Creative Scrappers Sketch 161

So today is my last day of my term with Creative Scrappers. I'm so happy that I got such a great chance to work with a group of talented gals and I got a ton of scrapping done ;) So here is the sketch:

Awesome sketch! And here's my take on it!

Love this because you could use those squares for pics, papers and embellies, or both! Had a blast with this one.

For the small squares, I used a photomat file from my Silhouette Library. When I opened the file I "ungrouped" the shapes and selected one square to measure the opening. Then I adjusted the size to make each square roughly 2.25". My pics came out a wee bit smaller than that so I mounted each pic on a piece of white cardstock after I rounded the corners to match the frame. Easy Peasy. Then I searched my scraproom for the perfect embellies. I love using stars but in all honesty, I've used a lot of my stash. Found these old AC chipboard ones in a small container hidden in my room. I added a few corduroy buttons from Stampin Up and some twine to give them more life. The background paper(sassafrass lass) is quite busy and it can be hard to use paper like that. Decided to give it a try since its so cute, using the solid cardstock really tones it down....well, a little bit at least.

So thank you to Kristine at Creative Scrappers for letting me join your team! Please check out their blog for the other designers take on the sketch!

Random Stuff

hey everyone! hope you are all enjoying your holiday weekend! I'm getting ready for a night our with my husband...something that is rare for us ,lol!! Just stopping by to say hi and to show some random stuff going on around here.

We had some baby bunnies in our yard. Caught this pic of them...they look like a row of peeps! So cute!

here are the bunnies while they were still in the nest...

I've been slowly working on redoing my living dining area. Been looking for a long time for a centerpiece. Went to Michaels and got these flowers and vases. My walls are gray and the room has white and turqoise accents.

Printed out this 16x25 print from the eighteen 25 blog at costco into a frame I already had.

I made these buckets for Aydan's kindergarten class for their graduation. The buckets are from Target. The name plate was made with my cuttlebug, Stampin Up Top Notz die, and quickutz magnetic paper. Used random stickers, which I ended up gluing on so they wouldn't fall....then put in some summer theme gifts.

About a month ago, we got the kids a trampoline! Such a great way to get their energies out!

Kids started baseball....

I love dugout pics ;)

Aydan is more interested in playing with the chalk than running from third to home...

This girl scored her first run...

And a few quick Mother's Day cards ...

Spring came in went in late April to early May...

Creative Scrappers Sketch 157

Hi Everyone! Its time for another Creative Scrappers Sketch! And what a cute one we have this week:)

Its not very often that I have layout without a title. After I complete the page, I felt like it was already wordy with the phrases and definitions so I left it as it. Had fun playing with some new products on had on my desk...and also used some previously cut-out products that I had laying around. And I'm having fun with yellow these days! Such a fun color to play with!
I used AC mustard Zing to create the butterfly with a Jenni Bowlin stamp. The pink postage stamp and the "beautiful" definition were print and cuts from my silhouette that I had laying around.

The numbers cut out was also from my silhouette that I had already cut out previously, intended for another project. The pink paper that is under the MM rim tag was a from a circle that was cut out years ago from one of my favorite SEI papers. It fit perfectly! When I added the postage stamp border above, I was stuck on which color to use, so I flipped over the AC cherry paper...voila.

So please visit Creative Scrappers and check out all the other sketches that the other designers have created :)

I have a lot of other projects going on as well, hopefully I can blog again this week and share.

Supplies: Cardstock: Hobby Lobby & Recollections; Patterned Papers: Bo Bunny, American Crafts, Doodlebug, SEI; Die Cut Machine: Silhouette; Journaling Tag, Trim, Embossing Powder, Chipboard Cherry: American Crafts; Stamp: Jenni Bowlin; Ink: Versamark; Twine: Martha Stewart; Brad: MME; Yellow (punched) tag: Pink Paislee; Chipboard Index Tab: Bella Blvd; Banner Pin: Girls Paperie; Circle Cutter & Border Punch: Fiskars; Clear Doilee: Maya Road; Button: Creative Imaginations: Staples: Ranger; Rim Tag, Ticket, and Clear Button: Making Memories.

Creative Scrappers~Sketch 155

Hey again, I can't believe its time again for another Creative Scrappers sketch!!! Look how much fun it is!! I love sketches like this because there are so many ways to interpret it!

you could have paper or photos in those little squares..I chose to go with some circles since I cut the 4x6 photo at the bottom into 3 sections.

I used the silhouette to make the circles and circles with the arrows. Then I took some twine to sew up the holes that were on the outside. The journaling is pretty simple since the pics speak for themselves.

I put some super old EK Success tiny letter stickers on all the photos. They all say "boing", lol!! The "good times" stamps at the bottom is from Ali Edwards...so in love with those stamps...perfect for scrapbookers!

Use my silhouette to back a honeycomb background, tore up the edges a bit, and used it for a mask for my mist. I have a ton a "lace" type paper for my silhouette and I plan and using this technique more. The honeycomb shape came to me because it looks like the netting that surronds the trampoline. Its funny because I messed up the first time I used it. I misted the entire background shape, which is in a square, and it looked so silly. I just redid it and tore off some of the ends of the paper in a random fashion.

Used the silhouette again to make the orange banner for the title. And I'm SO into yellow these days...just really makes a lot of brightness to a layout. Now I need some yellow mist!

Well thanks for stopping by and make sure that you check the Creative Scrappers blog for the other takes on this sketch by our DT. and Happy Mother's Day!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Hobby Lobby, American Crafts; Patterned Paper: Echo Park, Cosmo Cricket; Transperancy: Hambly Studio; Journaling Card: Echo Park; Twine: Martha Stewart; Mist: Tattered Angels; Die Cut Machine: Silhouette; Stamps: Ali Edwards for Technique Tuesday; Ink: Versamar; Embossing Powder: Ranger; Border CS: Bazzill;Stickers: American Crafts, Jenni Bowlin, and EK Success; Brads: Making Memories;

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

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