June 2009 Card Maps Cards

I needed to make a couple cards today and wanted a little inspiration. I went to PageMaps and looked at the new June Card Maps. I found one I really liked, raided my stash of scraps and made the following versions.

Hang in There




Supplies: Cardstock & off-white paper - unknown, Papers: Scribble Scrabble's Betty's Collection (Red Floral & Dots and Love Blossoms & Stripes), Ink: Color Box Fluid Chalk, DMC Floss, Stamps: Stampin' Up


Make a Wish



Supplies: Cardstock & off-white paper - unknown, Papers: Studio45's Times Nouveau Collection (Bee's Knees), Ink: Color Box Fluid Chalk and Stampabilities, Ribbon: JoAnn Craft Essentials (Cream),, Stamps: Stampin' Up, Stickles

Fiskar's Prize Package Giveaway

Lisa at Paper Fashions has a fantastic Fiskar's giveaway up for grabs. Here's a list of what's included:

Fiskars XL Oopsie Daisy squeeze punch
Fiskars XL Loves Me Loves Me Not squeeze punch
Fiskars Something Old, Something new corner squeeze punch
Fiskars Heart pop up punch
Fiskars tape runner
Fiskars Glue Dots
Fiskars Acrylic Stamp block set
Heidi Grace Urban Acres Blvd stamp set
Wausau Papers Cardstock to create your own layout

Be sure to stop by her blog to find out how you can get your name in the hat for her drawing. She'll be drawing for a winner on Friday, July 3rd.

Triple the Sketch & Pink Persimmon

Triple the Sketch is helping Pink Persimmon celebrate their first anniversary. They are giving away a $50 gift certificate to the Pink Persimmon Stamps store. To enter you have to make a layout, card, tag or altered item based on TTS Sketch 63 and use a stamp on it. For all the details see the post here.

For a circle journal I needed to complete a 2 page layout on one of my favorite places to see God's handiwork. I chose our favorite vacation spot in Ely, MN.

I stamped a bracket onto pink cardstock, cut it out and embellished the dots with stickles. I used a stitch stamp to add stitching to the edges of my green cardstock background. I embellished the centers of the flowers with stickles. I drew stitching along the edges of my patterned paper with my favorite Zig pen.


Journaling says:
Left side: "...stand still and consider the wondrous works of God." Job 37:14

Right side: I love to see God's handiwork in the great outdoors. No where is it more evident than in the beauty of our favorite vacation spot in Ely, MN. We've seen elk, moose, loons, and bald eagles feeding their young. Jobs & stress seem far away in this setting.

Supplies: Stamps - Unity Stamp Co. - Polka Dot Left from the Amazing Me kit & Sassafrass Lass - Stitched Borders; Papers: Cosmo Cricket (Girl Friday - Sunday), DCWV, Coredinations; Ink - Stampabilities; Stickles; Ribbon - Michael's; Pen - Zig Ball Writer

A Couple Digi Collages

A friend asked me to do a couple collages of she & her boyfriend for a surprise for him. She gave me lots of pics and total design freedom. How fun!! Both are digi collages.

The first one is 12" x 12"



Supplies: Template2 by Sarawise and My Favorite Guy digi kit by Steel City Scraps.


I resized the 12 x 12 template for this next one to 11" x 14"



Supplies: Template 101 by Scrapping with Liz and My Favorite Guy digi kit by Steel City Scraps.

Edited to add: I was really excited to find out that this layout was chosen as Layout of the Week for 6/20/09 at AC Bailey Designs.

Bind-it-All giveaway

Jan is giving away a Bind-it-All and some O-wires on her blog. Be sure to stop by Paper Craft Pleasures to see how you can have a chance to win it. You'll want to look around her blog for some great inspiration projects.

I'm So Excited

My digi layout of Ian & Amy's wedding was chosen as Layout of the Week over at AC Bailey. There are a lot of talented ladies over there so I'm pretty excited to have been chosen. You can find the pic of my layout here.

Newest Digi LO

Here's a LO of our son and his new bride.



Supplies: All My Loving digi kit by Tracie Stroud Designs
Grunge Photo Mask by Miss Erin Scraps
Random Thoughts wordart by Linda

Fantastic Clip-it-Up Giveaway

Adreienne is giving away a Clip-it-Up on her blog IF she gets 300 comments by May 21st. You can check out all the details and see a pic of exactly what she's giving away on her blog HERE.

Some Digi Desktops

I haven't had time to do much scrapping lately. We realized tonight that we haven't been home for an entire evening in well over a week. No wonder we're tired.

I have taken the time to do a couple digi desktops for myself and a couple friends. I love having a customized desktop with current favorite pics. Templates make it so easy to have a different one every month (or multiple ones each month! *smile*). I like having different ones to change out the scenery on my work desktop too.


I found all the templates on Creative Busy Hands Digital Scrapbooking Freebies Search. It's a great place for digi freebies and is very well organized. They makes finding exactly what you'd like to have so much easier. Once you find something you'd like, you click it and you're taken directly to the designer's website.

I did a few versions of this May desktop by Tinadell. You can find it here.


A friend's kitty:



My kitty:





Our children:




Our son & his girlfriend:


I used this template to make this desktop of our daughter. It's by Lizz Gasaway and can be found here.





I also made one more of our kiddos with a template made by Laurie's Scraps and can be found here.

Thinking of You

My father-in-law in fighting lymphoma. Since he likes my cards, I try to make him cards every so often to let him know we're thinking of him & praying for him. This past Monday (April 20) was his first chemo treatment. I can only imagine the thoughts & emotions that he and my mother-in-law are feeling right now. I mailed this simple card to let them know they were especially in my prayers on that day.

You'll recognize some of the papers as the ones I used on Tim's card last weekend. I think they're great for masculine cards. Since the card was to both of my in-laws, I figured the flower would be OK. :)


Supplies: Paper - Bazzill & Scribble Scrabble (Betty's Collection), Ink - Colorbox Fluid Chalk (Maroon), Stamp - Michael's (Just for You), Brads & Flower are from my stash. I used the Fluid Chalk ink to add color to the flower.