H2H Cuteness Overload

Hello everyone welcome to the H2H challenge "Cuteness Overload" when I hear cuteness overload or use cuteness overload I am usually talking about my grandchildren. I think that term could also be applied to baby animals such as kittens or puppies....oh the cuteness. You probably have a smile on your face right now just thinking about babies, kittens and puppies.

When I was trying to decide what I wanted to use to create a page about my grandchildren I was playing around in pinterest and they used cuteness overload to describe the Instax Camera and wouldn't you know it CTMH, who is somehow is on trend every single time, has a super cute little instanx camera in this months Stamp of the Month!

Here is the layout I created. My husband an I have been blessed with five beautiful little grands. The oldest is five and the youngest will be one in October so there is a whole lot of cuteness happening in our lives.

I send my photos to Walgreen's and they have a little carrier sheet telling you what the first and last print in your order. The little photos are so adorable and I always want to use them. I thought it would but fun to do a little color photo of the siblings together since on my page they are in birth order. 

Here is the first camera.

Here is the second camera. I also used those adorable...see more cuteness overload happening...little stitched circle dies. If you have been eyeballing them and wondering if you need them, well I am here to tell you that you do. ;)

I added a little cluster under my title here.

Here you can see the different sized circles and I added in several sequins and a few flowers here and there.

Supplies: 

all CTMH unless otherwise noted

Cardstock - White Daisy, Willow, Pacifica, Poppy

Paper Pack - Central Park

Stamps - Central Park Cardmaking

Ink -  Glacier

Other - Central Park Sequins, Central Park Complements, 3D foam dots, Journaling Pen, Thin Cuts Stitched Circles

We would love to see what you come up with over at the Heart 2 Heart blog. You can check out what the other Design Team members made and link up your own artwork until August 31, 2018 at 11:59 pm.

H2H: Layers layers and more layers

Hello everyone welcome to the Heart 2 Heart technique challenge "Layers". Layering is a simple way to add visual interest, dimension, and texture to your projects. It can also help you reduce your scrap stash.

When I want to layer something I try to choose a good variety of coordinating papers and make some clusters under a photo or a stamped image. An easy way to manage your layers while playing around with your design is so staple them together. This allows you to add in or take out your papers and embellishments as you try to decide what you would like to use.

Here is a close up after I added the journaling card and some other tidbits.

And another angle 

I also added some layers of cards rock and embellishments to build my base page.

Here is my finished page.

Supplies: 

all CTMH unless otherwise noted

Cardstock - White Daisy, Eggplant, Bashful

Paper Pack - Documented

Other - Documented Complements 

We would love to see what you come up with over at the Heart 2 Heart blog. You can check out what the other Design Team members made and link up your own artwork until August 31, 2018 at 11:59 pm.

Special Announcement

You guys I have some exciting news. I am now a member of the Heart 2 Heart Design Team this makes me so super excited and I look forward to sharing my projects with you and working with the other wonderful designers on the team. I hope you will check out the challenges each week and play along!

Summer Daze Challenge #4 - Home

Welcome back to our Summer Daze Crop I hope you are finding some time to play along.

The last card I shared on my blog was for my daughter and this one happens to be for her as well. I love that she calls me for cards. It also keeps me up to date on her friends from school that are now all grown up. The latest card she needed was for a new home, one of her friends (and hubby) just purchased their first home.

I knew when I saw this Central Park - Cardmaking stamp set and Central Park paper packet in the new Close to my Heart Occasions mini that I had to have this set. I always love little house stamps and houses that I can color are an added bonus.

I used the blue grid paper to mimic the sky and the green paper to mimic the grass. Then I stamped all the houses in black and popped up one that I colored. Their house is a light brown so I went ahead and colored this one the same. I added a few yellow sequins and walla a quick card ready to drop in the mail box.

I kept this card pretty simple and here is the inside.

Here is the sketch for Challenge #4 I hope you can play along with Sketch #26 we would love to see what you come up with.

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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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.

Let see what you come up with:

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Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday

Did you enjoy our little pre-party action yesterday? I am here today to show off our first Birthday Bash challenge.

We thought we would have a little fun with this sketch from National Scrapbook Day 2015 and TWIST it up a little. On this page I have used SIX items (get it 6th birthday...took me a minute lol) that has been in my stash for over TWO years. Now we all know how I have been working hard to bash my stash lately so it was not a problem to find old stuff in my studio.

So all items used on this page are over 2 years old

1. So we have 5 hot pink buttons came in a kit. They are a little to tall for me to be on a page but they were such a perfect match that I just ran with it. from 2010
2. The word TEN was made using some Thickers that have a texture to them from 2014
3. Green, Hot Pink, and Bright Blue cardstock - 2011 
4. Pattern Paper - 2011 from Be You - Fancy Pants 
5. Happy Birthday (the white words) - That was a strip from Simple Stores I believe it has been in my drawer with zip strips for about 3 or 4 years
6. Fussy Cut Heart - from 2011

Even my pop up tape is older it is from around 2010 I got them in a grab bag from a 3M sale sadly I am on my last roll

You know what isn't old...those photos are from my little ones last birthday in December - go ME

Let see what you come up with:

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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!!! 

