National Scrapbook Day ~ My Pink Stamper Challenge #4

Okay, this is getting harder and harder. I keep trying new things, but they don't work out and then I start over. Here is challenge #4.

Challenge #4:  Make something with a Mother's Day Theme!

National Scrapbook Day ~ My Pink Stamper Challenge #3

Here is challenge #3. Make a card, scrapbook page, or 3-D item with a breast cancer theme.  You can use a ribbon, make it pink, whatever you'd like. Here's what I came up with. This is hard to come up with something in an hour. I think I'm still 2 challenges behind.

National Scrapbook Day ~ My Pink Stamper Challenge #2

Here is challenge #2. Make a masculine card using Kraft cardstock. Here is what I came up with...

National Scrapbook Day ~ My Pink Stamper Challenge #1

Yay! It's National Scrapbook Day! I am participating in My Pink Stamper's National Scrapbook Day's challenges. The first challenge is to make anything cupcake. Here is what I created. Thanks for stopping by and keep checking back all day. There will be challenges every hour today. I'm already behind by two! :)

Cricut 360º Design Team Call

Hey Everyone! I've decided to apply for another design team. I figure the more experience I get, the better I will become. I am really enjoying designing for the Thankful Thursday Design Team. Here is the info about applying for the Cricut 360º Design Team:

We are looking for 12 designers who love to work with any of the Cricut machines and their best friend, the Cuttlebug. If you have any of the Cricut machines you can apply for the team. All you need is to have an active blog and the time to create a card or layout every other week.

If you are interested in applying for the design team, please create a card or a layout with LIME GREEN and a BUG in it. Any bug will do... and post it here. You have the entire month of May to complete this challenge and we will announce the winners of a DT spot on Friday June Third.

It's hard to see in the pictures, but I used Design Cuts With A View Glitter paper for the wings on both dragonflies and for the body of the blue dragonfly. In person, it is really cute. Thanks for stopping by everyone!

Thankful Thursday Design Team Project

Hi Everybody!

Thanks for stopping by and welcome to Thankful Thursday!  The challenge this week was to make a Mother's Day themed project (not a card).  Lately, I have been on a mini envelope album kick. It is a great way to recycle business reply envelopes that come with junk mail. I made this mini album for my mom for Mother's Day. (Don't look mom!) I will add some pictures of my kids to the pockets before I give it to her.

We have an awsome prize this month, it's a Post-it prize pack!!  Check out what the other Thankful Thursday Design Team members have created. Don't forget to head over to Crazy About Cricut, and enter your family project!

Owl Birthday Card

A friend at work turned 30 on Easter and for the big birthdays we go all out and decorate their desk (usually in some sort of theme) and have a food day. Anyway, since she turned 30, we each brought in 30 of some sort of item. I brought her 30 pieces of Dove Dark Chocolate. Someone else brought her 30 cans of Mountain Dew (her favorite soda) and another co-worker brought her 30 Hostess Cupcakes, etc. We also ended up doing an owl theme. To decorate her desk, a bunch of origami owls in different colors and sizes were put together and put all around her cubicle. See pics below:

Anyway, so I went with an owl theme for her card also. There's owls along with beavers and some other animals on the background paper and of course I used Create-A-Critter for the owl. I think it turned out pretty good and I think she liked it.

Thanks for stopping by and make sure you stop back tomorrow to see what I made for my first Thankful Thursday Design Team project.

Thankful Thursday Design Team

Hello Everyone!

Thanks for stopping by. I have some big news today. I made the Thankful Thursday Design Team on Crazy About Cricuts (Jenny's) blog. This is the first design team I have made it on and it was my first time applying for a design team. I'm really excited that I made the team and even more excited to have fun designing projects for the team with my family.

For those of you who are new to my blog, here is a little bit about me. I have been married for almost 19 years, I have four boys ages 19, almost 18, almost 16 and 11. I also just became a grandma to a beautiful little girl on April 13th. I love spending time with her and I can't wait until she can start scrapbooking with her grandma. :)

I actually have been blogging since June 2008 about my family. I have been scrapbooking for about 11 years (ever since my baby/youngest was born) and I started making cards and showing them off on my blog in January 2011. In April 2011, I started a separate blog  just for my crafting (mostly card making). I look forward to these challenges to push me into other creative areas and to think more outside the box.

Thank you for stopping by and I would love for you to become a follower if you aren't already. I also love to read all your comments. Thank you Jenny for this great opportunity!

Hugs to all!
Sandy

My Pink Stamper Giveaway

Hey everyone!

My Pink Stamper is having an awesome giveaway for a Cricut Expression 2. I have entered to win and I think you all should too. Wouldn't it be great to win that awesome machine?! I'm so excited to see who wins. I will be posting some new projects soon. Thanks for stopping by and keep checking back.

Thanks!

Easter Cards

Well, I had planned on making these Easter cards and linking them up to Jalisa's Patches of Pink Thursday Link Up to try for a spot on her design team, but I took too long and didn't get it done on time. Anyway, here is what I came up with and if you get a chance, go vote for someone on Jalisa's blog. I did. Thanks everyone for visiting and leave me a comment.

A Blog Hop & A Class!

I've had a busy weekend so far. Yesterday I participated in the My Pink Stamper Monthly Blog Hop. I truly enjoy participating in these blog hops. I get so many ideas and inspiration from others. The top card below is the project I will be linking up on My Pink Stampers blog for the hop.

This morning, I held my first card making class for my family, so not a real class, but it was fun. I made three different cards (sample cards) and then put together eight kits for each of the three different cards. In attendance were my mom, my aunt and my 84 year old grandma. It's never too late to learn new ideas. We all had a lot of fun spending time with each other, crafting with each other and eating my aunt's very nutty brownies. LOL! I liked them Auntie! Anyway, here are the three sample cards. Let me know what you think. I love to see all of your comments.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog! Stop back soon!
Sandy

Cards, Cards & More Cards!

Here are some of my cards from my old blog. I'm starting to transfer my favorites over. Let me know what you think and thanks for stopping by! Enjoy!

Patches of Pink Link Up Party

Hello everyone!

If you get a chance before Tuesday, April 5th at noon (EST), click the Link Up button at the bottom of this post and go vote for my card which is number 15. There is a little vote link right above my card for you to click on. I don't have any votes yet. Please help? Thanks everyone for checking out my blog today.

Spinner Horse Card

I was a busy bee today. I made two cards and one of them is a spinner card which takes me a little bit longer than most cards. Enjoy!


So, I made this birthday card for a friend who has a horse.
Below is the picture of the actual horse.. How did I do?



Below this picture is a close up of the horse.
I think it turned out pretty good and this one is the spinner card.
Pretty proud of this one.

And I did a monkey card just for the heck of it. You can't tell in the picture, but I've popped up the light green grass from the dark green grass to give it a multi-dimentional look. The monkey is also popped up.

The Beginning of Sweet Pea's Cards....

Hello everyone!

I have recently decided to separate my personal blog from my card and scrappin' blog. I am loving creating cards and scrapbook pages and sharing them on my blog. I was kind of shy about it in the beginning, but I've been getting so many great comments from everyone about my creations, it has only encouraged me to share more. I named my new blog site, Sweet Pea's Cards because one of my cousins, and she knows who she is, gave me the nickname Sweet Pea and it has just kind of stuck. Thank you Muffin (the nickname I gave her)!

I hope this will be the place where my creations will be shared and loved by all. Thanks everyone who has supported me so far and feel free to click on my "follow me" button. I love having followers and I love having comments. Thanks again and see you soon!