Unity's Friend's w/Flair and CPS and The Kraft Journal

This week at the Kraft Journal, the theme is "Welcome Summer"! And I have a fun Unity stamp with an ice cream cone with three scoops of ice cream to use for this week's Friend's w/Flair! Looks yummy to me!

I took this week's sketch at CPS and created this fun card!

Here is the sketch that I used!

Hope you enjoy! Tonight is date night and I am really looking forward to seeing Bad Teacher... My husband and I are both teachers, so I think this will be fun for us!

Materials Used:
Kraft Cardstock:: Recollections
Patterned Paper: Lily Bee Designs
Stamps: Unity's Mix Up of Cuteness
Toothpick: from my kitchen! he he!
Ink: Memento

Enjoy!
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

The Kraft Journal and Sketchy Thursdays: Now That Takes the Cake

Well, good evening there! I have a great story to tell you! So funny! I came home today and opened the door and I thought, "It smells like cat food!" (no joke!) And then I turn the corner to go to the kitchen and there it is! Cat food EVERYWHERE!!!!! See take a look!

I got Tiger Lily on a diet... hahahah! and she has to be the perpetrator! The diet part just cracks me up... And so their food wasn't in their container because their old food is in there and that's how the food ended up on the floor (Tiger jumped on the counter to "eat")... Well, there is a hole in the bag needless to say... I started to clean it up, but I thought wait this will be a great page, especially for the Kraft Journal's Spring Cleaning challenge! I was racking my brain while I was driving home on how I could participate in the challenge and voila!!! And I also captured a few pictures of the suspects! They always look at the camera but today... they knew they were in trouble!

So, I created a layout using Sketchy Thursdays newest sketch!

 And so here is my originallayout, using Echo Park's For the Record!

And here is my newest version... I looked at it this morning and it just wasn't what I wanted...

Hopefully, I won't need to make any more changes.

And a close up of the journaling!

Hope you have a wonderful evening and my little story brought a smile to your face!
Catherine

Cardabilities-March 30th and The Kraft Journal #2

Ok. Last card for the day. I don't really have a recipient in mind for this card but I really wanted to use some of my Crate paper!

Here is the link for the March 30th sketch for Cardabilities. (I am working on a MAC and I am a little confused... Sorry) And again... entering this at The Kraft Journal!

Here is my card.

Materials Used:

Patterned Paper/Flower Die cuts: Crate Paper

Kraft Cardstock: from my school... its weird but I get free thick Kraft cardstock when I submit order to our print shop... I have a ton at home now! hehehe!

Pearl Accent: Recollections
Ink: Tim Holtz
Foam Dots
Have a great day and a great week!
Catherine

Card Patterns #109 and The Kraft Journal #1

I had a lot of free time on my hands this weekend and created probably 5 or 6 cards... I have lost count. But I am uber thankful for that time to paper craft! I was able to create a couple cards for The Kraft Journal "flower" challenge! And also use Card Patterns new sketch!

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card!

 Here is a close up.

I decided to make a paper rose with a pearl accent in the middle.

Materials Used: 

Patterned Paper/Sentiment/Stamp: My Mind's Eye

Kraft Card: Canvas Home Basics... 

Ribbon: not sure...

Border Punch: Martha Stewart

Pearl Accent: Recollections

Enjoy and Happy Sunday!
Catherine

Card Patterns and Kraft Journal

Good Morning,
Hope you week is going well. Mine is going fantastic actually. During my Spring Break, I submitted some work to a fabulous brick and mortar store near the Dallas/Ft. Worth area (The Crafty Scrapper) and while I wasn't chosen to be a regular designer, I was asked to be a guest designer! I am absolutely thrilled!

And to top it off, this is my last day to teach this week! I am heading out tomorrow morning for a sewing retreat with my mom, my twin sister Elizabeth and my younger sister Rebecca! I am so excited! We are heading towards Corpus Christi for some quality time together and a little sewing. You probably don't know this but before I was scrapbooking, I sewed... not a lot but I knew sewing basics and this weekend, I am going to work on a lap quilt! I can't wait!

On to my card, I am entering this card over at both Card Patterns and the Kraft Journal! I am using the sketch from Card Patterns and the theme for the Kraft Journal is "Oh baby, it's spring"! So, with that I have some fun spring paper and also a "baby" theme...

 I just couldn't find any ribbon that I particularly liked and so I went with some white twine...

Materials Used:
Patterned Paper: Fancy Pants
Kraft Cardstock
Teal cardstock: Bazzill
Twine: American Crafts
Sentiment: American Crafts
Button: Personal Stash
P.S. I am also entering this at The Paper Variety's Tic Tac Toe challenge!

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