March Flavors of the Month kit at The ScrapRoom!

Happy Monday!  I hope your March is off to a good start! I am super excited to share The ScrapRoom March Flavors of the Month kit with you this month!  Here is the full kit:

  Here is the Crate Paper Sunny Days kit I used on today's layout:

Here is my layout using this amazing kit:

Supplies Used: Cardstock: Ivory- from the kit; Patterned Paper: Crate Paper Sunny Days- from the kit; epoxy stickers: Crate Paper Sunny Days- from the kit; bling: Crate Paper- from the kit; sticker (bird) : Crate Paper Sunny Days- from the embellishment kit

I love the beachy feel to these amazing papers and embellishments!  They were perfect for these photos of my friend's family on their beach vacation!  If you have some Summer or beach photos this kit would be a perfect match!  This layout was based on Sketch #157 by the talented Heather Hall at Sketch N Scrap!  I created this layout for Challenge #4 at the Go Green March Crop at Sketch N Scrap! Here is the sketch:

The twist for this challenge is to fussy cut an embellishment to use on your layout!  I chose to fussy cut these incredible pinwheel flowers from one of the beautiful patterned papers! I think they made the perfect flowers for my  layout! The Go Green crop last all month long! We sure hope you can join us at our crop! 

Make sure and hop on over to The ScrapRoom blog as well and check out the other amazing layouts the DT has created with the March Flavors of the Month kit!  Happy creating! 

SNS's Queen of Hearts crop!

Happy Monday!  The Queen of Hearts Crop is in full swing over at the SNS Facebook page!  Today it's my turn to host a challenge!  My challenge is to make a card using Card Sketch #43 from 2015 and to use this recipe on  your card: A heart, a flower, and the color red! 

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card created using the sketch & the recipe challenge:

Supplies Used: card base: CTMH; patterned paper: Simple Stories Kissing Booth; ephemera: Crate Paper La La Love (sentiment and large heart) and Simple Stories Kissing Booth (flower).

This card came together SUPER easy!  I loved this beautiful big glittered heart that came from the ephemera included in my February Flavors of the Month kit from The ScrapRoom and I knew it was perfect for this sketch!! Just a bit of bling added with the gorgeous glitter around the edges of the heart!  I hope you will play along with this challenge and come join our crop!  It's an online crop that is open ALL month long so plenty of time to play along and you can work at your own pace from the comfort of  your own home!!  More details can be found on our crop page, make sure and visit at least to be inspired by all the amazing projects crop goers have submitted!!  Happy creating!

SNS's New Beginnings Crop!

Good Monday morning friends! We started the New Year off right with a crop over on the Sketch N Scrap Facebook page on the 4th and it is in full swing!  We are having so much fun cropping together and hope you will join us!  Today is my turn to host a challenge!  

For my challenge I picked this fun sketch by Heather:

We are adding a new TWIST to our sketch based crop challenges this year which is so fun!  My twist is to use ink/paint on your layout in some fashion!! 

Here is my layout:

Supplies Used: Patterned Paper: Scenic Route (grid background) & Echo Park Head over Heels; stickers: Echo Park Head Over Heels; dies: CTMH heart & stitched circles thin cuts; ink: CTMH (red & pink) & Stampin' Up (blue- soft sky); stamp set (for ink splats): Stampin' Up Gorgeous Grunge; rhinestone: Queen & Co; enamel hearts: Crate Paper.

I loved this sketch and the fun ink splats on it!  I decided to rotate the sketch to accommodate the picture I wanted to use.  I like using ink when I have a lot of "white" space to make the white space a little less "white" and little more to my style as white space always makes me feel as if my layout is lacking something!!  I see so many designers who are masters of white space and just LOVE their layouts but when I try to use more white space I always end up not liking it lol!  This layout was fun to make I have reset my 100 papers for the New Year (more on that in an upcoming post soon!) and I decided to start the New Year off by using up some of them.  For this layout I used 1 piece of paper and 1 item from my Bashket (enamel hearts).  I hope you will join us over on the Sketch N Scrap Facebook page and crop with us this month!  The crop is going on until January 31st at midnight CST so there is lots of time to play along!  Happy creating!!!!

