My Paper Crafting challenge= Using lace

Today it is time to use lace on your project at My Paper Crafting.  I used lace trim, a lace punch and cut a circle from Lacey Labels.  The stamp is a Prima Paper Doll Stamp.  You stamp and cut out the doll and then stamp her clothes and cut them out.  It's a lot of fun like dressing paper dolls.  

Please join us for the challenge at My Paper Crafting.  and add lace to your projects this week.  

DCWV Stack-a-holic template challenge- Peek a boo Its' a Boy

Time to share my layout for the DCWV stack-a-holic template Challenge for August.  Each month DCWV provides a layout sketch and a card sketch for you to design with.  

Here is the layout sketch for this month and I fell in love with it right away.  

This is my page using the new DCWV Boy stack.  The pics are of the ultrasound to find out the gender of our new grandchild.  After two generations of only girls and three granddaughters in a row we were thrilled to find out it was a boy. 

 One of the first things I did was buy the DCWV stack.  

The peek a boo title is from B is for Boy cut aqt 3 inches. 

The circle is from Lacey Labels cut at 3.5 inches 

The banner was made using a 1" circle punch.  

The little turtles from my stash matched the turtle on the journal tag 

This is the second page of the actual ultrasound pics to go with the first layout.

Lasting Memories 2nd Anniversary Blog Hop

We have a celebration going on this week!! It's Lasting Memories 2nd Blogaversary!!! To celebrate, some of us are showcasing our layouts this week with a mini blog hop. Along the way there could be candy, so be sure to read each post! You may be asked to leave a comment, you may be asked to do something a little different,you just never know! Our challenge this week is an easy one .. it's an inspirational photo/color challenge and here's your photo!! 

So lets get this party started!! If you're arrived here from Denise at Through the Looking Glass   you're on the right track! If you're just popping by, be sure to start at Karen's Blog so you don't miss a thing!!! Here's my layout for this weeks challenge 

Once you've hopped around, be sure to join the fun at Lasting Memories because Karen has decided to give one lucky entry a $25 gift certificate for Close To My Heart!!! 

"This is open to everyone, including my DT and winner will be chosen by random.org. Help celebrate this milestone with us!!"
And now it's off to your next stop, the very talented Haven from Haven's Haven ! Have fun and be sure to enter your LO this week for a chance to win!
Here's an awesome sketch from Tanya Leigh Designs if you need a little help!!

Master List In Case You Get Lost

KAREN

MICHELE

ELIZABETH

TINA

MICHELLE

AMY

KIMBERLY

DENISE

SUZANNE

HAVEN

LASTING MEMORIES

Finished two cards today for challenges

Did two cards for challenges today.  The first one is for Paper Lovin Gals which had a inspiration picture.   The frame is from Lacey Labels and the eggs are from the Easter cart. The nest is made from gift bag raffi.  

The next card is  based on a Die Cuttin Divas sketch .

 I am also entering it in The Paper Variety make a matching card and envelope and Flutter by Wednesday challenge- used a butterfly.  Blog Quick Quotes- Use a grid.

The card was cut from Wild Card page 24 at 4.5 inches.  Paper is from the DCWV Green Tea Stack.

The flowers are cut from Flower Shoppe and the butterflies are an MS punch.  

Smile and Grin layout

Over the weekend I wanted to do some challenges and  I found some great layout sketches.  I used a different sketch for each page and think they look great together.  I am also entering the pages in the Cricut Circle Magazine challenge  which was to use the Letter Envy Cart and at least two other cuts.

This page is for the Paper Issues- Chevron Challenge

and Creative Scrappers  #202 Challenge

This page is for the Let's Get Sketchy Challenge which I turned side ways.

I also did the exact same layout with a brown background for my daughter.  I do doubles of every layout.

Here are closeups of the titles and butterflies from the brown layout.

I embossed the titles on both pages.

Recipe

Paper DCWV Green Tea stack

Every day Pop up cart for Smile title 2 1/2 inches

Butterflies from Tinkerbell Cartridge  page 51 and 52 cut at 2 and 2 1/2 inches

Background cut from Lacey Labels 10.5 inches 

"Grin" and "and" Cut from Letter Envy Font Cart at 2 inches.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Craftin

My DCWV March Stack-holic Template entry

Well its raining in California so I got some great scrappin time in today.  This is my entry for the DCWV March Stack-holic Template Challenge.  I used paper from the DCWV stacks Collage Musing and Heirloom.  I also used a MS punch, Lacey Labels for the scalloped 5 " circle, Tim Holtz chipboard letters colored with Candy Apple Glimmer Mist, and twine. For the journaling area I cut out words from a page in the Collage Musing stack. 

Here is the template sketch.

Here is the other side of the layout.  I added a chipboard key and lock, and some more cut out words from the Collage stack.  

