Pio atg christmas

Hey everyone...

Pile it on has a great challenge for you this month... and i must say you will find this one easy!!

Any Thing Goes Christmas/Holiday

see... I told you super easy so I expect you all to join!

Plus you have the whole month to join!!

Here is my inspiration for you

I made the box using Artiste and stamps from Close to my heart!  

I stamped all over the paper added some stitching, a tag and a bow - voila!!

gifts for my staff

And inside a tube of hand cream

I hope that they like them and they can reuse the little box.  I think it is adorable!!

And of course it wouldn't be pile it on with out the challenges that also inspired me:

papertake weekly - atg

creative knockouts - festive flourishes

crafty ribbons - mono christmas

speedy fox and friends - christmas tags

hiding in my craftroom - christmas colours

little scrap pieces - atg 

crafty boots - christmas

my craft spot - christmas shaped cards

the house that stamps built - abc

bearly mine - abc

penny black designs - celebration 

Lmcb hop!

Hello and thanks for stopping by! We're hopping with celebration and excitement this week :) Yep, we're having a blog hop in celebration of our 200th post Lasting Memories! Our challenge? BUTTONS! We are looking for buttons, buttons everywhere on those layouts this week! Along the way, you'll see that some of us are offering a little candy on our blogs but you have to visit us to see who! We've also gotten a little creative with our buttons so we hope you'll be inspired! You should have arrived here from Jane's blog and if this is your first stop, please be sure to hop back to Lasting Memories to start the hop so you don't miss a thing! Each of us has a letter for you to collect that will spell out a scrapbook themed word, so don't forget to jot down my letter which you'll see below. Once you've completed the hop, leave your answer in the comment section back at Lasting Memories. Comments will be moderated so there's no peeking! Then you have to enter your LO and guess what?! Our grand prize winner will receive a $25 gift certificate from A2Z Scrapbooking Store!! Awesome right?? Oh!! And one MORE thing! I'm also offering up some candy all I ask is to follow me and I will use random org to pick the winner...

Now time to reveal my complete layout..

the picutres are of my baby girl at Disney

I made the buttons using my cricut and close to my heart stamps

You don't need a cricut to create buttons... you can cut out circles and stamp them with anything... add some holes with a punch and you are good to go

Your next stop is Karen W blog!! And don't forget to jot down my letter which is R

Have fun and happy hopping!

HOP LINE UP

Lasting Memories Claire Jane Kimberly Karen W Karen B Denise Michele Elizabeth Darcy Jackie

Toni

Lasting Memories
And of course Challenges that inspired me:Scraptastic - buttonshttp://www.scraptasticclub.com/blogs/scraptastic-club-blog/14843837-thursday-challenge-buttons Tuesday throwdown - on vacation  use your stuff - vacation my craft spot - abc  artistic inspirations - atg  613 avenue create - atg  penny black - dies and punches paper take weekly - buttons, bows and bling Page Maps

Happy Father's Day

Hey everyone,

Tomorrow I am doing a quick class for the ladies at work.

The funny thing is they just want me to provide everything but not a sample.  

Go figure... but anyway I will show you all the sample.

and a close up...

I made it with all with the artiste cartridge and stamps from CTMH

and embossed with a Darice embossing folder

challenges that inspired me:

my creative time - masculine

bitten by the bug - father's day challenge 

really reasonable ribbon - masculine 

barely mine challenges - for the boys

my mum's craft shop - ink it up 

fantabulous cricut - celebrate dad

craft challenge - father's day 

more than favors - father's day

cuttin and stampin - father's day

simon says - father's day

PIO - Easter Joys

hey everyone!!

This week at Pile It On! we're looking for projects following the theme 

"Easter Joys"

Our sponsor is Pink Gem Designs, and they offering a prize of 2 digi stamps of the winner's choice!

and here is my inspiration for you...

I seriously love this cute little image!!

For the sentiment tag I used my CTMH Cricut artiste with the Holiday Tags and Hoppy Easter stamp sets.

