Celebrate The Occasion - Hey Honey

 

Celebrate The Occasion

Challenge #78

Hey Honey - must use a bee

For my bee project I scrapped pictures of my kids playing at Pooh's house outside the Winnie The Pooh ride at Walt Diseny World.

I used Mickey Font cut at 1" for my title. You can't really see it here but each letter is outlined with glitter.

The bees (1") and tree (8.43") come from Pooh and Friends.

I hope you'll stop by Celebrate The Occasion to see what the other design team members created and join in our challenge!

Red Carpet Studio - Silent Layout Challenge

It's here!!! The first challenge of Red Carpet Studio is kicking of with a nod to silent movies. Our challenge to you this week is to create a LAYOUT without any words, letters, numbers, phrases, etc.

At first I thought this challenge was going to be really difficult but once I sat down to create my layout, and stopped thinking so much about it, it was really easy.

I used any everyday picture from three years ago. The paper and stickers are Echo Park - Little Girl. I used my Sew Stamper to create a boarder around the page. My buttons are from October Afternoon and the ribbon (which copies the ribbon on Kaitlyn's sweater) is by American Crafts.

SPONSOR: Close To My Heart Consultant Candice Fields - http://candicefields.ctmh.com/Default.aspx

PRIZE: La Belle Vie Kit (see photo below)

Be sure to head over to Red Carpet Studio to see what the other layout designers came up with and enter our challenge yourself!

Back To School CAS Card

Have I told you that my craft room locks from the inside? I love that feature.

Recently (30 minutes ago) my kids were bouncing off the walls and each other creating more noise and chaos than I could I handle. So I sent everyone to their rooms, allowed my husband to stay in the living room and locked myself in my craft room.

I didn't really know what I was going to do in there so I started looking for challenges to enter. I found a few back to school ones and whipped up this clean and simple card.

I used Nate's ABCs (3") to cut the pencil. The paper is created using my Martha Stewart score board. Martha also slapped her name on the punch I used to create the boarder.

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Congratulations Baby Card

Look! A non-DT post to share with you all. I think I'm finally getting organized; cleaning my craft space helped a lot too!

I made this baby card for one of my husband's co-workers who just became a grandpa. It's HUGE (12x4) so that all of his co-workers can sign it.

I used my Sizzix Big Kick for the first time in months! I used elephant #2. The stamp is a 1998 Stampin' Up. I used CTMH pear ink, Stampin' Up lucky limeade twine and October Afternoon sidewalks buttons. The elephants ears are popped up with pop dots.

Challenges:
Die Cuttin' Divas - use pop dots, twine and 3 buttons
Krafty Girls - Anything goes
Little Scrap Pieces - Use pink
DL.ART - Birthday linky party

Crafty Creations Challenges - Summer Scene

Challenge #185

Summer Scene

Sponsored by: Whimsy Stamps

Good news!! I am now a part of the Crafty Creations Challenges design team! If you've never heard of Crafty Creations before you really should check them out. They are a challenge blog open to ALL craft disciplines with a new challenge every Wednesday!

Card Details:
I made this card entirely out of scraps. I used the Create A Critter Cricut cartridge for all of the scene cuts. The postage stamp frame is from Art Philosophy. The sand and castle are glued directly to the base while the crab and sun are mounted on 1/16" foam squares. The frame and leaves of the palm tree are mounted with 1/8" foam.

I invite you to stop by Crafty Creations Challenges to see what the rest of the design team created and enter your own Summer Scene project!!

Celebrate The Occasion - Child's Birthday Challenge

This week at Celebrate The Occasion we're celebrating that special child's birthday! My layout is from (if you're a regular follower of my blog you know what I'm going to say here) two years ago! This was my son's first birthday. It was a perfect day for the middle of May in Minnesota. We spent the morning at the zoo and had cupcakes to celebrate after dinner (which you can see was macaroni and cheese for him)!

 

Challenge #77

Child's Birthday

 

Here's my layout:

My background cardstock is Recollections and the accent paper is Close To My Heat, Dotty For You.

I used one of the stamp sets that comes with the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge for the "Happy Birthday" and cupcake. The candle sticker representing the number one is by EK Success.

I used Liquid Glass to secure my We R Memory Keepers floss. The banners are inked with chocolate chalk ink and are Bella Blvd.

I pleated the ribbon here and in the opposite corner. I also added triangle stickers in both corners.

The doodling along the top and bottom was done with the Sew Stamper and circle doodle head.

All of the stickers on this layout are Bella Blvd. I used my glitter gelly roll pen to add a touch of sparkle in random spots throughout the layout. I plan to journal in the orange quote bubble.

