Watch Me Grow

Hi you all and I hope your having a fantastic weekend :) I was able to get in the craft room a little bit today and put together this 2-page layout:

As I'm finishing up this album I've come to have a few extra pictures left over so I thought this would be a good set of pages for the Album and it used up some of the pictures too. I'm missing one picture when Zach was 7 months we didn't get a chance to visit that month, that is the month I broke my wrist, but I expect that Katherine will have a picture of him for that month and I let her include it :)

The left page:

Zachary's birth picture with pictures of him from Month 1-Month 6. Also a little note from us that we were blessed to see him grow (a bit more than that :) and a sticker that I had saved back for this page.
The right page:

Includes Month 7-Month 12 and a picture from his birthday party. I also included many stickers that were in a K&Company embossed sticker pack, the birthday picture was layered with 3 layers of paper from My Mind's Eye Lime Twist 6 X 6 paper pack and worked well with the colors of the stickers.
Some close up shots:

The layout was done with last month's counterfeit kit and some alphas from the current kit.

I will be including this into this challenge for the 3 layers of paper under the First Birthday picture.

Stash A Thon Birthday Challenge #1 ~ Cake/Layering

New House Card for Funday Friday Challenge #40-Anything Goes

Hello and it's Friday and that can only mean that it is Fun-Day Friday Challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack! Hello and welcome to my blog, today for Group A our sponsor this week is Bugaboo, This weeks challenge: is Anything Goes :) I'm so ready to see spring that my taste in stamps lately is directed that way, were starting to see the weather breaking here and it's getting a bit warmer and less snow on the ground. Here is the card I made:

I chose the digi stamp Birdhouse-Ladybug its a really cute stamp, I wanted to do a card for someone getting a new house a friend of mine from work has been looking so when he finally finds the house that he wants, my card will be ready to give him with a nice house warming gift inside
This card came together pretty fast with my March counterfeit kit handy to use for the papers. I used a vanilla 5 X 7 card base in my stash, covered it with CTMH Buzz & Bumble paper pack, in the ovals cut with my CM oval cutters the red with lettering paper and the cream that was in the same CTMH kit with this I also stamped the background with 3 Twenty Crafts Say it with Heart stamp set:

 I used the flower style hexagon, stamping with CTMH inks: Goldrush and Indian Corn Blue. I also used

the hello from 3 Twenty Crafts stamp set Strike A Pose with the same CTMH Indian Corn Blue ink also dabbed the edges with it and popped it up with foam tape. Along the let side I added a few sunflowers punched with MS-Starburst punch and from my stash I found this black swirls and used those to look like they were holding the oval in place on the card :)
The inside of the card:

I printed off the sentiment from my Word processing program and brought in more of the flowers that were punched and the black swirls

Now it's your turn. The prize is a 7 pack of digis from Bugaboo Digi Stamps . Please stop by Jo's Scrap Shack and check out the challenge and to link up what you make! Here are some simple rules. 

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,

Using the linky tool below.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

3. Unlimited entries per person and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

Will not be eligible for top 3 or random/monthly wins.

The monthly prize drawings will only be mailed within the US and Canada only

You have until March 14th by 6:00Pm (central) time to link up.

All winners will be announced on Monday, March 17th.

Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create! 

The digi stamp was colored with Spectrum noir markers mainly:

The birdhouse: GB8-GB10-EB5

The Flowers: CT4-GB5-OR1

the Leaves: CG1-DG2-DG4

The Ladybug: Bic Markers: Sunset Orange and Rambunctious Red for the body and Tuxedo Black, Misty Blue and SN: BGR3 for the head/face

Thanks for stopping b today and stop back to Jo's Scrap Shack with your cutie card and see what my design sisters have done too, I've seen a preview there are some really cut card done by them too :) 

Creative Cutting Challenge: St. Patrick's Day

Hi you all and welcome to my blog,  I'm one of the designers over at Creative Cutting Challenge and it's all about St Patrick's Day this challenge. My card:

Now I tried something new and used Creative Pointe’s Lucky Girl printable,
 
I think this is the first time I used a printable on a card and it was fun to use too. I also used Creative Pointe’s Flower Set 1 
 
