See thru Card for Lucky Girl Crafts

Jessica always puts together such amazing kits and this month is no exception.  I love the unique color combinations you can find in this months kit. This first card uses my absolute favorite color combination of all!  I love black, white, and turquoise together.

I cut a spot in my card to attach the clear bag to.  I then added the patterned paper to frame it.  I created the flower using a punch and more of the patterned paper.  I can't wait to write my message with a pretty turquoise pen and see it pop thru!

Kicking things off at Lucky Girl Crafts

I shared how excited I was to get to play with the August kit from Lucky Girl Crafts and get my design team post rolling.  Today over at the blog we're sharing a project that showcases our five favorite products from the kit.  Now let's be honest, I had a hard time picking out just five!  I always go for all my favorites first...so I had to hold back a little bit :)  First up here's what the kit looks like:

I'll be sharing projects with you all week that I made using it.  

Here's my five fave project:

Here's the five I picked:

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mask Mini Florets (I've never used one before - it was awesome!)

Bo Bunny Die Cut Petal Pushers Blossom

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

Making Memories Glitter Bling Frame Pink Flower

SEI Sunny Day Glitter Die Cut Accents

Hop on over to the Lucky Girls blog and check out the other designer creations!

Blog Hop Winners

Thanks so much to all of you who took time to visit and comment! Here's the two randomly generated winners:

Jennifer

&

Kray

Shoot me an email at practicalscrappers@gmail.com and I'll get you your prize!

Family Menu Board

It's my day up at Momenta and I created a Family Menu Board.  Our closest grocery store is about 15 miles away, so meal planning is a necessity in my house.  I recently came across a family menu board on pinterest and decided I wanted to make my own version that would fit what I need to keep track of and use colors and embellies that are my style.  I decided to use the Family Forever Paper Kit for the bulk of my board with some Design Your Own Stickers printed to match the colors in the Family Forever Line.  The Design Your Own Stickers come with two in a package so it was perfect to be able to print two different accent colors instead of just one.  All the stickers, tags, and frames come from this great page kit!

Here are some close ups of the various parts

For my title I used some of the Andrew Design your Own Stickers (printed in purple) for one part, letters from the kit for another part, and Jennifer Design your Own Stickers (printed in royal blue) for the last part.

The base for my menu board is actually two 12 X 12 white boards.  I went with these so that I could have some parts that were erasable.  I used the Andrew DYO stickers printed in purple for day abbreviations.

I think this is my favorite feature!  I attached a note pad to this so that I can just pull my shopping list off when I am ready to use it.  

  This time I used Andrew stickers but printed in forest green.  I created an area to keep track of ideas for next week - leaving enough space to use the whiteboard part.  I also put an envelope on here to keep coupons in that would work for the following week.

People are forever giving me recipes and I misplace them - so I made an area where I could store recipes until I can get them properly filed.  Here again I used the Green Andrew DYO stickers and letters from the kit.  

Momenta Supplies Used:

ST 4515 Design Your Own Alphabet Sticker Jennifer Large Uppercase

ST 3903 Design Your Own Alphabet Sticker Andrew Small Uppercase

 PK 2407 Family Forever Page Kit

Other Supplies: Ribbon, Ric Rak, Envelopes

CAS Friends Layout

A very clean and simple layout created using almost all Momenta products.  This is another addition to the album for Taylor.

Supplies Used: Kaleidoscope Paper Pad

The Twinery Bakers Twine

Practical Scrappers Designer Blog Hop

Thanks for joining us for the Practical Scrappers Blog Hop.  We're sharing projects that relate to the number two since it's our second anniversary!  Today I'm sharing a project with you of TWO of my kiddos.  I've got a prize to give to TWO of you who visit and are a follower of my blog and Practical Scrappers.  All ya have to do is leave a comment letting me know you were here.  I'll be giving away some goodies from Momenta and Creative Charms, TWO of the companies I design for.  We have an extremely talented group of designers, I know you'll enjoy checking out their blogs.

Practical Scrappers

Christine You Are Here

Kerri  Go Here Next

Erin

Jessica

Pia

Corinna

Brenda B

Audrey

Jayma

Claude

Andrea

Fern

Jodi

Caz

Kylie

Carolina

Sandi

Aymee

Teresa

And now.....for my TWO project :)

Thank you so much for visiting me today!  I've got two prizes for anyone who is a follower and leaves a comment:  I'm going to be creating two goodie bags filled with stuff from Momenta & Creative Charms - rather than just do one line of something I thought a variety would be fun!  Then you can check out all kinds of goodies :)  Hop on over to see my buddy Kerri next!

I love the color green and use it all the time but sometimes it is hard to find a pretty green flower to add that extra kick to your cards.  Creative Charms has some great green flowers that are unique and add great dimension to any project.

 For this card I used a darling green dream brad flower.  My border is created using a a square cotton pad, yes a cotton pad...adds some fun dimension doesn't it?  I'm really enjoying the frugal finds challenges that we have been doing at Practical Scrappers!  

