Bloom where you are planted

Hello my friends, today I am sharing a grouping of cards that I made for the SSS Monday Challenge-Pastels and I am also going to use these cards for my card swap group for the month of April. 

Now I started out pretty good with the pastels and then it ended up going a little brighter for some of the colors, but I still feel that it looks like spring.  I had fun playing with a stencil and inks; and layering up some Cricut cuts to give more dimension and of course I had to add some sequins for that extra touch!

SUPPLIES: 

Bazzill Marshmallow Cardstock & DCWV glitter stack

Gypsy Wanderings Cartridge

Heat & Stick Powder from Stampin' Up & Crystal Clear Glitter

Daisymania 6x6 stencil from Judikins

Inks from Memento: Angel Pink, New Sprout, and Grape Jelly

Distress Inks: Mustard Seed, Evergreen Bough, Picked Raspberry,

 Peacock Feathers & Spiced Marmalade

Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh: Marshmallow, Sparkling Clear and Metallic Silver

Stickles in Yellow, Orange Peel, Lavender, Fruit Punch, Lime Green and Silver

Zig Wink of Stella Fine Glitter Dust Markers in Dark Pink, Violet, 

Yellow and Silver

Zig Memory System Writer markers in Pale Mint, Blue Bonnet, and Pure Orange

Scotch ATG adhesive

Tombow Mono Multi-Glue

Multi Medium Matte from Ranger   

  

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today, I hope you were inspired!

Pastel Birthday Calender!

Hello blogging world, long time no see. Life has been so crazy-we moved into a newer and bigger house and it has just taken all of my time.  I have many old projects to share but not as many new ones but I am working on it.  In the mean time I am going to share with you lots of old projects that I just never got around to posting!  

First up is one of my Birthday Calenders-this one is white and pastel colors.  I make and sell these at our local fair in Hurricane.  I only had three left over from last year and this is one of them.  I am hoping to sell some of my crafts online to get some extra money that we need to help pay off some bills and be able to let my kids be involved in activities like dance and soccer.  

I really like how the pastel calender looks, it is so pretty in real life and there is a little bit of sparkle on it that doesn't show up in the picture.  I sell these Calenders for $20.  If anyone is interested just leave me a comment with your email and we can make arrangements to get it shipped to you! 

Thank you for taking the time to take a look at my creations!  Have a wonderful day!

A "Merry" Christmas card!

I don't know where the time goes, I have every intention of posting quite often but it just doesn't happen that way.  I hope to get to the point where I can post a lot but until then I will do it when I can fit it in.  Soccer season is over so I might have a little bit of extra time, I still have to make a Birthday Cake Box for some of my soccer girls so I will post those when I complete them.  Well, on to my project. 

The schedule for card swap is in October and November we make a Christmas card and in December we make some gift tags.  With my tardiness here is my card for Oct. I ended up making some with a red background and some with green.

I used the gypsy wanderings cartridge

stamps from Stampin Up

red embossing powder from Ranger

a versamark pad

I don't have any twine yet so I just used some embroidery floss

Thank you for visiting my blog, I hope you will continue to visit.

Let me know what you think of my projects and if there is something you would like to see on my blog.

I'm so "FANGFUL" for you!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!  I love this holiday.  Today I am going to share with you some of the goodie bags I made for my daughter's 2nd grade class, and some that I made for my soccer team.  There is a lot of them so I will only share a little bit, I don't want to have a super long post. 

For the 2nd grader's my daughter picked out the colors, the "fangful" stamp, and the bat.  I was surprised at what she wanted, for being only 7 years old, but they turned out pretty good.

I used the Happy Hauntings & Gypsy Wanderings cartridges and the Martha Stewart drippy-goo punch, Stampin Up ink and MPS-Spookalicious stamp set.

Here are some of the 15 bags I made for the soccer team.  I had fun making these for all of my girls, and they had fun looking at them and trying to figure out which one they wanted.

I used the Mini-Monsters cartridge, Halloween paper from K&Company and Creative Imaginations, Stampin Up ink, a white gel pen, brads, all stamps from the MPS-Spookalicious stamp set.

