An awesome kit!

So I was so inspired by one of my scraps left on my table from the October Burlap & Buttercups kit that I just had to create!  This creation started with the paper - then I remembered some daisy stickers I had then some burlap and a vase showed up - then a little bit of crackle.  My creation is the perfect size for a card which was to be its description, but then I liked it so much and I had this little frame from Michael's ...  Let's just say it is hanging in my scraproom even now!

Materials used:  Crate Paper, K&Co, Michael's finds

This is what I created first that gave me the scraps for the above project - I lifted a wonderful card at Memorable Seasons for my inspiration.

Materials used:  Crate Paper, Petaloo, Martha Stewart, Prima, Recollections, Maya Rd, and stash

How about a sketch?

So I've been wanting to start getting up early again, but with Gino still waking up during the night it has been impossible.  But today was different and boy am I thrilled with the results.  I decided to stay up when he awoke at 6am (man is it dark out) - so I got ready and headed downstairs into my little sanctuary and created!

It helped that I had a sketch laying right there just begging to be worked on!  So here is the sketch from Imaginisce that inspired me...

And here is what I created...

Materials used:  Imaginisce, Tattered Angels glimmer mist, Crafter's Workshop honeycomb, Sizzlet die, American Crafts rub-on, Jillibean Soup corrugated shape

I love this picture of the boys and was waiting for the perfect paper - you know that outdoorsy, John Deere one - well this was the perfect fit!  I loved the circles in the sketch - kinda like the bond of brotherhood!

Don't forget, voting is open until Friday for my card which is in the next post down!  Thanks

Another chance to vote!

I made the top 10 cards at Practical Scrappers!!!  So totally excited and again, thank you everyone!

So, this week was chevrons and stitching.  Let's just say this one almost threw me for a loop and I created and created and created, even turned one in and then Thursday night while I was supposedly sleeping it finally hit me!  So here is what I created...

I thought of baby blankets and the pattern, the soft fuzzy edges and so I distressed all my edges of the chevrons, the hand sewing so I created a flower and stitched on each pink chevron piece, of course you must have a duck and some lace too.  

(You can see this in the April 2012 Cards magazine!)

To vote for me and my card just click on this link, http://www.practicalscrappers.com/2011/10/card-contest-finalists-round-four.html, and click on my name - only one vote this round.  Again, thank you all for all of your help!

In case you were curious here are my other chevron cards...

Loving this kit!

Well this month I decided to shake things up a bit and try a kit from Burlap & Buttercups - I've been eyeing them up for awhile, but finally went for it.  I am so very pleased with the kit - the October kit and some lovely Jillibean Soup, Bella Blvd, Crate Paper, and American Crafts - totally my faves!  Everything to follow was all from the kit.

So I created today, yep all today, not sure what hit???

These were created using inspiration from cardabilities #39 sketch

This was created using a sketch by danni at Scrapbook Nook

This was created using one of the sketches included in the kit

Another round of voting!

I am so thrilled, my card made it into the next round at Practical Scrappers.  Even more than the excitement of my card being in the running for this contest; I am so grateful to each and everyone who has taken the time to vote for me, that means so much to me!

This week the challenge was to make a card using flag(s) or banner(s) and the word happy, here is mine


Materials used:  Webster's Pages

Here is the link to go vote for me, click here.  You are allowed to vote once a day for one card.  You just need to leave a comment with my name, but please remember you cannot leave an anonymous vote.  Again, thank you for taking the time to vote for me, it means so much!

Loving cards!

Yep, I wrote that, hard to believe, huh?  I have made maybe 5 cards until this month, now it has become my favorite thing to do.

Here are three that I've made using this sketch from September Page Map and a Flying Unicorn kit.

Other materials:  Webster's Pages, Melissa Frances, 7 gypsies

Other materials:  7gypsies, Melissa Frances

Other materials:  K&Co.

It is pastor appreciation this week so these are heading right back out the door - hopefully I remember!

Hope your day is going well - I appreciate that you stopped by here today!  :)

Celebrating us!

Today we celebrated 12 years of marriage!  Wow, who would have ever thought that a relationship that was really shaky at first could develop into the most wonderful thing I've ever known.  We've been through so much over the years and yet I am so excited to see what lies ahead.  I never knew you could love someone so much - that you could become so much apart of each other - that you could be so proud of anyone; and yet that is exactly what has developed over the years.  The Lord has blessed me beyond anything I would have ever imagined! 

We were blessed by some friends on Saturday who watched ALL the kids while we took a very cold kayak trip - yes, this is me sitting in my very own kayak that I paddled around for about an hour, proud of me?  :)  Later we were able to get a babysitter and go out to dinner and a little shopping.  Today after church we watched a movie called FireProof (2008) - what an awesome movie - and we don't do movies, normally.  Here is a link to the site, click here - it is really worth the time to check this out! 

