5, 4, 3, 2, 1... And a Winner!

Hi everyone! Happy weekend!

I make a lot of cards that I don't blog (or share on this blog). Case in point, I made this card back in August, had it photographed and ready to go, but I never shared it here. Do any of you do that, too?

I thought I would share this birthday card I made using a Scraptastic Club kit:

My son had a birthday party to go to, so I made the card for his friend's 5th birthday.

I die-cut the numbers on my Cameo and then hand-cut several of the Scraptastic August kit's Boys of Summer papers to layer in the negative space. The main kit is no longer available, but most of the papers I used were from the Crate Paper Boys Rule collection. 

I added a few embellishments in the rainbow order. All of the embellishments are from the Boys of Summer kit and Add-on except the Neat & Tangled sequin. Isn't that flair awesome?

Here's another close-up:

For the Online Card Class Clean & Simple 4 giveaway, the winner is:

Schnauzer Craft Creations

I'll e-mail you, or you can reach me at the Contact link above. Congrats!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!


Supplies
Cardstock: (White Linen) Ellen's Essentials
Papers: (Boys of Summer Main Kit and Add-on) Scraptastic Kit Club
Stickers: (Boys Rule) Crate Paper
Flair: (Boys of Summer Flair) Scraptastic Kit Club
Sequin: (Lime Satin) Neat & Tangled
Silhouette Cameo

Gold, Gold, and More Gold

Hi everyone!

Madeline and I are on the Scraptastic Club blog today with a new challenge: Get Glittery!  

Here's my take:

I used my new camera and 35mm lens. I'm probably the only one who can tell a difference, but so far, I'm loving it (I'm still getting used to it).

On the card, I used the September This Life Noted kit. The kit has an awesome "Shine On" journaling card, and instead of using the whole card, I die-cut it. I layered the circle on some of the Crate Paper Notes & Things ephemera in the TLN kit.

The glittery clip is from Inspire Lovely. *swoon*

I managed to stitch an actual circle....not an oval, not a square, but a circle. Yeah! Then I went around a second time to wonk it up a bit.

When I was done with my card, I thought it needed one more gold, glittery item. I die-cut the Leanna butterfly from gold glitter cardstock:

If you're making cards projects with glitter this week, link it up to the challenge! You can use glitter in any kind of way, and you don't have to use the Scraptastic kits to play along. You can enter HERE.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!


Supplies
Cardstock: (white) PTI; (gold glitter cardstock) Best Creations
Kit: (journaling card, ephemera, sticker from September This Life Noted) Scraptastic Club
Dies: (Diagonal Stripe Coverplate) PTI; (Circle STAX) My Favorite Things; (Leanna butterfly) Simon Says Stamp
Embellishments: (glitter clothespin) Inspire Lovely
Ink: (Blizzard, Opaque White Mister Huey's) Studio Calico

Trio of Scrappy Cards

Hi everyone! I hope you had a great (long) weekend. Where on earth did summer go?? I always love fall, though. :)

I'm up on the Scraptastic Club blog today, and I'm sharing a card set with layered embellishments using one of the September kits:

I started by picking the Teresa Collins and Pink Paislee background papers and then die-cutting various papers from the kit with several different dies (scalloped circles, hearts, butterflies, Polaroids, envelopes, tabs). I die-cut enough for about 10 cards. Ha!

The Girl kit and Add-on have some fabulous embellishments, and I was able to layer those with the papers. Their kits have a ton of product--I'm always amazed!

To simplify the cards, I kept the layouts almost identical for all three cards. Here are some close-ups:

If you get a chance, please check out the Scraptastic blog and kits. The September kits went live yesterday, and you can check them out HERE.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day! :)

Here We Go, Love

Hi everyone! Ready for the weekend? We start school on Monday--ack! I'm sad!

Nancy and I are on the Scraptastic blog today. We're both sharing projects using Scraptastic Club's August This Life Noted kit. Not long ago, I watched THIS awesome video by Jennifer McGuire. In it, she showed how to use wood veneer for faux letterpress, and I've been wanting to try that technique.

Here's the card I made using the LOVE wood veneer in the This Life Noted kit:

You'll want to check out Jennifer's video to see the tutorial. I shared a few pictures on the Scraptastic blog, too. I did some gradient inking on the back of the wood veneer and ran it through my Big Shot. Usually when I try new techniques, they look pretty rough compared to the demo. This time, the technique worked easily. Yeah!

Here's a close-up:




I layered two of the journaling cards and added one of the Cut-Aparts and the black-and-white sticker from the kit. The red patterned paper layered underneath is from the Boys of Summer kit.

