Nettie G's new challenge and DT announcement!!

Happy Labor Day!!  I hope everyone (in America at least!) is enjoying a three-day weekend, whatever you may be doing.  To start with today, I have an announcement to make--I'M ONE OF THE NEW MEMBERS OF THE DESIGN TEAM AT NETTIE G'S!  I'm REALLY excited to work with everyone over there, and I hope you'll join us for the challenges!

This week's challenge is a color inspiration challenge:

I LOVE these colors together!  The image I chose for my card is from NettieG.  Here's my creation:

When I saw this image, I knew I HAD to have it!!!  I found the sketch at Card Positioning Systems, and I'll be entering this card in their weekly challenge as well.  I used my Fibracolor markers to color the image, then I added some glitter to the window panes for the snow effect.  My silver embellishment is the brad that I added to the center of the ribbon.  My sentiment says "Season's Greetings," although it's a little hard to see.  

We'd LOVE to see what you can come up with using these three colors!  You can create a layout, card, project, ANYTHING!!!  You've got two weeks to get your project finished and linked up to the challenge blog at NettieG's Digital Gems Challenge Blog.  Get busy, and happy scrapping! 

 

LiaStampz Challenge #2--Birthday and DT Call

Well, it's Monday.  Mondays are definitely NOT my best friend, but I deal with them. :-p  Today, we have a brand NEW challenge for you at LiaStampz!  This week's challenge is all about birthdays.  I LOVE the digi that Lia & Laura sent me to use for this challenge!

The little mice on this card are SO cute (completely UNLIKE the mice we killed in our house a few weeks ago!!!)!  The sentiment is from LiaStampz also.  The patterned paper is from a 6x6 birthday paper pad I picked up a while back, but since I shared part of it as blog candy for my birthday I can't remember who makes it!  I colored my image with Fibracolor markers, and I stamped a present in the middle of the sentiment, then used white embossing powder and set it with my heat gun.

I'm also entering this card at The Sweetest Thing for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 132.  Here's the sketch they provided this week:

Wish me luck over there!

We'd love to see your birthday projects!  The rules for the LiaStampz challenges can be found here.  You've got two weeks to get those projects done and linked up.

We're ALSO having a DT Call!  One of our Design Team members has stepped down, and we're looking for someone to take her place!  You can find information about the DT Call here, and you've got until September 15 to get your application in.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

Lasting Memories Challenge #53--Who or What Inspires You Most?

Happy Sunday, everyone!  For those of you who have followed me during my time on the Lasting Memories Design Team, I say a hearty THANK YOU!!!  Unfortunately, my time as a LM DT member has come to an end. :-(  It has been a WONDERFUL experience for me, as it was one of the first Design Teams I was privileged enough to be a member of, and I have truly enjoyed working with Karen and the rest of the team members.  I hope to be able to continue to play along with the challenges periodically!

For this week's challenge, we want to know who or what inspires you most.  Things have been crazy for me lately, and I've been a little under the weather the past few days, so here are a couple of past layouts of people who inspire me.  (I'd intended to complete a brand spankin' NEW layout for this week, but that hasn't happened yet!)

My husband, Adrian, and my oldest son, Kennedy, are probably more my inspiration than anyone else right now.  Adrian is always my sounding board for EVERYTHING, and he's my go-to guy when I need an opinion about my scrapbooking or card making!  Kennedy is my oldest son, but he'll always be my baby!  We have a very special bond, and I think he inspires me in ways I don't even realize right now.

Who or what inspires YOU???  There's a sketch on the Lasting Memories site this week that you're welcome to use for some EXTRA inspiration!  Be sure to link up your layout before Saturday evening, and don't forget about our DT Call!  If you're interested in being on the Lasting Memories Design Team, you MUST participate in every challenge for the month of August.  Be sure to put the "DT" label next to your name when linking up.  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

It's almost fall!!!

Is anyone else as ready for the fall season to get here as I am?!?  I KNOW everyone in the South is!  This year, I was REALLY glad to be living in sunny Southern California for the summer, since the South had that HORRID heat wave!  I AM looking forward to getting back to the South, though.  I've been away WAY too long, and I need the slower pace of life back.

