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.

Ways to Shop at Scrapbook.com - SC#10

       Well... I knew this class was coming, but being a die hard Stampin' Up! Fan. I find it hard to shop anywhere else. I agree that there are many companies that offer a plithera of very unique and awesome products, but for me and the pantry we shop where my heart is.
       I did find a couple of shopping ideas enlightening though... When you start planning on your shopping spree, take into consideration what your scrapping personality is and what you are trying to achieve, then you can shop by any of the following:

• Shop by Brand
• Shop by Theme
  
• Shop by Type
  
• Shop by Color
  
• Shop by Personality 

Simplified Scrapbooking with Floorplans - SC#9

      Okay... well this class was not new to me but, I prefer to use the word "SKETCHES" instead of floorplans, but what ever word you use, a sketch or floorplan makes creating a layout simpler, faster and easier. Often we use these at crops as a way to spend the time getting a lot of pages completed in a short amount of time. There are lots of companies the offer pre-made sketches and all you have to do is place your photos, especially in the digital world. 
      Now me, on the other hand, enjoy playing with my paper and creating a layout from start to finish. Time spent on my layout is what we often joke about in the crafter's world as ART THERAPY.