America the Beautiful

 I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. This month we are celebrating the sixth Anniversary of Cookin' Up Creations. All challenges will be based on the birthday theme. Not to worry though, you don't need to use birthday photos.

My challenge is celebrating the birthday of your country. You'll need to use the colors of your country along with some punches.  Since I'm in the USA, I used red, white and blue. I stenciled the background with some fireworks. I also punched some red and white and blue and white papers with a scalloped edge punch. Then I dug through my sticker stash and found some very old stickers that went well with this layout.

I hope you'll stop by and play along with us this month. There are all sorts of challenges, games and prizes. We have something fun going on every day of the month!

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Going to Epcot

 We've got a new sketch up at Sketches in Thyme today. This is such a fun sketch by Rochelle Spears! 

Here's the sketch

As soon as I saw it I knew it would be perfect for a Disney page. Everything on this page is Disney themed. I have soooo much Disney paper and ephemera! I cut out the 4 quarters of the circle using my Cricut. Then just added the banners, washi tape and ephemera. 

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Valentine's Day Card

 We've goat a new sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesday we announce the previous week's winners and reveal the DT Members examples. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Here's this week's sketch

I started with some watercolor paper and painted the red and pink squares using watercolor paints. Then added the black frame that I cut on the Cricut. The heart balloons were die cut from some old scraps of Valentine papers and all the die cuts: the balloons, rectangle and sentiment strip are from MFT dies.  The stamp is very old, from the $1 bins that Michaels used to have. 

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A Very Merry Noel

 There's a new card sketch up today at Atlantic Hearts Sketches. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesday we announce the winners from the previous week and reveal the DT Members examples. 

Here's my card

Here's the sketch

I made a promise to myself that I would start making Christmas cards throughout the year so I wouldn't be so stressed about making them during the holidays. So this was a perfect sketch to get me started.

I followed the sketch pretty closely but I just had to add a sentiment. I stamped the tree in several shades of Distress Oxides and added some sparkle and snow to it. I embossed the background with a snowfall embossing folder and added a couple of stitched hills of snow.  

So proud of myself for getting my 1st Christmas card made fro 2023!

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Snow Fun

 I've got a new sketch challenge up today at Sketches in Thyme on Facebook. This is really a fun sketch and I loved digging through my stash for all the different snowflakes I used. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us.

Here's the sketch 

I really had fun with this sketch. Once I found the photos I decided to use snowflakes for the embellishment cluster down the side of the page. I dug through my stash and found all kinds of snowflakes like die cuts, punches, acrylic pieces and glittered ones. I also found some snowflake washi tape that I thought would work well on the layout. The title was cut with my Cricut.

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Say What!

 I've got a new challenge up today over at Cookin' Up Creations. Our theme this month is Alice in Wonderland. There will be some interesting challenges this month! Come play along with us!

These are my two granddaughters. We were at Disney waiting in line for some ride and I'm guessing looking at the wait times for other rides they wanted to go on. I wish I could remember more but I love the looks on their faces. 

So I started with a bright yellow background and then dug into all my Disney papers (I have so much) and cut out different sizes of circles along with the title on my Cricut.  Then I decided to doodle around the title offset and a little on the photo frame. This was a quick and easy layout.

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Valentine's Day Card

 We've got a new card sketch challenge up today at Atlantic Hearts Sketches. Every Monday there's a new card sketch and on Wednesday we reveal all the DT Members examples and announce the top 3 winners. I hope you'll stop by and play along.

Here's my take on the sketch

Here's the sketch

I decided to turn this sketch into a Valentine's Day card. The papers are from  a Photo Play collection called Be Mine. I used an MFT stitch and scallop edge die for the lighter paper and then cut out the hearts with my Cricut. The bigger banner was cut with a die from Impression Obsession and the smaller one is from an MFT die. The little hearts are from Michaels.

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Bee's Knees

 I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. This month's theme is Alice in Wonderland and all the challenges will be based on that movie. My challenge is based on the Queen of Hearts character. All you need to do is use hearts on your layout. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us. 

This is my youngest granddaughter getting her hair cut for the start of the new school year. I may be a bit partial but I think she has beautiful hair.

I started with a light blue background and cut all the hearts out on my Cricut. Then just dug through my stash and added the stars, dots, sentiments, flowers and banners along the bottom. 

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Valentine's Day Card

 We've got a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new sketch every Monday and on Wednesday we reveal the DT Members examples and announce the 3 winners from the previous weeks challenge. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Here's my take on the sketch

Here's the sketch

I played around with this sketch for quite some time, nothing just seemed to work until I tried a less is more approach. It worked, I love how it came out. I embossed the strip of hearts on white cardstock and layered that on red. The branches were cut with my Cricut and I cut the leaves off and added the punched hearts. Stamped and embossed the sentiment and layered that on top of the branches. 

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Cadence

I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. This months theme is Out with the Old and In with the New. We're trying to use up our older stash before we buy anything new. Yeah, like that's ever gonna happen!

My challenge was to use some ribbon on your page or maybe even some fabric. If you don't have either, which I find hard to believe, lol, you can use twine or even thread.

I started with a white background and covered it in clear gesso so the watercolor background wouldn't make the paper bubble. I sprayed some pink and green Glimmer Mist around the page and then dipped a paint brush in water to push the mist around and thin it out a bit. The layers behind the photo are from a Paper Studio pad called Uptown Flair. The film strip name I picked up years ago at a Scrapbook convention. Unfortunately the company that made them has gone out of business.

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