The Graduate - Fancy Pants Swagger Style

I made this for Page Maps anniversary boy-girl (I chose boy) challenge and Simon Says Stamp anything goes!!  I used Fancy Pants' fabulous Swagger collection.  The colors and papers just fit Mitch's graduation/school colors!  I embossed the orangy-red colored paper under the photos.  I fussy cut the big fleur de lis out of a sheet of the collection and turned it on its side.  The journaling reads "Man Oh Man.  It seems like only yesterday when I dropped you off for your first day of kindergarten!"  Ain't it the truth!  He has now very successfully completed his first year of college. We were very, very proud of his first year GPA and his dedication to studies as well as his ability to meet new people and still have a lot of fun!!

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Kayaks

I made this for PageMaps anniversary challenge:  Paper Mixology!  And, boy did I ever mix up the collections.  I used papers from several older collections:  Recess, Two Scoops, Archaic, Kioshi, Nook & Pantry and some basics...  I did some embossing on the buttery paper--chevron type arrows. Looks so much nicer in person, but all of mine do....

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Baby Congrats

I made this for Page Maps challenge 1-2-3-4 Challenge with Julie Koerber.  I remembered that I was still hoarding this cute collection from Cosmo Cricket and thought it matched the colors pretty well.  So, here it is!!!  It is one of my favorite all time cards...

It looks like I am going to do ALL of the Page Maps challenges. I hope I get a chance to do them all now that I have so many completed!

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Father's Day Card for Crafter's Companion

I made this card using a Christmas stamp believe it or not. I thought this was appropriate for my dad for Father's day because he is always outside doing some type of job--and often using a shovel!!!! I used
Sheena's A Little Bit Festive - Christmas Visitors for the image and colored it using my CTMH watercolor pencils.  The "Dad" saying is from Beatrix Potter EZMount™ Stamp Set - The Tale of Benjamin Bunny--one of my all time favorite stamp sets!!!!!  You can get both of these stamp sets from Crafter's Companion where I am entering this card!!!!

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I'm coughing like a maniac and have been sick since Mother's Day. Please pray or send positive thoughts my way that I will get better soon!!!!!

Have a great day!

Page 2 of disc golf (march 2012

This is for the Simon Says Anything Goes challenge! I love those!!!  You'll have to check out the previous post for Page 1.

Hope things are going well for you. It is still cold, and there is a lot of a snow in the yard here!

Second Post Today - Disc Golf (march 2012)

I was lucky enough to win some Fancy Pants this year. I guess I was waiting to do these photos until the right paper came along. Although I didn't receive any 12 x 12 sheets, I received the 6 x 6 and a whole bunch of embellishments from my favorite collection:  Park Bench! I cut up several pieces of the 6 x 6 tablet to make my "stripes under the photos. It is actually a two-page spread and the strips carry over to the 2nd page.  I had a lot of fun working with the collection and feel very fortunate to have won it!!! I'm entering this into Simon Says Stamp -- add an arrow (the stickers in the collection had the perfect arrow).  I also did some embossing in the top corner by folding my paper to fit into my big shot. It is hard to tell here but it does add some amazing dimension and texture to the page.

See how Charlie is reacting to the snow now in my first post today: http://kmassman-scrapbooks-cards.blogspot.com/2013/02/more-snow-and-now-he-loves-it.html

Happy Valentine's Day!

My friend Stacy got me going on vellum with her most recent challenges! I made 10 valentine cards for family and could still think of a whole bunch more people to send to but I stopped. I forgot to take my photo until one of the last ones (and not the prettiest). It just so happens to also meet the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger and Simon Says Have a Heart challenge this week!!!! Yay! I'm back to entering challenges! :-)

Hope you are having a great day and have a great Valentine's Day next week.

P.S. We have a contract on our house (though signatures are being finalized)! Thanks for all of your kind thoughts and prayers!! Now, we wait for inspections, appraisal and closing!! Please continue to pray that all goes well and the closing on March 26 will go off without a hitch!!! Thanks again!

Peter Rabbit again

Check out my guest post at Crafter's Companion. I am sharing a tutorial on how I made the background  over there! I am entering this in their challenge and Simon Says show a bit of brown (i inked the outside edges with brown and there is a lot of brown colored in the image...

Have a great, sunshiny day!

World's Best Dad

I created this Father's Day card for Crafter's Companion's May Flowers Challenge and for Simon Says' Feature a Man challenge and one for the boys.

I used my water color pencils from CTMH as well as a couple of Copics to color in my Beatrix Potter image.

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Popcorn with Flowers!

