A Fistfull of Cards...

 Congrats baby card

Congrats: Teacher of the Year 2012

 This is Not a Goodbye Card, this is an I'll See You Soon Card

 62 is Beautiful

 Personalized Halloween candy tubes

Congrats baby card

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Topaz 9: Friends (w/ Counterfeit Kit)

For this project, I wanted to use a few photos of my lovely Miss I, and her two best friends! I love how the natural light on these photographs just picked up the cutest expressions on each of the girls. I also really wanted to keep using my fantastic Counterfeit Kit that I made for September. I still have SO much paper and supplies, that it might just run me into October as well! Or, I could just find more time and keep crafting away...

I decided to finally use the elusive Crate Paper Bouquet paper. I'm not one for using a ton of florals in my projects, so this was kind of a stretch for me. I loved the flowers, and the colors, but just do not choose them everytime. I also used Kristy's fantastic Mid-Week Mojo for Topaz #9. I loved the idea of using photographs more than once, and so mirror the larger photos with the same photos in wallet size.

Instead of another journaling area, I decided to use some Glue Dots (I couldn't find my Glubers, homemade or otherwise) and a piece of kraft scrap to make this muslin flower. Super easy!!! I then adorned it with a Studio Calico butterfly that I had sprayed with Lunchtray Mr. Huey, then adorned with my MME bling.

I mirrored the small butterfly, with a larger one that was created in the same way. I just adore how the Mr. Huey's is SO bright. And it matched my color palette perfectly!

After piling all the pieces together, I realized that the blues needed something to 'pop' against, so used the reddish paper to make the polka dots stand out. I didn't want to waste paper, so strategically pieced together a border in reverse. All of the seams are hidden behind the flower, bracket or butterfly (you didn't notice, did you???!). I also added a small kraft scalloped edge to reflect the journaling box. Lastly, foam Thickers made up the title.

All in all, I think it went just well! I'm sad to see most of the inspiration paper from my Counterfeit Kit gone, but I have enough to make a card or two...

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National Board Congratulations Cards! & a Thank You...

Well... This is a milestone. My National Board box was sent via FedEx, and recieved by the NBPTS people... Now, my last meeting with my NB cohort is this afternoon. I have spent the better part of the school year with these ladies, meeting once a month, reading, discussing, and eating snacks. It seemed to be a little bit of a let-down to just meet without saying something.

Also, my NB leader has been a big help! She read for us, even though she was working on her own renewal!

Here are my "Celebrate" cards. We will not know until about Thanksgiving whether or not we actually get our NB status... So, there really is no congratulations. YET! ;)

I used the Cricut to cut out the Celebrate and the <3felt Thanks. WildCard, I think. The patterned paper is from Cosmo Cricket's DeLovely line, the brown and white cardstock is American Crafts, the kraft is from JoAnn's (I'm not a fan of Micheals' kraft), and the pink pen is a Souffle pen from GellyRoll.

HINT: I've found that if I cut basic shapes out of normally more obnoxiously bright paper (I do love this though... don't get me wrong!), I can mix shapes to make card sets really easily!! Temper the brights with some neutrals, and VIOLA! Pin It

A few cards: Some sentiments and a Hot Air Balloon!

Over the weekend I made a few cards! Now that I'm done working on my NB's, I can take a break and actually enjoy myself! One I made for MoxieFab's Challenge: In My Beautiful Balloon.

For this challenge, we needed to create something that included a hot air balloon. Now, I do have some American Crafts paper and embellishments that do have hot air balloons on them, but they didn't fit what I really wanted to do. So what else, but make it!! I hand paper-pieced the hot air balloon from both MyMind'sEye paper in Little Miss Muffet: Delight (B side) and AC paper Heat Wave: Cherry Cowabunga, with some kraft paper from JoAnn's.

The basket is kraft paper, and the ropes are actually a bent black and white paperclip. All of the pieces were inked using my Chalk inks. The background is AC Heat Wave in Creamy Coconut. The sentiment is a Pebbles Inc. rubon that my lovely friend Kristy sent me!!

Overall... LOVE!!!
This card was not as involved, but I love it. I used kraft paper, AC cardstock, some bling from my iRock, the B side of some MME paper and more bling on the butterfly, and some May Arts ribbon that I won from one of their Facebook contests! The "Remember" is from the Gypsy Cricut cart.
I know that I need to get together with some of my girls soon, and some aren't the wine type... So I know that this mug (Cricut) will be perfect to ask one of them for coffee soon. Some MME Quite Contrary paper, with AC cardstock and kraft paper. A little bit of bling sets it off!
And last, but not least, a sweet Dream (Cricut: Gypsy) sentiment with some AC papers and cardstock from a page kit from AC Letterbox, with some matching buttons, ribbon and some AC Flair.
Overall... I love the four cards that I made! I know that I have to find the best recipients for them. Enjoy!

REMEMBER!!! I am giving away an American Crafts Page Kit in Travel! Become a follower and make a comment on this link. Pin It

Artist Trading Cards... Want to Share???

So. ScrapbookSteals is trading ATC's. And I... Scrapped them. Even stamped them. And Cricuted them. Paper pieced them. Blinged them. ((Apparently I'm making up a lot of words!))

These are "them". My twelve ATC's. AND!!! They're done a month early! Woohoo!!

And of course I made one for myself as well :)

If you want to trade... Check out the blog post! They have to be completed and mailed to Utah by April 30, 2011. Pin It

SS Ruby Challenges #2, 3 and 4!!!

