Color Challenge #29

Colors were inspired partly by chocolate and partially by just boy colors. To play use at least 3 of the shades in a new project and send me a link to your artwork so I can add it here ^_~ And have fun playing!

Barn Red
Chocolate and/or Cocoa
Honey
Olive

Sparkle's Cute Changito Thank You Card
Noelle's Yummilicious Thanks a Latte Card
Barb's Relaxing Lawn Chair Card
Marcia's Adorable Friends Forever Card
Jena's Lovely Family Christmas Photos Layout

My Sample:

Supplies : Caprice Papers, Winter's Heart '06? Papers, Olive, Barn Red, Honey, Chocolate, Cocoa, and Col White CS, Lifes a Jungle and Paradise Stamp sets, Sunflower bigger brad, Chipboard Circles

I made one of those fun Joy Fold Cards that SCS has a tutorial for this week. I had fun but without my mojo I was really having a tough time putting this one together. This has been such a hard week for the color challenge, I'm telling ya, lol! If I had just done it while I was in my scrappin' groove over the weekend it would have been fine, but no I had to wait because I'm a terrible procrastinator. So getting past scheduling wasn't too bad, only that I realized when I finally got a chance to sit down that I had absolutely no mojo. Then I had a mom meltdown, we won't go into that, lol. So last night ended with nothing finished. Today I woke up feeling much better, talked and played with the girls a bit, had breakfast, then started the color challenge. I was having fun making the interactive card so that was good. But when I went to post, my hubby's mouse wasn't working (a problem he discovered earlier this morning and was trying to fix). So I get my mouse and plug it into his computer. I am going through all this trouble because he has my photo editing software on his computer. Then the entire computer freezes on me. I reset and try to work again and.... the keyboard doesn't work. It looks to be two things... either a virus, which I am doubting, or the ports are dead which is more likely since they sit right next to each other. And that really irks me because his computer isn't even a year old! Anyway, I retake the pictures (because now he is in safe mode doing a thorough virus scan just in case, plus he's on the phone with HP to try and figure it out, and my pictures were on his computer), upload the new ones to my computer, then take forever to edit them online in photobucket. *sigh* Hopefully you all will have an easier time than I did trying to get this done, lol. Thanks for stopping by and reading my tirade ^_~ And have fun with the colors this week!

Layouts from the Weekend

Supplies : Sugared Paper and Glazed Brads, Basic Grey; Buttons, Mind's Eye; Burgandy Flowers, Petaloo; Foam Letters, Thickers; White Flowers, White Ricrac, Baby Pink and Garnet CS, Sketchy Alpha Stamp Set, and Textured White CS by CTMH


This was my favorite layout of the weekend. It was the first layout I put together at my friend's house, and it was so fun to finally get a chance to use my Sugared Basic Grey paper and brads! These pictures are so special since it's rare for me to catch Audrey on film treating her Mao the same way she does everyday. That poor little tiger deals with a lot of tough love, but he doesn't seem to mind :D The title comes from Mao's name. When Audrey was not quite one she couldn't really say 'meow'. It always came out as 'mao'. After a while she just began calling her tiger 'Mao' and the name has stuck. Even two years later though she can mew, meow, and growl like nobody's business, she still calls her tiger 'Mao'. The cat's meow has stuck... or in this case, the cat's 'mao'.



Supplies : Foam Letters, Thickers; M photo corners Chipboard, Rusty Pickle; Little felt flower, Making Memories; Large felt flower, RAK from Jenn; Large Yellow flower, Heidi Swapp; Noteworthy CS journaling prompt, My Minds Eye; Expedition Papers, Autumn Terracota Ribbon Rounds, Black and Chocoalte CS, Autumn Terracota Textured CS, Autumn Sunflower Paper Flowers, Autumn Buttons, Chocolate Waxy Flax, Sunflower Bigger Brads, Sans Small Alpha and Extreme Alpha stamp sets by CTMH; Punch Label font printed in black for journaling

I created this layout second at her house as well. This one was a lot of fun. I had planned the title for the picture on the left for quite some time and had just never made the leap of turning it into a layout. I love the way it pulled together with the expedition papers and mish mash of embellishments. Since I don't have a label maker I just used one of the free fonts you can download online. It did however take quite a while to cut out all the words and adhere them to the page, lol, but it was definitely worth while since I really like the effect for this layout. The journaling is all about Mao's first time outside in the yard. I'm really paranoid about losing the girls' lovies so I usually make them leave them inside the house. Audrey had a blast with him and he looked like such a sad pathetic little tiger that I loved the idea of using an ironic title for his page.



