TPE Scrapbook Challenge Saturday

Hello everyone.  Happy Saturday.  I am late getting this posted, I am so sorry.  It's been a busy day for me.  Cleaning, taking the car in for a much needed oil change and a minor repair.  Working on some other things, too, I forgot to get my post set up.

Goodness!  Let's get right to it.  This week's challenge at The Pink Elephant Scrapbook challenge is...

BIRTHDAY

Today is our beloved Lori's birthday, so let's give her a shout out!  Happy Birthday Lori!!

My page is another installment to the baby brag book I am making.  This is the ulitmate of birthdays... the day of birth.

This page will actually be part of a 2 page spread, but this one I made late last night so I was a bit too tired to make the other side.  I did follow a sketch from Sketches in Thyme but I'm not linking up since I don't meet their requirements.  I don't have a thing stamped on here.  And I took out an element because I have no pictures to add to the page.  But I like how it turned out and the sketch served it's purpose - it inspired me.

I hope you join us at TPE for this week's challenge.  It's time to get those pictures out of boxes and onto some great layouts!

Enjoy your Saturday.

Supplies:
Card stock:  White (Recollections)
Paper:  Bundle of Joy digi paper (Echo Park)
Embellishments:  white grosgrain ribbon, pink satin ribbon (Offray)

Tuesday Morning Sketches #180

Good Morning!  Happy Tuesday!  I am so happy that it's Tuesday because Monday is over and that's always a good thing and because I get to show you my card I created with the newest sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

This week we're sponsored by Freckled Fawn.  A great little shop for Washi Tape and other fabulous embellishments.

And here's my card....

I love how my turned out.  I just got a "new" set from my blogging friend Katie Skiff.  I don't even know if it's a currently available set from My Favorite Things.  But I am totally smitten with their Die-Namics dies.  My card also features two washi tapes that were perfect for my card and my sketch.

Please head on over to the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog to play along with us!


Supplies
Stamps:  Die-namics Umbrella & Stamp set (MFT)
Ink:  Angel Pink, Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, White, Black (Recollections), Pink Pirouette (SU!)
Tools:  Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape, Cuttlebug, Mary Jane embossing folder, Die-namics Doily, Die-namics Sentiment Strips
Embellishments:  Washi Tapes (Beary Scrap), white grosgrain ribbon (Offray)

Thank You, Baby

Good Morning!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  Guess what I did?  I picked up a crochet needle again.  I have been wanting to make a baby blanket for (another) friend at work and I got it in my head.  Then I thought, there's no way I can endure the pain, but I just couldn't bring myself to do anything else for her.  So I did it.  I had a great coupon for yarn.  I bought a pattern book, which ultimately proved to be too difficult for me, so I found an easy, free pattern on the internet and I actually am doing it.  My wrist and shoulder are sore, but I'll live.

Anyway, so now that I don't have quite as many design teams on my plate, I also had time to whip up this card last night in about 15 minutes - if that.  It was easy by following the challenges at Just Us Girls (sketch) and CAS-ual Fridays (thank you).

Now, although you'll see make a few Valentines Cards, this is not my preference.  And why I did this one, I'll never know - but hey, it's not for Valentine's Day - it's a thank you card!

Have a terrific Monday and we'll see you tomorrow for Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Supplies
Stamps:  Die-Namics Umbrella & stamps (MFT), Loads of Love (Raisin Boat)
Ink:  Tuxedo Black, Rose Bud (Memento)
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Red (Recollections), Pink Passion, Pretty in Pink (SU!)
Tools:  Scor-Pal, Cuttlebug, Floral Fantasy embossing folder, heart punch, Die-namics Sentiment Strips (MFT)

Playing with Scor-Pal

Good Morning!  Happy Sunday to you - I hope you're having a great weekend.  I know I am, I've been playing, relaxing and reading.  I really enjoy my Kindle Fire.

Here's something else I've been enjoying... playing with my Scor-Pal and products.  I have been lucky to land a guest design spot!  I cannot tell you how thrilled I am about this.  But I'm a bit intimidated, too.  How am I going to come up with great projects to share with you?  Well, I'll do my best.

I started here....

I went calendar crazy with the start of the New Year!  I'm sorry that picture isn't so pretty, but wait til I show you the calendars individually.

This was the first one I did.  Now I found a You Tube video by Caroline Buchtine (here).  Now what she created were great, but I felt it needed a bit more stability.

So here's what I did.  I started with a base piece of card stock that measures 7 x 9 1/2.  Then on the Scor-Pal, score at 1, 4 1/2, 8 and 9 inches.  Fold at your score lines, all mountain folds.  The 1/2 part will be a valley fold.  Then apply Scor-Tape along that edge and adhere to close up the tent.  I hope that makes sense.  And then decorate.

