Nashville Adventure

Hey there creative friends!

I am back to share a fun Nashville page with you that I created for Creative Embellishments. Our first trip to Nashville was in March of 2022. Greg and I have been there 2 other times since then, we love it! This layout has a photo of Greg on our first trip. I used some fabulous chipboard from the store along with Basic Grey and PaperHouse Productions papers from my stash:

   

 I cut strips of patterned papers and added them along the left and right side of my page by machine stitching. I added some watercolor.  For my title, I used: Nashville, Street Signs (One Way) and Travel Word Set 1 (Adventure):

   

 I added a Travel Geo Tag  to the top of my photo:

   

 I fussy cut the signs from some of the papers and popped them up with craft foam to add some dimension. I added a stamped date. I also added the City Scape Border at the bottom of the layout:

   

 I colored all the chipboards with inks.

 I had a blast creating this fun travel page! I hope I have inspired you in some way. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Creative Embellishments December Challenge

 Hi everyone!

Creative Embellishments has another fun challenge this month! There is a CE gift certificate up for grabs.

This month's challenge is to be inspired by the photo and to use bling on your project. I was inspired by the colors and tree. Here's my layout:

 I painted the Ornament Frames with gold acrylic paint and tucked in some Basic Grey papers from my stash along with the Star Trees. I colored the trees with acrylic paint and a few different colors of Lindy's mists:

 I added the words "Joy", "Noel" and "Gifts" from the Christmas Sentiments. I added some Tim Holtz word phrases and some bling from my stash. 

I created a little cluster at the bottom of my page. I added a wood veneer Tree to it that I painted gold as well:

I had a blast creating this page and I am looking forward to seeing your take on the challenge!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

 

 

Our Garden

 Hey there!

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!

Summertime: Fresh & Tasty

Hey there friends! 

I have a layout created for Creative Embellishments to share with you today.

Fall is in the air here in Wisconsin or maybe it’s winter since north and west of us they are getting snow. I have at least one more summer layout to share with you. My hubby, Greg and I put in a pretty big garden every spring. We try and keep up with the weeding all summer, but it seems like we can never keep up! These are a few pics of when we were caught up and everything is beginning to grow:

 

To create my background I used the Distressed Crackle Stamp  and RG Rich Cactus & Sweet Cane Sugar Cubes. I also used the Distressed Grid Stamp and RG Gray Stuff Sugar Cube. I also added some watered down acrylic paint spatters. I used the word Summertime for my title and used acrylic paints to color it:

  

The Vegetables were perfect for this "garden" layout. I painted them with acrylic paints:

Here are a few more Vegetables painted with acrylic paints. I used Basic Grey papers and embellishments. I added in a few Simple Stories word phrase stickers:

   

 The "I'd rather be gardening!" is from JilliBean Soup as is the & sign and stars:

   

 This was such a fun layout to create! I love using the stamps from CE on my backgrounds! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Dream A Little Dream

Hey everyone!
Today I am sharing a layout created for Creative Embellishments May challenge.
I used Basic Grey Prism and ScraPerfect's Best Glue Ever along with some wonderful Creative Embellishment products:

I added watercolor to my background. The "gem" cut file from the Silhouette store was cut on white cardstock with my Cameo. I added Lindy's black mist to it and then machine stitched it on my background. I added a butterfly flair from the Fly Away Flair set. 

I used the same mist to color the Dream a Little..., Gems and the word "Imagine" from the Dream Word Set. I backed the Gems with patterned paper. Isn't that title just gorgeous?! I love it!

I used 1 of the Fairies and colored it with Recollections mist.

Go check out the inspiration photo and the twist that goes with it. Play along with us! Nicole has a gift certificate up for grabs!  I can't wait to see your take on this challenge!

Travel

Hey Scrappy Peeps!
I have a busy day on my blog today- 3 posts!
First up is a layout I created for CSI's case file #278. I used a Silhouette cut file and backed it with papers from Basic Grey Prism collection for this layout of Sierra in Portugal:

The "Fun Times" pennant, triangles and scalloped pink border are stickers from the Prism collection. The circle arrow is a Simple Stories sticker:

Here I added more stickers- the photo corner, "Awesome", triangle, tab and teal date tab are from Prism. The arrow is from Simple Stories and the fan is fussy cut from an Echo park This & That paper:

The "stamp", "Live It Up" sticker and sunglasses are from Simple Stories. The "enjoy life" and "lovely" stickers are from Prism and the globe is from Echo Park:

Here is the case file:

I was inspired by the colors. For evidence, I used solid cardstock, globe, plane, triangles and sunglasses. I was inspired by the word "Travel" and used that for my testimony. 

