Party Time Tuesday PTT#18

This week at Party Time Tuesdays with Kenny K digi the theme was anything goes. I used

this cute girlie image to make a teenagers special day card.

Lots of layers, brads, rubon title, borders and spellbinders digi image framing.

Terrifically Thrilling Thursday

Just Imagine Crafts is still hosting a monthly challenge with a ballot for a prize. Be sure to check it out and play along. Use a sketch, mother theme and butterflies. All to easy.

My layout above used the sketch turned around. Lots of mom's here.. three generations of mom's with kids for 4 generations. Added a cute butterfly and the pieces from punch #913 are individually glued to form a border across the bottom.

Be sure to check out all the creations by all the DT this month.. and check out anyone that has played along with us this month.

Party Time Tuesdays theme this week is animals.

Lots of fun elements with this cute animal made a great card.

Project 12 with Scrapbook and Cards

I thought it would be fun to play along with Project 12

at Scrapbook and Cards. I didn't get started in January so I have some

catching up to do .. BUT here is April

and May. These are amazing double page sketches.

My favourite thing... doubles and lots of fun photos.

I am totally enjoying using the Dream Street line of paper

and adding lots of fun embellishment, fussy cuts, corrigated

cardboard, stitching, clear stickers, rubons, some brads and borders.

Now I need to go back and use January through March.
Will share with you as I complete them.
Have a great weekend...

Pattie's Creations Challenge #22

The Challenge this week at Pattie's Creations was to use Pattie's digi on anything but a card.

This prompted me to make this Birthday Box for my special Friend.

She will love it because I made it special for her.

Be sure to stop by at Pattie's Creations to see what the rest of the DT made for us to admire.

Terrifically Thrilling Thursday and My Sketch World

Another layout using sketch, mom's theme and butterflies to follow the Just Imagine Crafts monthly challenge.. where you can play along and get a ballot to win.

On this layout I used the Kreaxions Punch #913 on the border and used the throw away piece for the strips. I also am saving the punched out little pieces... which I am using on the other side of this layout .. for next week.

Then at My Sketch World Christa's Colour Palette was the inspiration for the above layout.

Another way to multi task again.

Terrifically Thrilling Thursday

Just Imagine Crafts/ Kreaxions Punches is having monthly challenges. Sure hope you can join us.

The monthly challenge will start the 1st and end the last day of each month.
We have 2 sketches for you to use for May, a card sketch and/or a layout sketch.

May Card Sketch - JIKC01

May Layout Sketch JIKL01

Your layout or your card should contain

1. sketch
2. with butterflies in accents
3. themed Mother's Day or anything with a "Mother" theme

You will have until 9:00 PM PST Tuesday (May 31) to link/post your card/layout. A winner for the prize will be chosen from a random drawing and will be announced Thursday June 2nd here on the Just Imagine Blog.

The winner of the May challenge will receive a Kreaxions circle cutter and their choice of either the Butterfly die or a 4-in-1 punch (winners choice). Enter as many times as you want!!

Two easy ways to enter:

1. Post your challenge creation to your blog or an online gallery
• Link your creation using the Inlinkz icon at the bottom of the challenge page
- Please be sure to post a direct link to the post containing your challenge and not to your blog address
- If you’re using a Split Coast Stampers gallery you will need to tag your challenge creation to the challenge. For the May challenge the code is JIKC01 or JIKL01.
2. To enter using Facebook simply post your creation to the Just Imagine / Kreaxions Facebook page with a comment that it’s for challenge JIKC01 or JIKL01.

Here is my layout this month using the sketch, the butterflies and a mothers theme. This fun photo is of Me (mom) and my two sons.

The close ups below show better the detail in the butterfly die, the punched border and the small butterflies. Putting a base on the butterflies then popping up the 2nd one give dimension. Stickles adds the sparkle to the wings. Also backing the border with an acccent colour makes it pop too.

Close up of Butterfly die and border punch Kreaxions #905

Close up of border punch Kreaxions #905 and Butterfly Punch Kreaxions #604.

Party Time Tuesdays

At Party Time Tuesdays we are using Kenny K digital images this month.

Today we used the sketch to make our card too with a birthday theme.

We Scrap Challenge

My Challenge this month at We Scrap is to share something about you with us.

I was a Majorette for many years and taught when I was done competing for many years.

It was the best time of my teenage years with lots of challenges, disciplining and learning.

It took me many places, to many tournaments and I made many amazing friends through it all.

My Sketch World May 15th sketch

Using Lucy's amazing sketch at My Sketch World with slight alterations I used these great photos, lots of strips, a cluster of flowers with a rubons, some chipboard and sticker in the titling and a touch of journaling. I then added some stitching and brads to finish it off.