This card uses a green shimmer flower with a pearl brad.  The layered scallops are also made from cotton pads, this time circular ones.  How fun is it that they were already embossed!?!

Both of these cards use Design Your Own stickers, from Momenta, for the sentiments.  I love how easy they are to use and that I was able to personalize them exactly to what I wanted for my cards.  If you haven't checked them out already, it's totally worth it!  Especially when you consider that if you use them now you can enter that project in the facebook contest...$250 in Momenta product and $100 cash just for trying out these great stickers, what's not to like?  You can get all the details you need right here.

If you haven't already popped in on our anniversary festivities at Practical Scrappers you need to!  We've got prizes, an online recipe contest, and beginning tomorrow a blog hop!  See you tomorrow for some more fun!!!

Both cards use cotton pads on them (one circular and one square) - part of our anniversary celebration at my site Practical Scrappers was to use cotton.  So of course I thought I'd work them in with some great Creative Charms flowers!  I'd love to have you join in our fun over at Practical Scrappers today too!

Scrapping about a teenager?

We have a fabulous young lady who babysits our kids regularly (okay we actually have several - definite perk of being a Pastors family).  My daughter has especially taken to Taylor.  I have been working on a scrapbook for her with some of her favorite pictures.  This is one of my favorite pages so far.  It is almost all from a really really really old kit - the colors/topic never worked for me before.  But it was perfect for this Taylor page.  

Supplies Used:  Colorbok (? I think) Kit, Cosmo Cricket Chipboard Letters, The Twinery Bakers Twine

Lucky Girl Crafts August Kit

I'm so excited that my first kit is up at Lucky Girl Crafts.  I can't wait to share some projects with y'all from it - but I'm on vacation and until I get home and actually work with all I can share is what is in it!  Check out all the stunning details here.

Two oldies but goodies

Practical Scrappers is celebrating our 2nd Anniversary.  In honor of that I asked each designer to pick their two favorite projects that they have made for Practical Scrappers. Kerri counted up that she had 147 projects to choose from, I'm sure mine is that or higher so  I decided to go way way way back to projects from the first few months of Practical Scrappers.  Although my style has evolved some since I made these, I still think they are fun!  It's kinda fun to see how much my style has changed since 2009 :)  I hope you'll join in on some of the fun this week!

I Love You Because...

 I saw an idea for something similar to this on Pinterest and wanted to make it my own using some scrappy supplies.  I'm all about finding ways to build up my kids and make sure I'm telling them about the ways I love them. 

 I put the paper inside, but made a line on it so that I can write on the outside of the frame with a dry erase marker.  My plan is to erase it every few days and change it to say something new.  

Another pinterest inspiration...using pinholes to add some design to something.  I traced a big heart on the back of the paper and then poked holes randomly all over the outside of the heart.  I didn't fill in where I put the words because I thought it looked cool to just have it on the outside :)  Next up, a second one for Lucy...maybe with different colored letters so it's not exactly the same :).

Supplies Used:

Pebbles Felt Heart Embellie

American Crafts Thickers

LePlume Black Pen

White Cardstock

U R Tweet Momenta Card

It's my day up at Momenta!  I made a card using the Emily's Garden line.  This is my favorite of all their lines, I love the jewel tones combined with the bright colors.  I also love the doodling style that the line is drawn in.   Erin, Kerri, and I are doing regularly challenges together on Practical Scrappers where we use something unexpected (items you might find at a dollar store) on a project.  Tomorrow all three of our popsicle stick project there - you're getting the early preview of mine :).  Here's what I learned from doing this, it is very easy to stamp on popsicle sticks!

Supplies Used:

Emily's Garden Album Kit

Emily's Garden Paper Kit PK 2045

Non Momenta Items:

Bakers Twine from The Twinery

Sentiment Stamp from Close to My Heart

Happy Birthday Card

This card features the deal of the month for July from Creative Charms and is full of lots of great summer products.  Today I'm showing you some of the orange flowers from it.  They coordinate beautifully with the products I used from Pebbles and Fancy Pants.  Best of all it's an amazing deal at just $6.99.  I am loving the color combination of the orange, turquoise, and beige - so summery and fun!  The frame from Fancy Pants is actually a transparency - you can't tell in the photo but it adds so fun to it!
Supplies Used:  Pebbles felt hearts, Creative Charms Flowers, Fancy Pants Transparency Frame, CTMH stamp, Robin's Nest Dew Drops

One Layer card

A nice, simple one layer card utilizing all Close to My Heart stamps and ink.  Love the rainbow with the black ink combination.

Tried paper weaving on a card awhile back and decided to try it on a layout in a grander scale.  I did a tutorial for Momenta on how to make the paper weaving a little easier...you can find that here.  Most of the supplies in this come from the One Fine Day line...I must love that one because I am using it a lot!  This is the first time I created a polaroid style frame, very easy and adds a fun touch to a layout!

