DCWV August 2016 Stack-a-holic Challenge

       With granddaughter in first grade now, I have more time on my hands, and everyone knows that paper crafting is good therapy.  Still in recovery, it takes me longer to finish anything, but with that additional time, I'm getting some fun things done.  

     Usually I try to avoid glare in my photos, but I wanted to show off the foil bling in this beautiful DCWV cardstock from the Fall & Halloween Combined Mat Stack.  Surprisingly the best matching blue I found was in the Christmas Stack.  Don't wait till holidays to look in those stacks!  There is a lot of pretty paper that can be used year-round.  I especially was yearning for plaids this go.  Love this one! 

     I embossed the tag with a Cuttlebug folder of tiny hearts, covering each one with Glossy Accents.

     I used the Poppy Stamps Hello Word Balloon to die cut the hole and then used the coordinating brown cardstock to die cut again for the insert.  

    To add more bling I added a strip of Treveni Craft Diamanti colored with a Bic permanent marker.  This is the DCWV challenge sketch.  Fun!  

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PaperCrafter's Corner Magazine Monday #158

   

      I love clipart.  For several years I belonged to Provocraft's HugClub, a monthly clipart club, so I've accumulated quite a bit.  Because I still haven't learned to color, this is definitely another way to go.  The focal point here is from "A Bird's Life 1."  She's in an office which fits the bill for this week's PCC challenge!  Besides patterned paper, I used #DCWV adhesive cork and a die-cut using one of my favorite Poppy Stamp dies.  Once I decided what to do, I added to my stash:

     Steph at PaperCrafter's Corner comes up with the best magazine covers for inspiration.  Here's this week's:     

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PaperCrafter's Corner Magazine Monday #157

    Yesterday I decided this wasn't going to get done.  This morning I woke up with a simpler idea that just maybe I was up to completing.  And I did!

     My first thought from PaperCrafter's Corner's inspiration piece was the obvious:  children going off to school.   I only got this one picture of Sequoia's first day this year. . .and I think it's the same view I got last year, her standing by the chalk drawing of the school's puma mascot.  The title piece and slide are svgs from the generous #misskatecuttables.  Where I got discouraged was putting them into Cricut Design Space and finding it was going to take about 20 mats.  I'm physically not up to that this week, especially after taking a fall (in that messy family room I scrapped last week!).  But this morning I came up with the idea of doing a "print and cut."  That took all the work and worry out.
     The background paper, which looks like school paper, is from #DCWV Magnolia stack.  To fill the page, I had to stay simple so I went with the stars in the title, punched a bunch and scattered them around.  It looks better in person.  It actually turned out pretty cute.  :o)
    Edited:  While I was working on the cut-and-print part of this, my 20-month-old grandson turned off my computer.  I gave up for the day.  The next day when I tried again, I somehow switched the cuttable from Miss Kate to the kindergarten one!  This is first grade!  It hit me hard the day after I posted.  It all got fixed before it went into her scrapbook.  :o)

Two Challenges in One

     Amazingly, I was able to bring together DCWV's August Stack-a-holic challenge and Papercrafter's Corner's Magazine Monday.  Without thinking!  If I would have had to think about it, it wouldn't have happened.  I just immediately knew what I wanted.

     PCC made it easy.  This week's inspiration showed a messy house which looked a lot like a picture I took last week when "Los Tres Nietos," the three small grandchildren were here.  The rays of sun in the DCWV sketch reminded me of where I wanted those little ones to play: Outside!  The Kidlet stack had the perfect paper with words describing the day Outside!  

    Steph, do you remember how excited I was that the Cricut allows me to cut any words and just the size I want them?  That's what I did!  The font I used for "Outside" is a freebie called Black Fat.  I like that it doesn't have thin areas that might get messed up in the cutting.
     The sun was a free svg from the talented Juliana Michaels at 17 Turtles.
     With a quieter house once again, I was able to work on this for short periods each day.  Very therapeutic and great fun!  Writing this blog may have been the most difficult part!  :o)

PaperCrafter's Corner, Magazine Monday #155

Magazine Monday Inspiration

     It's been so long!  I am making very slow recovery from a complicated back surgery that kept me in the hospital for 36 days.  I have a hard time staying in one place very long.  I can't get comfortable or stay comfortable, but. . . this was my son's first week back from commercial salmon fishing in Naknek, Alaska.  He was home to watch the little ones.  (He had the boys, 1 and 3, with him, too, besides 6 year-old Sequoia.)  I had DH put a latch inside the craftroom, so know one else could get in, and I was able to craft a little bit each day or so.  What fun!  The result was a very simple card, but it met the criteria for PCC's Magazine Monday, a starry background!  The sentiment is from #Apex Cuttable Designs.  It was a free svg file, but I actually used the jpeg that came with it.  I printed it out in gray scale.

My background was a sheet of paper I found in my stash.  Perfect!  It was all about simple, but I am so happy to have been able to craft a wee bit.  Thanks for the inspiration, Steph!

PaperCrafter's Corner, Magazine Monday #155

Magazine Monday Inspiration

     It's been so long!  I am making very slow recovery from a complicated back surgery that kept me in the hospital for 36 days.  I have a hard time staying in one place very long.  I can't get comfortable or stay comfortable, but. . . this was my son's first week back from commercial salmon fishing in Naknek, Alaska.  He was home to watch the little ones.  (He had the boys, 1 and 3, with him, too, besides 6 year-old Sequoia.)  I had DH put a latch inside the craftroom, so know one else could get in, and I was able to craft a little bit each day or so.  What fun!  The result was a very simple card, but it met the criteria for PCC's Magazine Monday, a starry background!  The sentiment is from #Apex Cuttable Designs.  It was a free svg file, but I actually used the jpeg that came with it.  I printed it out in gray scale.

My background was a sheet of paper I found in my stash.  Perfect!  It was all about simple, but I am so happy to have been able to craft a wee bit.  Thanks for the inspiration, Steph!