Friends and Scrapbooking

Hey there!  Happy Monday and happy Veterans Day to each and every person who has served for our country.  My grandfather is a World War II veteran so I will be calling him and thanking him personally. 

 

If you have been here before, you know that Monday around these parts is time for a new Friends of Speedy TV challenge, number 46.  Today we are all making scrapbook pages.  I am a card maker through and through, but I couldn't back down from a challenge.  I didn't do a traditional 12" x 12" page,but a 6" x 6" page that I thought I could manage. 

 

My scrapbook page revolves around my daughter who wanted to be a witch this Halloween.  I painted her face and thought I was going overboard with the crazy eyebrows until she offered up this pose before we actually headed out for her cousin's house.  In a crazy stroke of good luck, the red eye was extreme, making her look all the more wicked.  She didn't have her broom in this shot, so I stamped, colored and cut out the broom from I'm Going Batty for her page.  The Happy Halloween! sentiment comes from Vroom.  The fancy letters are from Garden Art.  My daughter's name is Raven, so I just turned the "A" from garden upside down to create my "V". 

 

Now don't forget, Mark's Finest Papers offers up a prize for each challenge.  Won't you create a page with us?

 

Please let me know what you think because this is my second scrapbook page in eight years.  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Details - Stamps: Garden Art (MFP), Vroom (MFP), I'm Going Batty (MFP); Paper: Basic Black, Snow Storm Smooth, Recollections Halloween dp; Ink: Tuxedo Black; Accessories: Circle punches, paper snips, Copic Markers, dimensional adhesive, Spellbinders Shapeabilities Spider Web.

Favorites, An Honor

Good Sunday morning!  You know it's been a great stamping weekend when your peers select three of you five VSN cards to end up in the Favorites thread on Splitcoaststampers.  Woohoo!  I'm feeling especially honored as one of my cards made it into both the General Favorites and the CAS Favorites!  Don't hesitate to do some stamping this long weekend.  Even though the VSN challenges went live Friday night, you can play and upload until Monday10PM EST.  That's lot of time left!  This card is the first one I made Friday night for Lisa's Hot Beverage challenge.  Even though these look like teacups, you will have to imagine them filled with coffee as that's my hot beverage of choice. 

My card is a pretty simple card and I used the first CAS(E) this Sketch! blog sketch.  Wow, the sketches put out by this team have been really amazing.  So glad I found the blog.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!  I'm off to check out challenges for today and get some more crafting in before hubby returns from camping!

 

Details - Stamps: Wake Up (Paper Smooches); Paper: Sweet Tooth White; Ink: Tuxedo Black; Accessories: Scor-Pal, Copic Markers, corner chomper.

 

Comfy and Cozy VSN

I just love VSN!  It's a great opportunity for me to explore my stamp stash and just create with whatever strikes my fancy!  This card is the one I created for the kick off challenge of the mini VSN.  Misti challenged crafters to create a card based on a cute photo of a stack of fabrics!  I drew my colors, textures and images from the fabrics.  It was a hoot!  I felt like my card needed a bit more softening and sparkle, so I rounded my corners and added some rhinestones.  I have recently discover the CAS(E) this Sketch! blog, so I used the most current sketch for this card. 

 

Here's a look at the original sketch.  I have my second scallop in there, it's just a bit obscured by my mitten strings!  Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend.  The sun is shining here and I have just a bit of work to do outside before I'm free to get my craft on!

Details - Stamps: Warm Winter Wishes (Flourishes); Paper:  Sweet Tooth White, Pool Party, Pretty in Pink; Ink: Tuxedo Black, Pool Party; Accessories: Copic Markers, 1/2" circle punch, Copic multiliner, Stripes ef, corner chomper, Recollections rhinestones, paper snips, dimensional adhesive.

 

Using Thanks

I just thought I would drop by with my card from yesterday.  You see, this week I am the hostess for the Ways To Use It challenge.  November is a month for gratitude and thanks and Veteran's Day is just around the corner here.  In Canada, Remembrance Day is coming too (so my Canadian stamping friends told me).  I combined both ideas into my one card and used a sketch from a new sketch blog, CAS(E) this Sketch!  My card is fairly simple with one layer and a four different stamps.  I think it works though.

Just a quickie post today, as there is VSN tonight and I want to get back to stamping!!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Details  - Stamps: A Little Round (Technique Tuesday), Making A Statement (Verve); Paper: Sweet Tooth White; Ink: Basic Gray, Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze; Accessories: Corner Chomper.

Anything Goes With Friends

Hello again and welcome to Monday!  I'm here with another Friends of Speedy TV challenge.  This week we are up to challenge number 45 and it is a free for all.  This week, anything goes.  While I was sitting at my desk, I just waited for inspiration to strike.  I thumbed through my wonderful Mark's Finest Paper stamps and New Pines jumped out at me.  Suddenly, I felt a clean and simple Christmas card coming on.  I grabbed a sentiment from the new Poinsettia Blooms set and away I went. 

