TSG43 birthday sparkles challenge

Today's challenge at the TSG blog is to make a sparkly birthday card. I used the Dream Big set from There She Goes and paired it with some of the sentiments from Treemendous. The papers are Cosmo Cricket Early Bird. I used these for two reasons. 1 I had it out and two strips perfect for my card just happened to be right there. So I used them! And 2, the yellow makes me happy. It makes me think of spring and not shoveling any.more.snow. Now I know there are folks that have gotten way more snow than I have and I shouldn't complain but I just can't help it!

We would love for you to play along! If you make a sparkly birthday card add it to the Mr. Linky on the TSG blog so we can see what you have created.




I totally bribed her with cupcakes so I could get this photography assignment completed. Two actually. And I would so do it again!

one more...

Another challenge done from SCS. This time it was to use a sketch provided by Jennipher.
The sketch can be found here. I used some of my new American Crafts products but this time I paired it with Kraft and I love how it turned out! It totally brought out the colors of the adorable papers.

National scrapbooking day!

I'm playing along with the NSBD challenges aver at Splitcoast. This is challenge 1~ to add a little spring to your layout. We had to use shaped paper, pattern paper strips, ink the edges, add some nature and use some gems. Check, check, check. I got it all and with minimal supplies I might add. There is nothing to this darn layout and it took me 2 hours. Seriously! I'll be back with another challenge as soon as I ge it done!

love

Another SCS challenge complete! This one is an inspiration challenge to use a tree on your page. And as I have just recently acquired some lovely Maya Road chipboard trees I had to do it!

The DP and rub-ons are su, letters ac thickers, tree maya road, journal spot jillibean soup

six and counting

I've been trying to play in some of the SCS scrapbook challenges lately. This is the second one I've completed and I've got another one on my desk almost done. This challenge was a sketch challenge. Here is the thread with all the info and the sketch. I flipped it around a bit but it mostly follows the fab sketch that was provided!

I used the Basic Grey Offbeat collection some AC cardstock and a thicker for this page.

Have a fabulous weekend!

nice

I had some extra time this morning so I hopped over to SCS and found a scrapbook inspiration challenge. The challenge is to scrap your silly photos. It gave me the push to finally decide to scrap this goof ball picture of J. I was shooting her 5 year old pictures last year and this is one of those goofy shots she had to get out of her system before I could get the good ones!

This uses the Urban Prairie line from Basic Grey and of course some AC thickers.

love is still in the air!

It's time for another challenge at Embellish-Online!
Here are the details.

Friday Challenge 30: February 27
Host: Julie
Challenge: Love is Still in the air!
Details: Even though Valentines day is over, Feb. is the month of love. Scrap someone or something you love. If you're not a scrapper create a card with embellishments that you love.

Here is the thread if you would like to play along.
This layout uses the yummy Urban Prairie line from Basic Grey. And it looks like it's on sale!

Leave me a comment if you decide to play along! I want to check out what you've done.
Have a great day.

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I really hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We have a house full of toys but the hit here was Guitar Hero. That thing is so much fun! We packed up the play station and took it to my mom's house yesterday. Everyone wanted a chance to play so there was a continual rotation of guitars the entire day. I loved that it all kept us together. Instead of the the kids all going off and doing there own thing we were all in the same vicinity the whole day. It was great!

On to the challenge. This weeks challenge it brought to us by Daniela. She challenged us to embellish a jar or container for a last minute gift. I made a quick and easy tin filled with candy for my daughter. The supplies used are by Pink Paislee. It's the Tinsel Town collection and I cannot wait to scrap this years photos with it. It's perfect! My daughter was wearing pink jammies so this paper will go wonderfully. The challenge thread is here. I so hope you'll play along!

I'll be back to scrapping as soon as I get this house cleaned up and the kids rooms organized!

family traditions

I am on a roll! First I was able to do a challenge card for Embellish-Online and now I was able to participate in the Featured Stamper challenge at Splitcoast. So fun. The Featured Stamper is Cards By America and her splitcoast gallery is here. The card I chose to case is this one.

I broke out the Pink Paislee Tinsle Town which I loved but love it even more after using it on a few projects. I am loving hte pink and silver combo. I haven't cut into the green yet...I will, I'm saving it for some of this years Christmas photos.

a challenge card!

I was finally able to participate in one of our DT challenges over at Embellish-Online. If you would like to play along we would love to have you! The challenge thread is here. It's a fun challenge using something clear...vellum, acetate. Stuff like that. I really had fun with this one. I also broke out a few of the Copics I have collected and gave it the old college try. I've only played around thus far, so I'm happy with my first real attempt at coloring with them! Go here to see my full card if you are so inclined.

How are you doing with you Christmas cards? I finally got mine done. I just need to write in them, address the envelope and get my pictures printed. I've got a few more things to make and then I will be done with my gift making too. I'll share my Christmas card next Friday. It's my turn to host a challenge and I made the card for the challenge so I'll have to wait to post it!

I'll check in soon.

Finally my inspiration card

Here is the card I came up with for the first Inspiration challenge at EI. see post below for details if you would like to play along. When I saw that gorgeous china I knew I had to dig out my retired Au Chocolate SU dsp. I loved that paper but it has long been forgotten since it retired. I did have trouble with what stamp to use and after about 8 tries in the garbage I decided on this Fancy Pants stamp...Fresh Mod. I punched it out with my Marvy punches added the orange felt flower for some color and called it a day. OK I just made that sound really easy..rest assured it totally wasn't! I started this yesterday morning and just now finished it after a days worth of tweaking!


Thanks so much for stopping by and have a super Sunday!

julie

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Time for another Embellish It challenge. This weeks challenge is an inspiration challenge brought to us by Suzy. Isn't this gorgeous? I'll have a sample later this afternoon...I don't have time to play right now, unfortunately. Please play along with us. Upload your creations to the Embellish It gallery so we can see what you've all come up with.