Where in the world is your Vagabond?

So Sizzix is doing this fun little promo called "Where in the World is Your Vagabond?" and they're giving away limited edition stickers and some gauge keys too! They want us to take a photo of us with our Vagabonds and they'll send us our goodies. 

This picture was taken at the last crop I went to. It was an 80's slumber party weekend, and I know I'm not looking all that 80's, but I was lucky just to get there let alone dress up!  My girl Cheri hosted it and she made this fun photo prop of a "Polaroid" picture and I thought that would be the perfect picture for my Vagabond.

So here I am...duck face and all...toting the best freakin die cutting machine there is!!

Stay tuned for some layouts in the next few days :)

Graphicat Sketch 8 (Holy Freak! I actually made an inside of a card!!)

I'm late again! lol It's becoming ever so clear that I can't participate in life and read the Hunger Games series at the same time!! Have you all read it?! Holy smack it's soooooo good!! If you haven't read it, go and get it!! But be prepared to neglect your house, your kids and all crafty activities! 

Anyway, onto the sketch! I just love the folds in this one! 

I made this card for my mom for Mother's Day. I just recently got a few new crafty things and I was excited to get to use them right away!! The punched borders were made with the new punches from American Crafts, not too sure what they're called, but they're the ones that you only need one "puncher" and you can interchange the designs to punch. I'm not too sure how I like it yet. There's a glitch that they have to work out and once they do, I think they'll be awesome. I definitely like the space they save!

I also used my new nesting doilies from Lifestyle crafts (loooooove them!!!) and my new Sizzix butterfly edge die. I've been humming and hawing over this one since it came out, not sure if I should get it because I mostly scrap my boys and I've been trying to get only things I will really use...but my love of butterflies won out and it's now part of my crafty arsenal ;)

The image is actually from a calendar I bought last year and I just couldn't bring myself to get rid of it because the pictures are so pretty! I new I could use them for something crafty, and I'm really glad I kept it! The butterfly is a Prima resist canvas with a cute little stick pin from Maya Road.

My mom has a sarcastic sense of humour so I knew she'd really love this sentiment from Graphicat Designs. I have this sentiment in a digi, but it also comes in clear, and I love it so much I just had to have it in clear so I could stamp it in different colours! 

I made the background paper with various Distress Inks and a Hero arts stamp that I dropped randomly onto the paper afterwards :)

Alright! Now it's your turn! Get over to Graphicat Sketches and check out all the other DT's fab inspiration, then get crafty and link up your creation for a chance to win 5 digis of your choice from Graphicat Designs!! Last month we only had 1 entry, so get over there and enter!!

I'm leaving for Vegas for 5 days with my mom and sister tomorrow, so I won't be kickin around here, but I'll be back with lots of photos to scrap!! I'm soooo excited!!! I'm not used to the hot weather either, so I'm hoping to get a fab tan there too!! 

Have you been to Vegas? What's your fav thing to do there??

Challenges: Scrapfit: use a doily

Truly Scrumptious Challenge: Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything Goes

Nothing in this World (and the NSD challenge winner!)

Good morning! I hope you are all having as nice of a day wherever you are as I am! The sun is shining and it's gorgeous! 

I wanted to share a layout that I made last night. It was so good to get down to my scrap room and create something. It seems like it's been forever! It's definitely been forever since I scrapped any wedding pictures, but I saw the challenge at Scrapping the Music, and one of the lines in the inspiration song, "Sparkle" by Rubyhorse, made me think of my wedding.

I made the lyrics my title. It says "nothing in this world could make me love you less" aaaawwww!!  and as sappy as that is, that's how I feel about my husband. I love ya baby! (like he ever reads my blog! lol)

This cute little embellie was made with some patterned paper by Harmonie that I cut out and coated with Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint, then I added a few little blingies on for good measure :) Underneath the crackley goodness is a Prima resist diecut canvas (love these!) And of course a little doily peaking out from behind my paper :)

And *gasp* I also used a sparkly blingy flourish! I know! I get to use girly stuff when I'm scrappin my wedding! lol

I'm entering this into the following challenges: Twisted Sketches: Sketch and twist: distress

 Scrapfit: decorate with a doilie

Scrapping the Music

Catered Crop: The letter "B": I used bling

Scrap it Girl: Flowers

And of course the winner of my Frosted Designs National Scrapbooking Day Facebook Challenge is: 

SANDEE SETLIFF!! 

I only had 2 players in this challenge so I asked my son Ethan to pick his favourite number between 1 and 2, and he picked 2, so Sandee, you can thank my son! lol

I thought in honour of my "get messy" challenge the prize should reflect it, so I've included a Fireworks mist, a few Prima canvas resist die cut shapes, some fun ribbon and a few die cut shapes that I made myself with Distress crackle and Distress Stains!! 

I hope you enjoy them Sandee!!

