Midnight Madness at AC Bailey Designs Forum

The AC Bailey Design Team has been busy stirring the caulderon and cooking up some treats for All Hallow's Eve!

Games, Challenges and Sales await!

Be sure to sign into the Forum on Friday, October 30th at 5pm EST to take part in the festivities!

Treats will be awarded as usual....but work needs to be uploaded to the Gallery before the stroke of midnight Sunday, November 1st to be eligible.

And if you'd like to "treat" yourself...ALL products in the "While Supplies Last" section are an additional 40% off today and tomorrow!

Use coupon code "madness" to get your discount!

One coupon per customer - limited quanitites - valid 10/30 and 10/31 only!

Happy Halloween!

P.S. You'll want to check back here later today for a special contest and holiday shopping goodness, too!

Whooo luvs you - part 2 (Frosted Designs challenge!)

It is officially owl week! Well, not technically, but it feels like it!

I liked my owl that I created so much my card entry for the Practical Scrappers fun punch challenge earlier this week that I created a new owl using a scrallop circle punch for his chest and a small flower punch for his eyes for my Frosted Designs layout this week. Coinincidentally, our challenge at Frosted Designs this week was to use an owl in our layout or card.

Fancy that!

This layout uses Bazzill and Close To My Heart cardstock, American Crafts Thickers letter stickers and My Mind's Eye "Blooms and Grow" papers - yeah, I know. The same ones that I used on my two Practical Scrappers challenges this week. It's my new favorite, what can I say! It also uses Close To My Heart Bigger Brads (owl's eyes) and Bitty Brads (for the flower centers) and some random heart buttons I've had for ages.

This layout also incorporates two other challenges in honor of the Cross Challenge Blog Hop hosted by Practical Scrappers, Frosted Designs and Stuck on U Sketches starting today!

The challenge at Practical Scrappers is to use at least three different types of ribbon in your layout. In my layout, I used some Close To My Heart (Hollyhock & Sweet Pea Striped Grosgrain); Target Dollar Spot (Brown with Turquoise Dotted Satin); Cloud 9 Design (Green Gingham) and Making Memories (Natural Woven Flowers).

The challenge at Stuck on U Sketches is to use the following sketch, which incorporates my favorite shape! Yeah!

P.S. I just popped over to check out the Stuck on U Sketches site and they have some of the cutest sketches I've seen! Plus, they've got some awesome tutorials, like this one on how to make a floral branch - way cool! Totally fell in love, totally became a follower right away. (Sometimes it's good to be a follower, you know!)

Be sure to play along this week for the Blog Hop - I can't wait to see what goodies are in store!

Whooo loves you? Practical Scrappers challenge

Here's another entry for this week's Practical Scrappers challenge. This cutie-patootie owl was created using my Fiskars apron lace border punch and layering several of the strips created using My Mind's Eye papers for her chest feathers. I love how she turned out! She's so much fun!
All of the patterned papers are My Mind's Eye with some Chocolate Chip cardstock from Stampin' Up for the owl and card base. I added some tiny flowers for her eyes and ribbon from my stash to button it up. The title is in Rainboots Thickers from American Crafts.

My little punkin' head!

First off, let's just point out the glaringly obvious:

1) I can't seem to take a clear picture of my projects lately to save my life. Seriously. I don't know what the problem is!!!

2) Don't you just love all the fingerprints? Awesome, I know. You can tell my kiddos have been looking through the photo boxes again!

LOL! Good thing I'm not a perfectionist!!! =p

Anywho, this layout is for the most recent Freaky Friday challenge over t the AC Bailey Designs forum. The challenge this week was to create a layout using fall colors - orange, yellow, green and brown and somehow incorporate a leaf or pumpkin. I used all of my pumpkin patch pics last year - though I guess I haven't posted them yet so I could have cheated a little bit had I actually remembered that before now. (just kidding!)

This uses Stampin' Up cardstock, Close To My Heart cardstock, brad and chipboard, American Crafts patterned paper and Making Memories twill and letter stickers.

Thanks for stopping by!

