Papercraft Star Challenge #50, Sassy Lil' Card Sketches and Friends w/ Flair

Happy Friday to you! We made it to another weekend! Time to relax.

I want to welcome any new people stopping in from Unity's Friends w/Flair, and I wanted to introduce you to Papercraft Star! I just love this challenge blog! They offer great prizes, participants and followers vote on the submitted projects, and one of my favorite things about the blog is that you get the challenges ahead of time! I just think that is fabulous! So, stop by and follow and check out this week's challenge and the upcoming challenges! I am sure you won't be disappointed!

This week, the challenge is to use the word star and come up with an element for your project for each of the letters in the word star! This could be tricky, but if you are uber creative you won't have a problem!

S-Stripes

T-Twine

A-Adhesive

R-Red Cherry

Here is the card I created using Unity's Mix Up of Cuteness kit! Check out all the great stamps that come in this kit!

And of course, I used a sketch. I followed Sassy Lil' Card Sketches for the June 7th sketch! I love banners so this is perfect!

Materials Used: 
Patterned Paper: October Afternoon
Cardstock: Bazill
Ink: tim Holtz
Stamps: Unity
Twine: American Crafts

Hope you stop by all sites I have linked up!
Enjoy and happy Friday!
Catherine

Papercraft Star Challenge #49 and The Kraft Journal

Good Morning! I hope you are having a great so far! Summer is going fabulous! I am running in the morning and helping with a camp at our school and then coming home for lunch and of course a nap and then head to my craft area! Such a fantastic schedule! 

This week Papercraft Star has a card sketch for their challenge! And love a good sketch if I do say so myself! And The Kraft Journal's theme is "It's a Guy Thing"and my dad loves to listen to music, so this is a perfect Father's Day card...  This sketch and theme are fun and I have been playing with my Cricut a bit more than usual and I found a fun iPod image to cut out! 

Check out the sketch! I am a goober, and didn't notice the middle panel is smaller than the other two... Silly me!

Materials Used:

Cricut Cartridge: Paisley

Patterned Paper: Basic Grey

Cardstock: Bazzill

Kraft Cardstock: Recollections

Sentiment: KI Memories 

Ink: Memento

Red Twine: American Crafts

Enjoy!

Catherine

Papercraft Star Challenge #48 and Friends w/Flair

Papercraft Star's challenge for this week is a photo inspiration with either a wedding or masculine themed project. I have a friend from school getting married next weekend and I thought this would be a great opportunity to create a card for them.

Here is the photo that you are to use for inspiration!

Here is my card that I created. I used one of the new card maps for the month of June. Check out Page Maps for all their new sketches! 

This card was so easy, and I think it turned out very classy! I embossed the sentiment and added a few pearls to incorporate some circles like the lanterns from the photo! 

Materials:

Cardstock: Bazzill

Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye

Pearls: Kaisercraft

Ink: VersaMark

Green lace ribbon/Embossing powder: American Crafts

Sentiment: Unity

Enjoy and Happy Friday!
Catherine

Papercraft Star Challenge #47

Good morning,
I have a few posts to share! We have one more week left in school and I will soon be on here a lot more! I have neglected you blogger and I am so sorry. But I am back!

I want to start off with a card that I am entering at Papercraft Star... I am using some new My Mind's Eye Lime Twist... These colors are fabulous! I love purple in every way and I was so exited to find this collection!

Here is the sketch!

Here is my card.

I created the lace flower with a bunch of Glue Dots since I have no idea where my needles are at... And I embossed the sentiment to allow it to stand out more than my original ink that I had used! I added my 1 cardstock, at least 2 patterned paper, and 3 bling!

Materials Used:
Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye
Cardstock: Bazzill
Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Lace: Hobby Lobby
Ink: VersaMark
Sentiment and Embossing Powder: American Crafts
Button: Craft Supply

Enjoy,
Catherine 

Happy Friday w/Papercraft Star and Sassy Lil' Card Sketches

It's Friday and I am so excited for the weekend! School is inching closer to be done for the summer and I can't wait! This week my little sister graduated from college and today we are heading towards Austin for some family fun! Everyone will be there and I mean everyone! I really enjoy getting together and seeing everyone! Such fun times! 

I started with this sketch from Sassy Lil' Card Sketches, click here to see the sketch... For some reason I could copy it... darn Mac...: and I also used the colors from this week's challenge at Papercraft Star... Look at this fabulous photo!

I know the colors don't exactly match perfectly but I love the lime green and pink!

I was finally able to use my newest Cricut cartridge: Straight From the Nest and also the Gypsy Wanderings! 

Supplies Used: 

Patterned Paper/Sticker die cut: Basic Grey

Cricut Cartridge: Straight From the Nest-Fleur de lis background, Gypsy Wanderings: Silhouette of girl

Pink Ribbon: American Crafts

Enjoy and have a fabulous weekend!

Catherine

3 Challenges in One: Mojo Monday, Kraft Journal, and Papercraft Star

Happy National Scrapbook Day! I hope you are having a fabulous day! I know I have neglected my blog lately but I submitted three layouts a couple weeks ago but I am back with a Mother's Day card using a sketch from Mojo Monday.

