Teenager Momenta card

Testing out posting!  I am trying out another app to see how it works out for me!  Let's see how it goes!

Wedding Card

I've been busy working on design team projects and magazine stuff, not so much time to create just to share these days!  Today I do have a wedding card to share with you made primarily of Momenta goodies.  The cake in the center is one of their chipboard pieces and the two things above it (not sure what to call them) are actually silver glitter rub-ons also from there.  I used some eyelet paper that I know for certain isn't acid free.  I love making cards just for this reason, you don't have to think about the longevity of the product as much!  I'm playing a lot these days with cards that are black and white with a pop of color, this one obviously used a pop of eggplant! 

Glow in the Dark Birthday Party

My oldest son is a sports fanatic, but if I had to plan one more sports themed birthday, well....let's just say I needed a break!   I offered up the suggestion of a Glow in the Dark party and he loved that!  I had a lot of ideas and pinterest and friends helped fill in where I needed more!  We set the whole thing up in our family room with the windows covered with layers of blankets.  And without further adieu here is some photos of the fun!

 This was the cake in daylight.  I didn't do anything fancy because I knew it wouldn't show up in the dark (my goal was to do as much as possible in the dark!)  I used glue dots and attached glow in the dark planets and stars to plastic skewers.  These are the kind that you normally put up on your kids ceilings.  They worked great.  I had seen a few cakes online where people put actual glow sticks right onto cakes, I didn't want to do that.  I'm always nervous about putting anything that isn't food safe on my cakes, so this was a safe route for me.

 I used two liter soda bottles to create glow in the dark bowling.  It was super easy!  I took the label off each bottle and filled them halfway with water (all the way would have made them to heavy for kids to tip).  I then added glow sticks in various colors and set them up.  The boys used a basketball to bowl with.  

In addition to bowling we also did a snowball fight.  I gave the boys a whole bunch of paper and they crumpled it up and threw it at each other, in the dark of course.  This activity lasted forever and I ducked out for most of it :)  

We used clear cups and glow in the dark paint to let the boys splatter and make their own star scene.  Impossible to take a picture of unfortunately!

Our last activity was getting marbles out of a big bowl with ice, water, and of course glow sticks.

 I found glow in the dark balloons at Walmart.  These were awesome and lasted a long time.  I hung them from the ceiling.  I also used a night light that reflected stars and the moon onto the ceiling.  I had planned to use a black lightbulb in a lamp,  but it didn't work out for the room we were in.  These items combined with the boys gear was plenty to light the room up enough for the boys to be able to see just enough.

 I gave each boy a necklace glow stick, two bracelets, and a glowing straw.  

 The birthday boy with his candles all lit!

 And the cake glowing beautifully!

My daughter has already requested the same theme for her next party (:

CPS & Momenta

This week for Momenta we are playing along with the CPS card sketch....this was super fun!  Here's the sketch and the two cards that I created!

And here's the two cards I came up with!  

 It was my son's birthday over the weekend and he is an avid football fan.  So I made this one just for him!  Did you know Momenta has a variety of sports stickers and most of them are dimensional or foiled!?!  The ones I used here are foiled Football ones ST 2136.  I have been holding my son off for awhile on stealing them because he thinks they are fantastic! I used the Kaleidoscope Pyramid Pad PA2383 for the base of the card.

Since my first card was all boy I decided to do a girly one and  ended up going the baby route!  I used die cuts and paper from the Baby Steps Pad (PK2146) that includes paper and die cuts.  I love taking their already adorable die cuts and giving them even more dimension like I did with the cloud and the gems.

I hope you'll head over and check out Card Positioning Systems and play along with them!

Quick Quotes Blog Hop

**The hop begins at midnight on May 4th, but I don't trust blogger with scheduling right now, so this might be up early for you!**

I am so excited to celebrate National Scrapbook Day with our Quick Quotes fans! What better way than to celebrate than a fun blog hop that also shares our challenge for this month!?!   During the hop you will see inspiration from our design team showcasing fussy cutting (our current challenge).  Please visit the Quick Quotes blog to gather more details on the challenge.

I love to fussy cut my patterned paper. I think it is a great way to take the same paper that others are using and make it your own unique creation. In fact I regularly buy paper just so I can fussy cut it up. Fussy cutting can be done simply by cutting a shape out of the patterned paper directly.

This paper has a lots of beautiful flowers that you can leave be or do as I did, cut them out and make a whole new design with them.  The possibilities are limitless...and don't even get me started on curling, folding, or using foam adhesives.  It's a very fun technique to try that doesn't require any special tools.  Now that I've wet your appetite, here's the challenge details!

I used One Fine Day to create my layout:

Now that I've wet your appetite, here's the line-up for the rest of the hop!

Christine Meyer - You are HERE!

Marcia Dehn-Nix - Head HERE next!

Suzanne Spokus

Adora Concepcion

Misty Willis

Barb Craft

Tanisha Long

Rhonda Van Ginkel

Julie Walton

Quick Quotes Blog

Now what's a Blog Hop without a fun prize?!!!  Since we are celebrating National Scrapbooking Day (annnd 6,000 fans over on Facebook!) we are all set to give away a grab bag full of crafty Quick Quotes goodness!   For sure it will contain some PowderPuff Chalk Inks as they are our featured product for May!

