Travel the world Tag! Update about Balance and LIFE!

Hello Crafty friends! Once again I am trying to balance all the things I want to do, I set up yet another schedule for myself so that I have some time to enjoy life and not just "survive" it! With so many changes happening in our lives, I can't help but become over whelmed and then I end up in circles accomplishing nothing. I need to schedule all the things I need/want to do including the fun stuff, like crafting! With Cross country season just weeks away I want to make sure I am actively finding ways to manage it all.  Fingers crossed I will be successful!

Anyways, I pre-made a traveler's notebook/mini scrapbook and took it with me to Costa Rica. And actually journaled about my trip daily! Now I need little bits and pieces to put it all together. With a few blank spots I wanted to fill in, this tag fit perfectly!

I used nothing but my Cuttlebug for this one! 

Paper from Heidi Sonboul Special Delivery
Crate paper and fringe scissors
Ribbon from my scrap ribbon pile
Doily from DoodleBugs
Gems, Tim Holtz Tiny word stickers
DoubleClickSkittles: Sailboat Blue
Scallop and Flag paper punch
Banner die Freckled Fawn
Sizzix Die Tags

DoubleClick Skittles Showcase Color: Sailboat Blue!

Entering into:

Cuttlebug Mania: You are Tagged

Crafty Calendar:  Flowers

Connie Can Crop: Inspiration ( I used the colors) 

DL Art: May Linky 

Jo's Scrap Shack: AG With twist 

RRR: Anything but a card

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Skittle Lovin'! 

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Top 3 at Connie can Crop!

Welcome to Florida! The Sunshine State! Father's Day LSP Challenge Time!

It's Challenge time over at Little Scrap Pieces! You have until Friday to link up, so come on over and join us!

Challenge: Father's Day

 

Here is my project as a Design team Member:

I made these 2 pages for my mini 2011 scrap book! I just loved the photos of my Husband with my girls when they caught these fish! 
We traveled from Georgia, to Alabama and decided to go to Florida to visit Uncle. He owns a crazy amount of land that has fishing lakes. It was so hot and sticky, but it didn't matter! The girls were so excited catching fish! 

Wild Card Cricut Cartridge and Create a Critter for the fish and meadow grass
Paper from Hobby Lobby
Tags from deep within my stash
Brads, eyelet, buttons, silver embossing, hemp

Looking forward to seeing your creations!

Entering into:
 Simply Create Too: Father's Day/Male
Cardz TV: Father's Day 
Creative Inspirations: Father's Day
DL Art: link Party
Pile it On: Father's Day 
Pause Dream Enjoy: Lay-out
Paper Playtime: Anything Goes
Fantabulous: Father's Day

Sketch Challenge over at Docerela Creations!

We are so super excited for today's challenge!! Today at Docerela Creations we are having our first sketch challenge!

Today's Challenge is : Follow the sketch!

Whoot! Whoot!! How fun is this?!!

Every time you enter a challenge you get entered for a chance to win a stamp set of Docerela Stamps! Say What?? You heard me right! A Docerela Stamp set up for grabs once a month! And let me just say they are fabulous, stamp amazing and work beautiful with embossing powders! 

Today I am showcasing her new set Je T'aime Paris!  

 Here is my project:

             My favorite font:

The Eiffel Tower perfectly stamped with embossing powder!

Sketch:

No need for my Cricut on this one!
Paper is from DCWV Heirloom stack.
Hearts from a border punch
Tim Holtz Distressed ink Walnut Stain
Je T'aime Paris Stamps from Docerela Creations
Spellbinders Large Scallop Octagons
Liquid pearls

Je t'aime Paris 

Eeek! Isn't it just fabulous!?!

Check out the Shop HERE! 

                 
The Team:

Docerela Creations

Carri
Nitasha

Ana

Dulce

Looking forward to seeing your creations!

Summer Time Fun a Page from my Mini Travel Scrapbook!

I don't scrapbook, but I do like to  Smash book and make mini books. I have been procrastinating making a book for our Family Vacation to Georgia from last year. I was able to make one for my In-Laws but mine has been sitting in a box, so today I thought I would make one of the pages! I won't actually add this page into the book until I complete all the pages so they end up in the correct order. You can see a similar travel book I made here! It is about 8 1/2 X 5 1/2 in size.

We stopped at a place called Priester's Pecans which is famous for its candy and super large Waffle cones. They have all these rocking chairs out front so I was able to take a fun picture with kids and Grandmas all lined up eating ice-cream!

