Stampin Up Everything is Rosy Mother's Day card

Welcome today!  I whipped up this pretty Mother's Day card for my niece with the new to me Stampin Up Everything is Rosy kit.  It was so pretty. It's been a while since I pulled out my Creative Memories border maker system.  I thought this sketch from Sketch N Scrap called for a fun punched border. I stamped the sentiment from Stampin Up Messages for Mom.

I used the Sketch N Scrap throwback sketch in the lower left.

In this photo you can see the rose gold foiling in the pattern papers. I popped up the floral elements.  I used the 1/2" scraps from cutting down the 6x6 papers to create the ribbons.

Ingredients:

Stampin Up Everything is Rosy DSP and kit pieces

Stampin Up Messages for Mom

Stampin Up Not Quite Navy ink

Creative Memories Scallop Dot border maker cartridge

misc card stock

pop dots and tape runner

I would like to play along with the following challenges:

https://sketchnscrap.blogspot.com/2025/04/april-20th-card-sketch-challenge.html until 4.30x

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/04/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-april.html until 4.30x

https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2025/04/4925-springtime-designer-paper.html until 5.11x

https://handstampedsentiments.blogspot.com/2025/04/hand-stamped-sentiments-inspiration_0939635853.html until 5.12x

Thanks for stopping by

Alicia 

DCWV Glamrock stack with The ScrapRoom sketch

 This layout is another group selfie from the same weekend as the layout from yesterday...only in these photos it's Sunday night and we are back in Cincinnati.  The festival we were attending was rained out, so we packed up and came back home in time to catch another great show.  Here we are at Bogart's seeing the Marcus King Band.

Here's the iNSD sketch I used from The ScrapRoom Group's Facebook challenge.  I substituted the Spellbinders label die cuts for the circles. I used the Creative Memories Bordermaker system for the edging.  

Here is a close up of the chipboard embellishment.  I tied some silver ric rac in the holes.  I sprinkled some silver star sequins

Ingredients:

DCWV Glamrock stack and Rockstar embellishments

Spellbinders dies

Creative Memories Bordermaker Notebook cartridge

Creative Memories Sticker letters

Quick Quotes Powderpuff Chalking ink Midnight Confessions

ric rac and star sequins

Thanks for reading this far!

Alicia

All things grow with love...Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

Hello and welcome to this week's inspiration for the latest Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge.  The next two weeks we are collaborating with Double Trouble challenge.  Their challenge is to use flowers and secondly to add something that goes bzzzzzzz.  I have followed all three challenges with my card below.

Here's the sketch this week:

I started with some American Craft flowers but a couple of layers clashed.  I disassembled them and layered with punched flowers from coordinating Quick Quotes papers.  I also layered a punched flower under the bee brad.  The perfect little buzzzzzz for my flowers.

Ingredients:

Quick Quotes Farmhouse papers and chipboard

Quick Quotes Warm Grey powderpuff chalking inks

Creative Memories Border Maker system

EK Success flower punch

Maggie Holmes Crate Paper Flea Market flowers (altered)

bee brad from my stash (possibly K & Co)

bling

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://watercoolerchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/02/wwc207-helens-feminine-anything-goes.html until 2/12 (C8)x

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2019/02/challenge-21-flowers-bzzzzzz-and.html until 2/18x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2019/02/februarys-die-cut-divas-challenge.html until 2/28x

Don't forget to play along with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week and Double Trouble challenge for the next two weeks...next week continue to play with the second  Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by 

Alicia

Follow your heart...Atlantic Hearts Challenge sketch

Hello and welcome to this week's inspiration for the latest Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge.  I created a card with the next holiday in mind.  I began with a couple of  die cut hearts and added a wood heart and bling.

Here's the sketch:

I used a border maker for the fancy edge of the very old Creative Memories printed paper.  I used Quick Quotes Powderpuff chalking inks to color my wooden heart.  I used the same ink to highlight the embossing on the Sue Wilson die cut and the Tim Holtz die cut.  I topped off the card with a few bling.

Here's a close up of my velvet sentiment.  It screams Valentine's!

Ingredients:

Sue Wilson Shadow Box Wedding dies

Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz Love Struck

Marvy Uchida border punch

Creative Memories paper

wood heart and bling

Quick Quotes Berry Jam Powderpuff chalking ink

vellum, velvet, card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2019/01/love-is-in-air-with-team-trace.html until 2/7x

https://dragonflyjourneys.blogspot.com/2019/01/challenge-no-133-i-heart-you.html until 2/8x

http://diesruschallenge.blogspot.com/2019/02/challenge-114-use-color-red.html until 12/13x

http://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-month-of-hearts.html until 2/17x

https://a2zscrapbookingblog.com/2019/02/01/a2z-scrapbooking-february-2019-challenge/ until 2/28

http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2019/02/include-heart.html until 2/28x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2019/02/februarys-die-cut-divas-challenge.html until 2/28x

https://www.ellibellescorner.com/2019/02/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-february.html until 2/28x

https://creativfusion.blogspot.com/2019/02/challenge-9-love.html until 2/28

Don't forget to play along with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Alicia

It had to be you...Creative Memories Reminisce wedding layout

Welcome to my blog today.  Guess what I have to show you today?  Another wedding layout.  I am getting closer to completing this album by the day!  I used the Creative Memories Reminisce power palette on many pages because the colors work so well with the stained glass in the wedding venue.  I used manual and electronic die cuts on this one.  Great shot of my hubby watching me walk down the aisle.

Here's the sketch I used from Sketches in Thyme.  I turned it 90 degrees.

