Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Merry Monday Challenge

Today I'm sharing a card I made for the Merry Monday Challenge this week. Love that I'm making a dent in the number of cards I need for Christmas this year!
for some reason the red looks neon here, it's not, it's really toned down and appropiate to the card.

 
Supplies used:
Paper Studio card base and envelope
Pattern Paper: SEI
Cardstock: CTMH, RUM
Embellishments: Want2Scrap, RUM
Ink: CTMH cocoa, pondorosa pine
Stamps: C1525 Pear & Partridge cardmaking workshop
D1380 Just for the Holidays
S1210 Very Merry Christmas
 
 
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Christmas 2013 Album #2

This is the second Christmas album I made during a weekend when I was on retreat, I didn't get everything on these layouts done while I was there but I finished them up just a few days after getting home. It's made with a really old SEI paper and embellishment assortment called Oasis.

Here's the whole 20 page album. I have sorted them my number of photos on each layout. I also added the size of the photo mat, for some photos the mat will actually show and for others it won't.
 
1 photo layouts
 
 
 
2 photo layouts

 



 
3 photo layouts











 
4 photo layouts

 

 
Supplies Used:
SEI Oasis paper and embellishment kit
Cardstock: Bazzill
 
 
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Monday, May 20, 2013

PL Week 11--March CKC

I completed these week 11 pages while on retreat the first weekend in May. Nope, I'm not caught up but I'm ok with that! I have decided while doing my March pages that I will use more of a monthly format, meaning that if I have too many photos for one week I will carry them over to the next week, I'm not going to be as rigid this month about getting everything on the exact week!
 
I made these pages using my March Stop & Shop CKC kit, I love all the bright colors in this kit and I am determined to use it up before the end of May!
Sorry about the glare, I really didn't want to take all the layouts out of the page protectors.
 
Left page.

Right Page.

My old lady Zena soaking up the sun!

They roll in the floor all the time.

The new pope and lots of packages to open.

Opening packages!

My son, grand daughter and daughter in law.

Not entirely happy with this date card but it's done so I'm leaving it.

My son and grandson.

When my boys were little I always made their meals look fun, well now that I have my grandchildren around there's no since in changing my ways. I cut a huge chunk out of the top teeth to represent my granddaughter Shani, she's lost all of her top teeth at once.

Me!

Something about wearing this jersey to the gym or just out and about on Texas Rangers game day makes this guy happy....or a glutton for punishment! LoL!!

Snuck in a little piece of vellum.

I wasn't sure I was going to leave this photo in here since I wanted to scrap it on a single page but you know me, once it's in.... it's in and it ain't coming out! So I will print another photo to do a single page with!
 
 
Supplies Used:
Pattern Paper: SEI, EP, CTMH
Cardstock: Bazzill
Stickers: CTMH, MME, 7Gypsies, Doodlebug, Niki Sivilis, Bo Bunny, Fancy Pants, RUM
Labels: Recollections, RUM
Embellishments; Jolee's
 
 
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

My Sister My Friend--August 2012 CKC

This layout is based on a sketch from Creative Scrappers. It's also put together with the August 2012 CKC kit I put together. I love this paper...it was from a package I won from sketch'n'scrap.
 
This layout has obviously been in my drafts for a while, although I didn't even post my August 2012 CKC until September, LoL!!!
 
Love the layered journaling on those journal blocks.

I cut a couple of leafy vine borders into smaller sections to use on this layout.

The title is from letter stickers, I really thought at first it was a Quickutz Lifestyle cut title, I think it's prolly why I bought those stickers!

Love that I was able to use some more borders and I was able to layer up several tags.

I wanted to dress up the lace border on the paper so I added some pearl paint dots.
 
Next weekend I will catch up a couple more layouts from last year...I can't believe I totally forgot about these layouts in my draft section!
 
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

My Love For You...August 2012 CKC

This layout is based on a sketch at Sketch'n'Scrap. I love that I was able to incorporate a ton of scraps and washi tape on this layout. I used my August 2012 CKC kit for this layout.
 
I had forgotten I had loaded several layouts into drafts last year with the intention of posting them and for some reason just never did...till now!
 
Love those mixed alpha titles

I used clear stickles on the heart to bling it up.

I stamped this heat on blue paper with yellow ink to make it green, the areas that showed yellow I covered with blue stickles to make everything green, I even added some yellow pearl paint to accent.

I used yellow pearl paint around the heart.

That journal spot was on a cut apart sheet at one time, but for heaven's sake don't ask me from where! LoL!!
 
I think the next several weekends will see these summary layouts on my blog so I can move them out of the draft section!!
 
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Friday, May 17, 2013

Birthday Cards--April CKC

I was about to deconstruct my April Spring Fever CKC kit and noted that I had lots of little scraps that I didn't necessarily want to keep but didn't want to toss out either.

So whats a girl to do????

Make birthday cards of course.

I cut all those little bits of paper into circle, believe me I have more than what's shown here, grabbed some pearls and bling and some stamps and well...here we are!

I even added circle to the inside of the cards! If I could have figured out a way to attach them to the outside of the card, believe me, I would have!




I scattered the circles  along with some bling and pearls and a few foam adhesive squares and there ya go! These were sort of assembly line cards, I stamped all the sentiments and then went back and added all the circles at one time. I think this is a trick I will have to use again! I'm always looking for ways to use up my scraps!!

I was able to make a total of 9 layouts and 4 cards with my April Spring Fever CKC kit!


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