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.

End of Summer Crop: White Water Rafting

Welcome to our End of Summer Crop I hope your summer has been one to remember! I have had a full calendar for summer which made a lot of fun memories for future pages. It has also sure to be one to remember it started out with a bang when I went White Water Rafting up in Wisconsin. We went to a very rustic camp ground without reservations on one of the busiest weekends of the year.  After we set up camp we went and grabbed some dinner and got up the next morning and drove down a curvy hilly road to Shotgun Eddy's for a full day of adventure on the river. There was a lot of calm and we would just float down the lazy river and then we would go through some rapids and they were intense! We even went over a small waterfall. At one point we were stuck and our raft filled all the way up with water and I was not sure what was going to happen. My hubby told me to stay in the boat which was good because I was holding on to all of our stuff so it didn't float away. I saved our cooler but most of the insides were gone haha. The raft is designed to let all the water out so once we were unstuck we could continue down our path. All in all it was a great day and an epic adventure.

Here is the sketch for Challenge #1 I hope you can play along with Sketch #140 we would love to see what you come up with.

Supplies: 

all CTMH unless otherwise noted

Paper Pack - Fresh Air

Other - Fresh Air Complements 

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!

Magical birthday card SNS #126

Hello everyone here is that card that I said I made with the cute little unicorn from the Little Dreamer set that I bought when I lost my mind at the CTMH clearance sale. hahaha who knew then that it would fit in perfectly with my Flashback Friday Feature. Do you have any of this cute paper laying around? If so I hope you are inspired to use it.

I had a lot of fun making this card for my daughter. She had a birthday card to go to and the whole time I was making it I was thinking how much she would love this card for herself. Of course the first thing she said when she saw it was awwwwww I love that little unicorn. I want a card like that. I will have to see what i can come up with for her birthday in December.

I used sketch #126 for this card. It is a super versatile sketch that I will use again and again.

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

Here is Sketch #126. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Red White and Blue Challenge 1 at the lake

Welcome to our Red, White & Blue Crop I hope your summer is off to a great start! I have a full calendar for summer which should make for a lot of super cute pages in my future. Today I decided to scrap some of my favorite photos from Enid Lake in Mississippi last year. We were having a Family Reunion and went to go check out the location the day before and caught a sunset. I also managed to snap a few photos of my family looking around.

I also decided to start a regular feature on my blog called Flashback Friday because I have so many older papers that I just love so much that I didn't use up when I first got them. Today I am featuring something from 2016 - Regatta which is a perfect summer paper.

Here is a close up. I also added some little accents using cork that I have also had for ages. I turned them into little clouds.

I did a few flower accents on each photo as well.

Here is the sketch for Challenge #1 I hope you can play along with Sketch #84 we would love to see what you come up with.

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