Pattie's Creations Design Challenge #42--Photo Inspiration

My apologies for being a couple of days late on posting my creation for the newest challenge at Pattie's Creations!  The movers are coming to pack our house tomorrow, so things are a little crazy for us right now.  The newest challenge at Pattie's Creations is a photo inspiration challenge!  This is the photo we were asked to use for inspiration:

I used the popsicle trio image from Pattie's Creations to create my card:

Once I printed the image, I colored them with my Crayola colored pencils and then cut each one out individually.  After adhering a piece of patterned paper across the top of my card, I stamped my sentiment using yellow ink and then affixed the popsicles using pop dots.

We'd love to see what you can do with the photo inspiration!  Please remember that your creation MUST have a digital or stamped image to be eligible.  You have until Thursday, May 3, at 1PM CST to get your creation uploaded to the Pattie's Creations Design Challenge site.  

This will be my last challenge as a DT member at Pattie's Creations, as I will be stepping down.  I want to thank Pattie and Sandi for choosing me and providing me with such wonderful images to work with!  It's been an honor and a pleasure to be a member of your DT, and I had a great time!

Happy scrapping, everyone!

Pattie's Creations Design Challenge--Easter #41

As a school teacher, I thought this day would never come--SPRING BREAK!!!!!  What a glorious day it was when that final bell rang!  I'm a little bit late in posting my card for the newest challenge at Pattie's Creations, so my apologies.  The new theme is Easter, and you MUST use a digital or stamped image on your creation.  I chose Pattie's Easter basket with eggs image and created this card:

I decided to just go CAS with this card.  I printed the image three times, so I could use some other eggs and the bow as dimensional elements.  First, I colored everything in my image and cut it out.  Then, I decided which eggs I wanted to add dimension to and colored only those on my second printed image, cut them out, and adhered them to the respective eggs with pop dots.  Finally, I colored the bow on the third printed image, cut it out, and adhered it with pop dots as well.  I'm not sure where my sentiment sticker is from, but I found it in my stash.

We'd love to see your Easter creations!  Please remember that they MUST have a digital or stamped image somewhere on the creation.  You've got until Thursday, April 19, at 1:00 p.m. Central Standard Time to get your creation uploaded at Pattie's Creations Design Challenge.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

Let's Scrap sketch layout 3-28-12

Well, my normal Sunday routine of watching NASCAR is COMPLETELY shot today due to the contract dispute between Tribune Broadcasting and DirecTV!  Our FOX affiliate in San Diego is affected by the dispute, so we won't be watching the NASCAR race today. :-(  For those of you that ARE able to watch the race, I hope you enjoy it!

Here's my entry for Let's Scrap's latest sketch challenge:

I used Little Yellow Bicycle's Fresh Print Clothesline collection and embellishments for everything on my layout, except for the title.  For that, I used some fabric Thickers I found in my stash.  

These are some of my favorite pictures from my second pregnancy!  My husband was deployed to Iraq at the time, and I wanted him to have some nice pictures of me late in my pregnancy so he could still feel as if he were part of everything.  I'll be uploading my layout to the Let's Scrap gallery soon!

I hope everyone has a great scrappy day!  Be sure to check back later this week for my latest creation for the new challenge at Pattie's Creations!  Happy scrapping!

Pattie's Creations Design Challenge--Anything Goes #40

Well, once again, I forgot to post my project for the new challenge at Pattie's Creations!  This has been a VERY crazy week for us!  On Monday night, my oldest son (who was visiting for his spring break) broke his arm; on Thursday, my husband retired from the Marine Corps, and we had family here until this morning.  CRAAAAZY!!!!!

The theme for Challenge #40 at Pattie's Creations is ANYTHING GOES!!  Please remember that you MUST use a digital or stamped image on your creation.  The design team was given some images from this week's sponsor, Dude Time Doodles, to choose from, and I chose to use Corset II.

I added some pearls for the buttons on the corset and again along the ribbon.  The sentiment is from a stamp set I found in my stash.

Since the theme is such an EASY one, we hope to see LOTS of entries!!!  Be sure to get your projects (with a digi or stamped image!) linked up at Pattie's Creations Design Challenge by April 4.  Happy scrapping!

Pattie's Creations Design Challenge--Tags #39

Have I mentioned lately that I LOOOOOOVE Fridays?!?!?  ESPECIALLY the Friday before my birthday (which is Monday!), which just HAPPENS to include a visit to my WONDERFUL hair stylist, Meredith!

It's also time for a BRAND NEW CHALLENGE at Pattie's Creations!  Challenge #39 is all about tags, and the DT has some GREAT projects posted for you on the challenge blog.  I used Pattie's image "Sunflowers Vase" for my tag:

I printed the image twice and colored both with my Crayola colored pencils, then used pop dots to adhere them together and add some dimension.  The sentiment is from Studio G, the ribbon is from my stash (which I bought to match the papers), and the papers are from Bo Bunny's Forever Fall line.  This is also my entry for the Progressive Challenge #13 at CDAC.

We hope you'll play along with us this week!  Don't forget that you MUST use a digital or stamped image on your creation.  Be sure to get your tag linked up on the Pattie's Creations Design Challenge blog by Thursday, March 22.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

Our Favorite Things Blog Candy Extravaganza blog candy winner

I hope everyone had a great weekend!  Thanks to everyone who stopped by my blog during the Our Favorite Things Blog Candy Extravaganza blog hop over the weekend, and welcome to all of my new followers!!!  I'm actually on the ball this time around with choosing the winner of my blog candy.  After 73 WONDERFUL comments, I put the numbers through random.org and came up with number 15, which belongs to JUDY at Scrappin' Nana.  Congratulations!  I will be e-mailing you shortly for your mailing address.  If I don't hear back from you by Friday, I will choose another name.

As many of you may have noticed, I'm only fifteen followers away from 200!!  Please send your friends my way, and I'll have a blog candy giveaway when I reach 200.  Happy scrapping!

Our Favorite Things Blog Candy Extravaganza!

Welcome to the Our Favorite Things Blog Candy Extravaganza!  You should have just come from Robin's blog. If you are just joining the hop and want to start from the beginning, please start at Dena's blog.  This is going to be an amazing event!  Many of you are familiar with Oprah Winfrey's famous "Favorite Things" show where audience members walk away with an array of fabulous gifts.  It was always so fun to see how excited the audience members got with each giveaway.  Well, if you've always wished you could sit in the audience of one of those show tapings, we have the next best thing for you!

Each participant in this hop is going to share a favorite of hers.  It could be a craft-related item or a non-craft-related item.  In addition to that, each blogger is giving away blog candy!  This means you have a chance to win at every stop!

Each blogger has her own rules for winning her blog candy, so be sure to read the rules on each blog for a chance to win.

Without further ado, here is the project I created for this blog hop:

One of my favorite things to work with on my projects is flowers!!!  I picked up these beautiful turquoise flowers a couple of weeks ago, and I just LOOOOOVE them!!!!  The stamped sentiment and image are from a stamp set sent to me by my lovely friend, Suzanne (Thanks, Suz!).  I also used one of the sentiments from the stamp set and some clear embossing powder to emboss the background on the ecru cardstock.  

My blog candy is a stamp set, which I unfortunately do not have a picture of at the present time.  I'll try to get one and update the post here with that picture.  My rules for the blog candy giveaway are simple:

     *leave a comment on this post along with a way to contact you if you win

     *tell me what your favorite thing is

     *become a follower if you like what you see here (not required)

That's it!

Thank you so much for stopping by!  I hope you enjoyed what I shared with you today.  Since I'm the last stop along the way, I'll say happy hopping, and good luck!