SNS Card Sketch #167

I have been organizing my studio since we moved into our new home in November. I have come so far but then I had to dig around and now it is a mess again. That tells me that I still have a lot of work to do as if it were more organized I wouldn’t need to dig for stuff I would know right where things are at.

I do know where my stamps are at as well as my coloring tools! I love coloring, I decided to pull out my prisma colored pencils and gamasol for this card. I pulled out one of my PI Girls. I love the Pure Innocence stamps from My Favorite Things they are just so sweet.

Isn’t this paper so adorable adorable? It is from Shimelle’s Never Grow Up lime from the March “Flavor of the Month” Kit. I was also able to pull out some ribbon from Stampin’ Up! That I have had forever and ever as well as some Nuevo Drops....should I tell you I used those because I searched and searched for my little gems and couldn’t find them anywhere? I did end up finding them. 

Next up is the inside of my card. I always try to coordinate the inside and often end up just adding some banners.

Here is the sketch I used from Sketch N Scrap

SNS Layout #194

Hello everyone hope you enjoyed January! Now we enter into the longest shortest month of the year. 

I am finally settled into my space from the move however now I am trying to organize all of my goodies so I joined the Get Organized Challenge with Totally Tiffany. This has been great because I am really finding things I have forgotten and it will be so nice for my goodies to have a permanent home. Since I am still in the middle of working on the Get Organized Challenge I have been just printing and scrapping whatever I like. I sort of do this anyway but normally try to scrap chronologically at the same time scrapping current. 

Anyway since I don't really have any photos ready to scrap I just grabbed some more cute ones of the grandbabies.  They are my favorite things to scrapbook anyway so it was a win win for me.

I used Sketch N Scrap Layout Sketch #194. We would love to see what you come up with so make sure you link up your page over at our blog.

SNS Card Sketch #158

I am not sure what exactly it is about this sketch but when I saw it I totally fell in love with it. I can just envision using it time and time again. I came up with a set of cards within minutes. I used up a bunch of old stash (flowers from a PersonalScrapper Kit) and scraps. Here is the first one I came up with.

I love to also add some banners or some other simple thing to bring some color to the inside of the card as well. This card seriously came together in no time and I already know who I am going to send it to. 

Here is Card Sketch #158

SNS Layout #181

Chemistry is fun!  Last year we went to a Chemistry Demonstration at NIU. They did all sorts of fun things for us on the stage these demos involved Balloons, Liquids, Fruit, Race-cars, Fire, and Maizies favorite part Ice Cream. When I saw this sketch I knew it would be perfect for this fun event. Here is how my page turned out. 

We would LOVE to see what you come up with using Sketch #181 over at the Sketch N Scrap blog 

There is still so much to see...SNS #61

Welcome to our Pumpkin Spice Crop I have another postcard for you, and this one was my favorite one that I made. It just all came together and I used up quite a few scraps from my bin. I have had those US cut outs for a while. I made this last winter when I was trying to bash even more of my stash. I also used a stamp set that I have had for at least 6 years.

Here is the sketch for Challenge #3 I hope you can play along with Card Sketch #61 we would love to see what you come up with.

I hope you can join in we would love to see your projects over at the Pumpkin Spice crop!!

A whole lot of love

Hello back again with our July 5th Sketch I hope you love this sketch as much as I do.

Here is a little story about this sketch I really thought it was cute and so as I was working ahead on some projects (as a perk to being on the design team I see and sketches early) I really thought this was a super cute one and so I decided I would work on a card for my hubby for our first anniversary which was June 2. Now the funny thing is that the sketch date is July 5th which is the anniversary of our very first date 5 years ago...I guess it was just meant to be used for love.

Anyway I hope you are inspired by the sketch it has a lot of potential. I used up some paper I had from Simple Stores and stamps from My Favorite Things. I did some faux stitching, I had forgotten how much I adore that look. It really made the card come together. I also got to use some of my new prisma color pencils that I have been talking about over on my Facebook page.

