United States of Fiskateers Crop - recap

Three weeks ago I participated in the United State of Fiskateers - Wisconsin crop. Kelly did a fabulous job, organizing everything. We had great food, prizes and fun games. I got to pick up stickers with my nose! Way too much fun! LOL

 

 I came home with three new punches and a new pair of scissors. I need to find a way to display all my scissors, they are too pretty to be stashed away. Thanks, Fiskars! You are the best!

I met some old friends and made new friends. Check this beautiful card with flower hair pin that Kelly S made and the cute baggie with yummy oatmeal cookies that Shelley brought to share with us.

I also wanted to make a little something for my Fiskateer friends. I ended up making small orange flowers with beads. Love hoe they turned up. I also designed a make-n-take for the crop. Stay tuned for the pictures and tutorial.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today America celebrates Thanksgiving Day. I want to wish a very happy holiday to my American friends and blog readers. I am very grateful for the time you spend reading my little blog and for your kinds words. Thank you for being part of my life!

I made this card using My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Blush collection. It is one of my November DT projects for Scrapbook Express.

Supplies: patterned paper (MME), dies and diecut machine (Lifestyle Crafts), distress ink (Tim Holtz), distress stickles (Tim Holtz), stamp (Fiskars), ink (Colorbox)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wednesday - what's on my mind...

* New free Holiday class at JessicaSprague.com!You can find all the info here. Thanks, Cheri, for sharing!

* Lifestyle Crafts is hosting a series of awesome weekly giveaways. This week you can win the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, ect) and a Bamboo Create Tablet! You can also get an entry in a drawinf by participating in the weekly make-n-takes. Here are the instructions for today's week make-n-take. I made this card for the first make-n-take. I didn't have the same dies that were used for the sample card so I had to improvise. I love how it turned out!

Supplies: patterned paper (Martha Stewart), die and diecut machine (Lifestyle Crafts), ribbon, button

* Hanukkah is getting close. I started to collect ideas for gifts but I need to be done very soon since some gifts need to travel thousands of miles.

* New class with Stacy Julian at Big Picture Classes. It is called Twelve.  I really want to take it .... Thinking... thinking....

* 6 days ago I joined the Weight Watchers. I wish I could say I am doing well but I am really struggling with meal planning and cooking for 4 picky eaters and myself..... Help? Please?

So what's on your mind lately?

Are you up for some challenges? (Tuesday Trio sketches and Scrapbook Express monthly contest)

Hello my blog friends. It looks like when the life gets too busy than usual the first thing to go is my blog.  I guess I just need to accept that I am a sporadic blogger.  In the last week and a half we had WI Edge picture day, dentist appointments, Lila's birthday and her sleepover party with 6 friends. That doesn't mean I didn't scrap! Not as much as I wanted but I was able to finish few layouts and lots of cards. I am done with my Christmas cards! Very early for me! :)

This is the layout I made for today's Tuesday Trio sketch. I picked up Martha Stewart Halloween paper pad at Michael's on clearance. Love all the silvers and blacks. I think it will be useful not only for Halloween layouts. I used it to scrap the pictures of Ella's costume back from 2007. Dailly challenged us to re-purpose something and I used the top part of the black cat cupcake topper.

Supplies: patterned paper (Martha Stewart), letter stickers (large - Heidi Grace, small - Bazzill Basics), snowflake punches (Martha Stewart), scallop and circle punches (Fiskars), ribbon

You have to see the layout Orli made for this challenge. She re-purposed an empty paste tube! LOVE this!

I made the next card for the last week's Tuesday Trio sketch. We had to make an autumn card and what is better than WRMK Autumn Splendor collection. I used quite a few tools to make this card - Fiskars border punch for the border strip in the middle of the card, Fiskars scallop punch to punch out the flowers from the paper, Fiskars corner punch  to decorate the corners of the owl tag and Lifestyle Crafts foliage die to make the leaves.

