My Creative Time~ Throwback Thursday Challenge Entry

Hey again :)

This is my second post for today....

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I wanted to get in on the Throwback Thursday Challenge over at My Creative Time

~this weeks challenge was all about Bugs

and here is what I came up with

I used the Wild Cards Cartridge for the scalloped circle card base

Designer paper from My Minds Eye~Lost and Found Breeze stack

The butterfly cut from Create a Critter~

Peachy Keen Faces for my butterfly~ Simple Sallies Face Assortment

Flowers cut from George and Basic Shapes

Sentiment from My Creative Time~ Follow Your Dreams

punched out using my EK Success oval punch

Distress ink in Gathered Twigs

White gel pen for doodles

brads from my stash

I also used LOTS of foam dots to add dimension to the flowers and butterfly wings.

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Entering into:

My Creative Time~ Throwback Thursday

Paper Pretties~ Use Flowers

DL Art~ Anything Goes

Sending You Birthday Wishes~ Challenge Card and A Halloween Card

Hi everyone!

I had a card all ready to post yesterday and I got too tired so I am posting double today.

The first one I made for two challenges:

The Ribbon Girl~ use ribbon

and

Birthday Sundaes~All about the Brads

OK so my card is a shape card using George and Basic Shapes Cartridge and welded on my gypsy.

The balloons are from Simply Charmed cut at 3.5" and I used the shadow feature as well.

I added the PKS faces~ Everyday Character and Simple Sallies.

I colored my own ribbon again using my copics and BV08 and R85.

I know the picture is not the greatest but the card base as well as the sentiment mat and ribbon are all purple and are all the same color.

So the sentiment is actually a dollar bin find that seemed to fit too good with my balloons :)

A little twine on the balloons, 3 purple brads, some white gel pen doodles and a paper clip to hold the sentiment and my card is complete!

So here is my second card.

I picked up this cute pumpkin die at the store the other day on clearance and of course had to give it a try :)



Cute little pumpkins....a very simple card using Cloud 9 Season Paper Stack and Fiskars Halloween Night sentiment.

I added more white gel pen doodles on my pumpkins and popped up the middle one for some dimension.

So thanks for stopping by and make sure you stop by tomorrow for another Paper Playtime challenge

 and a new Whimsical Wednesday challenge on Wednesday.

Have a GREAT night :)

School's Out!! Teacher's Thank You Card /PKS

Afternoon Blogger!!

School is officially over for my kiddos and I couldn't be happier to have them home!

Since today was their last day I gave their teacher's our gifts as well as my card. I love each of the boys teachers so much and they both had such a great year!!

To make things easier on me I made 3 of the same cards for the main teachers, one for the band teacher and 2 for the aides.

Here are closeups of the cards....

Sorry about the picture...color is off alittle!

The card is a weld from the George and Basic Cartridge. I have the hardest time welding so ANY tips would be greatly appreciated!

I cut the apple from Create a Critter and added PK~531~Simple Sallies face.

The tag is from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More with a Fiskars sentiment.

I added some Candi embellishments to the side along with some bakers twine a white gel pen doodles.

This is the same basic design with the pencil cut from the Locker Talk Cartridge.

Again I used PKS for the face and I printed the sentiment from my computer.

I used my border punch for the paper look.

Lastly I have the band teachers card. I found this awesome Graphic 45 paper that I used for the base.

I love this paper so much I didn't want to cut it :( But I did and I like the way this came out. Plain and simple!!

That's all I have for now....Oh yeah one more thing...My card won over at The Paper Variety!!

It was the Twisted Easel Father's Day Card!

Whoo Hoo!

Thanks for stopping by....see you all later!



Birthday Card~~Sketch and Embossing

Afternoon Bloggers!

I have a card to share with you as well as a reqest.....For the request, if you could please find the time to pop over the the Papercraft Star blog and vote for my card. It is #1. I would be soooooo appreciative :)
Thanks bunches...you have till 6am tomorrow to vote.

Next I have a card to share that I made for 3 challenges.
Birthday Sundaes , 365 Cards and CropStop.

