Freshly Made Sketches 431

It has been so long since I have posted anything let alone a challenge that I am trying. I love Freshly Made Sketches. They are always so inspiring. Go check them out!! Once I got started making a card I just had to make two. I then made the little note card from scraps....no since wasting lol. I used goodies from several companies. The cardstock is Stampin' Up!, pattern paper is The Paper Studio from Hobby Lobby and the stamp set is CTMH Cherishing Her (February stamp of the month). I used ribbon and embossing folder from Stamping Up! the fence is a die cut from Darce. Hope you enjoy!!

Extreme Happiness Card

Good Morning !! Here are two more cards I made this week. The first card I made using the Extreme Happiness set for CTMH. I used it the other day in a layout with pictures from our vacation. I second generation rock and rolled the flower using tempting turquoise. What this means is you ink your image then stamp it lightly on a scrap paper then roll the edges in the same ink. This set has different stamps for each part of the Hibiscus flower so I used same ink for center and summer sun for the middle thingy. Because they are acrylic stamps it was very easy to stamp each layer. The second card I’ve done before this one is just in different colors. Have a great day and thanks for visiting.

Supplies I used.

Sets: Extreme Happiness, Weather BG
Cardstock: Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Naturals Ivory
Ink: Creamy Caramel, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Summer Sun
Dew Drops, Twine

Sets: Oval All
Cardstock: So Saffron, Brocade Blue, Creamy Caramel, CTMH DP
Ink: Brocade Blue
SU ribbon, Manhattan flower folder, oval and scallop oval punches

CTMH Emporium Layout

I used the new creative basics set from CTMH Emporium. It is a really nice set with paper and ribbon that coordinates. I plan to take some black and white picture of the girls, Jerry and our pup to put on this layout. There is seven mats to place photos. I started on the layout Saturday and did not get to finish it until this evening. But I really like how it turned out. I also used one of the scrap idea books from CTMH.

We have had a busy life lately. My Aunt is in ICU and we have gone to hospital to visit her and my Uncle. I hope they will have her out of ICU soon and on the road to recovery. I know my uncle is very tired and would like to have back her home. They have been married 51 years!! I think that is so cool!! My husband and I will celebrate our 18th anniversary Monday. We are going out on a “date” Saturday. Our very big news is…our oldest daughter got her drivers license yesterday. Kayla is so excited and she did a great job on the test. But I still have a few more gray hairs now worrying about her. I will post some pictures of her and her car soon when the rain stops and I can get some good pictures.

Supplies I used:

Sets: CTMH Keys to my Heart, Aspiration
Ink: Bravo Burgundy
Cardstock: Choc. Chip, Bravo Burgundy, Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze, Emporium Creative Basis CTMH
Cricut, Buttons from Wal-mart, CTMH Ribbon

Thanks for visiting and have a great evening!!!

Mojo 71

This is a card I made for our niece Tiffany’s 22nd birthday. Happy Birthday Tiffy!!! We celebrated tonight at a local Mexican restaurant and then back to her partents home for cake and gift. I made the inside of the card with a pocket made out with the Top Note Die to put “cash” in. Who doesn’t need cash. I used the Mojo sketch from this week. I love the Mojo sketches and wish I had time to do them every week. We have been off all week for the snow/ice storms. Wow has it been messy here. There are tons without power and they say most will not get it back until mid February. Also there is another storm predicted to move in this Monday so we will most likely miss more school. You would think this would excite me but it doesn’t. Everyday we miss we have to make up which eats into summer break. I would much rather be off in summer the now. My mojo is so low when the weather is like this and I do not feel much like scrapin’. I feel so much more creative when the weather is warmer. Oh well I guess I will just deal. We will be off again tomorrow, that makes the whole week off, so maybe I can get some more creative juices flowin’ tomorrow. I used CTMH stuff I got last week to make this card. The inside of the flower is stamped with French Script from SU.