Supplies: patterned paper, journaling pad (WRMK), border punch, scallop punch, corner punch (Fiskars), leaves die (Lifestyle Crafts)

Both challenges are still open! Show us what you can make. The winner of the weekly challenge is entered into the monthly prize drawing.

The last layout I want to share today is the one I made for The Little Things contest at Scrapbook Express. I think it was one of the most challenging contests I ever did - everything on the layout, except pictures, should be less than 1"! I played with several ideas and eventually decided to make layered circles that I cut in quarters. I used the same papers to make the colorful title and added few drops of mist. Not my usual layout but that's what I like in the challenges - they really make you step out of your comfort zone! There is still time to join the challenge! It is open till the end of November. Join the message board and show us what you can make. :)

Supplies: patterned paper (MME, WRMK, American Crafts, Bo Bunny, S.E.I., Making Memories), alpha dies and diecut machine (Lifestyle Crafts), punches (Fiskars, EK Success), smootch spritz (Hampton Art), colored pencils

11.11.11

For few weeks now I was thinking about doing something special with the kids on this day. Special and simple and not very time consuming. I decided to go a time capsule similar to this

Source: kellicrowe.typepad.com via Maya on Pinterest

For now I decided to include the following:
1. Mini album with pictures from the day
2. Pictures of the girls assignment notebooks
3. School papers with the date
4. Gas and basic grocery prices
5. Printouts of random emails from Ofir's and my inbox
6. "Me, right now" questionnaire (still looking for something interesting)
7. Kids height, clothes and shoe sizes
8. Eli's handprint
9. What we ate for dinner
10. Anything special that girls want to include

What do you think? What you would include in the time capsule?

P.S.
Me, this morning: Lila, can you bring some papers from school with today's date? I want to make a time capsule
Lila, with cynical expression: Really?? And than we will dig a hole and bury it?
Me: No, we will put it on a shelf
Lila, starting to like the idea: Ah, ok.

Tuesday Trio Sketch 92

I had a great time on Saturday cropping with Fiskateers!  I will have some pictures to share later but meanwhile just wanted to say huge thank you to Kelly that organized this awesome event.

Today I am going to share my layout for Tuesday Trio blog (on Tuesday! I know, shocking! edited: I started this post yesterday but ....). It was a color challenge this time - banana yellow, blue, pink and brown. I cut two circles from Heidi Grace paper and added few stickers and some K&Co vintage looking diecuts. My new Fiskars corner punch was on my desk so I used it to punch the corners of the layout. I finished with little doodling along the edges. I love those pictures of Ella sitting in her tummy tub, so glad they are in her album now.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Studio), patterned paper (Heidi Grace), stickers (Heidi Grace), chipboard number (Heidi Grace), diecuts (K&Co), button (Recollections), border punch (Fiskars), corner punch (Fiskars), alpha dies and diecut machine (Lifestyle Crafts), colored pencil

And here is another sweet girl, Lila, approximately at the same age as Ella in the photos above. I adored this mustard colored dress from a french boutique that my MIL bought for her. It came with matching tights and a sweet jacket that I think was never worn. I did this layout for Scrapbook Express using the beautiful Autumn Splendor collection from We R Memory Keepers. I used my new Lifestyle Crafts die to cut the leaves. The bracket under the picture is hand cut.

Supplies: cardstock (Bazzill Basics), patterned paper, border sticker, chipboard (We Are Memory Keepers), letter stickers (October Afternoon), border punch, circle punch (Fiskars), dies and diecut machine (Lifestyle Crafts), staples, colored pencil, date sticker

I don't have a lot of dies and I give a lot of thought what dies to buy. I want to be sure I will use them. I think my new Foliage die will one of them. I think I will use it over and over. I also have a little extra motivation to use my dies - Lifestyle Crafts announced a I Made It challenge on their blog with weekly giveaways and a huge grand prize. I love their new blog - great source of ideas for to use your dies!

