Cute as a button

Things have been a bit crazy here lately, but wanted to pop in and share this card. 

I love this shade of cardstock - It's Bazzill Card Shoppe Robin's Egg.

The y and u were cut using the Cricut Artiste cartridge, and the patterned papers, including the little frame, and button are Basic Grey Paper Cottage.

The 'are' is from the Card Word Puzzle stamp set and Cute as a Button is from the Buttons, Bits, and Bobs stamp set.

Pretty CAS, but I like how it turned out.

Hope your week is off to a great start, and remember to get out there and vote tomorrow!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Bazzill Card Shoppe - Robin's Egg Cardstock; CTMH - Black cardstock; Basic Grey - Paper Cottage 6x6 Papers
Stamps:  CTMH - Card Word Puzzle, Buttons, Bits and Bobs
Ink:  CTMH - Black
Other:  Basic Grey - Paper Cottage Buttons; CTMH - Cricut Artiste Cartridge, Hemp; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; 3L - Large Dodz adhesive

 

Little Miss Nosey

***You still have time to participate in the Little Tangles Blog Hop, scroll down a couple posts for my project, there are two prize packs up for grabs, and you've got until tomorrow night to hop through.



I'm playing along with the Cocoa Daisy Fall Crop today.  This is for the 'Bright Lights' challenge.  Kim taught us how to make these brayered starbursts.  I think it's such a cool technique and I definitely plan on doing some more experimentation with it. 

I used four colors for my starbursts:  Honey, Goldrush, Autumn Terracotta, and Cranberry.

The starbursts are such bold elements, that it was really just picking out a few coordinating papers and some embellishments, but the page really didn't need much work.



These photos I've been meaning to scrapbook for a while, they're from last November when my sister took Carina and Geronimo for a walk.  Carina had been doing a lot of pointing to the different parts of her face and saying their names, and when she went for her nose, she managed to stuff her finger in, and then she didn't want to take it out.



Anyway, I am off to bed...gotta take advantage of that extra hour!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  CTMH - Colonial White; Jillibean Soup - Homemade 6 Bean 6x6 Pad; Studio Calico - Memoir
Ink:  CTMH - Honey, Goldrush, Autumn Terracotta, and Cranberry
Other:  Speedball - Rubber Brayer; MME - Kraft Fun Day borders; AC - Thickers Custard Foam Letter Stickers; The Twinery - Marigold Twine; Crate Paper - Random Phrase Stickers; Elle's Studio - Collected Cut Outs; Pigma - Black Micron Pen; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape

Another Exciting Announcement

It's a big month over here!  Just popping in to let you guys know that I was invited to join the Punky Sprouts Design Team!

If you're not familiar with Punky Sprouts, they make mixed media mini albums and embellishments that are great for scrapbooking, cardmaking, and all sorts of other projects. 

My first post isn't scheduled until November 12th, but I'm being introduced over on the Punky blog today, and I'm just pretty excited in general. 

PLUS, I wanted to let you guys know that Shelly is running a fun sale this right now.   Between now and Election Day take advantage of the HOT AIR & HURRICANES sale at the Punky Store: 20% off all mini albums! There are some very cute ones too!

Thanks for coming by...hope to have something new to share tonight!

Welcome! Come and play!

I have been looking forward to this post for months!

A while back Danielle from Neat and Tangled invited me to be part of the Design Team for the new Challenge associated with Neat and Tangled Stamps, Little Tangles. 

You all know that I love participating in challenges so of course I jumped at the opportunity.

Little Tangles will be a bi-monthly challenge - with new challenges on the first and third Thursdays of the month.  Our first official challenge will be November 15th.  If you don't have any Neat and Tangled stamps yet, Danielle is offering a free digital stamp over at Neat and Tangled, and of course there will be prizes!

To kick-off Little Tangles, we're celebrating with a hop with the Neat and Tangled DT.  You should have arrived here from Suzanne's blog.



I wanted to use the little house from the Sweet Home set.  I stamped it twice on kraft and pieced the third house using MME The Sweetest Thing 6x6 papers.

The kraft houses were fussy cut, and then I ran all three houses through my Xyron 5" Creative Station so they were super simple to adhere once I had drawn the 'ground' line. 



The sentiment is actually from a Walzingmouse set, but it was too perfect to not use, because I really do want you to come and play with us at Little Tangles.

We've got a great set of challenges lined up, a great team, and of course GREAT stamps.  Please plan to join us for our first challenge on the 15th! 

Your next stop is Jean, I know she's going to have a great project to share!

You definitely want to make your way through the whole hop because Danielle is offering up two prize packs!  Comments must be received by Sunday, Nov. 4th at 11:59pm EST to be eligible for the prizes.  In case you get lost, here's the full hop list:

1. Neat & Tangled (Danielle)

2. Stephanie

3. Chari

4. Amy

5. Tenia

6. Mary Dawn

7. Pamela

8. Nina

9. Tracy

10. Katie

11. Linda

12. Kasia

13. Suzanne

14. Miriam

15. Jean

16. Little Tangles

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  MME - The Sweetest Thing, Tangerine 6x6 pad; CTMH - Kraft cardstock
Stamps:  Neat & Tangled - Sweet Home; Waltzingmouse - Half Pint Heroes
Ink:  CTMH - Chocolate
Other:  Kuretake - Glue Pen; Xyron - 5" Creative Station; Pigma - Brown Micron Pen

FIVE!

