Siblings...A Challenge

Happy New Year everybody!! I guess I just took a little blogging vacation! But I am back and have stuff to show you! My first layout is for Biograffiti's "From My Playlist" challenge. You can see the details of the challenge HERE.


I think one of my resolutions for this year is to scrap more for the fun of it!! I know - it's my hobby and it's always fun, but sometimes one gets caught up in CT work and needs a break. So I am hoping to do more challenges in 2011, starting with this one!

Credits for the layout go to:

• Template - Biograffiti - Challenge Freebie
• Kit - Libby Pritchett - Eight Days a Week

Thanks for stopping by! More to come....

Pile It On - Punches!

I am still feeling under the weather, so I will make this short and sweet!! It's Sunday and time for a new Pile It On challenge! This week the challenge is PUNCHES! We also have CRAZED as a GREAT sponsor! Be sure to run over to the Pile It On! blog and check it out.

Here's my card:

• Pile It On - Punches
• Our Creative Corner - Color combo
• Paper Maniac - Ribbon
• Papertake Weekly - Faking It
• Three Clovers - Doodles

Thanks for looking...and as always, more to come...including a change to my blog look...be sure to come back and check it all out!!

Pile It On! #14 - BIRTHDAY

Okay - I am a little late with my own post, but I am here now!!! Today the challenge over at PILE IT ON! is BIRTHDAY! We also have Hambo Stamps sponsoring us this week and the Design Team has made CUTE cards with the Digital Images offered by Hambo.

As a Nascar fan - I just HAD to use this race car driver!




And in true PILE IT ON! fashion, here are the challenges for this card:

• Pile It On! - Birthday (and Hambo Stamps)
  
• All Sorts - Something for the Boys
• Eat, Sleep, Stamp - Sketch

Thanks for stopping by!! Will be back with more soon!

Pile It On! - No Patterned Paper (OMG)

It's Sunday - and we all know what that means!! A new challenge from the PILE IT ON! blog. Be sure to check out this week's top three and what the FANTABULOUS Design Team created.

And now - for this week's challenge - NO PATTERNED PAPER! I know, I know - don't shoot the messenger - it wasn't my week to set the challenge! LOL However, please remember - you can make your own patterned paper!

This week, we had a sponsor - DIGI STAMP CHARACTER. So I used their adorable little girl image to make my patterned paper. Here's what I came up with:



And here's my "pile":

• Pile It On! - No patterned paper
• 365 Cards - sunflower inspiration
• No Time To Stamp - Stamp Simply - Make a card for a friend!

And that's it for this one! Kind of a small pile, huh? Just goes to show you it doesn't take 10 challenges to make a Pile It On! card!

Thanks for playing with us - I can't wait to see what you create!!

The Fresh Batch!

Hey there everybody!! It's Thursday - and you know what that means! Another sketch for the Fresh Batch to work on! And we definitely have a Fresh Batch this week - so be sure to stop by the Stamps & Smiles blog and check them out!! We have a NEW FANTABULOUS Sketch Artist this week - DALIS!!! She drew us a fabulous sketch - which you can see HERE. This is my take on it!



You know this would have to hit at least one other challenge right? Because as you all know - it's what I do! LOL

• Stamps & Smiles - Sketch
• Pile It On! - watercolor your image
• If the Shoe Fits - use a cupcake on your card
• Dutch Dare - Use cutting dies or punches

And that's it for me - be sure to come back - I always have MORE to show you!!

One more....

It's Sunday people!! That means a new challenge from PILE IT ON!! This week's challenge is to use WATERCOLORING on your project. Now I want it to be known that I am NOT a stamper! However, I also didn't set the challenge this week - my partner in crime Dalis did!

Also, it's the last Sunday of the month and our sponsor this week is STAMPS & SMILES! She has such cute stamps (like the cupcake on my tag) so you might want to check out the Stamps & Smiles store!

I know I have been making a bunch of these Sour Cream containers lately - but they're so quick and easy and a great little treat to give somebody as just a simple pick-me-up! I promise - last one for a while!!

True to my normal - and Pile It On's theory - this obviously hits more than one challenge:

• Pile It On! - Watercoloring
• Stamps & Smiles Project Tuesday - Sour Cream Container
• Charisma Cards - Tag It - use a tag on your project
• Dutch Dare - punches
• Try It Out Tuesday - Pink Lemonade (this is probably a slight stretch, but I am taking it!)

