Oct. 31 pumpkin

I recently ordered the Doodlebug Design "Boos & Brews" collection, and it is absolutely the CUTEST Halloween collection EVER!!!  I need to save some to do a couple of Halloween layouts with, but it's just so much fun to make cards with!

I discovered the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog the other day, so when I saw the new sketch I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.

Challenges Entered

~Craft Your Passion Challenge #334--Always Anything Goes

~Crafty Catz Challenge #342--All Tied Up

~Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #287--Pumpkins

~Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #150--Halloween with Ribbon or Trim

~Tuesday Morning Sketches--Sketch #374

Supplies Used

~Cardstock from stash

~Cricut "Stretch Your Imagination" cartridge

~Doodlebug Design Inc. "Boos & Brews" collection

~Hobby Lobby ribbon--Halloween 2015

Thanks for stopping by!  Happy scrapping!

Tag It with Flowers!

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  It's Tag It Tuesday at Timeless Twine, and this month is all about spring and the Sorbet Collection of twine, so I decided to make some cute flower tags.

I cut the flowers using my Tags, Bags, Boxes, & More Cricut cartridge.  The small flowers are cut at 3", the large pink and green flowers are cut at 4", and the large blue flower is cut at 3 1/2".  I added adhesive around the edges, then simply wound the twine around four times on the larger flowers and three times on the smaller ones.  I stamped the flower in the center of each one with an image from the "Oh, Snap!" set from Bella Creationz, then added glitter and Stickles (in Fruit Punch and Lime Green) for something extra.  I'm also entering these in PaperCrafter'sCorner.com's Magazine Mondays Week 94 challenge.  My inspiration for these from the magazine inspiration is that planting flowers is part of sprucing up for spring!

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It's a Boy (Card)!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Monday!  I'd planned to be crafty just about all day today, but I ended up having to do some things around the house first.  As a result, I didn't get to my craft desk until almost two o'clock. :-p  The main thing I wanted to get done today was to make a card to go along with our neighbor's baby gift.  After doing some blog searching for a good sketch, I found this one at Cupcake Craft Challenges:

I decided it was PERFECT for what I had in my stash, so this is the card I came up with:

I also added a piece of patterned paper and another sentiment on the inside to give the card a more polished look.  The crawling baby is a Cricut I received from my friend Suzanne (Thanks, Suz!) in a Cricut cut swap in the Yahoo group Scrappin' 'n' Chattin', and I adhered it with pop dots to add a little dimension to the card.  The ribbon, buttons, sentiment sticker, and patterned paper are all from my stash.  I'm entering the card in these challenges:

Cupcake Craft Challenges--Faberoony Sketcharoony
KB Cute Monday--#25 Babies
Make It Monday--#50
Paper Playtime--#53 Anything Goes
Pile It On--#33 Blue, blue, blue
Sparkles Forum Challenges--#18 One For The Boys
Stamps & fun = Creativity--#60 Monochrome

I hope everyone has a great week!  (If you haven't been through the Lia Stampz Blog Hop yet, please visit Laura's blog to get started!  We've got giveaways and blog candy!!!)  Happy scrapping!

Cakes and Cupcakes Birthday Cards @ Birthday Sundaes!

This week's challenge at Birthday Sundaes is to include cakes or cupcakes on your card.  I have a friend having a birthday VERY soon, so this is going out to her.  I hope she likes it!

I included views on two different backgrounds, because I couldn't decide which one looked better!  I used the cards and layers features on my Cricut Sweet Treats cartridge to cut the card and elements before adhering them together.  I added some ribbon I found in my stash to the "icing" between the layers, as well as some rhinestones from Queen & Co.  I ATTEMPTED to use some red embossing powder to put some swirls on the "cherry," but it didn't come out so well. :-(  The sentiment on the front is from a stamp set from The Rubber Cafe.

You should hop over to Birthday Sundaes and check them out, if you haven't already.  I'm going to be a guest designer over there in a few weeks!  WOOHOO!!!!  I'm REALLY excited about that!  I'll post more info on that later.  I hope everyone has a great weekend!  Be sure to check back here tomorrow for the new Lasting Memories challenge and information about the DT call!  Happy scrapping!

Christmas in July!--Last card

I can't believe today was the last day of Scrappin' 'n' Chattin's Christmas in July card challenge!  It's been such fun, and I now have a stash of thirty-one beautiful handmade Christmas cards to send out this year!  I wanted to find a sketch to use with today's card, so I did a little blog hopping to see what I could find.  I came across this sketch at Card Patterns:

I had several elements I wanted to use on today's card, so I turned the sketch sideways and made my card large enough to fit in a business-size envelope.  Here's what I came up with:

The Santa is a Cricut cut I received in a Cricut cut swap I participated in earlier this year, and the lettering was a set of bling stickers I picked up at Michael's.

It was such fun participating in the Christmas in July challenge!  I don't think I have enough cards for EVERYONE on my list, but I'm off to a good start!  TFL, and happy scrapping!

Happy Birthday card for Birthday Sundaes challenge

I'm trying to be more diligent about entering challenges on friends' blogs, so tonight I created this card for the weekly challenge at Birthday Sundaes:

Using my Cricut, I cut the crown shape and accents from the Sweet Treats cartridge and paper pieced the crown together.  After measuring the height of the crown, I cut a piece of purple cardstock that was twice the height and folded it in half.  I adhered the crown to the purple card base and used my X-Acto knife to cut around the crown shape, thereby having the fold of the card at the top.  I stamped "Happy Birthday" across the bottom using words from a birthday phrase stamp set (sorry, but I don't remember who makes it!), added Art Glitter in Cheeky Pink for some shimmer, and then found some pink gemstones in my stash for some added bling.

