THE ROBYN'S FETISH CHALLENGE #295--"SNOWFLAKES"--20 DECEMBER 2015

What beautiful projects last week with the Christmas die cuts!  This week's challenge at The Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog is to use snowflakes on your project.  The snowflakes can be on the papers, a die cut, stamped, charms, etc., just be sure to have more than one snowflakes since the theme is plural.  Our sponsor this week is All Dressed Up Stamps, and the prize is the winner's choice of two digital stamps from the All Dressed Up Stamps store.

The Design Team members were provided with an image for our projects, and my chosen image is "Christmas Post."

Supplies Used

~All Dressed Up Stamps "Christmas Post" image
~Colored pencils in black, gold, gray, green, and red

~Crafty Sprouts "Have a Cool Yule" sentiment set

~Heidi Swapp Believe 6x6 paper pad
~Ranger Archival Ink Designer Series:  Wendy Vecchi in Red Geranium
~Really Reasonable Ribbon Crazy for Christmas ribbon set (October Ribbon Club Assortment)

~Studio G adhesive foam dots

What type of project will YOU use a Christmas die cut on this week?  We can't wait to see them!  Be sure to get them linked up at the Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog before Saturday.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

THE ROBYN'S FETISH CHALLENGE #294--"ADD A CHRISTMAS DIE CUT"--13 DECEMBER 2015

This week's challenge at The Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog is to add a Christmas die cut to your project.  I'm sure many of you still have projects you need to finish for the holidays or for gifts, so this is the perfect challenge for you to enter!  Our sponsor this week is Anne's Digital Art, and the prize is the winner's choice of four digital stamps from the Anne's Digital Art store.

The Design Team members were provided with an image for our projects, and my chosen image is "Delivering Presents."

I used the Stick It Down card sketch for December and will be entering this card in their challenge.

I've seen this technique several times but have never tried it myself.  Once I got the pieces cut just the way I wanted them, it went together fairly easily!

Supplies Used

~Anne's Digital Art "Delivering Presents" digital image
~Cardstock from stash
~Colored pencils in blue, brown, cool gray, green, mahogany, peach, and red

~Crafty Sprouts "Have a Cool Yule" sentiment set

~Heidi Swapp Believe 6x6 paper pad
~Martha Stewart Sugar Cube glitter
~Ranger Archival Ink Designer Series:  Wendy Vecchi in Red Geranium

~Stickles in Candy Cane, Christmas Red, Gold, and Star Dust

~Stick It Down December card sketch

What type of project will YOU use a Christmas die cut on this week?  We can't wait to see them!  Be sure to get them linked up at the Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog before Saturday.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

THE ROBYN'S FETISH CHALLENGE #293--"CHRISTMAS CARDS"--6 DECEMBER 2015

This week's challenge at The Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog is easy peasy--make a Christmas card!  Our sponsor this week is Robyn's Fetish, and the prize is three images of the winner's choice from the Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More Store.

The Design Team members were provided with an image for our projects, and my chosen image is "Rudolph Came to Town."

I used the Cheerful Sketches Challenge sketch

and will be entering my card in their challenge.

Supplies Used

~Colored pencils in black, brown, dark brown, gold, light brown, pine green, pink, red, and sand

~Crafty Sprouts "Have a Cool Yule" sentiment set

~Heidi Swapp Believe 6x6 paper pad
~The Paper Studio Sticky Doos foam adhesive circles

~Ranger Archival Ink Designer Series:  Wendy Vecchi in Red Geranium
~Robyn's Fetish "Rudolph Came to Town" image
~Stickles in Christmas Red
~Studio G adhesive foam dots

What type of Christmas card will YOU create this week?  We can't wait to see them!  Be sure to get them linked up at the Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog before Saturday.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

Stick It Down April reveal

Happy April Fool's Day, everyone!  If someone's played a trick on you today, I hope it was all in fun and that you took it in stride.  My husband and I don't usually play tricks on each other on April Fool's Day, so nothing major to worry about in our house. :-)

It's also time for the April sketch reveals at Stick It Down!  Here is the card sketch for this month:

I rotated the sketch to use it for a horizontal card and decided on a Christmas card.  If you're a regular visitor to my blog, you've probably seen a few Christmas cards lately.  Last year I had Christmas cards made to send out to most of my Christmas list but failed MISERABLY on getting that done, I think mainly because I was going to have to make MORE cards and just didn't find the time.  I have vowed to have MORE than enough Christmas cards made for THIS year, so I'm trying to get a couple done each month.  I thought this sketch lent itself quite well to a Christmas card.

Supplies Used

Heidi Swapp Christmas 6x6 paper pad

Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black and Red Geranium

Sizzix Framelits Fancy Labels dies

The {Stamps} of Life wreath4me stamp set (sentiment)

Sticks Doos foam adhesive from The Paper Studio

I hope you'll play along with one of our sketches this month!  Remember, you have the entire month to play along at Stick It Down, so be sure to hop over there and link up your project.  We can't WAIT to see what you create with our sketches!  Thanks for stopping by, and happy scrapping!

Sketchy Thursdays 7.28 Sketch Challenge

It's been quite a while since I played along at Sketchy Thursdays.  When I sat down at my crafting desk today, I had three layouts I wanted to complete.  Luckily, I got them all done, thanks to sketches!  One of the sketches I chose to use was the one from Sketchy Thursdays.  Here's the sketch they posted this week:

I decided to use some pictures from my first visit to Boston, Massachusetts, in February of 2010 for this layout, so here's my take:

The background paper is a piece in a Boston scrapbook kit I purchased while in Boston, as is the picture of Fanueil Hall (Did I spell that right?!?).  The other patterned paper and the embellishment on the top left came in an Americana kit I won on some blog candy a few weeks ago (Thanks, Kim!).  The journaling strips and blue border pieces were part of a border punch swap from the Yahoo group Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' a few months ago, and they just seemed to fit here.  The letters are chipboard from Heidi Swapp, and I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink in barn door to color them.

I'm really happy with the way this layout turned out!  Once I sat down with everything, it all came together very quickly.  I'm going to have to enter the Sketchy Thursdays sketch challenges more often!  TFL, and happy scrapping!