Cards Cards and More Cards

Here are two more attempts at the Paper Crafts Call for projects. One I LOVE, the other eh, but it was for the limited supply challenge, so I can't do much to fix it. CARDS magazine is having a call for kids cards though, so I think it would work better there.

"N2"gredients

Paper: Sassafras Lass Woodland Whimsy

Stamps: Odd Bird Planet Kelly's Hedgehog Left and Kelly's Hedgehog Right and sentiment

Ink: Stazon Jet Black, CTMH Chocolate and Pink Carnation.

Other: Sassafras Lass Hog Heaven Cardstock Sticker

Size: 3x6

"N2"gredients

Paper: K & Company Berry Sweet

Stamps: CTMH Life's a Jungle Set

Ink: CTMH White Daisy

Size: 4 3/4 x 5 3/4

What happened to July?

Wasn't it just the 4th with picnics and fireworks? July is almost gone but that means it's time for another E.A.D. Designs BLOG HOP! :D This week I have a layout and a card to share, but I thought of a really cute frame I want to make, so check back for that in August!

My baby Alice at 3 months old (the stamp on red reads "isn't she lovely). Notice 3 flowers, 3 mushrooms, and 3 photos. ;)

Close up of the cute E.A.D Mushrooms and Odd Bird Planet Gnome.

I cut out these flowers on my cricut and I think they ended up matching the paper perfectly!

"N2"gredients

Rub-ons: E.A.D. Designs Mushroom

Paper: K & Company Berry Sweet

Stamps: OBP isn't she lovely and baby gnome

Ink: CTMH Black and Watermelon

Other: Cricut Accent Essentials, clear buttons, glitter glue, and embroidery thread, zip dry, glue dots

And here is my card, another entry for the Paper Crafts calls. Although I do have friends who are moving into their new home this week, so I might have to whip up another one! Paper piecing the house made it turn out soooo cute!

"N2"gredients

Rub-ons: E.A.D. Designs Little Houses and Retro Spring

Paper: Sassafras Lass Sunshine Lollipops wee bundle and blue DCWV cardstock

Other: Sassafras Lass Hog Heaven Monogram stickers, zip dry

Now it's time to hop along and leave some wonderful comments for my E.A.D. friends

Amy

Danielle

Susan (She is lucky enough to be at CHA this week, I'm jealous)

Valerie

Vicki

Jacilynn (Fabulous July Guest Designer)

And last but not least the E.A.D. Design Blog!

Attempting the Paper Crafts Challenges...

and here is attempt number 1! I'm sure most of you are on the look out for magazine calls and are well aware of the Paper Crafts Magazines call for card submissions, if not HERE is the link.

"N2"gredients

Paper: DCWV Cardstock

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co Deer and OBP Sentiment

Ribbon: Cosmo Cricket

Ink: CTMH Black and Top Boss Tinted

Other: Pirate Gold Embossing Powder and Large Scalloped Circles Nestablities

In other crafting news, Starving Artist Stamps just relaeased 4 new sets! Go and check it out, here are two of them.

Dreaming of Rainbows and Unicorns.

That's what little girls are supposed to dream about, right? This was a super fast layout to put together, but the DP makes it so cute! I'm behind on my girls scrapbooks, so I need to find some FAST and EASY ideas.

"N2"gredients

Paper: Bam Pop! Volume 3

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co "Sweet" from Be "Owl" Mine kit

Rub-ons: Cosmo Cricket Jack's World

Ink: CTMH Watermelon and Orange

Other: K & Company Berry Sweet Words Chipboard

Size: 12x12

I'm on the E.A.D. BLOG!

Today is my day to be the featured CT member on the E.A.D. Blog WOO HOO! Go and take a peek. (Thanks Emily!)

I whipped up three cards yesterday for the Moxie Fab Green Challenge (nothing like waiting until the last minute) but I of coursed had to use some E.A.D. rub-ons on 2 of them.

