January Challenge at CCC

Happy New Year dear scrappy peeps! Hope the big fella in red was good to you all and that you are long recovered from any New Year's reveling...I myself was on call that night so it was a "dry" New' Year's Eve for this Chicky. The kids appreciated it though as that automatically made me their designated driver for the night. :)

 

 January's almost at the half way mark so that must mean it's reveal day for the tag DT over at CCC. This months challenge is ARROWS. 

 

Here's my little tag inspired by arrows. I think it would be perfect on a teenage boy's birthday gift!

 

 

For this tag I used this year's in colors of Baked Brown Sugar and Coastal Cabana.The sentiment is from the "Sweet Little Sentiments" collection and the Skater Dude is a stamp called "Extreme Skateboard"  #115179.

Thanks for popping by today and be sure to hop on over to Catherineandcathycreate to see the inspiring pieces my team mates , RHEA and CATHY have whipped up for you! Toodles

 

Christmas Colors at CCC

Holy smokes! December is certainly whipping right along!!!

 

It's tag reveal day over at CATHERINE AND CATHY CREATE and in keeping with the holiday season our color challenge this month is........

 

Red, Green and White!

Be sure to play along with our color challenge and our other monthly challenges to win a wonderful prize!

 

Today I am sharing my little holly jolly Christmas tag!!!

 

 

 

My Christmas tag actually has a split personality though.....

 

 

It opens up into a Christmas card!

 

 I think I'll add this to my gift at my work Christmas party this coming weekend.

 

Supplies used in making this tag/card combo include:

 

Old Olive  card stock and ink

Cherry cobbler card stock and ink

Versamark ink

Heat and Stick emboss powder

Dazzling Diamonds glitter

Natural trim

ticket corner punch

Patterned Pines{ a Hostess set from a couple of years ago]

Yuletide Christmas stamp set

 

So head on over to CCC to join in our Christmas fun!

 Thanks for popping by today...Toodles!

Stripes Anyone?

Good morning Bloggerworld!

 

It's revel day over at CCC and this month's tag challenge is....

 STRIPES!

 

Here's my tag in all it's stripey goodness!

 

 

 

So nice to see bright colors on this snow filled morning...I'm trying to convince myself that spring is just around the corner and not months away yet. {Can you tell I'm not really a winter person...soooo in denial already ! :) }

 

For my tag, I used the following Stampin' Up products:

 

Pumpkin pie card stock and ink

doily and striped paper are older SU product from my stash

Designer vintage faceted button #127555

God's Beauty stamp set {retired}

Best of Greetings  stamp set #133485

SU Pearls  #119247

Dazzling Diamonds powder

Ticket corner punch

twine from my stash that I dyed with Pumpkin Pie ink

 

Hop on over to CATHY AND CATHERINE CREATE and check out the awesome projects by my fellow DT members , CATHY CAINES and RHEA SKOMOROSKI .

 

Thanks for popping by today ! Toodles!

Spring Double the Fun Sketch at CS

Good snowy day ladies { see... I AM trying to appreciate the snow ..BLECH! }.

 

Just to let you know ...there are still two days left to get your submissions submitted to

CANADIAN SCRAPBOOKER

for their spring submissions call...so get scrappin'!

 

I'm sharing KELLY KLAPSTEIN'S Double the Fun spring sketch challenge with you today and not one, but TWO versions I did of this awesome sketch. I have to say, I'm really on a roll with doubles lately {mostly thanks to KELLY }. I was, in a previous scrappy life, a double page scrapper, but then sort of drifted into the single page LO's. I'm happy to be back doing doubles!

 

So here's Kelly's sketch:

 

 

 Here's my first take on the sketch:

 

OUR SUMMER BABIES

 

 

I used a combo of Basic Grey papers for this layout...mostly from the Serenade and Capella lines.

 

We have had robins nesting in our honeysuckle vine on the front veranda for several summers now, but usually the nests are buried too deep for me to get any photos. I was thrilled this year when she moved her nest to a more accessible location. Still not the most perfect, in-focus shots but beggars can't be choosers. I'm sure the neighbors thought I was nuts when they'd see me out there balanced on a lawn chair with my hand extended up through the honeysuckle!

 

And here's my second version of this great sketch:

 

A DATE NIGHT WITH OUR BOYS

 

 

I really needed to scrap this night's events. Not just because it was a fun night, but because it was so unique. I don't think my sister, Cathy, and I have ever just been together with our sons. Usually we both have our daughters tagging along too.

 But as it happened, my daughter, Chelsea, was back in Corner Brook working, and Cathy's daughter, Savannah, was gone camping with a friend.

It was a great opportunity to just do something with the boys.

We all enjoyed the glow-in-the-dark mini-golf !

I will confess that yours truly had the most pitiful score out of us all ,but.... I WAS the only one to score a hole in one that night { do NOT ask me how..ahem, fluke I guess!}. So of course that photo had to be front and center ! LOL

I was racking my brains trying to figure out what kind of masculine element I could use on this layout and then it came to me! I made a bunch of 'planets' to pick up on the theme that was painted on the walls at the mini- golf building! I simply used different size circle punches and scraps of corresponding papers.

