{Rebecca} Memory Maze April DT Reveal

I'm back for with another round of fun cards with Memory Maze products! This month, I have a bit of a fun twist that I'd like to share and highlights the versatility of the product. Every couple of weeks I have some very special young ladies come to my house and we usually spend the afternoon crafting. This month, when I pulled out my supplies they spotted the Memory Maze Stack-Ums and were quite excited to try something new. 

3D Card Stack-Ums

Isn't this a fun card?! I love the chickens and the country feel. There is a bit of fussy cutting, but my 15 year old did a fantastic job with that, and layering the pieces together as well.

These cards were made by my girls, aged 15 down through 5. It just shows you how versatile the Satck-Ums are, whether you are an experienced crafter, or just beginning, they are great starting points for any project! We chose to embellish a few of the cards with a few extras, but for the most part, these are all included with the Stack-Ums when you purchase them.

This last card is made by an adorable 5 year old. She had so much fun cutting this out and putting it together. Isn't this darling?

"A Pirates Life for Me"

Of course I couldn't let the girls have all the fun. I joined in on the action as well with this adorable pirate themed Stack-Um as well as joining it with chipboard from Memory Maze as well. 

I cut 3 pirate layers out and with 3D tape stacked them one atop the other and adhered them to the card. The chipboard was sprayed with glimmer mist and even though its a boy card, I love the way it shimmers.

 

Memory Maze Products:
Just for You Chipboard
3D Card Stack-Ums 
 

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"Happy 6th Birthday"

One last card to share with you all, a fun birthday card for my six year old brother. The chipboard adds a fun dimension and I added another layer by stacking the chipboards. 

I sprayed the chipboard with glimmer mists (again), its such a fun way to dress up the chippies and I can create perfectly matched embellishments for individual projects.

Memory Maze Chipboard: 

Happy Birthday
The Number 6

Other Materials:

Sassafrass Lass Paper, My Minds Eye Twine, Glimmer Mist

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{Rebecca} Catered Crop : Flower Power

  Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
   ~ John Lennon

I would be lieing if I said the first thing that popped into my head when this challenge was announced wasn't 70's pop music, orange and tie dye, peace and hippies, and VW vans. That was way before my time, but I still have always associated "Flower Power" with the generation that my parents were teenagers in. But of course, since that wasn't my generation, my card has absolutley nothing to do with 70's Flower Power. It took a much more shabby turn.

It has been a while since I crafted anything quite like this, but its a style I love and my pinterest boards are full of inspiration images that are more shabby and chic. I took the opportunity to create a girly card and pulled out my flowers and had a ball!

I can't wait to see what the other designers have created and encourage you to go take a peak, and if you have time, to play along with this challenge. Who doesn't love the prospect of getting to be Catered Crops guest designer? Fun, fun!
I'm so ready for Spring, aren't you? Let's celebrate with some Flower Power. Just include flowers somewhere in your project – as a stamped image, in your pattern paper, or as an embellishment – anyway you choose.

• Just show us any project using a flower.
• Include a link to us at Catered Crop or add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
• Link up and link often, but be sure you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, March 30.
• Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments.
• Check back with us on March 31 to see if you've won an opportunity to be a guest designer.

CHALLENGES :

• Catered Crop : Flower Power
• Freshly Made Sketches : Sketch 78
• Paper Issues : Crafting with Flair!

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{Rebecca} Memory Maze March DT Reveal

I had a fantastic time working with the Memory Maze products this month, there is such a range of fun chipboard!

"Its a Girl"

The Memory Maze chipboard was the perfect accompaniment for the baby girl card that I created this month. I went all out with the pink and the brown complimented it perfectly.

The chipboard was the perfect colour already to compliment the pink theme, so I simply added a layer of glitter glue over the entire surface, it absolutely sparkles!  

 

Memory Maze Chipboard: 

Its a Girl

Border Hook

Other Materials:

My Minds Eye Paper, Misc Antique buttons, ribbon, dictionary paper, Reflections glitter,

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"Have Fun"

How much fun in this little vintage bike? I kept this card simple and tried to make the chipboard the hero hero, something that actually isn't very hard to do. Pairing it with October Afternoon paper made this a perfect duo.

I left the chipboard mostly original, but embellished it with some rhinestones. 

Memory Maze Chipboard: 

Penny Farthing

Other Materials:

October Afternoon Paper, My Minds Eye Rhinestones and twine, American Crafts rub-ons
I have another project using Memory Maze chipboard to share with you later this month!

