Going in Circles @ Kaboodle Doodles

That's right we are all about circles this week at Kaboodle Doodles, so we want to see projects using circles or dots.  This week we are sponsored by The Crafty Pad Designs and they a fun challenge blog that you can check out here.  There are some great FREEBIES on their challenge blog as well and I chose to work with this one called "Twins Circular Sentiment."

I chose to work with the sketch over at Card Positions Systems and grabbed some scraps from my stash.  The carstock already had embossed dots on it, however I decided to run it through my Cuttlebug using this adorable baby Sizzix folder.  The cute little baby items are acutally on the folder once, so I have embossed it twice on my papers.  I added a little Smooch to the stars on the sentiment and then punched is with my SU' punches and popped it up!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Card Positioning Systems-sketch
Creative Craft Challenges-create your own background
Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight-sentiment as focus
Creative Stamp Friends- dots
Creative Inspirations Paint-babies
Pile It On-circles
Challenge Up Your Life-circles
Just Some Lines-spots and dots
Secret Crafter-embossing
Sew Many cards-dry embossing

Kaboodle Doodles #72

It's all about "food and drinks" with this week's Kaboodle Doodles challenge and we are excited to be sponsored by Meljen's Designs.  One lucky winner with get 4 images from Meljen's Designs! I colored my image using Paint.net and all other elements are from Pixel Scrapper. Come join the challenge here and check out rest of DT projects!

Challenges I am entering:

Outlawz- colors red/green/blue

Pals Paper Arts- sketch

Cooking It Up With Katie #67

Happy Hump Day everyone!  You know what that means. time for another challenge at Cooking It Up With Katie.  This week our challenge is "use a current sketch from a challenge blog, make it a birthday creation, and add a little yellow." So I chose to work with the sketch at Sketch N Stash and used this wonderful image from our sponsor this week Stamping Dragon. Once again I went digital to create my work of art using Paint.net and elements from Pixel Scrapper.

I am entering this the following challenges:

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #60

Sunday not only mean the end to another weekend, but another great sketch challenge over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp and this week's sketch is provided by Kathrin. I cannot seem to get enough of working digitally, I think part of it is the fact that I don't have to drag a bunch of things out and make a huge mess, lol!!!  So for this week I have once again hit up one of my new fave places Pixel Scrapper to get all my elements, except the sentiment which came from Digi Scrap Depot.

Isn't my guy adorable?  This picture was taking during last couple weeks of school and his teacher planner as fun and educational water day in their classroom.  The kids got to wear their swim clothes and did all types of activities like bubbles, water balloons, etc.  Come on over and join the challenge this week!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Scrappy Frogs- use red

Card Creations & More- patriotic



Cooking It Up With Katie

With Father's Day just around the corner this week's challenge at Cooking It Up With Katie is perfect to create those last minute projects for those wonderful men in your life.  Our challenge this week is "Something for dad, make it funny, and add some buttons." We are excited to be sponsored this week by Bonibleaux Designs at Dude Time Doodles and they have some hilarious images/sentiments to work with.  I chose to work with Hammock Harold and HH Sentiment #4 for my card and once again I have gone digital.  All elements are courtesy of Pixel Scrapper and the overall design is from the sketch challenge over at Card Positioning Systems. 

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Bows & Berries-masculine
The Crazy Challenge-monochromatic
Cupcake Craft-masculine/dad projects
Incy Wincy Designs- Father's Day
Ooh La La Creations- Father's Day
Stamps R Us- 3 embellies (buttons), 2 papers, 1 image
Make It Monday- anything goes


Card Positioning Systems-sketch
Creative Inspirations-Father's Day
Dream Valley Challenges- Father's Day
Sentimental Sundays-Father's Day
Sparkles Forum-Father's Day
Stamptacular Sunday-dads or grads


Craft Your Days Away-Monochrome
Crazy 4 Challenges-Masculine
Mark's Finest Papers-Faather's Day
One Stop Craft Challenge- Father's Day
Secret Crafter- Male card
Stamp, Scrap, & Doodle- Father's Day

Kaboodle Doodles- Flowers anyone?

Another weekend has come and gone, hope everyone had a great one and is ready to start the week off with a bang!  This week at Kaboodle Doodles our challenge is about using flowers as the main/focal point of our projects.  We are being sponsored by Tiffany Doodles this week and they provided us with some great flower images to work with.

