Clearing the Clutter Challenge

Hello! Welcome to a very late Friday post! I wanted to be sure to post for our Clearing the Clutter Challenge but I just didn't have time to get something done to get a post up "on time."

So...how is this cutie card a CTCC card? Well, a couple of days ago I decided to clear off my stamping area a little bit (boy does it look better) but I just couldn't clear off this stamp and paper before I made a card with it so to further help me clear the clutter I went ahead and made a card! Good deal, huh? Anyway this cute cupcake shaped card is from My Scrap Chick and is an SVG file. Of course the image is the cutie Marci from La-La Land crafts. This card is very basic but I still think it has a cute factor for sure!

So...wanna see what Tana did for her Clearing the Clutter challenge post? Just go HERE to see! It is a neat one for sure!

Alright, I'm off to create for tomorrow's post! I'm looking forward to it, too! Have a wonderful Friday evening!

3 Challenges in 1!

Happy Friday all! I'm so happy to be at the end of the week. I'm SO sleeping in tomorrow...lol! Today I'm posting a card for a couple of different challenges...read on to find out more...

I'm so excited about today's card. First of all it came together very quickly and best of all...I love it! So, the first challenge is the challenge I'm doing with my friend, Tana. It is the Clearing the Clutter Challenge (we've decided that we will be doing this challenge just once a month on the first Friday). This cutie card was made with an old SU! scrapbook kit Friends and Flowers. All of the elements on this card except the pearls, twine, and the digi image are from the kit. It is so nice to have things be all matchy and ready to go!

The second challenge this is for is the Doodle Pantry challenge for this week. All you have to do for this challenge is to use a Doodle Pantry image! I love that because I got to choose one digi (up to $3) for free when I was in the top three for their last challenge. I chose the Everyday Birdies for my winnings and used a cutie bird AND sentiment from the set. Super cute, huh?

And finally, this card is made with the last Sketches by Carly sketch for 2010. Whew! that was a lot of challenges...for me at least. I hope that you like this card as much as I do. I can't wait to send it out to its recipient!

So...yesterday my niece texted me a scripture verse that she had run across when she was reading the Bible. It is: "Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle." Psalm 144:1. As you may know my son hurt a couple of his fingers at work about a month and a half ago and this verse is absolutely perfect! See? Even when we can't see it God has everything under control for us!

Well, that is it for today! Have a wonderful Friday!

Clearing the Clutter Challenge

Happy Friday, friends! I hope you've had a wonderful week and have something fun planned for the weekend!

Today is the second installment of my Clearing the Clutter Challenge with my friend Tana at A Caffeinated Crafter. I know I told you before that you'd most likely see scrapbooking photos for this challenge and even though I really wanted to make something else for today I stuck to scrapbooking. These photos represent our first night and beginning moments at Walt Disney World last October. It truly was a dream come true for me so I hope that these photos will reflect that! The layout is a pre-made layout that I bought last year, put together, and then let sit. I have found that, in the future, I won't actually put together the layouts prior to places photos anymore just because I may need to change the orientation of each individual photo but this one seems to work. I'll be journaling in all of the empty spaces that you see.

Now, be sure to hop over to Tana's blog to see how she cleared her clutter this week!

Clearing the Clutter Challenge

Happy Friday! I can't believe it is the end of the week already!

Today, I'm introducing a new little challenge that I've brought into my life through a friend of mine, Tana at A Caffeinated Crafter. Okay, what is funny about Tana is that she actually was the babysitter for our boys several years back and now she is married with a boy of her own! Anyway, she had mentioned on her blog that she needed to get moving with some of the projects on her desk and I thought...hmmm...I want to get moving on my scrapbooking so, a challenge (of sorts) was born. We agreed to post every other Friday a project that was sitting on our desk or that we really wanted to work on with today being the first day! Fun, huh?

So, you may NOT laugh at my scrapbook pages! I haven't actually scrapbooked in a long time and was going to take the easy way out, you know use a pre-done page, but I didn't have one that fit my photos so I kinda needed to start from scratch. I had just one 12x12 piece of Belle paper (these photos are from our trip to WDW last year...Belle is my favorite!) and a Page Maps book and got to work...thankfully there was the perfect sketch in the book. I had to alter it a bit but it worked. I made the journaling spot, title (I did some highlights with my white gel pen), flower and heart with my Cricut (Jasmine, Plantin, and Accent Essentials cartridges). Oh, and this morning I did move the journaling spot up and to the left a little as it looked like it was out in Uncle Jacks Farm by itself. Goodness, I think it is harder to scrapbook now that I have all the goodies as I just can't decide which thing I want to use! Click on the image to see a little more of the detail and the photos a little better.

I have to say that I really enjoyed making these pages and can't wait to do another set! You can expect to see those in two weeks, k?! Want to join us in Clearing the Clutter? Well, just clean finish up a project you've been working or or want to work on and link it up here so we can see and encourage you! If enough people are interested I'll add a Mr. Linky to make it easy for everyone to participate.

In the meantime I'll be back with a Doodlebug Designs card tomorrow! See you then!