Creative Scrappers 3rd Anniversary!

Good Morning Creative Scrappers!
Welcome to Birthday Blog Hop!
We are celebrating 3 years of Creativity at Creative Scrappers this weekend and glad you could join us. Our Creative Team members each have a Unique Sketch from our Sketch Designers to showcase on their blogs. Visit their blogs for inspiration and please visit our Creative Scrappers blog and add your name to our Mr. Linky list to be entered to win 1 of 4 prizes from Let's Capture Our Memories, Scrap Attack Scrapbooking and Nicole Lombardo as well as My Little Bit of Whimsy.

Here's my take on the sketch:

Click the links below which will take you to the other blogs.
Amélie Jutras
Ana Castro
Carla Tarabus
Caroline Parent
Christiane Müller
Elizabeth Carney
Jenny Linden
Jody Rogers
Kim Jeffress
Mija Comstad
Natalia Danilina
Nicole Nowosad
Pamella Brown
Sarah Webb
Shannon Morgan
Vicky Alberto
Yukiko Ochi
Yuko Tanaka

(some close ups)

CKC St Louis

I swear I'm better telling stories than typing them, lol. I need a system that will type out my dictation so that you are more entertainted, lol. Anyway, I was at CKC ST Louis 2 weeks ago and had a blast...and a long but very interesting story of events. I went with my friend, Laura, who was teaching CK classes there. She's from California and we've only met in person once, so it was so nice to have the opportunity to see her again. I had asked her ahead of time if she wanted to come to Chicago first to meet my family, then drive out together. She wasn't able to but I was happy anyway just to meet up again.

So on Thursday, I took the four hour drive down from Chicago to St Louis and picked up Laura from the airport on Thursday afternoon. We checked into our hotel in Collinsville, settled in a bit, then headed out to Chilis, then Archivers.

I was excited to go shopping there together. Laura doesn't have any scrapbook stores by her and Archivers is a scrapbooker's dream. She definately took it all in and we left with a bunch of goodies. We had a ironic moment in there at the back of the store. There was a Slice display there with the infomercial playing, and our friend Cindy was talking in the infomercial. Laura, Cindy, and I were Slice participants almost 2 years ago but Cindy was the only one out of the three of us who made the cut. That was too funny seeing here there!

We stayed up late chatting and the next day got up early so that Laura could get to her classes. That girl had back to back classes from like 9-4. She did a great job and had huge classes of like 50 people! I helped out a bit with the classes, since I had nothing else to do. And then did some shopping. I got to meet Kelly Purkey and Jen Jockisch at the Studio Calico booth and I purchased a ton of stuff there! Such beautiful products!

I took 4 classes total, two of them were the Studio Calico ones and came home with a lot of projects. The SC classes give out a ton of prizes: I won one in each class...stamps and some mist ;)

On Saturday evening...this is where the story gets pretty interesting...we left CKC to take Laura back to the St Louis airport, 20 minutes away, for her flight. As soon as we got on the highway we came to a dead stop in traffic. I was starting to get nervous, but was hoping that it was a fluke and that it would clear up. That didn't happen and I had to get off the highway, we were going no-where. I took a few wrong turns, then got on another highway and came to another dead stop traffic jam over the long, long bridge over the Mississipi....why its one lane is way beyond me! I kept saying "I'm so sorry" and all worried. Laura was all calm but quiet but I'm sure she was nervous about missing her plane. We were still over the bridge 30 minutes before her flight was going to leave and then I think it hit us that she could more than likely miss her flight. No one ever wants to have that feeling...I told her just before I dropped her off to please text me either way if she makes her flight. I told her that I would start driving home, but if she missed it (since it was the last flight out for her) that I would come back and stay another night with her. So I get a text 15 minutes later with the words "i missed it". I kinda knew that it was going to happen...I should have just stayed there but I think I was in denial.

Still with me?????

