4 the Love of the Game

Good Morning Everyone!

So, I'm not sure if I have mentioned that my family and I are die hard baseball fans!! We just love the game.  My husband played as a child, in high school and college.  I played softball as a child and high school.  So now that our kids are at that age and they are starting to play the game.....well, what can I say?  It just brings tingly's all over!!! lol

So this l.o. I made for three different challenges.  The first is at Peachy Keen Stamps.  Our challenge was to create something that INSPIRES us and we have to use our PK stamps.

The second challenge is at Paper Cutz.  In this challenge we could use only the colors red, white and black.

Finally, the third one is at Crafty Creations Challenge #89-Show a Number.  We can make anything we want as long as it has a number showing somewhere.  Easy enough 8)

So what could be more inspiring than my little one (Ryen) playing baseball??? Not much!!!

It was fun working on this lo. Hadn't done one in a while.  Hopefully I can get back to working on my scrapbooks again.

To make the baseballs, I just cut round circles with a circle cutter and used my PK stamps and markers . I'm hoping to get either the Sport Mania or Baseball Cart soon!!

Even at 6, he is just so determined, focused and ready to play hard!!

Recipe:

Cuttin' Up Cart for the heading

Premium Stacks-Latte Card Stock

Peachy Keen Stamps- 490, 500, 690

Ki Memories-Alpine Dottie Ribbon

Craft Designer Bling

Hot Off The Press-Easy Stitch template

Jolees' Boutique-PlayBall

WANTED

Hi Everyone!

So in honor of National Bake & Decorate Month, Fantabulous Cricut's challenge #31 this week is to create something to hang on the wall.  For example a shadow box, a sign, vinyl, etc....
So when I saw this, I was really excited because I've been wanting to make this for a long time now, but just haven't had the time.
This picture my family and I took a few years ago (yes...years! Talk about not having time!!! lol) when we were in Las Vegas.  I love this picture and i'm really happy to finally be putting it up.
 Here it is...

Dont laugh. It took some convincing to get my husband to agree to dressing up!! lol

Putting a picture up like this just seems more "FUN" to me than a traditional frame.  What do you guys think??

Recipe:

Cartridges:

     Tags,Bags,Boxes for the tags

     Plantin SchoolBook for "REWARD"

12x12 Artist Stretched Canvas

Amsterdam brown acrylic paint to paint the sides of the canvas

CardStock from The Paper Company-India Gold and Chocolate/Tan Double Sided

Prima flowers

K & Company adhesive gems and chipboard letters "WANTED"

Jolee's Boutique-antique keys

Craft Essentials Ribbon

The ridged cardboard behind the picture I just tore off a box I had

Blue Moon glass beads

Memories Direct Dabbers

Witches Brew

Good Morning Everyone,

I can't believe its Monday again.  The weekend seems to fly right by.
Did you guys check in with Momo this weekend for her birthday bash and giveaways? She is such a sweetheart, which i'm sure you guys will totally agree!

So this morning i finished up my card for Cristina's Challenge at Crafting with Cristina.  We had to make a Halloween themed project using Orange OR black, but not both.  You still have a couple of days to turn something in so check her out!!!


I'm also going to enter this card in My Pink Stamper's Create Something Cute Challenge.  Easy enough.

Ok, so here is my card...

I used the cauldron from Mini Monsters but used the green goo from Happy Hauntings. I just like the way this one dripped over the cauldron.

Recipe:

Cartridges: DoodleCharms for the spider

                  Happy Hauntings for Cauldron

                  Mini Monsters for green goo and "witches brew"

CardStock: K & Company-Halloween

                   Recollections-Ravenhead Manor

Stickles

Recollections-Specialty Trim and Printed Brads

Scribbles 3D paint

White Pen-Touch for stitching

Craft Essentials-green/purple ribbon

Hope you guys like it!!!

I'm a WINNER!

WOO HOO!! Just wanted to share some exciting news! I just found out that my HOHOHO Christmas Card won at Paper Playtime!!!  A big thank you to Janis and her DT for all the sweet comments and support! I appreciate it so very much!!
They have a brand new challenge that starts today, so make sure you go on over and check it out.
Also, a HUGE thank you to Pam for being their sponsor for this fun challenge and the amazing prize package she put together!!  I absolutely LOVE it Pam.  Please visit her and check out her amazing work at  Simply Pam.
Here is a picture of my prize...

Finally, I want to thank all of my new followers!  I love hearing from you guys and love visiting your sites as well. Thank you for supporting!!

Have a great Week Everyone!

Too Cute 2 Spook

Wow, I think this might be my 3rd post for the day! I spent ALL day crafting today!  That does not happen very often.  Today was special because.....I didnt have to work last night (yay), the house is clean and laundry is done (double yay) and it rained all day long!!! Perfect recipe for doing nothing all day but CRAFTING!!

Ok, so this is what I made this afternoon.  It is a Halloween picture frame.  Peachy Keen Stamps is having a challenge to create a layout or project using the themes Autumn, Halloween, or Harvest.  The catch is that it cannot be a card.......what???? Yup, thats right.  

Simon Says Stamp! is having a challenge based on .......yup, Halloween!  

And Paper Playtime's challenge is all about the bling (ribbons, buttons, or rhinestones).

So here it is...