Merry & Bright Crop at Sketch N Scrap!

Happy Weekend!  Our Merry & Bright Crop is in full swing at Sketch N Scrap and today is my turn to host a challenge!!  

My challenge is to create a card using SNS card sketch #112:

Here is my card using the sketch:

Supplies Used: card base: CTMH; Patterned Paper: CTMH Grateful Heart; Cardstock: CTMH Pomegranate & White Daisy; glitter gems: CTMH gold glitter gems; Die: CTMH stitched circle die; Stamp: CTMH Boutique Cardmaking stamp set; Ink: CTMH Sapphire

I had so much fun creating this card for a good friend of mine!  I just love this Grateful Heart collection from CTMH, it is my favorite Fall line for this year!!  I have almost used up one entire collection and loved it so much I actually ordered a second collection!!  You don't want to run out of Fall paper right?!! 😂  I hope you will find time to join us at our Merry & Bright Crop this month, you have until December 31st at midnight CST to enter your projects for a chance to win an amazing Simple Stories Peace on Earth collection kit!!  See you at the crop!

World Card Making Day Celebration!

Happy October!! It's a new month and this month is going to be SOOOO much fun at Sketch N Scrap!  Saturday October 6th is World Card Making Day and we are celebrating ALL month long with a NEW EXCLUSIVE CARD sketch EVERY SATURDAY on the blog!  How fun is that?!!   Make sure and follow our blog to get the latest up to date information on all our challenges!

And if that wasn't enough we are also kicking off our monthly crop- PUMPKIN SPICE & EVERYTHING NICE on October 6th as well!  We will have card challenges as well as some fun layout challenge thrown in throughout the month!  

You can join in the fun on our Facebook page!  You have until the end of the month to upload your entries for our crop so make sure and like our Facebook page and join in the fun!  Hope to see you there!

Sketch N Scrap's Red, White & Blue crop!

It's the weekend!! Do you have any big plans for today?  It's going to be hot again here in Texas so I'm planning to stay in most of the afternoon and get creative!  Our Red, White & Blue crop is in full swing over at the Sketch N Scrap Facebook page and today I am hosting Challenge #2!  Today's challenge is to create a card based on this fun sketch:

Here is the card I made using the sketch:

Supplies Used: Cardstock: White, Bashful- CTMH; Patterned Paper: CTMH Documented Paper Pack; Stamps: CTMH Documented; thin cuts: CTMH Documented; enamel dots: CTMH Documented; inks: Memento Black; Markers: ShinHan Tender Pink, Peony Purple & Golden Yellow.  

I just adore this set!! It has be most fun sentiments in it and the paper colors are much better in real life, they are so vivid and brilliant!! LOVE THEM!  I will be sad when this amazing line retires on August 31st 😪  You can purchase this set, paper or any of the accessories on my website: https://www.closetomyheart.com.   I hope you will be able to come crop with us this month!  The crop is going on from now until the end of the month, so plenty of time to play along! Hope to see you at the crop!!!

Sketch N Scrap's Summer Daze Crop!

The weekend is here! Yay! Yesterday Sketch N Scrap kicked off their June Summer Daze crop sure to get us all inspired and ready for some lazy Summer Daze of being creative!!!  Today is my turn to host a challenge.  My challenge is to create a card using card sketch #100 from June 2017.  Here is the sketch by me:

And here is my card using the sketch:

Supplies Used: Patterned Paper: CTMH Gimme Me Some Sugar; wood veneer hearts: Studio Calico; Glitter Paper: CTMH silver; Die: CTMH heart die; sentiment: Pink Fresh Studios; card base: CTMH.