I've also applied for the new DT at Birthday Sundaes and would be REALLLLLLLY excited if I got chosen!  Kristie isn't going to announce the team until mid-July, though.  Wish me luck!  This card also satisfies one of the monthly card challenges (make a shaped card) in the Yahoo group Scrappin' 'n' Chattin' where I'm a moderator.  I hope everyone had a great Saturday!  Happy scrapping!

New cards!!!

Hello, everyBODY!!!!  (Said in my best Super Grover voice!)  I hope you all had a great week and are having an even better weekend.  The Scrapbook Expo was at the Del Mar Fairgrounds close to San Diego this weekend, so I spent most of today down there.  I got some stuff I was looking for to work on my mom's Mother's Day present (which I'd better get done TOMORROW so I can get it in the mail!) and picked up a few other things as well.

I was also fortunate enough to have the opportunity to take the Fabulous Folds class, taught by Melissa of The Rubber Cafe.  I LOVED her class, and I brought home the kits to make two more cards, in addition to the two we made in the class.  Here are the two from Melissa's class:

Once I got home, I made ANOTHER card!  This one is for the Yahoo group Scrappin' 'n' Chattin's monthly card challenge and satisfies the challenge requirement to include a handmade candle on your card.

The wording on this card is from the Sweet Treats Cricut cartridge and was cut at 2" and 3".  I used Fruit Punch Stickles on the work "blow" and just outlined the other words with a marker.

My Lasting Memories layout will be a little bit late this week, as I spent so much time at the Scrapbook Expo today that I didn't have time to get it done when I got home!

Lasting Memories weekly layout challenge--HAPPY EASTER!!!

Happy early Easter, everyone!  This week's Lasting Memories challenge is centered around Easter, but it's up to YOU to determine what that means for you.  Here's my layout for this week:

As soon as I found out our challenge was about Easter, I knew EXACTLY what picture I wanted to use, so I was glad I found it!  This is my oldest son, Kennedy, on his first Easter.  I was struggling to come up with a title, so I asked my loving husband for help.  He said he thought Kennedy looked like he was pushing the bunny back from his Easter basket and thought the title should be "Get back, bunny!"  Voila!  Title problem solved!  I cut the letters on my Cricut using the Jack Sprat function on the Lyrical Letters cartridge, then accented them with Stickles in Lime Green.  My sketch is modified from an old Sketchy Thursdays sketch I had saved on my computer.

What's your favorite Easter memory?  Is it something from your own childhood?  Favorite flowers?  A favorite outfit or hat?  What about your own kids?  Let's see what you've got!  Don't forget about our Design Team call, too!  You MUST participate in all of our challenges in April, and be sure to put the label "DT" next to your name.  Happy scrapping!

Party Time Tuesdays new challenge--Chandelier Romance

It's time for another PartyTime Tuesdays challenge!  This week's theme for the challenge is to incorporate a chandelier and make it a "romantic" card--Chandelier Romance.  Here's my take on the theme:

The card is 5 1/2" square, and the base color cardstock is gray.  I then used a 5 3/8" square of black cardstock for the base of the design.  The white is plain white cardstock, and the pink patterned paper is some I had in my stash of scraps.  I was just lucky enough to have a piece I could print on and cut at 5 1/4"!

My chandelier is a digi stamp from Bev of the PT Tuesdays Design Team.  (Thanks, Bev!)  I printed it on my patterned paper, then cut the paper to the size I needed.  Once I had it on my base, I added some pearls to serve as the "lights" and Art Glitter in Black to enhance the chains on the chandelier.

The black and white ribbon was found in my HUGE ribbon stash (I SERIOUSLY need one of those cute little ribbon bags with the little holes in the side!!!), and the "LOVE" stamp in the corner is from Close To My Heart.  (I won it at my friend Heather's CTMH Open House last week!).  I cut the chair from the Sentimentals Cricut cartridge, then used my white gel pen to add the "cushion" and back design.  To finish everything off, I added a black brad on each corner.  Since those stuck through to the inside of the card, I cut a piece of patterned paper 5 3/8" square from a scrap of Teresa Collins's Mr. and Mrs. Love paper that I had in my stash and covered the left side of the inside of the card, which also then covered the backs of the brads.

The inspiration for my card this week came from two places.  First, I saw this picture at my hair stylist's shop last week (Thanks for the AWESOME red hair, Michelle!):

Then, I saw this card on the front of the January/February 2011 issue of Paper Crafts magazine:

So after seeing something with chairs and chandeliers twice this week, I guess it was meant to be that the PT Tuesdays challenge is Chandelier Romance!  I also entered this at the Creative Belli Blog as well as at Creative Craft World, Stampin' for the Weekend, Stamping Vacation, and Card Makin' Mamas.  It qualified for Stamping Vacation's Home Sweet Home Challenge, too!

I hope you'll play along with us this week!  Check out the blog at Party Time Tuesdays for more info on this week's challenge.  You'll have until 11:59 p.m. MST to submit your entry.  Hope to see your creations there!