Unscripted Card

Welcome - I'm going to cut straight to the chase today...hope you don't mind... :)
So here is the card I made for this weeks Unscripted Sketches sketch...



Supplies: Cosmo Cricket "Earth Love", Making Memories "{noteworthy}", Sugarloaf stamp, ribbon, CTMH "Sandy" ink

Here is a gift I made for a friend of mine who had twins about a month ago...



The girl...



The boy...



The girl is Madigan, and the boy is Maximus, though we've already taken to calling him Max (a particular friend of mine calling him "Mad Max" as a joke :))
I love how in the first tag (which I forgot to get a close-up photo on, and when I remembered, I didn't have enough time), photo on the bottom, the oldest sisters looks extremely proud while the second oldest looks utterly confused. lol, they're really sweet, funny kids.

Don't mind my "untalkitevness" today...I've been having a rather bad week scrappy-wise and it's kinda got me down...:(...I hope you enjoy my creations...I'll have some sweet beading for you next time. :)

CPS Earth Love

Hi again! Sorry I haven't posted lately - I've been feeling kinda sick. I had a post ready for you, but in it I was showing off a fellow flikr members beautiful cards, but I'm waiting for her permission to show you.
So, anyways, today I got my "Earth Love" pad by Cosmo Cricket! It's the first time I've ever worked with Cosmo Cricket, and it will not be the last! Here is a simple card I made today based off this weeks CPS sketch (yes, I know, very late in the game, but I honestly could not think of anything till today).





I have another paper pad coming in from Webster's Pages. If you've never heard of them before, you need to check. it. OUT! They make GORGEOUS vintage papers, and I can't wait to get my pad! To be honest, I didn't like vintage papers before, because I thought I'd have to make a busy card with them and I like to keep my card s-i-m-p-l-e. Then I saw the picture on Flikr. Ding! I was sold! Simple, elegant, and by far the nicest sympathy card I've ever seen! I'll show you her card as soon as I hear back from her. :)
So I was reading a blog from a member of their Ning community who had kindly left a welcome comment for my on my page. She had a beautiful page she had made using the {644.5} challenge. It was the first time I heard of it, so I looked it up. Another one of my few smart moves. :) Here is the link to the blog, and the challenge is to "Go outside spin around 5 times and scrap the photo no matter how awful!" Well, unfortunately, my printer does not print photos well at all and the challenge would be over by the time I received my photo from Snapfish, so I'll just show you the photo...



It's the bonfire pit! lol But the photo does show you what a nice, sunshiny day we're having...ah...I love Pennsylvania!

Have a wonderful day. :)

FOUND: Mojo! :D

Wow, my mojo found an especially bad hiding place - I've found it already! :D

So I have for you today, two simple cards. The first card I made using this weeks Lord Have Mercy! challenge. It's the first time I've participated, and I will tell you now, it won't be the last! I also used Who Is Tracy? 's challenge this week - "Challenge #2 is: Dimension"
Ta-da! Dimension! :D



Supplies: Making Memories "Chloe's Closet", bazzil cardstock, black satin ribbon, adhesive.

So, did I do it right? The supply listing thing?

Now the one made using this weeks Taylored Expressions sketch...(this is also the first time I've participated in a TE sketch...I think :))



Supplies: DCWC "Sweet" collection, Making Memories "Chloe's Closet", unknown brown paper, Joanns Craft Essential brads.

I hope this is right - let me know what you think. :)

Have a wonderful evening, everyone!

LOST: Cardmaking Mojo

Hi, all.
It's official. I've lost my cardmaking mojo for the time being. :( I made the first card I have to show really easy, because this weeks Unscripted Sketch is almost identical with last weeks 365 Sunday Sketch. I REALLY loved the sketches! :) Unfortunately, I wanted a little more to show you than this one little card, so I cranked out another. Um, not a wise decision. The sketch was nice, but, I'm more of a simple person (not more than like, 5 layers at the most!), and with the busy "Berry Sweet" paper, it was kinda....um...blah. It's just too busy for me to like it. In contrast, I'm crazy about the first card - it's so simple and easy! I could make them all day and never get bored or frustrated! But no, I had to go and make another card, and...ugh. Well, hopefully you'll enjoy my busy second card more than I do.





A little fun something for you...(it's our dachshund/black lab/who knows? mix)

Ah well, I'll find it soon enough - my mojo never finds good places to hide.

Have a wonderful day, and keep an eye on your mojo! :)

ETA: The "Happy Birthday" stamp I used for my second card, do you know if it's by Hero Arts?

Pink, REAL navy and trees

Okay, here goes again; after further rustling through my cardstock, I found some REAL navy, so I made a card for it for the Scrappy Design color challenge. Here it is...



We've been having a very stormy week with not much sunshine, so that explains the terrible lighting in this picture. When I took the picture, it was especially bad outside, and I was in hurry, having to go to practice within five minutes of the time I took this. Anyways, for my supplies: I used Making Memories {noteworthy} line (which is one of my top ten paper line faves), bazzil cardstock, and SU! cardstock for it. Not many "ingredients" but clean and simple.

A little note about the SU! cardstock; I don't know much about stamping, but when I used their cardstock with some other cardstock (can't recall which brand) the image looked WAYYYYY better on theirs. The ink was pretty cheap, and it was really blurry on the unknown cardstock, but it looked fine on the SU! paper. So in short, if you're as inexperinced as I with stamping, better go with Stampin' Up!'s cardstock for a clean image.

I've got an idea for this weeks CPS sketch and I'm going to go see if it will look as good finished as it does in my head. So, have a wonderful day!