I stamped my trees first and colored them.  Then I stamped over them again with Versamark and embossed with a glittery embossing powder.  Then I cut out my snowbanks and used the same embossing powder just on the top crust of my snow.  A handful of rhinestones and a stamped sentiment finish off my card! 

Don't forget to play along with this wide open challenge!  You know that Mark's Finest Papers is a generous company and there is a prize up for grabs, specifically the Christmas Bridge stamp set.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Details - Stamps: New Pines (MFP), Poinsettia Blooms (MFP); Paper: Sweet Tooth White, Night of Navy; Ink: Always Artichoke, Tuxedo Black, Versamark; Accessories: paper snips, Iridesdent Ice ep, heat tool, Recollections rhinestones, stampin' dimensionals.

Friends and Sketches

Good Monday morning!  It's back to work for me.  I hope you can start off with the fun Friends of Speedy TV challenge number 44 that include a sketch.  My card today was inspired by some designer paper I had on my desk.  The little acorns in the patterned paper made me think of the acorns in the Mark's Finest Paper set called Autumn Splendor.  It's just so timely...I wish you could see all the leaves blowing around my yard!  I took a little creative license here and left off the trio of circle, which could easily be rhinestones or pearls.  I just wanted a fairly flat, mailable card so I opted edit that part. 

Don't forget, Mark's Finest Papers offers a prize for one lucky participant.  The set up for grabs this week is called Oh Crab.  Super fun set!!  Here's  a look at it:

 

 

Won't you play along?  Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful day!

 

Details - Stamps: Autumn Splendor (MFP), Oopsy Daisy (MFP); Paper: DCWV Autumn Melody Stack and Autumn Melody Cardstock Stack; Ink: Rich Cocoa, Early Espresso; Accessories: Copic Markers, corner chomper, sponge dauber, stampin' dimensionals. 

 





A Scor-Pal & DCWV Nugget Box

Hello!  I hope you enjoyed the Scor-Pal and DCWV week long feature! Today, I can share my main project that I made.  For a recap of the other projects, check out my yesterday's post. If you haven't seen what the rest of the team has made, you will definitely want to check it all out on the Scor-Pal blog.  Don't forget about the ladies on the DCWV blog who have been working hard with their Scor-Pal products.  Be sure to see what they cooked up!!

I offer you a sweet little treat in the form of a nugget box.

You will want to start with a piece of patterned paper or card stock that is 3 5/8" wide by 6 1/4" long.  Place it on your Scor-Buddy and score on the right hand side of your paper at 5 1/8" and 5 3/4".  Turn your paper 180 degrees and score again at 5 1/8" and 5 3/4".  (See Diana's video for an easy way to achieve those eighths). 

Turn you paper 90 degrees and score on the right hand side of you paper at 2 1/2" and 3 1/8".  Turn your paper 180 degrees and score again at 2 1/2" and 3 1/8". 

Trim out the corner pieces shown above.

 

Create some tabs by trimming as indicated above on the red lines. 

 

Ah, now we see some of the fabulous DCWV Autumn Melody patterned paper.  In this step, you want to crease all of your score lines you have made. 

Place some Scor-Tape on the panels adjacent to each side of the bottom of the box. 

Peel the backing of your Scor-Tape on the shorter sides first and adhere it down. 

Peel the backing of your Scor-Tape on longer sides and adhere the tabs from the shorter sides. 

Adhere the longer sides to the inside, finishing the bottom of you box. 

Start on the cover of your box now with a piece of acetate ( I used a piece of plastic report cover) measuring 4 5/8" by 4/16". The brown card stock behind the acetate is only for the purposes of picture taking.

Score at 3/8", 1 7/8", 2 1/2" and 4". 

 

Crease each score line and apply Scor-Tape to the 3/8" section. 

 

 

Peel the backing of your Scor-Tape and adhere the cover together.  Slide it over your box. 

 

Now  for our wrapped nuggets, you will need some Hershey nuggets and a 1" by 2 3/4" piece of patterned paper.  Again, we have some luscious DCWV patterned paper from the Autumn Melody Stack covering these nuggets.

 

 

Place some Scor-Tape on the back of the nugget and some Scor-Tape on one end of the patterned paper. 

 

Peel the backing off your Scor-Tape and wrap up your nugget.  The nugget box I made today fits 4 nuggets, so you will want to repeat this step three more times. 

 

Finally, slide back your cover and place the wrapped nuggets in your box.  Decorate as desired.

Thanks for hanging with me through the tutorial!  I hope you enjoyed it!  You can find the original directions on Splitcoaststampers and the modifications for a long box here. 

Details - Stamps: Taglines (Flourishes), Fine Herbs (Flourishes); Paper: DCWV Autumn Melody Stack, DCWV Autumn Melody Cardstock Stack, Very Vanilla, clear report cover; Ink: Soft Suede, Cajun Craze; Accessories: Scor-Buddy, Scor-Tape, 1/8" circle punch, gold cording. glue dot.