MME-April Sketch Challenge-Happy Mother's Day

Hello! I wanted to participate in the My Mind's Eye April Sketch Challenge so I am squeezing this one in!

I still LOVE the Stella and Rose line and mixed with a little Bright Side, my grandmother will love this card for Mother's Day! 

I got all of my My Mind's Eye supplies at Shop Pumpkin Spice and the links are listed below if you want to click on a specific product! 

Recipe:

• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel "So Sweet" Herringbone Paper™ (both sides: chevron and orange)
• My Mind's Eye: On the Bright Side One 6x6 Paper Pad™
• Lace: MME: Stella and Rose: Mabel "Little Lady" Trims™
• Brads: My Mind's Eye: Lush2 Rhinestone Brads Fuchsia™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Happiest Moments™
• ATG Tape
• Vellum
• Glitter
• Cricut Cartridges:
• Mother's Day Bouquet™
• Sentimentals™(on sale for $28.99!)

My Pink Designer Showcase - a baby card

Have you ever had a picture just come out SOOO weird??? That button is the SAME COLOR as the dark pink in the butterfly's body in real life! And it came out that funky orange in the pic! I almost ripped it off, put on a new button and took another pic! I can't stop staring at it! haha. You'll just have to use your imagination for that part! :) 

For the My Pink Designer showcase, we were challenged to "think spring" and to make something using yellow, green, and blue as well as a butterfly, Cricut cut, and either Happiest Moments, Buggy Punnies, Tweetie Hoo Puns, or More Punnylicious. Well, I have all but one of those so I had my pick of the litter! :) 

I was inspired by the pinwheels that American Crafts put our recently and thought, "I will make my own!"

Recipe:

• My Pink Stamper: Happiest Moments™
• Cartridges:
• Mother's Day Bouquet™ (it was a seasonal so now it looks like only the digital version is available)
• Create a Critter™
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park: Springtime "Spring Day"™ (yellow stripes)
• Echo Park: Springtime "Fresh Flowers™ (background)
• Echo Park: Springtime "Delightful Stripe"™ (stripes for bottom of pinwheel)
• Solid Paper:
• Echo Park: Springtime "Juneberry/Grass"™ (purple)
• Echo Park: Springtime "Lemonade/Robin's Egg"™ (yellow/blue)
• Echo Park: Springtime "Berry/Cotton Candy"™ (both pinks)
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Butter
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot Rocks in Pink Black and Clear by Imaginisce™
• Twinery Twine in Buttercream™
• Button: My Mind's Eye: Fine and Dandy Tickled Pink Buttons™
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™
• Glue Arts Adhesive Squares in PermaTac Mini's™
• White Gel Pen

Make sure you hop on over to My Pink Stamper's blog to see the rest of the girls' Springy inspiration! 

Polka Dot Door Designs Blog Hop and an ANNOUNCEMENT!

Besides having the pleasure of being a July Guest Designer for Polka Dot Door Designs, I have been asked to be the Guest Designer for July for My Mind's Eye!!! Head on over to their blog to see my welcome post and join in the fun this month!!!


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Hello!!! Welcome to the Polka Dot Door Designs monthly blog hop! 

Rebecca from Polka Dot Door Designs invited me to be a guest designer this month and I am tickled to join them! 

You should have gotten here from Nicole B.'s blog. If not start HERE at Polka Dot Door Designs.

Polka Dot Door is a new challenge and inspiration blog with a unique twist - the designers get to compete for a prize too! There are three ways to win a prize each month so go check out the website to read all about it. :)

Owl Be Seeing You

Recipe:

• Cricut Cartridges: Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons™ (birdhouse), Create a Critter™ (owl), and Mother's Day Bouquet™ (flowers)
• Gypsy™
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Hattie "Boy" Tapestry Paper™ (white with yellow and yellow pattern)
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Hattie "Buddies" Argyle Paper™ (yellow polka dot)
• My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel "Joy" Woodgrain Paper™ (woodgrain)
• Bo Bunny Double dot Boysenberry Dot™
• Cardstock:
• Core'dinations Nostalgia Pack
• Paper Trey Ink Vintage White™
• Sentiment: Tweetie Hoo Puns™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot Rocks Compact in Pink, Black and Clear™
• Hot Rocks Compact in Jewel™
• Heart charm: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Gertie "Girly" Trinket Charms™
• Twine: Paper Trey Ink
• White Gel Pen
• Foam Dimensionals (Michael's and Stampin' Up)
• Ink: Momento in Dark Cocoa and Versamark 
• Embossing powder: A la Mode in white
• Heat Embossing Tool: Colorizer by EK Success™

