Brenna's Blitherings

Sending Many Thanks

2012-03-05T12:17:00.000-07:00

I'm here again this time with a little 3x3 thank you card! These are the little cards that my friends will find in their bags along with the goodies they decided to purchase! I totally love them. It goes along with the st. paddy's day theme of march and of course it also coordinates with the PPA Challenge 130: Lucky Limeade, Always Artichoke and another colour. This was totally inspired by something I've seen online (I'm soo sorry I can't remember who did it!), using the iridescent ice embossing powder and embossing on a darker colour. It looks fabulous. I wish you could tell a bit better how cool the iridescent ice powder looks, but a good picture was very difficult to acheive...Check it out for yourselves!

Recipe:
Cardstock: Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Always Artichoke, In colour DSP Patterns stack.

Stamp Sets: Petite Pairs, Mixed Bunch

Embellishments: Early Espresso 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Silver Brads.

Tools: Heat Tool, Iridescent Ice Embosssing Powder, Blossom Punch, SNAIL, Dimensionals, Sticky Strip, Simply Scored.

Anyways, thanks again for checking me out today! Hope you all like my card!! Leave me some love if you're checking me out so that I can come by and check your blogs out too!!!

Mona

Submitted at: PPA 130: Lucky Limeade, Always Artichoke, and another colour.

I'm Back...Again...

2012-02-21T16:15:00.001-07:00

Okay, I know I'm beginning to sound a bit like a broken record. But I'm hoping that this is for real and is at least a bit regular! My life got a bit crazy there for a while....and I'm jsut starting to get my mojo back! It's beena while and I have definately missed my craft room and feeling like I'm getting stuff done!! phew...so with the preamble overwith...my card for today...I created this for a swap and PPA 129. So hopefully none of the ladies that are involved in the swap read this post, or they'll be getting a preview of one of the cards they'll be getting back. Anyways...I also happen to know a lot of ladies that are having baby boys these days...so i made a few extra for myself!

Supplies: Cardstock - Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Bashful Blue, Confetti White.

Ink: Marina Mist, Sahara Sand.

Stamp Sets: Fox and Friends, Friendly Phrases.

Tools: Big Shot, Scalloped Edge Border Punch, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folders, Stampin Sponge.
Adhesives: SNAIL, Sticky Strip, Glue Dots.

Embellishments: Twitterpated Buttons, Linen Thread.

Hope everyone had a lovely long weekend!!! Chat Soon!!!

Mona

Submitted at: Pals Paper Arts PPA 129: Sketch

Stitched Stockings

2011-09-22T10:00:00.004-06:00

I love the stitched stocking stamp set and coordinating punch. At first glance, it seems like it is soo limited to just stockings...but leave it to crafters to get creative with how they use their tools!! So awesome. I have seen it used as a hobby horse, baby booties, and even two together can make it into a sweater!! Gotta have tools that have more than one purpose...as long as it has more than one purpose, we can buy it....right?? ha ha ha
So, in keeping with my christmas theme...I have my PPA112 challenge entry!! It is an elements of style challenge today and the element is Lace! well...I think I can do that...pair lace with some vintage christmas colours and you've got yourself a beautiful christmas card!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgundy, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso.
Ink: Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgundy, Versamark.
Markers: Bravo Burgundy, Always Artichoke.
Punches: Stocking Builder Punch, Eyelet Border, Scallop Edge Border.
Stamps: Many Merry Messages, Stitched Stockings, Winter post.
Embellishements: Antique Brads, Victoria 5/8" Ribbon, Clear Embossing Powder.
Misc Tools: Sponges, Piercer tool, Sticky Strip, Heat Tool, Simply Scored, SNAIL, Stampin Dimensionals.

So, that is my challenge entry...I really like this card, but if I were to do it again, I would put a few more layers in the border area and probably use some DSP also. That being said, I like how it turned out and and I'm going to be proud to give that to a family member for christmas!

- Mona

Submitted at: Pals Paper Arts 112: Elements of Style - Lace

The Kids are Alright

2011-09-17T15:00:00.001-06:00

Hello blogland....ahhhh....it has been so long...i see my mother has done a good job of maintaining my blog! ha ha ha...by maintaining it, I mean making it her own!! ha ha ha...It's all good....someone has to do it!

Anyways it has been so long...I have been watching all my mom's posts and been like...okay I need to get going on this again...get my mojo going and what not...so i have been crafting, just fallen off blogland...so I will have quite a few things to show you in the coming weeks!! yay!!! anyways...I was at work yesterday for the first day all week, and was informed that one of my colleagues and close friends, her daughter was in an accident (on tuesday) in which she was run over by a 1 tonne truck...the nurse in me is thinking there is huge potential for major disability and death in this situation and the mother in me is screaming oh my god!! I just couldn't believe it. The story was told to me and as a mother I just can't imagine...and as a mother who is a nurse in the operating room and sees tons of bad things happen, and knows the medicine side of things, just makes it that much worse. I just was sick to my stomach. Seeing your child intubated is not something that anyone ever wants to see. a parents worst nightmare. You can bet that every nurse I work with, it is their worst nightmare to be working on shift and your son/daughter, or your kids friends come into the operating room as a trauma...I felt so bad for my girlfriend. So...in the end, everything is all good, her daughter is in fact already at home (the incident occurred on tuesday), so I was just so relieved...so...what else can a crafter do than to make a card to send over! so this was my inspiration for the title of my post and my card.

Closeup of Saying:

Inside:

Supplies:
Cardstock - Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, Whisper White, Sahara Sand.
Ink: Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, Sahara Sand.
Stamps: Delicate Doilies, Pursuit of Happiness, Petite Pairs.
Punches: Decorative Label, Curly Label,1 1/4" Circle Punch.
Embellishements: Sponges, Mini Silver Brads, Silver Foil Smooch Spritz.
Misc Items: SNAIL, Stampin Dimensionals, Peircer Tool, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Simply Scored, Clear Blocks.

I just LOVE the stamp set pursuit of happiness. It is hands down one of the best sayings stamp set in this years IB&C. I just love it. the fonts, everything. and this saying "Everything will be okay in the end, if it isn't okay, it isn't the end." I love it, it is so perfect for so many supportive type cards. I love love love it. Anyway, I know that il ove all the stamp sets i used, but I just hope that she likes the card...I think the colours reflect her style and personality also. Anywho, I should get going here...I gotta save my rhubarb crisp from the oven in a few minutes!! thanks for checking me out!!

Brenna

Winter Wonderland

2011-09-15T12:07:00.001-06:00

Hello...Mona again here with another Pals Paper Arts card creation! I am totally loving this challenge! It is totally opening up my crafting mind and I love love love this card. It is soo cute! I love the merry winter stamp set and it's really cute little sayings that come with the two snowmen and sled...the only thing that I would love to have to finish up this card (maybe) is the northern flurries embossing folder instead of elegant lines. (Maybe that will be on my next order...I'm sure I am due for a good sized order...right??) Even without the Northern Flurries embossing foloder, it is one of my favorite holiday cards that I have made so far!

I love how a bit of versamark brayered across the elegant lines embossed area used with heat and stick powder and dazzling diamonds glitter just adds a beautiful fine dusting of glitter to the card. Really gives a cute winter wonderland sort of feel to it. It is sort of difficult to tell (about the glitter from the picture) so I apologize...for the photo, but I just love it! Mary Fish (Stampin Pretty), my upline is so right when she talks about how participating in a challenge really opens your creativity up. It really has gotten me to step it up a notch to try and keep up with all the other ladies and gents that participate in this one!!! ha ha ha...Anyways....please enjoy the card. I hope you get a bit of inspiration for yourselves!!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Night of Navy, Whisper White.

Ink: Night of Navy, Versamark.

Markers: Marina mist, Night of Navy, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie.

Stamps: Merry Winter

Tools: 1/2" Circle Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch, Corner Ticket Punch, Elegant Lines Embossing Folder, Heat Tool, Brayer, Big Shot, SNAIL, Glue Dots.

Embellishments: Heat and Stick Powder, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Marina Mist 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Basic Jewels Rhinestones.

Thanks for stickin around again this week! Hope to see you all again soon!! Keep creating!!!

-Mona

Submitted at:

PPA111: Sketch Challenge

Haunting Love

2011-09-08T03:44:00.001-06:00

Hello everyone,

Mona here!! So remember when I said that I was going to try and do the rest of the Pals Paper Arts challenge's in a christmas theme...well I found out that it was hard to do a halloween theme challenge as a christmas card. So....I made one halloween Card. I love halloween, but I don't really send anyone cards....so I decided to do a little "i love you" with a halloween card for my hubby....I am pretty sure he'll like it. Sometimes I think he should come to some of my workshops...then I would get a chance to receive some just because cards!! ha ha ha...
Anyways...this card was really fun to make. I got a chance to try making a rosette!! woo hoo!! I've seen it so much this last little while, and it is on the cover of the holiday mini!! so....I received my simply scored tool and decided that there was no sense in wasting time and put it straight to work! I tell you...that tool made it soo simple to make this beautiful accent. A roesette wreath is a really beautiful accent for any projects, and it's painfully easy to make!!!
Anyways, the one thing that I wish I did was to make the flourish pop out a bit more from underneath, when I was making it I thought that it did pop out more, and by the time I realised it didn't my wreath was already stuck down with sticky strip! and nothing is going anywhere when sticky strip is involved!! ha ha ha...Anyways, this is my card for this week!!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Basic Black, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Concord Crush, Whisper White.

Ink: Versamark, Pumpkin Pie, Concord Crush, Pear Pizzazz.

Stamps: Season of Joy (swirl in background), Batty For You.

Punches/Tools: 2 3/8" Scalloped Circle Punch, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, 1 1/2" Circle Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Paper Snips (distress the edges), Heat Tool, Simply Scored, SNAIL, Sticky Strip, Stampin' Dimensionals.

Embellishments: Clear embossing powder, concord crush stitched polytwill ribbon, basic black 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon.

A little tip to get the little bat to have an embossed feel in concord crush, as there is no concord crush embossing powder, is to get some versamark on your stamp and then get the concord crush on your stamp. Stamp it, put the clear embossing powder on your image. And then proceed to heat emboss and you have a beautifully embossed image with only having to stamp it once, and in any colour that you have regular ink. One word of caution though, is to ensure that you put the versamark on your stamp first so that you don't get your versamark ink pad all coloured up!! That seems pretty self explanatory, but living proof that it isn't that hard to do if you aren't really paying attention!

Thanks for checking me out again this week and I hope that you'll stop by and check me out again! Please do ontact me if you would like any more information on how i made the card or would like to purchse anything stampin up!! Have a great weekend!

Mona

Submitted at:

Pals Paper Arts 110 - Fashion Inspiration - Bewitched

Card Patterns: Sketch 131

Celebrity Colour Challenge

2011-09-02T13:00:00.000-06:00

Hello all,
It is Mona again. I think Brenna has fallen off the face of the crafting planet!! Anyways, I am back...I am making a concerted effort to participate in a challenge on a regular basis this year. My regular challenge of choice is the Pals Paper Arts Challenge Blog. I was away last week so I missed that one, but I made the week before!! My plan is to make it next week also! ha ha ha...The other thing is I am trying to do my christmas cards, and this year I want to have a bunch of different and unique cards for everyone in my family; so I have been participating in swaps, (which always helps with inspiration), and I will also be doing the rest of the challenges with a christmas theme! hmmm...we shall see how that goes!
Anyways, my card for today features the PPA colour challenge colours (almost): Cherry Cobbler (only because I didn't have the actual colour which was riding hood red), calypso coral and basic grey. I was also super inspired by another participant in the challenge, and you will see that I CASE'd her card today. It is Monica H., check out her blog for some fabulous inspiration and to see her beautiful card!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Basic Grey, Calypso Coral Textured Cardstock.

Ink: Cherry Cobbler

Stamps: Delightful Decorations.

Tools: Ornament punch, 3/4" Circle Punch,1" Circle Punch, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Big Shot, Petals-a-Plenty Embossing Folder.

Adhesives: SNAIL, Stamin Dimensions, Sticky Strip.

Embellishments: Calypso Coral 3/8" ruffled ribbon, Large Basic Pearls.

So, hope you enjoyed and thanks for hanging out with me today and checking out my latest christmas card!! Have a great day, and come and join in the fun with Pals Paper Arts Challenges, see you next week!!
Mona

Submitted at:

PPA 109: Celebrity Colour Challenge - Riding Hood Red, Calypso Coral, Basic Grey.

New Blitherer on the Blog!!

2011-08-20T23:20:00.001-06:00

Hello. My name is Mona Burnett, and I am Brenna's Mom!!! I have recently become a stampin up demonstrator also!! After she joined and I saw all the great benefits she was getting, I decided to take the plunge and become a demosntrator myself! woo hoo!! I wanted to showcase my work also, but don't have a blog and have found myself somewhat technologically challenged...so I proposed a sharing of Brennas blitherings. I have noticed that she has been sort of slacking in the posting area also...ha ha ha...hopefully between the two of us we can have a nice little blog with tons of Stampin' Up card and 3D item inspiration!!!
On to the first of hopefully many posts to come!! My Neice and Nephew and throwing my brother and sister-in-law (follow??) a 60-60-40 party in the beginning of September! (ie, they are both turning 60 and it is there 40th anniversary!) What an accomplishment!! Super cool, and an event like that can't go without a celebration!!! (or a card or two for that matter!!!) For this anniversary card, I used the Pals Paper Arts Sketch 107 to guide my way (PPA107). I chose to use Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Whisper White and Blushing Bride as my colours also.

