It's my life

Recycle and Reuse

Today on the Bo Bunny blog some of the DT, including me, were challenged to recycle or reuse an item and create something new.  I have to say that the challenge was a little tough for me.  I don't always see the diamond in the rough, if you know what I mean.  I was racking my brain about what I could use and not coming up with much when I sneezed.  I reached up to grab a kleenex to find out that the box was empty.  At that moment it popped into my head.  A treat box.  So I grabbed the box, cut the top out of it and started decorating with The Boo Crew from Bo Bunny.  This Halloween collection is so much fun to work with.  Bright colors, very cute characters and love, love, love those goggly eyes.

 From this

 To this.  Pure fun!

 

I've used a bunch of different products on this treat box.  Rubons, cardstock stickers, stamps and paper.  A trick that I learned from Carole on the Bo Bunny DT was to cut the cardstock stickers apart sometimes to give it a cool 3D look.  A little bit of pop dots underneath and you get lots of fun depth and dimension.

I would love to see what you can create from a recycled product.  Leave a comment with a link to your project to win some fun Bo Bunny cardstock stickers.  Challenge ends Sunday Oct. 11th at Midnight EST.

Supplies: The Boo Crew Collection, Boo Crew Stripe, Boo Crew Goblins, Killer Costumes and Time for Treats Cardstock Stickers, Boo Crew Combo Sticker, 2 Cute 2 Spook rubons, Mr. Bones Stamp Set, My Eye on U iCandy Jewels, 5/8 Licorice Ribbon

A Card in 30 minutes or Less

One of the great things about loving paper, stamps, and embellishments is that you can make a card for any occasion.  But the thing that I love the most is that I can make one quick if I am in a pinch.  I can't tell you how many times I have thrown together a gift card holder or a quick birthday card for a child in less than 10 minutes.  The following card was made for a challenge on Embellish Online.  The challenge was to make a card in 30 minutes or less.  Using this paper from Cosmo Cricket made this challenge super easy.  I just loved the hanging clothes that I had to make something to go with the theme.  Please join us in our challenge at Embellish Online by uploading your card to the gallery.  



If you decide to take the challenge please leave a link to your card in the comment section and I will randomly pick from them to win something fun.  Make sure to comment by Thursday, September 24th by 8p.m. CST to be eligible for the giveaway.

Thanks for hanging with me!

Inky Impressions Challenge and Craft Critique Shimmerz Review

Today in It's My Life

Inky Impressions Challenges  There is a new Inky Impressions Challenge up today.  I played along and you should too.  This one is easy because basically this is the recipe for most of my cards.  For the challenge you need to use 1 ribbon, 2 patterned papers and 3 buttons.  You can check out all of the details here as well as the other Designer's projects which are awesome!  To get this cute little stamp Lili's Prayer stop by the Inky Impressions webstore.  While you are there make sure to browse through the entire collection.  They are all so cute!

Giveaways  Craft Critique is posting their reviews of Shimmerz products.  There are lot of giveaways so be sure to stop by and comment on the their posts each day.  I have some of the Shimmerz Paints and I can say that I absolutely love them!!  The shimmer is perfect, easy to apply,  and it comes in so many different colors.  If you head over to Craft Critique and mentioned that I sent you there when you comment I will be giving away a pot of it myself to one lucky winner.  So two ways to win!! My giveaway will end Friday, June 25th at 8:00p.m. EST.

Have a great day!!!

Dizzy

Wow, I think I am dizzy from all of the blog hopping.  What a day!!  A wonderful fun day!!  Today alone I had 174 visits to my blog.  I am sure most of them were here for the Inky Impressions blog hop.  If you are visiting today for the first time and want to know about it start here.  You will have until June 12th at midnight to qualify for the blog candy that Nicole is giving away!

I also had a record number of comments left on the Inky Impressions Grand Opening blog hop post so it is going to be countdown time to the fantastic blog candy I will be giving away to the person who leaves the 1000th comment on my blog. I hope with all of the hints that I left you have figured it out by now.  Right now I am at 930 something.  As we get closer I will be leaving sneak peeks of of the blog candy.  Maybe I will also have a guessing contest.  Hmmm.  I will have to think about that.  

