2 Cards/3 Challenges

Pink Elephant 53 is to do a mushy gushy valentine and I've got 2 here that will qualify!

The first is for Card Patterns #50 sketch.

The second is Laura's sketch 45 at 2 Sketches 4 You!

Have a great weekend everyone!

2 Sketches 4 You and Pink Elephant #51

I loved Laura's sketch #44 at 2 Sketches 4 You this week! I actually used it twice today! Both cards are here!

The first one is a birthday card for someone in my office that has birds. I love this little birdcage from the cricut songbird cartridge!

The next card is a valentine card that also uses the elements from the Pink Elephant challenge #51 (pink, polka dots, and bow).

I'm scrapping with my friends today so I'll be back working on Disneyland layouts in just a few minutes!

Papertake Weekly #32 and some Disney Layouts

I've been having a great start to my 3-day weekend.

I have never done the papertake weekly challenge so I tried it this week. I did not make a card but instead a door hanger. It measures 8.5 X 8.5 inches. I used a combination of Design Orignals Love and Romance paper I've had in my stash with Basic Gray Sultry paper. I cut out the love birds and Love from the cricut gypsy font cartridge.

One of my layouts below was also based on this sketch!




I also worked some more on our Disney 8 X 8 books ~ I gave one book to each of my kids for Christmas that had the princesses and some other coordinating characters/rides and now I'm trying to finish up the other book. We were there for 5 days in the summer and there were just too many pictures for one book! And I love to do the 8 X 8 books because they get done faster (although this is taking awhile). I used creative imaginations paper on all of these layouts that I got at Michaels.




The Jessie and Woody stickers I bought at Scrapbook.com. All the die cuts on this layouts are from the cricut Old West cartridge.












The layout of Jessie with Carl is also based on the Papertake Weekly Sketch #32.











The two layouts with the round circles and ric rac were inspired by a "Woody" layout on scrapbook.com!












On the last 2 I used some gold "stickles" to bling them up!

It was kind of cool to get out all my star brads and stickles I've been hoarding and actually use them!








Thanks for stopping by! I'm off to do more creating!

Card Patterns, 2 Sketches 4 You, and a little Home Decor

I have been having a lot of fun with brown and pink! My last post had brown and pink projects and this one has 2!

The first one is a valentine card using card patterns sketch #46. I have had this paper in my stash for quite awhile and it just seemed to go with the sketch so good (the sealed with a kiss is a block cut from paper that coordinates with the background paper).






The next card I made for a woman in my office who had a retirement party today. I used Laura's sketch 43 from 2 Sketches 4 You to create it. The congrats is from the gypsy font on the cricut gypsy! It is simple but it conveys the message!










This last project is one I'd been meaning to do for awhile. Our scrapbook store (which recently went out of business) was going to have a class to make a "welcome" wall hanging. They decided not to have it (now we know why, because they were closing) so they had a couple pieces of paper (the background - graphic 45) which I bought and I took a picture of it on my cell phone. I had to make a few changes but it was very close to this ~ I think they had printed their letters on white cardstock and I actually cut letters with the cricut (I put them all in one file on the gypsy and saved it so I can do it again!). I was so excited to get this done and when my dad was visiting last weekend we got it hung up in the entry way!

Have a great weekend!

3 Challenges in One!!! (2 Sketches 4 You, Card*A*Licious, and Non-Trad Valentine)

• I've been super busy this week (and next week will be worse!). I don't know if sub-consciously knowing I was busy, I came up with this card that combines 3 challenges:

>Kazan's sketch for this week (week of 2/2/09),

>Card*A*Licious Challenge (3 patterned papers + orange letter stickers),

>One of the February Card Challenges at Scrapbook.com is to make a Non-Traditional Valentine

The background paper is Creative Imaginations that I picked up at Craft Warehouse yesterday at lunch! The other patterned papers are Me and My Big Ideas. I actually used 4 patterned papers if you are really counting! The cute flower brads are Making Memories. The book plate is a sizzix and the butterfly is one of the new quickutz revolution 3-D Dies ~ so I actually through in using a new die in this card too! Kind of scary!

