Sketchy Friday!

Once again I am honored to have my sketch up at Practical Scrappers! I hope you will join us and play along for a chance to win an awesome prize from Lucky Girl Crafts! This is really another awesome prize offered by the lovely Practical Scrappers sponsors! This layout uses more fun goodies from my June Personalscrapper kit featuring Fancy Pants' Rusted Sun papers. The letters are Thickers from the kit and the quote block is from Fancy Pants. I also used the "You Crack Me Up" (Scenic Route) sticker from an older Personalscrapper kit and a piece of misc chipboard flourish from my stash. I can't wait to see what everyone creates from the sketch! Have a great weekend everyone, I hope to get a few more challenges complete this weekend, some really great prizes on all these fun challenge sites, I feel like a kid in a candy shop! LOL!

Flower Challenge

Here is a layout I did for this week's flower challenge over at Practical Scrappers. This layout was made from a kit featured on the Scrapbooks on the Go website using Crate Paper Samantha papers. This layout was also based on one of my exclusive sketches for the Sketches 101 class that I taught at the recent Scrapbooks on the Go crop. I just love the quote on the side of the page and think the flower sets it off really well. The middle of the flower is a jumbo eyelet from Stampin Up. Feel free to use the sketch and make it your own and then give me a shout out in the comments, I would love to see what you come up with!

Felt, Fabric or Tulle challenge

Today's challenge at Practical Scrappers is to use Felt, Fabric or Tulle on your layout. I decided to dig deep in my old stash and pulled out these Fancy Pants felt embellies that I just had to have like 2 years ago but hardly even used!(shame on me!) The word "you", the flower and the scallop border are all felt. One reason I never like to use felt is I have trouble adhering it...but no more! I found a great way to quickly and easily adhere your felt accents but using Zip Dry Glue. I won this glue while at CKC St Louis, and it is awesome, much thicker then most glues and it dries VERY fast! But remember if you try it, just a dab will do ya! This picture is from 2008 when I took my nephew on a snake hunting excursion to the local Nature Center in Fort Worth. He loves to hunt for snakes, but we didn't see any that day, just possums, turtles, a deer and few praire dogs! The papers on this layout are from my May add on kit from Personalscrapper featuring My Mind's eye's So Sophie papers. Letter stickers are thicker and Jenni Bowlin. Well, gotta get to bed, hope you will join us this week at Practical Scrappers, dig into that stash and use some of your felt, fabric or tulle and dont' forget to post your layout/card for us to see here!

Sketch Friday

I am so excited about my debut as a sketch designer for Practical Scrappers! I just love what all the talented designers have done with my sketch and can't wait to see what all the other talented artists out their in cyberspace do with it as well! So please join us and link up your layout created with this sketch here. For my layout based on the sketch I used some oldie but goodie Scenic Route papers and chipboard embellishments from the Liberty line. And for a little something new I combined the flag banners from the new Pink Paislee Starlight collection as part of my title. I really like the way this turned out. I hope you will become a regular at Practical Scrappers and play along with our sketch each week, we have a fun one for you every Friday! Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Patterned Paper Challenge!

For today's challenge over at Practical Scrappers, I used four strips of Scenic Route Cape Town patterned paper. I just love the masculine colors in this line! So fun and playful, perfect for a tween or teen boy! I just love this picture from last month of my son and his cousin at Joe's Crabshack were we went to celebrate my nephew's sixth birthday! Letters are Thickers Daydream font (again! LOL!) and I used my cuttlebut circle embossing folder to emboss my star. Super easy page, but these papers really draw the eye to the picture! Try it, it's a great way to use up scraps! If you want to participate in this week's challenge hop on over to the PS blog and see what everyone is doing to use up their stash of patterned paper this week! Don't forget to check back tomorrow for the debut of my first EVER sketch for Practical Scrappers! So excited to share this with you!

