~ Scraptastic Designs Blog Hop ~

Welcome to the Scraptastic Designs blog hop!!

This hop is to kick off our "SCRAPTASTIC MONDAYS" challenge. Starting November 7th at 10:00am and we will have a new challenge every week.

If you came are here from Karen's blog then you are in the right place but if you just happened to be stopping by you will want to start at the beginning which is Cindy's blog.

For my project today I chose to use the image "Sweet Gingerbread Tags". This actually comes with 2 images a girl & a boy. For my project I chose to use only the boy.

I printed the stamps out on Kraft cardstock and then colored them in with my bic markers. (I was inspired to did this by DCWV's new kraft paper stacks.) I used Viva Decors pearl pen in Cream to color the frosting. It gives it such a great effect! I then added Twine, buttons, and stitching to finish off my card

Here is a close up of this wonderfully cute and fun Digi.

Now you should be off to Shelly's Blog

But before you go I have some surprise blog candy to giveaway.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and come back to see if you have won.

Also Our wonderful Cindy is doing a grand prize giveaway of 3 wonderful digis and a pack of Prisma colored pencils!!

Don't forget to join us every Monday for new fun challenges!!

Whimsical Wednesday Challenge

Welcome to another Whimsical Wednesday.

First off I want to start my post with some very exciting announcements. Drum roll please……

I am very excited to announce that I‘ve been asked back for another term as a Whimsical Wednesday Designer! Also, our wonderful founder Stephanie from Whimsical-Designs (formally “Always Crafting”) will be coming out with her very own stamp line!!

She has some openings for permanent positions and also guest designer positions. Please go to Whimsical Designs for more information. :)

I can’t wait to start showcasing these fabulous new stamps. You are going to LOVE them!! The release date is just round the corner so you are going to want to stayed tuned for the next few days to get all the information. J

Alright, now on to my project.

Today’s challenge is- “Any Thing Goes”

For my project I decided to make an 8.5x11 scrapbook page of my oldest child. I am so grateful for ALL of my wonderful children but for this challenge I chose to focus specifically on him. He has been so amazing and wonderful in this last year since the baby came. He is always so willing to help in any way possible changing, diapers, making bottles, reading to his other siblings, and even helping them with homework if I’m busy with the baby; all with little to no complaint. I don’t know what I would do without him. He is such a blessing in my life!!

For this layout I cut the title from 2 of the fonts on Cricut’s “Boys Will Be Boys” cartridge. The second thing I cut was the files on the side of the photo, these were cut from the Cricut “From My Kitchen” Cartridge.

Here they are pulled out so you can see them. My husband and I have written a letter to our son on these cards telling him how much we love him and how grateful we are for everything he does but for privacy reasons I chose to take the picture before writing the letter. J

Our sponsor for this week is our fabulous and talented design sister Nanne. Nanne has donated a variety of Webster's Pages Scrapbooking Supplies. Thank you Nanne!!

To see what the other amazing designers have come up with please go to our Whimsical Wednesday page HERE at Whimsical-Designs. (Whimsical Wednesdays new home.)

One last thing before you go. I want to remind everyone about the Scraptastic blog hop happening on November, 4th at 7:00pm EST.

There will be blog candy and fabulous inspiration along the way!!

Just a reminder....

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! We had a fabulous time with friends and family.

My 4-year-old princess begged me to post a picture of her on my blog. (she feels like I should post one every week.) lol.

My post today is actually a post to remind all my crafty friends that Cindy from Scraptastic Designs is having her first blog hop this Friday, November 4th at 7:00pm EST to launch her new digi stamp line.

You won't want to miss out on this fabulous blog hop!!

Simply Charmed Tree card

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There is a group of women in our neighborhood that gets together every 3 months to do a card swap, usually 20-25 women participate. The theme this time was to make a card without a sentiment so the recipient could use it for any occasion.

Since it is coming up on Thanksgiving I decided to do a fall card. I Always seem to need a Thinking of you or Thank you card this time of year.

Here is the card I made and the 20 more sitting beside it.

I had wanted to do some embossing on the tree but since I didn't start them till the night before the swap I wasn't really thinking clearly and didn't realize I hadn't done the embossing till after I'd already glued the trees together. :(

RECIPE:

CARTRIDGE- Cricut Simply Charmed

PAPER- Scribble Scrabble

RIBBON- Michael's

OTHER- White Gel Pen

I hope you enjoyed my card and have a great day. :)

Exciting News!!! The store is open!!

IT'S OPEN!

Cindy's Scraptastic Designs Store is FINALLY OPEN!

To see creations I made using some of Cindy's Digi you can find them HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE

I am so excited to be one of her Scraptastic Designers!!

To start off this exciting new journey we are going to have a Blog Hop on Nov. 4^th at 7:oo pm EST. leading us up to our very first Challenge.

The blog hop is going to be amazing! There will be tons of inspiration and candy along the way.

Also our wonderful Ms. Cindy will also be giving away 3 Digi's and a set of 12 Prisma Color Pencils.

You won’t want to miss out!!

The challenge is called "Scraptastic Mondays" this will be a weekly challenge starting on November 7.

For the challenges we would love for you to use one of Cindy's Digi but if you dont' have one yet, you can still join in the challenge by using your cricut or any other digi you have or you can actually purchase one of her Digi's Here.

We would love to see what you create it with! J

Thanks for stopping by a nd have a great day!

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Whimsical Wednesday ~ "Fall Cuties"

Welcome to another wonderful Whimsical Wednesday.

Today's challenge is "Fall Cuties". You must make a card or project with a animal cut or animal stamp and be Fall themed. Our design team sister Cathryn came up with this challenge. :)

For my card I decided to break out my Cricut "3 Birds On Parade" for my animal cut. I used "Gypsy Wanderings" for the postage stamp cut and the beautiful crinkle ribbon is from Prairie Bird Boutique. Last but not least the sentiment is from Tanner's "Simply Everything Vol.1" stamp set.

I have on more card to show you. :)

Today we have the pleasure of show casing Tanner's aka Mr Cricut Crazy stamps so here is the second card I made. As some of you know, I love making and sending Halloween cards so today I decided to squeeze in one last Halloween card of the season. The Little Girl was cut From Cricut "Paper doll Dress Up". Her face was stamped with PK Princess Face Asst. Her hair was embossed with Cuttlebug's "Divine Swirls". I added Stickles and then Glossy Accents to her shoes. I used a dollar stamp from Michael's to make the strip of paper using kaleidoscope powder and heat embossing. The dripping honey is the "Drippy Goo" punch from Martha Stewart. And Finally the embossed Bee and the sentiment are from Tanner's "Simply Everything Vol 1" set.

We have two wonderful Sponsors today.

Mr. Cricut crazy

Prairie Bird Boutique

I hope you enjoyed my cards and to see what the rest of the wonderful DT has come up with please visit the Whimsical Wednesday blog.

Have a great day!!

Super Cute Card Set

Today I decided I wanted to use up some of my Halloween scraps so I wouldn’t have to store them for the next year.

To do that I made a super cute and quick card set for my son’s teacher.

The images were all colored with Bic markers and they are the “Halloween Sweet Folks” set from Peachy Keen.

I embossed the background paper with Cuttlebug’s “Polka Dot” folder, added white stitching, and the scraps are from K & Co.

Below are each of the cards.

I hope you enjoyed my cards and have a great day. J