Easter Mantel

The challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters is EASTER. It's coming up in just a couple of weeks. So a card or project that is Easter related is perfect. I went with a project since I really don't send out Easter cards. Here is my Easter mantel for my fireplace. I have decided to decorate my mantel for the season or holiday. This was very much Pinterest inspired.

The 8x10 subway art is a free printable from Tammy Mitchell Designs. I loved the colors and it had to have "PEEPS" on there because that is my favorite! The bunting banner, which is my first one ever, is another free printable from Itsy Belle. I can not find the link to the eggs that are on the banner. I got the frame and jars from Hobby Lobby when they were 1/2 off.

If you have an Easter project or card, go to The Sisterhood of Crafters and join us in our challenge. Thanks for stopping by. : )

I am entering this project in the following challenges:
Anything Goes Challenge - Get ready For Easter
City Crafter Challenge - Spring Fling Colour Challenge
Crafty Ann's - Spring/Easter
Creative Craft Challenges - Anything But A Card
Make it Monday - Anything Goes
Our Craft Lounge - Spring
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes
Scrapper`s Delights Paper Crafts - Easter
Truly Madly Crafty Challenges - Color Inspiration

Let's Celebrate - Birthdays!

This week at The Sisterhood of Crafters the challenge is about Birthdays. It can be a birthday card or a gift you made for someone's birthday. Although my birthday card stash is running quite low my project is for a birthday gift. My neice's daughter turned 10 this month and I decorated the letters of her name to go up on her wall. This is more of a gift for the mom due to the fact that her daughter is blind and mentally challenged. Although Ariona may never see the decorated name I made for her I made sure it was tactile so she could feel it.

Here is a close up of the "N". Her mother's favorite saying is "Love is Blind", so I wanted to include that in there somewhere. But I also wrote that saying in Braille at the top of the "N". I used someothing similiar to Dew Drops to write it out. I also included some of these dots on the other letters just as decoration.
I really enjoyed making this for Ari. She's a sweetie and I have a soft spot for her since I also have a special needs daughter.

Please join us this week at The Sisterhood of Crafters for a challenge about Birthdays. Some lucky participant will win a stamp set from Shabby Chic Stamp Company.

I am entering this project in the following challenges:
Allsorts - Say it with Flowers
Cupcake Craft - Going Dotty
Paper Pretties - Stripes
Quirky Crafts - "For a Special Lady" plus Circles, Flowers and gems/pearls
The Squirrel & the Fox - Love -- Love Is Blind
There's Magic in the Air - Kid`s Birthday

Thank You Cards

At The Sisterhood of Crafters our challenge is to use STRIPED PAPER on your project. This is a very quick and easy set of Thank You cards that I made and they all feature the same striped paper. I didn't even use a stamp, the sentiments are all rub ons. Doesn't get much easier than that.

Check out what the other sisters created for their striped creation at The Sisterhood of Crafters, then join us with your own striped project.

Black, White and Yellow - Bridal Shower

This post is going to have LOTS of pictures. My neice got married on 11-11-11 and I decorated this Bridal Shower for her. As you can tell her wedding colors were Black, White and Yellow.
I had a lot of fun putting it all together.

I found this "Bride" bling sticker from Jolee's at Wal-Mart.
Added it to a big yellow candle, then set it on a black plate and surrounded the bottom with big faux diamonds. Found those at Wal-Mart too.

This was a plain black "holder" from Target, I found in the party supply isle. It was flat and had to be put together. Added daisy stickers all around the bottom and black dew drops to the handle.

Found this "W" on clearance at Michaels for around a $1.
Added 3 coordinating ribbons to it and placed in on the table. Added fresh yellow flowers to a premade cake.

These little white buckets were at the $1 store, 3 for a $1. Added ribbon around it and glued on white dew drops. Finished off with 3 ribbons around the handle and filled them with Lemon Heads.

I made custom water bottle labels. This is from a free template I found from Judy Prouse. Megan and Shane
11-11-11 Shane & Megan with Bar Code November 11, 2011
Marriage Facts - Sorry the picture is too blurry to read.
You can click on HERE to get the free download and read the Marriage Facts.
I saved this post so I could use it for the Black, White and One other Color Challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters. So go on over and check out the other pretty creations my fellow Sisters made and they all used different accent colors.

Here are a few pictures of my neice Megan and Shane. Their wedding was in Destin, Florida on 11-11-11. We stayed there for a week in a condo on the beach and had a great time.

