SALT Challenge - The Cure for Worry

It's time for another SALT challenge and this week it was my turn to set the challenge. My topic, the cure for worry, was based upon a sermon written by Martyn Lloyd-Jones. With all that's been going on in the world (and with my tendency to worry about future events), I thought this would be a good subject for study. You can read my write up, and see the other SALT creations, on the blog. Enjoy! Oh, the card...Background paper from Tim Holtz (isn't it dreamy...butterflies and kraft paper!!) Scripture text from Sweet 'n Sassy, and that fabulous map print behind the text is also by Tim (one of his new sets!!)

New Tiffany Doodles Release

Welcome to the Tiffany Doodles sneak peek! This Friday Tiffany will be releasing a number of beautiful new floral images, including this new Cherry Blossom image. And if you purchase any of the new sets you can take 10% off of your order!

Here's the card I created with this stunning image. I kept the image large (one of the nice things about digi images is that you can make them whatever size you like) so that it would fill the majority of the card. I colored the image with Copics and paired it with beautiful vintage paper from Graphic 45. The sentiment is actually one that I just picked up from Wholly Scrap!; part of a set from TPC, rhinestones are from Little Yellow Bicycle. Enjoy and be sure to check back to the Tiffany Doodles site on Friday for all of the spring-time, floral goodness!!

Sweet 'n Sassy Sneak Peek

Happy Monday bloggers! Hoping everyone had a wonderful weekend! We had a sick-filled weekend with both kids so a lot of time spent on the couch, watching cartoons and administering Tylenol! But these times do give me an opportunity to catch up on my reading and blog surfing!! We're still down for the count this morning but I wanted to share a little sneak peek of a Sweet 'n Sassy stamp set that will be released on April 1. This one is so darn cute, I love it and can see a bunch of uses for this set. For today's card, I went with a welcome baby theme, using the lion, stand, and precious baby sentiment.

I started by stamping the stand on cream cardstock and then using collage number stamps (a retired SU! set) to decorate the background. (I masked the stand). I then colored the stand with Copics and aged the edges of the cream cardstock with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. The lion was stamped twice on a separate piece of cardstock and colored with Copics. The lion was cut out and adhered on top of the stand with foam tape and then his face was cut out of the second lion and attached with foam tape for that much loved dimension. The image is paired with a piece of designer paper from October Afternoon and a piece of scalloped cork was added next to the lion. (I finally broke down and purchased one of those large scallop dies from Papertreyink!) A few buttons and the sentiment finished off my card! Enjoy and be sure to mark your calendars for April 1st! Sweet 'n Sassy will be releasing a wonderful line of new stamp sets!! Oh, and right now there is a 30% sale on all digi images! Go to the web site here.

Keep it Simple Sunday

How about a total change of pace today! A KSS card created with a sweet (or should I say tweet) bird set from Papertreyink. Lately I've realized that many of my stamps haven't been used in ages so I'm trying to use some of them more frequently and since I had a sicky kiddo at home this week, I had a little bit of free time to just play. This card was created using the Bird Watching set from PTI. This set was designed by Melissa Bickford, who was one of our teaching at the Stamping Around NH event. Papertrey and Melissa were amazingly generous and raffled off a ton of free stamp sets. I'm pretty sure that everyone in attendance went home with a free set! This is the one that I received...love it!! I simply stamped the bird image four times, in four different colors, and layered the stamped image on to matching cardstock. Then a few strips of October Afternoon paper is all that was needed to finish this card! Oh, and a tweet sentiment!! Enjoy!

Cluck!

One more page for January! The title of this one is Cluck and is about our chickens spending their first winter outside in their coop. (When I showed this page to my husband he asked, "Who is Chuck?" hee hee I guess he read the title too quickly!) This is another simple layout, based on a few pages submitted by one of the Wholly Scrap! design team members, Nicole Wise. I love this layout for adding multiple pictures to a page...it's a bit like a film strip. For this layout, I used a large photo of our barn and coop as the main image and then a few photos of the girls (how about Brownie riding on the Power Wheels! She's a crazy chicken!), and our camper buried in all the snow. More Bo Bunny paper and brads finished off this page. Easy peasy! Enjoy!

Snow Fun

So why don't we continue with the January scrapbook pages review! Sharing on my blog might keep me from falling too far behind schedule...I'm determined to try and get a month's worth of photos scrapbooked each month. Hum...I have a week left of March and I haven't even thought about the February pages; I better get moving!!

For these two pages, I continued using the Bo Bunny paper and embellishments. I'm finding that keeping my scrapbook page layouts very simple is the key to moving along at a good pace. For these pages, I only added "hills", hand cut from the snowflake paper, and a thin band of designer paper at the top of each page. After I add my photos, I start thinking about adding layers and embellishments.

I again used a few of the snowflake stickers that came with this paper line, a scalloped border (created by a Martha Stewart punch), brads (to keep with my row of brads theme from yesterday's page), a few rhinestones, and the title, which I broke up between the two pages. I was a little challenged by where to put journaling; every spot I considered seem to throw the page off balance so I opted to write a few notes along the hills. This is a tip I learned from one of the Wholly Scrap! design team members! :-) Oh, I should also mention that all of my supplies came from Wholly Scrap!, the store where I work and teach and where I can't seem to stop buying paper!! LOL! Enjoy!

A Taste of Winter

Remember I said that I started scrapbooking? Here's my very first page of my very first scrapbook album! I'm so excited! I can't believe how much I'm looking forward to scrapbooking some of our best photos from this year!! My plan is to create a hybrid 12x12 scrapbook, which means I'll scrapbook some of the pages and then put the rest in to standard 4x6 photo holders, as you see below. For me, that takes off a lot of the stress since I'll focus on only scrapbooking our favorite photos. I'm also focusing on one month at a time so just a few photos from each month. For my first few pages from January, I started with designer paper from Bo Bunny. I love the dark navy of this page, along with the snowflake design and all of the coordinating stickers and embellishments...ohh, fabulous!! The January title on this first page is from a sticker sheet that goes along with the paper line, as well as the various snowflakes on the page.

I really only added a journaling box (also from this line), a few brads (a theme I repeated on all the January pages), the photo of my most handsome son, and tiny pearl accents, which you can just see on the inside of the snowflakes in the above photo. Well...that's page one...what do you think?? I have four more pages to share for January, which I'll do within the next week or so... Enjoy!!