Two Page Lay-Outs

 Hellooooo Fellow Crafters....I know it's been a while since I posted anything, just been busy with other events going on my life, last friday, Feb 25th, I attended the Anaheim Convention Center Scrapbook Expo along with a couple of scrap-queens from my cropping group! We had a blast, and I was consumed with playing with my new toys....I will share with you later what I picked up as I create with them!
So for now, I wanted to share with you some lay-outs I completed recently. I have been so busy making cards that I forgot I initially got started in scrapbooking by creating layouts and putting photos to paper. I cannot beleive it's been since last August '2010 since I did any layout pages....wow, so in order for me to get motivated, I purchased the (2) DVD set from "My Pink Stamper, and this is what I came up with from her video of the month layouts throughout the year! I will share the 12 month layouts as I create them....and I will let you know which ones were my own creation....here we go, this one was from the month of January call "SNOW MUCH FUN", I had fun with this one...using cartridges I already had, and some she suggested,  using Winter Frolic & Winter Woodland...of course I changed up to use my own color scheme to match the photos I wanted to place on the page...whata think?

 I did this lay-out shortly after Valentines day....I thought the color scheme was rich with the taupe, black and old gold....I used the designs from "Sweetheart" cartridge, page 1 is for 1 special photo and journaling, and page 2 will support (3) photos and some journaling, I was quite happy with the look....

This lay-out was from the dvd, using "Forever Young & Plantin School Book...I did not have the "Plantin School book, so I substituted with another cart using the alphabet & flowers. It still turned out well.
Well I hope you like the layouts so far, and later on this month, I will be creating the dvd layout for the month of March! I will also be posting more cards, since they are so much quicker in creation (lol)....until next time keep your creative juices flowing!

My Fleece Jacket

Hello fellow crafters...many of you do not know that I am also a seamstress! I began sewing when I was 7yrs old....making clothes for my dolls by hand...I have made everything from swim suits to wedding gowns...and now I only sew for myself mostly. Although, recently I was asked by one of my fellow scrap queens to make jackets for our crop group...so here is how the jacket turned out...it is made of a plush fleece fabric in torquoise/brown zipper & brown embrodiery thread. the left sleeve has a pocket on it to place your cell, or I.D., so something light weight like a I-Pod. On the front is a pocket on each side of the zipper.
I chose to place my blog name on my jacket,this is great for advertising my blog site, I am now thinking of other apparel to embroider on (lol) I am very pleased how this jacket turned out!
Maybe for breast cancer month, I will design one in PINK....whatta think?

Throw Back Thursday

This is my project to submit for "Throw Back Thursday Challenge" on "My Creative Time" w/Emma!
She asked that we use the cart "Walk In My Garden" and use flowers! I decided to use a flower pot, and fill it with flowers and add add'l flowers to the outside of the pot!
I cut the Image of the pot & flowers @ 4", added some bling with MS glitter pens, some yellow gross grain ribbon, and a stamp that says it all "THANKS A BUNCH"....(from stampin up) I hope you like it!

Birthday Cards

I just got a kick outta making this birthday card. Peachy Keen stamps makes it so easy-peasy to do facial expressions...as I stated previously on the other card, I starting to use more of my older carts with some new ones, and I am finding that there are so many images that you would never run out of what to create if you were to make something from every image on each cart...ok, enough of my brainy thoughts (lol)
I created this card with Paper Doll Dress Up cart and I selected Raggdy Ann, and I used my Gypsy to remove the cut-outs of the face so I could use my facial stamp...I don't know if Raggdy Ann is afraid, surprised, or actually gonna blow out the candles...so I decided to put a sayin "Make A Wish", and I thought the flowers could use some bling on the cake, so I placed mini rhinestones on the flowers, the stamp is from stampin-up, I added some twine, a button, and I thought the card needed some background color, so I striped it with the matching plaid from Ann's bloomers, and topped it with a Red square, I corner punched  the red square and used my white gel to make it pop....Voila!!! I hope this gives you inspiration to create some diff background without overpowering the main piece-Raggdy Ann!!! Isn't she cute.....

Birthday Cards

Happy Wednesday fellow crafters...I decided to do another birthday card, this time, I chose torquoise as my base color. I decided that I wanted to start this year using some of my cartridges that I recently purchased along with some older cartridges that way my inspiration of "why I just had to have that cartridge " would resurface and cause me to use a new one and a older one on the same day. Although right now I am posting a more recent purchased cart, my next posting will be of a older one I've had for a while.
I was inspired to make this ice cream cone and place a face on the strawberry to give it a little happy look!
I used Sweet Treats cart and cut out the ice cream at 4", I used chocolate cardstock for the background of my card, then I topped it with a torquoise cardstock embossed with the words "happy birthday", I felt that my ice cream cone was a little bland looking so I blinged up the ice cream and strawberry with some glitter, I shaded the cone itself with a "color box" chalk" brown around the edges, then I stamped my word "happy birthday" from stampin up, used my white gel pen to stitch around the chocolate edge of the card, the ribbon of torquoise w/brown dots was my inspiration of colors to use.
Hope you like.....my goal is to have at least (6) feminine birthday cards ready, and (6) male birthday cards..never know when you will need to send one out!
Enjoy

2/13 Challenge

This is my entry for the Pinkalicious Blog Hop over at My Pink Stamper, we were asked to use our favorite color(s) along with black, I chose Green for my favorite, and I also like the combination of brown and pink.
I used for the background, swirls embossing folder, the cow was "From My Kitchen" and I added the green grossgrain ribbon, and the all famous question "GOT MILK?'
Hope you like...

Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge

Hello fellow crafters', this card was created for Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge posted on Thursday Feb. 3rd. The challenge was to use "Wild Card" & or "Just Because Cards" cartridges.
And the card must have a printed sentiment on it.
I chose to use both cartridges, and this is the results.
Here is my recipe: the card is cut @ 5x6 /12", layered with black as the base 4 3/4"x6 1/8"
Red layer 4 1/2"x5 3/4", gray was cut @ 4 1/4"x5 1/2" then embossed with circles embossing folder.
I added blk/wht twine from "The Twinery", & added a plaid bow
from the Wild Card cart=I cut the frame for the stamp @ 6" and the outer part was cut using red-cardstock
from the "Just Because Cards" cart I cut the pick-up truck @ 4"...finishing touch was the doodling in white gel and black ink.
My printed sentiment was from "Stampin Up Stamps" and the red ink used is Ruby Red also from "Stampin-up"
I hope this inspires you to use your cartridges and mix & match to get the look you want!