Close up of the Tiny Tags:

Supplies:
Paper: Blushing Bride, Whisper White, Basic Black, Crumb Cake.
Stamps: Flower Fest, Tiny Tags.
Ink: Versamark, black embossing powder, Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride.
Embellishments: Blushing Bride stitched poly ribbon, natural hemp twine, vintage trinkets, stampin pastels (pretty in pink)
Tools: Heat Tool, Sponge Daubers, 1 3/8" circle punch, jewelery tag punch, Lace ribbon border punch, 1/16" circle punch.

For the flowers I stamped them in versamark and then heat embossed with black embossing powder. I then punched it out and burnished with the pretty in pink stampin pastels. I thought about just stamping it on the blushing bride paper, but I like the effect of burnshing for this card better, I like the subtlety of it. Even though there isn't a blushing bride stampin pastel (because it's an in colour) the pretty in pink is a pretty good substitute. Well, thanks for hanging out and checking out my card. Looking forward to more posts!!

Mona

Submitted at: Pals Paper Arts Sketch 107

Christmas in July

2011-07-24T02:24:00.000-06:00

Merry Christmas (In July)...this is soo wierd, but I love it...Christmas is my favorite holiday and it is the one time of the year that I actually do go all out and crazy with card giving!! I love love love to make christmas cards and stuff for friends, colleagues and even some of the more notable aqquaintances...
anyways....so before I carry on...you should have come from Leslie's Blog...if you haven't and would love to start at the beginning, please head to Nicolette's Blog, otherwise carry on and I hope you like my work enough to become a follower, I love my followers and occasionally have some secret blog candy in the blog hops *wink* *wink*...so as promised i have my two projects...they are both cards, as I am trying this year to start earlier so that I can get them all done, as last year I started not as early and didn't have as many as I would have liked to...I had to budget my cards a little bit....now that is one sad concept!!! ha ha ha...anyways, thank you thank you thank you nicolette for giving me this opportunity to be in your hop, and I hope I didn't disappoint you by being MIA for the first day!! boo urns to that!!!...but hopefully this will help make up for it!! If you have come from
My first card is a bit more of the classical distressed christmas card...but I love love love it. All items on my cards are Stampin' Up items unless otherwise noted.

Recipe: Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke
Stamp Sets: Season of Joy, En Francais, Holiday Happiness
Embellishments: Red Riding Hood 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware Brad, Sticky Strip, SNAIL, Snips for distressing the paper edges, Clear Embossing Powder, Versamark, Heat Tool Gun.
Quick Tip: To get the frayed, distressed look on the 1 1/4" Ribbon, cut in half and pull out some of the weaves in the ribbon. It give a fabulous distressed look.

For my next project, it is also a nice Christmas card using classic colours, but it was a bit easier in terms of tools and stuff used and just ease of assembly in general. This card would be awesomely easy to create in large quantity's and with less cost in terms of purchasing supplies. But still is beautiful, and fun to make.

Front of Card

Inside of Card (hard to believe, but picture quality doesn't give the colour justice...it is Old Olive!!)

Recipe: Cardstock: Old Olive, Real Red, Whisper White.
Ink: Real Read, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight.
Stamp Sets: Season Of Joy, Occasional Quotes.
Tools: Circle Punch from Punch Punch, Old Olive 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Stampin' Dimensionals, Sticky Strip, Snips for fussy cutting, basic rhinestone Jewels.
Quick Tip: I did not own the ticket Corner punch (and I would have love to earlier, but I didn't...)to get the ticket corner look , I took a bite out of one corner of one sheet of cardstock with my small circle punch from punch bunch and I then used that as a template for the rest of my card (i have since purchased the ticket corner punch becuase i think it is soo cute and love the look, this way it is a bit less maintenance).
I thank you so much for stopping by, and i am so sorry about not being able to share on both days...major tsk tsk on my part, but I hope this more than makes up for it.

I want to remind everyone again, if they want to fill up your stampin up wishlist, please let me know what I can help you with...as I have a stampin' up promotion going on within Canada ( I would love to open it to the states, but I cannot ship anywhere in the states). I am offering 10% off on any order over $50!!! Please contact me via email: rbanderson@live.ca to place an order!

Thanks again for stopping by today and can't wait to post again. Hopefully it wil be sooner than my last post (before this weekend)...it has been to long!!!
Don't forget to head over to the next stop on the way. Tammy has an absolutely stunning project for you to check out!!

Brenna!!

Christmas in July

2011-07-22T22:49:00.002-06:00

HO HO HO!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Welcome to the Christmas in July Blog Hop with Nicolette from Beyond Scrappin'!!! If you ahve happened here by accident, you should deafintaely head back tot he start at Nicolette's Blog. If you have come here from Leslie's blog you are defiantely in the right place.

So....I know this is soo lame. I have been bad. I haven't been organised.My mom came intot own and I didn't have my blog hop stuff done before that. It has been a flrry of activity at my house and I just didn't have time to get everything done before now....argh...I do actually have two projects to share with everyone, so if you come back tomorrow, you can see my two projects. they are super cute if I do say so myself!! Anyways...This is a picture of my family and i at the mall just after we had taken our first Santa pics ever!! what a fun time!! ha ha ha...I can't wait till next year, to see if she cries or not...I don't think she will as she isn't scared of anyone!!
Anyways, I wanted to share with everyone that I am having a New Catalogue Stampin' Up Promotion. I will be having a 10% off discount on all orders over $50 till the end of July if you order over $100 that would be free shipping!! This is valid in Canada only, as I am a Canadian demonstrator! Just place your order through me via email at rbanderson@live.ca.

I hope to see everyone tomorrow for the unveiling of my two projects!!! You can now hop on over to Tammy's Blog!! Tahnks for stopping in! Have a fabulous weekend!!!

Brenna

Welcome Baby

2011-06-03T20:21:00.000-06:00

Hello,
Sorry I have been pretty spotty over the last little bit, Since I returned to work in February it has been difficult to create time for myself where I don't worry about anything else!!! I'm either to exhausted to actually enjoy crafting or just too busy...so I have been trying to make some time for my crafting in the evening after Paisley goes to bed...it shouldn't be so hard since she goes to bed at 6pm...(I should appreciate that while it lasts!!!), but it feels difficult!!! Anyways, I find that work is so busy that they are always "desperate" for staff and asking me to stay late and I always feel bad saying no...argh...I miss my little one and sometimes I wonder if she remembers who I am!! in passing, but that fast that it crosses my mind is something in itself!!! ha ha ha...she spends all day five days a week at day home...*tear*...She is fantastic and knows me but I do feel bad...Anyways, enough about my worries!!!! Back to my card!
It seems as if I cannot stop making cards for baby welcoming and baby showers!! ha ha ha...they are just soo cute, and friends are always having babies!! ahhh....oh well!!! ha ha ha...I made this super cute card, it isn't slated for a receipient yet....but I made it originally to use at a workshop I was doing at my sister's house...but then decided that it was maybe too complicated for a bunch of new scrappers/stampers....sooo...(stay tuned for in a few days I will post that actual cards we did make)...but I do love love love this card!!

Recipe: Cardstock: Concord Crush, Blushing Bride, Whisper White, In Colour designer paper pack in concord crush
Ink: Blushing Bride, Concord Crush
Tools: Designer label punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig, blushing bride poly twill ribbon, SNAIL adhesive.
Stamps: Aviary Set, Sweetness Unlimited, Curvy Verses.

Hope you like it!! Thanks for listening to my mini mommy rant!! have a great weekend!!

Brenna

Late Mother's Day

2011-05-30T20:55:00.000-06:00

Hello everyone, here with a new creation...i know i know, it's a bit late, I forgot that I had made this card!! I made this for my cousin who was in town the weekend before mother's day! He is one of three boys, so I figured I would give them a hand (and I wanted to make something, but needed some proper inspiration!!). So, I got out my supplies as we watched TV, where he proceeded to be the peanut gallery as I created..."You got a sweat shop going,eh?" "what in the world are you doing?" "What does that do?" etc etc...so it was kind of funny, that he was slightly interested in it...ha ha ha...I finished the card and gave it to him, he seemed pleased...maybe it was because he didn't have to buy a card, but he was a bit impressed that it could be made...ha ha ha...
anyways, I got a note back from my aunt saying that she really appreciated my part in the gift, and she was almost brought to tears because all three of the boys wrote there own name on the card...ha ha ha...oh boys...thank god I have at least one girl!! ha ha ha...the only reason they all got there names on it was A. because i made it earlym, that way as my cousin was driving home he could stop at his brothers house so he could sign as he went through (which is seven hour drive from their parents). Then the other brother signed when it got home! so it was actually pretty neat how it worked out. my cousins are the kind that stop on the way to breakfast on mother's day morning to buy a mothers day card! ha ha ha...so yeah...needless to say I felt pretty good about the card, even though it's not my personal fave!

Recipe: Cardstock: Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, Elegant Eggplant.
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, Elegant Eggplant.
Stamps: Four Frames, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Eastern Blooms, Always Elegant, Occasional Quotes.
Ribbon: 5/8" Satin Old Olive
Tools: Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Decorative Label Punch, MS Border Punch (can't remember the name), Sponge, I rock Tool and silver glam rocks, cuttlebug, cuttlebug embossing folder "spots", SNAIL adhesive, Stampin Dimensionals.
A few techniques that I used on this card are: Dry embossing, Sponging, "Rock and Roll", adding dimension.

Thanks for stopping by today!!!

Brenna

Name on the Wall

2011-05-23T19:54:00.001-06:00

Wow, I am on a roll!! ha ha ha...well today isn't paper crafting per say...but secretly it is!! i have had this project on my back burner for about 14 months!! ha ha ha...my husband and I started this when my daughter was 2 weeks old!! He was HOUNDING me to get some letters cut out using my cricut so that he could use them as a template to cut out the wood letters!! So...the journey begins...and like all things with good intentions...there is always a delay! So anyways, i cut them out and he took about two weeks to cut the letters out of wood (he was working full time too!! ha ha ha), and then he wanted to try and match the stain to the crib...alas...the first delay! ha ha ha...fast forward to about February 2011 (Paisley was born in february of 2010)...we finally decided that we couldn't match the stain...so we decided on colours to pain the letters (to match a quilt that my mom is making for her for her big bed...) so we chose a bright pink (similar to melon mambo) and a navy blue...picked out ribbons to match...then it was about another month before we actually painted the letters. The letters then sat in my craft room for another month-2 months...until today...when i was cleaning up (tidying so that I could walk around), and decided enough is enough, we are getting this hung up today!! so....after much discussion on how we would hang it (banner style vs how it is hung now), I "won" and we hung it how it hangs now, looking back I think this is still th better choice! but yeah...super fun and it looks sooo cute!! It is of course deliberately hung unevenly...it would be super hard to make it any other way!! anyways...yay! my daughters name all hand made!! This would be a super fantastic personal gift for someone also...it takes some time, but it is really easy...Although my husband and I took so long to make it. the second time around, it wouldn't be bad at all!!! i'm sure it could be done in a weekend (with paint drying times and timing it outside of nap times also)...you just have to know what you want to do before you start it! ha ha ha...we will definately be doing this for our next child also...only we will be prepared and will have all the supplies prior to starting so that it can be done right away!! ha ha ha..

Recipe: Plantin' Schoolbook Cricut cartridge (letters cut to fit page at 12x12...I cut it on vellum so that it would be easier)...pink and blue acrylic paint, pink and plue 1-1/4" ribbon, nails, foam paint brushes, stapling gun (to staple ribbon on the back of the letters).

The bumper pads is something that my mom made for us before paisley was born, and there is a matching crib quilt, they are an under the sea theme. Also, I actually made the bed sheets...you can't really tell but they are fantastic, I actually made about three or four sheets for her...I just couldn't help myself once I found out how cute they are and they are sooooo sooooo soooo easy to make, made me wish that I hadn't purchased three sheets for her!!! I didn't match the sheets to the bedroom decor (for the most part) but making your own sheets is a foolproof method of ensuring matchiness!!! ha ha ha...if you want the pattern for the sheets email me and I'll gladly give it to you! thanks a ton for checking it out!!

Brenna

Linking up With: I Made It Myself Monday's

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #24: Anything Goes With Ribbon

Welcome Baby!!

2011-05-22T15:41:00.002-06:00

I am back, this time within a week! yay!! (first time in a while) But I am back to you with a set of baby cards that I made in the last little bit...One for girl, one for boy and one for not knowing the sex...aka - pink, blue and yellow!! ha ha ha...Super cute! this is just going to be a quick and dirty post...I will post all the recipe stuff at the end together, it is all the same except for the colours of paper and ink for the cards...so it sould be pretty self explanatory...but yeah...this was a fun set of cards to make and really simple and quick, so especially when it's baby season and you start needing a lot of baby cards!! ha ha ha

(The inside of the blue is exactly the same as the pink except the orientation -ie tall intead of wide, not sure that makes sense???)

