Celebrate Dear Friend

 Hey there friends!

Shout out to my son on his 22nd birthday. Happy Birthday Austin!

I am sharing my last card for 88 and Clear this month using the Free Digital Stamp with purchase- Label Rose. This is such a beautiful stamp and I love the label sentiments:

I used Tangy Grape Sugar Stock for my base and added layers of Sweet Banana, Tangy Apple and Sweet Lavender Sugar Stocks. I colored the flower with my Caliart markers and then added some Dazzling Pat spatters and a bow:

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It's the Most Wonderful...

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I am sharing another Christmas card I created using a sketch from Sketch-N-Scrap along with a paper pad from Recollections. I fussy cut the poinsettia and sentiment:

Here's the sketch:

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Sunshine

 Hey there friends! 
I have decided to stay on at Sketches In Thyme as life has slowed down a bit for me. YAY! I love working with the sketches over there and knew i would miss them.

I used Echo Park Springtime from my stash for this fun camping page of us and our camping friends. We were on a hike and decided to stop by the lake for a few pics:

It's not very often that I used patterned paper for my background, but I used 2 on this one. I added a banner sticker popping it up with craft foam. I added the "blissful" sticker along with a few flowers I fussy cut from the sticker sheet:

I fussy cut the clouds from one of the papers and popped them up with foam too. I added a few patterned papers under the photo on the right. I added the "sunshine" sticker. It originally said, "sunshine makes me happy" I used alphas from the EP collection and trimmed them up to fit:

I added the cloud and journaling stickers along with a pink heart sticker:

I hope you find some time to play along with us this month!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

 

Playing Kubb

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Today I am sharing a layout I created using a sketch from Sketch-N-Scrap along with Echo Park Happy Camper collection. I also added the circle cut file that has been in a drawer that I previously cut and didn't use. I think it is from Paper Issues. 

I used photos of the guys playing Kubb against us girls while camping last 4th:

I fussy cut the trees from one of the papers and added a tent sticker. I used alphas from the EP collection for my title:

I popped up the owl and "Camping under the stars" stickers with foam to add some dimension. I hand cut the trees and then used 88 and Clear Sugar Cubes to create watercolor

Here's the sketch:

This was such a fun sketch to work with!

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Christmas Card

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I had some free time this morning so I played along with a few sketches at Sketch-N-Scrap. I usually start my Christmas cards early, but I don't think I have ever started them this early- any who, I decided to bring out the Christmas stuff. I used a paper pad from Recollections for this card using the June 5th card sketch:

I fussy cut the poinsettia cluster and added a MAMBI sticker for my sentiment.

Here is the sketch:

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Beautiful

 Hey there scrappy friends!

Today I am sharing a layout I created for 88 and Clear using the June 5 for $5 digi stamps (Love Sent), June Card Club Digi Stamp (Strong Enough) along with PinkFresh Indigo Hills 2 collection:

I watered down Tangy Apple Sugar Drops to make watercolor and added that to my background using the packaging technique. I added a few tags from PinkFresh under my photo. I added a layer of patterned paper as well:

I colored the flower images from Love Sent with Caliart markers, fussy cut them and added them around my photo. I fussy cut the "Follow Your Heart" from the Strong Enough Digi Stamp set:

I colored the butterflies from Strong Enough with the Caliart marker and fussy cut them:

I only added glue to the body so that I could pop the wings up for some dimension:

This was such a fun layout to create! Plus I love how it came out!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Summertime

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I am back to share a summer layout I created for Creative Embellishments using a few chipboard pieces, flair and Fancy Pants Summer Sun and Making Waves papers:

   

 I added strips of Fancy Pants 6x6 papers and stitched them to my layout using white thread. I used the Summertime  piece, cut it into two words and then added a few layers of Gesso. Once that was dry, I mixed a few different mists and applied it with a paintbrush. I also added a Summer Flair:

   

 I added a few layers of Gesso to the Sailboat 1 and then used mists to color it. I added a Summer Flair on top of the boat and overlapping the photo:

 

Here is the second word from the Summertime chippy:

 

I added a few journaling cards and patterned papers under my photo. I added another Summer Flair as well:

 

I love how this page came out and I love creating summer pages! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Our Garden

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Today I am sharing a layout that I created for case file #359 at CSI. This is a cold case file file, meaning use stash for it. I used JilliBean Coconut Lime Soup along with Basic Grey Off Beat stickers for this gardening layout:

I created a garden scene on my page by adding torn strips of brown cardstock to my yellow patterned paper background and stitched them with my sewing machine. I tucked a few pictures and embellies in the rows:

I used alphabet stickers that came with the collection for my title. I added some diecuts, a fussy cut mason jar and the vine sticker:

I added a few butterflies from the JilliBean collection along with some other bits and pieces:

I had a blast creating this page and using up some of my stash!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Celebrate Today

 Hello card making friends!

