Spring Challenge

So I am so excited, I actually found time to do a Stampin' Royalty challenge and I got to scrapbook.   Can't get better than that!    I am so grateful, my fellow goddesses at the Stampin' Royalty site are so accommodating and have kept me as a design team member even though I haven't had the time to stamp.   I am hoping things change in the next couple of months and I find at least time to do some of their challenges.

So the challenge is Spring.  I hope you can join us, so easy and it makes me so happy to think of bright and cheerful flowers, baby chicks instead of SNOW!!    What is with snow in March and not only that but we were in the home stretch without having a major storm and now we get over 18 inches!   Yikes.   Mother Nature this is not funny.    

Here is my scrapbook page of last year's Easter egg hunt.     Some of the fun products used on this page is the Happy Celebrations stamp set and the retired Honeycomb Happiness.    The eggs were traced and cut out with a pattern.    Easter was die cut with Little Letters.    The fun paper is Festive Birthday, just perfect for Egg Hunt photos with all the bright fun colors.

Retro Sketch

This week's Unity challenge is a tag challenge.    I wanted to make a few tags for my nieces and nephews to put on their back to school gift cards.    Thanks to Unity I have a quite a few great school sets and I was happy I was able to use them on this tag elements.

Since I made 4 tags, I figured why not make two more and put them on a card and a scrapbook page.  

I can't tell you how happy I was to have an occasion to make a scrapbook page!    Here are my niece and nephew from a few years back heading back to school.   They actually start on Monday, so I can't wait to see their 1st day of school photos on Monday.

Retro Sketch helped me in putting the card together.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Set from Unity
Ink:   Basic Black, Copic and Spectrum Makers
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black, Designer Series Paper from a local craft store
Accessories:   Enamel Dots, Alphabet Stickers, Clothspins and Buttons from a local craft store, Basic Black Baker's Twine, Burlap Ribbon
Tools:  Circle Framelits

Cherish the Moments

This week at Stampin' Royalty anything goes!   So show off your creativity!      Make a card, scrapbook.    Pull out your craft supplies and just start crafting!!

I decided to pull out the Everyday Adventure Project Life cards and with a little layering and a little fussy cutting and I created this great scrapbook page of my niece and nephew.

Ingredients to make the scrapbook page:
Stamp Sets:   Baby Prints, Remember This
Ink;   Basic Black
Paper:   Everyday Adventure Project Life cards, Whisper White, Basic Black, Bermuda Bay, Melon Mambo, Stacked with Love Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Basic Black Baker's Twine, White Perfect Accents colored in with Black Sharpie
Tools:   Sweetheart Punch, Small Heart Punch, On Film Framelits, Chevron Border Punch, Gift Card Envelope and Trim Framelits

#bff

Here is one of my favorite stamp sets from The Project Bin, #bff.   I decided to make a scrapbook page featuring my #bff from high schools.   We have been there for each other through thick and thin.    To start off my birthday weekend, here is a picture of us on my 30th birthday.

I used two of the sentiments from the set,  #bff and A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.    They worked perfectly on my page.    Some heat embossing, some stickers, a few strips of paper and the page came together.

Ingredients to make the scrapbook page:
Stamp Sets:   The Project Bin #bff
Ink:   Versamark
Paper:   Whisper White, Strawberry Slush, Peach Parfait, Designer Series Paper and Journaling Cards from a local craft store
Accessories:  Enamel Dots, Stickers from a local craft store, White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Circle Punches and framelits

You Can Make Me Laugh

Paper Craft Crew gave us an amazing sketch that I decided to turn to scrapbook page.    Love the #bff stamp set from The Project Bin there are so many great friend sentiments. One of my favorites from the stamp set is you can make me laugh when the last thing I want do is smile.     It makes me think of my niece and nephew they always make me laugh out loud and put a smile on my face.  
I ended up adding a lot more a layers to the sketch, but the end result makes me smile and I am so happy to have this great page of two little cutie-pies.  


