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.

Hip to be Square

Our challenge this week over at the Critter Sketch Challeng Blog is, Hip to be Square.  This weeks sketch is overly fun and awesome.  Make sure you hop over to check it out. 

I received all of the elements (except the card stock) from a card kit swap.  I love this precious bunny image!! 

Enjoy your week and have fun playing along.

You're a Great Friend

Hello and Happy Weekend!!!  I was so ready for the weekend this week.  You know how you have those weeks that go on and on and on and never seem to end??  Yea, I had one of those. 

So anyway off that subject.  I am still here, sorry I went missing for a few weeks.  It has been a busy fall. 

Thursday night I was so excited to go to a 5 hour crop with one of my friends.  I got a lot of much needed projects completed.

After I got caught up on some swap projects I decided to work on some challenge cards.

This card was created using a card kit I received in a card kit swap. 

This image is a precious Bildmalarna image that can be purchased from Paper Jewels. 

The sketch is from the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog. 

Paper Princess Sept Challenge Card

I'm in a blog group with a group of girls that I just OVERLY love. We are having a fun challenge to create a card a month with a card kit that is sent to us from a different member in our group each month. I'm awful at coloring in House Mouse images mainly because I do not own a pencil set and I think markers take away from the precious images. So I worked with the image the best I could.

Here is my challenge card creation for September.

Easy Does It

Look at the super cute digi images you have the opportunity to win this week if you participate in the Paper Cupcakes challenge. How stinkin cute are these digis.

The challenge this week is so fun and easy. The challenge is to "Bling it Up." If you hop over to the Paper Cupcakes Challenge blog you'll find full details of how to play along. The card I created for the challenge and my design team post is using the image "Easy Does It." LOL, is he not too cute!!! My "bling" is my rhinestones on the flower and corners of image. I also used stickles on the cupcakes.