BINGO over at Craft Your Passion this week!

That's right it's time for a fun little crafting color BINGO this week at Craft Your Passion and this is was a little harder than I thought it would be! I decided to go with pink/red/brown line and came up with  fun birthday card! The image I used is from one of our fabulous sponsors this week, Limited Runs and the set is called "Big Birthday Set-lit." I started with a sketch from Eat Sleep Stamp and grabbed papers from 

Echo Park 6x6 stack -A Walk in the Park.

Come join us this week as we have a super cute guest designer that I get the pleasure of being with everyday! Yes that's right my lil' Lucas has been crafting with me again and created this wonderful card for this week's challenge as well. I invite you to visit his blog Freckles 'n Fun and leave him a little love, he loves to get comments on his projects and grins from ear to ear!

Wedded Bliss Club

Jellypark is sponsoring the challenge this week at My Mum's Craft Shop, the theme is "NEW." Well what couldn't be more new than a marriage, so I created this card using "cute wedding couple bride & groom" from the Jellypark store. I had so much fun creating this card, I have used some new Nesties to frame the image.  The roses were created using my Die-Namics Mini Rose die, then I added a little glue to then and dipped in some glitter. I added some hearts on background using one on my embossing folders and cut the heart for sentiment on my Cricut.  The sentiment is from Congrats set from Stampin' Up.

Don't forget to join the "old year/new year challenge going on right now at Jellypark Challenges for a chance to win more FREE images.  You can see all the details HERE!

Tag It

Quick post as I am running late and heading out to help at school today, so I will be back later with all the details.  It's Wednesday so that means another recipe challenge ovet Cooking It Up With Katie and this week we are sponsored by Digital Delights.  Our recipe is as follows:

"Die cut a tag and make it Christmas!"

I started with the sketch over at Sketchbook Saturday, which I thought was from this week but Feline Playful has wrong sketch posted (oh well, still love the sketch). The sentiment is from our fabulous sponsor and is called "A touch of Christmas set" which I have printed on a tag I cut from the Cricut. I have added some stitching and inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen. The pp is from Lost & Found Christmas 6 x 6 stack I picked up at Archiver's and the green is Olive from CTMH. The flourish from an Inkadinkado set.

Check out what the rest of team has created and hope you have a great day!

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #80

Sunday Sketch & Stamp has another wonderful challenge and this week our sketch was created by Mira.  We are being sponsored this week by one of my fave stores, The Stamping Boutique and up for grabs is FREE digis.  You will want to check out the TSB store as Tracey has drawn a brand new line called "Smoochies" and they are the cutest!!!  Make sure to join in TSB Monthly challenge on their challenge blog for additional chances to win images and maybe a Guest Designer position!

For my card today I have once again worked with my new fave Cricut cartridge, CTMH's Art Philosophy. I have used it to create these fabulous flowers as well a scalloped frame.  My white springs are actually from a snowflake and I have used CTMH papers in Lilac Mist and Indian Corn Blue.  I have embossed the white with my hearts folder and the border is using a SU' border punch.  The sentiment is from my Unity October KOM, which you can find HERE!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Inspire Me Fridays- anything goes

ABC...Anything But a Card

I am excited to finally share with you all the fun things I made for Lucas' 1st grade Fall Party as I have been very busy over past couple weeks getting it all together. The challenge this week at Cooking It Up With Katie was perfect to showcase my items! Our challenge this week is "A+B+C= Anything But a Card" and we are sponsored by Gingerloft.  You won't want to miss the amazing projects the DT gals came up with for thsi challenge.

First up are my little Frankie and Dracula treat sacks that were created using my Cricut and
CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge. I inked everything and added the mouths and stitches.  These were a huge hit with the kiddos, I hid them around the classroom and they had to find my Halloween friends!

Next meet my cute new Halloween gal pal Candy Corn, LOL!!!  I created this sweet thing using my Cricut and Mini Monsters cartridge.  I then added her to a small plastic container, cut a hole in the front, and she was perfect for a little candy corn relay race.  The kids used pancake spatuals/turners to scoop the candy corn up and run down to put in the container.  This was a riot as they thought race and took off, candy corn went flying everywhere, then they caught on this was a race of skill!  

 Also in the photo I created some bookmarks the kids could color by stamping Halloween images and adding a little ribbon.  Each of the treat sacks also had cute little kraft tags stamped with same images I used on bookmarks and Happy Halloween sentiment from Lucas on backs!

