1st Communion

Here's another layout for one of the Birthday Bash challenges at Turtle Soup. You had to use either gold or silver on your layout.

It's hard to tell but the background paper has gold glitter in the swirls and the ribbon is gold also. And I added some gold bling as well.

Please come join us at Turtle Soup for our Birthday Bash. Lots of fun challenges and games going on and wait til you see all the amazing prizes our generous sponsors are providing! You don't want to miss it!

Anniversary Card

Here's a card I made for one of the Birthday Bash challenges at Turtle Soup. You could only use 2 colors of cardstock and it had to be an anniversary card.

I embossed the red cardstock with an Anna Griffin embossing folder and the white swirly die cut was also from Anna Griffin. I punched the butterfly out with a Martha Stewart punch. It's hard to see here but I punched 1 red and 1 white butterfly and layered them and then added some red pearls.

Happy Scrapping! 

7th Birthday

Here's a layout of my granddaughter's 7th birthday party. It was at a place where the kids could decorate t-shirts that would glow in the dark which is why the photos are sooooo dark. They sure had a fun time!

I did this layout using the Sketch N Scrap July 1st sketch. It was perfect for these photos.

This also fits a challenge at the Turtle Soup Birthday Bash where you had to use a number on your layout.

Celebrate

Well, it's time for another DT sketch reveal at Turtle Soup! Please stop by and check out all the different takes on the sketch.

I just found my oldest granddaughter's 1st Birthday invitation and her thank you card for her gift and decided it would be perfect for the Turtle Soup Birthday Celebration going on this month. She wasn't having a very good day and this is probably the only photo that she is smiling in. 

I cut the banner, ribbon curls and the title on my Explore. I fought with the machine when I was cutting out the title but I finally won the battle. I am slowly learning how to use the Explore, it's a bit confusing but thank goodness for You Tube! I'd be lost without it!

Me and Nana

This was a fun layout! It's for a recipe challenge at the Turtle Soup Birthday Bash that uses your birthday to determine your recipe.

My recipe was 2 photos, 4 printed papers, paint. flowers, chipboard and a title. For the paint I took a bath pouf and dipped it in paint and then pressed it on black cardstock. I love how it looks like I just flung paint on it. 

If your looking for some fun challenges, come check out the birthday bash going on at Turtle Soup. Lots of great challenges and games with an amazing bunch of prizes. Our sponsors were very generous! Hope to see you there!

Fun with Stickers

Here's a fun layout that I've been meaning to do for several years now. We gave a Dora themed sticker/coloring book to my oldest granddaughter when her baby sister was born and she had a ball with it. She quickly colored everything she could in the book and then started sticking all the stickers on my arms. She thought that was hilarious! I managed to keep two of the stickers to use on this page. I've been holding on to them for about 4 years now.

This was also for a challenge over at Turtle Soup back in June. Little late about blogging it but at least I didn't wait 4 years!

Happy Scrapping!

2 of Us

Here's a layout I did for one of the Mini Crop Challenges at Turtle Soup. These are my granddaughters and this is the 1st professional photo of the two of them. We have a bigger one framed on display in our living room but I still wanted to scrap it cause it's just so darn cute!

For this challenge you had to use only browns, blues and gold. Perfect colors for this photo. The papers are a mix of several different old collections but I thought they all seemed to work together.

Birthday Card

Today I'm sharing a card that really threw me for a loop. Our handyman was here doing some work for us and noticed my Cricut Explore and asked what it did. So I explained it to him and told him I make cards and scrapbook and my husband showed him a card I made. He was impressed and asked if I could make a card for his girlfriend's birthday. How could I say no! I asked what he was looking for and he said his girlfriend loves Harry Potter and sunflowers. Do those two even go together? Well, I was stumped but agreed to it anyway. Now, I know nothing at all about Harry Potter so I had to do some research. I spent about 3 -4 hours researching Harry Potter and my mind felt like mush. I was at a complete loss when I decided to try Pinterest and found the perfect card (I think).

Of course I had to change the design since I needed to incorporate some sunflowers. So I found these cute little sunflowers in Design Space and added the glittery centers and used them as icing on the cupcake. I used the print then cut feature on the Cricut Explore for the banner. The candle is a real one but I cut it in half so it wouldn't be so bulky. 

And here's what the inside looks like:

I searched through all kinds of Harry Potter quotes and decided this was appropriate for a birthday sentiment.

So, all in all, I'm pretty happy with how this came out not to mention very relieved that it's finished. The real test comes tomorrow when Chris comes to pick it up. I sure hope he's happy with it!

And this also fits a challenge at the Turtle Soup Mini Crop. I didn't even plan it! Still several days left for the Mini Crop with lots of fun challenges. Hope you can join us!

Into the Maze

I've got a challenge up at the Mini Crop over at Turtle Soup. Our theme this month is color schemes. My challenge is to use soft, muted colors and add 1 bright color splash.

I pulled all my colors from the photos. I used the green and brown muted earth tones and red for my splash of bright color which I pulled from my granddaughters clothing.

We've got lots of fun challenges going on at our Mini Crop. I hope you'll stop by and play along!

Happy Birthday Card

Here's a card I made for two different challenges. Turtle Soup had a challenge to use at least 3 stamps that you had to stamp on top of each other. The second challenge was at Cards in Envy where you had to make a girly card.

It's kind of hard to see but the tag has a background stamp of handwriting in a tan color. I then colored the flower stamp with markers to get the orange and green colors and then stamped the sentiment on the bottom. 

Happy Scrapping!