Gettin' punchy with it! Practical Scrappers challenge

Lately I've developed somewhat of an obsession with scallops and swirls. I just got the apron lace punch from Fiskars and some swirly Sizzix dies, so I'm in hog heaven!
Our challenge this week at Practical Scrappers was to use fun punches, like butterflies, flowers, and of course, scallops, to create a fun layout or card. Yeah! Just the excuse I needed!

Here's what I came up with:

This layout is a sort of a tribute to the women in my family - particularly on my mom's side. This rare photo of all of us - just the women - was taken a few months ago to celebrate my cousin Ashley's graduation. She's in the middle holding Sophia. The photo also contains my cousin Brittany, aunt Jolene, my mom, me and my aunt Tracey.
As you can see, all of us look a lot alike. But besides our physical resembelence, we have very similar personalities. We're strong and stubborn, but have hearts of gold and are always looking to help others. We live with passion and like to throw caution into the wind. I'm pretty lucky to say this is where I come from.
This layout uses Stampin' Up cardstock and papers from the Blooms and Grow collection from My Mind's Eye. The cardstock title is from the Target dollar spot and the "women" part are Close To My Heart, as is the big pewter brad. The swirls are cut with my Sizzix dies on 3 Bugs in a Rug paper.
Thanks for stopping by!

Two papers, many ways - Practical Scrappers Weekend Challenge

A few of the DT members at Practical Scrappers were recently given four different sets of papers featuring two designs each. For the weekend challenge, we were instructed to use two of the sets to create any project we wanted, with the goal being to see how many different ways the sets of patterened paper could be used. Other than that, there were no guidelines. It was a great challenge and neat to see what everyone came up with using the same two elements.

Here are my two projects:

The papers were double-sided with stripes on one side, solid blue on the reverse and the other had these funky little flowers and solid blue on the other side. I cut out my favorite flowers and used one of the solid sides for a border, then a little marquee that I had floating around. I curled the flower petals and added some adhesive backed pearls for the centers. A stitched ribbon bow and chipboard "love" topped it off.

The second set had lots of mulit-coored circles on one sheet and fun little geometric prints on the other. On the reverse of each sheet was solid blue. I layered three borders - one of each design and one of the solid blue and added it to my card that had some more of the solid blue on the bottom and topped with a pearlescent pink top, then punched out some of the circles from one sheet for accents. I added felt snowflakes and blingy brads and a fancy ribbon to tie it all together.

Be sure to check out Practical Scrappers and check out the great work from the rest of the DT!

Make it Pop! Frosted Designs challenge #3

Our challenge this week at Frosted Designs was to make something layered or popped. I really enjoy using my pop dots, so this was right up my alley!

I paper pieced this sweet angel by stamping her twice and coloring both images in. I cut apart her face, dress with bird and the two trees and added pop dots to the back of each image. Then, I just layered them on the original image for a dimensional effect. I added a little Stickles to her wings and she was all set to be added to the card, which is using Close to My Heart papers & cardstock. The ribbon and twine are from my stash but the button and stamp are also Close To My Heart.

Here's a side view with better lighting:

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!!!

My Blog Candy goes to Charlene Fairbairn who won with this comment:

Hi Jessica! I really love the Friends mini album you did from your Thursday, June 18, 2009 post! Very adorable :)Thanks for the chance for that yummy candy! I love CTMH products!

Charlene, shoot me an e-mail with your address and I'll send your package off to you soon.

Thanks to all who participated and left such sweet comments and follow my blog! I appreciate it! Look for more candy in the near future!

Time to break out the office supplies!

Our challenge over at Practical Scrappers this week is to use office supplies (and not buttons, as I was originally thinking! Agh! It's been one of those weeks!) After much decision on what to do, here's what I came up with.
These pics were taken of my sweet little Sophia when she was just three. My peanut girl - how cute is she?! I love the black and white photos against the bright & funky background. I used colored paperclips as a fun little border with ribbon on one side, then my notebook hole punch for the pink border.
Papers and die cuts are My Mind's Eye, stickers are Doodlebug Design, and ribbon and paper clips are Close To My Heart.
Be sure to visit Practical Scrappers to see what else our talented Design Team has come up with!

