PAPER PLAYTIME - Challenge # 35

Hey All My Crafty Friends

Well its time for another PAPER PLAYTIME CHALLENGE, this week the theme is PARTY.  For this challenge I decided to use my new DCWV CELEBRATION paper stack... If you haven't had a chance to pick this stack up...RUN and go get one.  It is really a great stack to have in your collection for those moments when you need a quick Birthday Card...

Now on to the project....

I chose to make a birthday card... My nephew David is celebrating his 13th birthday this week so he will be getting this cute card from me... :0)



Close - Up

Card Recipe :

Card Base 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 (TEAL)

Mat 5 x 5 (WHITE)

Striped Mat 4 3/4 x 4 3/4

Simply Charmed Cake ( page 74 ) cut @ 3 inches

Lacy Labels ( hello label ) cut @ 4 inches & 3 1/2 inches

Lots of Stickles (love me some stickles....)

My Pink Stamper Stamps ( Family & Friends ) for the Happy Birthday Sentiment

NEW ADDICTION :Action Wobble behind the cake... It is so cute wobbling all around ( if you havent had a chance to get some of these they are really great) CLICK HERE to find out more about Action Wobbles 

So I think that is it... I hope you will stop by over at Paper Playtime and join us for the PARTY...

Also while your there, stop by and check out the other design team members projects. They have some wonderful ideas for your next PARTY....

Until Next Time

Hugs & Scraps

Melissa

Paper Playtime Challenge FACES

Hey All My Crafty Friends

Gosh it seems like so long since I have posted a new project been so super busy with the holidays and the kids being out of school for the last 2 weeks, that there just hasn't been much time for crafting....

But I am finally back in the swing of things and have dusted off the Cricut and pulled the paper and adhesive back out and I'm ready to start creating once again..

I have so many new and exciting things to tell you about but will keep that for later on in the week... But it is really exciting and I am busting at the seams to tell you ...So come back to find out what the big SECRET is...



So on to this weeks Paper Playtime Challenge FACES...our sponsor this week is PEACHY KEEN STAMPS.. Gosh I so love their stamps they have to be some of the best stamps on the market.. if you have never used them I HIGHLY RECOMMEND them too you... They are excellent quality and the face images take you projects from ordinary to EXTRAORDINARY !!!

PEACHY KEEN STAMPS website  take a look you will want them ALL !!! (LOL)

So on to this weeks project

I have been doing so many cards that I have almost forgotten how to do a scrapbook layout so for this week I have challenged myself to do a layout...

I love how it turned out and the PKS were the icing on the cake for this layout...Like I said it took it from ordinary to Extraordinary...all with the use of their awesome stamps..

Close -Up of the cute baby girl

Close - Up of crawling baby

Layout Recipe:

Cricut Cartridge - Feeling Groovy cut @ 2 1/2 inches

Cricut Cartridge - Sugar & Spice - Bottle and Teddy Bear cut @ 2 1/2 inches

Cricut Everyday Paperdolls - Baby cut @ 7 inches and Faces cut @ 3 inches & 5 inches

Photo Mats outside mat cut @ 6.5 x 4.5 inches and inside mat cut @ 6.25 x 4.25 inches

White Signo Gel Pen

Black Zig Pen for Faces

Black Cat Eye Ink Pad

DCWV Patterened Paper (Spring Stack 2010)

PHOTOMATS:

Coordination Cardstock - Love Portion

Coordination Cardstock - Lime

Peaxhy Keen Stamps (PK-490) Everyday Faces Face Assortment

I hope you will stop by and play along with us over at PAPER PLAYTIME....The other design team members have given you lots of inspriration this week and fun new ways to use FACES in your projects, so please come by and visit with us awhile... Also post you project to the challenge link so I can come by and be inspired by your creativity too.

Until Next Time

Hugs & Scraps

Melissa

JESUS ROCKS !! Paper Playtime CH # 24

Hello My Crafty Friends

It has a been an awesome weekend!!! The banner blog hop was such a great success and I was truly honored to be asked to be apart of  such a fun event... I hope it inspired you to make a banner yourself.

So on to new projects and new ideas...Over at PAPER PLAYTIME we were asked to make a project using the theme "YOU ROCK"  well for those of you who know my work and the silly way my brain thinks....that means "QUIRKY" so my brain went into over drive and ideas started pouring out... 

So I once again tried to take a cartridge that you normally wouldn't use for a theme like that and "THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX"  So WINTER FROLIC AND EVERYDAY PAPER DOLLS it was...I know your sitting there right now going ..."SHE DID WHAT?"....  Well all I can say is "OH YES I DID"..

