ICS #42 plus lots more!!!

I hated that I didn't get to play along last week with ICS but life just got in the way! This week Dawn has another fabulous sketch this week for us to play with. The design team got to play with some of The Greeting Farms digi images too. There is a yummy prize up for grabs from The Greeting Farm so be sure to play along.
Is this image not the cutest or what?

supplies: Daisy Bucket pp, Prima flowers, The Greeting Farm digi image, My Sentiments Exactly stamps, Making Memories pins, unknown cs, tulle, colored pencils, markers, stazon ink, white gel pen

We hope you will come and play along this week and be sure to check out what the rest of the design team did with the sketch!

You still have time to put your hat in the ring for the design team call at Scrap and Stamp Saturday, please go here for all the details! And you can see this weeks challenge HERE! And the Stamp, Scrap and Doodle challenge HERE for this week.

Tuesday was Patrick's 6th birthday but we didn't have his party until Sat! It is hard to believe my baby is 6 years old! Where does the time go? He is big into TMNT right now so he wanted a ninja turtle cake. I was lucky enough to find one of the old Wilton pans from the 80's. I was not happy with the way it turned out but Patrick loved it and that is all that mattered. Right? I know what the problem was though. I used the whipped icing and it was too hot in the kitchen while I was icing so it got to soft.
Patrick with his cake!

And with all his little friends. The little girl right next to Patrick is his little "girlfriend" Lily. Yeah still the same one from last year! She is such a little doll!

Here is a quick pic of his Halloween costume this year too! He has all the ninja moves down...lol

Thanks for sticking around to see all my pics! I hope you have a fabulous day!

Making Handmade Cards

I was so honored and excited to be asked by Jo to be a Guest Designer for Making Handmade Cards!
I got to work with the upcoming "Happy Flowers" kit back in October! It was a little more challenge than I would have thought to use just the ekit and basic supplies. I didn't realize how often I reach for buttons, pins, dewdrops etc until trying to not use them...lol. Of course once you purchase the ekits you can use what ever goodies you would like with them!

This ekit is chocked full of beautiful images, background papers and greetings. There are so many combinations that you have an endless supply of choices!

I made 5 cards with this kit and I see me reaching for this one again and again!


I made this one really simple and the only thing I used cardstock, twine, popdots and a sharpie from my stash.


I used a sketch from a challenge blog somewhere but I am sorry to say that now I can't remember where. If you know please let me know and I will give credit where credit is due! I added cardstock, stickles, ink and raindrops from my stash. For the seniment I printed out the supplied sents on regular printer paper and then traced over the sentiment with a sharp pencil so that I got a little bit of an indention in the paper and then traced over it with a sharpie.

I hand cut the vase from a sheet of backing paper and simpley cut out the flowers from one of the sheets in the ekit. I used popdots on a few of the flowers for some added depth. I used cardstock, twine and a sharpie from my stash.

I cut out various flowers and used popdots behind some of them and then added stickles to the centers. I used ink, ribbon and stickles from my stash.

I really like the sunny yellow with this card! This one was fast and simple really. The 4 flowers are printed on the backing paper already. I simply printed it out twice and cut out the flowers so that I could pop them up. The sun is actually a flower from another sheet. I added stickles to various elements.

This is just a little sampling of the "happy flowers" ekit from Making Handmade Cards. If you would like to know how you could get one be sure to check HERE! Also sign up for the newsletter and you will get a free ekit!

Scrap and Stamp & Stamp, Scrap and Doodle

I am a little late adding my posts today. I have been cleaning and time just got away from me...lol.

I hope you all have a Happy and Safe Halloween today! We will be hitting the streets with an umbrella in tow...it is raining here!
Today is the day for a new challenge over at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays. This week we would like to see Anything but a Card! So let your imagination go wild and show us what you got! Regina at The Cutting Cafe is our fabulous sponsor this week. She also gave the DT 3 cut files to work with as well. I used the box template for these 2.
These are the goodies Patrick took to school for his Halloween party. The boxes are full of mini reeces cups for his teacher and the class grandma. The school has about 10 grandmas that volunteer every single day and help with the classes. The pre-k and kindergarten classes eacg have one all day and the rest of the grandmas rotate out with the other classes.
I kept the goody bags for the class simple this yes and just added a stamped tag. No muss no fuss...lol.

supplies: The Cutting Cafe box file, Prima flowers, Autumn Leaves stamp, Cricut, stazon ink, Bazzill cs, Doodlebug and PineCone Press pp, tulle, gems

It is also time for a new challenge over at Scrap and Stamp today! This week we want to see a Halloween layout or mini with at least one stamp! Perfect timing for me to finish up last years pictures before I get more tonight! Our sponsor this week is Dream Designs.

