Crafty Card Gallery's Blogaversary Challenge

Greetings and Salutations all!

Can you please we are already in the month of June? I know I am amazed and have some exciting things coming down the pipe. Today I want to share is a card that I made for Crafty Card Gallery's Blogaversary Challenge. The challenge was to use a digi stamp from Blue Moon Creations. Well, I decided to us the Potted Flowers digi. I made a swing card:

Now for the sentiment I used a stamp from the Buzzing Bees set. I will either be stamping a little bee from the same set or using a little sticker before I mail this. I cut this tag with my Silhouette Cameo. I am so glad you stopped by and please go show  Crafty Card Gallery some love. If you are on Facebook, you can find the Get Inky Stamps! fan page and Crafty Card Gallery's also. Until next time....

A Shout Out to Scrapbook Memories....

I have to say that yesterday I got much more done in 8 hours than I have in months. AND I actually have a finish. It is actually a big finish that has taken me quite awhile. I started an "All About Me" album   to give to my kids and grandkids to know about me. I went to my first all day crop at Scrapbook Memories in Beachwood, NJ. The moment you step in this store you truly feel welcome. I sat with some awesome scrappers and got to work. Here are all the pages I got done to complete my book:

The paper for the last few pages is a Creative Memories Rewards Club exclusive called Candy Shop. I even have the scrap box and it holds A LOT!! The Rewards Club is a fantastic program where you get a discount on your purchases. I had such a ball doing this album that I just had to share. If you happen to be in New Jersey, please stop in to Scrapbook Memories. Here is the website for more information: http://www.scrapbookmemoriesnj.com/. Thanks to Liza and Joe for being the most wonderful hosts. I will definitely be back :)

Need some more inspiration, check HERE.

Until next time...

Guest Designer: Her Craftiness

Greetings all and I am way too excited to be a Guest Designer on Her Craftiness' blog today. I just had to share my scrapbook page that I made to commemorate my upcoming date night with hubby. We will be married for 7 years and share 4 children. We decided it was time to start taking a date night once a month. Well, this is what I started with:

Can you see it? Well, that is because it was a blank 12 x 12 piece of scrapbook paper! We were given some Stampin' Up inks, Versamark and silver embossing powder and a color spritzer tool. I also used the butterfly punch and adhesive rhinestones. Here is the result:

I am definitely going to be doing this more often as I love the look. Thanks to Lynne for having me as a Guest Designer today. Please stop by her blog, Her Craftiness, and show her some love. Until next time....

Butterfly Kisses Blogaversary

Today we are having a hop to celebrate the one-year anniversary of my dear friend Kari's blog, PurpleFuntastick Creations which is Jan 20th.  

Here are some words from our hostess with the mostess: "I can't believe how fast time has flown by!!  I am thrilled to say that it was an exciting and amazing year...I have met some of the most wonderful friends in the crafty world and there were many that helped me on my crafting journey...thanks to you all and my followers who supported me and cheered me on as well! I am excited to continue the journey and share with you the amazing talent that is out there as well as my own creations...you are all a blessing!

We have the best and most fabulous sponsors for our hop that will just blow your mind!!!

Shannon Keith Leffew has a gift certificate for flowers in her Etsy Shop
Creative Kuts a $20 Gift Card at http://creativekuts.com/
2 birthday cards made by her, Stamp Set from www.gettingcricky.com PLUS $10 Gift Certificate for Little Scraps of Heaven

Positive Thoughts Stamp Set

all that she is asking is that you stop by her blog at http://www.scrappingmamma.net/ , become a follower, if you aren't already at her blog , and of course leave some bloggie love by telling her that you are hopping with Butterfly Kisses Blogaversary. so make sure you give bloggy love to all the guest designers and me! ...hehe...and have fun hopping along the way.

If you came here from Amy's blog you started in the right place.If you came upon my blog then please go to the beginning at Kari's because I want you to have a chance to win some blog candy. Don't want to miss the fun either! :)

So without further ado lets get the party started.  The only requirement made for this party was that everyone had to put a butterfly or butterflies in their creation."

Here is my card to celebrate this momentous occasion. Kari LOVES purple and she loves butterflies. I saw these butterflies in AC Moore and knew I had to have them for her card. 

