Ruby Rock-It Blog Hop

Hello to all the faithful Ruby Rock-it Fans!  Welcome to our June blog hop!  

If you are a regular reader of my blog or are just popping in, I hope you consider hopping along with us.  You can start the hop here.  

This month, we are featuring our very versatile Fundamentals cardmaking supplies, gorgeous vellum, and our bling!  And after you hop along, make sure you find out the details on how you can have a chance to win this amazing PRIZE pack!

Come and hop along with us, leaving comments at each blog to enter to win an awesome Ruby Rock-it prize pack!  You could win your very own collection of Ruby goodies!  

 I am actually the last stop on the hop before returning to the Ruby Rock-It blog.  

So I made two very simple, easy wedding cards to share with you.  First up:

This card literally took me 5 minutes to make.  It was so easy.  I laid vellum on the card, then I layered and placed my focal piece on my card (came from this cardmaking kit) and added the lace and congratulations.  My final step was adding just a bit of hand-stitching.

Then there's this card:

Isn't that blinged out flower fabulous?  I liked the way it looked in the package so I just adhered the bling to the cardboard backing and cut it out.  

I also used some other packaging on my card...did you notice it?  I had received something that was wrapped in that thin styrofoam like packaging (don't know what it is actually called).  Well I used it on my card.  All about recycling.  :)  I really love the way it looks.  

Ok, well now it's time to hop back to the Ruby Rock-It blog.  

In case you missed any along the way, here's the entire hop order:
*  RRBF Blog (start here)

* Cindy Stevens

* Carrie Walz

* Beckie Dreyer

* Erin Yamabe

* Pattie Beltran

* Ro Philippsen

* Becky Olsen

* June Goh

* Liana Suwandi

* Lisa Novogrodski

* Pamela Young

* RRBF Blog (end here)

MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE A COMMENT ON EACH DESIGNER’S BLOG AND THEN ON THE RUBY ROCK-IT BLOG ONCE YOU’RE DONE HOPPING ALONG RUBY ROCK-IT  TRAIL!

RUBY ROCK-IT BLOG HOP RULES-LEAVE A COMMENT ON EACH DESIGNER’S BLOG AND THEN ON THE RUBY ROCK-IT'S BLOG TO BE ENTERED TO WIN THE Ruby Rock-it  PRIZE PACK. COMMENTS MUST BE POSTED BY SUNDAY, JUNE 9TH AT 11:59PM PST TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE RANDOM DRAWING.  WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE WINNER ON OUR RUBY ROCK-IT BLOG ON TUESDAY, JUNE 12TH!

Have a FABULOUS day!!

Once Upon A Sketch challenge and a New Christmas Layout!!

Today a new challenge is up at Once Upon A Sketch. It's not my turn to do it, but I still wanted to let you know about it! I hope you play along with us! :)

The challenge:

Journaling Criteria: This time the journaling criteria focuses on you as a woman. What is the best thing about being a woman? Motherhood? Shopping? Make Up? Girls nights? Gossip? Your journaling can be as long as you wish and in any language, but you must journal at least 2 sentences on the best part of being a woman.

You must combine the journaling criteria with this sketch:

The prizes:

Lots of good stuff to win!

1. The winner of this challenge, as chosen by the Design Team, will receive a pack of fabulous chipboard from Imaginarium Designs...

It includes some of their latest and most popular chipboard. The best thing about this, is that the pack will be different each month and will be customised to fit the winners needs. So if you have girls, you will be sent girly chipboard etc.

2. One randomly chosen winner will receive a mixture of products from The Chip Chop Shop to the value of $25.00 plus postage.

I really hope you play along with us this!!!! You have until Nov. 29th to upload your entry here. Can't wait to see what YOU do! :)

I also have a layout that I want to share with you today. Prepare yourself...it's a Christmas layout! You may be saying that you are not ready for that yet, but I have SO been feeling the Christmas spirit lately...maybe because of all the Christmas projects I've been working on. Or perhaps it's because I already started listening to Christmas music! ;) Too early?

This layout uses the AWESOME (and I can't emphasize the AWESOME enough!) new Christmas line from The ScrapCake, called Cozy Xmas. I have LOVED playing with this line...it's one of my favorites for sure.

So here's the layout:

Every Christmas season we drive around and look at lights. It's a tradition. I did it when I was a kid, and now we do it with our kids. :) I always look forward to it. Anyways, this picture is of a house we saw...it is not my house (I wish), just a fabulously beautiful house that was magnificently decorated for Christmas. :)

Here are some close up's of my layout:

Those chipboard fences are from Magistical Memories, and the alphabet is from Fancy Pants Designs. All adhesive used was from Helmar.

Ok...so now it's your turn, 'fess up...has your Christmas music been on yet? We're all friends here. ;) I can't be the only one.

Have a fantastic day!

Prima Fun

**I still have a giveaway going on! Scroll down or click here.

I'm playing along with Prima this month and their Build A Page challenge. Here's the sketch they gave us:

I don't know why, but I immediately pictured the circle cut out of the shape rather then on top. :) My brain is wired funny. But I was so inspired by the sketch.

