Sketchy Thursdays 10.28

My first time ever using a bracket on a page! FUN FUN, will be trying this again! Love my cricut, which i used to cut it out with. Used Plantin Schoolbook and Simply Delightful paper from MME. LOVE their paper!! Thanks for stopping by to check out my take on the sketch!

Creative Scrappers #127

I love using black and pink combinations!!! I had so much fun with the circle in this layout!! This was taken outside Isle of Cari Casino in Booneville MO, where I went to gamble for the first time. I got ADDICTED!! Not to gambling, but to collecting the cards and zip cords that go along with them!! SO MUCH FUN!!! I have seriously added to my collection since then!

Design Dollies Sketch

WOW!! It has been a crazy last few months! We have been super busy around here starting up our scrapbook store!! I finally got to sit down last night at our first crop and make some pages! I went straight to the Dollies for inspiration!! You can always count on them! Here is the sketch that I used to come up with my creation:
Here is what I came up with:I LOVE playing with the Dollies!!! Thanks for stopping by!

Frosted Designs Recipe Challenge

Here is a list of the ingredients:

1. Punch or punches~ Small Hearts on corners of birth announcement

2. Felt

3. Ribbon~ Across the bottom of the birth announcement

4. Pink, blue or purple~ I chose to use blue

5. Flowers~Green bling flowers on each corner

6. Banner~My title background

7. Bird~Stork accent from New Arrival Cricut Cartridge

8. Buttons~On title banner

9. Butterflies

10.Glitter~I used glimmer mist in Sweet Clover and Autumn Nights to enchance the white background paper and make my accents pop.

Scrappin-n-Chattin Blog Hop

Hello friends! Welcome to the very first

Scrappin-n-Chattin Blog Hop!

Scrappin-n-Chattin is a wonderful scrapbooking community on Yahoo! where friendly scrappers meet to share their creations. S-n-C also has several activities and challenges to keep it's members doing what they love the most - Scrapbooking! We invite you to visit S-n-C as we welcome all scrappers- beginners and pros!

Today you can meet 7 of the many S-n-C members. Each of us would love to share our favorite projects, tools, or techniques with you. With a wide variety of scrappy styles and projects, you're sure to find some inspiration as you hop along!

To start the journey of this Blog Hop, Hop on over to Abby's page. All the rules can be found there as well!

Imaginisce Splash Dance Giveaway

Samantha 0ver at Me and the Little Rascals is giving away a great prize!!!

So here it is...my next giveaway is a yummy collection of goodies from the Imaginisce Splash Dance line. The light is no good for taking a pic of it at the moment, but I will do that in the next day or two. This is just a pic I got off the Imaginisce website, but as you can see, it is the cutest beach range ever! Here's what's in the prize package...

12 Double Sided Papers
Sticker Stackers
Puffy Stickers
Fantastic Friends Rubons
Glass Stickers
Title Waves Rubons
Doin the Wave Border Rubons
Coral & Crew Sticker Stackers
Ocean Treasures Chipboard

Here is how you can win:

Now for your chance to win, simply be a follower of her blog, and post this onto your blog with a link back to her blog. Then leave a comment on her blog. Entries close on 30 June, and the winner will be announced on the 1st of July.

Frosted Designs

Over at Frosted Designs they are giving away a fabby June Package for joining their Challenges. Here are the rules:

June Prize Package

We are offering some wonderful scrapbooking goodies to help you get your summer scrapbooking/card making projects done!! Would you like to win this wonderful package of goodies?!! All you have to do is participate in a challenge sometime during the month of June to be entered to win!! The more projects you link, the more chances you have to win!! *Projects must be posted and linked on or after June 4th and before noon EST on July 1st to be eligible to win.




This prize package includes....
The new FRESHLY PICKED Cricut cartridge
A stack of K&Company Papers
A 3 pack of Stickles
A package of 18 clear stamps (Travel)
2 packages of flowers with colorful brad centers
1 package of K&Company flowers that match the paper stack
A package of chipboard accents (20 pieces)
2 packages of gem accents
A 10 piece package of summer charms
12 buttons
4 yards of ribbon

StuckOnUSketches

I loved using this Sketch! The pic was taken of my dad and I the first time we met after not seeing each other for 20 years. AMAZING day!!!

