Make a Wish

It's time to get Twisted....here's my take on this week's sketch at Twisted Sketches, with the twist of "Wish":

I know, not very clever with the twist, I really wanted to be, but I had this adorable photo of my daughter mid-wish with last year's bday cake, so I just had to use it!! Stop by Twisted Sketches to check out the sketch for yourself and see how the rest of the DT interpreted the twist, perhaps they are a bit more clever than I am for this one!! =) T

Challenges:

-Twisted Sketches sketch + wish

-Just Us Girls cream, light pink, moss

-Kraft Journal kraft+ anything goes

-Pink Elephant get krafty

Umbrella (ella, ella) Layout for Twisted Sketches

Oh why oh why am I always behind?? Better late than never, here's my LO for last week's sketch up at Twisted Sketches. Always a blast to play with Anam's sketches, I hope you'll have a chanceto play along! The twist this week "Fabric" so I added a strip of gingham under my photo and through my little cluster at the top. =) T

Time for a new sketch at Twisted Sketches, and you'll have to go on over there to check out Twisted Sketch #134, but I'll give you a peek at how I put the sketch to good use:

The picture really didn't come out great, the colors are so much lovelier in real life, but I guess you'll have to take my word for it! My one fun little trick to share with you about this LO is in the title. I cut the word "New" from the Cricut 5 times, and ran one of each letter through my Big Shot polka dot embossing folder. Brushed the dots with white ink; stacked and adhered them all together. Fun way to dress up simple cardstock letters. =) T

Challenges:

-Twisted Sketches- sketch

-Lollipop Ladies- mint candies

-Scrap Our Stash new

Time to Get Twisted!

It's time for a new sketch over at Twisted Sketches. You'll have to go over there to see the sketch for yourself, but I can give you a bit of a peek by showing you the layout I created:

Since the twist this week is flowers, I added a great chipboard flower embellie that I've had in the stash for a while. I've also included a few items as part of the "Get Picky" challenge at Punky Scraps (no pattern paper, book page, tape and masking). Now hop on over to Twisted Sketches and check out the sketch, as well as the great takes from the rest of the DT! =) T

Catch-Up Time

Hello and happy Friday! Time for me to play catch up again, and share all my most recent DT entries! First up I have this month's layout for the challenge at Black With Two. This month Eve has asked us to use Black+lime+cream. I love these challenges because it gets me to scrap out of my comfort zone. I would never think to use this color scheme, but it really works and I love what I came up with. Also, I incorporated  sketch #125 from Twisted Sketches, and used a fabulous posie from Precocious Papers.

Next up....there's a new song up at Scrap It With a Song, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep". I had a few pics of my kiddos at a local pool this summer, and decided to go with "off the deep end" as my title:

And finally I have this week's LO and sketch over at Sketches in Thyme. I am the proud designer of this week's sketch and think it's a pretty good one to work with.

I hope you'll have a chance to check out these fabulous challenge blogs and see all the great work from the Design Teams. Link up your own takes too, I'd love to see what you come up with!! =) T

Three-for-Tuesday!

Hello and happy Tuesday! 3 more projects to share with you today! First up I have a LO I created showing off my love of all things Beatles. I have a huge collection of memorabelia on display throughout our home, but for some reason the thought never crossed my mind to scrapbook about it. And then  Mindy posted the cover art from the album Abbey Road as inspiration for an assignment at Scrap It With a Song! I pulled out papers from The Crafting Family and here's what I created:

next up is my project for the DT at Triplicate Trials Tuesday. The latest challenge is combining hot pink, black and yellow; a cute sketch with circles and a banner; and the modern, chic theme. Here's the card I created using those prompts:

And finally I have my latest LO for Twisted Sketches. Anam has another fabulous sketch to use, plus the twist of "Spell". I was all caught up on Halloween projects *gasp* so i decided to incorporate "Spell" in my title, "A is for Anna":

Another batch of projects to share!

Ugghh- still playing catch up, here are a few more layouts I have to share with you:

There's always a fabulous sketch up at Twisted Sketches, and I have a LO to share with you from their sketch #122. It was a sketch +a "twist" to include twine, so I simply looped a bit of twine along the page behind a couple of my butterfly embellishments.

The girls at ~Lets Blog are celebrating Sweetest Day, so I made a quick little card for my sweet. I wrote the word "sweet" on a simple cardstock tag, and highlighted the word, as well as the edges of the tag, with a grey marker.

And finally, there's always a great challenge up at Triplicate Trials Tuesdays, here's the LO I created for the challenge #10. The colors to use were Navy and Khaki, the theme was fashion, and there was a fun sketch to play with too.

Playing Catch-Up

I'm behind on posting a few of this week's projects, so I'm including a couple in this post! First up is this week's contribution as a DT member at The Crafting Family. It's another back-to-school layout, still playing catch-up on all my back-to-school pages, but since this is the August 2011 layout, I might finally be on track!

