Family Campout

This week at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday, our twist is "Water Theme".   This gave me a great incentive to scrap a page of our family campout.  

I used Cricut's "Life's A Beach" cartridge for most of the cuts.  The "Families are forever" is also a Cricut cut.  The background paper is part of a kit I bought years ago, from LTD I think.

I had trouble when I first laid this out, it just needed something and I couldn't figure out what.   I finally just glued it down and took pictures.   As  soon as I looked at the picture, I could see it.  This is the first pic:

Amazing what a difference it made to move a diecut over a few inches!

Hope to see you over at The Outlawz!

Summer Picture Frame

Hello!  Today I have a fun picture frame for our challenge at My Sheri Crafts.  Our challenge is hosted by Marge this week and she asked us to use Fall Colors.  So I used Fall Colors to make a Summer picture frame! 

 

I was looking through the Life's  a Beach cartridge and decided I needed to find out what a "Picture Card Frame" was, so I used my Gypsy to cut one to fit a 4x6 picture.  Now you can use this for a card easy enough, but I thought it was also great for a stand up frame for a picture from our family camping trip. 

 

 The orange polka dot paper is from Karen Foster, the flower is from Recollections and everything else is cut from the cartridge.

Well, I hope you will join us but be sure to check out all the wonderful inspiration of the design team.  There are some beautiful projects there!
Thanks for stopping by!

Tuesday Throwdown

Good Morning!  It's time again for a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown!  This week we are sponsored by

 and our theme is "Anything Goes"!  How much easier can it get?!? 

 

I've used the cute seahorses and seaweed from My Grafico to create a layout:

 

 I'm going to add pictures of my granddaughters swimming.  I have LOADS of pics of them with the little swimming pool in our backyard.

Supplies:
Seahorses & Seaweed - My Grafico
Paper - Color Bok
Coral Border & "friends" - Life is a Beach, "friends" cut twice
Vinyl - from a friend
Spectrum Noir markers

OK, so now you can head over and join in the fun!  Good luck!

Entered Here:

Pile It On - Water theme

 Anything Goes Challenges - always anything goes

 

My Sheri Crafts Challenge #84-Mother's Day Card

Hello!  Welcome to another challenge at My Sheri Crafts!  This week it's "April Showers Bring May Flowers to Mom!"  Create a Mother's Day Card/Project and Add Flowers. 

Here's my card:

The card base is from the Life's A Beach cartridge, card feature.  I cut the sentiment from Mother's Day 2010, added some I-Rock gems and a bow.  The edges are softend up a little bit with some pink chalk.

The sentiment is pop dotted and I added some gel pen doodling.

 The flower layers are only glued in the center so the edges could be curled.

This is a  Just Rite stamp and some more I-Rock gems and the edges are chalked. 

Pretty simple but I really like the finished look. I hope my MIL will like it, too!    Now get your flower-power on and join us!  You just may be our next Guest Designer or win an Ooh-la-la Award!

This card is entered here:
Paper Craft World - Bling
Krafty Girls - Dear Mother
Tuesday Throwdown - Use Bling
CASual Fridays - Spring; use flowers or trees

Wishing You Blue Skies

Today I have a card I made a week or two ago, but couldn't decide what I wanted to use it for or what sentiment I wanted to use.  I finally decided I needed a man's birthday card and this one would work! 

 The card base is from Hobby Lobby and I used chalk for the sky.  Then tore blue cardstock for the water and sandpaper for the beach.  The sun is cut from Disney Mickey Mouse cartridge and the beach chair and umbrella are cut from Life's A Beach. 

 I typed the sentiment on my computer and printed it on Letra Set Safmat.  That is great stuff and so easy to use to make your own stickers!  You can find it here. The tag is from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More.

I also chalked the inside with blue and brown, (for the sky and beach) and the rest of the sentiment on Safmat. 

I'm entering this card in a couple of challenges:
Fantabulous Cricut
Creative Cutter Room-Splish Splash


Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a fantastic day!

Mother's Day Card

Here is a Mother's Day card made with a digi stamp called "Ladybug Balancing Act" from Designed 2 Delight challenge.  This blog will give you a free digi stamp each week if you use it to make a project and post it to their challenge.  Very generous!

                        This is for my mother-in-law, who has 3 sons.

 I can only imagine the scary situations a mom of 3 boys has come upon. :)

                                I love pop dots!

         Little, simple finishing touches inside make a huge difference.

The card base is from Hobby Lobby; base paper is handmade paper from The Paper Studio; ladybug is cut from Doodle Charms; the sentiment tag cut from Gypsy Wanderings; the sun is from Life is a Beach with the face hidden with the Gypsy and a Peach Keen stamp instead; ribbon is from Michaels and the sentiment is computer generated.

I'll be entering this in these challenges:
Designed 2 Delight
Peachy Keen Let's Face it Friday