I had a very relaxing morning today. I decided to color an image just for the sheer joy of coloring while having the TV on. What a great way to spend a morning! I chose an image from The Paper Shelter called Tropical Fun. I just finished coloring an image from them for one of my future challenges… Read More »
The Make The Cards Challenge for this week is a Coffee Themed Challenge! I don’t really have a good coffee cup stamp set, so I purchased a digital stamp from Not 2 Shabby for this challenge. I have a great stamp set from Cas-ual Fridays Stamps called Coffee Talk and I finally had a reason to use… Read More »
The new Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge is a theme challenge this month! You need to make a layout about YOU! I decided that any layout that I create about myself needs to include a mixed media background. I consider myself a mixed media artist even though I don’t share all those projects here or on YouTube. I’ve… Read More »
There is a new challenge on the Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge site and it is a stitching challenge! Your project needs to include stitching! It is still an Anything Goes challenge, so you can make any kind of project, but there should be some stitching on it. Our sponsor for this week is Oddball Art Stamps and… Read More »
I can’t believe it is the sixth Make The Cards Challenge already! It seems like we just started last week! I’m loving this challenge because is something new every week. Last week we did a color challenge and the week before it was a theme challenge. This week, we have a sketch challenge! I was excited about… Read More »
The Make The Cards Challenge for this week is a color challenge! I just got a new order from Sassy & Crafty Stamps and I was very excited to use one of the new stamps from the February release! I love my Chucks! I always wanted a pair of these sneakers when I was a kid and… Read More »
The latest challenge for the Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge is an anything goes challenge which means that you can use whatever you want and create any kind of project! The challenge has been sponsored by All Dressed Up Stamps! We are sharing projects for two images that they provided for this challenge: Love my home https://www.etsy.com/listing/786133186/love-my-home?ref=shop_home_active_80 Follow your… Read More »
This week’s Make the Cards Challenge is a Circle Theme Challenge! I had a lot of fun playing with this one and doing a little experimenting with a new background technique! The theme made me think of the STAMPlorations Bubbles stencil that I love so much and I have a drawer full of circle punches. I’ve been… Read More »
I like to participate in the Turner’s Syndrome Blog Hop and Challenge every year to help raise awareness for Turner’s Syndrome which is a genetic disorder that affects females. I was surprise to discover that 1 in 2000 female births worldwide are affected by this genetic defect and that a high percentage of the pregnancies that don’t go… Read More »
2021 finds me still pursuing my rekindled love of scrapbooking in many forms. I’m loving making mini albums and I have a quick and simple one to share with you today! I created a sweet little mini album using a Star Stampz K-I-S-S-I-N-G Valentine’s Day image for the cover. I added some coordinating patterned papers I’ve had in… Read More »
The Make The Cards Challenge for week 3 is a theme challenge and that theme is Congratulations! I am not gonna fib…I thought it was Celebrate and that is the card that I made. I did a quick adjustment to amend my sentiment to include a congratulations with a slightly different type and font. I LOVE this sweet… Read More »
I had several projects I wanted to create today and all I felt like doing was scrapbooking in my little traveler’s notebook, so I combined all the projects into a fun little documented story in my traveler’s notebook! If you have been one of my long time blog readers, you know that I’m all about stretching my… Read More »
I am thinking that I should have title this blog post “What I did wrong on the layout”. I’ll be telling you what I would have changed! The theme for this month’s Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge is: Celebrate Love. The new Hip Kit Club kit for January arrived on Friday. It’s fun changing things up and getting… Read More »
Last year, I participated in an event called ScrapSmarter and it has cascaded into a renewed love of scrapbooking in all forms. I’ve been taking scrapbooking classes, participating in live events for it, and I have joined a couple of scrapbooking forums that have virtual live crop events and classes. I’m enjoying it immensely! One of the groups… Read More »
The Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge Blog has Friendship, Wedding, or Valentine’s theme this challenge and you can create any type of project. The sponsor for this challenge is Bugaboo Digi Stamps. I was given the Frame It-Stella, Valentine’s Day digital stamp to create with and I had fun making a little… Read More »