A Little Bit Christmas, A Little Bit Spring

In continuation of the rewind I bring you the Apron Strings January Kit full of Jillibean Soup, Carta Bella and October Afternoon.I made several layouts and *gasp* two cards!

~A Little Spring~

The Thrill Of The Hunt


We Are Not Lyon!

~A Little Christmas~

Amory Went Shoppin

 

The Visit

~And Cards!~ 

 

 

MSW and Apron Strings

I combined the My Sketch World November 1st sketch with the Apron Strings Smaller than a Breadbox kit for this layout. The kit was filled with
Authentique Thankful; Jillibean Country Pumpkin Chowder; Simple Stories Harvest Lane
and I had so much fun creating with it!

The sketch from My Sketch World -


As you can see I turned the sketch on its side!
My title was inspired by a favorite song of mine "This Is The Stuff" by Francesca Battistelli. You can hear it on her site!

 

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

A refreshing tutorial

I began by searching on the computer of an image of a margarita glass. Once I found one I liked I printed it out and cut it apart for a pattern. You may be able to use a cricut, stamp, a digital stamp, or something similar to find your margarita glass shape.

 1. Use your cut apart image as a pattern to trace on your pattern paper.

 

2. Cut out and assemble your margarita glass on a piece of pattern paper. Mat that to a another piece of paper and place on card.

3. To create lime wedge on glass -

• Cut out a 1 ½ inch circle. Cut that in half and cut a small slit in the center. This your lime.

• To create the sections of the lime - punch out a scallop circle. Cut this scallop circle in half.
• Using one of those halves cut off each scallop in a wedge shape. Glue onto lime. Trim off excess points.

4. Slide lime wedge onto glass.

 5. To wrap twine I punched three holes on the front of my card near the fold. I fed the twine through the holes and wrapped around the front of card. Tape down ends of twine on front of card. Place a button to hide where the strings end in the front.

 

6. Run a line of glue along the top edge of the glass. Sprinkle glitter on the glue generously. When dry knock off the excess glitter.

 

And there you have a refreshing card for someone special!

Thak you for stopping by and have a blessed day!

The Soup on My Scraps and More DT Reveal

Good morning to everyone! The My Scraps and More Design Team was sent Jillibean Soup's Chilled Strawberry Soup and Homemade 6 Bean Soup this month. I had alot of fun creating with these lines. I used the plain side of the Chilled Strawberry Soup in these first two layouts. I loved the weight and color of this kraft cardstock.
I used this sketch from PageMaps!

I "Sew" Did That


A Family is like a Quilt

The last item I want to show you is this fun card! On Friday I will share with you a step by step tutorial on how to make your own refreshing card!

 

Thank you for stopping by ad have a blessed day,

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

Good afternoon everyone! The Let's Scrap blog Hop is over but all good things must come to an end. I wanted to say thank you to each and everyone of you for hopping by, giving me some advice on liquid glue, and following my blog! Thank you also for nominating my blog for an award (wow), and all the sweet comments on my cards.
I think I am the winner truth be told! But really I must choose a winner for the scrappy goodies I am giving away. I put the numbers in and random.org chose #64 who is Drue Peters!

I also wanted to show you a few more layouts I created with the sketches posted in the My Sketch World Sketch A Thon.
This first one of Amory and Grandpa Phil washing the truck together is dear to my heart. Well to be honest all the  layouts I do with grandparents and my girls are special to me!
 I used the sketch from Feb 13 - and then moved it around a bit!

Happiness is You & Me

The next layout is of my oldest daughter, myself and both of the grandparents. We are all dressed up to go into the city to see Mama Mia. I used a title of a song from Mama Mia for my title and the lyrics of the song for the journaling.

I used the sketch from Feb. 11 - and didn't move things around ... much!

Thank You For The Music

This next layout is of my littlest graduating from preschool. I will admit it was a total blubberfest! 'Nuf said!

I used the sketch from Feb. 15 - and turned it on its side and moved the title.

