The Paper Bakery Sketch#9

Well July is almost over and August will be here in just a couple days!  You know what that means...back to school shopping and my BIRTHDAY!!!  Well as I always cringe at the thought of getting older I am very excited because this year for my birthday I bought myself an early gift and that is a class at Hannah's Home Accents with the fabulous Teresa Collins!  I can not wait to get my hands on some of her new line and to meet her in person!  I will have details on my blog about the class along with photos next week but for today I have another fabulous sketch from The Paper Bakery

I decided to use up some of my I{HEART}SUMMER collection from Simple Stories to create my layout and only used one photo.  I added some stamping with a new stamp set from My Creative Time called Things I Love and their very cute Stitched Camera Die!  I had fun with this sketch and I love this photo of our sweet Eli James!  He loves to be outdoors in the sun watching his brothers and sister run around!  I know he can not wait till he can run around after them!  Until then mama gets to carry him around and get all the loving I can while he is still little!  Here is a look at my layout....

Thanks so much for stopping today and I hope you can play along with this fabulous sketch #9 from The Paper Bakery!

Challenges Entered
My Creative Time-Summer Themed Challenge

retro sketches #74

Hello Friends!  It has been awhile since I last posted and I feel like I have been away from my desk for so long!  I went to a crop over the weekend and I was able to get a lot of crafting done!  Felt so good to get that much time to just do what I love!  I created a card with the August Simon Says Stamp card kit using Retro Sketches #74 

 

I just love this sketch so much and was so excited putting this card together!  I used  Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to create the sky and stamped my new Cartoon Cloud Background stamp from My Creative Time in White Daisy Ink from Close to My Heart!  It is hard to see in this photo but there are faint white clouds in the sky.  I really like the way the sky came out and I am in love with this new cloud stamp!  I die cut a couple clouds using an Amuse Studio die and popped them up with dimensionals.  The sentiment is from the March Simon Says Stamp card kit and inked in VersaFine ink.  My card came to together very easily and I just love the look of it!  The colors in this months Simon Says Stamp card kit are fabulous, take a look...

Thanks so much for stopping today and I hope you enjoyed my card!

Challenges Entered
Quick Quotes-Add Dimension 
Five Simple Things-Inspire Me Fridays 113 Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge-Anything Goes

Christmas In July Blog Hop!

Welcome to “Christmas In July” Blog Hop! So glad you can join us!

If you are coming from CARLA, then you are in the right spot. If you just happened to stumble upon my site or your reading this via e-mail, please start at MIRANDA'S BLOG so you don’t miss anyone’s amazing projects!

Have you started on your Christmas Cards and/or your Christmas Decor yet?  Well we will be showcasing some Christmas projects to help you get in the mood! In addition to seeing some awesome projects, there is some blog candy available too!  Miranda will be giving away a Michael's or JoAnn's gift card.  Winner's choice!  To be eligible to win the blog candy, you must leave a comment on each stop in the hop telling us what is your favorite summer time activity!  Be sure to leave a comment on each stop because the winner can be chosen from any of the participants blogs!

For my project today, I created a few Christmas cards!  I started with just one but ended up creating 2 more!  I used a variety of supplies from my stash to create my projects and my favorite has to be the snow flake die from Stampin Up!  It is such a fun and beautiful die! 

 

 

 

Your next stop is ASHLEY!!!

Here is the entire line up, should you get lost along the way:

1. Miranda - www.nanasscrapspot.com
2. Angela - http://www.crazy3monkeys.blogspot.com
3. Lucy ~ http://love2createitall.com
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4. Tabetha - http://tabethascreations.blogspot.com
5. Sarah - www.sarahbiwabic.blogspot.com
6. Pam - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com
7. Nadja - http://nadjarobbins.blogspot.com
8. Mary Ann - http://scrappingg.blogspot.com/
9. Carla - http://racincrafts.blogspot.com/
10. Erica - http://ericarosecreates.blogspot.com/
11. Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com
12. Robin L. - http://create-a-latte.blogspot.com

A Sweet Mini Shoot

Hello Friends!  Today I am here here to share something a little different today, non crafty related, but still so cute!!  Our sweet and sassy little niece just turned 4 and I took her out on a mini photo shoot to take her 4 year photos!  I had so much fun with her and let me tell you that she is a natural!  She needed no instruction from me on how to pose!  She was so full of great poses, great faces, and tons of laughs!  Here are a few of my favorites from the shoot.

