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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Bunny Bag

I made this cute little bag to fill with treats to go with the card for one of my kids for Valentine's Day. Such a cute little way to say I love you!

http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/01/challenge-time.html pinks

http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2015/01/dlart-january-linky-challenge.html linky

You're How Old Birthday Card

My brother just turned the big 50! I couldn't help but tease him a little. So I made him this fun card with a vulture on it that says, "You're How Old?" and then for just a little more fun, I made a RIP sign that I put out on his lawn with a mound of dirt on it so it looked like a freshly dug grave. Ha ha ha. It was a lot of fun. He's my big brother after all and he's been teasing me since the day I was born. Sure do love him and couldn't ask for a better brother though! Happy Birthday!

I am entering my card into the challenges below:
http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2015/01/ch198-picture-challenge.html colors blue and white
http://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2015/01/first-challenge-for-2015.html firsts- he's FIRST to be over the hill! Ha ha ha!
http://littlescrappieces.blogspot.com/2015/01/show-it-off-saturday-linky-party-and.html show it off linky
http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/2015/01/1st-challenge-of-2015-party-time.html AG
http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2015/01/himcr-182-super-scraps-saturday.html Scraps - ribbon is a left over piece and the vulture is left over from last year
http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2015/01/sos-184-hide-seek.html hide and seek tag inside card
http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/2015/01/tuesday-throwdown-227-sketch-challenge.html I used the sketch on the INSIDE of the card!
http://creativecuttingchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/01/challenge-45-anything-goes.html AG

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

These little critters were so fun! I love them. The birds are KaDoodle Bug Designs cuts, the title and deer are Miss Kate's Cuttables, and the hedgehog is from Too Cute By Jessica. I think they look fun on my pages. Love them. I had fun with this layout and am entering it into these challenges:

http://www.fridaymashup.com/2015/01/fm191-heidis-bringing-in-snow.html winter layout

http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/2015/01/friday-challenge-white-as-snowflake.html snow

http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/2015/01/craft-it-up-link-it-up-linky-party-46.html blue and white

http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/2015/01/christmas-leftovers.html deer and birds left over from Christmas pages

http://cuttlebugmania.blogspot.com/2015/01/we-are-back.htmlv takes two trees

http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2015/01/ch198-picture-challenge.html picture color challenge

http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2015/01/just-us-girls-274-word-week.html winter

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Lion Card

They were having a super scraps Saturday challenge over at HIMCR so I decided to see what I had. Here's my cute little card made from leftovers and scraps. Cute huh! I had this little lion left over from a zoo layout and the striped paper was leftover from a birthday layout so they became this cute little lion card. I thought the inside could say "I'm not lion, I love you" or "Just lion around thinking of you." Good for a Valentine's card since it is coming up. His mane is dry embossed. I think that's my most used embossing folder....which is yours?

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2015/01/himcr-182-super-scraps-saturday.html lion and paper

http://www.fridaymashup.com/2015/01/fm192-its-all-about-shapes.html mix and match shapes

Thursday, January 8, 2015

You Rock Layout - Project Life My Way

I haven't scrapbooked very much over the last year, quite simply, because I ran out of time. Making all my own embellishments and assembling them became so time consuming that I just hadn't done much. So in trying to "catch up" I went to a scrapbook retreat which was SO much fun. While I was there, many of the ladies were doing Project Life. Now I have heard of it but I still scrap 8.5 x 11 and so the sizes just didn't work for me. I did buy a bunch of page protectors in 8.5 x 11 and was going to use the same concept, but they were SO expensive and I have a couple boxes of regular page protectors. Well, I finally had a brainstorm. I decided to create my own project life pages in Make-the-Cut to fit MY needs in scrapbooking. Wow. It was really easy, it's geared exactly for the sizes that I use, and I can use the inexpensive page protectors that I already have. I have 25 pages of "options" that I can use or modify to create my own project life layouts. I just have to select the "pages" that will work with my photos, pick my papers, cut, and assemble. It is so much faster. Here's another example of my version of Project Life. I did make my own embellishments but it's still faster than doing it the other way. I still want to use the other way for a lot of pages, but this will be nice for "big events" that have TONS of pictures or just those odd pictures that seem to get pushed aside. It works great. Now I have more options in how I create and can save some time when needed. I love options.....

I even found a pocket scrapbook challenge to enter it into! Gotta love that!

http://biminimoose.blogspot.com/2015/01/pocket-scrapbooking-ch-anything-goes_6.html anything goes pocket style

Bird Treat Bag

Over at AKA Abusybee they were have a challenge to use a button, bow or brad and over at KaDoodleBug Designs and Scrappy Moms Stamps, they were having a challenge to use one of their files for candy. Then I found a sketch challenge at Die Cutting Diva's so I decided to combine them and this is what I came up with. A cute little treat bag. Aren't these little birds so cute. Not to mention it gave me an excuse to use my twine. Gotta love that!

http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com/2015/01/guest-designer-team-call-for-skittles.html bow
http://scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com/2015/01/terrific-tuesday-challenge-sugar-rush.html treat
http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2015/01/ch197-january-sketch-challenge.html sketch