Classy & Elegant

Class & Elegance

ah...who doesn't need some now & then

I have to admit

I'm a girl of many things but class & elegance?

These are two things I could use more of

(Sorry grandma :)
But

I can do some classy cards

Here are two

"the beauty of their dreams"

Love the quote on the press on and who knows elegance like Eleanor Roosevelt

Pattern Paper: KaiserCraft, PressOns: Pink Paislee, Feathers: Zucker

"Renew"

Pattern Paper: Humbly, PressOns: Pink Paislee, Ribbon: Offray

Those of my blog knows I love my daily dose of MoxieFab World
So much super inspiration there everyday
My “Renew” card was inspired by a post on 7/28/2010
It was full of bee-utiful things brought to us by Beth Bradley from “Sew It All” a sister publication of “Paper Craft” Check it out

These two cards were done for
Card Style Classy and Elegant Challenge
in the Moxie Fab World
See more classy cards and play along too

I'm a "Twister sister"

It's official and I'm super excited

I'm a

"TWISTED SISTER"

Yup my first design team and it's with the super awesome challenge blog

Twisted Sketches

Every wednesday they have a sketch to challenge you but with this blog there's a twist

(something extra to inspire and use on your layout)

for example this layout was done with a sketch and the twist was "music"

If you never played at

Twisted Sketches

You must!!!

Super fun to play and some great inspiration to get you scraping

Go now and check out all the new DT members

ALL SMILES TODAY :)

Moxie Fab Shabby chic & vintage

I'm going shabby :)

shabby chic and vintage that is.....

Some awesome paper crafters have mastered this style and I LOVE the look so I had to give it a try with some cards

"true LOVE"

Sticker: Making memories, Ribbon: American craft, Embossing folder: cuttlebug "Ornamental Iron"

"Thinking of you always"

Paper: sei, Ribbon: American Craft, Pearl stickers: Zva creative, Flower: Prima, Stamp: Hero Art

When I hear "Shabby Chic or Vintage" I think of beautiful satin or velvet ribbon, pearls, lace, and roses. Tried to put all that on these cards to give it that feel :)

So….
Are you up for the Shabby/Vintage style too?
Well go check out the shabby inspiration and play along at…..

Card Style Shabby Chic and Vintage Challenge in the Moxie Fab World

Little Hands @ work

Who doesn't LOVE paint?

We love paint in our house and the mess that comes with it but......

we also love it when they put paint in a pen

(AWESOME)

still there's a mess but it's more manageable :)

Anyhooo

Here is my baby boy enjoying an artful paint pen day :)

This is a sketch from:

Sketchy Thursdays

A new challenge is up tomorrow over on their blog so go check it out :)

Moxiefab clean and graphic style

Here's another moxiefab world card style

"clean and graphic"

always liked this style but never knew where to start :(

finally sat down and gave it a try

What do you think?

"enjoy card"

Canvas Tag: makingmemories “enjoy”: cricut, graphically speaking

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"look who's 10 card"

Cricut: Graphically Speaking "ten 10"

If you haven't tried this style you got to give it a try. Love how clean and clear the card came out.

Don't forget to check out & play along at:

Card Style

Clean and Graphic Challenge

in the Moxie Fab World

Ea & me on his tenth birthday

My oldest baby turned ten this year

ohh how the years go by :(

Now he's a happy silly big boy who's an awesome big brother but I can still remember the calm little baby with a head full of hair (got to scrap his baby pictures one of these days).

Here we are on his tenth birthday back in February.

Acting silly as always :)

This layout was inspired by this months

Scrapjacked

Awesome inspiration

check it out and play along

"Robots are awesome"

Have you seen Paper craft magazine new special issue?

well it all about "card style"

I'm not sure what my style is so I thought I would give some a try

The first style is

"fun and cute"

My son likes to think of himself as being "awesomer"

so the inside of the card says....

But you're awesomer

Busted out my old-school label maker for this one

The stamps is from stampendous

Not sure this is my style but go check out the cute inspiration and play along too at

Card Style Fun and Cute Challenge in the Moxie Fab World

let's ride

This past Christmas all the kids got bikes

and they LOVED it

(dad used to fix-up bikes so it was more a gift for him)

Here they are with their first test run
This Layout is another
Sketchy Thursdays
It's time for their August guest DT member challenge
Along with the sketch we had to use the color yellow and a handmade embellishment

My Handmade embellishment is the little wire bicycle
Just twisted some craft wire and added beads as handlebars
Also
a crinkle ribbon road (crinkle ribbon is popular now but i didn't have any)
wet a piece of cardstock, squeezed it into a ball and gently unraveled it
BAM looks like crinkle ribbon :)

HELPING?

Making brownies are so tempting,you have to taste the batter.

My babies are no different

So here they are "Helping" me make mint brownies

This layout is for this weeks

Sketchy Thursdays

There's still time to play so go check them out :)

sunshine and my golden boy

My youngest boy is also the lightest one

When the sun hits his hair it's like golden locks

(He's way too cute )

So I sometimes call him

"my golden boy"

I think this picture captures his golden locks perfectly

This Layout is for

Twisted Sketches

And the twist this week is......

"Sunshine"

first

All my baby girl wanted for her 5th birthday was a pet and so she got a Guinea pig.

Not my first choice but that's what she wanted

and being the girly girl my daughter is she named her

"Cutie Pie"

This picture is of that first day we got home her first pet

This LO was inspired by:

Scrapjacked

Love the inspirations they provide and this month is no different

Check them out and jackup your own project

and also for

Scrap Your Crap #55

the challenge was to use increments of 5

Here's what I used:

5 different boarder punches

5 mini tags

and of course the picture is of my daughters 5th birthday and she was born on the 5th of march

The look of love

This one is for my parents :)
Isn’t this such a cute picture? It’s my mom & dad before they went out to an art show earlier this year.

The Layout is for
Twisted Sketches
and the twist this week was RED

This one is also for
The Shabby Tea Room
Their request was for embossing
The velum flower on my page was embossed with Cuttlebug “Persia” embossing folder.

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Here's a little tutorial on how to make the emboss heart flowers:

Cut out four big hearts (2 1/2)and four little hearts (1 1/2) out of velum. Then emboss and ink them.

Cut the bottom of your hearts making a slit at the tip

Place tape on one side of the slit and overlap the two tips. Gently shape the top of the hearts back.

Layer the hearts over each other moving clockwise starting with the four big hearts and then going to the smaller hearts. Add a center and there you have a flower made of hearts :)

you make me smile pinwheel card

It's a shabby Saturday

and I'm playing over at

"The Shabby Tea Room"

Really though it's been drizzling in the morning here in Hawaii. The kind of weather where you just want to stay in bed :) but poor me I got woken up by my boys going surfing at five in the morning. Now I'm putting in some craft time.

This weeks theme at "The Shabby Tea Room"

Is…… “Popsicles and Pinwheels”
Using the colors hot pink, bright green, & cool turquoise
It just feels like summer, doesn’t it :)

My Pinwheel is a Cricut cut from “a child’s year”
All stamps are Hero Arts

Love how you Shine

It's a fantabulous cricut Friday

And this weeks challenge is a fourth of July using "Star"

I wanted to jazz-up the red, white, & blue stars & stripes flag theme

so here it is.........

All stars are cut from "a child's year"

Pattern paper is "pink paislee"