 A close up of my cuts:

Ingredients:

Creative Memories Reminisce Power palette

Cricut cuts from Creative Memories Reminisce Accents and Divine Wedding carts

Creative Memories Border Maker system

Stampin Up buttons

Quick Quotes Midnight Confessions chalking ink

I would like to enter this in the following challenge:

http://sketchesinthyme.blogspot.com/2018/07/ginnis-334.html until 7/31

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Alicia

To Have and To Hold: Creative Memories layout

I created 5 layouts for the Creative Memories Virtual Crop.  I kept the momentum up and completed about 10 pages this past weekend all part of my wedding album.  I have about 9 pages left in the first album!

Here's the sketch from Creative Memories Virtual Crop that I used over the weekend.

Since this is my wedding album I didn't want to use the ripped papers so I went with a fancy cartridge for my border punch.

Ingredients:

Creative Memories Reminisce power palette

Creative Memories Heart punch

Tim Holtz Sizzix dies

Prima bling

Spellbinders Story of Us dies

border punch

twine
Quick Quotes Slate chalking ink

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2017/11/uys-288-5-patterned-papers.html  until 11/18x

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2017/11/200-anything-but-card.html  until 11/25x

https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2017/11/layout-challenge-2-tic-tac-toe.html until 11/30

I used twine, punch and pattern paper.



Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia

Music layouts from Creative Memories Virtual Crop

Last weekend, I participated in a virtual crop and completed about a dozen pages.  The first one is a festival from September 9. How's that for scrapping fast?  I got my tickets for this sold out festival at noon and it started at 1!  Some of my friends were already going so we all piled in to ride together.  It was perfect!  We also met some musicians and saw some other friends.  The band I wanted to go to see was the Marcus King Band.

Here's the sketch I used:

Here's a close up of my fussy cut guitar.

Ingredients:

papers from stash

wood music notes

Creative Memories border punch and sticker letters

These photos are not too much older, they are from a concert at the end of August.  It was a fun show, riding the rail with bunches of friends!

Ingredients:

random paper from my stash including Rusty Pickle 

random sticker letters

rub-ons

Creative Memories sticker

These layouts are also from August, although they don't show the music, we were at Red Rocks Amphitheatre seeing more Govt Mule and Marcus King Band.

 

The sketch:



Ingredients:
Creative Memories Reminisce collection
Cricut cut title
Recollections enamel dots 


Thank you so much for checking out my random layouts this month...now back to scrapping my wedding album!

Alicia

An autumn colored Thank you

I whipped this card up over the weekend as part of the Creative Memories Virtual Crop.  This was the only card challenge as part of the crop.  I love how this turned out.  The card base is a cover stock that I found at a thrift store, I am trying to use it as much as possible.  It is a crazy yellow~orange but has suited many cards lately.  I love that is cover stock, not card, it is so thick and textured. I added rows of border punched paper from Creative Memories Reminisce collection.

Here's the sketch.

And another view...you can see here how I manipulated the papers and flowers to provide dimension to my card.

Ingredients:

Creative Memories Reminisce papers, stickers, border maker and flowers

Stampin Up stamp and punch

Colorbox Mix'd Media Berries ink

Recollections gems

textured cover stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2017/09/just-us-girls-411-color-week.html until 9/21x

http://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.ca/2017/09/challenge-24.html until 9/23

https://craftaholicsrus.blogspot.ca/2017/09/challenge-37-fall-colors.html until 9/25

http://frillyandfunkie.blogspot.com/2017/09/to-everything-there-is-season-challenge.html until 9/26x

http://craftycardmakers.blogspot.com/2017/09/196-autumn.html  until 9/30x

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia

The Proposal layout...Challenge Yourself Pagemap

I had quite a productive weekend. I played along with a virtual crop and managed to fit in a couple of challenges as well.  All in all I completed about a dozen pages and a dozen cards. One of the challenges I used was Challenge yourself's sketch.  I hardly participate over there since I rarely scrap myself...but I am currently working on my wedding album and for once I did NOT take all the pictures!  These pics are actually the proposal and my sister was my photographer for both events.

Some of my details include this layered embellishment I created.  I recently purchased a pack of color themed die cuts at Tuesday Morning, the pack I picked was gold.  I layered two of the pieces here.

Here I layered a fancy Spellbinders die cut with a chipboard die cut and some matching Creative Memories stickers.  Love was white and it was a little stark so I colored it with a silver shimmer pen.

I actually created this page first from a sketch during my virtual crop.  Then I searched the web for a sketch that would work with my photos for the companion page.

Here's the sketch I used for this one. I was playing along with the Creative Memories Virtual Crop.

Ingredients:

Creative Memories Divine collection (papers, flowers, enamel dots, stickers)

Creative Memories stickers

Quick Quotes vellum and chipboard titles

Spellbinders dies:  Decorative Labels twenty-seven, labels twenty and ribbon banner large

border punch

die cuts

I would like to enter this in the following challenge:

http://scrap-challenge-yourself.blogspot.ca/2017/09/cy-45-use-pagemaps-sketch.html until 10/4

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Alicia

DCWV Green Stack and Sketch N Scrap TBT sketch

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  I didn't use much green on today's TBT sketch layout for Sketch N Scrap but there is a little!  I am still working on the same camping trip I took to Red River Gorge last year.  What a blast we had!

This sketch is originally from 4/1/14

Ingredients:

DCWV Green Stack 

Tim Holtz stamps Lost and Found and Playful journey
This sketch is originally from 4/1/14Distress ink Walnut stain

misc washi tape

Creative Memories sticker title

CM border maker 

misc card stock
QQ Milk Chocolate powderpuff ink

Don't forget to join us at Sketch N Scrap!

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/2016/03/its-challenge-time.html until 3/20x
anything goes and paper over a year old (3/3) Green Stack

Alicia