A 14 hour crop at Custom Crops

Lucky me! I met up with a fellow Sparker at Custom Crops for a 14 hour crop on Saturday. I don't think I got a lot done other than laugh alot and enjoy our time visiting! LOL! Not really, but I wasn't as productive as I could have been! Only 4 completed pages, a half page, and I started a 6x6 book for my son.

I loved going to Custom Crops and being able to use all the tools that they have, and we all know they have a lot of them! If the store sells it, we could try it! I had some help w/ the Zutter for the 6x6 book, but what a cool tool that is....it's going on my wish list!

Here's my favorite LO from the day! I used the Copic Glitter pens on it, which makes it's all shiny and eye-catching, just like that tatoo.


It was a great day! Meeting Sherrie, recruiting Stephanie, and cropping and shopping at Custom Crops...for 14 straight hours! Did I mention there were margaritas.....

Spring Shape Swap

Here's a couple of LO's that I did using the shapes from the Spring Shape Swap. I love all the shapes and embellishments that everyone sent in, I can't wait to use more of them! Hugs to all who participated, everyone did an awesome job!

Easter morning at our house!


How could I pass up a picture of this bright and beautiful rainbow that came our way in late March?!!

Stamp to Lose Challenge April 12-18

This week's challenges were:
1. Use the Stamping Off technique to create a card or layout.
2. Tax Day is this week... Stamp something that has to do with money! This can be interpreted just about any way you like, so have fun with it!
3. Stamp anything- anything at all...

I can't take full credit for this as I saw a similar card using the Citrus SU stamp set with 3 different colors on someone's blog, but can't remember which blog it was...my apologies go out to the originator! Not only did I scraplift the idea, I also borrowed the SU set from Amy, so I'm sending a big shout out to her for letting me use it!

I wanted to borrow the citrus stamp to make a set of twinchies for a swap I'm in and decided I could use a couple of those twinchies for the challenge this week. Yep, that's right....another twofer for me! I did the stamping off technique on the background paper and love the way it turned out.

Thanks for the great challenge this week girls, I hope you keep it up!

Stamp to Lose March 29 - April 4

Here are this week's challenges:
1- Stamp on a paint color sample strip and use it on a card or scrapbook layout. You know those neat paint sample strips you can get at Lowe's, Home Depot, or other places that sell paint??? Use one of those! In order to stamp on them though, you need to use a Brilliance pad or Stayz-On ink. THEN, once you've stamped the image, color it in with watercolor pencils and adhere the sample strip to your card or layout. (just DON'T do the watercoloring... only use the pencils to color in the image.)
2- Since April starts this week, stamp something that has to do with showers... you know the old saying "April Showers bring May flowers"
3- Stamp anything! That's always better than nothing!!

As you can tell, I went with the first challenge. I am having trouble with placement of the saying on this card, so I'll probably put it on the inside, I would like for the card to say, A true friend never goes out of style. If you have any suggestions please feel free to let me know, because I'm more than willing to hear where all of you think I should place it. I'm stumped at this point, but really like the card! I know I would never have put these together if it wasn't for this challenge, so thank-you Pam and Amy! As always, it was a lot of fun.

Stamp to Lose 3/23 - 3/28

Here's the challenges for this week, and as much as I love shaker boxes, I went the second challenge.

1) Create a glitter window using punches, packing tape, and (of course), glitter!!!
2) Use Versa Mark or Distressing Ink to accent your card
3) Create a card....something is better than nothing

I'm not positive, but I'm thinking that this card might not be blog worthy, but hey, it is the challange and I did complete it!

Stamp to Lose March 15-21

This weeks challenge was:
1) Use a flourish stamp and enhance it with Stickles or glitter
2) Make a birthday card
3) Make any card or enhance a project with some stamping

I used a foam stamp to make this birthday card. I don't have many swirly stamps, and the few I do have are about 1" long, so I used rub-ons. Even with rub-ons I didn't want to use too many flourishes, even though I could use this card for a girl....check out the eyelashes on the frog! LOL! Yep, another of Donna M's wonderful finds! I think I'm going to have to use a 40% coupon and get some of those fancy schmancy swirly stampies! Thanks for looking!

Just Because....

I went to a crop over the weekend and wanted to make a LO with the pics I took of this beautiful bouquet my dh picked up for me during the week, his reasoning was, "just because." He really is sweet!

I love color and of course, the more, the better! With that said, I wouldn't have been able to complete this page w/o the help from a few others...all I can say is that all the embellies on this LO were RAK's from other scrappers, those who sent me some lovely little items, and from those who wanted to hear me stop complaining about not having the right embellishments! So a big SHOUT OUT to those of you who contributed! LOL!

Stamp to Lose Challenge 3/9 - 3/14

"Is it cheating if you admit that you're cheating?" Hmmmmm....I guess the question I'm asking is, "Did I cheat?" Again, hmmmmmm.....

Here's my take on this weeks challenge, I went with the dry embossing instead of the ribbon challenge, and yes, I did use my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder. Gotta love the bugs!

The second photo shows the bling from Stickles. But I also wanted a certain someone to know how much I loved my BFF Valentine's Swap gifts and the wonderful stamp that was included in it! LOVE IT and xoxo's to you for such a thoughtful package.



Thanks for looking! Don't forget to let me know where I can check out your cards/crafts/projects too!