Scrap Africa no.55

Oh there's a new challenge over at Scrap Africa Challenge no.55 - July Mood Board ......first thought was my wood grain papers (that I might have been hoarding I just love them!) I wanted to pull the wood and the colors from the mood board and make a pretty card that had a country feel to it...I think I did a pretty good job getting my idea to the paper!

 I had these cute little wood flower embellishments from Prima,called Natural bark shapes...I added them under the twine...

Scrap Africa no.55

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Cardabilities No 126

Here is my take on the new sketch from Cardabilities #126 I used some fabulous papers from Kaisercraft and some great cuts from my silhouette portrait ......

 Cardabilities #126

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Cardabilities No 125

Here is my take on the new sketch over at Cardabilities No 125, I went with a more earth tone than I normally do....so much better then the bright pink LOL...I think this one is more me!
I add a couple homemade flowers.....

 Cardabilities

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Scrap Africa No 52

Here is my take on the sketch over at Scrap Africa....I loved this months sketch and I went a lil beyond my comfort zone with all the pink LOL but since this layout was for my daughter and she wanted PINK!

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Cardabilities No 123

Today I'd like to share a Birthday card, I used the new sketch from Cardabilities #123

Cardabilities #123

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Blue Fern Studios-April

My take on Aprils sketch from Blue Fern Studios : I used a couple pieces of their chipboard -Nifty tags and tickets...Gesso and stamped them...

 Blue Fern Studios

 

C'est Magnifique aprils challenge

Due to being sick last month I missed the last challenge over at C'est Magnifique but I am feeling much better now.....and I really loved this months sketch...here is my take....
this picture was taken 23 years ago...its of me and my brother with out first children they were born two weeks apart and my nephew was born on my birthday :) of course we had to get pictures with our grandma and great grandmother!

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sketchabilities No.136

Happy Hump Day....I feel like its been forever since I've worked on a layout LOL now we all know that's not true but with the cold I had everything is a bit foggy! I saw the new sketch from sketchabilities #136 and just had to play!
 I combined sketchabilities sketch challenge with the challenge over on the Flying Unicorn forum All about the Bling...criteria for their challenge is 1. layers of patterned paper 2. chalk or inked edges 3. flowers
4. machine stitching or stamped stitching 5. bling (X3)

 for the bling I used half back pearls, lindy's stamp gang starburst mist,glitter on the larger flowers and Glitterazzi swirls.... I also used faux stitching because my daughter has the sewing machine!

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Scrap Africa

Evening my scrappy friends...I know its been awhile, I am just getting over a nasty cold that my hubby gave me :( so this is the first crafty thing I've done in over a week!
 I used the mood board from Scrap Africa to create a cute note pad cover (post-it notes on the inside) they will make a cute gift for Easter or even a little something on mothers day!

 the whole post it idea came from Lainie over at the flying unicorn

the color yellow and the pretty flowers are what inspired me in this mood board!

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Bold and Beautiful

Good afternoon my crafty friends, I just wanted to share a layout I did using the sketch from Blue Fern Studios...I used their chipboard ( I think its )called spring trinkets

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Sketchabilities # 133

Good Afternoon my crafty friends....I just wanted to share my latest layout using the new sketch from Sketchabilities #133I,m really pleased with how this one turned out...Oh and I really love making the Fabric flowers using the tattered flowers die...they are so quick and easy to make!

 Supplies used: Papers -Maja Designs,Die- Tim Holts tattered flowers,several die cuts from Silhouette,chipboard -A2Z scraplets,stencils TCW-mini ledger and mini bricks,stamps- Kaisercraft , Ink-Ranger Archival Jet black and coffee

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Fly away

I thought I would play along with Sketchabilites newest sketch....for some reason it just called to me!