My 2 good friends will be here at 8 a.m. for a day of scrapping! Breakfast will be ready for them ~ a egg and sausage casserole and overnight french toast with strawberries! I've got a bunch of other yummy food ready and Gail is bringing pork tenderloin for dinner!

I'm going to try to finish the calendar I'm making my parents and then work on some more valentines. I make them to sell for the Governor's food drive in February and even though we had a lot when we started the week, the stash is dwindling! Which means money for the food bank!!! Yay! But more work for me!

Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend!

2 Sketches 4 You Design Team Application Cards/Cardalicious 9/Some New Techniques!

I had an awesome time yesterday with my friends, Bonnie and Gail. While I didn't get my calendar finished, it is close! We are talking about getting together in 2 weeks so I could for sure finish it then!

I've made a few cards in the last few days! The first one "I love you every day" was for the bonus of group of the January card challenge at Scrapbook.com. You were supposed to do some techniques from Scrapperlicious' blog under tips and tricks. This is the first time I've tried things like mesh with the flowers (it is underneath the flowers), extreme distressing (you punch holes in stuff), making that little notebook page look torn out. I was really freaking about punching holes in good stuff but now I am really pleased with how it turned out. I used cosmo cricket christmas paper (my sister, Teresa and I both got this free bunch of cosmo cricket on the day after thanksgiving when we went shopping!). The love stamp and the notebook are both Teresa Collins (I love how her stamps stamp well and clean up so nice!), the clock is a Maya Road stamp. I had those cool buttons that I put on the flowers and the fan in my stash (when I was buying tons of buttons and then never used any!). I really branched out on this one and I'm glad I did!


These next 2 cards are ones I did using Laura's design team application sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You. I submitted "my dear." As you can see from an earlier post, I worked on several for this sketch and it was a little hard to make my decision on which one but with the help of my sister, Teresa who does awesome work (Tsscrappinblog.blogspot.com) and her friend Donna, I picked the dear card. Donna, if you are out there, THANKS!!! Someday I hope to meet you! The sweetheart card uses doilies that I picked up at Target and Party City, Ribbon from Michael's, Bo Bunny paper from a previous year, and the candy hears are cut with quickutz.



"My Dear" uses October Afternoon patterned paper, the dear is a revolution (borrowed from my friend Jennifer), and the words are with letter stickers. This one also qualifies for Cardalicious 9 which was to use letter stickers, say "for you", and have green on it! I'm just a week late with it! The heart and grass are sizzix originals.









And here is the sketch, which as you can see I am absolutely in love with!















"Thank You Friend" is for Kazan's Design Team Sketch. I thought about this one quite awhile and finally landed on this card! The patterned paper is Me and My Big Ideas. Friend is cut with the cricut Mini-Monograms cartridge, the birds are quickutz revolution. I had gotten the foam/sparkly crowns from Michaels around halloween!








Here is Kazan's Sketch! Does it look like it?
















Shaina cut her leg at her dad's today falling off the tree fort onto a chain link fence. She had to get 4 stitches but she is better now. I took pictures of the stitches with my camera phone so her brother could see them! Last weekend she lost her cell phone and some stole it so I had to cut off the service and order a new phone (thank goodness I bought the insurance!). And yesterday, while my parents were visiting my other sister in California, their car got broken into and my mom's purse got stolen! I hope the next week goes better for everyone!

2 Sketches 4 You Week of 1/19/09

This week was Kazan's turn at 2 Sketches 4 You. I really enjoy seeing each week's sketch but I had a hard time figuring out what to do! I had originally thought that since Monday was a holiday I'd get it done Monday but nothing came to me! Then yesterday my Mini-Monograms cartridge was delivered and I cut out this cute square and then went from there!!





The patterned paper on this card is from the DCWV Glitter Stack - I love the bling! The "U" is also from the Mini-Monograms Cricut Cartridge! The hearts are a Sizzix Original - Heart Border. The cute little "love" charm I found in the wedding section at Michael's (I walked down that row because another row was busy and there they were!).








