Sketch #7

Last weeks Hot Summer Nights Challenge was in 2 parts. You had the sketch and then you had 4 "must-haves" that you had to include. SUPER fun!! Can't wait for this weeks challenge, come play along at Scrap Chicks!

Here is the sketch:

And the 4 Must-Have's:

MUST HAVE #1: Take this sketch and flip it around or turn it on it's side!
Must Have #2: Either distress the circles OR the rectangles, but NOT both.
Must Have #3: Use at least two different colors--ink, mist or paint.
Must Have #4: Your title must be different fonts and and at least 2 different colors. 

And here is my layout!

July Hen Party Friday's

This month was a month chalked FULL of fun challenges over at Scrap Chicks. I got 2 cards and 2 layouts made!!

7.1 Challenge - Red, White & Blue

(In honor of the 4th of July I challenge you to create a project/card/layout using Red, White and Blue as the main colors. It doesn't have to be Independence Day themed, but I would like to see at least 1 star included) 

Here is what I came up with ...

7.8 Challenge - Tool Time

(For today's challenge it is time to wipe the dust off those tools we never use!! Yeah get out your sizzix, cuttlebug, cricut, crop-a-dile, xyron and whatever you might have and use it to create a LO, card or altered art!)

I used my Cricut (for the letters that I misted over), I used my cuttlebug to emboss, I used my new sewing machine, my corner rounder and my distresser

7.15 Challenge - I love your Shoes!

(This week's challenge is to take a pair of shoes/sandals/boots and use that as your inspiration for a layout/card/project. Please post a photo of the shoes as well.)

Here is my pair of shoes that I used for inspiration

And the card that I made ...

7.22 Challenge - Lazy Days of Summer

(I want to see a LO with a photo of someone SLEEPING! See if you can find one of those great photo's of someone sleeping in a odd place or odd position! )

Here is the layout I did of me and Tucker sleeping

7.8 Hen Party Friday

Every friday over at ScrapChicks we have a new challenge, for this challenge it is time to wipe the dust off those tools we never use!! Yeah get out your sizzix, cuttlebug, cricut, crop-a-dile, xyron and whatever you might have and use it to create a LO, card or altered art! Make sure when you post your work that you let us know what TOOL you used!

Here is Kelly's example:

And here is mine:

I used my cricut to cut out the letters that I misted over, I used my new sewing machine to stitch around the edges, I used my cuttlebug to emboss it and I used my distresser to distress the edges of the card, AND used my corner rounder!

Come on over and play with us!!

Summer Camp Crop

Oh My Gosh how fun!!!

Two weeks from today we're going to have a crop over at Scrap Chicks. Who doesn't love scrapping and a camp? Come on you know you want to join in! It'll feel like you're 5 again!

We're going to have some awesome challenges, a cool project and a few games!

I better see everyone there!! Help spread the word :)

Week 6 Hot Summer Nights

I had SOOO much fun with this weeks sketch over at ScrapChicks for the Hot Summer Nights Challenge. I had less time than was given to us for this one because I waited until the last min. to pick pictures out and print them hahaha! But with the time that I was allowed I think I rocked this!

Here is the sketch ...

And here is what I did with it, I turned it on it's side! :)

(a layout about my friends wedding)

Hot Summer Nights Challenge #5

It's that time again! Time for another Hot Summer Nights Challenge over at ScrapChicks. We had 2 hours to do this one and it took me almost the whole time because I was cooking and eating dinner right in the middle of it! I had a little bit of trouble with this sketch and I'm not sure of how it turned out, it just feels like it's missing something, but here it is!

The Sketch we had to work from ...

My finished layout ...

Hot Summer Nights Challenge #3

This weeks challenge was a little bit different from last week, we had 4 hrs to do this one! :) I also combined this challenge with the Hen Party Friday challenge as well! 2 birds with 1 stone, woohoo!!

Here is the sketch ....

and here is what I did with it ...

* sorry for the horrible picture, the lighting was awful in my scraproom last night at 9pm *

Come play along with us next week!!

ScrapChicks Card Challenges

This month over at ScrapChicks we're doing a whole months worth of card challenges! How fun!! I've finished 3 so far and have killed 2 birds with one stone, completing the challenges so that I can earn my golden egg AND making cards for Aaron's bday, my daddy's Father's Day card, and a card for Aaron's dad. Now all I have to do is get one done for Aaron's step dad and I'll be set!!

Here are the 3 cards that I've done so far ...

Aaron's birthday card

My daddy's fathers day card 

(which is PERFECT by the way because I'm putting together a basket full of grill related items for his present)

Aaron's dads father's day card

Thanks for looking!! :)

ScrapChicks Card Challenge #1

This month over at ScrapChicks we're having a ton of card challenges! There are some fun sketches and great topics to make cards for, it's SUPER fun. This was for challenge #1 which was to make a Birthday card. I finished my first card for it tonight, and got to kill 2 birds with one stone, I got Aaron's card made for his birthday!! :)

Here it is ...

Thanks for looking!!

Nothing Exciting

Well I decided that I'd post an update on my blog since I haven't updated in a while. Nothing new is going on here, it's Rangers baseball season so that's what my life is based around! :) Either going to games (we have 1/2 season tickets) or watching them on TV.

I haven't been able to do any scrapping lately because we've been so busy! I am hoping to get a little bit in this upcoming long holiday weekend! We'll see if that happens!

