CSAYL Design Team Friday

It's that time again! HAPPY FRIDAY!

This weeks CSAYL challenge is uing a card sketch!

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I used The Ballet stack from DCWV. I tought I would use some non-tradition Christmas colors this time and surprise myself.

I really like the way this card turned out. I used my Tim Holtz distresser, Colorsnap Colorbox ink, ribbon from Hobby Lobby, Cucumber and Blossom twine from The Twinery, Rose Bud Memento Ink pad, and Hobby Lobby open stock solid cardstock.

I did not want to cover the image of the little girl with the sentiment so I stuck it up top. The stamp is from Punkin Patch Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to enter the challenge this week over at CSAYL! You could win a mini Christmas stamp set along with some 6x6 papers!

Don't forget to visit the other designers blogs!

Peachy Keen Easter Blessings Card

I came across the Peachy Keen Stamps challenge and decided to join in the fun!

Thier inspiration photo:

For some reason, I have Easter on the brain and have had for quite a few weeks!

I immediately thought of a rainbow when I saw this and there was a rainbow coming out in the new SVG Attic file releasing this week, St. Patrick's Day collection. I put it to good use!

The Peacky Keen Faces used for the eyes are from the Critter Faces set Large and the nose and mouth are from Winter Wonderland Faces.

I used my Market Street Stamps Bit of Burlap background for the rainbow. I used my Colorbox cats eye stamps and stamped the colors onto the background and they laid the rainbow on top and rubbed it to get the stamp image on there.

I then used twin from The Twinery to create bows on the rainbow.

For the sentiment I used Shabby Chic Stamp Co. stamps from the Easter Blessings stamp set.

The paper is from DCWV Inc.'s Coral Couture Cardstock Stack.

I hope you liked my card. I really love this card and I think I will be giving it to my Grandmother for Easter!

Thansk for stopping by!

Shabby Rose Card and tutorial

Hey everyone! Today I created a card for the Authentique Paper challenge. Here is a photo of the sketch for the card.

I decided that I wanted to use my Blissful stack again! I just love the yellows right now, I think it is because we are aproaching Spring so fast! I have a small photo tutorial for you all. I wanted to create a shabby rose for this card so I cut out four 2.5" circles on my 6x6 paper using the basic shapes from SCAL!

First I distressed the edges of my paper using my Tim Holtz Paper Distress.

Next I began tearing in a spiral until I reached the end of the paper.

I inked the edges with pink ink on the torn spiral.

Start rolling the spiral from the center tightly, pinch slightly when all is wound together. Release the spiral and glue the outer end down to create your rose and hold it's shape.

Here is the card I created. I used Shabby Chic Stamp Set from Shabby Chic Stamp Co., burlap ribbon, pink pleated ribbon, green grossgrain ribbon, paper from DCWV Coral Couture Cardstock Stack, Authentique Paper Blissfull paper, and Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad.

I enjoyed creating this card and love working with all of these products!

Shabby Chic Stamp Set	Authentique Paper Blissful	DCWV Coral Couture Cardstock Stack	Tim Holtz Paper Distresser	ColorBox Cats Eye Queue Jelly Beans
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad

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Love My Tapes Sketch Challenge

Hey everyone! Thanks for stopping by. Today is my SECOND blog post which is pretty amazing considering I always forget to post my projects on here. I tend to use facebook A LOT!

I stumbled upon Love My Tapes while searching for paper crafting challenges on ScrapChallenge.com. This one seemed simple and fun so I decided to enter. I recently purchased SIX DCWV stacks at JoAnns and they were all NEW RELEASES!

I used the The Chateau Lavender and The Chateau Lavender Cardstock stacks to create this card. I also used the Simple Joys (which is on SALE right now! Save $7.50) stamp set from Market Street Stamps (I think this is my favorite stamp set!)

So here is my card. Please leave some love and thanks for stopping by!

DCWV January Template Challenge

I received an email yesterday from DCWV Diary Blog for their January Stack-a-holic challenge. I had promised myself that I would do one layout per week this year and this was the perfect motivation. Erin chose a great layout sketch by Susan at Sketch Savvy!

We (my little family) went to Disneyland over the kids Christmas break. We went on Dec. 29th and let me tell you, DO NOT go on this week EVER! The tournement of the Roses and the Rose parade in Pasadena was that weekend so every High School marching band was visiting Disneyland before they had to get to work! It was a sea of people, but it is the Happies Place on Earth!

We still had a great time and even got to go on rides. On our way to Disneyland I asked Ethan (age 4) who he wanted to see ( I already knew the answer). He said "PLUTO!" Luckily, Pluto was visiting Santa and his reindeer at the Reindeer Round-up just shy of reaching Big Thunder Mountian. We saw him THREE, yes you read that right, THREE times. Thank God the line was not long at all and Pluto was very patient and just as excited as Ethan every single time he saw him. What a good puppy!

So after all my blabbering here is my first layout of 2012! May there be many more!

I used the DCWV Guy stack which worked out perfectly! The blue crochet ribbon I purchased from Paper Issues.

I used SVG Attic Jack's Tracks SVG Colleciton for the Bone Tag! I used the Argyle Cuttlebug folder and embossed the name tag. Used SCAL to create the Pluto die cut.

I aslo used Jack's Tracks for the Paw Prints and one of our newest collections Be Mine for the journaling tag which is found in the Love Coupons Booklet.

These are the Dog Tag files in the Jack's Tracks SVG Collection also.

And here is my little monkey! <3 him so much!