time together.

Playing along with the October 15 sketch at Let's Get Sketchy this morning. I flipped the sketch on its side and used two Snap Chat photos I had from a weekend out last month.

I have a little bit of this summer's Live Laugh Love collection from Elle's Studio that I'm trying to get through, but that has been one of my favorite Elle's Studio collection kits.

Thanks for looking!

keep life happy.

I could hardly wait to play with the Carta Bella Welcome Home collection. I'm afraid mostly I will scrapbook dog photos, but that's ok, right? :)

I used Sketch 296 at Sketches in Thyme as inspiration for this page.

I shared this collection in a haul video HERE.

Thanks for looking!

supplies
patterned paper, stickers: Carta Bella (Welcome Home)
puffy stickers: Studio Calico
journal card: Elle's Studio (Oct 2016 monthly kit)
stamp: Kelly Purkey (Home Sweet Home)
embossing powder: Simon Says Stamp (gold ultra fine)
flair: A Flair for Buttons

My page is featured at Let's Get Sketchy!

Skipping Stones Designs | October blog hop

Welcome!

I have some exciting news to share! I’m on the design team at Skipping Stones Designs! Today we’re doing a blog hop. Here is the order of the hop:

Debra

Ginny

Ashley

Lisa

LeeAnn

Martha

Annie

Steph

Kelly

Esther

Here’s my card:

I am a newbie to digital stamps, but the Birthday Purses stamp set has some cute purses I wanted to work with. I chose one of the purses, printed it on Copic friendly paper, colored it, and fussy cut it.

Now this stamp set is called "birthday" purses, but the sentiments are not strictly birthday. For example, I made a thank you card.

I took a stencil and used some distress ink blending to make my background. Then I printed the sentiment directly onto my background. I wasn't sure how this would turn out, but it worked great.

Thanks for looking! :)

supplies
stamp: Skipping Stones Designs (birthday purses)
stencil: Simon Says Stamp! (Moroccan stencil)
ink: Tim Holtz Distress ink (picked raspberry)
Copic: Y21; RV14; BG11, BG13

thankful.

I got some new goodies from A Cherry on Top this week and went to work right away on this page. This is the new Gratitude Documented line from Illustrated Faith. I added in some puffy hearts from Fancy Pants + journal tags and bits from Elle's Studio.

Use your Stuff has a challenge to use pink this month for breast cancer awareness. The October challenge at Show us Your Stuff is to use three items that start with F. I used orange flair, pink 'family' tab, Fancy Pantsn puffy heart stickers, and floral patterned paper.

Thanks for looking!

true love.

This is a quick one made with the Echo Park Wedded Bliss collection kit using sketch 96 at The Memory Nest.

Thanks for looking!

Saturday good times.

Today I'm playing along with Sketch 97 from The Memory Nest. I rotated this sketch sideways for this page.

I got out my Pink Paislee/Paige Evans Take Me Away collection. I only have a few patterned papers from this collection, but they're soft, pretty colors that I really like.

I combined some of the stickers from Crate Paper Oasis and washi from Pink Paislee Summer Lights for this page, which coordinated really well with this Take Me Away line. It was a pleasant surprise!

you are my home.

Last night I worked with the October 1 sketch from Let's Get Sketchy. I've been itching to use the Home Sweet Home kit I recently received from Kelly Purkey. I printed one of our engagement photos to use with the 'home' theme.

Do you remember these resist chipboard hearts from Pink Paislee? How old are these babies?! It was fun to get those out of my stash and mix those ancient things in with some new stuff.

Thanks for looking!

supplies
acrylic, vellum, stamp, patterned paper: Elle's Studio
journal card, stamp set: Kelly Purkey (Sept 2017 kit Home Sweet Home)
chipboard resist hearts: Pink Paislee 
mist: Heidi Swapp color shine (Gold)
ink: Tim Holtz distress ink (Chipped Sapphire; Victorian Velvet); Color Box Mix'd Media Inx (Indigo)

thank you.

I played around with the Flower Turnabout stamp from Concord & 9th this morning. I used my mini MISTI tool and some distress inks to create the background. Starting with the lightest color of distress ink, I inked up the image and then spritzed some water on it before stamping it on my card base. I repeated this process with all four distress ink colors, rotating my card base for each color.

My sentiment is from the same stamp set and is heat embossed with fine detail black embossing powder from Sparkle N Sprinkle. I love using this embossing powder for sentiments on cards.

