July 4th layouts

I can't believe the 4th of July is just around the corner. Kadoodle Bug Designs has a contest over on their facebook page: Create a 1 or 2 page scrapbook page showcasing a 4th of July family tradition.
For this challenge I created both a traditional scrapbook page and a digital scrapbook page. 


Scrappy Moms Stamps has a Patriotic challenge going on at their blog. 


For this layout I mixed pieces from 6 different KaDoodle Bug Designs sets.  I used Coolin' and Chillin', A Blasting 4^th , Popsicles and Fireworks, Cool Treats, Monkey with cupcake and Baking with mommy   

For the digital layout I used A Blasting 4th from KaDoodle Bug Designs and pieces from a blog train called Country Pride.

Hope everyone has a safe and Happy 4th of July! 

popping by to wish you a happy birthday

Sweet Sketch Wednesday's sketch this week was an easy one to play along with.


For my card I used a white card base and inked the edges with SU!'s Marina Mist. I printed off some digital pages from Mags Graphics collection called Lakehouse.
The challenge this week on Kadoodle Bug Designs facebook page is to mix and match at least 2Kadoodle Bug Designs paper peicing patterns to create a new pattern so I mixed up two past freebies, Bubble Blowing Fun and Christmas dog peeker pattern sets to create the little doggie. The little bones are brads I had in my stash.  

Mother to be

Little Scraps of Heaven had a cute sketch this week. So I played along. 

I used Mother to be, Be my baby babies and Lace circle. To create my card 

flowers for you

I've had a project in mind for the last 3 challenges Little Scraps of Heaven has hosted but time slipped away each week. This week I was determined to play along with this sketch.

Here is my take on the sketch

I used 3 different files to create this card. The Turtle is from Turtle Valentine, the flower petals and leaves are from Daisy and the stem and bee is from Spring has Sprung. 

MVP

I'll admit it I'm addicted to sketches so today I cruised around looking for sketches that caught my eye. I found a few I hope to have time to play around with but when I saw the sketch over at The sweet stop and an idea instantly popped into my head and I just had to stop cruising sketch blogs so I could get my idea on paper.

Here's what I came up with:

Each piece was cut out with my Gazelle using paper piecing files from Kadoodle Bug Designs  This is actually an 8 x 10 piece of paper that will be framed. My kids isn't old enough to play baseball yet but my sister's kids all play baseball so I'll be making 3 of these cuties, minus the baseball player, for them to frame and hang in their room. 

here's the sketch I used

hello friend

I never have been a fairy person but I just love all the paper piecing Birthstone Flower Fairies files that  KaDoodle Bug Designs has came out.  

I made the card based on the sketch over at nutcrafters


and here is my take on the sketch

halfway through piecing this precious fairy together I was doubting my sanity but the end result made the time spent on the card worth it.

 
Supplies used:
     April Flower Fairy paper piecing  from KaDoodle Bug Designs
     3-D butterfly paper piecing file from KaDoodle Bug Designs
     Embossing folder from Cuttlebug
     scallop border punch from EK
     paper shaper from Penny Duncan Creations
     Sweet buttons embosslits from SU!
     paper is from The Angel Company and from my stash
     stamp is from The Angel Company
     

Congrats grad

Technostamper had another cute sketch this week and I couldn't resist playing along.
Here is my version

and here is the sketch I followed.


The cute little owl is a paper piecing from Kadoodle Bug Designs. t's the freebie this week and if you hurry you can get both a digital stamp and a paper piecing file for free.  The paper is from my stash and the saying is from The Angel Company.  

Mothers Day card #1

I fell in love with the sketch over at Techno Stamper and these flowers is my favorite paper piecing file over at  kadoodle bug designs

here is the sketch

and here is my take on the sketch

little piggy birthday

May is a busy card month. Not only do I need 2 cards for mother's day but my mother in law, my dad and my mom all have birthdays in the first half of May.

