2S4Y Bonus Sketch

Here is a card I created for the 2S4Y bonus sketch. This was my first time using Bella Blvd products. I picked up some papers from Estate Sale at my LSS last week. Beautiful and I love the cut outs for creating cards. I stamped a cut out with some Hero Arts stamps for a simple card.

Bo Bunny Birthday Card Challenge

Bo Bunny latest card challenge was to simply make a birthday card. I’ve had this on my to do list for awhile and finally made the card over the weekend. Entries are due tonight so I guess I just squeaked it in. I used the Bo Bunny Gypsy line. I was lucky enough to pick up the Gypsy cut-outs as well making it a super easy card to make. I added a bit of bling, some crumpled ribbon, and a simple birthday sentiment stamp. It’s not a card that screams birthday but for some people that makes a good birthday card.

Scrap It With a Song #20

After 20 fabulous weeks I'm saying goodbye as a DT member at Scrap It with a Song. We have lots of great new talent joining the team and I figured that with student teaching coming I didn't want to reapply for the team. But I had a great time and hope I can play along at least some of the time. For week 20 the song is Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder. I went a little untraditional with my take. I thought "lovely" "wonderful" and "precious" were great words to describe the cards that students made me during my last school placement. I thought the ABC Sassafras paper was great because it was school and the little monster worked because they were a trying group of kids but like that monster still very lovable.

We are being sponsored by Crafty Ribbons who will be giving the winner 20 jewel colored heavily glittered ribbon. Sound like a really fun prize so please share your creations for this week!

Random Crafty Sharing

So when I got the update on Facebook that my LSS had received Cosmo Cricket I headed right over. Unfortunately they have only ordered Pixielicious and Mitten Weather. I was hoping for Togetherness. I got Pixielicious but decided against Mitten Weather since I have lots of unused Christmas paper already even though I love it. I also picked up some Echo Park and Bella Blvd. Everyone seems pretty excited for the Echo Park papers plus they have lots of fun Facebook contests. I decided I had to get in on the action.

You purchase a kit (picture above) for $5 and then make a card or two or more. Bring your completed card back to the store and be entered for a random draw of a $25 gift certificate to the store. Sounds like a good deal to me. I've been looking into new inks. All I have are the Cat’s Eye Chalk Inks and they just don’t’ produce crisp images so the owner recommended Momento Inks. So between the black which they only had in the small and the brown that came with the kit I now will be able to stamp cute sentiments instead of spending money for the crisp look of rub-ons.

Anyway here are my two cards with the kit. I wanted to use a little bit of everything from the kit in one card. I knew I wanted to ink up the octopus so I decided to put him in a little ocean scene. The blue waves are the other side of the orange paper. I added some gel pen accents and added the ribbon to ground the sentiment.

I decided I want to keep playing with the ocean idea because I didn't get to incorporate the ship stamp in the last card. I made a rather simple card that I think could be sent to one of the boys from the Cards for Kids drive. This meant leaving out the ribbons and buttons because they were sparkle-y and girl-y. I'm loving the new inks and am excited to use my stamps to their full potential.

Cards to Share

I'm going to keep this quick because I'm quite tired. I've been commuting to Burlington about an hour away (hour and a half with traffic) for my student teaching. We are just setting up the classroom and I'm exhausted from the drive. I hope I adjust quickly when the year starts. Anyway on to the cards. First up a card using scraps for the Etsy Inspired Challenge. The Etsy store of the week is Global Child Connection and I was inspired by this print.

Next up on Tuesday I was able to pick up the new Pixielicious at my LSS. I crafted with it that night but the craziness of the past two days means I'm only now sharing. I made it for the 2S4Y sketch. I used one of the elements and then the cut off strip on the bottom of the paper is my bottom border. I love Cosmo Cricket so much I'm already thinking of ways to stretch my new collection. Have a fab night and I will be back soon hopefully more well rested with a more thought out post.

Scrap It With a Song #19

At Scrap It With a Song this week we are celebrating Summertime the great Will Smith formerly known as The Fresh Prince. It’s a fun song from his early career before we was a movie star. I went with a fun simple card that was a bit summery but could be used anytime. That is a touch of Sassafras Lass paper that I colored in part way with some gel pens. Then I spelled out my sentiment with MLS letter stickers. This week we are being sponsored by Digital Delights which makes adorable digital stamps. This is the perfect week to join us at Scrap It With a Song because you can scrap some of your recent summer memories.

SRM Stickers Sketch

SRM Stickers is featuring creations made by their DT featuring SRM Stickers and the new Cosmo Cricket lines. Unfortunately I have not gotten the chance to get my hands on the new lines yet but I did want to play with the sketch. I used the Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday papers and elements. Head on over to the blog to check out the sketch for your chance to win the new stickers or some lovely Cosmo Cricket goodies!