Here's a close-up of the layers:

The August This Life Noted kit is sold out, but you can still get the August Wood Veneers to try this technique. Be sure to check out Nancy's take on the kit (it's cool!) on the Scraptastic blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great weekend!


Supplies
Cardstock: (white) PTI
Kit: (August This Life Noted kit) Scraptastic Kit Club
Ink: (Mango) Fresh Ink; (Fizz) Avery Elle; (Apple) Mama Elephant; (Black, Opaque White Mister Huey's) Studio Calico

Cupcakes Are Healthy

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a good week. We're getting geared up for school to start--where did the summer go? *sigh*

I'm up on the Scraptastic Kit Club blog today sharing a couple of birthday cards. I used the August Boys of Summer and This Life Noted kits for these cards....they are fab kits!

First up is the masculine birthday card:

I stamped the sentiment from the Celebrations stamp set and added a bit of mists. Then, I layered the Crate Paper Boys Rule transparency, stickers, and papers in the Scraptastic Boys of Summer kit and Add-on kit.

I am in love with the Scraptastic wood veneers, and I had to use the little car. I wish I had a car like that. :)

Next up is the more feminine card:

The cupcake and sentiment come from the Celebrations stamp set. Isn't the sentiment hilarious? And so true, too. ;)

The cupcake is layered over two trimmed-down journaling cards from the August This Life Noted kit, and the panel is layered over more Boys Rule paper.

Hmmmm...now I'm thinking about cupcakes. Ha! What's your favorite kind of cupcake?

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Shake It Up

Hi! Anyone else remember that Cars song? I'm totally dating myself. ;)

I hope you're having a great week! I'm still catching up from my vacation, but I wanted to share a project I had on the Glitz blog last week.

It's a hybrid shaker card using the Glitz Brightside papers and digital Brightside Element Pack. I have a step-by-step tutorial on the Glitz blog to show a different way to make a shaker card (other than foam adhesive).

Here's a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!


Supplies

Glitz Design "Brightside" 6x6 paper pad

Glitz Design Digital "Brightside" element pack

Sequins: Neat & Tangled, Scraptastic Club, craft supply
Dies: (Circle STAX) My Favorite Things

A Die-Cutting Bonanza

Hi! I hope you're having a great weekend, and if you're in the U.S., a great Fourth of July. We went over to a friend's house in the country for a cook out, go-kart rides, and fireworks. It was great, well, until my little guy burned his hand when he grabbed the tailpipe of the go-kart. Ouch! He's okay now.

I'm on the Scraptastic Club blog today sharing a couple of cards using the gorgeous Either Way Kit and Add-On. These kits have great embellishments, and I wanted to combine them with die-cuts.

First, I die-cut several of the papers from the kits. I tried to keep it to just a few colors--coral, aqua, pink, and gold. I used Paper Smooches' Hearts, Cardbooking, Stars, and Pinked Circles, and MFT's Circle STAX.

Next, I went to work layering the different shapes and several of the embellishments from the kits. I decided to go with a simple grid for the card:

Here's a close-up:

For the sentiment, I used the Either Way Stamp Set. I flipped over one of the circle stamps and stamped with the backside in a pink. I stamped over that with the "hello" sentiment:

I had quite a few leftover shapes, so I made another card using the same die-cuts, but other kit embellishments:

I used the Either Way Cut Aparts for the sentiment. Here's a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!


Supplies
Cardstock: (white linen) Ellen Hutson, (Watermelon) The Paper Source; (Rustic White) PTI
Kit: (Either Way July 2014 kit) Scraptastic Club
Stamps: ("hello" and circle from Either Way) Scraptastic Club
Ink: (Melon) Fresh Ink; (Pale Tomato) Hero Arts; (Dewey, Opaque White Mister Huey's) Studio Calico

Neat & Tangled June Blog Hop

Hi everyone! I hope you're having an awesome weekend!

Some of the Neat & Tangled designers and guests are having a blog hop to showcase the Photo Booth and Sunday School Songs sets. If you're hopping along, you should be coming from my friend Miriam's blog.

I made a card using the new Photo Booth stamps:

I was going to use the photo strips, but when I was playing around with the stamps, I realized the end boxes looked like Polaroids. So, I stamped then ends in the six colors and added little doo-dads to each box. The cute party hat and sentiments come from the Photo Booth set--this set has a great variety of sentiments.

When I was done with the boxes, I stitched them (with a few Neat and Tangled sequins) to some digital Paislee Press paper. Here's a close-up:




Since it's a hop, there are some prizes! :) Two winners will be chosen from all of the hop comments, and the winners will have their choice of Photo Booth or Sunday School Songs. The winners will be announced on the Neat & Tangled blog on Saturday, July 5th.

