Moosing You!!

I'm hoping to be able to get back on the blog wagon and be updating my blog more often. The past couple weeks have been crazy busy for me.

I created these cards for a Riley Sketch Swap that I'm hosting. Instead of coloring him in I decided to flock his overalls and keep this as the only color on the image. The brad I created with my new Itop brad maker. Thanks to my girl April for the awesome gift. I'm loving it!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Happy Monday

Happy Monday!! Say hello to Miss Rosalie. She is part of the Swiss Pixies line from CC Designs. What is really exciting is that you can now find these adorable images at Paper Jewels website. They are becoming a really fun one stop shop for some of my favorite images. Check out the Paper Jewels blog for daily inspiration from their amazing design team.

This card was also created for Sunday Sketch and Stamp. The challenge this week was to choose one of their 25 sketches to create your card. I used #5, Kruemels Bastel's sketch.

Last by not least I created this card for my Critter Sketch Challenge Blog. This week is the 10th week for the blog's postings. So the challenge this week was to create a card featuring 10 elements. My 10 items are:
4 buttons
1 flower
1 image
1 sentiment
1 ribbon
1 designer paper
Cardstock

Have a great Monday!!

Week 3 TGF Royal Battle

Well...thanks to all that voted for us last week we have moved on to the 3rd week of The Greeting Farms Royal Battle! We are so excited and as with the past 2 weeks the competition is stiff again this week and we NEED YOU VOTE!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!
So please take a minute to go over to TGF Gallery and vote for our scrapbook page. All you have to do is leave a comment to vote. We are The Stampin Farmettes Sisters!
This layout was created by yours truly!! (winks)
You have till Tuesday night, midnight to vote so hurry on over!

Paper Jewels Monday Post

Hello and Happy Monday!! What a fun, bright way to start off the week. This is my design team post for Paper Jewels. Paper Jewels carries these precious Bildmalarna images. They also carry Sweet Pea and CC Design images. Jenny, the owner, is also working on getting a fun assortment of embellishments. Make sure you check out the store to take advantage of this wonderful one stop shop.

My post this week is also participating in my Critter Sketch Challenge Blog's weekly challenge. This week is a color challenge. Lastly the sketch is from Friday Sketchers #97.

Critter VSD Challenge #5

This is my last creation for my Critter group VSD. I unfortunately was not able to get to all of the challenges but the ones I did were great; loved them.

This card was created using a recipe challenge. We had to use 1 image, 2 ribbons, and 3 layers. Jennifer also wanted to see blue somewhere on the card.

I also created this using CPS162. What a great, fun sketch!! Lastly I used Aly's Sunday Challenge for inspiration. The inspiration for this week was to use buttons. I love finding challenges that really "challenge" me.

Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration. Have a great weekend, or whats left of it!!

VSD #3 Challenge #3

This was our 3rd challenge for our Critter Blog Group VSD. This one was hosted by Leslie, Our Scrappy Life.

Our challenge was to create a card using a picture. I loved doing this so much that I'm going to do one tomorrow of my other son. I thought these would be perfect for on my desk at work. I started to use rub ons on the picture and off to the side but I did not like how it was looking. So in turn I used chipboard stickers to express exactly some cute things about My Little Man!!! Sorry Leslie, I know this misses out on one of the elements of the challenge.

It sure was super fun though, thank you!!

VSD Challenge #2

What a great Saturday!! I got to spend the day with my boys AND I got to come home from a fun day out and participate in our Critter Blog Group VSD.

Our 2nd challenge was hosted by Moira, One Smart Bug. Our challenge was to create a scrapbook page using a sketch from Scrap and Stamp. This is one of the best scrapbook page sketches I have used in a long time. LOVE IT!!!!! The second part of the challenge was to use the colors yellow and green. Lastly we had to use a stamped image on the page. I did not have a robot stamp so I hopped over to My Grafico and purchased a set of robot images.

Quiet some time ago I used this same paper and elements to create a scrapbook page for another challenge. This is the two pages together.

Thanks Moira for a really great challenge!!!

Beautiful Blogger Award

What a wonderful little surprise from my friend Audrey, Hippieaud's Blog. Thank you girl, how super sweet of you!!!
As part of this award, I need to tell 10 things about me/that I love and then pass this along to 10 friends. So, here goes...
1. I adore my two sons
2. I love to make cards and scrapbook
3. My favorite color is blue
4. I'm a "planner' and love to plan and organize just about anything
5. I love to travel!!
6. I love all 4 seasons, that is why I love living in PA.
7. I love my job, seriously, I really do.
8. My favorite food is sushi and Italian, what a combo!!
9. I adore animals, I have a Weim, a tabby cat and 2 hermit crabs.
10. I love God and thank him for all the many blessings in my life.