So here it is..I hope it makes you smile and reminds you that creativity is a gift from GOD...

SO USE IT !!

CARD FRONT



INSIDE CARD SENTIMENT

Materials Used:

Winter Frolic Navity Scene cut @ 3 1/2 inches (Starting on page 69)

Everyday Paper Dolls (ROCKER ACCESSORIES pg 44) cut @ 3 inches

White Card Stock Base cut @ 4 1/2 x 8 1/2

Blue Card Mat cut @ 4 1/4 x 8 1/4

Pop Dots (Baby Jesus)

Platinum Stickles (Mary's Microphone)

Sentiment (Computer Generated)

So that's it guys...another"thinking outside the box" card....

Please stop by over at PAPER PLAYTIME and see what the other Queens have been up too... You will not be disappointed... Their work is always creative and inspiring... Also make a project using the theme "YOU ROCK" and post it to the blog I would love to come and visit you and see what you came up with too...

REMINDER:  At Paper Playtime there are NO LIMITS just has to have one main ingredient in the project PAPER..so the sky's the limit guys... A scrapbook page, mini album, card, altered item, you name it you can do it....SO GET CREATIVE AND MAKE SOMETHING !!

Until Next Time

 

HUGS & SCRAPS

Melissa

Spider Web Friend Card - Paper Playtime Challenge # 21

Hey Crafty Friends

Over at Paper Playtime the challenge this week is Pumpkins or Spider Webs.  Well I figure I would take another look at how to "think outside the box". 

Let me start off  by saying I have only been blogging for about 2 months now, and I am so very  humbled everyday by the wonderful comments and friendship that I have developed from this blog... I truly believe that God puts people in our path for a reason and I am so glad he has put you in mine.

It's nice to have friends who understand that getting the newest Paper Stack is a rewarding experience...lol

Having 10,000 pieces of patterned paper is not crazy but COMPLETELY NORMAL  (atleast we bought it with a coupon!!)
And that some paper is so beautiful you could "just EAT it"...

Having the lastest scrapbooking and cardmaking tools is as thrilling as riding a Roller Coaster.

So for all my CRAFTY FRIENDS THIS CARD IS FOR YOU !!!!!

Card Front

Inside Card Sentiment

A2 Size Card

Spider (Paperdoll Dressup) 3 inches REAL DIAL SIZE

Small Spider (PDD) 11/2 inches (RDS)

Bows (Everyday Paper Dolls) 1 inch and 1/2 inch

Hello Friend Stamp (Inkadinkadoo)

Pink Stickles

White Gel Pen (Faux Stiching)

Sentiment (Computer Generated)

Spider Web Cuttlebug Folder

Google Eye (Small and Large) Don't cha just love their eyelashes?

Until Next Time

Hugs & Scraps

Melissa

I'VE BEEN CROWNED A PAPER QUEEN !!!

I am so excited to tell you that I have been asked to join the design team over at Paper Playtime. I will be a contributing designer (PAPER QUEEN) for them and can't wait to join in with the fun.   They have weekly challenges every Monday.  The project can be anything you want from a card, layout, 3D object, mini album, tag, gift bag... you choose, just make it with my very favorite ingredient PAPER...lol.  Sounds like fun huh?  The ladies that are on the design team are so very talented and I am just so happy to be included in the same design team with these extrodinary and gifted women. 

I was asked to create a project for this weeks challenge, and was so excited to do so here is what I came up with....The challenge theme this week was "Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain".  Use any type of water in your project.  Rain, dew, ocean, waves, ice cubes, frost, snow, bubbles, puddles, bath time, etc.

 I made everything for this card with my IMAGINE.... (except the base) I am still trying to figure out the imagine but my first impression is this machine will be AWESOME when I figure out how to "drive it".  lol....

All the background mats were made from the Imagine(using the Best Friends Cartridge)  and I also used the Paisley cartridge and figured how to "flood fill" the images to match my background mats.  Pretty cool huh?

I pop dotted the umbrella and added a brown ribbon and flower w/ pearl  to tie all the elements together.

The best part about this card is it only used 1 1/2 sheets of 12x12 card stock to make it . (YEAH !!).  I didn't have to figure out if this patterned paper matched that patterned paper, BECAUSE EVERYTHING COORDINATES so well together.  It was "EASY PEASY JAPANESEY" as my daughter likes to say.

The card also has little dots of Diamond Glaze on it to represent rain but my camera just didn't get them.

 Thanks for stopping by and taking a look

Until Next Time

Hugs & Scraps
Melissa