I then took it further.  This calendar measures 5 1/2 inch square.

And then one more.  This one I followed the sketch for MFT's Guest DT challenge.

This one measures 4 1/2 inch square.  I feature MFT stamp set Clearly Sentimental about Audrey Hepburn, Die-Namics Mini Royal Roses, Die-Namics Fishtail Banners and the dies that came with the new Genius Ultimate Platform.  I'm not sure I like the Genius Ultimate Platform, but I like the dies that came with it.

I do hope you enjoy my calendars and try making one for yourself.  Oh!  The calendar pages came from Pinecone Press.

TPE Scrapbook Challenge Saturday

Hi there!  Happy Saturday afternoon.  If you're here for just a visit, thanks for coming by and please, let me invite you to join The Pink Elephant scrapbook challenge team's blog hop.  This is our official debut!

So for those that are hopping and new to my blog, let me introduce myself.  My name is Melissa Craig...

And this is me, the picture was taken a couple of years ago, but it's my favorite one of me.  I really tried to update my photo, but ugh!  Anyway, a little bit about me.  I am a single mother of 3 teenagers and they are wonderful children.  My oldest son Brendan will graduate high school this year, my lovely daughter Hollyanne is in the 9th grade and is in her 7th year of ballet.  She also takes Jazz and Lyrical.  My youngest son, Levi is 13 he's a challenge, but an absolute teddy bear.

I've been scrapbooking since my oldest son was about a month or so old.  And then when I was pregnant with daughter that I started stamping.  And I've never looked back.  I also enjoy other crafts and hobbies such as reading, crochet and cooking.  I don't watch TV much.

And if that wasn't enough, I also own my own sketch challenge blog, Tuesday Morning Sketches.

So, enough about me.  There is a girl at work that has always been very nice to me and she's due to have a baby girl in March, so I wanted to make her a little brag book.  So I'll actually be sharing this book over the next several weeks of TPE challenges.  Here's the first page...

This will be a finished size of 5x5.  I based this page on a sketch from TPE that I believe was published in May of 2010.

Now, you're next stop on the blog hop is Stacey's blog.  Enjoy!!

MTME Pretty Patterns #79

Good Morning!  I am so happy that it's Thursday already.  I've posted the newest Pretty Pattern on the My Time Made Easy blog and I think it's a fun one.  I hope you do, too.

Here's the card I created with it...

Now, when I started this card, I hadn't originally been thinking a distressed card.  But there were a few mistakes made, which I turned into happy mistakes.  And then I picked up the coolest paper at Michaels that was on sale and I had a coupon, so I think I paid $2 for it!  Gotta love that.

I am also submitting this into the There She Goes challenge for this week which is sponging with die cuts.

I hope you have a great Thursday and we'll see you over at MTME.


Supplies
Image: Singing Silhouette
Card stock: Very Vanilla, Aqua Bay (Raisin Boat)
Paper: Cowboy (My Mind's Eye)
Copics: E18, E33, E51, E53
Tools: oval cutter (CM), border punch (Martha Stewart), Tea Dye & Antique Linen Distress Ink (Tim Holtz)
Embellishments: ivory organdy ribbon

Tuesday Morning Sketches #179

Good Morning!  HAPPY NEW YEAR!!  Welcome to 2013.  I am hoping this year will hold promise, blessing and all things wonderful.  It will definitely bring some changes, wanted for some and unwanted for others.  Namely, my oldest son graduates from high school in the Spring.  *sigh*

Well, let's move on... welcome to the first 2013 sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches.  Our sponsor this week is a new shop called Floppy Latte Designs.  Here's my card I created for it....

The image is from Floppy Latte Designs called Rena and her Chicks.  Isn't this so sweet and so innocent?  I love the soft colors.  The sentiment I added to the card is from a stamp set by Sweet n Sassy called One of a   Kind.  I made the buttons with poster board and matching paper from the Linen matstack that I used.

It's a simple sketch, just what we need to start the year off.  See you over at TMS.


Supplies
Image:  Rena and her Chicks (Floppy Latte)
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Tiki Hut, Aqua Breeze (Raisin Boat)
Paper: Linen Closet (DCWV)
Copics:  B000, B00, B02, BG05, BG10, C7, E000, E00, E33, E37, R00, R11, W0, W2, Y06, Y11, Y15, Y17
Stamps:  One of a Kind (SNSS)
Ink:  Soft Sky (SU!)
Tools:  Scor-Pal, oval cutters (CM), Crop-o-dile
Embellishments:  Natural Twine (MFT)