One of my favorite things to do is color and I have been have a great time coloring images for cards. I thought this little raccoon was pretty cute next to the tree. I also used up the rest of these little black dots that I had laying around for a while.

I wrote int he card before I took a photo because I was just so happy with how it turned out so pardon the odd angle but I had to hide all the mushy love stuff ;).

Stop by our blog to link up with today's sketch and for a chance to win a prize through the end of June.

Let see what you come up with: Sketch #125

It's your birthday! Chirp chirp

Hi everyone how did you do with National Scrapbooking Month? Did you get a lot done? I sure did. Remember when I mentioned that I was trying to use up my fun sticker sheet from Echo Park that I have had laying around for years and years. Well I finished it up and I finished up another one from Simple Scraps! Go me what a productive month I had. I hope the rest of the year follows suit.

I decided to make some more birthday cards so I can keep sending out my happy mail this year. I used Card Sketch #123 from Sketch N Scrap and was super happy with how it turned out! I also added some cute glitter ribbon from CTMH it is a must have for me I have several colors. I have had white on my list for a long time because I can change the color with my Copics if I want to.

I always like to decorate the inside of my cards too.

Here is the full front sitting on a shelf just waiting for me to send it off and brighten someone's day. This card was mainly done with all stickers but I did end up stamping the sentiment in the sideways banner. I also sprinkled some of my bling I got a while back. I really am in love with those right now. 

My used up sticker sheet. I will probably add those stars to an envelope and then toss it in the bin.

Here is Sketch #123 if you want to give it a go.

 

Head on over the the Sketch N Scrap blog and enter your project by June 301 to be eligible to win a great prize. Good Luck!

ICU - Get Well Soon

Have you seen the super cute sketch that was just released at Sketch N Scrap or been over to our Facebook page?

I had a lot of fun with this sketch, I also just picked up this funny stamp set a few weeks ago as I have been needing to build up my card inventory and I noticed I really don't have very many get well or thinking of you cards.

I was also happy to make a masculine card as well as use up some of my stash that I have had forever and a day. I used some copper brads from Stampin' Up! That adorable bronze glitter ribbon from Close to my Heart, some very old pattern paper that I cut up that was from a kit and that teal cardstock that has been in my scrap bin for a good long time.

Here is our May 20th card sketch. To play along head over to the Sketch N Scrap blog.



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Dreaming of Summertime

Hello back again with our May 15th Sketch...so many sketches this month I hope you are inspired!

Here I am using up some more of my Echo Park sticker sheet...go me! I thought it would be fun to make a page about summer because I have been itching for some good weather. Here in the Midwest winter has been holding on and every time we have a nice day and think spring is finally here, it is followed by snow. Even my daughter has said enough! She loves snow so you know it has been to much this time.

Stop by our blog to link up with today's sketch and for a chance to win a prize through the end of May.

Let see what you come up with: Sketch #153

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Lazy Days SNS #NSD2017

Hello back again with challenge 4

Today we have this sketch and our TWIST is up using balloons or hearts...or both on your layout. I decided to scrapbook a few more of these fun park photos with my little on and my grandson.

I have also been trying to bash up some of my stash and so I challenged myself to use up this sticker sheet that I have from Echo Park. I was able to match up some Dotty for You paper from CTMH that is also real old but matched just perfect and came up with this fun page that features a large balloon...a hot air balloon.

Here is a close up of this cute balloon. I have been wanting to use this thing for years and was so happy to have the perfect photos and the perfect challenge to use it up.

Here is just another angle where you can see the layers and the little gems that I have also been using on lots of stuff. They are my new favorite embellishment.

Let see what you come up with:

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Celebrating my gram

Hello back again with Birthday Bash Crop challenge #2

We thought we would see what we could do with our very 1st sketch from 2012 and TWIST it up using the word CELEBRATE somewhere in the layout.

