Haul Video: Sparkle N Sprinkle.

Sparkle N Sprinkle first haul video!

In case you missed the announcement from Sparkle N Sprinkle earlier this week, you can read it HERE. I received my first design team package earlier this week. You can see the haul video HERE.

together.

Hey there! I have a layout to share today for the Scrapping Turtle design team. They have monthly promotions and SN@P by Simple Stories is on sale this month. I've been eyeing these cuts from the Home Spun collection for a while and finally bit the bullet and got them. You know I don't do pocket style scrapbooking (except for mini albums an special projects), but I still use cards meant for pocket style pages. 

Here's what I came up with:

Sketch Source

 This photo is from my cousin's senior night last fall. My mom and I went to his football game and while we were standing at the gate watching the seniors line up, my other cousin (his brother) came strolling by. We took a "groupie" as mom called it - and we all were cracking up.

supplies 
ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Shabby Shutters)
date stamps: Studio Calico; American Crafts (Amy Tangerine; Maggie Holmes)
stamp: Studio Calico
enamel dots: My Mind's Eye (The Sweetest Thing)
die: Die-Namics by My Favorite Things (Accent It - Labels and Tabs)
embossing powder: My Stamp Box (clear)
washi: Teresa Collins

ScrapMuch?! design team call!

ScrapMuch?! is having a design team call! 

I've had a really fun time on this design team, but unfortunately I need to step down due to the requirements. I encourage everyone to apply for this team - you will get the opportunity to work with some amazing sketches that will push you outside of your comfort zone. Plus, everyone on the team is SO nice. Good luck!

 

Design Team Requirements:

• create 2 layouts per month, using the sketches provided
• post our badge on your blog (yes you must be a blogger)
• become a member of our private Facebook group (this is how we communicate as a team)
• submit your layouts to us on or before the designated due dates
• post the ScrapMuch? sketch and your layout, along with a link to the ScrapMuch? blog on your blog  on the day of our reveal (Fridays)
• share your blog posts on your Facebook page
  
• comment on entries, as assigned (this is a must)
• you do not need to be exclusive to ScrapMuch?, you can belong to one other sketch DT or unlimited other challenge DT's, however you may not belong to any other scrapbook store DT's (this includes GDT spots.)
• you must be loyal and committed to promoting ScrapMuch?

This call is open to scrappers in Canada and the U.S., you do not need to have Design Team experience to apply, all applications will be considered.  The term will run for 6 months, from May 1st, 2015 until October 31, 2015.  Compensation provided in the form of a store discount.

To apply, create a layout using one of our March 2015 sketches.  Send a high quality photo of your layout along with the following information to Laura via email at lwhitaker@bell.net, before our March 29th, 2015 deadline.  Please put ScrapMuch? DT Call in the subject line.

Also include:

• 2 of your favourite layouts, we would love to see what you think best represents your style!!  If you love 2 page layouts be sure to share one of those as well, as you know we offer a two page sketch each month
• past or present DT experience (though none is necessary)
• a link to your blog
• your full name and address

Sparkle N Sprinkle... Guest Designer announcement!

A secret I've been keeping... I'm guest designing for Sparkle N Sprinkle!

I am hyperventilating over their embossing powder choices. & also, flocking?! Hello! + they have some really cute stamps (digi available too!) Best of all? Made in the USA.

Stay tuned over the next few months for some amazing product shares!

Haul Video: Scrapbook Turtle.

Merry Christmas|ScrapMuch?!

Happy March! Today the ScrapMuch?! team B is sharing our sketch release. It may be spring soon (we hope!) but I'm sharing a Christmas page! Here is our Sketchy Friday reveal:

Here is my page:

I asked for a pair of overall Carharts for Christmas this year for when I'm outside with the dogs or shoveling the driveway. My grandma got me a PINK pair! I love them.

To play along with us: link up your creations HERE to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize.


supplies 
die cut shapes: Elle's Studio (Good Cheer)
embossing powder: Stampin' UP! (Shimmering Silver)
candy buttons: Basic Grey
puffy stickers: Evalicious (Oh What Fun)
cork: Elle's Studio (Sycamore Lane)

lovely.

Today is my day off work and I found THIS challenge at Creative Embellishments.I know it's more leprechauns and 4 leaf clovers, but the greens and the flowers really made me feel like spring. I have cabin fever. So I dug up a photo from last spring of when everything was just starting to bloom and come together in my yard. I moved into my home in November 2013, so last spring was my first experience with the plants and flowers the previous owner had in the yard.

