What's Moo With You?

The challenge this week at 2 Sisters is "On the Farm". I found an adorable little cow image in my MS clip art and made a little tag with the silly little pun, "what's moo with you?" Started with a daffodill CS base, stamped with a burlap background in chocolate. I then found fun scrap of bandana print paper (this is an oldie but goodie from my stash) and layered with another scrap od PP and a strip of fringe. Inked up my "moo" tag in chocolate and rust, and here you have it:

Now, mooooove on over to see the rest of the great farm-themed cards, and if you want to get in on the farm action, be sure to link up your card at 2 Sisters by August 5th! =) T

Challenges:

-2 Sisters farm

-Inspire Me Fridays anything goes

-Simply Create animals

-Aud Sentiments enjoy your day

-365 Cards 3+layers

-All Sorts free and easy

Surf's Up at Triplicate Trials Tuesday!

Time for a new challenge at Triplicate Trials Tuesday, and I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to design this challenge, so here ya go:

It's a 3-parter. First, start with colors water lily, chartreuse and burnt umber. Then add in the fun sketch I designed, and throw in the theme: Surfs up, the ocean, the beach. Mix 'em up and you'll have a fabulous project, here's what I came up with:

You can see I spread out the sketch to accompodate my photos, and I made it a 2-pager! *GASP* I hardly ever do 2-page layouts, but I think it worked well for this challenge! Want to join in? Be sure to visit Triplicate Trials Tuesday to see the rest of the DTs projects and link up your take on the Triple T Challenge! =) T

All About the Title

It's all about the title this week at Lasting Memories! Since I have 2 kiddos who have been playing soccer for 7 years now, I always have a TON of soccer layouts to do, and to be honest, I'm getting a bit bored with the same-old-same-old. For this layout, I chose to use some jumbo ABC stickers (purchased from my fabulous friend and Creative Memories consultant, Kimberly) and simply spell out "TAYSA"- the name of the soccer league they play for. This was a quick and easy way to do the title, and the bold letters are a lot of fun on the layout! =) T

Open Challenge at Sketches in Thyme!

Time for another Open Challenge at Sketches in Thyme, which means you can enter any layout as long as it's based on a sketch! Here's my contribution:

and it's based on this great sketch from Artful Delight

I'm sorry that the pic didn't come out so well, it's been so bright and sunny here, my layouts have been all washed out or to dark. In real life this layout looks a lot cuter, I promise! =)T

Challenges:

-Sketches in Thyme open challenge

-Artful Delight sketch

-Butterfly Crafts photo inspiration

-Cupcake Craftroom polka dots

-Crop Suey dirty

Do You Remember the Time?

There's a new song for us to scrap to at Scrap It With a Song, Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time". Great song to scrap to, I chose to go with the time theme and use a sweet pic of daddy and kiddos:

I trimmed my paper to 8 1/2" so that I could run it through the printed for my title. I used word art to create the title, just doing the outline of the letters, and choosing smaller font sizes for "story" and "with". I also found a great clock image to use, and set it for 8:00, which is story time in our house! Did my journaling on lable stickers, and dressed up with a few fun buttons, a "3" playing card and 3 butterfly scraps (the outside edges of some chipboard butterflies, long since used).

Now pop on over to Scrap It With a Song to view the other great "Remember the Time" projects, and be sure and link up your own take on the challenge for your chance at a $20 Michaels gift card!! =) T

Stressed Out!!

well, I'm not stressed out, it's summer here- no school, no work, just play!! But, the challenge at Lasting Memories this week is distressing, so I'm getting stressed out in the craftroom! Here's my latest layout:

Here's what I did to distress... First off I used a distressing tool to rough up the edges of my photo. Secondly, I tore the bottom edge of my vellum pattern paper to give that a rough edge. Vellum is fun to tear, it doesn't show in the photo, but it has a lovely white core when you tear into it. Thirdly, I added ink along all the edges, and I dragged two different ink pad across the white CS (I didn't have the right color to match the vellum; using both a mint green and a light blue kind of did the trick!). For my final distressing technique, I ran white paint across my chipboard shape before adding my title.

If you want more fabulous ideas for distressing your layouts, please visit the rest of the Lasting Memories Design Team, and be sure to link up your own distressed LO! =) T 

"Play by the Sea" is being entered in the following challenges:

-Lasting Memories distress

-Scrap the Boys "play" + tape

-White With 1 white+aqua+chipboard

-Paper Playtime summer

Yup, I Have Issues!!

So excited to be part of the Paper Issues Design Team, and ready to go with my first challenge, Life Is Sweet! I scrapbook out of order, just going wherever the artistic muse takes me; so for this sweet challenge I found myself using Easter photos from 2007 (wow- talk about playing catch-up, how did pics from 2007 get lost in the shuffle??). Here's what I came up with:

Few things to note about this layout... Since I had so many pics of the big Easter Egg Hunt of '07, I made a collage so that I could make sure they all fit on my one page (oh how I hate doing 2-page LOs these days!). Matted the collage on a piece of chocolate CS, and trimmed the left side into a bracket for a little fun element. used a oval scrap as my title block-it reminded me of an egg- and spelled out my "Sweet Easter Treats" title with Jenni Bowlin stickers and dressed up with 3 sweet little felt & gem butterflies. Inked up the edges of everything for good measure and the LO was done!

Do you have something sweet you'd like to share with the Paper Issues Team? Don't be shy, head on over and link up by July 30th!! I'll see you there! =) T

"Sweet Easter Treats" is being entered in the following challenges:

-Paper Issues life is sweet

-Pink Elephant felt