Scraps of Elegance March kit cards!

I love to stretch my kits as much as I can...I still have sheets of paper left and gorgeous cut outs and chippies to make many more cards, but I made three cards with smaller pieces leftover from my two layouts I made last month. I'd love to share them here...I didn't do these for any challenges, just to stock my little card rack at our local cafe...Prima Divine and G45 Secret Garden make for some pretty cards!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Guest Designer at Keeping The Best!

I recently won a challenge at Keeping the Best and was given a chance to Guest Design for Sketch #57! The Sketch challenge has now gone live and I have done my first guest designing gig ever, so EXCITING!! I used the beautiful Magenta papers in the C'est Magnifique kit, some flowers from my stash and some Dylusion sprays! These were taken around sunset one summer evening fishing with my dad on a trip home to the States...brings back warm summer memories with these sunset colors.

Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge - Scallops!

Are you ready for a new challenge?! This week it's simple.... 

Scallops! 

Make a card, layout or off the page project with scallops on it
and you can enter it into our challenge to be eligible for this prize!

Here is my Monday inspiration for the challenge!

I made a tiled roof with gorgeous scallop paper punched trim from Pion Designs and also used some scallop lace to decorate the eaves. The flowers and the flourishes are made using Heartfelt Creations ddies.

This is the first altered project I have done in a long time and I really enjoyed it. The birdhouse was from a kit I got from Flying Unicorn last year, they always have amazing altered projects in their monthly kits!

This weeks sponsor is 

Words or Whatever

This weeks Prize is 10 pieces of chipboard of  your choice

There is some amazing chipboard designs, go over and check it out HERE

Come join in and play!! What an amazing prize!!

Garden Beauty

I always love the Scraps of Elegance kits, Mel seems to do a perfect mix of paper every time. March's kit had the gorgeous Graphic 45 Secret Garden papers and Prima Divine, yum!! This is my take on the Scraps of Elegance sketch challenge for March, lots of fussy cutting of the G45 papers here and Renea's gorgeous butterflies!

Woodland Beauties

I wasn't sure if I was going to get time to work on this month's sketch, but I made time today to get out my March C'est Magnifique kit, my new punches DH brought back from the States, and some Couture Creations goodies to play! I used a beautiful butterfly from my friend Renea, and even remembered some microbeads I had in my stash since I started (a generous RAK from a friend) so tried them out...Got out the molding paste and stencils, gesso and mist... I really tried out a lot of things and had fun!

Here is the gorgeous sketch:

Couture Creations Products Used
CO723435 Decorative Die: Tranquility
Couture Creations Pearls

Cute

We got some gorgeous papers from Magenta in our C'est Magnifique March kit! As always the items in the kit are awesome, I used the flowers, and envelope and the glimmer glaze that came in the kit, along with the gorgeous papers!

The sketch is from Magenta, I decided to join in their challenge! Here is the gorgeous sketch:

I just received my Couture Creations DT box today and couldn't wait to play!! I used 2 dies and some pearls by Couture Creations!

Couture Creations Products Used
CO723050 Nesting Dies: Fleur-de-Frame
CO723435 Decorative Die: Tranquility
Couture Creations Pearls

Not Just a Hobby It's a PASSION!

 I decided to document my crafting space and my scrapping hobby for this one!

Part of my journaling is a bucket list of things I would love to accomplish in scrapbooking. I am happy to say the few modest ones I wrote in January I have already reached, I am so excited!! Time to dream a little more and see where my hobby and passion will take me :) I'd love to enter this in the Another Freakin Scrap Challenge Bucket List Challenge!

I would also love to enter this into the New Beginnings challenge at Zeus and Zoe. I have recently made my first manufacturer's design team and this year feel like I have a new beginning, new chapter in my scrapbooking life. I truly love doing it, so it is an honor to be chosen to work with a company that likes my work well enough to represent them. It is humbling and very exciting. I feel blessed. The other requirement they had for the challenge was the use of a stencil. I used my Prima flourish stencil and modeling paste, which I further inked and highlighted again with gesso. I have also used distress crackle paint on the chippie and would love to enter this in the Berry71Bleu You Color My World Challenge as well.

I also like to make a few cards with the leftovers from a layout, so I did this card for a little boy's first birthday. I was trying to figure out what to add to it, and a rosette always works better for a boy's card. I remembered there was a rosette challenge over at Quick Quotes, ending very soon, good thing I worked on this card tonight!!