I am sharing another card that I created for 88 and Clear using the June 5 for $5 Digi Stamps- Love Sent:

I used Tangy Peach Sugar Stock for my card base and then added a layer of Java Chip Sugar Stock along with a strip of Sour Lime Sugar Stock. I used the Square Netting Stamp along with Vanilla Cream Sugar Cube to stamp the strip of Black Taffy Sugar Stock and placed it on the top of the Sour Lime:

I colored the flowers from the Love Sent Digital stamps with Caliart markers and then fussy cut them out. I added a bow made from Powdered Sugar Twine and tucked it under my flower. I also fussy cut the sentiment from the Digi Stamp.

I love the colors of this beautiful card!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Lovely Day

 Hey there scrappy friends!

Today I am sharing my take on case file #357 at CSI using lots of stash.

I was inspired by the colors and words "lovely day" and used that as my title:

I used 2 Paige Evans patterned papers and tore them, placing them on the top of white cardstock. Then I added  some machine stitching. I added a fussy cut bird & flowers, the "taking my sweet time" diecut, a few puffy stars. I also added watercolor to my background:

I stamped a few clouds on white cardstock and then fussy cut them out. I added a few diecuts and from PinkFresh Simple & Sweet collection along with an enamel butterfly:

I added a few rub-ons from Pink paislee, a fussy cut bicycle, some more puffy star stickers and some doodled flowers. I added some tissue paper , a wonky scallop and a transparency behind my photo. I added a wood veneer butterfly from JilliBean Soup:

This was such a fun layout to create and I used lots of stuff from my stash.

Thanks for stopping and have a great day!

You Were Given...

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Today I am sharing a card I created for 88 and Clear using the June Card Club stamp- Strong Enough:

I used Java Chip Sugar Stock for the base of my card and then added a layer of Sour Lime Sugar Stock and Sweet Cocoa  Sugar Stock, which I dry embossed. I added a banner cut from Tangy Peach Sugar Stock in between the layers. 

I placed my sentiment on top of a layer of Tangy Peach and Sour Lime Sugar Stocks. I colored the beautiful butterfly with my Caliart markers. Finally, I added in a bow made from the Powdered Sugar Twine.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Camping Album

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I am sharing a mini album with you that I created for Creative Embellishments using the Camper Album along with lots of other chippies from the CE store. I also used Simple Stories Happy trails for this fun mini. 

I backed the cover with some patterned papers. I thought about painting the chipboard, but loved how it looked without painting it with the papers. I added the word "Camping" and a lantern that I used ink pads to color. I added a few stickers.

   

 I used Heidi Swapp Color Shine to color "Camp" and added a sticker word phrase and a few images I fussy cut:

   

 I added a fer stickers popped up with craft foam. I added the word "Life" colored with the same mist and added a wood veneer sun from the Sunny Days.

 

 On this page, I added some Mirror Acrylic Silver Star Pieces along with some fussy cut trees and some word phrase stickers:

   

 I added some fussy cut elements, stickers and a White Cloud to this page:

 

This "sleeping" word was perfect for this photo of the guys taking a nap:

 

We love playing games while camping! I added the word "Delight", another wood veneer Sun and a wood veneer Mushroom to this fun page:

 

We also love to ride our bikes. This trip, we celebrated my friends birthday. I used the word "Celebrate" and some wood veneer candles and balloons from the Birthday Fun:

 

We take lots of walks on our camping trips. I added some stickers, a fussy cut flower and the sign from the Camping Set to this page:

 

There is nothing better than enjoying a cup of coffee or a cocktail around the campfire. I used 3 words from the Camping Word Set along with the marshmallow stick from the Camping Set on this page:

 

We love watching the sun set or sitting by the lake. I used the title "The Good Life" on my last page, which is perfect for these 2 photos. I added the canoe and paddle from the Camping Set:

 

Life really doesn't get any better with good friends, camping, a lake and lazy summer days! I had a blast creating this mini album! I think I will take it to the camper so I can share it with my friends. 

 Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!    

Working Hard

 Hey there friends! 
Today I am sharing my layout that I created for the June challenge at Creative Embellishments.

I used BoBunny papers from my stash and added some fun steampunk chippies from CE:

This month's challenge has lots of browns in the photo, steampunk and the twist is to use gears. I used 2 photos of Greg and Austin greasing the camper wheels back in April. I heat embossed the Steampunk Frame and rubbed some Distress Ink on top. I added in a few word stickers from Echo park. Father and Son is from Jack and Jill. Strong is from Scoot:

I used the Working Hard chipboard piece for my title. I added 2 different colors of red embossing powders and then rubbed some Distress Ink on top:

 I added some chipboard Gears colored the same way as above. I also added a few fussy cut gears from an Echo Park All About A Boy paper: 

I added in a few stickers from Echo Park on top of the Steampunk Pipe Corner. I heat embossed and added Distress Inks to this as well.

I had a blast creating this fun and grungy page!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!