How to win?
-Leave a comment on each of the Designer's blogs
-Come on back and leave a comment with your favorite project or tip from the hop
-Be a follower of this blog, get an extra entry if you refer a friend to be a new follower (and although it's not required to win, I'd love to have you as a follower here too and would gladly follow up as a follower of you too)! 
-Hop is open for comments until Sunday, May 6 at 11:59pm.

Happy Hopping! Head over to see Marcia!

quick quotes card inspiration

This is my attempt at using a blogging app.  Bear with me, I am sure there is a learning curve!  Here is my card that I created for the quick quotes inspiration today!

Follow up...ummm it posted some goofy picture extra and I'm not super impressed with the picture clarity, next attempt!

Back to School Compared

I created this layout comparing Lucy's PK3 and PK4 pictures from the first day of school. I can't believe how much older she looks in the second one! I uploaded this photo to Flickr because blogger is giving me fits! I'm really loving a solid black or solid white background for my layouts lately, but that being said I think they are both hard to photograph! Hope y'all are having a great relaxing weekend!

April 25 Quick Quotes Post

Here's a quick page I made about Father's Day  for Quick Quotes!  If you are interested in checking out all the details head on over to Quick Quotes!

Wedding Shower Invitation

I am cohosting a wedding shower in a few weeks and decided to hand make the invitations.  I decided to go farily simple using embossing to jazz things up.  This also ties in with a fabulous embossing feature at Practical Scrappers right now!  I embossed half the card and then added stickles for color and dimension.  I fussy cut my flower from Momenta patterned paper.  I added a button and some bakers twine to make a pretty bow.

I added a banner inside along with a punched border.  All fairly simple, but still pretty and fun for the bride to be!

Thanks Card

I love butterflies and love to fussy cut and today I have a card that features both.  This was featured yesterday on the Momenta blog.

The Butterfly Garden pyramid pad has the most beautiful springy papers in it, check it out...it does not disappoint!  My flowers and butterfly both came from that as did all the additional patterned paper.  Momenta has a wide variety of vellum sentiments to choose from, including the one I used here.  They add a nice, soft touch to any project.  

The Easter Dress Layout

I'm up at Momenta today sharing an Easter layout.  Just so we're clear...this is last year's Easter dress...I'm not that good!  But I thought it would be good to share some Easter inspiration now that we have all those pictures taken and maybe even developed.

This layout uses a couple of new items from Momenta and I especially want to highlight those.  It also uses black matting for most of the items...I'm loving this hot technique!  Have you tried it yet...I think it's so fun with pastels!   First off are the fabulous Build Your Own Banner pieces ST 5426.  These come in several varieties and each includes letter stickers.  I opted to use some different letters 17313 B & W Polka Dot Alphabet Sticker Pack that coordinated with what I was doing.  I think it is genius to have the Build Your Own option...so I didn't have to coordinate my layout to both the banner and letter stickers...I could make it work for me.  The puffy Easter word All Thru the Year Sticker 16383 is also new. It actually said Happy Easter...but I just used the Easter part...again, brilliant to keep them separated from each other because both words can certainly work on their own!

I also used some of  the Black & White clear layered flowers (ST-5127).  They are gorgeous...I think in my time at Momenta I've gone thru at least five packs of these, including using them on two cards that are in CARDS magazine!   You will not believe the pizazz these can add to a layout or card!

My patterned paper of choice for this layout was the Let's Party Pyramid Pad PK 2386.  I hope your Friday is kicking off a great weekend!  I'll be back in a couple days to share another project with you!

Other Supplies Used:

Black Sharpie Pen

Anna Griffin Patterned Paper 

Winner!!!

I've sent an email to my 400th post sticker winner....check your emails!

Simple Baby Card for a new Grandma

We're doing a baby feature this week at Practical Scrappers and this is the card I made for it.  I made a card for a new Grandma because I know a lot of people who are soon to be grandparents and thought it would be fun to have this on hand.  I used coordinating papers from Momenta as well as die cuts and stickers from Momenta.  I love that cute teddy bear and was glad I found a way to include him.  I like this because it could work for a girl or boy baby (:.  Plus the sassy sentiment is awfully cute!

Hunting for Eggs!

I had some time to scrap yesterday and decided to pull together a quick and simple Easter layout featuring my kiddos doing their egg hunt last year.  Trying to convince myself that sometimes a quick and simple layout will get the job done...if you tend to spend lots of time on each layout, you know exactly what I am getting at!  That said, I have three kids and one on the way...if I have any prayer of getting done what I want to some have to be quick!  I'm trying to to apply this especially to things that happen regularly and I want to scrap.  I scrap this exact subject every year...it's not like a once in a life event...so it can be a little less and frankly I think it still turned out pretty cute (:

I didn't set out to do it, but ended up using almost all Momenta products.  They have bright, fun, colorful lines...pretty much perfect for Easter (:  My favorite part is the brand new BYO Banner that I used up top.  It is a "Build Your Own" banner and comes with three colors for the penants and a coordinating letter sticker set.  Obviously I didn't use the letter stickers...but I love the colors and the size is great...not so small like a lot of banners you come across!  I'll be highlighting these more later in the week for my Momenta project.  