Be sure to check what the rest of the DT has made using this amazing sketch... They are always so inspirational. I still to this day am amazed at how many interpretations you

will see from the same sketch.

Scrap Tiffany May 15th

Scrap Tiffany for today was to share

our Guilty Pleasures. This paper jumped at me for this

one... lots of sweet cupcakes and it was perfect with this sentiments.

All of you will identify with this, I'm sure.

Thanks to my Dear Friend Kathy I have this to share with you.
If you're not a Mom or Grandmom, you must know someone who is, so pass this on!!


THE INVISIBLE MOTHER...SO WORTH THE READ

The Invisible Mother

It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way one of the kids will walk into the room while I'm on the phone and ask to be taken to the store. Inside I'm thinking, 'Can't you see I'm on the phone?'

Obviously not; no one can see if I'm on the phone, or cooking, or sweeping the floor, or even standing on my head in the corner, because no one can see me at all. I'm invisible. The invisible Mom. Some days I am only a pair of hands, nothing more! Can you fix this? Can you tie this? Can you open this??

Some days I'm not a pair of hands; I'm not even a human being. I'm a clock to ask, 'What time is it?' I'm a satellite guide to answer, 'What number is the Disney Channel?' I'm a car to order, 'Right around 5:30, please.'

Some days I'm a crystal ball; 'Where's my other sock?, Where's my phone?, What's for dinner?'

I was certain that these were the hands that once held books and the eyes that studied history, music and literature -but now, they had disappeared into the peanut butter, never to be seen again. She's going, she's going, she's gone!

One night, a group of us were having dinner, celebrating the return of a friend from England . She had just gotten back from a fabulous trip, and she was going on and on about the hotel she stayed in. I was sitting there, looking around at the others all put together so well.
It was hard not to compare and feel sorry for myself. I was feeling pretty pathetic, when she turned to me with a beautifully wrapped package, and said, 'I brought you this.' It was a book on the great cathedrals of Europe . I wasn't exactly sure why she'd given it to me until I read her inscription: 'With admiration for the greatness of what you are building when no one sees.


In the days ahead I would read - no, devour - the book. And I would discover what would become for me, four life-changing truths, after which I could pattern my work: 1) No one can say who built the great cathedrals - we have no record of their names. 2) These builders gave their whole lives for a work they would never see finished. 3) They made great sacrifices and expected no credit. 4) The passion of their building was fuelled by their faith that the eyes of God saw everything.

A story of legend in the book told of a rich man who came to visit the cathedral while it was being built, and he saw a workman carving a tiny bird on the inside of a beam. He was puzzled and asked the man, 'Why are you spending so much time carving that bird into a beam that will be covered by the roof, No one will ever see it And the workman replied, 'Because God sees.'


I closed the book, feeling the missing piece fall into place. It was almost as if I heard God whispering to me, 'I see you. I see the sacrifices you make every day, even when no one around you does.

No act of kindness you've done, no sequin you've sewn on, no cupcake you've baked, no Cub Scout meeting, no last minute errand is too small for me to notice and smile over. You are building a great cathedral, but you can't see right now what it will become.


I keep the right perspective when I see myself as a great builder. As one of the people who show up at a job that they will never see finished, to work on something that their name will never be on. The writer of the book went so far as to say that no cathedrals could ever be built in our lifetime because there are so few people willing to sacrifice to that degree.


When I really think about it, I don't want my son to tell the friend he's bringing home from college for Thanksgiving, 'My Mom gets up at 4 in the morning and bakes homemade pies, and then she hand bastes a turkey for 3 hours and presses all the linens for the table.' That would mean I'd built a monument to myself. I just want him to want to come home. And then, if there is anything more to say to his friend, he'd say, 'You're going to love it there...'

As mothers, we are building great cathedrals. We cannot be seen if we're doing it right. And one day, it is very possible that the world will marvel, not only at what we have built, but at the beauty that has been added to the world by the sacrifices of invisible mothers.

Share this with all the Invisible Moms you know... I just did.

Party Time Tuesdays

Party Time Tuesdays

Today the theme is Gate Fold Card

using Kenny K digi... "super hero".

Here is my card to share with you.

WeScrap National Scrapbooking Day May 7

Welcome to the WeScrap's Celebration of the

National Scrapbooking Day!

In celebration of this wonderful event,

we would like to share some of our

FAVOURITE THINGS with you today!

So join us on our blog hop where you'll get inspried by
some exciting challenges, cool prizes and you'll have LOTS of fun too.