I love how this card turned out!  To see more inspiring cards using this sketch you can view the original post from last year HERE.   I love this sketch and was glad to revisit it and use up some of my older stash!  I have a lot of these wood veneer hearts and still love them so I kind of hoard them, but I need to use them up!  I love how the sparkly heart gives the right touch of sparkle and bling to this card!! I hope you will join us at the Summer Daze Crop!  We will have 4 challenges and PLENTY of time to play along as the crop runs from June 8th until June 31st at midnight CST!  So hop on over and join in the fun!  Even if you don't play along you will be inspired by all the wonderful eye candy!  Happy creating friends!!

Lucky Charms Crop at Sketch N Scrap!

The Lucky Charms crop is going on at Sketch N Scrap for the rest of the month and today's is my turn to host a challenge!  

Today's challenge is to create a card using card sketch #69 from March of 2016! Here is the sketch:

Here is my card created using the sketch:

Supplies Used: Card stock: Stampin' Up- Whisper white & Basic Black; Pattern Paper: Pink Paislee Girl Squad; doily: Recollections; Ephemera: Pink Paislee Girl Squad; Enamel Dots: My Mind's Eye (pink) & CTMH (Gold)

I had so much fun creating this card for a special friend as a pick me up!  It's hard to see in the photo but the words on the ephemera card as in gold foil!  This adds that extra fun sparkle to the card!  I hope you will find time to join us at our Lucky Charms Crop this month! We'd love to have you play along with us!  I can't wait to see what you create!

Sketch N Scraps New Beginnings Crop

Sketch N Scrap started having monthly online crops last year and the is continuing into 2018 as we ring in a New Year with our New Beginnings Crop!  Today it's my turn to host the challenge!  Today's challenge is to create a card based on one of our older card sketches ~  #41!!  Here is the sketch:

And here is my card based on the sketch:

Supplies Used: Cardstock: Stampin' Up-Whisper White; Patterned Paper: Simple Stories -Happy Day; stickers: Simple Stories- Happy Day.

I had so much fun creating this card!  It came together so quickly using the fun sketch! I also used up a bunch of my scraps I had with this collection!  This collection is one that was placed in my 100 paper challenge pile for 2018, I have only a few pieces left but a number of embellishments so I am hoping to use it all up this year!  I will be posting more soon about my New Year's resolution to use up some of my stash!  I hope you will be able to join us at the New Beginning's crop on the Sketch N Scrap Facebook page this month!  Challenges are open until January 31st at midnight CST, so you have lots of time to join in!

See you at the crop!

Sketch N Scrap's Be Merry & Bright Crop!

Every month we have an online crop over on our Facebook page at Sketch N Scrap.  It is loads of fun and I love cropping with my cyber friends and being inspired by all their creativity!  Plus there is always a fun prize as well! 

 Today was my turn to host a challenge in the Be Merry & Bright Crop and my challenge was to create a layout using this awesome sketch by Heather:

Here is my take on the sketch:

Supplies Used: Patterned Paper: Doodlebug Designs Flea Market; Die Cuts: Doodlebug Designs Flea Market & Elle's Studio; Stickers: Doodlebug Designs Flea Market; Die cut word: Elle's Studio 

This is my second time to use this sketch!  I just love it! I have it saves as one of my "go to" sketches when I don't have any ideas for a layout!  I love how this turned out!  This is my brother, SIL and sweet little nephew at Vala's Pumpkin Patch this past October!  We go every year and it is always lots of fun!  The Doodlebug Flea Market line is a top fav of mine and really went well with my pictures!  I hope you will join in our crop fun this month!  You have until the end of the month to link up your layouts or cards based on the challenges for a chance at our amazing prize!!  Happy creating!

Sketch N Scrap's Fall Fun Crop!

Happy World Card Making Day!!  I am back with my second post of the day to share some fun cards I made this morning in honor of World Card Making Day!  If you are looking for my other post using the first exclusive sketch for the World Card Making Day month long celebration at Sketch N Scrap go HERE or just scroll down!  Today we also kick off our Fall Fun Crop over at Sketch N Scrap!

