Calendar layouts

As two of my closest friends know..I have been working on a calendar for my mom! This was a project that was supposed to be a gift for Xmas 2009...however it has been a work in progress since January! I have given her a few months at a time throughout the year to add to her calendar! Anyways...I finished up October and November this week! Now I just have December to do!

Clean & Simple

Clean and simple was the challenge this week at Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle Saturday
This is a super simple card but yet looks very elegant. I just recently made a set of 10 of these for a close friend for her birthday gift. The materials I used for this card were:
~black and white cardstock
~Flourish stamp set (no clue on the company for the set...came from Wal-Mart)
~Black and Blush stamp pads from CTMH
~Sentiment from CTHM stamp set: Treasure Life
~white crayon
That's it!!! Let me know what you think! I love feedback!

Color Challenge at H2H

I finally got around to completing another challenge from H2H. This week it was a color challenge using vineyard berry, blush, and creme brulee! It was quite a challenge but I am proud of the result! Here is what I used:

~Vineyard berry cardstock, blush cardstock, creme brulee cardstock

~Flourish stamp from Wal-Mart on the blush cardstock

~Connections stamp set (large flourish)

~You're Special stamp set (sentiment)

~Vineyard stamp pad, Blush Stamp pad

~Liquid glass and prisma glitter

~Rhinestone flourish from Prisma

~Rhinestones from Imaginisce (used my new I-Rock tool)

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The picture didn't come as great as I would like...does any one have any suggestions for taking good pictures of your cards/layouts?

CHA Make & Takes

A friend of mine is trying to get her online store up and running again and to do so she went to CHA to take a look at all of the new products coming out! And nicely she invited me and another close scrapping friend to come along! We went to some neat workshops on Monday and then Tuesday we hit the showfloor! Here are a few of the make & takes we did throughout the day. This was a scrapbook layout that we were able to do at The Little Yellow Bicycle booth.

This is an assortment of projects we did at Unity Stamp booth, Craft-N-Doodle booth, The Craft Lounge booth, and others I can't remember! I still have 2 projects to finish from the Cricut booth and the Quick Quotes booth. When I get them finished I will post them!

Animal Card

Here is a new card I created for Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday. The challenge was to create a card with an animal. For this card I again used some odds and ends of other projects that I had on hand. The paper I used was from a Martha Stewart paper pack. The giraffe and palm leaves are stickers from Sandylion. The sentiment stamp was from Close to my Heart: Childhood Set. The little stiched circle stamp on my green sheet is from CTMH also, it is part of the Connections set. The ink I used throughout the project is Sweet Leaf from CTMH.

Candy Tin Project

I am amazed that I was able to get a new project done this week! The boys haven't been napping well and we have been out and about a few days too! But I did manage it and I am happy with the result! I found a great new challenge blog out there that uses CTMH product, it is Heart 2 Heart Challenges! I am a big fan of CTMH and wanted to try out their new challenge..which was to do anything but a card. So I decorated up this candy tin that I have had sitting in my scrap stuff for a long time!

I used the Caprice paper set and stickers from CTMH, flowers from the white daisy flower pack, chocolate brads, and the Treasure Life stamp set for the saying. I colored a few flowers with the Crystal Blue stamp pad. I did use some rhinestone swirls from Prima also. Let me know what you think!

Baby Card

I am on a roll this week! I have completed my second card for my second challenge. It is 12:30 at night when I am posting this, but I am running on a card making high :)

This card was created for the challenge at Always Playing With Paper The challenge was to create a card for a new baby! I used my scraps (again) from the Animal Crackers set from Close to My Heart. I inked the edges of my paper with Autumn Teracotta from Close to My Heart. The ribbon is from American Crafts and the stamp "Tiny Miracle" is something I had on hand. It was quick and easy to put together!

I am going to pay for this in the morning when my children wake up at 6:00! But I had a fun creating this card and look forward to being part of another competition!