Merriest Christmas Wishes

This is the first card I made this year for the Holiday Season. It's a direct copy of one made by Farley using paper from a recent Simon Says Stamp kit and my old Martha Stewart cardinal punch. Apertures were cut with circle dies from My Favorite Things. Stickles may have been applied. Thank you for looking.

Sweet Treats

Back to multi-tasking. This is a Double Take sketch used for Week Three of the Pro Scrapbooking League contest. The challenge this week was to use curves on our layouts. This layout has many buttons. Clear ones which were colored with alcohol ink as well as two bingo buttons. There's a lot going on here as I was trying to follow the examples set in the Double Take class. This was the first sketch from Week One of the class.  I like it a lot and will be using it again. I used washi tape and strips of paper for the strips. A Martha Stewart punch to get the doily look on the border. The papers used were all from Club Scrap's Sprinkles kit. Thanks for looking. 

Sweet

Created this layout for the Club Scrap Monthly Sketch Relay challenge. Took me all month to do it but I FINALLY, finally finished it. How can it take sooo long to put a title and journalling on a layout? Let me count the ways. 

Anyway, these photos were taken when my sister Chrissie and I attended West Coast Scrap's Scramp Camp with Farley (along with many other Club Scrappers) in Campbell, CA, in September. On the way, we made a stop in Livermore to see the World's Longest Burning Lightbulb (yes, indeed, we did) and on that same stop, we introduced Farley to the fun sport of Letterboxing. We also took her to one in Campbell. Funnily enough, both letterboxes were located indoors in sugar shacks. One was called Let 'Em Eat Cake and the other was Psycho Donuts. 

We feared Farley would turn to a pillar of stone when we took her into those dens of iniquity. However, we all survived without having an on-the-sport heart attack. Of course, Chrissie and I broke down and bought one cupcake but ALL resisted the Psycho Donuts. 

I used base from Earth & Herbs, purple from Sonoma and pink from Jubilee. Mats from Perfect Ten. Title cut with Quickutz Blossom font. Cupcakes punched with Martha Stewart punch and Stickled. Journaling computer generated. All edges inked with Dusty Concord DI. Love this sketch. Thanks for looking.

Holiday Card Class - Sentiment Backgrounds

One more card from Day Nine of the Holiday Card Class. Same information as the card I posted on December 11. Still not crazy about the technique. Washi tape border and edge punch from Martha Stewart.

Holiday Card Class - Day Nine

Back to my Holiday Card Class. On Day Nine, Jennifer McGuire showed us how to create cards using Sentiment stamps. I wasn't overly fond of this technique and had very few sentiment stamps at the time the class was being held. However, thanks to a recent buying spree, I suddenly found myself the lucky owner of quite a few new Christmas sentiments. Still not crazy about the technique, but determined to try each of the techniques taught to us. This one uses materials from my Simon Says Stamp class as well as my scrap stash. The sentiment stamps are mostly from Simon Says Stamp with a few others thrown in for good measure. I don't think I will try this technique again. I used my Martha Stewart Cardinal punch on this one. Love that little guy.

Double Take Sketches

I recently participated in an online class called Double Take at Big Picture Classes along with my friend and fellow Squirrely Girl Nancy. The class started before my trip to Kentucky but I wasn’t really able to participate until it was completely over and I had returned to my scrap cave. These first two layouts were created with the Double Take sketches. As always, I was multi-tasking and made them to suit some other challenges at PaperArtistsOnline.

This first one is from Week One, Sketch 1. It covers a recent visit to Lancaster, Ky, where I spent my first summer out of high school volunteering for three months with the Christian Appalachian Project. I was a tender eighteen year old and stopping by this place where I spent so much time was a touching experience for me. So much had changed and yet so little. It's a small town of 4,000 now so it was probably a lot smaller in 1972.
Supplies used:
Cardstock: DCWV from Mariposa and Immortal Love stacks
Flower cut with Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die on Cuttlebug
Tape strips from Heidi Swapp
Butterfly border strip from Martha Stewart Punch
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist Garden Fairy
Button from Eddie Bauer
Doily and twine from Michaels
Computer generated journaling
CAP title is Ranger Distress Ink over a sticker which is then removed

This second layout is about visiting the levee in Newport, Ky, where I grew up and taking in the view of majestic Cincinnati across the river. My sister Chrissie and I are pointing at the buildings where we work/worked (I left in 1974).
So with the PAO Croptoberfest Challenges, I have been inspired to get out my sprays which I love collecting but rarely use. On this one I went crazy by spraying just about everything in sight. The page on the left was yellow American Crafts cardstock when I started. Love that Orange Juice. There wasn't a cloud in the sky that day but I added a few to fit the challenge on PAO. I think it works.
Supplies used:
Cardstock: American Crafts yellow, Wordsworth Tangerine Wash patterned paper
Cloud shapes and letter circles cut on Silhouette digital cutter; inked with Weathered Wood Distress Ink
Memories Mist Orange Juice used on white cardstock along with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink
Computer generated journaling