Friday Sketch

We are having our Lord's Acre Auction this weekend at our church and I always make a box of handmade cards for the auction. I struggled getting them done this week, but I made it and think they turned out pretty good. I was inspired by Gloria's sketch for today at Practical Scrappers for the bottom card. I love these colors! The patterned papers are by SEI from the Windsor collection and the cardstock is More Mustard by Stampin Up weird how they went well together. The top card uses all Stampin' Up papers and stamps from my stash. I got these papers from a friend, not sure of the name of them, but the cardstock is the soon to be discontinued Blush Blossom. The stamp sets used for these cards are (bottom card) Upsy Daisy and (upper card) Pocket Silhouettes and Refuge and Strength. I made 12 cards total (2 each of 6 designs) and these are two of the 6 different designs. I didn't get pictures of all them, as I was in a rush, but I am hoping to recreate a few of them for my stash before I forget my design LOL! So I will try and recreate them tomorrow and post. I did a variety of different sentiments from Get Well, Sympathy, Birthday, thank you and even a graduation card this year! Go check out Gloria's sketch and have a go at it, if you need some cards for your stash, this sketch was simple and will help you create some cards using your scraps real fast. The cards the design team created with it range from modern to elegant..something different for every taste! Can't wait to see your cards! TGIF friends, lets chat again soon!

Punches Challenge at Practical Scrappers

This week's challenge over at Practical Scrappers is punches! I think we all have tons of punches, don't we? I know I started collecting punches as soon as I started to scrapbook! So go dust them off and put them to use! For this layout of my Glamour Girl niece, I used SIX punches! I used my newest punch the Upper Crest Fiskars Border punch I got at CKC St. Louis and doodled around it to give it more pizzazz. Then for my upper border I used my all time go to notebook paper punch by Stampin Up. I used my circle punch in the upper right top to punch a half circle which framed my heart punch accent. I also used my corner punch and my flower punch to add some more homemade embellishments. This layout is based on an awesome sketch by Julie Bonner, if you want to see some of her beautiful work as well as get some inspiring sketches, check out her blog, it is wonderful! This layout was made using my February Personalscrapper kit featuring Pink Paislee Cupid papers and accents. The letter stickers are all by Making Memories and were also included in the kit! Hope you will play along with us at Practical Scrappers this week, we want to see your punch projects, so make sure and link them up! Check back tomorrow for some card inspiration...I'm on a card jag this week! Catch ya later peeps!

Pratical Scrappers Sticker Challenge

Today is the big day, it is finally here, seems like a lifetime ago I created this sketch and this layout! LOL! This sketch was created for the April sketch Challenge over at Personalscrapper! Check it out here to see the lovely layouts the gals at Personalscrapper created with this sketch, just lovely! My layout uses October Afternoon's Good Cheer line of papers and stickers. For my title I used two OLD clear stickers from EK Success from my stash, a great way to make a long word like CHRISTMAS fit on your page! The tab sticker was great for my hidden journaling where I listed my son's Christmas gifts for last year. I also used some stickers by 7 Gypsies to make my own center for the felt (Stampin Up) snowflake. Simple page, used up some old stash...so all makes for one happy scrapper...ME! If you want to give my sketch a try I would be honored, if you do please post your link in the comments so I can go check it out! And starting in a few weeks I will be designing sketches for Practical Scrappers as well! So go check out what all the other DT members did to use up their sticker stash and don't forget to post your project on the Practical Scrappers blog so we can all see!

Exciting News!

I am so excited to announce that I have been choosen to be a part of the Practical Scrappers Design Team! Practical Scrappers is a fun challenge site that encourages you to use your STASH! Each week a new challenge is issued and you are challenged to create a project using the featured item for that week. This week it is Floss, Fibers and Ribbons! Now, that is a challenge for me, I have a drawer full of these and yet rarely use them on a project! So hop on over to Practical Scrappers and try your hand at this week's challenge, get inpsired by all the lovely creations the current DT has created for this week's challenge and use that stash! I am so excited to be part of such a great site and even more excited to get to know the other DT members. I have listed links to their blogs on the sidebar, so go check out all their awesome work and join me in congratulating them on their newest challenge!