I am entering these projects in the following challenges:
Stamp Insanity-Tricked out Treats
Pixie Dust Studio- spooky

School Days Layout

School starts tomorrow here and I think I am more excited than the kids, lol!  It's not that I don't love spending time with my boys, but with a 15 yo and 6 yo they spend alot of time fighting as oldest doesn't want to play with youngest and all youngest wants is to play with oldest.  So needless to say I have been counting down the days for awhile, although it's bittersweet as I know in a flash school days will be over for my Micah as he is a sophomore this year and has in his mind that he wants to go to college far away from here.  When I look at Lucas, I see Micah all over again and think where did the time go!

This weekend I went to a fun crop and we created a layout for the CTMH club I am in that I knew would be perfect for the challenge at Cooking it Up With Katie this week.  We are sponsored by 2 fabulous sponsors this week, Robyn's Fetish and Gingerloft so make sure to play along!  Our challenge recipe this week is

"Use a die cut, some ribbon, and add a banner."

I decided to play with this adorable back pack image to add to my layout. First I colored the image using a sponge dauber and CTMH ink, next I started to layer it up by starting with a uncolored image. I used the same techniques with all the pockets/straps and then cut them out and added them. I colored all the items in the top of the back pack with copics and added them layer by layer.  For my banner , I used my cricut and Plantin Schoolbook cartridge for letters and cut diamonds using George cartridge which I folded over to create banner.  I added my triangles to a piece of CTMH juniper ribbon and papers are from the new CTMH idea book called "Type Set."

Chubby Snowman

Isn't this the cutest snowman?  Well I thought he was perfect for doing a little Christmas in July projects and he is courtesy of The Stamping Boutique.  You can find this Chubby Snowman here.  TSB is sponsoring the challenge this week at CD Sunday, so head over to enter your Christmas themed projects for a chance to win FREE images from the TSB store. I am entering this in the challenge over at The Latte Lounge, the theme is Christmas in July and each week they add a new twist.  Also check out the Get Hippity with Ippity group as their challenge this month is also Christmas in July. 

I used lots of layers on my card and started with the sketch over at Christmas Challenges with Sketches.  For the challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge this week, the letter is N for No Nonsense-this meant creating a card with no DP.  So I created my own paper using my snowflake embossing folder.  The snowflakes are cut using Christmas Cheer+Cricut Expression and then I added some sparkly fluff (sugar) and a little bling. My image is colored using Copics and then once again I added sparkly fluff to the snow and his hat.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Digi's With Attitude! Challenges-anything goes

Inspire Me Fridays-anything goes
Aud Sentiments-sentiment with at least 2 words
Craft Us Crazy-Christmas in July
Moving Along With the Times-Christmas in July
Stamp Insanity- anything goes

Christmas Challenges with Sketches- sketch
ABC Christmas Challenges- no dp
ABC Christmas- yesterday (stamps, embossing folder, and Cricut cart are things I haven't used in forever)
Divas By Design-die cuts/punches (snowflakes)
House That Stamps Built/Repeat Impressions DCC76 Designer’s Choice Challenge-Christmas in July
Little Red Wagon-Christmas in July

Celebrate the Occassion- Christmas in July
Deep Ocean Challenge- cards
Digital Tuesday-bling it up
Jac-Inks Papercrafts-die cut+texture
Papertake Weekly-anything goes
Party Time Tuesdays- anything goes
Tuesday Throwdown-Christmas in July

Craft Your Passion- anything goes
KB Cute Monday-anything goes
Make It Monday-anything goes
The Outlawz-anything goes

Christmas Inspirations-tones of 1 color
OSAAT-use a digi

Our Creative Corner- Christmas in July

Challenge Masters- Scrapping The Boys

It's the 2nd Sunday of the month  so that means time for me to host the Scrapping The Boys challenge over at Challenge Masters. So for this month's challenge I want to see layouts of those special guys "Having some Summer Fun!" This can be a favorite activity like a baseball game, fishing, swimming, or maybe it's BBQing or eating an ice cream cone. How about a vacation or special trip planned for summer.

