Friendly Forest Hello!

Hello! Finally had some time to make a card today! This is for this week's sketch challenge over at SCS found HERE. I used choclate chip for my base and kraft for my swiss dots panel. I sponged brown ink around the edges. I used my scallop edge punch to create a border around the triangle piece. All DP is from my current favorite Friendly Forest collection by Colorbok. Love that stuff. The stamps used are Unity's tiny trinity. That is my current favorite set of Unity's. I use it all of the time. I stamped the trees in chocolate chip and cut them out and used my marker to fill in the details fro the trunks.

I have to get ready for a class I am having on Saturday, so I have a ton of cutting to do! Hopefully I can post those projects soon!

Have a Wonderful Wednesday!

Emily

My Little Froggie page!

Here is a page I did with the Unfrogettable set! I was inspired by many different things to make this! Several inspiration challenges, and the fact that this stamp set was still sitting on my table along with the papers, and my prisma pencils!

I colored the frog and toad stool with prismas, and used gamsol to blend! I popped my froggie up with dimensionals! I sponged taken with teal and green galore around my sentiment oval. Used my CB folders on my strip of taken with teal and green galore. I matted my photo with black. Added some primas and buttons and page done! I really like the LO for this page. It is clean and simple, which allowed for all of the time I spent coloring and cutting the froggie out!

Have a great day!

Emily

Jazzy Inspirations challenge 7

Good morning, everyone! I am the Jazz Cat of The Week (guest designer) over on Tenia's challenge blog! Above you will find the Jazzy Inspiration Challenge for this week. The colors from the album are Green Galore, Tempting Turquoise, white, and black! I thought this one was a tuffy, but I instantly thought of frogs! LOL! I got out this retired SU set, and got to work.

I colored my mushroom image and frog with prisma pencils and blended with gamsol. I cut out my froggie and popped him with dimensionals on top of the mushroom. Used the swiss dots and Lots of dots (I think that's the name) cuttlebug folders. I added some white grosgrain ribbon up top, and punched my sentiment with the oval punch! I love the way this turned out. This is such a fun set, and I always love an excuse to get it out and play!

Stop on over to the Jazzy Inspirations Challenge blog and upload your card if you play! You may be the next Jazz Cat of the Week!

Stay tuned, because I will have a scrapbook page tomorrow with the same set!

Hugs!

Emily

Super easy Limited Supply Challenge card!

I made this for the LSC210. You can find all of the deets HERE. Basically, we were to make a card in under 30 minutes! Sometimes it is nice to go back to basics. No frills, no coloring-just stamp and be done with it! This was super easy to make. All paper was from my scrap bin. I used my punches, which saved LOADS of time and one little strip of DP across the middle!

Stamps: Life's A Breeze-SU

Paper: Soft Sky, White, DP is SU's retired Jersey Shore (I think!)

Ink: Black, Soft Sky

I used my SU circle and scallop punch to make my "sun"!

I am yearning for some warm weather, so I am on a beach themed kick!

Check back tomorrow! I am the Jazz Cat of The Week (guest designer) over at Jazzy Inspirations, so I will have this week's challenge card posted tomorrow!

Have a FANTABULOUS Friday!

Emily

My first ever ATC card!

I made this ATC for the What to use challenge over on SCS. I have never made an ATC, so I thought I would give it a try! I also completely admire the beautiful scenes created by my blog bud, Lisa. She is completely AMAZING! I decided to try to make a tiny scene on my ATC, thinking small would be easy...NOT! So after viewing the final product I decided that I attempted one too many 'firsts' for this card! LOL!

All stamps are from my Unity grab bag-palm tree, sun and fun sentiment. I cut out my palm tree which was tedious and took forever due to its small size. I brayered soft sky for my sky. I cut a piece of baja breeze and then sponged baja breeze ink over it for my water. I added some waves with my white gel pen. I cut out an "island" out of kraft paper and sponged some chocolate chip over it and drew in some lines with a marker. The sun is stamped with summer sun craft ink and the sentiment is stamped in pumpkin pie inside the sun.

I cut the boat shape out of chocolate chip paper and shaded with my marker for depth. I used a small piece of just twine to tie my boat to the tree. I made a slit in the baja breeze paper to stick my boat down in the water and roughed up the edge so it looked like water lapping against the side.

