I have a couple of cards to share today from my Taylor Expressions kits over the last few months.  You can click on any image to enlarge.

Finally getting around to posting pictures from our Summer Fun Crop that was held July 23, 2011.  It was to benefit the Muhlenberg food pantry.  We raised over $400 and numerous bags of food.  You can click on any image to enlarge it.

 Above are the croppers and below are the raffle items.  We had 10 raffles and raised $220 in ticket sales.  Thank you to the vendors for their donations.

For those come to each crop in the Summer and Winter, you may know that I make a little thank you gift for each of the vendors.  This year we had Jill from CTMH, Joanne from CM, and Beth from Scraptacular.  I made a gift tag, a card and framed their initial from their first name.  I really liked how they all turned out and hope they did too!

Valentine's Day cards

I know I'm late, but where does the time go?  Here are a few cards I made with my January kit from tayloredexpressions.  I apologize for the not so great pictures, distracting background.  I had a whiteboard to put behind them, but now I can't find it.

Supplies:
January kit from Taylored Expressions featuring patterned paper from Little Yellow Bicycle - Cupcake Love (this includes cardstock, ribbons, buttons, and heart die cuts)
Stamps from CTMH and Hero Arts, Ink from CTMH
Punches from ek success
Floss and string for the buttons from my stash

The 2nd card I used as a Valentine's Day and Birthday card for a friend.

Winter Fun Crop, January 8, 2011

Here are pictures from the crop. 

 These are the thank you gifts and cards I made for the vendors. 

Fall/Thanksgiving cards from Taylored Expressions kit

I've completed some cards for the fall/Thanksgiving season from my tayloredexpressions kit.

Supplies:  Cardstock, patterned paper, buttons & ribbons are from Taylored Expressions kit for October.
stamps:  Hero Arts, Scarlet Lime, Pink Paislee, Hampton Art
ink:  Close to my Heart
punches:  Martha Stewart and ek success
markers:  Copic
other:  star gem and crochet thread

New layouts to share

Yes, it's been a while since I updated my blog.  I have been papercrafting all this time, just not finding the time to blog.  But I'm back today to share 2 8x8 layouts of my niece's cutey little daughter Keira.

First layout is from Keira's February photo shoot.

 

The second layout is from her May photo shoot.

This layout also also includes a picture with her parents, Kelly and Todd.  (sorry for the bad photography on my part)


Supplies for both:  Patterned paper, die cuts and felt bird are from Kaiser Craft.  Cardstock is Bazzill.  Buttons, flower gem are from my stash.  Glitter letters are Making Memories.  Punch is from Martha Stewart.

Summer Fun Crop

I've been away from my blog for a few weeks, again, because I have been busy planning a crop for our local scrapbook group.  I have one each January and July. 
I have a few pictures to share from the event.  I wish I had taken more.

These 2 are shots of the croppers.

This is a shot of one of the vendors, ScrapbooksNSmiles.

This is the prize table.

We had a great time chatting, shopping, eating, and oh yeah, scrapbooking or card making.  We had a potluck so everyone brought something and all the food was so yummy! 

Ten of of us participated in a card swap.  All the cards we beautiful.  We'll have to do this again next time.  Below is mine.  Very simple :)

I always make a little something for the vendors and I did remember to take a picture of them at home, but not at the crop with each of them. 

These are a 4 inch canvas that I got at AC Moore, covered with vintage sheet music, and added trim around the edge.  The flowers are Prima, which I could only find in orange and green, so I used Maya Mist to spray the purple and red ones and added an spritz of a metallic. Then I add a little butterfly.

For Denise - CTMH

For Beth - Scraptaclar

For Joanne - Creative Memoris

For Melinda - ScrapbooksNSmiles

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Here is my card for the sketch at Taylored Expressions.

In my quest to use up my older papers, I pulled out this set from Crate Paper.  The purple paper, the patterned paper, the green circle and the wavy strip (which I colored with a copic marker) are from them.  The scalloped strips punched and embossed with a punch from EK Success.  They are cut from white Bazzill which I also colored with copic markers as I did for the flower from Prima too.  The stamped sentiment is from Paper Trey Ink.

