Christmas Card

Hello and happy Sunday!
It's a gorgeous day here- in the70's and partly sunny. I am taking a break from raking to share a card I created for a few challenges: Christmas Card Throwdown (musical notation) and Christmas Card Challenges.
I used Echo Park Merry Christmas for this card:

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day!

Creative Embellishment/ Petaloo Cross Promo

Hey everyone!

I am here today to share the layout I created for the Creative Embellishments and Petaloo cross promo.

I choose a photo that was taken last year of the kids and I on Mother's Day. We were in Shopko looking at lawn furniture, sat down and the kids sat by me. Of course, my hubby snapped some photos. Because the photo was a rainbow of colors and my papers were teal and purple, I decided to print the photo in black and white.

Mother's Day layout supplies:

Mini Butterflies (1486-104) Purple

Dahlias (1467-104) Purple

Petites (1465-104R) Purple

Dahlias (1467-106) Teal

Happy Word Set

Berries

Basic Alphabet

Fairy Set Flair

Infinite Rectangle Frame

Here are a few close ups:

These Petaloo flowers are just gorgeous!

I painted the Infinite Rectangle Frame with a coat of Gesso and then added some grey paint. Finally added a few strokes of purple Shimmerz Pearls. I also added the Shimmerz Pearls to the word "Love".

For my title, "Mother's day 2016", I used a few different colors of  mists. For the berry clusters, I used 2 different inks to color them.

That "fairy" flair was the perfect embellishment for this page!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will check out what the Petaloo design team and other Creative Embellishments girls created with this cross promo!

Fun In The Sun

Hey there!
Today I am sharing a layout I created using the April sketch at My Creative Sketches and the tic tac toe challenge at Scrap Our Stash.
I am still working on using items from my stash. For this page, I used Fancy Pants papers, Pink Paislee embellies and Petaloo flowers. I also added an old rub-on (Fun In The Sun) and some Teresa Collins word phrase stickers.

I added some layers of papers, a frame and a border along with some stitching. I love those Petaloo flowers! 

Th gold foam anchor is from an older Pink Paislee line. I thought it would be perfect for this beach page:

I had a heck of a time with the rub-on, I really had to use some elbow grease to get it to rub off! It's an old Scenic Route rub-on. Remember that company? Yeah, it's really old! But I am happy with the results!

Here is the fun sketch:

and the tic-tac-toe board:

I used the middle row: Stitching, flowers and ephemera.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Fantasy and Flowers

Hey there scrappy friends!
Cards In Envy has a new challenge up on their blog today! Today's challenge is to use a fantasy character and lots of flowers on your card.
I used a fairy from Creative Embellishments, primed it with Gesso and then added some ink to it. I added some Stickles to the wings and  hair. I used The Sweet Life by Amy Tan and fussy cut a bunch of flowers from one of the papers. The background papers are also from that line.

Stop on over to the Cards In Envy blog and see what the rest of the design team did with this fun challenge!

My First Layout For Stuck!

Hey there scrappy friends! Happy April Fool's Day!
I am excited to share my first layout for Stuck?! Sketches! I was so excited when Laura asked if I wanted to join the team! I have been playing along for quite some time over there and her designers are so talented! I am looking forward to getting to know everyone better. NO FOOLING!
Here's the layout I created using the April 1st sketch along with Simple Stories You Are Here:

I love the colors in this line! Orange and teal, SWOON!

I used a cut file from the Silhouette Store and cut it out on white cardstock.I stitched it in place.

I added some puffy yellow trim in a few spots along with some Prima alphas from my stash.

I added a frame, Fancy Pants sequins, a flair and a tag.

Here's the fun sketch from Laura:

I love how this turned out! You can never go wrong with using orange and teal together. Love it!

Hope you will check out the Stuck?! blog and play along with us!

Creative Embellishments April Challenge

Hello!
It's the first of the month, that means a new challenge is posted at Creative Embellishments!
I used Fancy Pants Be You for this layout about me:
I stitched a partial circle in black on my background paper. I stamped the background paper with the Distressed Text Stamp and black ink. Then I added a few layers behind my photo using papers and chipboard. I added a Grunge Square Frame, heat embossed with black and silver over my photo.

On top of the frame in the lower right side I added a Seagrass chippy, heat embossed with green. On top of that I added the "Spring has Sprung" Flair:

I used "Spring Love" for my title. I added Gesso and ink to it:

I fussy cut a few flowers and added a few of the Bumblebees. I colored the bumblebees with Sharpies and then added Stickles to the wings:

This collection has been in my stash for a long time! I paired it up with some of my new Creative Embellishment goodies to use it up! 

Check out the Creative Embellishment blog for the challenge and see how you can win a $50 CE gift certificate!

I have some exciting news I will be sharing later this morning so stop on back!

Using Echo Park Stash

Hello and happy Friday!
Today I am sharing a layout using a few older guy lines from Echo Park along with a Cut Shoppe cut file. My background was created with mists for another layout, that I obviously didn't use. It was perfect for this page!

I added a mat to my photo and then added some stickers and tangled thread. 

I backed the cut file with some fun papers and added the arrow sticker popped up with foam tape to add some dimension.

I fussy cut this cut star from one of the papers, popped it up with foam tape and added some tangled thread.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

{Heart} This

Happy Thursday!
I have been getting the Hip Kit Club's main kit for several months now and finally had some time to play with one. I used the January kit along with the Scribble 3 cut file from Just Nick and a Hip Kit Club sketch for this layout:

I added watercolor to my background and also used watercolor to color the cut file. I layered a few of the diecuts from Pink Paislee ephemera pack and added some tangled thread. I used wood veneer for my title. The heart was colored with Gelatos and then I used a black marker to add the stitched lines. "This" is colored with an ink pad.

I colored the wood veneer hearts using an ink pad. Here I also added some tangled thread and a Becky Higgins Project Life gold frame. I also added the key diecut. 

I added this sweet butterfly from the Pink Paislee ephemera pack. I added my date with a stamp. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Wishing You...

Hello again!
Today I am sharing a card I created using a sketch at Sketch-N-Scrap. I used Maggie Holmes Bloom for this pretty card:

Don't you just love that deer? I do and have been afraid of not putting it on the right project. I love how this card turned out!

Here is the sketch:

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Family Selfie

Hey there!
We are on spring break this week, so I am hoping to get some scrappy time. I am finally getting around to posting this layout I created last week for Scrap Our Stash's March sketch challenge and Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge to use chipboard and something old.

I hand stitched a circle using embroidery floss and then added watercolors to my background:

 I used mostly Fancy Pants Happy Place along with a little Heidi Swapp. I used a cut file from Just Nick, cut it out on white cardstock and then added watercolor. I used a chipboard frame from Crate Paper:

Check out that cool bird! I have had this Heidi Swapp tag in my stash forever and finally used it:

I added some of the Happy Place ephemera along with a heart cut from my Cameo that has been sitting on my desk for some time. I also added a few Heidi Swapp word phrase stickers: 

A few more diecuts from the ephemera pack along with a fussy cut camera:

Here is the sketch:

For the word part of the challenge I used:

C: cardstock, circles, camera

H: Heidi Swapp, heart, Happy Place by Fancy Pants

A: arrow, adhesive

R: red

M: Martha Stewart punch

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!