The sketch over at Tuesday Morning sketches worked perfectly for a card for my mom's birthday.

and here is my take on the sketch 

The image is from a paper piecing file called Mrs Piggy's Mud pies over at KaDoodle Bug Designs The buttons are from a Stampin Up! dies. The paper and fiber is from my stash. 

panda birthday

This sweet image is made from paper piecing files from KaDoodle Bug Designs For this card I used 3 different files. The Bear is from Going Gumballs over you. The flowers are from Hula Bear and the Cupcake is from Good Luck bears.
The sketch I used is from Sweet Sketch Wednesday
You can't tell in the picture but the dark pink rectangle has flowers stamped in Versamark and dusted with Moon glow. Very pretty in real life.
The blue patterned paper is from The Angel Company and the rest are from my stash.  

Mommy monkey

I just love this mommy monkey over at Kadoodle Bug Designs. This paper peicing file comes from the Doctor and Mommy Collection.
The sketch came from Seems a little sketchy

Happy Botday

The challenge over at belli challenge  is to use the following sketch and to use your old and forgotten embellishments. For some reason I have a hard time remembering to use embellishments on my cards so all my embellsiments are old and forgotten. Of course it doesn't help that most of my embellishments are in a different room from where I do my creating.


This card is a prime example of forgeting embellishments. I was all ready to post the card until I realized I had missed a key element:  the embellishements.

This cute little robot and the presents are from cutting files from KaDoodle Bug Designs, I used a file from funtime for the tag and the background is a stamp from Stampin Up!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday

I"ve had the idea for this card floating around in my head for a while. When I saw this sketch over at sweet sketch wednesday I knew this was the pertect sketch for my idea.

For the peices to this card I used cutter files from Kadoodle Bug Designs. It's hard to tell in this picture but each peice is seperate and individually inked. The boy came from the Easter kids collection, the flowers are from March Fairy Flowers and the flower pot is from Springful Hummingbirds. 

The patterned paper is some that I picked up from a blog train calledThe Blog Train Blog the palette this month was stunning.  

February Flower Fairy

I just love the new series of paper peicing KaDoodle Bug Designs has designed. This card uses a collection called February Flower Fairies. I'm trying to get through my stash of paper and pulled out paper from The Angel Company. 

Chocoholic

I took a lit bit of creative license with Little Scraps of Heaven's sketch challenge and came up with this layout. The cookies and the bear came from the cute cookie set and the Title is called Chocoholic Title.

Awesome giveaway

Have you seen this awesome giveaway? You can never have too many cutters, right?


all of the details can be found here

Christine

birthday card

This card is for my neice's birthday. The main image is from Little Scraps of Heaven. I used 2 different files. The dress is from the Cooking Up Some Fun set. The girl's body is from the Minature Golf set. I just love the flexibility of paper peicing, you can get exactly the look you want.  The stamp you can barely see in the bottom right corner is from The Angel Company. The  green strips of paper were embossed using a Cuttlebug folder. The purple paper was embossed with a SU! embossing folder. The buttons are also from SU!

Love Door Hanger



Hello Crafty friends, I love all things 3-D so when I saw the challenge over at Just Us Girls I knew I had to join. This door hanger is from Kadoodle Bug Designs The 3-D paper rose also from KaDoodle Bug Designs. I cut 4 of the  flower from Home Sweet Hive and assembled them into a 3-D rose. The love on the pink tag is from The Angel Company. The ribbon is from my stash. The heart paper  that forms the box is printed from SU!s MDS program, the paper under the large love and under the heart scallops is Melon Mambo from SU, the light pink paper from my stash,  the patterned paper forming the back is from DCWV.

This project is also for the following challenges.
 Allsorts challenge
Crafty purple frog challenges
digi designs challenge blog
crazy 4 challenges

Hope you enjoy the project as much as I enjoyed making it.

Kimberly's Spring Fling Blogaversary

 

Welcome to Kimberly's Spring Fling Blogaversary. She's tired of winter and thought it was time for a "spring fling"!!!
We have a wonderful group of sponsors that want to have "Spring" too ..... I would ask that each of you take the time to stop and visit each one of the sponsors. They have graciously donated their talent for this hop.


