Deedee's Digis One-Stop Blog Hop

Hello everyone!  Thank you for coming back.  I do hope that were visiting Deedee's Digis blog for the one-stop blog hop and want to see my project in more detail.  This is what is shared on Deedee's Digis Blog...

So this little Valentine's Day ensemble is a gift with gift card.  The cupcake box holds a special cupcake that goes straight to your feet, not your hips!

The gift card is a 3x3 gift card featuring stamps from Love You Beary Much and digi papers from From the Heart.  The bracket element is the piece that was cut from the cupcake box that created the window.  No waste.

Here's the inside of the card revealing it's sweet message.

And here is the cupcake box cut from a cut file by Samantha Walker, a cupcake wrapper I'm not sure who created and a fuzzy socks cupcake.  The "cherry" is an upside down Hershey's Kiss.  This cupcake is a bit too big for the cupcake box, but the good thing is the icing won't stick to the sides when you smush it in there.

Thank you so much for stopping by.  And if you did you just happen to stop by to visit me, thank you and now head over to Deedee's Digis blog to see all the fun things the team created to share.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #232

Good Morning!  Happy Tuesday.  The sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and this week we're sponsored by our very own Jessi with her lovely crocheted mats.  It's also time for the Judged Challenge so this week's twist is Tone on Tone or Monochromatic.  I chose to do white on white.

I will have you know, when I started this card, my intention was FAR from a wedding card.  I don't know anyone getting married.  But it sure ended up that way.  I think it's very pretty.  I pulled out my MFT flower dies and foliage dies by Spellbinders.  It was a lot of fun putting it together.  The sentiment is by Papertrey Ink.

I love creating flowers with these dies and felt.  They really do turn out stunning.

I do hope you'll join us for this week's challenge.  We'll see you there!

Scrapbook Saturday with Deedee's Digis.... a day late

Hello everyone,

I am a day late getting my page posted.  It's been so busy with work and with the Dazzlers getting ready Nationals that it slipped my mind to get this post set up.

So I'm pretty excited to share a bi-monthly feature on Deedee's Digis blog of digital scrapbooking ideas.  I use My Memories Suite to build my pages - I am just so pleased with how it works with "outside" media as well as an amazing selection of digital scrapbooking kits available in their store.

I've been working with digital papers for a long time.  These would come in kits and have embellishments that I didn't know what to do with.  Well, now I do.  Deedee's Digis also has great papers and images that work well with cards and scrapbook pages.  This month's feature is Carnival Kids.  This is the first page of a two-page spread....

Quite some years ago, we had taken the kids to a local church carnival.  These are a few of the pictures I'd taken.  The base page is from the My Memories Suite color bank.  The papers are from the Carnival Kids set as well as the banner.  The title I created in MMS.  I'm still learning word art - bear with me.

Deedee's Digis is partnering with our host site, Diane's Daydreams on Wednesday for a super lovey-dovey blog hop.  Be sure to join us!

Delightful Challenges Thursday

Good Morning!  We're back!!  I have to post really super quick, I should be getting ready for work.  I didn't get my blog post done last night because I ended up working until 10:20.

This week's challenge is super easy, since we all do this anyway...

Decorative Paper

Digital Delights by Louby Loo also has a new release that I'm sure you've seen, it's so super cute.  My card features Power of Love Chelsea, saying that name always puts that song in my head from Back to the Future.  Isn't that where Power of Love by Huey Lewis & the News is from?  *shrugs*

She's such a doll.  My card also features some fun elements that I cut on my Silhouette Portrait, these cut files are by Echo Park.

OK - gotta run.  Have a great day!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #231

Good Morning!  And we're back!  Happy 2014 and I'm pretty excited about what this year will bring.  We are off to a running start at Tuesday Morning Sketches - the next 7 weeks are going to be a look back to 2013 sketches.  Each of the DT members picked their favorite sketch to share, this week is Angela's pick.  Our sponsor is my sweet friend, Deedee Anderson, owner of Deedee's Digis.

My card features an image and sentiment from the Whole Latte Love digi stamp set. This cup actually has a straw in it, but I removed that part.  I colored it with Copics, used a great DCWV mat stack called Garden Party and used some favorite embossing folders.

Please head on over to the TMS blog to play along and see what other wonderful creations the team made to share.

TMS #230 Reminder and Playing Around

Hello!  This is my 2nd post today.  I was playing around with some cut files on my Silhouette and felt this was a perfect way to remind everyone of our Anything Goes challenge on Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I wanted to play along with Scrapping Everyday Miracles challenge, too.  This month's theme is Friends Forever.  What a lovely theme!  I used the sketch that they are featuring which is from Page Maps (love that site!).

The cut file I got from the Silhouette Online Store and actually the bird is facing the other direction. I just flipped it around.  The cut file, bird on twig, is by Miss Kate's Cuttables.  She's just announcing her new Design Team and oh how I wish I could be one of those lucky people!

Anyway, back to the card.  The paper is by one of my new favorites, Lori Whitlock.  Cardstock is from Raisin Boat - best dang card stock EVER and the sentiment is from Raisin Boat as well.  The flags I cut from my favorite, it is my go-to die set from MFT.  Pearls are from Recollections that I colored black with a Copic marker.  By the way, use a Sharpie.  The Copic marker doesn't fully dry.  I colored these pearls 3 weeks ago and they're still sticky.

Anyway, I do love the card.  I hope you do, too!

Happy New Year!

Hello friends - Happy New Year!  2013 saw several changes for me.  My position at work, my living situation, my children growing up just a little bit more and me just a little older.  It would be OK if I could say I was bit wiser.

My daughter came to me a few weeks ago and said we needed to do a memory jar.  I looked at her like she grew a third eye.  She patiently explained that this jar will hold handwritten notes about something great happened.  Well, not every day does something great happen, but memories do.  Good and bad.  I really liked this idea.

So we went to Walmart today and picked up an inexpensive cracker jar - it was under $6.  I grabbed a few cute files for the Silhouette and set to work.  I imagined so much more on this jar, but Hollyanne insisted on keeping it simple.  So here it is....

On this side, we have the name of the jar.  I love this title - I can see it going on scrapbook pages, too!  I used a background overlay cut file, too.  You want to clean the jar with rubbing alcohol and a cotton pad and then let it dry.  I used Glossy Accents to adhere at to the jar and this seems to holding super well.

I do apologize for the photos.  My "desktop studio" was a bit small, so I tried to take the pictures with the jar on my table with the wall behind.  It worked fine for the front of the jar, but not so well for the opposite side.

Eh.... you get the idea.  *snicker*  I am telling you I am ready to decorate TONS of jars!!  This is just with paper, folks, can you imagine how flippin' fun this would be if it were vinyl?  I want to cut this bird as large as I can get it and put it on my wall.  Along with some words of encouragement - yep, that would be a winner to me.

I do hope that Hollyanne, her brothers and I stick to this jar all year.  I think New Year's Eve next year will be filled with lots of great memories and laughs... probably a few tears, too.  Happy New Year my friends.  I hope 2014 sees you happy, healthy, loved and filled with inky hugs.