2nd Birthday page

For some reason, I'm kickin' butt and takin' names when it comes to birthday layouts recently.  Yeah.  Kickin' butt.  Takin' names.  I had to say it.  Dunno why.  Just had to.

This was designed for a Club CK Recipe Challenge: summertime photos, envelope mini album, a transparent element, a monogram (single large letter), and an accent cut from patterned paper.  The summer photos are obvious, the envelope album... I made mini envelopes from cardstock to fit the trimmed photos.  I haven't glued it down because I need to figure out how I want to attach it and cut the page protector so you can get to the photos.  The monogram... I went with a number.  The banner is from patterned paper and the year is under clear fragments.

Ingredients:

Paper: (Blue CS): Michaels, (Yellow DP): Lily Bee Design, (Blue Dark Denim Flourish-Double Dot): BoBunny, (Funfetti-Carnival (banner)): We R Memory Keepers

Stamps: (Brushstroke Numbers): Stampin' Up

Ink: (Whisper White): Stampin' Up

Misc: (Fragments): Tim Holtz

First birthday pages

Well, they are first birthday pages, just not MY kid's first birthday.  :)

Ingredients: Except the Thickers and mist, all items came from Studio Calico's Apr. kit
Paper: (White CS): (Cream CS): Bazzill? (Floral DS): Sassafras (for SU), (Green DS- Pretty Party): Crate Paper
Misc: (Pickle Mr. Huey, Butterfly masks, Butterfly stickers): Studio Calico, (Cupboard Thickers): American Crafts, (Brads- Pretty Party): Crate Paper

Challenges:
Sketches In Thyme #82:

GHWI Color Challenge LO

I wanted to share my second Get Hippity with Ippity inspiration project.  The challenge this month is two-fold.  First, the mandatory, a color challenge.  The second, an optional, a wedding/anniversary/engagement theme.  These are the colors and they're GORGEOUS.

Unlike my first project, I didn't go with the optional theme this time.  Instead, I did a scrapbook page just as a reminder that projects don't need to be cards.  

I used a Studio Calico sketch for the design.  It's not my usual style but it intrigued me so I thought I'd give it a whirl.  I'm planning to do a 2nd page to go with this one- it feels some what empty and unbalanced to me the way it is but I need to figure out the design first because I'd like to include quite a few more pix on it.  

Once more, I used one of my favorite ippity sets- The Best.  The banner stamps worked perfectly with the sketch I used- could have almost been made for it! 

Please join us and give this challenge a try.  A random winner will be able to select any ippity set they'd like from Aletha Williams.  Entering the challenge gets you one entry, using an ippity or Unity stamp gets you another.  We'd love to see your work!

Ingredients:

Stamps: (The Best): ippity

Ink: (Summer Sun, Night of Navy, Regal Rose): Stampin' Up

Paper: (Whisper White, Summer Sun, Night of Navy, Regal Rose): Stampin' Up

Misc: (White Mr. Huey, Cardstock stickers): Studio Calico, (Curling Tag): Making Memories, (Brad): Basic Grey,  (Yellow alpha stickers): Jenni Bowlin, DIY twine

Challenges: :
Jessica's Craft Shaque: Something a bit dusty: The small yellow letters came in a kit I received a year and a half ago and have never used.  The title letters were masked from the leftovers of a chipboard alpha set I got at a CKC class last July.

Studio Calico: Sunday Sketch- pg 2

Party Layout

I'm making an effort to get through some of my older photos and to finally get them to paper.  This is a party we went to about 3 years ago so it definitely qualifies.  I tried a bunch of different embellishments but nothing looked right and since the paper is so busy, I left it as is. 