I went digital once again and colored my image this time with Paint.net, all other elements I found over at Pixel Scrapper which is quickly becoming my go to site!  I love that you are able to search by color or theme to find things to use.  Now pull out all those flowers stamps and embellies and show us what you come up with, head over and join the challenge and check out the rest of DT's projects to be inspired!

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. 

Shannon's Sentiments #30-Sketch

It's Saturday which means another challenge day over at Shannon's Sentiments and this week is a sketch challenge from our hostess Michelle.  I decided to keep exploring the digital world and try my hand at a card this week. I used Paint.net to create my card and got all my design elements from Digi Scrap Depot.  The patterned paper from here is and the black background paper/ribbon/frame around sentiment I got from Pixel Scrapper. The sentiment is from the "Lots of Thanks" set, head on over to the Shannon's Sentiments to join the fun and check out rest of DT's creations!

Kaboodle Doodles #70- Whimsical Creatures

It's Monday so that's means another challenge over at  Kaboodle Doodles

and this week is all about those Mystical Creatures.  This can be fairies, unicorns, angels, gnomes, etc. and our sponsor this week is Whoopsi Daisy Designs. The prize up for grabs this week for one lucky person is 

choice of 2 sheets (8 images)- how cool is that!

Now if you follow my blog, you will see I have started to dabble into digital scrapping and I have once again created this super layout using a Quick Page from Digi Scrap Depot.  This page is located in the fantasy section and is by Susie Colbert Designs and can be found here.  I added the fairy stamp, which I also found at Digi Scrap Depot and can be found here.

Check out rest of team's creations here and join the challenge for a chance to win the AWESOME prize!

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #58

Hope everyone has had a relaxing weekend so far, it has been extremely hot here so we have been soaking up as much a/c as possible. My kiddos took off for a small fishing trip with my parents so we were enjoying the piece and quiet, we are only a week into summer vacation and they are already on my last nerve with all the bickering and fighting- It's gonna be a long summer, lol!!!  Tonight we have Micah's HS Baseball banquet and then get ready for another busy week!

I am still working on getting my mojo back after surgery and have lots of projects in the works.  Today bring another sketch challenge over at Sunday Sketch and Stamp, which I am a design team member. I had this fabulous paper from last month's scrapbook club, it's from CTMH and called Fanfare.  The image is courtesy of The Stamping Boutique and colored with copics.  Head on over here and join us and check out the rest of DT's wonderful creations!

Shannon Sentiments #29-Graduation

For all my faithful followers, you may wonder where have I been?  Did I fall off the face of the planet? I discovered a couple weeks ago that I had a very large kidney stone, after many tests and being in ER for hours it was decided I had to be transferred to another hospital.  So I get to ride in an ambulance to other hospital and diagnosis is surgery next day.  So I have been recovering ever since and am now ready to get things rolling again, ook for me to be posting more often as things finally get back to normal!

It's Saturday so that means another challenge over at Shannon's Sentiments and this week it's all about Graduation! Well I have really decided to try my hand at digital scrapbooking as I think it might be a great way to keep up with all my kiddo's activities and help me catch up (lol). I decided to try the CTMH Studio J digital program, which is pretty easy to use. This is my Lucas as he graduated Kindergarten just last week, his teacher let the kids plan their graduation celebration and they all wanted to wear their pjs.  After creating my layout, I then opened it in Paint.net and added the diploma and cap images from the Follow Your Dreams set. Come join the challenge here and check out the Fabulous creations from rest of team!

Shannon's Sentiments #27-Birthdays

It's time for another challenge at Shannon's Sentiments this week and the theme is "Birthdays."  I decided to try my hand at a digital layout this week, since I actually have pics of myself from this year. I got this cute quick page from here and I have added the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Independence Day set. I have designed my entire layout using Paint.net, super esay to use and FREE!

Cooking It Up With Katie #61

It's challenge day again over at Cooking It Up With Katie and we are excited to be sponsored this week by Sassy Studios. They are offering the winner of this challenge their choice of 4 images from the store, how cool is that!  They have once again provided us with images to work with and I decided on I'm Every Woman- The New Spa Day which happens to be a FREEBIE (so go grab it)!

The challenge is week is:

Start with some Brads, Include some Letters, & Stamp an Image (rubber or digi)

I have used  the sketch from The Pink Elephant this week and I added Sparkly Fluff to her towel (which you can now find at Archiver's as my store had it with glitters). A little faux stitching, computer generated sentiments, and big button with ribbon complete this card!