I used a lot of different elements for this.
Added my bling (orange rhinestones all over).

I embossed the tree to give it that shiny look. Also used the violet Puffy marker to give it those furry/mossy looking patches all over. 

For my heading, I used 3D paint to give it a little more dimension. Plus dont forget the bling.

My lit' monster also got the violet Puffy marker.  It almost looks like fur. I hope you guys can see this.  Also used the yellow 3D paint for the yellow spots.  LOVE dimension!

Used my Peachy Keen stamp for him and for my moon.  Don't have a large collection yet, so I didn't have too much to choose from. My son asked why the ghost looked scared when he's the ghost??  ummm, good question.

Challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge

peachykeenstampschallenge.blogspot.com/

Paper Playtime Challenge #19

paperplaytime.blogspot.com/

Simon Says Stamp!

simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com

Recipe:

Cartridges:

  Happy Hauntings for my Tree and Moon

  Mini Monsters for my lit' orange guy

  Simply Charmed for my ghost

  Joys of the Season for my tag

  Alphalicious for my heading

Black Foam Board for the frame

Card Stock:

  K & Company-Halloween

  Recollections-RavenHead Manor

  DieCuts with a View-Black, Orange, Green, Yellow,White,Grey & Purple paper

Recollections (bling)-Rhinestones Strass

Peachykeenstamps.com 

  PK-493 Everyday Character Face Parts

  PK-490  Everyday Character Face Assortment

Decorative Chalks-Pastel

Marvy Uchida-Puffy Velvet Fabric Marker (Violet)

VersaMark Dazzle

Stampendous Powder-Black

Scribbles 3D Paint- Orange, Black & Yellow

Thank you everyone for visiting my site.  I hope you guys like this one!!

What's Cookin? Recipe Book

Good morning Everyone.  Wakin' up to some yummy rain this morning!  Definitely loving it more than last week when it was 100+!! What can I say...California 8)

So this project I finished (saying finished because I had started it a while back and just couldn't find the time or inspiration to add the embellishments and titles and all the fun stuff).  Thanks to Fantabulous Cricut's Challenge this week, I finally finished it up this morning.

This was a project that I had come across on realread.com.  They had this great Lunch Bag Recipe Book, and the instructions on how to put one together.

So anyways, this is what I came up with which I think works great for the challenge...

Challenge:

FCCB Challenge Me Monday #30

fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/

Recipe:

Cartridges:  

    Cuttin' Up for Cookin?

    Celebrations for the cupcake

    TearDrop for Whats

Two Chipboard squares that I covered with the cupcake embossed paper

(dont have the name but I got it at Joann's if it helps).

Cardstock- I actually went through all my scraps for this one.  

Variety of clips, ribbons, button

Prima Flowers

White Pen-Touch for stitching

FCCB Top 5

FCCB Top 5

Woo Hoo!! Woke up to some exciting news! My "Warm Wishes" card was picked as one of the FCCB's top 5!!!! Yay, so excited!! Thank you guys!
Really means a lot, especially for a newbie like me 8)

HoHoHo Merry Xmas

Whew, this was a bit CHALLENGING!! I made this card for a few different challenges.  The tricky part was  1) I could only use red & white on the 1st challenge and 2) I needed to use 3 different types of design paper on another.  Took me a bit to figure it out, but I think it came out pretty cute! Let me know what you think...

Challenges:

Turned gypsy-using red & white

turnedgypsy.blogspot.com/p/contests_29.html

paper cutz challenge #61

papercutzchallenge.blogspot.com/

paper playtime challenge #19-ribbons,buttons,or rhinestones

paperplaytime.blogspot.com/

Recipe:

Cartridges:

           Simply Charmed (l love this one!)- Chimney, Santa, "merry christmas"

          Christmas Cheer- "hohoho"

Card Stock: 

          Coredinations-"red carpet" glitter paper

                                      white glitter paper

                                      VC Kisses

Sizzix Textured Impressions Embossing Folder-

           Christmas Set #4

DecoArt Snow Writer for Santa's beard effect

Craft Essentials- C17 Red Ribbon

As always, thank you for stopping by 8)

Michael's Coupon

Hi Everyone,
  Coupon ALERT!!!  Oprah had Martha Stewart on her show today and because of that Michael's Craft Stores are offering a 50% off any Martha Stewart Craft item.  Just go on to http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Martha-Stewarts-craft-kit-essentials
to download your coupon.  You only have until Wednesday, Oct 6 @ 11:59pm CT to download so hurry!!!

Have fun Shopping!!!  And make sure to pass along the great news!

Warm Wishes

TGIF EVERYONE!!  WOO HOO, Definitely looking forward to the weekend. 
I just finished my 1st Christmas card of the year.  Wow, did I just say Christmas??
Is this the 1st day of October?  Amazing how time goes by so fast!!
Anyways, hope you like it.

Challenges:
Paper Playtime-Challenge #18
paperplaytime.blogspot.com
Fantabulous Cricut-Challenge Me Monday #29
fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com


Recipe:
Cartridges:
   Joys of the Season-Snow flakes & Swirls
   Simply Charmed-Snow Hat
White Pen Touch for Stitching
Stickles
Peachy Keen Stamp
Cardstock: DCWV-The Christmas Stack
                    Premium Stacks-Latte