We Are 3's Muddy Paws

 What a ball I had with Muddy Paws.  The blue patterned paper is cut in the drape fold.  For the drape fold, I printed two different patterns back to back.

Pop over to the Etsy shop where Bonnie has added some fabulous new designs.

                    

Paper Ala Mode Challenge

We're starting this weekend with our Nautical Challenge at Paper Ala Mode, and we are using the fabulous Nautical Love, Playtime Waddles, and Happiness for our inspiration...all from our sponsor, We Are 3.  

I went with a single-layer card, manipulating everything using Word.  If your'e interested in these wonderful images, visit We Are 3's Etsy shop...Nautical Love, Playtime Waddles, Happiness.  Wait until you see what the other team members made!  Loads of inspiration and lots of fun going on at Paper Ala Mode.  Be sure to share your Nautical ideas!

  

Muddy Paws from We Are 3

Muddy Paws lends itself well to clean and simple card layouts.  To be honest, I'm especially fond of clean and simple cards.  The papers, image, and front sentiment are all from our own We Are 3.   I added some accent from the Peonies Ballet.  For the inside sentiment, I started rummaging through my stash - I found a perfect sentiment that I had already printed on Peonies Ballet.

  

Inside

                           

Muddy Paws at We Are 3

I used We Are 3's fab Muddy Paws to create today's card.  The background is from the Muddy Paws paper collection - enlarged considerably.  Then I used the burlap pattern from the collection to digitally color the doily behind the heart - which I layered and popped for dimension.  The dog and heart is from the Muddy Paws printables.

                

Creative Confetti Keep It Simple

Okay, tell me this mistletoe stamp is not gorgeous!  This beautiful image, Stand Here, is one of my favorite digital stamps.  I'm using it this week for the new Creative Confetti Challenge.  The challenge is Keep it Simple, so I took a simple image and matted it.  The sentiment is from my stash.

We Are 3's Shirley's Roses

 I used three of the fabulous patterns from the Shirley's Roses collection for this card.  I used a sentiment from the Sending You set.  I fussy cut a couple of the roses enlarged for a little accent on the left.

                   

Featured Stamper Challenge and Fairy Textures

This week's Featured Stamper challenge was a snap - and since I'm limited in my collection of fairy digis, I made what I had work.  I went with Dragonfly Keeper, Fairy Fir Tree, and a cropped version of Wild Mushrooms - all from Lavinia Stamps - deciding to use a piece of Fairy Textures for the background.  All in all, pretty clean and simple - but I'm finding the fairy-themed cards don't need much fuss.  Be sure to stop by the Featured Stamper challenge and see the fab creations by the rest of the participants.

Eclips Users Back-to-School Challenge

The current challenge at the eClips Users Group is to create a Back-to-School project.  Well, I must say - creating for this school year is a bit different.  I did stick to the traditional blackboard, though - truthfully, that's easier to depict than online learning!  The easel card is the Scalloped Circle Easel Card from Crafts U Print, resized in eCal, cut from kraft paper.  The image is Love SVG.  The sentiment is We Are 3.

Dragonfly Keepers are in the Air

Fabulously inspiring projects at Anything Lavinia, so pop on over to have a look.

For my background, I used paper from the Snowmen collection.

Power Poppy Creative Confetti Challenge

This week for Creative Confetti at Power Poppy, it's all about Popping the Flower - using a dark background to make your flower pop.  Ah, I see once again I skimmed the instructions and chose a bear instead of a flower to color!  You can see I'm taking retirement from education to heart - LOL!  I am, however, so happy with my finished product.  My bear does pop from the dark wood background I put behind him.  I used a free digi from Carinas Freebies to color.  The background wall is paper pieced from Little Scraps of Heaven.  The background floor is paper pieced from We Are 3 (April Showers).  I added a sentiment from Love SVG.  I then cut the image in a circle on my eClips and popped that on top of a scalloped circle from Monica's Creative Room.

The fabulous background is Watercolor Strokes from We Are 3.

Remember, you have all month to get your card in to Creative Confetti. 

                       

Little Scraps of Heaven Kawaii Ornament

Okay, tell me I can't scrapbook my grandson's life without photos!  I don't get many photos of his activities, so I resorted to using a comic and Facebook post that depicts our lives during the pandemic.  The layout is inspired by Tucson's Snippy Scrappers, Creative Memories consultants.  I added some silhouette karate images.  Perfect for the times, huh?

The gorgeous papers are from Little Scraps of Heaven called Kawaii Ornament.  

We Are 3 Best of Autumn Papers and Creative Memories Layout

All in all, pretty clean and simple layout, but the Best of Autumn papers lend themselves well to rustic outdoor layouts, which is what I wanted here.  Be sure to stop by the We Are 3 Facebook page to see other fabby creations by the rest of the team.  We LOVE to see what you create, as well.

Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper Challenge

Good morning!  Hope you had a lovely weekend.  The card is inspired by this week's Featured Stamper card at Splitcoast.  The card I CASED was inked, but i instead created the effect with digital patterned papers from Ladybug Lace Too.  The sentiment is We Are 3's Baby Wishes.

  

Stick It Down Sketch

This is for the Stick It Down Sketch Challenge.  I did flip the sketch - both vertically and horizontally.  My sweet train-patterned papers are a birthday gift to me from Bonnie at We Are 3.  The gorgeous paper is Trains and goes well with Best of Autumn that I have been using for my current scrapbook.  I added some Trains printables that Bonnie also created for me, as well as the Travel sentiments I used on the page.  

        

August Stick It Down Single-Page Layout Sketch

This layout is inspired by the single-page layout sketch at Stick It Down!  I used Best of Autumn papers.  The sentiment is from my stash of alphabet pages I bought when I first started scrapbooking.

Be sure to visit Stick It Down for fabulous inspiration.

Progressive Freebie Tea Time to Trains

Happy Birthday to me!  My birthday month has arrived, which truly only brings thoughts of getting older.  Bonnie at We Are 3 is helping me celebrate with paper, printables, and sentiments - oh, my!  These train-themed digitals (Bonnie knows me!) are perfect for the new Outlawz Progressive Freebie challenge - I added Tea Time to my cards for a little steampunk.  

You can join the Progressive Freebie challenge here.

Have a wonderful month!

                          

Use Fall Colors - Paper Ala Mode

A pretty simple card - no dimension. But a lot of people actually have trouble with single-layered designs. I digitally filled a swatch with the striped design from Thankful, and placed that on top of the dotted paper. I added the sentiment from the Autumn set - and the Hearts and Home Birdie.  We have great inspiration at Paper Ala Mode.