I am entering this in the following challenges"

The Pink Elephant-sketch



Shannon's Sentiments #25- Get Well

 As Shannon mentioned in THIS POST, this month Michelle is sponsoring Cards for a Cause to send cards to bring smiles to the faces of those deserving at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

In honor of this sponsorship, Shannon has graciously created a FABULOUS new set called Get Well, and not only that, she is donating $1 from each set sale to the USO. That's 25%!!!! Thank you SO MUCH for your generosity, Shannon!!!!


Our challenge this week is to make a Get Well Card, or something else that would bring a smile to someone's face who is recovering from an injury. Hopefully, you will send that card (along with some others - hint hint!!!!!) to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, but that's not required. If you DO choose to send it there, PLEASE be sure to follow the guidelines you can find HERE. We want to bring smiles, not tears.

I have created 2 very simple cards for the challenge using the sketch from Clean & Simple, however I have turned it on it's side.  I love how versatile this sketch, it's perfect for using up all those scraps of paper we have lying around. Now head over to Shannon's Sentiments to check out the rest of DT projects!

I am entering these cards in the following challenges:
Clean & Simple-sketch

May Day Hop @ The Stamping Boutique

It's hard to believe that it's May already and what better way to celebrate than with a May Day Blog Hop with the talented ladies at The Stamping Boutique.  There will 2 seperate groups posting projects, so you can choose to hop Saturday/Sunday or both days.  You won't want to miss the wonderful creations from the design team using the image called "maypole."  If you came here from Rhonda's blog then you are on right track and I'm your last stop for today!  If not head over to The Stamping Boutique Challenge Blog to start hopping!

For my creation I decided to use Smooch for my ribbons, so  first I printed my image and then used my Nesties.  I then used the same Nestie as a stencil to add my blue sky.  After coloring my ribbons I cut each of pieces out and remounted, I added some tiny pearls to the ribbons and centers of flowers at top. I also added some tiny bling to sparkles on image.  I added the grass by using my icicle punch.

Now what hop wouldn't be comple with some BLOG CANDY, so I am offering one lucky person

 2 FREE images from store as well as the maypole image!  All you have to do is leave me a comment and for an extra entry become a follower of my blog!

Don't forget on Tuesday, May 10th Tracey is having a "Dollar Digi Day", what does this mean you may ask?  Well all the images located in the "What's New" section of the store will be $1 each!  This means all the latest images will be at a huge fraction of cost! If you love TSB like I do, you won't want to miss your opportunity to build your collection!  So what are you waiting for, head over to store and get your shopping list ready for Tuesday!

Make sure to come back and hop tomorrow if you can, that hop will start at 12:00 am EST at The Stamping Boutique Challenge.

To the world.....

With Mother's Day around the corner I have been inspired to make some projects for all the special moms in my live.  I grabbed this wonderful sentiment from the "Mother's Love set" over at Shannon's Sentiments and framed it using my Nesties.  The sketch is from Sweet Sketch Wednesday and that fabby flower is made using a tutorial I found here.  Come over and join us on CDAC as Shannon's Sentiments is sponsoring the "embellishment challenge" and there is a great prize up for grabs!  Join us Saturday for our new challenge with inspiration from our new DT ladies!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday-sketch
AI Factory-Mother's Day
Craft Us Crazy-Mother's Day and/or flowers
Crafty Sentiments-flowers
Deligthtful Challenges-Mother's Day or special lady
Southern Girls- Let's hear it for the girls
Amber's Crafts & Stuff-special lady
Creative Card Crew-For Mom
Sisterhood of Crafters- Mother's Day
Partytime Tuesdays-Mother's Day
Try It On Tuesday-something old/something new (old-papers, new-digi sentiment)

Tuesday Throwdown-Mother's Day
Creative Stamp Friends-Mother's Day
Stamp-N-Doodle- Mother's day
Card Cupids-Mother's Day
Creative Cowgirls-Mother's Day
Creative Inspirations Paint-Mother's Day
I Dit It Creations-Mother's Day
Crafty Ho's-Strong/Influential Women
Sentimental Sundays-For those special women
2 Sisters-for mom
Stamp, Scrap, & Doodle-Mother's Day
Fairytale Challenge- Mother's Day

Exciting things happening at The Stamping Boutique

Hold on to your socks as I have an important announcement you will want to mark you calendars for, yes that's right something big is happening for one day only at The Stamping Boutique! 

