A BEST FRIEND IS... / PPA14, SSSC #42 & CSCC56...

In my blog surfing tonight I found this cute little punch purse on LeeAnn's site... hers has a bit of a different shape & a cute little latch... so I didn't copy it exactly...

It's been a long time since I played along with the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge, but since Pals Paper Arts was doing a pink themed challenge for Breast Cancer Awareness, I thought it might be fun to combine them! I used Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, too - isn't it a great one?!?

I used dsp & cardstock in Pink Pirouette (retired) and Pretty in Pink. For the purse, I used the set Circle Circus, and the sentiment is from Full of Life.

Thanks for stopping by!

NO PLACE LIKE HOME (is where the heart is) / CSCC16...

My entry for this week's Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - #16 - The Wizard of Oz. Kinda wacky title, I know...

We had to use something metallic, so I had the idea to use my Big Shot for that. I recycled a soda can by cutting the ends off & opening it up. First I used my scallop rectangle nestabilities to cut out the shape & then I put it through the Big Shot again in the swirly embossing folder. The card base is Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, and Candy Lane DSP. I stamped the heart from Love You Much (Stampin' Up!) using a glue pad and dusted it with Martha Stewart's garnet glitter. The metal piece is attached with eyelets, since it was trying to roll back up!

Have a great Friday!

A NOTE / CSCC #15 - Casablanca...

For this week's inspiration challenge over at Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge, I "pulled out all the punches" (sorry~ I couldn't help myself! LOL!) and created a piano keys as my take on Casablanca. One aspect of the challenge that I failed to notice was that we could only use black, white & one other color. Well~ serendipity!

The piano keys are just strips of white & I used the Stampin' Up! corner rounder punch (the narrow one) to round off the bottom of the keys. The black keys were done the same way! I used Martha Stewart little ball point pen glue & glitter for the sentiment, which I wrote onto a curly label punched piece.

Good night,

CINEMA SATURDAY Creative Challenge # 9 - The Sound of Music

Okay, this was a really hard challenge for me! The ribbon (as well as the chipboard) is from Basic Grey, and totally reminds me of this movie...

I'm just making the deadline, bye for now!

CSCC # 8 -Miracle on 34th Street

Here's my take on Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #8. I haven't seen the movie in years, but the one part I remember is when they brings the huge bags of letters to Santa Claus into the court room. That's my favorite part!

So I found an image online, which I turned into a brownish monochrome, printed out 3 copies, and cut out some of the 'envelopes' onto Very Vanilla cardstock. The I colored in the stamps using mostly Soft Subtles Stampin' Write Markers & distressed the edges with Close to Cocoa.

The 'letters to Santa' were layered using Dimensionals. The Santa stamp is a retired SU! set called Yuletide Montage~ it is very much one of my favorites! What is difficult to see is the white glitter on his hat & beard... also I used my Copics for the first time to color him in. I still need a lot of practice!

With Alex asleep, I think I'll try to eat dinner & stamp a little more. Thank you so much for looking, I really do appreciate it!

CSCC # 7 - A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Well, after a very long day of running from Nana & Grandad's house to Oma's house...and eating at each stop, we survived Alex's first Thanksgiving! Poor baby, he's a week shy of 6 months, has no teeth, and wanted so badly to get his tiny hands on a turkey leg!

My Aunt Cindy emailed a couple days ago commenting that Alex looked like Charlie Brown with his round head now that it had straightened out (he was a baby conehead when he was born~ Jeff thought it would stay that way! LOL!) When my dad read her email to me, I thought it was funny she should say that, considering this week's Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge was A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!

Dad wanted me to dress Alex up in yellow & draw Charlie Brown on the back of his head & take pictures (which I was fully willing to do...) but I couldn't find a yellow shirt. I did find some giant brown ric-rac that I would have put on the shirt, but instead incorporated onto the page.

I'm pretty much a newbie at scrapbooking, this is probably only my 2nd page ever! I better get with it, though, he's growing up really fast! This is the first page (of many~ I took pics all day!) of documenting his day today, so I thought I'd do a little Photoshop magic & turn him into Charlie Brown. I hope he won't think his mom's a kook when he gets older!

Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

CSCC #6 - Gone With the Wind...

Well, we only got a sneak peek today, but I'm pretty sure this week's Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge is Gone With the Wind! If you have not played along yet you should!

I was inspired by Scarlett's ruffled white dress!
For this card I used vellum, which I punch with the Fiskars 'Eyelet' border punch. I also used Stampin' Up!'s stamp sets Priceless and Warm Words. I used Regal Rose 5/8' grosgrain ribbon and for the word cherish, I stamped it in Regal Rose craft ink, which I embossed with iridescent ice ep! The heart was stamped in Pink Pirouette classic ink. The card base was also Pink Pirouette.


Thanks for looking,

CSCC #5 / MOJO #60

Well, I posted this card kinda late... !

sweet dreams,