Grandma's card

Don't forget grandma's this Mother's Day! I designed mine with Artful Delight's card sketch and Frosted Design's bingo challenge:

For my bingo I used the bottom row of circles (polka dot pp), quote (from JBS pea pod parts), brads (corner of my sentiment), and chipboard (I used the burgundy stickles on the raw chipboard heart).

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you've had a great weekend! :)

Welcome Home

Good Saturday morning! It's my day to share my layout on the Artful Delight blog :) I'm so excited to be a guest designer this month. Leeanne's kits are amazing!

I used both the Jillibean Soup "Heartly Bartley" and My Minds Eye "Kraft Funday" papers to make this layout about my hubby and dog .. I couldn't find them anywhere when I got home from work. Turns out they were hanging out in the backyard :) 

I inked the chipboard alphas that came with the kit with my burgundy inks. It's fun to coordinate them with any layout!

Be sure to stop by Artful Delight blog to see what the rest of the designers are creating with the January layout and card kits : ) and pick one up for yourself!

I'm also entering this layout at Simon Says Stamp for anything but a card.

Jillibean Soup

Brrr... fall has officially come to the East Coast. It was so chilly here this weekend; I was excited to play with our  new featured sponsored for October at A Walk Down Memory Lane.. Jillibean Soup!

All month long, Jillibean Soup is 25% off !! Woot!

I loved this sketch at My Scraps And More for using 2 4x6 photos:

I used 2 pictures from our anniversary trip 2 years ago to Washington, D.C :)

The "Apple Cheddar Soup" is one of my favorites right now.  I also used the corrugated kraft alphas and a bean blossom. Check them out at AWDML this month!

Cirlces everywhere..

Like basic black, circles are back :) The latest challenge at The Paper Variety is to use 4 or more on your paper project.

I made this clean and simple birthday card using the card sketch and color challenge at Peachy Keen!

I used my favorite "Seeing Spots" cuttlebug folder on my white card base, with my cricut cut circles lining the seam. I fussy cut these cute Jillibean Soup owls from a patterned paper scrap leftover from a past Artful Delight kit.


I'm also linking this card up to Celebrate the Occasion, to create a kid themed birthday card :)

You have until Tuesday at noon to link up your own circle projects to The Paper Variety for a chance to win a gift certificate to.. wait for it... Scrapbook Circle!! lol! ;)

Hope you're having a wonderful Saturday!

{{siblings}}

TGIF!! I was soo excited to spend one of my first days "off" scrappin'! Summer school ended yesterday and it was like a weight lifted. I couldn't wait to get back to scrappin' our Colorado trip. 

I had a special picture of my husband with this 3 wonderful sisters and was happy to find the latest sketch at The Scrappiest was perfect for it.

I bought lots of new goodies for this trip.. many new camping/nature collections, travel lines.. but I wanted something a little different. I went to my stash and found a piece of patterned paper I've probably "saved" for 5+ years. 

It's from My Mind's Eye's "Wild Asparagus" line, called "you are my sunshine".  It's a heavyweight paper and almost feels like a canvas texture. And it was perfect for this photo and the background mat for the sketch.

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I just {love} how it turned out! I had some trouble finding what would "go" with this one piece of paper, but I went through more of my stash and loved mixing and matching different companies and lines.

The beautiful olive "bean blossom" is from Jillibean Soup. I added a brad (with the prongs removed) from Basic Grey to the center of the button to tie my colors together. I framed my 5x7 photo (which is handstitched!) with a Storybook cut.

The sprig on the right is chipboard from Maya Road, that I inked in dark brown (as I did most of the layers). The other pieces are cut from the Storybook cricut cartridge.

I didn't want to overwhelm the layers with more patterns, but the cardstock seemed too plain. So I ran the kraft layer through  my Cuttlebug "leafy branch" folder and inked it in brown. The subtle embossing was just what it needed. More brads from Basic Grey :) I love those colors!

I brought in the same elements to the top right corner, cutting my title/shadow at one inch from the Storybook cartridge. I also used my Martha Stewart "Cherish" punch around the page set on the entire layout.

