Happy Birthday Card- "Daisy" Again

Hello again,
Here is a card I made for my X-Ray supervisor. She turned the big 5-0 a couple weeks ago. I gave it to her yesterday and then asked to "borrow "it again, so i could scan it since I didn't get a chance to on the weekend.
Once again I started with a sketch. It is from Friday Sketchers.

Card Recipe:

Cardstock: CTMH- Clover Meadow, White Daisy, and Pansy Purple

Patterned Paper and Vellum: my stash

Brads: CTMH-Lilac Mist, and Clover Meadow

Paper Flowers: my stash

Stamp Sets: CTMH- Simple Stitches, and Happy Birthday 

Sugar Nellie- Daisy by Elizabeth Bell

Ribbon: my stash- I think the cheap stuff from Walmart...

Ink: CTMH-Pansy Purple

Markers: COPICS

I once again used my Cuttlebug and Sizzix plate to cut out the grass- it was left over from my last card.

The Challenges I am entering are:

Friday Sketchers-sketch

Totally Stampalicious- Birthdays

Partytime Tuesdays- "anything goes" -Birthday

Crazy Challenge- all about Birthdays

Hope you liked my card! Come visit me again soon.

Scrappy Mel

I'll Miss You Card using a Bugaboo Sketch

What a crazy, busy weekend I had. I finished this card on Friday night, but never had a chance to post it until now. Because of that I missed out on the challenge that this sketch was based on. Oh well. I made this card for a special friend who is moving. She is my CTMH upline, who just happens to live a couple blocks from me now, but is moving to Toronto next week! On Saturday night a bunch of her upline got together for a little Potluck and Crop as a last Get-Together. So I actually have a couple 8 x 8 LOs to post later. Good Luck and Happy Trails Laurie! I'll miss your guidance, and friendship- but we still have phone and e-mail!
Back to my card....I used my absolute favorite non-Close To My Heart stamp. Little Miss "Daisy" By Elizabeth Bell for Sugar Nellie Stamps.This was the sketch I started my card from:
Scrappy Sketch # 30. This challenge ended Saturday.=(

Here is my card- It is my first ever Easel Card!!

Card Recipe- Hmm where do I start?

Stamp:Sugar Nellie-Daisy, CTMH-Intrinsic Backgrounds, Joy Forever, A Tweet

Patterned Paper:MME, Cosmo Cricket, my misc stash

Paper Flowers: Prima Marketing, CTMH, and my misc stash

Cardstock: CTMH- Crystal Blue, Heavenly Blue, Clover Meadow, Sunflower

Brads: CTMH, misc stash

Mulberry Paper: Die Cuts with a View

Bling: CTMH Bitty Sparkles

Markers: CTMH, COPICS

Ribbon:-CTMH

Ink-CTMH- Blush, Crystal Blue, and Clover Meadow

I used my Cuttlebug with A Sizzix strip to cut the grass out.

The Challenges I am entering in are:

Your Next Stamp Challenges-Easel Card

The Creative Cottage Challenge Blog- "Touchy Feely"

Catch the Bug Challenge Blog- Sweet Sweet Summertime

Creat 4 Fun-Flowers

Stamp Something- "Flowery"

Creatalicious Challenges- 3D

Practical Scrappers- at least 7 items (I think I have that covered!)

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great week everyone!

Scrappy Mel

Mommy and Me 8x8 Layout

Too busy last night to post!
I have yet another day off from work before another 4 days with call.
Here is the other layout I finished on Tuesday. Once again I started with a sketch from a challenge.

All of these papers came out of my stash. I am thinking of changing the name of my blog to My Pretty Stash of Paper!! What do you think???

Patterned Paper: Paper Pizzazz, Adorn It, Creating Keepsakes

Stamp Sets(mat border): CTMH-Classmate Alpha, Smitten'

Stickers: Paper Pizzazz

The "Mother" is actually part of the 3rd layer of paper. I just took a cutting knife and outlined it so I could slide the next paper strip behind and keep that part of the paper for my title.

I am only entering this in 1 challenge.

• Create4fun-Sketch

Thanks for visiting my blog. Have a great Thursday!

Scrappy Mel signing off!

Me and My Daddy 8 x 8 LO

I like how this LO turned out. I hope Carmen doesn't think It is too LOUD for a baby book though.
Once again I started with a Sketch and then slowly got my papers together after searching through the Stash.

I used a bunch of Stamp Sets for this LO ( Even though you probably can't tell.) I mixed and matched a bunch of my Alphabets for the title. I stamped in the Star, and the Arrow is a stamped image as well; up on sponge squares.