Design Team Search for 2 Great Sites!

Both of the sites I design for are looking for Design Team or Guest Design Team members.

It's a great chance to share your creative genius, expand your horizons and work with a talented group of crafters!

Practical Scrappers is looking for DT members. To enter, you'll have to participate in at least two challenges this month, make sure you are a follower, and link your projects to their Mr. Linky at the bottom of the site's home page. You'll also need to send an email to practicalscrappers@gmail.com telling them why you want to be a designer for Practical Scrappers. Designers will be expected to submit weekly projects. Hurry! The deadline to apply is October 30th at 5:00 pm ET!

Over at Frosted Designs, they'll be spotlighting one of the challenge participants each week to be a Guest Designer. Your work will be featured and you'll be featured on the site for the challenge you design in. All you have to do is participate in the challenge to win!

Be sure to upload your artwork in the challenges to get your chance to shine! I can't wait to see your work!

It's good to be princess... Frosted Designs challenge week 3

Ahhh.... the life of a princess. Everyone waits on you hand and foot, you always get your way and never have to lift a finger. Sounds like my kind of deal, you know?

I happen to have a princess in my house. I featured little miss princess Sophia on my layout this week for Frosted Designs. We were to incorporate a marquee - basically a large attention-drawing image - to feature our title. I was blog hopping the other day and came upon this adorable card by Peet here and instantly knew that I had to lift it for my marquee. (Her cards are AMAZING! Seriously - check her out!!!!) I made the same-shaped crown and added foam Thickers for my title, outlined it in Diamond Stickles and added some crown jewels.

The rest of the layout quickly fell into place. I added some bling, some new Bazzill & Petalloo flowers and old Prima flowers, some satiny baby pink ribbon and layered it on my new My Minds Eye papers from their Bloom line and placed it all on a sheet of Chocolate cardstock from Stampin' Up.

After a bit of a mojo-missing-moment, here's the final product:

Be sure to link your marquee project to Frosted Designs by next Thursday for a chance to win!

A scrapper's cure to the recession!

Who doesn't like new scrapbooking stuff? And especially when you're getting a deal! That's my kind of party!

Grab a friend and join us for the

Scrapbooking Supply Swap Meet

Saturday, October 24th from 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Basement of the New Castle Branch Library, New Castle, CO

We'll have a flea market set up with tables set up from each seller for you to come and shop and find great deals on papers, stamp sets, ink pads, embellishments, alterables, how-to books/magazines, tools and much, much more!

There will be a large assortment of new and used items all going at incredible discounts plus handmade cards and other projects available, too!

The admission is FREE!

Got stuff to sell? We've got a few table spaces still available. Tables are free, but you must RSVP by e-mailing me at jasafras98@yahoo.com if you want one! They are available on a first-e-mailed, first served basis, so be sure to get your spot reserved today!

I hope to see you there!!!!

My first attempts at digi-layouts

I was playing around this weekend with Photoshop trying to make a flier for an upcoming Scrapbooking Swap Meet that I'm hosting with a friend in a few weeks and finally got around to playing with some digital elements that I downloaded FOREVER ago, but either couldn't figure out how to actually use them in a layout or have the time to figure it out.

Sure enough, I remembered enough from my newspaper layout days to actually be able to create something with the cute things I had on file. Yay me! This is a shock, because generally I can't remember last week - so being able to actually remember something from 4 years ago is quite amazing!

Everything I used on these layouts were FREE downloads that I found about 2 years ago. If you want to try your hand at digital scrapbooking, there are tons of great tutorials on-line. Do a search for free digital scrapbooking downloads and you should be able to find them. I am not nearly computer literate enough to explain it to you, but let me just say that if I can do it, so can you! I promise.

This first one uses a brown scallop paper design from Sandi Kreiger, which I downloaded from Making Memories. I don't remember off hand where the pink border thing came from, but it's from a free kit called Think Spring. I'll try to figure it out and post it soon. The transparent heart w/ bow came from AC Legg. I added my picture and my own journaling. It's a pretty basic, no-frills layout but it only took 5 minutes or so to create, so I'm not all that sad!


