Viva la Verve – Week 4

Back with another Viva la Verve challenge. May has five challenges this month, instead of 4, so I’ll have another card posted for you tomorrow too.

Week 4 was a pretty fun challenge and I had a great time making this card. The Riley image was sitting on my “to be used” pile and the blue background paper caught my eye in my “scrap pile”. Then, I decided to add the brown accent paper, also out of my scrap pile. Isn’t that sparkly ribbon great? And, the little glitter dots in the top corner match.

Finally, I finished off the card with a fun, custom sentiment. I wanted a clever birthday saying. The inside of the card isn’t finished yet, but it WILL say “…someone with a birthday” to match the front sentiment.

Use It Tuesday #32 – Two Hoarded Items

Good morning, Use It Tuesday fans!

We’re back for another stash using challenge and this one’s a goody….use TWO hoarded items on your creation.

I’ve got to admit, I had a lot of choice this week. But, I was determined to reach to the bottom and find something good for this week. What I found was, what I call, “the two R’s” – ribbon and rub-ons.

This ribbon came from a SU collection card that doesn’t fit quite right in my ribbon collection, so I practically trip over it every day that I head to the craft room. The rub-ons are super sweet – love the colors – but I just don’t think to use rub-ons. I always head for the stamps. This card was actually so much fun to work with that I think I’ll head back to those rub-ons sooner rather than later.

Now it’s your turn. Grab one item with your left hand and one with your right. There ya go, now make a masterpiece!

Link your work of art to the Use It Tuesday website using Inlinkz by Friday, June 1, 2012. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE032 when uploading to an online gallery and leave us a direct link so we can find your creation.

Please remember that we ask your blog post/gallery post to mention that you’re playing along with us here at Use It Tuesday and tell us what TWO items from your stash you used on your project.

Every challenge, one lucky crafter is randomly chosen to be a featured guest designer in an upcoming Use It Tuesday challenge. Also, come back each week to see our two design team picks.

Have fun. Happy Crafting!

Another Two-Fer! Viva La Verve and a Tea Party

A few weeks ago, I signed up for a Virtual Tea Party on SCS. This tea party was being hosted by one of the girls who did my Virtual Baby Shower back in February. We needed another excuse to “get together” but no more babies, so a tea party was suggested.

As of the writing of this post, there are 12 of us. We’re each making a “tea themed” project and will post it on the thread at the tea party time. Then, we’ll sit around our computers for an hour or two, have some tea and snacks and just chat. Neat idea, eh?

I struggled with my project a bit. This is actually the second card I made, since I was very unhappy with my first attempt.

And, since craft time is at a premium around here these days, I doubled up and used the May Viva la Verve Week 3 sketch for my project.

I love the colors in this card. Mostly greens, which turned out really great. This is the first time I’ve used that package of new flowers too. Love how the colors went with the rest of the card.

As I post this, the next Viva la Verve sketch for the month will already be up, so I’ll be back again soon with another card.

Take care, crafters.

For Mom

I’m combining challenges again this week. There are just too many wonderful challenges and not enough crafting hours in the week to do a project for each of them.

Today’s card is for the Tuesday Alchemy challenge (“Mother, Dear”), Anything Goes challenge (Things with Wings) and Sketch N Stash (sketch).

This card used a  few things from my “stash”. I used the remnants of a card kit for one of the pattern papers and the other paper came from my “extra” sitting on my desk. It took me awhile to decide how I wanted this card, but I’m quite happy with how it turned out.

Back soon, friends!

Journey’s VSN – May 4th Challenge

SplitCoast Stampers is planning another Virtual Stamp Night and I’ve volunteered to be a challenge hostess again. You’ll have to wait until mid-June to find out my challenge, but in the meantime they’ve changed the schedule a bit and are leading up to the “Main Event” with one challenge every Friday through May.

The theme of this VSN is “Journeys” and the first challenge was called Sentimental Journey. The challenge was to “take a sentimental journey” and make a card that focused on a sentiment, rather than an image.

I’m not sure I’ve even used this fun birthday sentiment I picked up, so I decided to use it for the challenge.

Use It Tuesday #31 – All About Mom

What a great theme this week! Here at Use It Tuesday, we want you to take a few minutes to celebrate Mom….your Mom, you “the Mom”, any mom, all moms!

This week, I have a mini scrapbook to share with you…of me! How does that celebrate Mom? Well, let me tell you…

I’ve been a terribly neglectful daughter. Christmas 2010, I made an album of my wedding for my grandmother, my husband’s grandmothers and my mother-in-law. I meant to make one for my mom too, but didn’t get to it. I meant to do one after Christmas and didn’t get to it. Along comes Christmas 2011 and I’m totally going to make my mom an album!! Even bought the paper and printed the pictures. AND, my mom even put “wedding pictures” on her Christmas Wish List. Did she get the album? Nope. Didn’t get to it. Whoops.

So Mom, here is your long awaited, much (much) overdue wedding scrapbook. Happy Mother’s Day!

Hoarded items used this week, of course, are the papers and pictures. The paper is one of my favorite SU patterns, Elegant Soiree, which retired last year (I believe). And, the pictures were selected, sized, and printed back in December and I’m not sure I even opened the envelope to check them after I picked them up (surprised I even remembered to do that!). My biggest “hoard” find is the original monograms we used for our wedding invites. I had a “miscellaneous” bag with a half sheet of them left, so I used one on the front of the book.

Here we go…..show us your mom-inspired creation! Link your work of art to the Use It Tuesday website using Inlinkz by Friday, May 18, 2012. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE031 when uploading to an online gallery and leave us a direct link so we can find your creation.

Please remember that we ask your blog post/gallery post to mention that you’re playing along with us here at Use It Tuesday and tell us what forgotten gem from your stash you used on your project.

Every challenge, one lucky crafter is randomly chosen to be a featured guest designer in an upcoming Use It Tuesday challenge.

Here’s a few pictures of the inside pages of the book:

Now, Mother’s Day is still 5 days away and my wonderful Mother reads my blog. So, I better get over to her house and give her an early Mother’s Day gift!! Catch you later, Crafters!

Verve May Challenges – Week 2

I’m keeping up with the Verve challenges, with the Week 2 card coming only days after it was posted….May is starting to look like a pretty good month!

Since Verve is a sketch challenge, I also combined this with the Tuesday Alchemy challenge to make a “May inspired” card and the Shopping Our Stash challenge to make a “girly” card.

For these challenges, I decided to use one of my card kits. It took me a bit of time to find the perfect kit for “girly” and “May inspired”, but I had a lot of fun playing with the great papers and colors of this kit.