merry monday guest designer - challenge #8

Yep, you read that title right! I am this weeks guest designer over at Merry Monday.

I am really enjoying making Christmas cards knowing that by next Holiday Season I will have all my cards ready to mail out.

This weeks sketch is just wonderful and I couldn't wait to get my card made. Don't tell anyone but I had it made within two hours of receiving the sketch from Lesley. *wink*

For my card I used paper by Memory Box from the "tinsel" collection, the tree stamp is by Stampscapes, sentiment is by A Muse and twine and crystals are from my stash. I painted the tree image with acrylic paints and then stamped it.

Here is the wonderful sketch that inspired my card.

I hope you will play along with me this week over at Merry Monday. Don't forget to leave me a comment here if you play along so I can come over and check out your card.

Enjoy!

waiting

and slowly the pile is getting smaller.

I just love these photos of Micah especially the one where he is knocking on the door and when   no one comes he sits down to wait for them.

I have just fallen in love with using doilies on layouts so want to warn you that you will see a lot of them in the coming months.

I added the red alpha stickers to both layouts to bring out the red of the flowers. What do you think? Is it too much?

These are how the two pages appear in his 8x8 album that I am working on.

Thanks for stopping by to look and your comments good or bad are appreciated.

babies day out

I was talking with a friend of mine today saying how many pictures I had at home to scrapbook and she told me she only had 53 layouts to do. I probably have 1053 layouts to do.

This is a layout I started last night before Cassie and Micah came over to spend the night and I finished it up today.

Thanks for stopping by to visit. Your comments are appreciated.

paper players DT

I just found out one of my favorite sketch challenge blogs "Paper Players" is having a design team submission, and are looking for someone to join them for March, April & May.

I love being on a Design Team and creating something each week. I haven't been on a DT for about a month since my time over at A Day for Daisies ended.

They have asked us to post on our blog three of our favorite creations. Okay, so I could only narrow it down to four to show my style range.

They have asked us to say a small blurb about ourselves here so here goes.

Hi, My name is Sherry Eckblad my close friends and family call me sherryann, either name is okay I respond to both along with others. *grin*

I have been crafting in some form or another for about 15 years. I started out painting wood, moved onto counted crosss stitch and eventually took a class in scrapbooking and was instantly hooked until a friend took me to a Stampin' Up party where my love for everything with paper and ink evolved. My style tends to run clean and simple but I can also create shabby chic or vintage if the occasion arises.

Thanks for taking the time to consider me for your Design Team call.

hello

A quick card to share with you today before I head over to spend the day with my favorite little guy.

I used papers from "gathering" by Authentique along with a word sticker from the two sided elements in this collection.

I was blurfing today and saw a new challenge site that I had not heard of before Frosted Designs and decided to play along.

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

my favorite day

I have this pile of pictures on my desk and decided I should start doing something with them. So this is the result of the first picture in the pile.

Sorry the photo isn't that great it is dark out and the lighting in my room isn't all that great.

 I love this little photo of Micah. He is growing up way too fast and will be three on St. Patrick's Day.

happy

I have a card to share with you today that I created using papers from "A Boy's Life" by Echo Park and my star nestabilities.

I used the same paper as happy and put birthday on the inside of the card.

I used the newest sketch challenge over at cardabilities for my inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by to look and as usual I appreciate and welcome your comments.

Enjoy!

hi

A really quick card today.

I used this weeks sketch challenge over at Mojo Monday for the inspiration on my card along with papers from the Miss Caroline "dolled up" by My Minds Eye, butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch and he alpha stickers are October Afternoon.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

you are the best...

Happy Valentines Day!

I have a quick card to share with you that I created using papers and stamps from the Miss Caroline "dolled up" collection by My Minds Eye.

I love this collection and apologize if I am using it a lot on my cards these days.

I used the sketch from Techno Stamper which I absolutely love and know I will be using over and over again in the future.

Thanks for stopping by to look and as usual your comments are appreciated.

have a merry

Monday and that means a new sketch challenge came out today over at Merry Monday.

