BC401: Travel

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Stamps: Journey from Hero Arts

This week for our Blogger's Challenge the theme was "Travel".  Well, I've done plenty of that in the last year, most of it work related, but fortunately a few personal trips as well.

This past week I just got some sets I bought from a friend and was excited to see there were several travel sets included.  I'm diligently working on getting caught up on my Project Life album for 2014 (I'm only about 8 months behind) so I thought I would create a few Project Life cards to go into my album.

For the ones above I created some thinking about our flights to CA last year and the journaling I wanted to do.  Along with that, we went to Tahoe where my husband rented us all bikes and we took a (what he would call short) bike ride to the Lake.

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Stamps: You are Hip from Hero Arts

And again, some more flying cards as my husband and I enjoyed a second trip out to CA for my brother-in-laws wedding which was a short 6 weeks after our first trip out there.

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Stamps: Journey from Hero Arts

die cuts from Amy Tangerine

Hope you will join us over at Blogger's Challenge this week with your Travel creations.

BC304: Cut It Out

Happy Friday!  This week I'm glad that Friday is here even though the kids are off school today.  We are looking forward to attending Cheersport Nationals this weekend in Atlanta for Sydney's  cheer team and enjoying the remainder of the long holiday weekend.

Today over at Blogger's Challenge our theme is Cut it Out (use die cuts or an electronic die cutting machine).   Mine is very simple today but hope you like it just the same.

This card was for my stampin' friend, Ashley who had a sweet baby girl in December.  I pulled out a journal card from one of my old Project Life kits and stamped my sentiment on it.

I stamped my cool carribean paper with the Animals4print stamp and then die cut it using the butterfly die from PTI.  I added some rhinestones to the body of the butterfly and drew the antennae and trail behind it.

I decided to straighten the corners of the project life card and adhere it using some washi tape.  I love how quick and easy this came together and how it looks.

Hope you will join us at Blogger's Challenge this week and show us how you rock the die cuts!

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Card details:

Stamps: Animals4print from The {Stamps} of Life, Simple Sentiments from Sweet Stamp Shop

Cardstock: Basic Black, Cameo Coral, journal card from Project Life

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress

Embellishments: Butterfly die from PTI, washi tape, date stamps

The Paper Hoarders Push Challenge #1: Carta Bella Devoted

Welcome to the first challenge of The Paper Hoarders Push.  My friend Beth Matson & I have been doing this for two months now, coming up with a pad of paper that we both have and challenging ourselves to create using this collection.  Beth is good at using the whole pad us, I get tired of mine by about the 10th card and give up LOL....but I am using it up which makes me happy.

I've loved Beth's style on her cards for as long as I've known her and the way she combines her papers and embellishments.  I had to snag one of her ideas on my cards this go around, breaking out my paper crimper on some of my hearts.  Thanks for the reminder I had one of these Beth.

Hope you have a cup of coffee this morning as I share with you the parade of cards, gift cards and Project Life journal cards I created with the Carta Bella Devoted collection.  If you have this and want to join in with us, we'd love to see what you create!  Be prepared for Valentine overload :-)

Card details:

Stamps: Love Notes (Retired) from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Real Red, Basic Black, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: Real Red, Versamark

Embellishments: Kaiser Craft Basics red pearls, heart from Silhouette, Snapshot Fun die from Sweet Stamp Shop, White embossing powder

This card based on a Sweet Stamp Shop sketch from 9/30/11

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Stamps: Sentimental Birds from Sweet Stamp Shop

Cardstock:Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Real Red

Embellishments: Circle punch, sponge, heart from retired SU chipboard

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Stamps: none

Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: none

Embellishments: heart from Silhouette, pink prima roses, maraschino red twine from The {Twinery}

Decided to try my hand at the chalkboard technique I've seen all over the place.

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Stamps: Hearts2diefor from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Black, Paint the Town Pink, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: Versamark

Embellishments: Kaiser Craft Dec. 25th pearls, heart from Silhouette, Snapshot Fun die from Sweet Stamp Shop, White embossing powder

This is by far my favorite card from this collection.  I love that I did NO stamping on it and was able to use some of the elements from the paper pad.

Card details:

Stamps: none

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Pretty in Pink, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: none

Embellishments: Pennant Trim die from Verve Stamps, washi tape, Mark Richards metal pearls

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Stamps: none

Cardstock: Real Red, Simply Blue-tiful, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: none

Embellishments: Designer Mix button from Clear & Simple Stamps, Circle punch, maraschino red twine

I really wanted to try my hand at creating some of my own Project Life elements.  I'm often in awe surfing the web at the creativity in the Project Life albums I see and although I tend to be pretty clean & simple using most of the Becky Higgin products, I also like to change it up once in awhile.  I can't wait to work on next weeks photos with my journal cards.

Card details:

Stamps: Studio Calico stamp, Love Notes (Retired) from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Real Red, Crumb Cake, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Memento Tuxedo Black

Embellishments:  button uknown, stapler, heart from Silhouette

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Stamps: Taglines:Critters from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White, Basic Gray, vellum cardstock, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black

Embellishments: yellow rhinestones, dimensionals

Card details:

Stamps: Love Notes (Retired) and Sweethearts from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: Basic Black

Embellishments: date stamp, Silhouette hearts

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Stamps: Taglines:Critters from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock:Whisper White, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black

Embellishments: date stamp, dimensionals

Card details:

Stamps: Hearts2diefor and Framefive2stamp from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Real Red, Carta Bella Devoted

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Strawberry and Chocolate

Embellishments: Maraschino twine from The Twinery

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WHEW!  If you have stuck with me long enough to see all my creations, THANK YOU!!!  I have to say I had a really great time creating these as I normally would not have created this many Valentine themed cards without this paper pack and this challenge.