Stuff I used:

Stamps: Aspiration CTMH, French Script BG SU
Ink: Chocolate Chip SU, Sorbet CTMH ink pad and marker, Juniper CTMH
Paper: Unforgettable CTMH
CTMH Hardware, Ribbon, edge distresser, sponge


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CTMH Unforgettable Scraping

I was off today from work and got to play with some new stuff I got from CTMH. My sister is a new consultant with them and I got some new paper and sets that I could not wait to scrap with. I also got the Reflections idea book and that thing is awesome is full of patterns and example that make scraping effortless. I will defiantly be getting the other two scrap books they have. My sister got the Originals idea book that is full of card patterns and ideas and she really likes it also. This picture is of me and my niece Bethany. I was around 16 here and we where on a family trip. I can’t believe how skinny I was and my nails looked so good. I can’t grow them long because of my job in the kitchen and I never get time to paint them anymore. I sponged the flowers to color them in. Actually I sponged all the edges and distressed them also. I love distressing edges. I am working on another page that I hope to post in the next couple of days.


Supplies I used:

Set: Aspiration CTMH
Ink: Chocolate Chip SU, Sorbet CTMH ink pad and marker
Paper: Unforgettable CTMH
CTMH Hardware, Ribbon, edge distresser, sponge

Thanks for Visiting and Have a Great Week!!

MoJo Monday #68 Sketch Challenge

I Love this Sketch!! It is from this week’s Mojo Monday Sketch. I have seen some wonderful cards on different blogs and splitcoast using this sketch and they are wonderful. There is so much you can do with it. I made two cards using it. The buttons from the Valentine card are from my husbands old UPS uniforms. When he had some wear out or “shrink” to much, really it had nothing to do with him gaining weight, we cut off the buttons before trashing them. I have a baggie full and pulled them out for this card. We have had a busy week and I have not gotten to play much. But they are forecasting snow this week so I may have a day off from work and get to “play” in my scrap room.

Thanks for Visiting and Have a Good Week!!!!

Kelli

Supplies I used:

Valentine Card:

Sets: Season of Friendship, Love You Much
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red, Choc. Chip, Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla, Candy Lane DS
Ink: Choc. Chip, Riding Hood Red
Heart to Heart Punch, Pop Dots, UPS Buttons, Designer Label Punch, Vanilla Hardware, Sponge, Sanding Block, Riding Hood Red Ribbon

Celebrate Card:

Sets: CTMH Treasured Life, Say it in Style
Cardstock: SU Groovy Guava, Very Vanilla, CTMH Graduate Level 2 Packet
Ink: Groovy Guava, River Rock
Top Note Die, Oval Punches, buttons from Wal-mart, Groovy Guava ribbon, metal clip,Sponge, Sanding Block,

Sympathy Cards

Autumn wanted me to make a card for her friend whose grandfather passed away. The visitation is this evening so I made these cards while she was at basketball practice. Both of my girls have big hearts but Autumn wears hers on her sleeve like her Daddy. It bother her that her friend was upset and wanted to have something to tell her how sorry she is. Autie is always asking for cards, she the daughter that is really not that interested in “scrap crap”, but usually asks about 10 minutes before she needs it. So I think I am going to make her a box with different cards in it so she has them on hand when she needs them. When I will find the time to make said box, since I am going back to work tomorrow, is anyone’s guess. I was inspired by a card I saw this morning on split coast. These cards were pretty easy and fast to make. I used my much loved top notes die . I also used two different cuttle bug folders to see which one I liked best. I think I like the vines with flowers more then Swiss dots on this card. I love the CB folders because they make a simple card pop. I went ahead and made two so I would have another on hand when I needed it.

Set: CTMH Treasured Life
Paper: Groovy Guava, River Rock, Very Vanilla
Ink: River Rock, Close to Cocoa
Top Note Die, CB folders, SU Mellow Moss Taffeta ribbon

Beach Baby

My sister took this picture of Autumn at the beach when she was a tiny tot. She has had it framed on her piano for years and I have always loved it but never got around to taking it to Wal-mart to get a copy. Well we went together and got our mom a digital frame for Christmas. So one day Kim brought over a stack of old picture from when our kids where young to scan on my all in one printer to put on a SD card and this picture was one of them. That afternoon I placed a order on Wal-mart.com and got a 5X7 copy of this picture. Autie looks so cute!! She was taking a shell she found on the beach to her Aunt Kimmy and Kim picked the perfect time to snap a picture. Boy do I miss these days when my kids where little!!! I used some CTMH textured paper that Kim and I purchased and split this summer when they had bundle going one. I really do not know the names of the paper right off. I used it because of the white core that is great to sponge when you tear it.

