Flower Window

Ok, so I know I've made a window card before! BUT a window card was all I could see when I was finding inspiration from this weeks sketch over at Peachy Keen Stamps. lol

You had to use this colour combo and sketch.



This is what I was inspired to do. Again, I don't have a ton of Peachy Keen stamps but I love using the faces I do have in different ways!



So to try something new and different I scored siding and used my crimper to make curtains which I think turned out cute!

Laurie

Cindy Loo and challenges!

Well now that I am back into the swing of the year I had a bit of time to craft today! yay :)

I made this card using the Cindy Loo cartridge (which I was lucky enough to treat myself to today at Michael's during there sale!) for the circle with the tree design and the little bird. I made it for the Colour Throwdown challenge and the Mojo Monday challenge. Both were difficult for me this week as I had to go through all of my paper to find something to match the colours at the Throwdown and I was having a had time with the sketch and then with Cindy Loo it just sort of came together!



The picture of this isn't quite right on the actually colours but you get the idea!

Laurie

oh time!

Well I wish, wish, wish that I had some time to craft this week but I am just to busy! hopefully next week or the weekend. I'm missing working on challenges and can't wait to do some.

Laurie

Happy Day AGAIN! lol

I was picked top 5 over at the Peachy Keen Challenge site. How amazingly lucky am I!

It was for my super star card which I was really happy with so that makes me even happier!

What a great lunch time surprise! lol

Laurie

New Shelf

SO my lovely father built me a shelf that I "designed" (I don't know that you can really design a bookshelf) so I will just give myself credit for coming up with the right measurements for the shelves. I wanted it to be for my current cartridges but big enough that if and when I get more cartridges it would hold them all. So I got him to build it a big bigger then needed but I figured I could use it to hold some current projects etc. I think he just did the best job! I love it and it's actually really nice to have a place to put my cards, I usually just put them in a bucket!



Anyway thanks dad you did a great job and I find the whole thing very inspirational, I love looking over there mid day as I do my work! :)


L

A nice surprise!

Well I had no time to craft this weekend, it was a sort of busy/putter around the house kind of weekend. On a lovely, happy surprise note I made the headlines over at the Paper Players Blog for my "Have a berry nice day" card. There was some really cute projects (which I fully plan on "scraplifting") and so I am thrilled to be choosen as the headliner!

Thanks again ladies of The Paper Players!

On an unrelated note my custon built shelf my lovely dad built for my cricut cartridges is up and running and I keep coming into the den to look at it, lol. So I feel like pictures are in order so I will post those tomorrow just for fun.

Laurie

Have a berry nice day!

My inspirations for this photo were from two different challenge sites.

I got my colour and theme inspiration from The Paper Players website. It took me a couple of days of just sort of thinking about the picture to come up with what I wanted to do.

I got my layout from the sketch challenge over at Mojo Monday. I centered the ribbon and even though you can't see if because the paper is black there are 3 little black glitter dots under the ribbon just like on the sketch ... darn camera! :)

Featured Stamper

I'm very excited this evening! I got chosen as the featured stamper over at The Color Throwdown. There are so many great projects submitted on this site you should take a look. I can never make it though all the postings but the thumbnails are great too! I've only played a couple of times there and they always have great color challenges (I never seem to have the colours! lol) and beautiful inspiration. Thanks again to all the ladies for featuring my project.

Laurie

Believe

So there were two challenges today that I actually had colours for so that has been my project for this afternoon.

I really likes the sketch over at Mojo Mondays and so I twisted it a bit but I still think it looks like the original!

I also used the colours from the Colour Throwdown and they worked out really well.

I took a few shots so you could see how the card works. It's sort of an envelope and card in one!

Birthday Wishes

I got a couple of things made this morning during my exciting day off to craft!

This first one is a challenge over at Create with Connie and Mary and I actually had paper with all the colours so I just had to play along!



This next one I wanted to make something that my sister could use and she goes through a lot of notebooks at work so I decided to make her a notebook to fit in with the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog I really like how this turned out and I think she will like it! I've never done a challenge over at there site but there is some great inspiration so you should all play along!



Off to lunch! :)

Just moved card

Ok SOOOO this week I was going to actually make the Jitterbug challenge on time, lol! So I made my card tonight so that there was no way I could miss the deadline.

So for this challenge you had to use stripes (my ribbon) and add an animal or two (monkey, bird, bug in my case). I started out and decided to use a tree as my main shape and I was just thinking I will put a bird in the tree as my animal. BUT that got me thinking even more and that got me making a "Just Moved" card and all these little animals were moving into the tree!

I have no one to give this too, lol but I think it turned out cute! I'm just excited that I've had this evening and I have tomorrow during the day to just craft away. YAY!



Oh and as a side note these animals are like 1 inch big and that was a big big mistake on my part! lol

Christmas in advance!

I was working on this for the challenge over at the Jitterbug site! I was wrong about the deadline and so I missed the challenge but Sherri was kind enough to post it on her site.



You were supposed to do a vehicle ... I think this counts as a vehicle, no? lol

Charlie and Annie

I had some time today to make a layout for the Papertake Weekly Challenge I found the site on one of my clicking adventures, lol, and I was inspired to play along.

I thought their sketch was perfect for a layout, I had to make a little change to accomodate the paper I was using (croped a corner so you could see the bird) but I think it still works and follows the sketch!



I had to use the scraps to make something since they were so cute so I just put together a little birthday card to have on hand.

Super Star

My friend Kelly told me the Peachy Keen Stamps does a challenge so I headed over to check it out this week and was insired by the colours so I decided to play along.

I don't have many stamps but I do have two sets of their face stamps so I decided to try and come up with something creative and use them in a different way!

Fingers Crossed!

Well ladies and gents! If you can imagine there I was fiddling around with the wires around my desk getting it tidied up for the cable guy who is coming to fix my failing modem. I saw that my cricut was plugged into the wrong power supply (a different power cord etc) and so not thinking it would help at all (power is power right! lol) I switched the cords and gave it a whirl and a MIRACLE happened!!! it seemed to fix the issue. I only had time for a quick test cut but it seemed good.

Yay, Yay, Yay!

I never would have thought that using a different power cord would have created the issue.

Keep your fingers crossed that when I craft tonight it's still fixed! ;)

L