Thank you so much for stopping by, and I wish you all a Happy Halloween!

My Family Scrapbook Layouts

I just remembered that I haven't shown you guys the scrapbook pages I made for my parents and my in-laws for  their albums.  This is what I give them for Christmas.  I like doing this instead of buying something because they already have so much, what I am giving them is priceless, and it is a good way for them to know how their grandchildren are growing up.

Sorry about the pictures, I didn't have a good background, I took them at the last minute and had to stand above them.  With the lighting it was hard to get a good picture.

This first one is my oldest. She picked out what she wanted on her page and then just had me put it together.  She really likes the Simply Charmed cartridge, and the patterened paper is from SEI. I also used Bazzill cardstock, and other misc. cardstock.  Stickles and some Stampin Up ink for inking the edges. 

Sugar and Spice is my 6 year old.  She is a little bit of both.  She wanted to use the Once Upon a Princess Cartridge.  She picked out her pictures and wanted the two little paper dolls on the page.  She picked out her paper from SEI.  We had to have some stickles on there and some shading with Stampin Up ink.

My little man is growing up so fast.  I had a lot of fun making his page.  I used the B is for Boy cartridge on his layout.  I love the colors and the overall look of it.

I had fun making my husband's layout.  He picked out his pictures and patterned paper (DCWV).  I used the Boys Will Be Boys, and George cartridges.  I had to use the HERO title for him, because he is a hero to our children.  They look up to him a lot.   

Last of all is mine.  I never have that many pictures because I am always the one taking them.  I found some to use and made mine with my favorite color scheme.  The flowers are from Plantin Schoolbook, and George.  My title is from the Gypsy Wanderings cart.  I had to use Stickles!  I also used my Cuttlebug, and some brads.

Thank you all for taking the time to stop by my blog and check out my projects.  I hope you like them and are inspired by them. 

 

Day 5-MPS 12 Days of Christmas

Challenge #5-Make a gift card or money holder.  This one wasn't too bad I made it pretty fast for me.  I made it simple and sweet since I am running out of time to finish all of the challenges.  Hope you like it.

Cartridges: Doodlecharms and Gypsy Wanderings

Stampin up ink and stamp

very simple.  Thanks for stopping by, Merry Christmas!

Comments are welcome!

Hope your Holiday Sparkles!

Thank you to all who have commented recently on my blog.  I love to read them all, and they just make my day!

Well, tomorrow is my card swap group and for this month and next month we will be doing Christmas cards.  I love making my own homemade christmas cards for family.  I am excited to get some different ideas from these other ladies.  Let me share with you my idea. 

you can't tell in the picture but I used smooch spritz (vanilla shimmer) on the black paper just to give it a subtle sparkle.

Cartridge: Gypsy Wanderings

Cuttlebug on the black paper

SU Stamp(tree) and Ink

White gel pen

Stickles in silver and red

ribbon from stash

Thanks for coming to my blog, I hope you like what you see, let me know by posting a comment please! 

"Beary" cute cards

Hi all,  I made a couple of cards for some challenges.  I was going to use just one card for both challenges but then noticed after I had finished the one that I accidentally used something I wasn't supposed to.  So I just made another one.  Hope you like them.

Cartridge: Doodlecharms, Gypsy Wanderings

Punch: Fiskars

My Pink Stamper: more punny-licious

Colorbox ink

White Thread

Stickles

White gel pen

Cartridge: Doodlecharms

Punch: Fiskars

My Pink Stamper: more punny-licious

Colorbox ink

White gel pen

Stickles

Challenges they are going into are:

crafty sprouts getting sketchy with it challenge

and M.A.G. Challenge by the page

Thanks for stopping by!

Comments are welcome, I love reading all of them!

My Boy!

I have to share with you this layout I did with my son's 1 year photos.  My photographer is amazing and affordable!  The pictures turned out beautiful (for a boy).  Isn't he just sooo.. adorable!!