There you have it, I think it's time for me to get off my butt and go do some dishes! lol I'd rather be scrapbooking, but ya know if you don't do the dishes, they'll be there forever!! darn dishes! lol

Happy Crafting everyone!!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!!

Good Morning everyone!! I hope you're planning some serious crafting this weekend! I know I am!! It's National Scrapbooking Day and you'll definitely want to head over to the Frosted Designs blog for their fabulous online crop!  They will be hosting hourly challenges, games and of course some goodies!!  You'll also want to stop by the Frosted Designs Facebook Page for even more scrappy challenges!! 

I created this layout for my challenge over at the Frosted Designs Facebook Page: The challenge: Mists, Inks, Stains, Paints...Get Messy!! I've been on a serious ink kick these days, and I just love splattering and misting on my layouts. There's so many different ways you can use your mists and paints too. 

I used a mist from Lindy's Stamp Gang and some Distress Inks on that fabulous bird cage. The two canvas flowers I made, I also used Distress Ink on, and I sprayed some of Lindy's mist on the teeny flower too! I also used some Distress Inks to colour the cheesecloth that's poking out from behind the newsprinty paper!

I misted my background with Glimmer Mist, then I watered down a little black paint and splattered it on too! 

So there you have it!! Mask it, mist it, splatter it, or paint it! Just get messy and have fun!!  You have until Monday at Midnight Central Standard Time to get your projects uploaded to the Facebook page!! 

Happy Crafting Everyone!!

Tim Holtz: 12 tags-April

*****SECOND POST FOR TODAY*****

Scroll down to see the new Graphicat sketch!!

Holy down to the wire Batman!!! Talk about just in time or what?! I wanted soooo badly to finish this one for April that I actually JUST finished it! It's pretty rare to find me crafting during the day, but like the true hardcore that I am, I have been shirking all household responsibilities to get this tag done! 

You can check out Tim's amazing tag HERE.

I've been thinking about what I wanted to make with this month's technique because I don't have the bird/branch die. I thought this cute little dress form would be fun though. I distressed the top and bottom with Walnut Stain, then poured on some Vintage Photo distress embossing powder to emboss. I just love how the distress powder has those fun little release crystals for that fabulous shabby look :)

I put a cute little lace skirt on my "girl" and gave her a washi tape belt, with a stick pin for a little fun ;)

I had some left over stamped Kraft Glassine from my card that I made yesterday, so I die cut it into a fun banner and stamped my sentiment on some Kraft paper and roughed it up a bit before sticking it to the Glassine. I thought the film strip ribbon would finish it off nicely...hmmm...I think I was right!! lol 

I think this is my favourite tag that I've made so far...I'm pretty stinkin' happy with it! Hope ya like it Tim!

Well I'm off to go clean the house...It's a bit of a mess with all the crafting going on here! But it was totally worth it! 

Happy Crafting Everyone!!

Girls Can't What?

Good Morning Bloggers!! It's time for another fab sketch from Graphicat Sketches!! I really loved working with this one! 

I used a Tickled Pink Stamp for my image. Graphicat Designs still carries some of the Tickled Pink line, but they're going all digi, so if you like Tickled Pink Stamps and like them in rubber, get em while you can!!

I'm kinda loving the way she looks just stamped without colour!

As a true believer in Women's Lib, I just LOVE this Graphicat senti, and I thought it went perfectly with this tough lookin steampunk chicky! I wanted to use tissue tape for the strips, so I covered a scrap piece of paper with tissue tape, then cut it to the size I wanted. Gotta love tissue tape ;)

The background paper with the gears on it is Kraft Glassine paper that I stamped with my fav Hero Arts stamp. Glassine paper is so cool! You can stamp on it with archival ink, then heat it with a heat gun and it embeds into the paper! How cool is that?! 

So there you have it! Link up your creation over at Graphicat Sketches and you'll be in the running to win 5 digis of your choice!! 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges: Scrap Creations: It's a girl thing

Corrosive Challenges: Use Tim Holtz products: I used Kraft Glassine, those little button thingies (can't remember what they're called, tissue tape, a stamp, distress ink and the flourish die (I think that's it! lol)

Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Fabulous Friday!

Hello all! It's time for another Fabulous Friday Challenge over at Frosted Designs, and this week's challenge is ROLLED PAPER, any way, any how!! 

I chose to make a cute little banner from strips of rolled paper. I'm kinda lovin it! These pictures were taken a few days ago. They're of my son Kieran who is currently obsessed with the swing aka "ween" and when he's on the swing, he yells "Mama!! Ween! Hiyah!!" It's so stinkin cute!!

I have to apologize for these pictures, they're really horrible and I am going to try in the morning to get a better shot, but until then...(Update: I got better pics! lol)

All the papers are from Echo Park's Note to Self collection, and the alpha stickers are basic grey except the teeny top ones, and I can't remember where they're from.

I used this great sketch from Sketch Savvy:

So link up your rolled paper creations for a chance to win some BoBunny goodness from Scrappy Stuff Supplies!!