Honeymoon Scrapbook Title Page -- MPS Design Team Entry

Hi Everyone!!!

Today I wanted to share with you the title page for our Honeymoon Scrapbook. I am also submitting this layout for a chance to be on Robyn, My Pink Stamper 's Design Team!!  For her design team call Robyn issued a challenge for the entries, here were the rules:

*You will need to have a blog that you regularly post on for at least 3 months.*You cannot already be serving on a DT that has product that is a conflict of interest (most DTs are just fine as long as they do not sell product that is similar to My Pink Stamper Original Cricut Stamps idea)*Your project must be made just for this challenge*Post a pic on your blog with a full recipe along with what the challenge is about*This needs to be a new project that you make just for this challenge*Only one entry per person, please*You do not need to be a professional but you must have a love for the craft! :)
Challenge: Make a card, scrapbook page, or other Cricut project with your favorite Cricut cartridge using the following colors......
OrangeTurquoise GreenBrown(other optional color of your choice) Here is my scrapbook page!!

 The title "Honeymoon" was cut at 1.5" from Cricut Life's A Beach cartridge, one of my fave's!!

The paper for the titles were in my stash, most of the background papers and the crab are Bazill Dotted Swiss paper, I just LOVE that paper!!

 "St. Lucia" was cut at 2"

The palm tree was cut at 3.5" and the beach chair was cut at 2"

All were from Cricut Life's A Beach cartridge!

The cute little crab and sand castle were both cut at 1.5" from Cricut Create A Critter Cartridge, my other fave!

 The "No Pressure, No Problem" stamp is from a 40:31 Creations Stamp set, which are no longer available.  But the motto in St. Lucia is "No Pressure, No Problem" so it was perfect!!

I stamped it in Versamark to give the effect that it was written in the "sand"!!

I LOVE how this layout turned out!! Hopefully Robyn does too =P

Have a great day!!!

~Sara Kate~

 

Finally Settled!

Good Morning Everyone!!

I know it's been a while since I last posted, but we are finally moved into our house and all settled in!! I wanted to share some pics with you of my scrap room so far! It's not done yet, just enough that I can get in there and create when I want to!!

I just love that wall with the pink over the green!! 

Also, did I mention that the night before we closed on our house we got a new puppy?!?! I know, we're crazy!! Meet Winchester, he is an English Mastiff. He is currently 3.5 months old and a whopping 50 pounds!! He's gonna be a big boy! Definitely a different change from our 3 year old, 24 pound Boston Terrier, Remington that I've shared pictures of before. We love them both, and they love each other!!!

Well, I think you are all caught up on what has been going on here and why I haven't posted! I think things have finally settled down now! I mean really what is left? This year we got married, graduated college, bought a car, got a new puppy, and bought a house! I think it's time for a little slow down and some time to enjoy each other and the things that we love to do! So be watching for some more posts as I get back into the swing of things!! 

Don't miss my last post of my nieces bday card!

Have a great day! It's 7am and I'm off to bed! I'm a nurse and work night shift, so my sleep schedule is crazy! But I love my job and the kiddos that I work with, so it makes it all worthwhile!

~Sara Kate~



Birthday Card for my Niece

Hello Everyone!! 

I wanted to share a quick birthday card that I made for my niece with you. For her birthday she wanted to come spend some time at our house and go to the zoo and a museum, so I made her this cute "slumber party" card and got her a little bag filled with little travel shampoos, etc.

This card was made with the Best Friends Cricut Imagine Cartridge.  The scalloped background was printed and cut at 4"  The people were cut at 2" and the "slumber party" icon was cut at 1.5". The card base is a standard A2 size card that I then trimmed down a bit to fit the 4" scalloped square.

I hope you like it! I know she did!

~Sara~

New 40:31 Creations Stamps!! --- late post

****Update: Unfortunately the 40:31 Creations design team had to come to an end. Lauren is a busy lady and was unable to continue on with her stamp adventure. Let's hope that she will be able to pick it up again later, she's got some great talent! Good Luck Lauren!

