New DT plus a GDT spot

DT TOOT!!!
I'm soooo excited to announce that I'm now on the DT at Sassy Lil Sketches WOOHOO!!
Cherie and Katie have some great sketches over there, I hope you stop by and check them out! My first sketch will be in Aug. I can't wait to post it!

I recently needed to make a card for a baby shower so I checked out the Sassy Lil Card Sketches and found this AWESOME card sketch from July 7.
When I saw it I knew I wanted to create a card with this sketch, however I didn't make the baby card that I needed to make. Oh Well, it still made for a pretty card! Plus added bonus these papers are really old (at least 3 years old) and I'm thrilled to use them.




GDT TOOT!!
I'm also very excited to announce that I will be the August GDT over at Back Porch Memories! Its a wonderful kit club, I have been a member of the site for quite some time and I'm excited to be GDT for them again.


I've been on a little bit of a card making kick lately, which is always a great way to use up some stash. Its also very helpful when I needed to make 3 baby shower cards this month. Another great thing about making so many cards is I'm actually using my cuttlebug since I have been using all the wonderful spellbinders dies that I have acquired. I created this card for the July card skecth over at My Sketch World.
You can never have to many birthday cards right? I used one of the spellbinders dies and an embossing folder to create the circular title section of the card.


So I mentioned already that I needed 3 baby shower cards this month. Well one of them I created about 20 minutes before I left to go to the shower so of course I forgot to photograph that one. Another I can't reveal until next month and the last is below. What do you do when you need to make a baby shower card and don't know the sex of the baby, turn to the trusted pale yellow and green of course. I used another Spellbinders die on this card. I can't get enough of them.

CHA makes for one busy week

WOW, I have been busy creating all week. I had 3 days to create some new projects for TaDa Creative Studios showcasing their 3 brand new wonderful lines and then ship them back so they could have them for CHA. TaDa did come up with some fun new products this time around, they include "Stickies" and "Fringe Benefits". Wanting a little sneek peak, you can see the new items in action on the TaDa Creative Stuidos blog. http://tadacreativestudios.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/our-new-collection-add-ons-up-close-and-personal/

Well since I can't share any of the CHA projects with you yet, I can share a Christmas in July layout I created with TaDa's adorable Jolly Holly Days collection. For the banner of stockings I fussy cut that out of the Hung with Care paper.


XOXO July challenge is UP. If you haven't checked it out there are LOTS of creations from the DT chose one or two or more that inspire you and then scraplift it.

Let's Scrap and My Scraps and more challenges.
I combined these two challenges and created this layout. I used a sketch from Let's Scrap, I took this two page sketch but only used the left hand side of the layout.

Then for the My scraps and more challenge week #6 the challenge was to recycle. I used two recycled items on my layout.One is from Jillibean Soup Journaling Spots - which I cut with a spellbinders die and put my title on. The other is the shaped green and blue polka dot paper. I used a Jenni Bowlin Studio packaging (it had chipboard banners) and covered it with the polka dot paper. The layout was created with Fancy Pants Beach Bum papers and Embellies.



Bev at My Sketch World posted a B&W challenge for July. This sounded like a great twist on a color challenge. So I decided to try this challenge, I even used a B&W photo. For the base of the layout I ended up using a Prima Flocked Transparency which I have had for ages, so I'm sooooo happy to have finally used it. Actually almost the entire layout is using older stash item. The paper is an older Heidi Swapp paper, I loved this line when it came out (and its still great). The flowers are a glittered plastic flowers from Making Memories which I have had forever. I LOVE the ribbon and this was the last bit of it left, very sad. The bling flourish has been in my drawer for a long time waiting to be used. The only NEW items used on this layout are the brads and bling used for the flower centers.

Yet another Crop Stop Challenge

Since the blog hop closes in about 3 hours this is the last challenge I will get done. But I'm excited that I was able to get 5 of the 10 challenges completed! For the Crop Stop Blog Hop Challenge this one was to use a sun. I completed it after working on the Pink Paislee layout.

Another Crop Stop Challenge & My Scraps & More

Circle of Girls layout I completed for the week #4 challenge at My Scraps and More which was to use only one manufacturer. I chose to use Pink Paislee and mixed Hometown Summer and Starlight with a few other misc Pink Paislee pieces too. I also completed this for the Crop Stop Celebrate Summer Blog Hop, the challenge was to use a banner or flag. So I created the banner at the top.

Crop Stop Challenge

Enjoy Today, these pictures are of my cousins and I when I was visiting them in Georgia. We stopped to take these pics by this Rocky Waterfall area when we were in the Downtown area of Augusta. So I thought these Brooke Papers from Crate Paper were great to use.

I created this for Crop Stop's Summer Blog Challenge, Challenge to reflect the outdoors. So I started with outdoor photos, added butterflies and flowers to the page too.


Jump Right In. I did this layout for a paint challenge over at Back Porch Memories, so I splattered paint onto the background paper. Its hard to see but there is a large acrylic bracket on the right side of the layout.

Scrappiest Blog, Creative Scrappers, Crop Stop

I used another sketch from The Scrappiest Blog #124. I ended up turning it into a 2pager. Not sure why I was inspired to scrap christmas pics but I was. I used an older Pink Paislee christmas line along with Webster's Pages paper. This layout is about how many pictures does it take to take ONE nice picture of three kids, the answer on this day 12.


Creative Scrappers

I saw sketch #161 over at Creative Scrappers and just loved all the blocks on the sketch. I used this sketch for a challenge over at Memorable Seasons as well as a color challenge for the Crop Stop also. The papers I used are from Jillibean Soup.


Crop Stop is having a Blog challenge thru the end of the month and I also made this Berry card for the - Use LOTS of pink challenge

Exciting News from TaDa

First off, tomorrow TaDa will be participating in a special event on the Creating Keepsakes Facebook page. They will be giving away lots of product, including some TaDa goodies, to celebrate reaching over 40,000 fans on Facebook! To participate you need to go to their Facebook page for details (http://www.facebook.com/CreatingKeepsakes), and then become a fan of TaDa’s on our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/TaDa-Creative-Studios/314011578631?ref=mf)

Secondly, CHA is fast approaching, which means…NEW RELEASES ARE ON THE WAY!!!! We have lots of fun new stuff to share over the next few weeks, so be sure to stop back often to see sneak peeks of what’s in store. We will be starting on July 1st!

On another note Webster's Pages has a great new release that's coming out before CHA, Its soooo cute and you always have birthdays you need to scrap. To see the whole collection click the link.