Birthday Sundaes Challenge #1

It's an exciting day!  Today is the opening challenge for the new challenge blog BIRTHDAY SUNDAES!!!  These challenges are going to be so much fun because we all need Birthday cards!  The challenge this week is Anything Goes Birthday and the Design Team has some fun cards to inspire you today!  Kristie, the founder of Birthday Sundaes will be sponsoring the prize this week.  This week you'll be playing for the chance to win the super cute Cupcake Ruby from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps! 

Here is my Birthday Sundaes creation for this week!

 I apologize for the light to dark pics this week.  My baby E got a hold of my camera and did some major damage to the settings!  I have gotten it back to where the pics are not all blurry but I still need to work on it!  Anyway, I used Doodlecharms, an oldie but goodie cart for my first Birthday Sundae creation.  I dug into my scrap pile for the Bo Bunny Sun Kissed Line as well as the coordinating Double Dot paper for this fun card.

I added tons of dimensionals to get lots and lots of layers.  This isn't a card that is going to be mailed to anyone, that is for sure!!  I may even have a hard time giving it away!

If you've visited my blog lately, you'll see that I've been playing with ribbon in some different ways!  This cut has a little topper but I wanted something bigger, so I used my scissors to cut that off and added ribbon to the top!

And I added a little ribbon ruffle accent to the bottom of the hat too.

Here is an inside look at the hat.  I sponged the circles, the bottom ribbon was sewn on and the top ribbons were taped onto this layer!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! Solid CS, Ink, Ribbon(retired), Dimensionals, Birthday Stamp and Punches
• Bo Bunny Sun Kissed and Double Dot Paper Lines
• Doodlecharms Cricut Cartridge (Party Hat)
• B is for Boy Cricut Cartridge (Background)
• Signo White Gel Pen
• Michael's Ribbon

 
If you haven't already, stop by Birthday Sundaes to see all the creative cards from the rest of the DT and be sure to link up your fun cards!   I can't wait to see your "Anything Goes Birthday Cards" this week and please let me know you were here!  I love to hear from you! 

We are packing up and heading out to the Great Wolf Lodge for a few days so I will see you again on Tuesday!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!

I'm Still Here!!!

Hello everyone!  I'm still here!  I have been having camera issues so I decided I would take the week off from challenges.  I'm still crafting away just not posting!   I am very excited for tomorrow's first challenge at Birthday Sundaes and I want to invite everyone to join us in the fun!  Here are the rules so you are ready to craft when you hear the challenge tomorrow!

Challenge Rules

• The goal of Birthday Sundaes is to build up those birthday card stashes!  I just love to make birthday cards and hope you do too!
• Types of challenges Birthday Sundaes will be hosting are color, supply, recipe, inspiration & technique challenges incorporated into birthday themed cards.
• Any questions should be directed to the owner & founder, Kristie, at birthdaysundaes at gmail dot net.

Five Important Things to Remember~

• Follow the posted challenge. Only birthday cards are allowed, except for 'special birthday' challenges that will be thrown in the mix every so often.
• Include birthday wording on card front in the form of stamped, computer generated, and/or handwritten greetings or birthday worded paper
• Cards must be NEW and posted after the challenge goes live.
• When posting the card on your blog, link back to Birthday Sundaes
• One entry per person during sponsored weeks

The Design Team has some fabulous creations to share with you and I really hope you will join us at Birthday Sundaes!   See you tomorrow!

Welcome Home LO

This week is Design Team #1's week to inspire you at Celebrate the Occasion!  The DT came up with some beautiful projects for Challenge #5!  The theme this week is New Arrival (new baby or puppy).  I love joining in the fun with my fellow design teammates so here is my New Arrival project for this week.  I made a 2 page LO using my Imagine and the Nursery Tails Cartridge. 

The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear New Arrival is laundry...lots and lots of laundry!!  How does such a little bundle of joy create so many dirty clothes!!

My oldest E was 16 months when we brought her little sister home and she was thrilled with her.  The first thing she did was grab her new sister's hand and gave her a High Five!  Then she took notes and started taking care of her baby too!

My favorite part of being a new Mommy is all the snuggling!  I love the way newborns curl up on your chest in their fetal position and you can cup them with one arm.  That feeling is priceless and I am so blessed to have had three little gifts from heaven to snuggle!

I really wanted this LO to make an impact so I popped everything with dimensionals!  I just love the layers and I love the little wooden cloths pins that I found in my stash too! 