Reduced to Tears

Do you like these sketches? Me too! My Sketch World is having a design team call! I would love to have you join us in the forum and check us out! The Sketch a Thon is nearly over but there is always fun things happening! Here are the details on the design team call at My Sketch World:

My Sketch World Design Team Call

February 26th to March 15th  *  Design Team will be announced on March 18th

You need to register at My Sketch World Forum before you send in the application and we would like to get to know you during the call.  Link to FORUM

Please include this with your creations:
Name
MSW username
Email Address
Blog Link
Online Gallery links
Resume or list
whether you prefer the Card DT or the LO DT

Please Send us : 4 of your favorite layouts or cards that are based on my sketches. One has to be brand new and never been seen before. The other 3 can be older ones that have been seen.

I am looking for people that can create just layouts or cards but can also create ATC's, Altered Projects and Mini Albums with the sketches

The Design Team will be required to:
*Post on your blog your creations and events that will be going on at MSW
*Complete 1 or 2 layouts/cards per month using my sketches that I provide
*Host a DT Challenge every other month during your term
*Enthusiastically participate in our crops and contests
*Participate in Message Board and DT blog discussions
* Participate in Facebook MSW Page
*Leave praise in the gallery
*Post your DT creations on galleries and blogs throughout the web, whenever possible
*Help moderate the MB and alert the Admin if you find anything inappropriate
*Post our Design Team Blinkie in your signatures and also on your blog

Special Call:

Tutorial Designer- This will be a regular designer but will post two tutorials per month after the new sketch has been presented. The sketch will be used in a technique or tip with a step by step style tutorial. You are required to do all the items above plus post on the MSW blog and your blog.

Please answer these questions when you send in your application for this position

* What experience do you have in tutorials or set up for classes?

* What ideas you would like to do if you become a Tutorial designer or Facebook Designer?

* Are you Copic Certified?

Facebook Admin: You will be in charge of the MSW Facebook page, post every other day stuff that is going on the forum and post new sketches when it’s time. You will be also creating and posting your creations on the board and Facebook.
Please answer these questions when you send in your application for this position:

* Do you know how to manuver yourself around Facebook?

* Do you have a Facebook Page? Please post link

* How long have you been on Facebook? Are you active?

Our Message Board is our Special Home filled with wonderful women who come together for fun, inspiration, encouragement and support. As a DT member, you will need to be a highly visible asset on our MB and help to continue with the relationship building that makes our board so special.
This position is for a 6 month term starts April 1, 2012 to September 30, 2012
Please send your creations and information to Lucy at mysketchworld@gmail.com

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Thank You Very Much!

I made it! Ummm... where? To Round Two at Practical Scrappers! Please vote for the layout below at Practical Scrappers each day this week! You can vote once a day for a toal of five votes!

My Basket Runneth Over

Thank You!

And to say thank you - a few thank you cards just for you! I made these with the scraps from my Apron Strings January Smaller than a Breadbox Kit. I just love these penguins, don't you?

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

You did what to the penguins?

Do you know how many penguins and trees can be cut out during one episode of The Bachelor? And that is Bachelor without commercials because really who watches commercials anymore? The answer is Twenty two penguins and eleven trees!
And what I am going to do with all those fussy cut penguins? Make One birthday card, twelve Valentines, and two thank you cards, that's what! And today i would love to show you the Valentines I made.
I used the scraps left from my Apron Strings' January Smaller than a Breadbox to make these fun valentines. I printed my sentiment on an 8 1/2 X 11 piece of cardstock four times. I cut out 3 1/2 X 5 rectangles and wrapped around dollar store sunglasses.

I think they will be a hit with the three year olds in my class and with Amory's friends too!

Entering this at ScrapFit!

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day!

Kristin

Trees, Penguins Oh My!

Guess what I have been scrapping with? The Apron Strings Smaller than a Breadbox kit! Full of Jillibean Soup, October Afternoon, and Fancy Pants. Loved the penguins, polka dots and fun happy colors in this one! I was able to make Christmas layouts, an Easter layout, birthday cards, a teacher gift, and valentine cards! Now that is some kind of versatility in a kit!