This layout is so pink, but I kind of love it.  I fear I've been officially pinkified by my daughters.

This one is for the Elle's Studio's October Challenge (to use a 4x6 journaling tag for the journaling) and ScrapFit's High Flying Flag workout.

The photos are Ellie's five year photos from JCPenney.  I wanted to document my feelings about where she is at five, as well as recount her recent parent teacher conference, which went really well.  It was so nice to hear from her teacher that she is sweet, kind, a great example, never a problem, etc.  One of the things I worried about when she started public school (and still do) is that she'll change, become a mean girl, become calloused, but it was wonderful to hear that she is still her, and she is doing so well at school.

I again reached for GCD Studio's Sweet Tooth collection, I find myself gravitating towards it so often these days, it's just perfect for girls stuff, and I have a lot of girl photos.

That border in the center of the page is the Elle's Studio doily stamp, and the bottom border is fussy cut from one of the Sweet Tooth papers. 



The title is also Sweet Tooth, cut using the Cricut Artiste cartridge.

I created two washi tape and toothpick flags (one from Target and the other was some blog candy I received that is available at several online washi stores) to go with the Elle's Studio pennant flag.  I also created the little heart over the i with a doubled up piece of washi that was cut freehand.



Hope that you are all doing OK.  We survived the storm with very little trouble.  Monday was just rainy most of the day, didn't get really windy until around dinnertime.  Ellie and I both managed to wear our pajamas ALL DAY....Carina would have too if she wasn't such a huge mess when she eats.   Ellie calls the two of us the  'sweeties', and Andrew and Carina are the 'salties' based on our favorite types of treats.  So periodically she'd look at me and say "The Sweeties are still wearing pajamas!"    Anyway, we did lose power around 9 in the evening, so we just headed to bed early.  Thankfully, my parents never lost power, so we spent most of Tuesday at their place.  Our power came back on around 5, so we were able to come home and sleep in our own beds last night.  Could have been so much worse, and we feel very fortunate as the next neighborhood over is still without power.

Hope you have a great and sugar filled Halloween!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  GCD Studios - Sweet Tooth papers; CTMH - White Daisy cardstock
Stamps:  Elle's Studio Doily stamp
Ink:  Hero Arts - Bubble Gum
Other:  Elle's Studio - Spooky Tales Large Journaling Tags, True Love Pennants, The Sweet Life Tidbits; Toothpicks; Target Washi Tape; Misc Washi Tape; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; Xyron 5" Creative Station

Fabulous Dahling! SSD #152

This is my last guest post for Skipping Stones Design.  I can't believe how quickly the month has flown by!

This week's retro sketch was designed by Jen Del Muro, and I'm using Birthday Purses again, I just love this set!

Most of the papers I'm using are from Simon Says Stamp's August card kit, which includes a lot of My Mind's Eye Indie Chic.

The focus here is really on that great purse.  I stamped it on that chevron pattern which I used as a base for my piecing.  Then I stamped it twice on black cardstock, once for the sides/top/bottom of the purse and the second time for the straps.  I also stamped on the pink pattern for the bow.



Besides the piecing on the purse this card came together very quickly. 

I want to thank Heather and Katie for giving me the opportunity to guest design this month.  I had a blast, and was especially excited when I saw that the other guest designer for the month was my buddy JJ. 

Please head over to Skipping Stones Design and play along this week!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Simon Says Stamp August Card Kit (MME Indie Chic papers, and base cardstock); CTMH - Autumn Terracotta and Black cardstock
Stamps:  Skipping Stones Design - Birthday Purses
Ink:  CTMH - Black
Other:  Kuretake - Glue Pen; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; CTMH - Craft Knife; Hydrangea Hippo - Black Trim; EK Success - Black Zig marker (for inking pieced edges)

Be Happy (and stay dry)

Busy day today finishing up lots of projects and preparing for the storm. 

I really wanted to play along with Pamela Young's sketch for this month (the prize is FANTASTIC), but since I was pressed for time, knew I had to make it easy.

So, I pulled out Little Yellow Bicycle's Hello Spring collection.  There are a ton of great embellishments, and this card came together in no time.

The tags are from the Tear-Out Ticket and Journaling Card Book, and I added some of the flowers from the cardstock stickers to them.  Then cut down some of the papers and added another sticker for the sentiment.

So easy.

Hope that you are all staying safe and dry.

School and the federal government are closed tomorrow, so we'll be home hanging out, hopefully with electricity....

 

Supplies Used:  Little Yellow Bicycle Hello Spring Collection - Papers, Cardstock Stickers, Tear-Out Ticket & Journaling Card Book; Tombow - Mono Adhesive