MyGrafcio Challenge #54 Mermaids !!!!

Today's Challenge was on of my favorites so far.

We got to work with the super cute and fantabulous stamp set

By Zenware Designs

MERMAIDS!

The Challenge?

use Sea colors ( blues & greens) & Kraft!

Well I forgot the craft  till the end  but otherwise I am happy!

If you  love this set then you should visit our challenge group on Mygrafico.ning.com and post a project so you can win! the only requirement is that it has a Mygrafico stamp and there are lots of freebies to use! ( click on the word freebie to go there!)

For my  project I made a Photo Frame

I have a Niece who's Birthday is coming up and I know She will love this!

 

In addition to the digital stamp set I used 

Fiskars wave punch (Boundary waters)

Cricut Cartridge Spongebob Squarepants for the Seaweed

Best Occasions Glitter & Metallic paper

Unknown maker Pattern Paper

Stickles & Liquid Pearls

Copic & Prisma Markers

& a dollar spot wood frame from Michaels

Thanks for looking today! and remember that the MyGrafico Design Team call is still open!  Send me an email I am still looking to fill a spot or 2!

A little bit distracted...

Hello everyone!

Let me just  start off with a big ol' I'm sorry...

 I have been so distracted  by so many things this week & last

 that I have not been doing what I needed to.

I'm sure you all understand that sometimes life gets in the way.

 I will be sharing pictures of all the fun and festivities of

 Griffin's 4th birthday party ( with just us) and

of the one on Saturday with more of the extended family.

Did i mention yet that Great Grandma came up for Griffin's Birthday this year!  I am so happy she was able to make it up she is such a busy lady.

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anyway...

 I finished all the Spongebob paper piecing &

OMG ...

 that was a lot of paper ...LOL

 I love how each character turned out! I did mess up on a few things ...

but it wasn't a huge issue..

 OK well Patrick has no pants on ...

 but the purple flowers are strategically placed I swear.

=P

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a few thoughts after this week...

Ice cream cake is the absolute best for Summer Birthday's

Bikini Bottom  never looked as good as it does in my dining room ...

and Rory can spot Spongbob from a mile away... then yells SpongeBob SpongeBob till we agree...

I sometimes wonder how much longer I can stand to not be near my family... 

I miss them so much especially my Sister who is SUPER COOL  &

who Griffin Shares his Birthday with.

I love ya SIS! Your the Best Sister I could ever ask for.

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Also deal alert.... Walmart is marking down the scrapbooking section

 ( actually the entire crafts area was marked down )

& I of course have been  going every week to check out the deals.

Today I bought  the Cricut storybook cartridge for 23.00! 

I know  I can't believe it either...

 they had Tinkerbell, cars, and a few other carts marked that low too!

So if I were you I would run over to my local walmart &

 see if they have any left I know these will go fast!

Good Luck!

MyGrafico Challenge #52

Hello Everyone!

I have a super announcement today!

I was offered the Design Team Leader position for the

MyGrafico Design Team & have accepted!

I am so excited to do this and I hope I do as great job as

Martha has done while I was a DT Member.

If your interested in becoming a Design Team Member

Please email me at tazzabdevilish@gmail.com

As for this weeks Challenge with Fathers Day just around the corner

we worked with some super cute Fathers Day stamps by Kelly Medina

that can work for alot Guy related themes not just Fathers day.

I came up with this ...

First I colored the image with copic markers, then took a white pen and did some higlights.

I used a large paint chip for the background ran it through the cuttlebug

with the Stars embossing folder, then sanded it to show the stars off.

I then added some ribbon popped the Tie & sentiment off the card.

A simple but very masculine Fathers Day card.

Thanks for looking!

Don't forget to apply to the DT!

MyGrafico Design Team Call

I broke down... & more

I Finally broke down and I bought a CINCH binding machine...

I have wanted something like that for about 2 years

 but I have made do without it.

 My SIL has a BIA and I knew she would let me use hers

but...

When I heard about the CINCH a while back I knew I would have to buy it.

it was on sale at OMC ( ohmycrafts.com )  used a 20% off coupon ...

Now I will be able to bind albums better

  than I did previously with the O-Rings.

I have also been getting lots of inspiration from Kathy

(AKA)  Paperphenomenon.blogspot.com  & on the cricut Message boards Paperphenomenon.

She won the Cropping with the Stars on cricut.com , her project was so awesome...

She has the best U-Stream classes ...

I have seen all of her classes (except for the very first one)

 & I was super sad because I missed it.

 If you haven't seen her stuff yet you have to check it out...

 you will love it !

I also wanted to share a little something..

This is just pieced together not glued

Aren't they cute!

I made these in the MTC ( Make the Cut software)

which I so love... this was from a coloring page ( how cool is that right?)

I am working on making a St. Louis Blues  Hockey album

of us at different games and the Peoria Riverman games...

and

I am still making Griffin's Birthday  party stuff

The SpongeBob cricut cart is getting alot of use

I also bought a bunch of SpongeBob party stuff so we will be all

SpongeBob'd out for this party.

