Happy Birthday!

 Hey there card making friends!

Today I am sharing a beautiful birthday card I created for 88 and Clear using the Spooky Nights DigiNext Collection. Even though this is meant to be a Halloween collection, it has gorgeous flowers that I can be used for any occasion:

Here's a close up:

Here's what I used:

Rich Honey Sugar Stock

Sour Guava Sugar Stock

Tangy Grape Sugar Stock

Vanilla Cream Sugar Stock

Spooky Nights DigiNext Collection

Powder Sugar Twine

Black Taffy Sugar Drops

Dazzling Pat

Awesome Thoughts- birthday sentiment

I love the colors in this collection!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Today

 Hey there!

It's my day up on the Bramble Fox blog today. Today I am sharing my take on the September challenge.

This month we have a sketch challenge for you and it's a fun one! I pretty much followed the sketch except I didn't add the "rays" of patterned paper. I used KaiserCraft Sea Breeze collection along with some beautiful perspextives from Bramble Fox for this page of Greg and I and some friends on our annual apple orchard trip:

I fussy cut flowers from one of the patterned papers and placed them under/around my photo. I added a tag from 7 Dots. I fussy cut the "awesome" label from the Paper Snips #001:

I added the Today persextive in black partially on top of my photo. I added a few heart stickers from the collection. I also added white acrylic paint spatters:

I used embroidery floss to hand stich the "sun rays". I added some of the Cool Stars along with some fussy cut leaves:

I loved the look of the branding strip on this patterned paper, so I decided to add it into my layout by creating a cluster at the bottom:

Here's the challenge:

I love how this page came out and I had a blast creating it!

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you again soon!

 

Vacation

 Hey there!

Today I am sharing my take on sketch # 534 by the very talented Bev Code at Sketches In Thyme. I used a Cricut cutfile and Pink Paislee Little Adventurer 6x6 paper pad for this fun travel page of Sierra and Felipe:

I added watercolor to my background and then added my cutfile on top. I machine stitched it to add some texture. I added an Airplane from Creative Embellishments that I heat embossed. I added a few layers of patterned papers behind my photos and fussy cut some flowers:

I heat embossed the Vacation chipboard piece and used that as my title:

I added a few fussy cut tickets, flowers and diecuts on top of the Creative Embellishments Globe that I heat embossed. I added a bow made from Black Taffy Twine on top of the tag:

Here is the sketch:

I hope you find some time to play along with all 4 of the sketches this month. SIT is now on Facebook so that is where you can find the albums to add your page to.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Christmas Card

 Hey everyone!

I am working on my Christmas cards and found a new place to play along with card sketches- Sketch Saturday. I used sketch #709 along with scraps:

Here is the sketch:

I loved this sketch so much that I actually made 4 cards using it. This sketch is perfect for using up those smaller scraps!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Yee-Haw!

 Hey there everyone!

I am sharing a card that I created for 88 and Clear using the Hay Thanks DigiNext Collection. I used Rich Cactus Sugar Stock for the base of my card:

I added layers of Tangy Apple and Sour Mist Sugar Stocks. I used Java Chip Sugar Stock to create my "barn doors". I fussy cut a few of the cactis and added them to my card. I fussy cut the horse and sentiment and painted them with watered down Java Chip Sugar Drops:

This was such a fun card to create!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Detour to a Beautiful Day

Hey there everyone!

I am back to share another travel layout with you that I created for Creative Embellishments. This photo was taken when Greg and I were on vacation in Chatanooga back in March. I used a few goodies from the CE store along with Echo Park Little Dreamer -Boy for this page:

   

 I added some torn strips of patterned papers to my white cardstock and then added some machine stitching. I colored the "Detour" chippie from the Travel Word Set 2 with ink and placed it above my photo. I used this as part of my title. I also added the bridge Geo Tag:

   

 I added a few of  White Clouds:

   

 I used some October Afternoon alphas along with the Beautiful Day chippie to finish off my title. I colored this with inks. I fussy cut a few cars, boats and the speech bubble from a few of the papers. I used a punch for my water and added the thin strips under my boats:

   

 I added another Geo Tag at the bottom:

   

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

Heart & Home

 Hey there friends!

Today I am sharing my take on case file #395 at CSI. I used lots of stash for this page about my home:

I added strips of torn papers from Pink Fresh to both sides of my page along with some machine stitching. I used some Simple Stories alpha stickers for the word "heart" and the black ampersand. I used chipboard monograms from Making Memories- these were all the rave shortly after I started scrapping. I colored them with 88 and Clear Nectar Stone Sugar Cube. Then I used 88 and Clear Black Taffy Sugar Cube and Creative Embellishments Distressed Text Stamp. Finally I added a bit of green Versa Color ink around the edges. I fussy cut the hearts and clouds from the PF papers:

I fussy cut the potted plants and leaves and also added a heart sticker and a flair from my stash:

I added a tassel from Pink Fresh, a globe from Simple Stories and a few diecuts from Pink Fresh:

I fussy cut the ouse from a Simple Stories paper and added a flair from Fancy pants and a few more fussy cut leaves and plants:

Here's a quick peek at the case file:

I had a blast creating this page and I love that I used lots of stash!

