Have a Tweet Day!!

I'm really enjoying my newest cricut cartridge - Nifty 50's! This sweet little chick is an image from that cartridge. I also used a couple of challenges for the card .. color challenge 97 at Scrapmaster's Paradise (daffodil delight, tempting turquoise, and Pretty in Pink) and I used today's Use It Tuesday challenge to use a fastener on your page. I chose to use buttons because I love buttons and I have so many of them I need to use them more.
The sentiment is from The Pink Stamper
thanks for looking!

OWH sketch #66

The sketch for the Operation Write Home sketch challenge:



and the card that I made!
I used some patterned paper scraps from Stampin' Up. The flower is from Prima and the sentiment is a stamp from SP&Company.


thanks for looking!

Sassy Lil Card Sketch 4/21

The following is the sketch that was presented to us for the April 21 sketch challenge at Sassy Lil Card Sketches


and this is the card that I created! I used baja breeze patterned paper, corduroy brads, and cardstock all from Stampin' Up. The sentiment was cut with my cricut using the Lyrical Letters cartridge.


thanks for looking!

Hambo "special announcement"

This week's challenge at the Hambo Hoedown was to use this King digital stamp with an announcement to share. I chose to use a congratulations sentiment along with the image. I colored the king with prismacolor pencils, added some star brads, inked the edges and put the image on a card base with star patterned paper

thanks for looking!

Dad card

Another card made playing with my new Nifty Fifties cricut cartridge. The image and letters are from the cartridge. I chose to use this week's color challenge at Scrapmaster's Pardise for the image ...Always Artichoke, Baja Breeze, and Old Olive.
I also used black and cool carribean cardstock, with a crumbcake base. The cool carribean was embossed with my cuttlebug

OWH sketch #65

This past week I purchased (at a great price!!) the Nifty Fifties cricut cartridge. Tonight while I was crafting I decided to use this week's sketch at Operation Write Home while playing with the new cartridge and I came up with this card. The image and sentiment were both cut with the cricut, Making Memories ribbon, and the cardstock was some of my larger scraps

thanks for looking!

weekend scrapping

A couple of layouts that I made this weekend both of them using sketches from Sketch Inspiration

The top layout is sketch #215. I used some K&Co. ribbons and brads that I got a year ago at a scrapbook retreat.

The second layout is sketch #216. I made this for a challenge to use pastel colors, the paper and cardstock is from SU as are the punches I used.

Hambo "get ogre it"

This week's Hambo Hoedown challenge was to use this digi image of an ogre along with one of two sentiments that were downloaded with the ogre. I chose to use "get ogre it" because that is the kind of day I had at work! I would have loved to tell a co-worker or two to get over it!

Along with using this digi image we were to use distressing on our card. I either tore or distressed every edge, inked every edge, plus rubbed a bit of the ink onto my white cardstock. I colored the image with prismacolor pencils in colors to match the patterned paper. I chose to slant the sentiment thinking it looked a little distressed that way too. I wasn't sure if I liked this image when I first received it but after I made the card I love this little guy!

Sassy Lil Card Sketch 4/7

This week's sketch at Sassy Lil Card Sketches:


and my card:


all product is Stampin' Up - Whisper White and Marina Mist cardstock, markers and buttons in marina mist, pretty in pink, so saffron and certainly celery. Stamp is from the set Bring on the Cake

OWH sketch #64

Today's sketch challenge at Operation Write Home. When I saw the sketch I knew that I was going to make a flower for my corner embellishment. Yesterday I learned how to make paper flowers using 7 punched circles, 6 of them you fold into a V shape, then you glue them onto the 7th circle which you use as your base. Cover up the part where they meet with a button and you have this flower!
The paper, cardstock and ink are all from Stampin' Up, the sentiment is a stamp from SP&Company and the embossing is a cuttlebug folder. Thanks for looking

SU Countryside

I finally received my latest Stampin' Up order yesterday. I ordered a set called Countryside, perfect images for this Country Girl! This morning I created a couple of cards with images from that set.

The first card was made with a sketch from the blog Create with Connie and Mary. Very simple card using SU products and did some inking around the edges of the image and the card:


The second card was made for the Father's Day card challenge at Operation Write Home, again another very simple card but I like how it turned out! I inked around the edges of the image and the card, also did a little distressing on the mat.

Saturday Scrapping!

I've been working on the challenges at scrapchicks.com this weekend. So far I've done 4 pages and a couple cards (check the post below for the card)
The first layout here is one that I created for a spring color challenge .. kraft, pink, yellow, lt blue and lt green, I also used an older sketch from Pagemaps


Another challenge we had was to create a pinwhell bouquet making our pinwheels from double sided paper (I used some old Stampin' Up designer paper) The holder for my bouquet is a can cozy that I decorated with some flowers



Another challenge was to do some spring cleaning in your scrap space and use at least 3 patterened paper scraps on a page .. this entire page is scraps, even the cardstock!



and finally we had a 2 page sketch challenge to which I created this layout of my niece Alyssa at one of her softball games. I love the new thickers that I used for the title!

Hambo Hoedown Challenge 10

It's hard to believe that this is the 10th week for the Hambo Hoedown Challenge. It seems like just yesterday we got the football girl image to make a card during Super Bowl week for challenge 1.

This week the digi image we received was this cute little Penquin Bunny. Along with using the image we were to make an easel card. Good thing they had such awesome instructions included, or I would never have gotten an easel card made.



I used SU cardstock in the colors of Marina Mist, Regal Rose and Daffodil Yellow for my card. The markers I used to color the digi image were also from SU.

thanks again for looking, can't wait to Hoedown with Hambo again next week!

SPCC Color Challenge #94

This week for the Scrapmasters Paradise Color Combo we were to use the following 3 colors: Basic Grey, Very Vanilla and Pretty in Pink. Sadly I have all my grey cardstock together so I'm not sure which shade of grey I chose, but here are the cards I came up with:


The first card was based on a sketch at peacy keen stamps. I used an old set from SU called Little Pieces for the images stamped on the squares. The sentiment is from CTMH



The second card I made is for a friend's birthday. I used a new set from Stampin' Up called Bring on the Cake for the sentiment outside (and there's on inside sentiment too) the flowers were made with my cricut using walk in my garden cartridge, and the embossing folder is from cuttlebug. Samantha at Scrapmasters Paradise has a giveaway on her blog this week too .. go check it out!

OWH sketch challenge #63

This card was made for OWH sketch challenge #63
all product used is Stampin' Up
thanks for looking :)

OWH K-9 challenge

This week's midweek throwdown at Operation Write Home's stars and stamps blog was a K-9 challenge, in other words to use a dog on your card. Both of these images were furnished by OWH. I used prismacolor pencils to color the images.
Thanks for looking

Hambo Hoedown Challenge 9

For this week's hoedown we were given this fun little catepillar digital image to work with. Along with the image we were supposed to use bright pink and bright green on the card

I chose a green starred paper for my background .. but it doesn't photograph well. I tried scanning it but it looked too yellow, and even the camera picture isn't as green as the paper. I colored my image with SU markers in green and pink and stamped a spring sentiment with the green. I added some fun little green and pink floral bling to the card too

thanks for looking