A We Are 3 Gift Bg

I'm having one of those weeks - or should I say months? Back in January, my hubby was saying he's beginning to feel like he spends all his time in doctors' offices. Be careful what say, because since he contracted a bone infection, his nightmare came true - yes, we literally visited four doctor's offices just today! Other than visiting doctors, I decided to make several gift bags for, yes, a gift! For today's bag, I decided to add some color to a bag with a red & white pattern.  I added patterned paper from the Watercolor Batik collection from We Are 3. I added a border. Finally, I cut a flower from Watercolor Batik and some scraps from my stash. The flower is from Dreaming Tree.

Creative Confetti Gift Bag

When I saw last week's Creative Confetti, I couldn't wait to find time to use this technique, On the Grid. Yes, I've used this technique before, but Julie's technique of using the 1/8" border strips was an AHA! moment. I still had a little trouble, 'cuz I just can't get my cutter to cut accurately. LOL! I generally take card packs as hostess gifts when I travel, but our local SALSA group has been sponsoring Gift Bag Swaps - and who doesn't need a stash of pretty gift bags? So I'm making a few for "gifts" now. I printed the sentiment out on a piece of Touch of Teal patterned paper from We Are 3. I used Power Poppy's Irresistible Peonies for the "grid" work.

You can see how beautiful this image is in the close-up below.

  

Enjoyable Easter Card

I'm so in love with the Featured Stamper Challenge - so here's this week's card for Splitcoast Stampers. Here I'm only using scraps from Dreamy Creamy and Distressed Burlap - and a digi Easter Egg Lamb. I chose this design because I'm trying to use sentiments in conjunction with my images - this sentiment is from the Itty Bitty Birthday collection. I like how this turned out.

                                              

Lava-ly!

This week was my own challenge. I like to make themed cards for our neighbors' birthdays. Our gift was a volcano kit. Thanks to Pinterest, I found some ideas for a Lava-ly card for Addison. I used a step-card template from Papercraft Inspirations and a Volvano SVG from Miss Kate Cuttables. Then added some trees from Miss Kate Cuttables' 4 Season Trees.

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!