CardMaker Blog Hop - American Crafts

The CardMaker blog team is showcasing an amazing collection of papers, stickers and other papercraft goodies from the Amy Tangerine Better Together collection from American Crafts. 

You should have come here from Pamela's Blog.

 I really wanted to use every single piece of the patterned papers in this collection.  I just love how they work together.  For my card I used five different pieces of the papers.  

 This collection comes with a package of foam words and I used the "hooray" word for my card.  One of my favorite things are really intense black letters and words. The flowers are from the rub on collection.  

 Here's a little close up of my little variety of patterns.

 Given that I loved this collection so much I just had to also put together a layout using the products.  Again they are patterns that were just created to be used together.  

 I cut out some of the flowers from the one piece of paper.

The words are also from the collection of foam words.  The black makes such a stand out statement.

From here hop on over to Dawn's blog.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Project Life and a Layout

I have a goal to get more scrapbook layouts completed so I want to share one with you today.

I plan to use more Project Life styles and products but I also thought it would be fun to use some Project Life journaling cards as accent to a traditional layout.  

Here is used a digital set that I purchased from Becky Higgins. I loved the colors in the doggie set.  They printed out perfectly, I just had to trim them and use a corner rounder punch on the corners. 

The title letters were stamped and then cut out and I added some corner accents with a stencil and some orange Distress Stain.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Park Play and Rain Play

I wanted to share a couple layouts I created some time ago based on a day at the park.

This is our youngest grandson and believe me, this guy knows how to play and have a good time!  I feel in love with these adorable papers from Little Yellow Bicycle and thought they fit the theme perfectly.

 The tree and kite are chipboard accent pieces.

I had started out to only make one page but then realized I had so many photos from this one day that I wanted to use more so I created a simple collage using Picassa. Once you pick your photos for the collage, you can also pick borders and the colors of the borders so I picked a great turquoise to match. This was all printed out as one piece and then I used stickers from the collection to decorate all around the collage. SIMPLE!!!

And, onto a completely different subject...

We had LOTS of rain on Sunday and that leads to more fun for this guy!

He finds every puddle!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Bella Blvd and Card Positioning Systems sketches

The Bella Blvd blog posted a sketch to play along with...

I was instantly in love with it and sat right down to find the photo I wanted to use.

I wanted my photo to be the largest piece on my layout so I switched some of the parts of the sketch around.  I so love these papers!!!

Is this the perfect time to use these adorable Paper Smooches snowpeople stamps??? I stamped them and gave them just a bit of color.  The lips are one of the stamps in the set and I added red mini brads to the larger snowman.

I used some other Paper Smooches stamps to give two of my corners an extra accent.

This pink snowflake is a die cut from Bella Blvd.

And, here is my card for the CPS sketch for this week.  I used some Teresa Collins new papers from a mini pad.  The stamped sentiment is a stamp by Wplus9 Designs.

I cut the flowers out of one of the prints in the set and notice that great, punched border? It is a punch by Kreaxions, one of their 4-in-1 punches.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Some Wheat and Some Sand

First off, I wanted to play with the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger.

Does this ever look amazing?

 I thought the wheat stamp reminded me of the tall glasses, I stamped them in white to go along with the whip cream and ice cream in the glasses. 

 After I stamped the wheat in the white ink and embossed it with white embossing powder, I sprayed the background with two colors of Smooch Spritz.  The white embossing acted as a resist.  One of the colors  is a golden yellow and that reminded me of the Trigger colors.

 The band across the card and the circle with the sentiment are both colored with more spray colors. 

 Next off, I wanted to show off what I did with the Unscripted sketch this last week. 

The sketches can be used for any craft project, I thought this one would work so great for a layout.  The zig zag circle was cut with my Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.  The papers and stickers are by Nikki Sivils. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

A NOTE OF THANKS card

Materials list:

Cardstock – Core’dinations

X-Press Blending Card – Copic Markers

Wheat, Writing and sentiment stamps – Hero Arts

Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.

White stamp pad – Joann craft store

White embossing powder - Stampendous

Black Versafine stamp pad

Spray colors – Smooth Spritz/Clearsnap

Circle punches - PaperShapers

Border punch – Martha Stewart

Foam tape – 3M

SKETCH 126 – SAND IN MY TOES layout

Materials list:

Cardstock – Core’dinations

Patterned papers and stickers – Nikki Sivils

Cricut cartridge

A card, layout and some ZOO pics!

