Rufus the Firedog

I made this dalmation for my son's birthday party. The file is the from KaDoodle Bug Designs The original file is not a dalmation, I hand cut a bunch of spots to turn this cute dog into a dalmation.

My time made easy challenge

The colors started out from a blog I discovered late last night. I turned away from the computer and the darn thing restarted on it's own. I found the website that had the sketch again but I have no idea what color challenge I was following. Uggh. The original challenge was to use black, white, peach parfait, so saffron and daffodil delight. Since I lost the website I changed the black to pink but used the rest of the colors.
I created this card using the sketch from My time made easy ">


The little girl is a cutting file from Treasurebox designs
In real life the little girl has a mouth, not sure why it's not showing up in the picture.

Humming Bird layout

This layout uses designs from Kadoodle Bug designs.
The paper is from my stash of paper. It's a retired set from DCWV.
I really like how this layout came together those birds are just so cute.

Ice cream layout

Here is another layout I created. This layout uses paper peicings from Kadoodle Bug Designs

2nd layout from this weekend

Here is the second layout I finished this weekend. Again the papers are from my stash. Most of these cut files are from KaDoodle Bug Designs. I played around with the scissor feature in Funtime and created the 'leaves' of the tree from a circle and I made the dirt path to the dog house from a rectangle. I had purchased a fall tree file that did not come with a canopy of leaves just single leaves, she does have several files that have trees with a full canopy just an FYI.


All in quiet in the house so I think little man may have crashed for the night. I think I will crash too, the baby will be up early.

a few more layouts

Well my 3 year old ate his supper hopped down from his chair while we were still eating supper to go hang out in the living room. When we went to check on him he was napping on the couch. A nap at 6 pm is never good. He's still running laps around the house but I'm too tired to play with paper so I thought I would upload the layouts I've finished in the last few days. Have to say I really enjoy having the craft room adjacet to the living room.



All the paper is from my stash. The Army will move a certain amount of household goods weight for free. I taught preschool before kids and kept all my files/ lesson plan stuff mix that in with scrapbooking and you have a recipe for a weight problem. After looking at the boxes of paper we moved my husband placed a paper ban on me. The amount of paper coming into the house has to equal the amount of paper going out of the house. I will be selling this layout so I have earned myself 6 sheets of paper hehe. (we moved well over 150 lbs of scrapbooking paper so I don't think I'll be cashing in my 6 sheets anytime soon- can we say horder)
The cutting files are from Little Scraps of Heaven.

3-D haunted house

Well I hope this is the start of more blog posts. We recently moved, one requirement for this house is that my craft area is on the same level as the family room. I even managed to get my craft are in the same area as the living room. We still have a TON of boxes that need to be unpacked but the kitchen is unpacked, the bedrooms are unpacked and my craft room is mostly unpacked. So we can eat, sleep, wear clothes and most importantly I can create.
Little Scraps of Heaven was having a challenge to create something Halloween using their cutter files. I finally settled on creating a 3-D scene. Half way through I decided I was insane, the file is a 2-D file intended for your scrapbook pages. I finally decided that may house was not going to be perfectly square and that would just have to be ok.
I used the files Haunted House and Haunted Graveyard. An LED flameless candle fits inside the house. My almost 3 year old is in love with the house.

Birthday card

It seems like I go in spurts with my crafting. We're on vacation so I had time to to play a little with My Digital Studio. Here is a card I made for the Color Eoundup over at Rubber Redneck.

I just realized I have been posting creations on facebook but haven't posted any of them on here.

Thanksgiving

This sketch is from Little Scraps of Heaven. All the paper is from My Digital Studio, the little turkey is from Little Scraps of Heaven. This is a digital page but I really think I need to redo the page, the turkey would be really cute as a 3-D turkey with the feathers textured using a embossing folder.

I"m on a roll

I've been averaging a card a day thanks to My Digital Studio. Love it.

The color combo came from Stamping 411 and the sketch is from Create with Connie
I'm still learning all the tricks of using MDS. The background paper is a white embossed digi paper I imported into the program, I changed the opacity so the tempting turquiose paper would show through and look embossed. I'm still trying to figure out how to get my digi stamps imported. I thought I had them in there but they aren't where I think they should be.

