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PaperCrafter's Corner Magazine Mondays – Week Fifty-One!

Magazine Monday Inspiration

     I may have said this before, but I am so glad to have found PaperCraftersCorner.com.  I can enter the challenges using supplies I already have.  With this weekly challenge, I can even keep up. . . so far!  
    I used my wide format Canon Pro-100 (a $50 steal!) to print the picture directly to 12x12 photo paper.  I cut the borders with Martha Stewart punches and got a work out cutting letters from Sizzix alphabet dies.  (Those were also a steal at $9 a set, and I use them a lot.  Oh, I do love being a thrifty crafter!  LOL!  Actually, I don't save anything.  I can just buy lots more stuff!)  A couple of purple rhinestones and lots of stickles finish this off.  I'm filling in the months on DGD's page-a-month album. 

PaperCrafter's Corner Magazine Mondays Week 50 & DCWV May Stackaholic Card Challenge

     I loved being a Fiskateer and miss that active blog so much, but there was one--and probably only one--disadvantage of playing there:  Challenge entries could not be posted anywhere else.  Now I have a new challenge for myself:  combining challenges!

DCWV May Card Sketch

Papercrafter's Corner Magazine Challenge #50

     I started with an idea in my head for my hubby's birthday next month, but completely changed direction.  I still stuck with the idea of numbers from the Monday Magazine challenge, but went with the year to make a graduation card for my great-nephew.  (OMGoodness!  I am getting so old!  Some of the greats are already graduating from college!  We will have great-greats before long!)

     Devin's school colors are blue and white.  I found just the right papers in DCWV's Tradewinds matstack and Tradewinds Cardstock matstack.  (One has prints.  One has coordinating solids.)  The solid is beautiful glitter paper, but that didn't photograph well.  The circular elements are Spellbinders "Cogs," and the numbers and letters are cut from Sizzix dies.  The stamp is from JustRite Stampers. 
     On a personal note, with my son and his sweet wife going through a painful divorce, we have been on a rocky and chaotic road of late.  So thankful to have Jesus to lean on and papercrafting as a therapeutic tool.  Time with grandchildren leaves me exhausted, but makes my heart smile. I received a beautiful bouquet today for Mother's Day.  I've already eaten part of it, the chocolate-dipped pineapple and a couple of huge chocolate-dipped strawberries!  Then my tummy smiled, too.  Thank you, Daughter Dear!  xox

PaperCrafter's Corner NSD Challenge 5, Event Stories

Well, I was able to do the first and the last challenge, just barely.  Time is my enemy!
I had to dig out some old photo albums from the days before I had digital to find pics of one of our favorite events ever.  We've done lots of big golf tournaments and photographed the celebrities, but this trip for Donnie will always remain a highlight.  May I present 1999 Special Olympics World Games in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina!  (It was so hot and humid that only the African athletes who were use to the heat actually ran a full marathon.  For safety sake, the others were cut to a half marathon.)

     Background paper is DCWV Spring stack, but it's mostly covered.  The foil letters are also DCWV. 
     Donnie recently moved to a group home where he is very happy.  I think I will frame this and take it to him for his room.  :o)

NSD Challenge 1 at papercrafterscorner.com

     Two days in a row!  Hey, this could be habit forming!  I do love to papercraft and I do love to blog!  I must move these things up my priority list!  They make me smile!
     The first challenge for National Scrapbooking Day at PaperCrafter's Corner is "Childhood Memories."  Although the picture I scrapped was taken the year before I was born, it brings back wonderful memories of my mom's large family, cousins by the dozens and wonderful holiday get-togethers.  I also am reminded that no matter how big the occasion, how fancy the dinner, there were always cold pork and beans on the table.  And I still love them!

     The papers I used were mainly from DCWV's Dear Jane and Metallic stacks.  I used the sketch for DCWV's May Stackaholic Challenge. 
     It was fun to get a theme or an idea from one place and a layout from another.  I've never done that before. . .at least that I can remember.  I love such great inspiration, someone else helping me get the creative process going!

Magazine Mondays, Week 49

     PaperCrafter's Corner has a fun weekly challenge.  I'm still new to it, but enjoying it so much.  I never thought about magazine covers as a source of inspiration.  I love a new way to look at things. 
     I received the Doodlebug Design/Sizzix "Welcome Home" stamp and die set in the mail the same day the challenge came out.  That made the creative process a little easier. 
    

      I used DCWV's beautiful Shimmer Cardstock Stack for the sky and Canvas Matstack for the grassy part.  I loved unraveling the edges!  I went to my Roy G. Biv scrap bin and paper-pieced the houses, a relaxing way to spend the afternoon!
     Thanks for looking.

Inside of A2 card

Papercrafting Challenge: Magazine Mondays – Week Forty-Eight

I always have such big plans to blog, but time is not on my side.  Not having my much loved fiskateers.com as a playground anymore, I am looking around for new places to play.  This looked like a fun challenge:  Magazine Monday, Week 48, from PaperCrafter's Corner.com.

The inspiration was the busy city of New York, but anyone who knows me knows that I am a big anglophile!  It's all about England!  I took the idea of city icons to London!

I used my a-muse studio stamps, British Invasion, to make a card for my DH remembering our Christmas holiday in London.  The background is a piece of aluminum foil adhered to cardstock and embossed with a cuttlebug folder.  I stamped and fussy cut the London icons and popped them up with homemade dimensionals made with fun foam and my trusty little Xyron X.

Thank you PaperCraftersCorner.com!  I hope I can play along more often!