Hope you and your family enjoy a wonderful Easter!

Supplies Used:

Paper and Cardstock: Momenta

Punch: Martha Stewart & EK Success

Stickers: Momenta and Cosmo Cricket

CARDS magazine publication

This is my card that was published in the March issue of CARDS magazine.  They did an absolutely amazing job of photographing it...if you have the chance to check it out you will be wowed!  I experimented a lot on this card trying out stitching and misting for the first time ever.  That was about 8 months ago now and I do those techniques a lot, but it's fun to look back and see where things started!  

Supplies Used: Cardstock, Sentiment are from Momenta

Flowers are from Prima and Creative Charms

Mist is from Tattered Angels

So Sweet You Are, So Sweet You Be...Spring Card Inspiration

Today I have a simple spring card made with Quick Quotes goodies to share with you.  I used a 6 X 6 card base and then cut my One Fine Day patterned paper into 1 3/4" squares and created a grid pattern.  Grids are an easy way to jazz up a card without making things too busy.  I used a border punch on my Color Strip Vellum Quote to give that a softer edge.  I added some ric rac and flowers to embellish it and voila, a pretty and simple card with lovely spring colors. 

Whimsical Tree Canvas

I've shared this everywhere else, but not here yet (: If you haven't caught it at Quick Quotes or Practical Scrappers, enjoy!  Scroll down to the next post to enter my 4OOth post giveaway!

I love clean and simple but striking art to decorate my home.  And who doesn't love creating their own!  I used 4 canvases that measure 8 X 1O to create this quick project.  For the record, I've never touched canvas before...so this was a venture into a whole new media for me!

 Each canvas uses a Whimsical Tree from Quick Quotes.  As soon as I saw these I knew I wanted to create something just like this!  I used four different colors of Powder Puff Chalking Inks: Maraschino Cherry, Amaretto, Green with Envy, and Lemonade.  For each tree I did three layers of chalking, allowing them to dry for just a couple minutes in between.  One layer would have created a more subtle color and I really wanted these to be bold.  I glued them down with Beacons 3 in 1 glue.  When all was said and done this whole project only took me about 3O minutes and that includes hanging time!

4OOth post, a giveaway, and Momenta!!!

This is my 4OOth post on my little scrapping blog...wowzers!  I'm so thankful to all of you readers that keep coming back to check in, I have a blast sharing with you!  First off I'm gonna share my layout that is up at Momenta today and then I'll tell you all about my giveaway!

If you're on Pinterest you've seen the "In this Family we do....." signs that list out all the things that describe their family.  I decided to take that idea and use a bunch of our message stickers for a similar idea.  After I layered several pieces of paper from the Family Forever 5 X 7 paper pack, I added my photo in the middle.  I then started cutting out my stickers (still on their acetate packaging) and laying them out trying to find words that worked.  I wanted to make sure to include something about Mom, Dad, Brothers, and Sisters in addition to general family descriptions.  It was very easy to do because Momenta's message stickers give you sooooo many options!  Plus bonus (!!!) no journaling necessary because it takes care of itself!  And how about that fun picture of my family! (:

All Supplies used are from Momenta!


So in honor of getting to 4OO posts, I am going to do a giveaway of some of the amazing message stickers from Momenta!  I've got a whole slew of them...some are simple words, some are fun and sassy phrases, some are sweet quotes!   Some of them are even hot off the presses from this past CHA! All you have to do to qualify to win is make sure you are a follower here and leave me a comment sharing a unique phrase you would add to your "In This Family" list.

Thanks so much for being a part of Scrapping with Christine!

Sweet and Simple

I've got a sweet and simple little card to share with you today.  I love the Paradise collection from Little Yellow Bicycle and that's where this sweet little bird comes from!  I used my Martha Stewart fringe scissors to give the bird some grass to stand on.  Add in a blinged up cloud and and some bright pink zebra paper and you can't go wrong.  

Supplies Used:  Patterned Paper by Momenta

Cardstock by Quick Quotes

Stickers by Little Yellow Bicycle and American Crafts

Twine by The Twinery

Surfs Up

I know a lot of you are enjoying Spring Break right now and I thought a card fitting for spring break was called for!  Our school doesn't take a Spring Break, but we are enjoying delightful spring weather in the middle of our cornfields!  I have to admit that I am itching for some time at the beach or a few hours in a pool, but for now I'll keep scrapping and making cards on those fun topics :)

This one combines my two go two companies for card making...Momenta and American Crafts.  I combine them more than any others to make fun, lighthearted cards.  I love the dimension provided by the clouds, sunshine, and surfboard and the interesting texture from the twine.  

For those of you who are on Spring Break, I hope you are enjoying!

Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper by American Crafts, Momenta, and Authentique

Twine by The Twinery

Stickers by Momenta