Happy Father's Day-ColourQ Challenge 141

Happy Father's Day! It's almost over and I hope everyone had a great time celebrating and thinking about the blessings having a father in your life is. I made a couple of cards of course. 

This first one is for my dad who loves fishing and so I had to use this fish on a hook image for his card. I also used the idea of faux baker's twine. Taking some Aunt Lydia's crochet thread and using a blue sharpy to make it look like baker's twine. I am also submitting this card for ColourQ's Challenge #141:

This second card is for my husband's step-dad. I loved the colour challenge so much I had to use it again!

And my husband's side of the family also celebrated his grandma's b-day which is tomorrow so I made her a birthday card:

All of the images you see here were cut using Cricut's "Celebrate with a Flourish" cartridge. Just love this cartridge. The frames were all cut using the "Accent Essential's" cartridge.

Thanks for taking a peek and now I'm getting back to my reading...what am I reading?..well, I will just have to do a post about it perhaps and also stop by Let's Scrap tomorrow as it's my turn to do IOTW/QOTW...

Happy Craftin'!

A Challenge and an Announcement!!

Happy Sunday everyone!!

First of all, here is my card that I made using ColourQ's challenge #129 palette. Such a pretty palette-I absolutely loved creating this card with these colors!!

In the spirit of the upcoming Easter holiday, I made another Easter card. This card was made using Cricut's "Fancy Frames" cartridge and "Celebrate with a Flourish" cartridge. Then I added a really sparkly prima flower in the corner. The inside is stamped with Happy Easter sentiment.

I really LOVE how it turned out!! Thanks so much ColourQ for another fantastic color palette!

And now for my announcement: I made the Let's Scrap, April-July term Design Team!!! I'm so excited to be a part of this great scrapping community and I can hardly wait to get started on some layouts/challenges and get to know the rest of the community even more! 

Thanks so much Betty and Debby for selecting me! It means so much!!

Have a great Sunday everyone!!

Colour Q/My Craft Spot and More Challenges Thanksgiving card

Tonight I attempted to make my very first easel card...and I'd say it was a very successful first attempt! I really like the idea of the easel card...I know I've received some really pretty cards and an easel card makes it that much easier to display the card plus the sentiment inside!

I will be entering this for My Craft Spot's challenge #33 which is to make an easel card, Sentimental Sundays #81-Thanksgiving/Thank you card, The Paper Variety's "Thanks" challenge. I will also be entering it in for Colour Q's challenge #111 and the colors to be used are gorgeous for this fall/Thanksgiving season:

Here is my card:

The card laying flat and closed...I love the "Gobble Gobble" stamp I purchased from Hobby Lobby!

And the card propped up easel style with the "Happy Thanksgiving" sentiment. 

I used the Celebrate with a Flourish cartridge and I used what rhinestones I had left from my wedding shoes over 2 years ago.

I hope you like it and thanks for looking!! :) 

Last Hurrah for Halloween Layouts

Good evening!

I have 3 layouts to share tonight. I got together with my friend Tiff again and did some scrappin'. This is my last hurrah this weekend for Halloween themed things so I brought my stuff over to do 3 Halloween-y layouts. They all take place at Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween party.

The first is is for Let's Scrap's 10-26-11 layout. It is at the fireworks show. It is fantastic. They have awesome Disney Halloween music remixes and fun shadows that happen on the castle. You can see the shadow of a jack-o-lantern on the main picture in this layout.

The second is for Colour Q's challenge #108. I also used Let's Scrap 9-22-10 sketch. This was at the Disney's Villains show at the party.

The last one is for Page Maps studio purge contest. A few pictures of what we wore that night. Matching kimonos! 

Thanks for taking a look! I am done with the Halloween honeymoon part of the trip and Halloween this year for scrapping. Now I'm off to do some more Halloween cards before I move on to the next holiday. :)

Have a great night!