Scrapbook Challenges sketch 264

Hi all!  Well, I was feeling in the mood to scrapbook last night so I found a few photos and went to it.  I decided  to use the sketch from Scrapbook Challenges for this layout, sketch 264.  I really liked it and the examples from the design team.  They do such a great job!
Anyway, I love these two photos of my friend Nancy and I.  We have a lot of things in common, including our love of paper, scrapbooking, stamping, and so on but we also have a great time going out and doing stuff like we did this summer with our husbands to the DMB concert.  I wanted to showcase these two different events in this page and highlight our friendship.  I just love how it came out!

I used my Tim Holtz mini rosette die for my rosettes and I am in love!  It cut them out so perfectly and it was a cinch to put them together!  I also used my pennant punch from Stampin UP and sewed twine in it from the Twinery to hang my banner.  I used some border punches for the scallops and my top note die from Stampin UP for the sides of the photo and embossed those with an Stampin UP embossing plate.  The buttons on the rosettes are also from Stampin UP.  I added the ticket from the concert as a momento:-).

It is based on this sketch:

International Talk Like a Pirate Day Blog Hop

Hi everyone!  Welcome mateys to the International Talk Like a Pirate Day Blog Hop!  If you came here from Jenn over at Cardstock and Coffee, you are in the right place!  If you just happened upon my post today and want to start at the beginning, see Gill's blog over at Creations by Gill.
Okay so I joined this blog hop thinking it would be fun to try something out of my comfort zone.  I don't really know how to talk like a pirate except to say "aarrhh".  Luckily, my daughter was invited to a pirate themed birthday party next weekend and I needed a card.  I decided to get this adorable digi Buccaneer Marci stamp from Lala Land crafts and go from there.  I think it came out super cute!  I am really getting into digital stamping and coloring with my copics.  They are just so much FUN!

I also used my chalks to shade a little on the gray areas where I didn't have a darker gray to shade in and to color up her cheeks a little bit.  I used my DCWV green stack for the patterned paper, the rest is Stampin UP. Twine is Lemondrop from the Twinery:-).

Your next stop is Linda over at Fruit of My Hands.

Stampin Daisies Challenge #3

Good Morning Everyone!  I am so excited for another Stampin Daisies Challenge!  I hope everyone had fun with our last one.  The designers and I had so much fun looking at all the entries.   They all were stunning and that was a really hard sketch to follow.
Here is my card for this weeks challenge, we all used the Birthday Bash set for our cards this week.

The card is based on this sketch from our design team member, Linda.  I of course, flipped it around:-).

We all used this stamp set from the Stampin Daisies line. It is so versatile, I just love it for all those birthday cards I need to send.

If you want to participate in this challenge and have a shot at winning this adorable stamp set.  Link up your card to the Stampin Daisies blog by midnight September 29th.  It's so easy! http://stampindaisies.blogspot.com/

Don't forget to check out the other design team members to see what they created using this stamp set.

Monica http://stampindaisies.blogspot.com/
Jenny http://www.papercutcreations.blogspot.com/
Jessica http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/
Linda http://www.fancyframework.com/
Nadia http://nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com/
Sherry http://patternsbysher.blogspot

LaLa Land Princess Marci Stamp

After going to the Scrapbook Expo and coloring this adorable Princess Marci stamp from LaLa Land stamps I knew I had to get it so I could make some adorable princess birthday cards!  Here is one I made for my niece Shelby. She loved it!

I love this little girl, she is so cute!

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Lala Land Princess Marci, Martha Stewart Birthday wishes stamps

Twine from Martha Stewart

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Stampin UP Pacific Point

Copics to color

Paper: Stampin UP Real Red, Whisper White and DCWV Celebrations stack

I also added some rhinestones for her earrings:-)

September "Back to School" Calendar page

Hi all! 

If you are looking for the Labor of Love blog hop, click here.

If you are looking for the Stampin Daisies Challenge post, click here.

Today I want to show my Calendar page I made for the month of September.  If you have been following my blog then you know that I post one of these each month on our fridge and use it in my scrapbook to keep track of everything that happened.  I really love how this one came out! When visiting CHA I stopped at the Taylored Expressions booth and bought some stamps, okay I bought a lot of stamps but who's counting?  I got this adorable school set from them and couldn't wait to create my September "back to school" Calendar page (not to mention the cards and scrapbook pages I can create later)!  Here is what I came up with:

 I used my Copics to color in all the stamps, who knew coloring could be so much fun!

 Love this owl!

Supplies Used:

Paper: DCWV Celebrations Paper stack, Stampin UP! Real Red, So Saffron and Whisper White (to stamp the images)  Blue Reflections paper and the apple paper is OLD, I got it from archivers years ago:-)

Stamps: Taylored Expressions Make the Grade

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black

Punches: Stampin UP Perfect Pennant

Various Copic markers to color

Green alphabet stickers for my "SCHOOL" title.

Cricut Designer Calendar cartridge for my calendar grid and September title