With cutting the spiral flower down really really small I found that even the cameo has limitations on what it can cut too, but it worked out in the end, I used some silver stickles and some brads & rhinestones for the center of the flowers on the bottom corner of the art print.
My card consist of a green cardbase from my stash and on that I added the darker green background that was in my stash of green paper, but wasn't a full 12 X 12 sheet. I added the ribbon that I received from a swap a few years ago. Place the lucky girl art work on the lime-leaf background that was punched with a SU edge punch and place 4 of the flowers in 2 different sizes in the bottom corner. I also added 3-d shamrock stickers/ enamel dots that were in my stash.
The inside of the card:

Was another piece of that background paper strategically cut so I would have that doily and postmark to bring something extra to the inside, I also included the Irish Blessing (seemed fitting for this card) from last month's counterfeit kit for the inside sentiment edges inked with CTMH Juniper ink. Added a flag pennant from Elle's Studio from this month's kit stamped with SU Teeny Tiny Wishes set wishing a happy st patrick's day stamped in black ink and a flower cut from the flower set with the silver stickles center and a couple of the 3-d shamrock stickers (and that finished off that pack of stickers :) love using up my stash.

We would love for you to play along and join up for this challenge:

Now we're ready to see YOUR "St Patrick's Day" creations.

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU ENTER THE CHALLENGE:

Please make sure that you follow our very simple rules to enter this challenge.  

You MUST use a SVG or similiar electronic cutting file in your project.  CRICUT CARTRIDGE ONLY ENTRIES ARE NOT ELIGIBLE.  Please make sure that you mention somewhere in your post what part of your project was created with a cutting file.  Entries that do not fit this basic requirement will be deleted.

 You all have a fantastic day and thanks for stopping by to see what I'm doing in my little corner of the world

Counterfeit Kit March Challenge-Gold and Red Clash

Hi you all and welcome, yep it's a new month and that means a new kit challenge over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog and it's a really cute kit:

Really enjoying the way the month has been falling and reveal day is on a weekend. I just love the Golds and Reds (a couple of my favorite colors) and lights to balance it out. Wow the blog hop yesterday was lots of fun and the girls did an excellent job forging this kit with lots of inspiration to go with. So now this is my kit: Gold and Red Clash:

I decided this month to pull my kit from my one paper cart that holds my Close to My Heart and my Stampin Up paper packs, I really need to get some these used up :)

The bottom 3 drawers holds just about all of them, other than my Workshop kits from CTMH

The paper mainly comes from SU (because that was the first drawer I started with, lol) But I have some odd balls in the mix too and a couple of CTMH in there also. SU: Plum Spiral, 4 wood sheets from the Firewood Lodge collection, Well Worn all 7 sheets I had left: Gold w/ red cracks (looks like the sidewalk in front of my house growing up to me), Gold w/ red streaks old wallpaper, Red/Gold brick, This & That Epic Day pack: Old Inventory sheet. Creative Memories: 2 yellow and 1 gray chevron. CTMH from Typset pack: Red newspaper and I pulled the whole Buzz & Bumble scrapbook kit. Odd pieces that were in the upper drawer of the cart set aside for specific layouts: Is the farm papers and the yellow polka dot is actually adhesive backed fabric paper (I'm looking forward to trying this with one of the cutters)

Cardstock: Red and vanilla came from the Heritage pack from the The paper company, Gold is from Creative Memories, and the Whites-1 smooth-1 textured is from Coredinations. Some of the embellishments: the bubble stickers pack, a couple of shipping tags, a few cut out Polaroids, some odd buttons (only had the one aqua in my stash downstairs), metal tractor buttons, and arrow paperclips.

The sticker sheets: CTMH: Florentine sticker pack (I must really like this pack I found 4 in my stash-time to use it :), Paper House: Down on the Farm, CM: Cheerful sticker pack, Elle's Studio: The sweet life cutouts, Amy Tangerie: Let's Go stickers and Heidi Swapp: 3 Memory File: Color instaframes (I really want to get this used up and out of my stash :)

The stamp set, bling and 3-d stickers come from CTMH: Buzz ad Bumble Workshop on the Go. I bought this kit mainly for that stamp set since we do alot of garden stuff in the summer I thought that seed pack stamp was perfect for some of those type of layouts and the golds papers were and extra bonus :) I have some specific layouts that I want to use with this kit.

The Alphas: I pulled in quite a few I like alot of choices to work with and don't want to get stalled on layouts with just a couple choices. Making Memories: "Stamp" rub-ons, I have some old stickers from when I first got started that came in variety packs from Oriental Trading, Stickopotamus in Red and Gold, Nicole (this came from AC Moore) I have this in both Red and Gold, Colorbok, EK Success Sticko brand, Making Memories: Funky letters and Chunky letters, Basic Grey: Olivia, I also pulled my Simple Stories Harvest Lane sticker sheet with red/gold/blue alphas and words also my Dymo maker.

