PDCC #159: Splash of Red

I love the Playdate Cafe's Color Challenge this week: Black, White and a Splash of Red!

 

This week I decided to go digital to make a scrapbook page!

 

I love this color combination and I love this picture of my little man walking around our play room!

 

Hope you enjoy!  Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

HIMCR #74: Color Challenge

Hey everyone!  It's December...time for another color challenge with Hiding in My Craft Room!  This month your challenge is to use Blue & White!

 

At first I thought this challenge would be a little tough.  But then I remembered that I just got this cute new lion in a $3 stamp set from Michael's and that I needed to make a baby boy card for a friend!

 

So here is my card...

 

I started this card base with Crumb Cake cardstock from SU.  The patterned papers came from my scrap box.  And I stamped that cute little lion 3 different times and then cut out his mane and face and popped them up with dimensionals!  I finished the card off with a little Baker's Twine! 

 

I love how it turned out and I hope you all do too!  Please make sure to check out all of the design team's blogs today!  Their projects are just so cute!!

CAS(E) this Sketch #6

Here I am, playing along with CAS(E) this Sketch again this week!

 

My card this week was inspired by this pin on Pinterest!  I love the way that they made the tree! 

 

I started this card with a Crumb CAke cardstock base.  I added a little layer of Crumb Cake embossed with the Fancy Fan folder.  Over top of that I sponged a little bit of White/shimmery paint.  Then I made the tree using Cherry Cobbler and Pool Party triangles.  The tree was topped off with a Vintage Faceted Button tied with Early Espresso Baker's Twine.

 

Here is the sketch that I was inspired by... 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  Hope you have a relaxing Sunday!

Hiding in my Craft Room #73

This week at HIMCR for our Mix It Up Challenge we are all doing Christmas themed cards.  So if you need some inspiration for this holiday cards...come check out what all of the design team has been up to!

 

My card is very simple!  I used it as a make n take for my last CROP event.  I started with a Crumb Cake card base and then used Early Espresso and Cherry Cobbler Core'dinations cardstock!  I LOVE this stuff!  Seriously...if you don't have any, you need to order it! 

 

On the Early Espresso piece, I tore the bottom edge and then used Stampin Up's new sanding block to distressing all over the paper.  What I love most about this NEW cardstock is that it doesn't have a white core.  The core is a lighter shade of the outside color.

 

On the Cherry Cobbler piece I just used the sanding block on the outside edges to give a little bit of color.  Then I stamped the new Seasonal Saying - Christmas Single Stamp (love this new single stamp option!) in Always Artichoke ink on Very Vanilla cardstock.  This stamp is one of my FAVORITES this holiday season!  A little loop of Always Artichoke seam binding ribbon finishes off the card!

 

There you have it!  I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving feasts and you are loving getting ready for Christmas!!  Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

HIMCR #72: Glitz & Glam Blog Hop

 

Happy Saturday!  I hope that you are enjoying your weekend.  So glad you stopped by.  If you joined me from Robin's blog, Welcome!  Wasn't her card so cute!!

 

This week at Hiding in my Craft Room we are having a blog hop!  Our challenge this week is "Glitz & Glam" and our sponsor is The Scrapbook Stamp Society.  They gave us these fun images to work with and I think you are really going to like all of the Design Team creations!

 

Play along and you could win 3 of the 5 images that the Design Team used today!

 

My card this week was started on a Pool Party cardstock base.  I then used patterned paper from my scrap box in Black, Orange and Purple to finish out my color scheme.  My fairy image was matted on Lucky Limeade cardstock and colored using markers.  I then added my glitz (Dazzling Diamonds) to the wings and popped on a few rhinestone jewels as my glam!

 

I hope you enjoy my card!  Be sure to check out all of our Design Team blogs and leave a comment on each for a second chance to win this week!  WOO HOO!  Just comment on each post and then head back to the HIMCR blog and post there that you did!  It's that easy!

 

Please head over to Naomi's blog now and enjoy her beautiful card!