Now a little more great news.  I was asked to be a Design Team Member for a Scrapbook Manufacturing Company called Moxxie!!!  Here is the announcement on their blog.   I am so excited to be working with those sweet girls.  I had a great time chatting with Kelly and she told me they have lots of fun together!!!  I will have more on this soon.

Here is one of my favorite paper lines by Moxxie.  The are more papers and embellishments but I just thought I would leave you with a couple of pictures of the Life's A Garden line.  I can not wait to see it in person and start creating with it.

Since today I had so much news to share I thought I would wait until tomorrow to post my newest projects.  So make sure to stop back by tomorrow for some fun pics of what I was up to today.  

Stampavie Challenge Card

Did you know that Stampavie holds a new Challenge every two weeks.  It is always a fun challenge and of course they have the best prizes.  They keep the prizes a secret but who wouldn't want one of everything they have?  Here are the guidelines and my card for the current challenge.  I went with the light blue and brown color scheme.  I just love any shade of blue and brown together.  It is just so sweet yet sophisticated.

 “Use Light Blue or Turquiose & Brown”. Please make a card or any other selfmade item using at least one Stampavie image and light blue or turquiose & brown in any way you can imagine. You will have time to join the fun until May 31th 12:00 blog time.

For this card I used Stampin Up!'s textured patterned paper.  I'm sure you can see how textured it is.  I loved all of the papers and as you can see it was perfect for the challenge.  Here are the markers that I used to color this beautiful Sarah Kay stamp.  B93 and B97 were the two colors I used on her overalls. 

Make sure you pop on over to the Stampavie Design Team Challenge blog and submit your card and while you are there take a look at the right hand side under Guest Designers and see if you recognize a name.  Come back here and tell me what you found out and be entered in a drawing to win this card. 

And just for fun and I had the paper out I created this little tote to go along with the card.  I used Lauren Meader's Take Along Tote template.  Her templates are so awesome and easy to use.  I also love her directions and samples that she includes in the package.  I wish I had taken a picture of the side.  Then you could see the cute little pockets inside the tote.  There is room in there for cards, envelopes, etc.

 I hope you have a wonderful Memorial Holiday Weekend.  I've been really busy so don't be surprised to see me posting a lot this week.

Edited to add:  Congratulations Robin, you have won this card.  Please send me your snail mail address and I will get it out to you right away.

Inky Impressions DT entry and a Winner

I have finished my card for the Inky Impressions Design Team contest.  I just love this little girl.  Her eyes are gorgeous and her hair, fun, fun, fun to color.  I know that Easter has passed but because she is coloring eggs I just couldn't help but make this an Easter card.  I know for a fact that my niece would have loved to receive this card.  I can't wait until Inky Impressions releases their new stamps.  They are sure to be awesome.

Oh, and I am so glad to announce that the last winner has been randomly picked from my last posts comments.  Congratulations Amanda, you won!!!

Whoah, she has bunny ears!!! My 7 year old would go nutso bonkers for those stamps. So cute.

Posted by: Amanda | April 20, 2009 at 07:12 AM

Please send me your snail mail address and I will get your package out to you.

Another present today

Ah, I just can't tell you how busy I have been.  Baseball games each night this week. Company coming this weekend to get ready for.  Projects galore just waiting to be finish.  So unfortunately that means that I don't have any new cards to show you but of course I do have my second present for you to view and I do have a couple of pictures of the mini book that I made for my daughter.  It was just a little keepsake for her and way to tell her how much I love her.  First the mini book.  It was not an easy mini book to photograph because it is made up of all these little tags that fit into pockets in the album.  I have removed some of the tags in this photo to show you a sample but there is a lot more inside.  On the other side of the tags I have written little things to her.  

  

In this picture you can see the tags peeking out and the little coin envelopes that I made to hold the tags.

This project idea came from this book by Jessica Acs.  It's an absolutely Outstanding book with

Outstanding Mini Albums to make. :)

Okay so on to the thing that I know you all have been waiting for.  The second present.  Well here it is.

This present includes a Maya Road chipboard album, a pack of 12x12 paper from Stampin Up!, 4 Magnolia Images, 1 roll of ribbon, and 1 stamp set from SU!