I made this little card using the darling Popcorn the Bear stamp from Crafter's Companion where I am entering it in their May flowers challenge. I made the heart in the ear pink as well as used a pink background to fit my friend Stacy's challenge!  The three dots on the ribbon are actually sparkly jewels.  I fussy cut the bear and duck and then pop-dotted them for a little depth.

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Chocolate Easter Bunny

I made this card for Easter. I'm entering it in the Simon Says Anything Goes challenge!!!

Thanks for visiting! I hope you are having a great week! I got to stay home from school today because I had a flat tire. I think I would have rather gone to school because I would have at least earned a couple of dollars instead of having to replace a whole tire that I just bought in December!!!!! You would know that if I'm going to have a flat tire, it will not be fixable!!!!  It's only money, I guess!

Anyway, I hope you like my little bunny card and that you are having a great day!

Happy Birthday

I quickly made this card for The Paper Variety's fan fold embellishments.  I used a sketch from one of my friend Stacy's challenges. 

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Quick, Cute Christmas ornaments

I made these little ornaments for The Paper Variety's challenge to show them your ornaments and for my friend Stacy's challenge! The tree has some Ranger distress ink on it, but I thought they looked cute plain, too!

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Merry Christmas - Crafter's Companion Style

I made this little card using Card Patterns Sketch 141 with a Humphrey's Corner Collection - Birthday Girl stamp from Crafter's Companion.  I decided to use her in this Christmas card.  It fits, too! I colored her with some of the Copics my friend Stacy sent me as well as some CTMH watercolor pencils.  I used the CTMH Art Philosopy Cricut Cartridge which I embossed as well as a Jolee's star and some red Colorbok decorations my friend Lural gave me!  I am "teaching" her some things about card making, and she so kindly brought me some embellishments to return the favor. I think I have her addicted to card making now!!!!

Anyway, I am entering the card in Crafter's Companion challenge as well as Simon Says Stamp challenge and Frosted Designs: Fabulous Friday Embossing Challenge.

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Simon Says........ Photo Inspiration, (Poppy Field)

Owl card

Now, isn't this a fun way to use a border? I didn't think of it on my own. A lady from my stamp club had us use this technique Thursday night! All you do is take a 3 inch square and punch each side in the center. Easy to do, easy to mail!!! I am entering it in The Paper Variety's challenge to include a forest friend and Simon Say's Stamp's use sparkle & bling challenge because I added Stickles to it!

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Can't Scrapbook to Save My Life Weekend

So, I decided to make a mini book.  It is called an x-book!  It is an easy book that you make with just one sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper and then decorate! The only thing hard about making this book was the Modge Podge.  It wasn't required, but I wanted to give the book some stability!  I had embossed a cool bird and flourish image with a Cuttlebug folder over the sun before attaching it to the cover.  I was also thrilled to be able to get 9 photos on the six "pages." The book is really tiny--about 4 1/4" by 2 1/4".  I decided to use some of the many photos from the Phoenix vacation to fit The Paper Variety's challenge this week!

Thank you Teacher

I made this little thank you card for the Crafter's Companion challenge this month.  The little bear Popcorn is so sweet--it is from the School Days set!  I'm glad I saved the little bit from a notebook border punch that I got to use at Archiver's. I'd love to have a notebook border punch, but this will have to do for now!!! Anyway, I added a little Tattered Angels mist droplets on th background. My coloring isn't great, but there is no way to make this bear not cute!!

Thanks for visiting! I should be adding some layouts soon!

Have a great weekend!

San Diego Zoo-Take 2 in Circles

I made a two page layout of the elephants in the San Diego zoo, but I'm only sharing page one here! I don't know how to stitch the two layouts together--too lazy to figure it out.   I love participating in The Paper Variety's challenges, and it has finally paid off. I was their winner for last week's challenge.   This week they want you to include at least four circles in honor of Scrapbook Circle who is their sponsor this week!  Anyway, I used WAY more than four circles!

Thanks so much for visiting! I've been scrapping a whole bunch this week.  I should--I just got 375 photos in the mail last week!

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Leo

I did this for a challenge on Sketches 4 All.  It's Leo by himself this time...

I had fun with the Distress crackle paint and some ink. I also had fun with some embossing folders.

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Stuart and Leo - Easter

Here's a little layout of Stuart and Leo at Easter!  I wasn't there, but I enjoyed looking at the photos so much!  I did a little embossing on the background cardstock. This isn't exactly like I pictured in my mind, but I did like the bright colors for this... I used a sketch from Frosted Designs as you can see!

The metal pieces from Making Memories say "Discover" and "Oh Snap" which I thought went with the photos pretty well... The blue background was cut with the Cricut using Elegant Edges.

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