Critter Sketch Challenge Blog Challenge

Oh my gosh I can not even begin to tell you how great it feels to be back and blogging. 

My past few months have been INSANE!!!  Not only did I get married but I moved and kept up with being a full time working mommy.  Life is GOOD but it sure has been crazy!!!

This week I come back to blog-land with a card to share with you for the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog which I proudly own.  Right now we are having a design team call so make sure you hope over to the blog by Wednesday if your interested in applying and joining our team.

This weeks challenge is a sketch challeng.  My oldest son starts kindergarten tomorrow so I created a card to celebrate him starting such a big adventure in his life.  I thought this would also be a great card to give to his teacher sometime this year.

Have a great week and HAPPY CREATING!!!!

Design Team Call

The new term will run October 3, 2011 - January 30, 2012

Cowboy - Competing Princesses

The blog group I'm in, Paper Princesses, is having a "competition" right now.  We are creating cards with kits that are sent to us from different members in our group.  Our kit this month was put together by Terria and is a Cowboy boys theme.  Love the colors she chose and even love the images, out of my comfort zone but love it. 

Make sure you check out the other girls creations.  Their names and blogs are on my left side bar. 

Feel Better

As your reading this, I'm sailing the Western Carribean for our family vacation of the year.  I hope all of you that are stuck in the dreaded cold of winter will soon thaw out. 

These cards were created using a card kit I believe was put together by my blogging friend Colleen.  My sister had sugery about 3 weeks ago so the bottom card will be headed to her before I depart for vacation.  I loved coloring this sweet image.  Just might have to snatch her up with my next order.

Enjoy and have a great week!!

Dino-mite

I have been spending some of my weekends working on swap pages for SCS.  This page was created for an all boys single page swap.  I have this Greeting Farm image.  My boys love dinosaurs so this will be a fun page for me to use.

 This is my youngest out in the snow yesterday.  He is not much of a snow bunny so I have to capture the pictures when I can of him.

Tag Cards

Over the past two years I have joined several tag and ATC swaps.  I love using tags for gifts and other various crafty projects.  I thought I would enjoy collecting ATC (artist trading cards) but discovered it was not for me.  So I decided to take a bunch of tags and ATC that were just consuming space in a bucket and use them.

I basically just supplied the card base, a few embelishments, and some embossed backround to create these great cards.  There are so many different styles that I normally would not create on my own.  I already used the blue ornament card for Christmas.

 

Teacher Card

I am so in love with Stamping Bellas.  I don't own this image but received it in an image swap.  I decided to use it to creat a card for Mitchell's teacher.  I have not give it to her yet and am either saving it for the end of the year or for an appreciation throughout the year.

Hoppy Birthday

 I love this Pink Cat Studios image.  I got the set on sale a few months ago and have not had the opportunity to play with the images.  On the inside I stamped the sentiment to make it a boys b-day card.

Beep Beep

This page was created for a SCS All Boys page swap.  I joined two spots because I can never get enough boys pages.  This is my first set, not sure what I'm doing for my second set yet.  Possibly dinosaurs!!

IMAGES FOR SALE!!!!

All prices below are negotiable. I will combine shipping. Questions please email me, interested in buying, email me. Most of the stamps are used but taken VERY well care of and cleaned with only SU! or Hanna Stamps stamp cleaner.
Thanks,
Melanie
newbymom@embarqmail.com

Riley and Sophie

Riley Turkey - unmounted $3.50
Baking Riley - unmounted $3.50
Bicycle Riley - Wood Mount $4.50
Coffee Riley - Wood Mount $4.50
BBQ Riley - NEVER USED - Unmounted $4.00
Tractor Riley - NEVER USED - Unmounted $4.00
Spa Riley - unmounted $3.50
Banjo Riley - easy mounted $4.00

Hannah Shopping Bags - easy mounted $3.50


Ladybug & Friends

Especially for You - cling mount $3.50

Wags n' Wiskers

Bedtime Story - NEVER USED unmounted $4.00

Bildmalarna

Tossa Window - NEVER USED unmounted $5.00

Sugar Nellies

Manga Kids - NEVER USED unmounted $5.50
Blossom - easy mounted $5.50
Frog Prince - easy mounted $5.50

WOJ - Snowman Winter Card

I was home from work sick yesterday and today.  As of this morning I still felt like I had been hit by a truck.  Last night I decided to color in some pre-stamped images since I did not have the engery to move off of my recliner.  This Whiff of Joy snowman is an image I received in an image swap and I love it!!!  I'm not sure where the sentiment is from, it was also pre-stamped, however I thought it went cute with this image.

