Teacher Appreciation Week

Just wanted to share some of the cards & wrappings I made for our Teacher Appreciation week gifts....

For our Sunday school end of year cards, I made these cards which were a lift of a card from the amazing Danielle Flanders.

For the school teachers, I got them personalized wood-mounted stamps from my new favorite crafty daily deal site Pick Your Plum.

And for one of their teachers, a box of her favorite tea:

I get to take a break from teacher gifts for at least a couple of weeks and then it'll be time to make end of the year gifts.

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Moxie Fab Damask & Brocade Challenge

I celebrated my 40th birthday this weekend (along with Mother's Day) and need some fabulous thank you cards for some of my friends who gave me lovely gifts when we went out for margaritas one night to celebrate.

I made this card using some A Muse damask cardstock that I've been hoarding. I split it into pieces and heat embossed the PTI Think Big Favorites sentiment with American Crafts Zing Silver embossing powder.

For the second I did made the same card except I popped up alternating strips to give some dimension. Looks better in real life as I couldn't quite capture the dimension.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week.

Card Patterns Sketch 164

I found a new site with a great card sketch challenge every week - Card Patterns. A sketch is always helpful to me when I need to make a quick card but don't have an idea where to begin.

I paired this sketch with this Papertrey Ink color palette:

to create this:

My brother is newly engaged so wanted to make a card for the happily engaged couple using hearts. I stamped the Penny Black All Over Pattern background in Versamark and embossed it with American Crafts Zing powder in Frost. The hearts were die cut in PTI Pure Poppy and Raspberry Fizz and added a few Keisercraft rhinestones along the end of the PTI double ended banner die. The sentiment is A Muse stamped with Adirondack Espresso.

Thanks for taking a look!

colourQ challenge #136

I am still on a high after being selected as a ColourQueen Courtier last week. Its always fun to play along but even more fun when your card is recognized among all the wonderful entries.

Here's my take on this week's colour palette #136:

All supplies from Papertrey Ink. I used the Heart-2-Heart #2 balloons in Spring Moss, Orange Zest, Harvest Gold inks with Ripe Avocado balloon tails. Love how cheery and bright the card is. Made 8 balloons so my daughter can use it for her best friend's 8th birthday.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Mother's Day.

A World of Gingham

Here's a bright and cheery card I made for the Gingham Challenge in the Moxie Fab World blog using the new Trendy Tree Tops stamp and die set from Papertrey Ink which is fast becoming a favorite along the all the gingham loveliness in the Lily Bee Double Dutch paper line. I used foam adhesive to bring dimension to the red gingham heart and the kraft gingham landscape.

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MIM #65 - Patterned Paper Scrap Backgrounds

Well, if there's one thing I had a TON of, its patterned paper scraps. I have a weakness for patterned paper so I had plenty to draw from for this week's Make It Monday challenge.

I made this background using various scraps from different lines...and since they were scraps from long ago, I'm not entirely sure who made them. I do know the striped is from Chatterbox (yes, THAT old!) and I think the blue is My Mind's Eye. I'm a coordinated kit type of girl so matching different colors across different lines was a little bit of a challenge but I think it turned out great. I used the Papertrey Tie die as well as the block alphabet dies for the DAD and even busted out my Fresh Alphabet stamp set (never used before!) to spell out BEST on the diecuts.

Thanks for taking a look!

National Scrapbook Day Recap

Wow, what a great weekend of scrapbooking! I played along at the Creative Crop at Big Picture Classes and on the Echo Park Blog. They both had some great challenges that had me going all day.

Despite the fact that dear hubby was working most of the weekend and the girls and I had a birthday party, softball game, and our last Sunday school class of the year, I was still able to create 3 cards and 9 layouts. And I had a great time making them, though with less sleep! Thank goodness the challenge deadline at Big Picture gave me until Sunday night.

Here are my layouts for the Creative Crop:

CHALLENGE #1 - Feature a photo with a fanciful frame.

CHALLENGE #2: Grab a photo from a few years back and a photo from today and tell a story about the way things are different or the same.

CHALLENGE #3: Use photos and/or page accents to create a page that talks about reflection, literally or figuratively.

CHALLENGE #5: Using iPhone photos.

CHALLENGE #6: Use this Sketch!

CHALLENGE #8: Add a mini flag to your layout.

CHALLENGE #10: Use any cast-off object on your layout.

CHALLENGE #11: Scrapbook a favorite memory from your childhood.

CHALLENGE #12: Utilize kraft in two different ways on a project.

For the fun on the Echo Park blog, I completed 4 projects and posted about them on my blog already. The exciting news today is that I won the prize for the Echo Park sketch challenge - YIPPEE! I'm getting a prize package of border punches from Fiskars. Fun! So cool to see my layout featured on their blog...it was a great surprise today.

Thanks for taking a look at the fruits of my NSD labors.
I had a blast! Now I should go clean up the disaster in my scrap space.

Echo Park Sketch Challenge

For Echo Park's Challenge #4 using a this sketch, I had to search through many pictures to find ones that would be good for a layout that included a banner. I have never really caught on to the banner trend but really like how this page turned out and how easy it was with the banner stickers included in my Walk in the Park collection kit. LOVE Echo Park's kits because they include everything I need to make great pages so no need to hunt for separate embellishments.

I blurred the journaling a bit for posting. Love how bright and happy the layout is. Thanks for taking a peek!