Supplies : Pattern Paper, Mini Orange Label, and Blue File Label by My Minds Eye; Chipboard Letters by Rusty Pickle; Textured Orange, Pale Blue, and Teal CS by Bazzil; Chipboard label, Silver Accents, Sweet Leaf and White CS, Rustic Alpha, Atomic Alpha, Extreme Caps, and Sans Small Alpha stamp sets all by CTMH; 39 Smooth Font for Journaling

This cutie is one of my nephews. Isn't he just a charmer? I have to say that this was the most difficult page for me to do since I usually don't do boy pages. I kept wanting to put flowers and ribbon, well maybe the ribbon would have worked, but he is such a boyish boy that I didn't want to put any froo-froo on the layout at all, lol. In the end, I think I did a pretty good job with his layout, but I was more than happy to return to making little girl layouts again!!

Supplies : Pattern Paper and Buttons by My Minds Eye; Foam Letters by Thickers, Chipboard Flower Buttons by American Crafts; Textured Orange, Teal, and Green CS by Bazzil; Felt Flower by Making Memories; Dotted Flower by Doodlebug; Chipboard Photo Corner by Rusty Pickle; White Ricrac by CTMH

These pics are so funny because they were taken right after Cait and her cousin finished a battle over his new toy truck. Cait wanted to play with it and he most definitely did not find that at all acceptable. But it wasn't long before they were watching a movie peacefully together, lol. I went ahead and used the same boy papers as my All Boy layout but added flowers and the ricrac to this one since Cait was in the pictures with him.

Supplies : Pattern Paper, Friends and Tag Element by My Minds Eye; Ribbon unknown - cut by the yard from my LSS; Foam Letters by Thickers; CS by Bazzil; Spiral Flowers, RAK from Jenn; Chipboard Photo Corners by Rusty Pickle; Chipboard Letters and Arrow from CTMH; Apple Butter Font used for Journaling

These have got to be the most adorable pictures I've gotten at the waterpad. Audrey had found a little boyfriend, or rather he found her. They walked all around together holding hands, laughing together, he even had his hand on her back while watching the other kids play at one time! It was so sweet and I'm so glad my camera has such a good zoom because I don't think I would have caught this little romance if I had been closer. I used my pagemaps book for the layout, converting on of the 8.5x11 2 pagers into a 12x12 2 pager. Then I swapped the places of the pages. I finally got to use some of these adorable spiral flowers that Jenn sent me too. I had been trying to find a way to use them that I really loved and the gold ones she sent worked perfectly with this layout! The yellow and green CS in this layout are actually the back sides of the pattern paper. Anyway, that's what I did this weekend! I haven't gotten around to making my sample for the color challenge yet with all the scrapping I was doing so it might be a little late. Cait has her first formal speech therapy appointment tomorrow so the color challenge might not be up until Monday night or Tuesday morning. Thanks for stopping by!

All About A Princess

It's Princess Time!! I didn't even realize I had been doing this, but all these pictures are from Halloween. These pinky layouts have pics from Halloween '06 and the next set are from Halloween '07. They are all of Cait and she's been a Princess the past two years. She'll probably be a Princess this year too. I let her pick her costume and she ALWAYS wants to be a Princess, lol. What can I say though, she is my little princess after all ^_~

Paper : Sweet Leaf, Hollyhock, and Blush CTMH CS, My Minds Eye, Bo Bunny

Accents : My Minds Eye Paper Accents, Ribbon from LSS, CTMH Chipboard swirls and letters, Stampendous Pink Glitter, Bazzil fabric flowers, Unknown flower, Craft Rhinestones

I LOVE how this layout came out and all the pattern papers were scraps! This was the second layout I made today and I was really in the mood to bling it up especially after my first layout which is coming up next. Journaling was printed using my computer in deep pink and chocolate colors using the Apple Butter and Chocolate Box fonts.

