Crafty Chick's Weekly Challenge #3

This week I chose the challenge for everyone.  I wanted to do something different and also be cost-conscious (ski trip on Tuesday!!!).  So my challenge was to make 10 tags, use your favorite color, use something shiny, and to recycle (we weren’t allowed to buy anything.)  So I changed my mind about a dozen times between when I came up with the challenge and today.  After seeing all the other wonderful tags the ladies have made, I knew I needed to step up my game.

My favorite colors are pink and blue.  Which one to choose????  Why not do both?  I needed a birthday tag for a Eli’s present, so I made 5 blue birthday tags.  I have a girl’s birthday to get ready for in a few weeks, so I made 5 pink tags.  I used a cute little cupcake stamp and used pearl paint.  I used a Tim Holtz technique where you blend different inks over the paint and then wipe off the ink and the paint shows up as a resist.  So for the pink tags I used Tim Holtz Victorian Velvet and Aged Mahogony and Memento Rose Bud.  For the blue tags I used Tim Holtz inks again: Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky, and Faded Jeans.

After I did the inks, I decided to make the whole thing shiny with Glimmer Mists (LOVE them!!!)  For the pink tags I used Vintage Pink and Santa Baby.  For the blue tags I used Bubble and Denim Blue.  Look at them shine!

So then I needed to add sentiments.  I used CTMH black ink and a little Happy Birthday stamp and then used a Nestibility to cut out the frames.  Then I edged the frames in the same colors I inked with.  I stamped the To/From in CTMH red on the pink tags and Faded Jeans on the blue ones.  They were finished off with ribbon from my stash.  I think the pink ribbon is just right!

So, Yay! I finished the challenge!  It seems to have been as much of a challenge for me as everyone else.  I can’t wait to see what Jenn W. has in store for us next week.  I will have to finish that one after I get back from skiing.

~Jenn

Free Glitter

Quick post.  This website (Glitter crystals) is offering free samples of glitter.  Check her stuff out.

Some cards

I was going to go ahead and get some sleep, then realized I hadn't washed jeans for Max tomorrow.  So, while I'm waiting on the washer I thought I'd post some cards I made the other night.  My BFF Jenn W had her birthday last week, so I had to make her a card.  While I was looking for some cool papers for her card I found a Workshopt on the Go kit from Close to My Heart that I'd bought last year.  The style reminded me of Tim Holtz so I pulled it out and made a few cards from the kit.

So here are the pics of the cards.  I loved the flower even though it took me a bit to figure out the instructions.

This is the card I gave Jenn W.

Close up of the "flower"

The other cards going into the stash.

So hopefully, the clothes will be done soon, so I can get to bed. :-)  I will try to work on more stuff this weekend.  Laterz!!

~Jenn

Crafty Chick's Weekly Challenge #2

This week we were challenged to make another layout.  Our requirements were to pick a verb and scrap the verb using a one or two page layout.  We needed to include a banner, journaling, use at least one cricut cut, and use embossing of some sort.

I had many ideas for verbs, but none seemed to fit my pictures for scouts.  So then I decided to make a double layout for our ski trip at the end of this month.

My verb is snowboarding!  All 3 boys are going to try snowboarding despite all of the moms’ worries.  My title says Dare Devils (kinda hard to read in the photos.)  I used the Dude Lite cart for the snowboards (Thanks AnnMa!!!!) and the Cuttin’ Up cart for the lettering on the banners.  My embossing was embossing folders.  I used the smoosh technique on the banner flags (CTMH Indian Corn Blue ink) with the Snowflakes folder from Sizzix.  On my photo mats, I used the Distressed Snow folder from CuttleBug.  My journaling spot is from We R Memory Keepers the Teen Angst line (quite fitting for our almost teenagers).  I loved the colors, the cool blues and the swirls made it feel like snow to me.

I hope you like the layout.  It’s my turn to come up with the challenge for next week so I have to go rack my brain for some ideas. 

~Jenn

Out of order, I know!

So, I know this is totally out of order, but I wanted to share some projects I made at Ann Marie's house while we visited over New Year's.  Ann Marie and Natalie had done some previous challenges so I decided to play too, just for the fun of it.  So here are the Thank you cards that I made.  I loved the postage stamp design of the scrap paper she had.  Only the card base was new, everything else came out of her scrap bin.  I loved the cute stitching stamps, too!

Another thing we worked on are these awesome Workshop On The Go kits from Close to My Heart. (I got one of these from Ann Marie for Christmas ~ She's AWESOME!!)  Everything (minus inks) to make the double layout and the 6 cards comes in the kit, and you have all this extra paper, and stamps, and a few extra embellishments.  I tried out new techniques (at least to me they were new), and spent some quiet time with my sister-in-law.  I am now ahead for next year's Christmas cards and have the inspiration for more, as well.

Here are the cards:

and here is the double layout:

So, that's what I did over New Year's.  They were too pretty not to share with everyone.  See y'all next week on the next challenge!

~Jenn

Crafty Chick's Weekly Challenge #1

Last night, my BFF, Jennifer W. and I had our weekly craft night.  We haven't been able to spend much time together since before Christmas, so this was lots of fun and much needed girl time.  We signed up to do a weekly challenge with my sister-in-law and her friends (Crafty Chick's Challenges).  So the challenge this week was to use a specific layout for the scrap booking page, and to also use the color green, ribbon, and stamping within that layout.  Here is what I came up with.  I used ribbon that Ann Marie gave me to use with scouting layouts, I used a Close to My Heart Stamp set that I've had a while for the top border (in green chalk ink), and it was on green card stock.  Since it was for my son, I didn't think flowers would quite go that well, so I used buttons that coordinated with the theme.

Double layout for Crossover May 2010

Left Side:

Right Side (Yellow strip will have journalling - computer generated):

So, there is my first submission to our weekly challenge.  I am looking forward to the rest of the girls' work.  Thanks for looking!

~Jenn

What I made for Christmas

Well, it's been a crazy month and a half!  Lots of holiday events and traveling.  I was able to get some crafty things done.  Here's a card that I made for a boy's birthday party we had this month: (Love Timmy's techniques)

I was able to make the glitter ornaments, but the etching just didn't work out like I'd hoped.  Here's the finished product on those:

I also altered mugs for the girls at the office and the boys in Max's den.  Here's one of those I did for my co-workers:

OK.  I'm off to check out some more blogs.  I signed up with my sister-in-law and some friends to do a challenge blog.  I'm hoping this will be good for me to keep me motivated and trying new things.  I'll post as I am able to get things done (this is one of my resolutions for 2011).  Keep an eye out for links to their blogs!

~Jenn