 

Thanks for popping by today and remember, you still have two days to get your submissions in to CANADIAN SCRAPBOOKER

for a chance to be published in the upcoming spring issue.

 Toodles!

Catching Up On Some Sketchy Challenges

Oops... I forgot to post my Sketchy challenge from CANADIAN SCRAPBOOKER  from October and now November's is upon us!

 

So without further ado here are my latest sketchy challenge LOs.

 

Here's October's sketch by the talented SUE SYKES :

 

 

and here's my take on it....

 

 

I replaced the banners with hexagons. Little story to that ... I loved that Pink Paislee "Cottage Farms" from the moment I saw it but was having a hard time getting any. I managed to snag the frames and a pack of matching rub ons from the collection while I was in Phoenix in Sept with KELLY but couldn't find any paper. I used a Bo Bunny Gabrielle paper for the soft green and some Bazzill card stock for the dark gold color but couldn't find a pink to match. I improvised by punching pink hexagons from the packaging that the frames came in! Perfect match. This of course is a LO of my dear daughter, Chelsea, who recently turned twenty!!! GULP! I find that hard to believe as I'm sure I'm only about 28 ! LOL

 

On to November's Sketchy challenge. Here's Sue's sketch...

 

and here's my page...

 

 

 

I replaced the circular background with this Crafter's Companion stencil and some molding paste tinted with some  Vintage Photo Distress Ink refiller. Chelsea looked so cute in her Pebbles costume! The title font was free hand cut . I googled the Flintstones font and just eyeballed it when I drew it out...easy enough with a font that's supposed to look kinda rough anyway. My 'bones' were also hand drawn . I drew them on a piece of chipboard {from old packaging} then traced the shape onto ivory cs. I inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and with a little distress ink on the pad of a Q-Tip I smudged in the shading at the rounded ends of the bones. I finished it with a smear of white paint up through the center of the bone for a little high lightening.

 

Head on over to CANADIAN SCRAPBOOKER and upload your take on their November Sketchy Challenge for a chance to be published!

 

Thanks for popping by today. Happy scrapping! Toodles!

 

 

 

A Puzzling Situation!

 

 

I've been working on a new art project! A bunch of my scrappy peeps over at CropCircles  and I are doing a puzzle piece swap. We each purchased a puzzle and sent a piece to each of the members in our group. We then alter each others piece in whatever way we wish and send them back to the owner . The altered pieces are then reassembled and Viola! We all end up with a unique piece of art filled with lovely little messages from our friends. Warning: LOTS of photos!

 

So here are the pieces that I have done so far....

 

 A pink Paislee rub on over Heartfelt Creation paper.

 

Heartfelt Creation paper and Studio Calico stars painted with Smooch

 

 

Awesome Stampendous metallic embossing powder { my new addiction thanks to KELLY KLAPSTEIN }on a wood piece.

 

Awesome paint splatter stamp colored with Smooch instead of inks.

 

 

 

Heartfelt Creation paper and Martha Stewart butterfly punch

 

 

Stampin 'Up embosslit butterfly

 

 

More Studio Calico wooden stars painted with Smooch

 

 Prima dancer charm and music note rub-ons by ?????

 

 

  Gabriella papers from Bo Bunny

 

 

More Bo Bunny papers

 

 

Can you guess that I did these three pieces at the same sitting? lol Bo Bunny again!

 

Lots of clock stamps...largest one stamped using the Stampendous emboss powder again.

 



 

This is one of the shabby colors in this line of Stampendous powders. Isn't it gorgeous???

 

 

Another in the metallic line of embossing powders...this one is called Hunter green

 

  

And this is the last one that I have done so far... I looooove the pink shabby embossing powder...soooo pretty!

 

 

I used a variety of stamped verses from several different sets including Unity Stamps, Inkadinkadoo,Tim Holtz and Maya Road.

 

I am soooo anxious to get my puzzle pieces back from the girls! Can't wait to get my puzzle re- assembled  and hanging on my craft room wall. I'll share that with you when it gets completed. Thanks for popping by today. Happy scrapping!

 

 

 

DT Post for CCC { Monograms!}

                  It's DT revel day at Catherine and Cathy Create and our tag challenge for October is

MONOGRAMS!

 

Here's my tag and I figured if I was making a pretty monogrammed tag to go up on my wall then I might as well use my own monogram, right?

 

 

 

Well I must confess that I don't actually own an alphabet set from Stampin' Up...yet! So I had to do a little improvising. I dug through my stamp sets and came up with a lovely Christmas stamp from two years ago called Christmas Postcard and by using my SU marker was able to color in just the "M" and stamp it onto white card stock.{ Perhaps I could suggest the alphabet stamp set to Santa? If anyone sees him could you pass that along ?}

 

Stampin' Up supplies for this project include:

 

Everyday Enchantment papers  126154

Christmas Postcard stamp 121428

Baja Breeze ink

Cherry cobbler ink and marker

Mambo melon card stock

white card stock

Dazzling Diamonds

Curly Label punch 119851

1 3/8" circle punch 119680

1" circle punch 118861

corner ticket punch

Natural Trim 129287

 

In case you are wondering where I used the circle punches.... I used them to make those paper flowers on my tag! Cute eh?

 

Thanks for dropping by today. Happy stamping! Toodles!