Hi Everyone,

As this is posting we are currently closing on our first house and started to paint and move. Not to mention yesterday we got a new puppy! (English Mastiff)  I know, we're crazy!!!

But I'm excited to share a card with you that I made using 2 of the new 40:31 Creations stamps! Here is a picture of the 2 new stamp sets:

Now, onto my card. I have to admit this was a pretty fast card. All of my scrapping stuff was just about packed when I found out we were getting new stamps to play with!  I also appologize for the pictures, my camera cord was packed so I had to take pictures on my phone!

I made this card with the JT Imagine cartridge that I just got for my birthday. My parents are HUGE motorcycle fans, so this image is perfect for them. I know I will be busy for a while, so I decided to make it into a Fathers Day card and use the "#1 Dad" and "its your day" stamps.  I was also tempted to just have it say "Enjoy the Moment".... sooo many good stamps on these sets!!!  The image was cut at 3.5" true size, which turned out to be a bit big, but I decided to just go with it! Needless to say, it is really long so the card base measures 4"x8.5"!!!!!  It's pretty big, yet I really like it!

The background paper is a piece of Bazzill Dotted Swiss paper.

I hope this helps get you in the mood for Father's Day projects!  

Now head on over to 40:31 Creations to see how to order your stamps!

~Sara Kate~

Mother's Day Cards

Hello Everyone!

Today I have 2 Mother's Day cards to share with you. It's ok that I'm posting early, we celebrated Mothers day early with our moms :)

The first card I decided to attempt my first paper rosette. Super simple, love it! If you're not familiar with them, there are TONS of helpful videos on YouTube! The paper was from a stack I have, I appologize I'm not sure which one and I recently packed up my scrapbook room to move to our first house so I can't look :(  The stamp is from My Pink Stampers "Happiest Moments" stamp set.

The next card is my favorite card that I have made in a LONG time. And I made it after having worked 12 hours and only sleeping for about 3 hours afterwards!! Maybe I work better tired!

The little chickie is cut from Create a Critter at 3.5" I added a little gem to the flower in her hair just for some flair. The paper is just something I've had in my scrap bin. For the ribbon I used my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher to get the ruffled look, love it!!  I used the same stamp from MPS "Happiest Moments" stamp set.

Hope this gives you a little inspiration if you still have Mother's Day gifts to work on!

Have a great day!!

~sara~

Beer Mug Card

Hi Everyone!!

Today I wanted to share a card that I made for my Brother-in-law's birthday. His birthday is St. Patricks Day, so I thought something to do with beer would be perfect. I made this beer mug shaped card on my Gypsy. I welded 2 4" beer mugs from Smiley Cards together ( I HIGHLY recommend making this larger, it looked much bigger on the gypsy than cut out).

I used my Cuttlebug and ran the "foam" through the D'vine swirls embossing folder to give it some texture. I the ran the mug part through the distressed stripes embossing folder. I inked the entire thing with tea dye distress ink to help the embossing stand out.

Hope you enjoyed this!

~Sara Kate~

Belated Easter Card

I'm so sorry that I have not blogged in FOREVER!!!  I've been creating, just not posting :( 

We have been busy searching for our first house, and we found it!!  Closing is May 20, so we are preparing for that as well.  Haven't quite started packing up my scrapping stuff, but it will be soon :( 

I've also been having TONS of trouble with my Imagine... I went through 3 machine before I got one that worked, and sadly I think it JUST quit on me again!!!!  :*(  I'm going through the Restore right now and crossing my fingers!!! 

Anyway, I wanted to share with you a quick Easter card that I made, even though it's a day late!!  I used Simply charmed for the chick and it was cut at 3" and the colors were printed from the Imagine, just basic colors, not cartridge specific.  The stamp is from My Pink Stamper "Happiest Moments" stamp set.

Hope you all had a great Easter and enjoyed the card!!

I have many more projects I just loaded onto my hard drive, so I will be posting more soon, I Promise!!

~Sara Kate~