Thanks for looking at my first ATC and first "scene" card! I now worship Lisa's skills even more than before!

Emily

Chloe's Closet paper is YUM!

I made this for the Sketch challenge on SCS found HERE. I just bought this Chloe's closet paper by Making Memories. I LOVE it! It is so summery and fun! The stamp is from an old SU set Oh, So Lovely-an oldie but goodie! My card base is So saffron and I used the swiss dots CB folder on it. I matted the DP and the image with Pumpkin Pie. The ribbon is something I bought ages ago at the dollar store! I bought a few copics yesterday, so I decided to start small and with only one color! LOL! I figured I couldn't mess it up!

Have a great day! I am glad mine is almost over! Very stressful day with my twins. My son Max has some special needs which I have talked about before and is probably going to qualify for our school districts pre-school program. It will be great for him because he will have speech, OT and PT working with him all week at school on top of what we private pay for. The other twin Luke, did not qualify, which I knew he wouldn't. I was shocked to learn that they will not accept Luke into preschool until he is 4! They said they only accept 3 year olds who are "atypical" or special needs! My heart is breaking thinking that I will have to take them to two different pre-schools. I planned on separating them when they got to grade school, but not pre-school. Max needs Luke and Luke needs Max. I am starting to cry again just typing about it! It may not seem like a big deal, and in the long run, probably isn't. It is just breaking my heart...no way else to explain it. I could go on and on but I will get over it. Life goes on! Everything happens for a reason, right?

Emily

Super Spectacular Button Deal at Hobby Lobby!

Well...I don't have a card for you today or a scrapbook page, but I do want to let you know about a great deal at Hobby Lobby for those who are close to one! I found these buttons for $1.08! I opened the blue container up and there were 73 buttons! I {heart} buttons, so I grabbed them up in boyish colors! They also had pink and purple! They come in really nifty containers, too!

These were NOT in the scrapbook section. I found these in the aisle where they have the T-shirts and flip flops that you can decorate. It is toward the back of the store kind of in the middle (at my hobby lobby anyway!) I am so mad because I went to two HL's today, and of course didn't find this deal until I went to the second one! Oh well! I have more than enough buttons to last me for a long time! LOL!

Just thought I would let you guys know!

Emily

Hello! Today I am hostessing the IFC over on SCS. My challenge is to scraplift or be inspired to make a page based on one of Jennipher (stamptician)'s pages. Jennipher normally hosts the IFC, but is taking this month off.

This page is of my little Luke! I {heart} this photo of him! He looks so sweet and innocent. He is sooooooo my wild child, but knows how to give you a look that would melt your heart! He will need those big puppy dog eyes someday, I'm sure! I used paper from K&Co.'s Daydream collection and all stamps are from Unity.

If you get a chance why not give this challenge a try! I would love to see what you come up with!

Have a Marvelous Monday!

Emily

Ashley's Etsy Inspired Challenge

I made this for Ashley's Etsy Inspired challenge found HERE. This was a limited supply challenge. Here were the criteria:

1 ribbon

2 colors (including a neutral)

3 layers

We were to make the card in 1 hour or less. I used the old hostess set, Spring Solitude from SU. The ribbon I bought at Michael's last year. My three colors are white, black and tempting turquoise.

This was a super fun card to make. Clean and simple!

Go check out Ashley's awesome challenge!

Emily

Not so great Scrapbook LO, and blog candy WINNER!

I made this page for Sally's sketch challenge over at SCS found HERE. I really loved this sketch, but am so NOT happy with the way my page turned out! The DP I used and the journaling block are from Creative Memories. I am just not a creative memories kind of girl. I LOVE some of the tools they offer, but have never been a fan of their scrappin' style. I really like the greens and blues in this DP, but not sure about the journaling block. Oh well!

Now...for what you all have been waiting for! The winner of my Basic Grey blog candy is................Kristen, post #7. Here is her post:
oo yummy blog candy! My favorite candy is swedish fish! yum!!! :) I love how chewy they are and that they get stuck in my teeth! Thanks for a great chance to win Emily! congrats on so many hits!

Congratulations, Kristen! Shoot me a PM over on SCS or email me your addy and I will get this kit out to you this week!

I will have another scrapbook page tomorrow. I will be guest hostessing the Scrapbook Inspiration challenge on SCS tomorrow, so come take a peek!

Have a super Sunday!

Emily