SPCC #63

It's Monday! Time for another color combo challenge brought to you by Scrapmaster's Paradise! Here is this week's combo:

And here is my project:

Thanks for looking and playing along. Have a fabulous day!

Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall Blog Hop

Welcome to the "Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall!" Blog Hop, hosted by a talented group of ladies from Club CK. If you did not arrive here from Michelle's blog, please go to the beginning of the hop at Virtually Froggy and follow the blog hop in order. By following the blog hop from beginning to end you will collect words to a secret phrase which will make you eligible for the grand prize. The details for grand-prize entry are posted at the start of the blog hop. You won't want to miss it!

This time of year is when I start organizing and planning for Christmas. Yes, I am one of those insane planners, but it makes everything go smoothly once Thanksgiving comes around! I look around for inspiration, figure out what I'm going to do for my Christmas cards, plan crafty gifts for friends/family, and of course figure out party plans and menu ideas! We have a lot of birthdays and events in September and October that I really do have to start early if I want to get everything done on time. With a toddler and a baby to take care of, and almost 100 cards to make, I have to get started early!

I already have my cards planned and a few assembled, so I thought I would show them to you today. My dearest husband bought me a cricut last year for Christmas, so I had to use that for the cards this year. I used the Winter Wonderland cartridge with the sleigh image. I told myself I had to use up all my old Christmas paper before I could buy any more, and I have a lot of paper from an old DCWV stack. Since there are only a few sheets of each design, most of the cards will end up looking a little different with the patterns, but the overall look will be the same. Here are my cards:

I always try to keep my cards simple since I have to make so many. In October I'll plan a family photo to put on the inside of the card. I'm thinking this year we'll wear coordinating red shirts. I hope you enjoyed looking at my project. The next stop on the blog hop is Maribeth.

My secret word is leaf

By the way, I will be giving away a small RAK. All you have to do is become a follower of my blog and write a comment on this post letting me know when you start planning for Christmas. You have until August 29th. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

SPCC #62

Welcome, it's time for another SPCC challenge. Here are this week's colors:

This was a hard one for me because I don't have a lot of pastels. I finally found some papers in a baby kit, and came up with this card:

Do you want to play along too? Just hop over here and join the fun!

Cosmo Cricket & Sketch Challenge

Today I did a project combining 2 challenges.

The first challenge is to do a layout using 95% Cosmo Cricket paper using fussy cutting... (see challenge here).

The second challenge is a sketch challenge (here) using this sketch:

I didn't have much Cosmo Cricket, but I did happen to win some in an impromptu sketch challenge at the Paper Whores forum. So I found a picture and here is what I came up with.. hope you like it!

SAS 5th Birthday Bash

I was super busy this past weekend playing along with SAS 5th Birthday Bash online crop.. here's what I did!

I hope you enjoyed looking at my projects.. have a great weekend everyone!

SPCC #61

It's Monday again which means another color challenge at Scrapmaster's Paradise! Here is this week's colors:

Beautiful colors! Here is what I came up with... I've seen a lot of cards and layouts with squares of different patterned paper so I thought I'd try it out, and I love it! Here's my card:

Love the colors and wanna play along? Go to Scrapmaster's Paradise and join in!

Round Up Time!

This is a new forum I joined, and they have fabulous challenges! There's something for everyone - layouts, cards, even digital challenges! (Seriously, I really want to learn how to do digital layouts, and this may be the place to inspire me!)

Come join in on the fun!!

SPCC #60

Since Samantha had a family emergency last week, she wasn't able to post last week's color combo challenge.. so this week she's doing two challenges! I already posted the first one, here is the second one!

With these beautiful colors, I came up with this card...

Just perfect for a baby shower gift, I think! Do you want to participate in this challenge? Then hop on over here to Samantha's blog to play!

Happy scrappin!

SPCC # 59

It's Monday, which means another Color Combo Challenge! Here are this week's fabulous colors:

Gorgeous colors, right? Here is what I did...

If you want to participate, hop on over to Samantha's blog for the color combo challenge here.
Happy scrapping!

Time for a Pagemap

I'm participating in the ABC crop at My Sketch World. Each day is a new challenge that starts with a letter of the alphabet. Today's challenge is B for Border punches. So I found a sketch with pagemaps and did this layout..

Papers are from Fancy Pants "The Daily Grind" and a couple of random ribbons..

Keep Scrappin!