Celebrating National Cake Day

Several Challenges this month were centered around National Cake Day. And I being a novice cake decorator, have been very intrigued lately with the whimsical tilted cakes and so that was in inspiration for these cards.

Keywords: CCREW1113HF, CreativeCrew, SUO, SUM, CC454, MMTPT278,

Stamps: Sweet Treats

Paper: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, White, DSP Scraps

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note, buttons, punch, markers

Gettin' Cows

About six months ago my cousin moved here to the beach and she gave me some old pictures of me and my family from years gone by. So I have been putting together a book of memories for us to share with the rest of our family for Christmas. This is one of those pages. The photo is of me and my dad "Gettin' Cows" off the mountain in the fall. One of my favorite childhood memories. Also you will see a lucky penny i found that day and a dried wild daisy that I picked and saved from the mountain that day. Yes, I am a die-hard collector with a passion for persevering memories and historic details.


Also I combined few challenges, so here are all the extras...

• For the Creative Crew Challenge I use my photos of my favorite childhood past time.
• For the Monthly scraplift, I cased eeddmm "Rehearsal"
• For the Inspirational 146 Challenge I used my favorite saying and the colors and textures from the Pier1 table scape "Fall Shimmer" 

Keywords: CCREW1113SF CreativeCrew SUO SUM SIC146 sbc13nov SPLT13nov

Stamps: Weathered Background

Paper: Early Expresso, More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Soft Sky, Retired DSP SCraps

Paper Size: 8x8

Ink: More Mustard

Accessories: Ribbon, dried flowers, crimper, lucky penny

Double Chocolate Fun

Our recipe today was Dori's Double Chocolate Cookies found on page 329 in the "Baking with Julia". Today we decided it would be fun to combine a little crafting and kitchen time together, so for this challenge I made my own Tag Boxes and Tags to go along with the cookies. These are fun little cookie boxes that I made to share with my Stamp Camp Ladies and a few friends from my church to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Love these cookies... simple and sweet goodness that works both as a drop cookie and a rolled freezer cookie. They make great gift or sack lunch cookies because the hold there shape very well and yet stay soft and chewy. We love to dunk them is milk!

Keywords: CCREW1113CF CreativeCrew SUO SUM

Stamps: Turkey Talk

Paper: Sweater Weather DSP, Chocolate chip, Crushed Curry,Green Garden, Very Vanilla, Tangerine Tango

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: crimper, markers, jute twine, cookies,

Techniques: Tag Box, Gift Box, Tags

Weathered Wreaths - TSSC289

Loved all the challenges for today and I just went crazy with them all... :)

I made my wreath using the Stampin' Up! three-in-one Dollie punch. I punched three whole ones and cut each in half, over lapping the edges and securing with a brad.

Keywords: CCREW1113DF CreativeCrew SUO SUM TSSC289 TLC456,

Stamps: Four the Holidays

Paper: Sweater Weather DSP, sliver glitter paper, Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky, White, Crushed Curry

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Crimper, Dollie punch, brads

Techniques: Paper Bows,

Blooming Candles

Yesterday at church, we talked a lot about the power of prayer and the light it gives in our lives. Also about the warmth we feel when we know that God has answered our prayers. While I was looking through Kristine's awesome gallery, I kept being drawn to her very pretty candles, so that is where I got my inspiration from. Hope you all enjoy! :)

Keywords: FS352, 

Stamps: Mixed Bunch

Ink: Mellon Mambo, Crushed Curry, Lucky Limeade

Accessories: Wax paper, tissue paper, candle, markers, ribbon

Thanksgiving Charm - IC413

Our Saturday Inspirational turned out to be one of my all time favorite cake decorators, Duff at Charm City Cakes. The Cake, I chose as my inspiration, was a great cake to celebrate a fall style wedding and brought out all the fun fall colors that I love from our SU! collections.

Also, many of you know, because of my limited stamping time, I often like to combine challenges... So with this card, I followed the sketch 275 challenge at "Creating with Connie & Mary".

