Celebrate 60 Years Old!

Next week my cousin Steve is celebrating his 60th birthday. He's a school bus driver - so I wanted to make something personalized for him. Cool, huh? My design was not good....and as I write this I know now how I should have changed it. LOL! Should have designed it as a shadow-box card, rather than a box card. Oh, well....fun anyway!

Non-Rectangle Card Challenge

This week we're celebrating odd-shapped cards. I chose to use my Eclips to make a card that takes on the shape of the Sweet Kawaii Cloud Rainbow from our sponsor, Oddball Art. I thought the sentiment from Oddball's Spring Bunny collection was a perfect addition to encourage some sunshine over this cloudy card.

Gladioli for Power Poppy

I just can't help myself checking the Power Poppy Creative Confetti Challenge each week. I began with their Gladioli - coloring two copies to be added together. My birthday is in August, so deep blue is the color I used for my background.  My completed card needed something, then saw my favorite strips of small pearls and voila!

Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper Challenge

Here's a birthday card I cased from this week's Featured Stamper. Check out her amazing work HERE. I just can't get enough of Featured Stamper challenges....inspiration without my having to be original.

Wave Flourish with Miss Kate Cuttables

This layout is totally digital except the photo and matting - and it was fun to design! I used Miss Kate Cuttable's Wave Flourish to make the waves at the bottom of the layout. I printed bubbles along the sides, and used a computer-generated title. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I was inspired by a Leprechaun to make this St. Patrick's Day layout for my grandson's scrapbook - fun and easy to make.

I used patterned paper from We Are 3's Vintage Carnival behind the journaling.

A Very Fun Day

Here's a layout I designed for my grandson's scrapbook.

Outer Space Cards

This is my second attempt at coloring this butterfly. The sentiments are from We Are 3's Fabulous collection. The papers are from the Outer Space collection.

 

Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper Challenge

Yeah! I'm finally managing to sneak in some papercrafting as my husband recuperates from a bone infection. I sooooo love Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper Challenge.

We Are 3 and Look Up Digital Papers

For my layout today, I resized paper from We Are 3's Look Up collection - nice large hot-air balloons. 

The title from Elegant Word Art was a must for this photo of my mother-in-law.  I added some ribbon and felt buttons, and a tag with the date.  Fast and easy!  To view the rest of the papers that come in this collection, click HERE.  Also be sure to visit We Are 3's Facebook Page to see fabulous new papers and designs.

Power Poppy Thank You Challenge? or Mass Produce Challenge?

This week at Power Poppy, Julie chose mass producing for the Creative Confetti Challenge. I'll admit - I missed the note they should be Thank You cards. I needed to make a gift pack of cards today - so mass producing fit in so well with my plans. Thank You cards wouldn't have worked anyways - oh well. I colored a butterfly I've been wanting to try. I did this as part of the Butterfly class from Kit and Clowder - so that did take a little away from mass producing. With my butterflies colored and fussy cut - I moved on the papers.

I chose my papers (Outer Space from We Are 3), cut the layers I needed, printed sentiments and an embellishment...then moved on to assembling.

Click HERE to see amazing creations for the Creative Confetti challenge - and be sure to play along!  It is soooo much fun!

Look Up from We Are 3

Papers are from We Are 3's Look Up collection. You've got to stop by the We Are 3 Etsy Shop to see the fun variety of digital papers made by Bonnie.

Also be sure to stop by We Are 3's Facebook page to see all the wonderful projects the Design Team shares.

Look Up

I used Look Up for this layout.

The Outlawz Birthday Blog Hop

We're having a celebration at The Outlawz this week. Each challenge is represented inj a Blog Hop sharing a project using the theme Celebration. I chose to make a birthday card using the new Party Celebration from We Are 3. The cake embellishment is from the Power Poppy Teacake with Strawberries stamp set. The sentiment is from We Are 3 - Fabulous Sentiments.

You can have this paper collection by participating in The Outlawz Challenge.  Thank you so much, Bonnie, for creating this collection for The Outlawz.  Have fun and enjoy the hop!

