Cheers

 There's a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. This month's theme is Christmas Movies. Each challenge will be based on a Christmas movie. Since it's the last couple days of the year I chose the movie Happy New Year Charlie Brown and the challenge is to use some gold and lots of sparkle.

I started with a black background and stenciled two corners with gold stencil paste. Then used glitter papers for all the other elements of the layout. The title and champagne glasses were cut with my Cricut and the hearts were all done with a tiny punch.

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Merry & Bright

  We've got a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesday we reveal all the DT Members and the previous week's winners. I hope you'll join us and play along!

Here's my example

Here's the sketch

Again, I stayed close to this sketch also. I wasn't sure about the black card but decided to try it and found I really like it with the plaid paper. The wreath and the gold ribbon was cut with a die from Amy Designs. The sentiment is from a new set from Recollections which I embossed and then just added some red Nuvo drops for the wreath berries.

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Cake by Disney

 There's a new sketch up today at Sketches in Thyme on our Facebook page! This week's sketch is by the talented Rochelle Spears. This is a fun yet easy sketch you can really make your own. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Here's the sketch

I went with a Disney theme and papers. Most Disney papers are super busy so this was a perfect sketch for them. The title was cut using the Waltograph font on my Cricut. The little acrylic hearts are from Fawnies on Ninth found on Etsy. (they have the cutest acrylic pieces)

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Bye Bye Elves

 There's a new challenge up today over at Cookin' Up Creations. This month is all about our favorite Christmas movies. All challenges will be tied into the movies. For my challenge I chose The Elf on the Shelf movie.  My granddaughters have enjoyed having the elves visit every Christmas since they were babies…they’re now 15 and 12 years old….and they still look forward to seeing them. Who wouldn’t since the elves now bring little presents every night!

This layout is about my youngest granddaughter saying good bye to the elves. My challenge is to use red and green, layering and some sparkle such as sequins, gems acrylic pieces etc.

I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

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Warm Wishes

 We've got a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesday we reveal all the DT Members and the previous week's winners. I hope you'll join us and play along!

Here's my example

Here's the sketch

I stayed real close to the sketch. I started with some plain blue cardstock and stamped snowflakes around it using Versamark watermark ink. The blue scalloped circle was cut from some blue foil paper on my Cricut. I also cut the light blue circle with my Cricut and watermark stamped it with the snowflake stamp. The sentiment is from a new Recollections stamp set which I embossed.

I love the simplicity of this sketch and my card.

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Fall Fun

  I've got a new challenge up at the Cookin' Up Creations site today. Our theme this month is It's Turkey Time and challenges are based on Thanksgiving recipes. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us...you might even find some yummy new recipes.

My recipe called for using yellow, orange, white/cream, red circles, polka dots and something sparkly.

If you'd like the recipe stop by Cookin' Up Creations for it. 

I die cut all the squares using some stitched dies and then used a whole punch for all the little red circles. The title was cut on my Cricut using some bronze glitter paper.

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Gather Together

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

Here's the sketch

I love this sketch and it came together so quickly. The hardest part was finding 3 pieces of paper that would compliment each other nicely. Once I found them it was just tear the edges and add some fall stickers.....easy peasy.

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Just a Girl Having Fun

 There's a new sketch up today on the Sketches in Thyme Facebook page. It's a fun and easy sketch by Bev Code. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us.

Here's the sketch

I started with some paper from the Let's Wander collection by Vicki Boutin. I then used a stencil and Distress Oxide inks to add some little squares to it. I matted the photos in a bright teal to make them really stand out and then added a few strips of washi tape. The big title was cut with my Cricut.

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Escape Room Fun

 I've got a new challenge up at the Cookin' Up Creations site today. Our theme this month is It's Turkey Time and challenges are based on Thanksgiving recipes. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us...you might even find some yummy new recipes.

My recipe is Mashed Potatoes and Gravy

Here's the recipe:

Potatoes - start with a white background

Gravy - use some brown

Salt - use more white

Pepper - use some black

Butter - use some gold or yellow

Don't forget the potato masher - use some metal

My page started with the white background for the potatoes and for the gravy I did some brown  background work. The salt is a white photo mat and a teeny white sticker. The pepper is the black splatters. The butter is the two gold keys and the potato masher is lots of metal findings.

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Farmhouse Christmas Card

 We've got a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesday we reveal all the DT Members and the previous week's winners. I hope you'll join us and play along!

Here's my example

Here's the sketch

I don't know about you but I love the Farmhouse look and nothing says farmhouse more than the black and white plaid which I thought would be perfect for this card. The top part was embossed with snowflakes and I added a Christmas ribbon from a box of chocolates I received last year. I die cut the 2 ovals and stamped the MFT sentiment. It's hard to see but I added some glitter Nuvo Drops to the snowflake centers also.

