Saturday, February 23, 2013

Just Because!



I have this wonderful little guy to scrap.  This is Gavin and he's my daughter's bff's new baby boy.  What an angel and Mom's already a pro at taking pictures! The first two pages are totally Core'dinations!! The last just came together today because the pictures were just  too cute!





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Unscripted Sketches and CSI!

 Happy Saturday once again - week just go by too fast although this one has been nice since I've now had five days off.  BUT back tomorrow for two and another one on Thursday repeat starting the next Sunday.  Beautiful weather down here - warm during the day cold at night which makes for great sleeping!  Today I have a card for Unscripted sketches for - using some Authenique papers - love their stuff!
 

Then over at CSI it's another Case File.  Had fun with this one.  Photo was taken down in Corpus where we spent a weekend with my daughter and her friend.  We had gone out for awhile and the girls took our picture - this is a VERY rare occurrence.  Number one being I'm using the one with the camera and number two I take horrible pictures! But it was perfect for solving the case.  Please come play along - there is an amazingly talented Design Team here that is so inspirational.  They come from all over the world and I'm just always inspired by all their work!









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Friday, February 22, 2013

For Your Inspiration

 Hi - sorry to be late posting but Steph has had a busy life recently and wanted to post everything at the same time.  Here's the inspirational photo for the next two weeks at For Your Inspiration and my card.  Hope you will play along.







Stop in the rest of the DT's blogs and see their inspiration as well: 


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Sunday, February 17, 2013

 Hope you are having a fabulous weekend.  Today Core'dination's has joined with the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge.  Had fun with this pallet of colors although I think I read it wrong the first time and used a bluish purple instead of "slate" so I re-did it with another card!

















Thanks so much for stopping by - go to their blog and check out all the inspiration they have in store for you!






Saturday, February 16, 2013

Saturday with Unscripted Sketches and CSI

 Hope you all had a wonderful week and are enjoying your weekend.  I volunteered to work for one of the other nurses yesterday and when I called to tell the PCC she said - hey I'll put you in charge (like this is a "treat?")  I said - I'd rather just have a big busy trauma - she again - hey I'll put you in charge.  We me and charge are old friends but I have definitely earned my "black cloud" image.  Last week I cleaned out the unit discharging about 5 in 30 minutes.  Yesterday the reverse - we had very few patients and I proceeded to fill it back up as well as discharge a few more.  Needless to say I'm usually not on the favorite list of the secretaries who have to do all that paper shuffling!  Luckily they have all been there longer than I have (almost 18 years) so they still love me just have to give me a hard time!
Today I have a card for you for Unscripted sketches - I'm loving the challenging sketches she's been coming up with for us to do - keep watching - the next ones are wonderful.




 Then over at CSI this week we have yet another fun Case File.  This one had me digging through CDs looking for my favorite pictures of all my kids.  Then I have a little tag stuck under there telling each of them what I find so special about each of them.  Interesting little fact.  Kim (far left) is a May 24th birthday, Kristi and Brandy (middle two) are both born on May 26th.  Mine is May 13th and Kim's twins are May 1st.  We usually have Christmas in May around here!   Cardstock on this is some of the Core'dination's Jenni Bowlin line which I have been obsessed with recently - going to have to ask for more!
 

 
 

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Hampton Arts and Core'dinations week long Blog Hop





 Day four of the Hampton Arts and Core'dination's exciting Blog Hop.  Today I have more cards for you still using the same collection of stamps from the Birthday Collection.  First I used some Tim Holtz Kraft papers - love this stuff!






Then some Chocolate Box again with more of the cute stamps.

And then some of my favorite Graphic 45 cardstock papers and more of the fun stamps.


And here's the stamp collection that I got all these cards from.  Sorry for the poor picture - it's dreary here and hard to get a decent picture inside.




Please check out more inspiration from the sites below who are all posting inspiration for you today.

Hampton Art blog: http://blog.hamptonart.com/
Core'dinations blog: http://www.coredinations.com/index.php/cat...scrapbook-blog/

Monday: Adora Concepcion http://adoraconcepcion.blogspot.com/
Beverly Sizemore http://bevscreativepath.blogspot.com/
Debbie Standard http://debbiestandard.blogspot.com/
April Derrick http://memoryvilla.com/blog/

Tuesday: Britt Bass http://pinkpapercrowns.blogspot.com/
Vivian Keh http://contadinak.wordpress.com/
Ellen Sosnoski http://closeyourears.blogspot.com/


Wednesday: Gretchen McElveen http://gretchenmac.blogspot.com/
Nina Yang http://waffleflower.com/
Lydia Jackson http://lidibids-scrapnotions.blogspot.com/
Leica Forrest http://10-4livingoutloud.typepad.com/leica_forrest/


Thursday: Gloria Stengel http://gloriascraps.blogspot.com/
Dana Warren http://kraftpaperstamps.blogspot.com/
Debbie Standard http://debbiestandard.blogspot.com/
Melissa Oliveira http://www.bzzyfingers.typepad.com/

Friday: Gini Cagle http://ginicagle.blogspot.com/
Andrea Amu http://imlivinonscraps.blogspot.com

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Monday, February 11, 2013

Hampton Arts and Core'dinations


This week Core'dinations has teemed up with Hampton Arts!  The Design Team has each been given some of their stamps to work with and we want to show you how we have combined their stamps with Core'dination's papers.  Today I have two cards for you.
For my first card I used some of the Glitter Silk collection together of course with a Hampton Arts Birthday stamp and a Tim Holtz flower, as well as some May Arts ribbon.