For the Birthday Sundaes challenge we were to use wet or dry embossing and the 365 Cards challenge was a sketch. CropStop's challenge, twice as much fun is to use 2 embossing folders in your project.

The background paper is from Jillibean Soup and the rest is from my scrap. The Circle I cut at 3" using George and Basic Shapes and the cake is from Simply Charmed cut at 2.5"

I embossed the circle with my cuttlebug and a birthday folder and the icing~divine swirls, flames~~herringbone.

The sentiment is from fiskars stamps.

That's all I have for now....remember if you haven't entered my 300 follower giveaway you have until this Friday~June 17th to enter :)

Now off to make dinner and then to play some ball....Have a GREAT night everyone :)

Whimsical Wednesday Challenge #1--Scrapbook LO w/Critter or Bug

Hello blogging buddies and welcome!!

Today is our first Whimsical Wednesday Challenge ! We will be having these challenges every week with each challenge staying open for two weeks!! This will give everyone LOTS of time to create and link up. You will love all the themes... they are so fun, and first up is a scrap booking challenge! They will be the first Wednesday of the month.

This weeks Challenge #1 theme is :

“ Make a Spring or Easter themed scrapbook LO, adding a critter or bug on it”

Here is my project...a cute and fun Easter layout.

I tried to keep this layout simple...yet every time I wanted to I thought it needed something else LOL! What do you think?

SO here is  what I did..I made the cute bunny with the Create a Critter Cartridge ( I think this is my favorite cartridge). He is cut at 5" as well as all of his layers. I also cut the basket from the same cartridge. I did run the basket through my cuttlebug for some added texture.

I cut some eggs..actually ovals with George and Basic Shapes using some scraps I had when I made my patchwork bunny card. I added some glossy accents to the eggs for the shiny effects.

Both of my mats are cut from George and Basic Shapes at 4X6".

I made the cute banner and  ran the paper through my cuttle bug again. The letters are from Cuttin' Up. I put eyelets in the corners of all pieces and strung the whole thing on some twine.

The sun is a circle again from George and Basic Shapes and cut and folded outward to make the sun. I just recently watched a tutorial on this and when I find the link I will post it here. (or if you remember please let me know so I can give the blogger the credit...because it was NOT my idea..I just borrowed it)

I added a journaling mat as well which is a stamp I recently picked up on my last Joanne's run :)

You can't really tell from the photo but the bunny is up on foam dots, the flower is up on foam dots and so is the banner. There is alot of dimension to this layout

I can't wait to fill this page with our Easter celebrations this year.

Now, make sure you go visit the Whimsical Wednesday Blog  to link up your entry and check out the sneak peeks of all the other DT's projects! You are sure to find tons of inspiration and get all the details for the Challenge #1 ! You have two weeks to link up! Can’t wait to see all your projects!

Happy Friday...Red Hatter's Blog Hop!

Happy Friday!

I am so exciting to be joining these wonderfully crafty ladies for the Red Hatter's Blog Hop. If you happened upon my blog and want to join in on the fun, hop over to the start... Dusti over at Scrappin with Cricut.

So I have to say I did not know what a Red Hatter was when I joined in. I did a little web seaching and friend asking and more web searching thanks to a site Dusti sent me and now I don't feel so young, left out  and alittle more informed. Part of joining in on these is to learn new things and I have definetly learned something new!

You probably want to see my project..right?!?

Here it is...I made a mini Hat Box with 4 mini "friend" cards





My project started with a 4" mini wood box. I painted the box with white acrylic paint and used fire brick distress ink on the top and sides. When all was dry I mod podged my sentiment and hat to the lid.