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS, Dimensionals and Ribbon
• Nursery Tails Cricut Cartridge
• Nursery Rhyme Cricut Cartridge (title)
• Martha Stewart Lacey Punch
• Jolee's by You Clothes Pins
• Signo White Gel Pen

If you haven't done so already, go to Celebrate the Occassion, check out the Design Team's beautiful projects and link up your New Arrival project by Sunday March 20, 11:59pm (EST).  Invite a friend to the challenge too!  We love to see all your cards, layouts and projects!  The winner will be entered into the drawing for this month's prize!  March's prize will be a Rock Princess Cricut Cartridge!!! 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Uh-Oh...I'm hooked!!!

Yesterday I played with my first digi stamp.  I do not have Copic markers nor do I see myself being the proud owner of a set of them any time soon, so I'm coloring with what I have (and no it is not crayons)!  I have Stampin' Up! Stampin' Write Markers, Pastels, as well as Watercolor Wonder Crayons and Watercolor Pencils.  Besides using the markers to stamp with, I've never really spent much time playing with any of them.  I am going to need a lot of practice at this, but at least I do not have to find a place to hide these stamps...(sorry honey for taking your dresser to store my rubber stamps)!! 
I am so happy that this crafting/blogging adventure I've embarked on this year has given me the opportunity to play so much with so many of my tools.  If you haven't noticed, I'm a little addicted to this!!  I see myself having an extra hour or so on my hands at night thanks to Daylight Savings Time (which I am not a fan of).  Unfortunately for me, my kids will still be up by 6am climbing the walls!! 
Ok, so enough babbling!  I made a card tonight with one of my new digi stamps.  I found a few I liked at The Greeting Farm.  I love the instant gratification of these.  All you do is click a button and it is at your finger-tips to use, no waiting for UPS involved!!  This digi is called Freaky Flutter and the sketch is from GAB Challenge #6.  

I told you that I am going to need practice with this coloring thing but I think she turned out pretty cute for being a newbie job! I pulled her arms out a little to look like she is reaching out for the butterfly!  I even inked the edges of the embossed piece with Whisper White Craft Ink.   

Products Used:

• The Greeting Farm Freaky Flutter Digi Stamp
• Pink by Design Simply Everything Stamp Set
• Everything else is Stampin' UP!

Challenges:

GAB Challenge #6 Sketch Challenge

K Andrews at Getting Cricky Simply Sunday Challenge All a Flutter

Craft Us Crazy Challenge # 3 One with Nature

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a crafty day!

Signs of the Time LO

I haven't had much scrapping time today but I did get the chance to make one Spring layout.  This is my Signs of the Time LO.     

Last week I won Top Chef at Cooking with Cricut and won a free Digi Stamp!  I have to admit that I've never used Digi Stamps before.  I didn't even know if I would because I didn't have a functional printer.  Well, guess what...I sat up all night last night and got our printer to work with my laptop just so I could play with this Digi!  I wish I would not have done it on the first night of Daylight Savings Time but it is working!!  My coloring skills are a little rusty (I spend most of my time coloring with crayons these days) but I love how cute this little guy is!!

For the CWC challenge there needs to be a time piece on my project so I cut out the months of Spring from a calendar and popped them up on the sides of the title.  I cut the title from a scrap piece of tie dyed looking paper.  I love how it turned out!

This is the first and last time I've ever used Walk in My Garden.  I borrowed it from a friend so it is not loaded in my gypsy (definetly a cart you need the gypsy for)!  The flowers are so cute but they have so many pieces that need cut in different colors!

I can't wait for Spring so I can get some great pics of the girls out in the flower bed!!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! CS (background piece)
• Scrap Pile Paper and CS
• Walk in My Garden Cricut Cartridge
• Hello Kitty Fonts Cricut Cartridge
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge
• Digi Stamp from  Papercraftingworld.com
• SU Stampin' Write Markers
• SU Cute as a Bug Stamp Set (Cricket Stamp)
• Sandylion Ant Stickers  

Challenges:

Cooking with Cricut Challenge #20 Time to Spring Forward

Craft Us Crazy Challenge #3 Be One with Nature

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today!

This Layout was a Top 3 Chef at Cooking with Cricut



Pink Flamingo Birthday LO

Finally, a post for last Mondays FCCB Challenge Me Monday.  The challenge was Tree Time and it really had me stumped...hehe (like my pun).  Over the last 2 weeks I've posted several projects with a tree as the main focal point but every time I tried this week, something completely different ended up on the paper.  Well, I made this today and it has trees on it so I guess it will have to do.  I made this for our Goddaughter's 2nd Birthday.  Her Mommy threw her a fun Pink Flamingo Birthday Party this weekend!  It was so much fun and all the kiddos had a blast!  I wanted to make her something special to go in her scrapbook for her special day! 

