February DCWV Stack-a-holic Challenge

I decided to participate in another fun stack-a-holic template challenge from DCWV Diary. I really loved this sketch and think I love my page more than anything I have done in awhile. The hexagons are so fun and the color combo makes me smile.

I also tried out misting ink for the first time and like it, but I think I need to practice a little more.

 I used some really fun papers from the DCWV Snapshot Stack for both my layout and card.

The card was fun fast and easy and will definitely be a template I use again.

January DCWV Stack-a-holic Challenge

Thanks to a 4 day weekend from holidays and uncharacteristically good kiddos, I managed to finish not only a layout, but also a card in one day for the January Stack-a-holic Challenge from DCWV Diary. I used paper from the Gilded Orchard Stack that I won from DCWV and Create: blog.

Here is my interpretation of the layout sketch from Liz Chidester aka The Scrappiest.

  

 And here my card interpretation of the sketch from Got Sketch?.

 

It was fun to use one of my new stacks and a few other new stash things like my glitter tape. Gilded Orchard is a beautiful stacK and this was a fun challenge.

Thanks for looking!

September DCWV Stack-a-holic Challenge

Once again I decided to participate in the DCWV Template Challenge and submit a card and a layout. The templates for September were super cute. And my thought is, that if I work on the challenge, I am bound to get at least one page finished this month.

As I am really far behind on Peanut's books I thought I would use some pictures of her. I also have a lot of DCWV girl paper to get used up.

Here is the original sketch by Sketch Savvy which is a great blog with lots of great sketches and ideas.

And here is my 12x12 page using Nana's Nursery in Baby Girl, son random ribbon and rick rack scraps and a little washi tape. SWEET cut using Cricut and Hello Kitty Font cartridge. White space id for journaling - my downfall on every page.

 Here is my take on the card sketch. I used the let over paper from my layout and and an adorable stamp from Papertrey Inks.

Once again my card was selected in the Top Ten, which is super exciting. I would have liked to seen my layout there as well, but I am really happy with the way they both turned out.

I am hoping I will have time this month to work on the October sketches!

Gift Baby Album

Hubby's cousin had an adorable baby girl in July and she wants to start scrapbooking, so I thought I would help her along so I put together this quick easy and (if I do say so my self) super cute 8 x 8 album for her. All she has to do is add pictures and journaling and it would be done, or if she wants to add her own touches, I included the remainder of paper and stickers I used.

Patterned paper and most stickers from Echo Park Page Kits Bundle of Joy and solid card stock from Crate Paper Twirl collection. Stamps from Close to My Heart.

I put the pages in a cute little 8 x 8 album and included a matching card.

More Cards

A quick collection of the last batch of cards I made and sent off to Val at Karma. I really have a lot of fun doing these and it makes me feel good that people like them enough to buy them.

June DCWV Stack-a-holic Challenge Card

For the first time, I decided to participate in the DCWV Diary Stack-a-holic Challenge and my card submission was actually selected in the Top 10!! I can't tell you how great that is!

I have been following DCWV Diary for about 4 months now and every month I tell myself I am going to do one of the challenges and then I just never do. This was motivation to definitely try again and maybe finish up and submit for the Design Team . . .

Here is my card from the Lemon Flower Stack.

Cards

I haven't been crafting much lately. Too much to do around the house and too much work travel on top of all the daily stuff, but I did manage to make a handful of cards for my sister-in-laws awesome gift shop, Karma Gifts in River Falls, WI.

She is nice enough to put them up for sale and it gives me a reason to force myself downstairs to be crafty.

Here are a few of the most recent cards:

Making cards is fast and fun and gives me a sense of accomplishment with my crafting. I really need to make more time and start catching up on some actually scrapbooking, though!

Design Team - Not This Year

This year I submitted some projects in hopes of being selected as part of the Craft Warehouse (one of my fave places to by scrapbook supplies) 2011 Design Team. I also submitted in 2009, and I wasn't selected either year, but this year I was given Honorable Mention! YEOW!

It's not as good as being picked, but I am still pretty excited about it. i told my self that if I didn't get selected this year that I would probably not do it next year, but the Honorable Mention is making me rethink that decision. I will just have to see how I am feeling about my scrapping next year.

Anyway, the submission requirements were 2 page layouts, 2 cards and 1 altered project. I had my 2 layouts almost done in preparation for the submission and I had an idea for my altered project and I figured the cards wouldn't be that hard. Well, I re-did my layouts, and in doing that almost ran out of time for submitting, so I threw together 2 cards and used a project I finished in February as my altered project. Here is what I submitted:

 

My altered project was a Christmas countdown calendar made from 2 sheets of 12' x 12"  paper, i sheet of epoxy stickers, glitter glue and few random embellishments.

 

And here are the cards. I think this is my weakest entry because I spent an hour at 2 am finishing these so I could get my packet together and mailed before the cutoff date. My goal for next year is to not wait until the last minute and maybe spend a little more time on all of the pieces.

Anyway, It was really nice to see my name on the website as Honorable Mention and maybe next year....

Quick Cards

These are just a handful of some quick and easy cards I have made in the last little while. I usually forget to take pictures of the ones I make before I give them away.

paper - from stash, BoBunny yellow dots and DCWV 6x6 stack

stamps - balloon strings, Paper Trey Ink and celebrate, Close to My Heart

buttons - random from stash

 

paper - stash
stickers, ribbons - random from stash

paper - from stash, and DCWV 6x6 stack
stamps - balloon strings, Paper Trey Ink and celebrate, Close to My Heart
buttons - random from stash

paper - stash
flowers, ribbons - random from stash

stamp - Close to My Heart