Here's the full order of the hop:

Danielle Walls (Neat and Tangled)

Julie Ebersole

Miriam Prantner

Jocelyn Olson <--You are here.

Anna Kossakovskaya

Heather Campbell

Laurie Willison

Virginia Lu

Savannah O'Gwynn

Your next stop is the fabulous Anna! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

Cardstock: (white) PTI

Patterned paper: (digital stripe paper from From Where I Stand) Paislee Press; (pink ombre) Alison Kreft for Echo Park; (yellow from #Summer) American Crafts

Stamps: (Photo Booth) Neat & Tangled

Ink: (Versafine Onyx Black) Tsukineko; (Strawberry, Lake, Peach, Pink Lemonade, Grass) Fresh Ink; (yellow) Mama Elephant

Embellishments: (gold, Crystal Clear, Peach sequins) Neat & Tangled; (flair from June kit Best Day of My Life) Scraptastic Club; (ice cream Plus One Puffy Stickers; Dear Lizzy puffy heart) American Crafts)

Die: (bow) American Crafts

One Box, Three Ways

Hi everyone!

I'm up on the Scraptastic Club blog today, and I'm sharing a trio of gift boxes. I often have leftover supplies from the Scraptastic kits, and I thought it would be fun to use some of the extra papers and embellishments.

Here's what I ended up with:

I wanted to share my process. First, I gathered my supplies. These are from The Best Day of My Life kit and Add-on:

Aren't those awesome left-overs? These kits are jam-packed! I didn't use all of the embellishments here, but I pulled out all of the pink, dark pink, aqua, and neutral supplies. I wanted to keep one simple color scheme to make it easier to pull and layer the supplies.

Next, I die-cut my boxes and a rosette:

I used THIS Silhouette file and a My Favorite Things Rosette die. After assembling the boxes, I started layering the different embellishments from the kits.

Here's the first box:




In addition to the Crate Paper and Heidi Swapp die-cuts, I added some pink twine and stamped one of the sentiments from The Best Day of My Life stamp set. This stamp set is super cool!

Next...

I used one of the Best Day of My Life Cut-Aparts as the tag base. I punched a hole in the acetate ticket to layer underneath and popped up the heart die-cut.

Here's the last box:

The kits come with cardstock, and I used one of the sheets of kraft cardstock for this box. I flipped over the pink rosette and used the aqua side of the paper. The rosette is layered over a vellum doily.

If you want to check out the Scraptastic blog, there are other great ideas for this kit. :)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

You & Me

Hi everyone! Any big plans for the weekend? With my husband out of town, my in-laws helped out with some yard work yesterday. My kids discovered yesterday that they like to do weeding. I'm really excited about that! LOL!

I wanted to share a final card from the Scraptastic Club May release:

I started by watercoloring the background to match the top journaling card. I then used the stamps in the May 2014 This Life Noted Stamp Set to stamp the days of the week. The layers are three journaling cards from the May This Life Noted kit, along with the silver tab, Cut-Aparts, and one of the kit labels.

I finished the card with some sequins from the same kit (LOVE their sequins!). Here's a close-up:

The May kit is sold out, but here are some peeks of the June kits:

Awesome right? They have so much product--it's a fabulous deal! If you would like to buy one of these kits, they will go on sale at midnight ET on June 1st. You can find them HERE (after June 1).

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!


Supplies
Cardstock: (white) PTI; (Distress Watercolor) Ranger
Patterned papers: (May 2014 This Life Noted Kit) Scraptastic Club
Stamps: (May 2014 This Life Noted Stamp Set) Scraptastic Club
Inks: (Provincial Grey) Fresh Ink
Mists: (Letterman's Jacket Mister Huey's) Studio Calico; (Lemon Zest) Tattered Angels; (Georgia Peach) Heidi Swapp

Celebrate

Hi everyone! Happy Thursday. :)

I wanted to share a card I made using the Scraptastic Club Daylight kit:

I die-cut the paper and vellum layers on my Cameo. All of the papers are from the May 2014 Daylight Kit and Add-On. The sequins are from the This Life Noted kit. To enclose the shaker, I die-cut two layers of Ellen Hutson Craft-a-Board...it was easy to adhere the layers. 

For the sentiment, I used some new Little B Block Out dies. The pictures look like the dies are strips, but they aren't...I was pleasantly surprised! Here is a close-up:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!!

Supplies

Cardstock: (white, Linen Vellum) PTI; (Craft-A-Board) Ellen Hutson

Patterned paper: (from the May 2014 Daylight Kit and Add-on) Scraptastic Club

Dies: (Block Out) Little B; (Circle STAX) My Favorite Things

Sequins: (May 2014 This Life Noted kit) Scraptastic Club

Silhouette Cameo

Let's Chat

Hi everyone!

