You’re a Doll!

I got 2 sketch challenges done today, not bad for a Monday, eh?
The first card uses the sketch over at 2sketches4you, I love to “do” the sketches over there because it is a nice warm up to my other artistic endeavors and I can usually guarantee that I will get one thing made on a [...]

The Last Day of Summer Vacation!

Do you ever celebrate the last day of anything? We all scrap the first day of school but this year I decided to make a scrapbook page about the last day of the kids summer vacation:
Tip: Save $ on embellishments  by using memorabilia like i did with the movie tickets. All the paper came for [...]

Back to school and a spooky freebie!

My son went back to school yesterday, I snapped this pic as the bus pulled up:
You can find the Library Card and the printable sheet of School Bingo Cards in the Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff Shop for $1, you can’t go wrong! Here is a peek at the jornaling tag:
And a card made from the scraps:
and [...]

OSA Layout challenge 33 {and a freebie!}

Happy Tuesday! When I saw the sketch for this weeks layout challenge it immediately reminded me of the kaleidoscope scrapbook pages we used to make back in the day, there were plastic templates and hinged mirrors to help us crop our photos, Ahhh, memories….Well that had always been to fussy for me so instead of [...]

Cute as a button!

When I saw this sketch over at 2 sketches 4 you today I had to make a baby card ASAP:
I used scraps of blue paper and stamps from Pink Persimmon and the sentiment is an oldie from Inque Boutique. Thanks for looking and till next time happy crafting!

Watercolor Marker Tips!

Happy Sunday folks! I was over at the Creative Belli Challenge blog the other day and they issued a challenge to use water-based markers in a design, I have lots of these that I have forgotten about since discovering Bic mark-its so I thought it would be a good time to show them some love:
I [...]

Tray Chic Part 3!

Well, the table is finally ready to ship off the the Maine Discovery Museum to be displayed in various storefronts in downtown Bangor Maine before being auctioned off in November. Absentee bidding will be offered for anyone not attending the auction in person, details soon on the Maine Discovery Museum’s website.
If you missed the previous [...]

Halloween in August {and a freebie!}

***We are having some technical difficulties with the freebie link this week, while I sort it out you can download this weeks freebie here, Please be sure to visit the design team to see what you can make with it ******
One of my friends took her family camping last weekend and the campground [...]

Pretty as a Peacock

I was attempting another Oriental Stamp Art challenge, this time to use a peacock in a design, and this is what I came up with:
Can you believe out of my thousands of rubber stamps I didn’t have one peacock! It’s true, so I grabbed my sketchbook and drew one! You can get the Flourished Peacock [...]

Pay it Forward! Who wants some crafty goodness?

I was over at Stephany Zerbe’s blog yesterday and she has a fun thing happening. Be among the first 5 people to leave a comment and get a craft! The catch is that you, in turn have to pay it forward and a handmade craft onto 5 people, and they agree to send a craft [...]