I'm so super duper sad, one of my scrapbook forums www.scrapchicks.com is closing down :( I'm going to miss the daily chats with my chicks and the AWESOME inspiration around there, but I'm going to keep in touch with all of them either thru facebook or my other forums (Sassy Lil Sketches) but it's still sad to see a place that I called home go. Shannon (the owner) is a really good family friend of mine and she's moving onto bigger and better, she's going into newborn photography so we all wish her the best of luck!! Love you momma chick!!

As for my followers, you can find me on Sassy Lil Sketches, both as a member and a design team member!! :)

National Scrapbook Day Crop!

This last Saturday was National Scrapbook Day and over at ScrapChicks we had an all weekend long crop with a TON of challenges and awesome prizes up for grabs!

I was lucky enough to be at a crop all weekend long so I had a TON of time to scrap! I got 6 layouts done and 2 cards!! SO FUN!!

The Crop Challenge #1 - Add it Up was to create a layout in which you use the number of photo's you used in the layout for the title. I used 3 pictures so I used the title 1,2,3 Chug. Here is my layout ...

Challenge #2 - Derby Pie was to use the colors brown, tan, yellow & a splash of green. So I made this card for my Grandma for mother's day

Challenge #3 - Simply Grid It was to create a layout using a grid. Here is my layout ...

Challenge #4 - Summer Colors, the challenge was to use 3 of the 6 colors in a card or layout, here are the colors we had to choose from

Here is the card I made with it ...

Challenge #5 - Stretch a Sketch was to take either a 1 page sketch and turn it into a 2 page layout or take a 2 page layout and turn it into a 1 page sketch. I took this 1 page sketch from SketchyThursday and turned it into a 2 page layout, here is the sketch I used ...

and here is the 2 page layout I did with it ...

Challenge #7 - Learn Something New was to learn and do a new technique. Something that I'd never done before and have been VERY intimidated by and too scared to try was to mist. At the crop Monica (one of my scrap idol's) was there and convinced me to mist. She showed me how to do it and I DID IT!! I think she might even have created a monster! :) Here is my misted layout!!

Challenge #10 - Movie Poster Inspiration was to take a movie poster and use it for inspiration. This is the movie poster that I used for my inspiration ...

and here is the layout! I took inspiration from where the people were standing and used my photo's there and then did the journaling where the movie credits were. I loved this challenge!

Ignore the bad photo, the colors are WAY off, it's not orange they are supposed to be red. Here is my layout

National Scrapbook Day!

 YAY!! How fun!! This saturday is National Scrapbook Day and we are going to have a TON of fun stuff to do over at Scrap Chicks!! There will be 10 layout challenges and 1 game. Come join us for lots of fun scrapping and chatting!

Sketch #150 - Creative Scrappers

I have a few friends that I've seen participate in some sketch challenges over at Creative Scrappers and I was having a creative block so I decided to go on over and check it out and I found the perfect sketch for what I was trying to work on!

Here is their sketch #150

and here is my take on it (I also lifted off of Pamella Brown's LO)

2.7 Hen Party Challenge - Recipe for Love

This week's Hen Party Challenge over at ScrapChicks was a recipe challenge. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients
*3 heaping cups of friendship (3 patterned papers)
*1 Tbsp. compassion (solid cardstock background)
*2 tsp. kindness (2 ribbons/trims)
*5 hugs (5 buttons)
*3 kisses (3 brads)

Directions
Stir together with happiness (stitching or doodling), humor (journaling), and patience (white space).
Serve with love (use the word LOVE in your title).

 Here is the sample LO from Shannon (Mother Hen Chickie)

and here is my LO

ok yeah so there isn't THAT much white space (I couldn't do it, it terrifies me) and the background paper isn't ONLY kraft but it's good enough. So I was having a bad cooking day haha

Come play along, if you do all 4 challenges for the month you get a golden egg like this ...

I also did this LO based off of this months SketchyThursday reveal. You should come play along there too, there are some awesome prizes up for grabs!!! I also used this LO as inspiration ...
http://precociouspaper.blogspot.com/2011/02/proud.html

One lucky winner will receive a $20 gift certificate to use on a kit of their choice, plus a Maya Road tin box of Fresh chipboard hearts (shipped with the kit)."

Embark

I finally got started on my scrapbook for our cruise we took this past may with the family. I made a digi one for my mom but decided to do a paper one for me. For this page I used the SassyLilSketches Jan. 21st sketch, I also did this page for the ScrapChicks 1.21 Hen Party Challenge (Quotable)

Here's the SLS sketch I used, it can be found HERE, and you can find the ScrapChick Hen Party Challenge HERE, COME PLAY ALONG BOTH PLACES! Some amazing prizes are up for grabs on the Sassy blog!

Here is what I did with it ...

And a close-up of the journaling and other pictures that are hidden away

ScrapChicks (Hen Housewarming Party)

There was a House Warming Party over at ScrapChicks this weekend and there was TONS of inspiration! I completed these 2 LO's for the challenges

Thank You Card

I used this card for many purposes, I killed a bunch of stones with it! I did it for the color challenge for the Hen Housewarming Party over at ScrapChicks, I also used the Jan. 14th sketch from SassyLilSketches AND I did it with mostly scraps to go towards my "Card Scraps" Goal over at Sassy! Phew! That's alot of uses!

For some reason the colors are a little off on this when I photo'd it, probably the crappy lighting in my scrap room, sorry! It's red, black, white, a baby blue/teal and orange. The only part that's orange is the outside part of the big flower, not sure what happened with the rest of it, why it's so orange looking. I tried to edit it but it only got worse!