Birthday Sundaes Challenge #43

Good morning again this Sunday morning. It's time for a new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. We have a photo inspiration challenge this week....


Doesn't that photo just make you want to eat a cupcake? It comes from My Sweet and Saucy.

So the challenge is to use the photo as inspiration. But, there's a twist. You must include a heart and a birthday sentiment on the front of your card.

I followed this week's sketch at Seems A Little Sketchy.



I used an image from Pink Cat Studio, Birds Make A Giant Cupcake. So cute....


I think I will give this card to my boyfriend. His birthday is next week. I usually don't make his cards, but I really want to start.

Be sure to check out the awesome cards the design team created. I hope you will let us inspire you to create a birthday card with a heart this week.

Christmas Card Challenges - Challenge #11

Good Sunday morning. I hope you are enjoying your weekend. It's time for the new challenge at Christmas Card Challenges. And this challenge is my favorite type - a sketch.


Such a great sketch. And here's my take. The image is from Doodle Pantry. They sure have a lot of very versatile images.

I hope you will join in the fun and create a Christmas card this week. The challenge is optional, but the card must have a holiday/winter sentiment on the front.

Stew's October Calendar Page

I am finally getting our calendars for 2012 done. I created the photo page for October for Stew's calendar today. I followed Sketch #194 from Creative Scrappers for the page. Such a cool layout.


I am participating in an online crop this weekend for the Yahoo group Scrappin'-n-Chattin'. I haven't been able to participate much, but it sure is fun. There are special challenges that members are offering. One of them was to use mostly purple and orange in a layout, so I entered this page for the challenge - and I won!!


I am also going to use this page as my entry for the 52 Week Challenge at SnC. I got the January page and cover done. I hope to at least get Stew's calendar completed this weekend.

7 Months

I'm so glad I was able to create another layout tonight. This has been great therapy for me this week. And I am getting the old photos scrapped. This is another page of my mom.

For the layout I used this week's wonderful sketch at Sketch Inspiration. I loved how the inspiration layout used a variety of papers on the left side of the photo. It really inspired me to create this page.


This is a photo of my mom when she was 7 months old. I found it strange that the photo did not have the date the photo was taken. It said "Betty Jean, 7 months old, (May 21, 1929)". The date is her birth date.


I used a different K & Company collection, Life Journey. Still great for pages with these old photos.

I am using this page as my entry into the 52 Week Challenge at Scrappin'-n-Chattin'. I can't believe that I still haven't missed a week, in 58 weeks. I am also entering the page into SnC's Heart challenge, which is to include hearts on your page.

I am also entering this into this month's challenge at Scrap It Girl. The challenge is to show some love by including some hearts, XO's or do a layout about someone you love.

The 3 B's

Several of my friends from my favorite scrappin' group, Scrappin'-n-Chattin' submitted layouts at My Creative Sketches using this month's sketch. I had never been to this site before and I totally fell in love with the sketch.



My first thought when I saw the sketch is that it would be perfect for an older photo from my mom's childhood. I picked a photo of her with her 2 brothers. The caption of the back of the photo said "The 3 B's" - Betty, Bill and Bud. Therefore the title....

I used papers from the K & Company Ancestry.com collection. I love using these papers with the photos from my mom's album. I have 2 more pages in the works with these older photos.

Birthday Sundaes - Challenge #42

Happy Sunday everyone. I hope you are enjoying the weekend. We were running errands yesterday, marveling at how spring-like it was outside. It's been a very strange winter.

It's time for a new challenge at Birthday Sundaes. This week is everyone's favorite - Birthday Card with Sentiment. And we have another wonderful sponsor. Karen Doodles is sponsoring our challenge this week. Be sure to check out her amazing images.

The design team was offered several images to choose from to create our cards this week. It was a tough decision, but I chose Penguin Cupcake. I love penguins, and these guys are adorable.

And I used another sketch from Seems A Little Sketchy. I love these sketches. And this one is no exception.


And here's my card.

I used papers Celebration from DCWV again this week. And I had to buy a black Copic marker. While I was there, I got 2 more too. This was a fun image to color.

I can't wait to see all of the wonderful cards submitted this week. Make sure to check out the all of the great cards the rest of the design team created.

Christmas Card Challenges - Challenge #10

I am so excited to be the guest designer this month at Christmas Card Challenges. I love this site and love having a place to inspire me to create more Christmas cards.

The challenge this week is to create your own background for your card. There's so many different things you can do to create your own background. I chose to use a large swirl stamp to create a background. Here's my card:


I found this snowman on a sticker sheet a few months ago. I love all the colors he has. As I was creating this card, I found a drawer of stickers that I had forgotten about. The sentiment sticker was in there. I think it works perfectly with this card and the colors in the snowman.

I hope you will create a Christmas card this week. The challenges at Christmas Card Challenges are optional. The only rule though is you have to make a new Christmas, Holiday, Winter or Hanukkah card.