I'm up on the Scraptastic Club blog again today. :) Lea and I are hosting a challenge to use telephone images (stamps, die-cuts, stickers, patterned paper, etc.). You can check out the post and the challenge HERE.

I made a card for the challenge:

I was inspired by Wida's card, which I actually have the card on my piano. I see the card often, and I'm always inspired by the strips of paper. 

For my card, I started by stamping the cute telephone, receiver, and sentiment from The Story I Heard Stamp Set. I also stamped the little heart from the set to add some dimension. This stamp set is so cute! I love the different sentiments in it.

On the side, I trimmed down one of the PL cards from the May This Life Noted kit. I thought the strips needed something to break them up, so I fussy cut one part of another PL card (the "1") and stamped the dial from the same stamp set. I added the super cute clip from the This Life Noted kit. Here's a close-up:

I think the different sentiments work with the telephone theme. :)

If you would like to enter the challenge, you can check out the Scraptastic blog. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Supplies

Cardstock: (white) Avery Elle

Papers: (PL cards from the May This Life Noted Kit) Scraptastic Club

Stamps: (telephone, dial, heart, sentiment from The Story I Heard Stamp Set) Scraptastic Club

Ink: (Pool, Mango) Fresh Ink; (Smokey Grey Versafine) Tsukineko; (Taxi, Opaque White Mister Huey's) Studio Calico

Embellishments: (sequins, clip from the May This Life Noted Kit) Scraptastic Club

I Believe in You

Hi everyone! I hope you are having a good week. We're getting down to the wire--8 more days of school. Woo hoo!

I'm blogging on the Scraptastic Club blog today with a card and a tutorial. On the post, I've shared 11 different ways to alter wood veneers. You can check it out HERE.

Here's a card I made based on the tutorial:

I used the Scraptastic Club's May Daylight Kit and Daylight Kit Add-On for this card. I punched circles from the papers, two different types of vellum, and used one of the pre-made circle die-cuts. On top, I layered the altered stars.

Here's a close-up:

For the green star, I inked it, painted on Multi Matte Medium, and sprinkled glitter on top. For the yellow star, I painted it and added Glossy Accents. I also added one of the Studio Calico stars, enamel dots, and Simple Stories sticker that came in the kit.

I stamped on the last star with one of the stamps in the Scraptastic Club's The Story I Heard set. Their stamps are super cute! For the sentiment, I used a stamp from the SSS You Can Do Anything set. 

Here's another close-up:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Supplies

Cardstock: (white) Avery Elle; (vellum, linen vellum) PTI

Patterned papers: (Daylight Kit and Daylight Add-On) Scraptastic Club

Stamps: (flower from The Story I Heard) Scraptastic Club; (sentiment from You Can Do Anything) Simon Says Stamp

Ink: (Grass, Pool) Fresh Ink; (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko

Dies: (Circle STAX) My Favorite Things

Embellishments: (enamel dot, sticker die-cut, chipboard, wood veneer from Daylight Kit and Add-On) Scraptastic Club

Scraptastic May Release

**For my Paper Smooches May DT  Blog Hop post, please click HERE. 

Hi everyone!

It's time for the May release of the Scraptastic Club kits! The This Life Noted kit is already sold out (subscribers get first dibs), but if you like the PL-type kits, you can subscribe for next month. ;)

Here are the May kits. Click on them if you want to see the photos larger. :)

The May This Life Noted Kit:

The Daylight Main Kit:

The Daylight Kit Add-On:

The Story I Heard Main Kit:

The Story I Heard Add-On Kit:

The two stamp sets are The Story I Heard and Daylight:

           

If you want to try a month, you can buy a single kit. I am always shocked at how much product comes in the kits--seriously, they are a great deal in my opinion. :)


I'm sharing a card I made using two of the April Scraptastic Club kits:

I covered one of the patterned papers with an acetate overlay from the Let Me Go Kit and Let Me Go Add-On. I love how different the background looks with the overlay. :) I trimmed down one of the journaling cards and added some layers from the Let Me Go Kits and one of the Cut-Aparts. 

For the banner, I trimmed triangles from one of the patterned papers and another one of the Cut-Aparts. Here's a close-up:

If you want to see more of the Scraptastic Club Galleries or products go HERE. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Supplies

Cardstock: (white) PTI

Kit: (Let Me Go Main Kit and Let Me Go Add-On) Scraptastic Club

Mist: (Dewey, Opaque White Mister Huey's) Studio Calico

Sequins: (Avery Elle)