Sketch Saturday had a sketch that I couldn't resist using to make a card

The color challenge came from Rubberredneck

Now I've got to get back to reality and get my house cleaned and a cake decorated for my son's 2nd birthday party.

thank you card

The color combo for this card is from Color Throwdown
THe Sketch came from Stamp-a-Doodle

Birthday card

I bought My Digital Studio a few months ago but I never thought I would love the program as much as I do. With a toddler and a baby it makes it so easy to create projects. No more chasing down the toddler because he has snagged something from my craft table and I don't feel like a basketball player as I search for the perfect embellishment. ( One arm up keeping the toddler away from the drawer while franticly digging through the drawer. Yep crafting has because more peaceful.




The color combo is from Color Throwdown
The Sketch is from Card Patterns

Creative sketches card

Creative Sketches has a great color combo this week so I decided to join in.

my first attempt at a digital card

I'm trying my hand at digital stamping, still not sure I enjoy it as much as I do actually touching the paper,embellishments and stamps but I did have fun playing with the new to me stamp sets that came with My Digital Studio.

The challenge over at Staming 411 is to use basic grey, pacific point and bashful blue

Mother's Day poem

Wow I can't beleive it's been almost 3 months since I've posted anything to my blog.

I sat down this weekend and made a gift for mother's day. I modified the gift from a project we made at a stamp class with my local SU! demo. We made the most elegant wallhanging compete with paper roses made from a punch. I really wanted the wallhanging to say more than Happy Mother's Day so I searched online for a poem followed the sketch from The Pixie Cottage and came up with this gift.



All the paper is from SU! and the strip at the bottom is punched using a scallop punch from SU!. The large scallop square is from Micheals, it came as a book of 6 with a book ring. I used the crop a dile to punch another hole to create the wallhanging and covered the cardboard with Chocolate Chip paper. I used my Wishblade to cut out the flowers from Rose Red paper and then edged each flower with white ink to create a two tone flower. I followed the cutting guide given by my SU! demo to create the 3-D roses. The ribbon is sheer ribbon from Dollar Tree (I think).

There were several blogs that challenged their readers to either use flowers or to make your own flowers so this project has been submitted to the following blogs

Tellen's Place
Pollycraft Challenge blog
The Pink Elephant


p.s. I managed to delete how to place a direct link in the body of your blog and can't remember the exact code. Anyone have the code I'll go back in and fix it so my links are clickable. Thanks

little angel

Ever since getting back from Christmas vacation I have been just exhausted. I've been napping when my son naps and going to bed when he goes to bed. I finally have my energy back so I can create a few cards after he's gone to bed.

This card is for a ton of challenges. I had planned on getting the card done sooner but I had also put off housework so I had to catch up on that. I'm not sure if some of the challenges are still current challenges but I'll list them anyways.

The color combo over at Pals paper arts was Pretty in pink, Melon mambo and Basic black

The sketch came from Friday Sketcher's

Paper makeup stamps challenged us to use pink and bling. I used the new SU paper pack sending love which has glitter on the paper. I also used fun flock on the cloud and two tones dusting powder on the angel's wings for bling.

Over at Tellen's Place they played a tic tac toe game. The three items I chose were buttons, punch and ribbon. I used my Wishblade to cut out the circles and my new SU punch to cut the loops on the long rectangle.

Both Polly Craft and Crafty Creation's challenged us to use something with wings.

Tellen's Place week 3

Over at Tellen's Place the challenge this week was to create a card using thier sketch.
This isn't the best picture but it's the only one out of 10 that didn't come out blurry. Just have to love technology. I used twinkling H2O's on the rose but you can't see any of the sparkle, I painted 2 roses, cut out the center section and used a pop dot to make it 3-D. If you look real carefully you can see the organza bow I placed on the center strip.

The 3 strips of patterned paper is from my stash, the pink background paper is a digital paper from Funky fairies.

tellen's Place week 2

Oye! What a week. We ended up extending our vacation by 2 days because of the artic air that moved into the area. We just didn't think it was wise to travel 12 hours with a 1 year old with the wind chill in the negatives. Last Tuesday hubby came home from work with a sharp stabbing pain on the right side around his waist. I finally got him convinced he NEEDED to go to the ER and Wed at noon he had his apendix taken out. Thankfully he's not overly needy when he's sick but my craft room is upstairs and the living room where he's camped out is out of ear shot. Not much creating happened this last week. He's doing really well so I'm hoping to get a few more cards made this week. There were so many great challenges this week I'm really bummed I was only able to get one card finished.




This card is for the sketch challenge over at Tellen's Place