A BUSY ARTSY DAY! (and week!)

I had a fun day Saturday at a crop in Maryland with my friend Maraline.  I was actually able to get more done than I usually do so I am really happy today to have a lot to share with you.

First up is a tag that I made for a

Native American Tag Swap

over at Paper Doll Trading.

 

Last time I did one like this I had some fabulous fringe for the outfit but since this move I still can't find much of anything so I just cut my paper.

 

Next is a birthday card I did using Anita's Foiled Decoupage for the first time as well as a Sizzix embossing folder.  It is not the way we did decoupage years ago with the Mod Podge.  This is just layers of paper on tiny little pop dots.

 

 

A layout of my son and his first car.

 

 

 

 

And the rest of the share from Saturday are pages of a new 8x8 scrapbook I started of our new kitten!

 

The cover-

 

and the first few pages-

 

 

 

 

 

And I just discovered that I had not shared some tags I had created recently to swap with a new friend over at Paper Doll Trading, as well as a Sympathy card we sadly needed last week.

 

The card-

 

I am going to share this over at

Word Art Wednesday.

 

and now-

The tags-

 

 

 

And this last tag is for a challenge at Addicted to Paper Dolls using an item from our kitchen - which of course on here are the tea bags.

 

I will also share this one with

Coffee Loving Paper Crafters Facebook Group(they drink tea and cocoa too!)

Thanks so much for stopping by to view my latest creations!
 

 

 

 



 

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Today I have another cute bvirthday card to share.  I used the Julie Nutting Birthday Set with Mojo Monday sketch #418-

 and the color combo from Feeling Sketchy World Card Making Day special challenge-

and here is the result!

Quick and Simple - all I needed to add was a bit of twine up top!

I am also entering this in the Alphabet Challenge blog Q is for Quick & Simple!

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great Saturday!

TIME FOR PRESENTS!! AND HOPE!!

Today I am going to start off by sharing another layout from my eldset son Robert's birthday.  I used Let's Get Sketchy Team B September Week 4 sketch.

Here he is opening one of his presents!

and here are a few close-ups!

 Lot's of fun stitching!

 great 3D embellishments from Paper House!

The other project I'm sharing is a very simple canvas I made for a friend that is struggling very badly with chronic pain from surgery gone bad and other health complications.  

I started with a 5x7 canvas that I covered with a layer of black gesso.  I applied it using an old credit card so that there would be a bit of texture.  Next I took one of the photos I had from that spectacular double rainbow that I saw this summer.  The rainbow is a promise from God.  I mounted it on a bit of purple cardstock and attached it to the canvas.  Finally I added an acrylic sticker that says "Never give up hope".  I thought that was a good sentiment to encourage her combined with the rainbow making it a promise from God that she should count on when she is feeling doubt and pain.

I am going to share my canvas in challenge #203 - Anything Goes over at Word Art Wednesday.

I hope that you have enjoyed these and now I am going to publish and head back to creating so I will have something to share with you tomorrow!

Please leave a comment to let me know that you stopped by and what you thought of what I created!

BIRTHDAYS AT THE BEE CROP!!! AND WELCOME FALL!!!

Back in April I went to another awesome crop sponsored by Robin's Scrap Nest.  This was in the Amish country in Ohio.  It was beautiful and I made even more new friends.  It is really a fabulous friendly and creative group.

The crop ended on the day before my birthday so I spent my actual birthday driving 10 hours home...but the day before I was able to celebrate at the crop with some of the other gals who shared the same birth week as me!  

Here is a layout of the April Bee Birthdays!

In order to create it I used some inspiration from challenge #329 over at Cupcake Inspirations.

and Let's Get Sketchy September Team A Week 3 sketch - 

Here is my layout - 

and a few close ups!

AND NOW FOR MY FALL PROJECT - 

I created a tag using two of my Julie Nutting Doll stamps.  The girl is Giulia and the other is her little dog who is loving to play in the leaves!

and some close-ups!

I am entering this tag in Pile It On Challenge #87 - Color Combo.

and I was also inspired by Thrifty Thursday over at Addicted 2 Paper Dolls!

I am also entering it at Blessings Ink Amusing Challenge 22 - Anything Goes.   

I was so excited to actually get more creating done today than I have in a long long time.  I hope you have enjoyed seeing them.

AND NOW IT'S TIME TO BLOW OUT THE CANDLES, MAKE A WISH AND CUT THE CAKE!

Robert's 22nd birthday page 2... 

For this page I selected the September 15th sketch from Stuck?! Sketches.

So here' s the sketch - 

Here's my layout - 

It's time to...

and here are some close ups of more fun 

Paper House embellishments!

I am also going to enter this layout in Crafty Creations challenge #298 - It Takes Two!  My 'take' is 2 photos.  And finally I am entering it in Scrapping Everyday Miracles Birthday Bash mini-crop challenge #4.

ONE PLUS ONE FOR YOU TODAY!

Today I am going to share one layout and one card with you.

The layout uses the sketch from 2/20 on Scrap Much? 

 

I always have so many photos around.  These are from my son Thomas' 16th Birthday last October.

 



His comments were...'but MOM - why did you make it SO GIRLY?!'  and 'that sure was a really good cake!'  Oreo Ice Cream cakes are awesome!  I explained that the cakes were part of the patterned paper - I did not choose to use so much pink on purpose.  and of course the title...but it just seemed like the perfect choice - 16, cake - sweet... I'm sure you get it!

 

Here are a few close ups -

 

 

 

I love to play on Word Art Wednesday so I think I will also enter this layout in their challenge #172 Anything goes!

 

 

And for my card share...

 

I used the sketch #381 from Mojo Monday.  No idea why I chose this as it expired quite a while ago...

 

 

I used red and white for the Card Recipe challenge on the Turtle Soup February Mini-Crop.  It was to use the colors red and white, and a punch - oh and ribbon and a stamp!  I of course intended to add a small heart punch to it and never found it but the big circle might be one...

 

 

I think I will put that tiny heart up in the left corner where I have a tiny tear...

 

and that is it for my sharing for today.  Hopefully tonight will be a productive one creative-wise...

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  All comments gratefully appreciated.