Here is the sketch I created just for this crop!

And here are the cards I made using this sketch:

 Supplies Used:  Cardstock: Stampin' Up- Whisper White,Calypso Coral & Night of Navy; Ink: Stampin' Up - Night of Navy & Daffodil Delight; Patterned Paper:  Stampin' Up; Punch: Stampin' Up Daisy punch; Die: Stampin' Up Stitched Square Die; Stamp: Stampin' Up Happy Birthday Everyone; button: Stampin' Up

Suupplies Used: The ScrapRoom October Cafe Card kit (cardstock, card base, & Patterned Paper), Ink: Stampin' Up Cherry Cobbler; Stamp: Stampin' Up; cardstock: Stampin' Up- Always Artichoke.

This sketch is a great way to use up those scraps!! I have now officially killed my October Cafe Card Kit from The ScrapRoom!!  I got 12 cards and 5 gift card holders out of it.  I have just a few tiny pieces left, I think I will try and make some little tiny gift tags out of those and call it good!  This kit is a SUPER bargain, less then a $1 per card! WOW!  Plus you get the stamp set to keep and use again next year!  The kit is still available to grab yours go HERE.   I just bought this daisy punch and the Delightful Daisy paper pack from Stampin' Up and I must say it is so pretty I almost don't want to use it lol!  Anyone else have that issue?  I hope you find time to celebrate World Card Making Day today and I also hope you find time to crop with us a bit!!  But if you don't have time today don't worry ALL the challenges at the Sketch N Scrap blog and at the Fall Fun Crop are open to participate in until the deadline October 31st so there is plenty of time left!   I can't wait to see what you create! Happy crafting!

Back to School Crop!!

How has your weekend been so far?  I got a lot of things checked off my "TO DO" list yesterday and plan to spend today "cropping" with a few of my favorite friends over at Sketch N Scrap! Our Back to School Crop kicked off yesterday with an amazing layout sketch challenge and today I am bringing you our second challenge!!  

Today's challenge is a card challenge.  The challenge is to create a card using card sketch #86 by me.  Here is the sketch:

 

Here is my take on the sketch:

Supplies Used: Card stock: Stampin' Up- Pumpkin Pie, Kraft, Chocolate Chip; Patterned Paper: Doodlebug Designs-  Flea Market;  Tag: Recollections; Twine- Stampin' Up; Scallop Circle- Jillibean Soup

I love the way this card turned out! I punched out the little fox from a piece of the Flea Market paper and mounted it on a really old journal spot from Jillibean Soup!  Our crop is going on until September 29th but you have until October 2nd to get your entries submitted for a chance to win a fabulous prize!  I hope to see you at the crop!  Happy creating!

Celebrating Five years!

Hello friends!  Just wanted to pop in quickly and share an upcoming event with you that I know you won't want to miss!!!  Sketch N Scrap is turning FIVE years old in May!!!  WOOT!  We are so excited and want to celebrate all month long with our readers, so we are having a month long online crop as well as blog party!!! 



The month long celebration will kick off on the blog on May 1st with our first sketch of the month....then the crop kicks off on our Facebook page on May 2nd and will run until June 2nd to give  you lots of time to submit your entries!!  We will be debuting an exclusive sketch each Tuesday starting May 2nd on both the blog AND the Facebook page!!  We will have FIVE exclusive birthday bash sketches to celebrate each of our FIVE years and we will also have an exclusive NSD sketch on May 6th to celebrate NSD with our readers!  Besides six EXTRA sketches for the month we will also have prizes and of course TONS of amazing inspiration from our awesome DT!  Make sure and like us on Facebook so you won't miss out on any of the announcements!  You can go ahead and sign up to crop at our EVENTS PAGE on Facebook now....you never know when a sneak peek might be shared!  Looking forward to cropping with you!