Baby Girl Shaker Card

I cannot tell you how happy I am with how this card turned out!  My sister needed a card for a friends baby shower.  The coworkers were throwing her a 'sprinkle' at work.  My first thought was a shaker card.  It did not turn out as 'sprinkly' as I imagined but I love love love it!

I got the digital stamp from May Brit's Hobbyblogg.  I wanted to find a super cute baby girl stamp and I could not pass this one up!  I colored her with Prismacolor Pencils and added stickles to her little blanket to sparkle it up a bit.

I used George and Basics to create the frame and embossed it with Swiss Dots.  The background red is embossed with D'vine Swirl and finally the ribbon is from Celebrate It!

I'm entering this card in the Fashionista Challenge #1 anything goes for girls

Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge

Is there such thing as Christmas in March?!  I have yet another Christmas layout for that holiday scrapbook I'm putting together.  Over at Frosted Designs, they are having a fabulous Friday challenge to use grids on your project.  Here is what I came up with.

I love these colors!  I'm really happy with how it all came together!

 

 I actually made this a double layout.

 

 

Supplies used:
Cricut Cartridges - Christmas, Plantin Schoolbook, Stretch Your Imagination
Glossy Accents, K&Company, Bakers twine, Oriental Trading Company, Recollections, White Gelly Roll Pen, Eyelet Outlet

A Sporty Layout!

I put together a pretty simple layout this weekend.  I'm loving the browns!  I decided to steer clear of the usual birthday colors.

I decided to go cricut-less again!  I had a bunch of little embellishments from Paper Bliss that really added to the page!  I used some photo corners for a birthday invitation that I didn't want to adhere permanently.  The button is from Oriental Trading Company and I tied some bakers twine to it.  I also inked the edges of the papers....and that's it folks!  Easy peasy!

 

I'd like to enter in the following challenges:
Love to Create Challenge #7 - Anything goes
Amanda's Crafts and More - Getting sketchy challenge
I used a sketch from Bo Bunny Blog

Halloween Layout

I've been checking off Halloween layouts lately!  I'm still making this holiday scrapbook for a friend and needed to get in the spirit!  The other LO's I have done for her book were pretty detailed with lots of cricut cuts so I decided to make this one 'pretty simple'.  Really though I'm not sure I know how to do that!  Here is what I came up with.

I love how bright it turned out!  The 2 pictures will go along the vertical purple paper.  I went with a lot of purple because the little girl was dressed as a butterfly this particular year and it really looks great on the LO!

Supplies used:
Lyrical Letters Cartridge - frame cutout
Life's Little Occasions - BOO and Spooky embellishments
Celebrate It! - Purple Ribbon
Oriental Trading Company - adhesive jewels, button
Fiskars Border Punch
Baker's Twine

 I'd like to enter in the following challenges:
Love to Create Challenge #7 - anything goes


I'm entering in the Love to Create Challenge #7 - Anything goes

Lemon Scrub Cheer Me Up

Today's project was inspired by a mom/friend in my local mother's group who recently found out she has breast cancer.  I have been a mix of emotions.  She is in her early 30's.  I can't imagine what she is going through as I sit here unable to absorb it myself.  Our mother's group is fantastic, supportive, dependable, inspirational.  This woman is having surgery on Monday.  I wanted to make her a little something, a goody bag of sorts to at least let her know I'm thinking and praying for her.  Along with baked goods and freezer meals I came up with this little gift.

My sister made each of us this sugar scrub for Christmas and I absolutely loved it.  I made it for all of the kids teachers for Valentine's Day.  I cannot say enough good things about this recipe!  I found it HERE.  And I could not believe how well the Peachy Keen Skunk Cheer Up Set went with the 'theme' of the gift!

I made the tag by just cutting a piece of chipboard and rounding the edges with the Creative Memories Oval cutting system.  Then I matted it with paper from Heidi Grace Designs.   The skunk, sentiment and flowers are all from Peachy Keen's Skunk Cheer Up Set.  I stamped the skunk on printed paper and colored parts of it with Copic markers.  I used the Recollections border punch and used a pearl pen by Viva Decor to accent it a bit.

I tied the spoon to the jar using ribbon from The Ribbon Boutique.  I know this gift won't fix the given situation but hopefully she knows we are all here for her and praying for the best possible outcome.

I'd like to enter my project in the following challenges.
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #44 - Spring with ribbon theme
Peachy Challenge 09 - Color Inspiration

Monkey Business

I'm on a layout spree lately!  I'm creating a holiday scrapbook for a friend (birthday, Halloween, Christmas) and came to her son's 2nd birthday which had a monkey theme.  Here is what I created!