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Grateful and Blessed

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

Here's my example

Here's the sketch

I pretty much kept to the sketch completely on this one. I love fall so as soon as I saw the sketch I knew I would go with the fall colors. Everything here came from my scrap pile, even the card base. I used die cuts and my cricut on this card. 

I hope you'll stop by, check us out at Atlantic Hearts Sketches and play along!

Happy Scrapping!

Girls Night Out

 There's a new sketch up today at Sketches in Thyme. This weeks sketch is by Jenessa Franco. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Here's my layout

Here's the sketch

I had fun with this sketch. I turned it into a Halloween page. I stamped some Halloween type images around the page with some black ink. Then die cut a bunch of branches and added them behind the photos. The graveyard scene was die cut and then I backed it with some yellow paper thinking it might resemble a spooky moon. I also splattered some black and orange mists around. The title was cut with my Cricut. I thought the font looked kinda spooky and perfect for a Halloween page.

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Love You

 There's a new card sketch up today at Atlantic Hearts Sketches. We have a new card sketch every Monday and on Wednesday we announce the previous week's 3 winners and reveal the DT members examples. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Here's my card

Here's the sketch

I love this sketch and I was so tempted to make a fall card, especially since that's my favorite time of year, but I needed an anniversary card for hubby. This card came together quickly. I started by embossing the background with a Darice folder. The 2 hearts were cut on my Cricut and the sentiment is a die cut from Sizzix. 

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Making Spirits Bright

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

Here's my card

Here's the sketch

I decide to make another Christmas card. I used papers from a Recollections Red and White Christmas paper pad I've had for a couple of years.

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Live, Laugh, Love

 There's a new sketch up at Sketches in Thyme today. This week's sketch is by Brenda Ragsdale. I hope you'll check it out and play along with us. 

Here's my layout

Here's the sketch

I dug through my collections and finally pulled out one from Fancy Pants from 2014 called True Friend. There wasn't much left of the collection but there was just enough for this sketch. The Live, Laugh, Love is from Me & My Big Ideas Pocket Pages Cards. The shine button is from Creative Embellishments and the tags are from Kaiser Kraft's Seaside Collection.

The photos aren't that great but I love the big smiles on my granddaughter's face.

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Joy to the World

 We've got a new card sketch challenge up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new sketch every Monday and on Wednesday we announce the previous week's winners and reveal the DT members cards.

Here's the sketch

When I saw this sketch I thought it would be perfect for a Christmas card. I started by cutting the snowflakes out with my Cricut and then sprayed them with some blue and white glimmer mist. Then I embossed some white cardstock with a snowfall embossing folder and brushed on some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide. The banner is a die cut from Lawn Fawn called Bannertastic and the sentiment is from Pink and Main.

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Sunset

I've got a new challenge up over at Cookin' Up Creations today. This month's theme is Careers. Each challenge will focus on a different career. For my career, I chose Astronomer, someone who studies planets, starts and other celestial bodies. My example shows a sunset at Topsail Beach, NC.

I started with a white background and sprayed some blue and copper mists around and used a chicken wire stencil also. I stamped some beach grasses too. The papers were from my scrap pile and I pulled out some cork paper for the triangles and flags. Then I just added some beachy embellishments and some coconut shell buttons.

I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Happy Scrapping!

Christmas Card

 There's a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. Every Monday we have a new sketch and on Wednesday we announce the previous winners and reveal all the DT members cards.

I decided to start on my Christmas cards with this sketch.

Here's the sketch

I had such a hard time getting a good picture of the card. The sentiment is cut from a smooth, shiny glitter paper using an Impression Obsession die. All the papers came from a DCWV stack called Cranberry Christmas.

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Birthday Calories

 We've got a new card 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 all the DT Members cards.

Here's my card

Here's the sketch

Isn't this a cute sketch! I really had fun with this card and it came together so quickly. The stitched scalloped rectangle die is from Lawn Fawn and the ice cream goodies are stickers that I've had forever. The stamp is from Stampendous....I use it a lot on my birthday cards.

I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

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Fenway Park

 There's a new sketch up today at Sketches in Thyme. This week's sketch is by Shawn Lahr. I hope you'll come play along with us!

Here's my take on it

Here's the sketch

When I first saw the sketch I was a bit overwhelmed, it seemed like a lot going on, but once I started breaking it down it began to take shape. It's always been hard for me to scrap more than 2 photos on a page but once I found 3 photos that worked together, the rest just fell in place. All the paper came from my scrap pile and I still had some softball stickers left over from other lo's. The title and the softball along the bottom were all cut with my Cricut. 