The ink is cotton candy and black

I scrounged around in to bins to find the perfect papers (green one - we  r memory keepers "cotton tail"  the little pink one.. I don't remember where it came from but it has little chickens under the green... lol) 

I used crystal stickles to add some bling on the dress, and of course my copics to colour

here are some close ups

I hope that you take the time to join us this week! 

Can't wait to see what you come up with - of course the other challenges that inspired me:

corrosive challenge - animals

crafty sentiments - spots or dots

simply create - shop your stash

my mum's craft shop - spring and easter

sister act - atg

emerald fairies - pretty in pink 

cmd challenge - copic spring

card a day - easter

ABC challenge - g is for girl 

crafts and me - atg

imagination - in bloom 

aud sentiments - for a girl 

just hanna stamps - favorite stamps

brown sugar - make it sparkle

cut it up - green for spring 

cut it up challenges - spring

crafts for eternity - spots and stripe

fantabulous cricut - holiday 

paper make up stamps - atg

eureka stamps - atg

whoopsi daisy - flowers

paper sweeties - photo with dots

sketch n scrap - sketch

PIO - pile on the embellishments

Good morning everyone...

Pile it on has another great challenge for you.  This one is going on for a month due to the holidays.

"Pile on those embellishments"

Our sponsors for this month is Simon Says Stamps - prize is a $15 GC

My inspiration is a gift I made from my best friend (thank goodness she doesn't follow my blog)

The mini is made with the artiste cricut cartridge 

all the paper is Pear and Partridge from CTMH

the inks I used from CTMH - Olive, smoothie, desert sand, cranberry, and new England ivy

I have been inspired by the following challenges:

just add ink - mini album for a gift

crafty-emblies-vintage shabby

sassy studio - abc

tuesday alchemy - atg

tuesday throwdown - layers

crafts and me challenge - ribbon

crafty ribbons - at least two ribbons

party time tuesday - atg

top tip tuesday - kids and teens

through the craftroom door - atg

stampin with the dragon - oh baby (this is my best friends daughter's first Christmas album)

wags 'n whiskers - Christmas

stuck on u sketches - gifts

totally paper crafts - anything christmasy but a card

the paper shelter - christmas is coming

hooked on craft challenges - Christmas

anything but a card challenge - abc #6

my paper crafting - red and green with cricut

little miss muffet challenge - tags or gifts

craft challenge - inspiration picture

LMCB - Remembrance Day

Good morning everyone...  

Lasting memories has another great challenge for you all this week- the challenge is in honour of Remembrance Day - "To remember someone special"    My special person is my Aunt Marjie who just last month passed away of lung cancer.  Her daughter turned nineteen the day after her death.  My aunt was always very special to me even though she wasn't a blood aunt - she was one of my mom's closest friends and she took me in after my mom passed away.  I was eighteen when that happened thus making it hit even closer to home with her daughter   

Anyhow.... I don't  want to depress anyone... this is a happy memory of her.  One of our traditions is to get together every Christmas eve to celebrate.  These pictures were taken last year.  She was one very special lady to me and she will always be remembered.

 For this LO I was playing around with papers and ink.  You will see some iridescent flowers that I embossed with the CTMH Card Word Puzzle flower. Then used some red ink to rub over it... not quiet sure how I feel about it... I am thinking now that I should have done some more stamps and embossing on it then it would be better -  

 Added some ribbon and gold pen to the flower stamps to make embellishments 

I used CTMH pemberley paper packet and cut out some of the hexagons 

Well I hope that you are taking some time to do some crafting this week.  Ohhh and my blog candy... totally forgot  - Soooo the winner of my blog candy is Karen!!!!  I was so happy to see that I had my blog badge on your blog - I am sure Sonia the designer is quiet happy as well - I think I have your addy already but I will let you know if you need to send it to me again 