Ingredients:
Paper: (Yoyo Yellow, Bashful Blue CS): Stampin' Up, (Scarlet Wallpaper DP): Glitz, (Powder Blue Vintage Double Dot): BoBunny

Misc: (Twine): Divine Twine, (Party Punch): Stampin' Up, (Honey Thickers): American Crafts

Challenges:
Crop Stop #76: Banners

Scrap It Girl: Punches

Glitz: Masculine

Jar Full of Fireflies

I actually call them lightning bugs but fireflies reads better for a title.  :)

Ingredients:
Stamps: (Jar Full of Sunshine): Unity
Ink: (Basic Black, Night of Navy): Stampin' Up
Paper: (Very Vanilla): Stampin' Up, (Blue DP): October Afternoon, (Yellow DP): Pebbles
Misc: (Pastels): Stampin' Up, (Twine): Whisker Graphics

Challenges:
Unity Challenge Blog: Summer
Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

CAS Father's Day card

Finally!  A card that I would truly call CAS.  This is something I cooked up last night and quickly made this evening for my DH's Father's Day card.

Ingredients: Stamps: (I {Heart} Hearts): Stampin' Up, (Love n' Breakfast): Lawn Fawn
Paper: (White): ?, (Whisper White): Stampin' Up
Ink: (Real Red): Stampin' Up, (Black Momento): Tsukineko
Misc: Copics

Boy in a Box

Would someone PLEASE tell me why my son not only felt it necessary to crawl into my parents' cat's playbox but then to spend 30min rolling around in it and wearing it!  Of course, we all laughed ourselves silly watching it but that's beside the point.

Ingredients:
Cardstock: (Whisper White, Basic Black): Stampin' Up, (Lt. Blue): Bazzill
Designer Papers: My Mind's Eye
Alpha Stamps: (Maria): American Crafts
Ink: (Night of Navy): Stampin' Up
Misc: (Boy vellum quote): DCWV, (Blue, red buttons): Basic Grey

Challenges:
Better Living Through Scrapbooking: Blue
A Cherry on Top: Becky Fleck Sketch #9:

Non-traditional birthday card

OK. So maybe "Hello" and "Happiness" don't a nomal birthday card make but it's something I think my mom would like and her birthday is coming up quickly so voila! 

I saw this FABULOUS card by Nina Bracket.

Not my usual style.  But, neither is Pebbles' "Fresh Goods" line which I won a while back from them.  I love it all, just not my usual with the country, floral look.  However, Nina's card reminded me a lot of the line and I thought it was the perfect time to get it all out and try it- something I've been feeling VERY bad about not doing thus far.  So, here's the result- I'm pretty happy with it and I think mom will love it.  So VOILA!  :)

Ingredients:
Ink: (Night of Navy): Stampin' Up
Cardstock: (Very Vanilla): Stampin' Up
Everything else (Designer paper, Clear stamp, Toothpick flag, Button candy dots, Dimensional sticker, Border sticker, Dimensional butterfly): Pebbles "Fresh Goods" line

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything Goes
Southern Girls: Things with Wings
Unique Crafters Challenge: Buttons

First birthday layout

Apparently I'm moving back into scrapping mode and that's ok with me.  These are actually the oldest pictures of Boy that I've ever scrapped.  Yeah.  His first birthday.  I've never gone further back than that yet.  Yeah.  yeah.  I've got some scrapping to do.

Ingredients:
Designer papers: (Stripes): Basic Grey, (Blue, text): Bo Bunny
Misc: (Journaling tags): Basic Grey, (Chipboard letters): Heidi Grace?, (Pumpkin Pie, Hot Dog, Garden Estate, Custard, Lemonade Mr. Huey mists): Studio Calico, ("Water droplets"): ?

Challenges:
Craft Your Passion #114: Anything Goes
Sketch Inspiration #324:

Mr. Sticky Fingers layout

This is one of those projects that really dives into things I've had sitting around forever- stickers, a die, photos...  I just wish I could get a glare-free photo at a good angle!  LOL!

