My Favorite Lines of 2011

Well, we brought the laptop and mifi with us on the trip, so I'm posting a little something for the new year!

Here are my top 5 favorite lines of the year! And the great part is that I have at least a couple of papers from each of these lines! I love having a LSS! :)

Farmhouse by Crate Paper

Sidewalks by October Afternoon


Clementine by Cosmo Cricket

Out of Print by Basic Grey

Sweet and Sour Soup by Jillibean Soup

And one extra one,

Holiday Style by October Afternoon

"Expert Hair-do" Layout- Frosted Designs

Hope you had a great Sunday today! I have a layout to share with you that I used a Frosted Designs sketch on.

I got to use a piece of my new Jillibean Soup goodies that I got (from the Ministrone line) along with some Basic Grey Out of Print paper! I love this stuff, and this line is perfect for fussy-cutting! :)This layout is about my little sister doing my hair for my birthday party. She's amazing at doing hair, and she reads and looks up stuff about hair ALL the time! :P My sister is so awesome...

(Love these AC Thickers... the black ones are new- they're called "Hardcover.")

Also, I wanted to thank everyone for stopping by and commenting on my project from the Handmade Holiday Blog Hop! I really appreciate you taking the time to comment on my crafting adventures! :)

Sketchy Thursdays- Nov. 3rd

I loved the Sketchy Thursdays layout sketch this past week, and I just HAD to play along! :)

I got to break out my NEW Basic Grey "Out of Print" paper along with a BoBunny Double Dots page! I loooove the BG paper, and I'm trying to make it last as long as I can!
You can click on the photo to see it bigger. Thanks for stopping by and looking at my layout!

Halloween Blog Hop!

Hi! Welcome to my stop on the Trick or Treat Blog Hop! I am very eager to share with you some cards that I have made just for this special occasion!

First, if you haven't come from Kathy's Blog then go there and start the short little hop from there. :)

Ok. Now to my favorite part- the sharing part!! I absolutely love to make cards, and I happened to have some My Mind's Eye "Blackbird" (MME's Halloween line from last year)paper, diecuts, and brads. I knew they'd be perfect for cards. Plus I had recently won some Halloween pun stamps from Joy's Life that I just *had* to use! The funny thing is, we really don't do that much for Halloween, although last year all of us kids went trick or treating! :P It was funny... all 4 of us running (yes, RUNNING!) from one house to the next. We got candy though, and that's all that mattered to us! :)

I got a little carried away and made 7 cards total, but it was SO much fun! I challenged myself to use just the MME supplies plus some twine and Stickles, and I found out that product challenges aren't really that bad!(Click on this picture to see the cards better.)

Close-ups of cards:

So... which one is your favorite? Leave me a comment and tell me which one you like best and I'll pick one lucky winner to receive a scccaaaarrryyy prize of Karen Foster stamps and some Basic Grey bling (ok, it's not that scary)! All comments need to be received by midnight October 31st. Be sure to check back and see if you won! :)

Oh-- and of course I'd LOVE for you to follow my blog! I try to post pretty-sorta-regularly so I'd love for you to pop in and see what I'm up to!

Now go trick or treating to Andrea's blog and hopefully you won't get *too* spooked! :)

7th Birthday Card

Wow. It seems I haven't blogged in FOREVER! LOL I'm just popping in to share a card I made a wouple of months ago for a little boy who was turning 7! This was a very quick card because my mom needed it ASAP and so I whipped this one up fairly quickly!

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: The Paper Studio (graph), Echo Park (blue zig zag),
Cosmo Cricket (green dot)
Cardstock: scraps from my stash
Diecuts: Cricut ("George" Cartridge and "Printing Press" Cardridge)
Brads: Basic Grey
Stamp: American Crafts



Pretty Little Studio Card

 I'm back again with a card from a Pretty Little Studio sketch! I could just imagine this layout sketch incorporated in a card, so I made a card! 

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Stampin' Up!
Letter Stickers: Basic Grey
Baker's Twine: Etsy
White Flowers: K & Company
Pearls: Hobby Lobby

And a big thank you to AndreaJoy for these awesome Stampin' Up! papers! I love them! They were absolutely PERFECT  for this card. :)

My Mind's Eye August Sketch Challenges

I've always wanted to participate in My Mind's Eye Sketch Challenges, but just haven't ever gotten the chance to do it! Well, the sketches were so awesome this time that I jsut HAD to! (Plus I got some new Stella & Rose paper that I am loving using...) The projects have to be 80% MME products, and I HOPE I used that much on this first layout! The stuff that isn't MME is the buttons and mist. (basically the embellishments) I don't have any My Mind's Eye embellies so I just had to use something else. (how sad- Jenni Bowlin and Tim Holtz buttons- haha!)


Supplies: Patterned Paper: MME; Chipboard Letters: MME; Buttons: Basic Grey, Tim Holtz, Jenni Bowlin; Other: pom pom trim; Mist: Tim Holtz

And here's my card made with Stella & Rose paper also! Buttons are various ones from my stash. I am really loving my new Lush felt chipboard letters! They're AMAZING! (and they stick so well, too!) 

Supplies: Patterned Paper: MME; Chipboard Letters: MME; Punch: Fiskars; Baker's Twine: Etsy

Sassy Lil Sketches August Week 2 Card

I have been making a few cards lately! Yay! Sometimes I get in these ruts where I only make layouts, then I only make cards, then back and forth. I have been making layouts lately, but I have snuck a card in every now and then. Here's one I made with the August Week 2 Sassy Lil Sketch! I used some Basic Grey "Hopscotch" paper and stickers on this along with some AMAZING My Mind's Eye "Lush" brown felt alpha stickers.


Supplies: Patterned Paper: Basic Grey; Stickers: Basic Grey; Letters: My Mind's Eye; Pen: Marvy Uchida