 First off, the Unscripted sketch for this week!!!  Try to play along. 

 This weeks sketch has an additional challenge with it and that is to use buttons. I pulled out one of Nikki Sivils, Scrapbookers newest pieces of patterned paper for my card.

 The extra challenge for buttons was so easy since I used Nikki Sivils self adhesive buttons! They come with the thread on them, making them look like you sewed each one on! The biggest circle I accented with a brad from Nikki Sivils.  The sentiment is a stamp by Lawn Fawn.

 I wanted to share this layout I recently completed too.  Our youngest grandson had a little hospital stay some time ago so I created a collage of some of the photos, especially showing when Grandma and Grandpa helped keep him occupied since he couldn't go far with all of those tubes, etc.  The black, circle piece is cut with the Cricut as are the title letters. The patterned paper is by Nikki Sivils and the background cardstock is Core'dinations.  It comes with the circles embossed on it already, I just anded it a bit.

And for a few photos...

 These guys were my favorite find one our recent little trip to the San Diego zoo. 

 For most of them, it was nap time. They each had their own tree and it completely cracked me up how they curled up in a ball and slept sitting up, with their head propped up against the tree.

 Is this a face you could LOVE!?

 Our grandson got ahold of the little zoo map as we entered the park and made it his mission for the entire day to keep that map handy. This was SERIOUS business.  Here he is, nose to nose with a gorilla.

And, here is out little adventurer with his new ZOO hat!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Christmas time

I know it is July but Unscripted sketches is hosting Christmas in July this month and you really should check out what is going on since this includes lots of ideas.

 Here is this weeks sketch. I did make a card but I can sure see this working for a layout too.

 And, here is my card using the sketch AND one of Nikki Sivils, Scrapbookers newest collections - Gingerbread Land.  It is so cool to share it with you.  (You can see all of Nikki Sivils new collections for CHA here.)

 This little tree is a die cut in the collection. 

 This layout also uses some of the papers from the Gingerbread Land collection plus the little gingerbread men are stamps from a new set too.  I LOVE the pinks in this collection.

And some photos...

 We went to the beach this week.  Grandma took two of our grandkids to one of the beaches closest to our house.  What else should you do at the beach then to make sand castles?

 You can tell he was having a whole lot of fun, love the footprints in the sand. 

Sissy was showing her little brother how to dip your toes in the ocean, he was a bit hesitant to begin with.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Unscripted sketches

I want to share two Unscripted sketch projects with you.  Last weeks and this weeks. 

Last weeks sketch #105

The background paper for this card is a digital patterned paper that was printed on textured cardstock. 

 The border was created with a 4-in-1 punch from Kreaxions.  I punched two borders with it and layered them across the card.  What I love about these punches is that there are several different looks you can get from one punch. 

 These little penguins are 3-D stickers by Recollections and I placed them on little white, scallop circles that were cut with a Spellbinders Nestabilities. 

This weeks sketch #106

 For this weeks sketch, I wanted to create a layout.  I took three photos of my granddaughter and created a collage in Picasa so all three are really one photo.  The background paper is by BoBunny.  It had just the right amount of accents on it to fit the sketch perfectly. 

 The butterfly is from a die by Kreaxions. I LOVE this butterfly because of the size, it is bigger then most punches.  I cut it from a piece of patterned paper by BoBunny.  I wrinkled the paper and rubbed it with a stamp pad. 

I added the journaling to my layout by printing the words on paper and then cutting it in strips. I love that look.

Those little flower circles were created with a 4-in-1 punch by Kreaxions.  These punches create different looks depending on how you use them.  I cut the little circles with the circle cutter by Kreaxions, literally the best circle cutter EVER!!!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 105 – BRR IT’S COLD card

Materials list:

Cardstock – Core’dinations

Digital Patterned papers – Knotty kit/Jessica Sprague.com

Penguin Die cuts – Recollections

Border punch - Kreaxions

SRM sticker sentiment

Spellbinder Nestabilities die

Button – PaperTrey, Inc.

SKETCH 106 – JOYOUS card

Materials list:

Cardstock – Core’dinations

Patterned papers – Gabrielle Cameo/BoBunny

Border punch, Butterfly die and Circle cutter – Kreaxions

Stamp pads – Clearsnap

Epoxy word – Heidi Grace

Self adhesive Pearls – Queen & Co.

Font - Scrapbook