Odd Bird Planet Earth Day Challenge #1

Hey, it's another page for my mom's album, are you shocked?? ;) I LOVE this page though! I wanted to play along with the Odd Bird Planet Challenges for Earth Day yesterday. The first one I completed can be found HERE on Teresa's blog. It was to use OLD TEXT in your project. Hopefully they will except mine cause I missed the part that said CARD! lol I'm so into getting my mom's album done, I just did a layout with out thinking! The picture is her Senior High school photo and I thought an old book page would go perfectly. I picked up an old book at the Library last week because I had seen so many wonderful blogs with old text projects lately. The "school" paper is from CTHM notebook.

Be back in a bit with another challenge.

Etsy Inspired #32

It's Etsy time! This week Ashley sent us over to Angel Face Designs. Heather creates many beautiful things with silver, including necklaces and wine charms. My inspiration was to use all the CIRCLES I saw on her site, like in the photo below. With Mother's day coming up, this could be a wonderful gift for a grandmother with all her grandkids names on it! :)

And here is my layout! Again, for my mom's album. Circles, circles and more circles for her circle of friends.

The background and pink paper is Ki Memories. The purple circle and scallops came from the Target dollar spot. The "circle of friends" tag is a CTMH font along with the circles that are stamped behind it. In the upper left, we have three Unity Stamps from the November KOTM. (oh how I wish I could be a KOTM subscriber!) The journaling card in the middle is Cosmo Cricket.

Ok fellow scrapbookers, how do you photograph your layouts? Do you use a scanner? What's the trick? Thanks for any input in advance!

Etsy Inspired #31

This weeks Etsy Shop is Make Mine Mud. Misspottery has filled her store with all kinds of adorable clay creations. The photo above is what I pulled my inspiration from. Go to Ashley's blog for all the details on the Etsy challenges!

I decided to take those cute leaves and use them in my layout. You are going to be seeing lots of layouts from me in the next few weeks. I have to finish my mom's album before she comes to visit on MAY 7th!!! YIKES! I'm excited she is coming to visit and will be here for Mother's Day, but I need to get cracking!

I used my one of my favorite Cosmo Cricket Lines for this project, Mr Campy!!! When I saw this DP online I knew I had to have it. I wasn't sure for what, but it was a MUST HAVE! The frame is a CTMH die cut and the tree is a Unity Stamp, but everything else is Cosmo Cricket. I used my Cricut to cut out the Title. (I'm so punny ;) ) I'm trying to find ways to get lots of photos on a page and since there were two of the view from our deck in San Francisco (oh how I wished I still lived in the city) and one of our dog looking out over the deck, it just made sense to combine them!

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Easter

I hope everyone is spending quality time with family and friends today and enjoying some delicious food too. Feel free to have a Cadbury Cream egg for me, they are so good, but I managed to avoid buying some for myself this year.

I got around to getting the last of my thank you cards made and photographed so I thought I would post them this morning. Again, HOW YUYMMY is that Sassafras Lass paper with the Bam Pop stamps!! LOVE IT!

HHH

Hi all,

So I am slowly working on an album for my mom, at her request, filled with photos to capture the first 60 years of her life! OH MY, what a task. Mainly just sorting all the photos, but I'm slowly getting it done. Here is one of the layouts for her album, my mom in 1967.

Unity Stamps Used:

Flower from August KOTM

What's your mood?

Scalloped details and dates

The flower is CTMH Notebook paper and the center is a brown paper bag. I used bamboo ink to distress the cardstock and chocolate ink on the stamps.

Make sure to check out all the Unity Specials and other HHH girls HERE

Etsy Inspired #30

This weeks Etsy Challenge was to use the inspiration from Lauren Alexanders art. Her watercolors are so cute and colorful with sweet birds and they are adorable! Go have a look HERE. I didn't use one piece for my inspiration, just all of her work, the colors and the birds, so I thought Sassafras Lass paper would be a PERFECT match! The Owl and circles are Sassafras stamps. The rub on dots in the top corner are "The Sweet Life" and the friend rub on I had laying around.

All the info on the Etsy Challenge can be found on Ashley's blog, but today at noon is it for this challenge. The next one comes out tomorrow! (There is a catch though, she is also doing a guest DT spot, and you have to complete all this months challenges to win a chance. So get cracking!)

Nikoart Stamps

My spiffy sister and brother in-law sent me some super cute stamps from Nikoart, an etsy store. You can see the set they sent me HERE! So of course I had to sit down and play with them. I combined my new stamps with the latest Caardvarks Challenge. This challenge was to make a card based on the sketch below, best of all this challenge is being sponsored by Hero Arts. The paper is Sassafras Lass ( you will be seeing a lot of it in my up coming cards) and the ribbon is Cosmo Cricket Honey Pie.