Love to Scrap Challenge Blog

WELCOME BACK to another fun challenge at Love to Scrap; this is one where anything goes and we love to see what YOU create!

I'm sharing the birthday card I made for our son, the photos aren't the greatest and I apologize!!

He loves orange, it has been his favorite almost his entire life; there was a brief time as a little guy, when he liked green, but that ran it's course and it was back to orange. 😉

I love this pickup from Honey Bee Stamps; this was my first time coloring it - I can't wait to do it in red! I added packages to the tailgate and a HB2U license plate and then lots of rust. Does it read as rust?

There are several great images online of people that have colored the truck, hence where the rust idea came along. I finished it off with glossy accents on the mirrors and tail lights. I also made it into a shaped card with the base of the card being orange. 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project, we can't wait to see what you create!

Hope you will pop over and join us at the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog - we love seeing what you create!

MIUCB - Layers

Hi friends! I'm finishing up posting the last of my holiday cards and how fitting, as this month at the Mix It Up Challenge Blog we're focusing on layers (or anything goes)! And if you've been around for any length of time, you KNOW I love me some layers - lots and lots! I'm not so good at Clean and Simple, ya know!! 😉

Along with my love for layers, is my love for Pretty Pink Posh products - always fun, whimsical and oh so cute!!

This Big Christmas Cupcake die set was released last year - just in time for the holidays. I had so much fun cutting all the little pieces, making  packages, a big ole bow, snowflakes and some adorable scallops for my tree - in sparking white cardstock of course! The candy cane comes from the Winter Mug die set. I pulled out the Winter Words stencil for the background and some peppermints from the Peppermints Clay Confetti pack to add some fun dimension to the tree. 

Lots of ink blending, some additional stamping on the tree, splatters and the wonky rectangle dies to wrap up my sweet little cupcake!

Hope you will pop over and join us at the Mix It Up Challenge Blog - we love seeing what you create!

MIUCB Monochromatic (Kinda) :)

Hey, hey - WELCOME TO 2025!! We are so excited to see you at Mix It Up. We always have an optional challenge - this one is monochromatic or anything goes.  

If you have seen my other post, you know I created two cards - basically the same, just different color schemes. I love all the details - so many details. Lots of shading, white gel pen and dimension. I used a stencil in the background - aqua and green; I also stamped parts of the Ledger Script in gray ink along with the keys to the keyboard. 

The scallop is a long-time favorite from Simon Says Stamp, Scallop Stitches, there are 3 different sizes of scallops, perfect for many projects. The envelopes and bauble set and typewriter are from The Greetery (they are having a year-end sale right now, too)! All inks are Simon Says Pawsitively Saturated inks - man I love those!!

Let me know which card you like best - pink or aqua! 

Thanks for popping in; wishing you and yours a wonderful 2025!

LTSCB - Anything Goes (January-February)

Hey, hey - WELCOME TO 2025!! We are so excited to see you at Love to Scrap - join us as it is always ANYTHING GOES! 

If you have seen my other post, you know I created two cards - basically the same, just different color schemes. I love all the details - so many details. Lots of shading, white gel pen and dimension. I used a stencil in the background - pink & yellow; I also stamped parts of the Ledger Script in gray ink along with the keys to the keyboard. 

The scallop is a long-time favorite from Simon Says Stamp, Scallop Stitches, there are 3 different sizes of scallops, perfect for many projects. The envelopes and bauble set and typewriter are from The Greetery (they are having a year-end sale right now, too)! All inks are Simon Says Pawsitively Saturated inks - man I love those!!

Let me know which color you like best - pink or aqua! 

Thanks for popping in, wishing you and yours a wonderful 2025!

Candy Canes, Candy Canes!

If you read my last post, then you know my pure love with this die set from Honey Bee Stamps, Lovely Layers: Candy Cane.  😍

Needless to say, they have appeared on many of my holiday cards this year and you can see, they are the focal point on this card, this time appearing in pink and blue. I love when you put all 3 layers together; although I do have one card in which only 2 layers are shown (coming later).

Another favorite for me this year, is the Tufted 3D embossing folder from Spellbinder's. Again, lots of shading as well as glittery stickles and Opaque Texture Paste. 

The sentiment is from Waffle Flower, Overlapping Christmas Words and Stencil set. All inks are Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Ink cubes.

The beautiful embellies are from Papertrey Ink Moonshine and Tropical Teal.

Thanks for popping in, wishing you and yours the happiest holiday season!

Happy Holidays 2024 - Green Candy Cane?

Hi friends!!

Hands down, I believe my most favorite holiday set is a die cut set from Honey Bee Stamps - Lovely Layers: Candy Cane.

