Purplies Design Team: Sketch Challenge

Hi all... I am going to keep this short as I have a fantastic guest designer today. The Purplies DT was given the sketch above and I ran with it. I am still in St. Patrick's Day Mode so I used that as my theme. I made this card for a friend to give to her boss. Here is the front:

The sentiment says, "Follow Me To the Rainbow's End".


And here is the inside:

As you can see he is a Heineken drinker. I think I need to start making my own sentiment stamps. I hope you enjoyed my cheeky project. Please stop by Kari's Blog to see what else everyone  did with this sketch. Until next time....

Guest Designer: PurpleFuntastick Creations

Greetings all! Happy 3rd day of the New Year. I am still thinking positively as I am doubly blessed. I was Faith Verse Guest Designer for my dear friend Kari yesterday and today I get to be Guest Designer for her PurpleFuntastick Creations Group. You have to check out her blog HERE as she has the most talented friends (as well as being amazing herself!). Since it was a New Years theme, I had to share this little notecard (that came in a small painters tin) that I got for $3.00 (there were 12 total) from TJ Maxx!!! I love a bargain and new that I would be able to make something fun with these. Well I love the little champagne glass from Simply Charmed. Of course I had to cut it really small (2" to be exact) and my friends will tell you that layering for me is a challenge (I am too fussy). Well, I had to draw in his eyes and such as the cuts were too tiny for the Cricut. I also had to tiny New Year's sentiments but love the colors from the gel pens. Here is the mini notecards. If I had been earlier then I would have made a bunch of these to send :) Here is my mini Happy New Year card:

Thank you to Kari for having me as a Guest Designer today as it is always a blessing. Wishing you all an amazing day. Until next time...

Crafty Card Gallery Sketch Hop #2, Day 2

Welcome to the 2nd Sketch Blog Hop. The first hop last month was so popular we decided to do it again!!! The purpose of this hop is to show how all of these talented bloggers can take the same sketch and come up with totally different cards. If you've never used a card sketch before, give it a try! Be sure to check back on Sunday, as there will be some bloggers posting cards on day 2. So sit back & be inspired! If you just happened on the hop, be sure to go to the first stop www.craftycardgallery.blogspot.com so you can see the whole hop! Grab your favorite beverage and sit back & hop along with us!

Here is the lineup in case you get lost:

‎1 Jennifer http://www.craftycardgallery.blogspot.com/
2 Ashley http://www.theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
3 Lynda http://memoriesintyme.blogspot.com/
4 Janet N http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
5 Rachelle http://creationsbyrachelle.blogspot.com/
6 Denise http://deesdesignsfrommyheart.blogspot.com/
7 Janet R http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
8 Carol http://cardstockscissorsandglue.blogspot.com/
9 Susan http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/ <-- YOU ARE HERE
10 Jamie http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/
11 Jackie http://papermoments.blogspot.com/

Here is the sketch that we were all given to use:



And here is the card that I made for today:



Since I did a Thanksgiving card yesterday, I decided to make a winter card. Again this was a card make with scraps. I had the card base already cut, the snowman was cut from a Simply Charmed (I believe) and the tag behind him is from Creative Memories. The twine, rhinestones and buttons are from Stampin' Up. I stamped the snowflakes and sentiment using a Fiskars stamp set I won as blog candy. The ink is the White craft ink pad from Stampin' Up. I just love this little fellow.

Thanks for stopping by and remember to become a follower and leave a comment. I will be having a giveaway once I reach 400 followers. Now I send you off to the fabulous Miss Jamie. Until next time....

Crafty Card Gallery Sketch Hop #2, Day 1

Welcome to the 2nd Sketch Blog Hop. The first hop last month was so popular we decided to do it again!!! The purpose of this hop is to show how all of these talented bloggers can take the same sketch and come up with totally different cards. If you've never used a card sketch before, give it a try! Be sure to check back on Sunday, as there will be some bloggers posting cards on day 2. So sit back & be inspired! If you just happened on the hop, be sure to go to the first stop www.craftycardgallery.blogspot.com so you can see the whole hop! Grab your favorite beverage and sit back & hop along with us!

