sail away party {Birthday Bash at Scrapping Turtle}.

Our Birthday Bash is in full swing over at Turtle Soup Forums. Today I'm sharing a layout and a challenge: To use bright colors on your project. 

Scrapping Turtle Birthday Bash Challenge #9

This is a photo from our cruise in January. I wanted to tell the story about how my boyfriend lost his sign & sail card literally within 10 minutes of us getting on the ship. So we kind of missed the sail away festivities because we had to visit Guest Services for him to be issued a new card.

I used mainly my June Studio Calico kits (gems, label stickers,chipboard shapes, stamp set, striped patterned paper). I did use some patterned papers from Webster's Pages Recorded collection. The geotag puffy sticker is Skipping5, the chipboard is Creative Embellishments, and the turquoise stickers are SN@P! by Simple Stories. My alpha stickers are October Afternoon and Dear Lizzy.

The birthday celebration is going on all month over at the Scrapping Turtle forums - go check it out! I hope you'll participate in my challenge and if you do, you just have to upload your project to the Scrapping Turtle gallery and then link it by posting a comment on the Birthday Bash Challenge #9 thread. After you do that -- come back here and there's a chance for you to win a prize from me. I made a Rafflecopter to make it super simple. Can't wait to see your projects!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

great miracles [card]|Stick It Down design team.

Today is the second Tuesday of the month which means it's the card sketch reveal at Stick It Down. [PS I was asked to join the SID card design team!] This was our sketch:

For my card, I used the Print Shop patterned papers by Studio Calico + chipboard hearts and wood veneers. My sentiment is Unity Stamp Co Sept 2008 kit of the month Friendship, Love, Miracles. 

Here's what I made:

4.5 inches tall x 5 inches wide

The rules are simple...
1. Please no back linking. Your project may be combined with other challenge blogs, but must be created after our sketch is posted.

2.  Please link back to Stick it Down from your blog post. Post your link HERE.

3.  You can rotate, flip, or alter the sketch, but we hope to see how the sketch inspired your creation.

4.  Please follow the sketch format.

a SALE at Scrapping Turtle!

Sale! Read the details HERE.

10% off all regularly priced items.

Plus, visit the forums HERE for the month long Birthday Bash!

Herbal Essences review.

I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes.

Herbal Essences Naked Moisture Shampoo smoothes and infuses moisture into locks while gentley cleansing to leave dry, rought hair nourished and hydrated with a crisp mint scent infused with notes of rosemary, basil, and lemon.
Herbal Essences Naked Mosisture Conditioner soothes and conditions by gently wrapping each strand with essential moisturizers that revive dull and damaged hair, leaving it smooth and soft without buildup, all with a revitalizing mint and herb fragrance.

The first thing I noticed about this shampoo is how amazing it smells! Light florals like a great summer perfume. I just love it. The shampoo lathered up perfectly and I felt it rinsed clean. With my current shampoo, I feel like there is a sleek residue on my hair that I can't get rinsed out. This shampoo makes my hair feel squeaky clean. It also left my hair soft and smooth. It looks good, which is no small feat in this humidity! 

I use heat on my hair daily (dryer, straightener, & curling iron most days) + I color my hair. Sometimes my hair can look dry and I most definitely have split ends. I think the conditioner really helped in this area. My hair was tangle free and looked moisturized. Not dry. Not processed. It looks (and feels!) healthy.

favorite part of summer [LCOM 78].

We're still celebrating Isabelle's birthday month! Today it's our last sketch share for JUNE. Since my birthday is in July - it's my favorite part of summer :) You can see the sketch and the projects from the other designers HERE.

LCOM78

This is sort of page two of my layout from sketch 76. You can view it HERE. For this page, I used some Studio Calico, Fancy Pants, and Pink Paislee  patterned papers. I used sequins and heart chipboard from Studio Calico. The flowers are very old Sassafras and the labels are Elle's Studio and Jillibean Soup. My black washi taps are Freckled Fawn and the pink/orange washi tape at the bottom is Studio Calico. Enamel dots are My Mind's Eye.

If you want to play along, here's how:

1. Make a newly created project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery.
2. Then leave a link to your project using the Inlinkz widget HERE. Please use a direct link to your LCOM Sketch post and not just your blog address.
3. If you upload to online galleries, please also use tag/keyword LCOM78. LCOM products are NOT required to participate, and you can enter as many times as you want. If you don't have a particular shape indicated in the sketch, feel free to substitute.
4. There is no time limit - you can always play any week at any time, but the linking form will close on the last day of the month at 11:55pm (Atlantic Standard Time) to allow us to find a prize winner.

The June prize (for any of the sketch challenges) is a $20 gift certificate to the LCOM store!

darling gray faces|Scrap Much?!

It's sketchy Friday at ScrapMuch?! Here's this week's sketch from Scrap Much?!