Ingredients:
Paper: (Real Red, Crumbcake): Stampin' Up
Other: (Typeset Die): Tim Holtz/Sizzix, (Plum Thumb Mr. Huey): Studio Calico, (Stickers): Creative Imaginations

Challenges:
Studio Calico Weekly Challenge: 5+ photos

About Me scrap page

I've been wanting to do one of these "snapshot in the life" pages and the recent Club CK scraplift challenge gave me reason.  I found a great page that I really wanted to copy so it all fell in place theme-wise.  As for the look, it didn't quite come together- I couldn't find a paper here that had the blue and bright yellow but after looking for longer than I intended, I decided the best thing was to simply finish.  It's the content that matters the most, not if I think it all looks perfect.

Ingredients:
Paper: (Yellow): Unknown, (Brocade Blue, Very Vanilla): Stampin' Up, (Text): October Afternoon, (Floral): DCWV
Rub-ons: (Black serif): Unknown, (Black san-serif): TLC, (Off-white): October Afternoon

Challenges:
Club CK Scraplift Challenge
Better Living Through Scrapbooking: Yellow & Cream

GHWI- Color Challenge Engagement Card

I wanted to share my Get Hippity with Ippity inspiration project.  The challenge this month is two-fold.  First, the mandatory, a color challenge.  The second, an optional, a wedding/anniversary/engagement theme.  These are the colors and they're GORGEOUS.

I made this card that I envision to go with an engagement or shower gift. 

I don't suppose anyone's surprised that there's fussy cutting. LOL!

I used the flowers from Angie Girl, Dream with Your Heart and a great sentiment from Delightful Little Things.

Please join us in this challenge.  We've changed it this month so that each challenge runs for one month.  That gives you more time to dream up your creations and you're welcome to enter as many times as you'd like.  We'd love it if you'd use an ippity or Unity stamp or four but it's not a requirement though it will get you an extra entry in the end-of-month random prize drawing.

Ingredients:
Stamps: (Angie Girl, Delightful Little Things): ippity
Ink: (Night of Navy, Summer Sun, Regal Rose, Bravo Burgundy): Stampin' Up
Paper: (Night of Navy, So Saffron): Stampin' Up, DSPs: ? (from blog candy)
Misc: Pearls

Feelin' Ga-roovy!

Just a quick post today.  I wanted to get something in for this week's Chick Challenge and I like the color palette over at Scrapbooker's Paradise so VOILA!  Card!

Did I mention I HAVE to get myself a lightbox setup so I don't keep taking crooked pix on our deck railing?

Ingredients:
Stamps: (Groovy): Ippity

Ink: (Black Momento): Tsukineko

Paper: (Crumbcake, Whisper White): Stampin' Up, (Pocket Full of Posies): DCWV
Misc: (Yellow & Green Twines): Whisker Graphics, (Labels Die): Spellbinders, Copics

Challenges:
Southen Girls' Challenge #45: Diecuts or punches
Scrapbooker's Paradise Ponderings #68: 

Chick Challenge #32:

GIU Week Winner

First, I wanted to thank you all for stopping in this past week during my GIU festivities.  I really appreciated all of your comments through the week!  It was a lot of fun to try as much new stuff as I did- hopefully I keep doing some of that stretching. 

Second, have a remainder of a great holiday weekend those of you in the US, have a remainder of a great weekend everyone else.

Third, here's the winner of the Itty Bittys from Unity! 

Come on down Denise Bryant!  

You're the winner on the Jen's GIU Week show!  LOL!  Denise, if you could send me your email address, I'll pass it on to Unity. 

Again, many thanks all and have a great one!

Growing in Unity, Day FIVE

Well, we all made it to the end of the week!  Happy Friday!  I've got my final Growing in Unity card to share with you today.  Since it's also my Get Hippity with Ippity Challenge inspiration day, this card does double-duty.  The challenge this week is to make a project with flowers and a leaf.  We'd love to see you use your ippity and Unity stamps- it's not a necessity but it will get you an extra entry into the prize drawing!

