If The Scrap Fits

So I joined a new site which I am just loving..  www.swapbot.com  This is a great site for doing different kinds of swaps and not just cards..there's everything on there.  So I've joined in on a few card ones so I've made some Easter/spring cards to show you..but first...some challenge blog updates Lollipop Crafts is featuring our sponsor Just Some Lines who's offering a $15 Gift Card for this week's anything but a square/rectangle challenge which is hosted by moi.  You can get all the deets here.. . Sarah Hurley has a new challenge this week and WOW! are the DT inspiration pieces ever gorgeous..the theme this week is MUM's the word...so projects for your mom (It's the UK mother's day this weekend).  You can find the details here AiFactory has a new challenge this week...it's Bright as Day so all your fun bright colored projects can be entered this week.  Check it out here Now on to my cards... the theme for the swap was to create a card wi...

Good morning all..it's Monday so another new challenge over at Lollipop Crafts .  Our great sponsorthis week is Just Some Lines and they gave us some images to work with.  We're doing a non square/rectangle card/project this week...so if you have one that has a shape to it, make sure you enter it into our challenge on the blog. Here is mine this week I cut the shape out using my A Child's Year cartridge on my cricut.  That cart is great for cutting out shapes.  For something different, I had tried coloring the images using my chalks and my blender pen...It didn't work out quite the way I wanted it to, other than in the hair, so I went over the images with my glitter and stickles instead because the shine matched the bit of glitter in the DP I used.  To finish it off, I just used some buttons and flowers in my stash, a die cut butterfly that was white and inked green and then a few pearls.  The stamped sentiment is just from an old set I have and use qui...

It's a new challenge over at CCH and this week it's all about the shaped cards!  We would like to see some fun and unique shapes, anything that isn't your typical square/rectangle traditional.  Our sponsor this week is the Digi Doodle Shop and they have some fabulous images, some of which we got to play with.  Here's my card for this week The shape was cut out using one of my cricut cartridges ( A Child's Year I believe, very versatile).  I punched the butterflies using one of my cuttlebug dies and added a few bits of bling to liven them up.  The image was colored with my copics and the DP was just from my stash.  I have been introduced to flocking! I picked some up on sale at my LSS and love it, so the bunny's ears and her eggs are flock! Way cool!  I hope you like it and be sure to stop by the challenge blog and enter this week's challenge! Entered into the following challenges: The Crafty Pad: use a digi I Did It Creations: Welcome Sprin...

Wow..Thursdays are such a busy day for me!  Here is what's going on.  There is an embossing challenge going on right now on the Sarah Hurley Challenge blog .  Great sponsor Handy Hippo is providing some embossing folders as a prize..I'd love to win these.  So make sure you stop by! Over on the Lollipop Crafts challenge blog , it's our sponsor spotlight!  This week we are sponsored by DZ Doodles and the DT has some cute projects to share with you this week. Here's what my card looks like this week And last but not least..it's challenge day over at AIF and wow..the DT has some gorgeous projects this week for our Things with Wings challenge!  You don't want to miss out so make sure you check it out. My card was entered into the following challenges: charizma cards: die cuts digi doodle shop's best: anything goes southern girls challenge: flowers the paper shelter: spring fling scrapbook sisters: spring flowers by the cute and girly:...

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...

Good morning everyone!  It's challenge day at Lollipop Crafts and this week it's all about the lace!  Such a pretty dainty thing and we'd like to see what you can do with it on your projects.  It can be actual lace, lace punches, lacy borders whatever you can come up with.  All of the deets can be found on our challenge blog so please stop by and enter.  I can't wait to see what you create and the design team as well as our two guest designers this month have created some gorgeous projects for you! So here is my dainty little piece. I have no idea why I decided to do a Christmas card.  I think it's because I had that embossed piece of cardstock and really wanted to use it up.  I had seen an all white card in a magazine I picked up recently and loved the look of it so I knew I wanted to try that as well.  So this is what I came up with.  The cardstock is embossed with a cuttlebug folder.  The lace is actually cut off from a big ...