Have you seen Bo Bunny's new Forever Fall line?  I absolutely LOOOOOVE the colors!!!!  I hadn't seen it until my friend Suzanne (Check out her blog at Scrap with Suzy!) put it on her scrapbook Wish List in our Yahoo group Scrappin' 'n' Chattin'.  My LSS, Ever After Scrapbooks, recently got this in stock, so I stopped by and picked up the 6x6 pad and a couple of 12x12 sheets to go along with it.  I picked one of the first sheets in the pad to create this card:

The base of the card was green cardstock from my stash, which I folded to make a 6x6 card, then I adhered one of the 6x6 sheets from the Bo Bunny Forever Fall pack to the front.  I stamped the flower stem on the right using Close To My Heart's Garden Green ink, and the stem is from CTMH's From Me to You stamp set (got both of these from my CTMH consultant, Heather!), both of which came in CTMH's From Me to You card kit.  The flowers and brad were from my stash, and I added Tim Holtz Distress Stickles in Scattered Straw to the yellow flower for a little bling.  The sentiment along the flower stem is from the We R Memory Keepers Banner stamp set, and the brown ribbon across the top is one I picked up at my LSS.  I finished off the card by distressing the edges with Color Box Cat's Eye ink in Chestnut Roan.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

--Kaboodle Doodles

--Make It Monday

--Paper Creations Ink

--Pollycraft Challenge

Thanks for visiting!  Happy scrapping!

My first "step card"!

As I'm trying to relish my last week of freedom before going back to school (I'm a teacher), I'm also trying to get in some crafty time each day.  My friend Suzanne (Check out her blog at Scrap with Suzy!) is a new Design Team member at The Digi Bistro, and their challenge this week is to create a step card.  Since I'd been wanting to make my oldest son Kennedy a back-to-school card ANYWAY, I thought this would be perfect for him!

I think Kennedy is REALLY going to like this card!  I used my Cricut Locker Talk cartridge to cut the images on the steps, and I used the Makin' the Grade cartridge for the lettering on the left.  I wrote the word "English" on the book, and I distressed the edges with Color Box Cat's Eye Blackbird ink.  Both pieces of ribbon were from my stash.  Suzanne provided a tutorial/directions link for a step card on her blog, and the link can be found here.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:
--The Crazy Challenge
--Creative Inspirations 

--The Digi Bistro

--Going Grey with Scrap-Creations

--Party Time Tuesday's

Have a great day!  Happy scrapping!

Lasting Memories Challenge #52--What's Your Secret?

Happy Sunday, everyone!  I would first like to extend my apologies for the lateness of my Lasting Memories post.  Things were a little crazy for me last week, and it just slipped up on me.  For this week's challenge at Lasting Memories, the theme is Secret Ideas.  How do you hide things on your layouts?  Here's my layout for this week.  Can you figure out where my secret is?

Since time got away from me this week, I pulled a layout from my stash.  I created this layout a few years ago for a class I took at a scrapbook store in Beaufort, South Carolina.  The class was "All About Me," and it focused on making a book that told things about ourselves.  We used each letter of the alphabet and had to choose a word that described something about us.  I chose to work in 8x8 format for this album, mainly because I'd never worked with it before.  I really liked it!  I figured out ways to add embellishments in a very small area.  So, have you figured out where I hid my journaling in this layout?

I adhered the mat with my picture only on three sides, so I was able to slide the journaling tag right in.  Once I put my layout in the page protector, I cut a small slit on the left side of the photo mat, so the journaling tag could be slid in and out as people wanted to read it.

How do you hide your journaling tags?  We'd LOVE to find out!  Be sure to link up your layouts to the Lasting Memories blog by Saturday, August 27, and don't forget about our DT Call, too!   All of our August challenges are open for the entire month, and you have to enter each one to be considered for the new DT.  Be sure to put "DT" next to your name when you link up!  Good luck, and happy scrapping!

Lia Stampz Blog Hop winners!

Thanks to everyone who hopped over during our first Lia Stampz blog hop this week!  We didn't have as many people as we'd hoped, so maybe we'll have to rethink a few things for next time.  Now, it's time to announce the WINNERS!!!  I used random.org to make the selections; unfortunately, I still don't have the hang of this screen shot-thing yet, so I'm not able to post a picture.

First, the winner of the Lia Stampz digital image is Ellis who said "Great card you've made! =) I love to color with promarkers, but I use watercolors too sometimes! =) Hugs, Elenor."

Second, the winner of my blog candy is alethea who said "Love your card! Nice and summery!! Wish it was here!! I am a new follower and look forward to see more of your beautiful creations!! Thanks for a chance to win! Hugs xx."

Congratulations to both of you!  Please contact me at proudusmcwife (at) gmail (dot) com to arrange for delivery of your prize!  Don't forget to check out our current challenge at Lia Stampz!  It runs through August 28!