 

 

 

Blog Hop Order:

Laurie from Hiding in My Craft Room

An'Jenic from AJ Scrapbooking & Cards

Jennie from Jenscrapstoo

Jessica from Craftin' and Stampin'

Angela from Angela's Crafty Spot

Amber from Momma Scraps

Melissa from My Watermelon Moon

Jenn from Scrap Happens Embellish It

Robin from Create-a-latte

Kim from Stamping with Kim
Naomi from Creative Bug on the Loose

Unscripted Sketches #184

I decided to take on another challenge tonight.  My daughter has been asking me to make her a card for a few days now.  She is really into Hello Kitty these days and yesterday while we were out shopping we got her 3 Hello Kitty stamps for $1!  She is in heaven! 

 

The Hello Kitty on this card is from the packaging!  I plan to slip this card with a little message in it under her door tonight so she will find it when she wakes up in the morning.  She is going to LOVE it!

 

This card came together in just under 10 minutes!  I used a Basic Gray cardstock base.  The other papers came from my scrap box.  A little baker's twine and some jewels and don't forget the cute Hello Kitty image and it's done!

 

Here is the sketch that I followed!

Retro Sketches #37

Well...the hubby is out of town and yesterday was a bad nap day.  So...the kids and I headed to Sonic Happy Hour and then to Micheal's to kill some time!  I found out that select paper packs were 40% off!  So I scored this cute MME Christmas 6x6 pack for around $4!  I just had to get it out and play today at nap time!  :)

 

I got my inspiration from Retro Sketches #37.  Check it out...it's a good one!!!

 

My card started with a Crumb Cake cardstock base then added a layer of Whisper White with my new papers torn and distressed on top.  The wood trees are from Studio Calico.  I finished this card off with some black and Cherry Cobbler baker's twine!  So Easy!!

 

Check out this sketch and play along!

Just Add Ink #143

I thought I would play along this week at Just Add Ink.  I had my 12 hour CROP this weekend and this is one of the pages that I completed...with journaling and all!

 

For every month of the first year of my kiddos' lives, I create a layout of my favorite pictures of them.  This a layout about my favorite pictures of Noah at 11 months!  Enjoy!  (Click to enlarge.)

 

I started this layout with an Early Espresso cardstock base!  The other papers on this layout came from MME and Simple Stories. 

 

The stamps are from Close to My Heart.  And the sticker embellishment comes from MME as well!

When I scrapbook, I rarely stamp on my pages...there is just so much other stuff that could be going on in the scrapbooking world.  But since this challenge was for Just Add Ink, I figured that I should use ink and stamping! 

I love the look of hand-printed journaling!  I love my Mom's handwriting...it's just another way that I am connected to her, I could pick it out anywhere.  And I hope that my kiddos feel the same way when they grow up!

 

Here is the color challenge that inspired me...

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog!  Have a super day!

HIMCR #71 - Super Scraps Saturday

Hello there!  It's Super Scraps Saturday at Hiding In My Craft Room!  I love this challenge!  It's so much fun to find scraps that work together and make a card!!!

 

Here is my card this week...

 

I started this card with a Crumb Cake cardstock base and then added banners in mulitple colors and patterns from the Summer Smooches DSP!  The cute yellow, polka dot flower came from Stampin Up's kit a while back where you could build a flower!  And a Real Red button, tied with twine! 

 

I hope that you take the time to stop by all of the blogs of the HIMCR design team.  Their projects are so fantastic!!!

Needed: Thank You Cards

I don't know about you, but I love to send Thank You cards and I haven't in a while because my stash has been LOW!  So this week I've been building it up and a few of my favorite people should start seeing them in the mail again!

 

Last night I tried out a few challenges and got this card...

 

I started with a Basic Gray cardstock base and added a piece of silver Glimmer paper across the front.  The 3 half circles (1") are in the colors: Wisteria Wonder, Perfect Plum and Elegant Eggplant.  I tied some Wisteria Wonder twine around the whole card and then added a mini silver brad to each circle.  I completed the card by using my sentiment, thank you.  But this could easily be a card for just about any event!

 

Here are the challenges that I am entering...

Love this sketch!!!  I need to play this challenge every week...it's my new FAV!

All of the purple isn't my first chocie but I thought I would challenge myself a little bit!  Hope you like it PDCC!

 

Enjoy your weekend everyone!  I'll be back tomorrow with Super Scraps Saturday at Hiding in my Craft Room!