"N2"gredients

Paper: DCWV Green Cardstock and CTMH Colonial White Cardstock

Stamps: OBP Earth

Rub-ons: E.A.D. Little Houses

Ribbon: Cosmo Cricket Honey Pie

Ink: CTMH Twilight

Other: Making Memories Sabrina Letters

Size: 5 3/8 x 4 3/8

"N2"gredients

Paper: DCWV Green Stack, Cosmo Cricket Skipping Stones, BG EVA Lavish, CTMH Black Cardstock

Rub-ons: E.A.D. Little Houses

Ink: CTMH Black

Other: K & Company Actopus to Zelephant Woodgrain Letters

Size: 5 x 7

Sketch: 2 Sketches 4 You #31

"N2"gredients

Paper: Making Memories Great Escape Flower Ledger, White Cardstock

Stamps: Unity's Distressed Dots Background, CTMH Retro Lowercase

Ink: CTMH Cranberry, Bamboo, and Clover Meadow

Other: Making Memories Sabrina Letters, Felt flower from OBP Woodland Kit, Leaf Pin Studio Calico Kit, Cricut Cuttin' Up cartridge

Size: 5 x 7

Sketch: Card Patterns #24 and Etsy Inspired Challenge #45

* "N"gredients updated and Starbucks in belly!*

Poor Little Blog

I've been bad about neglecting my blog this week so I thought I would post a couple birthday cards I made.

I LOVE this first card! I think it turned out so cute and you know I {heart} BAM POP!

"N"gredients

Paper: BAM POP!

Ink: CTMH Cranberry and Black

Paint: Adirondack Paint Dabbers Pool

Other: Recycled Cardboard and Mailing Envelope (stamp included)

This card was for my daughter's friend who was turning 3 and likes cats.

"N"gredients

Paper: Sassafras Lass

Ink: CTMH Watermelon and Chocolate

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co ballons, cat and numbers. Party hat unknown

Fun with Vinyl!

It's time again for another fun E.A.D. BLOG HOP!! I'm super excited to say that I finally got to put some E.A.D. vinyl on my walls! I really wanted to add some of their super cute designs in my girls room first, but I think the texture on our walls is a little to rough (Emily suggested a way to get around this though and I want to give it a try later on), so I went to work in the kitchen. Our kitchen already has a slight french theme to it and so the Bon Appetit rub on was PERFECT! I placed it just above the doorway in our kitchen that leads to the dining room.

See the Eiffel Tower in the background.

Close up!

I also got to play along with the Page Maps sketch using E.A.D. vinyl. I mentioned it before, but you should really go and play along, the prize is a $50 gift certificate to E.A.D.! You have until July 19th.

I couldn't resist taking pictures of the girls asleep in my great big bed, they looked so cozy.

Close up of the top. I again used the "extra" vinyl that comes with the rub-ons to make a top border.

(I know that the date is from almost a year ago, I am so behind)

Yes, the girls names MATCH the vinyl on the top, because they are vinyl! I have two whole sheets of Auroras and Alices that I can put wherever I want now and they are so cute too. I really recommend the name rub-ons, especially if the name you are using has an I in is, cause the dots that top the Is are too cute. (ok, I will admit that I had a slight blonde moment with these rub-ons. I ordered one of each for my girls and expected them to show up exactly the same. When I went to place them on my layout I keep trying to figure out why Aurora's name was lacking some of the hearts, flowers, etc. HELLO, she doesn't have an I in her name! lol It took me a few minutes before this dawned on me) hehe

Don't forget to hop on over to all the blogs below and find some more E.A.D. eye candy by some super talented ladies and leave them some love! Then back to the E.A.D. BLOG to be entered in this weeks giveaway (click HERE to see the super cute rub-ons that are up for grabs)!

Amy
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Danielle
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Susan
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Valerie
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Vicki
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Jacilynn - July's Guest Designer (be sure to make her feel welcome!)

"N"gredients (trying this out, what do you think? Too Cheesy?)

E.A.D. Scrapbooking Rub ons in Hot Pink, Purple, and Lavender

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co, Dream Cloud and Journaling Block

Paper: Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday and old book print

Ink: CTMH Watermelon, Pansy Purple, Cranberry

Awe thanks!

I've been given the same award by two of my online blogging friends, so I better stop slacking and get it posted. Thank you to Shemaine and Katy for thinking of me!

First I have to list 7 fabulous bloggers that I want to nominate for the award and then 7 things that are unique about me.

