Spread the Magic

I'm making lots and lots of Disney inspired layouts and combined some embellishments I made for a Disney swap and a My Creative Sketches' sketch.  I love starting with a sketch.  It makes coming up with interesting layouts easier.  Here's the original sketch from My Creative Sketches:


And here's my take:

I love the bright colors of Disney!  Instead of butterflies, I used silhouettes of Mickey's head.  The "banner" is my cluster of pennants - great for some journaling.

The "candy" was made over a year ago and was sitting around waiting for me to use them.  The paper is from an assortment of papers from Creative Memories (red Mickey), EK Success (black words) and The Paper Studio (Color Kaleidoscope paper pack - base sheet).  I bought the Washi Tape from the Scrapbook Expo.

The photo will come later.  

Cards!!

It's a beautiful spring day and what do I do?  Stay inside and make cards!  LOL  I did spend some time today outside with Gracie as she played with the water hose and chased flies.  She's so funny!  I took some great photos and hope to add them to a layout soon.

Right now I'm gathering photos and waiting until the Mother's Day Retreat I'm attending with Carly and 10 of my Scrappin' In Patterson friends.

Here's one card I made using a sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.  You can find their site here:

I'm still learning to play with alcohol based markers.  But this image was pretty easy since it only involved two colors.  The yellow embossed cardstock was given to me via a swap a long time ago and the patterned paper was part of my scrap stash.  The sliver of doily was buried underneath some stuff on my work area.  I trimmed it down a little and thought it was perfect for this very simple card.  I also added some rhinestones at the ends of the antenae, but they are hard to see in this photo.

Here's another card that I made just for fun:

This is a stamp I purchased at Hobby Lobby in their clearance section for $1.19.  What a deal, huh?

Always Be A Unicorn

Here's the finished 6x6 Inspirational Quote swap I finished.  The due date is April 1st so I'm mailing this soon.  I love this unicorn sentiment from CTMH.

It's hard to tell from these pictures, but I put Stickles on the stars, and sequins in the scribble circles.  There's two layers of silver washi tape under the sentiment. and Yellow Stickles on the stars in the sentiment.

This unicorn set is from Close To My Heart.  I LOVE this quote.  It's hilarious!

The shape around the sentiment was cut using the Artbooking cricut cartridge available from CTMH.

Baby Boy

I've been avoiding the computer...not sure why, just staying off it.  Here are some photos of a frame and banner I made for my best friend Susan's daughter's baby shower.  She has a farm animal/John Deere themed baby nursery so I thought this framed chicken wire bulletin board would be perfect.  The banner was made just to add a little something...

I bought the farm animal paper from Hobby Lobby a long time ago on clearance not knowing what I was going to do with it, but it sure was perfect for this project!  The other patterned papers were from a set I received two years ago in a goody bag for a class I attending at the Scrapbook Expo.

Stamps are from Stampin' Up!

The pennants were cut using the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.  Same with the circles and scalloped circles.

You're All Write!

Carly decided to make these "pencils" for her coworkers.  We both saw these before on pinterest and they looked pretty easy to put together.  Yes, they were!

You stack a silver Kiss to a roll of Rolos to make the "pencil".  We used pink tissue paper to wrap around the top (eraser), put silver tape around the edge of the tissue and then wrapped yellow paper around the whole thing.

Carly handwrote the tags.  Adorable!

Since it was so last minute, they aren't perfect, but still adorable.  I know her coworkers will love them!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I went on a rampage and made a lot of Valentine's Day cards this year.  You saw a bunch in an earlier post, but here are the cards I made for my kids:

I had a lot of fun using scraps for different cards.  None of them were hard except maybe the first one just because I had to punch a bunch of small hearts.  I love the added sequins to the heart bundle.

I added some candy to a cellophane bag and that's their goodie.  Nothing much but better than nothing, right?  LOL

Reel Life

Another successful scrapbooking day at the library on Saturday.  I worked on lots of Christmas photos/layouts.  This one is for the Let's Scrap sketch challenge.  Check out the challenge site here.  They have great sketches which makes it so easy to start your layout.  I don't always end up like the original sketch, but they do inspire me to start.

Here's the sketch:


And here's my take on it:

I love the view master reel stamp from CTMH.  If you're interested in purchasing any CTMH products, I am now a consultant.  Go to their website www.closetomyheart.com and then click on find a demonstrator and type in my name, Dorlene Durham.  These photos are from Christmas Eve.  The artwork on the right side is from a Christmas card that my dear friend, Terry made for me.  Her work is amazing!  These photos are also taken by Kevin's cell phone.  This was the night before opening my new camera. 

The paper is from the same Christmas paper stack that I've been using a lot this year.  I absolutely LOVE this paper and 60% off is even better.  I just wish I would have picked up the embellishments that went with it.  Oh well.  I guess the fun part of creating is actually creating.  LOL

Hey, I just realized I didn't even use my cricut with this layout.