For my layout I have created a "Summer Bucket List" for my 6 year old Lucas. Lucas is always saying how he has nothing to do or is bored, so I thought I would create this fun layout that he could write what he would like to do this summer. I plan on taking a picture of him to put on mat at top and on bottom box he will write what he wants to do this summer. I think this is a great way to commererate this summer and will be fun to look back on how his writing changes over years. I am going to make a 2nd page that we can put pictures as he completes the items on his "bucket list."

So far his bucket list includes:

1. Reading 100 books

2. Playing croquet

3. Running his first 5K

I had so much fun creating this layout and actually broke out my Cricut to create the title using Sesame Street font cartridge.  Isn't that pail adorable?  It's from the Simply Charmed cartridge.  I have inked the edges of my pattened paper and pieces on sand pail with CTMH Cocoa ink.  The pattened paper is from a Storyteller's kit and I distressed the edges of some of my papers using the Tonic distresser I picked up at Archiver's this weekend.

Now what a you waiting for dig out those pics of your special guys "Havin' some summer fun" and come join us at Challenge Masters. 

EXCITING NEWS and Challenge Masters Chopped Contest Rounds #1 & #2

 Have you heard of Challenge Masters?

I just recently found them, they are a wonderful site that hosts challenges on Sundays.  I noticed they were having a design team call, so I through my hat in the ring.  Guess what I was selected as a Challenge Masters Diva and will be hosting "Scrapping with Boys" challenges on 2nd Sundays of month.  Be on the lookout as my 1st challenge will be on April 10th and my challenges will be all about those boys/men in our lives!

 Well I wanted to get involved and start getting to know my way around on forum, so I jumped in head first to a challenge/contest.  Have you ever seen the show Chopped?  Well if not they have chefs and they compete in appetizer, main dish, dessert rounds using a basket of ingredients.  So the contest if along the same lines and we are given a list of "ingredients" to use.

Well I survived round one with this layout of my sweet Lucas wearing the new hat that grandma knitted for him.  Our challenge was to use "lime green, circles, and paint." So I started rummaging through my papers and found this patterned that had lime green in it and matched with some blues.  With some help from my scrappin' friends (thanks Kim S.) we decided on Simple Contrast layout on page 28 of CTMH Cherish Idea Book. For the painting part, I used a dark blue to paint the edges of all the white pieces as well as patterned paper.  You can see I have the circles covered, including some added circles embossed on blue paper on right side and I embossed the left side with distressed strips. Then I took the embossed pieces and distressed them by sanding to show white core.

I am entering this layout in following challenges:

 Now for round 2 our challenge was to use "yellow, scallops, and dimensional flowers.  What a dilemma as yellow is one of colors I have a limited supply of paper for.  This time I turned to my CTMH Magic Idea book and went with page 29 and layout called "backstage."  This is my niece Mya, isn't she the cutest? OK back to the challenge, the yellow scalloped circle is embossed with polka dots and then edges are inked with CTMH Creme Brulee ink. The patterned blue is from CTMH Miracle paper pack and inked with CTMH Crystal Blue and then I used my Stampin' Up border punch.

Now for the fun part, I made my flowers using my Stampin' Up scalloped circle punches (thanks Arielle for showing this to us at card swap).  To create these first you punch 4 circles, fold them in 1/2 and then 1/2 again.  Now what I did was ink the edges and then punched a 5th circle to mount them on. For the centers, I used my Die-Namics mini rose die.  The yellow paper was already embossed wit polka dots, so for my blue flower I ran it through Cuttlebug using Swiss Dots folder.  Some pearls from $1 section at Micheal's for center and ribbon for stems.

Cross your fingers that make it to the nest round!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Catered Crop- use any of listed ingredients (recipe: pp ( mini print- blue pp/yellow-polka dots), colors- blue, embellies- flowers/ribbon/pearls, tools-border punch/scalloped punch/die cut-mini rose & Cricut, theme- spring/childhood (spring colors & flowers + pic of my niece), shapes-circles/scallops
Cupcake Inspirations- see photo (inspired by yellow & flowers)
Gingerloft- die cuts or punches
Paper Sundaes- embossing

Cars Cuts

Here are some of the Cars cuts I made for KitKatsMommy for Cricut messageboard. Mater is cut at 7", McQueen is 7", and Sally is 5 3/4". Cardstock is all from Michael's and several pieces are inked using cat's eyes.

Supplies:
CS: Red, Yellow, Black, Brown, Blue, White, Gray
Inks: Cat's eye inks
Other: Xyron 900 & 150