Mama's Treasures Sponsor for Crafter's Castle Challenge for August

Today is my blog post for Crafter's Castle Challenges. There will be 1 monthly challenge for you to play along with. I will be posting on the 2nd and on the 4th Saturday of the month we will recap and share another project using another product from our sponsor to inspire you. Please mark your calendars and be sure to visit the Crafter's Castle Challenge blog for details and be inspired by the DT inspired projects too.

This month’s sponsor is Mama’s Treasures, please visit her shop at https://www.zibbet.com/iammama24    (Rebekah Wiebe )

Prize: $20 Gift Certificate

Theme: Elegant / Shabby Chic

I did a video to share some details of my super fun Birthday layout page. I used a special Valentines package of all sorts of items, great accents and trims. 

Link to YouTube video is HERE

Hope you'll take time to view the video. Then please play along with our challenge this month so we can visit and make comments on your projects too.

Crafter’s Castle Blog

DT Blog Links

Janie Rinta

Bev Code

Jeanie Ellis

Priya Satish

Archana Joshi

Thank you for watching. I invite you to visit Crafter’s Castle Blog and enter this month’s Challenge at Crafter’s Castle Blog to view all there amazing projects.

Scrap n Art magazine submission June2014

Smile by Bev Code

I am so excited for this month of June so many amazing published pieces to share with everyone.

It is always fun to share on our blogs .. but when a online or actual paper magazine wants to share your work it as an added bonus and exciting to share with scrappy friends. This is the piece that is on the Scrap n Art magazine today.. it's a pay magazine and not sure how many of you subscribe to get a chance to view it.. but this post will give you an idea what I had to share.

http://scrapnart.com/issue/june2014/article/reader-submissions-june-2014

Supply List:

Paper: My Mind's Eye "The Sweetest Thing"; Ink: Ranger "Tim Holtz Distress Ink"; Paint: Ranger "Liquid Pearls, Stickles"; Stickers: SRM Stickers "Stitches and Scallops"; Misc: Brads, bling, brads, buttons, embossing folders, flower, twine

Project 12 for 2014

Well it's that time of year at the Turtle Soup when Lisa Moen shares her sketches to 

play along with her making the start to Project 12 Album for 2014.

Above is my cover page .. and today she shared the January sketch which is amazing.

Using her sketch I make the double page sharing my January photos for 2014.

I have lots to share this month.. January games of hockey and mom's 83rd birthday at home in 

Canada.. the Winter Freeze in January all over the Northern of America and the we traveled to Florida

where we went boating and got great dolphin and birds photos and we also went to Pepper Beach to see the youngsters surfing contest.

In the close up you can see the masking, layers, clusters and fun Creative Embellishment accents.

This close up shares lots of fun stickers, more Creative Embellishment accents, punchinella, brads, year using SRM stickers and another layers cluster.

I used kate &co by My Minds Eye.
I am also using this as a submission to Creative Embellishments February Challenge to use the inspirational
photo to share a project.. I used the masking as inspiration... but used CE products also..

Cookin' Up Creations all challenges this month using sketches

Sure hope your enjoying the sketches as much as I am.  Everyday is a challenge with a sketch at Cookin' Up Creations.

Today for Inspirational Sunday I used the sketch above and was inspired by this: 

 My page isn't a fall page but some of the colours are what inspired me.. greens, orange, some blue and gold.. So my challenge is to be inspired by the photo.. any thing about it that inspires you.... whether it's colour, theme etc.. If you'd like to play along just pop on over to Cookin' Up Creations and join us.

Cookin' Up Creations .. the month of sketches

 What a great month of sketches at Cookin' Up Creations. Today with it being Friday Focus I used the sketch below and we are focusing on SHAPES. So many to choose from and this sketch was perfect for that. I used many shapes on my page: rectangular, circles and custom shapes like chevrons, arrows, stars and shield.

 So if you 'd like to play along.. come join us at Cookin' Up Creations and play along.

 Would love to see what you create and share.

Let's Get Sketchy

Let's Get Sketchy is sharing this amazing sketch this week by Tabitha.

Family get togethers to celebrate anything are my favourite thing to do.

Supply List:

My Minds Eye - sweetest thing lavender, twine, inking and
 the handmade chevron border.

Lots of fabulous kit accents and the added touch of twine.

More amazing kit accents and the homemade chevron border.

Just Imagine and a True Love Card

Hi Bev here today with this fun True Love card.

