Art Journal Layout: Life's A Wave

Hello everyone!

Over this past weekend, I was cleaning my scrappy space and came across all of my art journal supplies that I haven't picked up for literally over a year. Needless to say, my art journal stayed out and I made a 2 page spread that I have fallen in love with! I completely forgot just how much fun it was to make these and how I can just loose myself in it all!

I pulled out my absolute favorite collection of all times, Simple Stories I {Heart} Summer. I have used my supplies for page after page after page in my project life album and honestly, I just got sick of using the same thing over and over. So I sifted thru what was left and I think I have a few pages in mind, not just this one! Well here you go....layout number one!

Thank so much for stopping by today!See you all next time!

Have a crafty day!

MFT Color Challenge #22: From the Whole Herd

Good morning crafty friends!

Today I have a project that will be for the current My Favorite Things Color Challenge #22 over on their blog! Here is the current color scheme for this challenge:

So, obviously the first thing that we all think of when we see this color scheme is Halloween. However, I didn't want to go that route. I wanted to create a card for Father's Day so I could be ahead of the game this year! lol  I had recently picked up the new "Whole Heard" stamp and really wanted to use it because, well, my dad has tons of chickens and has been tossing around getting a goat! So it was a perfect set for his Father's Day card!  Luckily, he has both orange and black chickens, so that took care of 2 colors, and the other two, purple and green, I would transform to be the grass and sky!  Here is my project inspired by this color scheme and stamp set:

and for the inside greeting, I used a Kelly Perkey stamp set from Simon Says Stamp:

Thanks so much for stopping by today!
There is almost a full week left to play along over at the MFT Color Challenge Blog if you'd like to play along!

Have a great day!

Coffee Cup Gift Card Holder Birthday Card

Hi everyone!

What a crazy couple weeks with school coming to a close! My youngest just had his moving up ceremony for Pre-Kindergarten yesterday and talk about taring up a box of tissues!!  Where has all the time gone?!  

Anyways....now that school is just about done and some time has been freed up, I had a chance to play along this week with the MFT Sketch Challenge!  I'm so glad I did because I've had this coffee die on my desk now for about a month, and I finally got to use it!

Here's a look at the sketch:

Putting together 3 of the MFT die sets and a few sequins and paper scraps from my stash, here is what I came up with for this weeks challenge:

And here are the three MFT die sets that I used on this project....

Super quick and easy project! Done!  AND a gift card holder which is perfect for the next few birthdays around here!  I need to create a couple more birthday gift card holders now! lol  ....and maybe even a few Father's Day ones!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  

Have a crafty day!

Farm Fresh Friday Challenge!

Hello all!

First off, Happy Mother's Day to all of our Mom's, Grandmothers and Mother's of our fury friends!!

Today I have a project for the Farm Fresh Friday challenge over at The Greeting Farm Blog!

The challenge theme this time is "Flowers!"

I used a recent SSSC image for this project and honestly, I don't use a whole lot of flowers on my projects, just because they add bulk to the card and I mail a lot of cards in the mail...so sometimes I'm just too afraid that its gonna get smushed or ruined...this one will definately be hand-delivered!

In the end, I definately LOVE how she turned out!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Have a beautiful day!

Lawnscaping Challenge Time!!

Hi crafty friends!!

Today's project is a really fun, yet simple one!
The background was a little time consuming, but otherwise really fun and one layer....
a challenge for me in itself! lol

This one was inspired thanks to the ladies over at the Lawnscaping Challenge Blog!

This weeks new challenge is this.......

Watercolors!!!!   Yay!!!  One of my most favorite mediums to work with!   So, of course I will definately play along!!  This project hit me as soon as i saw the theme...I knew exactly what background I was going to create and exactly what stamp I was going to use!  That hardly ever happens that easily for me!  In the process, I took two different approaches...one just water coloring with a brush using distress inks and the other was smushing color onto my craft sheet, spritzing it with water, and then making direct contact to my paper.   Here are the results!!!!!.....

I honestly have to say at first, the one on the left was my favorite once it was dry....however, once I actually started stamping the sentiment and stars, the one on the right became my most favorite! I love them both really!

Here are a few close ups of each of the cards so you can see closer detail of the water coloring....

 Well, that's all for me today!

If you wana play along with this challenge, you still have lots of time!
Be sure to visit them HERE for all the details!

See you all on the next project!

"Hello Chickie"

Good Morning all my crafty friends!

Today I have another "Little Darlings" stamping project to share!

If you following me over on Instagram, you're probably sick of seeing these from me by now! lol  No worries though, because the next project is going to be different!  I really love these stamps, but honestly, her hair gives me a lot of anxiety!  I love coloring hair, but for some reason, I have a hard time with hers! 

For this card, the two stamp sets I used were "Lisbeth & Chicks" and "Eggstra Special Sentiments." All other products are listed below, along with a photo of the copic colors I used to color her up!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

See you all again soon!

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challeng #226

Hello all!

Today I'm inspired by the sketch challenge that's going on over at the MFT Challenge blog...boy do they have a good sketch this week!  When I saw the sketch, I was like, "yep! blueprints!" lol!!  I wonder if I'm the only crazy person out there that thinks of this stuff!  

Here's the sketch.....

I took some elements from the sketch this week and built upon it to make something slightly different, with a little touch of spring! The weather has still been hit or miss lately here, but I'm well over due for bright flowers and an airy feel! I also wanted to use vellum...in some way, but I wasn't sure just how I was going to do that when I started.  I also had just white cardstock on my desk and decided that I was only using that and the vellum as my paper products.....I wasn't going to use patterned paper or any other solid papers.  All the colors that you see in my project today are MFT ink colors put on the white cardstock. 

There was one really big difference I noticed for the first time using die inks on the Recollections 120lb white card stock...which is what I use for my card bases....the cardstock has some kind of a slick, slippy surface.  Almost like its waxy.  When you put die ink on top of that, it doesn't want to absorb that great into the cardstock...which is reason why the bold stripes look streaky.  The solid colored circle, flowers and leaves look fine because I used regular lighter weight white cardstock for those!  I'll have to keep that in mind the next time I try this! It made a big difference and I almost wanted to start over, but kept plugging along! lol

Here are the supplies I used for this project....

That's all for today! I have you've enjoyed my project and I appreciate you stopping by!

Have a beautiful weekend!