Keywords: IC413, CCMC275, LNS234
Stamps: Turkey Talk
Paper: Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, DSP Scraps
Paper Size: A2
Ink: Early Expresso
accessories: Punches
Techniques: Paper Piecing,

Glittered Apples - F4A193

makes me really frustrated when the picture I take to up load does capture all the details of the card. :( I used three different types of glittering techniques, only one of which you can see, the brads. For the other two, I sprayed the main background card with shimmer paint and then the apples are also glittered up with red liquid glitter glue.

Additional Info

Keywords: F4A193 MIX40

Stamps: Farm Fresh

Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Expresso, Lucky Limeade, Orchard Harvest DSP

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Mellon Mambo, Early Expresso, Lucky Limeade,

Accessories: Glitter (shimmer) Spray, Crimper, brads, glitter glue, chalk, jute ribbon, big shot,

BeWitched... TSSC286

In my pursuit of a great Halloween card this week, I feel in love with a couple of awesome challenges: 

CCREW1013DF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM -- DSP/Color Focus: Since we celebrate Halloween this month on 10/31, I had to choose Witch's Brew DSP on P 21 of the Holiday Catalog. If you don't have the DSP, use the color combo: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Starfruit and Very Vanilla.

And TechnoStamper's "Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge TSSC286"... 
 http://technostamper.blogspot.com/20...lenge-286.html

so here is my take on the combinations... :)


Keywords: CCREW1013DF, CreativeCrew, SUO, TSSC286
stamps: Spooktacular Greetings
paper: Witches Brew DSP, Basic Black, Summer Starfruit, Very Vanilla
Paper Size: A2
Ink: Basic black 
Accessories: chalks, ribbon, orange wire, scallop edge punch 
Techniques: Tags

Stashy Style Halloween - STASH13Oct1

Great Challenge... we were challenged to use 2 different DSP from our stash, letter stickers, wire or metal and vellum. I used wire mesh ribbon and metal brads, the little trick or treater is stamped on clear vellum and I used 2 different DSP. I didn't have any letters stickers, but I had this fun Halloween tag that I chose to use instead.

Date: Monday, October 7, 2013 GMT Views: 180 Favorited: 3

Additional Info

Keywords: STASH13Oct1 sbc13oct, CCREW1013DF, CreativeCrew, SUO, SUM

Stamps: Festive & Fun, Booglie Eyes

Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Early Expresso, Very Vanilla, Old DSP, Vellum

Paper Size: 8x8

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Early Expresso,

Accessories: Brads, wire mesh ribbon, crimper, chalk

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2434181#ixzz2jMfGBVw7

Inner Hope & Strength - HYCCT1301A

About a month ago I came a crossed a card that I fell in love with. It gave me peace at the end of a very hard day. So, after being very disappointed this morning to discover there were no "world card making day" challenges, I turned to the "Hope you can cling to" challenges and decided that I would hang out there today. When I read through the first challenge I knew what card I wanted to make (case). Here is my inspiration... http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2417559.

Additional Info

Keywords: HYCCT1301A

Stamps: Strength & Hope

Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Pink, Summer Starfruit, Marina Mist, Gumball Green, Very Vanilla

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Midnight Muze

Accessories: Big shot, punches, ribbon,

Utah Mums - MMTPT270

Started out trying to complete a new technique with this card, but due to the lack of supplies while on vacation, my card turned out a whole lot different than expected, but I love it.

Additional Info

Keywords: MMTPT270,

Stamps: flower shop, whimsical words

Paper: raspberry ripple, Gumball green, summer Starfruit

Paper Size: A2

Ink: raspberry ripple, Gumball green, summer Starfruit

Accessories: Flower punch, buttons

Techniques: Inking with markers,

Smokey Mountains - SPLT13sep

Our challenge was to scraplift a friend and I was so excited when I got to case an awesome layout created by Cheryl [ SCS Motherload ]. The page I choose was EMS - Smart Mouth 

Sept. Progressive Challenge - Task 3

        Task #3... I can't wait to SEE!