So here's my seven of my many many favorites! All these ladies have so much talent!

1. Kristen @ Rain-E Day Designs
2. Moralia
3. Latisha @ A Busy Little Craftee Bee
4. Sara @ Expressions of a Creative Mind

5. Tiffany
6. Sherry @ Stamping when I'm not Working! (When is that??)
7. De @ Musings of a Stampin-de-va!

Here is some useless non crafting info about me! :)

1. I can no longer write a note, online or in real life, without putting smilies on it.

2. I was born in PA, but couldn't tell you a thing about the state, other than Hershey's Chocolate is good.

3. Growing up every person in my immediate family had the initials JL.

4. I don't mind doing laundry, but I HATE putting it away.
5. I loved pets as kid, but as a mom I am having second thoughts.
6. I can beat you at Dr. Mario! ;)
7. I own lots of shoes but none of them are high heals.

HHH

Hi all,

My girls actually let me sleep in today, so I'm running a tad behind! One of the challenges for this weeks Hip Hop was to create a card with a black and white background. I had a piece of white scrap cardstock on my desk and started with that. This card is of course the OPPOSITE of what I tell my 3 year old! ;) I think I might actually make it into a scrapbook page embellishment for her album instead of keeping it as a card.

Unity is 30% off all weekend, if you are looking to buy, now is the time! Discount Code: ENJOY

What I Used:

Stamps: Unity's Confession Kit

Paper: BAM POP! and Cardstock

Ink: CTMH Black and Watermelon

Other: Making Memories Stickers and Gems

A Happy Day TOOT!

A little birdie (aka Tiffany @ iheartart) told me that I have a card up on the OBP blog! Go check out both blogs, you won't be disappointed! Thank you so much to Johanna for posting my card.

It is also HIP HOP Thursday in the Unity Forum on SCS, so hop on over and check it out.

I don't have a project to share right now so I will leave you with a picture of my daughter on 4th of July.

The Sun is Shining!

I made this card for two challenges: this weeks color challenge on SCS and the current caardvarks challenge, which is a sketch challenge. Hope you get to play along too!

What I used:

Stamps: Unity's November KOTM (sun), Shine On! (sentiment), Confession (background)

Paper: Cardstock and Sassafras Lass

Ink: CTMH Autumn Harvest, Honey, and Ocean

Other: Recycled ribbon

Would you like to be a guest designer for Unity Stamp Co?

I would too, so I played along in this months challenge on SCS. The only trick to this is you have to use stamps from Unity's May or June 2009 KOTM and follow the sketch. Well, I SADLY don't belong to the Unity kit club but I was able to do a little stamp swap for two stamps in the May kit. I used one of the those stamps to make the "journal" flower on my card.

The Sketch

Close Up of the Unity Stamp Flower

The Card

Hurry, you have until July 8th to play along!

What I used:

Stamps: Unity's May KOTM

Paper: DCWV Pink Cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday, Sassafras Lass Owl Strip

Ink: CTMH Watermelon and Black

Sticker: Making Memories

Other: Button and Pink Thread

Want some FREE E.A.D goodies????

Hey all you scrappers!

I just saw some FUN news over on the E.A.D BLOG! Go check it out HERE!!

Who Loves Gnomes?

I do, I do! Anyone else? Odd Bird Planet has SO many cute gnome stamps that I had to sit down and use them for this weeks Card Patterns Sketch Challenge hosted by OBP! I don't know how well I stuck to the actual sketch, but it's all open for interpretation, right?

What I Used:

Stamps: OBP gnome sweet gnome, baby gnome, mushroom village, and pole

DP: DCWV Green Stack

Ribbon: Joanne's Fall Ribbon

My Talented Friend!

I didn't make these ADORABLE card sets but they were sent to me in the mail by my dearest friend Gina and I HAD to share! She is lucky enough to live by a store called Green Tangerines and takes a class on how to use her cricut (I need one of those). I sometimes get her finished projects and the instructions on how to make them. OH, she also send me sheets of 12 x 12 acrylic to play with, I'm so excited!! I only own black stazon, time to buy more! Thanks for looking, feel free to leave my friend Gina some love.