Okay. I realize that I'm not listing ScrapbookSteals' Ruby Challenge #1. Technically, it's actually MWM #30.

33 layouts in 10 weeks??? Not bad!!! Here are my three additional challenges for Ruby Status!!! WOO HOO!!

Challenge #2: What's Your Secret

SS'ers were supposed to share a little known fact about themselves. I shared 10. :)

Title: 10 Things About Me

Challenge #3: Lucky Me!
SS'ers were given the task of featuring something in our life that we were lucky to have.

Title: Lucky in Love

Challenge #4: Countdown!

This was one difficult!! Here's the list. There was no right or wrong way to complete this... We just had to include these items. All of them.

10 metal embellishments: metal brads, 9 plain, 1 decorative

9 inches of ribbon: there are actually 9 inches of ribbon in the flower

8 letters in the title: isla sofi

7 non-metal embellishments: seven rhinestones

6 sentences in the journaling: this is obvious

5 pieces of patterned paper: there are five patterns in the woven section

4 pieces of plain paper: there are four pieces of plain in the woven section (I forgot to include the base paper... OOPS!)
3 photos: again, obvious... but in sepia tone!

2 rubons: both flourishes were technically from one rubon. I broke it into two.

1 stamped image: the dots underneath the photographs are actually a stamp!

Title: isla sofi

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Scrapbook Steals RUBY!!!!

Once again, Scrapbooksteals.com had their challenge to complete their Mid-Week Mojo's. Another ten layouts completed+additional challenges! So, here are my MWM's for Ruby!!

MWM 21: Santa Breakfast

MWM 22: Isla's Tree

MWM 23: The Trouble with Binkies

MWM 24: Fashionista

MWM 25: Birthday

MWM 26: Cookin'

MWM 27: The First Week

MWM 28: Merry Christmas (or the tale of the Adidas Suit)

MWM 29: Always Loved

MWM 30: Little Girl

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Moxie Fab World's Color Inspiration for Card Makers Week: The Neutrals Challenge

This challenge from Moxie Fab World threw me a little... The gold from the metallics challenge was a challenge, but getting shades that really went together was almost tougher! Funny though, because I ended up with two variations using almost the same colors!
The Bazzill colors were: French Vanilla, Twig and Smoky.

For the first card, I used a Bazzill Swiss Dot paper in a pretty khaki color, a light cream American Crafts cardstock, that was cut using the Wild Card Cartridge from Cricut and altered using the Gypsy, two variations of the same die-cut sheet from My Mind's Eye, and a section of a Making Memories ribbon. The top layer of the blue die-cut border has some dimensional stickers to make it "pop" off of the card :)

I like this card, but it wasn't really my style... So I took another look at my supplies and found these papers that are pretty similar in nature.

For this card, I used the same Bazzill Swiss Dot khaki paper, part of a sheet of BoBunny Mamarazzi paper, a ribbon in the same colors (I cannot remember what company...), and a rub-on sentiment from the Letterbox line from American Crafts.

I may just give this one to my brother for his birthday. Lucky for me, he has no idea that this blog exists :)

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Moxie Fab World: Color Inspiration: The Monochromatics Challenge

For this card, I decided to create something more fitting for the Valentine's season... Using the following colors for the Moxie Fab World Color Inspiration for Cardmaker's Week, I created a beautiful card for my sweetie.

The Bazzill inspirations were three shades of pink: Bubblegum, Precious and Pinkini.

Instead of the Bazzill versions, I used a base of Basic Grey Two Scoops patterned paper, two shades of pink cardstock from American Crafts that I used my Cricut to die cut the heart, a Making Memories pink ribbon with a Basic Grey rub-on sentiment, My Mind's Eye butterfly rub-ons and bling, and Basic Grey rub-on swirls to tone down the dark pink of the butterflies. I also hand punched the double heart on the die cut and hand sewed using a similar variation on the medium pink shade of the heart.

I really like the simplicity of this card, but I know that it took quite awhile to make "just" right. My sweetie will love it ;)

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Moxie Fab World: Color Inspiration: Pretty Pastels & Cameos

Continuing with the Moxie Fab World's Color Inspiration for Card Makers week of color, I completed the rest of the color combo cards :)

For the Pretty Pastels Challenge, I decided to also incorporate the cameo from the Moxie Fab World's Challenge: The Appearance of Cameos.
I used a light pink shade of American Crafts cardstock, a violet shade of Bazzill paper to create the background of the cameo, the "B" side of a piece of AC "Boo" paper, (you would never know that it was a Halloween paper!!!), the background paper is from the Basic Grey Kioshi line, along with the matching lavendar and white polka dotted scallop sticker, and the rub-on is from American Crafts. The cameo and shaped paper die cuts are from the Gypsy Wanderings cartridge from Cricut.

I like how this reminds me of the Holly Hobby kits that my babysitter and I used to make on half days in elementary school. The "Birthday Girl" font reminds me of the 1970's, so it really fits with the childlike cameo. Pin It

Busy Bug Babble - "Cart A Week Giveaway"

The Busy Bug is having a fantastic giveaway of a Martha Stewart Cricut Cakes Cricut cartridge. This would be fun to play with!! Thanks for the opportunity to win!! Pin It

MWM #16

This was created for ScrapbookSteals' Mid-Week Mojo #16. It was created by a guest designer!! Boy, wouldn't I love to do that sometime!

It was created using a random piece of paper that I found in the 25 cent bin at Artco. Added to that was a piece of Jillibean Soup, some Cricut double sided paper, Sassafrass Lass letters and Cricut shapes :)

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