I am entering my table decorations in the following challenges this week:
ColourQ - Black, White and 1 other color (Yellow)
Craft Room Challenge - Anything Goes
Karens Doodles - Spots and Stripes
Everybody-Art-Challenge - Anything Goes
Make it Monday - Anything Goes
Ooh La La Creations - Anything BUT a Card
Partytime Tuesdays - Anything Goes
Secret Crafter - Anthing goes
Squiggles and Giggles - Lets Celebrate (Bridal shower/Wedding)
That Craft Place - Sweet Treats in Pastels (yellow)
Top Tip Tuesday - Anything Goes
Use It Tuesdays - Colors favorite sports Team - Pittsburg Steelers, lots of ribbon from stash

Polka Dots

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge for this week is POLKA DOTS. I covered a composition notebook and made a match birthday card. My son gave it to his teacher for her birthday last month. I added her name in the top section but forgot to take a picture of that.

Flower Power

It's been a long time since I've posted but I'm finally back with a Sisterhood of Crafters challenge. I hosted the challenge this week and it's called Flower Power. Just use a flower on your project. So here are 3 cards that I came with for this challenge.

The first 2 cards are for similar just using a different image. One is more sophisticated and the other fun. The rose image is from Delicious Doodles.

We have a sponosr this week and it's Pizzazz Aplenty. So go check out the challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters and get in on a chance to win some goodies.

Mother's Day Challenge at The Sisterhood

I am hosting the challeng this week at The Sisterhood of Crafters. It's an easy challenge, just make any project for Mother's Day. I've been watching "Secrets From a Stylist" on HGTV lately so I decided to name the style of the card I made. I'm calling it "Vintage Shabby Chic". : )
Would love to have you come participate at the Sisterhood challenge too and heck out what the other DT and Guest DT made for their projects.

I have entered this project in the following challenges:
Hand Stamped Sentiments - Mother's Day Theme
Little Red Wagon - for Mom
Paper Shelter Challenge - for Mom

Birthday Notebook and Card

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge this week is to use ribbon and brads on your project. I made this birthday card and covered a composition book for a one of Kaitlyn's friend. The cupcake image was from an image swap so I don't know the company. I colored it with Copics and printed out "Happy Birthday" for the sentiment.

The paper is from My Minds Eye and is called Quite Contrary. I don't think I would have mixed all those papers together myself so I'm glad the scrap companies do it for me.

Check out with the other Sisters did for their projects and then enter the challenge with your own ribbon and brad creation.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

C.R.A.F.T. - not a card
Card Cupids - buttons or ribbons
Dutch Dare Card Challenge - sparkle/glitter/bling
Fashionista Friday - birthday

Gem Of A Challenge - Buttons, brads, beads, bows (brads)

Guylou's Inimitability - anything goes
I Did It Creations - Anything Goes

Little Claires - Anything Goes

Moving Along With The Times – anything but a card, for a little girl (Notebook)
Tellen's Place - birthdays

In Love with Valentines

I have been sooooo bad about posting lately. I didn't even post the last challenge I did with The Sisterhood of Crafters. A lot has been going on here. My sister's husband passed away suddenly on January 4th and was one of the toughest times I've been through in a long time. Now the kids have been out of school for 2 weeks due to the snow storms we have had and well I'm about to lose my mind! Not that I had much to begin with anyways. ; )

Ok enough of my ramblings and on with the challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters. The challenge is "In Love with Valentines", any project that is Valentine related. Should be pretty easy with Valentine's right around the corner.

I know this picture looks big but the card is actually a 3x3. These are so fun, quick and easy to make.

Now see what the Sisters did for the Valentine project and then enter your own creation in on the challenge.

A "Boo"rific Halloween

At The Sisterhood of Crafters this week the challenge is "Celebrate the Holidays". The holiday we are celebrating is Halloween. It's less than 2 weeks away.

For my Halloween project I decorated up these small plastic pumpkins and filled them with candy for my kid's teachers.
All I did was add some paper to the eyes and nose and colored in the teeth. I just stamped a tag and added ribbon. Very simple.

This was what the pumpkins looked like when I got them. I found them at the dollar spot in Target. There were 6 of these in a bag for a buck, I couldn't pass that up. They also had black witches caldrons and white skulls.

Now see what my Sisters did for their Halloween project at The Sisterhood of Crafters.