Ingredients to make the scrapbook page:

Stamp Sets:   #bff by The Project Bin, Fiskars Say Cheese You Only Live Once
Ink:   Dapper Denim, Versamark
Paper:   Whisper White, Lost Lagoon, DCVWDesigner Series Paper from a local craft store
Accessories:  Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine, White Embossing Powder, Regal Candy Dots, Buttons from a local craft store
Tools:   Circle Framelits, Triple Banner Punch, Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Arrow Framelits from a local craft store

Did Someone Say Sailing

I love the Reverse Confetti sketch of the month.    The circles and tabs totally inspired me to create this nautical theme page with some of the amazing nautical stamp sets that I have recently have gotten.

Being we are not really a sailing family, you will not see a lot of boating pictures, but I was really happy to find this great picture in my photo stash of my niece and nephew on a row boat!!

So it is not really sailing, but it is on the water!

Here is another great sentiment from the Anchor's Away stamp set from The Project Bin.   The other nautical elements come from the Seaside Shore that is from the new 2016-17 Idea Book & Catalog.

Ingredients to make the scrapbook page:
Stamp Sets:   Seaside Shore, Anchor's Away by The Project Bin
Ink:  Versamark, Pacific Point
Paper:  Whisper White, Real Red, Pacific Point, Brights Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Enamel Dots from a local craft store, Whisper White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Triple Banner Punch,  Circle Framelits

America the Beautiful

When I saw the Paper Players color challenge, I knew a scrapbook page was in my future.   Love the Cherry Cobbler and Dapper Denim  together.    Perfect colors for a patriotic project.    I decided to use this week's Mojo Monday sketch of the week for inspiration.   I added a few touches and I have to say I love my page.

Ingredients to make the scrapbook page:
Paper:   InColor Patterns Designer Series Paper, StoryTime Designer Series Paper, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories:   Linen Thread, Project Life Cards, Stickers, Natural Buttons and Dots from a local craft store
Tools:   Circle Cutting System and Hearts Sizzex from a local craft store

LBI

I have so many amazing beach photos.   I am the ultimate beach bum.   Long Beach Island is one of my favorite summer getaways. It has been fun to fit a few scrapbook pages in the midst of my card making.  It's always summer somewhere sentiment from the Summer Fun stamp set from The Project Bin was a perfect fit for my beach photo collage.

Ingredients to make the scrapbook page:
Stamp Sets:   Summer Fun from The Project Bin
Ink:   Versamark
Paper:   Perfectly Artistic Designer Series Paper, Night of Navy
Accessories:   Rhinestones, White Embossing Powder, Stickers from a local craft store
Tools:   Heat Gun and Embossing Buddy

Love Summer Fun

I can't tell you how happy I am that The Project Bin has come out with a Summer Fun stamp set.   It has completely inspired me to scrapbook.   I am the ultimate beach girl.  So it is no surprise that I have a collection of scrapbook paper and accents just waiting to be used for scrapbooking my memories.  I just haven't made the time to scrapbook lately.   There is always something that needs to be done that takes priority.

Thank you The Project Bin for giving me an opportunity to pull out my beach photos and get scrappin'.

First I create a card with the great sentiment Life is better in flip flops.    Isn't it?    Just slip flip flops on you are on your way.     Love the bright color scheme.    It just makes me smile.   Thank you As You See It for the sketch challenge and thank you for moving to a two week sketch challenge.   That makes me so happy!!!     I have a feeling that you may see this card end up being a project life card and end up on scrapbook page in the future!

The second project I created with the Summer Fun stamp set from the Project Bin is the Girls just want have sun page.   I decided to dedicate to my best friend's daughter.    She is graduating this year.   I can't believe this amazing girl is now a young lady who is now going to be moving on and experiencing new adventures on her own now.   I can still remember taking her and her brothers to the beach.  Each bringing their little sand buckets to the beach.   I loved my LBI beach summers with these kids and now it makes me a little sad to know that they are coming to an end.   Love you Gianna!    