Course, all good things have to end sometime, right?  So Mike is off for another few days (I'm trying to be thankful for the work, but it isn't easy today) on a job and I am getting all geared up for another week here at the homefront.  But, I do have some really gorgeous pictures to scrap now!

Another round of voting

has begun and guess what?  My card made it to round 2!!!!!  :)  Thank you all for your votes it means so much to me.

So this week I created this card based on the requirements of fall and twine...

Materials used:  American Crafts, Martha Stewart baker's twine, Fiskar border punch, and some finds from my local Michael's



If you don't mind taking a moment and following this link, click here you can vote for this new card.  The rules are that you may vote once a day (until Friday) by leaving a comment with my name - you won't see the comment later b/c Practical Scrappers is collecting the names and then deleting them, just make sure that you don't leave an anonymous comment.  Thanks so much!  

Stopping in to share...

Some things I've been working on this week!  We've had some running around to do this week so time creating has been at a minimal.   (Hmmm, wonder why I have so many things sitting on the desk finished then?  Guess that's why the laundry was piled high!)

I am sharing some of the things I've created with my lovely Echo Park stash - newly acquired too!

This first one is a picture that my sister's photographer took after the wedding and I just loved it and had to scrap it!

Materials used:  Echo Park pps and stickers, Martha Stewart punch, Fiskar border punch, Me and My Big Ideas bling, Want 2 Scrap bling, Plaid bling, Recollections flowers, tulle, Blue Moon beads

Next is one about my Marcky-doo, a lot simpler than my normal but the picture just seemed to fit the paper so well - it didn't seem like it needed anything else.


Materials used:  Echo Park and toothpicks



And this layout was made for Memorable Seasons using a sketch.  I've had this picture sitting with this orange scrap for so long and just saving it, then I saw the sketch and I decided I had to take time to finish it.

Materials used:  Echo Park

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend - my hubby and I are celebrating 12 years on Sunday (actually Saturday for convience sake) - we started dating October 6th 1993!  I was 16 and he was 21 and it was love at first sight, but then I had to get older and go to school and all that stuff!  Now look, we've been married 12 years and we have 5 kids and more in love today than I ever could have imagined!

Time to announce my winner!

I have a winner from the Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog hop to announce...

clmk523 said...
Cute cards!
Thanks for the chance to win. I'm a follower now.
September 30, 2011 10:12 PM

Please contact me at antenucci@juno.com so I can get your gift certificate to you! 

Grandparents

Published in SNR
Materials Used:  MM, GCD, Prima, assorted stash

Today's challenge at Scrapping Everyday Miracles was to think about our grandparents and how God has blessed us through them.  I chose to feature my Grandmother on my Father's side not so much because we are the closest, but because I have always wanted to be like her.

The journaling reads:  My Grammy, Is who I've always wanted to be.  So beautiful, full of energy, so calm.  She was the one to teach me to cook, clean, and how to make laundry smell good.  When I was young we often did crafts together and later on we would each work on our sewing - her quilts and my crosstitch.  Her house has a wonderful smell to it - it says Grammy.  One thing she has taught me recently, you don't have to win. 
I also want to share another layout I did of my Grandmother on my Mother's side, one that also passed on her creativity to me and was apart of my everyday.

Materials used:  American Crafts thickers, Queen and Co, October Afternoon, Basic Grey rub-ons, Maya Road chipboard, Prima, and other assorted things

Don't you just love the silvery paper?  When I saw that paper I knew I had to scrap my grammy b/c that is exactly how her dining room walls looked and the purple - well that was the color of the carpet in her house.  The yellow script paper reminded me of her handwriting.

The journaling reads:  Memories of Grammy Brown, She...
Loved Jesus, didn't get up early and ate breakfast @ 12:00, decorated cakes, was an artist, wore hats, liked birds, grew many flowers, liked purple, wrote very small, took a long time to get things done, was exact down to the penny, burnt everything, had "tin foil" for wallpaper, loved me!

Would you help me?

[Scrapping Everyday Miracles hop is below]

There was a contest at Practical Scrappers asking you to create a card with pink in it.  This is the card I created and guess what?  I made it into the first round, but now I need your help to keep me going!  Everyday you are allowed to vote for 3 cards - there are 4 groups of cards and you just have to leave a comment.  Here is the link, click here, would you go vote for me? 




Materials used:  Crate Paper and sticker, American Crafts paper, Recollection flower, Prima flower, stick pins from stash, ribbon from Paper Loves Glue, bling from Want 2 Scrap

 
I also have a card featured on Scrapbook & Cards Today, go check it out!  :)  click here