Here is the inspiration photo:

Just in case you get lost:
Jennifer
Nicole
Valerie
Diana
Sabrina
Nicole B.
Court
Tenny
Tammy
Dee Dee
Mazlina
Lindsay
Smitha
Polkadot Door Designs

The fabulous sponsors this month are:

Accents and Pearls , will be providing the prize for the Challenge winner. 
Scrapbits is giving away a $20 gift certificate to their etsy shop to the blog hop winner.  Scapn4mygirls is providing something for the Featured Designer as well as joining our blog hop this month! 

You have the opportunity to win one of the first two prizes and you can vote for your favorite of our projects and the designer with the most votes will win the third! 

Now hop on over to Tenny's blog! But before you go, read below!

Please leave a message on this post as that is your first way you can win something! Then play along with the challenge using the inspiration photo and link it up to the Polka Dot Door Designs blog! 

Happy Harvest Release Party!

Welcome to the Happy Harvest Release Party at Imaginisce! I LOVE this collection and have been bursting to show you my projects! Since I loved Apple Cider last year, this has some of the same color veins. I know you will enjoy it too!!!

Too Cute to Spook

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons™
• Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink™
• Patterned Paper: 
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Dancing Leaves"™ (background and brown elements)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Caramel Apples"™ (red polka dots)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Apple Crisp"™ (green pumpkin top)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Fall Into Fun"™ (stripes)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "I Love Fall"™ (orange polka dots)
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Glam Rocks in Metallics and Pearl by Imaginisce™ 
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Spooky Puns™
• Face stamp: Peachy Keen Stamps: PKS-490™
• Embossing powder: A la Mode in White
• Heat Embosser: EK success
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Chocolate and Dark Pumpkin
• Button and twine on hat: Paper Trey Ink
• White Gel Pen

Sweets for the Sweet

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Smily Cards™ (Gypsy downloadable exclusive), Sentimentals™
• Cuttlebug: Paper Lace II Companion Folders™
• Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink in chocolate™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce Happy Harvest "Autumn Splendor"™ (stripes with images and words)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Dancing Leaves"™ (brown tag)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Caramel Apples"™ (red polka dots)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Fall Into Fun"™ (stripes)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "I Love Fall"™ (orange polka dots on tag)
• Green Apple: Pile on the Fun Sticker Stacker™
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Glam Rocks in Metallics by Imaginisce™ 
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Spooky Puns™
• Embossing powder: A la Mode in White
• Heat Embosser: EK success
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Dark Pumpkin
• Twine: Paper Trey Ink
• White Gel Pen

My First Topiary

I must say I had a ball (pun intended) making this topiary! It came together MUCH quicker than I expected thanks to my i-bond! My DT sisters at Imaginisce helped me with the bottom portion of the topiary and suggested toile, raffia, and burlap. So I did ALL of them! Thanks ladies!!!

OUT FOR PUBLICATION! :) 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Mother's Day Bouquet™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Dancing Leaves"™ (whitish paper with leaves)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Caramel Apples"™ (red polka dots)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Fall Into Fun"™ (stripes and off white paper with polka dots)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "I Love Fall"™ (orange polka dots)
• Imaginisce Happy Harvest "Autumn Splendor"™ (brownish paper with leaves)
• i-bond cordless glue gun by Imaginisce (it made quick work of this project!) 
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Chocolate and Dark Pumpkin
• Buttons: Paper Trey Ink™
• Burlap garland found at Michaels from Panacea
• Orange Toile from my stash
• Raffia found at Michaels by Ashland

Pop back over to the Imaginisce blog to see all of the fabulous inspiration that we have been making for you all week! I hope you enjoy it and you might want to check it out to see if there is a giveaway.... :) :) :) 

Happy Anniversary to my co-parents!

Happy Anniversary to my husband's parents (who I call my co-parents because in-laws has bad connotations and I LOVE them! I got so lucky).

Their anniversary is tomorrow so this is the card I made for them! 