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I made sure to grab fliers, notepads, and anything else I could find that I would be able to use in this book during the trip. I hid the YUM under one of the Priester's Customer surveys!

 

3 Cricut Cuts: Indie Art Cone, DoodleCharms Popsicle, Paper Pups YUM

4 yellow eyelets in the corners

2 pattern papers from KI Memories

2 buttons with string for embellishments

Kraft Card Stock for cones

Entering into:

My Craft Spot: Cool Treats

The Kraft Journal: Good Ol Summer Time

Exploring Cricut: 3 cuts, 2 patterns, 1 embellishment + Summer

Celebrate the Occasion: Welcome Summer

Die Cuttin Divas: Summer Colors, Red Orange and Yellow (my Pattern paper)

Krafty Girls: Fun in the Sun
Scrapalicious: Summertime

My Travel Mini Brag book!

We are going to Georgia this summer and when we went last year I brought all the supplies with me so we could make a scrapbook of our trip.Well that never happened, so I decided I would pre-make the book and mail it ahead of time so while we are there with Grandma and Nana the only thing they have to do is write notes and add the photos!

I am so happy with how this came out!

The size is 9x6 I used office envelopes so there would be a place to hold tickets, mementos etc and added cardstock between each page! it is 22 pages!! it took me about 4 hours to complete. I might have to make one more, so that we have one and the Grandmas have one!

I used scallops so I can add just our faces to each one!

ALL papers are from scraps! 

Scallops from Accent Essentials

Swiss Dots Cuttlebug

Entering into:

Getting Cricky: K Andrew's Simply Sunday Challenge at Getting Cricky Pack your Bags!

My Sheri Crafts: Spring

Card Creations & More: Pattern Ribbon:

Paper Cutz Challenge: 3 pattern papers

Serenity Scrappers: 2 or more Pastels

Gab Challenges: Favorite Technique (dry embossing)

2 Sisters: Make your own embellishments

Serenity Scrappers Place to Visit

Serenity Scrappers is have a challenge!
Here are the details:

Do a two page 8x8 layout
The theme is "someplace you like to visit/travel"

Since I am working on a goal of completing a scrapbook for my friend for Christmas, I decided this was the perfect challenge for me to get another page done!

Every chance they get they go to the dunes... it is on the Arizona/California border.... and it is nothing but sand! They take their camper and sand rail and just play in the sand! I really wanted it to look like the photos I have seen and this sand paper did the trick! I added the Happy Trails because that is the phrase they use and the camper is just like theirs! I used going places for all the cuts.

I do plan on altering this later because this is an 8X8 Lay-out and the one I am making is 8 1/2x11, so I will be adding a title that says "THE DUNES" and "SAND RULES"

Craft your Passion Challenge and Paper Cutz Challenge!

I made this card for two challenges!

Craft your Passions challenge # 9: You need to use... only ONE designer paper and only 3 brads.

I used three brads as the exhaust puffs.. (is that what they are??LOL)
And the paper is from the DCWV Travel stack paper pack.

The other challenge is:
Paper Cutz Challenge # 44

For challenge # 44, make a card, LO or craft project with a vaction theme using a digital, hand stamped or Cricut cut image of a car, plane, travel trailer or RV. Use any colors you'd like.

I used the icon image from the Wild Card cartridge, it was on the wedding page, I used the real dial size and clipped off the string of cans!

PDE Challenge # 3 Vacation!

PDE Is having challenge #3! You can check out Janis's blog here!

Your Challenge: Make a card, layout, or other craft item using the theme VACATION.

The timing is perfect! We have family coming to visit us for vacation and I wanted to send them a card to say how excited we are!

I found this perfect luggage paper in the DCWV Travel Stack!
I used my punches for the cut-outs and Create a Critter for the word explorer, the memories stamp is from scrappy Cat.
I wanted it to look like the luggage had been traveling and has collected its share of stickers and things!

Paper Cutz Challenge # 36

I have never made a lay-out before, I usually only make cards but I thought it would be fun to give it a try.

I don't know if I even make it correct or not! It just looked cool to me!!

The paper is from the travel stack, the arrows are cut from the Cricut Accent Essentials cartridge and the stamps are from Scrappy Cat.

For challenge # 36, make a card, LO or craft project using 3 patterned papers. That's it! Use any colors or theme you'd like