HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE SCRAPS TO TREASURES TEAM!!!

Welcome to the Scraps to Treasure Team Big Birthday Party Hop!

The party started Robin's blog at http://scrapandchat.blogspot.com/

You should have arrived here from Camille at http://shortonideasaz.blogspot.com/

In honor of this special occasion we all created birthday themed projects.  We create all of our projects using scraps from prior projects.

Here is the pile of scraps I chose to work from:

I chose to make a few birthday cards.  

For the first one I chose the color palette challenge TPE212 from The Pink Elephant.

And sketch #306 from Mojo Monday!

and my first card:

for my second card I took color challenge TSG220 from There She Goes .

and sketch #211 from Tuesday Morning Sketches:

and card #2:

And for my final card I chose color palette #108 from My Craft Spot-

and Sweet Sketch #218 from Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

I felt that the papers I chose gave a masculine feel to it so rather than a flower I chose to embellish it with a gear and a clock.

Here's my last card:

and now I have a birthday present for a lucky commenter I will choose at random.  In order to qualify you must be a follower of all the blogs in the hop and to have left a comment on each one.

Here's the present:

Here is the full line up:

Robin S. - http://scrapandchat.blogspot.com/
Pam ~ http://mzlavr2.blogspot.com/
Camille ~ http://shortonideasaz.blogspot.com/  You should have come from here!
Paula - http://preciouspagesbypaula.blogspot.com/  You are here now!
Lissa Marie - www.somanycrafts.com  Go here next!
Lucy ~ http://love2createitall.com/
Lynda ~ http://memoriesintyme.blogspot.com/ 

Happy Hopping!!!

T.G.I.F.

Happy Friday!  I am finally getting to sit down and start creating.  I started with my Daisy Yellow Index Card a Day challenge using the prompts definition and stencil, which I did using Twinkle Twinkle's Summer of Color Week #2 color palette of orange and hot pink.

I used a bit of hot pink acrylic paint and then some tube watercolors in hot pink and orange and moved them around with a wet finger.  I next used a Crafters Workshop Template and an Adirondack Paint Dauber in Snow Cap and randomly added to it.  I had some old Prima rub-ons one saying Be Inspired and several designs so I added those and then a definitions sheet of the word inspire which I colored with orange and pink chalk.  I finished it off by randomly stamping parts of a Donna Salazar stamp.  

And here it is:

Next I decided to work on a card.   I used color palette #187  from The Play Date Cafe and sketch #203 from Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I am also entering this in challenge #85 on Word Art Wednesday.  I used a great orange card base which I stamped with my Donna Salazar background stamp.  I chose some papers, a flower and some leaves, stamped my sentiment and put it all together.

The color palette:

The sketch:

and finally my card:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend!

SPECTACULAR SATURDAY!

Today was a wonderfully productive day.  I went to a crop in Maryland with my friend Maraline and was able to complete 5 cards and 1 layout.  And here they are for your viewing pleasure:

Card #1 - Always Playing with Paper Merry Monday Challenge #66

Card #2 - Mojo Monday Sketch #297, Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #214 color palette

Card #3 - Sweet Sunday Sketch #186, The Color Room Palette #152,

Card #4 - Shabby Tea Room #170, Paper Secrets June Card Sketch, Word Art Wednesday #84

USING BLUE, PINK, WHITE (OR CREAM) AND FLOWERS

Card #5 - Kaboodle Doodle #175, Get Inky Challenge #6, Use It Tuesday #57 - usingpaper scraps, an old stamp and rhinestones, Tuesday Morning Sketches #202, Tuesday Throwdown #151

Layout #1 - Come and Get It Challenges Sweet Summer Hues, Page Drafts Be Bold, Colorful Creations Plus Challenge

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope that you are enjoying your weekend.  All comments happily welcomed.