lovely new cosmo cricket

Here is some more eye candy for you from the Scrapbook Circle September kit. I hope you were able to get in on the subscription and save one of these fabulous kits for yourself!

This card is all about piling it on. I have been so swamped at work that I feel guilty about not playing along with some of my favorite challenge sites.

Play along here for great inspiration!
2 Sketches 4 You - weekly sketch
The Studio - Cosmo Cricket card challenge

Most of this card was made using the Scrapbook Circle September kit. The label is from {embellish*ology}, clouds from one of those sticker companies whose name escapes me at the moment (K&Co? Sandylion? EK Success?), and the stamped sentiment is Paper Trey Ink.

Thanks for stopping by today to see my card!!

yummy dark cherry mocha

The new Dark Cherry Mocha from Starbucks is so good! So, so good! :) With this page, I'm playing along with a few different challenges.
• These are a Few of My Favorite Things wants to see your Favorite Drink.
• Scrapfreak Friday's Challenge wants to see your "Indulgence."
• And The Studio wants to see buttons and bows.


Plus, this page was just so much fun to make. The cherry stamp was in the March kit for Studio Calico. I love how I was able to use it to make a pattern at the bottom of the page. A cherry pattern for a cherry drink, yum!

The journaling says, "The sign said 'Do you want' & I said 'Yes!' Oh yes I do!" And literally that is how I stumbled upon this new favorite drink of mine!

peep... peep, peep

Nate and I were walking through Wegmans (our local grocery store, which is awesome, by the way) a few weeks ago and they had the Easter candy stocked. Nate was instantly drawn to the brightly colored Peeps. They now come in every neon color you can think of, so of course a toddler was attracted to them.


Feeling sentimental towards the Peeps, I let him pick out a color and off we went on our way. When we got home, he had to have one right away, and I grabbed the camera. He was OK with it at first, and then had to throw the other half away. I think they were too sweet for him.

That didn't stop him from eating half of a few more over the course of the next few days. He's so silly. I can't tell if he likes them or not. I do. His dad doesn't. So, I can see him swaying either way. For right now, he'll just continue to take a bite and be done with it.


This page is made for the newest Sketchy Thursdays challenge using the latest Studio Calico kit. Click here to see the next sketch and meet this week's sponsor, Sweet Twee. Cute, cute stuff there!!

This page is also for The Studio 3/7 challenge: Scrap a page and include on it some memorabilia from the time you are scrapping about!

I hope you'll head over there and play along. I have been MIA from that site for too long, but this challenge spoke to me. I knew I had saved the package from the Peeps knowing I would make this page. (Great timing, Amanda, you must have been reading my mind!) And I miss my Studio friends.

Thanks for stopping by!! :)

are up for the challenge?

Do you think you could make a holiday page without using any holiday papers or pre-made embellishments? Do you think you could make your title without using any letter stickers? How about using only one photo?

Well, I did! As the December GDT for The Studio, that's the challenge at hand. Ready.... Set.... Go! We wanna see your take on this challenge!


Yes, I am still in love with misting at the moment. Can't get enough of it!

Scoot on over to The Studio's blog and see what the DT cooked up for you, as well as all of the rules for the challenge (There's a great Graphic 45 paper pack up for grabs... want it?). Thanks again to Amanda and the rest of The Studio's DT for making me feel so welcome as the GDT this month. It was so fun!!!

i'm GDT at the studio this month

If you haven't been a stalker of The Studio blog and forum/gallery, you are missing out! The Studio blog runs two challenges a month on the 1st and the 15th. There are great prizes, great friends and challenges you can sink your teeth into.

This month should be no different! The first challenge for the month of December is:

 1.. Your layout should be based on the theme of childhood – it
     can be your own or someone else.
 2.. Use a frame of some kind in the design of your layout
 3.. Use layers – can be paper, ribbon, whatever you like, but
     layer it up!

For my GDT sample page, I focused on Nate's childhood. I used the frames from some wonderful Sassafras Lass paper I have been hoarding for many, many months. For the layering, I used Maya Mist, paint and paper all on the background paper. Then I used the fussy cutting, the ribbon, the string and the button felt flower for even more dimension.


I hope your mind is racing with great ideas for this challenge! Link your entry up at The Studio blog. We'd love to see what you come up with.

And a big thank you to Amanda for asking me to GDT for The Studio for the month of December! The inspiration over there is amazing; I'm flattered to be included with these women.

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THE STUDIO'S RULES:
You have until 31st December to enter your layouts for a chance to win December’s prize (to be announced next week)! To enter your layout for a chance of winning the prize you need to upload a picture to your blog, gallery or the gallery here at the studio. Then post your link to Mr Linky in the sidebar! We’d love it if you came back and posted here too, but as long as Mr Linky has your link you’ll be in the running for the prizes! If you are struggling to upload for any reason then you can email me your layout and I will post it up for you.

