#196 Crafty Sprouts Shaped Card Challenge

***Please scroll down to next post #195 for the Labor of Love Blog Hop and GIVEAWAY***

Hi everyone it's time for a new challenge at  the Crafty Sprouts Blog and this week's challenge is to make a shaped card how easy it that!! I found this circle shaped card on the Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge, and the monster/alien guy is from the Boys Will Be Boys Cricut cart. I embossed the orange paper with my Cuttlebug and stamped the sentiment with Crafty Sprouts MONSTER KISSES stamp set. If you haven't got a chance to try these stamps out... I highly recommend them, they are all a nice large size perfect for any size card you want to create! I stamped the face with Peachy Keen Stamps, we are also sponsored by Peachy Keen Stamps!!

Here's another close-up of this lil' monster and you can see the embossing better here =)

To enter our shaped card challenge please submit your project HERE

P.S. Don't forget to scroll down to the next post below for the LABOR OF LOVE BLOG HOP and my giveaway!! I'm giving away a set of Crafty Sprouts stamps!!!!!!!!

#145 Boys Will Be Boys Layout

***This is my 2nd post today please scroll down for the DDLL New Releases!!****

Here's a close up of my painting and helicopter!

Hi everyone! This is my 2nd post today please scroll down for the awesome new release from DDLL. 

Here's a scrapbook page about my son and nephew Jacob who were being silly boys on a hot summer day. I had just bought my son some Thomas the Train underwear for potty training and they both were crying to wear them so we put them on and then they were being boys and started jumping on the sofa and dancing when they heard the Justin Bieber song "Baby" LOL! It was pretty funny! 

All of the papers are from DCWV All About Boys stack. I used a border punch for the ribbon border and threaded the blue Christmas ribbon through it. I made my own chipboard pieces with a Ritz cracker box for the title and journaling spot. The helicopter is from the Boys Will Be Boys cart. I did some embossing and painting with green acrylic paint.  Also, the other funky zig zag shapes are from Gypsy Wanderings.

I am so proud to announce that I finally made an Etsy shop  after tallking about opening one for almost a year!! My shop is called DISNEY LOVER DESIGNS and I have a few things in there right now. I just added a layout pretty identical to this one. I will be specializing in lots of different things like....cards, layouts, mini albums, banners, party favors, party invites, wall decor and altered art.  Here is the link to my shop again http://www.etsy.com/people/DisneyLoverDesigns

Have a great day!

#94 Friends Fur-ever card

***If you are looking for my DT submission for PPT click HERE***

Hi everyone today is challenge #3 at challenges with ABBY and this week we all made a project with an animal and the color orange in honor of the ASPCA against animal cruelty month.

For my card I decided to make a total girly card using the Boys Will Be Boys cart for the dog and circle. I embossed the circle with a very pretty Sizzix embossing folder, stamped the sentiment, added bling with my I-rock, added ribbon, floss and did some faux stitching. For this little dogs eyes I used Critter Faces from Peachy Keen Stamps. If you would like to enter teh challenge to win something from Oh My Crafts please click HERE for the Animal/Orange challenge have fun!

Be sure to check out my blog all week long because the time is finally here for me to be a Guest Designer for PEACHY KEEN STAMPS 4/11-4/15!

#63 Beach Layout

(You can Click on the Picture to zoom in)

Hi everyone! I am so excited that I finally made a layout! In case you are new to my blog, I originally started with only layouts, then I was getting way behind in my goal 365 projects in 365 days so then I started getting into a card rut! Now I feel like I am way behind in my scrapbooking, but it's ok I will catch up I am determined!

If you are wondering why there's a big mustashe on this page its because my son Aidan had a "Sand Mustashe" at the beach it was so funny we were all laughing at his sand mustashe and so was my niece Natalie, so I decided to snap some pics of them. As you can see here in the pics Natalie was looking right at Aidan and Aidan was showing off his pile of sand and his sand Mustashe it was super cute and funny!

Onto the details......

All Papers: Making Memories

Sandcastle & Crabs: Life's a Beach cartridge

Mustashe: Billionaire LITE

Title: B is For Boy LITE

Shovel & Pail: Boys Will Be Boys Cartridge

Face Stamps: PKS Everyday  Faces

Octopus Stamp: TPC Studio (Joann's)

Journaling Tag: Martha Stewart

Rub-Ons: K & Company

Glimmer Mist

Here's a close up of the rub-on sentiment, Glimmer Mist and sandcastle

Here's a close up of his famous sand mustashe lol!

I am also entering this layout in the Scrappy Mom's Challenge B is For Boy

#20 Dog Walk Layout

Hello everyone I hope you all are having a great weekend! I am because I am motivated to get some layouts done finally since I am falling way behind lol! Here's a layout I made about me and my Pomeranian dog Blackie. He was my first baby lol! His 6th b-day is coming up on Feb. 3rd I just can't believe I've had him in my life almost 6 years. These photos were taken in 2005. Blackie would always look at me like he was telling me he wanted to go for a walk. We are so perfect together because we read eachother's mind lol! He is just too funny he acts like a stuck up dog and prances around all day like he is a model or something. He really knows how to make my hubby mad hahaha!

The other night at Michael's they had all of these American Craft's paper stacks on clearance for $6.99 so I used my new paper for this LO. Here's a list of the carts I used:

Boys Will Be Boys- Walk

Slumber Party LITE- please

Wild Card- Green Frame

Songbird-Flowers

Playtime LITE-Girl w/dog

Paper Pups-Dog Tail, Bone

I used my EK paw print border punch for the border, I added some pearls and eyelets to the circle parts of the paper, also added brads and did some inking to the flowers. I finally got the Exclusive Cricut LITE Playtime cartridge on ebay earlier this week and I was so excited because I think I got it at a very reasonable price, and I stamped her face with PKS. I stamped the bone with Pink By Design stamps. I've decided that I will start taking pics of my journaling areas so you guys can get ideas on what to say when you do your journaling on your LO's. For the longest time I would never do journaling, but I just kept thinking about how my kids, grand kids, and great grandkids will appreciate the journaling. I know I don't have the nicest handwriting, but hey I get too lazy to go type it up on the computer and print it out lol!

#19 Soul Mates Card for Flaunt It Friday's

Hello everyone thank you all for stopping by my blog over the weekend and during the week. Also, thank you all who entered our challenge at Flaunt It Friday's you all did a fabulous job!

For this week's challenge we are featuring the GIVE A HOOT cartridge and the cut is the Bear and Trash Can on page 61. This was a real challenge for me and it took 2 days to make this card. Sometimes you just gotta walk away and then everything comes naturally! The bear in can is from GAH and the dump truck is from Boys Will Be Boys. I embossed the truck with a Sizzix folder in my Cuttlebug. I stamped the sentiment since they are "Soul Mates" no really! They see eachother every Tuesday morning at 6:30 AM LOL! I stamped the faces with PKS and added some ribbon. Please make sure to enter your project at the Flaunt It Friday's blog. For this month's Grand Prize we are giving away one Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge sponsored by one of our very own designer's Stephanie Always Crafting thank you Stephanie!