Recipe: Cardstock- baskful blue, pretty in pink, so saffron, very vanilla, subtles Designer paper pack.
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, So Saffron, Bashful Blue.
Ribbon: Bashful blue 1" double stitched grosgrain ribbon, so saffron 5/8" Grosgrain ribbon, pink pirouette 5/8" striped grosgrain ribbon.
Stamps: Word Play (inside of yellow card), A word for you (inside of boy and girl card), Welcome baby (elephant image).
Misc Tools: SNAIL adhesive, Sponges to ink edges, Cuttlebug Spots embossing folder, and the Cuttlebug machine, stamp-a-ma-jig.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you liked my cards!! have a great day!
Brenna

Submitted: Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenge Blog - Baby
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Thank You Card

2011-05-18T20:39:00.003-06:00

hello all!!
sorry it's been a while since I last posted here!! I have been crafting and taking pictures, just haven't really had a chance to get it posted online!!! So....without further ado...if you've been following for a while, you'll know that I was recently trained at work for being the charge nurse on nights...whew...stressful!! ha ha ha...let me tell you charge nurses don't get paid enough...just thinking about a trauma coming in made my hands shake! ha ha ha...not that I can't handle it...but the responsibility of decision making is different than being a staff nurse!! ha ha ha...anyways...I made it through...
so I come to you today with a card I made for my colleague that actually trained me! (this was like almost a month ago!! ha ha ha) This was a fun card to make, and it turned out beautifully...but looking at it now, I feel like it's missing the stamp from the four frames stamp set (I got it shortly after I completed and sent this card off!! ha ha ha)...anyways, it still looks good, and hind sight is twenty twenty!! Everything is stampin up except for that i stitched with a sewing machine on the ribbon to give it a nice flat effect (easier to put in a standard envelope) but the dimension of a folded ribbon!!

Supplies: Paper - subtles designer paper, old olive, perfectly plum, pumpkin pie, very vanilla, early espresso.
Ink: Perfectly plum, old olive, pumpkin pie, early espresso, basic gray
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Punch Potpourri, Fast and Fabulous, Fine Filigree background stamp.
Tools: Word Window punch, Modern Label XL punch, decorative label punch, boho blossoms punch, stampin sponges, SNAIL adhesive,
Ribbon: Pumpkin pie 1/4" Grosgrain, Old Olive 5/8" Satin.

Thanks for visiting!! have a great day!

Brenna

Submitted at : Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Bingo (Flowers, Ribbons, Punches)
Reasonable Ribbon Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Mom's Day Blog Hop

2011-04-29T23:01:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the Mom's Day blog hop hosted by Nicolette.
I am joined by 25 other fabulously talented women, all showcasing their beautiful mom's day projects!! The hop runs today and tomorrow over the weekend (4/30-5/1). We all have mom's but most of us are mom's also!! YAY!!! So...you should have come to my blog from Ashley. If you get lost along the hop or just stumbled along this hop, start at the beginning and head back to Nicolette's Blog.
This year Mother's day happens to be on my husbands birthday also!! ha ha ha...figures!! So, we are going to have to share the day this year!! We are going to go out on the 7th for a nice dinner and celebrate each other...Which we haven't done in a long time...argh...We really have to get into the date night thing again!! It's bad...but who know's, it's hard when you want to save your money for other things!!! Maybe next saturday will be the date night kick off!!! Anyways....

This card is for my mom!! I will be sending it out in the mail for AZ this coming Monday!! A little late, but hopefully it makes it in time...canada post has a horrible habit of being very very slow...it gives snail mail a new meaning sometimes!! ha ha ha...I'm stoked for her to open it as she doesn't get homemade cards often!
Sooo...my card is made from all stampin' up product.

Recipe: Cardstock: rose red, so saffron, very vanilla, certainly celery patterned paper
Stamps: Tiny Wishes, For All You Do
Ink: Certainly Celery, rose red
Misc & Tools: Itty Bitty Punches Set, Stampin dimensionals, modern label punch, word window punch, very vanilla 5/8: satin ribbon

I do have some candy to give away...it's all a big surprise!!! (even to me so far, but there will be something) so to be eligible to win the candy...please leave a comment and be a follower!! yay! looking forward to meeting tons of new friends!!!

Your next stop on the hop is Dawn. Enjoy the hop!!!

Brenna

Can We Owl Just Craft??

2011-04-27T21:33:00.002-06:00

Hello my friends...It has been a while!!!
This is going to be a pretty quick post today, just wanted to drop in and leave a little card...it hasn't been too long I don't think, well a bit over a week really!! but I'm back, yay!! ha ha ha...I have a new creation today...and this card is like one of my most awesomely loved cards, it is cricut free (which isn't why i love it, as I do love my cricut also...) and doesn't contain a stamped image!! what?? neither?!?!?! ha ha ha...yay!!! I have been really busy with work, my daughter, keeping the house and getting some crafting done in between all that (which is, well sadly a card a week...maybe)... So I made this awesome card almost exclusively with stampin up product...(unless I say otherwise)

Recipe:

Paper: concord Crush DP, perfectly plum, melon mambo, early espresso, crumb cake, turquoise, pear pizzaz

Ink: Perfecly Plum,

Ribbon: Taffeta Marina Mist

Tools: Owl Punch, uniball signo ball gel pen, itty bitty circle punch, Jillian Vance Designs Owl stamp set, I rock with purple and diamond jewels.

Anyways, this is a really cute card (I think), and I absolutely love the colours!!! yay!!! the colours are my favorite together...anyways, that's all for today!! thanks for stopping by!! Don't forget that I'm in the Mom's Day Blog Hop this weekend, and I will have blog candy!! Please do stop by!!!

Brenna

Submitted at:

CPS #215: Sketch Challenge

Getting Kricky with K Andrews: Getting Campy
The Paper Variety #31: Polka Dots

Great Giveaway!!

2011-04-25T21:21:00.000-06:00

Hi all you cricut lovers!! I know you're all busy tonight attending all the various Ustreams for the E2 release...but....I have a really great giveaway to talk about tonight. Sherri Scraps is giving away a campin' critters cartridge, a cuttlebug folder and a pack of paper!!! YAY!!!

(I tried to upload a pic, but an having troubles...but check out sherri's blog, she has some super duper cute projects also!!!)

the campin critters cart is possibly one of the cutest carts ever!! anyways, you should all head over and check it out!!! yay!!! have a great night! Will be back with another post tomorrow (this time with a project!!)

Brenna

Naughty or Nice? First DT Submission!!

2011-04-17T14:31:00.002-06:00

Hello again,
I am back sooner than the usual...ha ha ha, I have been busy crafting away this weekend. I start on nights tomorrow night at work, and I have been just relaxing trying to get into the mode for nights today. Soo...without further ado, I saw the sketch challenge at tickled pink stamps...and well I bought some tickled pink stamps a while back, and was waiting and waiting for my markers to arrive to get them coloured up. So this was my first attempt at a tickled pink stamp with my SU markers! Look how awesome they look!! And...not only does this card work for the Tickled pink stamps Challenge 15: Sketch, but it also works for the Tickled pink Stamps Christmas challenge #2: Jingle Bells, as my image has bells on it!! yay!! We have been snowing here for last last 24hrs so I thought well it isn't that far of a stretch to get into the christmas mode!! ha ha ha..we just cannot get out of the snow mode it seems...i want to get working in my garden and here is is snowing in the middle of April!! Although I love love love christmas and winter and the beautiful mornings you wake up and have your coffee and it's snowing, It's april now, I'm ready for spring and summer and garden!! I'm ready for the mornings I wake up and have coffee on my deck!! ha ha ha...ahhhh!! ha ha ha...anyways, I digress...while I was on the Tickled Pink Challenge site, I saw that they are having a guest DT call...hmmm....I think I could handle that...it would be awesome to be on their DT (even as a short term guest designer!! so anyways...You'll be able to look forward to my project for that!! ha ha ha...BUT...that being said I have submitted this card for consideration for me to be on another DT...The Let's Ink It Up DT!!! YAY!!! So...they are awesome and have some awesome challenges, and they are all about the rubber stamping!! I love it! I have done both rubber and digi, and they both have their advantages and disadvantages....but for today rubber stamping is king...anyways...my fingers are crossed...this is my first DT submission and I'm really hoping that I have a chance!! ha ha ha...We shall see, pretty sure i'm just wishful thinking...we'll see!!!

Recipe: DCWV Christmas Paper, Very Vanilla and Real Red SU cardstock, Real Red and Old Olive SU classic ink pads, SU Many Marvelous Markers, Diamond Stickles, sewing machine and green thread, Snail adhesive, Four the Season SU Stamp set, Occasions SU Stamp Set, Whimsy Holiday Ticket Sentiments, Whimsy ticket die.
This was a really fun image to colour in, super cute and sassy!! And this was also the first time that I have really done a lot of stitching on my card (that isn't faux)!!! So I love the stiching look, so this was for me!! I love christmas, as I said earlier, and I love having my own christmas cards to send in the mail. Last year I didn't have neough for everyone, so hopefully by starting now in April I can have most if not all of them done and ready to go out when the time comes!! Anyways, Thanks for checkin' in!! Have a great weekend!!

Brenna

Submitted at: Tickled Pink Stamps Challenge #15: Sketch
Tickled Pink Stamps Christmas Challenge #2: Jingle Bells
Crazy About Cricut Challenge: Create About Something You Love
Catered Crop Recipe Challenge #10: sewing tool, sewing technique, rubber stamp with flower in her hair, striped pattern paper
Let's Ink it Up: Show Us Your Stitching (DT Call)
Fab and Funky Challenge #68: All Spotty and Dotty
My Partner in Crafting Crime #24: Layer it Up
The ABC Challenge: S is for Sugar and Spice
One Stitch at a Time Challenge #58: Make it Sassy

Pixie Giveaway!

2011-04-16T17:17:00.000-06:00

Darlene from Dar's Crafty Creations is having a Spring Giveaway! She is giving away this awesome little machine1! everyone should head on over there and enter to win!!!

(I would upload a pic but blogger is being stubborn...I will try again to upload later tonight!!!)

Brenna

For your Shower & Awesome Giveaway

2011-04-14T21:58:00.000-06:00

Hello! Anyone Out There????? ha ha ha, just kidding...

I`m back with another creation! yay! I have a few things that I have been working on and hopefully I`ll get back to posting every now and then again!! I'm going onto nights next week, so hopefully I will have some time to get my creative mojo going again!! Anyways, everything on this card is made with Stampin` Up product...I had a stampin`Up workshop at my house, as you all know (before I became my own demonstrator of course) and this is one of the cards that we made! (I`m not 100% sure what colours exactly that these are but pretty sure given that I`ve been like studying the catalogue for my wishlist!!)

Recipe: Crumb Cake Polka Dot ribbon; En Francais Background stamp; teeny tiny wishes stamp set (for sentiment); mostly vintage decor stencil; clear embossing powder; Cardstock: early espresso, crumb cake, not quite navy, very vanilla; stampin ink: always artichoke, not quite navy; perfect pearls (there is only one it`s a secret where though! ha ha ha...), SNAIL adhesive, Stampin sponges (for inking the background), stampin dimensionals, word window large punch, modern label extra large punch, decorative label extra large punch.
We started by using the en francais with always artichoke ink on very vanilla paper. I then used the mostly vintage decor stencil and the versamark and clear embossing powderto create a nice pattern of embossed image (I can't actually remember what the technique was called...darn it!! worst SU demontrator ever....) I heat embossed that and sponged the not quite navy over the entire background, and wiped the embossed portion off with paper towel. I then adhered all the paper, ribbon and stamped the sentiment on the card. (a tip though, when stamping on the word window punch with wood block stamps, stamp the sentiment first and then punch around your sentiment!! then you can get a perfectly levelled and evenly spaced sentiment!!
I had a blast at my first stampin up workshop (one that I didn`t facilitate, but hosted), and ended up getting a beautiful card, a new title, inspiration, and of course new product!!

One last thing, there is a fantastic giveaway!!! Ashley at Welch Creations is giving away a new cuttelbug V2 when she reaches 150 followers!! WOW!! Can you believe it?!?!?! Everyons hould go on over and check it out and enter to win!! maybe you will win!!! Good luck on that!! alright, I gotta run!!
Thanks for joining me today!!

Brenna

Submitted at: Getting Kricky With K Andrews: Inspired Heart

Bugaboo Stamps, Stampin`Up, Blog Awards, I rock, A New Winner

2011-04-12T19:29:00.002-06:00

Hello All, I am back, this is going to be a bit of a marathon post...so grab some coffee (or wine, depended on the time of day, I guess it is always 5:00 somewhere) and stick around!!! yay!! ha ha ha, I have been super busy with work and trying to keep my life together! It's sad that the one thing that helps me keep my calm and togetherness (scrapping) I don't have time to do at the times when I need it most!! ha ha ha...anyways...
I have a bit of big news for everyone...I decided to take the plunge and become a Stampin' Up Demonstrator!! WOW!! I'm soo excited, it's a whole new world of cardmaking and scrapping! I have known Stampin' Up for a while, but never actually owned much of their stuff. I recently had my own workshop at my house and had a blast...there is so much stuff to choose from, and the product is such great quality. I just couldn't help myself!! Anyway, I can't wait to get started! So...with that being said If anyone needs a "supplier" ha ha ha...I am more than happy to help you out with that, and if you are in the Calgary Area, I would be more than happy to help you host a Stampin' Up party...great way to get some free product and play with what Stampin' Up has to offer!!
So I got my First stampin' up order (just one of I'm sure tons more)...I got the Many Marvelous Markers set, and the markers are awesome!!! So I coloured my bugaboo stamp with them. They are great (both bugaboo and the markers), I love the colours!! This was my first attempt, so I mean it wasn't THAT hard, seeing how it turned out not too bad, but there are some things that I definitely learned from the first time!! Anyways, this is my card:

Recipe: Spellbinders lebels ten, Whimsy Ticket Sentiments Rock On (digi), Bugaboo Stamps `Deacon Swing`(digi), Many Marvelous Markers Stampin' Up, Recollections brass brads, Blue hot rocks, I-rock Tool, Tim Holtz Distress Ink vintage photo, Recollections cardstock, Sakura White Gel Pen.
I started by colouring my image and cutting it out, then cutting out my spellbinders and matted them. With the ticket sentiments, I printed them from my computer, and used my little sponges to "distress" the ticket (and the edges of the light brown cardstock) and then scraped away at the edges of both tickets with my scissors to further make them look older, I then coloured the hearts in on the sentiment in red. I faux stitched around the edge of the brown spellbinder, and then affixed my brads and hot rocks.
This was the first time that I used my I rock tool (truthfully, I added them after I was finished the card becuase I finally received it in the mail yesterday). It is soo awesome, I totally love it...so easy way less muss and fuss and hoping that you put your gem down in the right place...Love it!! official Review!! ha ha ha...I actually ended up winning my I-Rock tool on the Imaginisce blog as a weekly giveaway, I couldn't have been more excited!!! yay, so I got to play with it a little bit. Also, just a heads up, Imaginisce is showcasing their new line `little Cutie` on their blog all week, and it is adorable and the DT is absolutely fantastic! There is tons of amazing amazing inspiration, and they are having a few giveaways in the mix also!! You should definately go and check it out!!!