They as well as all the stamps came from Whimsy Doodle Graphics. How cute are they!?! I attached purple ribbon to the box and decorated with cooradinating paper. (I just realized I don't have a picture of the outer lid to show you..sorry)

For the cards I cut 4 circle cards at 3.75. I welded 2 together for each card and used the circle cut from George and Basic Shapes. Once I had all my cards cut out the fun began...decorating them :)
Part of the digi cuts from Whimsy Doodle Graphics was these cute ladies. I cut them out and colored over the purple which came out after I printed it a blue/purple. It didn't match any of my paper..nothing alittle marker couldn't fix :)
I had made some skittles not too long ago in watermelon and came across them again. They were used  as well as some basic purple ribbon. The second card is the flower cut from again Geoge and Basic Shapes in 3 different shapes. I stamped the red petals with a Stampin Up flower stamp..just to give it alittle more..

Theses notes are cut the same size as the others with again matching papers. The flowers are Prima flowers with a sparkly red brad attached in the middle. Finally the red hat is a cut from PDDU. I just attached the ribbon and a purple button.

Inside each card is a different sentiment stamped. They say..Always Friends, Thinking of You, Just Because and Hello Friend.

So this is my project. I hope you all liked my interpritation of the Red Hatter's. I had a blast making this and hoped you all enjoyed seeing my pictures.

Now for alittle blog candy...we all love candy right?!?!

I have a pack of recollection paper in pastels and 3 sets of Prima flowers. All springy because "Spring" has almost sprung and I can't wait!

To be entered to win this all you have to do is become a follower and leave me a comment with a way to reach you.

Simple, Simple!!

I will draw the winner using Random.org on Monday morning.

Hope you had a blast on this hop!!

In case you hit me first here is the list of all the other bloggers participating. Make sure you go and check out all their projects. I know there is candy there also :)

Dusti at Scrappin With Cricut

Deanne at Deanne's Creative Juice

Deanna at Deanna's Paper Crafts

Lindsey at La Georgia Paperie

Sue at Sue in CT

Ruby at Handcrafted Simply By Us

Bunny at Bunny Runs with Scissors

Jillian at The Princess and the Paper

Jessica at Chick-n-Scrap---That's Me :)

Is it Spring Yet?

As I was making my card today...thinking about how nice the weather was going to be (34 is better than 20...LOL) I looked outside and it was snowing! I new that this Spring Card was the closest I was getting to flowers for a while :(
It seems that I'm having an off crafting day...I cant get my colors to work...my designs are not what I wanted and my camera wasnt taking good pictures...so what you see is my "wanting it to be spring card, on my off crafting day"
Maybe tomorrow will be better...I am stepping away for a while and maybe will be back later!


I am entering this in the following Challenges:
365 Cards: Day 2- Pick 5
For Fun Challenges- Purple, Green and Yellow
Celebrate the Occasion- Challenge #3

Hope to be back later or...until tomorrow.....:)

It's Your Birthday!

 

Hi everyone! Happy Tuesday! I can't believe that the day is almost over and we are almost to hump day!

My son's birthday is on Sunday and I originally made the Robot card for him that I posted last week. I showed it to him when I finished it and he loved it...but said "now I saw my card, it wont be a surprise". Guess what..another excuse to make another card. Here is it! I'm not telling him and he will get it on his birthday!

I have posted about how I am a BIG bargain shopper so this is one of my bargains...the paper is K&Company Spaghetti Designer Paper Pack. I picked this up at Target on clearance for $1.99. Then the matching stickers I got for $0.62! Nothing like a GREAT deal!

My card for today is a pocket/tag card. The pocket is 4 x 5 sealed on 3 sides. The tag was cut from George and Basic at 2 1/2. "Smile" is cut from the Paisley cartridge (p36) at 1" and the Frog also from the same page was cut at 2 1/2.

I am entering these for the following challenges:
Claudia & Company- Challenge #76 Recipe
Two Scraptastic Gals-CCCC #7 Paisley Cartidge

365 Cards: Day 355- Friday Sketch

Happy Friday!! Hope everyone has exciting weekend plans..I know we don't which is good. We have been SO busy with the kids activities that a much needed weekend free is great!
I plan on spending alot of time today crafting and catching up on challenges so hopefully this will be the first of many posts today.
A very simple card I made for 365 Cards: Day 355 Friday Sketch. Sometimes simple is better right? I tried to curl my flower petals but I think I need some more work. Anyways I think it came out cute.