Add THREE unexpected things to your layout in the following categories:

COLOR - I added "Pool Party" & "Real Red"
SHAPE - I added more squares, one for journaling and
TEXTURE - I added brads & Embossed the red "GOOD"

Where Live Oaks meet Palmettos

After spending the week enjoying the ocean view from my highrise condo retreat, it was nice to get back to cleaning out my jungle... I have always been amazed at the huge Live Oaks that share my front yard garden spaces with the South Carolina Palmettos. So, they are the inspirational leaves that I chose to use for my card today. And by adding in touches of Autumn Gold through the ribbon and embossing helps to create a warm welcome of fall here at the beach! :)

Additional Info

Keywords: TLC446 F4A186

Stamps: Day of Gratitude

Paper: Gumball Green, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Gumball Green, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight

Accessories: Ribbon, Gold Embossing

Techniques: Leaf Stamping

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2424028#ixzz2enzVptJm

Sept. Progressive Challenge - Task 2

       Alright, so far so good. I woke up this morning excited to see task 2.  I pulled up the Challenge, Set my timer for 15 minutes and Voila'....

This weeks  for Task #2!

1. Add your photo(s) anywhere on your page (add mats, crop corners, and drop shadows if desired).
* I added my photo and the DSP mat behind it.

2. Add a stamp
* I stamped the word FRIENDS

3. Add a cluster (3 or more) of embellishments (they could all be the same or different embellishments).
* I added the pieces of ribbon and jute

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/digital-scrapbooking-bi-weekly-f253/sept-progressive-challenge-16-task-2-09-10-2013-a-t578234.html#ixzz2fP7KgsYl

Sept. Progressive Challenge - Task 1

        As many of you know I am not a big fan of Progessive Scrapbook Challenges, because #1. I am one of those OCD type people that can't leave a project undone and #2. my scrapping closet is so small, it is hard to leave projects laying around on my desk and get anything else done. But yesterday on my "A Run on the Beach" blog I talked about my Friend the FLyLady and the difference between Progress, not Perfection and how you can do anything even if you only work on it for 15 minutes.
       So I decided that I would try this months progressive challenge. My goal is to spend 15 minutes on each new part of the challenge and then put it away, up high so i couldn't see it. You know, "out of sight, out of mind" lol! Anyway.... Here is what I came up with for the first task.

Here’s Task 1 :

NOTE: We'll use ONE or TWO photos for this page. We won’t add them today, but keep them in mind when choosing colors for your page.

-Add a background paper--any kind you'd like.

-Insert a large, wide rectangle in the middle of the page. You can alter the corners of the rectangle (ticket punch, rounded, etc.) but keep it a rectangle please! The rectangle is for a background item, not a photo mat, so you can use any paper you choose."

That's it for this week!

August Angel -WT442

since my job and my family keeps me pretty busy during the week, my time to stamp is very limited. So I decided today that I would try to fit all this week's challenges into one card.

SO.... let's see, we stamped on DSP, using an awesome color combo, to be arranged to look like the sketch, depicting an image of an angel.

Keywords: WT442 TLC444 CC441 SC451,

Stamps: Season of Simple Grace,

Paper: Night of Navy, Cajan Craze, Soft Sky, white

Ink: Night of Navy

Accessories: Jute cord

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2417500#ixzz2eo9cN2X0

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2417500#ixzz2eo93FUIm

CC41- Mountain Get-Away

I have always wanted to see the Smokey Mountains and this past weekend, a friend and I was able to get-away for a girls adventure. We had go much fun stamping, shopping and sight-seeing. So that mixed with the awesome colors from the color challenge today was my inspiration for this card. Hope you all enjoy my card as much as I did my get-away!! :)

Keywords: CC441 MMTPT265

Stamps: Summer by the Sea

Paper: Night of Navy, Cajun Craze, Soft Sky, White, DSP

Ink: basic black

Accessories: markers, jute

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2416525#ixzz2eo7mwK2i

YCDI20 - Snowy Friends

I have a really hard time getting in the Christmas mode when everything around me screams "Welcome to Summer", but I have to admit... this was some cool relief to a very warm day here at the beach. :)

I also combined this with the CAS219 Challenge from a couple of weeks ago. Here is the card I cased from bon2stamp - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ga...;ppuser=186560

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2373910#ixzz2Tw7FtkZf

A Week Worth of VSBN!