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{Rebecca} Catered Crop Polkadots

 Round, soft, colorful, senseless and unknowing.
Polka-dots become movement . . . 
Polka dots are a way to infinity.
   ~ Yayoi Kusama





I think it may be very apparent given the name of this blog, that we're very excited about Polkadots over here. So when Linda announced the theme for the current Catered Crop Recipe Swap was polkadots, there were no complaints here! I decided to make two cards for the swap because you can never have to many polkadots, right? :)

SUPPLIES

My Minds Eye paper, rhinestones

Chatterbox Rub Ons

K & Co Chipboard Cutout

SUPPLIES

My Minds Eye Paper, rhinestones

Scrabble Tiles

CHALLENGES:

• Catered Crop Recipe Swap : Polkadots
• CAS-ual Fridays : Creative Letters
• Cardabilities : Sketch 68

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{Rebecca} DYSU : Warm Colours

A few months back DYSU had a cool colours challenge, and now that fall is in full swing its time for a warm colours challenge! I built this card a little backwards, starting with the rooster and building the rest of the card around him.

Thanks for peeking in and don't forget to check out the rest of the design teams work, there is some wonderful inspiration up on the DYSU blog.

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{Rebecca} Catered Crop : Knot Now

Another few weeks have flown by and I honestly can't tell you if I'm thrilled, or disappointing the Sofia seems to be growing just as quickly as time keeps passing. I'm pretty sure that at this rate she will be walking by the time she's 9 months old as she has already mastered sleeping through the night, smiling, holding her head up, and just generally falling into a routine and she's not even 6 weeks old. However, I'm not going to complain about any of these things, even though it means she's quickly leaving the newborn stage behind, though it does mean she's already not the itty bitty baby she once was.

Oh the hardships of life :)

Of course, with the passage of time that means its time for for another Catered Crop challenge! I had a lot of fun with this one (I always do!) : Know Now.

SUPPLIES:
My Minds Eye Honey Cake and Lime Twist Paper

Lilly Belle Paperie Ribbon

Be sure to hop over to the Catered Crop blog for full details on how to play along! You have until the 30th of September.

Challenges : 

• Catered Crop : Knot Now
• Paper Players : CAS with Banners
• CAS-ology : White
• DYSU : Flags

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{Rebecca} Catered Crop : No Stress to Distress & vintage freebie

I ran across this adorable vintage tag download a few months ago and knew I wanted to use it when the Quickfire Challenge at Catered Crop was announced. Feel free to download it to your computer and use it on your own project! Click the link for a higher resolution file. 

 (Vintage Tag Download)

"No Stress to Distress" was a perfect excuse to pull out the inks and just generally have fun with tearing and ripping and all around making things look a little more grungy, great fun!

SUPPLIES

My Minds Eye Paper

Prima Paper

Recolelctions Paper

Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

Vintage rick-rack, ribbon, buttons, dictionary paper

I know you are going to love playing along with this challenge, there are some fantastic sponsors and Linda will be showcasing the rest of the teams projects on Saturday, you don't want to miss that reveal!

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{Rebecca} DYSU : Buttons

Just popping in quickly to share my card for Do You Stack Up?'s 85th challenge, Buttons! I kept it fairly simple with the buttons really being the only embellishments that the card needed in addition to a few layers of cardstock. We're off in a few days to BC for my little brother's wedding! Time moves so quickly. Last year at this time I was preparing for my own wedding and now here we are, parents and soon to celebrate our first anniversary ...

SUPPLIES

My Minds Eye Honey Cake Paper

Bazzill Cardstock

Vintage Buttons

Be sure to swing by and take a look at what the rest of the girls have created for your inspiration!

 

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{Rebecca} DYSU : Anything with 4 Legs

I'm a big animal lover, not obsessive or anything, but I do love my having a score or so of furry beings around. I've joked in the past that if I had my way, I would open up a petting zoo as an excuse to have one of every kind of animal imaginable. Knowing my weakness, my husband has (wisely) set forth the rule that currently I'm only allowed to have animals if they serve a purpose. If he didn't, I think I would have bought out our local pet shop :)

Our current challenge from Do You Stack Up? is to create a card inspired by, for, or with 4 legged animal friends. I was thrilled to be able to work with Bugaboo Stamps for this challenge using thier adorable turtle digi image. He turned out to be exactly what my card for my 5 year old brother in law needed. I coloured him with pencil crayons and accented differant parts of the shell and hat with glitter, though its not coming through to well in the photos.

SUPPLIES

Bugaboo Turtle Digi

My Minds Eye Paper, tag, brad

Misc stickers, ribbon, buttons

Starbucks coffee sleeve

Thanks for looking and be sure to take a peak at the Do You Stack Up? challenge blog. Along with Bugaboo Stamps, The Paper Shelter, and Birdie Brown have offered some terrific prizes to the winners of our challenge. Of course, even if you don't find time to participate in the challenge, its worth hopping over just to see what the other design team members have created. There are some projects there that will knock your socks off!

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{Sarah} Catered Crop: White Pages

I've never really gotten into the whole CAS thing when it comes to my paper crafting.  It is definitely a look that I admire and appreciate, but I like "stuff" too much and can't seem to help piling it on my pages.   However, when I saw this week's Recipe Swap over at the Catered Crop, I knew that it was a good time to try something a little bit different. 