These were the awesome cupcakes her Mommy made for the party!  Aren't they adorable!  They were delicious too.  They were strawberry cake and icing made from scratch...mmmmm!

 I was excited to wake up this morning and see the CCCC#9 Challenge is Life's a Beach so I can share this over there too!

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up Solid CS
• Scrap Pile Paper and Ribbon
• Life's a Beach Cricut Cartridge
• Divine Swirls CB folder
• Signo White Gel Pen

Challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday #50 Tree Time

CCCC# 9 Life's A Beach

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today!

FCCB Top 5 Pick



DT News!!!

Hello Everyone!   I have some exciting news that I have been anxiously waiting to share with you!  I've been selected to be part of the first term of the Birthday Sundaes Design Team!!!!!  I am SO EXCITED and I want to thank Kristie for this awesome opportunity to work with such a talented group!  Birthday Sundaes is a brand new weekly challenge blog and the goal is to build up that stash of Birthday Cards!  Our first challenge will be next Sunday (March 20, 2011) and I hope you will join us in the fun!  Be sure to stop by Birthday Sundaes today and meet the rest of the team!

Happiness is A Butterfly LO

OK...I am about crafted out for the day but I have kept my mind busy so mission accomplished today!  Today was another fabulous My Pink Stamper Pinkalicious Blog Hop Friday and what a wonderful way to start the weekend!  Robyn and her Design Team did an amazing job!  I was in aww every time I jumped to the next blog!  Thanks to all of you for the wonderful inspiration tonight!
So, the theme was Spring and the challenge is to do a layout.  Robyn, you read my mind today!  If you've seen my posts for Friday, you know I've been a busy girl!!   I actually started on pieces to this page earlier today but it just was not working.  I wanted to recreate and use up my scraps of ribbon from my CTO DT project.  I laid them out on white paper and was photographing along the way so everyone could see how to make the ribbon rainbow!

I was going to use this LO for my FCCB project but I could not decide on a tree, I didn't like the rainbow on the white, and I couldn't decide on a picture.  It just wasn't working so I ripped off the ribbon and started on a completely different project (the Color my World card in my last post)!

Well, the MPS DT really inspired me tonight.  After hopping through their blogs, I began to picture my new LO and as I posted my last post, I realized which picture I needed to scrapbook!  This is what my boring white piece of paper transformed into...

 The ribbon is a little sloppy looking because of it being ripped from the white paper today, but I just couldn't throw it away (I'm a scrappy scrapper)!  After seeing all the Colors, all the Butterflies, and all the Buggy Punnies this evening, this is what my brain came up with!  This picture is of my oldest E and this place, this moment in time, and this picture has sooooo much meaning behind it.  She is visiting "her butterfly home" and she was leaving behind a piece of her family's history!  It is a touching moment and I am so happy that this LO captures it so perfectly!  I think this LO is going to be framed and hung in her bedroom rather than placed in her scrapbook!  I just love what this LO became.  Thank you MPS for the inspiration to create this piece!! 

Products Used:

• Stampin' Up! 12x12 CS and Heart Punch
• Scrap Pile CS (pretty sure most of it is American Crafts based on the texture)
• SU Butterfly Embosslit
• My Pink Stamper Buggy Punnies Stamp Set
• Create A Critter (my fav) Cricut Cartridge
• Michael's Ribbon

If you haven't done so already, make sure you hop on over to the Pinkalicious Blog Hop and thank you again My Pink Stamper for the inspiration tonight!  I can't wait to keep on hoping in the morning!  I'm off to bed!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful night!

You Color my World Card

I just got done hopping the MPS Blog Hop and I wanted to do a quick post before I head off to my craft room!  This one is for the Jitterbuggin' Rainbow and Butterfly Challenge.  I wanted to get this one in early because I posted too late and missed the deadline for last weeks piggy challenge.  Here is my Rainbow Butterfly Card!

I was going to clip the ribbons at the edge of the card, but then I just couldn't do it!  I think it gives it an extra little something letting them dangle!  It looks like the butterfly is flying in from off the card the way they spread across the table!  I love the way it turned out and I am sitting here with an amazing idea in my head so I must be off to my scrap room! 

Products Used:

• All Scrap Paper (I'm pretty sure the black is SU because of it's thickness)
• Gypsy Wonderings
• Divine Swirls CB Embossing Folder
• Pretty Petals Sizzix Embossing Folder
• Pink By Design Stamp
• White Embossing Powder
• Michael's Ribbons

Challenges:
Jitterbuggin' Rainbow and Butterfly Challenge
Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge
Cricut Cardz Challenge #65 Make a Tall Card

Thanks for stopping by!