I have used this set on so many cards, I love adding 'snow' and 'glitter'; love the different ways you can do the candy canes. I really love cutting the pieces from colored cardstock and adding shading - FUN!!

This card also uses a die cut from Pinkfresh, Rounded and Braided Rectangle, the pattern paper has been in my stash for...um...we'll leave that right there. lol

The greeting is from Waffle Flower - quick and easy!! Most of the cardstock comes from Taylored Expressions. 

Thanks for popping in, wishing you and yours the happiest holiday season!

Mix It Up Challenge Blog - Paper Piecing

Hi friends - I hope this note finds you doing well. How's your weather? Ours is cooling off a bit and I am LOVING IT! I'm a 75 degree girl all the time; thankfully, we get to experience all the seasons, but Spring and Fall are definitely my favorite!!

At Mix It Up Challenge, we're playing with paper piecing, but we always allow Anything Goes too! And that's what I did for this challenge...Mixed Media with all the Tim Holtz Sprays and some sparkle!

The stamp set and dies are from The Greetery, BotaniCuts Toadstool Garden and Bountiful Wreath (no longer available). I had these toadstools left over from another project and taking inspiration from Kelly Lunceford is how my card was made. 

The background is the Square Dance die, also from The Greetery; I cut it from Lawn Fawn's textured pink cardstock. I used Pawsitively Guava ink around the edges. 

All images were sprayed or dripped with a mix of Peppermint Stick, Frozen Fog,  Sparkle spray and white gouache. 

This was a really fun card to put together; it took forever to create - lol - but I love the final product!

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you are inspired to join us with either paper piecing OR anything goes; we enjoy seeing your creations!

Love to Scrap - Anything Goes

Hey -  great to see you, I'm glad you popped in!

At Love to Scrap, we're always about 'Anything Goes'; that means you never know what I'm going to share! 😁

And this month I'm sharing a 'hey, boo' card; I actually made 2 identical cards to send to a couple dear girlfriends! I love all the products from CZ Design over at Simon Says Stamp (Big Bat and Witch). This card uses the products from the Big Bat wafer die. I love these papers from Doodlebug Designs, so many cute designs!

I cut the die from vellum and did some stitching around the card, along with some ink blending of black soot Distress Ink.

Thanks for stopping by; I hope you find some inspiration to join us at Love to Scrap! We enjoy seeing your creations!

Love to Scrap Challenge Blog - Anything Goes

Hey, hey - great to see you, I'm glad you popped in!

At Love to Scrap, we're always about 'Anything Goes'; that means you never know what I'm going to share! 😁

This time, I'm sharing my mom's Mother's Day card - talk about mixed media and ALL THE BULK, but I think it's pretty - pretty in pink!

The main panel is die cut with this Pinkfresh braided die; I added pink to opposite corners. I added a postage die cut from The Greetery of both Raspberry Fizz pattern paper and polka dot vellum - btw, anyone know where I can find more of the polka dot vellum? Hit me up, if you know!!

I stamped, embossed and die cut the envelope and Pretty Postmarks from The Greetery, the flowers from Pinkfresh were stamped, embossed, and stenciled. 

I finished the card off with a small heart, mom stamped tag, and then lots of various pink seam binding from my favorite supplier, My Scrap Cabin. Oh yes, and some beautiful pink sequins!

Thanks for stopping by; I hope you find some inspiration to join us at Love to Scrap! We enjoy seeing your creations!

Mix It Up Challenge Blog - Ink Smooshing

Hi friends - I hope this note finds you doing well. How's your weather? Ours has been hot, hot, hot...and humid! But Fall is just around the corner, BUT I'm not going to wish the days away!

At Mix It Up Challenge, we're playing with ink smooshing - I LOVE ink smooshing and although I'm not thrilled with this card, I do love how the cupcake turned out. 😀 I used Tim Holtz watercolor paper for the cupcake; the cupcake and stencil (background) are from Pretty Pink Posh. 

I started by stenciling the background, then stamped over the top with Simon Says Stamp's YOU background stamp in a gray ink. I die cut the main panel and popped up the border.

I used Simon Says Stamp's Pawsitively Saturated inks, it's tough to see but there is hot pink, and orange in the frosting. The flower is a light pink. The wrapper is done in purples. Once dry, I dripped on some water droplets and dried with a paper towel; I then stamped circles from Reverse Confetti's Poppies stamp set onto the wrapper (Reverse Confetti is no longer in business, but this is still one of my favorite stamp sets!) 

To finish it off, I made the card into a shaker with lots of little shaker bits inside!

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you are inspired to join us with either ink smooshing OR anything goes; we enjoy seeing your creations!