Sketchy Thursdays 5.27 Sketch

Getting pages done from way back in 2005! I used my New Arrival Cricut Cartridge for the first time on this page!!! LOVE IT!!!!

Design Dollies Sketch

Here is my take on the Design Dollies sketch! I have so much fun playing along with the Dollies!! and the best part is that I get pages done!!!!

Imaginisce May Sketch

This is the layout:

My take on the Imaginisce May Sketch. I got to use some paper from my momma's stash, so this layout is made possible by her! Thanks Mom! I used the going places paper pack, rub ons, and stamps.

I've had a very productive month!

As the end of the month draws near, I am stunned to realize that I have gotten 15 pages done this month! Gotta love Scrapping blogs and challenges to get you motivated to get some pages completed!!!!!

My own personal Challenge is to get double that: 30 Pages done in the month of May!

I know I can do it!!!!!!!

Design Dollies TRIFECTA

My first ever TRIFECTA!!! WhoooooHOOOOO! So exciting!
I used Kraft and Bright colors
Followed the recipe:
This week's recipe is to include:
1) 3 Different Patterned papers, SAME manufacturer if possible
2) A tag
3) An UNCOLORED stamped image
4) RED ribbon(s)
5) Something lime green
and used the sketch, although I did get some inspiration from Leah and turned the sketch on its side!!!!!

Boy was this challenging, but I had a blast using it!
Will definitely be doing the Trifecta again!!

Thanks for checking out my take!

Design Dollies Sketch

Design Dollies & Creative Scrappers

This page worked double duty. It was made using Creative Scrappers Sketch #99 and Design Dollies Color challenge of using Kraft and bright colors. It sure brightened my day! Thanks for taking a look.

Creative Scrappers Sketch # 100

Creative Scrappers Readers Reveal by Laura Whitaker

Design Dollies Elements Challenge

This challenge comes from the lovely ladies over at Design Dollies. This was my first challenge using a Recipe. Here were the instructions:

This week's recipe is to include:
1) 3 Different Patterned papers, SAME manufacturer if possible
2) A tag
3) An UNCOLORED stamped image
4) RED ribbon(s)
5) Something lime green

I chose:
1) DCWV blossoms and butterflies
2) the tag I cut out with my cricut using Plantin schoolbook
3) I stamped my flower with black ink and traced it with picket fence stickles.
4) I used red ribbon on the tag
5) I matted my pics with lime green paper.

I had so much fun with this challenge. Nothing like a little inspiration to help you complete some pages.

Sketchy Thursdays 4.22 Sketch

StuckOnUSketches

Sketchy Thursdays SCC

Special Thanks goes out to my momma for her help with this page!!! She helped me make the perfect title using my favorite font, had the just the right shade of buttons to accent my paper, and let me use her embosser so that my flourishes SPARKLE!! Love ya!

Creative Scrappers Sketch # 98

Inspired Blueprints Sketch #45

Sketchy Thursdays 4.1 sketch contest

Design Dollies April Sketch

StuckOnUSketches

Creative Scrappers Sketch # 94

Creative Scrappers Sketch # 97

Creative Scrappers Sketch 93

Sketchy Thursdays 3.18 sketch contest

For this project I used Little lovin by TPC studio for the background paper. I cut the cupid and heart with my cricut using the Sweetheart cartridge. The flowers and brad is from my stash of goodies.

imaginisce Sketch Contest

Here is my rendition of the imaginisce monthly sketch challenge! Special thanks to my momma Kim for sharing a STRIP of her paper and all the pretty goodies that went on this page! Love ya!

My sketch layout for Creative Scrappers Sketch #96

To create this page I used paper from little yellow bicycle, cut the white scrolls with my cricut using serenade cartridge, the navy blue cirlce frame is from Nicole Lombardo, the little flowers are jolee's by you, and the title is out of Doodlebug Design inc. sugar coated chipboard hopscotch alphabet.