That will do it for this one! Be sure to check out the PILE IT ON! blog and see what the other Design Team members created!

Thanks for stopping by!

PILE IT ON! - Challenge #6 - Sketch

It's Sunday and time for the next challenge at PILE IT ON!! This week, my lovely partner in crime Dalis has provided the Design Team with a sketch!! Be sure to run on over to the PILE IT ON! Blog and check out all the details. Remember - need to combine our challenge (this week is the sketch) with at least one other CURRENT challenge!

Here's mine:


Challenges....

• Pile It On - Sketch
• Raspberry Ribbons - Circles & Ribbon
• Belli Challenge - Texture
• Stamp Something - Pink, yellow, green

Thanks for stopping by! Can't wait to see what you create this week!

Etsy Inspired -

Hi Again! It's Saturday and it's July - that means I am continuing my guest design stint over at Heart Hugs for the Etsy Inspired Challenge. This week's shop is Verbena Custom Blends and they make specialty soaps (feel like I'm at work! LOL) Unfortunately, our shopowner is on vacation for the week, so please check out her "sold" items for your inspiration. Here's mine:



I obviously picked up on the colors and the hearts - so here's the card:


And if you know me - I got a few more challenges into this one:

• Stamps & Smiles - Sketch
• Stamp Something asked for pink, yellow, green
• Spoon Full of Sugar asked for hearts
• Etsy Inspired - obviously! :)

Thanks for visiting! They'll be more tomorrow so be sure to stop by!

Christmas In July

Ho Ho Ho and all that jazz! Okay- since it's July - our challenge peeps seem to ask for Christmas in July, so I didn't want to disappoint anybody! Here's the card:



Of course it's Thursday - so it's also Stamps & Smiles day here at my blog and the Sketch team over at the Stamps & Smiles blog have some wonderful samples for you, so be sure to check them out.

So this card is for:

• Stamps & Smiles - Sketch
• Flutter By Wednesday - Butterfly, buttons & bows (well, only one bow!)
• Charisma - Buttons
• Stamp Something - Xmas in July
  
• Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Xmas in July
• Getting Creative with Ann - Basic Tools - the only tools I used on this were my cutter and two hand punches (not even my Cuttlebug)
• Pile It On! - three different embellishments - buttons, ribbon, and rhinestones
  

And that's about it for this one...check out the post below and you will see my layout for ScrapSchemes this week!

PILE IT ON! - Challenge #4

Hello! Glad to see you back here! And if it's your first visit to my blog - welcome! Today is Sunday and that means it's time for a new challenge from PILE IT ON! Be sure to check out the Pile It On! blog, because there's a LOT of goodness over there today, including the ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE NEW DESIGN TEAM!

And today's challenge - you might ask? To use THREE DIFFERENT EMBELLISHMENTS on your project - meaning if you use two ribbons - it's only counts as one embellishment - and of course, you need to incorporate at least one other CURRENT challenge. As you will see on my card below I used ribbon, flowers & crystals.

I'm not sure you can tell - but this card is made from acetate! I love the elegant looks it gives it but I don't use it all that often!



The challenges included for this card - and it works HARD I tell you!

• Pile It On! - Three different embellishments
• Our Creative Corner - red, white & blue
• Flutterby - open, but use a butterfly
• Card Patterns - Sketch - I don't normally "copy" a sketch quite as closely as this, but as soon as I saw the sketch, this card came right into my head!
• Crafty Creations - Celebrations
• Libby's Little Addiction - Courtney's Closet - you have to go see the cute little outfit Courtney is wearing - it's so cute with a little American butterfly!
  
• ABC - U is for USA
• Three Clovers - Red, White & Blue
• Cuttlebug Spot - Celebrate your Country
• Color Chef - Red, White & Blue
• The Pink Elephant - Favorite Color Combo
• **ETA** Also works for today's 2RedBananas challenge - make it patriotic! Since I just made it and posted in this morning, I have no problem counting it - although they will probably see another one - I LOVE red, white & blue!!
  

That's it for this one! Be sure to check out the Pile It On! Blog to see what the Design Team created, who the top three scoops are - and we even had TWO Sweet Sprinkle Awards given this week!

Thanks for visiting!

Guess what???