So, even though I was having trouble with Kazan's sketch, I thought of even more ideas for Laura's sketch from last week! I have been busy all weekend making a scrapbook for my boss (he is leaving after Friday for another job). While I was making it, I was using the revolution die for small album pages (I'm putting them on some of the pages for people to sign and write things to him). All of sudden it hit me how those little album pages could have been used on Laura's sketch so here are a couple new cards for the sketch! The teacher card uses DCWV paper from the Fall Stack from either 2006 or 2007 (I mixed up the paper!). All the die cuts on it are from the quickutz revolution!

I used the album page again on Love Notes. The heart is a sizzix original, the flower is a sizzix original cut out of felt. And the love is a sizzlet. The paper is Cloud 9 that I got a couple years ago.

This Saturday, I'm getting together with my 2 good friends Gail and Bonnie to scrap! I'm very excited because we haven't all 3 gotten together for almost a year! Gail has a quickutz exclusive die she ordered for me last February and I haven't gotten it yet! Bonnie is planning chili for lunch and something with chicken for dinner. I need to bring some snacks! I'm also taking my cricut to show them as they have not seen one in action. My goal is to finish the 2009 calendar for my parents that I started before Christmas as a Christmas present. I've been giving them one each year along with an album with extra pages - then I have them put the calendar pages in the album so they have a little album of my kids each year. They haven't been home much since the first of the year so they wouldn't even be enjoying it so not so bad that I'm late!

We will see if I get it done! Take care and have a great rest of the week!

2 Sketches 4 You ~ Week of 1/12/09

This week it was Laura's turn to do the sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You. I've really been into making shaker boxes so I immediately saw a shaker box in the square on the right side! I'm still making valentines for the food drive at work so I made a couple here!

The first 2 cards use a black and white embossed paper that I got at Michael's on clearance. The ribbon and the love charm are also from Michaels! I used a sizzix frame to make the shaker box (see splitcoaststampers.com for a great tutorial!). The Valentine words in the backgroud are from reginascutterdesigns.blogspot.com - I've used them several times and they are so cool! Especially as backgrounds for shadow boxes. For the card with the

black frame I used some embellishments that I had actually cut out last year when I was on a roll make valentine cards. They came in handy. For the card with the red frame, I used some felt and cut out flowers with the sizzix! I'm really liking the felt thing!










I had cut out a lot of little quickutz owls a couple weeks ago and found this cut "who loves you" stamp at Craft Warehouse. They just seemed to go together! The background paper was also on clearance at Michaels. I had originally thought I would use the paper for my dad's birthday card but it makes a cute non-traditional colored valentine! I don't know what it is about owls but they are so stinkin' cute!

The last card I made (I can't believe I made 4 but I was on a roll!) is for my dad's birthday! The paper is Bohemian and is 2 sided so the frame and the background are from the same paper. I made the background of the shaker box myself. I just put in all kinds of 77's in wordprocessing software and changed the fonts and sizes. The 77 candles are from the quickutz release. Wish is also a quickutz from awhile back. The white flourish is a quicktutz revolution. My dad's birthday is in February so it is cool I have it done. The only problem I have is I don't know when he will get it because they are traveling to warm climates right now and don't know where they will be!

My sister, Teresa (tsscrappinblog.blogspot.com) did her card for dad last week with the sketch! It's totally cool we are both done!

It is has been quite a busy and exciting week! My boss is leaving and I was asked to do his job in an "acting" capacity until about the end of June. I'm very excited! Been busy at work making lists of stuff to deal with before he leaves and after he leaves and all kinds of stuff! It was so nice tonight to relax and do some cards!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great time till I see you again!

2 Sketches 4 You week of 1-5-09 (Kazan 17 and Peet Bonus Sketch)

I started out the week getting most of these done monday evening after work with more ideas brewing BUT my son got sick, my parents came to town, and it has been a busy week at work. If I get some more done I will post them later this week!

