1st Post for Jo's Funday Friday Challenge-Anything Goes

Hi  you all and a happy Friday to you! This is my first design post for Funday Friday Challenge over at Jo's Scrap Shack. Our theme for today is Anything Goes, I like when I can create anything just so many choices :) Our sponsor is Paper Nest Dolls and that is where my digi came from for today. This is Graduation Owen:

 I chose to use Owen as my image for my card as I thought I would get a head start on Graduation cards. This is one of the few times I actually colored my image (hopefully I'll improve as I go.) ( I learned that there is cardstock better suited for digi printing :) I watched a few tutorials on coloring after I did this, so figuring I should improve, ha I guess you can teach an old one new things :) The card's background and frame came from my Counterfeit Kit and worked out great for the card. I also used Stampin Up Whispering White for the printed image and used a variety of markers to color Owen. I used teeny tiny wishes from SU for the sentiment and I did that on a Spellbinder Ribbon Banners die cut that was inked with SU Brocade Blue and popped up. Added blue ribbon from my stash and framed the image with washi tape from my collection.
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Here are a few more pics of the card 

The inside

Popped up

A closer look of the image

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Peanut Butter Cup S'more Bars

Hi you all and welcome to another Throwback Thursday, today we have a recipe that I made for the recipe swap February 2013.

This recipe card was a lot of fun to create. I used Que SeraSera paper pack from K&Company for the card base.

Found thee recipe in a newspaper I'm thinking and I used cricut Block Party cartridge to make the S'mores.

 I cut the hand portion of the s'more from black cardstock

 the hand, marshmallow and twig all came from the Natural paper pack

The die cuts were cut at 3" and the recipe was printed on white cardstock

Sure made a mess in the kitchen but they were so good

Thanks for stopping by the corner of my world today, have a fantastic day....

1st Workspace Wednesday

Good Morning all,
Well we got another snow storm over night, guess the groundhog was right we've been having winter since his prediction :)

This is what I woke up to. About 6.5" of snow at 6:15 AM.

So you ask what's this Workspace Wednesday? It's a new inclusion on my blog, got this idea from Mrs. Crafty Adams she did it last week and it look like a great idea for a day, you can see her's from last week here.
So this is what my workspace looks like this morning:

I'm working on a 2-page layout of Zach's 1st tractor ride oh what a cool day that was. I love to scrap especially older photos (I know 3 years isn't that old, but...) all the memories from that day flood back and you get to relive it.

The paper and Alpha is from the Counterfeit Kit Challenge-Nov Kit for the layout

The die cuts are from :

Country Life cartridge I chose HeeHaw cut at 3.5", I cut a few so I had more on hand. I will cut off the girl (but I have one saved back with her on it for another layout). The girl just wasn't working for this particular  layout.
So that is what I'm working on and with being snowed in I should get it finished up today, but the hubby is expecting a cake tonight since I'm home so that will be done first :)

What's on your desk?

Have a fabulous day

CKC February Kit- Lovely and Kind

Hi you all and welcome to my forgery of the February Counterfeit Kit challenge, I've got to give props to my friend Cindy for doing this cause that is how I found out about it and I just love doing it :) I seen her kit and it looks fantastic and I seen that she plans her kit around what she is going to scrap too, something I need to do next month.
I was so excited to see this kit and I was not disappointed. Counterfeit Kit Challenge has 2 fantastic kit choices and also a Project Life add on, whoop! I made my kit from this inspirational kit:

So my main choice was kit #2 because of all the colors, but may dig into kit #1 if I finish off kit #2 and I chose to include the Project Life kit also, will be in a later post.So looking at kit #2 I see pastel colors, doilies, hearts, polka dots, chevrons, stripes, triangles. I see red, pink, blue, yellow gold, gray. wood color and naturals. I have a tendency to do 2 page layouts so I just might pick 2 of a certain style paper if I think I'll use it for a background other than that I want to try to stay to the kit, except for die-cuts from my machines and cardstock needed for that. With being able to use white, black, kraft and solid color cardstocks to match some colors in the paper patterns if needed for background pages. So here is my kit called Lovely and Kind

So I started with the past 2 kit's leftovers to see if any were close to the kit and kept for this kit before I put them away.
Papers:

