Linnie Blooms Butterfly Congratulations

Happy Friday!  I always look forward to Fridays, because I know I'll get to spend more time with my family on the weekend AND I get to sleep late on Saturday!  WOOHOO!!!

Today I have a butterfly congratulations card for you:

Using the butterfly stencil from Linnie Blooms, I grabbed my Pebbles Inc. Chalking Set for my colors.  I used the darkest blue I had, then I added a little black around the edges and finished the top butterfly off with some black rhinestones from my stash.  On the bottom, I (obviously!) used the lighter pink for the majority of the butterfly, darker pink for the edges, then light pink rhinestones for the center.

The ribbon came from my stash.  First, I adhered a single piece of ribbon around the front of the card base.  Then using my bow maker from 3 Girl Jam, I made a small bow and affixed it to the top of the ribbon with a ZOTS clear adhesive dot.  The sentiment is from the We R Memory Keepers banner set.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!  I'd love it if you also checked out the Linnie Blooms blog.  Happy scrappin', everyone!

Your thoughtfulness hit the spot!

Thought I would share this card I originally made for the "Thank You" portion of the monthly card challenge at Scrappin' 'n' Chattin':

I'm also in a 52 Week Card Challenge in the same group, and our challenge for week one was to make a gatefold card.  I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out!

Supplies Used

Ribbon from stash

Cardstock from stash

ladybugs2love stamp from The {Stamps} of Life

White gel pen

Jillibean Soup Watermelon Gazpacho Soup 6x6 pad

Challenges Entered

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' Monthly Card Challenge--Thank You

Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' 52 Week Card Challenge--Week 1

Crafty Catz--Challenge #212 Thank You

3 Girl JAM--January Challenge Anything Goes w/ribbon

I hope you'll stop back by tomorrow for the Through the Purple Haze Secret Santa blog hop!

Through the Purple Haze--DOUBLE TEAM CHALLENGE

It's time for a DOUBLE TEAM CHALLENGE at Through the Purple Haze!  Team A and Team B have created some great projects for you this week, so be sure to head over to the TTPH Challenge Blog to see everyone's work.  Our sponsor this week is Digital Delight, who is giving the winner of this week's challenge a $5 coupon to their site.  The challenge for everyone is Anything Goes (Halloween optional).

I found a chipboard book in my stash, so I decided to create a Halloween chipboard book:

I think I'll probably end up putting pictures and journaling of my boys' Halloween costumes over the years once I dig out some of Kennedy's pics.  

Supplies Used:

~Studio 18 chipboard book

~Cardstock from stash

~Scrapbooking orange & purple ink pads

~Bo Bunny Happy Halloween 12x12 paper

~Recollections Haunted Washi tape

~The Paper Studio La Petites Halloween Felt bat

~Me & My Big Ideas October 31st swirl bling

~Recollections Halloween stickers

~atd by Momenta Halloween Puffy Phrases

~Me & My Big Ideas Halloween Sayings stickers

~Recollections Halloween chipboard stickers

~American Traditional Designs Halloween Stripes 12x12 paper

~Halloween cardstock

~Ribbon from stash

Challenges Entered:
~3 Girl JAM Challenge #27--Anything Halloween with Ribbon
~Crafting by Designs--Anything Goes
~The Crazy Challenge--#156 Halloween
~Simply Create Too--#48 Halloween
~Jo's Scrap Shack--FCC #22 Anything Goes

Be sure you head over to the Through the Purple Haze Challenge Blog to get your project linked up by Sunday, 27 October.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

Happy birthday, Dad!

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Happy birthday, Dad!  I know my dad doesn't read my blog (He doesn't do that much on the COMPUTER, for that matter!), but I wanted to wish him happy birthday anyway and share his birthday card.

I found this Super Hero image from KennyK while I was cleaning off my scrap table.  It was already colored, so it was that much easier!  I used this sketch from Seize the Sketch:

Supplies used:

~Jillibean soup Watermelon Gazpacho Soup 6x6 mini pad

~Super Hero image by KennyK

~Crayola colored pencils

~Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Barn Door

~EK Success Sticko Red White Blue Stars Stickers

~Recollections cardstock

~American Crafts Party Animal stamp set

Challenges entered:

~Seize the Sketch #4

~Sketches 4 All--September Challenge "Just Boys/Men"

~Crafty Catz--birthday card

~3 Girl JAM--celebration
~Party Time Tuesdays--Anything Goes #139
~Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' Monthly Card Challenge--Anything Goes #2

I hope everyone has a great weekend!  Happy scrapping!