Diamonds Challenge (Sweet Sassy Diva)

Hi!  Lori here from ScrappinMyStressAway and I am super excited to Design today!  This week at Sweet Sassy Diva, the challenge is to use a Diamond in your project.  I made a gift bag for a very special little girl.  I have a new little baby girl who will be coming to my daycare in a couple of months.

Tanner and I are holding Baby Grayson ~ isn't she beautiful!  Her big sister loves Elephants and has a special lovey that is a pink elephant.  Mom picked out a Giraffe for Grayson so I decided to make a Giraffe gift bag to hold her gift from me.

I picked the Giraffe from Create A Critter and the coordinating Kite (aka diamond).  I put the layers of the giraffe on my mat sized at 3.24 inches.

Instead of using the top layer with the round spots on it, I copied a second middle layer and added hearts as my spots.  I did not weld, instead I grouped the hearts (George and Basic Shapes, variety of sizes) with the giraffe body so they hearts would cut out.

I added some grass from Paper Doll Dress Up sized to 1.73 inches.

I added a sun from Create A Critter and some clouds from April Showers.

I used yellow, pink, green and blue cardstock to cut out the pieces.

I used some ink, pop dots and stickles to add some dimension.

Here is my gift bag ready to stuff full of goodies!!  

Thanks for having me over today Bobbi Jo!!

Spring Garden Layout

This week at Frosted Designs, our Fabulous Friday challenge is Weather.  The weather in Nebraska was so warm early spring this year that all of my bulbs bloomed and looked beautiful BEFORE Easter. I host Easter and was worried that the tulips would be blown away by then, and they were.  I am so glad that I took these photos!!  

We moved around so much that I would plant my garden and not be able to enjoy it every year.  This is our 4th year here and I have really enjoyed this garden!!

Here is a little sketch I drew.

I cut out several flower pieces, lady bugs and grass from Walk in my Garden.

I cut the flowers out in the same colors as the ones in my garden.

I took the title Spring Garden from April Showers.

One of my other challenges is to use more than one piece of patterned paper in a project!  I used this butterfly paper from Michaels and some scrap green paper with a leaf pattern on it to mat my photos.  I colored and cut the background shape from my Cricut Imagine using Vintage Papers.

I inked my grass and stems with green ink.

I layered the flowers together and overlapped the grass.  At the time I created this project, my Gypsy was still not able to cut welded pieces.  Normally I would weld the grass pieces together but I actually like this look even better!!

I put a sun in the top corner.  I have several metal ladybugs in my garden so of course I had to add some!!

I added the all important date and my initials.

I hope you join us this week with a Weather project of your own at Frosted Designs!!

Rain, Rain, Go Away ~ Card

Today I am the Guest Designer at Sweet Sassy Diva's blog and I have a Rain, Rain, Go Away card to share with you.  

I used the giraffe from Create A Critter sized to 3.59 inches.  I took the umbrella from April Showers.  I grouped the layers and stretched them so the size is 2.40 width and 4.31 height.  

I put scraps of papers on my mat and cut them out.

I used orange and brown twine to create a mane.  I put some adhesive on the back of the brown layer and cut small strips of twine.

I assembled the giraffe one layer at a time.  I added some stickles for the eyes, mouth and antenna thingies!

I added stickle raindrops to the card and a little twine bow to her head.  I used glossy accents on her spots. I think this card will be appropriate for a support or sympathy card.

Thanks for having me over today Sweet Sassy Diva!!

Number Challenge (Frosted Designs)

This week at Frosted Designs, our Fabulour Friday Challenge is to use numbers in your project.  I took this as a great opportunity to do Tanner's birthday pages!  He turned 6 on 11-8-11 and celebrated at Grandma and Grandpa's house and with a new bike from mom and dad.

I  used this 6 border from Graphically Speaking.  I sized the WIDTH to 11.5.  I cut this out twice in red cardstock.

I used blue cardstock for my background paper and found one piece of this Super Dude paper from my stash.   Because the paper is so busy, I justput a 5 inch section across both pages.

I wanted a banner so I grabbed these banner layers from Birthday Bash.  I sized them at 2.22 inches and 1.94 inches.  The font is from Birthday Bash and I sized the numbers to .88 and the letters to 1.0 inch.  The Half Dozen phrase came from Graphically Speaking and is sized at 1.24 inches.

The bike came from April Showers and the gears came from Paper Lace 2.  I sized the bike at 1.94 inches and the gears at 1.0, 1.08 and 1.39 inches.  I cut them out in black cardstock and silver cardstock.

I intended on cutting the banners out in two layers, one with the remaining 2 inches of my patterned paper.  I made a rookie Gypsy mistake and put the paper on wrong!  They put that arrow on the side of the Gypsy mat for a reason!!!  So this is my Plan B ~ black cardstock numbers on orange cardstock.  I used my Tim Holtz mini attacher to secure the twine onto my banner.

I tied some twine around the middle picture and pop dotted it overlapping the other two pictures.

I adhered the black gear to the page and pop dotted the silver one on top of it.

I had a lot of fun with this one and it turned out way different than I originally planned!!  Thanks for stopping by today!