When you have even a single floral punch there is so much you can still do with it. I used Kreaxions Punch #603 multiple times to go around the circular Kreaxions cut centre  and then did more punches in the corners too. I added a thin circular ring accent, matted the centre circle and added SRM Stickers and sentiments. Matting in print around the centre circle and a different dot paper on the outer corners was perfect. I used My Minds Eye Collection.

Here is a close up of the back of the paper with the centre circle to start... lines to section off and space placement of the punching .. and the corner markes also. This is really easy and there are stencils to help with this.

             
Thanks for stopping by today.. we would love for you to like us on Facebook and when we hit 275 we will have a single winner.

Let's Get Sketchy

Let's Get Sketchy this week is using the fabulous sketch below from Ashley.

My page is celebrating myself and the 2 youngest Grand kids.

Fabulous My Minds Eye - the sweetest thing collection is used with adorable

and fun accents... a handmade chevron border, twine and brads.

This close up details some of the fun accents.

Be sure to visit the LGS blog and see what other creative pieces the 

rest of the DT have to share with you.

Sunday Card Challenge at My Scraps and More

Hi and welcome to Sundays Card Challenge at My Scraps and More .. I thought it would be fun to give you a few options today.. to have fun, create and share with us today. In my card below I used some fun things: woodgrain paper, added a SRM calendar, fuzzy cut and pop up, used the border band off the cut off the bottom portion of the main paper, added twine and matted a SRM sentiment.

 I thought the twist today would be to make any themed card but you must use at least 2 of the 6 ideas that I added to my card... and share any others that you add to it.. so we can be inspired by yours too.
Here is my close up view 

Hope you'll join us at My Scraps and More....add your finished card to the gallery and link to the forum challenge. Would love to see your creation.

My Scraps and More Sunday Card Challenge

My Scraps and More Sunday Card Challenge for today used the 

fun and colourful My Minds Eye - the sweetest thing collection.

I started with a kraft cardstock to make my base.

As you know this month I have been sharing some easy designs

 to make cards so you can learn to change it up when creating.

The kraft base is 10"w x 7"h.

Fold or score down the 7" sides at the 2 1/2 " mark on either side to form

the flaps on the front of card to meet at the centre. That leaves  a 5" x 7" back base.

You then cut a front panel which is about 31/2" x 5" and you only glue 1/2 of it to the front of the left side.

You can decorate it anyway you like.. but if your interested in doing the matting in layers ..
just be sure to cut each layer just slightly smaller than the previous piece.
To accent my card I added some twine, popped up the sentiment and added
the brad and chipboard accent.
The twist to my challenge is to make this card or your own choice
 of card and add some layers like above or any kind of layers and add a brad.
We would love to see you join us and play along.

Let's Capture our Memories

Let's Capture our Memories below is being used for my page above.

You can visit the blog for the sketch and play along for the monthly prize.

Supply List:

My Minds Eye - Bloom and Grow
Stickers: SRM
Other: flowers, bling, ric rac, tag, perfect pearls

Up close you can see all the fun cute details.

Lots of great DT samples on the blog and links for you to play along with us 

for the monthly prize.

Thanks for stopping by..  

Let's Capture our Memories Monday Card Challenge all month

Using the sketch below I played along for our Monday Card Challenges.

Supply List:Paper: My Minds Eye - Kraft Funday, cardstockAccents: MME - Kraft Funday, SMR stickers, BG rubonsOther: twine, brads

Sketch: Ally for LCOM 

Please visit our forum and play along. We would love to see what you create and share.

Fun Things to share today

My Scraps and More Sunday Cards with Bev (yes that's me)... sure hope if you like cards and sketches to go with them that you'll take the time and visit and even play along and share with us... and a 

chance for the monthly prize. The twist on this one today is to add stitching.

Lots of SRM stickers on this one.

This card I made for fun.. don't get to do that often with some many challenges due but had fun with the SRM stickers.. my newest craze right now.. they are amazing and so versatile.

Really would love to get these photos sized bigger and beside each other.. 

but for now here is a double pager I made using 2 different sketches from My Scraps and More.

Used My Minds Eye - Kraft Funday.

Did I tell you they are having a sketchathon this month. It has been great fun and 

really inspirational with sketches, samples and fun twists.

                                                      

Here is another double page layout using different sketchathon twist challenges.

Used Fancy Pants - to the Moon.

OMG not sure how the photos got together because I didn't do it.. and can't get the ones above 

to do this either. Would love to figure this all out some day.

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Robins' Nest dew drops are a perfect accent for any water themed project.

The above are 2 more fun pages.. I enjoyed each one using different sketches and 

loved the bottom one because I used washi tape strips for background and corner.

Thanks for viewing my mix of projects today... hope your having a great weekend.