VCMP #2

Another Challange is done!! Challenge #2 was a recipe of 1 image, 2 patterned papers, and 3 words. 

I recently bought a Snag 'em Stamps by imaginisce and used it to make my image. 

The cute little smiley glue bottle reminds me of Back-to-School. 

I had the small sentiment from the 

Charming Whimsies set by Jillian Vance. 

The school lined paper and the school themed paper was in the stash.

 I used a punch that looks like notepaper ends and it was in American Crafts' Knock Outs set. I used it on the glue bottle's scalloped rectangle too. 

Hope you like my card.

VCMP Bonus Sketch

 OWH had a bonus Sketch today (Monday) and I got it done too! So happy that I am back on track with the Sketches.

I cut 2 scalloped circles and layered them so that they hopefully look like a plate for the cookies I cut out of the last year's Mrs. Claus paper stack by DCWV. I cut the sentiment from the stack too. I do have the EK Success gingerbread man punch for the bunch I'll do later this week.

I made a bunch of winter cards. I think I got a bit carried away with the winter ones. I'l have a very full box later this week. 

I got many of the Challenges of the Virtual Cardmaking Party done this weekend. I have Challenges #2, #4, and #9 yet to do. I need to clean off the table again before I can make more cards. I need to finish posts and head to bed. School tomorrow!

VCMP #10

The VCMP #10 Challenge is to make a card to represent your home state. I grew up on a small Indiana farm with a few pigs and beef cattle. We had a few sheep a few years but they were not fun to raise. My dad was not sure about the shearing for them. We had chickens and one year, we got a bunch of chickens with fluffy feathers around their feet and a fancy top of feathers. My dad planted several acres of corn, wheat, and   sorghum. The brothers all got to drive the tractors but I didn't get to learn that skill. I was good at baking cookies and making lemonade for them after they put up hay on hot summer days.

I used a tool that I haven't used for a while to make my card for this challenge. Maybe I should have put this card in Challenge #9 instead of #10. I used the crimping tool to add lines to my Kraft paper so the tractor looked like it was plowing the field. The tractor and corn is from a sticker set by Sandylion. I couldn't find my MS fringe scissors but I used my regular scissors to cut the grass on the card. The 2 sentiments are in the Down on the Farm set by Jillian Vance Design. They are cute little stamps with a pun. I inked the crimped paper with dark brown ink and the sentiment and block with mustard colored ink.

VCMP #8

This  VCMP #8 Challenge was to make a card using a sports theme. I had several sports to choose from  in my scrapbook room as my sons ran Cross Country, swam on the HS team, and did a bit of soccer. We watch a lot of college football and attend a game or 2 each season so I had lots of that too. I even had some bowling stickers and paper. But I did a baseball theme as I had papers from the little album I did a couple of weeks ago from the game we attended with people from work. I used a bit of Washi tape on this card with a bit of ribbon too. I used another font from Creating Keepsakes for the sentiment.

I had a surf set of stickers jump into my cart at Joann's clearance aisle. I found a piece of surf paper in the swimming stuff  and a fun sentiment from a day at the pool sticker set.

VCMP #7

Sabrina at Scrapping with Purpose had you make 2 cards for Challenge #7 - a Christmas for a kid and a Christmas card for a Hero.

The Hero card I made has a little elf digi - I had just one colored image left and it was hiding with the Christmas paper. The kid's Christmas card is a Santa face made with small scalloped circles and American Crafts Knock Out Punches. I cut the circles from a piece of embossed paper from my Cuttlebug, added a bit of red/gold ribbon, and 2 stamps from Hampton Art Foot-Longs Christmas clear stamps set. This card also has the base embossed too but the other 4 cards are on Christmas patterned paper. I used Clear Starburst glaze pen on the beard too.

VCMP #6/ Sketch #136

OWH had the Sketch of the week as VCMP #6 Challenge! I actually got it done before the weekend was over this time.

So, here's the Sketch #136.

My card is another Western theme since the Western papers and embellishments were still all over my table. I did start Mon. morning with cleaning up the table before making any more cards today. But you couldn't tell it now.

 I used 3 squares with stars, a couple of scraps, some orange twine, and 2 stickers for the sentiment.

VCMP Challenge #5

VCMP #5 was a challenge to make a Western theme card.

I had a bunch of Western papers and embellishments from a Cross Country scrapbook. So I found them and made 2 Western cards, a guy one and a pink girl one. I used a Unity stamp on the guy's one and a few stickers. The pink girl one has a square of cowgirl paper on pink paper and some pink embellishments from Hobby Lobby's clearance.

VCMP Challenge #3

Here's my card for Challenge #3, which was Snowflakes but not Christmas. I found this cutie little penguin in the stash. I added 3 blue clouds from my Fiskar's punch for the ice, a bit of white ribbon behind the little guy, and a sentiment from my computer using a free from Creating Keepsakes.