I am so excited to be lower on hours this week at work, because that way I may get a chance to complete some of the VSBN challenges this week. For those of you who like a good challenge but get overwhelmed with all the VSBN challenges packed into a two day period, this week is for you... We are going to stretch it out over the whole week post two new challenges every day. Here is the link on Split Coast, where you can find the challenges. MAY'S VSBN CHALLENGES

Here are my layouts for the first two challenges:

and of course, wouldn't you know it... I kicked off the whole VSBN as a Wild Child! It was the challenge that I liked best. :)

"the wild child will show mother what change really means.
- Go wild. Grab a piece of your wildest paper, a paper you wouldn’t imagine
using as a background or stamp a background page or papers, and use it on the background."

May13VSBN1A - Wild Child! 

 

I tried really hard to be a dutiful child, but golly geez mom, you just gotta have a little white!

- the dutiful child will embrace color. Try making a layout without any white on it. Create your own “white space” without one drop of white.

May13VSBN2B - SNOW FRIENDS

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!

Here is my Mother's Day Collection for this year...

YCDI18 - Little Purple Pansies

Several months ago, some friends at Split Coast Stampers started a new challenge section called "You Can Do It" and I fell in love with the concept of what they were trying to do, but my life got so crazy that I haven't been able to hang-out of complete any of the challenges until now. I loved this challenge. And since I live with a household of all men... I thought it was a great way to use up some of my old original girly type scraps. I also thought it would be fun to see how many other challenges that I missed last week could I combine into one..


The YCDI challenge was to create a Pocket/Tag Cards using a #10 envelop as the base and you can find all the details for this challenge in  Post #4559


I used my favorite purple pansies as my inspiration and The 3x3 card and mini tags are part of my "Use-It-All-Up!" challenge.

Happy Birthday to my Boy!

It is Spencer's Birthday today and my friend Fran is hosting the Tuesday Teaparty Challenge on Split Coast. Spent a wonderful day out on a dolphin site seeing cruise with my hubby, my Son and his girlfriend, then we finished the day off with a wonderful family dinner at our local Japanese Steak House.

But I couldn't resist the chance to start my morning off with a chance to have a tea party in space with my best treky friend FRAN!

Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2368742#ixzz2Su00NPB6

TLC427 - Birthday Fruit for Joan

I needed to make a thank you card for a friend tonight and I decided it would be fun to see how many challenges I could squeeze into one card... And what to my wonderful surprise, one challenge was to make Joan a HAPPY BIRTHDAY card. What an awesome birthday idea. So I sort of cased Joan's... TLC427 Turn Your Face to the Sun which included making your own chevrons and I included some summer fruit which was the June VSNMINI challenge from a month ago Read more: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2368539#ixzz2TEHYBqB9

From THIS to THAT!

April is a very special month for me for many many reasons that I will share with you all here as the month goes along. And that is the reason that the theme for this month is going to be "Awesome April". I have had several people ask me lately how come I haven't been posting on my blogs anymore. I have been, sort of.... I just haven't been attaching them to my facebook page. I have been extremely busy at work since I got back from see my Kids in Missouri.

But I would like to share something that I will be creatively working on through the month of April...

I was really excited when Stampin' Up! released their new product line called "This and That". And I hope my "This and That" party will be very successful plus we have lots of fun.


So to start off my "Awesome April" here is my cover!

From THIS.......

                                                               
                                                        TO THAT.....

Digi ~ Techniques ---- DGSC099

The Digi Challenge this morning on Splitcoast Stampers was to create a scrapbook page using small blocks of photos to create one large one. I am not a very good digi scrapper, but I was intrigued with the challenge, so I gave it a try and this is what I came up with. 

 

Beachy Fuzzy Wuzzies... F4A153 & CC411

We finally got our scrapbook/crafting group going again for the new year. We had a great time finishing up some old projects and planning and plotting some ideas for the months to come. Here is the "Free for All" challenge I was working on today...

The challenge was to show some Warm Fuzzy Wuzzies on your card today, whether it is a fuzzy sweater, furry animal, a piece of faux fur, or a heart warming sentiment...  I love the Fuzzy Wuzzies Challenge and there is nothing that brings me warmer fuzzies than "older" stamps and hanging with my kids at the beach, so I used both, the color challenge 411 and my kids at play as my inspiration. SO I decided to share some Beachy Fuzzy Wuzzies!