"1st Day" Challenges:

-The Crafting Family  products

-Corrosive Challenge Blog punches

Next up is my LO for Twisted Sketches. Another fabulous sketch as always, and you'll have to go over there to see it. This week the twist is buttons, and here's what I came up with:

"Sweet Friends" Challenges:

-Twisted Sketches sketch+buttons

-ScrapFIT buttons

-Just Us Girls aqua, pumpkin and kiwi

-All Sorts recycle

-Heart Songs orange+buttons

-The Studio Challenges make a list

Time To Get Twisted!

Looking for the Triple T blog hop? Go here!

There's a new sketch posted at Twisted Sketches, and you'll have to take a hop over there to see how fabulous it is, but here's the LO I created with it:

For this LO, I used the SKETCH plus the twist of GREEN for Twisted Sketches. The photo is of my daughter doing homework for the first time in our new home 3 years ago for the SCHOOL theme at The Studio Challenges. To make the white layered scallops, I punched 3 1" strip sof white CS with my scallop punch inked each strip and then layered for this textured border. I added a small piece of a vintage ruler with NUMBERS for the challenge at Crop Suey. Lastly, I have several elements from the itinerary at Desert Island Craft Challenge including the color GREEN, the crocheted FLOWERS and TEXT PRINT. Can you see the text print? If you look closely, each polka dot is actually a dot of text, such fun paper!!

No be sure and go visit Twisted Sketches to see the latest sketch, the fabulous LOs the rest of the Design Team created, and link up your own take! =) T

Safety Goggles and Monkey Slippers

Time for a fabulous new sketch at Twisted Sketches and this time the twist is METAL any how, any way! Here's what I created:

I had these 2 cute little pics of my nephews leftover from my Super Bowl Sunday layout, they just didn't fit on that page, but they were too cute not to scrap! I decided to flip the sketch a bit to make it work for my pics- you'll have to go on over to Twisted Sketches to see what I mean! For my METAL I used silver embossing powder on the title, added silver brads, silver photo corners and see those little silver stars? I punched those out of the top of a yogurt container, reduce, reuse, recycle right?

If you're feeling in the mood for a little heavy metal, go link up your take at Twisted Sketches. I can't wait to see your LO!! =) T

Challenges:

-Twisted Sketches sketch+metal 

-Crafty Calendar Challenge hot colors

I'm almost at 200 followers- time for some BLOG CANDY!!!

That's right, I'm almost at 200...so i thought it time for a little giveaway! Read on for more info....

Time for a new sketch with a twist over at Twisted Sketches, it's a good one, so you'll have to go over there to check it out!! Here's the LO I created for the challenge:

Few fun things to note about my layout: First up, check out my crazy husband on the tiny bike!! When I found out the twist for the Twisted Sketches challenge was TINY, I decided these pics just had to be scrapped... See my crazy messy scallops along the border? These of course were DOODLED for the challenge at City Crafter. I kinda like the scallops, but I have a feeling my son (who always asks, "why do you have to make your projects so messy") will NOT agree.

The border across the top of my title is made with JOURNAL SPOTS chopped in half- makes a fun kinda uneven border, and a great way to use up that stash (for the Scrapbookers Anonymous challenge). Now do you see that jumbo flower? Well, first it's for the FLOWER challenge at Scrap Fit. Secondly, I upcycled that sweet little flower from kraft packing materials, and enjoyed making it so much, I made bunches and bunches of them in all sorts of sizes!! I posted them for sale on my Etsy Shop (beware, I am in the middle of creating a ton of goodies, so it is VERY slim pickings there, more to come soon, I promise!!) and I have a set to give away too!!

So...would you like a chance to win a package of my Paper Posies? Just be a follower and leave a comment for me. I will select one commenter at random once I reach 200 followers, bonus entry for you if you post the pic of my Paper Posies on your blog and tell about my little teeny tiny blog candy!! Thanks for stopping by today! =) T

Challenges:
-Twisted Sketches sketch +tiny
-Scrapbookers Anonymous journal spots
-ScrapFIT flowers
-City Crafter doodle
-Tater Tots and Jello linking party
-Paper Issues let's ride

I'm a Twisted Sister!!!

So excited to share the news that I've been chosen to be on the design team at Twisted Sketches!! This is such a fabulous sketch site, with layout and card sketches each week, there is ALWAYS something fun to play along with. Here's the layout I created for the DT call:

Let's see...no special techniques to tell about in this one, but I do have some fun goodies on this LO I can tell you about! The office labels are from the lovely Speckled Egg; gorgeous corrugated flower from my favorite, Precocious Paper and the jumbo felt circle is from my friend Jessica at Close to My Heart. The tickets? Those came from our library, the kiddos are participating in the summer reading program and keep earning tickets for the books they read... these are the leftover stubs!

I would love love love for you to pop on over to Twisted Sketches and say hello to the rest of the new (and old) DT members, check out the other layouts, and hopefully link up your take on this week's fabulous sketch! =) T