So we talk on the phone and she tells me that she's coming back to Chicago with me. What?? Wow! I was shocked but happy that she found a great solution. She figured that she could drive back with me, stay at my house, and fly out the next morning. I felt bad about the whole thing but we turned it around to a fun road trip with the two of us chatting each other's ears off all the way back. I turned the car around, picked her up, and headed home. I was dying to get our of St Louis and also dying to pee...like real bad. I don't know how I lasted that long, lol. We took a quick stop and then a little bit picked up McD's. I'm not a real fan but I just need some easy food. It was nice having company on the way home...here we were two good friends, who met on the internet and live 2,000 apart, driving through rural Illinois on a Saturday night, lol! We kept joking all the way there that this would make a good blog post and a great story. I know that she has already scrapped the second part of the story, which she is going to post on her blog soon ;)

Anyway, we got to my house at 1:30 AM and were greeted with Maui, my 1 year old hyper lab, who thought we were robbers or something. Maui was all over Laura, giving her tons of love, and wouldn't give her a break. Kendall got up to greet me. Laura got to meet the whole fam. We hung out a bit and she slept on the couch, since we don't have a spare bed. The next day, we left around 8:00 AM for her 10:45 minute flight. I live about 30 minutes away but you can never be too sure about traffic. The roads were empty and we got there quickly. I dropped her off and she made it super early. I got a text later that her plane was delayed 30 minutes...go figure!!! But she made it home OK. So we turned an unfortunate situation into a fun one. I'm so glad that she got to come to my house and meet the fam...even if it was for a short while ;)
You'll have to check out her blog for her layout and her version of the events. Thanks for listening to my super long story :)

Creative Scrappers 153

Today is another great sketch reveil at Creative Scrappers! I'm so happy to be a part of this team! Lots of great takes on this sketch there. Here's the sketch:

And my take on it:

Pics from the day we brought Maui home at the tender age of 6 weeks...she was so cute! I had lots of fun making this...used a ton of new Bella BLVD papers, cut out the flowers and pop dotted them! Added some Studio Calico Mister Huey white opaque mist (love that mist!) and some SC run on butterflies. Used a super old fancy pants chipboard circle that I've been hoarding forever. The journaling was created with my typewriter. I added the brown boarder to the side since the pics are so small, just to balance out the white space. So please check out creative scrappers and lets see what you do with this sketch...I'd love to see yours :)

Happy Easter everyone!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: AC and Bazzill

Patterned Papers: Bella Blvd

Letter Stickers: AC and Making Memories

Mist and Rub Ons: Studio Calico

Border: Little Yellow Bicycle

Clear Sticker: Hambly Studios

Chipboard Circle: Fancy Pants

Corner Chomper: We R Memory Makers

lots of cards

Hey everyone! Just got back from CKC St Louis a week ago with my good friend Laura and I have a lot of stories to tell you! It will take me a while to type that up, but in the mean time you can read about it on Laura's Blog. I'll post mine in a few days. Got into this crazy, crazy card making mood this weekend. The ideas were so overflowing that I had to write them all down, lol. Made this for one of my BFs that I've known forever and we've been slipping out of touch. Keep trying to get together but it never works out. When Hero Arts came out with the typewriter stamp above, I pre-ordered it. And that was in October...this weekend was the first time I used it, lol! Used some heat embossing and that adorable pink paper is from the new Jillibean Soup 6x6 pad. Love it!

My mom is having knee replacement surgery (at the hospital I work at) at the end of the month. I know that it will take time for her to recover so I wanted to make a card ahead of time. I had fun with this color scheme here. The HA fabric stamp was embossed with distressed embossing powder. This stamp is another one that I "had-to-have" but have never used.

Kinda took that color scheme and swapped out the blue for pink. This stamp is embossed in white and then I colored the flowers with some markers. This card isn't for anyone in particular, just wanted to play with the stamp. Stamped the sentiment on vellum, which I'm really back into lately, and just glued it right on the front.