Now is she not the cutest little 4 year old?  I took a ton of photos on this day but these three here are a few of my favorites from the shoot!   Please let me know what you think!  I am no pro but being behind the lens to document life is what I love to do!  Thanks so much for stopping today and have a fabulous day!!

Get Whale Soon.

Well I have been creating all kinds of goodies this week and today I have a card to share with you that I created yesterday afternoon.  I have had the stamp set and matching clearlit from Stampin Up called "Oh, Whale!" for awhile and I think it is just the cutest but really have not had any reason to make a card with it.

 Until I saw the challenge for Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge Blog. 

Curtain Call is a new challenge blog that will present a new inspiration challenge on the 1st and the 15th of each month.  Here are a the guidelines
- Create a new project (card, scrapbook page, 3D item) based on the inspiration photo

 

-Post the new project on your blog or other public gallery that directly mentions and links to the current challenge here at Curtain Call.  Feel free to copy and paste the inspiration graphic in your post; however, it is not required.

 

-Complete the Inlinkz section using a direct link to your project before the curtain comes down on each challenge.

 

-The curtain closes for each challenge after 10 days, so please link your projects by the 10th and 25th at 8 a.m. CDT/CST.

 

Here is a look at the very first Curtain Call inspiration photo and challenge

I really love the colors in the photo and the anchors!  So I went to town creating my card and used sketch 302 from Mojo Monday that has been sitting on my desk!  Here is a look at what I came up!

 

 

The blue bag and yellow shorts really stood out to me so I knew I wanted to use these colors in my card along with a gold anchor.  I love the way it came out and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!  Thanks so much for stopping today and enjoy your weekend!  

 

Challenges Entering
Sister Act Card Challenge-Anything Goes
Pin and Tack-Anything Goes
DL.Art-Thankful Thursday Anything Goes

Paper Bakery Sketch #8

Happy Friday my friends!  Does anyone have any big plans for this weekend?  A movie, a party, or maybe some camping?  Well today I am here to share with you a layout I created for The Paper Bakery Sketch Challenge #8!  I have had our pictures from our Yogi Bear camping trip sitting in my desk drawer forever and I thought the "Days of the Week" kit from The Paper Bakery would be perfect with my photos!  We had so much fun on this camping trip and we hope to make another trip soon!  Here is a look at Sketch #8..

It is another fabulous sketch from Juliana Michaels and I went right to work scrapping my photos with this sketch!  The papers that came in the kit are beautiful and I love this one I used as my background from Glitz Design! 

I used only a few things from my stash to add to this layout and everything else came from The Paper Bakery Kit!

In the sketch there are two circle elements and I tried so many different pieces to use and nothing was making me happy so in the end I took my pen and just drew them in nice and messy!  I took some white distress stain and some aqua acrylic paint and with my finger traced around the circles and that made me happy! 

I hope you enjoyed my layout and  please drop by The Paper Bakery and join in on this fabulous Sketch Challenge!


Also playing along in the following challenges:
Berry71bleu-Anything Goes

Lights, Camera, ACTION!

Who does not love a good action movie?  I know I do and I was excited when I read the challenge for this week over at Red Carpet Studio!  If you are not familiar with Red Carpet Studio they are a movie themed challenge blog.  They post a new challenge every Sunday and end the following Sunday at 11:00pm CST.  Challenges alternate between card and layout challenges.  This week is a card challenge week inspired by action movies.  The challenge is to use Action Wobbles on your card and I am so happy I just happen to have a bag of them in my stash of goodies!

I created a very simple card using a stamp set from The Stamps of Life called bubblegum4me.  I used all scraps to create this card and I am excited my pile of scraps on my desk is getting used up very well these last few days!  Here is a look at my "Bubble"Licious card.

Thanks so much for stopping and have a fabulous day!!

Challenges Entered
Lawnscaping Challenge-Paper Piecing
The Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog-Anything Goes