3 varieties of American Crafts ribbon, the red star alpha chip board, and Washi tape: 7 choices and a Making Memories: Metallique gems & glitter tapes pack. I also want to try using Perfect Pearls this month' got these for Christmas 2 years ago and the packs are still unopened.
That's it, this is my kit for the month. You will also see other things pulled from my stash if needed for I'm working on a Before Your Story class with Big Picture Classes and lots of that paper will generated from the pictures and the era of that time,  but would like to include something from this kit with every thing I do this month cards and layouts.

Last month this is what I had left:

A few of these pieces will go to making the card from that 10 min challenge last month and I pulled a couple for a 2-page layout I'm working on that I need to finish. Not to bad for me I made 9 layouts and 2 more to finish, 6 cards and 1 more to finish. I'm looking forward too increasing that amount this month :)
I still have most of my PL counterfeit kit left ans will be using that on a few spreads for the month of Jan and maybe Feb. Will pull the March counterfeit Day in the Life kit next weekend for  PL spreads.
Well thanks so much for stopping by and seeing what I'm doing in my little corner of the world and tomorrow is Creative Cutting Challenge so stop by for that, it's a green card so not to much of my kit will be used, but check out what I do use.....
Stop by Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog if your a scrapper or even a cardmaker it's a fun way to make you crafts per month and nothing to dig out of your stash cause that has already been done, why shop at the store when you can shop from your stash :)

So Cool I made the Fab 5

I'm so excited and I got to tell you all about it I made February Fabulous 5 over at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog.
 
That is just so cool and I feel really honored about it, Woot Woot! I made it with this card
 
You can check out the post here about the card. Got to give credit to Cindy from Creative Pointe for giving me a wonderful cut file to work with and of course the cool kit I made this past month from Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog.
Well it's a new month and that means a new kit to make :) You all have a fantastic day and see you tomorrow with the new kit

Easter Floral Card for Funday Friday Challenge #39-Florals

Yep it's Friday and that can only mean that it is Fun-Day Friday Challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack! Hello and welcome to my blog, today for Group A our sponsor this week is Bugaboo, This weeks challenge: is a Florals and I'm so ready to see them start popping up, it's been a long winter this year. Here is the card I made:

 I chose the digi stamp Floral Easter Eggs-Egg 1 its a really cute stamp and my first Easter card this year (can you tell I'm really wanting spring to get here-more snow on the way this coming Monday :( )
This card came together pretty fast with my February counterfeit kit handy to use for the papers. I used that striped cardstock for the card base. 2 cut out cards, one for the background behind the stamp and one to hold the sticker that Happy Easter was stamped on with SU Teeny Tiny Wishes using Memento Tuxedo black ink. I used half a doily to peak out from behind the card and added to gold glitter brads and some purple sequins from my stash. Here is what I did with the inside with another cut card and more of the purple sequins just ready for that special message to send to someone

Now it's your turn. The prize is a 7 pack of digis from Bugaboo Digi Stamps . Please stop by Jo's Scrap Shack and check out the challenge and to link up what you make! Here are some simple rules. 

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your card/project post that includes your challenge,

Using the linky tool below.

2. Be sure to include a link back to our challenge

3. Unlimited entries per person and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. All entries must be NEW and created for the current challenge.

5. You may combine with other challenges as long as you link back to us in your post.

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

Will not be eligible for top 3 or random/monthly wins.

The monthly prize drawings will only be mailed within the US and Canada only

You have until March 7th by 6:00Pm (central) time to link up.

All winners will be announced on Monday, March 10th.

Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!

Special Graduation

Hi you all and welcome to my blog I'm the designer today over at Card A Day Blog, a blog that offers a challenge monthly, just need to do one or even all the themes it the month. We hope that you'll join us and play along:)
Graduation Week and I have had the pleasure of having tax week (yep been doing them) so it hasn't left to much time or desk space to craft this week so I thought I'd bring back a favorite of mine. I gave this card to my G-daughter for her graduation in 2012, it's a waterfall card. As you draw down on the string it flicks down like a waterfall and shows a variety of icons about graduation. If you would like to see the card in action you can stop by my blog at this post. Thanks for stopping by and stop back later for a Friday Fun-Day Challenge