I am the July Guest Designer over at Heart Hugs for the ETSY INSPIRED CHALLENGE!! Woooo Hoooo! Yay me!!! Anyway - enough of that! LOL
Let me show you my card - and I was even able to pile on the challenges!

• Obviously - First and Foremost - Heart Hugs Etsy Inspired Challenge. This week's shop is called Which Goose. Everything is flowery! So although they have real looking elegant pieces, that's just not me. So I translated flowers into "Vicki Flowers" and this is what I cam up with.
• 365 Cards - I am actually going to get two out of this one for 365 - which I don't normally do, but....there hasn't been a lot of time making cards lately, so....#124 - Something Digital - the blue daisy paper is digital. It comes from a shop called Funky Fairies and #126 - Red, White & Blue
  
• Paper Play asked for flowers -the challenge is actually called Paper Roses. The flowers CANNOT be purchased - you had to make them. Mine is made from a QK die.
• Color Chef #12 asked for Red, White & Blue
• Three Clovers asked for Red, White & Blue
• ABC - U is for - USA - again, to me, this translates into Red, White & Blue
• Cuttlebug Spot - Celebrate Your Country. Now I know one of these CB challenge blogs requires you to use your Cuttlebug - and I did. I just happened to have been to cut out my QK flower! LOL :)
• Crafty Creations asked for Celebrations! Now this card being what it is - it could be used for many different occasions.
  
• Flutterby Wednesday #64 - open challenge - just use a butterfly
• The Pink Elephant - Favorite Color Combo - this is my second card for them this week - both using Red, White & Blue. Also, although it doesn't really count, this was their sketch last week, so I figured I should not that too!! Loved it - just didn't have time to play it til now.
  

And that's all for this one! Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps & Smiles!

There's a new sketch out today over at the Stamps & Smiles blog! (Well there will be tomorrow morning, but since blogger is wonky on the pre-posting, I opted to post early). Every Thursday you can find a new FANTABULOUS sketch from our Sketch Artist - Mercy!

Here's my take on the sketch:


And a few more challenges this cute little card qualifies for:

• Again - the sketch is Stamps & Smiles
• Color Chef - Red White & Blue
• Spoon Full of Sugar - they asked for summer - personally - red, white, & blue with stars has SUMMER written all over it in my book!!
• Cupcake Crafts also asked for summer
• Cuttlebug Spot asked us to Celebrate Your Country
• The Pink Elephant asked for your favorite color combo - this is definitely one of my favorites!
• 2RedBananas had a lovely picture up for inspiration - two red and white beach chairs, on the beach, facing a blue ocean - all said summer to me!

And that will do it for this one!!

It's TUESDAY!!

And I assume you all know what that means...it's time for this week's Project Tuesday challenge!! This week it's an A2 CARD BOX. I can tell you it was quick and simple and you don't have to make the cards, but I did and used a simple little recipe and the whole project - including the cards - was done in LESS THAN AN HOUR! The box itself probably took less than 20 minutes.

There are plenty of photos here for you to see it. Be sure to check out the Project Tuesday blog so you can see what the other girls did - all the creations are FANTABULOUS!! And be sure to read to the end, because this one covers a couple of challenges! (of course!)

• Project Tuesday - A2 Card box
• Secret Crafter - Pretty Packaging
• Stamptacular Sunday - Animals - now I am probably PUSHING this challenge. Obviously for Stamptacular Sunday you MUST stamp. Well, I have the little FOR YOU stamp on the front of the box and all those little cards do have sentiments stamped inside - all different ones so that you have multiple occasions to use them - but I neglected to take a picture of the insides. I will see if I can remember to get an inside photo up soon. I did - however - hit the animal part with GUSTO!! Each of the 6 cards has a different animal on it - there's a bunny, bird, owl, deer, frog and I forget the last one! LOL
• Die Cut Dreams asked for anything BUT a card!
• Charisma Cards - Any project, Any Theme
• Pile It On!! - Must use four buttons
• Creative Inspirations is also asking for anything BUT a card!

And that will do it for this one! Thanks for stopping by! :)

PILE IT ON! - Challenge #4 - BUTTON UP!

This week the new challenge for PILE IT ON is....

USE FOUR OR MORE BUTTONS in your project...and as usual - AT LEAST one other challenge!

