Paper Cupcakes - No Pattern Paper!!

This weeks Paper Cupcakes challenge was really neat. I loved the idea of NO designer paper. I especially LOVED working with this precious image. You know how sometimes you see an image and you think that you just can not live with out it. That is how I felt about Eldon With Flower.

This week I followed icSketches for my layout inspiration. Enjoy and have a great week!!

Joyful Ride

Wow what a week already!!

I'm so sorry I'm a few hours late with getting my Paper Cupcakes post up and going. I had so much going on, online over the weekend that I thought I set this up and to my dismay I learned today at work that I did not.

So here we go with the fun!!! This image is called Joyful Ride from Paper Cupcakes.

The challenge on the challenge blog this week is to create a project using punches. I had a lot of fun with this and decided to make my card monocromatic. I also used fun flock on my snail. I know snails are normally slimy and not fuzzy but I thought he was still cute all "fuzzed" up.

Click HERE to play along with this weeks challenge and to have the chance to win a FREE flower punch.

Sizzling Summer

My blog group Paper Princess Blog Sisters had a fun challenge. There are two teams and each team for 3 months takes turns sending each other card kits. Then we will all make a card with the same elements and post our creations on our blogs on the 20th of each month.
So this is the start of our creations. This month's theme is Sizzling Summer and I sent out the kit for this month. Another fun part is our blog group is split in to two teams so the other team had a completely different kit to work with.
My team is:
Nancy
Myself
Terria
Melina

On my left side bar you can see our Paper Princess Blog Sister's list. Have fun browsing around. The other team had a really fun, challenging image to play with.

Howdy Partner

The challenge this week on the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog is to make a boy card with glitter. I used stickles on my cowboy and the brown brads are covered with glitter.

The stamp set I used is new to me that I purchased from limeLight Papercrafts called Billy by Pink Cat Studios. He is so stinkin' cute!! In the set I purchased there is also a superboy with is superdog, a pirate with his pirate dog, and a little boy with a frog on his head. It is such a fun, cute set.

My card is created using Sweet Sunday Sketch #81. This is a really great, fun sketch so make sure you hop over and check it out.

Have a Happy Thursday and thanks for stopping by!!

Lovin' Summer!!

I have been busy, busy, busy trying to work on swaps for Splitcoast Stampers. These are two single page layouts I created. The first one was to be waterpark related. I had a rough time thinking of an idea so I went with a wave pool theme. The second one was to be a general themed summer layout so I went with a nice relaxing theme.

I used the Life is a Beach Cricut cartridge for both of the layouts. I also used my Storybook Cartridge to cut the scalloped circle on the first layout. The ribbon is misc ribbon I purchased at the Ribbon Outlet in Hagerstown, MD. The other embellishments are misc items I had from my stash.

Paper Cupcakes Flower

Our challenge this week on the Paper Cupcakes challenge blog was quiet a challenge for me. The challenge is to create your own homemade flower. This is something that was totally out of my element so I decided to break out my Cricut and make a layered paper flower. My image is Girl with Flower that can be purchased in the Paper Cupcake's store. I really like her simplicity and sweet face.

If you have not already make sure you join in on our Tea Party Blog hop. There are so many new, fun images that are sure to put a smile on your face. The badge is on my right side bar so you can easily find your way around the hop. You until this Wednesday to participate.

Have a HAPPY MONDAY and thank you for stopping by.

Inspiration Card

I joined a card swap on SCS and one of the groups as an Inspiration group. I rented this stamp set from Raisin Boat and thought it would be perfect for the swap. If you are not familiar with Raisin Boat hop over and check it out. You know how Netflix is a monthly movie club, well this is similar except you get stamp sets instead of movies. When you are finished using them you send them back to the company and they'll send you the next set in your cue. I just joined last month but it's actually a lot of fun!!

Tea Party Blog Hop

It's my party, I'll drink tea if I want to, drink tea if I want to!!!

Ok so totally corney but I just could not get the jingle out of my head. Anywho, I'm so glad you stopped by today. If you came here from Marie's blog, your on the right track. If you did not then I would suggest heading back to the Paper Cupcakes blog so you are sure not to miss any of the fun. For this hop, everyone on the design team was to create our own sketch and use it on our card.


The release image I'm featuring for the hop is Tea Pot Knoll Home (is it not too precious!!)
Two random winners will be picked and each winner will get to pick 5 images of their choice from the Paper Cupcakes store.

So have a great time blog hopping!!!

So I guess you're ready to move on.
Your next stop will be PAT and boy does she ever have a cute image to share with you.

Just Ducky

Wowzers this has been one of those days. I have been having computer issues so I was afraid I would not be able to get my post up this week. But thankfully things ended up ironing out.

This week on Paper Cupcakes challenge blog the challenge is to create a card with sewing. We were also to use the image Just Ducky. Is she not so precious!! Hop on over and play along with us this week. This card was also created using the following challenges:
Critter Sketch Challenge Blog - Sketch
Crazy 4 Challenges - Use a cupcake
Basic Grey Challenges - Use pearls and a Basic Grey product (my designer paper is Basic Grey)

August 11-18th is our Paper Cupcakes blog hop. It's going to be a tea party blog hop. You will not want to miss this extra special fun event!!! Make sure you come back to join in on the fun!!

Sunday Afternoon

Hello and Happy Monday!!!

This weeks Paper Cupcakes challenge is to create a card using 3 pattern papers. You can use more if you wish but the minimum is 3. Hop over to the CHALLENGE BLOG to play along. This week I used a sketch from Critter Sketch Challenge Blog. The twist with the sketch is to use a minimum of 2 ribbons on the card.
The image I used this week from Paper Cupcake is Sunday Afternoon. I think she is so cute and summery with her little pale and follow along friend.