 I pull out some bits and pieces that have been in my stash for quite awhile now...the chipboard window (not even sure where that came from ),the small wooden tags,the die cut hearts and butterfly,handmade fabric flowers and the two small paper frames are well over a year old..hmmm come to think of it the only new thing is one of the stencils I used in the background LOL

Love Love this sketch!!!!! I love the tiny wood tags, I just used some gesso on them then found some cute stamps...

all in all I love how it turned out! thanks for stopping by!

Bonnet

Here is my take on this months sketch from C`est Magnifique kits... I've been dying to use this chippy piece but I never found a photo that looked good with until now...I was digging through some old photos and found this cutie,both my girls were bonnet girls I swear my oldest wore one for years ( I might even still have their first ones packed away LOL)

 I haven't decided on my journaling just yet but I normally add it to the back later on...

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Papers-A night at the theater #PA406 and Rustic Fly C48 007
Mists- Lindy's canna lily brunt orange and ramblin rose pink
Stencil-Mini art is TCW261s
Blue fern studios chippy piece Spring frame

Mixedmedia card

when I saw the new card sketch from cardabilities I knew just what I wanted to do....I took a dictionary page some water colors,a stencil and some molding paste and got to work! I dug through some die cuts that where left overs from previous projects...found some that I thought would work well....found a flower I made while back....

things just kind of flowed and the card came together smoothly...I wish they came came like this one!

Just a closer look at all the goodness LOL.... I really love how this card turned out and I know just who to send it too!

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Things I love

September Challenge at Berry71blue is all about things you love....I thought about what I wanted to do for this challenge and had plenty of ideas...like a scrappy page with pictures of thing I love,but I love way yo many for that to work properly so I thought I would just do a journal page with a list of things I love...I notice I love lots of things LOL and more then what I listed on this page...just to name a few

My Husband,my children,my furbabies.....those are on the page...not on this page are all things Fair tale, like unicorns :)

Make sure you head over to Berry71blue and check out the challenge and all the beautiful inspiration!

 the list on my page is not in a particular order...I just wrote what came to mind LOL

thank you so much for coming to take a peek at my latest project!

A few favorites

Happy Thursday my crafty friends!!! One more day closer to the weekend! I thought I'd just pop in and share my take on the August sketch from My Creative Sketches, I followed it pretty closely this time since I really loved he flow of things!
I mixed and matched my papers the background is Tim Holtz (love love this paper) then I used some scraps from DCWV and Colorbok... I am really happy with how it turned out!

 I added some handmade flowers and a couple white ones from Prima.....some die cuts and added a few butterflies!

Thank you so much for taking the time to check out my latest layout!

love

well lets start by saying I tried a couple of the techniques from Scrap Africa for their latest challenge....Distressing with a Difference..I really wanted to try something I hadn't done before (so the coffee and tea were out).. I tried the stamping with bleach..yeah that didn't turn out so well but I am willing to try it again at some point LOL then I tried Vaseline for embossing or stamping I ended up making just a big mess...
So I decided to try distressing m,y papers with a cheese grater ( you had to see the look on my hubby's face when he saw me he just shook his head and walked away!) which you'll see in my layout.. the brown and white paper was done with the grater but the one under it was done with a nail file/emery board because it was just too thing and I mangled one piece already LOL
  I used the fabulous sketch from the Flying Unicorns Mojo Monday 
and used some handmade flowers (big green one is store bought) for the Berry71blue handmade flowers challenge

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Practice makes perfect....or not!

well I have tried to make my own paper flowers and I just haven't gotten to where I really like them LOL so I watched youtube again and decided to try some different types of fabric flowers and I just wanted to share and see what you all think...now mind you I just used some scrap fabric that was around( but I really like the light pink colors LOL)

I made these yesterday.......Oh the yellow is paper I don't like it at all ....that's kind of what spurred me to make some fabric ones!

Just a closer view.....

 this one is really soft and fluffy like the pink ones ubove

 side view

Ok so tell me what you think.....if its bad I can take it LOL I do like these better then my try at the paper ones!

thanks for taking a peek....