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!!

Kelli

Supplies I used:

Sets: CTMH August Word Puzzle, Little Treasures
Cardstock: CTMH Textured ( I don’t know the names), Pink Pirouette, Tangerine Tango, Flair Pattern paper
Ink: Tangerine Tango, Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa
Cricut, Top Notes Die, Sponge

CTMH Snowman

I hope everyone enjoys the Christmas music. I spent the morning on project play list trying to find a variety of music. I’m kind of a eclectic girl when it comes to music. I like about everything but country. I also changed my background to the closest template that blogger has to go with Christmas. Grey was the only thing I could find. But grey looks good with the red play list I think. I have been working a few extra hours at one of my jobs this week and keeping up with kids so I only got to make one set of cards this week. I got the Snowman set from CTMH a couple of weeks ago and could not wait to try it out. I used the sketch challenge from last week on split coast. Hope everyone has a great weekend and Thanks for visiting!!

Kelli

Supplies I Used:

Set: All Decked Out
Paper: Baja Breeze DP, Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Basic Grey
Ink: Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Basic Grey
Red Stickles, MS punch, SU Buttons and Ribbon

Autumn's Layout

My youngest daughter Autumn brought home her 8th grade pictures right before our break started. She did not like them very much but really what female likes pictures of herself. I use to dodge cameras every change I got but now I don’t fight it so much cause I know that my girls will want them when they are older. I love pictures of my family in every form so I know that they will cherish pictures of me also. I just wish I could get my mom and husband to understand this to. Anyways as soon as she brought her pictures to me I knew I wanted to do a 12 x 12 layout of the 5x7. I usually do not do 12 x 12 layouts of one picture but I thought this one was to cute to add other pictures with. I realize that this time next year her braces will be off ( heaven help her Dad and Me) and her looks will change yet again so I wanted to preserve this image. Both my girls are growing up so fast. My oldest will graduate high school next year!!! Wow!! I do not think I am ready for them to grow up. Don’t you wish sometimes you could zap them back little again.

I used mostly Close to My Heart supplies for this page. The flowers where white and I mixed create-a-shade paint (CTMH) and groovy guava re-inker (SU) and sponge painted it over both flowers until they where completely covered. I really like the pearly shine it gave the flowers.

Supplies I used:
Stamps: Homestead Alpha (CTMH)
Paper: Evensong CTMH kit and Sorbet
Ink: Old Olive (SU), Groovy Guava re-inker
Big Blossoms, create-a-shade paint, holiday buttons, hollyhock rick-rack ribbon, sorbet marker (all CTMH), Top Note Die (SU)

Thanks for Visiting!! Have a good Evening!!
Kelli

Remaining cards for my Mom's gift set

I finished my Mom’s set of cards last week but with my daughters’ basketball games have not had time to post them. I made eight cards total and use the same CTMH set on all for them. I used different sketch challenges from split coast and different blogs. It has been a week and I can not remember where they all came from. I am now working on a Halloween set and some other Halloween projects that I hope to post tomorrow. Autumn’s Middle School games are over for now until she starts playing with the freshmen team in November. She loves playing Basketball but I think she will be glad for a few weeks rest before practice starts again. So now I should have more time to create and post.

Supplies I used:

Sets: CTMH Treasure Life, Say it in Style
Ink: Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze, So Saffron, River Rock
Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze, So Saffron, Old Olive, Very Vanilla
Pattern Paper: Kurio
Score-Pal, Scallop Circle, Scallop Edge and Circle Punches, SU ribbon

Thanks for visiting and have a good day!!!

