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.