Native Pride Baby LO

Another layout to share for today.  Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #5 is Baby Love.  This LO is for my youngest Es baby book.  These pics were taken when she was just 6 weeks old and she is so tiny (well tiny for her, she was a 9lb baby)!  This is such a special LO because it is with her moccasins.  My children's Nokomis (grandmother) makes each one of the grandkids a very special pair of moccasins when they are born.  Each one is uniquely made for each kid.  E #3's were my favorite and they were brown, red and black.  I was so thrilled when I found this cute onesie that matched her moccasins perfectly that I took about 50 pics!  Here is the LO I made to match her attire that day! 

This LO is not completely true to the traditions of their family's tribe.  Their tribe built wigwams not tepees but like I said, I was making the LO to match the attire.   

I added a creasant moon just like the onesie and journaled on it.

I placed her Bear with her in the pics and on the LO because she is Bear Clan! 

Not your traditional Baby LO colors but I LOVE the way it turned out!  I'm busy scrapbooking today so stop back later for some more fun LOs!!

Products Used:

• American Crafts CS
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge
• Animal Kingdom Cricut Cartridge



Smile LO

Hello family and all my crafty friends!  I hope everyone is having a great day.  I wanted to share a fun LO with you today!  Sorry for the glare.  It is a hard LO to photograph because of all the photos!

 I have to admit that I did not use all scraps for this one because I did not have a scraps big enough!  It is a fun LO to make and quite easy because it is mostly all circles.  The hardest part is preparing the pics!  I want to show you how to make one for your scrapbooks!

First you need a circle template.  I used my clear mat cover.  Just leave it on your mat and cut a circle at the size you desire.  I cut mine at 10".

Then you need to divide the circle into eighths.  I lined it up on my gird and used a ruler and permanent marker (the thicker the lines the better, you will see why later).

It will look like this when you are done.

Number all of your sections so you know where they belong.

Then cut your sections (I had forgotten to number mine first and it is tricky to get them into the correct place but it does make a difference)

Once your sections are cut you can start figuring out your picture placement.  Decide which pictures you want in each section then use your templates to mark them (with a pencil or fine tip pen) and cut them out. 

Now not all of my pics fit into the entire section.  Make sure they fit to the outer edge but the inside point can be left out because it is going to be hidden.  Adhere them together in order, layer it with more circles, add a fun element to the center and Viola a fun and easy LO!  I wish I had gotten a better pic of the center before my battery died on my camera.  I cut the "Smile" out and glittered the edges!  It helps make it pop!  

I hope you like this fun LO!

Products Used:

• K&Company Berry Sweet Paper (Background)
• We R Memory Keepers Over the Rainbow Paper (Green and Yellow)
• Stampin' Up CS (Melon Mambo)
• Scrap Pile CS (White)
• Plantin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge (Circles)
• Wild Card Cricut Cartridge (Smile)
• Stampin' Up! Dazzling Diamonds Glitter

Challenges:

Inking it Up Crazy LO Challenge

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge (yeah I know I didn't get many used in this one but I tried  : )  I am almost out of big pieces!)

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a great day!

Sham-rockin' St. Patty's Day Card

Another card here using my scraps for Sonia's Use Your Scraps Challenge.  This one went together pretty quickly because I used the sketch from Peachy Keen Stamps.  If you are looking for a St. Patty's Day LO click here.  My only problem is that I can't decide which orientation looks better.  Which one do you like better #1 or #2?

       

I think I like #1 better!  Now I was quite surprised when I was finished because I realized this green I used for the card base was a very scrappy piece!  Looks like I've got some more work to do!  I'm going to cover it with a white mat on the inside!

Products Used:

• Scrap Paper
• Paper Dolls Dress Up Cricut Cartridge (Shamrock)
• Twinkle Toes Cricut Cartridge (Music)
• Peachy Keen Critter Faces Stamp Set
• My Creative Time I Believe in Leprechauns Stamp Set
• Stampin' Up Circle Punch
• Michael's Glitter Ribbon (for some Bling)
• Queen & Co. Nightfall Pearls (for a little more Bling)
• Signo White Gel Pen
• Stickles

Challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps Sketch Challenge 47 Think Bling

Crafting with Christina Challenge #18 St. Patty's Day Theme

Paper Cutz Challenge #81 St. Patrick's Day

Scraps 4 Fun Use your Scraps Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today!