This is who I would like to pass the award on to (man it's hard to pick only 10):

1. Lisa Sommerville
2. April Lower
3. Kelly Haberstroh
4. Moria Coward
5. Melina
6. AnnMarie
7. Marsha
8. Darsie
9. Tracey
10. Tanya

Mimo Skate

I had such an amazing Easter weekend with my boys. So for my first Paper Jewels post for the month of April I thought I would post a card that represents them. Fun, adventurous, and so super sweet and loving.

This image is Mimo Skate from Paper Jewels. I must admit, I missed these adorable images last month during my DT off month. I'm excited to craft them again this month.

Paper Jewels carries a wonderful line of images that you will definitely want to check out.

Happy Monday and have a great week!!

Happy Easter

In celebration of a wonderful Easter day, I thought I would share a border set I created about 2-3 weeks ago for a swap I was in.
Happy Easter and I'll be back tomorrow with a DT card. post.

Critter Easel Challenge

I'm so awful at anything other than a normal size card or scrapbook page. But I decided to take a challenge with my Critter gals. Our challenge was to create a easel card that had layers, something that glitters (my blue paper), ribbon, layers, and 4 different colors. We were also to color in our image. My frustration started because for some odd reason (never happened before) my Copics were smearing my ink. I use the same ink and paper all the time and this was a first. I'm not sure if it was because the image has more black lines than I'm used to or what.

Along with this I also followed the Critter Sketch Challenge blog's sketch (link to the right sidebar.) The blog is having it's first blog hop right now with tons of great give a ways. You have until Wednesday at 10am EST on Wednesday to play along.

Fabulous Friend

This is another fun card we created at the SU! class I went to on Thursday night. I love how simple this card is. I always try to think of how I can spruce up a card with embelishments but I think this is cute just sprucing it up with stamps.

Critter Sketch Blog Hop - - "Egg"stra special event!!!

With Sympathy

On Thursday night I went to a SU! class. It was the first in a long time and I loved it. I missed going to these classes. This is one of the cards we created. I love this tree stamp set. I was sad to find out that it is discontinued. My Aunt and I decided we are going to try to make one class every other month, I sure hope we can stick to that. ;-)

Sugar Nellie

This is another Easter card I created to send out to a family member with my boys pictures. I know it's a little different than a normal Easter card but I just love this fun, sweet image. I followed CCEE Stampers challenge for this week.

Happy Easter

I took my boys on Saturday to have their pictures taken. Not really Easter pictures but more like 2 year old and 4 year old pics. So of course I bought way more than I intended but this is really the first that they have both been in such great moods for picture taking.

So on Sunday I decided to start putting together some Easter cards to send to family members with their pictures in. Here is a picture of them together that was taken. I did not get any of these printed but it is a cute one. So for this Easter card I played in three challenges:

Ann's Creative Nook - Spring or Easter Creation

Magical Crafts - Spring or Easter Theme

Quirky Crafts Challenges - Flowers

Then of course this is the inside of my card because of course God's love for us and Jesus dying on the cross for our sins is the reason we even get an Easter holiday.

Happy Day

I love the challenges I found for this card. The first one is a SplitCoast challenge to use the color orange. This was fun for me, I normally only use the color orange in the fall so this was a fun "out of the box" color to use this time of year. The challenge is WT258.

The next two challenges were Friday Sketchers #94 and Stamp Something, distress challenge.

Of course I had to use my new Greeting Farm image. I bought this great little set from Stamp and Create. It's called Happy Day and comes with 2 images and 3-4 sentiments. I just adore GF images and I love buying them from Stamp and Create because Lacy has such amazing customer service.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a great day!!

Ready for Spring - Critter Sketch Challenge

I just love this Critter Sketch so I decided to create another card using it.

Tonight I also decided to incorporate a few other challenges which had me changing up the sketch just a tad.
Crafty Pad - Oval and Two Ribbons
The Pink Elephant - Spring Theme
Stampin' B's - Spring or Easter

Critter Sketch Challenge

This card was created with the same card kit that I used in my previous post. However for this card I used this weeks Critter Sketch Challenge Blog sketch. I think this image is just too cute. This sketch was so fun for me this week to create and then put to use. Hop over to the Critter Challenge Blog to play along..

JOIN US IN TWO WEEKS FOR OUR VERY FIRST BLOG HOP!!! We'll be teaming with Paper Jewels to offer an out of this world blog hop..

Spring Card Kit

This is a fun, cute, spring card that I created from a card kit that I received in a swap that was hosted by April Lower. I love this fun, cute image. Susan (stampingooddeeds) put together the perfect dp and embelishments for this card.
Happy Monday!!