As you hop along, each of our Inspiration Team
members will have 1 word for you to collect.
Collect all 6 words and hop on back to the

FAVOURITE THING CROP Forum for you chance to
WIN our GRAND PRIZE!

More info about the 6 words collected will be on Ally's blog(the last one in the hop)
See the Favourite Things Crop forum for details.

Another way to WIN is by leaving a comment on each challenge posting you see! Leave a comment for the challenge author and we'll give one lucky person a PRIZE just for leaving a comment!

Here's our Favourite Things Blog Hop rotation:WeScrap Kit Blog http://wescrapkits.blogspot.com/

Sarah Nolan http://www.theoccasionalcreation.blogspot.com/

Victoria Lau http://vjau.blogspot.com/

Bev Code http://beeceecreativity.blogspot.com/

Sue Sykes http://www.kewl-beans.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Benoit http://lifethejenway.blogspot.com/

Allison Cope http://yourmemoriescanada.blogspot.com/

To participate in our fun challenge, please create a NEW project following each of the challenges according to the creator

and then post them in the WeScrap Gallery in your personal gallery and link them to the appropriate challenge thread listed in the Favourite Things Crop forum.
All challenge projects are due by Saturday May 14th by 11:59 pm EST.

Your special word from me is: check

Good luck and Happy National Scrapbooking Day

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HI EVERYONE ... my challenge of favourite things is in a TIC TAC TOE. That allowed me to list some of my favourite things and challenge you to PICK A ROW.... either left to right, top to bottom or corner to corner.

When you choose a row those 3 elements must be on your project.
Be sure to list which row you used.
I used corner to corner top left to bottom right..... 2 or more patterned papers, transparency and a punch. Below is my card and my layout using these 3 elements.

Pattie's Creations #21

Pattie's Creations Challenge #21 was to create for a child and use a name on it.

I put the name Emily on with the metal brads.

I used a Martha Stewart punched border, brad accents, layers and tied bow with ribbon.

The background piece that the digi is on was stamped with inks to give it texture.

Multi Tasking Challenges

We Scrap with Victoria's Recipe Challenge is 1 cardstock, at least 2 patterned papers, dash of bling, chipboard, mix letter stickers, PLUS large shape not square or rectangle,

fussy cuts, doodling and 2 photos.

OMG I got it all.. The large shape is machine stitched on and inked to show it better...

and the other elements were easy.

We Scrap with Sarah was to use the colour palette below.. it was fun to play with.

At My Sketch World Nick had a recipe challenge, to use 5 of everything. She actually meant only one item used 5 times but I did much better..

5 flowers, buttons, flourishes, patterned papers and brads.. so isn't that fun.

Just Imagine Crafts - Terrifically Thrilling Thursday

Just Imagine Crafts is where the Kreaxions Circle Cutter

and 4 in 1 Punches can be found.

Just Imagine Crafts is very excited to announce it will be hosting Monthly Challenges.

The monthly challenge will start the 1st and end the last day of each month.
We have 2 sketches for you to use for May, a card sketch and/or a layout sketch.

May Card Sketch - JIKC01

May Layout Sketch JIKL01

Your layout or your card should contain

1. sketch
2. with butterflies in accents
3. themed Mother's Day or anything with a "Mother" theme

You will have until 9:00 PM PST Tuesday (May 31) to link/post your card/layout. A winner for the prize will be chosen from a random drawing and will be announced Thursday June 2nd here on the Just Imagine Blog.

The winner of the May challenge will receive a Kreaxions circle cutter and their choice of either the Butterfly die or a 4-in-1 punch (winners choice). Enter as many times as you want!!

Two easy ways to enter:

1. Post your challenge creation to your blog or an online gallery
• Link your creation using the Inlinkz icon at the bottom of the challenge page
- Please be sure to post a direct link to the post containing your challenge and not to your blog address
- If you’re using a Split Coast Stampers gallery you will need to tag your challenge creation to the challenge. For the May challenge the code is JIKC01 or JIKL01.
2. To enter using Facebook simply post your creation to the Just Imagine / Kreaxions Facebook page with a comment that it’s for challenge JIKC01 or JIKL01.
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I started with "a mother's love" card, punched the cute butterflies with Kreaxions Punch #604.

The doiley was created by starting with the Kreaxions Circle Cutter center.... marked the placement with stencil B and then punched with Kreaxions Punch #305.

The corners were Kreaxions Punched #305 with insert C.
The cute print paper I inserted under the corner punched edges like a photo. The Basic Grey papers were bright, fun and colourful to complete this great mom's card.

Be sure to check out the site and play along to get ballots to the monthly random draw.