We Are 3's Written Word/Paper Ala Mode Challenge

This week at Paper Ala Mode, we're distressed! As I made this card, we were experiencing the Southwest Blizzard of '19 - so I am distressed! By the time this is posted, however, I expect to be enjoying sunny days in the 80s. My background paper for my "distressed" card is from this month's We Are 3 Written Word - adorned with a sentiment from the new Fabulous sentiment collection.

The image is from our sponsor Oddball Art - I used Big Eye Bookwork Astrid the Fairy.  I did some popping with dimensionals to frame Astrid.  Be sure to stop by The Outlawz to see all the fabulous distressed designs - and come and play along.

        

The Written Word is Fabulous

This month at The Outlawz Crash Your Stash Challenge, We Are 3 is sponsoring the Mulberry Paper challenge. We Are 3 is introducing the Written Word digital papers, which will be given as a prize for the winner of the Crash Your Stash Challenge. So dig into your stash and find that mulberry paper! I did finally use up all mine - so no mulberry paper on my card. Instead I made a western-themed card for our local SALSA swap.

I colored the Western horseshoe from Love SVG (that file includes other western images).  I added my own little touch by using some vintage silver embossing on the horseshoe and glitter on the feathers, as well as twine for the rope.  I really think it turned out cute, but I should have made two copies and added more dimension with pop-ups.  For more inspiration, stop by the We Are 3 Facebook page and check out amazing cards made by other members of the Design Team - and we'd love to see your mulberry paper projects at the Outlawz.

     

Wish You Luck and some Fabulous Creative Confetti

This week at Power Poppy, they have another amazing Creative Confetti Challenge. This is one of those cards that just does NOT look like the vision I had in my head....Took me a long time today to settle for this. It is what it is. LOL! The gingham paper is from We Are 3's Just For You collection, and I used Power Poppy's Wish You Luck collection. The glittered flourish is from Love SVG's Decorative Elements.

I printed an extra image and individually cut some flowers and clover to add on top to give it some dimensions.  Then I popped the sentiment and image for dimension, added some ribbon and little pearls.  Be sure to stop by Power Poppy to see awesome creations by others, AND they have a great prize which you can't win unless you play along.

It's the Holiday Season

Again, this beautiful paper is from We Are 3's Little Star collection. Click HERE to purchase. She also has lots of new items for March - so be sure to browse a bit.

Think Spring Card

Wow, was this easy! I rummage through my stash and found yet another piece of Vintage Bird. The water fountain was already colored and in my stash. I digitally paper-pieced the new Think Spring sentiment with some Rainbow Gingham. I added some pearls. Ta Da!

                                    

Back to School

I don't know about you, but I LOVE Back-to-School pics and, for me, there's never too many school pics to scrap. That's why it seems I added every school image available on this layout. Ooooh! So much fun!

First I printed out the title on the background paper.  I cut the banners from Independence Banners (Miss Kate Cuttables).  The various embellishments come from Miss Kate Cuttables, Scrappy Dew, Love SVG, Little Scraps of Heaven

We Are 3 Little Star Layout

Today I made a simple layout using Little Star digital papers and stickers from my stash. I decided to add the North Pole right on top of the Little Star background.

Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper

It's Sunday - All my friends are springing forward. I can't believe it's spring - we are in serious need of some warmth here! Sunday means it's time for another Featured Stamper! This week the Featured Stamper is Sunny Qi - Sunny Loves Paper! This card of Sunny's caught my eye. This is one of my favorite techniques to emulate using digital paper. It takes little time to combine two patterned papers to get a collage effect. I'm so happy with how it came out. Thank you, Dear Sunny, for the inspiration.

I did consider cheating on the "FRIEND" and using digital gold foil for that, too; But I decided to pull out my favorite embossing powder and give it a real metallic effect.  All the patterned papers came from the brand new Periwinkle Minty collection (We Are 3) - just released yesterday!