Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges #197 - Thanksgiving

Hello, everyone! Happy Wednesday and Happy November 1st! November. How did that happen? I swear it was just summer vacation!

November is the start of the holiday season around here, starting with Thanksgiving later this month. Our challenge at Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges this week is a great way to get us ready for the Thanksgiving holiday.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for this challenge and then I came across this little turkey stamp in my stash and thought he would be a good fit for it. Both the turkey and the sentiment are from old Studio G $1 bin stamps. I have probably had them for 6 or 7 years and never inked them up. The turkey reminded of the old construction paper turkeys we used to make in elementary school so I had to color the feathers different colors as a throwback to that!

Head on over to Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges to see the fun projects from the rest of the design team. I would love it if you played along with us this week!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I will be back soon with another project to share with you!

Hiding In My Craft Room DT Call

Hello, hello! I'm popping in here really quickly to let you know that Hiding In My Craft Room is having a design team call!

Laurie is expanding the team and we would love it if you applied! It is a great team to be a part of and I know you would love it, too! You can find out all the details over on the blog here. The deadline to enter is November 15th, so get your application in!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #236

Hello, and Happy Halloween! Today has been so hectic for me that I almost forgot that it was Halloween! I can't believe that tomorrow will be November 1st...it always seems like time really flies from now until after all of the holidays.

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge has a new sketch posted over on the blog and it's a fun one!

I decided to go with a Christmas card. I don't know if I can create anything else! It seems like Christmas cards are all that I have been making lately. I should have plenty to send out this year!

The red and white paper is from a 6x6 paper pad from The Paper Studio. The cover is long gone and I can't remember the name of it, but it is one of my favorites! I stamped the trees using a stamp from Close To My Heart (D1498). It doesn't have a name on it, but I think it was from one of the Cricut bundles. The sentiment if from an old Studio G $1 bin stamp sets. I thought the "y" fit perfectly in one of the scallops.

The full design team reveal and last week's Top 3 will be up tomorrow over at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge so be sure to check it out! I would love to see your take on this sketch!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day!

HIMCR #324 - Any Holiday

Hello again! I am back with my second post of the day. If you are looking for my Sketch N Scrap reveal, please scroll down or go here.

Hiding In My Craft Room has a new challenge today and it is another of my favorites - Any Holiday. I figured since Halloween is just around the corner that I would make one more card for it.

Our sponsor this week is Melonheadz and I got to work with the Ghosties clip art. There are so many cute little ghosts in this set.

I printed the little ghost image on a piece of vellum to give it the see-through effect. I wish that I would have die cut the two stars in vellum instead of the white but once these were glued down there was no getting them back up!

I based my card off of this sketch from Try Stampin' - Or Not - On Tuesday - you still have another week to enter their challenge!

Be sure to stop by Hiding In My Craft Room to see which holiday the rest of the design team picked. We hope you have some time to play along with us this week!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Have a great day!

Sketch N Scrap World Card Making Day Sketch #4

Hello, hello! Happy Saturday to you! I can't believe that this is the last weekend of October and Halloween is just a few days away. Where did October go?! It always seems like once Halloween hits that time is just a blur until after the holidays.

Sketch N Scrap has one more card sketch for you today in honor of World Card Making Day. We have celebrated this fun day all month long and I am going to miss the weekly sketches! Lisa has created another great sketch for us to work with today:

I can already tell that I will be using this sketch for a Christmas card or two, but for today I have another Halloween card for you:

For this card, I have used an older Bo Bunny collection - Boo Crew - I think...

My scalloped circle dies are still missing - I really thought they would have turned up by now, but no such luck yet. I hope that doesn't mean that they somehow made it to the trash can...surely I would have noticed if the whole package had gone in the trash!

Anyway, instead of a scalloped circle, I just used a pinked circle die and it works just as well. The little witch is die cut from one of the patterned papers.

Head on over to Sketch N Scrap to see the beautiful cards from the rest of the design team. We would love it if you played along with us. You have until October 31st at 9:55 P.M. CST to join in the fun.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I will be back a little later today to share one more Halloween card with you!

Sunny Day Crafting #58 - Q is for Quick and Easy

Hello and Happy Wednesday everyone!

Sunny Day Crafting has a new challenge posted today. We are on letter "Q" this week and that stands for "quick and easy". Show us your quick and easy projects!

Quick and Easy is my favorite kind of project! Nothing gets the old creative juices flowing like being able to create a quick and easy project - and I find cards are generally pretty quick and easy.

For my card I have used Echo Park's - A Perfect Autumn - 6x6 paper pad and the sentiment is from one of the ephemera packs. This card seriously came together in a matter of minutes. I'm down to mostly scraps, so that limited what I could work with - which helps in my case. If I have too many options I tend to take a lot longer settling on what I want to do!