Dog Days of Summer - Paper Cupcakes

Hello and welcome to my very first Paper Cupcakes Design Team post. I'm so excited about this fabulous company and even more excited to now be a part of the DT.

This week this is the fun gift that will be given away on the challenge blog. Make sure you swing over and play along in this weeks challenge. The challenge is Dog Days of Summer. So use your creative juices and play along.

(Click on the prize image to play in this weeks challenge.)

Click on this badge to purchase your own Paper Cupcake images.

I used SU! Crystal Effects on the water on my Paper Cupcakes Gigi on Tube image.



I love popping up my image with pop dots when I cut an image out.

Here is my Dog Days of Summer finished product. Now I want to go join Gigi in the pool since our temps here in PA were in the low 100s this past weekend.

This is also the sketch on the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog. So hop on over to play along.

Critter Sketch Challenge - Christmas Sketch

This week on my Critter Sketch Challenge Blog the challenge is a sketch with a Christmas theme. This month we are being sponsored by Robyn's Fetish. Susan at Robyn's Fetish has been so awesome to work with. The image used on my card this week came directly from their store and is a digi image. It printed out so nice and I think it's so georgous.

Have a wonderful week and stay cool!!!

Baby Boy Border Set

My goal for this weekend was to just chill. The boys and I hung out all day at home. I got some yard work done, very little inside work, took the boys to our local drive in diner, and worked on a few DT cards and swaps. Yea, great productive day!!!

I thought I would share this baby boy border set with you that I created for another SCSer. I wanted to do colors other than the normal baby blue, yellow, etc. I hope she loves it!!!

Mystery Invite

The girls at work are planning a surprise Grandma shower for one of our legal secretaries. Her son and daughter in law are expecting their first baby in August.

We wanted to keep it 100% a surprise and go with a mystery theme so the girls gave me a real "challenge" with creating the invite card for her. We are all a little silly so the inside message provides a tad of a "threat."

I just pulled this Donald Duck image off of the internet. I used SU! DP and card stock, the question marks are made with Creative Memories ABC. I computer generated the sentiment and inside message. Donald has stickles for his fur and I used SU! Crystal Effects for the magnifying glass.

I must admit I'm very happy with the way this turned out.

Splash Monster

I used to be so good at staying on top of my scrapbooking. Once I had my boys I consistently stayed about a year behind. Now a days it's a lot further behind than that. So my goal over the summer is to at least get myself to a point where I'm caught up to only being a year behind. Hum, don't know if this will happen with all the summer pictures I take but I'm going to try.

This layout is of my little splash monster, Marshall, when he was about 11 months old.

It's a Dragon Fly Day

This month over on my Critter Sketch Challenge blog, Robyn's Fetish is the sponsor for the month of July. I love her images and thought I would use one this week as a thank you card.

This image is It's a Dragon Fly Day. I used it to participate in the following challenge:

2S4Y: Sketch Challenge

Design Dollies: Color challenge; orange, green, yellow, white/ivory

OLLCB: Simply Summer

Paper Cupcakes DT/GD Call

Hello crafting sisters,

Tonight I bring you a card for a design team challenge I'm entering. Paper Cupcakes is holding a design team and guest design team call. They have a few spots they need to quickly fill.

I try to keep my DT obligations to a minimum due to keeping up with my Critter Sketch Challenge blog. So since I'm on a DT that is coming to an end I thought I would throw my hat in to be considered for another.

Paper Cupcakes's images are so fun and fit my style so perfect. This image is Orson with Cupcake. My sister and I are always making monkey jokes towards each other so I knew this little guy would be a perfect fit for my DT creation.

Check out the DT call HERE on Having An Art-A-Tak's blog. All of my paper is SU! The image is of course from Paper Cupcake, the sentiment is SU!, the ribbon is misc ribbon from my stash, the buttons are s-e-i, and I used my Copics and Bic Mark Its to color my image. I also used my Cuttlebug to emboss the sentiment paper and blue paper.

You Light up My Life

You know it always feels so good when someone you make a card for loves it. My sister and brother in law loved the anniversary card that I made them. So much so that my sister asked me to create a similar card for her secret sister for July 4th. So here is my second take with this cute CC Designs image.

This card is created for the following challenges:

Critter Sketch Challenge Blog - Use a minimum of 4 stars

Sketch Saturday #110 - Sketch Challenge

Crazy 4 Challenges - Use 2 ribbons

Liberty

Good Evening and Happy 4th of July weekend!!!

My sister and brother in law will be celebrating their 11th wedding anniversary on July 4th. They are so wonderful to my boys and I so I wanted to take the time to make them a special card to celebrate their anniversary.

This images is a CC Designs image that I purchased from Paper Jewels.

The images is called Liberty. The sentiment that comes with the image reads "You light up my life." I placed the sentiment inside the card.

I loved giving her a little "bling" with the Stickles glitter.

I created this card using sketch #45 from get Sketch Chard Challenges.

It was also created for:

No time to Stamp - Use Stars

Frosted Designs - Red, White, Blue, Stars, an Stripes

Daring Cardmakers - Rubys for July

Clearly i Stamp -

Gratitude Sentiment (it is on the inside, I promise) The sentiment wording is stated above.

Have a VERY HAPPY JULY 4th!!!

Paper Jewels Monday and VSD #1

So the hardest part of this challenge was taking the picture. LOL!!!! So below you will find 3 pictures I took trying to capture this fun challenge card.

My girl April challenged us during our VSD to create a card using acetate. I inked this cute image from Paper Jewels (C.C. Designs) a few weeks ago just waiting to use her.

This was a really fun, easy challenge. I loved it and will be using acetate again for a card. Thank you April!!

Make sure you check out Paper Jewels to grab up this fun, precious image.