Recipe:

• Cartridges: Picturesque™ (card base) and Mother's Day Bouquet™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Love-alcious™
• Patterned Paper: 
• Echo Park: For the Record "Stamp of Approval" (red) 
• Echo Park: For the Record "Fancy Floral" (flowers)
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot Rock Compact in Pink, Black, and Clear™
• Crinkled Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Rain™

Honey Bee Showcase- Old, New, Borrowed, Blue

This week at Betty Bee's Buzz Amy Sheffer is our guest designer! She made a GORGEOUS balloon card! She also got to pick the theme for this week and she chose... Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. 

Amy Sheffer is a good friend of my friend June (also a HoneyBee) and I am thrilled that June set this up because Amy's card is just gorgeous and her talent is fabulous. 

I have to admit I was STOKED about this challenge. I laid everything out that I wanted to use and realized... there was no blue. haha! So I started again and I'm very happy at where the card evolved to. 

 Old: old script writing

New: the crinkled ribbon is brand new and I LOVE it!

Borrowed: a sketch from Artful Delight AND the idea of having the flowers overlap like that from Melinda Spinks HERE

Blue: background paper

It is based on this sketch here:

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Mother's Day Bouquet™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Fancy Phrases™
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Dusty Rose™ (If you order please let her know I sent you in the comments section)
• Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose: Mabel "Love" Letters Paper™
• Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink "True Black" and "Vintage Cream"
• Ink: Colorbox in Black
• Embellishment with brad center: MME: Stella and Rose: Gertie "Delightful" Decorative Brads™

Play along this week to win a prize! :) There are SO many takes on this challenge and it's a really fun one. So have a blast and join us! :)

Best Wishes

I really like this card and hope you do too. It is really what I feel like my "style" is. I just have to express it a little more. :) 

My project was based on this sketch at the My Mind's Eye Blog.

Recipe:
Cartridge: Mother's Day Bouquet™
Patterned Paper: MME: Stella and Rose: Hattie "Boy" Tapestry Paper, Gertie "Friends Forever" Tapestry Paper, Hazel "Memories" Lithe Lines Paper™
Background Stamp: Gertie "Girly" Stamps™
Ribbon: Hattie "Boy" Trims™
Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Fancy Phrases™
Brads: Lush2 Rhinestone Brads Fuchsia™
Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares™
Colorbox ink in black
Twine from Paper Trey Ink™

Hope you all are having a great weekend! I just got some Crinkled Ribbon from Kris Swain's Etsy Store. SO excited to play with it!!! If you decide to go check out and buy something, please let her know I sent you in the comments section before checking out! :) 

Friends Forever No Matter the Weather

Whew! Blogger has given us a run for it today! So sorry this is a short post, but I had about 6 drafts going and all were deleted so I have to go back and get those done! Still so thankful for technology and thankful for how rarely it lets us down because this stinks! :) haha. 

Hope you are all having a great day! It's mid-60s here in San Francisco and a beautiful day! (Don't worry... we have rain forecasted for the next two days! But I LOVE the rain so I am actually very excited!) 

Head on over to Artful Delight's blog to see the contest Leeanne has going on right now. 14 sketches in 14 days! That's a lot of inspiration and a GREAT prize is to be had if you participate! Don't forget about the regular monthly sketch challenge either! 

Recipe:

All items from Artful Delight May Kit except for the stamp, ink, and card base.

• Cardstock: Echo Park Summer Days: Yellow/Purple and Red/Green
• Patterned Paper: Echo Park Summer Days "Rainbow" (yellow polka dots), "Banners" (purple polka dots), and "Scallops" (pink middle layer) AND Fancy Pants Beach Babe "Lemonade" (yellow plaid)
• Chipboard: Echo Park Summer Days Chipboard (flower centers)
• Brads: Echo Park Summer Days™
• Ribbon: Reasonable Ribbon
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Friend-tastic™
• White Gel Pen
• Ink: gStudio
• Glue Arts Extreme Adhesive Squares
• Pop dots
• Cartridge: Mother's Day Bouquet™

The Cricut Circle also wants to see a picture of us in our craft room - which as you all know - is my entire house. haha. I keep toying with the fact of getting an Imagine, but my husband keeps asking where I will put it. You KNOW I'll find room! haha. I did this on a self timer yesterday evening so the lighting is not so great. I mean it's great for my scrap table (read - dining room table) because I get a ton of natural light all day. 

Little Cutie Release Party - Girls!

Welcome to the Little Cutie Release Party from Imaginisce! If you got here from the Imaginisce blog, welcome! :) 

You may recall about a month or two ago I was making some banners for some adorable twins! Well, after babysitting for them (LOVED it) there was a lovely solicitor that came to the door during their nap (can you hear the sarcasm building) who rang the doorbell which made the dog bark which woke up the twins. I was telling their parents this story after they got back and they said that some of their friends had a door sign something like the one below. So I decided to make them one! 