I am truly blessed that I get to celebrate my grandma every year. She is blessed with 4 children, 9 grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren, and 11 great-great grandchildren.

I have been using up some more of my sticker sheet that I am trying to use up this month. I also used some Flip Flaps this is a PERFECT way to add more photos to a page.

A close up of some of the details.

Journal blurb.

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NDS 2018 Stacked STL

Today is the day ~ National Scrapbook Day 2018!!!

Whoo hoooo - are you scrapbooking? I am at a day crop today scrapping with new and old friends.

I have been pulling bright colors these days. Maybe it is because winter went extra long this year and I have the need for bright floral colors that you find on tulips. I am happy to report that spring has officially sprung here in the midwest.

Last year my husband, oldest daughter and myself drove to pick up my middle daughter from AIT and on the way home we stopped off and some fun roadside attractions along Route 66. Since we were already doing fun things we decided to have a bite in Saint Louis and so I pulled up our options and we ended up at this yummy hamburger place.

It has be a long time since I have only used cardstock on a page. I also used up some stickers from a Simple Stories birthday line. If it is wrong that I used a spotted cow to offset my title I don't wanna be right. ;) I also added some journaling along the side of the page because this was a story that just had to be told. 

Here is a sketch just for NSD 2018

I hope you find some time today to do something scrapy.

Don't forget to check out our blog for the May's prize and our 6th Birthday Bash Crop starts today over on Facebook. I hope you can join us in all the fun this month!!! 

Colorful Card stash

I think one of the things I want to do each month is find one thing to bash in my stash. I have been eyeballing this sticker sheet from Echo Park for years! Years I tell you it is cute but I cannot even remember when I got it. Anyway I have already made one project with it that you will see next month, so those stickers are already missing but here is what it looks like now. Wish me luck in using it up.

Isn't it a fun little sheet? 

Here is my first project to share with you. A fun little card using my favorite little PI girls from MFT they are just adorable! I decided to go with this colorful one since the sticker sheet is so bold and bright.

Do you have anything in your stash that you are hoping to use up? Why not pick out one thing for the month of May and see what you can come up with project wise.

Honestly...my first car

Hello all, let me tell you all about my first car today that I got in late 80's. It was as old as I was but a lot more beat up! Haha. My parents bought it for me for all of $250 and it was a big old olive green rust bucket. My dads theory is that it should be big so that I was safe if I ever got into an accident. It had big long seats and I could lay across the front seat and my feet probably wouldn't have touched the doors. I am pretty sure it didn't have a radio and if it did it was only am/fm no cassette tape. Yes I am that old that cassette tape was all the rage when I was a teenager.

Funny story I have not run across any photos of my car even though my dad has always been one to take random photos of things as well as people. He took selfies before they were a thing and he used to take photos of all of his cars, houses, garden. Maybe that is where I got my love of documenting and scrapbooking from. Anyway for as many times as he took photos of cars I can't find one of my first car so I found one on line and printed it. Mine was a little darker and a lot less shiny. Trivia: it is the same car as the cop car in Smokey and the Bandit.

Ok ok you have probably had enough random chatter here is my page. I used sketch #151 from Sketch N Scrap.

I have had these papers from Scenic Route - Garden Grove Collection (oh how I miss them) for an extremely long time maybe around 2009 or so? Anyway I have always struggled with this line it just has never really called my name. This line had all the right colors, I also pulled some papers from My Minds Eye, and Simple Stories (one of my favs) I started playing around and decided this was the one then I started adding a little of this and that, again super old embellishments from CTMH also from around 2009 and somehow someway everything just magically came together. This is one of my favorite pages that I have done this year which is amazing since I was very meh about this whole project at the start. Have you ever had that happen?

Here is Sketch #151 I would love to see your take on it. 

Head on over the the Sketch N Scrap blog and enter your project by April 30 to be eligible to win a great prize. Good Luck!