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

I am entering this at:
Mojo Monday: Sketch #189
The Kraft Journal: Mother's Day challenge
Papercraft Star: Challenge #44: Choose your own sketch 

Have a great weekend... And I will be back later to share a new post for a Design Team call!

Enjoy, Catherine

Papercraft Star Challenge #38

Papercraft Star Challenge #38 is a great sketch by the wonderful Liz Chedester! I am super busy getting ready for this week but I wanted to post this layout!

Here is the sketch that I used:

I love it! Although I only used one horizontal photo from our Spring Break!

The photo hasn't been retouched... which will make the layout look better but I wanted to make sure I got my layout entered!

Here is a close up!

I will try to stop by and up date with the supplies that I used! But if you are an Echo Park fan, you know most of this is from their "For the Record" collection! Have a wonderful week!

Catherine

Lucky Girl Card for Papercraft Star and Kraft Journal

Hope you are having a great Friday! This weekend is the end of my Spring Break... Bummer, I know!

I know that St. Patrick's Day was yesterday but I wanted to enter something for Papercraft Star and the Kraft Journal. So, today I was cleaning my craft area and went through some of my older paper that I have and noticed that I really don't have a lot of green paper, but I did manage to find a scrap already cut from my Cricut and a couple other Basic Grey green paper! So, all I had to do was figure out what I wanted to go with it... As you can see I added a bow and a sentiment geared towards the St. Patrick's Day theme... And I wanted to add some buttons or something else.. but no green buttons, geez...

Materials Used:
Thick Kraft cardstock from school
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey
Green Cardstock: Bazzill
Ribbon: American Crafts
Cricut Cartridges: Paisley, Storybook

Enjoy your evening!
Catherine

Papercraft Star and Creative Scrappers

This last week at Papercraft Star the theme is Spring! I must say that I absolutely love SPRING and the colors associated with Spring! The challenge was to use one or more of these colors in your project! I, of course, chose the purples and pinks!

And for the sketch that I used, it came from Creative Scrappers!

I decided to turn the sketch so the photos went up and down.

At the end of February, my husband and I went to a tasting with some friends, to help them decide on food and drinks for their wedding! We had such a good time hanging out and had fun at the photo booth that was set up there!

I included a little Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and of course, I love the purple flower ribbon! I was just waiting for the perfect project to use some of it! I also drew the stitches on the circle...

Materials Used:

Patterned Paper/Stickers/Die Cut: Echo Park's Springtime

Border Punch: Fiskars

Cardstock: Bazzill

Polka dotted stamp: Hobby Lobby

Cricut: Simply Sweet

Button: personal stash

Thread: We R Memory Keepers

Green and Pink Ink: Color Box

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Catherine

Papercraft Star Challenge #35 and Cardablilties Sketch #26

Happy Friday to you all!

Today, I took off from work for some much needed R&R! It has been nice, I finished a card, sent in a Design Team application, and a few other things... Hope you have a joyful weekend. We are attending a wedding of some of our closer friends and we are so glad to see them start their new lives together.

I wanted to play along at Papercraft Star mainly cause I really like the theme and the American Crafts products have some super cute stickers with song titles from movies! I knew I had to use of them! And I chose The Wizard of Oz's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Growing up I absolutely LOVED watching anything with Judy Garland in it. I just love musicals in general! :D

Here is my card!

I thought it would be fun to photograph it in it's "natural" environment, my scrapping table! lol!

I also used a sketch from Cardabilities for this card! Here is the sketch.
As Jan suggested in her comment, I linked my project also at The Kraft Journal "Cute as a Button" challenge! Thanks Jan! 

Hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Materials Used:
Patterned Paper/Stickers/Ribbon/Twine: American Crafts
Flower Border Punch: Martha Stewart
Cardstock: Bazzill
Buttons: Personal Stash
Scalloped/Circle Punches: EK Success

Papercraft Star Challenge #34

Good Evening! I hope you are having a crafty weekend! I am just getting started! Today, I was able to spend some quality time with my mom! We went shopping and ate at the Cheesecake Factory! Can you say yum!!!!? It was great! We are so busy that I don't often get to spend quality time with much of family! But I am so glad I did!

Recently, I was able to purchase Echo Park's "For the Record" and "Springtime" I am loving Echo Park at the moment! They just don't disappoint!

Well, I wanted to create a card using Liz Chedester's sketch for Papercraft Star! The birdy is so cute that I just had to include him on my card! I love how I positioned him on my card!

Here is the sketch!

And here is my card!

Look at that little birdy! He is just too cute! I stuck him to some red cardstock to make him pop and then I did a little fussy cutting...

Materials Used:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Echo Park
All Stickers: Echo Park
Ribbon: American Crafts
Ink: Color Box "Charcoal"

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy!
Catherine

Papercraft Star Color Combo Challenge and Card Patterns Sketch

Hey Everyone,

There is a fabulous challenge that started today at Papercraft Star! It is a color combo/recipe challenge.