I stamped the tiny spider that is added to the tag all over the background cs in black ink. I wish it showed up in the photo but it adds just enough to the page.

supplies: Bazzill cs, Making Memories pp, Reminisce and Doodlebug stickers, My Sentiments Exactly alpha stamps, American Craft thickers, chalk ink, stickles, Studio G spider stamp, Cricut for spiders, wiggly eyes, white gel pen, floss


I hope you will join us at Scrap and Stamp and at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle this week! You have until Friday to get your projects in!

Inspirational Card Sketches #40

It is Tuesday again and we all know what that means! A new sketch from Dawn at ICS! This week is a fun one, well every week is...lol.
I followed the sketch pretty close this week. It did scream acrylic to me again so thats what I did. Well at least half acrylic, the front panel is acrylic and the back is pp. I simply cut the front about 1/2 inch longer so I would have room to fold it over and attach it to the front of the pp. Then the strip of cardstock covers the seam. It is hard to see the cs strip (which is on the inside) but it is the same purple as behind the little vampire with a scalloped edge. I put another purple oval on the inside to write on.

supplies: Bazzill cs, Creative Imagination pp, The Pixie Cottage stamps, ribbon, markers, stickles, colored pencils, stazon in and chalk ink, white gell pen, sharpie

I hope you will join us this week! Be sure to head over to the ICS blog to see what the rest of the DT did!

I tried to post these pics and projects yesterday but blogger was not cooperating with me and kept kicking me off. So I am a day late but still excited to share them...lol


This weekend was my nephew, Carsyn's, birthday party. He is a huge fan of Blues Clues so that is what he got!

Here is a pic of Carsyn with his cake and a few of the presents.

If you have been visiting my blog for awhile you probably know that I decorate cakes on the side. So here is the cake I made for him! I got the template for blue HERE....I did a few alterations but it was so great having a template to go by since I didn't have a shaped pan. Because I can't draw on paper more less a cake...lol


Yesterday was the day for a new challenge over at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays! We have a sketch for you this week. It screamed for a layout to me so that is what I did. Our fabulous sponsor this week is The Pixie Cottage! See that cute little vampire? It came from The Pixie Cottage! Isn't he cute?

I hope you will join us this week!

supplies: Scrapworks pp, chipboard alphas, Reminisce pp and sticker, DCWV and Bazzill cs, The Pixie Cottage stamp, American Crafts thickers, ink, white gel pen, colored pencils, markers, stickles

This one is also for a few challenges....

Everybody Art Challenges-halloween
Stamp Something-halloween
Kaboodles-halloween

LaLa Land Crafts-sparkle

And it was also time for a new challenge at Scrap and Stamp yesterday! This week we have an open challenge...there is no theme but we would like to see some stamping on your embellishments.

We have a fabulous sponsor this week, Pebbles Inc, they were very generous with goodies for the DT. So I hope you will join us this week for a chance to win a chalk kit full of goodies!

I stamped on my buttons!

supplies: Pebbles Inc pp, ribbon, stickers and candy dots, American Crafts thickers, sharpie, buttons, twine, Kits 2Remember flourish stamp

Inspirational Card Sketches #39

It seems like the days are just flying by lately! Since today is Tuesday you get a new fabulous sketch from Dawn at ICS! This one is so fun and has so many possibilities!

I stayed pretty true to the sketch this week, well I did flip it...lol. We got to work with these adorable images from Doodle Palace! I popped the orange leaf and the darker squirrel up.
supplies: Imagine That pp, unknown cs, Doodle Palace digi image, Studio G stamp, Colorbox chalk ink, Rita Marie flower, various gems, Ranger Distress ink, markers, colored pencils, sharpie

I hope you will head over to ICS and see what the rest of the team did with this weeks sketch. And if you play along which I know you will...lol. You may win some of the fabulous images from Doodle Palace!

just for fun!

