So Sweet Baby

This ended up being a really cute baby card. I am hoping my friend is having a girl so I made it kinda girly-squirrel-ly. :) I was also able to get a really great sketch from Jitterbuggin' and for me it all comes together when I have a great sketch to start with!

The color palette came from the ColourQ blogsite. I made this squirrel to hold a baby bottle instead of a nut and added a flower and a bow to her hair(?). I used some silly border stamps from Recollections (the squiggle stitch border and the clouds border that I made into a background). I used a Tim Holtz Alterations folder (swirls). I also did a little inking around the edges and added some bling-bling on the flowers.

Cartridges used: Give a Hoot (for squirrel and flowers) and Doodlecharms (for bottle). Teardrop for sentiment.

Challenges:

Jitterbuggin' - baby card, sketch, ribbon

ColourQ - Regal Rose, Wild Wasabi, Tempting Turquoise, Early Espresso, and White

Papercutz- Squirrel, hedgehog, skunk or monkey

Thanks for looking!

Best Teacher Gift Bags

I can't believe it but today was the first day of school for my kids! August has just begun and they start school early out here. But hopefully they will be done by the end of May. Anyway, both of my boys have the best teachers in the county (I'm convinced) and since I've known them for a couple of years now it feels so great to have them again.

I picked up a couple of things for them and wanted to dress up a gift back to give it in. So here is what I came up with. I used Give A Hoot cart for the apple. The rest are stamps from Michael's.

Thanks for looking!

Throwback Thursday - Challenge

This was a challenge posted on My Creative Time with Emma. The challenge was to use the colors brown, blue and red in an "out of the box" creative way. Trying to kill two birds with one stone, I thought I could make a gift bag and still make something specifically for this contest.

We have the best babysitter in the whole world who is going to our church youth camp next week. So I thought I'd make a little treat bag and put some fun goodies inside of it; candy being the main ingredient, of course!

This is what I used to make the bag:

Cricut cartridges: Tags, Bags, Boxes & More; Give a Hoot

DCWV Paper - The Guy stack

hemp twine

Ink: teal (MS) and Distressed Ink by Ranger (I think it is frayed burlap)?

white gel pen, black gel pen

Bear in Trash Can (Give a Hoot) cut at 3"

Apple (Give a Hoot) cut at 1 1/2"

Shopping Bag (TBBM) cut at 5 3/4" (I did "fit to page" on a 12x12 piece of cardstock)

Thanks for looking!

Hoppy Birthday Card

It has been a while since I've posted anything. I went on a blogging-spree on NSD and haven't posted since. May has been a very crazy month for me.

The Pink Stamper had a card challenge using green, yellow and brown. Here is a birthday card I made. I used the Give a Hoot cartridge for the frog. The paper is K&Company "Citronella" pack along with some solid colors I got at Archiver's. The ribbon is Martha Stewart. The buttons are from JoAnn's.

Thanks for looking! I will be posting more often after May is over. :) I am going to make a goal to post at least once a week. that seems pretty reasonable to me.

NSD- CHALLENGE #12 (Critter-licious)

I had a lot of fun making this card. I just got my "Give a Hoot" cartridge in the mail today and I was itching to give it a test run! I had hoped that it was going to come last week but at least I got to use it today for the card challenge.

The challenge was to use a critter or animal on your card. I love the cute animals on this cart so it was a hard decision to come up with only one! This squirrel stole my heart and it was so fun to use all those layers (I had recently made an owl card for a different challenge or else I would've picked it). I added a little bling in the lower right hand corner but it was hard to get it to show up in the pic. I also really like the Green Stack from DCWV; it just seems to go perfectly with the Give a Hoot cart so I couldn't wait to use it.

And this is the last of the challenges and I feel so glad that I was able to do them all! What a fun National Scrapbooking Weekend! Thanks again to the Pink Stamper for making this challenge so fun with all of the giveaways. Have a great week everyone!