Magazine Sketch Challenge!

This was a great challenge for me! My husband and I brought our older two boys to Disney World in September 2010 (I was about 8 weeks pregnant with #3) and I have a ton of stuff to start a scrapbook but haven't found the time or inspiration. As I was looking through the sketches on the blog and the magazine, and flipping through pictures, I realized I could simplify this scrapbook (and maybe the other two vacation scrapbooks I have started). My usual method is to pick my pictures, grab paper that "works" and throw it together, adding embellishments as I go. Picking a sketch, or working one out myself, actually made it easier for me to put it all together - I had a end product in my mind! Amazing how that works! Hopefully I can keep going now :)
This is the sketch I used:  

Here is my project.

Cardstock by American Crafts and Provocraft. Disney Paper by EK Success. Disney buttons by EK Success. Cricut Cartridges: Disney Classics, Dreams Come True, Happily Ever After,  Mickey and Friends, Mickey Font, Toy Story and Pooh Font. Expression 2 and CCR.

Anniversary Card

Tomorrow is my in-laws 35th wedding anniversary and yesterday I made a card to send them. My SIL gave them a card from all of us on Tuesday with their gift, but I still felt like we needed to acknowledge it. In my rush to complete the card before going with my middle son to his ECFE class, I decided to use the sketch challenge at Heart 2 Heart as my starting point and then incorporated the color challenge from the Circle MB / I Came, I Saw, I Created. The colors and sketch are as follows


Old Olive RGB = 153, 150, 71
Pretty in Pink RGB = 253, 204, 208
Night of Navy RGB = 47, 69, 93

It is very difficult to tell in my picture - apparently we have too much natural daylight in our kitchen - that I used the Pretty in Pink, but I promise, I did :)
I used American Crafts white cardstock and ran 3 sheets thru my Imagine for the colors (I probably have paper in my stash that's a good match, but I didn't want to bother trying to compare next to the computer screen). I made a 5x7 card using the sketch and ran the olive sheet thru my Cuttlebug using the Divine Swirls folder, cut a tag using the CTMH Art Philosophy cart and ran some ribbon thru the holes. I used the flower stamp from CTHM Card Word Puzzle set and then sprinkled embossing powder over it and used my heat gun to make it sparkle. I used the Happy Anniversary stamp from My Pink Stamper. I didn't have much time to work on this and had my 5 yo asking me for help creating his card and the baby crying at my feet or playing with anything I left on the floor - at one point I sat on the floor with him to keep him happy and let him play with the tape roll and ribbons. My 3 yo sat at the table drawing like there was nothing going on.

Weekly Challenge #51: Valentine’s Day Cards

 So . . . I had all of my Valentines Day cards either sent or ready to give to friends and family on Tuesday, but forgot - in the midst of doctors appointments, school, school work, a birthday and work - to post them until now :(  Here are some of the Valentines Day cards that I made. Nothing fancy but I got a great response. 

Cricut Monthly Challenge: Share the Love

I made heart bags for my sons' preschool Valentine's Day parties. I used the Gypsy upload for the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More for the heart box and hid the line across the middle (not sure what that's for). I then used my Create a Critter cartridge on my Gypsy to make raccoons, hippos and dinos. I used the hide feature again to hide the spots on the dinos and the flower on the hippos, and then added hearts instead. I set up each layer and labeled it the color paper I wanted - this makes it easier for me to complete faster :) I also used Create a Critter to make the word bubbles and then used My Pink Stamper's Happy Valentines Day stamp.

We brought my middle son's Valentines on Friday, and just finished up the remaining 18 for my older son to bring tomorrow - we made 31 total, and filled them all with Skittles, Starburst and Nerds.