Today I got a little time to myself to play. Patrick had a few friends over and were happy with themselves and daddy. Yeah! I love days like that!

I got a couple of cards done just for fun and 3 DT projects too! I stopped by Digiday at Squigglefly on SNR last night. Holly made a video on how to make your own flowersoft. It is great you can view it HERE. I had been wondering if styrofoam would work. And Holly figured it all out so I didn't have too...lol. I used it on both of these cards. I also colored some to play with it on another card.

supplies: Making Memories pp, Pixie Cottage sentiment stamp, unknown cs, There is Magic in the Air digi images, 3d sticker from Walmart, ribbon, stickles, markers, homemade flower soft, distress ink

This one is for...
One Stop Craft-Halloween
Charisma-distressing
Cute Card Thursday-spook fest
Mojo Monday-sketch
Papertake Weekly-spooky
Pile it On-Halloween
Digital Tuesday-halloween
Creative Friday-halloween
My Time to Craft-quick and cute

This one is for...
Lili of the Valley-Christmas card for a child
Stamp Something-bling
LaLa Land-Christmas
Allsorts-monochromatic Christmas with sketch
Paper Play-fav embellie (buttons for me)
If the Shoe fits-bling

Scrap and Stamp Saturday and a DT CALL

This is my second post of the day

Please scroll down to see my Stamp, Scrap and Doodle post!

Thank you!

This week at Scrap and Stamp we some big news! We are having a DT Call. It will be open until Nov. 15th. Please go to the SSS blog to get all the deets! I hope you will try out!

Our challenge this week is "what are you thankful for" plus stamping. I am thankful for my family. So my page this week has photos of me, Nick and Patrick with my cousin and her family that was taken at Christmas 2007 while we were in the mountains. We have some great times because we were always close growing up plus her husband, Mike and Nick have been best friends since they were little!

supplies: Rita Marie flowers and leaves, American Craft thickers, 7 Gypsies stamp, Three Bugs in a Rug papers, ribbon, gems, distress ink

I was trying to keep some white space since I was working with these small photos that I had already printed out. The largest one is only 3x4. I am not so sure about it...but then I never am when I am trying to keep alot of white space...lol.

I hope you will join us at SSDS this week! Please come by and see what the girls did!

I am also using this for a few other challenges

3Clovers-nature

The Pink Elephant-fall

Creative Belli-fall/thanksgiving with a leaf

Today is the day for another fun challenge over at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays! This week we want to see your take on this inspiration photo!

This is my take on the picture. I used some of the colors and nature! Isn't this image just too cute. It is one from our sponsor this week McMahon Five Designs.
I kept the inside simple with a piece of the green paper and a stamped setiment of "for a friend like you!" I popped the bird with his wings spread up and all the leaves too.
supplies: Three Bugs in a Rug papers, unknown cs, My Sentiments Exactly stamps, McMahon Five Designs digi image, ribbon, markers, Prizma pencils, sharpie, popdots

Be sure to play along this week to try and win some fabulous images from McMahon Five Designs. Now head on over to the SSDS blog and see what the other girls did!

I am also using this for a few other challenges...

The Pink Elephant-fall

3Clovers-nature

Creative Belli-fall/thanksgiving with a leaf

Scrap and Stamp & Kits2Remember!

Today is the day for a new challenge over at Scrap and Stamp Saturday! This week we are saying goodbye to summer!
I didn't do a traditional page this week I did a 6x6 metal wall hanging for my sons room. He has been on several adventures this summer so I thought this would be a fun interactive thing for him to have.
I used a 6x6 metal panel from Kits2Remember, this way all I have to do is add a magnet to the photos and they can be changed out really easily! This photo was from last summer but the 3x4 photos I have ordered haven't come in yet.


supplies: Kits2Remember metal panel, SEI papers, My Heart Stamps for You(duck) and My Sentiments Exactly (alpha) stamps, Making Memories hybrid ink, Stazon ink, Colorbox chalk ink, Prizma pencils, twine, Basic Grey alpha stickers

I hope you will come join in the fun this week at Scrap and Stamp.
Be sure to go to Kits2Remember to see the new items that Jessica has in stock. Kits2Remember has the best acrylic out their in my book it is nice and thick but still punches easily with the cropadile!