This one uses all elements from AC Legg. Again, super basic, but still only 5 minutes.

So what do you think about my foray into the digital world?

I don't think I'll ever be a full digital girl (she says with a sideways glance to the extremely messy scrap desk...) I'm too big into texture. I like to feel the papers and embellies and everything, plus the smell of a new paper packet or scrap supply is almost like a drug to me. You know... But this is such a quick way of doing things, and with all of the freebies out there, it may make it's appreance now and again when I need to create quick layouts. Only time shall tell!

Playing with lace (cardstock, that is!)

Our challenge this week at Practical Scrappers was to play with lace cardstock, which is essentially one big huge die cut piece of paper. I've used it before in creating a graduation card for my cousin Ashley - which, of course, I didn't get a picture of so I'll just have to recreate because it turned out pretty neat. My sweet friend Juanita got me some fun lace cardstock for my birthday this summer and I've been itching to use it. This is some of it - you'll see the other stuff tomorrow!

I trimmed my large piece of lace swirly cardstock down to a 3" or so border and glued it to the edge of my little-more-than-half-moon shaped patterned paper to create this fun and relatively easy layout. From there, I added some dollar aisle Target chipboard glitter letters and some Pink Paislee "Captivating" stickers for the title, my new Sizzix swirly stamps and Powder Puff ink, Close To My Heart white grosgrain ribbon, some felt ric rac, a chipboard star from my Making Memories stash and misc. papers.

2 Cute 2 Spook - ACB Freaky Friday Challenge

What a weekend! After enjoying a night out with my friend on Friday for dinner and Zombieland - which, surprisingly I really liked, my son fell ill with a really high fever and nasty, hacking cough. He was a little better yesterday afternoon, so we had family date day with Chinese food for lunch and costume shopping. After 6 months of Sophia telling me she wants to be a witch for Halloween, we got to Target and she changed her mind. Now she's going as Daphne from Scooby Doo, and Andrew's going as a wizard.
Later that night, Andrew's fever and cough were back in full force. Now Sophia's complaining of a sore throat and she's a little warm to boot. Bummer... it looks like it's going to be a long week! I did get lots of house work and laundry done, plus this stinkin' cute layout.
This was done for the Freaky Friday Challenge at AC Bailey Designs forum. Did you know that if you win one of the Freaky Friday Challenges that you get a $10 gift certificate to the store? Pretty awesome, in my opinion. We've got lots of great deals over there right now too! Check it out.
The challenge this week was to create a layout using punches to create a background design. On this, I used my old CM circle punch to create a faux-scalloped circle background and the Fiskars apron lace punch for the purple Bazzill cardstock. Almost everything here was from my October Goodies of the Month kit, including the Bazzill cardstock, Pink Paislee patterned paper for the small circles and Making Memories Halloween pins. I also used a little My Mind's Eye Nightlight paper for the big circle, Bo Bunny ribbon and Sizzix swirly stamps, plus some Close To My heart letter stamps & inks. Minus the CTMH products, everything else I used can be found at the ACB store.

Who wants some CANDY?

After all my good fortune in the last month and to thank you for all of your kind words and support, I figured it was more than time to reward my loyal and loving readers, so here's a little blog candy for you!

This candy contains:

Making Memories Flea Market 8x8 paper pack, including two of each above, which have die cut papers, sparkly papers, foiled & veneered papers

Making Memories Flea Market Embellishment Pack

Close To My Heart Bling Frames

Close To My Heart Pearl Accents

Close To My Heart Clear Acrylic Accents

Close To My Heart Memory Flip Flap Memory Protectors

Colorbok Foil Alpha Stickers

Creative memories Elegant Letter Laser Stickers

Bazzill Chips Corners (Chipboard)

Autumn Leaves Clear Stitched Journaling Stamps

Maya Road Blank Flower Calendar Turn

To enter this candy drawing, simply make a comment on this post about your favorite project you've seen on my site.

