Tuesday Throwdown #45

Happy Tuesday! This week at Tuesday Throwdown, our challenge is polka dots! This goes so well with Easter, so I made an Easter card using an image from our sponsor, The Cutting Cafe.

Details:
Stamp by The Cutting Cafe
Paper scraps by DCWV
Bic Markers

Craft Us Crazy Challenge 6

This week at Craft Us Crazy, our challenge is "thinking of you."  I've been dying to use these new Fiskars stamps I got at Jo-Ann's (for .97 cents!), so this was a perfect opportunity.

Details: Paper by K&Co and DCWV scraps from bin
Stamps by Fiscars, Sentiment by Studio G
"Grass" Scissors
Hand drawn sun
Brown Chalk Ink
SU Square Lattice Embossing

Challenges:
Craft Us Crazy - thinking of you
Scraps4fun - scraps
Crafty Creations - Paper Piecing
Creative Card Crew - Spring
Fab 'n' Funky - spotty and dotty
For Fun Challenges - pink, blue, purple, green, yellow (use at least three)
Freshly Brewed - cute and sweet
Stampin' Royalty - Spring
Your Next Stamp Challenge  - texture
Anita Be Stampin' - Anything Goes
Creative Craft Challenges - Embossing
Karen's Doodles Netherlands - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Spring Has Sprung

First page of my wedding reception album

Here's the first page of my wedding album.  I just wanted something simple.  I chose my very favorite picture of my husband and I.  I used some K&Co stickers to say "Our Wedding Reception."  Then I used the Cricut and Lyrical Letters to create the monogram.  Easy peasy.  ;-)

Sketches with Heart 4/10

This week will be our last sketch challenge at Sketches with Heart.  However, there are some FUN things coming up, so stay tuned!

Here's the sketch for Sketches with Heart this week:

Here's my take: 

Here's a close up of the Cuttlebug Quilling Kit daisies & leaves:

Details:
Paper by K&Co
Tulip image by Heart Song Designs
Cuttlebud Quilling Kit

Challenges:

Sketches with Heart - sketch

Card Cupids - Use 2 colours only

Crafty Pad - Spring 

2 Sisters - Spring 

Stamping Vacation - Special Things About April
 Fashionista Friday - Spring
Craft Us Crazy - Easter/ Spring
Dutch Dare Card Challenge - Spring has sprung.
The Rubber Cafe - Easter/Spring.
4 Crafty Chicks - Inspiration picture
Freshly Brewed -  flowers
Simon Says Stamp - Spring colors/Easter 
Stamping Vacation - lavender and celery  
Clear It Out! - flowers, flowers & more flowers
Belli Challenge - stitching (on the leaves)

Tuesday Throwdown #43

Happy Tuesday! This week at Tuesday Throwdown, our challenge is Spring.  We used images from Robyn's Fetish.  I chose "Babette the Bunny." 

I'm really not happy with this card.  I didn't have much time to make it, and I think it's obvious.  I wanted to make  scene with grass and Easter Eggs so that it looked like Babette was collecting them.  Oh well, here's what I came up with:

Details:
Jelly Bean paper from scrap bin
Plaid Paper by K&Co (also from scrap bin)
Babette the Bunny stamp by Robyn's Fetish
Stampin' Up Easter Blossoms stamps (sentiment and eggs)
Adhesive Rhinestones

Challenges:
Tuesday Throwdown - spring
Frosted Designs - bling

Lasting Memories 32

This week, our challenge at Lasting Memories is spring. I thought long and hard on this one.  I didn't really have any "spring" photos.  I would have used pictures of my garden, but my flowers aren't blooming yet this year.  Then I realized that I moved into my house in the spring of 2008.  We have beautiful photos of the front of the house with the azaela bushes in bloom.  So I used a picture of the front and back of our house for this layout.  I also used spring colors.