Anyways, Through my blog hop with Jacqueline , she bestowed on me the honour of versatile blogger!! Yay!! I can`t believe it!! How crazy!!

The rules state I must - Thank the person who sent you this blog award (done) - List 7 things about yourself (see below) - Send this to 15 other bloggers.
Things about me:
1. I am Canadian.
2. I am a new Stampin' Up Demonstrator.
3. I also work Full time as a Registered Nurse in the Operating Room.
4. My Mom and Dad (divorced) both have homes in the US that I visit regularly.
5. I have a one year old Daughter.
6. I am a recent believer in the Minivan's are Cool movement (made up to make myself feel better)
7. I love to Travel.
15 other bloggers that Continue to Inspire me:
1. Alex - http://www.youhadmeatcraft.com/
2. Jenne - http://fairycraftmama.blogspot.com/
3. Victoria - http://victoriasjunk.blogspot.com/
4. TX Scrapper Mom - http://txscrappermom.blogspot.com/
5. Celeste - http://touchedbyabutterfly.blogspot.com/
6. CarrieAnn - http://theserendipitousscrapper.blogspot.com/
7. Theresa - http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
8.Raven - http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/
9. Ruthie - http://www.septemberninth.blogspot.com/
10. Jin - http://underacherrytree.blogspot.com/
11. The Cropping Canuck - http://thecroppingcanuck.blogspot.com/
12. Karen - http://thebusybug.blogspot.com/
13. Amber - http://stayingcrafty.blogspot.com/
14. Sparkly Pink Star - http://sparklypinkstar.blogspot.com/
15. Monica - http://simplycricutting.blogspot.com/

Now, I also received the Leibster Blog Award!! Wow!! I feel the love everyone, and thank you so much! I was awarded this from Terri at My Need 2 Craft. Thank you so much Terri for the award, i feel so special to have gotten this from you!!!

About the Liebster Award:

This award was created for bloggers who have fewer than 300 followers, but put a lot of love and heart into their work. It is given to bring light to new blogs and its a great way to share blogs that might not otherwise be seen or ones you want to share with others.

As a recipient you must share the love and pay it forward by.

1- Create a post where you blog about the Liebster award and reveal your 3 to 5 blog picks.
2- Let them know you have chosen them by leaving a comment on their blog about the award.
3- Copy and paste the award on your blog.
4- Have the faith that your followers will rally and show their crafty love back out to those you award this to.
5- Have fun!!!

It's super easy!!! I follow tons of blogs, becuase there is just so much out there to see and be inspired by! These are just a few of the blogs that I love to follow (in no particular order)!
1. Tracy - http://adventures793.blogspot.com/
2. Becky - http://beckscricards.blogspot.com/
3. Deb C - http://bugjuiced.blogspot.com/

Wow!! Thanks so much to everyone, all my followers and all the blogs that I follow for continuously inspiring and sharing with me your beautiful wokrs of art!!

Now...for the final Item on my list of things to do today. I never was contacted by my precvious winner, so I was foreced to choose a new one!! *tear* So i have used Random Org again (and still don`t know how to take a screen shot or whatever...but this is what happened:

True Random Number Generator

Min:

Max:

Result: 51

so, by my counting that means that it is: Oma!! Congrats!! Oma said: Hi Brenna! I`m sure your daughter will love this card, it`s adorable``

Oma, You have three days to contact me, and I hope that you do...otherwise i will be forced to choose another number again! I really want to mail this out by friday so you can play asap with it!! Thanks so much for all you`r support my friends!! looking forward to next time!!

Brenna

Submitted at: Catch the Bug Challenge Blog: Four or More Layers
Getting Kricky with K Andrews: Inspired Hearts

Imaginisce Blog

2011-04-12T10:58:00.000-06:00

Hey all!!
I just want to let you know that imaginisce is having some great showcasing of their new line "Little Cutie". There is some great giveaways also!! Check it out!!

Brenna

April Bunny Blog Hop Winner

2011-04-07T20:38:00.001-06:00

Hello all,

my apologies for being a bit late in anouncing my winner. The winner for the April Bunny Blog Hop is:

True Random Number Generator

Min:

Max:

Result: 27

27, and by my count that would be:

Kimberly said...

Super super cute....Just a look see,checking out everyones project...love it. www.canadiancraftcorner.blogspot.com #19 on the list

April 1, 2011 9:51 PM

Congrats!! Kimberly, you have three days to get back to me at rbanderson@live.ca and I'll get your stuff out to you right away!! this was so much fun I think I'll be having a cricut cartridge follower giveaway soon!!! YAY!!! Keeo watching and stopping by!!! thanks for all your support and all the love and comments during the hop!! And thanks again to Jacqueline for including me in on the hop!! Welcome to all my new followers!!! yay!!!

Brenna

April Bunny Blog Hop

2011-04-01T06:00:00.041-06:00

April Bunny Blog Hop

Hi everyone!!!
Welcome to the April Bunny Blog Hop hosted by Made by Jacqueline! If you are here from Tara then you are in the right spot. If you just happened upon my blog and would like to start at the beginning please click {here}. There are tons of fantabulous ladies in this hop and you won't want to miss any of the inspiration!!!
In honor of Easter we are all making a project with a bunny on it!
I made an easter card for my daughter. She has no idea what's going on, and probably won't be on the hunt for any eggs this year, but it is still a fun holiday where she will get to sample some chocolate bunny. And the little bunny from simply charmed is so girly and perfect for her!!

Recipe: Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge, Recollections cardstock, misc patterned paper, Lace Scroll Martha Stewart Border Punch, Pink Sheer ribbon michaels miscallaneous, Inky Antics Bunny #2 stamp set, Peachy Keen Dolly Dumpling stamps, sakura white gel pen, tsukineko black ink, Pink pearlescent chalk for blush, pink tsukineko dew drop for inking the edge of the bunny, versamark ink pad.

On the inside I used the egg confetti stamp that comes in the inky antics bunny #2 set and used my versamark ink pad to make watermarks of eggs all over the page. I just made it a background. It is really hard to tell in the picture. This was a really fun card to make and really easy also.

I also want to give a shout out to Jackie from Inky Antics as I won this stamp set by joining in on a blog hop that she hosted, which was awesome by the way!!!! She also threw in an extra stamp set when she mailed it to me!!! Super generous!! wow!! So I was really excited to use these stamps!!

Of course, since you've hung out for so long with me here, I do have some Blog Candy to share!!!

(Sorry the photo is so bad, it was late at night when I was doing this, I couldn't even get a good photo of the cuttlebug folder...it is really hard to get photos of them in the best of lights!! so anyways...it's a cute little stamp and cuttlebug folder!!)
This studio g stamp "Colour You World" with purple jewels and also a "Thanks" cuttlebug folder (not pictured) will be mailed to one lucky follower. To be eligible, please become a follower, and leave me some lovin'!!! I will choose a winner vis random org. from my comments on April 6th once the blog hop is over. The lucky winner will have three days to get back to me with all their info, otherwise I will have to choose a new winner!!!
Good luck and enjoy the hop!!!

Next stop is -----> Linda

HOPE YOU ENJOY THE HOP.
THANKS FOR BEING IN IT & HOPPING ALONG.

1. Jacqueline http://www.madebyjacqueline.blogspot.com/
2. Becky http://www.beckscricards.blogspot.com/
3. Amber http://stayingcrafty.blogspot.com/
4. Candace http://scrappin2littleprincesses.blogspot.com/
5. Anna http://oma-idratherbecrafting.blogspot.com/
6. Sarah http://keepsakescrafts.blogspot.com/
7. Tara http://creativeprincess-homemadehappiness.blogspot.com/
8. Brenna http://brennasblitherings.blogspot.com/
9. Linda http://www.thefruitofmyhands.blogspot.com/
10. Lora http://www.crazystamper.typepad.com/
11. Liz http://missmerryweatherscreations.blogspot.com/
12. Eulanda http://www.eulandasilvey.blogspot.com/
13. Cindy http://creationsbycindy2345.blogspot.com/
14. Julie http://julietemple.blogspot.com/
15. Ellen http://www.cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
16. nataliya http://lovecraftsforever.blogspot.com/
17. Linda http://lindascraftcorner.blogspot.com/
18. Sandra http://www.365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/
19. Kimberly http://www.canadiancraftcorner.blogspot.com/
20. Michelle http://upsydaisycreations.blogspot.com/

Project Submitted: AllSorts Challenge Blog: For A Special Lady
Creative Card Crew: For A Child
Die Cuttin' Divas: #8 Hippity Hoppity
Fantabulous Cricut: #53 Looks Like Spring
Scrapbookaholic By Abby: #2 Anything Spring
Really Reasonable Ribbon: #21 Use Dies or Punches and Ribbon
Kaboodle Doodles Challenges: #60 Spring Has Sprung
Polka Doodles Challenges: #12 Spring Has Sprung
Jen's Craft Corner: Anything Bunny
Sundays With Chrissy Challenge #16: Spring is in The Air

What's Up??

2011-03-30T22:28:00.002-06:00

What's Up??
Mike Wazowski is one of my fave characters from Monster's Inc. After of course cutie pie little miss boo. But as you know I have been making birthday cards for one year olds. This is yet again another one of those cards!!! However, I am done showcasing them all...I am onto different things!!! ha ha ha...always onto different things, not always crafting as I am working full time and have a household to maintain...alas....so do many of you, (no use preaching o the choir) so I thank you for taking time out of your day to check my stuff out and leaving some love for me!! So THANK YOU!!!

Recipe: Birthday Bash Cricut Cartridge, Best of Pixar Cricut Cartridge, Recollections cardstock, shimmer micheals orange ribbon, sakura white gel pen, My Pink Stamper Punnylicious, and Green Stickles. This was tons of fun to make and it was even funner to give to my daughters little buddy. He was actually born only one hour ahead of us in the same hospital. So it was really fun to make this card for him. Our families share a lot of special memories with each other from the hospital!! Thanks for stopping by!

Brenna

Submitted at: Claire's National Craft Month

Best of Pixar Flames

2011-03-30T09:07:00.001-06:00

Hi all,

This is going to be a quick one. I made this card for a girlfriend's baby who is turning one. He has always been a bit of a terror...ie he was a bit colicky, never could be put down, never napped, and as he got older he gets into everything!! A really fun baby, but very very busy (as most are). When I recently got the Best of Pixar cartridge, the baby in the incredibles reminded me of him. He was always lighting stuff on fire, at the end of the movie anyways! and very cute! ha ha ha...anyways this is the card I made for him.

I usually don't do anything to the inside of the card, but I had some extra scraps that worked well and I needed to get the birthday stamp on it.

Recipe: Best of Pixar Cricut Cartridge, Create a Critter Cartridge (Flames), lemondrop, maraschino cherry red, and mandarin bakers twine from the twinery, recollections cardstock, DCWV christmas combo stack for the striped paper, yellow and orange peel stickles, scrappy moms sweet stuff stamps set, jillian vance designs owl set, black tsukinenko ink, small scalloped octagons spellbinders.

Thanks for checking it out!!

Brenna

Submitted: Claire's National Craft Month Challenge

It's a Birthday and a Winner!!!

2011-03-21T22:14:00.001-06:00

Hello,
Just another quick post with a quick project!! I made this card for my girlfriend who's son is having a first birthday! My whole prenatal class is turning one, so I've been busy crafting up cards for everyone!! This is one for my little buddy!! I went to Michaels and bought a sukura gel pen, because I have been seeing how awesome it looks on everyone elses cards and layouts. It did not dissapoint me!! I totally love it. it just adds something a bit extra to your card!! You'll be seeing it on every card probably now!! ha ha ha...anyways, I digress!!

Recipe: Create a Critter Cartridge, Ribbon, Jillian Vance Designs Owl so cute Stamps, recollections cardstock, tsukineko black ink, sakura white gel pen.
This was a fun and simple card for me to make!!