Whew! Should I tell you this layout took all day? LOL! But I'm so pleased how it turned out. :)

In addition to The Scrappiest, I'm also linking my page to Craft Junkie Too's linky party and ScrapFit's flower challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a wonderful weekend :) 

Flying Solo

I made a quick layout this morning for a few few challenges. This one is for the San Francisco anniversary trip album. My husband was there for a conference over that weekend, so we flew out ahead of time together and did the "tourist" thing and then I flew home by myself while he stayed for work.

I used the current sketch at Sassy Little Sketches:

I really like how it turned out! Simple, with the focus on these amazing pictures out the plane window. I was so proud of myself for flying back by myself across country!

I used Basic Grey's "Wander" collection for the papers and embellishments. The title is made with Jillibean Soup corrugated alphas (love the negatives!)

There is a fun challenge going on at Get Cricky to "Pack Your Bags". When I looked through my photos I knew these would be perfect :)

Happy Birthday!

I can't believe my "baby" brother is 19... we are exactly ten years apart. Which means I'm almost 30 *gasp*!

Anyway, I knew I wanted to use pictures from his birthday dinner with the Jillibean Soup "Spotted Owl" soup papers from the March Artful Delight Kit.

Except the colors were bright greens and blues. And the pictures I had were very dark with reds and blacks and browns from the restaurant we were in. I still wanted to use them, but printed them all in black and white. I wasn't quite sure if I'd like it but I *love* the result.

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I just couldn't decide whether to use the front or the back of the patterned papers - and which ones? They are all so adorable! Then, I found a sketch from Alison Dravis, one of my favorites for double page layouts.

I cut the paper into rectangles (after some careful measuring, lol) and inked the edges in black to accent the black and white photos. I was inspired by the current challenge at Frosted Designs. So, "fussy cut" 2 of the banners from the patterned paper for my title. I popped them up, too.

I took a black sharpie to the brown journaling sprouts in the kit to coordinate with my layout a little better. The flower embellishments are from Basic Grey's Marjolaine line. Leann does such a fantastic job at putting the kits together!

Be sure to stop by the Artful Delight blog today. I believe there is just one March kit left in stock. But if not, treat yourself and order April's kit. You won't be disappointed. So far I've made 4 layouts and have PLENTY left over for 4 more.

Have a great Monday!

A "ruff" day

Welcome to another great challenge at The Paper Variety!

You never know when you will need a "get well" card. It's so nice to have these on hand to send an uplifting message to a friend in need! This week's challenge is...

We have a NEW sponsor to introduce too! Dana Swadling is a super sweet Close to My Heart demonstrator! Click HERE to go to her website.

She has generously donated this beautiful "Sophia" kit! Doesn't that make you smile?!

Be sure to stop by The Paper Variety to see the cards and gifts the design team created!

I took a different take on this challenge and created a layout about my little guy being sick. Unfortunately, he has had seizures for the past year or so. Luckily, with the right medication dosage he is doing much better!

I just love how this layout came together! I wanted to include a lot of journaling and the latest sketch at Artful Delight was the perfect design.

I am lucky enough to be guest designing for Leanne and playing with this month's kit!

It is full of Jillibean Soup and Little Yellow Bicycle. See THIS post for all the details.

Enter your "get well" paper projects at The Paper Variety for a chance to win the CTMH Sophia kit! :)

Yarn Flower card :)

Have you been drooling over all of the new CHA releases? One of my favorites is Jillibean Soup. They have so many cute embellishments! One of which are these "bean blossoms".

I thought I would give it ago and try to make some myself :) I really like the result!

The challenge at Fantabulous Cricut was to use a "neglected" cartridge. Well dusted off Plantin Schoolbook to cut my circle bases for this flower. This one is cut at 2 1/2" which was the perfect size.

I used scraps of Basic Grey's "Green at Heart" (one of my all time favorites from Basic Grey) and added a white border with my Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch. The "If friends were flowers, I'd pick you" sentiment was printed on my computer.

Thanks for looking! Let me know if you try it :)