Love Story with SNS #152

I have had these photos laying around for a few months. I printed them because they were just so super cute. They capture perfect moments between my oldest daughter and my little grandson.

I thought this sketch from SNS would be perfect and I have some paper left over from a class I took using the Chelsea Gardens paper pack.

I was also thrilled to use up some old stuff out of my stash. I have had these glitter elements and stickers for a some time, well if I am honest not nearly as long as other things in my stash but still a long time haha.

Here is Sketch #152 I would love to see your take on it. 

Head on over the the Sketch N Scrap blog and enter your project by May 31 to be eligible to win a great prize. Good Luck!

Lets go get Married!

What a perfect page to show you on Valentines Day!

My husband and i were planning on getting married this May 2018 but as we were planning our wedding it just kept getting more and more expensive and more and more complicated, not in a bad way just with stuff we needed to do. Really we just really wanted to be married! Since we had family coming in from out of town we decided to just grab our folks, our kids and run off and get married. After we all went out to a nice lunch and there we have it...Mr. & Mrs. I was so happy because my grandmother who is very very healthy but also very very old was able to come. She thought we were silly to be planning a wedding so far out in the future so when we called her and told her we were getting married in a few days she was tickled pink.

I hope you have been able to join in our fun over on Facebook for the Queen of Hearts Crop... this is 1st sketch challenge I hope you can play along.

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Have you ever thought about trying out?

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Here is Sketch #51

Good Luck

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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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Smile and go way way back.

I thought it would be fun to work with these photos from when my now husband and I first started dating. We went to a local college football game and it was unseasonably cold. We did not care we had a great time anyway. Every time I see these photos and our big smiles it makes me smile.

I hope you have been able to join in our fun over on Facebook for the Queen of Hearts Crop... this is 1st sketch challenge I hope you can play along.

I really enjoyed working with this sketch. I recently heard on a podcast that a current trend is to have embedded embellishments clustered behind something. When I saw this sketch I thought it might be fun to try that.

Here is Sketch #99:



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Thanks

It seems like I can use a thank you card. In my quest to use up my kit I have ended up with a little of this and a little of that. This card sketch is perfect for using up those little bits that you just can't part with because they are so cute.

Card Sketch #114

I would love to see what you come up with so come and join us over at Sketch-N-Scrap You have until 9:55 CST on January 31st to upload your projects.

Sledding

Have you ever wanted to be on a Design Team?

Have you ever thought about trying out?

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I have a confession to make. I wanted to just use one photo for this sketch and flip it to go along with another single page I did but when I started laying out the page...with pieces because my pile is getting smaller (YAY) I messed up. I added the paper with the words going down it I knew it wouldn't make sense so I had to leave it as is. Well the photo I wanted to use was going the wrong way so I just added a few more pics and mad this work for me. In the end I love how it turned out and I always enjoy getting more photos on a page when I can so this was a win win for me.

Here is the Sketch #97

Good Luck!

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Love Birds

This year one of goals is to send more cards. Since I want to send more cards I would like to have more cards on hand.

Funny side note: I originally got this adorable little stamp when it was retiring and I needed stamps to play around with for my wedding invitations. I ended up not using it for that and went another direction with my invitation...I threw that one out the window as well when we decided to just elope instead.

Back to this sweet little card. I wanted to see if I could use winter papers for something not winter related. Here is what I came up with -

What do you think? Does it scream winter? I hope not I was going for love and romance.

Here is the sketch for this last crop challenge #4 over at the New Beginnings Crop it is Card Sketch #41

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Snow

I hope you have been able to join in our fun over on Facebook for the new Beginnings Crop... this is 3rd sketch challenge I hope you can play along. 

I thought this was a fun sketch to capture my little ones love of snow. She was a not a big fan the first time she went out in it but once she figured out it snows around her birthday it was true love. I swapped out the two smaller photos for one large one. 

Here we have Sketch N Scrap #60 for you to work with

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Thinking of you....in this freezing cold weather!

It is still winter here and sometimes you just want to send a little warmth in the mail. Here is a fun little snowman card I made for our crop going on over on Facebook for the New Beginnings Crop... this is 2nd sketch challenge I hope you can play along. 

Here we have Sketch N Scrap #65 for you to work with

Join in our monthly Facebook Crop this month it runs from - January 11th - 30th. I hope you can play along.

Larson Light Show - New Beginnings Crop

I hope you have been able to join in our fun over on Facebook for the New Beginnings Crop... this is 1st sketch challenge I hope you can play along. 

Here we have Sketch N Scrap #70 for you to work with

I have some papers I am going to be using up from an old PersonalScrapper kit from January of 2012! That doesn't' seem like that long ago but now that it is 2018 it is 6 years ago. I think it is time to stop hording these cute papers and start using them. Here is the first of several projects I will be featuring on my blog in the near future.

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