Word Filled Wednesday

This weeks art journal entry was inspired by the work of, Christy Tomlinson.

John 15:12-15 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you."

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Circles, Circles, Circles....

I have hopped back on another of my favorite scrapbooking sites, From Here 2 Scrapternity.  It is a faith based scrapbooking site.  They are a fun bunch of

 ladies who love the Lord and share their faith and

 passion for all thing scrappy. 

This months card challenge was to use circles.  I pulled out my sewing machine for this first one.  I used my 6x6 MME papers to create this fun card.

I grabbed a rainbow of papers from my scrap bags for this card.  I cut various sizes and rolled them through my Cuttlebug.  This card was fast and simple to make.

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Colorful Creations

I made three cards for the Colorful Creations Challenges.  The first challenge was to make two embossed cards. 

I used ~ swirl Cuttlebug folder ~ Martha Stewarts anywhere butterfly punch ~ Studio G stamp ~ bling ~ pop dots ~

On my next card, I used:  snowflakes Cuttlebug folder,       Cricut snowflake,  border punch, and red ribbon.

 I layered the all the pieces.  It gives it a nice 3D effect.  I used my scoring board for the bottom edge.The best part of making all these cards, is that I only used scraps. 

The next challenge from Less is More was to used these colors.  I made the card below.  The Colorful Creations, requiremnets for the card were, BRADS, DIE CUT, and STITCHING

 

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You Make Me Smile

Here is another great card sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday.  I was able to use some of my Echo Park: Life is Good collection of papers and stickers. 

Here is the sketch that was given out last week.  If you are looking for a little inspiration for your card making, stop by this site every Tuesday for a new sketch.

More Fun @ The ZOO

I had enough pictures to do another zoo layout.  I use the Summer Fresh papers again, I just love them. 

I used a single sketch from Let's Scrap.  Then I used the papers from my Simple Memories pack to finish the page off quickly. 

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Sketch Time

This week at Let's Scrap we were given this sketch.  I used the Summer Fresh collection from Simple Stories. This kit has so many cute embelishments. 

Matthew and I went to the Kansas City Zoo on our

way to Colorado.  Of course we had tons of fun

taking pictures of our day! 

Sorry for the glare on the photos.  I didn't notice until I loaded my
pictures and the layouts were put away.

Here are some close ups of the pages.

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Word Filled Wednesday

FLIP IT!

The scrap challenge over at Let's Scrap was to choose a sketch from their site and flip, turn, rotate...... it and then make a page with the "new" sketch.  Here is the orginal sketch.

 Then I fliped it upside down.  I tweeked it a bit by making the paper meet in the middle.

This is what I came up with for this sketch.  I use the SEI: Mayberry collection.  They had great embellishments for this diner page.  Matthew and I went to this little place in St. Louis.  It is called Crown Candy Kitchen and was featured on the Food Network.  You can check them out HERE.

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Fun Cards

This week over at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown the challenge was to use 3 brads.  I use them on my branches to hold my ornaments.  The papers are October Afternoon: Holiday Style.  I cut the branches out from my Cricut and used twine for my string. 

 I added some pop dots to the ornaments and some Stickles for some bling.

Below I combined two challenges.  At Stampin' Sisters in Christ the challenge was tear papers on a card.  The Sketchbook Saturday Challenge was to use this sketch for a card. I didn't like how the paper looked in front of the strip, so I put mine behind the top strip.  For this card I used MME: Stella & Rose papers and a G Studio stamp.

The next card I scraplifted from a member at the Let's Scrap site.  She had made a card from the left side of this sketch.  It was so cute, I had to try it for myself.  Mine kind of turned out looking like a Lego card, but it is still OK.

I used my new Cuttlebug to emboss the squares and a Martha Stuart butterfly punch. My papers are from the 6x6 pad from Simple Stories: Summer Fresh.

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Weekly Sketch

Here is another great sketch from the Let's Scrap crew!  This week I learned how to make the ever so popular chevron.  I had chevrons that were printed onto paper, but I decide to go old school and hand make them.  Here is a LINK to the directions I used.

On our road trip last year Matthew and I hit a couple of unusual places. This little gem is in Kansas. It is called Mushroom Rock State Park. You can read about it HERE. It was a fascinating place in the middle nowhere USA. We had to pass cows just walking down the road.  He was giving us the eyeball and saying, "What the heck are you guys doing in my field?"

We spent about a half hour exploring the

 rock formations in the "park". 

Here is a close up of the chevrons.  My advice for making them would to be to use thin paper.  Mine was double sided and thick!  So it was hard to get them to lay flat on the page.  I had to use a bunch of adhesive to get them to lay flat and I added the little border on the edge to make them look smoother.

Couple of Cards

Here are a couple of cards I made this week.  the first one is from a challenge site called Try Stamping on Tuesday.  The sketch is to the left and my card is below.  I used MME Fine & Dandy papers.  They came in a 6x6 paper pack from Michael's.  These little packs of paper are perfect for cards.  With these papers I made this card in less than 10 minutes.PERFECT!

This card was made for the July theme over at 52 {Christmas) Card Throwdown.  The theme is wreaths.  I am not in love with how it came out, but I made it so I thought I would share.  The snowflakes are from American Crafts.  I had them sitting around for years so I thought I would use them to make a wreath.  I found this scrap of GRAY (it looks brown in the picture) snowflake paper by KI Holiday collection.  Then I added some Doodlebug bling.

As I was linking my cards up to their respected sites I saw that I got a top three recogintion over at Try Stampin on Tuesday!   Woo Hoo! 

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Word Filled Wednesday

I made this piece of art for my craft room.  I have taken many classes from Stephanie over at Homegrown Hospitality.  This is my interpretation of one of her pieces. 

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 and

Scrap Fit challenge #71

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