BUDDY

Hello there! Today I am sharing with you a layout I did following the sketch from MyScrapsandMoreSketches.

I really went back in time for this one. My son was two in this photo (he's now eight). So I dug around in my stash until I could find cute and cuddly boy paper. Wasn't TOO hard. LOL

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"I'm cute" is a brad and present from my sister.

Supplies:
Paper
--Echo Park and others (I forgot)
Wooden embellishments
Stickers (various places too)
Shaped Die cuts

Sorry my supply list is so vague. Really don't remember where most of this came from.

Mr. & Mrs.

Hello and welcome! Today I get to announce that I'm part of the PauseDreamEnjoy DT team. It is a "link party" DT with a new theme every Friday. Very easy, wide open themes. Great way to see other crafters and for people to see you.

I am also submitting this project to the Die Cuttin' Divas challenge for this week. The challenge being "weddings".

I made this card using the title from MissKateCuttables. If you are new to my blog, then let me just say I love die cuts. I have a few favorite places where I purchase files and am always looking for new ways to incorporate die cuts into cards and pages. I even try mixing it up with the latest trends and usually find a way to fit a die cut somewhere on my project.

Supplies are listed below.

Thanks for stopping by today!!!

Supplies:

Die Cut:

---Title from Miss Kate Cuttables

Paper:

---6x6 Teresa Collins "Wonderful"

---AC White Cardstock

---AC Black Cardstock

---AC Pink Cardstock

Rick Rack Ribbon

Pop Dots

My CRAZY kid

Hello there! Today I am sharing with you a layout in which I am using the monthly sketch challenge from Creative Sketches.

I used papers from all over my stash. Whenever I make a layout about my son I tend to reach for the blues, oranges and reds. He is not old enough for me to "feel" that I should be making "grunge" type layouts about him.

I took this photo of my son on a family trip last summer. It was "crazy" how hard it was to take a good picture of him. He's getting rebellious about photo taking "time".

I took ideas from my sister and reached for embellishments from everywhere in my stash.

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"Crazy" was made using SCAL3.

The captions are stickers from all over my stash. I have
a whole drawer full of them.

Whenever I make flags I always reach for my small scraps left
over from card making.
I never punch a large sheet of paper. Not anymore at least!

Supplies:

Paper:

--We R Memory Keepers "Quoted"

--Pink Paislee "Hello Sunshine" (background)

--Scraps (flags)

--AC Black Cardstock

Creative Embellishments - wooden gears

Brads

Stickers (all over the place)

SCAL3 (title)

Die cut arrow

Dymo Label

SOUS DIE CUT CHALLENGE: SUMMER

Hello and welcome to my blog for this week's die cut challenge: Summer! Too easy right?!

First of all I would like to explain the title, "Summer Blues". The photo was taken during the summer of 2013 and the "blues" refers to my nephew's blue eyes. I was trying to do something different with words instead of the same old thing.

Secondly, I can't tell you have much fun I had making this layout. It is loosely based on this sketch from Pinterest.  I enjoyed mixing shapes and digging thru my stash for bright colors. A while back I invested in several punches and definitely made use of them here.

Last, I went to MissKateCuttables for the sun and "summer" title. I really don't go there often enough. Her die cuts are just so fun and easy to use. The little cloud is actually from SVGCuts.

I combined Doodlebug Designs, Echo Park, and October Afternoon
on this layout. I just had way too much fun!

Sun is from MissKateCuttables.

Although the camera blends in too much to the white background,
I still really liked having it on my layout. No real rules in scrapbooking
anyway.

I dragged my sewing machine out for this. Can't quite pull
off the "messed" up sewing machine look. Oh, well.

Father's Day

Hello there!! Father's day is just around the corner. I prefer to make my cards fit the person rather than make a card only I will like. LOL

My dad was born in California but he's an untrained cowboy at heart. He likes to wear "the outfit" but can't ride a horse! He doesn't have a super, awesome, cowboy hat but if he did, I'm sure he would wear it all the time.

This card was inspired from the DT at SVGCutting Files. This site has the file rights to the Squaredy Cats line. They make such cute cards right?! This file is actually the "Texas Squaredy Cat".

I'm also submitting this to the Die Cuttin Diva's Challenge - Masculine.

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The hat, star and flower were all made with various scraps
from MME and Farmhouse.

I just wanted to say I really liked the flower. It was a bit
like putting a puzzle together. I think I'll use this
flower on other projects too.

My Dad.

Supplies:

SVGCutting File - Squaredy Cat Texas

AC Cardstock

--Brown Sugar

--Chestnut

--White

--Black

--Pale Pink

--Green

Glue

FIN-tastic day!

Hello! Today I am sharing with you a super easy card I made for the DieCuttin'Divas challenge.

I usually make much more complicated cards but aquatics are not my "thing". BUT it's always nice to be simple every once in a while, especially when I want to use up scraps. I have been following DieCuttin'Divas for a while but have not participated. That doesn't really make any sense as I love to make die cuts!

This card's file is from the online Silhouette store. Again, super easy!!!