I left it saying "baby" singular (after much internal debate) so that next time if they have a single baby it is still valid. :)

Close-up. It is laminated using my YourStory by Provo Craft so that it will hold up to the weather. HUGE hint***I may or may not be giving one away in the weeks to come during my blog-aversary giveaway!***

The flower was made with the magnet daddies for the i-top so that they could be removed or moved around as desired or if the weather is bad.

The magnets on the back.

Recipe:
YourStory by Provo Craft™
Cartridge: Mother's Day Bouquet™
i-top by Imaginisce™
medium sized (22mm) magnet daddies by Imaginisce™
Little Cutie "Baby Doll" (blocks) and "Beyond Precious" (yellow florals)™
i-rock by Imaginisce™
Hot Rocks Compact in Crystal by Imaginisce™
Decorative Brads are from My Mind's Eye Lush2 Collection in Orange™
Cardstock is from Core'dinations Nostalgia pack

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Back view of alligator clips.

Recipe:
i-top by Imaginisce™
Imaginisce: Little Cutie: "Beyond Precious" (yellow florals)™ and "Sweet Baby" (flowers)
Imaginisce: Alligator Clips™
Imaginisce: Twist Daddies in Medium (22mm)™
Imaginisce: Gotta Buy Basics: Fashion Fabric Flowers in brights and neutrals, Bitty Blossoms™

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This is for my best friend Kourt. To those that have been following for a while, you know that my best friend and I share a name but different spellings (she is Kourtni and I'm Courtney). Anyway, I saw these girls on the Little Cutie collection and thought perfect! She's a brunette and I'm a redhead. Here is a pic of us and these were the first two cards she ever made! She is so talented! I am going to posting some of her stuff here sometime when I get pictures because she makes wonderful things!

I am so excited to share this with her. 

Recipe:

Imaginisce: Little Cutie "Sweet Baby" and "Baby Doll"™ (I fussy cut the girls)

Imaginisce: Little Cutie "Precious Memories Girl Sticker Stacker"™

Cardstock:  Cricut and Paper Trey Ink

Sentiment: My Pink Stamper Family and Friends™

Cuttlebug A2 Paisley Emboss Folder™

Ribbon

Colorbox ink in black

Make sure you leave a comment on the Imaginisce blog every day this week to win the entire Little Cute Collection! 

For extra chances, change your Facebook profile pic to either the Little Cutie girl sign of the Little Cutie Boy sign found on the Imaginisce blog page and leave them a comment so they know on their facebook page! 

Banners for Twins

Hello!

I just got back from Florida and will have to share some pictures later, but I wanted to get this project in by the deadline for the challenge (which is in about 2 hours!).

A friend asked if I could make banners for her identical twin girls after she saw the train banner I made for Malakai HERE. I was thrilled to do so! She said I could make them whenever, but when I saw this month's challenge on the Circle Blog was to use a banner, then I let her know they would be done this month! :) Aren't they the cutest!?! 

They are just darling. Now, I have to say, after spending a few hours with them, there are a LOT of challenges that twin mommies have to deal with that we never even think about, but the pictures of them sleeping and holding hands while they eat are about the cutest things on the planet! 

I made these banners based on what little I know of their personalities. I can't wait to watch these little ones grow up! 

Kylie's banner. :) 

Recipe:

Cartridges: Cake Basics™ (butterflies and letters) and Mother's Day Bouquet Seasonal Cartridge™ (I borrowed this from Roe at the Honeybee Swarm in Florida and LOVE it. I didn't think I would like this cart, but it is so neat for cutting flowers!!! It is now on my wish list!) 

Cuttlebug Folders: Daisy Pattern™ (I borrowed this from BettyBee at the swarm. Thanks!)

Paper: Echo Park: A Walk in the Park™ and Little Girl™

Solid Cardstock: Core'dinations, Paper Trey Ink™, and Cricut™

Ribbon from my stash

Glossy Accents™

i-rock by Imaginisce™

Hot Rocks Compact in Crystal by Imaginisce™

I hope you had a good time looking at this and it inspires you to make a banner for your own little one or a friend's little ones to put above their cribs! 

Come back tomorrow morning for my final EAD Designs Guest Blogger post. It's going to be "turtle-y awesome".