Same fabric stamp but used some purple embossing powder here. I love to emboss and have a ton of colors...really need to use that more! Stamped the sentiment on vellum with my new Studio Calico stamps. I saw that idea at the SC booth at CKC and loved it!

Here I was really going for something super bright and girly! It was so sunny out when I took these that it looks like its glowing, lol! Used an old favorite HA background stamp with some white ink. The pink paper is some flocked Doodlebug...this is one paper that I save all the scraps too. Love it! The buttons and ribbons are AC. I put the yellow trim on first and then layered it with the printed one. It fits perfectly. the sentiment is a sticker from Echo Park, my new favorite company. I trimmed it to fit inside the Making Memories tag.

The card above and the layout below were make at CKC St Louis in the Studio Calico class. This class was taught by the fabulous Jen Jockisch, who is a super sweet chick. I also took a SC class by Kelly Purkey as well. Both ladies did a wonderful job! I really enjoyed myself!

They had a SC booth at CKC and they took all my money, lol! So nice to see all the goodies in person! I picked up a ton of wooden embellies and other goodies. Come back in a few days to hear about the CKC trip...its quite interesting!

Supplies

Typewriter Card

Card: The Paper Studio (Hobby Lobby)

Cardstock: Stampin Up

PP: Jillibean Soup

Stamps: Hero Arts

Ink: Versamark and Stampin Up

Embossing Powder: Ranger

Pop Dots: the Paper Studio

Corner Punch: We R Memory Makers

Gafer Tape: 7 gypsies

Get Well Soon

Cardstock, Patterned Paper, and Ribbon: Stampin Up

Stamps: Hero Arts

Ink: Papertry Ink and Versamark

Embossing Powder: Ranger

Embossing Plate: Papertry Ink

Embossing Machine: Cuttlebug

Pearls: Michaels

Corner Punch: We R Memory Makers

Thinking of You

Cardstock: American Crafts and Stampin Up

Patterned Paper: Stampin Up

Stamps: Hero Arts

Embossing Powder: Ranger

Stamping Markers: American Crafts

Ribbon: Michaels

Pop Dots: Stampin Up

Vellum

Happy Birthday

Card: The Paper Studio (Hobby Lobby)

Cardstock: American Crafts and Recollections

Stamps: Hero Arts and Studio Calico

Ink: Tsukineko (Versamark and Staz On)

Embossing Powder and Staples: Ranger

Embossing Plate and Twine: Papertry Ink

Ribbon: Paper Source

Button: Autumn Leaves

Flower: Prima

Vellum

Precious Girl

Cardstock:

American Crafts and Stampin Up

Flocked Paper: Doodlebug

Stamp: Hero Arts

Ink: Stampin Up

Sticker: Echo Park

Tag; Making Memories

Foam Tap: 3M

Buttons and Ribbon/Trim: American Crafts

Corner Rounder: We R Memory Keepers

String

Creative Scrappers Sketch 151

Hello again...yesterday, sketch 151 was revealed at Creative Scrappers. And here is my take on it:

I used the Silhouette to make the frames. To ensure that they would be the correct size, I imported my pics into the silhouette and just measured the frames from there...

In the above picture you can see where I layered the frame over the picture. I grabbed the corner and dragged it until it fit where I wanted it.

You could then ungroup the frame, remove the picture, and the inside part cut of the frame to cut your picture out. I tried it and for some reason it didn't quite work. I'll have to try that again in the future.

And just a close up of the layers. So check out everyone else's take on the sketch and even try it yourself :)

Supplies:

Cardstock: Bazzill and Recollections

Patterned Paper: KI Memories (pink and brown) and Stampin Up (green)

Border Punch: Stampin Up

Felt Embellishments: AC

Doily Embellishments Bird, and Envelope: Maya Road

Ink: Papertry Ink

Pins: Fiskars

Ribbon: Michaels

Stamps: Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday

Letter Stickers: Cosmo Cricket

Clear Letters: Bo bunny

Staples: Making Memories

String