I wasn't quite sure how I was going to make this one work but I REALLY like how it turned out.  Again, as with many of my GIU cards, I tried something that was almost new to me- brayering.  I did one other brayered card a few weeks ago and I just envisioned that look for this card.  I don't have any grey embossing powder but I knew I wanted the flower silhouettes to stand out against the leaves so I mixed some black, white and a bit of navy powder together and it worked pretty well.  While it's not a solid grey, I like the mottled look it has.

Don't forget to leave me a comment on this week's GIU posts!  I'll be picking a winner for those Itty Bitty's on Sunday- good luck!  Don't forget to check back on Monday to see if you won!  Thanks for letting me share my Unity/ippity cards with you this week!

Ingredients:
Stamps: (The Simple Things): ippity
Ink: (Summer Sun, Only Orange, Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust, Rose Red, Cranberry Crisp, Bravo Burgundy, Basic Black): Stampin' Up (Yeah, I really did use all of those), (VersaMark): Tsukineko
Paper: (Basic Black, Whisper White): Stampin' Up, (Orange DP): ? (received in a blog candy pack)
Misc: (Black & Navy EP): Joann's, (White EP): American Crafts Zing

Challenges:
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays: Flowers
The Stamping Boutique: Wet Embossing

Growing in Unity, Day FOUR

Welcome to day four of my Growing in Unity week.  Again, I tried something new for this card, Twinkling H2O's this time.  I tried them for the first time a few weeks ago and HAD to have some.  While I wish I'd gotten some bolder colors, I know that I'll be buying more soon.  DRAT!  Another thing I want to buy!  ;)

I used the ever-fabulous set, "Now and Always" for this one.

Ingredients:
Stamps: (Now and Always): ippity, (Sentiment): Unity
Ink: (Basic Black): Stampin' Up, (Momento Black): Tsukineko
Paper: (Whisper White, Lavender Lace, Certainly Celery): Stampin' Up, (Water Color paper): Royal Langnickel, (DP): Unknown- received in a mixed pack
Misc: (Twinkling H2O's): Luminarte, (Embossing Folder): Sizzix

Challenges:
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays: Flowers
Scrapbooker's Paradise #67:

While I'm not an ippity Chick, my friend Aletha Williams would love to help you out if you're interested in buying any ippity sets!

Growing in Unity, Day THREE

Good morning all!  To those who have been here, welcome back.  To those joining me from the Unity blog, welcome to my Growing in Unity week!  I'm so excited to have the chance to participate in GUI!  Don't forget to come back every day this week and leave a comment on each Growing in Unity post.  I'll pick one lucky commenter Sunday who will get their choice of two Unity Itty Bittys!
 
I knew when I saw Shimelle Laine's sketch and card over at American Crafts, I HAD to try it. 

While I love the look, it's a style I don't "do" and is definitely out of my comfort zone.  I still HAD to try it and actually wanted to even more for those reasons.  I couldn't narrow down which image I wanted to use so I made two cards.

The first features a lamp and sentiments from the ippity set, "shine shine shine."  I colored it with watercolor pencils

The second features the stars and sentiments from Unity's "Twinkle Twinkle" set.  The stars were double stamped to get a "shadow image" and the top one was paper-pieced.

Funny. I just realized that I was apparently on a repeating stamp-name kick when I did these. ;)

See you tomorrow!

Ingredients:
Stamps: (Shine): ippity, (Twinkle, Twinkle): Unity
Papers: (Complete Boy Collection): My Mind's Eye, (Home Collection): Deja View, (Bashful Blue, Whisper White): Stampin' Up, White photo paper
Ink: (Basic Brown, Basic Black, Whisper White): Stampin' Up, (Walnut Stain): Tim Holtz
Brads: Stampin' Up, Basic Grey, Making Memories
Misc: Watercolor pencils

While I'm not an ippity Chick, my friend Aletha Williams would love to help you out if you're interested in buying any ippity sets!

