Scrapbooking Camp!

I have recently resurrecting my Card and Scrapbooking Camps! I love these times to get together with new and experienced scrapbookers, share layouts, patterned papers, embellishments, and desserts!  I had my dear SIL (Sis-in-law) and a neighborhood friend over to have a scrapping night. We made a 1 page layout, and a 2 page spread. For the 1 page layout - I pulled from my trusty source - www.splitcoaststampers.com! I created these two pages for my DS (Dear Son) 1 year scrapbook. SBSC291 and SBSC290. I adore SCS and having them as a creative resource. I scrapped 5 pages on Saturday morning, and going to these challenges help "jump" my creativity!

 These pages are "simple" as they were designed for my scrapbook camp and for quick and easy replication. I did try to add some accents on each and dug out my signo white gel pen which i do NOT use enough :) Did Faux stitching on the top layout, and accented the snowflakes on the bottom layout.

Colors are all Stampin' Up!  - Ruby Red and Old Olive

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Flower Fest

Had so much fun making my first card for "Freshly Made Sketches". I've been following this blog for a while now, and happy to finally play along. Loved the simplicity of the sketch, yet how you could take it in any direction!

I coupled this card with Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge this week: CC343: More Soft Tango. Great fall colors, and not ones I would put together myself, which is why I love these challenges!

I used Stampin' Up!'s Flower Fest stamp set, my favorite toy, my Big Shot, and the large scallop punch.

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Simple Cupcakes

Clean and Simple cards are harder to make then one might think. I have a very hard time putting together very few elements, and keeping the lines "clean", without it coming out looking rushed or "missing something" in my opinion.

The SCS Clean and Simple Challenge this week was a sketch challenge as well - copying the simple lines and layout of another designers card. My addition to this challenge was a card which I made for my nephew's first birthday this weekend. I also used the Color Challenge from SCS this week as well; gotta love 2 for 1 challenge submissions!

The Cupcake is from the adorable Cupcake Punch from Stampin' Up! The phrase is from the Birthday Bakery set. I added the eyelets just cause I felt it needed something else :) I used my crop-a-dile so it was super fast, and hope that wasn't "too much" for the clean and simple concept!

Thanks for looking!
Mancy

Try a New Technique Challenge

I could spend all day just going on stamping websites and getting ideas from all the insanely creative people out there! My card making and scrapbooking tends to come in waves, but Im trying to make it more consistent, which is why I love doing "challenges". Challenges give me some framework so I don't have to be 100% creative all the time, but only 80% and follow the 20% laid out in the challenge.

I needed a card for a wedding of a dear friend of mine this weekend, and so I went to SCS and chose to participate in the "Try a New Technique" challenge. The challenge this week was to "Embossed Kiss".

In short, you take a solid stamp, ink it up, and then "kiss" it to an embossing folder so that some of the ink comes off and you are left with the pattern from the embossing folder on the stamp - and then press to your paper.

I don't have many embossing folders, as I JUST got a Big Shot about a week ago - but I had some SU textured folders. The result was a little more muted and slightly blurry then I would have liked, but in the end I feel that the result was quite nice.

The background flowers is another Stampin'Up! embossing folder which I LOVE, and the "Bold Butterflies" are stamping and kissed in Close to Cocoa.

Thanks for looking!
Mancy

Halloween Punch Art

Was "surfing the web" (is that phrase even cool anymore?) and came across this adorable card from Stamping Peg with the most adorable ghosts on it. Of course - I had to CASE it (Copy And Steal/Share Everything). I decided to also combine SCS's Color Combo this week of Tempting Pumpkin Olive.

Here's another spin on the ghost using the owl punch from Stampin' Up! from Robin's Blog. 

I did my own tonight - using the Splitcoast Color Challenge - CC341, and I just had a lot of fun putting this Halloween scene together. I recently got a Big Shot, so I have been having a blast with embossing, and these ghost's are just too adorable!

The pumpkins are from the Stampin' Up! Happy Blessings set, and the haunted mansion is a Michaels dollar stamp. The ghosts were made using the SU Owl Punch, and the card stock and patterned paper is all SU.

To make the fence I used a square punch, and just lined it up really carefully :)

Thanks for looking!
Mancy