Thanks for looking

Nov 27th Lasting Memories Color and sketch challenge

Boy did this week go fast.  With traveling to relatives for 4 days, having oldest granddaughter (22 months) for two days, Thanksgiving and shopping this week flew by.  Today my goal is to finish loading all my carts onto my replacement Gypsy. With almost 200 carts and being the third time I have had to do this it is an exhaustive process.  I hope third time is the charm.  

 So for my layout today for the Lasting Memories color challenge  I am going to be totally honest with you,  I did this layout before I to visit family for Thanksgiving week.   I totally forgot to write the info down or lost it for this layout.  I finally found  the large circle and you and me on  Lacey Labels.    The pictures are of my  3 grandbabies.  Not an orange person but I loved the purple, orange and hot pink combo.  I used the cut out leftover on the right.  Used the teardrops from large cut on left to make base of flowers on the right.  

Paper is Pocket of Posies Stack from DCWV

Hope you will join us this week for the Lasting Memories Color Challenge.  We would love to see how the picture and sketch inspires you.  You have until Saturday December 3rd.  

What I Love About Halloween Blog Hop October 8th Day 2

Welcome to the What I Love About Fall/Halloween  Blog Hop.  This hop is scheduled from Oct. 7 at 8:00 am through Oct.8 at 11:00 pm(cental time).

If you just happened to come to this blog, you can start at the beginning with Lisa Peters-http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/.  If you just came fromMandie http://mandiesscrappin.blogspot.com/, then you are in the right spot

We're so excited to be doing this hop and we have a fabulous lineup with some very talented ladies.  There will be lots of fun projects, along with some great blog candy, and a great grand prize for this hop.

The hop is a 2 day hop so you will have plenty of time to make it through the whole hop lineup twice.  Check out each blog and see what blog candy you can win at the individual stops.  Please come back both days to see great projects.

Here is the complete lineup:

Lisa-  http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

Lisa Pontious ~ http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/

Kristy ~ http://scraptasticalkreations.blogspot.com 

April http://curlsandgrins.blogspot.com

Jamie - http://myamusinglife.blogspot.com

Anita--  http://www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com

Sher B http://www.patternsbysher.blogspot.com

Amy http://www.lovetocrop.com

Gina http://californiascrappin-gcinderella21.blogspot.com/

Dena http://missdjones.blogspot.com/

Melinda  http://thepaperthumb.blogspot.com

Shannon http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog

Janet http://createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

Tammy http://tampatha.wordpress.com

Barbara http://barbarab3.blogspot.com/

Christina http://cema1cema.blogspot.com

Kari http://purplefuntastickcreations.blogspot.com/

Theresa: http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com

Vicki http://mawmawsthoughts.blogspot.com/

Mandie http://mandiesscrappin.blogspot.com/

Suzanne http:cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/ You are here.  

Jearise http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/Next and last stop.

                                                                                                   

To be eligible for the grand prize, you must visit each blog and leave a comment. You also MUST visit my blog and leave a comment on my blog for the day and also become a follower at "Scrapping With Lisa" and my facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scrapping-with-Lisa/130882060268842.  Please let me know if you don't do facebook and I won't count that against you for the blog candy.  Now for the blog candy, I bet you are wondering what it could be.   It will be a grab bag full of goodies.

For the blog candy for my blog please leave a comment and become a follower.  I have three days of Halloween blog hops this month- October 7 and 8th and another hop on October 15th.  I will take all the comments for these three days and choose a winner by random.org on the 16th of October.  Come back all three days and make a comment and you will have three chances to win.  The winner will receive a $10 gift card from their choice of either Michaels or Joanns.  

Thanks for those of you who left comments yesterday.  If you missed the hop there is still time to hop through day 1.  
The second thing I like about Halloween is decorating my house.  Here are the directions for a Halloween banner I made recently.  

Directions for Rosette Spooky Banner using Happy Hauntings, Lacey Labels and George 

If you love Halloween decorating come back tomorrow to see the 

Halloween wreath I will be sharing.  

Your next and last stop is Jearise http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/

Have a great day and please come back to visit me on my blog again.  Happy craftin!

Sweet Sassy Design Team Recess Fall Project and Blog Hop winner

For today's project for the Sweet Sassy Diva Design Team this week.  The project  was to design  a project for Autumn.  Well being a teacher for 33 years I always think of Back to School and apples.  I know now school starts early in August for some areas but for us it always started in  September.  I always did a big apple unit with my first graders in September too.  So for this two page layout I used my Recess cart which I hadn't tried yet. If you would like the recipe and more pictures please go to  Sweet Sassy Diva  Come back each day to Sweet Sassy Diva to see new projects from the Design Team. 

I would like to announce the winner  of my blog candy for the It's Fall Blog Hop this past Thursday and Friday.  Thank you so much for all you lovely comments and support. There were so many amazing projects I would like to try so I hope you got a lot of great ideas.  For the two day event there are 11 new followers to my blog.  Yipee!!!!  Welcome everyone. 

