First H2H Challenge 2011

Heart 2 Heart Challenges is starting the year off with a color challenge. It's a good one too! A cheery blend of blues and greens with just a touch of orange. The colors are:

Sky, Pear, Colonial White and Sorbet

Here is what I came up with. I kept it fun and playful with stripes, dots and a cute little froggy!

Click here to see all the artwork from this year's Design Team as well as all those who entered. You can also see new info on a scrapbook challenge blog for this year. Just click the tab at the top of the H2H blog to see more details and to play along. Hey, I may just get more of my own scrapbooking completed throughout the year!

Summer Cards

This week I will be teaching a class devoted to Summer Time! These fun cards have vibrant summer colors, whimsical images and surprises too!


This card is simple, but perfect for that last minute outdoor barbecue with family or friends.


The sentiment on this card is a great motto for the season. {Plus, the song plays in my head every time I look at it!} This sunbather is chilaxing with just the right amount of embellishments and glitter.

Summer isn't complete without some little critters around. How cute is this frog? Hot Diggity!

My kids are such fish in the pool. They play hard, so when they are ready for a break they like to reach for something crunchy and cheesy. This card would be such a 'treat' to receive.

Well the kids might have something salty to snack on, but I prefer sweet and slushy! I can almost smell the cocktail, you will too when you sniff this card. It is scented with Card Scents in a pina coloda flavor, yum!

Summer Wishes in a Jar

~ Heart 2 Heart ABC {anything but a card} Challenge ~

I enjoy making cards and scrapbooking my photo's, but I especially love creating projects from found or recycled products. For this week's challenge over at H2H, I wanted to create a jar to showcase some snap shots from this summer and fill it with our memories!

The Ball jar has been hiding in the back of my pantry for some time now. I created a four panel piece of card stock that is decorated with Splendor papers, family pics and stamped images from Hot Diggity. I also stamped tiny bumble bees and adhered them inside the jar with a tiny bit of liquid glass. It reminds me of summers back east as a little girl trying to catch fire flies. That is also how I arrived at the tag description of "capture summer wishes". It will be an ongoing project this summer adding more memories that we have yet to make.

I topped off the jar with circle paper flowers, or as I learned from Tresa Black this weekend "lollipop flowers". I adorned it with some sheer and grosgrain ribbons.

Seeing Spots!

Over on the Heart 2 Heart Blog this week the challenge focuses on stamping your own background. I love random stamping and using background & texture stamps to achieve this technique. I wanted to play with the new Hit the Spot stamp set some more because I feel that it is the perfect stamp set for creating background papers. It has several circle sizes to create a different look on many projects.

This first card uses a row of medium sized circles, solid and outline images. They are a little tricky to line up, but it's o.k. even if it's a little off. Along with the spots I used the Hot Diggity critters on all the cards. I added some little brads to the owls eyes to make them pop a bit. I also used the same brads in the button with a photo anchor that swivels to release the opening of the card.

For this card I began by punching circles of cardstock that were slightly larger than the spot on the stamp set. I laid them down on white daisy cardstock and then sprayed a mixture of alcohol and re-inker over the entire surface with a spritz bottle. I removed the circles and was left with a negative image of white circles. I then stamped the larger dot using the rock and roll technique directly in the center of each white circle. I used some leaves that looked like sea kelp and added tiny bubbles with stardust glitter glue in the center. I finished the card with bold ribbon, some bigger brads and a wiggly eyed fish!

This final card showcases some of the smaller spots on the stamp set. They simply add texture to the sky and grass.

Froggy Spots

Another challenge this week at Heart2Heart Blogspot. It's a color challenge. Color challenges always intrigue me especially when they are tricky and completely out of the normal color palette for me. The colors are Topiary, Ocean, Desert Sand and a neutral such as white, black or cream.


For my card I've been wanting to try out the new Hit the Spot stamp set and the Topiary green was begging for a cute little froggy from the Hot Diggity stamp set. The spots are a little bit tricky to line up, but imagine trying it with a wood block!!! Once you get the hang of it your backgrounds are really cool. Please remember to check out the H2H blog to see more artwork from a very talented group of crafter's!

Splendor Sheet

Had this vision in my head to decorate a cookie sheet with Splendor papers and some adorable critters. I thought about my sis-in-law immediately and thought she might enjoy this as a Mother's Day gift as she is my daughter's God Mother. I painted the cookie sheet with a beige color to tone down the silver. I used a couple different papers from the Splendor Level 2 paper pack, a favorite this season for sure. I used several different types of ribbon, some old ~ some new. The cute froggy and owl stamps are from the new Hot Diggity stamp set. For the magnets I punched circles of B&T papers and covered them with circle windows. I then glued a strong magnet to the backs of them. Some Goldrush buttons and a library clip to hold a photo completes this fun memo board.