Over the next week I will be sharing what I made with the kit - hopefully one or two things a day - if all the stars line up and the Earth stays balanced - haha!

First a Christmas layout - the hunt for the perfect tree. Not one where all the needles fall off....

The Hunt

And the next - a birthday card! These penguins are the cutest! After dinner and coffee with my girlfriends on Monday I came home to watch the Bachelor (yes I am a diehard fan) and cut out penguins. You will be seeing these fun little penguins on cards - everything from this birthday card to a thank you card and Valentines too!
I used a gold Happy Birthday rub on on the tree turned pennant flag and small flag underneath. Inside reads "Hope Your Day Is Cool!" I used a sketch from the sketch*a*thon at Scrapfriendzy. The sweet two year old who received it today loved the birds on the card - so I consider this card a success!

Entering this card at Crop Stop

Put this on your calendar & join me next month:

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day!

I'll Have The Soup Please!

Hello everyone! I wanted to share with you a few more layouts I did using my Apron Strings Bigger than a Breadbox kit! Along with the We R Memory Keepers' Autumn Splendor Collection we received Jillibean Soup's Apple Cheddar Soup collection. The Jillibean soup was so versatile - I scrapped a fall activity (coming soon), a field trip to an animal park and Christmas pictures! Love when you can do that!

This first layout is of the fieldtrip to Bayou Wildlife Park - we all loaded up on a bumpy train pulled by a jeep and fed animals of all kinds. My mom was with us and Amory and she had the same opinion - feed the animals once you do not have to do it again!

Happy To Feed You ...
Now Go Away!

The next layout is of pictures taken at Christmas. This is my Aunt with my girls. We see Bonnie Mae just once a year at Christmas and we make the most of our time together. These were random shots taken throughout the week of playing "school", storytime before bed, and cuddles on the couch. Although Bonnie Mae lives many many miles away we see her facial expressions and walk in Priscilla. When I saw the "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree" sticker I knew where it was going!

Time With You Is

Time Well Spent

Entering this at:
Glue Meets Paper

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

Cards - You Made Cards?

Yes I did! And pigs didn't fly!  :)

But first before cards I wanted to share with you a layout of my sweet Priscilla and her cupcake cake. The reason she is laughing (it is not my horrible cake decorating skills!) is because Faith stopped at the fridge on the way and got the milk. Priscilla thought it was funny for some reason and all Faith could say was you have to have milk if you have cake! So we are not sure why Priscilla was so tickled by Faith's appearance with the jug of milk but she was!

I used the Apron Strings August Smaller Than a Breadbox Kit to create my layout. I used the Jillibean Spotted Owl Soup Papers as well as an Echo Park Splash sticker that was in the add ons for the kit. That sticker is found in the title  - I believe it read Just Add Water so I covered Water with a label from Pretty Little Studio and the word Milk!

The owls were begging to be fussy cut - I love their expressions. It seems like they wanted to be anywhere else then sitting a perch that I created with some twine! And since I could not fussy cut the balloon string of the middle owl I used embroidery floss to recreate the string.

Just Add Milk

Completed these challenges:
Sketch - Pretty Little Studio
Use Pearls Challenge - Crop Stop
Add Thread Challenge - Paper Variety

And now the cards! I do not make cards often - they are generally for a specific purpose that we'll say starts in ten minutes - kwim?!

But this time I sat down with the scraps from my Apron Strings August Smaller Than a Breadbox Kit and made a few cards using sketches from Sassy Lil' Sketches.

The first is very simple using pieces from the Lily Bee papers in the kit.

Here is the sketch:

And my interpretation!

And the next card using scraps from my Apron Strings August Smaller Than a Breadbox Kit. I used the Echo Park Splash papers for this one and of course added some googly eyes!

Here is the sketch:

And my interpretation-

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day!