Friday Lift and Tuesday Trio on Friday

Hmmm, it looks like I missed a week of blogging... Life is getting busy here, or should I be honest and just say - more chaotic? Let's play a little catch up - I am going to share my Tuesday Trio projects from the last two weeks. 

This week the challenge was to use something raised. I made a layered card with 4 layers of punched around the edges squares. It was my week to write a tutorial so you can see step-by-step photos on the Tuesday Trio blog.

 Supplies: cardstock (American Crafts), patterned paper (Martha Stewart), corner border punch (Fiskars), liquid pearls (Ranger), vintage button, twine, sticker

 

Last week challenge was to use lots of layers. I used one of the digital stamps from out sponsor - Crafty Sentiments Designs. I decided to leave the stamp uncolored and just added some color to the flowers with souffle pens. I used Cosmo Cricket Upcycle papers.

 

Supplies: patterned paper (Cosmo Cricket), sircker (Cosmo Cricket), digitla stamps (Crafty Sentiments), pens (Sakura), buttons (Foof-a-laa), circle punch (Fiskars)

And finally my Friday Lift for this week. I lifter Lisa Dickinson's layout from JBS December gallery. All products here except the letters and the raindots are from an old Jenni Bowlin kit.

 

Supplies: cardstock (unknown), patterned paper (Jenni Bowlin), border punch (Fiskars), big flower and circle punches (Fiskars), small flower punch (EK Success), raindots (Cloud 9), letters (Bella Blvd), paint

My scissors got a good workout. The cherries and the leaves were part of the patterned paper. The flowers are done with Fiskars lever punch and small EK Success flower punch.

I will sign off now because tomorrow I an going to a crop and I still have tons to do before. Can't wait to see my old friends and meet some new friends. It is going to be awesome!

Friday Lift

This week's Friday Lift brought to you by the online crop at Jenni Bowlin Studio forum. One of the challenges was to find inspiration at the JBS Pinterest boards. I found this amazing layout by Lisa Dickinson and had to do something similar. I am in love with this layout for several reasons:

1. I used ton of scraps

2. I scrapped those recent pictures of Eli that otherwise would remain in pixel state for very long time.

3. I told the story.

Supplies: patterned paper (WRMK, Jenni Bowlin), chipboard letters (Making Memories), chipboard buttons (Jenni Bowlin), sticker (Jenni Bowlin), vintage buttons, twine

Inbar

I did this layout few days ago based on Shimelle's sketch but waited for better weather to take a nicer picture. Today I realized that the better weather is probably not going to come any time soon and I will have to post what have.

The little cutie in the pictures is my friend's daughter. I combined several Jenni Bowlin papers from old kits and did some fussy cutting. Some papers are 4 years old but I still love them.

Supplies: cardstock (The Paper Company), patterned paper (Jenni Bowlin, Crate Paper), butterfly punch (Martha Stewart), buttons (Foof-a-la), heart sticker (Colorbook), pin (Jillibean Soup), tags (Making Memories, Jenni Bowlin), letter stickers (Sassafras Lass), distress stickles (Tim Holtz) tag, ribbon, felt heart, twine

I made this layout as part of Jenni Bowlin online crop and I have few others to share and few other are still want to do. The challenges are open till October 30th so I still have few days left.

Happy Halloween frame

Finally I can share a project I made for Fiskateers blog! Rebecca sent me new limited edition Happy Jacks border punch and a simple plastic frame. Here is what I made. You can read how I made it on the Fiskateers blog.

Supplies: plastic frame (Staples), patterned paper (MME, Bazzill Basics), letters (Heidi Grace for Fiskars, KI Memory), key (Martha Stewart), corked vials (Tim Holtz), bingo card (Jenni Bowlin), border punch (Fiskars), scallop punch (Fiskars), bats (Cloud 9), doily, twine

 

 It was fun to do something different!