Top row: Abbey Road: garden party, orange crush, let's go racing stripe, brought the board-the red hexagons and the red stripe from the previous kit, Paper Pizazz vellum hearts, Making Memories Heart Love Struck, TPC Studio: The reasons I Love you, Karen Foster: Our Love story (cut up journaling blocks)
Bottom row: Unknown: (2) varied color stripe,Gold and white embossed polka dots, Gold butterfly (for the triangle sheet), (2) American Crafts: Road Trip 'Scenic Route' (the stars), Echo Park: Lovely Chevron, The peach cardstock from last month, Unknown: Live Life paper, Family/Love cut-up sheet, Office Lingo Collection: Paislee page

2 vellum sheets and another cut up sheet (I think this came out the Timeless Stack DCWV

The alphas: Unknown: Black letters, MM: Red creative letters-chunky style, My Mind's Eye: Lush-Flocked chipboard-Pink, The stars and chipboard letters I had gotten in a recent swap box. I have also added 2 more alphas sheets since I took the picture.

^^The Elements^^

Close to my Heart Whoo's Your Valentine Stamp set

Close to my Heart Journaling Spots-6 variety. It'll be interesting to try to use these some how, maybe some smashing will take place this month and I can use it then.

cut up tags and round tags and the sheet behid that is Stomp "Watch Out" large accessories

4 different doilies, Handmade Art-Valentine Day embellishments, variety of Brads/Buttons, various tickets on a variety of cut out sheets, Kaiser Craft: Flutterby-Painted Lady cut up sheet and under that is Echo Park-Dots & Stripes Element Stickers. I will be cutting out the Me & You die cut from one of my machines. I also will be including some new release stamps (shhhh it's a secret for now). I also will use tools within my collection that includes punches and embossing folders if the needs arise (especially for card making). I plan to use my embossing powders this month and would like to give perfect pearls a try too.

That's it, that's my kit Lovely and Kind. The 2-page smashbook layout that was posted yesterday is from the kit and I also have a planned 2-page layout from the November kit that I just haven't had time to do yet. I have a couple of other layouts I want to do that are a totally different theme than this so you will see other layouts that may only have an element or 2 from the kit. I also have a crop at the end of the month and that maybe when I pull in that kit #1 and forge that just ave to wait and see on that one.
Thanks for stopping by today to see what I'm up to in my little corner of the world, check out Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog you just may like to forge a kit f your own to use.

 

A Unique Anniversary-CCChallenge: Love—Anything to do with it

Good morning and welcome to my blog, I'm one of the designers over at Creative Cutting Challenge and it's all about love this challenge. So my post is about love :) So I decided to have a bit of fun with it and smash a couple of pages about the Anniversary gifts my husband and I got each other last year. Lol: Great Minds Think ALike:

This fun 2-page layout was done in my 50th year themed-365 folio smashbook. This came about by we each got each other the same gift, a night out for our Anniversary. Our favorite is Chinese food, so I thought that Creative Pointe's Chinese Take Out kit was perfect for accenting the pages.

We both chose to do the same thing for each other for our big 20th Anniversary.  Dave decided to surprise me on May 18th with stopping at our favorite Buffet Restaurant in Shamokin Dam on our way home from a show we attend every year for our Anniversary. So the left side of the page shows that day.

 The top of the page I have included the date off of the paper from the fortune cookie. The bottom part of the page has a picture of the water fountain that you see when you walk into the place. This place has been our favorite for a long time and we frequent it alot when we are out this way. Lots of love on this page and a fun set of chopsticks from the kit too.

 I had decided a month back to take Dave out on our Anniversary May 22 to the new buffet restaurant that just recently opened up. So the 2nd page is dedicated to that :

Creative Pointe's cuts made nice accent pieces for both pages, I used the fortune cookies for displaying the date and the fortunes that I was able to stow in my pocket for this layout. the new place even gave the women a rose when they walked in a very nice touch and I added that to the layout also.

The heart doily, the journal sticker, the date sticker, the variety of vellum spots and the vellum hearts background, the scallop pink edge sticker, the happiness sticker, and the 20th all came from my new Feb. Counterfeit Kit also the peachy cardstock used for the strips of paper coming out of the fortune cookies came from the kit too.The tan and brown cardstock for the cookies and the chopsticks came from my stash.
This also is Challenge #28: Double Love from Smash your Stash FB group
This was fun to make and a great memory of a very unique Anniversary :)

Have a fantastic day! We love to have you join in on the challenge: The rules are:

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.