I used the sketch from Sketchy Thursday.  I altered it slightly to allow for two photos:

 
Details:
House Paper by American Crafts, Polka dot & stripe paper from scrap bin (I think it's by Miss Elizabeth's)
K&Co House & "Our First Home" stickers
Jolees "Our New Home" title wave sticker
Bic Markers
Brown Chalk Ink

Challenges:
Lasting Memories - spring
Sketchy Thursday - sketch
Craft Your Days Away - spots & stripes
One Stop - spots & dots

Sketches with Heart 4/3

Here's the sketch for Sketches with Heart this week:

Here's my take:

Details:
Unknown paper from scrap bin (I think some of it is K&Co)
Heart Song Designs Best Friends Image
SU Sentiment Stamp
Buttons from stash
CM Corner Rounder
Bic Markers
Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Challenges:

• Little Claire's  - Any Celebration with Spring Theme or Colours
• Make it colorful - Colour With Bright Colours 
• Crafty Emma - Children
• Our Daily Bread Designs - Birds
• Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge - Easter 
• Fairy Fun Fridays – Spring-themed
• Floweret - Easter
• Fun with Shapes & More - must include die cut/punch (I used a corner punch)- Easter
• Res-Q-Challenge - Use your corner rounder
• Stamp Something - Use something digital
• Stamping Vacation - pick three: corner punch; anything pink; a sentiment
• Colour Create –  Pastels + optional Easter
• Craft Us Crazy - Easter/ Spring
• Southern Girls - Add An Animal
• Creative Card Crew - for a child
• Creative Craft World - Easter
• A Spoonful Of Sugar - Easter
• Karens Doodles - Easter

April Blog Hop for Heart Song Designs

Happy April Fool's Day!   I just realized that I was a FOOL when I scheduled this post!  I set it for PM instead of AM! Whoops!  Also, it's SNOWING here in PA!  (And I'm NOT April fooling you!  Is that crazy or what?  At least it's not sticking!)

Here's the April releases for Heart Song Designs.  Aren't they adorable!  If you buy the whole bundle, you save $6! 

 

Starting this month, the new releases will be put out on the first of the month.  There will be a blog hop.  This month, the theme is SPRING.  

To participate in the hop:
**Leave a comment on all the DT's blogs as well as the inspiration blog
**One randomly selected hopper that has commented will be entered to win the entire release.

The next stop on the hop is Holly.


Here's everyone involved in the hop in case you are lost or want to start at the beginning:

Heart Song Inspirations blog: http://heartsonginspirations.blogspot.com
Peggy: http://dailygracecreations.blogspot.com

Lauren: http://lem-photography.blogspot.com  (you are here)
Holly: http://glitterstampsandink.blogspot.com
Karen: http://felinecreative.blogspot.com
Davi: http://alstromeriaartistry.blogspot.com
Shelly: http://shells-space.blogspot.com
Ceal: http://simplybeautifulcreations.blogspot.com
Stephanie: http://stephaniesstampinspot.blogspot.com
Katrina: http://flutterbytrina.blogspot.com
Chris: http://chrissyd723.blogspot.com
Deb: http://stampvanwinkle.blogspot.com
Vanessa: http://golden-sentiments.blogspot.com

Craft Us Crazy 5

This week at Craft Us Crazy, our challenge is Easter.

We have several wonderful sponsors:

APRIL Monthly sponsor – STAMP FAIRY

Prize package - $12.00 Gift Certificate

Stamp Fairy officially launched in 2010. Gerda, artist and owner, creates cute and whimsical digital images for the young and old, inspired by her life, love and 4 cute cats. You will find adorable teddies bears, young boys and girls, fuzzy little bunnies and whimsical critters.

Stamp Fairy has up to 40 new releases per month along with a free image every Friday, a weekly challenge on Mondays and Guest Designers each month on their challenge blog.

Please visit the store and browse StampFairy’s wonderful images to inspire YOUR creativity.

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March 31- Apr 13 - PEGGY LOVES VINTAGE

For the Etsy shop:

For the ebay shop:

Prize package – 5 different cut outs from store - $17.50 value

My husband and I have shared 36 years together and we have 2 sons and a daughter and 2 glorious grandkids ages 3 and 6.

I started collecting vintage cards quite by accident. I was helping with my aunts estate sale and ran across her collection. The cards were so wonderful that I fell in love with them and have been collecting them ever since.

I love to get a new vintage scrapbook and read all about the lives and times of the individual. Some of their stories are truly inspiring.

Be sure and visit my blog where you'll find some great inspiration, tips, tricks and some free vintage images for you to use.

I'm really excited about being an sponsor for Craft Us Crazy and sharing these beautiful vintage images with you. I hope that you come to love them as much as I do.

