Happy Tuesday everyone!!
It's that time again... Terrific Tuesday Challenge. This time we are using Sweethearts. If you don't own this cartridge,don't worry you can use a similar cut - we want everyone to play along! :)
here is the card I created.
I wanted to keep it simple because I dont have my gypsy back from provocraft yet and didn't want to have to waste paper.
Puppy {sweethearts cartridge} cut at 3.5 inches on blackout
Designer Paper {stampin up} sending love designer series
Cardstock {papertrey ink} Dark Chocolate
Rouched Ribbon {American Crafts}
Brown ribbon {Michaels}
Lace Doily {wilton}
Sentiment { Scrappy Moms Stamps} Love notes
Make sure you head over to scrappy moms to submit your project and check out the inspiration that the design team put together. Hugs!
I made this card inspired by one of my favorite movies "Up!" I really love the message of the movie "it's never too late to follow your dreams" and through the trials of being an adult, a wife, and mother, I am constantly worrying about my husband's and daughter's goals and schedules and I forget about myself.
I hope You enjoy this easel card - but also take some time today to think about what you want out of life and let those dreams take flight.
You all are in my thoughts as I am on vacation and I hope to check back here with you soon. Please enjoy the video
Before I go ahead and share with you my latest episode and project. I wanted to take some quick time to make a few announcments, I know that some of you aren't up to date with my facebook fan page, so I thought I will give all the latest announcements in one spot!
Some of you may know that I'm going on vacation in 3 weeks. Me my family and my best friend are headed to Puerto Rico August 3-11th. But don't worry I have plenty of things scheduled to do here, so please keep checking back then! And I ofcouse plan on posting bits and pieces of my vacation
I am soo excited to start my companion Challenges, on Wednesday. I recieved so many emails my wonderful talented friends, and I can't wait to work with you all. I still have 2 more spots left in decemeber, if anyone is interested please use the contact me form and I will try to work on a challenge for you. It's for december challenges.
I want to thank my sponsor Stuff 4 Scrapbooking, for their generous donation of prizes. Right now they are having a huge 2 day sale on all sizzix, slice Making Memories, Eyelets and Brads. They also do price matching. I wanted to mention this before! So you have a huge oppurtinuity to save!
I will be drawing the winner of my June giveaway on Thursday, so you have until Wednesday Night to join in in case you haven't already. The link is on my Right hand side >>>>>>>>>
Ok now to the good stuff,
I'm really really loving working with the 8.5x11 scrapbook layouts, they are soo easy to do in comparsion to the 12x12. I will still be doing 12x12 layouts, as my daughter's scrapbook is that size, but I will be from time to time working on my everyday scrapbook which is in this 8.5x11 size. I also need to work on an 8x8 scrapbook and a 6x6 mini.
So I'll be posting a ton of layouts in the next couple of days. I have over 200 Photos that need to be scrapped before I go on vacation, because once I come back I will have too many ever catch up!
I really love this sweethearts Cartridge, it's so cutesy romantic. It has a ton of things that go from dating to marriage, all in a fun kind of way. Its one of my faves. And isn't that the best part of love? the FUN!!!
Supply Credits
Designer Paper Basic Grey Offbeat Collection Pack
(orange) DCWV Neutrals Stack White Core
(brown) Bazzil Basics Pine Cone
(Blue) Bazzil Basics Evening Star
(Cream) Reflections Neutrals Cardstock Stack
Tim Holtz Pumice Stone Distress ink
Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen
American Crafts Black Gelly Roll Pen
Black Copic Marker
Adhesives, ATG, Tombow Mono Aqua Glue, Pop dots
Tools: Ek Sucess Tag Punch, Hot off the Press Journaling Template
You ever just have a day where you hate technology?! Well today that was my day for me. I could not for the life of me get my camcorder raw video footage edited. I had recorded the episode really early this morning, and I spent all day basically fighting with every computer in the house trying to get the video onto the computer and edited and uploaded to youtube. Finally after being in a grump mood all day, had to change file formats with my computer geek's help! and then it worked!!
ALso I dont even want to begin on how much I struggled with my cricut machine. I forgot how to use the cartridges. I'm so gypsy spoiled!!! I didn't remember how to put the paper on, and setting paper size, and all sorts of other things.
I didn't even want to bother with the layers for the gumball machine, so I cut out the black out feature, and everything else in white, and just used my copic markers. ( I really wanted to match the paper colors as well)
So this video was probably the most stubborn that I worked at in a long time!
I decided to make this layout for Momo's Challenge that she has over at her blog, and the challenge was to create a "romance/love" layout. I have so many old pictures that I haven't scrapped, so I decided this was a good chance to get caught up on my scrapbooking.
This was my first attempt at an 8.5x11 scrapbook page and I love it. I got a free Horizontal Scrapbook from Creating Keepsakes and I just had to make something for it.
Supply Credits
Designer Paper- Basic Grey Off Beat
Cartridge, Sweethearts Cart page 38 GumBall Machine cut at 7 Inches, sweetheart phrase cut at 1 3/4
Bazzil Cardstock, Pomegrante Splash, Hillary, Pine Cone
Orange is from DCWV Neutrals Stack
Heartfelt Creations Clear Cardstock ( had to cut out with multicut, it's soo heavy duty)
Ribbon is from Michaels
Signo Broad White Pigment Pen
Copic Markers, I colored the whole gum ball machine with them
Tim Holtz Pumice Stone Distress ink
JOanns Essentials Neutral Eyelets
EK Success Binding Edge Border Punch
EK Success Water Brush
Paper Pizzaz Easy Stitches Template
Crop A dile
ATG, Pop dots, zig
When I first found this challenge I was away from my crafting supplies for the weekend, so I wasn't able to complete it until JUST now!
I literally cranked this out before bed. Made a WONDERFUL TRI-SHUTTER card using Plantin Schoolbook on my gypsy then used sweethearts cartridge and the pear of birdies.
I made this card as a anniversery card for my parents
The Die Cut was cut out using my gypsy and the hide contour feature to seperate the "layers" feature. I Cut out the image at 3.5 inches
I made the trishutter image like i said using my Plantin Schoolbook cartridge in my gypsy. And I planed on having a tutorial how to make it, but I thought I just might as well share the gypsy cut files instead in the future. Keep a look out for that ! :)
Supply Credits:
Dark Chocolate PTI Cardstock
PTI True Black ink pad
Value Pack Cardstock
Unity Stamp- Simply Said " You amaze me"
Wild Saffron Pattern Paper
Sakura White Gelly rol
Autumn assortment of brads (michaels)
blue prima got flowers
various scraps
popdots, atg, zig 2 way
Fisksars Oval Punch