 I hope to be able to share some stuff soon but

nothing is ready and I have really only cut a tiny bit

of what I need to so stay tuned for all of that!

I don't have much time left! Ack!

& My SIL the Super Cool Aunt Jen is making

the cake with her Cricut cake machine so

she needs the SpongeBob cart soon! aghhhhh

OK!

 BACK TO WORK!

 ( whip cracking in the background)

;D

My Grafico Challenge #51

Hi everyone!

 if your looking for the mygrafico.com challenge

we have recently made changes and we now have our challenges at  our NING community

http://mygrafico.ning.com/ .

I really hope you will join us for this weeks challenge!

Get the details below and play along !

This weeks challenge is a sketch challenge.

Here is the sketch we used

We also used the Linsay's Stamp Stuff School Rules stamp set

Here is my Sketch card...

Here is a card I made with this set for the virtual crop a little bit ago...

 Thanks for stopping by!

Brad's Birthday...

Hi again,

  I have had a very busy 2 weeks.

Been busy trying to make stuff for Griffin's Birthday Party

(or should I say design & plan)

I am really hope it will all turn out really cute ,

Of course he is only turning 4 so he has no real friends

( I didn't want to invite the kids from school or from the Moms group just yet)

The theme is SpongeBob Square pants

so The cricut cartridge will be coming in handy.

Anyway...

Brads Birthday  just passed and I made a cute card for  him...

He liked it ...  :D

and I got to use my new MTC ( make the cut software)

to make some of Penny Duncan's awesome nesting files for the embossing.

Made them out of a KIX cereal box... works great!

Brad's Mom made him a BIG Cookie &

his Sister cut out fondant with the

 Cricut Cake to decorate it.

I didn't get to take a picture of it before Brad took his slice ..LOL

mmmmm.... it was yummy so I can't blame him for digging in!

thats it for now... more to come!

Have a great day & Thanks for stopping by!

More Cards from the Mygrafico Challenge # 50

Hi Everyone glad to have you stop by again.

I made a bunch of cards this past MyGrafico Challenge and

never did get around to  posting them for you all...

So here goes ...

 I have a few more that  are sitting here partially done ...  I really love this set

I have been super busy the past week and have a buch to share with you all . 

Thanks for stopping by !

MyGrafico #50

Hi!

Thanks for stopping by today ...

 if you read the previous post then you  already know about the

 wonderful changes that are going on today with the mygraficochallengeblog ....

if your just now visiting again the Design Team has made some big changes,

 we will now all be particapating on the Mygrafico.NING.com Challenges! group    

If your not already a member of the MyGrafico Ning community then nows your chance!

There are lots of talented people over there so go check it out!

 For today's Challenge #50

we were asked to take color inspriration from  a group of medals

I used  the 3rd medal for my color inspiration 

Black , White, Blue, Red

For my first card

I made an easel card

 I hope you will come over to the MyGrafico.ning Challenges! group

and play along today  we will have lots of games and prizes to give away today!

Remember to read the previous post to see all the prizes

 and games we will be doing today

Everything starts at 10:00am PST

Exciting Changes coming to MyGraficoChallengeblog....

Next week is the mygraficochallengeblog's 50th Challenge! WOW!  

We have some very exciting news & changes that you

will want to hear  so read on to learn all about it!

Starting next week MyGrafico challenge blog is moving to our NING Community

we will still have challenges once a week,

  all you have to do is post your challenge project to the ning challenge thread here

Make sure you upload them to the gallery and to the thread 

everyone can see what you  did.

Fun stuff to do... & WIN...

1. 100th member giveaway

2. guessing game

3. comment on gallery game

4. challenge game

5. 150 member giveaway

 

Make sure  you  join us !

MyGrafico # 49 Challenge

Want to win some FREE digital stamps???
Each week  MyGrafico give you the chance to win a great stamp set for free !!!
just join in the challenge to get a chance to win!
 Remember they have lots of Freebies to use if you don't have any of their great stamp sets yet. 
So no excuses!

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The Mygrafico Design Team worked

with the cutest stamp set this week by Zenware Designs.

Dinosaurs Stamps

Sketch

Ok so now your ready to take the Challenge...

The MyGraficoChallengeBlog Challenge is simple...

 just follow the sketch and use a MyGrafico image, any image.

yup that even includes any of the Great freebies they offer in their store .

just follow this LINK to the MyGrafico.com store to find a great Mygrafico Image to play with.

Remember if you join in at the Mygraficochallengeblog you can win
by random draw the stamp set we work with that week!
FREE STAMPS  Who doesn't like free! Right??

I know your wondering what I made with these Super Sweet Stamps???

Well I loved this set so much and had alot of ideas  so to start off I decided to make some cards.