Here is the lineup in case you get lost:

‎1 Jennifer http://www.craftycardgallery.blogspot.com/
2 Ashley http://www.theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
3 Lynda http://memoriesintyme.blogspot.com/
4 Janet N http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
5 Rachelle http://creationsbyrachelle.blogspot.com/
6 Denise http://deesdesignsfrommyheart.blogspot.com/
7 Janet R http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/
8 Carol http://cardstockscissorsandglue.blogspot.com/
9 Susan http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/
10 Jamie http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/
11 Jackie http://papermoments.blogspot.com/

Here is the sketch that we were all given to use:



And here is the card that I made for today:



I would like to call this reverse Iris paper folding :D. It is strips of paper cut at 1 1/2" strips and then scored and folded at 1/4". The half circle is actually one of the book cuts from Provocraft's Elegant Edges and the girl scarecrow is from Simply Charmed. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up. I used my scraps for this card only. This is the first time I have been stumped by a sketch but am happy with the results. Thanks for stopping by and remember to become a follower and leave a comment. I will be having a giveaway once I reach 400 followers. Now I send you off to the fabulous Miss Jamie. Until next time....

JME Creations Design Team Project: Welcome Fall (Sept. 19th, 2011)

Welcome all to my new design team project for JME Creations. The challenge for today was to create a project to "Welcome Fall". There is nothing that says "Fall" to me other than a hayride and finding the perfect pumpkin. So in preparation of our pumpkin picking trip, I prepared this layout:

I used Provocraft's Simply Charmed cartridge for the pumpkins and title, the orange background cut is from Elegant Edges using the shadow feature. I made the photo mats with scraps from my stash. I very rarely make layouts without the photos already printed so this was new for me. Please hop on over to JME Creations and see what my fellow talented designers came up with. Until next time.....

Hi ho, it's Kermit the Frog here....

okay, not really but I feel like a toad. We are experiencing a very weird weather pattern. One minute it is raining cats and dogs and then the sun shines. Hmmmm.....


I have been busy making loads of projects for special features that I cannot share but also made items that I can share. I have also decided that I will start a guest designer feature to share some wonderful blogs with you. It seems that my papercrafting world is expanding greatly. :)


First, I had a visitor in my craft cave yesterday. My son David decided to stop in from a video game break to say hi! I just had to snap this picture of him as it amazes me how quick he is changing. He is 13 1/2 going on 20 .

If you look towards the bottom of this pic you will see the project I was working on. I have a large cup holding my colored pencils, a desk organizer for my gel pens and tools but needed something for my Copic markers. I was at M's and found this for 99 cents (which was further reduced by 25% as I had a coupon):

Now I am all for the color red but it did not fit in with the other items. Soooooo, I took a Cricut cut from Simply Charmed. I had some paper that I got who knows where and decided to cover the red. Of course, why would I measure, and I still had some red showing. So ribbon to the rescue! Covers all manners of boo boos. Everything here was from scraps including the ribbon. Here was the end result.

Is this going to win any beauty contests, nope. But the funny part is I won't even be using the lid. On the off chance I will be I just had to cover it. I thought about doing this and covering the lid with a corresponding fabric and tie a ribbon around it. There is another gift idea for you all. Since the holiday season will be here before you know it, we all need to get busy.


Now onto a bit of exciting news. I am a member of Pencil Lines CT. I did my first layout for their sketch challenge and I am hooked!!!! Please click the link above to go to their fabulous blog and play along. Here is a picture of the layout that I submitted:

I think we have spent more time at the movies than anything else. Not pictured here is Transformers and Captain America because I ran out of space .


Well all, I will have more items to share with you a bit later as I am scheduling posts to go live on the appointed time. I am participating in quite a few hops that you can see on the right side of my blog. I hope you will come out and hop along with us. Until later....