Look at these brown boys with their gray faces. They're getting SO old! Chocolate just turned nine and Hunter will be 12 this month. Cannot believe it.

I love those dog wood veneers from Creative Embellishments. That vellum is by Crate Paper. The vellum, the tags, and the woodgrain cardstock are from the May Paper Bakery kit, along with the Thickers + Amy Tangerine rub ons. The enamel dots are Prima Sugar Dots and the little puffy camera stickers are really old from my stash of Amy Tangerine.

 If you're playing along (and we hope you are!) here are the rules:

Just link up your creations HERE to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize. You have until Sunday,  June 29th, at midnight to participate in any of June's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!
If you are playing along with more than one challenge you will need to link each of them up via a separate blog post for the link up tool to work. (International participants may be required to pay some shipping fees.)  Good luck, we cannot wait to see what you create!

you light up my life [card].

This morning I had time to make a quick, simple card. I was inspired by THIS June challenge at Paper Wings Productions to use chipboard.

I got these industrial hanging light bulb chipboard pieces from Creative Embellishments a few months ago with the intention of using them on a card with a play on words. I used some silver embossing powder from My Stamp Box and heat embossed the light bulb. I stamped my Unity Stamp Co sentiment with white Prima chalk ink. I tried an American Crafts white pigment ink, an American Crafts silver pigment ink, but this Prima one was the best white I had in my stash. I love the simplicity of this card.

Scrapping Turtle July Birthday Bash {announcement}.

4 [LCOM sketch 76].

This is Isabelle's birthday month so ALL of June we're sharing birthday related projects with our Let's Capture our Memories sketches. Today we're revealing sketch 76...

 My page is in celebration of my 4th birthday - back in 1988. Yes, this year I'm turning 30!

These photos had been cut down (pre-Fiskars photo trimmer) from a previous old project so I decided to use these on my page. They were all cut different sizes and cut unevenly (remember: pre-photo trimmer) so I grouped them all together in a cluster. I thought that would make it harder to tell they're uneven and funky. The rest of the page is basically a bunch of clustering and layering. This was a fun sketch & I hope you'll join us!

I used patterned papers from my May Studio Calico kit [Camelot], along with the gold rub ons. The rest of the embellishments are from my stash. MME brads and enamel dots, Elle's Studio labels, Studio Calico Print Shop vellum stickers, and some cardstock stickers off of Echo Park sticker sheets. The heart washi is Glitz Design.

  June Prize
A $20 Gift Certificate to the Let's Capture Our Memories online store!

How to Play Along:
1. Make a newly created project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery.
2. Then leave a link to your project using the Inlinkz widget HERE. Please use a direct link to your LCOM Sketch post and not just your blog address.
3. If you upload to online galleries, please also use tag/keyword LCOM76. LCOM products are NOT required to participate, and you can enter as many times as you want. If you don't have a particular shape indicated in the sketch, feel free to substitute.
4. There is no time limit - you can always play any week at any time, but the linking form will close on the last day of the month at 11:55pm (Atlantic Standard Time) to allow us to find a prize winner.

Easter 2014|Scrap Much?!

Time for our Friday sketch at Scrap Much?! My comfort zone tends to be two photos on a page so this sketch made me really happy :)

I used some of my Amy Tangerine 12x12 paper stack that I haven't used much of. I cut the sun and clouds out from patterned papers. My chipboard embellishments are Basic Grey, the enamel dots are Teresa Collins, and the ribbon is Pink Paislee. The wood veneer is from Creative Embellishments and the letter stickers are Sassafras. My little flair is from A Flair for Buttons Etsy shop. This came together really quickly! 

We hope you'll join our sketchy Friday challenge by linking up HERE to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize. You have until Sunday, June 29th, at midnight to participate in any of June's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date

summer bucket list.

link up

Stick It Down [card] design team!

Announcement HERE on the Stick It Down blog. We'll be sharing our first projects in July. I'm excited to stretch my creative boundaries being on this card sketch team.

garage sale finds May 31.

I only went to sales on Saturday this week but found a couple great things. There were two neighborhood sales going on so we mainly hit those. It was definitely starting to warm up outside by the time we were wrapping up around 11:30. Summer is here!

$10 | another shelf for my garage.

$10 | for my backyard.

 

featured card at Sketch N Scrap.

My Hello card was chosen as a feature over at Sketch N Scrap! 

sunshine makes me happy.

Sketch n Scrap #58... 

Loved this sketch and so I grabbed my May Paper Bakery kit and got to work. I added some stamping, wood veneer and cork pieces from Studio Calico, and enamel dots from twine + ink. The 'sunshine' stamp is from Unity and it's the first time I've used it. I lovelovelove this heart patterned paper by Amy Tan Plus One collection.