I've had these images pinned to my Pinterest board for quite a while.  I love the simplicity of the white on white, and I am a huge fan of typographic art.  Unfortunately, with 4 little kids in the house, white is not a color I use very frequently in my decor.

However, I've always thought that these canvases would translate very well as a card. 

Supplies Used: American Crafts Cardstock & Ribbon

At first I was going to use Thickers (painted white) on a white cardstock background to achieve the look I was going for, but I couldn't find quite the right font in my stash.  Then I remembered that, (thanks to my wonderful husband) I have a Silhouette Cameo!!! and can cut out any shape that I want.  I simply created my graphic, mounted the words with foam adhesive for a bit of dimension and slipped a piece of ribbon in behind the words.  I originally intended to keep the whole card completely white, but it looked a little bit...boring... so I added just a touch of purple cardstock.  I finished it all off with a spray of glimmer mist, but I don't think that really shows up in the picture. 

Now head on over to the Catered Crop to check out all the details of this week's White Pages Recipe Swap!

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{Rebecca} Catered Crop White Pages Quickfire Challenge

Its time for another Recipe Exchange over at Catered Crop and let me tell you, this one was a challenge for me! White Pages, highlighting mainly well....the colour white. I'm not really a white person. I love color and patterns, textures, and basically anything besides just plain white. Case in point, there isn't a white wall in my house, every single wall is painted.

But I persisted and in the end was able to to create something that I'm rather happy with. I wasn't able to stick quite entirely with just white, so I compromised, but kept it simple with the addition of kraft paper.

SUPPLIES

White and Kraft paper from Stash

Starbucks cup liners

Vintage ribbons and buttons

Be sure to check out Sarah's project as well in a few days and the other gorgeous creations that I know the other ladies are cooking up. You still have almost 2 weeks to enter the challenge and I'm looking forward to see what you come up with.

Challenges :

• CAS-ual Fridays : Things in the Sky (star)
• Paper Play Challenges : Layer it Up!
• The Ribbon Girl : Bingo (pearls, lace, ribbon)
• The Pink Elephant : Ribbons Galore

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{Rebecca} DYSU : Polkadots!

What a fun challenge we have over at Do You Stack Up this week! Polkadots! Seriously, how can you go wrong with a challenge like that? The challenge wasn't in creating something with polkadots, but in deciding which of my polkadot papers to actually use. I finally settled on some My Minds Eye that I had recently acquired, and paired it with a fun transparency from the Abbey Road collection.

I made this card for Papa (husbands grandfather) and at the time I had no idea they had once traveled across North America in a green VW van. My husband thought I had done it on purpose, but it was really just a neat coincidence. Papa of course, loved it!

Just like every week there are some fun prizes to be won on the DYSU blog, be sure to stop in and check out all the fun goodies that the girls have lined up for you.

Challenges : 

• Case Study : Signature Style
• Freshly Made Sketches : Sketch 46
• Paper Issues : A Flair for the Eclectic 
• The Paper Players : Tic Tac Toe (punches, masculine, favorite colour)

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{Rebecca} Catered Crop : Washi Up, Doc

Very quick post to share my project for Washi Up, Doc? our newest challenge at Catered Crop. This challenge was so much fun, especially since our wonderful DT team leader sent us all free Washi Tape from our Sponsor to work with. Thanks Linda!

I couldn't just create one project for this fun challenge, so created a page and a card using left over scraps and trying to be sure I incorporated the same sort of elements.

SUPPLIES

October Afternoon Paper

American Crafts Thickers and Knock Out Punch

Scrabble Tiles

Sassafrass Lass Sticker

Cosmo Cricket Cloud Chipboard

Vintage Floss, buttons, and ribbon

Chickydoodle Washi Tape

Challenges 

• Retro Sketches : Sketch # 22
• Case Study : Challenge # 101
• Really Reasonable Ribbon : Sizzling Summer Colours and Ribbon
• Catered Crop : Washi Up, Doc?

The End =)

 

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{Rebecca} Scrappin Patch : OTP inspiration

This is my last post for a few weeks as I'm taking a a little bit of a break for a rather important event in our lives :) Our little one is due in about 3 weeks, and with having just moved house we decided a few weeks off from my scrapbooking room (the husband has literally locked the door so I'm not tempted ... ) so I could concentrate on the next few weeks. Needless to say we are extremely excited to meet our little one!

For my this post I have two projects I wanted to share, both using up the bits and pieces that I've collected from the gorgeous kits that I have been sent. My first project is a dolled up jar full of preserves. I love the idea of giving home made food gifts and love finding fun ways to dress it up. These papers from Prima were the touch I needed.

 and to go with it .... a card made from the this and that. Do you ever have paper that you can't remember who its made by? After my initial projects made from this kit, these pieces found their way into my scrap stash and I completely lost track of what they were. I do know though, that you can find the exact papers in the Scrappin Patch store. Maybe you should head on over there and do a little detective work. I'd love it if someone came back with some information :)

Thank you so much for being part of my adventure. 

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