As always, there are some awesome prizes up for grabs! Hope you will play along with us this month!

Merry

Hello!
Today I am sharing a card I created using a Sketch-N-Scrap sketch and BG Juniper Berry:

Here's the sketch:

Thanks for stopping and have a great day!

Brrr...

Hello friends!
I have some extra scrapping time since there was no school yesterday because of the snow storm that came through. We got about 9". We are also off today, tomorrow and Thursday due to the extreme cold weather. We are in the -30's wind chill right now but later this afternoon, tomorrow and Thursday morning will be worse. They are predicting wind chills in the -50's! So I am hibernating, LOL!
I played along with a Sketch-N-Scrap card sketch yesterday. I used Basic Grey Juniper Berry along with some embellies from my stash for this fun winter card:

Here's a close up:

Here's the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by and if you are in this cold region, stay warm!

Christmas

Hey there!
I am sharing a layout and card I created using a few sketches over at Creative Inspiration.
I used Basic Grey Juniper Berry for both.

I hand cut the triangles and then stitched them to my watercolored background. I used some old Simple Stories word stickers for my title and also added some MAMBI chipboard pieces:

I fussy cut the flowers from one of the papers:

Here is a card I created and used the same fussy cut flowers:

Thanks for stopping by and stay scrapy!

Another Grad Card

Hello!
We have another graduation party to attend on Saturday. So I created another guy card using some old Basic Grey and a sketch from Sketch-N-Scrap:

Here's the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by and stay scrappy!

Let's Hear it For The Boys!

Hey there friends!
There's a new challenge up over at Cards In Envy!
The challenge is to create a masculine card for a boy or man.
With Austin graduating from high school this year, we have lots of graduation parties to attend. I decided to create a grad card for one of his friends.
I used Basic Grey from my stash and came up with this masculine card:

We would love for you to play along with us this month!

Thanks for stopping and stay scrappy!

You & Me

Hello! Happy Sunday!
Hope you are having a great weekend! I spent some time scrapping yesterday and got 2 layouts done!
I played along with the CSI February 1st case file. I used a Rubber Buggy sketch and came up with this page of Austin and I. I combined Basic Grey Prism and JilliBean Soup Mushroom Medley:

I used a Paper Issues cut file and used watercolor to color them:

I fussy cut the card from one of the papers, added patterned paper behind it and  JilliBean sticker under it:

I love how this title turned out! I just combined 2 different watercolors and blended them together in the middle. I added some JilliBean diecuts, popping the first cloud up with foam tape:

Here's the case file:

I used the colors along with a solid white background, mixed media background, flowers and hearts. I also documented a summer memory.

Here's the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the weekend!

It's Only Paper

Hello!
It's only paper, that's the theme for the new card challenge posted at Cards In Envy.
The challenge- use only paper on your card- no stamping, no embellies and no ribbon, unless it's a paper ribbon.

I used a card cut file from the Silhouette store and cut it on my Cameo. Then I backed it with different patterned papers from Basic Grey Juniper Berry. Finally, I used a black marker and added faux stitching. Then I added some Heidi Swapp black spatters:

I love how this turned out and will be using more of these cut files!

Thanks for dropping by and have a wonderful day!

Typography

Hello!
I am sharing a card I created for the new challenge over at Cards In Envy. Typography- The challenge is to create a card using letters, words or sentiment as the main focus.

I used my cameo, a Silhouette cut file and Basic Grey Juniper Berry and came up with this card:

I placed a few sequins using ScraPerfect's Best Glue Ever and Embellie Gellie:

Hope you will play along with us this month!

A Christmas Card

Hello!
Yup, I am still busting stash and creating a few Christmas cards here and there.
Today I am sharing one I made using a sketch at Sketch-N-Scrap. I used Basic Grey Juniper Berry for this one:

I added in a piece of Fancy Pants corrugated cardboard and am using this card for a stash challenge at Creative Inspiration as well. 

Here is a close up of all the dimension:

Here is the sketch: I turned it on it's side)

Have a wonderful day!