Bakers Twine Card

This week the Cards Gallery Challenge was to use Bakers Twine.  Since I pretty much use it on everything, this wasn't too bad for me.  I've been secretly hoping Paige would choose this for awhile now :).  I am so into rainbows and wanted to try making a rainbow with bows...after playing for awhile I decided a CAS approach would work best.  I used my little butterfly punch to add an extra kick.

In honor of being named a Lucky Girl Crafts Team Member

I thought it would be a good time to rerun some of my projects that I made from their kits.  But first a little info:  Lucky Girl Crafts is owned by Jessica, a designer also on Practical Scrappers who's been with me since day one.  One reason she started Lucky Girl Crafts is because she lives far away from a local scrapbook store (sounds familiar huh!).  She was finding that getting her hands on great scrapbooking products and combinations that she liked to work with was a challenge and knew her area friends felt the same way.  So she started putting together these great kits and has taken off with them!  She does a great job of providing a variety of products from different companies and in a range of styles.  Her kits don't confine you to a specific style but open up several different ways you can go with the kit.  

All of these projects are over 6 months old...I have never brought back anything before, it's kinda fun to see how I've grown some!

This is actually one of my all time favorite layouts - totally (at the time) out of my normal style...it awakened something in my creativity that needed to be brought out!

Hee hee look at all that snow :)

 This kit was awesome because it included both cutesy papers as you see here and some shabby chic style papers that you saw earlier.  It also included a lot of great romantic trims.  And no I didn't cover up this poor girls head with trim, it's just the angle :)

This is an old one that I did over a year ago...thought it'd be fun to show how my style has changed a bit.

It's my turn up on Creative Charms blog.  I really wanted to do a layout this time and I had this idea in my head - I was really pleased with how it came together.  Believe it or not it didn't take a crazy amount of time - I got it done during Cooper's two quick naps today!  

Creative Charms has such great variety available for color choices in all sorts of embellishments.  For my project today I set out to showcase that variety.  Rainbows are all over the place in papercrafting now, so of course I wanted to get in on the action!   I created my rainbow using all old scraps of paper.  I pulled out three or four of each color and just started tearing and placing them where I wanted them.  After I placed my picture and title down I pulled out my pile of Creative Charms goodies.  I started by picking one bigger flower in each color and putting those down on the rainbow.  I then added gradient gems in various sizes.  I love the variety of dimension all the fun Creative Charms goodies added.  This was also a great way to use up some of those packs of flowers that I had just one or two left of!  I have to mention that I used my last yellow Groovy Petal - originally looking at those I wasn't sure how much I would use them.  But they match so many manufacturer papers out there and it has a unique look it's been the easiest to use and become a favorite of mine!  I've actually just used them recently on a Nikki Sivils project and an Authentique project.

I love this picture of Lucy - it shows off her pretty dark eyes and one of her more serious looks.  

Supplies Used:

Braided Daisy Flowers

Groovy Petals

Gradient Gems Stickers

Pure Blossoms

Vintage Jewels

Countryside Mini Kit

Authentique Blissful Card

I'm completely in love with this new line from Authentique!  I love the combination of the grays, browns, blacks, yellows, and a splash of red...very out of my normal color loves :).  I've been itching to try making a super dimensional paper bow and this is what I came up with for the Practical Scrapper Challenge today.

This months specials at Creative Charms

Creative Charms has all kinds of fun kits and deals this month.  Here's some info on a few of them, but they also have the Simplicity line on sale!  This weekend they have a fabulous giveaway - head on over and check it out!

This kit is perfect if you are working ahead on your Christmas projects or if you are working on stuff for magazine publications...you know the papercrafting publishing world...it's always 6 months ahead :)

Winter Chipboard Stickers - 6 Pieces

Christmas Vintage Metal Frames - 6 Pieces

White 3D Sparkly Garden Butterfly - 12 Pieces

Christmas Twinkle Stickers - 10 Pieces

Winter Seasonal Sparkles - 21 Pieces

Red & Green Vintage Jewels - 12 Pieces

Red & Green Gradient Gem Stickers - 76 Pieces

18" Red Wide Fancy Polka Dot Ribbon

18" Green Wide Fancy Polka Dot Ribbon

The 145 Pieces July Kit of the Month includes:

Everything for only $14.99

This 151 Piece Deal of the Month includes:

• Sunburst Daisy - 5 Pieces
• Yellow Braided Daisy Medley - 4 Pieces
• Amber & Green Gradient Gem Brads - 12 Pieces
• Orange 3D Sparkly Garden Butterfly - 12 Pieces
• Yellow Groovy Petal Medley - 8 Pieces
• Green Gradient Gem Stickers - 76 Pieces
• Summer Medley - 21 Pieces
• Palm Tree Brads - 12 Pieces
• 18" Green Fancy Polka Dot Ribbon

All this for only $6.99!

This 96 Pieces Dream Garden Wedding Mini Kit includes:

• White Sparkled Butterfly Medley - 5 Pieces
• White Sparkled Flowers - 6 Pieces
• White Gradient Pearl Stickers - 76 Pieces
• White Vintage Pearl Brads - 9 Pieces

All this for only $6.99