Layout came from a sketch by Liz Qualman. 

I used the gypsy wanderings cart for the stars and the title.

A Martha Stewart punch

Cardstock is Bazzill and patterned paper is SEI.   

Ink is stampin up and colorbox

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like it.

Here is a fun scrapbook page I just finished, all I have to do is the journaling and that won't take long.  I love this picture of my two girls, we didn't even tell them to pose that way the photographer was just quick with the camera.

Recipe:

Paper: SEI, and Bazzill cardstock

Carts used: once upon a princess, plantin schoolbook, gypsy wanderings

Inks: SEI and colorbox

and of course I used stickles!

Hope you like it, comments are welcome!

NSD Challenge #4

This challenge was fairly easy.  I already new the colors and paper that I wanted to use so it came together pretty quick.  We had to make something with a Mother's day theme, of course. I like this card and I'm sure my mother in law will too.

All the paper is just from my stash.  The scallop circle I believe is from the Gypsy wanderings cart. and the sentiment is from an older Stampin' Up line. All ink is Stampin' Up. I used a Martha Stewart punch for the border, and of course added a little bling to the middle of the flower. 

I hope you enjoy and thanks for stopping by. 
To join in the fun follow this link http://www.mypinkstamper.com/

MPS Birthday Challenge

Hi guys, this is just a quick post to show you this adorable birthday gift bag I made for a girl that I coach in soccer.  I also am going to enter it in the My Pink Stamper birthday challenge from her blog hop on Friday. 

I made this with her favorite colors in mind. The cartridges I used were: Plantain Schoolbook, Gypsy wanderings, and Doodlecharms.  The white paper is from Doodlebug and the rest is from my scraps.  The ribbon is from my stash and I just used a white gel pen for the outline. 

It is filled with some fun treats to celebrate.  I will have a lot more of these in the near future.  We have a lot of girls on our team.  And quite a few birthdays coming up.

Courtney's Birthday card

Hi scrappin' pals,
Here is another Birthday card I made for a different niece.  This one is turning 14.  I can't believe it! Time really flies.  She is really into dance and music. So this is what I came up with for her.  I hope she likes it.

Since I don't have any dance carts that would really fit her style I used Gypsy Wanderings cart for the music note.  I embossed the music scale on the green paper with clear embossing powder. The scale is a rolling stamp from Stampin' Up, and I used Stampin' Up ink for the distressing.  I hand wrote the sentiment.  The ribbon is from Mrs. Grossmans.  The paper is from everywhere. 
Let me know what you think.

MPS Blog Hop

Hello everyone, long time no see.  I am sorry it has been so long.  All of my good intentions of posting all the time got put on hold from some big projects I was put in charge of doing; and I am still trying to get over a cold too. 

I was able to quickly put together this card for the Blog hop over on My Pink Stamper.  The challenge was to make something with spring colors or your interpretation of spring.  Well, when I think of spring I think of flowers and butterflies. I really like how this card turned out.  You could use it for a number of different things; a birthday, thinking of you, thank you, etc.  I think I am going to use it for a mother's day card. 

The whole card was made using my scraps so I don't know where I got the paper from, except the printed flower paper is from a DCWV paper stack.  I used stickles on the butterfly; it came from the gypsy wanderings cart, and the flowers are from the plantin schoolbook cart.  I just used basic white brads for the centers of the flowers and popped up the flowers with pop dots. 

Hope you enjoy it.  C-ya tomorrow!

My Pink Stamper Blog Hop Challenge

I participated in my first blog hop last night. What fun!  There are so many people out there that are so talented and full of great ideas! I am so glad they are willing to share that talent with the rest of us.
On to the challenge:  Make something using Black and your favorite color(s).  My favorite color is black so then I just used my other favs., which are, Red, white and silver. 

The scroll is from the gypsy wanderings cart, and the font is from Once upon a Princess.  I used black glitter on both of those.  The cuttlebug for the swirls on the red paper, and just some small heart brads to finish it off!  I really liked how this turned out, hope you do too!