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Getting in just in time tonight!  Here is my card.

Card base - black Bazzill
Pattern paper and chipboard buttons - Jenni Bowlin
Chipboard shape is covered in kraft paper - Papertrey Ink
Stamp sentiment - Hero Arts
Ink - black - Memento, chestnut roan - Colorbox
other - crochet thread

Today I have some more cards to share.  The first one is from a sketch from the Go To Sketches book.  Paper is Basic Grey, Nook & Pantry line, the flower and cupcake are felties.  The base is brown cardstock and the cupcake is on a scrap of white cardstock punch with the bubbles punch from EK Success.  The stamp is from Hero Arts.

Next one is just me fiddling around with some scraps and the bird cage stamp.  The papers are Cosmo Cricket, the brown swirl and circle frame are all one piece of a transparency.  The birdcage, bird and chain are from Hampton Art.  The button and waxy flax are CTMH.

This card is super simple - just a kraft card, some chipboard clouds and bird, and a stamp.

Last one today is very similar to a card I saw in the magazine Paper Crafts.  I really love the color combo of the papers and also it's another simple card.  The teal paper is SEI as is the white striped one.  The others I don't know as they were from my scrap pile.  The letters are Thickers in white vinyl.  And there are 2 silver brads.  We are going to a wedding later this summer and I might use it for that.  Not sure yet.

Well, that's all for today.  I hope to join in some upcoming card challenges and will post here soon.  Tomorrow is our big yard sale and we have everything ready.  Then it's back to work on Monday, (sigh).  It was so nice to be off this week with some random things to get done.  Today I just have some errands to run and if I have time, I might drop into my LSS to see what's new. 

Card Sets

Today I have 2 card sets I made.  Very simple...the first one is Jillibean cardstock and embellishments from an etsy shop.  These would make great note cards or simple thank you.

The 2nd set is from a sketch and card I saw in the book Go To Sketches.  I really like this book, it has great sketches and a couple of cards for each sketch.  I had this piece of very busy patterned paper and I thought I would never be able to use it.  I also used journalling squares, flowers, black paper, a piece of rick rack, a felt leaf, and letter stickers.  The cards are different sizes because I used scraps that I had and basically whatever size they were, I used them as is.  I left 2 with no sentiment at this time.  I think the black makes the vivid colors really pop. 

That's all for now.  Off to make breakfast for my daughter and then finish getting stuff together for a yard sale this Saturday.

New cards and a tag

I'm back today with some cards.  Up first is a card and tag I made like the one on the cover of the Paper Crafts Magazine.  I really liked the color combo and when looking thru my paper stash, I found I had the same blue/green patterned paper from Sassafrass.  For the card, I used a scrap of green paper, a Prima  flower and some Kaiser pearls.  The card is made from kraft cardstock.  The "swag" is the strip on the bottom of the Sassafrass paper.  The letters are Thickers - they are fabric.

For the tag, I used a scrap of blue paper, ribbon, and a punch from ek success.  The letters and pearls are the same.

Next up are 2 cards I made with journal papers from Fancy Pants.  On the first one I used a sheet from the On A Whimsy notebook.   I added some felt flowers from Darice, some pearls from Kaiser and letter stickers.  I outlined the paper with a white gel pen.  The card is made from kraft cardstock.  Love the look of the kraft cards now!

The 2nd card has a sheet from the Little Sprout notebook.  I added the ribbon, buttons and the same brown letter stickers.  Isn't that little giraffe so cute?!  And again the card is made from kraft paper.    These come together very quickly using the journalling papers.

The last card I have today is not on kraft cardstock!!!  Its a card with Cosmo Cricket papers from the Early Bird mini deck.  I added buttons and the little blue bird is a rub on.  The letters are from Pink Paislee.  The stitching lines are a rub on.  The flower stems are made of green rick rack.

I'll be back tomorrow with some more cards.  Tonight is my son's graduation!