I also chose my winner for the St Paddy's Day Blog Hop hosted by Dee. Random Number Generator chose number 2 (don't know how to do a screen shot). That is Scrap Mama: Carie.

scrap mama said...

So glad to be a follower now. My friend sent me over thanks
carie

Glad you are now a follower!!! Please Email me at rbanderson@live.ca with your details to claim your prize! Thanks to all for joining me in the hop!! Remember to come back again I am participating in the April Bunny Blog Hop on April 1st-5th.

I will be having another giveaway!!
Brenna
Submitted: Claire's National Craft Month Challenges
Birthday Sundaes - Anything Goes Birthday
GAB Challenges - #7 Birthday Theme

St Paddy's Day Blog Hop

2011-03-17T21:30:00.007-06:00

Hi All!!! I'm soo excited!! This is my first blog hop, so welcome to my stop on the St. Paddys' Day Blog Hop!!! This hop runs from March 17th at 11:30pm till March 19 at midnight!!! One Day Only!! This hop is hosted by Denise. If you get lost please head back there to start at the beginning or if you want to check out the entire lineup to make sure you didn't miss any stops!! You should have just come from Sigrid's beautiful blog and are now more than halfway through all the hop stops.

Anyways, I just want to give a shout out to Denise, THANK YOU!!! I'm so excited to be in my first hop, and you've helped me so much with learning how it works and getting my stuff all together for it!! yay!! Anyway, onto my card. At work we have an Irish lady who is a really good friend of mine,and every St. Paddy's day she takes like the whole week off for partying with family and having a good time with some good ole' green beer!! This year she went away to Newfoundland where they will surely have tons of green beer and cod kissing!! ha ha ha, could be trouble!! I digress...this card is for her, I FINALLY got my Peachy keen stamps, I say that because for some reason I waited for a month (not even kidding) till I received my stamps!! I have scrappers block for that whole time, becuase it seemed like everything I wanted to make was impossible without my peachy keen stamps. So anyways, I finally got to use them and I am soo happy with them...it won't be too long till I'll be waiting another month for my next batch I'm sure!! Anyways, here is my card:

Here is a close up of the face, I couldn't help myself, plus my rainbow made with the twinery twine!!! yay!! I love peachy keen stamps, they are soo cute and really make your project that much cuter!! love them!!

Recipe: Recollections and Sizzix Cardstock and patterned paper, Eyelet outlet 3 leaf clover brad, micheals misc ribbon, Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge, Sakura White Gel Pen, Yellow and Christmas red stickles, Black pigment ink, clear embossing powder, The Twinery bakers twine in caribbean, lemondrop, maraschino cherry, lilac, mandarin, and peapod, Hapmton art classic mini alphabet set, whisper stroked markers for outlining, pebbles inc hewel tone chalks for blush.

So I was really happy with this card, I just love simply charmed, you're probably tired of seeing it, it's prob pretty dominant becuase it is soo cute!!! Please go and check out the other stops on the hop,. The next stop is Cheryl!! Check out her awesome project and beautiful blog!!

Anyways, onto the cool part, well REALLY cool part!! I have BLOG CANDY!!!! yay!!!! How awesome!! ha ha ha...I'm really excited this is my first giveaway ever, and I will be sure to have tons more!! I am in a few more hops, so please keep checking back because they will all have giveaways!! Anyways, for this blog hop I am giving away a cuttlebug embossing folder (Congratulations) and a micheals "Peace.love.happiness" Stamp.
To be eligible, please become a follower and leave a comment on this post!! thanks tons for stopping by!!

Brenna

Submitted in: Rainbow Lady's Challenge: #144 St Paddy's Day
Sentimental Sunday: #46 Let's Go Green
All Sorts Challenge: Week 94 Luck o' the Irish
Creative Card Crew: Show us Some Green
Crazy About Cricut: # 4 Leprechaun
Do You Stack Up Challenge: #11 Add a Bow
Fab n' Funky Challenges: #64 Green or St Patty's Day
For Fun Challenges: Green
Stamp 'n' Doodle: Use at least 2 "g" embellishments (green, glitter, gold for my card)
Cooking with Cricut: Two Shades of Green
Claire's National Craft Month Challenge

Stylish Blogger

2011-03-14T21:52:00.001-06:00

Wow, what an honour!! I have received my second (and third award)!!! I was given this award by two incredibly talented ladies, SimplyBren at Simplybren Is Having Too Much Fun and Angela at Krafting with Kings!!! These ladies are soo super talented and fantabulous!! Thank you so much for bestowing on me this incredible honour!! I am more than happy to spread the love, there is soo many deserving bloggers out there!!

There are some rules when a blog receives the award:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.
2. Share 8 things about yourself.
3. Give the award to 8 bloggers that you have recently discovered.
4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their award

8 Things about Me:

1. I am Canadian, but grew up in Indonesia.

2. I am Registered Nurse who loves working in the Operating Room.

3. I can only scrapbook with my sister but can't make cards with anyone else.

4. My Mom lives in Arizona.

5. My best friends in life are twice my age.

6. My daughter will be growing up with a group of ya-ya sisterhood aunties.

7. I have only been cardmaking since January 2011.

8. I collected scrapbooking stuff and tools for three years before acutally being able to use it.

Now for 8 Bloggers that deserve this award and always inspire me to keep creating:

1. Corri - Bug Lover Cards

2. Helen - Crafting Cricut Mom

3. Creating a Crafty Life

4. Denise - Designs From My Heart

5. Sharon - Meemees Creations

6. Amanda - My Scrappin Obsession

7. Lisa - Peanuts and Peppers Papercrafting

8. Nikki - Scrappin' Navy Wife

Thanks you all for being a daily inspiration, and there are so many others that inspire me as well!! Keep on creating everyone!! thanks a lot!!

Brenna

2011-03-13T20:34:00.003-06:00

Hello "Owl" my friends!! (pardon the pun!!)
I have been on a crafting binge lately and am excited to show you my projects!! But I can't show you all at once, as I am now working full time, I need to put something up every now and then so that during the times that I am unable to craft, there will be postings still, I need to be able to budget it!! ha ha ha, for myself too!! anyways, i just bought the twinkle toes cartridge at my local walmart, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! If you ahve a little girl or do a lot of girl themes scrapping/cardmaking, this is a must have!! it has some of the CUTEST cuts EVER!!!! yay!!! I have been looking for it for a while,a nd have found that you really can't get it on sale ever, so I jsut bucked up and bought it!! totally worth it!!! Pink and green are a few of my fave colours, so I decided this is the perfect time to use it!! Hope you like my project!

Recipe: Twinkle Toes Cartridge, gcd studios cloisonne DP, pink Twinery Twine, recollections cardstock, Jillian Vance designs Owl Stamps, real stitching, Glam Pink and cotton candy Stickles, Ranger antiquities embossing powder in rose quartz.
Thanks for checking me out and Following!! I have a few blog hops coming up and I will be giving away some Candy so please check back!! thanks!!
Brenna

Submitted: Claire's National Craft Month Challenge
Getting Kricky with K Andrews: Anything winged
Pollycraft Challenge: #83 Fly me to the Moon
Getting Kricky with K Andrews: Sugar and Spice
Fab n Funky Challenges: #63 Make it Girly
Flaunt It Fridays: Twinkle Toes Cartridge

Tri Fold Shutter Card

2011-03-13T14:35:00.006-06:00

So this is my first attempt at a tri fold shutter card. I love this card, and how it looks (better when other people do it I think), if I wanted to write a big long note in my card, I don't think I would go with this format!! ha ha ha, it really takes a lot more planning than I initially thought. I started and I just kept on being like "now what, now what, what colour would look good here, what works here"...it was difficult, but I finally settled on everything, and I'm happy with the outcome I think. I do love ladybugs anyways...I got the tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers. If you want to do any funky folds or motion cards, that is where you can get some great tutorials!!

Recipe: DCWV Cardstock, Misc patterned paper from scrap stash, sizzizx DP, Happy Birthday misc stamps (I lost the packaging somehow and I can't remember what they are), fabric flowers from dollar store, recollections black brad, eyelet outlet jewel brads, tsukineko black ink, recollections flower border punch, green michaels ribbon.
This was fun to make, and I will definately be making it again, the reason that I'm not sure if I like it also too, is that as you can see it looks like the top bit is a bit too heavy and it sort of sags on the top. I think the reason this happens in two fold, one is because I used glue and two is because all the layers I have weigh it down too...I cannot wait to get my atg gun...my sister has it and she lives like 45 minutes away, and we have not had time to see each other since I went back to work...sadly!! So hopefully we can get together to scrap sometime soon!! Anyways, hope you enjoyed my project!!
A few more things!! There is some awesome blog candy up for grabs!!
Check out Angela's Blog to enter yourself for a chance to win some awesome blog candies, there are three up for grabs!! This pic is only one of the three batches!!

Also, I found this great blog called PSA Stamp Camp a while ago. They have some awesome tutorials, and fantastic projects and challenges!! They are looking for more followers and offering up some great candy to a lucky winner also!! Please go and check them out!! Have a great day!!

Brenna

Submitted: Claire's National Craft Month Challenge - anything goes
My Time to Craft Challenge - #131 Jewels
Southern Girls Challenge - Flowers
Stampin' B's Challenges - #101 Use Bling
Anything Challenge Blog - Die Cuts
Getting Kricky with K Andrews - Anything Winged
Card Creations and More with Christina - So Saturday Challenge # 5 Tri Fold Shutter Card
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - Spring Has Sprung
Pause Dream Enjoy - Fun Fold Card Challenge

HK Cartridge, KB Challenge

2011-03-12T15:18:00.002-07:00

Hello,

This is going to be a quick post for today, but I am back with a birthday card that I made for one of my girlfriends. Her daughter just turned one also! I thought it was a perfect card for her!! anyways, here is my card!

Recipe: Hello Kitty Cartridge, pink twine from the twinery, recollections cardstock, recollections flower border punch, DCWV glitter cardstock, xmas red stickles, pop dots.

Thanks for checking it out...
Brenna

submitted at : KB Challenges #6 - Something Pink
Claire's National Craft Month Challenge

Great Giveaway!

2011-03-11T21:11:00.000-07:00

Check out this awesome giveaway to get the elusive Twinkle Toes cartridge with Elaine!!

I'll be back later tonight or tomorrow with a new post and a card!! yay!!

Brenna

Finally a New Project!!

2011-03-04T23:11:00.003-07:00

Okay, so I feel as if I have been out of things for a really long time....well I have. I have returned to work, so I now don't have up to 3 hrs a day (during naps)to play around on the computer and blogging and in my craft room!! ahhh!! now I spend 8hrs (minimal) at work!! ahh!! ha ha ha...I have even returned to work fulltime, which is unusual for nurses I guess, everyone is pretty shocked anyway!!
I do love my dayhome provider, and so does my daughter, so it isn't so bad...I guess. I do feel as though I miss out on a lot, and sometimes I feel a bit neglectful becuase she spends more time with dayhome provider then with my during the week...it makes me sad anyways...but I definately needed the socialization of my work for me. I do love my work also, so that helps ease the pain of beign back and away from my daughter so much! Anyways, onto my project for today. I made a new baby card for my friend who just had a little boy in the end of February. yay, if it wasn't obvious by the colours of the card. So my card is below:

Recipe: Simply charmed Cricut Cartridge, Accents Essentials Cricut Cartridge, Recollections cardstock, threading water punch, waterfall stickles, misc ribbon and cardstock, scrappy moms sweet saying stamp set.
I really wanted to have a face on the baby, but for some wierd reason still waiting on my peachy keen stamps from their super bowl sale!! I knew I would ruin it if I tried to draw a face on after the fact, and by the time that I even noticed (which was after I photographed it) everything was all together, I wasn't doing everything all over again for a face!! ha ha ha...ahh...I'm going crazy, literally, I can't do any preojects because I am still waiting for those stamps. I want to use them for like everything!!! (I of course will have to tell my hubby I won them when they do come, he he he!!!)
Anyways, hope you liked my card, it is safely in someone elses home right now! yay! I also thought you might like to know there is an awesome hop going on right now:

There are over 30 awesome blogs involved in the hop with some awesome prizes!! hope you all have fun and enjoy!! Thanks for joinging me and I hope to see you soon!!

OH YEAH!!! Some exciting news for me....I will soon be making my first appearance in a blog hop!! yay!! I will be having some awesome blog candy for the hop also!! Can't wait to see you all then...What hop you are asking...well....It is the St Paddy's day Blog Hop and will be taking place on March 17th at 11:30pm - March 19th at midnight!! (Only one day, so you'll have to be on the ball!!)

So I hope you all can join me and all the other fantabulous ladies for the hop! I want to send out a shout out to Denise for helping me get involved and helping me out and teaching me about how it works (behind the scenes)!! Yay! So anyways, I will be posting again before the hop (hopefully of course) but Can't wait to see you all on st. paddy's day!!

Brenna

Submitted at: Do You Stack Up Challenge Blog
Claire's National Craft Month Challenge
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge

Cupcake Toppers!!

2011-02-20T21:08:00.001-07:00

Hello all, again I feel like I have been out of touch with everything for a while (mostly because I have been)!!! This is just short post, but I wanted to show off some cupcake toppers I made for my daughter's frist b-day party. She is turning one tomorrow, but we had her birthday party on saturday as I have to work nights tonight. So I used the love bug cut from Create a critter at 2 inches. I should have made them a bit bigger, but oh well. They worked out perfectly. I originally wanted to have red and black iced cupcakes (for ladybugs), but I am a poor planner for things like birthday parties and I just didn't get my act together...so i didn't have time for that. I just made some "grass" icing and then used the cupcake toppers, everything worked out fantabulously though!! I also made chocolate and confetti cupcakes, my wierd sister (check out her blog at http://paulaspapercrafts.blogspot.com/) does not like chocolate!!! WHAT??? I know I said it my sister doesn't like chocolate!!