This crabtree looks gorgeous for a few weeks in April and May when all the flowers are blooming on it... and then they all fall off at once and it just looks like a normal tree again.

The challenge twist was to use a flourish, but I don't have any of those so I used my Creative Embellishments Fall Leaves wood veneer. Sidenote: I just also found THIS while I was linking up my Fall Leaves and how gorgeous is that?! Makes me think of crips leaves and pumpkins. Anyway, here's my page inspired by their challenge:

May 2014

I heat embossed my wood shapes. The aqua one that looks so shiny - I double heat embossed that one. I'm not sure that's the correct terminology, but before the first layer of embossing powder was dry, I added a second layer and heat embossed it again. It turned out super shiny and I love it. My green leaf started out just being colored with some Faber Casteel Big Brushes, but I decided I didn't like it enough so I heat embossed that one too. First I dipped the edges onto my embossing ink, then I poured on some embossing powder. I waited for it to dry completely (this is hard to do...) and then I added a layer of distress embossing powder over the top. I really love the way that one turned out too!

supplies

patterned paper: We R Memory Keepers (Love Notes)

wood veneer: Creative Embellishments

embossing powders: ZING! by American Crafts (lavender; leaf opaque; aqua); Tim Holtz Distress Powder (peeled paint)

wishing you well|Stick It Down.

Happy March! Man, this year is flying by! Today is an exciting day - besides being one month closer to spring - I am featured on the Stick It Down challenge blog with my card for the March sketch! Here was the sketch:

 Here's my card:

I used ink blending + a stencil for the background.  For the two blocks in the sketch, I used one of my new DieNamics dies to die cut the flowering branches. Where the purple ink blending at the top of the card is, I decided to use a distressed star stamp and heat emboss it with a purple embossing powder.

Then I tied on some pink ribbon at the bottom where the pink ink is blended. For the final step, I used my Spellbinder's Grand Calibur die cutting machine to cut the sentiment frame. I heat embossed a a stamped frame around my sentiment and then stamped my sentiment with VersaFine.

I added a small purple bling on the corner of my sentiment frame and my card is complete. Hope you find some inspiration in my card and you'll play along with us this month! You can link up HERE and these are the guidelines:

1. No back linking. Your project may be combined with other challenge blogs, but must be created after our sketch is posted.
2.  Link back to Stick it Down from your blog post.
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, single page layouts for single sketches, etc....traditional only, no digital!

supplies 
inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Picked Raspberry; Spun Sugar; Shaded Lilac); VersaFine (onyx black) 
stamp: Paper Trey Ink (Framed Out #5; Framed Out #3); Unity Stamp Co (SMAK Kit Dec 2014 Moments Like These)
embossing powder: American Craft ZING! (Lavender) 
stencil: Simon Says Stamp! (Moroccan stencil)
die cutting machine: Spellbinders Grand Calibur
die: Die-Namites (Flowering Branch) 
ribbon: American Crafts

March specials at Scrapping Turtle.

you rock [card] || Scrapping Turtle.

Remember the February specials at Scrapping Turtle? The Crafter's Workshop stencils are 20% off this month! Better hurry - you only have a few days left! 

The design team is featured on the ST blog today with some examples using The Crafter's Workshop stencils. Here's the card I made:

I used the Mini Falling Stars stencil by TCW and my Tim Holtz distress inks.

insta love|ScrapMuch?!

This was a fun page to make about something that happened to me last summer! The sketch this week was sort of not my typical style,but sometimes it's good to be forced outside of your comfort zone. Here's the sketch for this week's Sketchy Friday at ScrapMuch?!

I ended up following this sketch pretty closely. I wasn't sure how to start this page - I was thinking about twine or washi for the diagonal on the page. Then I realized I have a Paper Trey Ink stamp that matches the sketch exactly! For the patterned upper half of the page, I used a pale pink ink and a stamp from PWP to create the subtle patterned background.

I actually love how this page turned out. Creating my own "patterned paper" on half of the page was really fun and something I should do more often!