My first one is for Kazan's sketch 17. I don't have a lot of "wavy" type things so I did some ribbon (very loose interpretation of this sketch, I know!). I had just gotten this cute little daisy bucket stamp at my local scrapbook store and had these little lady bug buttons in my stash. I thought that they teamed up with the flowers and the stamp and would make a cute valentine card for a young girl! The flower is a quickutz revolution cookie cutter. I'm really into the black and white look so I used that again! I feel like I'm a broken record (some of you younger people probably don't know what a record is!). Hopefully, I'll break out of this black and white rut sometime soon!






















Peet did the bonus sketch this week and I thought it was so cute. Here I am using black and white again! The background paper is from the DCWV Glitter Stack, and the valentine words are a printable stamp from reginascutterdesigns.blogspot.com (I've used them a bunch in my previous post with shakers! They are very fun). The heart is a quickutz revolution cookie cutter. Love is a sizzlet. The i, heart, and u are cut with sizzix originals (metallic paper on chipboard) and pinned them on the ribbon with a safety pin. The flower is felt also cut with a sizzix original ~ I'm loving that too ~ I've never tried it until now!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Shaker Fun!!!

I got these cool Holiday Big Words Printable Stamps from Reginascutterdesigns.blogspot.com. Then at Scrapbook.com one of the card challenges was to make a shaker. I had never made a shaker so I checked out the tutorial at Split Coast Stampers. They were so much fun that I made several! I used sizzix frames for the frame and in a couple cases I used chipboard under them. Here they are:

The background is Holiday Big Words from Reginascutterdesigns.blogspot.com, lips and swak are quickutz dies and "swak" is quickutz blossom mini. Striped pattern paper is from either the 2007 or 2008 DCWV spring stack (I tore the paper out and put it with all my valentine paper!) Flower is a prima and the brad is from creative cafe.

Bee Mine also uses quickutz blossom mini for the words. The flowers were cut with one of the sizzix stacked flower dies using felt (this time was my first time to cut out felt too! I've tried lots of things this weekend!). The bees are buttons that I've had in my stash for quite awhile. This is the same DCWV patterned paper!

The tickets on this shaker were made with a quickutz die and then stamped with autumn leaves stamps! The black and white polka dot is bo bunny paper and so is the flowered paper (I got it either last year or the year before around v-day!). The flowered paper was cut with the sizzix jelly frame. The flower is another felt one cut with a sizzix die.The I, heart, and U were cut with sizzix dies (metallic paper on chipboard) and then attached with a safety pin.

The same paper combination and felt flowers cut with sizzix were used with the "Love" frame. Love was cut with a sizzlet.

The last one is a New Years Shaker (I think I'll put it on my office door!). The background is a Holiday Printable Stamp from Reginascutterdesigns.blogspot.com and so is the little saying in the corner. I used a gold leafing pen around the little saying. Polka Dot paper is Bo Bunny and the black patterned paper is DCWV Glitter Stack. I added a shiny prima flower!

Thanks for taking a look!

2 Sketches 4 You Cards week of December 29, 2008

This week I'm off work but it has been really busy. The kids have had other kids over several days and we got hair cuts (rescheduled from the snowy weather days!) and doing all kinds of other things going on! I thought I would have gotten the sketches done earlier being home!

The first card is based on Katie's Bonus Sketch at 2 Sketches 4 You. I know I didn't use 2 symmetrical things on the top and bottom but I saw the round thing in the middle as the world and since I'm going to need to make lots of valentines for the food drive at work, I thought I would turn it into a valentine! The world is from the cricut cartridge Locker Talk. All the paper on this card is from the Basic Grey Boxer Line. World is cut with the Cricut Don Juan font. The heart charm is a sizzix (metallic paper on chipboard) so it looks like metal! It is kind of a non-traditional valentine!





































My friend Jennifer and her girls came over last night. The kids play and we "play" with our die cuts! We cut out things with each others die cuts that we don't have. I had bought this cute little owl from the quickutz release in November 2008 and when she started cutting them out, I just had to also! I used Kaiser jewels for the eyes instead of cutting them out so that I could give them a little more dimension. I came up with "owl" always love you for a valentine and I tried with two type of paper that I had in my stash. Not sure either one of them came out quite how I had envisioned them using Laura's sketch but here they are.