The first party was a bit emotional for me, and when I came across a card that I decided had a little too much writing on it, I just skipped over the reading to save for later in case I cried!! ha ha ha...I am a bit of a cry baby sometimes!! Oh well!! I can't believe how fast a year goes when you're not paying attention!! Here is a pic of my daughter at her first party too.

I also wanted to let you know about an awesome your story bundle, the christmas village cricut cartridge, and precision scissors pack are being given away by Cindy at Scrappin Room, go and check it out, it's a great chance to win a your story bundle and not to mention the other goodies you may win!!! Have a great day!!!

Thanks for stopping by:

Brenna

Crop Out Diabetes!!

2011-02-05T20:45:00.000-07:00

Hi!! Okay, so hopefully this isn't my last post for a while, I felt like I had my mojo back tonight while I was making this scrap layout, even though I still have yet to receive anything that I have ordered!! Anyways, my goal was to complete all of the challenges that were in the COD (crop out diabetes), somehow I managed to complete them all!! yay!!! ha ha ha...this is the last challenge that I needed to complete for the Crop out Diabetes challenge blog hop. I know it's a bit late to be doing the challenges, but there is plenty of time to be donating to such a great cause!! Please go and check it out, and donate if you can!! This will be entered at Scrapality's blog. Her challenge was to create a monochromatic layout for someone with diabetes. My mother has diabetes, and this is a layout that is for her "grandma's brag book" scrapbook. Every now and then I mail off a page or two for her scrapbook (she lives in arizona, and I in canada), so it's a nice surprise for her whenever she gets these!! Anyways, I chose pink (and of course white as well) because the layout is going to feature my daughter, and of course it will have my mom as well...it is going to have photos from my mom's recent visit here over new years!

(I know the stamp is unreadable, it is "Happiness walks on busy feet" by stampology...adorable but unfortunately i chose the wrong embossing powder, sorry, plus a bad photo doesn't help I guess...i tried...!!)

Recipe: DCWV and recollections cardstock, bazzill flower pots in pink and white shimmer, prima large flowers (white one), misc brads and jewel, Create a Critter cartridge for hearts and zebra, stampology stamps "happiness walks on busy feet," Ranger magenta embossing powder, pink ribbon and pink flower lace. I'm not sure what kind of paper the background is, I can't really remember.
In retro spect I would have embossed with a different pink, as it is really hard to see the magenta on the background (not so bad in person, but in the photo it is terrible and it is such a cute stamp!!)
Anyways, I'm pretty happy with it, and once I get some photos on it from my mom's recent visit home it will look even better, and I know my mom will love it!! thanks for looking and have a great night!!
Brenna

I am MIA and Blog Candy Alerts!

2011-02-05T09:46:00.001-07:00

okay...so I have been MIA for a few days...I am feeling like I need to get in my craft room, however...sadly I have returned to work and it just isn't as easy to do! After one year away from work with my little baby, it is hard to go back to full time! ahhh!! Alas, it must be done! It is also good for me and I am happy to be around good friends and colleagues again also!
Anyways, the reasons for no posts in the last few days is two-fold. I was on a post a day run for a while, however I am on hold right now becuase I am back and work and I seem to have less time to muck around in my scrapbooking room (wierd??), however this is the reason that has the least impact on my actual scrapping output. Secondly since starting to blog my wish list grew so rapidly and it was just soo huge. I was feeling like my projects were crap becuase I couldn't use the cuts I wanted to use, the stamps I wanted or whatever...anyways...strangly enough my hubby must have sensed my dismay.
He splurged on cricut carts and crafting supplies for me...he did say that it counts as valentines and mothers day and my own spending on crafts!! ha ha ha...but I think I'll have almost every cricut cart, I bought a set of stickles (most excited about) and some bakers twine (yay), hmmm, I am thinking about investing in the many marvelous stampin' up markers...that has been the toughest to commit to, but I feel like I can't really explore stamping truly without them...so I must take the plunge...i guess that's why i'm back at work!! what else...I feel like i spent the farm (or my husband did anyways, and by feel i meant did)....
Anyways, so now I know all this stuff is on it's lovely slow little way over to my doorstep. So with that knowledge I find myself sitting in my scrapping room with scrapper's block...is that what it's called?? anyways, I cannot think of a project that I can do without wanting what I don't have yet, it's all about what I'm waiting for...so I have decided to just check out tutorials (increase my wishlist), check out other blogs for inspiration and see whats out there until I get all my stuff, then I can get my mojo back on...Although, that being said I do have one more post for tomorrow...(i haven't done my project yet, but I wanted to do one more challenge for crop out diabetes!)
So along with that, i have some blog candy updates for all you out there wanting more candy!! Who doesn't love candy anyway?? Okay, so Jayden's Mommy is giving away this beautiful just because cards brand new cartridge (the only catch is you have to live in the US or pay remaining shipping vis paypal, small price to pay for this great cart!!)

Pats Scraps is only a few followers away from making her draw!! go and check out her blog, follow her she has some awesome projects and stuff to check out as well as the awesome candy she has!

Queen of my Craftroom is giving away an awesome cartridge that you really dont' see too much of, but has some awesome cuts and super cute birds. She is giving away the three birds on parade cartridge!! So cute. now she is giving it away when she reaches 200 followers...she is actually already at 200, but she has yet to draw a winner!! so go ahead and try to get in it!! good luck!!

Dandy also has some great blog candy that she is going to draw at 100 followers, she is getting close to that, so please check her awesomely stylish blog out, and get in on her blog candy too!

Also, Christine is having an amazing mystery giveaway on her blog, as soon as she reaches 200 followers, and she is close!!! so please go on over there check it out!!

And the last blog candy I have for now is Scrappy Scavenger, she is giving away an awesome cartridge that i actually don't have so would love to win, but she is giving away the wrap it up cartridge!!! yay...so go and check out all the lbogs enter to win!! and good luck everyone!! yay...spread the goodness around!!!

Anyways, thanks for checking out my blog, and have a great weekend, and check out all the blog hops this weekend and beginning of next week!!
Brenna

COD and more Challenges!!!

2011-02-01T19:42:00.001-07:00

Hello all, I just wanted to quickly show my projects that I made today. One of my girlfriends just had surgery for breast cancer, so I made her a card for the occasion, of course. I love how the breast cancer ribbon is front and center but it is somewhat understated because of the flowers. I like to think that the flowers represent continued growth and happiness. Anyways, I also liked the monochromaticness (is that even a word) also.

Recipe: Recollections pink and white cardstock, pink ribbon (brand unknown), eyelet outlet brad, bazzil basics flower pot flowers (pink and white shimmer), dots cuttlebug embossing folder, 3 white buttons.
This card was really easy to make but a great card, one of my favorites, I also like that it doesn't have a sentiment either. (becuase I have really crappy sentiment stamps...for now of course...ha ha ha )
Challenges: COD - http://cricutcraftyclare.blogspot.com/
Challenge Me Monday - http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/

I also have a second project for today. Yay!! I did a kid inspired valentines card. I decided to use minnie as she is soo cute looking out all dreamy eyed. Anyways, before I get carried away, as I said I have crappy sentiment stamps so I just printed the sentiment off on my computer.

Recipe: Recollections cardstock, DCWV Cardstock, Swiss Dots cuttlebug embossing folder, ribbon of unknown origin (as usual), its hard to tell also, but I rubbed the swiss dots with a pink pigment ink stamp pad to give it a bit of colour also.
Challenges: COD - http://sweetsassydiva-gspot.blogspot.com/
COD - http://paperprettiesblog.blogspot.com/
40:31 Creations - http://laurenscraps.blogspot.com/
Paper Sundaes - http://papersundaes.blogspot.com/
Anyways, those are my projects, so thanks all for checking them out! Have a great night!!
Brenna

A project and an Award!!!

2011-01-31T14:47:00.000-07:00

Happy monday! sort of, monday is always a bittersweet day! anyways, I created a card for this new challenge blog that I found. It's called Die Cuttin' Divas. It is a really fun blog and the challenge was the kick start challenge and it was anything winter. Now I live in Canada, and so the winter is most of the year here, so it seems anyways. I happen to love winter, I love all the sports that you can play hockey, skating, curling, snowshoeing, skiing and cross country skiing to name a few, that being said, when winter is over I love the summer. Anyways, so I was happy to create a card for that challenge. I also created it using the sketch from Card patterns sketch #100.

Recipe: Recollections Cardstock, DCWV Christmas paper stack, cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder, Joys of the Season cricut cartridge, misc ribbon, inkadinkadoo christmas snow stamps, black ink.
Simple card but has really cute winter colors.
Now onto my next announcement I have received my first blog award!! I received the "My Blog has attitude Award" from Dandylicious over at http://dandylicioushair.blogspot.com/, I can't believe it happened so fast. Two weeks ago I would look at all the blogs with all their awards and followers with envy, but now I have a few followers (thank you followers) and I even have an award!!!

I received the award from Dandy over at dandylicioushair.blogspot.com she has a really awesome blog also, so please go on over and check her out if you haven't already! So, in order to accept this award I have to tell you five things that make me different from everyone else and then nominate another five blogs to receive the award also.

So Three things about myself:
1. I am a registered nurse who loves her job in the operating room!
2. I love to scrapbook and papercraft with my sister.
3. My husband is a total enabler to my paper crafting addictions. (I'm very lucky)

And the other blogs that I am nominating are:
1.http://canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.com
2.http://crazyaboutcricket.blogspot.com
3.http://patchesofpink.blogspot.com
4.http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com
5.http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com

So, go on and check out the blogs! They are all amazing and I check them out all the time, I always get inspiration from them all! Anyways, so have a great evening and we'll chat again soon!
Brenna

Spring Sunshine: Will it ever come?

2011-01-30T14:07:00.002-07:00

Okay, so here I am on a cold sunday morning and it is -20 C and we have had about 15cm of snow in the last 48hrs! Ahh!! That was following about a week of +11C weather!! ha ha ha. how cruel is mother nature to give you a taste of whats to come and then right back to cold! Anyways, so I made this layout to try to catch up with some stuff from my daughters earlier months and also to remind me that the nice weather does come. It was inspired by some challenges that are involved with the crop out for a cure for Diabetes. One of the challenges was to create something that celebrates spring. And the other challenge was to create something about someone that inspires you. So I created it for my daughter because she has inspired me to remember to stay young at heart, and to always laugh and be happy.
Again, go and check the crop for a cure out. It's all for a great cause and there are some great prizes available!! So anyways, this is my layout, and I already put pictures of my daughter on it as I had them around...I love it when my to do scrapbooking list goes down! ha ha ha...also, beware this is a picture heavy post!!! But I wanted to show closeups of all the elements that I put on it! The two journaling spaces are the only thing that I have to do still.
So here is my double page layout!
Together:

Page One:

Page Two:

(Sorry this last one is a bit blurry, but it is a cardstock sticker with a few rub-ons and glitter brads on it.)

Recipe: Create a Critter Cartridge, I'm not sure what the background paper is anymore, I got it in an ebay lat...sorry, DCWV Carstock, DCWV Glitter Cardstock, old rub-ons not sure of brand (bird and "adore"), glitter brads, corduroy brads, bling, velvet brads, prima flowers, turquoise ranger embossing powder, ranger antiquities rose quartz, tanzanite, and ocher embossing powder, creative imaginations chipboard stickers, doodlebug designs cardstock stickers, kaiser crafts yellow pearls, eyelet outlet tulip brads, butterfly and flower stamps (not sure of brand), inkadinkadoo flourish stamps, cuttlebug embossing folder birds and swirls.
So there it is, thanks for looking. I'm about to go swimming with my family! yay!! Have a great day and hope your weather is nicer than it is here!! Thanks for looking!
Brenna

Crop out for a Cure altered red/grey and black box

2011-01-29T21:14:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I'm going to start by apologizing. This is a rookie attempt...and it's pretty obvious....but I'm going to keep it because I like the top of my box, and I also like the colour scheme. Also, I'm hoping that maybe someone out there who checks out my blog who has done this sort of thing more often and knows what to do can help me out a little bit!! They'll see how in need I am of box altering advice!!! I'm sure I will have to do the sides over again, and at that point I'll do it the right way! Ha ha ha. So this was inspired by the Diabetes Crop out for a Cure. PLEASE go and check it out. Donations to be eligible for prizes, but even if you're not into donating for good karma, the prizes are also great! But it is for a great cause!! Anyways, I was challenged to alter an item by two blogs, and also to make something using the colours that represent the JDRF, which is grey and red. You could have other colours on it but grey and red needed to be the main colours. So I altered an old box that fits A2 cards. I actually ordered envelopes and this is what they came in. So I decided to alter a box because you always have tons of cards and stuff that you just don't want to throw out, but you really don't have a place to keep them, so this will alleviate that problem! Yay!!
This is the top of my box.

the bottom but is emty becuase I want to do a cut from a child's year cricut cartridge, but I don't have it yet. I recently bought it online, but have not received it yet.