Stamp Sets: CTMH-Chocolate Small, Classmate, Friendship Small, Delightful, This Way, and World's Best Dad

Patterned Paper: Three Bugs in a Rug

Cardstock: CTMH-White Daisy and Barn Red, Stash- Green and Mustard

Ink: CTMH- Cranberry, Barn Red, Sunflower, Ponderosa Pine, Crystal Blue, Sweet Leaf, Black

Star: MME

Letter Rubbons and Sparkly Letter Stickers: DCWV

The Challenges I am entering are:

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  Friday Sketchers- Sketch

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  Stamp with Sarah Kay- Anything goes
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  Sentimental Sundays- For Men
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  The Shabby Tea Room- Use greens, yellows, creams, reds and whites

Thanks again for looking. My other LO that I was going to post will have to wait until tomorrow. I REALLY need to get to the laundry and cleaning up in my craft room. When I can hardly get in and out of the chair without stepping on paper or tools, it's time for something to be done.

Good Night and hope to see you back tomorrow.

Scrappy Mel

Mom and Dad Facts

I got 4 pages done today! But I am back to work tomorrow, so that might be it for awhile. The other 2 will be in the next post.
I spent a lot of time searching through all of my papers, but at least I am using it up! I came across these Recipe stickers by EK Success yesterday while searching and remembered that the new H2H challenge was "Recipe", so that is where I started this morning. Then I tried to find a sketch to follow and I managed to make Stamping 411's work. (I think) I background stamped the Crystal Blue base pages to bring the LO more together.
Here's the final outcome:

And now the Lay Out Recipe:

• Patterned Paper: CTMH-Miracle Kit
• Cardstock: CTMH- Petal, Barn Red, Crystal Blue
• Stickers: EK Success
• Chipboard: CTMH- Irresistibles "Pizzazz", and from the Miracle Kit
• Ink: CTMH- Petal, Barn Red, Colonial White

 The Challenges I am entering are:

• Stamping 411- Sketch

• H2H- Incorporate a Recipe

Frosted Designs- use a Border Punch ( Yes, a scallopped one. How original eh?)

Thanks again for stopping by! Happy Scrappin'!

Scrappy Mel

8 x 8 album pages.......My Grandparents

My next few posts will be of 8x8 album pages I am working on for a baby album. The album is for my best friend Carmen who is having a baby boy. She should be having him any day now, since she was due on July 10th.

I have been trying to follow a few challenges, but still want to follow the theme that I originally wanted. (And bought everything for!)

This first one "My Grandparents" took me 3 hours! Who would have thought? That is because I took the sketch from a challenge and adapted it into an 8 X 16 layout.

I used an assortment of products for these pages.

First I'll start wtih the adorable digital stamps. They are from Bugaboo and I plan on using them a lot throughout the album. They were coloured using COPICS. I used my new Cherry Limeade Cricut Cartridge for the letters and Plantin Schoolbook for the circles. The patterned papers were from 7gypsies, MME, Creative Memories, and Kei. The CS is CTMH-Cocoa, Topiary, Crystal Blue, and White Daisy.
The Challenges I am entering this LO in are:

Sketch Saturday-Sketch

Stamp Something- Go Digital!

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle- Animals

            Practical Scrappers-Using your old Stash-Older than 1 year- 3 of these patterned papers I have had over  1 year for sure. The Blue Lettered one maybe almost 3 years.
The Stamp Man-Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by. Stay tuned for more pages!

Scrappy Mel

Pooh and Tigger Birthday Card

Today I made a birthday card for my nephew Drew for his 3rd Birthday. I really wanted to use Disney's "CARS" as the theme, but the stickers I thought I had do not exsist in my stash. So instead I chose Tigger and Pooh. I have had these cute 3D stickers for a LONG, LONG time so I was glad to put them to use.

Products used:

Stamps:Close To My Heart-Everyday Celebration and It's Your Day

Ink:Close To My Heart-Hydrangea

Stickers: Provocraft

Cardstock:Close To My Heart-Hydrangea, Ocean, Holiday Red, Clover Meadow, and White Daisy

Patterned Paper: Karen Foster Designs

Embossing Powder: Close To My Heart-White Daisy, Silver and Cranberry

The Challenges I am entering are:

The Shabby Tea Room-Embossing

Practical Scrappers-Animation, Cartoon, Characters

Crafty Cardmakers-Ink

Partytime Tuesday-Outside In

The Pixie Cottage-Sketch with a window

Sentimental Sundays-Celebration

Stamptacular Sunday Challenges-Aperature Card

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a Great Day and Happy Scrappin'

Scrappy Mel