Become a follower and you'll get two entries.

Candy drawing will be held approximately October 20th.

Thanks for being you!

Blogger award!

My sweet friend and Practical Scrappers DT sister Kim left me such a sweet honor on her blog recently - the Honest Scrap award. Kim is always there with super sweet and loving words of praise - and she's such an amazing crafter! If you haven't "met" her, be sure to check out her blog, Memories in Thyme.

Here's how the award works:

- Say thank you and give a link to the presenter of the award

- Share "10 Honest Things" about myself

- Present the award to 9 other bloggers whose blogs I find brilliant in content and/or design or to those who have encouraged me

- Be sure to tell the 9 bloggers chosen that they have been given the Honest Scrap award and provide the guidelines for them

Here is my list of 10 Honest Things:

- I met my husband when I was 14.We got married when I was 19, had Andrew when I was 19, and today, 10+ years later, he's my best friend. I am one very lucky girl!

- My children and my husband are my greatest accomplishment.

- My family is HUGE and wild and eclectic. I'm the oldest of seven children (with my only sister being nine months older than Andrew and my youngest brother being 2 years older than Sophia), auntie to two, cousin to somewhere around 30, and niece to 24. They're all awesome in their own way!

- I am a voracious reader. I typically have 2 books going at a time and read my favorites several times a year.

- I write a monthly humor column on being a young mom for a small town local newspaper.

- When I scrap alone, I love having my all-time favorite movies on in the background: Where The Heart Is, You've Got Mail, Love Actually, Notting Hill, Grease, Hairspray or Twilight

- I get teary-eyed every time they play the National Anthem and any other patriotic song or there's a tribute to our soldiers. Many of my family members were in the military and I am thankful every single day for the sacrifices our soldiers and their families make to keep us free & safe.

- I'm a Colorado girl, born and bred (minus 5 years on the east coast). This however, does not stop me from the next....

- I have irrational fears of wildlife - rabid deer in particular. Because you just never know - I probably would be the one to run into a rabid deer and it'd be down hill from there...

- I sing along to musicals and songs on the radio (or Pandora, at work) ALL the time. Yep - I'm one of those people! Actually, my kiddos and hubby are like that too. = )

Here are the women I get inspiration from- in no particular order:

NellieMaii

Jamie Harder

Jamie Lane

Meg Beauchamp

Jenny B
Tam

Heidi

Jenny

Kristin

Be sure to visit their blogs to check out their stunning work and generally why I think they are amaizing women.

Fun with Fabric - AKA Recycled Scrap

Our challenge this week at Frosted Designs was awesome... definitely one of my favorite challenges I've done so far. Our mission was to incorporate at least one piece of fabric into our layout or project. Though I don't so - in fact, not only can I not cut a straight line, but I can't sew one either. I don't have a whole lot of extra fabric on hand, but what I do have is even better.

I happen to be a bit of a pack rat. Additionally, when I see clothes sporting a cute design on them for my kiddos, I wonder if the stains that will inevitably get on the clothes will cover the cute design. I also collect fun tags from my clothes - neat twill and embroidered deals that will one day end up in some project.

Case in point: This is one of Sophia's tees that I bought for her a few years ago. She's long since grown out of it plus its got some nice pen marks from my little artist, but the flowers were so cute I couldn't bear to get rid of it.

After trimming the flowers out with my super-sharp precision scissors, I picked off the weird felty-backing and ran them through my Xyron sticker maker so they were ready to go on my project. Here's the finished look:


Aren't these pictures so funny? This is Andrew and his still BFF from waaaayyy back when they were two. Sweet little monkeys who I'm sure are going to be so mortified that I even have a picture of them kissing... let alone that I've posted it to my blog. This was taken moments before Maddi tried pushing Andrew off the little bridge, so maybe there's the validation. Good times...

Anyhow, back to the layout. Here's a close up:

This layout uses primarily all Close to My Heart items, including papers, inks, metal frame, and letter stamps. There's a piece of Bazzill Just the Edge scallop strip and a swirly stamp from Stampin' Up.

