Finding the Perfect Christmas Tree

Since today is Tuesday, it's my day to post at Crafting Family. And since I am STILL playing catch-up with Christmas (it's the holiday that just keeps on giving the whole year through) I have this layout to share with you today:

I used some fun PP from Pink Paislee to create my whimsical hand-drawn tree. A few vintage trims and some adorable stickers I found in the holiday clearance section at Walmart! I added some misting and a hand-drawn title and my simple little xmas tree layout was complete. Oh, I am also linking this on my Pinterest Board, "Less Pinning, More Doing" as the whole idea for the layout was inspired by a layout I found here. =) T

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

Soccerween

Oops- time to update you on my weekly post with The Crafting Family, last week the DT was using a sketch, one of my very own sketches I designed for them. Here's my LO:

and here's the sketch:

My daughter's soccer team was in a Halloween Soccer tournament...thus the title, "Soccerween". Was a fun sketch to play with, would love to have you give it a try and see what you come up with! =) T

We Feel Fine + a DT Call!!

There's a new song on the playlist at Scrap It With a Song, "It's the End of the World a We Know It" by REM. I am a huge REM fan, and love this song, but was stumped on how to use it. And then it came to me...

I used the "I feel fine" lyric (and just changed it to "we") to go with these crazy pics of my 2 kiddos and 2 nieces looking in funky mirrors at the Boston Museum of Science. Was so glad I snapped these photos- they all look like aliens!

If you'd like to play along with us this week, we're having a DT call over at Scrap It With a Song too- just put "DT" after your name when you link up your project to be entered. Can't wait to see how you're inspired to create with this song! =)T

Challenges:

-Scrap It With a Song It's the End of the World a We Know It

-Our Colorful Creations sketch

-Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges ribbon and buttons

Weekly PINspiration!

So are you as addicted to PINTEREST as I am? I've spent countless hours pinning amazing ideas, yummy recipes and all those "OMG why didn't I think of that???" things....and as I was browsing through my pin boards I noticed that I actually HAVE created quite a bit over the past year that was Pinterest-Inspired. And this got me thinking...this sounds like a perfect new challenge for myself.

I'm calling it "Less Pinning, More Doing" (yes, this is from a pin I found!) and the idea is I will vow to bake, scrapbook, paint or read something once a week based off a pin on one of my boards, and then blog about it and of course pin it on my "Less Pinning, More Doing" board for reference. The first few will be sort of "cheating", as I'm just going to play catch-up and post all the previously-created projects...but then the real work will begin! You can go here to check out my new board, and while you're there, why not follow along with the rest of my boards?

Here's my very first project I have to share with you, a little Christmas sign I made, inspired by a sign I found here. 

I'm linking up here:

You've Got Character

Time for me to play a little catch-up! Have 2 pages to share with you today, both based off sketches I designed at Sketches in Thyme! First up is the LO I made based of last week's sketch; my 2 kiddos having their characatures done at Fenway Park last summer:

and next up is the LO I created for today's post at Sketches in Thyme; my daughter and her Girl Scout troop at a weekend event last summer:

wow- guess I'm in an orange/blue/yellow mood this week huh? Besides using the Sketches in Thyme sketch, I have a few other challenges incorporated. I used 7 PHOTOS for the challenge at The Studio Challenges.  I used OLD pattern paper, an OLD rub-on title, an OLD scallop stamp along with NEW CS and NEW smootch spritz for the "something old, something new" challenge at Scrap Your Crap. The LO is of an camping weekend for the SUMMER IN JANUARY challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks.

Thanks for stopping by, hop on over to Sketches in Thyme and check out the challenges, you have till Jan 31st to play along! =) T

All We Need is Love at Paper Issues!

There's a new theme up and running at Paper Issues, Love is all we need. Love is all we need!! It's one of our most favorite times of year...Valentine's Day! We are celebrating for a full month! Link up your paper crafted projects, new or not-so-new. Leave some blog love, mingle and make new friends. You have until February 14 to link up! Here's what I've created just for this lovely linking party:

Used some super yummy papers from Crate Paper's "Paper Heart" collection, you can check it out at the Paper Issues shop! The circle is cut from the red heart paper, the green stripe is the flip side of this fun patter. I punched 3/4" circles from the blue heart paper, cut the circles in half and adhered around the edge of the circle to give it a scalloped look. Hop on over to Paper Issues and check out some more fabulous Love-themed layouts that will really get you in the mood....to craft! The link up your projects, we'd love to see what you're working on!! =) T