Can't wait to see what you create using your Carta Bella Devoted paper pack!

The {Stamps} of Life New Releases

Today is new release day over at The {Stamps} of Life, with a release of three fabulous new sets (in addition to the monthly stamp boots4rain)

I am playing with Framefive2stamp and Birthday4subways, so make sure to come back over the next week while I share some more of my creations using these sets.

Here are a few to hopefully spark your creativity.

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Stamps: Framefive2stamp from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise, Teresa Collins Tell Your Story

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Licorice

Embellishments: Sizzix Flowers Framelits, circle punch, Michael's rhinestone

For this one, I used the chevron frame to create my own background paper, they are easy to line up since they are clear and I thought it made a unique background.

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Stamps: Framefive2stamp and Hope4us from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Black, Green With Envy

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Licorice and Guava

Embellishments: rhinestones

This is a page for my Project Life album of my son's 5th birthday a few months ago.  I  love this set-lots of great phrases on one large stamp.

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Stamps: Birthday4subways and Back2Basics from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Creamsicle Cardigan and Green With Envy

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Licorice and Tangerine (reinker)

Embellishments: Washi Tape from Crafty Steals, chipboard from Urban Couture

For my next card (my hubby will be hitting this milestone next week), I masked off the other sentiments on the Birthday4subways set to just use the one sentiment.  I stamped it on one of my Project Life cards and adhered it with some washi tape.  These chipboard letters have been in my stash for awhile but I'm finally using them.

Card details:

Stamps: Birthdays4subways from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Black, Bashful Blue

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Licorice

Embellishments: date stamp, circle die from Spellbinders, Project Life journal card, chipboard from Urban Couture, washi tape from Freckled Fawn

Thanks for stopping by and visiting me today-make sure to come back tomorrow for Blogger's Challenge.

Project Life week 1

Today I thought I would try and meet a goal I set last year of sharing more of my Project Life album.  This is my 3rd year doing it and I'm still learning along the way.

Last year I pretty much stuck to one kit, and I'll be doing that again this year.  I do use some odds & ends in my book by creating some of my own journal cards and I want to add on some more stickers/letters and such.

I've found that I want to stick with the same layout for the majority of my book.  I don't tend to take portrait pictures, but more landscape so this works for me.  I've also decided NOT to round corners in this album, it was such a PIA, even though I liked it.  

This is week one of my book (above).  I haven't finished my cover page yet, but I've got it mapped out already.

Below are some closer pictures.

Thanks for stopping by and letting me share my scrapbooking journey with you!

Happy Birthday! and Project Life

Today is blogger's challenge and while I have been absent the last few weeks, it's not for lacking of wanting to participating.  My mojo disappeared over the holidays and I've been trying to force it to return...it wasn't working, so I took a little break.  I finally feel like this week it's creeping back ever so slowly.

Our theme today at blogger's challenge is "Texturize It".  I won't lie, this card took me awhile to complete, but was so happy with the end results.  Do you ever start making a card, get side tracked doing something else, and then the card takes FOREVER to complete?  That's me almost all the time.  I'm easily sidetracked when I'm stamping.

For this card I texturized the edges of my cardstock using my Donna Salazar's Distrezz-it-All, which I've had for ages and barely use....now I'm wondering why I never use it...oh yeah, it's hidden under my desk where I forget about it (mental note: put OUT on desk, not UNDER it).  I sewed one of the strips of my cardstock and also used the polka dots embossing folder from Quickcutz.

My goal this year is to complete all the SFYTT sketches in 2012.  Last year I missed a month or two and gave up after that, but this year I would like to keep up with Jen's sketches.  I've been a fan of them for a LONG time!   I just had to give a HUGE laugh as I hadn't looked at Jen's post of her card closely until I just went to link and noticed we used the same designer paper.  

The balloon was paper pieced with a piece of some of my new favorite paper- Authentique Gathering. I originally bought this paper to work with my Project Life kit (see below) and love it so much, it's heavier and two-sided and I adore the blues/orange/brown combo.  Think I may need to invest in another pad of the paper.

So with Project Life mentioned above, I'm starting my 2nd year of doing this and am so happy about that.  There's a little break in my kids' lives where I stopped scrapbooking and I really wanted to get back into it, but it was always intimidating.  I've been trying the digital as well but have a LOT to learn in that regard.  I thought I would share bits and pieces of my Project Life album on here.  I'm keeping up pretty well so far in 2012, and while I got behind in 2011 I made it a goal to finish up by the first week in 2012, and I was able to do so.

I chose to work with the Clementine kit this year and while this shows the "A" style pages, I'm hoping to incorporate various pages this year.  I keep with the rounded corners on most of my stuff for it all to flow and also picked out 2 6 x 6 paper pads that would work with the colors of the album so I could cut filler spots and embellish as I wanted.  I do not usually go with the picture/day way of doing things, and more or less just photo/document when I feel like it.

The pages above document a few weeks ago, I had been traveling in PA when I saw this car off the road (bottom photo, top left), got an e-mail from Syd's teacher that she cut her hair during cut and paste centers, and our trip to Chattanooga for Syd's 2nd cheer leading competition.

Thank you if you have stuck with me through all my mumbo jumbo this post, I've been wanting to share more of my scrapbooking/Project Life so will probably do that occasionally.

Want to join us at Blogger's Challenge, link in on any of the blog hop blogs or at Lisa's blog here.

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Card details:

Stamps: Love in the Air by Our Craft Lounge

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Authentique Gathering

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, copic markers

Embellishments: Memory Box Jewel Stickers-Halloween, dimensionals, Janome sewing, Quickcutz Polka Dot embossing Folder, Circle die from Spellbinders