We welcome you to stop by Celebrate The Occasion to see what the rest of the design team has created and join in the fun!

Scrapbook Room Reveal Hop

Welcome to the Scrapbook Room Reveal Blog Hop!

Don't you just LOVE seeing where other crafters create? and get ideas for how to organize your own space? I know I do!

We hope you will join us this weekend and take a peek into our craft spaces. Our hostess Cicily, at www.PinkDalmationScrapper.blogspot.com has a couple of great prizes to those who take the time to check out our spaces!

This is my scrap room.

I share the space with a bed and play space for my children. My little corner ends up being about 6' x 8'.

Since signing up for this hop I took the opportunity to really make this room exactly what I wanted it to be. So I want to thank Cicily for hosting this hop and having me be a part of it. IKEA also thanks you!

This is my desk. I try to keep very little on it so I have plenty of room to spread out the supplies I'm working with at any given time. My desk is from IKEA. It's one of those where you can pick your top and leg combination. I love this frosted glass top. It has a small elevated edge around it so things don't roll off. It's also great for lining up my layouts and making sure things are straight.

As you can see I keep my Cricut and Gypsy on my desk. My gypsy is sat on the Creative Cutter Room exclusive bow maker (love that thing too!). I also keep my ATG and my giant can't-live-without Tonic paper trimmer along with a small notebook.

I love this wall and how it's organized! At the top is a curtain rod (from IKEA). I purchased rings with clips to go on the rod and hold all of my random embellishments. I'm the kind or person who likes to see everything that I have, so this is perfect for me.

The silver rod below the curtain rod comes from IKEA's kitchen department. I purchased 4 cups that clip onto the rail. They hold markers, glue, everyday tools (ruler, scissors, bone folder, etc) and misc. The open spot is for a hanging basket the IKEA offers but was out of when I bought the system. I'll use it to store my glitters, mists and liquid pearls.

My Cricut mats and Lawn Fawn stamps are simply hung on the wall with nails.

This is how I store my paper. I use the craft cubes from Michael's. My paper is organized by collection. I also have a slot for 8.5" x 11"; mat stacks, 6" x 6"; scraps that need to be trimmed, solid 12" x 12" and patterned-but-not-part-of-a-collection 12" x 12". The Sterilite drawers have my ink, clear blocks and Tim Holtz stuff in. The gray IKEA drawer unit holds my adhesives, embossing folders and dies, paint, heat gun and a lot of random stuff that I really should just get rid of!

I put all of my collections together in these 13" x 13" plastic envelopes. I include all the matching embellishments and any scraps I might have after completing a project.

In the three-drawer unit I have my clear stamps, wood-mount stamps and all of my Sew Easy, Sew Ribbon and Sew Stamper stuff. I would NOT recommend this cube to anyone. The drawers rest on top of each other making it really had to pull just one out.

The four-drawer unit holds my ribbon. I would recommend this cube. The drawers move independently and are really deep.

I have four of these square plastic boxes that I use to hold similar items.. One of them holds all the my Disney stuff (paper, embellishments, memorabilia, photos, etc.). Another has everything Christmas. The pink one is baby/pregnancy memorabilia and the fourth box has class kits from last years ScrapFest (I really should finish these before ScrapFest starts this year).

I use these small divided boxes to hold brads, eyelets, buttons, epoxy flowers, leather embellishments and other tiny embellishments.

This shelf was in the room when we moved in. I use to for my card box, punches, glitters etc (until I can get my hanging basket) and inspiration material.

I do have a few smaller trimmers too. I store those between the pink chair that used to belong to my grandparents and the cube system.

On the floor, next to my desk, is my scrap folder. I trim all my scraps down into rectangles and then sort them in this 12"x 12" plastic accordion folder (patterned, black, white, brown, red, pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple (and I still have some open space at the back)). If a patterned piece of paper is primarily one color it goes into that colors slot.

Next to that is my Martha Stewart score board and the Huggies wipes box hold all the Close To My Heart stamp sets until I can find something a little more aesthetically pleasing.

Thank you so very much for stopping by today. I hope I've provided you with some inexpensive and unique storage and organization options.

Your next stop is

Jearise

Here is the entire hop, in case you get lost along the way!

Cicily ~ http://pinkdalmationscrapper.blogspot.com/

Tonya - http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com

Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com

Haidee-http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/

Becka  http://creationswithbecka.blogspot.com/

Sonia - http://skdigis.com

Katina - http://www.twochicsandacricut.blogspot.com

Jessi - http://mylifeinartsncrafts.blogspot.com