Dino Card Details:

Martha Stewart heat embossing with clear poly sparkle

Martha Stewart Punch Rings

EK Success Punch - Swiss Cheese

Copic & Prisma Markers

CuttleBug Embossing folders - Floral Screen & Branches

Distressed edges - Cats Eye Ink

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Friends Card Details :

Friends - Colorbox Acrylic prismatic word (Sweet Life collection)

Martha Stewart Heat Embossing with clear poly sparkle

Copic & Prisma Markers

Adhesive Rinestones

Distressed edges with Cats Eye Ink

Martha Stewart Punch Cornice

Scotch brand quick dry adhesive

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I am going to have to use them to make some cute die-cut accents (with my new MTC software!) for LO's of the Boys Playing with their Fisher Price Dino Set... the dinos look just like the stamps  ! LOL perfect!

heck I might even  make some paper for a really custom LO... don't you  just love how many ways you can use digital stamps!

I know I do!

Thanks For Looking!

New Sara Paris Project tomorrow!

MyGrafico Challenge # 48

Hi Again !

Thanks so much for stopping by for the

Mygrafico Challenge blog challenge blog hop!

 Do you want to join in the fun??

Then stop by the challenge blog and join in !

just upload your pictures to  MR . Linky  and cross your fingers ...

 there is only 1 rule , and that is  you MUST use a Mygrafico.com image.

You don't yet own any?? that's OK  they have a ton of FREEBIES  to choose from .

This week we had to work with this set, by CupCake Cuties

 Our Challenge was Bling ...

Here is what I made..

I also used the black damask paper from dotted dasiy

as seen below...

 anyway, I hope you liked the LO !

More coming soon !

Daphadilly Art digi scrap pages.... yay!

Hello Everyone,

 I just wanted to share with you a new designer that I just love bunches!

My Sister!

Joelle AKA mrsmoejoe... click on her name to  visit her blog..

She has just released 2 new kits for sale.

I have been playing around with is the Silly Willy Birthday set.

It is super cute and mind you I am not very good working in digital yet.

 I really liked how these pages turned out anyway.

I am going to  play around with the first Daphadilly kit Soldier of love 

so check back for more from this & the silly willy birthday set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sara Paris Design Team Blog Hop

Good Day to you all!

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

If your not coming from the Sara Paris Blog then check that out after you look around!

Today is the very first Sara Paris Blog Hop,

I am so excited to  be apart of it and I just want to thank you so much Sally for choosing me to  be on your Design team!

Want to win some fab prizes???

Here's how!

Visit each of the design team’s blogs & the Sara Paris Blog today,

 post a comment on each during the Blog Hop

and you could win a fabulous prize.

( The winner is picked by random draw.)

The prize includes the Roses & Posies coloured clipart,

 the Roses and Posies digi stamps and

 two sets of soft, pastel rose print papers.

you can see all of those and more at MyGrafico at  the Sara Paris Store.

Today we worked with the Roses & Posies Stamp set 

 if you check out my  post from yesterday you can see  part of this set.

 It's a really great set, I had a ton of fun using it to make several things.

Best yet there is a freebie sentiment on mygrafico.com that goes with this set .

Gotta Love that right?

Anyway... =D

Check out what I made...

Purse & Card

Mini Album

close up  of the card

Close up of the purse

here is my card from yesterday which was the spring board to the rest.

How about a family Picture! =D Here is all of my Roses & Posies collection

I Know isn't this set  Beautiful!

Now don't forget to grab the freebie on the Sara Paris blog !

Thanks for stopping by!

MG 47 SARA PARIS Rose's and Posies

Hi Again,

Thanks for stopping by today.

If your joining me from the MygraficoChallengeblog then welcome !!!!
 if not then make sure to stop by and see what the other ladies have done with this set.
you won't be disappointed!
Remember that you can win the digital stamp set we use for this weeks challenge
 so make sure to link up your project to mr linky on the challenge blog post... only requirement is that you use any mygrafico image . don't worry they have a huge selection of FREEBIES! and those count too!
WHoooHooo!
Now back to my project... =D

The challenge for the MyGrafico.com Design team  this week was

1) to follow the sketch given below

2) and to use the Sara Paris Roses & Posies stamps

this stamp set also has

a  Mother's day Sentiment Freebie as well that we all can use too! Yay!

I had alot of fun making this card ... 

I have lots of flower parts left over so  I am going to make something with them this week...

  some quick details:

Martha Stewart Hydranga punches - I used the med size single and the 3 in 1

Paper company - solid cardstock

Martha Stewart - Heart PAP set

Stickles - red , green

Copic markers - R27, R29, R39

Prisma markers - PM28, PM166

  Sara Paris digital stamp sets - Roses & Posies , & Mother's Day Sentiment freebie

Thanks for stopping by,

 Don't forget to come back tomorrow for the very FIRST

SARA PARIS DESIGN TEAM BLOG HOP!

I can't wait to see what the other designers have come up with ...

 you  will love what I have made!

I will leave you with a hint... or 2...

LOL

I just bought the Cricut Cart Tags Bags and Boxes... ;P

I am super excited ...

 Thanks again for visiting !