The first one uses Cloud 9 patterned paper, owl cut from the cricut Don Juan font and a prima flower. The 3 jewels below "always love you" are also Kaiser jewels.



















The 2nd one uses SEI Cupid's Candy Shop paper, owl cut with Quickutz Sophisticate font , and brads from Oriental Trading.













Here is Laura's Sketch 16:

Happy, Scrappy New Year!

Some Fun Cards!

I was so excited to get some "printable" stamps from reginascutterdesigns.blogspot.com! The background words are from the Holiday Big Words Set and the round circle one is from one of the New Years Sets. They are totally cool. You just print them and out and can do all kinds of things with them!

February is when our state government offices have a big push for the food drive and myself and another gal make cards to sell all year but they really go during feburary for valentines so I've got a couple here to show. The cupid and love you are quickutz revolution cookie cutters!


The New Years Card also has photo corners from quickutz and the 2009 is cricut Don Juan - really liking that cartridge!












The next 2 cards are made with stuff in my stash and scraps ~ on scrapbook.com one of the things in the January card challenge is to do cards with mostly black. I've been really liking how black looks with other colors so this has been fun! The marriage saying and love and kisses came from a K and Company set of rub ons I bought several years ago when I did a wedding book for my parents (for the 50th anniversary!). I was cleaning some things up and found them and thought I would use them! I also found these flower stickers! It's good to go through things once in a while!

2 Sketches 4 You week of December 22, 2008

At first I looked at this week's sketch and thought how could I come up with something for the area with the 3 circles? And then I had all kinds of ideas but not enough time ~ maybe will get more at the end of the week and do some more!

At work, another gal and I make cards all year for the state food drive. The official time of the food drive is February so valentines go very well and we sell them for cheaper than stores so of course people buy them! So, I made one valentine to sell for the food drive. The paper is mostly K and Company. The "love" is a sizzlet and the "you" and "me" were cut with quickutz Eliza mini. The hears are also sizzlets and the "love" heart is on pop dots. The clear stickers with the sayings are from my stash. The rhinestones are also K and Company.

I have 7 managers that report directly to me and at the time of each person's birthday we all go out to lunch. I make every one of them a card and with these 2 made I actually have them all made for the year 2009. Some of their birthdays aren't till September but I feel really good about not having to scramble at the time of their birthdays! For once I'm organized! I just have to make one for my boss (but his birthday isn't till May!).

The balloons on the first one are from the cricut teardrop cartridge and the happy birthday is a sizzlet that I had borrowed from a friend quite some time ago and cut out a bunch of happy birthdays to use later! They came in real handy!



I've been using a lot of black and white with blue so this time I tried purple tones with it and think it looks great too! The black and white paper was scraps from other projects (I've got a lot of black and white scraps so there could be more cards using that combo coming!). The happy birthday and flourishes are quickutz revolution. The flowers are doodlebug and the rhinestone brads are darice.

Thanks for taking a look! It has been another wild weather week here. They stay this cold and snow storm is the worst we've had in 40 years (I was kid in Idaho then so I wasn't here). It snowed all day when I was at work Monday ~ 6 to 8 inches. But it was my lucky day, because I decided to go for a little drive at lunch to make sure I could still back my car out of the parking lot so I checked our local store, Scrapbook Fever on-line to see if they were open and read the story about the owner and her husband having to stay in a motel across the street from the store because their house had lost power (alot of trees and limbs came down due to ice) and decided it wasn't far from work, I'd go check it out! Her husband opened the door for me and said welcome 2nd customer of the day! I jokingly asked if there were any sales and she told me whatever I bought I'd get 25% off! Very cool! I bought some extra mats for my cricut, a scraping tool (think I'll need that), a nestibility die (been meaning to try them), some x-mas stamps (like I need more???), and some card stock but it was very cool to get 25% off that stuff!



Everyone have a great holiday!