We will also be selecting February’s guest designer from the entries to the December challenges. The rules are the same as last month:

1. Join in with both December challenges (1st and 16th of month)
2. Come and get chatting in the community
3. Drop an email to amanda@scrapbook-101.com with a few sentences about yourself and a link to your blog

happy fall Sunday

Nothing much going on here, just lots of cleaning and yard work at the Fisher house. I made this page for The Studio's Charity Crop last weekend and just love how it turned out. It took forever to cut out these flowers, though, but I was committed to the look once I started. It was worth it, I love the look of it once I was done.

Don't forget to vote for the GDT spot on Sketchy Thursdays!! Take a mouse-click over there and peek at the entries for this month... they are all REALLY good! I'm excited to see who the winner of the Lil Scrappin Mama Dec. kit is going to be!!

a little bit vintage

Hi there! This was one of the few pages I was able to make for The Studio's Charity Crop this past weekend. The picture is of me and my brother when we were little. The challenge was to scrap vintage, whether it be the style, the time period or the look.

Like the button flowers? I made those using corrugated cardboard, Maya mists, lace, old buttons and string. Don't forget, I sell these buttons in my Etsy store. I hope to put a few more in there over the next few weeks.

Thanks for looking! And thank you to everyone who sent me well wishes to feel better. I am finally feeling a bit more like myself. Big hug!

i hope he always believes

Here's my page for the Nov. 1st challenge at The Studio. You had to:

1. Use the sketch provided (by Sketchy Thursdays)
   
2. Your layout and journaling should be based on something you hope or wish for
3. Use glitter in some way on your page

My page is about how I hope Nate always believes in the power of super heroes. The pictures are from when he got his new Spider Man pjs and he thought he could run faster, jump higher and be stronger. The Spider Man statue is from the Strong National Museum of Play display in the new Marvel wing. So very cool!!


And where, you may ask, are all of these great supplies from?! Lil Scrappin Mama kit club, of course!! I got my kit this weekend and it is chock full of great stuff. I love the Bella Blvd. and Sassafras Lass goodies that are in there.

I've made 2 other pages with the kit that you'll see for my Get Meaningful page this week as well as my Sketchy Thursdays page. Make sure you check back! This kit is quite versatile!

sketchy me

The latest sketch is ready at Sketchy Thursdays! Personally, I am loving this sketch and think I may do another page this week just for the fun of it. (A page that isn't about me!)

Here's my sample page. It is also an entry for The Studio's Oct. 16 Challenge. Check out the details here. The entry had to have new patterned paper, old patterned paper and be about yourself.

I have to tell you a little story. When I planned out this page, I fully intended to also use the prompt Phenomenal Woman over at Scrap That Poetry... and then I just couldn't do it! On one hand, the word 'phenomenal' is huge for the letters I wanted to use. And on the other hand, I felt incredibly embarrassed showcasing that kind of praise for myself on a page. Silly, huh?!

So, here is my weak, and not really great, attempt at also doing that challenge. I wanted to mention it though, because if you can manage to make it rock (like some of the ladies over there have), then try it out!


Don't forget to play along at Sketchy Thursdays this week. Our friend Amber over at Scrapbook Kit Club has the November kit sneak up for a peek and is giving one away to this week's winner. It could be you... but you have to play to win!


Supplies: Maya Mist (blue), Hambly (pp), Dream Street (pp), Evalicious, Prima (bling and bubble), Pink Pasilee (chipboard) and Creative Chaos (journal spot)

10 things i wish...

Are you playing challenges with all you've got? Are you playing everywhere you possibly can, and be inspired by the fabulous paper artists that you meet everyday? Does the idea of more than one challenge a week overwhelm you, but you just want to work them all in?

OK, well that describes me! I want to play everywhere and soak it all up! I love learning from and playing with all of the wonderful women that are out there in this industry.

So here is the crazy "I CAN'T BELIEVE I COMBINED 3 PROMPTS PAGE!" I can combine a sketch with a color challenge and then throw in a prompt. That's easy for me. But three prompts... whoa!

This page was built for:
• Get Meaningful: I WISH...
• The Studio Scrapbook 101: Summertime topic with a die cut page and long title
• Memories Always - Forever: Top 10

With all of that, I got this "10 THINGS I WISH WE DID THIS SUMMER" page. TA-DA! (jazz hands...)



Do you like the felt and button flowers on this page? They are made by Eve at Evalicious on Etsy. She is the sponsor this week at Sketchy Thursdays. We are so lucky to have her sending a prize pack to one lucky winner next week. All you have to do is play along with this new sketch. A winner will be randomly drawn from the players next Thursday.

Head on over to Sketchy Thursdays! Today we're giving away stamps from Unity Stamp Co. as part of our mega launch celebration.



Supplies: Little Yellow Bicycle (pp), Cosmo Cricket (bike), Evalicious (embellies), My Mind's Eye (tree), Making Memories (small lettering), American Crafts (Thickers lettering and flair), Karen Foster (white lettering), Creative Chaos (journaling spot)