 

On Tuesday, May 10th Tracey is having a "Dollar Digi Day", what does this mean you may ask?  

Well all the images located in the "What's New" section of the store will be $1 each!  This means all the latest images will be at a huge fraction of cost, currently there are over 75 images in that section and Tracey is still adding images as fast as her little fingers can draw them!  If you love TSB like I do, you won't want to miss your opportunity to build your collection!  So what are you waiting for, head over to store and get your shopping list ready for Tuesday!

Also don't miss out as this weekend on May 7th & 8th as The Stamping Boutique will be hosting a blog hop and I'm sure there will be some surprises along the way!  The team will be split up in two groups and you can hop along on Saturday or Sunday or both, whatever is most convenient for you!  

Come join us for our May Day Hop for some fun and inspiration!

Wonder Layout

I am so excited to be a part of the Challenge Masters Team, if you haven't checked us out yet you should.  Each weeks challenges are posted in several categories from color, sketch, trend, scrappin' boys/girls, etc.  The DT ladies come up with the most wonderful challenges to make you think outside the box when creating your projects and I have once again foun my love for scapbooking!

I made this layout for the "Color Challenge" and we were to use Kraft as our base and use this paper as our inspiration from My Mind's Eye.I grabbed this adorable pic of my lil' man when he was just a year old
(he's now 6), I just love the innocence and wonder in his eyes.  All these papers are pieces from Storyteller's kits and flourishes/title were cut using Cricut.  I made the flowers using scraps from pieces of papers I used, the poem I found online.

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Charima Cardz- no cards allowed
Paper Play- show us your style
Paper Romance- use your fave die (I love the QuicKutz die I used for poem)
Sassy Studios- handmade flowers
Crafts & Me- swirls (flowers & flourishes)
Papercraft Star- find your own sketch
Papertake Weekly- anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday- open challenge
Craft Your Passion-anything goes
Make It Monday-anything goes
Pollycraft-anything goes
By The Cute & Girly-anything goes
Catered Crop- follow the recipe (pp-stripes/polka dots, color-yellow/white/kraft/blue, embellies-ribbon, handmade flowers, ink- CTMH Cocoa, tools- Cricut/Storybook cartridge, Quickutz die)
Dream Valley Challenges-flowers
Scrappy Frogs-anything goes
Sparkles Forum-anything goes

Sunday Sketch & Stamp

The Stamping Boutique is sponsoring the challenge this week over at A Spoon Full of Sugar and Sunday Sketch & Stamp and I have some super exciting news!  I was asked to join the Sunday Sketch & Stamp team, so this is my first card using the provided sketch.  I have used the image called Praying Hands which I have colored with Copics (E00/21/51). I colored the sleeves using a sponsge dauber and CTMH Spring Iris ink. I used my cuttlebug embossing folder and border punch is from Stampin' Up. The flowers are made using Die-Namics Mini Rose with a little bling for centers, sentiment is computer generated. 

I am entering this in the following challenges:
A Spoon Full of Sugar- white+ one color

Sunday Sketch & Stamp-sketch

Divas by Design- anything goes
Paper Shelter- bling it up (centers of flowers)
Simon Says Stamp & Show- show us your hands

Cooking It Up With Katie #60

Time for another Cooking It Up With Katie challenge and we are so excited this week as we have 2 sponsors, so that means 2 chances to win prizes!!! First we have regular sponsor Gingerloft who were very generous to our team and we hope you love the samples.  And we have the new sponsor 2 Cute Rubber Stamps who also provided us with images so we were spoiled!

This week the ingredients are:

Use Green (a little or a lot), Add some Punching, & Make it a Double (use two of something)

I chose to work with a 2 Cute Stamp and am in love with their adorable images, I see some retail therapy in my future there-LOL!!!  This cute image is called Penguin Wedding and have colored it using my Copics (100, BV00/02/04). I cuted the image out using my Nesties and then inked with CTMH Spring Iris ink. Papers are from my stash of course and I found that cute bling title also in my stash!  I used the sketch from Magical Monday, however forgot you have to use a fantasy image so will not be entering in their challenge.

I am entering in the following challenges:
Cardmadfairy- wedding
ECP Challenges-wedding