Here is the question for today:  What is your favorite paper company or line right now and do you feel like you collect paper more than you use it?

Answer this question in the comment section below to be entered to win this prize.

Comments will be closed for this contest on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at Midnight CST.

Have fun!!!

Let the Party Start!!

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Wow, you all are unbelievable.  I can't believe all the people who stopped by my blog today.  I believe the number was a whopping 162. Thank you!!!  Special thanks also goes to all of my friends who left such lovely comments.  You really don't know how much I appreciate you and the time that you take to say hi. I also had a special guest that stopped by today and gave me some great news but I will share that with you later when I am able. Woo Hoo!

Well I've got a few pictures of a new card I made and then I will let you know all about my blog party giveaway.  My card tonight was made with a stamp set from My Cute Stamps.  You might be surprised to find out that it is the same stamp set that I used here.  Talk about versatile.  This set, Forest Friends, has a little of everything I like!!

I just love cards with repeating images. They are just so fun! You can't see it in this picture but I actually punched the holes in the scallops all the way through so you can the red in the card base when it is flat.  I thought it made a pretty cool effect.  Here is a close up picture.

And here are the markers that I used.  You might have noticed I used the same sentiment on this card as the Tilda card a few posts ago.  I just got this sentiment set by Amy R at All That Scraps on Saturday and I have used it in more than those 2 projects already.  There are so many different sentiments to pick from and they are all about friendship.  It is a must have!!

Okay so let's make this party last until the weekend.  What do you say!!  I will be giving away 3 presents.  To be entered to win a present for that day you just need to post a comment by answering the question on my blog under that days post.  I will then select the 3 winners, one from each day, and post their names on Sunday.  

Wednesday's question:  Do you like going to scrapbooking and stamping weekend getaways where you can take classes and have fun with friends from near and far?  If you have been in the past, do you have any recommendations?

Today's presents are pictured below.  I am sure that there will be a few extras like some embellishments and paper that make their way into the box while packing. One box will contain a surprise stamp not pictured on my blog as a bonus just for fun.  Believe me, you will love it!!

Forever Flowers from Prima, Chipboard Purse from Maya Road, and a stamp set from Stampin Up!

Comments will be closed for this contest on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at Midnight CST.

Have fun!!!

Yesterday I did a little make and take at Scrapbook Mania for their anniversary crop.  I decided to use one of Lauren Meader's Timeless Templates, Desktop Organizer.  Her templates just ROCK!  I have quite a few of them and love every one.  She makes it so easy to put together with step by step instructions and additional ideas from her designers on how to use it or decorate it in different ways.  Last night she released 3 more templates at the Papertrey Ink March release party and they are so cool.  My favorite is the file folder template and I can't wait to play with it so be sure to stop back to see what I do with that template.  Lauren also is very generous and has a free template that you can download at her store at Papertrey Ink so that you can see the wonderful product that she sells.  So go grab it!  It's FREE for goodness sakes! :)  Here is my desktop organizer.  You may notice that I used two stamp sets from Papertrey ink as well in my project.  

Leave a comment telling me which 2 and I will randomly select a winner Monday evening to receive a prize.

Supplies-  Template:  Timeless Templates by Lauren Meader; Patterned Paper: My Minds Eye; Cardstock and Ribbon: SU!; Punches: Fiskars; Stamps: Papertrey Ink

It's a Hippo! plus giveaway

Really, its a Hippo in a bathtub and he sure looks like he is having fun.  Well, I am back from Orlando and had a little time today to do some stamping so I finished this project and started another.  Hopefully I will get the next card done tomorrow so I can show you a card I made with a beautiful stamp from Rachelle Anne Miller.  

Isn't he just the cutest.  I got him from Treehouse Stamps which carries this stamp plus lots others from Lelo Designs.  I really liked the sentiment from Treehouse Stamps.  It goes perfectly.

Now for the giveaway.  Some how I am getting 2 copies of  Scrapbooks Etc.  I have a January 09 issue that I would like to give away to someone.  

Just leave a comment and tell me your favorite Scrapbook magazine and I will pick a random comment to win.  The giveaway will be closed Tuesday and I will announce the winner on Wednesday.  Have a great day!