WOYYWW #116, WOTT #21 and a design team goodbye

Time for What's on Your Workspace Wednesday, hosted by the lovely Ms. Julia. (Check out desks from around the world HERE.) Here's my desk as it sat on What's on Tap Tuesday.... lonely..... wishing I'd finish the bills already..... It still has evidence of the last card I made on Saturday. I'm hoping to clean it up so that I can put some mini album pages together. I joined a free Big Picture Scrapbooking Class that ran for 12 days and was on vacation for most of it so I'd like to get to it. I was thinking that it would be fun to take a kit and just try to use only what's in it to make the pages. I'll let you know how that goes.

For now, I can show you a card I made in honor of my design team position at Chicas Getting Crafty coming to an end. I made so many great projects as a result that I'm super thankful to Laura for the opportunity she gave me. This LINK will take you over to her website where she featured this card yesterday. (Stamps from Stamping Bella, K&Co. paper and that cute word bubble from My Favorite Things.)

Hope you'll link in your workspace today. I love gettin' a peek at your creative area!

*smile*

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

I couldn't resist...

I initially punched out this circle to use on my previous card but the definition didn't seem right for a birthday card. So I put it aside. Today, I decided to make a silly card with it and one of my favorite cat stamps. I call him Sparky (I know, I gave him a pink bow.... but hey, he has no problem with it... he's confident in his masculinity.) He hails from Unity's Hugs and Kitties set (if you go to their home page, you'll see a coupon for 40% off this weekend!) The green background paper is from the Playtime Stack by DCWV. Cappuccino baker's twine from The Twinery.

The fleur de lis charm (which looked like a dagger to me) came from a Making Memories Vintage Findings set that I was able to score for $1.49 from a local dollar store (sweet!) And the alphas are Lawn Fawn's Harold's ABC set. I love how easy it is to line up clear stamps....


Give me one good reason why you have to have this card and I will include you in a drawing for it later in the week. *smile*

Still waiting for Hurricane Irene. We're starting to get rain, but the real fun will start in the middle of the night. Of course.

Have a nice Saturday if you can and stay safe, Northeastern friends...

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

A Sweet Wish

What do you get when you combine a sketch challenge and an impending birthday? The answer is: this card. For Unity's Friends with Flair blog hop this week, I decided to use the August Kit of the Month Sketch Challenge HERE to make an early easel birthday card for my brother-in-law. I chose the June '11 KOTM (all smiles) because of the cute cupcake image and sentiment. But I struggled to keep it masculine, foregoing a pink candle for a white one (it's a real one!) and rather than frilly ribbon, I used rough twine. Don't you just love the papers? The definition comes from Tim Holtz' Idea-ology Paper Stash pad and the plaid is from The Lodge Stack by DCWV.

Take a tour through the blog hop HERE and shop for Unity goodies HERE.

On a serious note, to everyone in the path of Hurricane Irene, stay safe! I'm hoping that where we are won't be heavily affected but I bought power outage provisions just in case. Send good karma to the east coast, please. *smile*

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)
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Peace and Quiet

I've been wanting to make a card for my niece's birthday using this stamp set, but, like the procrastinator that I am, I kept putting it off. Little did I know that My Favorite Things would come out with a sketch that would inspire me just when it finally needs to get it in the mail. Serendipity. I chose the birthday sentiment from this stamp set. All the other details of the card can be found in my SCS gallery HERE.

The reason that I wanted to use this set is that my niece has two very young children and I know that they keep her hopping so I thought it would be cute to add a note wishing her a little "peace and quiet" on her birthday. I hope her husband complies!

Thanks for dropping by. I hope to have a Unity Friends with Flair installment tomorrow.

Have a great Thursday!

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

What's On Your Workspace Wednesday, once again....

Hi! Here's my contribution to Ms. Julia's WOYWW #116 and my 20th installment of WOTT (What's on Tap Tuesday). Sneaky ol' Wednesday has crept up again (not that my calendar knows) and my desk has, among other things, a pile of Smashbook paraphernalia that came straight from my carry-on luggage. Took it on vacation with me and was able to work on a couple of travel pages but mostly it has all the restaurant cards and various stubs accumulated last week. Pages to be, as it were.

I needed to make a belated birthday card so I used some new Stampin' Up products on my desk that came my way before I left. Namely, a new Designer Series paper pack called Big Top, a new stamp set called Four Frames and a new frame punch to match. I modified the concertina card that I linked you to last Tuesday by using an entire 12x12 sheet reduced to 9" tall and divided into 3 - 4 " sections. I cut a little piece off the first section so that the pretty reverse side of the paper could show through and popped up the elephant and lion head for a little dimension. The birthday greeting came from a recent SU playground stamp set called Recess.

Wanna link what's on your desk this week? (You can do it in two places, here and Julia's blog, if you like.) Do you have some newbie stuff on your desk? Use it to create something spur of the moment and join us!

I think I'll go add some glitter to those stars....

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

The Dollar Dance

Thanks for coming by for a peek on a Saturday!  My post today is a DT assignment for Chicas Gettin' Crafty. We were each given a different aspect of a wedding to make a scrapbook layout about. Mine was to focus on the dance and we celebrated an usual tradition at my wedding (over 30 years ago.... yikes) that made for a fun layout. It was a Dollar Dance. It's a Mexican tradition that for one dollar any wedding guest can take a quick spin on the dance floor with the bride. I explain more about the obstacles I faced that made this layout more fun than I had planned, so head over to the Chica blog (see link above) for the scoop.

Now I hope you can get back to your Saturday fun.

Enjoy!

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

Friends with Flair on location

Welcome to another FWF blog hop with Unity Stamps.

Before heading to visit home, I scrambled to get an album finished for my brother in honor of his 50th birthday. The bulk of it was page after page of tribute letters but it also had a little filler of photos of him and our family. The following is an example of that. You can tell I was in a hurry because it is a very simple page but it made me happy and the album as a whole made him happy, so that's what counts, right? I used sentiments from the Nov 2010 KOTM (Picture Perfect) and the May 2011 KOTM (think Happy thoughts).

You can find the blog hop HERE and a wide array of wonderful new stamps at Unity's website HERE.

Have a great weekend! I hope it's full of family fun....

*smile*

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)