Christmas Pages

These pages are for a scrapbook I have been working on for my mother-in-law. It has been a very slow process because of work and going through pictures. I used some new “toys” I got this week from CTMH. The trees are from a set call Evergreen. It is a really neat set with several different sizes and designs of trees. I also used the new Christmas creative basic paper. I used riding hood red ink instead of real red because my real red pad is messed up for some reason. It will not dry and just smears very bad so I am getting a new one on my next order.

Supplies:
Sets: CTMH Evergreen, SU Snowflakes, TAC Fancy Swirls
Paper: CTMH pattern paper, Real Red, Mellow Moss, Very Vanilla
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Mellow Moss
Circle Punches and Circle coluzzle, Red organdy ribbon from SU

Thanks for Visiting!! Have a great weekend!!

Kelli

A Little Scrapbooking

I got to do a little scraping today and yesterday. The first page is of my best friend Amiee. I have been cleaning out a bedroom downstairs that we have been using as a computer room. I am cleaning it out for my oldest daughter (Kayla) because she wants to move into it. It is a little bigger and also has a bigger closet. But the biggest reason is because it will get her away from her younger sister’s room. Right now they are next door to each other and can hear everything the other does. Kayla has trouble sleeping sometimes and will watch TV to get back to sleep and it will wake up Autumn. Then the next day I have grumpy girls fussing with each other. This move will take some stress off me to. While cleaning up I was also cleaning my scrap meeting room. I was looking through some of my scrapbooks and found one of the first pages I had done. It was done with these pictures of Amiee but it was awful. I pulled off the pictures and did this page yesterday with them. Amiee is now 30 and finishing up her residency at Marshall University. We live next to each other when my girls where small and she was in high school. She is like a big sister to my girls.

Supplies I used:
Angel Company set Pretty Posies
Always Artichoke, So Saffron, Whisper White Card Stock
Always Artichoke, So Saffron ink
MM Metal sentiments, SU slot punch and croc-a-dial punch




Also while organizing I found these pictures from our Mother’s Day Weekend trip last year. My sister, mom and I go out of town together for Mother’s Day. We have gone to Amis Country, Dresden, Blennerhassett Island, and Gatlinburg in the past four or five years. It is time we set aside to spend time together just the three of us. A card I received from my CTMH consultant Christine Adams inspired this page. Click on her name to check out her site. She does beautiful work!!


Supplies I used:
CTMH set With Love
Blue Bayou textured, Blush and Groovy Guava Paper
Blue Bayou and Groovy Guava ink
SU Buttons, journaling on my computer

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CTMH With Love

I finally got to play a little for the first time in about two weeks. We have been kind of busy since we got back from vacation; laundry, cleaning house, grocery shopping (which is seriously scary to do when there is now food left in the house). Wow groceries have gotten expensive lately!! So today when my hubby went out to cut grass I ran to my room and made a card for a bridal shower I will be attending next weekend. This is one of the sets that was waiting on me when I got home, the stamp of the month With Love. I took advantage of the buy two get one free deal this month with CTMH. I am also planning to do some scrap pages with this set also. I used CTMH pattern paper but the rest is SU. I hope to do some scrapping and card making tomorrow if my hubby doesn’t want to run around anywhere. Oh and I used Mercy’s sketch challenge from last week. Here is a link to her page Lord Have Mercy.

Supplies I used:
River Rock, Pretty in Pink ink
With Love Set
River Rock, Very Vanilla Cardstock and CTMH Pattern Paper
SU retired ivory ribbon, SU buttons

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Close To My Heart Flowers

This is from Mercy’s Tuesday sketch challenge. I used Close To My Heart sets I got a couple of weeks ago, Cottage Flowers and May stamp of the month. I took the idea from the flower from their summer catalog but I used SU cardstock and ink. I really like these set and plan to use Cottage Flowers with some scrap pages when we get back from vacation. This maybe my last post of cards or scrap booking until we get back. If I have internet access I will post some pictures of my girls at Disney. Hope everyone has a great Weekend!!

Supplies I Used:
Cottage Flowers, May stamps of the Month from CTMH
Sage, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Cool Caribbean SU Card Stock
Sage, Regal Rose, Cocoa ink
SU Buttons, SU Dimensionals

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