Squeeze-A-Palooza #8

It's Squeeze-A-Palooza time at Fresh Squeezed Stamps, and the theme is Summer.

I made this card, just layering up some paper and embellies, and simply stamping the Fresh Squeezed Stamp sentiment to pull it all together. Now if you like my card, you should head over to this post and VOTE!

I'm also entering this card into the ScrapbookSteals.com Monday Craft Madness #25 challenge to use Layering. You've got until May 31st to play along with both challenges!

Patterned paper: Jillibean Soup
Sentiment: Fresh Squeezed Stamps
Twine: WRMK
Pin and ephemera: Paper Made Bakery kits
Washi tape: WRMK
Cardstock: American Crafts

ScrapbookSteals.com Blog Hop - Love My Tapes

Welcome to your next stop on the March ScrapbookSteals.com Blog Hop!

I'm so happy to be a part of the hop today. I've been a regular ScrapbookSteals.com blog reader and participant in their weekly layout sketches and crafty challenges for almost 2 years now. I find tons of inspiration on their blog, and find most of my scrapbooking supplies by shopping their daily deals!

Today's steal and the subject of the blog hop is, of course, Love My Tapes washi tape. I received two beautiful tapes to work with - pink stripes and teal chevron. The two colors looked so lovely together I thought I'd make a card to showcase the colors. A couple simple strips of the washi tape, ribbons from my stash, a black sentiment and simple flower image, and there you have it:

 

Then I lined up strips of Love My Tapes washi tape on pieces of white cardstock to create my own patterned paper. Since the tape is semi transparent, I could make a nice criss-cross or woven look with the striped washi.

 Adding washi tape to cardstock like this makes it easy to punch out shapes like these tags.

 

I then dressed up the tags with more punched shapes, flower embellishments and baker's twine. These will be great to dress up gift packages or even add to a card or layout!

  

Be sure to leave a comment for me here on my blog, and on all the other participating blogs by Sunday March 3rd so you can be entered for a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to ScrapbookSteals.com!

 

Your next stop on the blog hop is the fabulous Jessica Arrant. 
You're going to love what she has in store for you!

Santa and Warmest wishes

Here's the layout I made for the ScrapbookSteals Mid-Week Mojo sketch this week (Jade #8).

Patterned papers - Lawn Fawn and Pebbles
Stickers - My Mind's Eye
Flair - Bluebird Chic
Washi tape - WRMK
Title - American Crafts, Fancy Pants and Jillibean Soup


I then took the supplies I already had out and made a card with a Studio Calico sketch. I'm playing along again at The Paper Girls Challenge Blog, so I added some twine as a final detail to the card.
 

Sweet Baby card

There's a challenge at scrapbook.com to create a card using only plain cardstock, brads and rub-ons. When searching through my stash of rub-ons, I found this one by MME. It's meant to be used as a title, but I don't have any baby boy scrapbook pages to make, so thought I'd try to make a card from it.



It's about 6-inches wide, so to fit it on to a standard A2 card, I cut it up into 3 pieces and arranged the rub-on pieces like this:

I'm quite happy with how it turned out.  I don't really see a good spot to add any brads, since I've already got those circles, so I'll just stick with the cardstock and rub-ons.

The theme and colors in the card also fit perfectly with the Monday Craft Madness #11 challenge at scrapbooksteals.com which is to use the theme of "Baby Blues" on a project. Thanks for looking!

Love You Valentine

I'm planning to make some small sized Valentines for my daughter's daycare class and teachers.  I don't have a design in mind quite yet, but I'll let you know.  In the meantime I found some Valentine inspiration this week with the Authentique Paper January Sketch Challenge and the Scrapbook Steals Monday Craft Madness #8 theme: Valentines! I'm also entering this into the Authentique January Inspiration Color Challenge.

The strips of paper for the base of the card came together easily (approx 1/2" x 4"), but then I struggled to add something that would pop for a banner and sentiment. I found a scrap of black paper from October Afternoon and punched 1.5" circles to stand out against all the pinks on the card base, and added a pink circle with the "love you" sentiment to then stand out from the black. I strung the banner up with twine, rather than gluing down the circles. I attached the banner with glitter heart brads and added a little doodling around the perimeter to finish it off.

Authentique supplies used:

   'Uncommon' 6x6 patterned paper

   Card base: Foundations paper

Other supplies:

   October Afternoon Woodland Park

   Sweet Stamp Shop sentiment

   WRMK baker's twine

   Recollections heart brads

-Michele

ScrapbookSteals.com guest sketcher

Happy New Year!  I'm having a fantastic start to 2013 by being this month's guest sketcher over at scrapbooksteals.com today! I rely heavily on sketches to make my scrapbook layouts and cards, so it was both fun and a little challenging to do my own thing with the Lawn Fawn Bright Side Collection.

Here's a little peek at my layout and these pretty papers:

Now, go check out my sketch and play along this week!  You have until Monday, January 7th at 11:59 pm MST to link up your layout.

-Michele