This is the side view from the front

So as you can tell by the side photo I did something I'll never do again, I just didn't really know any other way to go about it, so anyone who has a lot of experience doing this, tips are welcome and invited!!! Anyways, I pieced the sides on, I don't know if that's what you're dupposed to do, but there has to be a better way. I wouldn't do this again because it seems as if the sides are always catching on something when you move it or whatever, But if you cut the paper shorter so that it doesn't catch, it doesn't cover whats underneath the box. Also, if you look at the front view, you can tell that the top of the box corners are flaring out and they don't look like they are even attatched. I was hoping for a cleaner look, anyways, maybe it's just the box top...if you know a better way, let me know!!!

Recipe: Red, black and grey DCWV cardstock, ranger red embossing powder, black and red ribbon, Pooh Font Cricut Cartridge, inkadinkadoo flourish stamps, fiskars love stamps, recollections border punch for sides.
Anyways, thanks for checking me out today! Look forward to more crafts and firsts, hopefully the next is better than this one! I still like the top of it though, that's why i'm keeping it becuase of the top. It looks nice if you don't pick it up or anything...ha ha ha!
Brenna

Wacky Wednesday, Creative Cutter Room, Crop out for a Cure

2011-01-28T20:16:00.000-07:00

So I have a new project, and for the first time it isn't a card or a scrapbooking layout!! It is a treat bag topper! yay! My daughter is starting at her day home next tuesday, and well valentines day is a time for kids to enjoy some sweets. Now Paisley hasn't had much sweets...actually none, no ice cream, no cake, no candies nothing...so her first birthday will be the first time that she will have had any artificial sugars! wow...I don't think that I could go a year anymore!! ha ha ha. anyways, since I'm not sure what the other parents will think of giving their kids a bunch of sugar and also I don't want to give my daughter a ton of sugar, I am going to make some cookies from a recipe that my friend gave me. She is diabetic and they are "sugarless" cookies! But she promises that they are awesome!!! Oatmeal Spice Cookies. So we'll see. anyways, back to my topper, I made it also to submit to More Than Favors Wacky Wednesday Challenge which was to use only brown green and pink. I am also going to submit it to Creative Cutter Room's Challenge which was Love Bug themed. So without further ado...my toppers!

Recipe: Stretch Your Imaginations Cartridge Cricket cut at 2", Create a Critter Cartridge Love Bug Phrase at 2 1/4" I also used the leyer of the love bug for the heart eyes (I cut it at 2 inches without real dial size on), Pink brown and green recollections cardstock, spotty ribbon from michaels.

Oh yeah, and If you're interested, this is the recipe for my girlfriends cookies:
Diabetic Spice Oatmeal Cookies
1 c. water
2 c. raisins
4 tbsp sweetner
½ c butter
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp allspice
½ tsp cinnamon
1 tsp soda
1/8 tsp nutmeg
2 ½ c oatmeal
½ c chopped nuts
Boil water and raisins. Cool for 5 minutes. Add all the other ingredients. Form into balls and bake on lightly greased cookie sheet for 15 minutes at 325 degrees.

So I think i'll put four or five cookies in each ziploc for the kiddos. I'm not really excited for Paisley to go to Dayhome (more like I cray when I think about it), but heck it's been a year now!! Thank god for Canadian Maternity Leave!! However, I'm ready to get back out there in the work world too!
Also, part of my inspiration for making the diabetic cookies came from the Diabetes crop out for the cure! It is part of a challenge, to make sweet free valentine for kids. The blog hop is going on right now till February 5th. Please go and check it out, make a donation and join in the fun. It's only five dollars to participate in the blog hop and all the challenges along the way. You will also be eligible for all the awesome prizes along the way! A really fun way to raise some money for a really worthwhile cause! Alright well that's all for me tonight! Have a scraptaculous evening!!
Brenna

Jitterbuggin' Challenge, CCCC #3, Terrific Tuesday, RRR16, CPS 202

2011-01-27T09:43:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I think I have gone a bit challenge crazy here, but in my defence, they were quick and easy projects to make, not to mention fun! First off I made a valentines card. This is going to be for one of my besties. She will laugh, I thought that the stamp was super cute also. So this card I made to enter into Really Reasonable Ribbon's Hearts and Ribbons challenge (#16), which as the challenge says requires hearts and ribbons on the project. It is also going to be submitted to Card Positioning Systems Challenge 202, which was to create a card using a certain sketch. And lastly I wanted to enter this into The Scrappy Mom's Terrific Tuesday Challenge. Their challenge was to use the sweethearts cartridge, unfortunately I don't have that cartridge, but I figured that the sweetheart cartrige had hearts in it somewhere and I decided that it counted as a similar cut!!

Recipe: Recollections cardstock, miscallaneous ribbon, inkadinkadoo valentines and heart stamps, fiskars threading water punch, Plantin' Schoolbook for heart cutouts, Markers for colouring in the feet and tails, and pink ranger embossing powder (which didn't turn out as had hoped becuase of the dark background, but it still looked alright anyways).
Now this is a first, two projects one post!! ha ha ha. The next card I created to enter into the jitterbuggin' "Let the Sunshine in" Challenge. It was to use a certain sketch and use yellow. Which I was more than happy to do! This card was fun, I made it bigger than the standard sized card, I made it a 6x6 card. so that is fun (only I don't have an envelope for it, yet! ha ha ha). Once again this time I felt the need for peachy keen stamps!! ahhh!! I don't think i'm going to be able to wait and see if I won them! ha ha ha, I'm going to break down I just know it! How can you never know about something and not be bothered and then you find out about it and all of the sudden you're finding that you need it on every project?? okay that is a stupid question...I'm finding this is happening with a lot of my projects! There is so much stuff online that you just won't know if you don't venture!

Recipe: Recollections Cardstock, DCWB Glitter Cardstock, DCWV Spring Stack, Blue Ribbon, Create a Critter Cartridge, chalking for the edge of the chick, Pebbles Inc "Sunshine" Cardstock Sticker.

Anyways, So there you have it, my quick and easy projects for the day! Happy blogging, don't forget there are a few blog hops going on this weekend so make sure to check them out!! I know that I can't wait to see what everyone is creating!!

Brenna

Cooking with Cricut, Made by Momo, and My Pink Stamper all in one

2011-01-26T23:39:00.000-07:00

Hello!! I am really excited for this blog! I made a two page layout for my daughters first birthday today! Even though I am caught up with my scrapbook for her, I have to do some pages for my mom as I gave her an ampty scrapbook for christmas with the assurance that she will receive random pages in the mail at different times in the year...sometimes you just get a little behind with all your crafting!! ack!! Anyway, not only did I get a great sketch idea given in a challenge for me to use, but I also got to make a project that could be entered into two (make that three) challenges. I am entering this into Made by Momo's Tuesday Challenge (this tuesday is Challenge #20), and it is anything Princess Themed. Well my daughter is a little princess, but I also used a cricut imagine "you're my little princess banner." I am also going to submit this to Cooking with Cricut for Challenge #15, which is anything birthday themed. This is my chance to get some peachy keen stamps without going way over budget on an order becuase "I just can't help myself!!" Who hasn't said that before in a scrapbooking store...ahhh...I have heard every response from my husband possible! ha ha ha...anyway, Peachy Keen Stamps is the sponsor this week, so go on over and check it out, enter a project!! Anyway, onto my project, I am really happy with how this turned out, it had a little bit of everything on it. Heat embossing, dry embossing, cricut imagine and expressions, brads, ribbons, photo mats. and of course really cute glittery background paper!! Its kind of hard to tell with the heat embossing, I sort of made the blue and pink embossing overlap a little bit. That is something that I really like doing a lot, usually I'll make it overlap a lot and use it as a background for my titles or something.

Page One

Page Two

Recipe: Cricut Imagine best friends, storybook cartridge, "just because" cards cartridge, DCWV Glitter Stack background Paper, Recollections and a few other unknown brands of matchin cardstock. Misc Ribbon from micheals for both banner and runner. Miscallaneous brads, i think I got most of them from eyelet outlet, kaiser craft pearls, doodlebug designs cherry brad, D'vine Swirls and Candy Stripes Cuttlebug embossing folder, Magenta and turqouise ranger embossing powder, inkadinkadoo cute kid saying and flourish stamps, versamark watermark ink, and black ink. PHEW.

Another exciting thing is....that my husband got everything on tape as I was making this layout (minus all the cricut cutting, I did that before hand) I figured most people know how to use their cricut better than I do probably!! Anyways, he is editting as I speak. not sure if it is even going to be"postable," or when that will even happen, it may take a while to do the editing...we will see. I will only post it if it is somewhat decent (ie. you can actually tell what I am doing), and it is under 10 minutes!! Anyways, so that will be my inaugural video post! ha ha ha...yay!! We shall see how it goes! Anyway, thanks again for looking! Can't wait to check out all your blogs!! have good sleeps!!

Brenna

p.s I am also going to submit this to My Pink Stamper for their something yummy challenge! yay! (this time I will make it befire mr. linky disappears!!

Throwback Thursday

2011-01-25T15:40:00.000-07:00

Well Hello again,
I have here again another challenge card. This one is for my neice who turns three soon, she loves princesses, the only thing that would be better would be Dora! ha ha ha. Anyways, I created this card and it is fairly simple. Not yet using many new techniques, but with all the blogs I have looked at my wish list has gotten so big that I can't possibly keep up, let alone my husband!! anyway, I am going to enter this into Thursday Throwback Challenge. First of all, I clearly need some peachy keen stamps...why have I never seen them before starting my own blog??!?!?!? Anyways, the peachy keen stamps really make your faces and other accents really great!! I am sad I don't have any yet! ha ha ha...I'm also happy to see that you can tell her boa is purple glittery.

Recipe: Paper Doll Dress-up Cartridge Prom Girl, Recollections cardstock, DCWV Glitter Cardstock, Pink Chalking for cheeks and text bubble, miscallaneous ribbon, Paisley cuttlebug embossing folder.
This was my project. It turned out okay, nothing special. It really makes a difference when you can stamp your sentiment obviously. So I wish I had some better sentiment stamps. I have mostly done scrapbooking layouts and hadn't really done much cardmaking till the last few weeks, so sentiments are not really my forte...for now...ha ha ha...But yeah, so my wish list grows with every project that I complete.
The other thing I am happy to report is that I am goign to try and get a video going on one of my projects. Not sure how that is going to go, i'm sure I will (and you will) find out how unorganized and scatterbrained I really am! ha ha ha...oh well...we'll see. I'm going to try it out. My husband is more into the technical side of thing and he really badly wants me to do it, so I'm sure I'll be doing it when he can help me out/forces me to do it! ha ha ha...anyways, Hopefully I'll get some time tonight to do another project! have a great day! Thanks for looking!
Brenna

Whimsical Wed, Challenge Me Monday, Challenge # 35

2011-01-24T20:55:00.000-07:00

Hello all...again!! I'd like to start out by thanking my current followers! ha ha ha, yay!! I'm looking forward to the ten mark! ha ha ha...So Thank you for following and assuring me that I am not crazy and not out there talking to myself!! So tonight, I'd like to share with you a project that I created to include with the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge with Stephanie. I was a bit late in creating this, as again I am working against the clock to get this posted. ha ha ha...I have an hour to get my linky thingy on their site. It's not a bit deal if I don't get it. Anyways, the actual challenge was to use an elephant in your project. So I looked at their card that they created and it was really cute, but I really didn't want to use the create a critter elephant becuase I always use that cartridge and I was trying to use a cartridge that has been neglected (more on that later)! So without further ado, I created a birthday card. I still used the create a critter cartridge I guess for the peanuts! ha ha ha...oh well.

Recipe: Celebration Cartridge, Create a Critter Cartridge, Animal Kingdom Cartridge, Green Ribbon, Recollections Cardstock, Birthday stamps for stars and "Happy Birthday," black ink.
I wanted to put the circus tent behind the elephant but the elephant was so big that I figured that the card would be kind of taken over by images. I kind of wanted to keep it a bit more simple. This card is also a regular A2 card.
So, another challenge that I am entering this card into is the Challenge me Monday Challenge over at Fantabulous Cricut. Challenge me Monday Challenge # 44 was to use a cartridge that has been neglected in your collection. I decided to use the Animal Kingdom cartridge as since I got the create a critter cartridge this cartridge has sort of been on the back burner even though it has a lot of really cute images and sayings in it.
The third and final challenge that this card is goig to be included in is the Paper Playtime Challenge. It is Challenge #35, Anything Party Related. Obviously its a birthday card. Yay, so three challenges my project for today works for, that is fun!! Hope you enjoy my card, and looking forward to more! Have a great night!

Brenna

p.s I made it into the whimsical wednesday challenge!! ha ha ha

Getting Inspired!!

