The most room in your heart for August Verve Diva Dare

Here's my card for this month's Verve Diva Dare:  Pile on the Sweetness.  We're supposed to create a card with lots of layers.

I went ultra girly here with lots and lots of pink.  Most of the papers are from Glitz's Hello Friend collection, although the bottom layer of paper and the mats are MME. 

The sentiment is one of my newest Verve Plain Janes that I picked up during the current sale (everything in the store is on sale right now!).  And the little stamped hearts are from the Take Note stamp set.

That gorgeous seam binding is from my friend Debbie's Paper Sweeties store.

Lots of layers, and some experimental stitching too.  I thought it would be fun to try the cross stitch stitch that I have on my fancy sewing machine.  I really like it, and I'll definitely be using that stitch again.

I used another of my Punky Sprouts buttons on this card, just love those! 

Hope your week is off to a great start!  Thanks for coming by!

Supplies Used:
Paper/Cardstock:  Glitz Designs - Hello Friend 6x6 pad; MME - The Sweetest Thing Lavender 6x6 pad; CTMH - White Daisy Cardstock
Stamps:  Verve - Smallest Thing Plain Jane, Take Note
Ink:  Hero Arts - Wet Cement; CTMH - Sorbet
Other:  Paper Sweeties - Cake Crumbs Seam Binding; Sewing Machine; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape; Punky Sprouts - Pink Button; May Arts - White Burlap String; Kuretake - Glue Pen

Lil Inker Designs Birthday Challenge Card #2

Hey everyone, sorry for the extra post, just realized that  I can't use the same post with the linky, so here is my second card for the birthday challenge.

I used my leftover die cut pieces to create a more modern/abstract design using the little rainbow pieces.  The sentiment for this one is from the Sentiment Flag additions set.

Thanks for coming by!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Creative Memories - Assorted colors from Contemporary cardstock pack; CTMH - White Daisy Cardstock
Stamps:  Lil Inker Designs - Sentiment Flag Additions stamp set
Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black
Other:  Lil Inker Designs - Rainbows & Clouds Dies; Tombow - Mono Adhesive 

Lil Inker Designs Birthday Cards

Thought I would play along with the birthday challenge over at Lil Inker Designs today.

I created two cards using the Rainbows & Clouds dies.

For the first card I wanted a longer rainbow.  I created two of the large rainbow elements, inverting the colors on the second one so when I put them together in an 's' curve/wave, the colors are continuous.

In order to make putting the rainbow together a little easier, I traced the shape of the rainbow die cut onto some scrap cardstock and then adhered the individual strips to that. 

The sentiment is also from the Rainbows & Clouds.  It's not overtly birthday, but I think it definitely fits in the theme.


My second card is in the next post....had to break them up as they linky widget wouldn't allow me to link twice to this post.

Hope your weekend is going well!  We are down to one kid again.  Andrew starts work tomorrow, and so Ellie is out with my parents for a few days.  Carina moves up to the three year old preschool class tomorrow, she's going to be a Puffin!  I'm pretty excited, she's ready to move on, but I am sad that the one teacher's helper who has been with her from the very start won't be moving on with them.

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Creative Memories - Assorted colors from Contemporary cardstock pack; Coredinations - Blue card base; CTMH - White Daisy Cardstock
Stamps:  Lil Inker Designs - Rainbows & Clouds stamp set
Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black
Other:  Lil Inker Designs - Rainbows & Clouds Dies; Tombow - Mono Adhesive

Artful Delight Friday - Butterfly Kisses

Hey everyone!  Happy Friday!

This week's Artful Delight card was built around this gorgeous floral print.  I love the soft watercolor feel to the paper and really wanted to showcase it.

The sentiment is from the Jillibean Soup stamp set that comes with the kit.  It's stamped on a very subtle patterned paper from the kit with Hero Arts Wet Cement, which I thought matched that soft gray Bazzill cardstock really well.

That sweet yellow button with the scalloped imprints is from the kit and I added a couple of my Punky Sprouts buttons as complements with May Arts Burlap Twine as an accent.  A few enamel dots added an extra pop of color.

ETA (Edited to Add):  I'm going to link this up with the Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World.  I think the soft colors and flowers are perfect for that challenge - here's the trigger graphic:

That's all for today!  Hope you are having a great week.  Looking forward to one last weekend of summer before Andrew goes back to work.  Ellie starts after Labor Day, but the teachers go back a week early.  Gotta make the weekend a good one!

Supplies Used:  Artful Delight August Card Kit; Punky Sprouts Buttons; May Arts Burlap Twine; Hero Arts Wet Cement Shadow Ink; MME - The Sweetest Thing Enamel Dots; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape and Liquid Glass; Tombow - Mono Adhesive

The ABC's of Me - Scrapbook Circle Challenge #58

Just popping in to share a layout I made for Scrapbook Circle's Getting to Know You Challenge.