Paper : Kiwi and White Daisy CTMH CS, My Minds Eye,

Accents : My Minds Eye Paper Accents, Heidi Swap and Bazzil Flowers, Ribbon from LSS, Rusty Pickle Chipboard, Craft Rhinestones

This was the layout I did last night, or rather very very early this morning since I was after midnight when I made it, lol. I loved this picture and had some scraps that I thought went well with it. After I finished the layout I added some fun doodling which I haven't done in a while :D

Paper : Vanilla Cream CTMH CS, My Minds Eye, Bazzil CS

Accents : My Minds Eye Paper Accents, Rusty Pickle Chipboard, Bazzil Fabric Flowers, American Crafts Big Brads, Hollyhock Ricrac (CTMH)

One of the 2-page layout I started the Saturday before last while I was at my friend's house. After almost 2 weeks I finally got around to finishing the journaling on these layouts while at her house again today, lol. This one uses an older 8.5x11 pagemaps layout that I extended to fit the 12x12 papers ^_~

Isn't this toad such a cutie! Kelly L, an awesome SBS4 sister sent a few images of him to me during our Secret Sister Image RAK and I am just now getting around to using at least one of him. I colored him in with Twilight and used the blending pen to lighten up the ink a little. I wanted to put something in this fun Minds Eye die cut circle and just couldn't find anything until I came across this little toady. He couldn't be a more perfect fit, he's even looking up at the picture of Cait!

Paper : Vanilla Cream CTMH CS, Bazzil CS, My Minds Eye

Stamps : Building Blocks Alpha, Sans Small Alphas, Atomic Lowercase Alpha, and Playful Flourishes (CTMH), Toad is from an SU set (can't remember the name) the image RAKed to me by Kelly L

Accents : My Minds Eye Paper Accents, Bazzil Fabric Flowers, American Crafts Big Brads, Hollyhock Ricrac (CTMH)

And the other 2-page layout I did at my friend's place also using a pagemaps layout. The title for this one is "Sleeping Cutie". Ever since Cait has seen Sleeping Beauty she has called her Sleeping Cutie. Even now, she still says she's sleeping cutie, lol. Julie said I just had to put that somewhere on the layout and so I did ^_~ I made it the title and the journaling is all about how Caitie calls Sleeping Beauty, 'Sleeping Cutie'. And that's all I've gotten finished this week so far. I've been a bit slow with my scrappin' but I hope that'll pic up soon ^_~ Thanks for dropping by!

Color Challenge #28

The beach was my inspiration for the colors this week. To play use at least 3 of the colors and comment me with a link to your artwork so I can add it to this post ^_~ Remember, if you don't have the exact colors, to just use whatever shades you have that are close. Have fun!!

Crystal Blue
Bamboo
Desert Sand
Buttercup
optional Heavenly Blue

Sparkle's Fun House Mouse Card
Sue's Beautiful Fall Woods Card
Marcia's Adorable A Little Something Card
Jena's Fun Best Buddies Layout

My Samples :



Papers : Crystal Blue, Bamboo, Buttercup, and White Daisy CTMH CS
Stamps : Friendship Flowers, Cottage Floral, Serendipity (CTMH)
Other : White Ricrac, Circle Windows, White Embroidery Floss

I wanted to do something fun and different so I made a circle card which I haven't done in two or three years, lol. I forgot how fun they are to make. I did a lot of fun stamping and layering with my favourite floral set, Cottage Floral by CTMH.



Papers : Crystal Blue, Bamboo, Buttercup, Heavenly Blue and White Daisy CTMH CS
Stamps : Paradise (CTMH)
Other : Harmony Sassy Strands (CTMH), CTMH Markers

I actually made this card first but it wasn't what I had in my head. I still think it's cute, just not quite what I had in mind for the sample. Some coloring with the markers to fill in the image, it was way handy that the buttercup marker on the crystal blue stamped image made the green for my palm tree and grass ^_~ TFL and have fun with the challenge colors!

Cuts, Cards, and Challenges

So I'll start with the last thing first, the challenges. I haven't been creating that much this week and what I have made I haven't taken the time to post because of EQ2. For those that don't know what that is, it's EverQuest 2, a massive multiplayer online role playing game. And it just so happens that they have free play for all Sony accounts during this month and since Paul just happened to finish his summer semester, we've been playing together once again. It's always fun to group and play with my hubby so any internet time I've had has been spent questing Norrath with him ^_~


Papers : CTMH Breeze, Sweet Leaf, Outdoor Denim, and Grey Wool CS
Stamps : I-wish-I-looked-so-good-on-a-bikeabella, Say it in Style (CTMH)
Other : Pewter small and double swirl spirals, white ricrac, pewter brad, white prima, CTMH Markers, Sakura Med Gelly Roll White

For the #37 bella color challenge. I just fell in love with this bella when I first saw her so I just had to use her again for a color challenge. I love the little grey dog :D I always wanted a little terrier when I was a little girl because my favorite aunt had one.

