Newton's Nook Designs Holiday Release- Holiday Hounds

Hello!  I have another card for Newton's Nook Designs holiday release to share with you today!  Holiday Hounds is the set we are featuring today and boy is it cute!!  It's full of the most adorable dachshund doggies and silly sentiments to match.  I love it!  Here is what I made:

I stamped the doxie on to white cardstock and colored it using my Primacolor color pencils.  I am really having fun with them this week!  I fussy cut around him and added him to the tag.  I stamped a few light snowflakes around him and the sentiment below so that it looked like he was jumping over it.  I added the tag to the card base, adding a brad and some twine for embellishment.  The papers, tag, and brad are all by Teresa Collins Designs.

Would you like to win “Holiday Hounds”?This set will be given away to one lucky winner! 

Here's how to win: 

Comment on the NND blog and Design Team and Guest blogs (see list below)! One winner will be chosen at random from the collective blogs listed below. Make sure to check out each  blog and comment for your chance to win. You will not know which blog will be chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning! You have until Friday, October 17 at 9pm CDT to comment  -- winners will be posted on the NND blog on Saturday, October 18th. 

Check out all the awesome Design Team Blogs below to enter:

Newton's Nook Designs

Taheerah Atchia

Lydia Brooke

Larissa Heskett

Samantha Mann

Crafty Math-Chick

Shellye McDaniel

Jess Moyer

Stephanie Muzzulin

Danielle Pandeline

Tessa Wise

Heather Hoffman (Guest Designer)

I can't wait to pull this set out again!  I am envisioning lots of doxie cards this Christmas! :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Family Always Layout

It's been awhile since I've shared a scrapbook page- it's been awhile since I've scrapbooked at all really!  I have been in the mood lately and pulled out some of my extra Urban Market goodies from Teresa Collins Designs along with our 2013 family photo.  I like how it turned out:

The purples and blues in the photo went so well with the Urban Market collection.  I love it!  The sparkly patterned papers compliment it nicely, too.
The layout was inspired by one I saw on Laura Vegas' blog- I loved how the layers of paper weren't lined up perfectly- I had to try it!  Since I haven't scrapped in awhile, scraplifting totally helped- it's a little hard getting back in to it!  lol!

I tried not to over embellish, another thing that tricks me sometimes!  I just want to add everything lol!

I love card making but scrapbooking is so rewarding sometimes- my family loves to look at our books and remember the fun things we've done.  I am hoping to get a few more pages done now that I've found my groove again.  :)
Thanks for stopping by today!

Inspired by Project Runway

Hello!  Hope your Monday is going well!  Mine is going... like a Monday... glad it's winding down.  Over the weekend I had a fun idea to play along with this season's Project Runway (which premiered last Thursday incase you missed it!).  It's one of my favorite shows and I'm always so inspired after I watch- I am going to try to make a card based on each episode.
This week, the designers received a chest full of random fabrics and they had to create a look using them.  I thought this was so fun!  I had my husband pick 6 random patterned papers from 6 different 6x6 paper pads.  Here is what he chose for me:

Not too bad! :)  I didn't have to trade like some of the designers did lol!  I used each one of these on my card, going with a quilt inspired look that would make the crazy patterns look like they were supposed to go together:

I added some cute stamps from Lawn Fawn, twine, and a doily to create a focal point.  I embellished with a flower embellishment topped with a sequin to add a little fun.  I colored the banner stamp with Copic markers in colors pulled from the papers as well.

It was fun challenging myself with this and I'm hoping that something from each Project Runway episode can translate to a card.  If they don't, it's OK. :)  I'll still enjoy watching them all!

Pretty Doily Card for SRM Stickers

Good morning!  I hope you have a second to pop over to the SRM Stickers Blog today- I'm sharing a card featuring their new doilies!  Here is a peek at my card:

Pop over to the SRM Stickers Blog to see the rest!

Urban Market Cards for Teresa Collins Designs

Hello there!  I have two cards to share today using the beautiful Urban Market collection by Teresa Collins Designs.  The patterned papers were really inspiring me this week:

I paired the Urban Market patterned papers with the chipboard stickers, decorative tapes, and sequins for these cards.  I love playing with all the bits and pieces!

The blue tiled patterned paper (dots) is so pretty!  I had to use it on a card:

I started with a kraft card base and added a panel of the blue patterned paper (dots) to the center, leaving 1/4" around the sides and top. Next, I diecut a panel of the chevron glittered paper (zig) with the Avery Elle Custom Panels dies so it had a rounded edge.  I decorated the glitter panel with a couple of the decorative tapes, a faux stitching sticker from SRM, and a bit of linen thread.  I added the fleur de lis chipboard piece over the top of it all.  I added my sentiment, also from Avery Elle on vellum and diecut it with the label die from the Custom Panels die set so that you could see all the good stuff going on underneath.  I embellished it all with those beautiful silver sequins and added the rounded panel to my card using the foam squares found in the Teresa Collins Adhesive Kit by Xyron.  The dimension is perfect!

For my next card, I chose a pretty journaling card from the cards patterned paper as my focal point:

I started with another kraft colored card base.  I added the larger dots patterned paper (zig) to the center of my card front.   I cut out the journaling card with stripes and damask from the cards paper and stamped my sentiment from Reverse Confetti on it.  I embellished with more of the faux stitching sticker from SRM, some fun decorative tape and a bit of linen thread.  I added a couple of staples to hold it in place using my pink Teresa Collins stapler from Xyron.  Over the top of the flat items, I added a couple of smaller chipboard pieces and finished off the look with those awesome woodgrain and striped sequins:

I used the foam adhesive squares again to add the panel to my card front, adding just a strip of the blue floral print (floral) patterned paper peeking out from the bottom edge.

Each time I pull out the Urban Market collection I love it more and more!  I have been using the decorative tapes, the sequins, and the glitter paper on all of my cards- they are my favorites right now!

Hope you have a great day- if you have time and haven't voted yet, please pop over to the Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking Magazine's Gallery Idol contest page.  Voting ends today at noon!