For this challenge you are supposed to create a layout about yourself.  I don't normally scrapbook myself, and I also don't tend to have a lot of photos of myself as I'm usually the one holding the camera.  So, I opted to go for a photo free layout. 

This was a lot of fun to create.  Each of the little squares is 2" x 2", and I got to use lots of stuff from my stash. 

Coming up with all the different words was a little harder than I thought.  Had to stretch on some of them.  I tried to use both good and bad characteristics, and there are some contradictions too - for example I have both introverted and (e)Xtroverted on the layout.  I would normally classify myself as an extroverted introvert.  I'm extroverted once I get to know you, but until then, I'm introverted.

Since I used so many different thickers on the layout itself, I thought I would create my own lettering for the title.  Looking at the layout when complete, it kind of reminds me of a calendar.  I'm not going to list the supplies on this since it's just a ton of little piece of paper and thickers.

Anyway, that's all for now.  Thanks for coming by!

Love Always - Mama Elephant Photo Challenge

Inked up one of my new Mama Elephant stamps last night to play along with the current Mama Elephant challenge.  I adore the designs in the Filigree set.  Here's what I came up with:

For this card I stamped the large doily with neon yellow first.  Then on another piece of cardstock I stamped it with Versafine and then Versamark with clear embossing powder.  Then I fussy cut the center parts of the doily and adhered them to the neon doily.

A pink sentiment and a little bit of Hambly overlay that I have been hoarding finish it off.

A little tedious because of the fussy cutting, but I love how it turned out.

Hope your week is going well!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  CTMH - White Daisy, Hambly overlay from mys tash
Stamps:  Mama Elephant - Filigree
Ink:  Versafine; Versamark; Hero Arts - Neon Yellow and Bubblegum
Other:  CTMH - Clear Embossing Powder; Kuretake - Glue Pen

Winter and Spring for Elle's Studio

The mailman brought me my recent Shutterfly order over the weekend, and I was able to pull together a couple more layouts for Elle's Studio's Use Your Stash weekend challenge.

This first layout is from this past Christmas.  It 'snowed' Christmas evening so I ran the girls out to my parents first thing in the morning as my whole family was in town, in order to get some sledding in with their aunts/uncle/cousin.  Shortly after I took the photos (like minutes) Carina decided she was not into it and wanted back inside, so my older sister ended up taking Ellie out.

I used the Serendipity line for this layout, and I have used more tags on this layout than I ever have on a single layout.  The cherish tag is actually part of the paper, and I thought I would create kind of a border of tags on the right side to go along with it.

The alphas are some old MME Luxe alphas that are actually a lighter shade of pink.  I darkened them up with a sponge dauber and some Tulip ink.

This next layout includes no photos of people!  And it's not about my family!  My favorite flowers are peonies.  We have two peony plants in our yard.  I always look forward to when those big flowers show up - to me it means spring is really here to stay.  I had snapped a few photos this spring, and as part of my efforts to scrap a little more about myself, thought they were the makings of a good layout.

I used one of the circle elements from my new Well Rounded stencil to create those bright pink flower like elements on the base page.  They are painted on using a paintbrush dipped in Dylusions Bubblegum ink spray.  Some vellum elements and a tag from the Serendipity exclusive kit and one of the You and Me stamps were added as well as some lines that I drew around the edges of the layout using a ruler.

That's all for today!  We had a happy family reunion this morning when Andrew arrived, heading straight to one of our favorite breakfast places as Andrew was craving bacon.  After two plus weeks apart, it's great to have everyone under one roof again!

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Supplies Used
Celebrate Snow
Paper/Cardstock:  Elle's Studio - Serendipity papers; Recollections - Vellum
Stamps:  Elle's Studio - Day to Day Happy Moments stamp
Ink:  Hero Arts - Soft Granite; CTMH - Tulip
Other:  Elle's Studio - Serendipity Cutouts, Tidbits, Lil' Snippets, and Limited Edition Vellum and Tags, MME - Luxe Alpha; Pigma - Black Micron Pen; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape; Tombow - Mono Adhesive

Peonies
Paper/Cardstock:  CTMH - White Daisy
Stamps:  Elle's Studio - You & Me 2x3 stamp
Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black
Other:  Elle's Studio - Serendipity Limited Edition Vellum and Tags; The Crafter's Workshop - Well Rounded 12x12 stencil; Ranger - Bubble Gum Dylusions Ink Spray; American Crafts - Dear Lizzy Berry Thickers; Scrapbook Adhesives - Black Photo Corners; Xyron - 1 1/2" Sticker Maker; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; Pigma - Black Micron Pen