Way to Go!

My oldest son, Kennedy, was awarded a first place ribbon in his school science fair today, so I thought I would make him a card to let him know how proud of him we are!  I followed this sketch at C.A.S. Clean & Simple Colours & Sketches:

Since I wanted to use a blue ribbon on the front, I rotated the sketch for a vertical card.

Supplies Used
Imprintz mini pigment ink pad in Blue
Jillibean Soup Watermelon Gazpacho Soup 6x6 mini pad
The {Stamps} of Life award2stamp stamp set
Teresa Collins World Traveler 6x6 designer paper pad

Challenges Entered
C.A.S. Clean & Simple Colours & Sketches Challenge #113--Sketch

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great weekend, and happy scrapping!

The Magic of Christmas

Happy Friday!  I love getting a jump on my Christmas cards, so I have less to do when the holiday season rolls around.

Supplies Used

Background stamp from stash (got as a RAK; no company printed on stamp)

Bella Creationz Stars Silver & Gold sequins

Crayola colored pencils

Imprintz mini pigment ink pad in Blue

Studio G sentiment

ZING silver embossing powder

Challenges Entered

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long Challenge #40--Anything Goes w/Embossing Powder
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge Recipe #215--Emboss It!

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' February Monthly Card Challenges--Bonus Christmas (Use Stars)

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It's Your Day!

I really like the current sketch at CAS(E) this sketch, so I thought I would use it to add to my birthday card stash.  Here's the sketch:

and here's my card:

Supplies Used

Birthday patterned papers from stash

Pop dots

Sizzix Framelits Fancy Labels dies

Challenges Entered

CAS(E) this sketch!--Sketch #111

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin'--February Monthly Card Challenges--Colorful

showCASe your style--Challenge #9:  Birthday

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Freebie/Progressive Challenge

For the past few months, I've been participating in the Freebie/Progressive Challenge at The Outlawz Challenges.  You are emailed a digital image at the beginning of the month, and you have the entire month to make a project using that image and post it to the group.  Here's my card for this month:

Supplies Used

Crayola colored pencils

Sandi Samples watering can digital image

The {Stamps} of Life sentiment

Challenges Entered

The Outlawz Challenges--Monday Greetings Challenge

The Outlawz Challenges--February Freebie/Progressive Challenge

The Outlawz Challenges--February 2015 Inlinkz

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' February Monthly Card Challenges--Brads
showCASe your style Challenge #9--Birthday

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy scrapping, everyone!

I was chosen!

Happy Hump Day, everyone!  Just popping in to let everyone know I was chosen as a Top 5 AND selected as the random winner at Incy Wincy Designs for last week's challenge!

This is the card I entered for that challenge:

I'm so excited, as the prize is three digital images from Milk N Coffee, an Etsy shop that's new to me.  YAY!!!  I always LOVE trying out new digis!

I hope everyone has a great day!  Happy scrapping!

Hope and Comfort

I hope everyone's having a great Monday!  After being out of school last week due to winter weather, my son went (happily!) back to school, but my husband was out again today after yet ANOTHER winter storm went through central Arkansas (but didn't hit us!).

I'm enjoying time in my upstairs craft room trying to get some cards and layouts done this week.  My first card today is a sympathy card.  These are always cards we (unfortunately) need but don't want to make.  I followed the color AND sketch combination from Always Playing with Paper:

I had to do a little searching to find the right colors in my stash, but here's my card:

Supplies Used

Bella Creationz Paper Doily

Brad from stash

Cardstock and patterned paper from stash

Close To My Heart Exclusive Inks in Smoothie

Michael's Paper Flowers

Teresa Collins Woodgrain Cottage embossing folder

Whimsy Stamps Sympathy Notables 3 sentiment set

Challenges Entered

Always Playing with Paper--Challenge #25:  Color/Sketch Combo

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge--R#214:  Circles

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' 52 Week Card Challenge Week #8--Sympathy

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' February Card Challenges--Brads or Enamel Dots

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you have a great week, and happy scrapping!

I was chosen!