Check out the awesome prize you can win by participating in this week's Frosted Designs challenge by clicking here. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Introducing the first sketch challenge by Frosted Designs!

Meg & Jamie - the super talented ladies behind Frosted Designs, have appointed each member of the design team a month to prepare a sketch to challenge everybody.

Jamie's kickin' off our first sketch challenge for October with this fun & funky design:

Didn't she do a great job? What fun elements to work with!

Here's my take on that layout:

This uses the Elliott paper line from Scrap Within Reach. I love the funky, bold designs and distressed colors - how perfect can you get for a 2-year-old boy? It also uses a Bazzill Just the Edge Strip, some Close To My Heart chipboard, ink and button, and American Crafts Thickers. The pop dots and kraft cardstock are from Stampin' Up. The chipboard was direct-to-pad inked and then distressed with Cocoa to coordinate with the papers.

Thanks for looking! Be sure to check out Frosted Designs this week to check what all those talented women have been up to - and if you have a little spare time, play with this sketch and post your beautiful work, too!

Decorative scissors, part deux

Here's another fun border card using old-school decorative edge scissors for the Practical Scrappers challenge this week. I used the mini-scallop scissors again - this time turned the correct scallop-y way, plus I made a large scallop edge with my Stampin' Up slot punch.

These fun bright colors remind me of back to school - but maybe it's the apple brad that's doing it for me! These papers, stamps and inks are all Close To My Heart. The stitched ribbon is Offray. The apple brad is from Target's Dollar Spot from forever ago - it is layered in a bright pink button. I had to grind out the holes a little bigger to accommodate the large posts of the brad using Close To My Heart's precision file set. These are the most awesome set of $5 tools you can buy. If you don't have a set, I recommend contacting your CTMH rep to get one! (Let me know if you need a referral - I know tons of consultants!)

Check out the rest of the projects and get out those old-school scissors! I'd love to see what you come up with!

Kickin' it old school - bust out those decorative scissors!

When my step-mom first got me into scrapbooking a million years ago, I got several pairs of decorative scissors. I kept them and used them often through Andrew's first baby album, but I can't say as I've done much with them since. When our challenge came up this week at Practical Scrappers, I had to dig through the kiddo's art box to find a pair!

I totally wimped out and used the most non-threatening decorative scissors I had in stash - which luckily was my only pair, so I was safe! The edge on the purple & green strips were made using my scallop scissors - these were the inverted (upside down) pieces to create a wavy look instead of the girly scallops.

Overall I really enjoyed how my layout turned out. This uses supplies from the AC Bailey Goodies Kit of the Month for October - stinkin' cute! Including Pink Paislee patterned papers (from which also came the tag) & glittery brad. The glittery swirls are from Marcella by K and the flower is an ink-distressed daisy from Wal-Mart's faux floral section.

Thanks for looking!

Getting Edgy With It! Freaky Friday Challenge @ ACB

The Freaky Friday challenge over at the AC Bailey forum this week was to use two different edges in a layout or card - neither could be a scallop. Aggh! That killed me, because scallops are my favorite shape to play with. But - I just recently got an order from AC Bailey that had two packages of Bazzill Just the Edges Die Cut Strips - something I didn't think I'd use all that often, but now I use all the time.

I got the strips in brown and white - so I used the brown one as it was and just ink-distressed it slightly to match the paper - Elliott by Scrap within Reach. The green ric-rack started out as white, but I direct-to-paper inked it to the green to coordinate with the rest of the layout. I love how it turned out and wish I had made some big dinosaur or something - it would have been perfect for a stegosaurus. This green ric-rack also got the once over with dark cocoa ink. I also trimmed out a heart from one of my edge strips and tied a ribbon around the funky thin edge to hide the distortion. =)

The layout was topped off with American Crafts Thickers.

All supplies minus the buttons can be purchased here.

How edgy can you be? Be sure to enter your layout or creation in the AC Bailey Forum and Gallery by Thursday night for your chance to win a $10 gift certificate to ACB!

World Card Making Day Projects... a few days late!