The winner by Random,org is callyannc who said...

OOOO I love these colors! This is so cool! TFS CallyAnn.  Cally Ann please contact me at swoozan@roadrunner.com and I will send your your gift card.  I need to know your home address and if you wish a gift card from Joanns or Michaels.     Thank you everyone for hopping along and leaving so many great comments and luv.  

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Thank you for your participation in the Blog Hop and please come back to visit me when you can.  

Happy Craftin to you all.  

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Graphic 45 Primer ABC Back to School altered project

The minute I saw the first pictures of the new Graphic 45 ABC Primer paper I knew what I wanted to do.  I love Graphic 45 and being  retired teacher I love, love, love this paper,  My only problem is I always hate cutting up at first,  For this I used 12 x 12 single sheets, 8 x 8 pad, chipboard embellishments, Graphic 45 matching stamp sets, several different ribbons and school brads I found.  

The book shaped box was from M's on clearance.  I covered the box inside and out  using Mod Podge.  I then made an accordian book with craft paper card stock .  Each was cut 6 x 7 inches and then scored 1 inch on side  and folded it to glue pages together.  I then put some of stiff ribbon on end to have a pull out piece so pages wouldn't get stuck.  

Here is pics of finished front, side, back and inside.  

After that I cut paper 14 each smaller than pages and decorated. I used Lacey Labels to cut some shapes.  I also used Tags, Bags, Boxes and More to cut out tags of different shapes and sizes.   I used a lot of ink on the edges.  After decorating one side I turned and did the other side and then glued the last tab into  the book.  

Each page has pockets with one or two tags which pictures could be added to later as well as journaling.  

I am really pleased the way this turned out and hope you liked it as well.  

I am entering this in the following challenges.  

Cooking with Cricut  School Days Challenge
Blog Quick Quotes  Back to School Challenge
You Had Me At Craft  Made it My Self Mondays
Paper Issues  Learning Curve linking party
My Pink Stamper School Theme

Four birthday cards for my MOPS (Mother's of Preschoolers) Group

I am a mentor mom at my church for MOPS which stand for Mothers of Preschoolers.  We meet every other week and our next session starts up this month.  I have volunteered to make birthday cards this year for all the ladies.  I thought it would be fun to make birthday cards for challenges and that way I would have a whole bunch of different cards.  The cards need to be flat so they do not require a lot of postage.  So here are the first four cards I made:

For this card I used Lacey Labels and a MS punch.  I am entering this in Die Cuttin Divas- Sketch Challenge

and Cooking It Up With Katie- This week's ingredients are:Use some Purple,Add a Bow and 

Include a Sentiment.

The next card I used twine, stamp by Penny Black  and colored with Prismacolor pencils.  Added butterflies I punched out of scraps.  

The Paper Variety Use stamp on project.  Paper Variety is celebrating the one year of their blogaversary with a challenge each day.  

This card I am entering in More  Than Favors- Use Gypsy Wanderings for butterfly and Celebrate cut and 

Peachy Keen Stamps Blog  follow the sketch

This card I made with a  piece I had left from a layout.  I loved  the roses.  I added the ribbon and covered the word Love with the Happy Birthday stamp.  Added a few pearls.  

Spooky Halloween Rosette Banner

The challenge this week at Sweet Sassy Diva is to make a Halloween Banner. Now is a great time to start on Halloween so you can get all your home decorating ready for October. All week the Design Team will be sharing their Halloween Banners so this should give you lots of idea to get started.  

 Here is a picture of my finished banner hanging up.  

    

Here are some closeups.  

To make the banner I started out with two 3 inch x 12 inch strips of paper.  I chose 6 different prints since there were 6 letters in Spooky.  Smaller prints or stripes work the best.  I then took a MS Punch and punched down the edge on one 12 " side.   I will tell you a secret if you do mess up on one side you can do the other side and use the messed up side in the center.  

Next I score using the punch as a guide.  So for this one I scored after two valleys in the cuts  which is about 1/2 an inch.  

I then accordian fold the paper and glue the ends together with hot glue.  

Cut two circles with a punch or Cricut.  Push the circle of paper down and glue a circle to the top and a circle to the bottom to hold in place.  

I then cut orange and black circles from George at 4 1/2 inches and scalloped circles from Lacy Labels at 3 1/2 inches from leftover rosette paper.   I added some ribbon and large buttons I had in my stash which I threaded with twine.  The letters were cut from Happy Hauntings at 3 inches in Cricut green so they would stand out.  

Thanks for looking and hope you like my "Spooky" Banner.  Please stop by my blogspot to see what else I have been up to.  Also make sure you come back to SweetSassy Diva everyday this week to enjoy the designers great Halloween banner projects.  Happy craftin everyone!