Stamps: Kids at Play

Paper: Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Daffodil Delight, white

Ink: basic black, so saffron

Accessories: Brads, Punch, Markers

Techniques: paper piecing

Altered Notes

I was able to finally find a few minutes to finish up my January Altered Projects that I have been working on. Here are the note pads that go along with the gift bags that we were making last Wednesday.

Celebrating January!

These are some fun little gift bags that I made for my Hostesses and the ladies that I visit teach this month.

Stamps: Mixed Bunch, Calendar, Strength & Hope

Paper: Cajun Craze, Early Expresso, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze

Ink: Early Expresso, Baja Breeze

Accessories: White Embossing, Brads, Punch, Markers, Raffia

Techniques: paper beads

Eloquence in Baja Coco - IC371

       
         I was looking for some inspiration this morning as I was trying to put together my make & takes for next weeks stamp camp and I wanted to stay with the same color combo that I have been using this week. I am also looking for a desk for my new office and so today's inspirational challenge was perfect. I chose the Eloquence Coco Madame Desk as my inspiration today. Hope you all enjoy! :)

PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGE 8 - TASK 1 (JAN. 2013)

  Today is a scrapping day, so I went and checked out some of  the new challenge that are floating around on Split Coast Stampers. I choose to take the  PROGRESSIVE PAGE CHALLENGE. For those of you who don't know what a progressive page challenge is...  

"The object is to complete one page over the course of four weeks by following instructions given in tasks posted each week. On the first Tuesday of each month, Task 1 will be posted, consisting of instructions for starting a scrapbook page that will then be built upon through additional instructions each week for a total of 4 weeks (Tasks 1-4.). The idea is to work along with the challenge as the tasks are being announced weekly, each task to be completed & posted prior to starting on the next task. (Once you post a week’s results, you’re finished. Don’t change your work for that week’s task.) At the end of the fourth week, you should have a completed page! It’s fine to start late or catch up if you miss a week(s). Just be sure to complete & post each task before you look at or start the next one. It’s more fun that way!"


 So here is my layout for task #1.

  The colors I have chosen to work with this week are... Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Vanilla

Old Testament 2013 - SC#1

       The video for class tonight was very informational. I laughed because I knew ahead of time that I had all of the basic tools and supplies that I need to start scrap-booking, but I fell in love with the centering ruler. Got to find me one of those... :). Like any good crafter, always something new and got to have it!

        While I was watching the class video I decided to work on my first page of my new inspirational monthly flip chart, that I am making to set on my desk for next year. I will be studying the Holy Bible and I am so excited, I came a crossed my old seminary binder in one of the last boxes I needed to unpack and I found my sheet of Old Testament Riddles. I thought they would make good flip chart messages and daily motivation scriptures.
       The class challenge was to use all of the basic tools that they talked about to create a layout or page and this is what I came up with... I also combined it along with the SCS color challenge: CC390 and Jenn's "Tuesday Testimonial" challenge.

Warm Stockings / Cold Feet

I am not fond of the cold weather, but I do love to go bare foot and around my house you usually see me without shoes or socks 90% of the time. This year however, the girls attached to my boys have all taken up the art of crocheting.... so of course I had to prove that I to could do this "new found " craft. So here is my first craft of the new year.

 ta-da...... SLIPPERS!

Happy New Year!

     I am so excited to be jumping into a new year. As many of you know, I am not big on making NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS. I don't like setting myself up for failure, but I do sit down and evaluate where I am at the end of the year and I do set a few new goals and always pledge to craft more and try to do better. That way I know that no matter what happens I will not FAIL!!!

     This year I am trying really hard to decide if Stampin' Up! is still where my interests lie or if the digital age is making the paper world a thing of the past... I am just not moving to the technology side of the business very well, my boys are all grown and I have enough supplies stock piled to scrap for a hundred grandchildren, so I think it might be time to focus on a different avenue.That way I can relax and enjoy the crafting hobby side of things for a change.