Happy Birthday card for Cortney

I met two challenges with this card for my niece Cortney.  I have 5 nieces...Amanda, Cortney, and Bailey who grew up in the same small town that I live in, Dillyn and Dilayni live across the state so I don't get to see them very often.  Cortney, who just finished her sophomore year in college, has a birthday this month, so I thought I would make her a cute card.  I used the sketch from The Pro Players and I made a car using my cricut for the Bitten by the Bug 2 challenge.

Supplies:

Paper:  Echo Park Hello Summer and scrap cardstock

Stamps:  CTMH Thoughtful Seasons (outside sentiment)  Kelly Panacci Sentiments (inside sentiment)

Inks:  CTMH black

Extras:  Chipboard shapes American Crafts Dear Lizzy

Cricut:  Paisley cartridge

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge layout

I loved the photo challenge at Peachy Keen this week.  I used the photo and colors for a 4th of July layout using pictures from 2009.  Not only am I behind in scrapping my pictures, I also like to use older products.  I have so much stuff that I've collected over the years that a few years ago I made myself not buy anything except paper until I get my stash under control.  This is a perfect example.  I also used a sketch from my stash that I printed several years ago.

Supplies:

Paper:  a stack, I'm guessing DCWV but not sure
Sticker:  Pebbles Inc.
Extras:  star buttons and printed ribbon from my stash

Color My Heart Color Dare layout

For the Color My Heart Color Dare color challenge I had to use CTMH ink  colors sunset, lagoon, and olive.  In my scrap folder of ideas, I had a layout that inspired me for this picture of my son at VBS back in 2009.

Supplies:

Paper:  CTMH Elemental papers

Stamps:  CTMH Wheel of Life (words), Sensational Seals, Life's a Jungle (animals)

Ink:  CTMH:  sunset, lagoon, olive

Letters:  Thickers

Simple Pleasures Layout

This layout was originally intended for the Berry 71 Bleu inspirational board challenge, but I was having a hard time with it.  I went to my idea books and found a layout in a CTMH book that help me with this layout, so I won't be posting it over there.  These pictures are from our annual trip to the lake for the Christmas in July celebration.  This was 2009.

Supplies:

Paper:  CTMH cardstock and Miracle paper

Stamps:  CTMH Circle Around and A Typeface

Ink:  CTMH Bamboo, Olive, and Crystal Blue

Extras:  Prima pearls and Stickopotams alphabet letters

Freshly Made Sketches #137 card

I took yesterday off from scrapping and went to my last Sister Act.  Oh my goodness, that might have been the funniest musical that I've seen.  We all laughed so hard.  I would highly recommend seeing it if you ever have to opportunity.

Since I took Sunday off from my craft room and computer, I had some catching up to do today.  I made this card for my daughter to give to her best friend tomorrow.  It was originally for two challenges.  I used the Freshly Made Sketch #137 and the cricut challenge to use flowers from the Fantabulous Cricut but was too late to enter it in that one.

Supplies used:

Paper:  Kaiser Craft

Cricut cartridge:  Accent Essentials (for the layered flower)

Stamps:  CTMH Sentimental Delights

Ink:  CTMH black

Extras:  two flowers and a pearl (Kaiser Craft)

Mojo Monday 346 card

Today I made a card using the Mojo Monday sketch from this week.

Supplies:

Paper: Hot Off the Press Simply Susan

Stamps: Hot Off the Press Heartfelt Greetings (sentiment) and American Crafts (bird)

Extras:  Simply Susan die cuts (HOTP) and dazzles (HOTP)

Once Upon a Sketch May 2014 layout

For the May challenge at Once Upon a Sketch I had to use a sketch and include at least 3 lines of journalling about anything.  If you haven't notices yet, I'm a pretty simple scrapbooker.  I tend to go for clean lines and not a lot of "extras" on my pages.  Very rarely do I make a layout with only one pictures.  I tend to take a lot of pictures, and it would take me forever if I only scrapped one picture at a time.  However, for this particular event, I only had one picture, so the May sketch was perfect.  This picture is of my niece Cortney and I waiting for the musical Wicked to start back in 2009.

And here is a picture of the sketch I used:

My journaling reads:  It's wonderful to get to be a part of my nieces' lives.  I get to teach them, watch them play sports, and share special memories with them.  Here, Cortney and I are getting ready to watch Wicked.

Supplies:

Paper:  Emerald Garden stack DCWV, cardstock from DCWV Linen Closet stack, metallic paper from Metallic Paper pack from Walmart

Die cuts:  Cut from the Emerald Garden stack

Ribbon:  Really Reason Ribbon monthly pack

Flowers/bling:  Say it in pearls by Prima

Stickles in white

CTMH Pro Player layout

Last night a couple of the girls and I got together and scrapped for a few hours.  I had a few page kits put together from the last scrap day that I needed to finish up.  This is one of those layouts.  I cased a layout in the 2013 Fall//Winter Idea book from CTMH just changing up the stamps.  I took this picture of my son back in 2009 on his last day at camp.  I can't believe how much he's grown!




Supplies:

CTMH paper:  ProPlayer, slate cardstock, ruby cardstock
CTMH accents:  ProPlayer assortment (dark blue arrows)
CTMH ink:  Twilight and ruby
CTMH stamps:  ProPlayer, Alphabets, and Boys at Play

This next layout was a monthly kit from www.scrapjammies.com from 2012.  I stopped my subscription last year, so I don't even know if they are still doing monthly kits.  I thought this kit was perfect for these pictures from a trip to the lake back in 2009!  (I'm a little behind in scrapping my pictures...LOL)  These pages are for my son's album.

In the Garden card

It's my first post on my blog!  This makes me so excited.  I made this Thank You card last night using the Heart 2 Heart Challenge and the Clean-and-Simple Challenge #196 from The Paper Players which was a sketch.  The flowers and sentiment are a stamp from CTMH called A Flowering Bunch which was a stamp of the month from 2013 I think.  I kept the card simple by not adding anything except some colors on the flowers from some chalk pencils that I've had FOREVER.  I hope this is the first of many posts for me.