Since this card will be going in the mail I wanted to keep it relatively flat. The sentiment piece is popped up on some foam, but that is as thick as it gets. The three little circles at the bottom are punched from one of the scraps.

Be sure to stop by Sunny Day Crafting to see the quick and easy projects from the rest of the design team. We hope you have time to play along with us this week!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful day!

Caught Red-Handed - Soul Scrappers - Random Word Challenge

Hello, everyone! Happy Tuesday to you!

I am here today to share a layout that I made for the Random Word Challenge #16 over at Soul Scrappers. The letter for this month is "R" and our list of words that can be used is:
1. relax - relaxing
2. rascal
3. rowdy
4. red-handed
5. ravishing
6. ray of sunshine

I had found this old photo of Matthew when he was two and a half and in his naughty corner. It was called his naughty corner because when he got quiet and couldn't be found - he was usually behind the rocking chair doing naughty things - like using my sewing scissors to cut up the newspaper or his Curious George shirt because he "didn't like it". On this day he was caught red-handed using my scissors to cut up a newspaper. It's a wonder he didn't cut a finger off!

I almost always start my layouts with a sketch and I found this one that I had pinned from Stick It Down from a few months ago:

I liked the messiness behind the photo that was on the sketch and thought I would try and recreate it. I watered down some white acrylic paint, dabbed some wadded up plastic wrap in it and then applied it to my background. I then used some of the watered down paint for some splatters.

Here is a close up of it with the photo on top of the area:

Head on over to Soul Scrappers and check out the challenges! We would love to have you join us!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a great day!

Stick It Down October Card Reveal

Hello, hello! Good Monday morning to you! I hope that you are ready for a new week. This will be a short week since it's parent/teacher conference time. That day off on Friday will be nice!

Today is the full card design team reveal at Stick It Down. Here is a reminder of the card sketch that was posted on the first:

It's always a struggle to photograph gold glitter - or gold embossing - or gold anything really! For my card, I had this "Believe" wood veneer word in my stash and I decided to add gold glitter embossing powder to the bottom half. I taped off the top half with washi tape and went to work and it actually worked out really well. Since you can't see it all that well in the above photo, here is a better look at it:

I wanted just a little more color, so I added the red scalloped border for it to sit on.

I love the way this turned out and I may just have to keep this card and add it to my December Daily instead of giving it away!

Head on over to Stick It Down to see the beautiful cards from the rest of the design team.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a great day!

Christmas Card Challenges #24

Hello, again! I am back with my second post of the day. If you are looking for my Lasting Memories reveal, please scroll down or go here.

We have a new challenge for you today at Christmas Card Challenges. Our rules are pretty simple - create a Christmas/holiday card. If you need a little extra inspiration then we offer up an optional challenge for you. This week is an inspiration photo.

When I first saw the inspiration photo I immediately thought of the Close To My Heart - Very Merry - stamp set. The writing is almost exactly the same and I thought the little pine sprigs and berries matched pretty well, too.

The paper that I have used is from a Paper Studio 6x6 paper pad. The cover is now missing, so I'm not sure what the name of it is. I really thought it would be a paper that went into a giveaway pile or the throw-away pile, but I really love how this turned out!. I just may have to make another card like this one to get it used up!

The red bow I picked up at Dollar Tree last week. I thought they might come in handy in my December Daily this year and I really think it is the perfect accent! It does make the card a little on the bulky side, so this card will be given with a gift or sent in a bubble envelope!

Head on over to Christmas Card Challenges to see the beautiful cards from the rest of the design team. We hope to see you playing along with us!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! I hope that you have a great day!

LM #367 - Stamping With Something Other Than A Stamp

Hello, everyone! Good Sunday morning to you. I hope that you are enjoying your weekend. Ours has been very quiet, which is really nice once in a while!

We have a new challenge at Lasting Memories today. Our theme for October has been "Around the House" and the last challenge of the month is - Stamp with something other than a stamp.

I have used a jar lid to stamp my circles and a pencil eraser to stamp my dots.

I knew I wanted to use these photos of Shane and when I saw this sketch I thought it would be perfect for what I wanted to do.

I did add in the stamped circles to go around the title and the journaling, and my elements are more on a diagonal than up and down, but I think it works.

Here's a close up of some of the stamping. 

Since my photos were pretty neutral I wanted  to add in a few pops of color. I had these papers in my new 100 Patterned Paper Challenge box, and they are what determined the color combo of this layout. Since I only used little strips of each paper they will all go back into my box to be used again. I will have more on my new 100 Patterned Paper Challenge a little later this week.

Head on over to Lasting Memories to see the awesome inspiration from the Design Team. They have some very creative was to stamp with something other than a stamp!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I will be back soon with another project to share with you.