This past weekend was super crazy for me so I didn't get to participate as I would have liked in the World Card Making Day festivities on Saturday.

Friday night broght the monthly meeting of the Literati Lovelies - the awesome book club I belong to where we seem to eat and drink and laugh hysterically more than we actually talk about the book we were supposed to read that month. Love those crazy gals!

Saturday brought chores - ugh - Susie Homemaker I am not, but at least some laundry got done {finally}! We also went to visit Michael's parents and helped them winterize their lawn and put up fences so their yard didn't become an all-you-can-eat deer buffet. We ended the day with Octoberfest fireworks overlooking the Colorado River. It was warm and beautiful and a perfect evening spent with the grandparents, aunt, uncle & cousins, until Sophia accidentally kicked my niece in the face during their wrestling tourney in our Suburban and cut her lip open. Good thing Kaelee is a tough cookie!

Sunday brought nursery time at church - got my baby fix in - and grocery shopping. I finally got to replenish my scrap adhesives, though, so I could participate in the World Card Making Day activities from Saturday. So, when I finally got around to it, here were my entries for the WCMD challenges over at the AC Bailey Designs forum - sort of.

This first card I didn't actually enter in anything, but I finished for a friend who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. That one goes into the mail tomorrow. This one uses Close To My Heart papers and embellies and some pretty dark chocolate satin ribbon I had lying around.



This mini-tri-fold card was entered into the Halloween card challenge. I love how fun this one turned out! This uses ooollllldddd Close To My Heart papers, cardstock and inks and some Making Memories stamps I picked up last year for all of $4!


I won in the Love card category for this clear acetate card:

This one uses Bazzill cardstock & ribbon, Close To My Heart stamps & ink & pearls, and 3 Bugs in a Rug patterned paper.

Creative little flourishes!

Our challenge this week at Frosted Designs was to create with a flourish (or two!) Yeah - my favorite! I'd use flourishes in everything if I could.
And, since I just received my October Goodies Kit of the Month from AC Bailey, it was a perfect chance to incorporate some fun designs for my Halloween layout.
I used Pink Paislee Twilight collection papers - the main polkadot piece being cut into my recent fave fad shape and distressed with black ink - plus a Pink Paislee tag, a strip of scallopped My Mind's Eye paper, some felt ric rack and vinyl Thickers. The black swirls were all Close To My Heart - and I accented the corner swirl with Ranger Stickles (like a glittery glue in a fine-tip applicator).
I had a card in mind, too, but when it went to paper it totally didn't turn out like I had pictured. I'll perfect it this weekend and share with you soon!
Be sure to check out the Frosted Designs blog to check out all of the great projects from the incredibly talented (as in wayyy talented) Design Team and be sure to enter your flourish projects for a chance to win!

Celebrate World Card Making Day this weekend with AC Bailey Designs for your chance to win!

Did you know that THIS Saturday October 3rd is World Card Making Day???

World Card Making Day is a holiday especially for card makers around the world to Celebrate the creativity of handmade cards and the personal connection that they create between friends and family as well as to kick off (and get a head start on) the holiday card-making season.

How many of YOU have already started your Christmas cards??? (I know I haven't yet!)

Join the fun this weekend at AC Bailey with another weekend contest at the AC Bailey forum to celebrate the art of card making!

Join the ACB Design Team and special guests for challenges, a contest, and some learning...as only they can do! And of course, there will be PRIZES!!!

All official posts & challenges will be launched tomorrow (Friday!) so get ready to get creative!

By the way, I participated in last weekend's Fall into Scrapping On-Line crop at ACB and WON! for my "Smile" layout and, just by being an active forum member, received 5% off my order today!

My crop prize should be coming in the mail any day (I'm so excited to see what it is!) and I saved over $30 with my order after my discount and enjoying FREE SHIPPING today since it's the first and my order was (way) over $35. Let's just say that shopping with AC Bailey has definite perks!

Oh, and Juanita & Andrea, the girls who have already booked their holiday Christmas card workshops with me, are in for some pretty special treats!

Hope you guys have a great weekend!