Creative Kut ~ $10 gift Certificate (http://www.creativekuts.com/ ​)

Melissa Deuss KaDoddle Bug ~ $20 Gift Certifiacate (http://​http://www.kadoodlebugdesigns.com/ /​)

Mickie Burks Osman ~ a paper pack and some stamping goodies
Lucy Kelleher ~ Close To My Heart ~ December Stamp of the Month
Nikki Schiltz Calmes ~ Paper Piecings by Nikki ~ $25 credit to Paper Peicings by Nikki (http://www.paperpiecingsbynikki.com/)
Scraptastical Kreations ~ $20 Gift Certificate ( http://​scraptasticalkreations.com/ )

There are a lot of great gardeners along the path so sit back, relax and take your time browsing each garden. The hop will last 2 days, January 31st and February 1st.  To be eligible for the blog candy, you must follow Kimberly’s blog. Other bloggers may have additional requirements if they offer individual blog candy.

Our wonderful line-up is:::
Kimberly Pate ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com/
Kari Sanchez ~ http://purplefuntastickcreations.blogspot.com/
Lisa Peters ~ http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
Mickie Osmon ~ http://www.littlescrapcorner.blogspot.com/
Audrey Dickinson (Scrappie EMT) ~ http://scrappyemt.blogspot.com/
Tiffany Grant-Simmons ~ http://angel4ever-thecraftyteacher.blogspot.com/
Lynne Kirsch - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
Marleen Gallagher - http://www.marleens-crafty-space.blogspot.com/
Pamela Pattison Lash - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/
Tricia Colon ~ http://mycrazybubble.blogspot.com/  
Michele Eickholt ~ http://chelescrafts.blogspot.com/
Staci McD ~ http://preciousmem.blogspot.com/
Katie ~ http://www.ktsangels.blogspot.com/
Lucy Kelleher - http://love2createitall.blogspot.com/
Lisa Woodward ~ http://mycraftyspaces.blogspot.com/  
Melissa Deuss - http://www.kadoodlebugdesigns.blogspot.com/   KBD- owner
Elecia Betts - http://creationsby-kahaulani.blogspot.com/  KBD-DT member
Leslie Dawn Bigam-Krochta - http://www.lesliekcreations.blogspot.com/ KBD-DT member
Mary Finstrom http://www.scrappintoday.blogspot.com/   KBD-DT member
Christine Oxner http://christine-tac-angel.blogspot.com/   KBD-DT member
Jessica Owens http://toocutebyjessica.blogspot.com/   KBD-DT member

You won't want to miss a single spring project so make sure you to start at the beginning of spring at Kimberly's blog http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com/

And now that we have the formal stuff out of the way here is my project.

I had so much fun doing my project. I have 2 boys so I don't take the time to do too many girly projects. Pastels and flowers really don't scream "boy project" so I decided to make something for my niece.

And here is a close up of the little girls, I need to practice creating faces, these still leave a lot to be desired.

This is a 10 x 10 inch magnetic board for my niece, once I make a trip to the store there will be magnets under the flowers above the girls. I'm a bit of a late addition to the blog hop and didn't take time to run to the store for magnets.
Allee's name is cut from a font I have on my computer. The cute little girls and flowers are from KaDoodle Bug Designs I used quite a few files to get the look I wanted. All the flowers came Home Sweet Hive. I was even able to make the 3-D rose using the flowers from that file. I just love 3-D flowers so I was really excited about that.
The girls came from several different files. The girl on the right in the green dress is from Gameland Bears. This file has a bear in the dress so I used the girl from the Graduation Collection. The other 2 girls are from Princess Carlee and the Frog. Had I looked at the files a little better I would have used Rella the pumpkin princess since she has the same dress and well she's a girl not a bear. For the little girl in the purple dress I used the girl from the Graduation Collection again and I took off the bottom half of the dress.

If you are on facebook you can like my page here

Thank you for stopping by and remember "think spring" and have that "spring fling"!!

your next stop along the way on the garden path is Jessica Owens http://toocutebyjessica.blogspot.com/



Sunshine, Raindrop, and Rainbows and Flowers

Christine

Touchdown Bear

This cute little bag can be found over at Kadoodle Bug Designs

The double sided paper is from a retired DCWV paper stack.