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Supplies:
Silhouette Online Store - fish card
Scraps of paper from BoBunny and Echo Park
Banner die and stamp from My Craft Spot
Gems - Paper Studio

Always Mom

I forgot to post this card during Mother's Day. I did follow this card for inspiration from Pinterest. I really like how it turned out and love both of my Mother's Day cards for different reasons.

Most of this card was made using my Silhouette, except for the border flowers which was a punch.  Stamped an arrow, added some bling and voila!

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Supplies:
Silhouette Online Store
Teresa Collins 6x6 pad - Something Wonderful
Bling - various items from stash

SOUS DIE CUT CHALLENGE: ARROWS

This week's die cut challenge with SOUS is to use arrows!! I figured it was time to make a "guy" layout using this theme.

Not much else to say on this one. I did follow this sketch from my pinterest page.

Fun and easy to make!

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Supplies:
Die cut arrows
Random embellishments from stash
Paper - BoBunny scraps
Brads
Stitching

SOUS DIE CUT CHALLENGE: HOME SWEET HOME

Welcome to this week's die cut challenge with SOUS - "home sweet home". 

I do love my 3-D projects!!! I was greatly inspired by Thienly Azim, DT member at SVGCuts, and her "wonderland lamp" project. 

My project was made exclusively with files from SVGCuts and a little birdie from Joann's.

I used Graphic's 45 "Botanical Tea" patterned paper.

This is not my favorite photo but I was afraid to take it outside as this is
rather fragile. I've been purchasing wide candle bases for these type of projects. 

The flower is from the topiary file at SVGCuts. The leaves are from the
3D flower choices. The topiary is from the
"Thank you for the music"file.

The teapot, saucers, cups and spoons all came from the file
"Tea for You and Me" file at SVGCuts.

Supplies:
SVGCuts:
---Tea for You and Me
---Thank you for the Music (flowers)
---3D Flowers (leaves)

Spanish Moss
Wide base candle holder
Hot Glue Gun
Brads
Ink (various colors for distressing)
Bird (Joann's)

Paper:
--Graphic 45's Botanical Tea
--AC Cardstock Ivory, White and Green

SOUS DIE CUT CHALLENGE: MOM

Hello and welcome to this week's die cut challenge with SOUS. The challenge is simply "Mom". Of course, with Mother's day right around the corner there are just so many possibilities.

Over a year ago I discovered the awesome "smooth and swirly" file from SVGCuts. I've only used it once and this week's challenge gave me the opportunity to use it again. 

The patterned paper is Teresa Collins' 6x6 "Life Emporium".

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SOUS DIE CUT CHALLENGE: INDUSTRIAL

Hello there!! Today's project is for the SOUS die cut challenge: Industrial. Most of us do something like this all the time! Think cameras, gears, vintage "electronics", etc.

This challenge just gave me a good excuse to make this polaroid camera box card by SVGCuts. All kinds of fun ways to make this camera too with any paper scheme you want!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Supplies:
Paper:
--October Afternoon scraps
--AC Black CS
--AC Smoke Gray CS
Button and brad
Heidi Swapp stamp

SOUS DIE CUT CHALLENGE: CLEAR SKIES

Hello and welcome to this week's die cut challenge with SOUS - "clear skies". This could be planes, clouds, birds, balloons, etc etc.

Me . . . I took the smor-ga-board approach. Little of this and a little of that . . . and I had a boy layout!!!

The layout is about my son and his daddy building him a backyard zip line when he was four. The zip line was a huge hit at his 5th birthday party. All the kids flew across the yard one after another leaving us with a bunch of tired, dirty and happy children.

The title I got from the online Silhouette store. Most everything else is from October Afternoon's Rocket Age and Sidewalk collection from 2011.

I had to force myself to stop adding layers!!!

The ribbon is from a BoBunny's long ago collection.

I don't know why, but I do really like using Kraft paper mildly
distressed as my background for a lot of boy layouts.

Supplies:
Paper:
--October Afternoon
   --Rocket Age
  --Sidewalk
AC Cardstock - various colors for the title
BoBunny ribbon
Various embellishments from October Afternoon and other places
Stencil Templates - Dots or "code"
Black ink

SOUS DIE CUT CHALLENGE: IN THE GARDEN

Hello and welcome to my blog! This week with SOUS we are to make a project with a die cut theme of "in the garden".

I really went all out. This entire project is die cuts! The wagon, the title, and the flowers are all die cuts and homemade.

I got the idea from SVGCuts design team projects. Those ladies are seriously talented and come up with wonderfully amazing things. If you want to learn how to make the wagon just click on the link.

I even special ordered "wood grain" pattern paper for this project. I really wanted that authentic, wooden feel to the wagon. This "garden" piece is now part of my growing collection of paper projects that decorate my home thru out the year.

I love how the flowers turned out. Yep, made them all but one!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Wagon:
--Authentique Lively Collection "Flutter"
Flowers:
--Various colored card stock
Spanish Moss
Die Cuts:
--SVGCuts - wagon and Queen Anne's lace flowers
--Silhouette Online Store - title and flower shapes
Paper - Summer Fresh 6x6 collection
Large button and twine
Butterfly punch
Low Heat Hot Glue Gun