For the final touches, I added some Prima crystals and tied a ribbon. Thanks for looking!

supplies
ink: Tim Holtz distress ink (wild honey; spiced marmalade; worn lipstick; barn door)
ribbon: May Arts
embossing powder: Sparkle N Sprinkle (black detail EP171)

summer documented.

I made this page using the October 1 Stuck?! Sketches.

 I used monthly kits from Elle's Studio (March, April, and September 2017) + some of the new Family Fun collection.  Thanks for looking!

supplies
die cuts, stamps, journal cards: Elle's Studio
stamps: Studio Calico; Kelly Purkey (Out in the Sunshine); Kellie Winnell (Looks like Summer);
ink: Studio Calico (clean slate); Color Box (Mix'd Media Inx indigo)
mist: Studio Calico Mistery Huey (shine)

home.

I got my September monthly kit from Kelly Purkey, which I love because it's a home theme. I played along with the Scrappy Friends October challenge which was a sketch + a one word title.

Thanks for looking!

Paper Wings Productions: Happy Hauntings.

WELCOME to the Paper Wings Productions' Fall and Halloween Design Team Blog Hop & Giveaway!

This month we're having a bit of fall fun. Our designers have made projects with different styles and techniques to show you all the ways you can make fall greetings. Make sure to complete the entire hop for a chance to win this $25.00 gift certificate to the Paper Wings Productions online store.

For a chance to win all you need to do is:
• be a follower of this blog
• visit each of the participating designer's blogs and leave a comment
• come back and leave us a comment telling us you completed the hop.
To increase your chances of winning: like our Facebook page and/or invite your friends to the hop. Be sure to leave a separate comment for each of your additional entries.

We will announce the winner here Tuesday, Oct. 10th, 2017.


Paper Wings
LARISSA
VERONICA
DANA
ASHLEY -- you are here :)
LESLIE

Here is my project for the hop:

I used my Cricut Expression (I know - I'm still old school!) to help me make this shaker card. I cut this globe from the Doodlecharms cartridge as a shadow at 4" with the idea to make it into a shaker globe for a card. I used the Halloween Mix It Up stamp set for this shaker card.

I use extra page protectors to make my shaker cards, with the help of my Fuse tool. First, I stamped out the witch hat and the spider, heat embossed both images, and fussy cut them.

After I had my sequins and stamped images stuffed into my 'shaker,' I sealed it all up with my Fuse tool and adhered it to my globe base.

For my sentiment, I chose "happy hauntings," which I heat embossed with fine white detail embossing powder.

Lastly, I adhered my shaker onto my card base.

What do you think?


supplies
stamp: Halloween Mix It Up
embossing powder: Sparkle N Sprinkle (Mesmerized EP441; Black Magic EP255); Simon Says Stamp (white fine detail)
Cricut cartridge: Doodlecharms

Packers vs Bengals.

Last Sunday we were able to travel to Green Bay to see the Bengals/Packers game at Lambeau. This is my third trip to Lambeau and Austin's second trip to Lambeau. The Bengals are my team, but the Packers are a very close second and I root for them any time they're NOT playing the Bengals.

I always says you can't NOT be a Packers fan. The culture behind the team, the community surrounding them, the fans, that stadium, their success, Jordy... *sigh* No, but really.

We left early Sunday morning. I drove six hours there because he had just gotten off work at 6AM so he tried to sleep some. We had a quick bite to eat and a beer and headed to the stadium. The game was great, even though the Bengals lost in OT. We made it to our hotel and passed out, then got up Monday and drove six hours home.

Quick trip but I am so glad we are able to do this kind of thing and to be able to do it together!

Linking up with Annie's week 240 smiles because I normally work Fridays and can't link up.

Paper Wings Productions: Grateful to You.

Here is an easy way to make a big impact with a small stamp. I love the Fall Mix it Up stamp set. The font is so cute and the little images are precious.

To make great use of the little leaf stamp, I stamped it multiple times on my background and heat embossed it with white fine detail embossing powder. Then I water colored over the heat embossed images and they resist the watercolors. You could do this with any image or sentiment.

My sentiment for this card came from this same stamp set. I stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

I added some twine and a wood veneer to complete the fall look. What do you think?

supplies 
stamp: Paper Wings Productions (Fall Mix It Up)
ink: Tim Holtz distress ink (Scattered Straw; Spiced Marmalade); Versafine (Onyx Black)
embossing powder: Simon Says Stamp (white fine detail)
wood: Studio Calico
twine: Maya Road
die: Sugar Pea Designs (Stitched Flags)

I'm so honored that Use Your Stuff chose my layout to highlight this week!