Challenges:

• Pile It On! - Button it up!
• Stamps and Smiles Tuesday Sketch - since I turned the sketch into a layout - this is obviously a VERY loose interpretation, but I just wanted to show you how versatile sketches are and that even if it doesn't look exactly like the sketch, it was inspirational!
  
• 365 Cards - Day 118 - You've Been Framed - now I might be cheating on this one because as we all know that 365 is about cards and this is a layout, but.....who cares? lol (My friend Gloria cheats on her 365 challenges all the time, so.....LOL - she's going to love reading that!!!)
  
• Charisma Cardz stated to create ANYTHING you wanted this week, no theme, no restrictions, so....here's mine!
• Scrap, Inspire, Create asked us to celebrate PARENTHOOD. The funny story behind this layout is that my daughter and her boyfriend Jimmy were gathering all the kids - mine and Jimmy's mother's to go have pictures taken for Mother's Day. Unfortunately, they had a bank account issue and were unable to have them taken. Since they were pretty much dressed and ready to go, I grabbed my camera and did the photos myself!! These are the three separate photos I took of each of my three children.
• Use It - I am going to claim this one! They asked for something inspired by nature - which would be the flowers, polka dots - which I have, favorite embellishment - I have used several different "embellishments" and to mail it to someone special (I am just wondering if email counts here??)

There's one more thing I have to tell you about my creation today - which could break many rules for some challenge blogs - It's DIGITAL! I have been playing in the digital world and LOVING IT!!! I have always been a scrapbooker and if you had told me a year ago that I would be make 5-10 cards every week instead of scrapbook pages, I would have told you that you were LOONEY! But here I am, making card after card (except this week - I was a very bad, lazy crafter! LOL) and NOT pages to go into my albums! Well, I had been thinking of trying digital for quite a while and since I had a program on my computer, I thought - HECK, why not?? So I started into the digital world!

So be on the look out for more digital and non-digital creations - and ANNOUNCEMENTS!

Stamps & Smiles #20

Once again I decided to combine the Stamps & Smiles sketch with this week's Project Tuesday! The stamps is from Stamps & Smiles CuppyLand set. I think this came out SOO cute! This would be so perfect for a favor for a shower or a little girl's birthday party!




I even hit a couple of challenges with this one:

• Stamps & Smiles Sketch #21
• Project Tuesday - One Sheet Box
• Pile It On! - Use purple - any shade, any amount
• Creative Inspirations - anything but a card!
  

And that's it for this one!! Thanks for stopping by!

Stars & Butterflies

I have a couple of cards to share with you tonight that hit a bunch of challenges, so hold onto your seats!! And a lot of WHITE tonight!

• Stamptacular Sunday asked for Red, White, & Blue and a Star too!
• Our Creative Corner asked for a star
• Belli Challenge asked for Patriotic (and to top it off - I won a digi stamp there last week!)
  
• Crafty Creations asked for Stars and Stripes - technically stars or stripes! I am thinking this could qualify for both.
• ABC asked for two tones - defined as any two colors, not counting card base (or flesh tones if coloring people) Both of these actually qualify for this one!
  

NEXT!!!



This one is actually a dark pink and those green butterflies are made with Nana's Kitchen papers. They actually have forks, knives, and spoons all over them!


Challenges:

• TCP Tuesday has two drinks as an inspiration piece - one green, one pink and very spring/summery
  
• Heart Hugs Etsy Inspired brought us to a store this week called Potato Patch and I was inspired by these cute little childrens shirts. I loved this one - with the butterfly!
  
• Danni's Flutterby Challenge was for springy and of course the butterfly
• Rosie & Dee asked for Pink & Lime
• Paper Blooms asked us to be inspired by something - TCP Picture and the Butterfly shirt at Potato Patch
• Secret Crafter asked for Pink & Green
• All Sorts asked for "winged" things. So again, I give them some lovely butterflies - different butterflies, but lovely just the same!
  

And that's probably all for tonight! Thanks for stopping and be sure to stop by tomorrow morning for the Stamps & Smiles sketch and the Scrap Schemes Inspirational Challenge!!

It's PROJECT TUESDAY!

Today's project is a One-Sheet Box. I had never done one of these, but I can tell you it came together quickly - about 20 minutes for me! I thought of a few details later - I could have done this, I should have done that...but in the end, I figured it was probably going to have to travel, so I stayed with simple and streamlined - which if you know me, is pretty much my normal anyway!



