If The Scrap Fits

Hi Everyone! Welcome to our first Pile it On challenge of March.  We are being sponsored by the lovely  The Paper Shelter Our theme this week is to create a project where your favorite color is the focus…for me, this is Green!  So I created this fun St. Patrick’s Day birthday card using the Paper Shelter  Giraffes On Holiday  (the St. Patrick’s Day image) I just used some random papers from my stash for this and a couple of different dies for the image and mat…I added some St. Patrick’s day ribbon and shamrock stickers.  The sentiment I printed out on my computer in a Celtic font which I thought went really great with this image! Come on over to the PIO blog and see what the rest of the DT has created for you! Entered into these challenges: Creative Knockouts : Lots of Layers ( I love layers, I’m really challenged with CAS cards) Water Cooler Wednesday:  All about Occasions (I’ve got birthday and St. Patrick’s Day)

Ok, so as we spoke a few days ago, my crafty goal this year is to use up my  Scrapbook & Cards Today  Samplers as they come in. So January has some fun goodies from Webster’s Pages, Photo Play Paper and American Crafts. I’m highlighting today the cards from the  Photo Play Paper p ieces we got. Now this set of papers is from their Hello New Year II set. I don’t make New Year’s cards and I rarely take pictures for New Year’s to warrant a layout. So what could I create with this…. Quite a bit actually. My first card is a wedding card! The champagne die cut and the DP are from PPP, the foil die cut and the glitter paper as well as the sequins are from my stash.  I added some washi from Stampin Up as I thought it went really well with this line. Next, we have just a simple card for any occasion.  I did some embossing, as well as created a tag for the focal point.  The little bird is from Elizabeth Crafts outline stickers and I sprinkled some gl...

So I get the monthly Paper Pumpkin kit from Stampin' Up.  I'm not 100% sold on it yet (it's been since September) but can't quite bring myself to cancel.  It's been hit and miss for me. The December kit was a desk calendar kit.  Ya, not my thing.  So with the help of Pinterest, I found some great card ideas instead! We have a challenge at Use Your Stuff this week which is Flowers!  Perfect.  The kit has some great flowery bits that I could use!  Take a look!     They actually turned out great! Thank you to those totally creative individuals on Pinterest! These are the rest of the cards I made with the kit!        All the sequins and butterflies (using the Butterflies thinlits from Stampin' Up) were from my stash as were some of the sentiments but much of the cards were from the kit.   I think they turned out well!  Now, make sure you stop by the Use Your Stuff blog this week and jo...

Hi everyone! "It's time for a CELEBRATION!!!  Lollipop Crafts is celebrating their ONE YEAR BLOGAVERSARY and you are sweetly invited to join the fun! First of all, we are back from summer break with our weekly challenge.  The theme this week is CELEBRATION !   Create a card/project with a celebration theme (ex. birthday, anniversary, wedding, new baby, graduation, etc)  We all have something to celebrate right?  It is the first challenge of the month and that means we are sponsored this week by Meljen's Designs.  One lucky random challenge player this week will win a fantastic prize.  Be sure to link your creations with InLinkz on the LC blog for a chance.  Check out the challenge rules too! Secondly, it wouldn't be a celebration without some FUN!  Join in on our Anniversary blog hop!  You have until tomorrow (Tuesday at midnight PST) to visit and comment on each DT member's blog.  Make sure you visit each of us because their...

It's a new challenge at Sarah Hurley this week, and we are excited because we are lucky enough to be sponsored by Handy Hippo! Handy Hippo is a friendly online craft supplies shop with a great range of rubber stamps and other card making goodies - including plenty of embossing folders and dies for the Cuttlebug. Their website has lots of information on crafting techniques, plus a great selection of free card project ideas to suit crafters of all abilities so please pop over and visit them! They chose a theme of Embossing this week and have given us some embossing folders as a prize! There will be 3 for the winner and one each for 2nd and 3rd place. You can see them on their website here Here is my card for this week's challenge I used some of Sarah's digital papers for the balloons (which can be found in the store here . I embossed the balloons using the Houndstooth Cuttlebug folder and then raised a few of them with pop dots. I added some thick twine to use...

So today on Lollipop Crafts, we are surprising our own package of Lollipop Sweetness KRIS with a birthday blog hop!  She has no idea we planned this, which makes it all the more fun.  If you arrived from the Lollipop Blog then you are on the right track....if not go here to get started. We  have warm birthday wishes for Kris as well as some projects that we want to share with you to help celebrate.  Of course it wouldn't be a birthday without gifts, so Lollipop Crafts is giving a surprise gift to one random winner from all the hoppers!  How can you win it??? 1. Visit each blog in the hop and leave a comment. 2.  Visit Kris'  blog and leave her some birthday wishes. 3. At the end of the hop, head back to the Lollipop blog and let us know what you thought and why not leave Kris some birthday wishes there too. It's that easy! Here is the card that I created for Kris' for this hop... It's a really simple card using some fabulous paper I f...