Welcome to my Cards & Crafts Blog! I hope that you will enjoy the fun things that I have posted. Please leave a comment on anything that catches your eye! I love feedback! If you are in a hurry go ahead and use the quick voting buttons at the bottom of each post to let me know what you think! Thanks for stopping by!
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Selena - 6 Pieces
The sketch for this card came from last week's Sweet Sketch Wednesday Challenge. I love how it turned out. These papers from the 3 Bugs in a Rug, Simple Pleasures line really challenge me because they don't have any real "solid" patterns in them. But I Love Them!
This card actually has a purpose. Imagine that! Using one of my cards as a card, not art! What a concept! I have a
Scentsy order that is coming in today from my
consultant, and I am SO FRICKIN' EXCITED! I love Scentsy. Let me re-emphasize that: I. Love. Sentsy. My super fun consultant, Tiffany, was so patient with me and my huge order (thanks to the ladies that I work with for ordering too) so she will be getting this super cute card as a thank you.
Over at the
All Scrapbook Steals blog they are giving away a "
Spooktacular" assortment of Halloween Items! They have a bunch of BasicGrey
(which I love), and My Mind's Eye (also which I love) in this giveaway and it couldn't be easier to enter to win the whole lot! All you need to do is leave a comment on the Giveaway post on the blog about one of your favorite items from their online shop and make sure to leave a way they can contact you if you win. You get a second entry if you post about the Giveaway on your blog! Easy Peasy People! Check them out! The blog has some awesome ideas for decorating for Halloween up right now and the prices in their shop are amazing! Better get over there quick though, the contest ends TONIGHT!
Haven - 9 Pieces
Nine pieces is a lot for me! Totally worth it though! I love this card. Thanks so much to Mojo Monday for the beautiful sketch! I didn't use any ribbon, but I am still really happy with this card. I love how fun these Fancy Pants papers make this card pop! So fun and bright, this is me hanging on to summer with all of my might! I'm SO not a winter person! One other thing about this card that I like is the fact that I reused the cardboard lid flaps from box and used it to back the green piece of paper that I stamped the sentiment on. My own chipboard, and it was pretty much free! Sweet!
**BTW I forgot to mention that this card is on that I am using to play along with the
Fancy Friday Challenge over on the
Fancy Pants blog. I love their papers and have a blast using them. When I found their blog and their challenges I was so excited!
Daphne - 6 Pieces
I came up with this card layout from a scrapbook page from a magazine. I really like the layout but would like to re-do it with different papers. This one just has too much "solid" paper on it for my taste. I hope you like it though, I sure do!
Halloween Card - 6 Pieces
Here is the card I came up with from the weekly Get Sketchy challenge. I was super excited to start using my new Halloween line from
Fancy Pants, so I pulled it out for this card. I loved the little monsters on the papers, but ruined my two favorites trying to cut them out of the paper.
**Foiled again, Batman!** I'm not sure I am totally in love my my
Martha Stewart circle cutter, but it's all I've got so I'll make it work.
Ford - 5 Pieces
This card was inspired by a scrapbook page that I saw in a magazine. With my September card class coming up I knew it would be perfect paired with some fall-ish papers. Every time I look at the card though I get the odd feeling that it's sticking it's tongue out at me. OH WELL! I still really like it! Oh, and it's not named after Ford cards and trucks. I'm a Chevy girl, but the name Chevy will probably never make it on to one of my cards!
My Christmas paper came today! Wahoo! I'm starting my Christmas cards, have you thought about starting yours?? If you live in the Southern Utah area and want to come to one of my classes and get a head start, email me! I'd love to hear from you!
More traditional Christmas colors.
Super fun trendy Christmas colors.
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Bree's Blog for a chance to win some Blog Candy! Beautiful papers and other fun crafty stuff! Check it out now!
Olinda - 5 Pieces
This is my take on the sketch challenge this week at
YMBD. The more I look at this card the more I like it. I love the circle element and how simple the whole sketch is!
Riley - 7 Pieces
I love this sketch. The inspiration for it came from a layout I saw in a scrapbooking magazine. There are more pieces to it than I normally like to use but it doens't seem as overwhelming as I though it would. The papers I used hit me a little funny, but all in all I like the card.
Tori - 6 Pieces
This is my take on the
52/52 sketch for this week. I'm trying to use my "Lil Man" line of paper from Cosmo Cricket, and for some reason I haven't loved it the way that I want to. No matter though, the card came out really cute and I can't wait to try it with different paper.
Keaton - 7 Pieces
I love, love, love this card! Thanks to
Mojo Monday for the wonderful sketch! I was not so sure how it was going to turn out, but in the end I think it's going to be a longtime favorite! I have not had many cards that I've made with this line of papers from
Fancy Pants, that I haven't liked. Be sure to let me know what you think about the card. Thanks for checking it out!
Kade - 6 Pieces
I got this sketch idea from
Sketch This. It intrigued me with the offsetting squares and rectangles off of the top and bottom of the main rectangle. I'm not sure if I love the paper choice I used with this sketch, but I think this sketch will become one of my favorites. Hope you like it! Let me know what you think!
Laynee - 8 Pieces (7 Patterns)
This has to be one of my all time favorite cards! I need to thank 52 Sketches/52 Weeks for the inspirational sketch! I love the papers, I love the layout, I love it all! I usually try to keep the number of pieces that I use in a card down around 5 or 6. If I start getting more than that i try to use some of the same patterns twice. In this card I only used one pattern twice, and that is the yummy stripe on the left and bottom, the rest are all different, and I love it! I've really gotten out of my comfort zone using this Cosmo Cricket paper, and it's really paying off! Have I mentioned that I LOVE THIS CARD? Probably once or twice! I hope you all like it too. Let me know what you think! Use the quick buttons below or leave a comment!
Lexi - 5 Pieces
Thanks to
Get Sketchy for this super fun sketch! I pulled out my super girly paper (to offset all the manly stuff I've been gravitating to lately) and whipped this up. I am not a girly-girl, nor am I a tom-boy, I fall somewhere in that middle zone. I find I fall into that category in most instances in my life! Anyway, I have to say, for not being a girly-girl I do LOVE this super cute paper from Imaginisce.
Fae - 5 Pieces
I got this card idea from the Saturday sketch on
Unscripted Sketches. I think I would like it better if I hadn't used the yellowish/greenish paper for the background, but I still really like the card. I love the scallop on the bottom, but wish I was able to make them bigger. The brads were also fun on this card. That's two cards in a row that I used brads on. All in all it's a very cute and simple sketch you can use for just about anything. Thanks for checking it out! Let me know what you think of it! Have a great day!
Hudson - 6 Pieces
Thanks to the wonderful ladies over at
Mojo Monday I have this fun new card to show off today. I really love how it turned out! It's definitely got a masculine feel with the paper and I love that right now! I got to use some brads, something I don't do very often, and I think they really make the piece. I also used a chipboard piece to give the circle some dimension. I hope you all like it. Be sure to leave a comment if you want or just use one of the quick buttons below!