Papers : My Minds Eye, CTMH Sunflower CS, Bazzil CS
Stamps : Bikabella RAK from Sparkle, For Every Occasion (CTMH)
Other : CTMH Markers, Sakura Med Gelly Roll White, American Crafts Chocolate Brads, Waxy Flax

I did the Bella challenges Thursday and didn't even realize until I had finished this card that I had used bikabella with this same paper on one of the other sketch challenges, lol. So here she debuts again. At least I think I colored her differently. This is for the #37 sketch challenge. I flipped the card horizontally and then flipped it on its side.



Papers: It's a Guy Thing (CTMH), Cocoa and Olive CTMH CS
Stamps : Unknown Tilda RAK from Kelly ^_~
Other : Pewter hinge and ribbon holder (CTMH), Cocoa Ribbon (CTMH), CTMH Markers, Blender Pen, Sakura Med Gelly Roll White, Pinc Shimmer Chalks

Isn't he just a cutie!!! I had asked my SBS4 sister Deb how she colored her images since they always come out so jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and she said with watercolors! Amazing right? Well... I am not so amazing, lol. I even went to the craft store to peruse the watercolors and was totally lost. So I thought to try something a little different with my waterbase markers and that was to use the blending pen that I normally use with just the ink pads. I noticed that the blending pen lightens where I brush it, and if I brush to much it almost has a bleaching effect hence the chalking on his overalls to cover up my mistake. But if I used it just a little, it made my marker coloring have that softer look of watercoloring which I loved with this image! I used the white gel pen just on the bobber and his overall clasps for some highlighting. He took me forever to color because I was trying to do it just right since he's the only image of him that I have, and I have to say I am so happy with the way he came out! He might not be perfect, but he came out great for my first time coloring like this!

And here is a picture of the cut. What cut you ask? Well, last Saturday Paul went out shooting with some friends. One of these things he shot was a 300 Winchester Magnum (I had to write this down). Apparently, it is a HUGE rifle with massive kick. Kay showed me a picture of the size of the bullets and they are humongous!!! That cut above Paul's eye is where the SCOPE hit him! So that night, they get home at just after 8pm and ask Julie if she thinks Paul needs to get stitches. It doesn't look too bad until he raises his eyebrow and it splits wide open! So Kay took Paul to the emergency room. He ended up with 5 stitches inside and 5 stitches outside. That's male bonding for you. Go out shooting, go get stitches together, come home and joke about the whole thing, lol. The stitches came out Thursday and it doesn't look bad at all. I already have a title for the page, "SCOPED" and I just need one more picture and that's of the rifle, well maybe one of the bullets too ^_~ I wish I could have recorded them talking about it that night, it was so hilarious. Anyway, that was just some of the craziness that happened last weekend. I also made two 2-page layouts but STILL haven't finished putting the journaling on them. Hopefully I'll get that done soon so I can post those before another week goes by, lol. Next up the color challenge!

Color Challenge #27

So, I kinda posted a peek at the color challenge colors this weekend. I had actually been early and made my samples Friday evening. Then when I was playing with my bellas, I used the colors again on halobella ^_~ The combo is inspired by spring and summer flowers. Or bright pink ones anyway, lol. To play use at least 3 of the colors and send me a link to your art so I can add it here! Have fun playing!

Bubblegum
Kiwi
Sunny Yellow
Watermelon

Sue's Whimsical Flowers Card
Sparkle's Sweet MFT Thank You Card
Marcia's Lovely Merci Card
Mary's Pretty Thank You Card
Tegan's Sparkly SU Flower Card
Ashley's Fun Summer Time Card
Jena's Gorgeous Sister's Layout

My Samples :

Uses Say it in Style and Sweet Flowers. My set is actually unmounted red rubber on the EZ Mount since I never got around to buying the acrylic set. I sand distressed the second card quite a bit but left the first one alone. Simple bug embossing for texture and some RAKed organdy ribbon for embellishment. TFL and have fun with the color combo!