I opted for patterned paper for the actual box/bag. When you see the instructions, you will understand what I mean, but it's all folded - no cutting involved (unless you start with a 12x12 sheet of paper as opposed to 8.5 x 11). Anywho, the instructions I believe say cardstock and stamp - if you know me, I do not consider myself a stamper, so patterned paper worked perfectly! This PP happens to be Doodlebug, the cardstock in the layers is CTMH and the stamp is Unity. The dew drops were purchased at CropStop.com and I got the ribbon at my LSS in their "clearance - aka end of the roll" bin.




Also, I have been able to combine this with a few other things going on in blogland (aka CHALLENGES!!)

• Project Tuesday - obviously!
• Pile It On! - use purple - any shade, any amount
• Stamp Something - black & white with one other color

And that's all for this one!!

PILE IT ON! - Challenge #3 - PURPLE

That's today's challenge over at the PILE IT ON! blog - much to Dalis' dismay! Of course, I chose the challenge, so she's just got to suck it up and deal with it.

So - PURPLE - any shade, any amount. We just want to see purple on your card - well, that and AT LEAST one other challenge!

I will apologize in advance for the photo - my light source is ABOVE my cards, so I get a shadow whenever I ribbon the card at the top like this....



Challenges:

• Pile It On! (Obviously) - use purple! The ribbon is purple, the gems at the bottom are purple, the flower and the D in Friends are all purple. (Almost Amethyst to be exact on the flower and D)
• Charisma Cards asked for sparkly. Their challenge is titled as Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend.
• Three Clovers asked for a NO LAYER card. Now - most of you may notice I don't generally stamp. With a one layer card - and she was specific - you can embellish all you want - but NO EXTRA PAPER OR CARDSTOCK - what else was I going to do???

So head on over to the PILE IT ON! blog and play! We also have the top three scoops listed, as well as a special award and a RAK! There were 4 gift certificates given away today - find out if you got one!!

365 - Complete for the Week!

I have been doing good in the month of June in completing my 365 Cards each week. I know if I go beyond the Saturday marker - they just won't get done!! So here are the last two for this week!

This card was the Saturday challenge...details are below:

• 365 Cards - Wedding card with the word love on it
• The Pink Elephant - also asked for a wedding card
• Stamp Something asked for black & white plus one color. Specifically this color is CTMH hollyhock.

And I think this was the Friday challenge:

• 365 Cards - bold colors and stripes
• ABC asked for summer - I am thinking this is pretty summery...bright colors and fish you'd find at the beach!
• Scrappy Frogs also asked for summer
  
• Daring Cardmakers request "Miss You"....well, it's close!

And that's about it!! I now have to go make my PILE IT ON! sample for tomorrow....be sure to check back for that and don't forget about the Design Team Call going on over at PILE IT ON!

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Feeling a little KRAFTY today!

I was feeling pretty KRAFTY this morning (bad pun I know, but I couldn't help myself!!) Anyway, this might be WWWAAAAYYYY too much information, but I make more cards in my head while in the shower - which is where these two came from!! Anyway, enough of the personal information you didn't want to know - here's the cards!!




This card uses the same layout my friend Dalis used and said was a challenge somewhere, so if you recognize it - let us know! LOL Otherwise - this one covers the following:

• 365 Cards - They're trying to kill me I swear!! They asked for aqua, green, yellow, orange and brown. The catch - make it feminine! So here it is.
• All Sorts - they requested to use something with WINGS. I might have more for them this week.
• Daring Cardmakers - Miss you
• Charisma Cards asked for sparkle
• Flutterby Wednesday is always looking for those butterflies!!

Then I made this one - still krafty!!



Being Father's Day is tomorrow, you know there were plenty of challenges out there for masculine, etc, and this also incorporates a few others.

• Pile It On! asked for two different ribbons (at least!) Isn't that wide brown ribbon gorgeous!! I got it from a good friend (Hi Jenn!!) and love it!! I will have to convince her to tell me where she got it!
  
• 365 Cards asked for Masculine with argyle
• Our Creative Corner asked for stars
  
• Paper Blooms asked for Father's Day/Masculine
• Cuttlebug Challenge asked for Masculine/Father's Day
• Cuttlebug Spot asked for Father's Day/Masculine
• Fun Frilled asked for Father's Day

I will be back later with more...I need to do two more 365s to finish out the week!