The Summer Fun collection is a perfect way start the Memorial Day weekend.    Hope the weather holds out and everyone can find some time to get to the water or at the least slip on their flip flops!   Happy Memorial Day!

You Mean the World to Me!

So happy to be scrapbooking again.   Mother's Day and Father's Day cards are done so I finally have some time to create just for me.      As soon as I saw this week's Freshly Made Sketch I immediately thought of a scrapbook page I could create.

Here are my beautiful two nieces.   Love these girls.   One of my more successful selfies taken with my phone.  Most of the products are not SU  in this project except the ink and card stock.      Hope this inpsires you to create and have fun with all the products in your craft stash.

Vitamin Sea

I just want to say thank you to The Project Bin.   I absolutely love the Summer Fun stamp set.   It totally inspired me to scrapbook!!!  It's been a while since I scrapbooked and I forgot how much I enjoy it.  

Here are pictures of my beach family.    My best friend and her amazing kids.   The kids were so little in these pictures!  

I started with making a card with the Vitamin Sea sentiment and ended up with a homemade Project Life card.    How great is the sentiment We all need a little Vitamin Sea.    I have to say this is probably the most photos I have put on a page in a long time.

Thank you Project Bin, The Global Design Project and Sugar Sketch for the inspiration for the scrapbook page.

Fun day of Crafting

I had a fun day of crafting and creating yesterday and wanted to share some of my projects.    It was fun to create projects with products that I normally do not work with.

The best part of my creative day was my renewed desire to making time to scrapbook as one of my goals for 2015.    I have been so focused in creating cards so I will have an inventory to sell at the coffee shop that I forget how much fun it is to create 3-D items for home decor as well.

My first project is my heart wall hanging.     With my circle and heart framelits, I was able to create a beautiful wall hanging to put on my wall for Valentine's Day!    Want to get a sneak peak in how the whole thing stays together and hangs, scroll down and see my photo below.     The placed the hearts temporarily in the arrangement I wanted to have them display and then with a pencil I outlined them on a piece of cardboard.   I used the hard card board that comes in the designer series paper pack.    I then cut out the outline and reattached the circles.    Now my hearts are attached to a piece of cardboard and will not come apart.    I used photo brackets to hang the ribbon.    The bows I attached with a hot glue gun.    The hearts in the center I used sticky strip.    Behind the bows, I used pin/jewelry holders.      

Next came scrapbook pages with my niece and nephew.     For my niece's page, I layered tags I diecut and added some stickers and enamel dots to complete her page.

My nephew's scrapbook page, I used different size stars and some stamped ink splatters to make a fun page.     The title was stamped with my alphabet stamps.

I love the simplicity of my love card.   I was actually inspired by a sweater design I saw.    How super easy is this card.    The hardest part was making sure the heart lined up when I die cut it!

My Hello Sunshine card was fun to make and I actually impressed myself in being creative when making my sun!    Check out the photo below for a visual on how I created it.    I attached punched a circle and attached it the card stock.   Using my triangle punch I punched to make the rays in different varying degrees.

The circles in the background were sponged on.   The sentiment was heat embossed.    The clouds were stamped and cut out.












To make the celebrate love card, the first thing I did was punch out the hearts, applied glaze to the top of the hearts and put them aside to dry.    I took pink ink and sponged it to the background.    The Love was heat embossed with white embossing powder.   The little hearts were stamped to the card.

The best part of this card as well as my other love card was no embellishments!!    I love that when sending the cards there will be no additional postage!!

#funstampersjourney #kotm #fsj #richardgaray #makeamazinghappen #spellbinders

Yahoo

I am always on the quest to find challenge blogs. This week I found the As You See It Challenge blog.   I am sorry I didn't find it sooner they are actually celebrating the 100th challenge.   How did I miss them all this time.   To celebrate their 100th challenge the theme is Celebrate and they are looking for new design team members.   So wish me luck and I hope I am the new addition to their team.    So please send them love and join in the fun in celebrating their 100th challenge.