2011-01-23T21:01:00.001-07:00

So I decided to work on a project that was mainly inspired by Scrappin Roots Blog Hop, which was hosted by Erin. The theme in that blog hop was to go back to the "roots" of paper crafting which for most people that started at scrapbooking. Which it for sure did for me! So I was happy to get back into a layout design! There were three or four other sources of inspiration that I saw throughout my blog hopping today! I was also inspired by Jess at Kinderstampo.com with her birthday themed blog hop. I was inspired by my follower Linda who inspired me to "Get Punchy", I saw her post about a challenge at another blog (stamp, scrap and doodle) that she is involved in and it was challenging you to "Get punchy". And last, but most definately not least I was inspired to create a project that I could enter into the Cooking With Cricut Challenge. Chellenge #13 was to use three flowers in your project. They preferred cricut flowers, but I liked the prima flowers better on the page, just to add a bit more dimension to my page.
So after all that inspiration I was ready to get started!! I really wanted to make a scrapbook layout with cupcakes as I just bought an EK success border cupcake punch, and I have been soo excited to use it!! And also, since I started blogging I've been doing a lot more cards because they are fun, easy to share the joy, and there is more of an instant gratification becuase they are faster to make. This layout took me probably about two hours to complete. That is from start of colour and paper selection to putting the last finishing touch on. The paper selection is usually the hardest part for me but in this case I already had a paper picked out before I began this. I just based my accompanying colours to go around this. I am really happy with the way it turned out and I will be putting pics of my daughter at her first birthday party on the pink and blue mats (she isn't one yet, so I'm sure I'll have some really cute pictures to go on them).

Recipe: Holly Mccaig Sweet cakes collection paper, Recollections orange and pink cardstock, DCWV Glitter Cardstock, Prima orange and pink flowers, recollections valentines brads, EK Success cupcake border punch, recollections flower border punch, g studio "100% Sweet" stamp, black tsukineko ink, inkadinkadoo flourish stamps, turqouise ranger embossing powder, blue and green ribbon, Create a Critter Cartridge, Birthday Stamps (brand unkown as I don't have packaging anymore), Cutting up Cartridge for saying, pop dots to make candles stand out on cupcake, stickles for eyes and mouth of beach ball.

So there you have it, the first layout that I have posted on my blog for you to see!! I definately can wait to put pictures in this one. Time seems to have gone so fast, when I look at my daughter I think how could a year have gone by already!! AHH!!!! One year is going to be harder for me then for her that's for sure!! ha ha ha...Happy Scrappin'

Brenna

Card Patterns Sketch 99, Crafting with Cristina

2011-01-22T22:54:00.000-07:00

First of all, I want to start out by saying that I was hanging out today and doing Kinderstampo's blog hop. What an amazing blog hop. There are 40 designers with different birthday themed projects. What an inspiration they all are!! When I say hanging out, I meant that during my daughters naps I would get online and see how many blogs I could check out and all their amazing projects!! There is a lot of great ideas and new techniques for me that is for sure!! There is also a lot of blog candy involved also and when you look at the blogs tons of challenges and other ideas for your own projects. That is my favorite part of this. I am learning all sorts of things I had no idea about. One particularly awesome blog candy is over at Elsa's Blog (cricutlvr.blogspot.com/), she is giving away a happy hauntings cricut cartridge for her birthday! Not very many people give gifts on their own birthdays!!

Anyways, as I was blog hopping today I happened upon a challenge that I am really excited to be partaking in. The challenge was to create something in which you only used black white and gray (you were allowed to switch grey for silver if you wanted to, which I promptly did). This is challenege #15 at Crafting with Cristina. Below is the project that I created for it. Hope you enjoy it! I enjoyed making it anyways!!

Recipe: Me and My Big Ideas Specialty Cardstock in B&W as card base, recollections black cardstock, DCWV Glitter cardstock white and silver, Snowflake Stamps (don't have the packaging anymore so I dont' know what brand they are), tsukineko silver embossing powder, Black Ribbon, Threading water fiskars border punch, two recollections black glitter brads, White pigment ink to edge the black circle.

I again was able to make one project qualify for two challenges! That is exciting!! This also followed Card Patterns Sketch 99. I know I have only been blogging for a few days...ha ha ha (it sounds funny to say days), but I love card Patterns ketch challenges, they are so fun! Anyways, so I know winter is sort of "petering out" (for some of us), but I love that the stamp relates winter to spring. This is a really cute stamp and is so versatile. Anyways, I am off for tonight!! Had a lot of fun doing the blog hop!!

Brenna

p.s I wish you could tell that the white and the grey looking paper is glitter paper...hmmmm...

Disney Dreamer Designs Blog Candy!

2011-01-21T21:19:00.000-07:00

I love scrapbooking, and I love blog candy just as much as the next person!! I am lucky enough to have stumbled upon Melissa's Blog over at http://disneydreamerdesigns.blogspot.com/ and she has some great blog candy right now!! She has two, that's right you heard it TWO cricut cartridges being given away right now!! Not only does she have great blog candy, but she has some awesome inspirations for the new cricut cartridge Disney Classics and also the older ones as well Mickey and Friends and Mickey Fonts!! Head on over there and check it out! Hope I have a bit of a chance to win it too, it'd be awesome!! Good luck all!

Brenna

Jitterbuggin and Paper Playtime Challenges

2011-01-21T20:07:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I have a certified obsession with scrapbooking, "creeping" on other's blogs and blog hopping and now blogging myself!! ha ha ha...my husband says after only two days of doing thsi that I am going to run out of supplies...I doubt it. The more I look ato ther people blogs the longer my "wish list" gets. There is always something new and great on the market for everything,and not only new and great items there is always the old favorites!! Speaking of which, something I saw on someone's blog was the ATG!! I ordered one online and am currently waiting (patiently...sort of) for one to arrive. Even tonight as I glued the front of my card onto the card base I was annoyed. It is a tough balance between not enough glue and too much when you use a full embossing sheet for your card. Anyways, this is my favorite card that I have made so far. One thing new that I learned for this, which I had to lookup on You tube was how to tie a bow. The requirements for the Jitterbuggin' Challenge was to use Brown and creams and white with only one other accent colour (I obviously chose orange), but you also had to have a bow somwhere on your craft. I learned how to tie a bow via youtube. And that on the card is the first bow that I have ever tied, I usually just stick to knots in my ribbon, but it turned out great.

Recipe: Recollections brown cardstock and shimmer orange cardstock, I also used a cream cardstock for the card base, miscallaneous ribbon I bought online ages ago (dont' remember brand), recollections brads, Give a Hoot Cartridge, Fiskars LoLasting Love Quotes stamps, Versamark, Tsukineko gold embossing powder, and brown versamagic for aging the edges, corner rounding punch, scripture cuttlebug embossing folder, I also attempted to get an orange shimmer by chalking the scripture, it is hard to tell, but I really just got a watermark and a general shimmer all over. Oh well, it didn't make it worse anyways.
This was a really fun card and it was fun to finally see it finished. This card also qualifies for Paper Playtime's challenge also. The only requirement for Paper Playtime's Challenge was to use the word "Love" on your paper craft. Okay, this time i probably am not going to bed, but I am not crafting anymroe tonight, only ideas for the weekend!! ha ha ha...Good Night!

Oh yeah, and just a post note on my previous My Pink Stamper Blog Hop Challenge, remember how I only had an hour to get it online and linked...well it apparently takes me longer than that to get my stuff online!! So I didn't make the cutoff for My Pink Stamper's Blog Hop....:( Oh well, it was a last minute entry anyways I guess.

My Pink Stamper Blog Hop Challenge

2011-01-21T15:13:00.000-07:00

So I was blog hopping and ended up on Robyn's Blog over at mypinkstamper.com, and I realized that there was still an hour to enter into the bloghop! So, I made this card last week and I thought it was just really great. A friend from my work is having a baby girl soon, and she is soo excited! Who wouldn't be. So I made this card for her, and it also happens to work with the Pink Stamper challenge!

Recipe: Create a Critter Cricut Cartridge, recollections pink brads, recollections little girl stamps, brown ribbon, DCWV Glitter Stack, DCWV pastel Cardstock, DCWV Neutural Cardstock, Fiskars Threading Water Border Punch.
I'm really happy with how it turned out. I don't have any my pink stamper stamps yet, But it would be awesome to win some so I can try them out. I'm sure it will only fuel my addiciton of stamps even further!! Anyways, this will be the end of my incessant blogging for today. I have no more projects recently made that I can post. I would love to enter into Paper Playtime's and also Jitterbuggin's Challenges, but we will see what tonight and tomorrow brings.

Sketch 98 Card Pattern Challenge

2011-01-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

Well, I was remembering that one of the main reasons that I started a blog was to enter this one specific card into one of the challenges that I saw. It is the Sketch 98 Card Patterns Challenge. This is a really neat blog, as every week there is a new pattern to create, and it is fun to see all the different takes on the same sketch! I have never done a card with a format like this before, but it turned out really cute. I also have barely used my Pooh and Friends Cartridge as I just got it for christmas. So here is the card that I created.

Recipe: DCWV Winter Paper Stack, Recollections Cardstock, Bazzill Flower pots in pink and white, prima flower, Cuttlebug winter embossing borders, Pooh and Friends Cartridge, Cricut Imagine Stock Images for the circles and scallopped circle, Stickles, Recollections valentines brad in the middle of the flowers. I curled the Bazill flowers so that the curled out a little bit, this is a new technique for me, i have never done that before, so it is pretty neat and it adds some nice dimension to the card. I also used pop dots to pop out the eeyore from the circle and scalloped circle. This was a fun card to make, and I used it a bit out of context...sort of. It is again a pretty basic card, but fun and hopefully it will cheer someone up at some point! Enjoy!
B

Cricut Cartridge Chaos Challenge

2011-01-20T23:37:00.000-07:00

Okay so I got a little ambitious after my last post (it took me two days to compose it!). I got off the computer and after a bit of blog hopping decided to try a challenge over at Paula's Blog (morethanfavors.blogspot.com). This card is for the Cricut Cartridge choas challenge. Try saying that ten times fast! The challenge was to make something fun using the mini monsters cartridge. I decided to do none other than a halloween card. Which brings me to another goal. To try to use cartridges that have a distinct theme, ie mini monsters - halloween for a different theme. I saw Paula made a scrapbook layout with a valentines theme that was really cute!! So I'm going to try and do a little more of the branching out with my cartridges. Anyways, my card turned out really cute. I was happy with it anyways, and my husband said it's cute (well he didn't say "cute" per say, but he said it was neat).

Recipe: Mini Monsters Cartridge, Recollections Solid Cardstock, DCWV Glitter Cardstock, Inkadinkadoo Halloween Stamps, Stazon Black Pigment Ink, Tsukineko Clear Embossing Powder, Lime Green Prima Flowers, Bazzill Flower Pots white, Black Ribbon, miscallaneous halloween brad, Cuttlebug Spiderweb Embossing envelope. (I'm new to the whole writing down the "recipe" for what I did, so Please let me know if I forgot anything!!)

It was really fun to make, but not too complicated, obviously and didn't take all evening! But like I said, I need to start branching out and really making the most of my cartridges. Thank you Paula for the inspiration for yet another goal!! Looking forward to my next challenge!

Brenna

Yay!!! Officially a Blogger!!

2011-01-20T20:53:00.000-07:00

So this is my first post ever!! It took me an embarrassingly long time to get this set up. In fact, I still have to figure out how to make it pretty As if that isn't obvious)!!! Ha ha ha. Well, my goal in creating this blog is to every week get a new scrapbook layout or card posted on it.
I also want to expand my tools, and skill set and participate in some scrapping challenges. By doing this, I will of course take a peek at a bunch of other ideas and takes on the same sketches etc. Hopefully this will help in my main goal of improving my scrapping! Some of the more specific goals for me are to learn how to use Copic Markers, I want to experiment more with stamping and different variations (ie. using markers to stamp, embossing, chalking etc). Maybe along the way I might help others out as well, and make myself laugh! The main thing I guess for me is to just have some fun with it. So, without further ado (spelling??), I will bid farewell and good night as I prepare my first real post with a project and photos. I will have something up on the weekend. I guess you gotta start somewhere!

Brenna

Brenna's Blitherings

Sending Many Thanks

I'm Back...Again...

Stitched Stockings

The Kids are Alright

Winter Wonderland

Haunting Love

Celebrity Colour Challenge

New Blitherer on the Blog!!

Christmas in July

Christmas in July

Welcome Baby

Late Mother's Day

Name on the Wall

Welcome Baby!!

Thank You Card

Mom's Day Blog Hop

Can We Owl Just Craft??

Great Giveaway!!

Naughty or Nice? **First DT Submission!!**

Pixie Giveaway!

For your Shower & Awesome Giveaway

Bugaboo Stamps, Stampin`Up, Blog Awards, I rock, A New Winner

Imaginisce Blog

April Bunny Blog Hop Winner

April Bunny Blog Hop

What's Up??

Best of Pixar Flames

It's a Birthday and a Winner!!!

St Paddy's Day Blog Hop

Stylish Blogger

Tri Fold Shutter Card

HK Cartridge, KB Challenge

Great Giveaway!

Finally a New Project!!

Cupcake Toppers!!

Crop Out Diabetes!!

I am MIA and Blog Candy Alerts!

COD and more Challenges!!!

A project and an Award!!!

Spring Sunshine: Will it ever come?

Crop out for a Cure altered red/grey and black box

Wacky Wednesday, Creative Cutter Room, Crop out for a Cure

Jitterbuggin' Challenge, CCCC #3, Terrific Tuesday, RRR16, CPS 202

Cooking with Cricut, Made by Momo, and My Pink Stamper all in one

Throwback Thursday

Whimsical Wed, Challenge Me Monday, Challenge # 35

Getting Inspired!!

Card Patterns Sketch 99, Crafting with Cristina

Disney Dreamer Designs Blog Candy!

Jitterbuggin and Paper Playtime Challenges

My Pink Stamper Blog Hop Challenge

Sketch 98 Card Pattern Challenge

Cricut Cartridge Chaos Challenge

Yay!!! Officially a Blogger!!

Naughty or Nice? First DT Submission!!