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Happy

 There's a new challenge up today at Cookin' Up Creations. This month's theme is He Said, She Said and all challenges will be based on a quote or saying. This should be a lot of fun! I hope you'll come join us!

I chose a quote by Leo Tolstoy. "If you want to be happy, Be". I love that quote and when I saw this photo of my stepdaughter and granddaughter that was the first thing that came to mind. They both just look so happy. Of course they are in their favorite place....Disney World. 

I started with a white background and added some Distress Oxides mixed with water and then scrunched the ink on the paper. All the layered papers are from a DCWV paper pad called Pocket Blossoms. I don't know where the tiny hearts, flowers and feather stickers are from...I won them in a challenge. The large happy puffy title is from Thickers, genius collection.

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Merry & Bright

 There's a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. 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 come play along with us! 

Here's the sketch

Such a versatile sketch. I decided to start on my Christmas cards with this one. The papers and the sentiment are from a cute 6x6 paper pad from Recollections called Red & White Christmas. The star ornament is a die cut from Jeanine's Art and I used some silver foil paper to cut it out.

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Smoky Mountains

  I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. Our theme this month is America the Beautiful and you can interpret that in so many ways. It can be something in nature that you think is beautiful or even a beautiful person. It can be a candid moment you caught on film. Just something that you think makes America beautiful. 

These photos were taken on our vacation in the Smoky Mountains. I couldn't believe it when I saw what looks like smoke coming out of the vallleys. It was beautiful! Now I understand why they are called the Smoky Mountains.

I kept this simple so you could focus on the photos. The title is a laser die cut that I bought at a huge scrapbook store I found in the Smoky Mountain area. I typed up the journaling and then cut it into strips. Easy and quick layout!

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You're the Zest

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

Here's my example

Here's the sketch

This card was made using Simple Stories Simple Vintage Lemon Twist papers, stickers and die cuts.     I love this collection and I guess I'm not alone since I heard they are re-releasing the collection.

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Learning to skate

 There's a new sketch up today at Sketches in Thyme. This week's sketch is by Laura Rumble and it is such a clean sketch. Stop by and play along with us!

Here's my example

Here's the sketch

This is my youngest granddaughter learning how to skate. Not sure she really mastered it but at least she tried. 

All the papers are from an old paper stack called Ice Crystals by Craft Smith.. The mittens and skate are Glitter Chips by Tattered Angels and the cute little acrylic pieces are from Fawnies on Ninth at Etsy.

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Outdoor Adventure

 I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. Our theme this month is America the Beautiful and you can interpret that in so many ways. It can be something in nature that you think is beautiful or even a beautiful person. It can be a candid moment you caught on film. Just something that you think makes America beautiful. 

I love taking photos of nature, especially trees. This one was taken on a trip to Chattanooga, TN. I don't know if these are trees or vines but I loved how they were all entangled.

I kept the layout kind of simple so that the photos would stand out. All the papers used were scraps except for the background paper which is very old. Even the wood leaves are several years old.

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Birthday Card

 We've got a new card challenge up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new one every Monday and on Wednesday we will announce the winner from the previous week and reveal all the DT members examples. I hope you'll come play along with us. This week's sketch is a pretty CAS card sketch.

Here's my example

Here's the sketch

I love how clean and simple this sketch is and that you can really dress it up. I used my two favorite colors on this one. The flowers were stamped, stenciled and die cut using a Pinkfresh Studios set. I love these sets since I'm not very good at coloring with markers. The stitched oval die cut is from Tutti Designs and the sentiment die cut is from Impression Obsession.

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Masculine Birthday Card

 There's a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today and we are also partnering with The Double Trouble Challenge Blog this week.

 We are using our sketch  #478 along with their challenge #114 which is to make your own YouNique Technique meaning you need to create your own background. I hope you'll come play along with us!

Here's our sketch

Here's my card which is for my brother's birthday. The 55 is really for his age but it could be the speed limit too.

For my YouNique background I started by stenciling the brick wall. I then took an arrow embossing folder and loaded it up with white ink and embossed  a strip of black paper. The motorcycle is from an old stamp and die set from Sizzix. The 55 was cut with my Cricut. After I got it all assembled, I thought it needed something so I splattered some black mist on the bricks only.

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Easter

 There's a new challenge up today at Cookin' Up Creations. This month's theme  is our Annual Scrap "Lift" Your Stash. Meaning you can lift one of your old layouts or someone else's layouts but you must use up some of your stash and we all know we've all got a ton of stash just sitting there.

This is my original layout that I used

My new layout

This used up a lot of scraps but barely put a dent in my supply of flowers.

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