Sketchy Challenge

Good Morning!  Good Morning!

It's another Design Team Challenge Day!

Today's Challenge is a super-cute sketch

 from Liz at The Scrappiest.

This is the page that I submitted to ScrapFit  for the challenge

about my favorite little helper

 This cute little kitty came from the Cricut Lite Meow cartridge.  I've just been looking for an excuse to use it!

Supplies: PP:Colorbok, Cardstock: DCWV, Letter Stickers: Story Tellers Club, Yarn: Retail, inc.

This page was so quick & easy using the sketch that I had time to make a couple more. 

I decided to use the same sketch for all of them.

Supplies: PP, Stickers, Flowers: Cloud Nine Designs

 

This page was another challenge all together. 
 In the moving process, I discovered a stash of monthly page kits from Story Tellers Club. 
I belonged to them for a year or so in 2008, but hardly ever used my supplies. 
No idea why- they're as cute as can be!

I guess because they were stored out of sight, so I never thought to pull them out.

Well, they're out now!!

On this page, I challenged myself to not only use the sketch, but to use one of these kits-- and ONLY the kit. 

Every single item on this page (even the bling!) is out of the April 2008 kit.
And I LOVE it. 

 

The cardstock is hard to see in the photo, but it has a fabulous texture to it that I'm totally in love with.

Supplies: Story Tellers Club

You will definitely be seeing more pages using these kits coming soon!

My last page is my favorite.  

I wanted to do something for St. Patrick's Day and these photos were perfect!

 This happy little guy is from the Cricut Simply Charmed Cartridge.  He was just so cute I couldn't resist him!  He's the reason I wanted to do a St. Pat's page!

These little shamrocks made me so happy!  

I used a punch that I've had for so long that I don't even know who made it. 

(I think it's a Fiskar's but I'm not sure)

I can't remember the last time I used one of these little punches, so the fact that I had the opportunity, remembered that I had it & knew where it was, all at the same time has to be some sort of St. Patrick's Day miracle.

Supplies: Cardstock & P:DCWV, Letter Stickers: Colorbok, Punches: Fiskars & ?, Other: Stickles

4 pages in just a couple hours has got to be some sort of record for me. 

I will definitely be visiting Liz for more sketches soon!

Don't forget to visit ScrapFit (linked above) to see what a great job the other Fit Girls did with this one. 

Lots of inspiration there -- and an opportunity to win a great prize package from The Paper Trail.

Hope you all have a very happy Tuesday.

Feeling Lucky?

Hello out there in Blog Land!

I hope you all are having a lover-ly day.  

(Can you tell I've been listening to show tunes? )

So, it's Officially March, as of a few days ago. 

And March means--

ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

I love St. Patrick's Day!  

I love holidays in general- I'll take any excuse to get dressed up & have a party, but since my family are Irish (among other things), St. Pat's is way up at the top of the list.

And any holiday is a good excuse to make cards!

(I haven't come up with a cute St. Pat's card yet this year, but I wasn't blogging yet at this time last year, so I figured that showing you last year's card is only kinda sorta a little bit cheating)

As always- I had to do a couple of slight variations

Inside:

Supplies: Cardstock & PP: DCWV, Ribbon: Wrights, Stamps: Stampin' Up, Studio J, Cricut Cartridges: Storybook, Forever Young, Bling: Unknown, Stickles

At the time that I made these, I had just gotten my Forever Young Cartridge and was itchin' for something to use it on, but just couldn't come up with any ideas.

Then 2 days after it arrived, I woke up at 3:30 am with this picture in my head.

I couldn't get back to sleep for anything, so I got up & started working on them.

Steve got up around 5:30 as usual, to get ready for work and made a comment to the effect of 

"I can barely drag you out of bed at 7 to go to work, but you'll get up at 3:30 to come & scrapboook??"

Yup.

That's just the way life with a scrapper is, honey.

Better get used to it!