Ahoy

 I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. Our theme this month is It's a Pirates Life For Me. All challenges will be pirate themed yet broad enough for many interpretations. So, in keeping with the Pirate theme, pirates use metal swords, right? So use some metal on your layout!

On my page, my title is metal but I wanted to try to use even more metal. I took some regular

 aluminum foil, wrapped it around some cardstock and then embossed it. I love how it came out! As for the rest of page, I kept the embellishments to a minimum so as not to take away from the embossed foil.

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Peace

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

Here's my example for this week

Here's the sketch

I decided to make a Christmas card, mostly because I wanted to play with my new snowfall stencil from MFT. I used some Distress Oxide Inks, Wilted Violet and Stormy Sky, to create the background. The star is from a stamp and die framelits set from Sizzix and Peace was cut using my Cricut.

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VACA

 We've got a new sketch up at Sketches in Thyme today. This week's sketch is by Brenda Ragsdale. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us.

Here's my take on the sketch

Here's the sketch

This came together so quickly for me. I very seldom do multi-pic layouts and I couldn't find 4 pics that went together so I settled on just 3. But that's the beauty of  following a sketch....it can take you anywhere. Other than the number of photos I pretty much stuck to the sketch.

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Quaranteen Birthday

 I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. This month's theme is It's a Pirates Life for Me. Challenges this month will be "Pirate" themed, but broad enough for interpretation on so many levels. Batten Down the Hatches, it's gonna be a fun month! So for my challenge you must use only the colors of the Pirate flag which are black and white. You can use color photos.

I started with black cardstock for the background and then added texture using white Modeling Paste and a stencil. I added some black and white floral paper, some little white flower gems, a big white heart and some Pop Drops also in white.

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Halloween Card

 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 reveal all the Design Team members examples and pick a winner from the previous week's entries.

Here's the sketch

I thought this sketch would be a great one for a Halloween card.  I've had these stamps for years and never used them but as soon as I saw the sketch I knew they would be perfect.  I stamped them all in black and then heat embossed them to really make them pop.  The purple background was made by sponging some Distress Oxide Inks, Hickory Smoke and Wilted Violet. onto white cardstock to give 

the card a bit of a spooky feel.

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Sedona, AZ

 I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. Our theme this month is Route 66 and challenges will be based on the road trip, destinations, travel or the song. 

I was looking at a map of Route 66 and noticed that there are a lot of crossroads along the way. Some looked like X's and some looked like crosses....perfect for a layout. So for my challenge you have to use X's, crosses or something resembling crossroads on your layout. I chose to use X's on my example.

I just cut small strips of paper and attached them in the shape of X's with brads. The photos are all destination photos of an arts and crafts village we went to out in Sedona, AZ.

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Be Merry

We've got a new sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new one every Monday. Since it's July I thought I'd start celebrating Christmas in July by getting some of my Christmas Cards started.  

Here's the sketch

This is such a versatile sketch and I had a hard time deciding what theme I wanted to go with. When I finally decided on Christmas it came together so fast. 

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Happy Easter

 We've got a new sketch up at Sketches in Thyme today. We have a new sketch every week. I hope you come play along with us. We've got some really fun sketches to work with.

This is my take on this week's sketch

Here's the sketch

Isn't this a fun sketch? It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do with it and then I came across these Easter photos and decided to use little chicks and bunnies instead of butterflies. I cut them out with my Cricut in different sizes and colors to get the rainbow effect. Other than that the rest of this layout came together rather quickly.

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Topsfield Fair

 I've got a new  challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. This month's theme is Route 66. Challenges will be based on the road trip, the destinations, and possibly even a challenge or two based on the song lyrics made famous by the song writer Bobby Troup in 1946. So join us as we Get Our Kicks on Route 66.

Along the way on Route 66 there is the Devil's Rope Museum in McLean, TX. So for my challenge I want you to use some "rope" on your layout. It can be twine, thread, string or even some ribbon.

Here's my example

I've used some twine wrapped around the top and bottom of my layout. The rest of the page came together quickly by adding some burlap behind the photo and then some stickers, dew drops and metallic leaf confetti.

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Blue Angels Birthday Card

We've got a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new one each Monday and then on Wednesday we reveal all the DT memebers examples and announce the winners from the week before. I hope you stop by and play along with us. 

Here's my take on the sketch

Here's the sketch

This card is for my husbands birthday and I thought it was perfect for the idea I had of using a photo of the Thunderbirds on the card. I used a navy blue base and then embossed a piece of white cardstock for the background. For the 3 strips, I inked them up using some Distress Oxide Inks and sprayed them with water. Then I cut the photo down to size and attached it over some jute string and added the Happy Birthday and black Nuvo Drops.

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