Hope you will play along this month!

Camping Pretties

 Hey scrappy friends!

Today I am sharing a layout I created for 88 and Clear using the Stand Tall DigiNext collection along with some Creative Embellishments chipboard. I love decorating my campsite with signs and lights when we go camping and I love walking to see other campsites "pretties", so I decided to create a layout about this:

I added a strip of Sour Guava Sugar Stock and a piece of the leaves patterned papers from the Stand Tall collection. Since neither of the papers are 12" long, I cut them and added my photos in the middle.

I fussy cut the palm trees and flamingos from the Stand Tall collection.

 I used the Creative Embellishments "Camping" chipboard word for part of my title. I added a few layers of white Gesso to it. For the blue on top, I mixed 2 drops of Sweet Blue Sugar Drops and 1 drop of Rich Blueberry Sugar Drops and used a paint brush to apply:

I added Sour Watermelon Sugar Stock behind my photos. I colored the lantern from Creative Embellishments  the same way as the "camping" above. I added some Tim Holtz word phrases cutting them in half to fit my page better. I also added a flamingo flair:

I used Hip Kit Club alphas for the rest of my title. I added some fussy cut flowers, leaves and a pineapple from the Stand Tall collection. 

I added an Oil Lamp from CE here and colored it with the Gesso and Sugar Drops. I used Sour Guava Sugar Drops to paint the flame in this one:

I really enjoyed creating this page and I love how it came out!

I hope I have inspired you in some way.

See ya soon!

Families Are Forever

Hello Scrappy friends!

Today I am sharing a layout I created for Creative Embellishments. I used lots of chipboard pieces from the CE store along with items from my stash on this layout of Greg and his siblings:

   

 I added watercolors to my background. I used the words "brothers" and "sisters" from the Family Words and colored them with Glimmer Mist. I added the ampersand sticker from my stash:

   

 I used a paper from JilliBean Soup to mat my photo. I colored the Leafy Tree with a few different inks and added that to the left side of my photo along with an acetate leaves branch and flowers from Hip Kit:

   

 I colored the Families Are Forever chippie with Glimmer Mist and added it to my page adding craft foam on the back where needed:

 

To the right of my photo, I tucked in the tree frame from the Family ATC Frames. I colored this with the same inks as the Leafy Tree. I added a heart diecut, "Love This" and the enamel flower- all are from Hip Kit. I used a stamp for my date:

   

 I really enjoyed creating this layout! I hope I have inspired you in some way. Thanks for stopping by and I will be back soon!  

Graduation

 Hey there scrappy friends!

Have you seen the August case files yet at CSI? 

Here is my take on case file #394. I was inspired by the colors and school theme and used Simple Stories Smarty Pants along with stash for this page:

Austin graduated from Mid-State in May but chose not to participate in the ceremony. I wanted to document this important milestone, so I used the newspaper clipping with his name in it. I added some machine stitching to it. I fussy cut a few pencils, an arrow (which points to his name), and a piece of washi tape. I also added a plastic flower and some wood veneer hexagons from my stash: 

I fussy cut the pocket and globe from one of the papers. I added in another plastic flower and tree from my stash along with a few cork trees from SpiegelMom Scraps:

I fussy cut the apple and shoe from the SS papers. I added a book plate from Making Memories that has been in my stash for many years. I also added that wood veneer with the light bulb thats been in my stash forever:

I had a blast creating this no photo page!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Brothers Make...

Hey there scrappy friends!

I am sharing a grungy guy layout with you that I created for Creative embellishments.

The photo is of my hubby, Greg and his brothers at a nephews wedding last summer. I used lots of CE goodies along with papers from my BoBunny stash:

   

 I used the Crackled Brick Stencil to apply modeling paste to my background. Once it was dry, I added ink and watercolors. I added several layers of patterned papers under my photo, distressing and inking the edges. I took 2 of the Gear Wheel Spin chipboard pieces and created a border with them. It was a bit too long, so I carefully cut one of the small gears off one of them. This I placed on top. I used inks and Nuvo paste to color all the gears:

   

 I popped the Archway Style 1 up with craft foam and placed that over the border. I colored it with inks as well:

   

 Here's a close up of the Gear Wheel Spin on the right side. I added Becky Higgins PL chipboard stickers to the gear and photo. I also added in some Tim Holtz word phrase stickers:

 

For my title, I used the Brothers Make The Best of Friends. I colored it with inks. I also added some gears from the Gear Set 2 along with some Acrylic Mirror Gears in black. I added lots of Little Birdie flowers to finish my page off. Here you can see a close up of the stencil work:

 

As I was putting this page together, I wasn't liking it... I kept going and added more bits and pieces and I love how it turned out!  

Thanks for stopping by and sharing your day with me!