Here is my Celebrate moment that I scrapped!   I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch of the week for inspiration.

In 2014, I submitted my card to have a chance at winning the Paper Crafts World Card Making Day contest.      They picked 5 cards to be voted on to have the chance at being an honorable mention.    I was so excited at the end when my family, friends and peers in the crafting community voted and my card was chosen as the winning entry.   I was babysitting my niece when I read the news that my as the 2014 Paper Crafts World Card Making Day Contest Honorable Mention.    Me and my niece danced around to celebrate!   I was saying Yahoo! and she was doing right along with me!   So here she is saying Yahoo!

Thank you Mojo Monday for the great sketch and As You See It Challenge for giving me an an awesome sketch and a reason to sketch this great day and this adorable photo of my niece.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Layered Letters Alphabet, Project Life Remember This
Ink:   Basic Black
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black,  Real Red, Neutral Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Home for Christmas Enamel Dots
Tools:  Star Punches

Scrapbook Fun

We are now blog hopping at Caseing the Catty.   So hop with us from one design team member to the next. I hope you can join us in the hop and enjoy all the beautiful creations that we case (copied and steal everything) from the 2015-16 Stampin' Up! catalog.   This week we are challenge everyone to case a project from the Artistic Expression section of the catalog.

Any chance I get to create a scrapbook page I make sure to take it!  So when I see a scrapbook page in the Idea Book and Catalog, I make sure I case it!    So here is the beautiful scrapbook page on page 125 that I made my own.    Here is my sister with her beautiful little ones!  

If you have been following the hop, you just came from Caseing the Catty blog and the next stop in the hop is Julia Quinn.

Ingredients to make the scrapbook page:

Stamp Sets:   Me=Grateful, Bountiful Border, Gorgeous Grunge, Family Reunion

Ink:  Always Artichoke

Paper:   Farmer's Market Designer Series Paper, English Garden Designer Series Paper, Whisper White, Always Artichoke Patterns Designer Series Paper

Accessories:  White Baker's Twine, Clothespins

Tools:   Tasteful Trim Sizzex

School Days

I was inspired by the diagonals in this week's Viva La Verve sketch.   I decided to stretch the sketch and make it my own and incorporate it into a scrapbook page.    Here is a school days scrapbook page featuring my niece and nephew.

Ingredients to make the scrapbook page:
Paper:  Garden Green, Whisper White, School House Designer Series Paper, Playground Project Life Cards
Accessories:  Neutral Candy Dots
Tools:   1 1/4" Circle Punch

Captain Adorable

 When I saw the Viva La Verve sketch I wasn't sure what to do at first, but then it came to me.   The sketch was just perfect for a scrapbook page layout.  The photo of my nephew in his sailor hat and Captain Adorable shirt was a perfect fit for all the nautical designer papers and stamp sets I had but haven't used as much as I should be!
I can't believe the Maritime designer series paper is retired.  

Ingredients to make the scrapbook page:
Stamp Sets:   Sea Street, Settin' Sail
Ink:   Real Red, Night of Navy
Paper:   Whisper White, Night of Navy, Maritime Designer Series Paper,  Birthday Bash Designer Series Paper, Everyday Adventure Project Life
Accessories:   Silver Buttons, Brads, Circle Aluminum Tags
Tools:  1 1/4" Circle Punch, Little Letters Thinlits, Circle Framelits

What's Old is New Again

This week at Stampin' Royalty we are taking on the challenge of What's Old is New Again - revamp an old card. can be a remake of old sketch/style with new products, or can use old card and spruce it up. be sure to add before and after photos!

This has to be one of my favorite challenges.  I knew when the challenge was announced that I wanted to use one of my old scrapbook as inspiration.    As I went through my scrapbook pages I realized that I have not been scrapbooking as much!!  