I think it turned out adorable!  Her invitation is going to go on the brown mat and since she only had 1 left she didn't want it glued down so I used some photo slits there.  I also popped the flowers from the page with foam squares.  The monkeys are from Paper Bliss but I added the party hats!

Challenges:
Whimsical Designs - Going Green
Amanda's Crafts and More, Getting Scrappy Challenge - Color Me Lucky


Supplies used:
Cricut Cartridges:
Just Because Cards - leaves
Create a Critter - flowers
Sweet Treats - party hats

Paper Bliss - monkeys
Queen & Co. - yellow brads
Fiskars - vine stamp
Studio G - ink

Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #52

I found my new favorite layout of all time!  This doozy took me quite a bit of time but it was definitely worth it!  I've been plugging away at my youngest's scrapbook and as you can see (he's currently 5) I haven't been getting very far!  I made this layout for the Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #52 - use at least 2 colors of red, pink, black and white.

 I used Home Accents cartridge for the frame and accented the flowers on it with adhesive pearls from OTC.

  

I hand stitched (yes hand stitched) all 36 red buttons to spell LOVE.

I used the EK Success Victorian Photo Corner punch for my 2 larger pictures.

 The silvery ribbon is from Tim Holtz idea-ology and I inked it with Studio G silver ink.  The flowers are from Paper Studio and I finished it off with another OTC pearl.

Thanks for stopping by!

Valentine's Day Treats

Apparently I took quite the vacation from blogging!  I did not anticipate to be so busy over the holidays and beyond.  BUT I decided to make it a priority to get some Valentine's Day treats made for the kiddos teachers.  I found these adorable Ghiradelli Treat holders on Kerry's Paper Crafts Blog and fell in love!  She has an awesome tutorial as well.  Here is how I made them:

These were super easy to make!  I used paper from K&Company (I just love their double sided stacks).  I also made my very first digital stamp!  The Valentine's Day stamp on the front is my very own!  I sized it to 1.5", used the Recollections circle punch and matted it on the 1 3/4" scallop punch from Stampin Up.  I used my foam dots to pop it from the front.  I finished it by rounding the edges.  I'll also have the kids write a little Valentine's note on the inside (or at least have them sign their name). 

I am entering these treat holders in My Craft Spot's Monday Challenge #43 - Valentine's Day and Paper Sundaes Challenge #106 - Clean and Simple.

Thanks and happy Monday!

Paper Primper Christmas Blog Hop

Hello friends!  Today is my day to show off what I've created for the Paper Primper Christmas Blog Hop.  You should have arrived from Paper Primper Altered Art .  If you just happened upon my blog be sure to start back at the beginning!

I decided to try my hand at a paper bag album.  I found a couple of tutorials since I have never attempted this project before.  I have to admit I'm addicted!  I plan to make many many more of these!  I followed THIS tutorial and then went to her ustream to see how she decorated it.  VERY easy to follow.

I decided to make this album for our family gift exchange this year.  I have a HUGE extended family and each year for Christmas we rotate who hosts our big family party.  Well I collected the family pictures from each year from 1999 - 2010 and put them in order in the album, leaving room for the recipient to add their own pictures.  We'll see if it's a big hit this year or not!

The front cover

Each page has a chipboard piece that pulls out for more pictures.

 One of the pages.  The blue strip is also a pocket.

Another chipboard page.

The entire album finished and opened up.  There are enough pages to go to 2014!

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Now hop on over to Kacee and continue on our hop!
And be sure to check back on Friday to see projects from all of the designers!

Die Cuttin Divas Challenge!

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Tuesday has rolled around again!  So that means it's time for another Die Cuttin Divas challenge!  This week is all about the football theme!  We are pretty big football fans here in our house (well big Detroit sports fans in general I guess you could say!).  But recently my 8 year old has transformed into a University of Michigan fan.  My guess is really as good as yours as neither my husband or I went to UofM (or MSU for that matter).  So I wanted to take this opportunity to make him a little card.  I'm SO proud of myself!  This turned out exactly how I wanted.  I am in love!  I decided to try out a slider card and think it turned out adorable!  What do you think?!

The football and goal post are from Sports Mania and the player from Everyday Paper Dolls.  I added an M to his jersey with Studio G glitter glue.  I decided to make the football a bit sparkly with some stickles.  and of course you can't mistake his adorable face...I used Everyday Character Assortment from Peachy Keen Stamps.  I inked all of the paper edges to finish it off.

We hope you decide to make a football project this week to share with us!  Be sure to submit it HERE!!