Let's Scrap Blog Around the World Day 6

Here I am again and I have 3 more cards to share with you.  That's a total of 17 out of the 50 I need to complete by the end of the month.  I'm guessing 3 cards a day will give me a little wiggle room.

A couple days ago, I spent the day with my daughter in my craft room.  She wanted to make an envelope valentine's album for her DH.  We first pulled the paper and then the embellishments.  After that I pulled out my stamps and inks.  I was still inspired by everything we did and came up with this card after she left.  The red paper is from my stash, the black paper, Love stamp and inks are CTMH, the black striped paper is DCWV.  Simple but packs a punch.

Card 16 is sure to please your feminine side.  The background paper on this 6 x 6 card is from my scraps.  I used Martha Stewart punches to make the lace border, marvy punches for the leaves and a Pine Cone Press sticker in the center.

 HEHEHE...it takes me the longest to color the Penny Black Mimi stamps, but I have to admit they are the most fun....this card just screams fun to me.  In this 6 x 6 card, I used Bo Bunny papers for the background and Copic markers to color Mimi.  Her hair is YR21, E33, E35, and E37.  Her face is E000, E00, E11 and RV21.  For her dress, hair ribbon, stockings and cherry, I used R22, R24, R27 and R29.  The cupcake frosting and liner are R81, R83 and R85.  I used Y02 for the center of the flower and on the cupcake beading.  I also used G00 on her wings and cupcake beading.  Celebrate is a CTMH stamp.  I hope you like her as much as I enjoyed coloring her.

Let's Scrap Blog Around the World Day 5

Hi everyone and thanks for visiting me.  This is day 5 of card making for me and I have 3 more cards to show you from the Let's Scrap sketches.

This card was made from scraps I had.  I used the Tim Holtz Rosette die and the Sizzix side kick.  The zig zag stitching is the Sew Happy stamp from Close to My Heart.  The paper lace is a Martha Stewart punch and the rub on is also from my stash.

Card 13 is my Valentine's Day card for my hubby.  His favorite color is blue.  He keeps asking me to put my blog on his favorites but I have to wait a few more days.  HEHEHEHE.  The paper here is from Quick Quotes.  I used the Plantin School Book Cricut cartridge to make the rick rack.  The stamps are from CTMH Mad About You and I used CTMH Indian Corn Blue ink.  The ribbon is also CTMH.  I'm a consultant for CTMH so have a lot of it.  I love that their inks, papers, ribbons and embellishments all match.

This is a simple card to make.  The papers are from my scraps.  I used the Cricut Elegant Edges cartridge and a sticker from a Pine Cone Press card kit.  I used a CTMH writer for the black ink work. And, that's it.  Fourteen cards completed and soooo many more to do.  Leave a comment and let me know what you think...

Let's Scrap Blog Around the World Day 4

Day 4 for me and it's the 8th of the month...will have to do 3 cards a day to get all 50 of them completed by the end of the month.  Yesterday, I spent most of the day out of the house and today most of the day was spent with my daughter....LUV HER!  Anyway:

Card 10:  I'm trying really hard to keep to the sketch on the hop.  I keep wanting to add more...a bow here...an eyelet there, but I've been pretty good.  This paper is from my scraps.  I used Cheery Lynn nested dies for the circles and scallops. The flourish is also from Cherry Lynn Designs.  The stamp and ink are CTMH.  Pink is my favorite color (go Barbie) so you will see a lot of pinks in my 50 cards.

Card 11 is 100% Close to My Heart.  Again, I love CTMH since the papers match the inks.  I used Sunkiss Yellow, Key Lime and Bubblegum.  Even the black pens and ribbon are CTMH.


I have to work on cards tonight so I can bring you more tomorrow.  Have fun and keep stamping.

Let's Scrap Blog Around the World Day 3

February is Let's Scrap Leap Around the World Blog Month.....If you are looking for card sketches, Let's Scrap Blog is where it's at!!!  Here are my takes on the next few legs of the blog.

I started out making this card in blues...I didn't care for the blue horizontal trip I had so went looking for a new scrap....when I came across this piece, I redesigned the whole card.  The dollie die is from Cheery Lynn nesting dies.  I cut it from CTMH Taffy paper which is also the card backing.  The spotted paper is vellum and I purchased the flowers from QVC.  The brads and stamp are CTMH.  The pen work around the dollie is a Gelly Roller White Pen.

Card 8 was a fun card to make.  The background paper was from my stash.  The black papers are from Scrap in A Snap.  I use to sell for them before they closed shop.  I colored the Penny Black Mimi stamp with Copic Markers.  I just learned how to shade with copics and this is my 4th attempt.  I used C1 and C5 for the hat and cupcake.  The reds on the bowl and cupcake liner are R22, R24, R27 and R29.  For the face I used E000, E00, E11 and RV21.  The hair was colored with E30, E33, E35, E37 and YR21.  The shading on the eggs is E51.  The button is CTMH and the twine is from Sew Easy.  I purchased 4 of the Penny Black Mimi stamps so I hope I get to use the others during the blog hop.

Card 9 is 100% Close to My Heart.  The paper is from my stash scraps.  I used Bubblegum, Clover Meadow and Sunflower inks.  The good thing about CTMH is that their papers match their inks, so the papers I used were Bubblegum (both the cardstock and background) and Pansy Purple.


Well, I'm behind schedule so I better get back to my craft room to make some more cards...Oh dear, my house is going to suffer this month.

Let's Scrap Blog Around the World Day 2

Well hubby let me spend a lot of my time in my craft room and I was able to complete 4 more cards...that's 6 completed out of the 50 I need to do to complete the entire blog...Whew!  So....

The top card was completed with Lasting Impression paper, a Sizzix embossing folder and a Memory Box die.  Card 2 uses double stick tape and a lot of glitter.  The center of the flowers are Copic Markers.  In card 3 I used paper from my scraps and a flower punch.  Card 4 uses Quick Quote papers and a stamp from Putting on the Ritz.  All the cards from this blog are from sketches on each of the hosts blogs.  What a fun blog.  You should try it!

Let's Scrap Blog Around the World Day 1

Well I completed my first two leaps and completed two of my 50 cards.

Card 1 uses DCWV papers and a Sizzix/Hero Arts Die with stamp.  These are new and I just purchased my first one.  You stamp first then position your die to cut around the stamped object.  I own the Big Shot and it worked perfectly.


I picked up a paper and cardstock kit at the Embellish It 15 hour crop that I attended in January.  Not sure the paper line but it was fun putting the second card together for the hop.  The actual sketch called for only 2 embellishments, but I just had to use the third pinwheel.

 Hop on over to Let's Scrap and start your Hop Around the World.

Let's Scrap 02-01-12

Every Wednesday, Let's Scrap posts a new sketch for the week.  Here is my 2 page layout using this week's sketch 2-1-12.

Heaven was designed using Close To My Heart papers, circle punches and dies, Cricut Kate's ABC's font and Graphically Speaking for the clouds.  The pictures are from my trip to Italy.  These particular pictures are from Verona.  Notice there are tons of bikes and mopeds but no cars.