Hope to see you all join us for this challenge

I was also inspired to create this LO because of the following challenges:

paper crafting journey - atg

crafty catz challenge- atg

fairy tale challenge- embossing

addicted to stamps and more - flowers

craft your passion- hexagons

card crafts- we remember

delicious doodles- remembering 

crafty sentiments- poppies

critter sketch- remembrance

scrapping everyday miracles- family ties

practical scrappers- two or more stamps

pretty little studio - sketch 

Trick or treat

hey everyone... i have been loving this stamping style of card... I used YNS for the bat and the sentiment 

the bow is made from the Cricut CTMH artiste

I would love to enter my card into the following challenges:

craftymess challenge - atg

3 girl jam challenge - atg

card crafter circle - black, white and one other colour

crafty ann's challenge - black, white one other colour

paper pretties -  sentiment is the focus

polka doodles - wings and things

stampin for the weekend -something spooky

Sarah Hammer - link up tuesday 

polka doodles - spooky

the pink elephant - photo inspiration

 

Sending hearts... 

CCC blog - Spooky treats

Good morning everyone!!!

Crafty Calendar Challenge has a new challenge out for you - please come and join us :)

here is my inspiration 

made with my close to my heart artiste 

I will be posting my inspiration challenges in a  bit... I have to run to the hospital - my aunt isn't well ... i hope you understand 

thanks for understanding my aunt did pass away last night :(  very sad day... here are the challenges that inspired me to complete the above boxes 

fairy tale challenge blog- 1/3 card

simply create too- autumn/fall

milk coffee challenge- fall

top tip tuesday- food

simply challenged- Halloween

crafty ribbons-anything but square

challenge up your life- candy wrapper

just keep on creating-atg

scrappy moms- favorite cricut cart artiste at the moment 

charisma card- bling

go fish- buttons

little miss muffet challenge- simplicity

penny's paper- die cuts

catered crop- halloween 

craft us crazy- halloween

love 2 create- trick or treat

Sending hearts... 

SKdigis - black and white plus one

Hey everyone 

SKdigis is having another challenge!!  woohoo... second one and you will have a chance of winning some great SKdigis - you can check them out here.  Sonia also has some freebies for you to use!!

The challenge... Black and white plus one!!!

Here is my project... isn't it the cutest!!

Seriously I love her digis

I used my new CTMH Artiste Cricut cartridge to make the coffin. which will end up holding some Halloween candy for my colleague :) 

I hope you have some time this week to join us at SKdigis!

I was also inspired to create this project because of the below challenges:

i break for challenges - digi image

my heart pieces - atg

delightful challenges - anything but a card

marks finest paper - favorite technique (anything cricut)

365 cards - keep it simple 

CAS-ual friday - black and white plus one

hiding in my craft room - distressing

fresh brewed blog - distressing

cardz tv - Halloween

ajvd fan focus - Halloween

Simply challenged - ink em up

divas by design - for a child

jellypark challenges - all about children

Sending hearts... 

lmcb - camp wyoka

It's that time again... Lasting memories is having another great challenge for everyone to enter.  

This time around the theme is "its cool to be cool!"

GIVEAWAY REMINDER:

Don't forget about our giveaway this mth!  The more you play, the more chances to win! Also, we're still looking for Guest DT for Sept! Remember to add GDT with your link!

And here is my LO

the picture is of my daughters best friend at camp with another camper.  

My best friend is also my daughters best friend's mother.  When they were both younger my friend and I used to have the girls go to camp together - good thing we did because I believe they grew in friendship as we both lived so far away.  

the cricut cards that I used:

pack your bags - beach balls

Cindy Loo - "Camp"

Creative memories Traveler - "Wyoka"

blossom behind beach ball - CTMH Artiste

dotted paper from We R memory Keeper "72 and Sunny collection, the large sun is fro little yellow bicycle - I don't remembered who the splash sticker is from  

I received my inspiration from the below challenges:

child's play - beach ball

kaboodle doodles - all about friendship

go fish challenge - summer beach 

scrapping everyday miracles - vacation time

lady bug crafts ink - summer fun

creative cutter room - friendship 

my craft spot - camping 

delightful challenges - dies and punches

the play date - colours

Sending hearts...