Bad Blogger

Im a bad blogger, I see it's been a couple weeks since Ive last posted. Ive been working on a few things but not a lot. I t seems since I moved my scrapspace to the basement I haven't scrapped as much and what I do scrap is usually for the classes I teach.

Im really going to work on posting more often. It probably won't be every day but maybe like twice a week. I have some Christmas projects Ive been planning out in my head so we'll see. Im also hosting a virtual card crop the end of the month so hopefully I'll have lots to get posted :) So, check back and maybe you'll see something new :)

Yesterday's Recipe Card

This week was my week to choose the recipe for the recipe challenge at Tamara's Sketches. So, my recipe was bling, a non-scrapping item & a punch.


I've had this caning from an old chair laying around forever and I decided to use it on my card this week. I found this challenge to be a little challenging (I guess that's why they call them challenges lol). You'd think I'd make the recipe easier so I could just whip something up lol, nope not me. The punch I used was a little flower punch and my "bling" is the little jewels in the center of the flowers. I used a sketch at scrapfreak to create this card too.



I've actually been doing some creating but haven't taken the time to post everything on the blog. The rest of this week I have to get my treat bags completed for my trick or treaters. Hopefully I'll remember to take a pic of those and post them.

Cuttlebug Camp

Cuttlebug Camp has started over on my cuttlebug challenges blog. The first workshop is posted, it's one that I did for these cute little pumpkins. The instructions on how to make these is over on the cuttlebug challenges blog HERE so check it out!

Recipe Challenge Tuesday

Hello everyone, it's tuesday which means time for another recipe challenge for Sketches by Tamara. I took last week off, I feel like my scrapping life has been busy busy lately with classes at my lss and get my new cuttlebug blog up and going and I feel like I haven't had a chance to make anything for myself lately. Ah who am I kidding, I hardly ever make anything for myself lol.


This coming weekend we have our cuttlebug camp going on over at Cuttlebug Challenges and there will be prizes and lots of workshops and other things going on all weekend over there so be sure to check it out! Im hostessing a few of the workshops so I'll be posting some of those things here on my blog too. I still have to get some of those items made :)


Anyway onto today's challenge. I had to create a card using staples, gingham & paper piercing. This is the first time I have tried paper piercing, Im not sure I like how it turned out on this particular card, but I've seen it on other people's work and I love it, guess I just need to try some more. Besides the recipe challenge, this is also a card I made for one of the freaky friday challenges over at Scrapfreak. Here's my card.

Recipe Challenge

It's tuesday which means it's time for another recipe challenge card. This week's challenge was to use paint, buttons and distressing. This card came together perfectly for me and I love how it turned out! I love the shabby chic look of it. I painted the cardboard, the edges of the pink paper and the punched out snowflake too. I think I need to use paint more :) You can't really see it to well but the little tag off the snowflake says Merry Christmas.


OK here's my card.

I just wanted to note too that at the beginning of the year I joined a challenge to make my Christmas cards monthly so by the end of Oct. I would have them all complete. I had to make 4 cards a month in order to have what I needed to send out. Well yesterday I counted all my christmas cards and I have 39 of them made! Wooo hooo! I missed some months but obviously I made it up somewhere along the way lol. So just one more to make and I met my goal! I will probably make some more to have for my stash though.

And my update for world card making day, I didn't make any cards, I actually didn't scrap at all on saturday. I really do need to get back into it though, I have too many things I want to get done. I also have a busy week/weekend ahead of me.

Have a great day everyone!

World Card Making Day

It's world card making day, are you whippin up some cards today? I hope to get some things done, maybe not necessarily cards but we'll see. My 2 nieces are coming over tomorrow to do some scrapping too so hopefully I'll get lots done this weekend...if I ever get off this computer :) Hopefully I'll have some things to share later on.

Recipe Card Challenge

It's tuesday which means it's time for a new recipe card. This week's recipe was to use a transparent item, ribbon and stampin' dimensionals (or pop dots). I made another Christmas card for my stash. I used my cuttlebug to emboss the blue shimmery patterned papers, the 3 snowflakes on the card are ghost shapes from Heidi Swap, the scalloped "Merry Christmas" is pop dotted to give the card a little dimension. I love the shabby chicness of this card. Thanks for looking.