Quilled snowflake

Hi my friends!  I have been out in the woods camping by a beautiful river and we are now back in town.  I will share a couple of pics with you as soon as I find my camera and get the pictures downloaded.

Oh and i have a card that i've been working on for Christmas ~  thought i would share with you.  Have a wonderful day.

Video Creative Memories Haul by Laura Smith, Independent Consultant

Ok everyone my first ever YouTube video was posted today titled "Creative Memories Haul by Laura Smith Independent Consultant!  Super excited, feeling a little silly but I wanted to share with everyone so I did :-)

I'll try and post it below for you to see as well.  Just learning all this fun stuff.  Have a great day and until next time, take care~

If anyone knows how to link a video from YouTube to a blog, can you please let me know?  I cannot find my YouTube video now that I posted it (other than on my channel)...  any help is appreciated!

Stamp TV has a card challenge by Cheri Weston:

I've got a different challenge for you this week and I'm calling it "Make it a Double" and here it is:

As stampers we have many stamps.  Sometimes we look at them as only focal image stamps or sentiment.  I'd like you to look at your stamps a bit differently for this challenge.  My challenge is for you to pick ONE stamp from your collection and use it first as a background stamp and then as the focal image. The only other stamp you're allowed to use is a sentiment stamp.

So here is my card for this week's challenge:

Have a great day and enjoy those hot summer days while we can...

Just got back from a fun weekend and wanted to give credit where credit it due... I received my CardMaker magazine in the mail a couple of weeks ago and on the cover was a card with quilled leaves on it.... so I just wanted to let everyone know this is where the idea came from, i just put my own spin on it :-)  Have a great week!

Cardz TV Design Team Challenge #12 "Anything Goes!"

Happy Friday everyone!  It’s cooler here today so the card I’m entering into Mary’s card challenge is a fall card, with quilled leaves.  It makes me think of those beautiful trees changing colors and frosty mornings.  Well I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, we are headed to the beach to play and I will be back Monday.  Oh as usual my ipone is my main camera right now… gotta change that so sorry for the less than beautiful picture quality lol J

Christmas in July - Stamp TV Challenge

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to share a card that I made for the Stamp TV "Christmas in July" series... Thinking about Christmas and cooler days when it's been hot has been so much fun...besides now I'm getting a head start on Christmas cards, I need all the help I can get - so thanks all you great ladies out there!

The Stamp TV web challenge link:
http://stamptv.ning.com/photo/photo/listTagged?tag=STVLIVECHAT4

Hi everyone~  I wanted to share a card with you that is great for sending the “great  vacation shots” off to friends or family (I know grandma & grandpa would love this)! This incorporates the picture with the card along with a protective sleeve so that the picture doesn’t get scratched in transit.

Creative Memories tools are pictured below.  They are: 

·         12x12 mat and blades from the custom cutting system along with the smallest oval,

·         border maker system,

·         tape runner,

·         Precision point adhesive pen,

·         two pens (green and brown),

·         and the Cricut cartridge “Traveler”

·         cardstock in brown, green, cloud, deep blue, and royal blue. (The bright carnival blue came from Gina k. designs paper J) 

·         Oh I also used a little of the Tim Holtz distress ink in Broken China for the back row of waves. 

·         Creative Memories has transparent memorabilia pockets that you can use to preserve the photo in transit.  Today I used a “transparent archival bag” from Recollections.

In pictures here's how it went together:

I left room on bottom left hand side for a sentiment and didn't go crazy with inking around edges so this card could be put together quickly.  Hope you enjoyed a little beachy summer card and look back in a couple of days for the 12x12 scrapbook layout!   I will try to make a video soon and start adding those to my blog too :-)  Until then have a wonderful sun-shinny day.  Laura