Punkin' Head!

I've seen these fun paper pumpkins the last couple years but never gave one a try until a couple of weeks ago. I got the main pumpkin form done but it was HUGE as I used 1"x12" strips so I just wasn't pleased with it - so it kind of got pushed aside as I got started on other projects. Then earlier this week I saw Jeanette Lynton's fun pumpkins and decided to give it another try. I tried it with 1"x6" strips and that's MUCH better! If I ever decide to do a huge pumpkin again, I will definitely be using the terracotta pots like Jeanette used and that way the pumpkin will actually stand up instead of rolling all over the place - which was my problem before ;-)

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The following pumpkin is my favorite - I used Autumn Terracotta and Goldrush CS and stamped on it with the Adorable Backgrounds stamp set using Autumn Terracotta ink. Thanks to fellow CTMH Consultant, Tara Kenyon, for the idea of using the knotted ribbon for the stem - works perfectly in place of the brad. I used my heart coluzzle to cut my Ponderosa Pine CS, and then cut it in half to create two leaves - then I ran it through my paper crimper (another idea from Tara) and finished it off with some curled Ponderosa Pine Waxy Flax (retired).


So then I started to take apart my previous pumpkin to cut my strips in half to create more pumpkins, and when Brailee saw it she said, "Ooh, a helmet!" so I let her try it on. She's too funny!


And here are a couple more pumpkins I made - I just haven't finished them off with leaves and vines yet. The one on the left is created with 6 strips of Autumn Terracotta CS and 6 of Goldrush CS - the one on the right is created with 10 strips of Textured Autumn Terracotta CS that I sanded to bring out the texture. I like the pumpkins better with 10 strips instead of 12.



Thanks for looking!

Card Mania!

Here are some cards that I made for the birthdays and other events in January, February, and March...I just never got around to posting them until now ;-P
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Birthday card for my BIL - using It's A Guy Thing paper, and Beautiful Things and Happy Birthday stamp sets

I used this sketch from Mojo Monday

Birthday card for another BIL - using Sarsaparilla paper, and Lovely Buckles and Happy Birthday stamp sets

Birthday card for my friend, Colette (she likes Orange) - using Abundance paper, and Treasure Life and Happy Birthday stamp sets

Birthday card for my SIL (this was part of my March Word Puzzle Workshop) - using Emporium Creative Basics paper and Moments in Time stamp set

A non-traditional Wedding card for my dad who remarried in January - using Emporium paper and Noteworthy and For Every Occassion stamp sets

Birthday card I made for my Grandpa in December - using Simple Pleasure paper and Annotations stamp set

I made this one for my SIL, Sandy, using Emporium paper, and Confidential and Happy Birthday stamp sets - but I wasn't completely thrilled with it...

...so I made this one for her instead ;-P It's a lot simpler but I like it the best. I used Emporium again (can you tell it's one of my favorites) with the Happy Birthday stamp set (another favorite and most used sets)

I used this sketch from Caardvarks
Thank you card for my mom using Citrus Leaf Textured Cardstock and Adorable Backgrounds stamp set with the Solo T

Here are some cards that the girls helped me make for their friends - they stamped and colored the Family Ties stamp images - the notebook is for Kaylee's friend who got baptized.

Whew! Well that's it for now. I will have some more cards to post a little later. Thanks for looking!

Imagine & Reflections Challenges

Yes! I finally completed this month's challenges! I haven't scrapped for myself in over a month, I've been too busy doing gifts, so it felt good to get some pages for our personal books done, plus get a couple more done for this year's Scrap Counter. Here are the pages that I did for this month's Imagine and Reflections Challenges...
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Imagine - using Magic Moments paper, Rustic Alphabet, Color Ready Alphabet (stamped with a background stamp from Adorable Background), and fun Hollyhock Arrows and Cocoa Brads.

Reflections - using the NEW Daydream paper pack, plus NEW Framed Fun Dimensional Elements (stamped with stamps from the Circle Around set). I had planned on leaving a pocket for a journaling tag, but got a little adhesive happy and glued the entire layout together before I remembered, so I added my journaling along the edge. And suprise, I used my own handwriting! I really don't like my writing, but I'm glad I was able to include it, I really should do it more often! I'm thinking of adding something to the top left corner of the picture - I feel like this page is missing something since I don't have a large title - any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks for looking!

MCC #38

I have had these pictures just sitting on my desk for the last 2 months with this dot paper from Silhouette and some Juniper and Ponderosa Pine CS (since it matches her dance costume so perfectly), but I just wasn't getting the motivation to scrap them - that is, until Marjorie's Color Challenge #38 came along! So I just added Bamboo from Marjorie's color challenge to my original idea, used Black instead of Desert Sand, got to play with my fun new Dazzling Die-Cuts for the first time and hooray, I have another page done! I stamped the Die-Cuts with one of my favorite background stamp sets, Adorable Backgrounds, using Juniper ink, and heat embossed (using Clear EP on Juniper CS) and cut out the title using Friendship Alphabet. I'm not so sure about the 'a' at the end of her name - it seems to get lost to me - what do you think? I'm wishing I had matted the letters on Black CS, but I really didn't want to cut any more ;-) Any suggestions? Also, a very subtle thing I did - I traced each Die-Cut piece using a black marker to give it a very sharp black edge - it's hard to tell in the pic, but it made them pop and I'm glad I decided to do that rather than sponge the edges in black, I really like the clean look. After all that, I ended up with a really quick layout (besides the title cutting which took about 15 minutes) that I'm really pleased with! I forgot to mention, I was inspired by a PageMaps sketch for this one - it's an April 2008 MiniMaps.

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Thanks for looking!