Bingo Update #2

Have you been able to join us over at Sketch N Scrap's Birthday Bash?

We have so much fun inspiration going on and we are playing BINGO yay

Here is what I have done so far:

Row B: Meena's challenge...with a twist (pastel colors) Sketch #16

Row G: Bow Sketch #

As you can see this week I was a lot less crafty. I have some fun stuff coming up next week for you though. I hope you are playing along! If you are have you been able to get a bingo yet? I am getting close.

Bingo Update #1

Have you been able to join us over at Sketch N Scrap's Birthday Bash? I hope you are enjoying National Scrapbook Day!!! 

We have so much fun inspiration going on over at the Sketch N Scrap Bingo Bash I hope you can join us. I thought I would give a little update each week on my progress. Here is what I have done so far:

Row I: May 1st Sketch #176

Row N: 2017 Sketch - Card Sketch #106

Row O - Balloon -2017 World Card Making Day Sketch #2

Row B - 2015 Sketch - Card Sketch #64

Make sure you come and join the fun!!

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.

Gobble Gobble

Well my studio is still in progress but I have been cleaning out my paper stash and came across some fun Jillibean Soup Atomic Soup papers.

I am having a on line crop on my facebook page it is called CROPtoberfest and I would love it if you would play along everyday. You can find daily challenges and I will be doing at least one drawing for prizes more if I get a lot of players.

I submitted this one for October 4th which was use fall colors on a page or card. I also decided to play along with Mojo Monday #418

I have loved this little turkey from Papertrey Ink since I first saw it. I also ran across him while cleaning and was inspired to make a fun little Thanksgiving Card.

 

Supplies:
Cardstock: Cocoa - CTMH
Pattern Paper - Atomic Soup - Jillibean Soup
Ink - Cocoa - CTMH
Stamps - Gobble, Gobble - PTI
Other - Buttons SU, Gold Twine - DMC

An Awesome Ride

So started goofing around using up my old kits making cards and ran across this paper from Crate Paper Static line and thought mmm what can I do with this. I pulled out a Hero Arts banner set. This might be the best stamp ever I have used it SO much! I also use this PTI Enjoy the Ride stamp all the time. Another great set. My friend Patti gave me that when she was the grand prize winner over there for a year. Anyway back to the card. I absolutely love how it turned out. Masculine cards are so hard. I am starting to ramble and this card really speaks for itself so I will let you err "Enjoy the Ride"

Here is the simple inside. I stamped off and ended up with this strange pattern but I like it as it looks more like an old car that way.

Have you been successful when you make masculine cards?

Binky binky...where is my binky.

Hey everyone. Sorry this is a little late. Hopefully it won't disappoint. I was away at a Scrapbook Retreat this weekend which means I scrapbooked a lot and guess what I found there! My MOJO!!! I had so so much fun and I got tons of pages done which means I will be back to blogging on a regular basis. Yay.

Ok so Binky...Over at Scraptivations we have another great challenge. I was really not sure what I was going to do for challenge 5 which was to scrap something inanimate. Now I must say I was like huh...but I went and looked it up and saw that it was just something that doesn't move. Now most of my subjects are kids so you can see the challenge this posed for me.

Once I decided what to scrap I went around the house and collected the binky's and set up a photo shoot.

I finally had a chance to try a new technique that I have admired for a while.  Coloring with my copics on color paper. I was doing red letters with an outline alpha from PTI. I matched up the reds and did some shading.

Once I had them shaded the way I wanted I cut them out and layered them.

did a little strip journal and then moved on to paper peicing. Wow so many techniques on this page. I colored her face with my Copics and then stamped her on two sheets of pattern paper.

Here she is ready to assemble

and all together now. When my toddler saw this she said "Maidie" in her cute little voice. Funny thing is she looks just like this little PI girl.

I added some chip board and some other details.

A little more stamping under the embellishments and wala a finished page.

 

this paper is from an old Stampin' Up! kit that I had. I have been really been trying to use what I have.

Have you ever scrapped an inanimate object? Won't you join us?

California Dreaming...

Scraptivations is having a really cool challenge that is called

Would you rather...

• use a die-cut/punch or fussy cut something?
• scrap something hard to scrap about or hardly ever scrapped about?
• use a music title or a movie/TV title?

My hardly ever scrapped - my childhood. I always scrap my girls childhood but never my childhood or my brother either. I am actually not sure that I have ever scrapped about my childhood. Here is my die cut...two actually the boarder and the journaling box.

Here is a close up of my flowers and my hand stitching. Fancy huh? This paper with the tree's remind me of some shirts we had when we were little and living in California.

Here is my movie title: Club Paradise

Here is what the journaling says:

When we were young we were so creative! We loved to spend time out in the world collecting things...from the trash. We finally had enough to make an awesome fort. Some of my personal favorites are the stools, his is broken and mine is an over turned crate. We also seem to have a lot of books for me!

 

{club paradise supplies}

April 2008 Personal Scrapper Kit

Crate Paper Static Collection Road

Felt Flowers & Brads from Kit

Twill from Stampin' Up!

Buttons Chocolate collection from Papertrey Ink

Waxy Flax from Close To My Heart

Die-a-namics scallop die from My Favorite Things

Mat Stack 5 die from Papertrey Ink

Mini Scrapbook Series: Library Ledger stamp

Cocoa ink from Close To My Heart

Got Sketch # 65

Consider it Cased - Valentine's Edition

So I came across this blog in my hopping and I knew right away that this is what I would do for Maizie's Valentines Day Cards.

First I cut down some Close To My Heart Tulip Cardstock down to 2" x 3" which was nice because out of one piece of cardstock I got 24 cards and I only need 21. Next up a cute little frame I used Fillable Frames #12 from Papertrey Ink and some white craft in from Stampin' Up!

Then I rounded the corners and stamped a variety of cute animals from PTI's Tiny Treats Birthday stamp, punched them out, and colored them in with my Copics. Added a sentiment from CTMH's Stay it in Style stamp set.

About that time two of my girls came up so Savannah helped her little sister sign her name. Melts your heart huh...

Awww my little lefty.

Look mommy! She did that after every one it was so cute!

All set for tomorrow. I hope everyone has a great day.

Love is in the air

oh...I am so in love this week. This is going to be a great year I can just feel it!

Papertrey Ink is having an anniversary celebration and today they have a great set of tags that we can download and use to make cards. I am planning a whole set but since it has been a busy weekend I thought tonight I would just make one card up.

I chose to focus on Lisa Johnson's tag with the cute little hearts since Valentines Day is right around the corner.



I used my Copics and colored in the hearts R81,R83.R85, and R89 I really love this color combination. It is one of my favorites. I also wanted to add some other colors so I grabbed YG25 as it matched my cardstock just perfect. For the blue area I used BG72 and then really jumped down the scale to BG13 and finally BG10.

Isn't this paper so gorgeous? Love love love it! I got it yesterday from Personal Scrapper my favorite kit of the month club. This month the paper is from We R Memory Keepers it is the Be My Valentine Sweetness line it just makes me smile when I see it. I was so giddy when I opened the box...love I tell you I am in love.

Have you noticed that cute boarder yet? I have been dying to get that punch since I spotted it on a card several months ago. I finally found it yesterday at Archivers. It is a fiskars punch...in love with that too.

See February is all about love and I am certainly in love so far...I cannot wait to see what the rest of the month brings. Like I said it is going to be a great year!

Hugs all :)