What a great day it is!  Today is the Daytona 500, the Academy Awards, AND I learned I was chosen as a Style Favorite at showCASe your style!

You can see the official announcement here, and it was for this PB&J card:

I am SUPER excited, as I just discovered this challenge blog, and it was my first time playing along.  The newest challenge there is birthday, so I'm off to make my card!  Happy Sunday, and happy scrappin' everyone!

Fun Friday with Timeless Twine!

Happy Friday, everyone!  Today it's Fun Friday over on the Timeless Twine blog, and we're asked to think outside the box and do something we don't normally do.  I do some altered art, although not a lot recently, but when I saw this cupcake, I knew I HAD to work with it for my Valentine's decorations.

I think it turned out so fun and colorful with the "sprinkles" on top of the cupcake!

Thought I'd share some more pics of this project with you:

I forgot to take a photo of the front of the cupcake before I started painting it, so I just flipped it over so you could see the base.

I used acrylic paints when painting this and was sure to cover my craft area with newspaper.

Supplies Used
Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Bright Red, Pure Pink, and White
Bella Creationz Clearly Beautiful Loose Mixed sequins
Bella Creationz Metallic Poppin' Pink sequins--coming soon!
Bella Creationz Metallic Raspberry Pink sequins
Bella Creationz White Frost sequins--coming soon!
Pink glitter from stash
The Rubber Cafe Scraphappy Sheer Glue
Timeless Twine Strawberry Cupcake

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope wherever you are that you're nice and toasty warm!  Have a great weekend!

Pinterest Christmas inspiration

I know Christmas was just a couple of months ago, but I'm trying to get a jump on my cards for 2015.  For my card, I used this card I found on Pinterest for my inspiration:

Here's my interpretation:

Supplies Used

Creative Imaginations Loolah Self-adhesive Rhinestones

Cuttlebug Christmas Countdown embossing folder

Ranger Archival Ink in Red Geranium

Ribbon and cardstock from stash

Sizzix Framelits Die Set--Fancy Labels

The {Stamps} of Life sentiment--Club Exclusive

Challenges Entered

Christmas Cards All Year 'Round February Challenge--Red & white

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long--Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs--White on White with a TOUCH of Color

Quick Quotes Friday Challenge 48--Use red & white

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' February Card Challenges--Anything Goes

Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog Challenge #26--Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy scrapping!

Hap-hap-happiest Christmas

I hope it's nice and toasty warm where you are!  On Saturday, we had seventy degree temperatures here in Arkansas, then Sunday the temperature dropped over forty degrees and brought with it sleeet and snow.  BRRR!!!  My husband and son have both had snow days from school the past two days, so I've spent some time in my scrap room.

I really liked this week's sketch at Mojo Monday

and created this Christmas card

Supplies Used

Bella Creationz Metallic Silver Stars sequins

Brad from stash

DCWV the Mrs. Claus's Kitchen Stack

Pink & Main Christmas Quotes stamp set

Ranger Archival Ink in Red Geranium

Wood veneer from stash

Challenges Entered

Allsorts Challenge Blog Week 298--Any Occasion than Birthday

Craft Your Passion Challenge 249--Always Anything Goes

Mojo Monday--Sketch 385

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' February Card Challenges--Bonus Christmas (must use stars)

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy scrapping!

We go together

like PB&J!  My husband and I, that is!  LOL!  One of my goals this year is to use some of the many stamp sets I have that have never seen ink, so I decided to pull out this one to make my husband a Valentine's Day card this year.  I used this sketch from ShowCASe Your Style:

Here's my final card:

Supplies Used

Bella Creationz Metallic Plum Purple sequins

Crayola colored pencils

Kraft and Purple cardstock from stash

Ranger Archival Ink in Coffee and Jet Black

Studio G purple ink

The {Stamps} of Life pb&j2enjoy and hearts2love stamp sets

Timeless Twine Chocolate Chip Brownie

Challenges Entered

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' February Card Challenge--Anything Goes

ShowCASe Your Style Challenge #8--Sketch

Simply Create Too Challenge #79--Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge #93--Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy scrapping!