pink)

accessories: pebblesinc. (rubons) hero arts (rhinestones) cuttlebug (swiss dots embossing folder) SU (punches) american crafts (ribbon) uniball (signo gel pen), fiskars (border punch)

boating

I wish I were boating right now! Instead I am waiting for the repairman to come and see what is wrong with my fridge. Yesterday, we noticed foods were not as cold as they should be and today it is a nice 58 degrees inside. Luckily, the freezer portion is still working so we are hoping it is just a fan that has gone out.

So since I have all day to wait for him I have been scrapbooking and watching a movie. The movie was "The Stoning of Soraya M". I thought it was excellent and has been on my to watch list for awhile.

This is a layout using the newest sketch over at Pencil Lines.

I love these new papers by American Crafts from the "heat wave" collection. Can't wait to use more of them on a mini album I am planning.

Enjoy!

~supplies~

paper: bazzill "dots", american crafts "heatwave", neenah "solar white", french paper "cherry red"

accessories: american crafts "dolce thickers", webster's pages "sparklers", my minds eye "so sophie ~ small accessories packk" fiskars "border punch"

just because ~ miss you ~ boat ride

It is still hot and steamy here in Minnesota and I thought with the rain we had this morning it would cool off a little bit, but that did not happen.

I worked on a couple cards and a scrapbook layout while finishing up my movies that I rented yesterday.

This card is for the sketch at CPS this week a really clean and simple sketch.

I used my Cosmo Cricket "garden variety" paper and chipboard for this card along with some tiny type stickers and a basicgrey button.

This next card is for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge and for this one I used some more Cosmo Cricket only this time from the "material girl" paper line as well as more of those wonderful tiny type stickers.

My final project to show you is a layout I did of Cassie and I must admit that I totally scraplifted this idea and I thought I had written down where I saw the layout and now I can't find it. So if you are the person I stole this idea from, I apologize. 

Enjoy! I will be back tomorrow with a Project Tuesday challenge for you.

thinking of you

I was so excited this morning to find out that I won the blog hop over at Claudia and Company and I got to pick one of the new Lori Boyd stamp releases.

I just love her cute stamps and the card I am showing today uses one of the digital stamps I bought from her a few weeks ago.

This card was inspired by Dana's sketch over at Practicing Creativity this week.

Enjoy!

details

paper: neenah (solar white and epic black linen)

sentiment: pebblesinc. (rubons)

accessories: may arts (ribbon) cuttlebug (swiss dots embossing folder) kaisercraft (rhinestones) copic markers

hope your day ~ happy ~ oh no ~ red

Well it is 9 am on Saturday and I can already tell it is going to be hot and humid outside today. I guess I better go take care of my errands early.

I worked on a few cards last night as well as a couple of scrapbook layouts while watching some hulu.tv.

This first card is for clean and simple stamping I just love these sketches so easy.

My next card is for this weeks challenge over at Our Creative Corner I haven't played along here in a while so thought I would and it was another great sketch.

I am also trying to do at least one scrapbook page a day so I can catch up with my 1000+ photos that I have waiting for me.

This layout is for this weeks Twisted Sketches challenge and along with a sketch the challenge was to use "red" in our layout.

Poor little Micah did not want anything to do with his new big boy bed.

My last layout is a just because layout it is not for any challenge I am just working my way through my piles of photos. Cassie got the lead in the school play this past year and got to be "Little Red Riding Hood".

Enjoy and have a great day!

sew sweet ~ happy hello

Sorry my post is late today I was busy doing some other things and completely forgot that I did not post my cards for today.

My friend Amy is the guest designer over at my friend Yvonne's blog and she has a challenge for us to do and prizes to be won.

Amy's challenge is to use 4 different patterned papers on your card. Sounds easy enough ~ right? NOT!! I had a heck of a time doing this one for some reason. And even though I am not crazy about the card it is done and being submitted.

The inspiration for this card came from the card challenge over at Taylored Expressions.

My last card is for this weeks challenge over at cardabilities.

Enjoy! I will be back tomorrow with a couple of layouts to share.

details ~

card one: sew cute

paper: neenah natural white, cosmo cricket material girl, french paper orange pop-tone

stamps: unity/cosmo cricket material girl

ink: memento black

accessories: cosmo cricket material girl chipboard

card two: hoppy hello

paper: neenah solar white linen, basicgrey oliver 6x6 paper pad

sentiment: pti pond life

ink: memento black, ranger distress vintage photo

accessories: basicgrey oliver die-cut shapes, fiskars border punch, signo white gel pen

happy day

It's a color challenge Monday over at "design dollies"  (okay I am a couple days late) and the colors we are to use are: dark green, light green, pink, and kraft.

Although this sounds simple it took me over 45 minutes to find the right color combinations to use and now that my card is finished I am still not sure if I like the pink that I picked.

I used papers from Cosmo Cricket "material girl", BasicGrey buttons, PTI felt in "raspberry fizz" and "simply chartreuse", sentiment is also PTI "fillable frames #5 stamp set".

Enjoy!

call me

I love the October Afternoon "thrift shop" line of papers and embellishments and thought it was perfect for the newest sketch over at CAS~tastic.

This is one of those sketches I can see myself using over and over again.

Enjoy!

roses ~ happy birthday

Another beautiful day here in Minnesota and I am thinking I will go outside and tackle some of the weeds in my yard.

I have a couple cards to share with you first.

This card was inspired by this weeks sketch over at Sasya~Sketches and it gave me a chance to use some more of the wrinkle ribbon that I made last week and some of my new Webster Pages papers.

This next card is for the Mojo Monday challenge and this week we could choose whether to do a round or a square card..

I used more of the papers from the Webster Pages 6x6 papers and I tried making a rosebud using the PTI cream felt. I love how it turned out and I have to thank my friend Yvonne for showing me how to do this.

Here is the sketch I used for my inspiration.

Okay I am off to do a few chores out in the yard and then inside for lunch and for dessert some homemade peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream. Yummo!

Enjoy!

card for tami

I went scrapbooking at Archivers with my friend Tami the other day and she gave me one of cards from her last class to color and put together.

I finally finished up late yesterday while watching some crazy "SCARY" movie on Netflix. Yep, besides making cards and scrapbooking I love to watch scary movies. Some of my favorites are SAW and Chainsaw Masacre, but I have to admit I do close my eyes once in awhile.

I love these papers by Cosmo Cricket and they go so well with the little butterfly by Karen Lockhart.

Okay enjoy your day I am off to run some errands and grab a cup of coffee at Caribou. Yummy!