If you want to play along with us - and we hope you do! - Just link up your creations HERE to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize. You have until February 28 at midnight to participate in any of this months sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!


supplies
stamp: Paper Trey Ink (SimpleValentine); Paper Wings Productions (Art Textures);
ink: Studio Calico Color Theory (clean slate); Tim Holtz Distress Ink (spun sugar; evergreen bough);
cork: Elle's Studio (Sycamore Lane); Studio Calico
embossing powder: American Crafts Zing! (aqua)
date stamp: Studio Calico
stickers: Heidi Swapp; Lily Bee; Webster's Pages;

many thanks [card].

Howdy everyone! I found a challenge this weekend on the Paper Smooches website. Their challenge theme this time was anything goes. Doesn't get much easier than that, right?;)

I used the Geo-Graphic stamp for my background and heat embossed with pink and a yellow. Using white embossing in the lower left corner, I stamped a sentiment stamp from Word Salad. Then I lightly misted over the heat embossed image with a Heidi Swapp Color Shine spray.

I die cut two tags from the MFT Flags and Things die set out of project life cards. I've mentioned before that I don't typically do pocket style scrapbooking, but I do sometimes get kits and use the kits for other embellishments or pocket style mini albums.

 Thanks for looking!

supplies
stamps: Paper Smooches (Geo-Graphic; Word Salad)
ink: TsukinekoVersaMark Clear  
die: My Favorite Things (Flags and Tags)
embossing powder: American Crafts ZING (grapefruit opaque; butter); My Stamp Box (white)
mist: Heidi Swapp ColorShine (Primrose)
paperclip: Two Peas in a Bucket

loving you is so easy [card].

This morning before work, I decided to work on a card that could be used for Valentine's day. I used the challenge prompt at City Crafter this week - You Matter.

For this card, I started by feeling inspired by one of the Unity Stamp Co kits I got on sale last week. I heat embossed with some silver sparkle embossing powder from Stampin' UP!

Then I decided I had a really great embossing folder that would be great on this card. So I used my Spellbinder's Grand Calibur to emboss the base of my card. I roughed up the top layer of cardstock with my Tim Holtz distressing tool.

Next I added the sparkling heat embossed hearts onto the distressed heart base and tied on some pink May Arts ribbon. Then I remembered I had a cute Paper Smooches heart die cut so I used some distress inks to color some white cardstock and then die cut the hearts and stuck them on the front.

On the inside of my card I used the two same distress ink colors to color the background and then I used a sentiment stamp on the inside. Stamping on the inside of my cards is something new for me.

Happy Valentine's day!

supplies
inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Spiced Marmalade; Pickled Raspberry)
embossing folder: Darice (Layered Hearts Background)
die cut machine: Spellbinders Grand Calibur Die Cutting Machine
dies: Paper Smooches (Hearts)
embossing powder: American Crafts WOW! Neon Glitter (Carrot); Stampin' UP! Emboss Powder (Shimmering Silver)
stamp: Unity Stamp Co (Love Is)
ribbon: May Arts

love you [card]|Stick It Down.

Hi there! Today I'm sharing my card for the February Stick It Down sketch challenge. If you haven't yet seen the sketch on the SID blog, here it is:

I normally make smaller cards, so I had to size this card down to make it work for me. I only used two columns instead of three, but I still used three rows. I went with a love theme, in honor of Valentine's day this month. I heat embossed a hexagon heart stamp in three different colors and fussy cut them out. I choose three coordinating colors of chipboard heart shapes to match my stamped images.

Then I used my Spell Binder's Grand Calibur to die cut a chicken wire die onto a scrap paper. I used the die cut shape as a stencil to make the background on my card. I blending three coordinating ink colors over the chicken wire stencil that I made to get my background. When I was done blending the ink, I removed the chicken wire "stencil" that I used.

blending two colors so far

Lastly I stamped my sentiment, added twine, and adhered my chipboard heart pieces. I like the mix of colors and that this could actually even be a masculine card since my primary colors are blue and green. Here's my card:

Here's how to play along:
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.
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, single page layouts for single sketches, etc....traditional only, no digital!

5. Link up your projects HERE. Good luck!

supplies

steel die: My Favorite Things Die-namics (Mini Chicken Wire)

stamps: Sweet Stamp Shop (Simple Sentiments; Pattern Craze)

embossing powder: American Crafts ZING! (grapefruit opaque; leaf opaque; blue metallic)

inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (spun sugar; peeled paint; faded jeans); StazOn (jet black)