I am entering this project in the following challenges:
2 Sisters - halloween
Aly's Sunday Challenge - halloween
Baby Bud Designs - fall or halloween
Corrosive Challenges - no white paper

Craft Your Passion - orange, purple, black
Crafts and Me Challenge - Halloween
Creative Belli - pumpkins
Creative Cottage - halloween
Creative Craft Challenges - Trick or Treat
Creative Inspirations - Halloween/Fall
Dutch Dare - use a tag
Fab 'n' Funky - halloween

Fairy Fun Friday - Tickets or Tags
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge - Halloween
If the Shoe Fits - Holiday for the Holidays
Just Inspirational -Anything Goes
Let's Ink It Up - NO DIGI STAMPS and use halloween colors
Little Red Wagon - Something Old, Smething New (new pumpkins, old ribbon)
Lots to Do - Plain & Simple
Moving along with the Times - Halloween
One Stop Craft - halloween
One Stop Craft Challenge - Halloween
Paper Cutz - Anything Goes
Paper Playtime - pumpkins or spider webs
Pile it On - Kd Themed Halloween
Really Reasonable Ribbon: Halloween.
Stamp Something - halloween
Stamp With Fun - Halloween
Stampin' Royalty - halloween
Stampin' for the Weekend - halloween or fall
Stamptacular Sunday - anything but a card
Sweet Stampin - ribbon
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - No Cards Allowed (make anything but a card)
The Crazy Challenge - Halloween
The Paper Variety - project that incorporates treats
Wee Memories - Anything that is celebrated (Halloween)

Color My World - Brown/Blue/Ivory

This week at The Sisterhood of Crafters is another one of our new challenges. This one is called Color My World, it's a color challenge and the colors are Dark Brown, Light Blue and Ivory.

This is a very simple card that I made for my hubby's grandmother. Her birthday is next week. Not one of my favorite cards by any means maybe because it's so bland to me. Not sure that the ribbon really goes now either, looks more blue/green than light blue. Oh well, I know she'll still appreciate the handmade card. : )

You can see what the other Sisters did at The Sisterhood of Crafters. Hope you join us in this easy but fun challenge.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
A Spoonful Of Sugar - sparkle and shine
Creative Cottage - bling
Gingerloft - glitter or bling
Incy Wincy Designs - glitter, stickles, rhinestones, etc
Mami Doodles - girls birthday card with sparkle
My Partner in Crafting Crime - Clean and Simple
Paper Playtime - ribbons, buttons or rhinestones
Party Time Tuesdays - BIRTHDAY and anything goes
Polycraft Monday Challenge - Anything Goes
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays - Open Challenge
Stamp Something - celebrations
Sweet Stampin - punches (used border punch)

Birthday Fun - Pizza Party

This week at The Sisterhood of Crafters the challenge is Birthday Fun! Create a card, layout or project for a birthday.

I scrapped one of Kaitlyn's birthday parties. This was when she turned 7 and her theme was a pizza party. The girl loves pizza! Hey what can I say, so do I.
I found the invitations at a $1 store and then added some pizza stickers to them and just printed out the inside info and cut and pasted it over the text they had, I didn't want to fill out all the info by hand. I ordered a big cookie for the cake and then found these gummy pizza slices, also at the $1 store and added them on top the icing.

This is the third page of the layout. I seem to always have enough pics of the birthday to make more than just a 2 page LO. On this one I used a circle stencil to mark the spots where to put the brads. I can say for certain this is the most brads I have ever used on a page before, but I really like how it turned out. The white writing on the pictures is from rub ons. Love adding them in the blank space of a picture. Check out what the other Sisters did for the birthday projects at The Sisterhood of Crafters and then join in our birthday fun challenge.

This project is being submitted to the following challenges:
Alphabet - U is for Unused stash (I've had the pizza die cut and label for years)
Aly's Sunday Challenge - sparkly and glittery (rhinestones on page 3)
Corrosive Challenges - use some of your unused craft stuff (lots of of old brads)
Creative Belli - embellishments starting with B (tons of brads on page 3)
I Did It! - Keep it Simple (Just pages 1 and 2)
Incy Wincy - Autumn Colors
Lasting Memories Layout Challenge - Circles, squares or scallops
Paper Sundaes - Fall or Halloween Colors
Raise The Bar - something yummy
Scrap Fit - Use green in your project
Secret Crafter - anything goes
Stacey's Stamping Stage - poppy parade, rich razzleberry, wild wasabi, peach parfait, very vanilla (page 3)
Stampin' B's - Use food on a card or project
Sundays with Crissy - sparkly and shiny (page 3)
The Crazy Challenge - Friends Forever (Kaitlyn and her friends at her bday party)
Thoughtful Thursdays - letter 'C'. It can be chalking, coloring, cardstock.
Twisted Thursdays - Happy Birthday to Our Favorite Critters (check out my party animal son on page 2 with a face full of icing)

Simply Handmade

This week at the The Sisterhood of Crafters the challenge is "Simply Handmade".