Here is the color combo... (Excellent colors, I might add). And the recipe portion is: Use some or all of the colors below to create your project and include at least two of the following elements:

• Ribbon
• Stamped Image
• Embossing
• Die Cut

If you noticed, I used all 4 parts in the recipe portion of the challenge.



And for the sketch that I used....

I really enjoyed making this card. I am not much of a sticker fan, but Echo Park includes some fabulous stickers in their paper collection kits... Hope you have a fantastic day! List below are the materials I used.

Enjoy,

Catherine

Materials Used:

Cardstock-Bazzill

Patterned Paper-Echo Park

Stickers-Echo Park

Ribbon-American Crafts

Stamp-Stampology

Embossing Powder-Tim Holtz

Papercraft Star Challenge #23

Hey there,
It's Thursday! Yay! And another challenge is happening at Papercraft Star! Have you submitted your project for this challenge? It's a great challenge!

Green Holidays

• Create an altered holiday gift, card or scrapbook layout using recycled or repurposed items you already have on hand.

I was a little reluctant mainly because I wasn't sure what I could recycle, but today I received these cheap mini popcorn bucket as a Secret Santa gift at school, and I had no idea what I was going to do with them. But then, I had a revelation! Seriously! I would use them for a gift "Box/Bag"!

I was so excited about how it turned out that I had to post even if I didn't have the best lighting! If I have time later, maybe I can post a better picture!

Don't worry, I put patterened paper on all four sides! Aren't these snowmen adorable!? This is more of my Echo Park paper that I absolutely love, using some ribbon from good ol' michael's and Hobby Lobby.
I also used my Martha Stewart scoring board to make my pinwheel like what Liz showed us in the tutorial today! They are so much fun. Try a border punch and see who you like it! :D

Thanks for stopping by!
-Catherine

Papercraft Star Challenge #10: Voting in Progress!

Hey Everyone! It's time to vote at Papercraft Star! Hope you joined us this week! We have 20 excellent projects for you to vote on! Head over and vote on your two favorite!

Here is what coming up this week! Challenge #11 is school themed die cuts and cricut cartridges! Join us! We have some great projects brought to you by the Design Team! Check back on Wednesday for the first group!

Voting! Plus Prizes @ Papercraft Star!, Plus Challenge #10! And I am an AUNT!

Hey Y'all! It's time to VOTE! Go to Papercraft Star and vote for your two favorite challenges! Yep, you have two chances to vote... So head over! Also for our participants: there is a prize this week! Thanks for stopping by today and head on over!

If you are curious! Here is next week's challenge! It's a fabulous simple sketch! Check it out and link it up starting Wednesday, August 25th! See ya then!

Side note: I AM AN AUNT!!!! Mollie Reese Hejtmanek was born yesterday at 11:30pm! My brother and his wife are doing great! I couldn't make it to Dallas due to school preparation stuff (we start back monday...) But I am going to try to go to visit next weekend! Hope you all have a great week! I feel so blessed to be an Aunt!

Papercraft Star Challenge #9

Over at Papercraft Star, we are on Challenge #9! And we are using a really beautiful photo for our inspiration. I used the colors and squares as the main inspiration in the card that I created using Bo Bunny's Mama-Razzi collection!  The borders are the pre punched borders from Bazzill! Those are my fav when you are short on time!!  Here is the photo and here is my card! Hope to see you join us on this week's challenge!

So Sophie! My Mind's Eye Newest Paper Collection! (plus cute Thank You card)

Besides purchasing one of the newest My Mind's Eye-So Sophie collections for Challenge #3 at Papercraft Star... I also received my newest Scrapbooks, Etc magazine in the mail yesterday! As my husband and I were walking to our mailbox... I told him that my day would be made if I got S.E. or a new Self magazine and what do you know... Scrapbooks, Etc was there!!! As I was flipping through my new magazine, I found a great sketch that I just had to complete then and there! :D I tried to look on their website for the sketch but I can't find it... Just a little bit about my style, I try to fill in most of the page with pictures/embellishments, but this page left a lot of "white space" as other scrappers call it, so I thought this would be the perfect chance to try my skills at leaving "white space"... I had the perfect pictures in mind when I saw this sketch. Here is how it turned out! I think these colors are great for summer! Hope you enjoy!






I still have several scraps left over from this project and Challenge #3... So, I wanted to create a "Thinking of You" card... using a sketch from Card Patterns Blog... check out there website for some excellent sketches and prize opportunities, too...



And for the last thing on this post... I really cute Thank You card! The patterned paper is K&C Company, the yellow card stock is Core'dinations and the Pink is Bazzill. I used my Sizzix Texture Boutique to emboss, but the folder I used is Cuttlebug... The yellow ribbon came from the "bargain area" at Archivers... I honestly don't remember the brand of the "Thank you" stamp that I used... Oh and last but not least, I cut out a flower from the PP and inked it as well as pop dotted the back to give it dimension, and a yellow Kaisercraft pearl accent!