FCCB Final post-Happy Birthday

 Hi you all! I hope you all enjoyed this week, our weather has been brrr cold but today it's been quite nice and if the Groundhog doesn't see his shadow then an early spring, only time will tell for that one. Today is my final day as Guest Designer at FCCB. I was featured in their Spotlight Sunday post this past Sunday, which you can view by clicking HERE. Here's my final project this week with Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog a card I made for my Grand-daughter Isabelle

It looks like Minnie is tossing stars in the air :) This card was so fun to make. I used Mickey and Friends Cartridge  for the Minnie Mouse die cut. The cardbase was cut from some Light blue cardstock and the green polka dotted front is actually a negative cut from a doily die cut from the paper and this is what was left. Which worked out pretty cool here (keep thse negative cuts you just never know when and where you'll use them). It gave a nice back drop for Minnie to wish a Happy Birthday to Isabelle. The Happy Birthday and the stars came from an EK Success sticker pack-Birthday Party that I found in my stash. A really simple card to make when you have all the pieces on hand 

A tip for you, if you are using a cartridge like Mickey and Friends and cutting out an image and you have extra time, cut out more of the images to have on hand to put together for a fast card. I have a few images cut and put in individual bags ready to put together.Isn't she just the cutest cut :) and it's not hard to dress her up a bit neither, I really like this cartridge for cards for the grandkids

The inside of the card includes the sentiment from CTMH-Card Chatter-Birthday stamp set and more of the stickers that came from the set that the stars and the sentiment on the front of the card came from.
It's been a great week with FCCB and I look forward to playing along with future challenges

Today is the last day to enter for the blog candy:
 Oh yes the blog candy :)
 
I followed through with my intentions and blog each day this week so you had numerous chances to get in for the candy. You can comment each day this week which runs from today till Sunday Feb 2 (Superbowl weekend :) ) midnight eastern time. 2 conditions you have to leave a comment and you have to be a follower of my blog. The winner will be announced Thursday Feb 6th. That's it!
 Have a Fantabulous day!

The Gifts-Layout

Hi and glad that your here with me today, were getting a bit warmer here the January thaw we call it here in PA, coming a bit late now that we are in February, just glad to get away from those negative temps for a while. The finale of the birthday party is when Dad and Son opened son's birthday gifts.

Pieces for this layout came from the November Counterfeit Challenge Kit besides some cardstock from my stash.

On the left page I used 2-black and white die cut labels from the Life's Little Occasions pack and the together came from K&Company EcoModern Die-cut cardstock pack

Added a little velum quote to the top corner of the mat. the mat was Accent Essentials at fit to page

 

the presents came from a cutout sheet: Oscrap Sampler. I also used glossy accents to embelish the presents a bit

The 2nd page of the layout holds most of the pics of the toys :) I definitely like to include as many pictures in a layout that I can. I have some saved back for a personal layout for us to hold on to, cause we found out through the pictures that we scored major grandparent points with the wooden train that we gave Zachary :)

 The die cuts: B is for Boy: Train @ 3" and the Dump truck @ 2.5" and from Boys will be Boys the phrase Toys @ 2"

The corner sticker came from Pebbles share & tell Party Time Boy 4 X 6 creative pad the 2 orange border pieces came fromdoodlebug Paper Frills-tangerine pack

This bottom section shows the frame and birthday gift cut out from Oscrap Sampler with glossy accents added to the gift and the scattered star stickers are from the 4 X 6 pad mentioned above

2 more close up shots of the layout

This was a fun lay out to put together and I loved the additional die cuts representing the toys but out all the photos of this day even the one here with Zach playing with the train we got him. Is the photo on the 1st page where Son and Father are looking directly at each other, Yep I think Brad will be Zach's favorite toy.

  Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to join in for the blog candy this week:
Oh yes their is some blog candy to talk about :)
 
My intentions are to blog each day this week so you'll have numerous chances to get in for the candy. You can comment each day this week which runs from today till Sunday Feb 2 (Superbowl weekend :) ) midnight eastern time. 2 conditions you have to leave a comment and you have to be a follower of my blog. The winner will be announced Thursday Feb 6th. That's it!
 Have a Fantabulous day!