Then here I have used some of the Gemstones collection and another one of the cute Hampton Arts stamps.  The cake, sentiment and the little bar under the sentiment are all from the stamp collection that I used.

They came from this fun collection of Birthday Stamps - sorry for the poor picture - it's dreary here and can't get outside to take a photo.


Stop off at these blogs as well for some more inspiration! Also check back here on Thursday as I will again be part of the week long blog hop and have some more cards for you to see!

Hampton Art blog: http://blog.hamptonart.com/
Core'dinations blog: http://www.coredinations.com/index.php/cat...scrapbook-blog/

Monday: Adora Concepcion http://adoraconcepcion.blogspot.com/
Beverly Sizemore http://bevscreativepath.blogspot.com/
Debbie Standard http://debbiestandard.blogspot.com/
April Derrick http://memoryvilla.com/blog/

Tuesday: Britt Bass http://pinkpapercrowns.blogspot.com/
Vivian Keh http://contadinak.wordpress.com/
Ellen Sosnoski http://closeyourears.blogspot.com/


Wednesday: Gretchen McElveen http://gretchenmac.blogspot.com/
Nina Yang http://waffleflower.com/
Lydia Jackson http://lidibids-scrapnotions.blogspot.com/
Leica Forrest http://10-4livingoutloud.typepad.com/leica_forrest/


Thursday: Gloria Stengel http://gloriascraps.blogspot.com/
Dana Warren http://kraftpaperstamps.blogspot.com/
Debbie Standard http://debbiestandard.blogspot.com/
Melissa Oliveira http://www.bzzyfingers.typepad.com/

Friday: Gini Cagle http://ginicagle.blogspot.com/
Andrea Amu http://imlivinonscraps.blogspot.com


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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Unscripted Sketches and CSI

 Happy Saturday - hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.  This will be my last day off before heading back to work.  Just two days but they are usually enough to wear me out.  Been making cards this week.  Today I have a card for you from the sketch over at Unscripted Sketches.  Please be sure to stop over at the US blog and check out all the other fabulous cards that the DT has for you.



Then over at CSI this week we have another new Case File for you to solve.  This is the color inspiration that inspired my page.





I created my page using some of the Core'dination's Tim Holtz Kraft collection.  I sanded it down first of all then I put a chipboard cloud behind the paper and sanded around it numerous times in different positions to create my clouds.  Then the center strip and some of the layers over that are with the new Tim Holtz Shattered collection.  Some of the lighter pieces don't show the shattered look until you ink over them  - then they are amazing.  I've posted a close up so you can see.













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Thursday, February 7, 2013

For Your Inspiration and some Core'dination's


 Hope you are having a great week - we once again have another inspirational photo for you from Unscripted Sketches!  Love this one.  For my card I used some of the Core'dination's Gemstones collection and scored it multiple times in different directions to create a background similar to the tower here.  Then picked up some of the colors of the photo.  Please stop by the rest of the Design Team's blogs and see their awesome cards.





Then over at Core'dination's this month we have a sketch challenge.  I elected to turn the sketch and came up with this page.  Wish I could take credit for the photos but these were part of set of head shots Brandy had taken in LA last year.  The cardstock is Core'dination's - the background is the Jenni Bowlin black/kraft line and the red is part of the new Tim Holtz Shattered collection.  The greys are plain Core cardstock which was embossed and sanded.








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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

More Valetine's from Core'dinations!

 Hope you have been enjoying all the inspiration that the Design Team over at Core'dinations has prepared for you this week.  Here are two cards I made to add to.  The first card used a tag I had - just colored it and laid it over some pink Core papers this I sanded and embossed.  The second card is made using the Glitter Silk collection and an SRM sticker.












Monday, February 4, 2013

It's almost Valentine's Day

 Over at Core'dination's we are going to be celebrating Valentine's this week and I'm leading off the pack.  Be sure to check every day on the Core'dination's blog for inspiring ideas from all the team.  I'll have some cards here for you on Wednesday as well.  But first off is a page I did using some of the new fabulous Tim Holtz Seasonal papers together with the Tim Holtz Shattered collection.  There are some light shades in the collection that don't really show the "shattered" until you ink them and then it's soo neat!  I wanted pink so just inked over the paper with pink ink and it was perfect - put a close up in there so you could see.  The flowers are all done with the White Wash collection which I lightly sanded to bring out the pink.  The black is part of the TH Kraft collection which I just sanded to lighten it and bring out the kraft.





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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Check out the winners of the CSI BLOG HOP!



A huge thanks to everyone who celebrated with us this month and visited the CSI design team's blogs for our Birthday Presents Blog Hop. Winners have been announced here. Come see who won!




Saturday - Unscripted Sketces and CSI

Hope you all had a great week - been busy myself.  Worked Mon/Tues, took Jason to the dentist on Wed, Thursday hubby had surgery on his foot (fairly extensive this time - three hour surgery), had to leave him overnight and then went and got him Friday morning.  But I have managed to get myself a little scrappy time in.  Tomorrow they are showing the house again so will have to get up running in the morning and get everything "Martha Stewart" perfect before they get here.



First I have my card for Unscripted Sketches this week.




Then for CSI this week we have another case file to solve.  I started with some Core'dination's WhiteWash Basic Grey cardstock which I sanded to show the pink core

 
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