New Things

First thing, I would like to say that I am once again on the Cookin' Up Creations Design Team. I am so happy that Tammy asked me to stay on for another term.

With that said now to the second thing. Over at Cookin' Up Creations for the month of January we are doing Scrap your stash challenges, Telephone Scraplift & I am hosting bingo.

Third thing,  Lawn Fawn is our sponsor this month. The January Blue Plate Special Prize package is a stamp set of the winner's choice from Lawn Fawn. How awesome of them - thank you so much Lawn Fawn!!!

I am sure that our amazing DT will come up with a few more fun things to do through out the month so be sure to join us at Cookin' Up Creations

Some Layout to share

I've been working on some Cookin' Up Creation challenges. You can see the list of challenge in the earlier post. Here are some of the layouts I created for them.

First one is my current challenge on the Cookin' Up Creation site.
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary : For this challenge we focused on the grow part of the nursery rhyme. I challenge you to grow your embellishments. Make a growing embellishment (well sort of). Bust out those punches, die cuts or machines and paper scraps and follow this easy directions and create you very own growing embellishment.


I made some flowers and butterflies (I made copies my oldest daughter’s favorite book from that time; Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Then I misted them and created my embellishments the maroon flower and butterfly HP & green LOTR) for my layout.
This is my layout.

Close up the flowers & butterflies

For this layout I used the following products: 

Cardstock: Black & Cream - DCWV, Pattern Paper: DCWV - Snap Shot stack, Stickers Letters: Recollections Punches: Scallop Circle & Small Butterfly - Fiskars USA, Large Butterfly - McGill, Die Cuts: Label & Black Scroll - Cricut - Lacy Labels, Other: Copied Book Pages from Harry Potter & Lord of The Ring, Brads, homemade misters in Maroon and Leaf Green, Adhesive: Tombow & Glue Dots

This Layout is for the Hey Diddle Diddle Challenge: Use a Crescent shape on your page. 

For this layout I used the following products: 

Cardstock: Dark Blue, Medium Blue, Sunflower & Cream - TLC (top line creations) , Pattern Paper: Lt. Blue (star one) - Starry Blue- The Paper Company, Cream Wrinkle, Cream Plaid, & Medium Blue circles- TLC, Blue Plaid - SBW (Scrapbook Wizard paper stack # 2) & Vellum,  Stickers Letters: Lt Brown & Black Sticky Keys -Monenta, Blue - Thickers, Deco Scissor:- small Scallop-  Fiskars USA l, Die Cut: Moon TLC, Adhesive: Tombow & Glue Dots, Other; Paint chips - Walmart, Paint:  Cream Paint drops - Plaid, Stamps: Chevron & swirls - Michaels ($1 section), Ink: Studio G.

This Layout is for the Humpty Dumpty Challenge : Use a Tiled photo (cut, show the space and re-make your picture) on your page. 

Close up of the title and mister

 Close up of phote tile

my favorite of the 

little cardinal is staring @ the squirrel 

like you better share!

 Close up of my stamped bird and seeds

For this layout I used the following products: 

Base of layout: Back side of a double sided pattern paper - not sure who, Cardstock: Green - Bazzil, Pattern Paper: Pink & Red Dot - MME (My Minds Eye) Red (back of the pink & red dot) - MME, Striped - DCWV - Pet Stack, 

Stickers Letters:Tall Black Thin one - EK Succes, Small Black - Recollections,

 Deco Scissor:- small Scallop - Fiskars USA Punch: Boarder Punch - Fiskars USA, Stamps: Bird & Small Circle - Studio G, Ink:Black - Ranger Archival, Walnut Stain - Tim Holz, Watercolor Pencils: Faber-Castell,  Paint: Paint Drops - Plaid Acrylic paint in Dark Red and Green, Adhesive: Tombow, Aleene's Quick Dry Glue &  Glue Dots, Other; Corrigated Cardboard, Trimmer - Fiskars USA

Woohoo!

Boy, What a week and weekend! First, I am so happy that I got to see my sister and my nephews this weekend. I worked on some layout for the Nursery Rhyme Challenges on Cookin' Up Creations. Here is the list of challenges so far:
7/1 - Sunday - Start of Nursery Rhyme Challenges - Hey Diddle Diddle
7/2 -Monday's is make up day - a review day - no challenge. See our Cookin' Up Creations Blog
7/3 - Tuesday's Challenge is Humpty Dumpty
7/4 -Wednesday's Challenge is If All the World were Paper
7/5- Thursday's Challenge is Pop Goes the Weasel
7/6 - Friday's Challenge is Queen of Hearts
7/7 - Saturday's Challenge is What Little Boys are Made of (also a sketch see below)
7/8 - Sunday's Challenge is ABC

Saturday's Sketch # 219 from Nuts about Sketches

Then, On Thursday 7/5 - I watched the Ustream from Prima introducing their new collection Welcome to Paris with host Drew Scott (he has a wonderful youtube channel also Cardofmyeye). I am so excited to have won the goodie prize from them.

Prize includes: 6x6 Romance Novel paper pack, Primrosa Woodland 3pc pack, Shades of blue little roses 6pc pack, Cling stamps they are spool labels 13 pc pack & Buttons 12pc pack all so beautiful.

 Also a few weeks back Mommys Crafts Side was doing some prize giveaways on Facebook. I won one her prizes; a very cool  bottle cap kit. Actually 3  mini kits - a zipper pull, a necklace & a key chain.  She has a lot of wonderful items for sale in her shop. She also does a lot of workshops. Go check her site out. 

Now, my Scraptastic club kits were supposed to be here today but, my post office messed up and sent it to the wrong place. I hope it will be here tomorrow.

Over at Cookin' Up Creations we're having all sorts of fun with Nursery Rhymes. I have today's Nursery Rhyme Challenge. I chose If All The World Were Paper.

If all the world were paper,

and all the sea were ink,

if all the trees

were bread and cheese,

what should we have to drink?

I chose to focus on the Ink & paper part of the rhyme. I challenge everyone to use misters on their projects. It could be a paint or dye/ink mister. 

Here is the layout I created for the challenge

Items I used on this layout are the following:

Carstock: Tan - Darice, Light Pink -DCWV

Pattern Paper: Coffee Bean - Paper Pizzaz, Floral, Stripe & Dot - MME

Stamps & stamp Press: Fiskars - Latte Love, Watercolor Pencils: Faber-Castell

Letters: Cloud9/Colorbok, Ink: Ranger Archival- Jet Black & Tim Holtz Distress ink - Walnut, Paints: Plaid - Brown, Pale Cream, Rhasberry & Black, Washi Tape: Target. Adhesive: Tobow, Pop dots: Recollections, Thread: Coats & Clark, Trimmer & Deco Scissors: Fiskars, Other: Coffee Sleeve - Joe Muggs - BAM

I hope you stop by and join us in all the challenges. If you do the challenge posted above link me.

Having Fun!

Wow, We're already in July! Can you believe it. I've been busy creating some layouts. I'll be sharing them soon. I wanted to share that we at Cookin' Up Creations are creating challenge based on Nursery Rhymes. We already have two challenges posted. Hey Diddle Diddle and Humpty Dumpty.  I hope you join us in all the fun activities.


We're working on some more fun things for this month. We are excited to have Petra Mutchler as our Chef of the Month. Read all about her, peek into her crafty space and see her work.