Happy Birthday to you

This is one of my go to sketches that I have used in the past. It is just so simple, so sweet and so fast work with. I have a goal this year to send out birthday cards to my friends and family. I need around 60 cards and I figured why not make one using this cute sketch. Hope you like it.

I hope you have been able to join in our fun over on Facebook for the Queen of Hearts Crop... this is 4th sketch challenge I hope you can play along.

Here is Sketch #90

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Miss You

I hope you have been able to join in our fun over on Facebook for the Queen of Hearts Crop... this is 2nd sketch challenge I hope you can play along.

I made this sweet little card as I was trying to use up some papers I had left over from a kit featuring this line of October Afternoon papers. What do you do with your left over papers? I make pages first, then cards or other projects and then finally I cut my stuff down to 4 x 6 or 3 x 4 pieces. If I really love it sometimes I cut some down to 2 x 3 but not to often.

Anyway we are here to talk about this sweet little card. I loved working with this sketch it is so versatile and perfect for valentines day. I went another direction and made a card that I will probably eventually send off to my MIL or one of the kids that live out of town.

I had a lot of fun making this card with old product. I also dug out my big shot and used some older dies that I have not touched in a good long time. I also got to color which is my favorite. I don't think you can see but I added Wink of Stella to her flower band and her shoes.

I would love to see what you come up with for this fun sketch!

Here is Sketch #19:

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Getting punchy with scraps

Here I am back with my Jan 2012 Kit and a challenge from Bash Your Scrapbook Stash and the challenge was to grab three punches and some paper. I am winding down here with my kit so I thought what better way to get rid of the itty bittys that to punch out some little lovelies to use here and there when I was making cards. As you can see behind the punches my stack is getting much smaller. I have made 4 pages and 5 cards so far and plan on doing a few more cards with the remaining kit.

What do you do with your scraps? Toss them? Cut them down?

Lets go sledding!

One of my Crafty New Year Goals was to actually USE my supplies! I know that is just crazy ins't it? 

You probably saw my post from yesterday about using up my goods from eons ago, well here is another project from that kit. 

Using up my stuff is a big reason why I wanted to get back to a Design Team. I do good when I have some goals to work towards. I also am in a bunch of Facebook Groups. One of my favorites is Bash your stash and this year someone put a challenge out there to do a layout a day...now you can do 10 a week or 1 a day as long as at the end of the year you have 365 pages done (#BYSSLayouts365). Whoa what? My scrappy goal is only 1 page a week that is only 52 pages.

Guess what? I am going for it anyway! So who knows maybe I will have 52 pages maybe I will have 365 maybe i will have more or less.I know one thing...I will have pages. So here is one page of many using the January 1st sketch over at Sketch N Scrap.

Layout #144

I hope you can play along this month and all year! We would love to see you around the blog, the Facebook page and at our monthly crops.

Cards, cards, and more cards part two

So I found more prestamped images. They are neverending I tell you. I still have more along with some random die cuts. Does anyone else have this problem?

I really love the way this group came together before:

When I saw the superwoman I knew right way that I wanted to pop her up on these little spring tings that I have had for a while...cause again bashing my stash. Mind you since I just cleaned and put them somewhere safe it took me hours and hours to find them.

 Worth it!

This adorable little image is a digi stamp from Mo I am not sure if she still makes stamps or not but her stuff is great. She has layers and is printed on copy paper, cause I was testing my copics but I loved how it turned otu so I made it into a card anyway.

This one is not colored with Copics but stamped and layered I saw a card that Karen Pedersen did and just had to make it. So I made the star and never the card so now I came up with my own thing.

Sorry this one is sideways I have turned it a few times and it keeps flipping back.

I made this one with the one woody stamp that I still have from SU. I played along with a sketch from Sketch N Scrap from when they had a online crop recently. I also used some nest-abilities dies as well as that cute Hello die from  CTMH. Used up some more embellishments on the cards too.

Apparently I did not take a finished photo of the car alone. You can see that one below.