Consider It Cased

So a while back I stumbled across a blog idea that I thought was really fun. She cased a random card and made her own version of it. As you know from yesterday I enjoy a good case and also like to give credit when I do it so without further ado when I saw this card over at Lisa's blog during the last SOTM blog hop I knew I had to make it! It is sooooo gorgeous!

I changed out a few things and here is what I came up with.

I can't wait to send this card off to a good friend this morning. I hope she enjoys the simple beauty. I will be making this card again. It would be a great set of gift cards in various colors.

I used a few different stamp sets.The handwriting is from Secret Bird Society Collection from Kaiser Craft. I won that earlier this year at CHA and was not sure if I would use it but then I spotted the handwritten stamp and was thinking score! Next I used one of my favorites from CTMH Treasure Life it is simply beautiful! Last I used a cute little word set from SU called Congrats.
Colors: Bamboo & Gypsy from CTMH, Cardstock: Bamboo, White Daisy
Details: Line Thread and Classic Scalloped Large Rectangles from Nestabilities.

I hope you enjoyed my first Considered it Cased card.

Case Study #14 - Happy Birthday!

So I have been wanting to play along over at Case Study. I am the queen of casing so this is perfect for me. I love to look at a card or a scrapbook page or even a photograph and get inspiration from it. Sometimes I change a little and sometimes I change a lot. Here is what I came up with:

Here is another view of the details

Here is Heathers card over at Case Studies...isn't is so adorable!

Recipe:

CTMH It's Your Day stamp set, Cherry-O Papers, Sweet Leaf, Chocolate, Tulip, and White Daisy Cardstock. Tulip, Chocolate, Blush, Sweet Leaf, Buttercup, Sunset Inks. Liquid Glass and Stickles. Red Ribbon, Chocolate Waxy Flax, and a Button.

Organizing

Sorry to be MIA I have been organizing...organizing my life, my craft things, my photo's. Wow that is a lot of work.

I moved my living room around. I don't have photo's to show you yet on that as I am still working on the mantel and the floors...ugh I can never keep up with those. Light colored hard wood floors + kids = tons of work! I also have been picking out paint colors for our entry way and living room. Now that we have been here for a year I have finally started to figure things out. I will hopefully be sharing those things soon.

Craft things - I moved my studio from the basement up to the old nursery, moved the baby now toddler into the teens room and moved the teen into the old craft room. I wasn't using the huge space and she was coveting it so now I have a great view and a smaller more manageable room and everyone is happy :) especially ME cause I have this view from my desk

Photo's...oh how these get away from me so fast. I love taking digi photo' now instead of guessing what I took I can see if and delete the bad ones. Wait...stop...did I say delete the bad ones? Uh yea....I never seem to do this step! What if I need all 50 photo's of the baby drooling? How can I delete that photo of Savannah's leg kicking the soccer ball, or Danielle walking. haha am I the only one who has a hard time deleting the stuff that belongs on the cutting room floor?

I have figured out a good solution for me I am a chronological scrapper so I just do it by month and then have subfolders for different events and what-not.

I promise to have some new stuff soon.

My Croptoberfest projects

Well I wanted to post these indivudually but since I have completely fallen off the planet and it isn't October anymore I thought I would share what I was able to finish over at PersonalScrapper's Croptoberfest and move onto whatever is next.

I was able to get so much scrapbooking done! I like the way all of these turned out some photographed better than others.

October PageMap

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas

Focus on one photo

Love



Circles

Fall Sketch

Make your own embelishment

Recipe Challenge - this was really cool mine is based on an Nutty Carmel Apple Pie receipe

Threes...Threes and more Threes



Stay tuned for some more cards and scrapbook pages. I have had a busy October full of crafting and playing with the kids. I am super excited to get together with friends next weekend to make some cards and I might see if I can squeeze in a crop on Friday.

Something new

So today I did something that I have never done before! I don't even know how I have never done it but I haven't. Sure I have participated way after the fact but never current while it is going one. What did I do? Why I made a card using a Mojo Monday sketch in the week it is being used! WOW!!!

This card looks better in real life but I am going to share anyway. I hope you like it

Mojo Monday Sketch 160

Stamps: Friendship Jar & Fillers, Paper - Scenic Route, Ribbon SU, Bazil paper, CTMH cardstock, Copics

Sunday Scraphappenings

so I am still scrapbooking. Wa hoo!! I have been getting lots of pages done and have been scrapbooking some really random photo's. I would share everything but then on those days when I got nothing I won't have anything to share so I will just show you another one of my favorites that I just finished.

I finally used my Magic book! It was so easy to use and so FUN!!!

Many many years ago...um wow many many I used to go to Loretta Lynn's Dude Ranch down in Hurricane Mills Tennessee with my cousins. My one cousin used to race motocross and his sister would get bored so I would tote along and we would have loads of fun.  Anyway I found a bunch of photos when I moved my studio, yes again that is another story, I thought they would be fun to scrapbook and I had a hard time fitting all the photos on the pages. I grabbed my Magic book and got busy. This is the Showtime layout.

 Supplies: Crate Paper - Lemon Grass Collection: Lime
               Magic How to Book
               Misc. Ribbon
               Crate Paper glitter borders and embellishments

Scrapbooking on Saturday...

yep even though it is so gorgeous outside I am inside scrapping. I spent the morning at a soccer game watching my daughter be amazing ;) really though she is incredible. Since I got some fresh air I thought I would enjoy the online crop over at PersonalScrapper. I used to belong to the kit of the month club and just love love love them. I only stopped cause I wasn't using just collecting. Anyway I pulled out some paper from March 2009 featuring the Penny Lane collectino from My Mind's Eye and jumped right in.

First up - There is something about things...so I picked lots of things as seen through the eyes of a child. I used a sketch from my PageMaps book (pg 25)

Here is the left page

and the right page

and a detail of the fun little mat that I made with some rub ons.

I popped up this butterfly and used a little journal jot and the extra periods from the alphabet thickers to create a flying pattern

I hope you enjoyed my pages.