This is a small plaque that I made into a door hanging for my neice's baby's room or she can put on her front door when the baby is sleeeping. I used the same paper that the invitations to her baby shower were made from.
Check out what the other Sisters did for the Handmade projects at The Sisterhood of Crafters .


This project is being submitted to the following challenges:
Crafty Calendar - blue and optional to use flowers
Just Inspirational - theme is Baby
Ooh La La Creations - stripes
Order of the Opus Gluei - Alphabet Soup (use letters)
Paper Pretties - brads or eyelets
Paper Sundaes - Use at least 3 types of embellishments
Shirley2Girls - (critters theme) spots and/or dots
Stamp Insanity - use elements in threes

1-2-3 Recipe Challenge

This week The Sisterhood of Crafters is continuing the new challenges and this one is a 1-2-3 Recipe. Thank goodness no real cooking is involved. Cooking isn't something I enjoy but I did enjoy cooking up this project for you. ; )

The 1-2-3- Recipe is 1- Ribbon, 2 -Patterned Papers and 3 Flowers. I made another bookmark for my project this week. Since I made a couple for my son last week, Kaitlyn wanted her own bookmark too. So this one is for her. The 2 patterned papers were from scrap and I stacked the 3 flowers.
I had a hard time getting a clear picture of this. If you click on the picture you can see more detail.
I hope you will go over and check out what the other sisters cooked up and join with us on this recipe challenge. : )

Anything BUT a Card

After a small break and some changes in our challenges The Sisterhood of Crafters is ready to start challenging you again. This time we are focusing our challenges on trying to help you accomplish things that you need to get done. We want you to create something you need and will use. For the challenge this week you are to create anything BUT a card. So if you have a LO that needs to be done or gift that needs to be made go for it. Get R done!

I made a couple of bookmarks for my son, Austin. He is in 2nd grade this year and he is starting to read for enjoyment. He needed some bookmarks and I asked if he wanted to make him some. He said yes but make them something I like. I was going to make them boyish but then he said like "Tom and Jerry". He loves that on the Cartoon Network. So I went online and found these images and just printed them out. No coloring on this at all.
If you didn't notice the book that I'm using is "Shiver". I was told about this from another Twilight fan. They said I'd like this if I like Twilight that I would like this and I did. I have since bought "Linger" and started it but then loaned it out to my sister. Hopefully I'll get it back soon and can finish it.

The next is a corner bookmark. I found this spider image and just printed it off and did color it a little. Then I just glued it on on a corner bookmark that I made.

Now check out what the other DT's did at The Sisterhood of Crafters. They made some great projects this week.

Birthday Bash Blog Hop

The Sisterhood of Crafters is celebrating the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of our sister Teri's digital image store called Delicious Doodles with a Birthday Bash Blog Hop. Now if you came from you are on the right track, if you didn't you'll need to start at the beginning of the hop which is at The Sisterhood. Teri is celebrating at her Delicious Doodles shop blog by having a FREE DIGI-a-DAY this week - August 16th through 20th. Be sure to stop by her shop each day and grab the freebie! Some of her images are far from what I would call a "doodle"! She is a VERY talented artist and beautiful sketches too.

I used Teri's Delicious Doodle - Celebrate with Cake for my image. I colored it with Copics and used paper from my scraps for the entire card. WOO HOOO---love using those scraps. I just typed the Happy Birthday Sentiment under the image before I printed it out.
This is a gift holder card that I have made before - very easy. HERE is a tutorial I did on how to make this card.
The sentiment inside is from either Ginger's House Blog or Create with TLC. I couldn't find the exact link but they both have tons of free sentiments.


CSN Stores has donated a $60 gift certificate that you can use on anything you like. CSN Stores has over 200 online stores where you can find everything from dinnerware to storage, to sofas and suitcases! Want to get in on the prize? The challenge this week is to make a project using a Delicious Doodles image.

We are hopping for the next two weeks then we have a whole new round of challenges for you crafty little geniuses so be sure to make the rounds and come back to The Sisterhood September 1st for some fun!

The last stop on this birthday hop is the birthday girl's blog - Delicious Doodles. Thanks for hopping by. : )