Growing in Unity, Day TWO

Morning all!  Welcome to day two of my Growing in Unity (GIU) week. At the end of the week, I'll draw a name from all of the comments and that poster will win 2 Itty Bitty stamps of their choice from Unity so don't forget to comment!


Today I went in a bit different direction than I usually go- I made a few mini cards.  I've been wanting to make some of these to stash in my son and husband's lunches, I just hadn't done it yet.

The first one I made two of and simply altered the color combination.  I wanted to use the "Nuts and Bolts" set and it's perfect for a mini card.

While it's a bit hard to see, the paper gears and the "you're #1" are all embossed.  What you really can't see, or smell, is that they're embossed with clear cherry and vanilla scented embossing powders.  I thought the 4yr old would really like that. 

The second card is quite a bit different.  I used some leftover acetate to make a window over the fish so I could put seaweed over him without having to fussy-cut it out.  Even I have limits to what I'll fussy cut! 

Ingredients:
  Nuts & Bolts cards:
    Stamps: (Nuts & Bolts, The Best): Unity
    Ink: (Encore Silver, Encore Gold): Tsukineko
    Paper: (Basic White, Mini cards): Stampin' Up
    Misc: (Vanilla, Cherry scented EP): Stampin' Up, (Gears & film ribbon): Tim Holtz, Watch parts
  Fish card:
    Stamps: (Fishy Philosophy): ippity
    Ink: (Black Staz-on): Tsukineko, (Tempting Turquoise): Stampin' Up
    Paper: (Whisper White mini card): Stampin' Up, (DP): ?
    Misc: (EP): Stampendous, Copics, Acetate

Challenges:
Southern Girls Challenge: #44: About the Boys

Growing in Unity, Day ONE

Morning all!  Sorry to have been dark all of this past week but between a sinus infection (better than the cracked tooth I THOUGHT I had- who knew they'd feel the same?!), a kid with out-of-control allergies, a planned vacation which turned into a cancelled vacation and a yard sale instead, and getting ready to post a project a day this week, I didn't get much in the way of posting done.  HOWEVER, this week I'll be posting a project using Unity and/or ippity stamps each day as part of my Growing in Unity (GIU) week.  At the end of the week, I'll draw a name from all of the comments and that poster will win 2 Itty Bitty stamps of their choice from Unity so don't forget to comment!

For today, I made a card using the "Brave Boots" Itty Bitty set.  This set was created with Melody Ross from the Brave Girls' Camp fame.  I think that's something I need to add to my bucket list actually- making it to a Brave Girls' Camp.

Don't forget to drop back by tomorrow to comment again- you may be the lucky winning commenter this week! 

Ingredients:
Stamps: (Brave Boots): Unity
Paper: (Cotton Bloom Stack): DCWV, (Very Vanilla): Stampin' Up
Ink: (Basic Brown, Basic Black): Stampin' Up, (Marmalade, Brick Red, Walnut Stain): Tim Holtz
Misc: (Pastels): Stampin' Up, Plastic stars

Joy card

I was invited to play along this week at A La Card Monkey and I did so happily.  I was a bit tight on time but thought I'd try something I don't usually do- popping pastels.  The challenge was a sketch + theme of "joy".

The time constraint meant that I didn't have a chance to mull it over much so I went a bit obvious on the "joy" portion of the challenge and that lead me into the colors and general look.

Ingredients:
Stamps: (Silhouette Song Bird): Unity
Ink: (Versamark): Tsukineko
Paper: (Very Vanilla, Red): Stampin' Up, (Christmas Magic): Little Yellow Bicycle
Misc: (Pastels): Stampin' Up

Challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: #72: Traditional Colors
Christmas Card Challenge #24: Older stamp
Unity Stamp Challenge: Stripes
Simon Says: Anything Goes