I'm entering this card in a few challenges (see below.)

Have a great weekend!!

(Christmas or Winter) Fun at Fairy Knoll 

(Snow)  Fussy and Fancy 

(Winter) Sew Many Challenges 

(Sparkle and Bling)  Studio 313

(Snowflakes)  Wags N Whiskers 

Scrapbooking

Last Saturday I was able to spend some time working on scrapbook pages.  This is a page I received in a swap that I fell in love with.  So I decided to use it as the cover page as the start to our 2nd family album for the year.  I ended up getting 7 pages done.  It has been so cold that I see us spending more and more weekends snuggled in.  Hopefully that means I'll be able to work on some crafty things after the holidays.

Here is a picture of our tree this year.  I have been doing a pre-lit tree for the past 7 years but the lights started to slowly go out so we decided to take the boys to a real tree farm and cut down our own tree.  My oldest son Mitch actually picked out the tree and I must say I think he did a wonderful job. 

Here are my special little Christmas boys.  They are such easy photo subjects!!!

Sisters

My sister is my bestfriend.  When I saw this image on Stamping Bella's website I fell in love with it.  It's an image by Mo Manning.  The sentiment came with the image which again in perfect for her and I.  We are only 16 months apart in age but are different in so many ways but love each other not only as sisters but as bestfriends.

Her favorite color is green so I tried to incorporate as many greens as possible.  This card will be sent off to her tomorrow as a thank you for taking my little guy to pre-school for me this week.

Have a great weekend!!

Happy Thanksgiving

I absolutly loved making this card.  I received all of the elements (minus the SU! card base) in a card kit swap.  I created it with two challenges in mind.

First is the Unscripted Sketches Challenge

and then

Critter Sketch Challenge Blog

Christmas Gift

A friend at work asked me to put together eight cards in a card box for her mom as a Christmas gift (I'm still working on the box.)  I wanted to color coordinate them but at the same time make a versatile set that some of the cards could be used for men and some for women. 

The majority of my products are SU! minus some of the embellishments. 

Crazy Boy

The elements I used to create this page were received in a page kit swap I participated in on SCS.

Rough & Tumble

Over the past few weeks I have decided to focus my attention back to scrapbooking.  As much as I love card making, I have found myself falling really behind on my books. 
I went to a crop last Thursday and was able to complete 12 pages in my youngest son's baby book.  The blog post you'll see over the next couple days/weeks hopefully will display a wide range of products I received in page and border swaps on SCS.

Robot Double Page Layout

I signed up for an all about kids double page swap on SCS.  I love boy pages so I knew I was going to have fun with this page set.  I create a robot theme because I think they are so cute.

Happy Halloween

This scrapbook page was made for a swap I signed up for on SCS.  I signed up for a Halloween category but wanted to create something that was not "scary."  I know some people like to enjoy the Halloween season but don't always go all ghost and goblins.  So here is my single page creation for the swap. I used the Stretch Your Imagination Cricut cartridge to create the pumpkin.  I also used a Halloween Cuttlebug folder to emboss the orange box. 

Punch Art

I co-own a blog group, Paper Princess Blog Sisters.  For three months were are participating in a group wide "challenge."  Each month one of the girls sends all the others a card kit to work with.  On the 20th we are to upload our card creation for the month.

This month was hosted by Melina.  She sent us a CAS (clean and simple) card kit and I LOVE IT!!!

The theme for this month is Punch Art so Melina made us all a pansy using the butterfly punch from SU!.  She colored the veins with chocolate chip from SU! and used pretty in pink.  The brad is from the neutrals pack from SU! 

She also included pretty in pink card stock, designer paper (sweet pea), hemp twine, button from the brights collection, and the sentiment from World Play. 

Is this not such a cute and fun kit.  I LOVE playing with it.  Thank you Melina!! 

If you want to see everyone else's creations from their kits, click on their blogs on my left sidebar.