My Paper Crafting Snowflake Challenge

Time for the first challenge of 2013 here at My Paper Crafting and  my first post for the new year.  For our first project  we were going to make snowflakes for Sandy Hook Elementary School.  However the request for snowflakes for the children when they return to school  has been so overwhelming and they have requested  that no more snowflakes be sent.  Isn't that awesome!  How wonderful to have to tell people stop we are overwhelmed when people are doing something nice for people.  

I made my three snowflakes from Winter Lace cut at 5 inches.  I also cut the shadow so they would stand out more.  Then I added a Tim Holtz rosette to the center  made with blue and white paper to make them pop.    On top I cut out the words Peace from Gypsy Wanderings and love and faith from Home Accents our of glitter paper.  I added Stickles to the words and gems to bling them out.  

If you look carefully at the snowflake on the top left you will notice the design of the snowflake has peace signs in it.  

I am going to hang my snowflakes in my craft room to remind me to pray for the Sandy Hook families.  

Snowflakes for Sandy Hook 

I hope you will join us this week for the snowflake challenge and link up to My Paper Crafting 

Also remember there is a DT call right now so 

check it out and join in the fun.  

Also remember to check out all the awesome digital files, SVG files and  Paper Piecings 

at Paper Crafting World 

Valentine Challenges are complete

Happy Valentines Day to you all!

So happy for Valentine challenges to help motivate me to get my Valentines Cards done.  

I have three different cards to enter into a lot of different challenges.   

Entering this first card  in the Shes a Sassy Lady Challenge - 

Make a partial shape card with your Gypsy

Stuck on U Sketches - You've Got Mail

Die Cuttin Divas-red, pink, white, black- choose at least two colors 

Celebrate the Occasion - Use hearts 

Card shape is from Birthday Bash 5 x 11.5 and bird is from Sentimentals p. 49 cut at 3.5 

Sentiments First Class and Special Delivery is from Sentimentals.  

Old fashioned Valentine from  kit. 

I used Cuttlebug embossing dot folder which I spread with vintage pink Tim Holtz ink and then embossed.  I also used  Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink. on edges

The next  card I am entering in the Cooking with Cricut - Adult Valentine using  Black and a brad

and the Die Cuttin  Divas sketch challenge (Darn missed the challenge by 2 hours but I used the sketch.  Oh well!)

Cart used is Home Accents 

Also used MS heart punch and ribbon from stash.  Brad is a rose brad.  Love letters cut out from scrapbook paper.  Tiny hearts are scraps from punch.

Entering the last card in the BBTB2 challenge- Make a tag using Sweethearts and 

Paper Lovin Gals - Picture inspiration 

Tag is from Sweethearts page 72 

This is the front

There were so many cute tags.  I thought this one was cute so I could use Valentine scrap papers.  Sentiments cut from scrap paper and K and Company embellishments.  Ribbon from stash and used white gel pen.  

This is the back.  It was a plain pink background but then I had fun using cutout hearts from front and more sentiments and faux stitching.  

For Me? layout of two grandbabies

This layout is of my two granddaughters. I love this picture.  Katie was so excited to hold her new little sister.

The frame was cut from Elegant Edges page 26- oblong cut and shadow.  The tag and pocket are from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More.  The tag is page 89 cut at 3.75 and the envelope page 112 cut at 7 inches.  On the tag I used a little alphabet stamp set and stamped Sisters Forever.  The For Me?  is Tim Holtz Grunge board colored with Alcohol inks in Sunshine yellow, Citrus, and Sailboat blue.    The Love in the center of the flower circle is from Home Accents and is cut at 4 inches.  The green layer is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.

I am entering this in several challenges.  The first is Lasting Memories which was to follow a sketch and use a tag.  

The second is Blog Quick Quotes which is to do a single picture layout.  

The third is Frosted Designs Recipe challenge - where you had to choose 4 items from a list to use.  I used the following 6 items from the list- yellow, ribbon, chipboard, flowers, ink and buttons.  

I am also entering this in the Cricut Circle challenge- which was to have a title, 2 cuts and a minimum of three buttons.  

Since I do double page layouts I also did this 2nd page to go with the first.