I used some of my Memory Box papers from the "tinsel" collection along with a stamp by Penny Black and A Muse.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

Enjoy!

birthday...

I have a quick card to share with you that I made for this weeks challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.

I used Echo Park papers from the "A Boy's Life" 6x6 paper collection along with one of my favorie digital images Pollycraft Design.

Here is the sketch that I used for inspiration.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

Enjoy your day!

i miss you.

I created a card for this weeks challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays, but now that I look at my card not sure how CAS it really is.

This weeks challenge was clean and simple paper piecing. I paper pieced the chair and lamp along with the rug on this card.

I created a simple Z-fold card and used My Minds Eye - Miss Caroline papers from the "be amazing" collection, stamps are PTI "chair-ished".

I am waiting for Micah and Cassie to get here today we are going to make a valentine day treat called 'Cupids Crunch'. I have never made it before so am hoping it turns out. It is made with popcorn, vanilla almond bark, peanuts, valentine candy corn and valentine M&M's.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

hb2u

I am on a roll today and just cranking out some cards and catching up on a few of my favorite TV shows.

I have all my newest purchases here on my desk and am trying to use a little of each before I file them in their proper places.

For this card I once again used papers by My Minds Eye from the Miss Caroline collection called "dilly dally".  The buttons are also My Minds Eye from the Follow Your Heart collection and the alpha is Tim Holtz.

I just love the color combinations in this paper collection. Grey, teal and yellow (swoon).

I used this weeks sketch over at Technique Stamper for the inspiration on my card.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, your comments are always appreciated.

merry & bright

Have I told you how much I love the October Afternoon "holiday style" collection of papers and chipboard?

It is a cold day here in Minnesota so decided to make a Christmas Card for the newest challenge over at Merry Monday.

Here is this weeks sketch.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

distress stains

I absolutely love coloring my large background stamps with distress inks and acrylic paints.

Today I took a few minutes to whip up a card for the newest challenge over at Christmas Card Challenges. This weeks challenge is "backgrounds".

Once again I used a kraft cardbase thanks to my friend Amy who got me using those along with my standard white or natural.

Thanks for stopping by to look and I will be back soon.

Enjoy!

for sebastian

My friend Amy posted a story about a young boy called Sebastian and asked for us to send cards him while he is in the hospital.

His teacher posted this story about him and the reason for sending him the cards here.

I created this card a few weeks ago and thought it would be perfect to send to Sebastian and cheer him up.

Won't you join in and send Sebastian a card to let him know he isn't alone and others care about him?

hello

This is a quick post to show a card that I created using more of the papers and chipboard from the My Minds Eye ~ Miss Caroline collection called "be happy".

I love the colors and patterns in this collection.

I used the CPS sketch 102 as my inspiration for the card.

Thanks for stopping by to look and as usual your comments are welcomed and appreciated.

thank you so much

I am so loving the new collection by My Minds Eye called Miss Caroline. The colors, the patterns and did I say the colors?

I created this card for the JUGS newest sketch challenge.

I used the "howdy doody" papers for my card and the stamp is from the same MME collection.

Here is the sketch that I used for my inspiration.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog. Your comments are appreciated.

xoxo and cherish CPS anniversary challenges

I have been having fun playing along with CPS and their anniversary sketches. I have two more to share with you.

The first one is sketch #54 and I am using papers by PTI, digital image "you stitch my heart" by Creepie Cuties and alpha stickers by My Little Shoebox. I just love this little guy and couldn't resist putting him on a valentine for one of my nieces.

Here is the sketch I used for inspiration.

Next up is a card I created using sketch 242 along with my new MME papers from the Miss Caroline collection "fiddlesticks".

I used sketch 242 for the inspiration on my card. 

Thanks for stopping by to look, your comments are appreciated and welcome.

you are the best

I can't believe that it is already February 1st, where did January go?

I worked on a card for the Anniversary celebration over at CPS and today's card features sketch 166.

For my card I used papers by Authentique from the "gathering" collection along with a MFT doily, sentiment is Ali Edwards from Technique Tuesday and buttons are PTI.

I just love the look of soft blue and chocolate brown together.

Thanks for stopping by to look.