That is a new goal for me in 2015 as well to fit more scrapbooking in!   Scrapbooking was one of the main reasons I fell in love with the Stampin' Up! products.    What better than stamps to add to my collection of supplies.     When I started scrapbooking I bought lots and lots of stickers.   It started to get costly.   I kept thinking one sticker on one page.     This was before the 40% off coupons came into place.   I knew that if I continued with the sticker route that scrapbooking was going to get costly.    Well with stamps not only do I create one page, I can use the same images on future projects, cards and gift packages.   I can also then pass on the stamps to someone else when I am done working with them.    It makes me happy to see so much mileage comes from one set of stamps.

Here is my Fast-Food Friends stamp set used on a page with my nieces at McDonald's.  I am so sad to see this set go.  I made sure I picked it up before the set retires June 1st.    We are a McDonald's family.    Who can resist the salty fries!

Here is my page I was inspired by.   It was my nephew's scrapbook page I made in 2012.   Click here to learn more details on the page.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Fast- Food Friends, Geometrical
Ink:   Daffodil Delight, Real Red
Paper:  Whisper White, Real Red, Maritime Designer Series Paper, Daffodil Delight Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Real Red Button, Bright Candy Dots, Cherry Cobbler Baker's Twine
Tools:   Circle Framelits

We are back at Caseing the Catty

We are back at Caseing the Catty.   We will now be hopping from one design team member to the next.   I hope you can join us in the hop and enjoy all the beautiful creations that we case (copied and steal everything) from the Occasions Mini.    This week we are casing the Baby section of the Occasions Mini.

I knew I wanted to case the scrapbook page on page 38.    Any opportunity to create a scrapbook page I am all over it.     Two scrapbook pages in one week!   I am on a roll!   My nephew is going to have a scrapbook after all with all these pages!  How cute is he in his hat in his Christmas picture!

If you have been following the hop, you just came from Rebecca Benson  the next stop in the hop is
Tricia Raineri, a guest design team member.

Ingredients to make the scrapbook page:
Stamp Sets:   Snuggles and Smooches, Show & Tell
Ink:  Midnight Muse
Paper:   Night of Navy, Real Red, Whisper White, Sweet Dreams Designer Series Paoer
Accessories:   Regal Candy Dots, InColor Brads, Beach House Designer Washi Tape, Real Red Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon
Tools:  Word Bubbles Framelits, Circle Framelits, Little Letters Framelits

Fun Stampers Scrapbook Page

I am loving the kit of the month from Fun Stampers Journey.   Who knew that the couple of ingredients to make 4 cards that came with the kit that I was able to create 2 cards and now a scrapbook page.  And there is still plenty of supplies left!!  The only thing I added was a few pieces of white card stock, ink, my Blendablites to color with and embossing powder and tools.

So here is my super cute nephew in my scrapbook page.   I love finding opportunities to scrapbook.   It makes  me so happy especially seeing this cutie on a page.     As I said You are my sunshine is my favorite song.    Some people sing Rock a my baby to put little one's to sleep, but I have always sang you are my sunshine to my nieces and nephews.    The song makes me smile and something about the bough breaking never sat okay with me in Rock a my baby.

#funstampersjourney #kotm #fsj #richardgaray #makeamazinghappen

Hand prints scrapbooking

Today is my sister's birthday.  I found out this morning that my I was babysitting my niece and nephew So I decided to create a scrapbook page to give to her with pictures along with heat embossed hand prints.    

I love doing heat embossed hand prints.    Just some versamark on a hand which easily cleaned up.   Then some white embossing powder and you are almost done.

It was a quick scrapbook page.    Between printing photos, getting little hands heat embossed all while the two little ones are getting trouble.  

Here is my scrapbook page as well as the ingredients to make the scrapbook page:
Stamp Sets:   Snuggles and Smooches, alphabet stamp set from a local craft store
Ink:  Basic Black, Versamark, Melon Mambo Blendabilites
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black, Melon Mambo, Melon Mambo Patterns Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Black Enamel Dots and Alphabet stickers from a local craft store, White Embossing Powder
Tools:  Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy, Heart to Heart Punch, My Way Punch