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APR 14 – APR 27 ROBYN’S FETISH

 

Prize package - 5 Robyn's Fetish digital products as a prize to the winner of your challenge. This may be EITHER 5 digital stamps OR 4 digital stamps and 1 paper set.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.  Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to offer the winner of this challenge 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 digital paper set of their choice.

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Without further ado, here's my Easter card.  This was a wonderful excuse to use my brand new Stampin' Up Easter set!

Details:
Paper from Target's Dollar Bin
Stamps by Stampin' Up
Ink by Studio G
White Inkadinkado embossing powder

Challenges:
1. Craft Us Crazy - Easter
2. Sketch Saturday - sketch

Tuesday Throwdown #42

Happy Tuesday! This week at Tuesday Throwdown, our challenge is to use florals.  Our sponsor is The Pixie Cottage and I was sent this gorgeous wishing well image.

Details:
DCWV Paper
Stamp by The Pixie Cottage
Sentiment by Stampin' Up (Bring on the Cake Set)
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Adhesive Pearls
EK Success Flower Punch

Sketches with Heart 3/27

UPDATE:  There won't be a new release every Sunday from now on.  There will be a new release on the 1st of each month, beginning April 1st.  There will be a blog hop too!!!

Here's the sketch for Sketches with Heart this week:

 Here's my take on the sketch:

Details:
Paper from Scrap bin from unknown companies
Stamp by Heart Song Designs
Ribbon & Brads from stash
Circle Nestabilities
MS Loops Punch
Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Wishing you a wonderful day

I went to my monthly scrapbooking meet-up on Saturday and I got my goodies from the Stampin' Up Party I attended on March 1st. I couldn't wait to play!

My brother in law's birthday is next week and I needed a card for him.  Does this look masculine enough?  

Stamps by Stampin' Up - Nature Walk (bird & eggs), Bring on the Cake (sentiment)
Bic Marker (bird's feet and beak)
Studio G Ink Pads
Cardstock scraps by The Paper Co

• Crafty Cardmakers Spotlight Challenge - Make your own Designer Papers
• Crazy Challenge - No square cards
• Creative Craft Friends - Spring
• Happily Scrappin - Spring Has Sprung
• Make it Monday - Anything goes
• Stamp with Fun - Spring
• Stamps R Us - Spring
• Aly's Sunday Challenge - Spring
• Card Cupids - Spring Inspired
• Cheerful Stamp Pad - Spring
• I Did It Creations - Welcome Spring
• Creative Cottage - Spring 
• Card Makin' Mamas - animals
• Crafty Sentiments -  Animals

Sunday Release and SKETCH CHALLENGE at Heart Song Designs

Here's this week's new releases at Heart Song Designs:

Picket Fence, Easter Basket, Kite, and Artsy Tulips

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Here's this week's sketch for Sketches with Heart.  From the moment I saw it, I thought of a sun:  

Here's my take:

Details:
Stamp by Heart Song Designs

DCWV Paper Scraps
MS Loop Punch
Nestabilities Circles
Bic Markers

Challenges:

• Sketches with Heart - sketch
• Aly's Sunday Challenge - Spring
• Card Cupids - Spring Inspired
• Cheerful Stamp Pad - Spring
• Gingerloft - Die Cuts or Punches
• I Did It Creations - Welcome Spring
• Creative Cottage - Spring

Christmas Card - Week 11

This week, I made 2 quick and easy Christmas cards while I had my supplies out.

Details:
Craft Paper from scrap bin
Felt Snowflakes from Joann's Dollar Bin
White Gelly Roll Pen (hand written sentiments)

Craft Us Crazy Challenge 4

This week at Craft Us Crazy, our challenge is "Celebrations."  I knew that I wanted to create a layout, and I knew just which pictures I wanted to use.  These are from my nephew's 7th birthday last March.

Left page:

Right Page:

Detail shots:

I made this banner by hand with scraps of white paper, and I love how it turned out!

I doodled around the #7, since it was his 7th birthday.

I only had 6 candles, so the middle one is made with my printer/scanner/copier.  Can you tell?

Details:
Paper and Chipboard from Target Dollar Bin
Hand cut and written banner
Bic Markers

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  I created this very green card using lots of scraps as well as this adorable St. Patty's Day Dream image by Heart Song Designs.

Details:
Paper scraps by various companies
Image by Heart Song Designs
Sentiment by Studio G
Bic Markers