Club Scrap Woven Strands Bloghop

Welcome to the Club Scrap Woven Strands bloghop.  

If you arrived here from  Anne Hunter's blog you are in the right place.  If you arrived here from somewhere else and would like to start at the beginning of the bloghop, go HERE to the Club Scrap blog. 

 This month I subscribed to the Club Scrap Digital Kit, the Art Nouveau Stamp, Club Stamp Kit,  Unmounted Borders and Backgrounds Stamp, and the Embellishment Pack. 

 I get my digital kit on the first day of the month.  I have an old Weimeraner (one of seven that we have had over thirty years)  I decided it was time to scrap his story and get a good picture of him before he heads off to the Rainbow Bridge (hopefully not anytime soon).  The Woven Strands kit seemed a perfect kit to showcase my fur baby!  He's such a mellow dog for being a Weimeraner.  

I use Panstoria Artisan software for my digital scrapbooking.  This is a template from the Pixels2Pages website.

This month my Club Stamp kit arrived in time before the bloghop for me to make a card!  I kept thinking that the designs in this kit would make a great Christmas Card!  

The sentiment is from the Club Scrap "Gnome for the Holidays."

Next up on the blog hop list is Annette Dragon.  If you would like to start at the beginning of the blog hop head on over to the 

Club Scrap blog. 

Happy Crafting!

Donna

Mommy's Brag Book

This weekend we will be having a baby shower for my youngest Niece.  She lives in Maryland and is out here visiting her parents.  I had her shower gift sent to her home so she wouldn't have to cart too many gifts on the plane.  I wanted to give her something more personal at the shower.  So I put together this Mommy Brag book for her to use to show off baby pictures.  I got the idea for the Accordian Tag Mini Album from Gloria Stengel's Scraps of Life Blog.

Here's the album closed up with the belly band on it.

Here's the front of the album.

And here's the back of the album.  

Plenty of room to add pictures and journaling on the tags.  Since my niece won't tell us the sex of the baby yet, I had to go with both blue and the peach color. 

 I love this Graphic 45 Precious Memories DP.  So cute!

Happy Crafting!

Donna

Cards in Envy Cute and Cuddly

It's time for a new challenge on the Cards in Envy blog.  For the next two week we want to see cards with something you find cute and cuddly (teddy bears, bunnies, etc).  Cute cards are not something I do a lot of.  But I was able to come up with an OWH stamp with this cute little lamb on it.

The lamb is from the Hero Arts OWH Missing You set.  The sentiment is from the Rubber Cafe - I think the Hero Arts lamb is cuter but I like the Rubber Cafe sentiment.  

Come join us on the Cards in Envy blog and see what the super-great design team cooked up!
Don't forget you cards must be A2 size ( 4.25 x 5.5) and flat enough to fit in an envy for mailing.

Happy Crafting!

Donna

CASE-ing Christmas Challenge 28

It's time for the August CASE-ing Christmas Challenge!  CASE-ing Christmas is now a MONTHLY challenge!  From this point on, The challenge will run from the 5th of each month at 6:00am CST until the last day of the month at 11:55pm CST.

Instead of seeing the DT cards all in one go, CASE-ing Christmas will be sharing them throughout the month.  My card will still be available to see starting on the 5th, though!  On the CASE-ing Christmas blog, just click the names on the hop list to see what each DT member has for you.

Each month, we will be celebrating CHRISTMAS on the 25th by doing a random giveaway to one lucky participant!  

We will have a variety of prizes to give out, but you MUST be linked up by the 23rd of each month in order to be entered into the drawing! :)

Here's the card for you to CASE (Copy and Share Everything) this month!

Original design by DT member Steph.

Here is my take on Steph's Card.

I flipped Steph's card and then got carried away with the Tim Holtz Holiday Joy set and a starry sky technique from Jennifer McGuire.  Star is a Memory Box die.  I know it is hard to see but the trees, deer, star and ground are all shimmer cardstock.  The stars are sprinkles of perfect pearl on Tim Holtz distressed ink background.

Come on over to the CASE-ing Christmas blog and see what the other DT members have for you and then join in for a chance to win a great prize.

Happy Crafting!

Donna

Cards in Envy

I am thrilled to say that I have joined the Design Team on the Cards in Envy blog.  All challenges for that blog must be A2 in size (4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches) and no more than 1/4 inch thick to fit in a standard A2 envelope for mailing.    The challenge for this two weeks is Birthday Party.  

I use my Club Scrap Cantina kit for this card.  I love the Margarita stamp and this cute sentiment!
Come check out all the cool cards from the other Design Team members and then

join us over at the Cards in Envy for this challenge.  

Happy Crafting!

Donna

House of Cards August Challenge

It's time for another new monthly challenge at House of Cards!  We loved all the beautiful creations from last month and we cannot wait to see what you do with this month's challenge which is....

To create a card with using this word cue~

Here's my card for the challenge.

Here's a close up of the shine metallic on the card.

I started with this gorgeous metallic copper ribbon from the Club Scrap Lock and Key kit. (retired but still available as a digital file).  I took a chipboard key and stamped it with Versamark and heat embossed it in Copper Metallic EP.  I used a copper paint pen to highlight the design on the DP.  I punched the heart out of copper metallic paper and dry embossed it.  The love sentiment is heat embossed with copper metallic EP also.

The DT cards will be showcased here throughout the month!

Hop on over to the House of Cards and play along with us. We hope you join in the fun--please check out our House Rules HERE before linking up! 

I am also adding this to the Simon Says Stamp blog challenge "Anything Goes."

Happy Crafting!

Donna