Here's the layout I made:

See how I cut out the circle and then made a circle with stitching. I also had to splatter some paint on my layout...had to, because of the pics. :) And I am so happy that I used that large flower trim, LOVE that stuff! Everything is from Prima.

Here are some close up's:

There's still time to play along with the challenge. You have until Oct. 31st.

They also have a color challenge going on right now...here are the colors:

Aren't they fabulous? Perfect for October. Don't know if I will have time to play along or not, but I definitely wanted to pass the information along. You can check out all the details for the challenge here.

Have a wonderful day!!!

Seeing Yellow

The boys had their first ever lemonade stand a few weeks ago...I loved it! They did it while we were having a garage sale...and you know what? They made more money then we did! :) I'm fine with that.

So of course, I had to make a page about it. :)

Everything is from Prima...I did it for their May BAP. Just added a bit of yellow mist. I really wanted to do an all yellow page. I'm happy with how it turned out.

Here are some close up's:

Happy Monday everyone!!!!!

Inspiring Colors!

So last week I sat down and did the color challenge over on the Crate Paper blog. I couldn't pass this one up, I just found it SO inspiring. And the colors were so out of the ordinary for me.

This was the color challenge:

See! Isn't it beautiful! And I knew just what pictures to use with this color scheme. :)

So here's my layout:

And the close up's:

*tip: the leftover part of stickers can be a fun addition to any project. See how under my border sticker, I used part of the leftovers. :)

*tip: don't have the color alphabet that you want to use? Paint them! That's what I did here, I used black foam letters and then painted them blue. :)

I splattered paint after the layout was complete simply because it looked like it needed a bit more of the blue on it.

And here I just stuck a few extra pieces of paper behind the one and curled them all over. Just trying something new. :)

I'm happy with how it turned out. Crate Paper already picked a winner for the challenge as well as some of their favorites, you can view those here.

Well I hope it stops raining here so I can get some outside work done, like mowing the lawn! It's rained all week. And I love the rain, but I am ready for it to stop. I still have a bunch of wood chips sitting in my driveway, waiting to be moved back to the new swing set. I'm ready for the sun.

Thanks for popping in today!

Have a wonderful day!

Zva Creative

Ok...I think this is the last catch up blog post for stuff I've done for ScrapStreet...I think. In March ScrapStreet featured Zva Creative in the Showroom. So I got to play with their bling and flowers! :) Here are some things I made...

Now this first layout was one I wasn't extremely happy with. It just didn't match my vision. That happens sometimes. So I was really surprised when it was feature on the first page of that issue in the table of contents. I should have known...it's always the layouts that I'm not sure about that everyone seems to love. :) Here it is...

I do love those bling trees...they are so cool. :) Here are some close up's...

And another layout...

The close up's...

And finally a very simple card...

You can view complete supply lists for my projects in the feature on Zva Creative in ScrapStreet.

Thanks Zva Creative for letting me play with your goodies. :)

And just wanted to let you know that I listed some of my cards for sale on ebay. I've never sold stuff I have made on ebay...so we'll see how it goes, but you can click on these links to view what I am selling:

Set of 5 (lot 1)

Set of 5 (lot 2)

Set of 5 (lot 3)

Set of 5 (lot 4)

Set of 15 Thank You cards

Have a wonderful day!

Showing Off My Bling!

Yes, I may be talking about bling...but I'm actually getting ready to show you my card I made for this week's SSCC challenge...who says a Christian can't show a little bling? :) The verse this week is:

Matthew 6:19-20 "Do not store up for yourself treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal."

And the challenge is to use [crafty] "treasures" on your card or other project... in other words, BLING IT UP! (ie. bling = gems, pearls, dazzling diamonds, charms). :) So here is my card for the challenge:

Hope you play along with us this week! :) See the challenge post and post your links here.

Oh, and Regina was nice enough to let me refrain from doing yesterday's challenge at Scrap and Stamp, but I still wanted to let you know what the challenge is! The challenge is to scrap a gathering (any kind will do) and use stamping. you can see the challenge here. I do hope you play along there too!

Bring on the Bling!

This is a layout that I did tonight. One of my best friends, Ty (we call her Ty, her real name is Tylene) had a son whom they named Kyen (we call him Ky). So we have Ty and Ky. :) The pp is Fancy Pants...I love it. Then I just had fun...experimenting. I sewed scallops on the twill (didn't work out exactly as planned---but it is ok). I layered several embellishments on the bottom corner of the photo, including a Hambly overlay, sticker bling, rub-on's, flowers, and an epoxy sticker. I like how that turned out. I found these stickers from Stampendous that I have had for awhile and not used...they look like rhinestones...or bling. Well, here is a tip on how I used them, being that the stickers were so small. I took my paper piercer and picked up the sticker with it (sliding it gently under the sticker). Then I put it on to the paper (flower and scallops--overlay) using the paper piercer as well. When I used my fingers I couldn't see where I was putting it and the stickers were getting stuck everywhere.