Somebirdy Loves You

Here is my card for this weeks challenge over at the Photo-Synthesis Challenge site. It also fits the challenge over at The Paper Players Site. I sure needed the creative boost of Lesley's design tonight and I took a little creative liberty on the placement of the flowers as a lower accent then the two dots on her sketch. BUT in the end I think it works.

I also worked with Digistamps for this challenge which was neat for me to try. Tiffany over at Tiffany Doodles has some lovely images and I just fell in love with the little bird she made and the saying and used them to make this nice little scene!

I'm still in a mood about my circut but at least this little card turned out cute and lifted my spirits a little for now!

WELL!

I'm in a state of slight panic ladies and gents. My cricut may be broken ... this is a really bad time for it to be broken since I don't know that a new one would be possibly for me right now.

Has anyone ever had trouble loading the mats (like they don't seem to catch in the roller) and having there cuts be completely off ... like lopsided shapes and circles that don't start and finish in the same place?

*Sigh* Not what I need right now!

Laurie

Friday Night Girls Craft Night!

So we have had our girls craft night ... it was a blast! All sorts of crafting happening from paper crafts to ceramics and door prizes and goodies. It was a fun night over all. There were 8 of us in the end and it was a great number to be able to chat with everyone and still be sitting to work on your projects.

Here are a few picture:




My GOAL for the night was to make 10 cards trying to use up my scraps only. I only got 8 made but I was really happy with that since there was A LOT of chatting happening. lol

Below are my cards that I got done.

Laurie

PS There is a great giveaway here at Melissa's site, I think it's still open!

Favorites of the night!

Left Overs :)

I wanted to use up the rest of the little animal paper I had sitting in my drawer so I used it here:

Birthday Wishes Sunflower

Birthday Wishes

Hello

Excited ...

Well I never thought I would get more then just a few blog followers ... and now look! Almost 30 ... that makes me super excited. I am going to have to change my goal of 10 followers to 50 I've decided. I don't know if I'll get there but I will be one happy gal if I do!! lol

I relly am enjoying blogging and learning all sort of new tips and tricks from reading everyone elses blogs. The creative people out there never stop amazing me. So talented this world is!

I'm off to a girls craft night tonight that my friend and I have organized and I am going to try and get a bunch of cards done. I'm in a card mood not a scrapbooking mood so hopefully I will actually get some work done and not just sit around and snack and chat! lol

L

Life Gives You Lemons

Hello All,

Just a note to tell you about a new challenge site. I am pleased and excitied to say that I am on the design team. You should come out and play along, the colours for this first challenge are amazing! The Photo-Synthesis Challenge

Here is my design team entry!



Laurie

Happy Day

I did this card up for my sister as a congratulations card. I wanted to work with the vintage challenge at Always Playing With Paper the design at Mojo Monday and the colours at Color Throwdown. Usually I can only make a project to fit one maybe two challenges and yet today when I was blog hoping and enjoying looking at every ones hard work and creativity I found three that I could work with for one card. ]

I'm really loving doing these challenges... I find that since I've started them and starting blogging I am finding myself much more motivated to find time to craft, even if it's only an hour, and to not spend soooo much time on each item. I still take way to long, lol, but I'm getting a lot better and making decent cards in under 1 hour! :)

Happy Birthday Spider Card

I wanted to take part in the Jitterbuggin' Challenge again this week and so I decided to make a card for my friends little girls birthday. It's the next child's birthday I have coming up. It's not until October 31st, Halloween, and she will be turning 2. I think it's kind of cute to play off of Halloween for her birthday but wanted something cute for a little girl too! I think this came out nicely.



Laurie

Picked In the top 4!

I'm feeling pretty special this week! I was picked at Always Playing With Paper as "A Cut Above" ... so I'm feeling pretty lucky yet again!

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I've also had a chance to work on some crafting this morning and made some little bottle tags with my friend Kelly for a craft night we are doing next week! What I actually like best is we used the cut outs from the punch where the top of the water goes through as part of the decoration on the bottom... I love when you get to use up scraps like that!

This is the inspiration photo:



and here is my project ...



I've added the sour cream shaped treat containers I finished this morning (filled with candies if your curious :) ) and photographed them altogether. Michelle below mentioned a challenge blog that my project would fit (Thanks Michelle!) so I am very excited to find a challenge to enter it into because I didn't think I would. There are lots of great posts and projects on this new (to me :) ) site. Check it out! Off The Wall

Have a great day,
Laurie

Jitterbuggin'

I'm very excited, I got top 3 at the Jitterbugin' challenge this week for my panda card!

Thanks Sherri and the Jitterbuggin' Challenge.

Laurie

Because ... Some days you are the bug, and some days you are the window!

I was sitting here trying to think of something creative for two challenges and I had a bunch of pink paper left over from a card I made to send to a women who blogs who has breast cancer. So then it got me thinking. I have a family member who will celebrate 5 years in remission in November so I will create something for her. She is a very funny and outgoing lady and I thought I need to think of something a little out of the ordinary to put on it. So after staring at paper and embellishments for a bit (Kate and I would make a good crafting team ... sitting in silence staring at paper ;) ) I came up with this idea.

"Some days you are the bug and some days you are the window" ... I had read that somewhere (or something like that) and I think it fits the sketch at Just Add Ink and the animal (bumble bee and embosed puppy) at Fantabulous Cricut .



L