Of course she will have a little something in the card as well as a special treat. I took some scrap paper that I had to assemble this card that I got in a swap. The white cardstock was already embossed to so I had to handwrite the sentiment. Congratulations to Miss Kari on her Blogaversary. I am a better person for knowing her and would not have missed this for the world!

Your next stop will be Kristen's blog. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you come and visit again soon :) Until next time.....

Pencil Lines Design Team Project - Week 11

Woohoo, this new sketch was wonderful to work with! This week it was changed up a bit where we received the sketch and a color palette with it. Now these are not normally colors I would have tried together but they worked!!! Here is a pic of the original sketch:

Those colors really are fun. And here is my take on the sketch:

The butterflies are brads from my stash, the sentiment was cut with Provocraft's Pooh & Friends (my new favorite font), the palm fronds, flowers and circles are all Stampin' Up. The paper is a mish mosh (mostly) from my scrap pile. And here is a closeup. My Mom will love the journaling:

Please pop over to Pencil Lines Blog to see what my fellow creative team members have made. Until next time....

It has been a Scrappingly good two weekends.....

I have to say that it has been a crafty good time here in NJ! I have had two weekends with my favorite Stampin' Up friend Julie (Stampin Up Demonstrator: Julie Kudish) and have made some pretty awesome things (if I do say so myself). In addition to that, I had craft time with our niece Vanessa. She will be turning 4 and loved making cards with Aunt Susan. Here are some pics I wanted to share with you: 

This is a shaker card made with actual  sand

I just could not resist taking a bite

Here we are hard at work

This was the first layout I have EVER made without having pics already printed

 The next day, I went to the dollar store with my sister in law and my niece in law. We saw this damaged saying and Julie turned to me and said, "You good make something prettier!" Well here is what I came up with.....

 Today I went to a stamping up party for one of the gals in our monthly stamping group. This is the projects we made (card was put together by my dear friend Erin (Comfy on My Cloud):

Very looooonnnggg bookmark

Love this card!

Well as they say in Looney Tunes, "That's all folks...." Until next time....

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

I may not be a Superhero but I know how to mask

I promised a little creativity this weekend and I will not disappoint. On Saturday, we had our monthly Stampin Up card workshop. Our friend and teacher, Julie, decided to teach us a masking technique (Read about Masking here). We had tried this before with a two step flower stamp but she gave us all new ideas with the Butterfly Prints stamp set (http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=120738). Here is a duplicate of the card that she showed us:

This card used three new colors from Stampin Up (Stampin Up Brights Ink Pads, SU Brights designer buttons (these are AWESOME!) and Versamark for that tone on tone look. Then Julie let us loose to come up with our own designs. Well I came up with these other cards using the masking technique:

The tie dye looking card was done with a sponging technique and the same ink pads used to stamp the butterflies in card #1. I ended up with the green when I had to cover a slight booboo.

The yellow card was made the new color, the SU brayer (http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=102395), and I used the Decorative Label punch (see it here) to make the mask. The sentiment is from the butterfly stamp set mentioned above. I think this stamp set has a lot of options and can make some wonderful cards. 

You can leave a comment if you have any questions on how to make these cards. I may have to get a brayer to try some other techniques with it. I was seriously hoping that my friend Erin from Comfy on My Cloud (Stop by and show her some blog love) would have posted hers but she must be swamped with her current work project. Well, I am feeling under the weather today, so I am going to end here. Until next time........

Happy Scrappin'

Sue

As promised..... Blog Candy....

Slow and steady wins the race I am telling myself. Today is a day where I can craft to my heart's content and all I want is a nap . So in honor of my lack of creativity today, I thought I would have a give away to inspire others. In today's give away there are two packs of scallop heart cards. Martha Stewart's embellishment pack of hearts, butterflies and flowers stickers, Jolee's Boutique White Blooms dimensional stickers and a Basic Grey Opaline butterfly.

All you need to do is become a follower of my blog and post a comment telling us what your favorite project has been. The winner will be selected on Saturday, September 18th using Random.org. Please post only once as duplicates will not be counted. Come and share your creativity with us. Until next time......

Happy Scrappin'

Sue