Sugar and Spice Challenge #8 - Christmas in July

So…guess what??  This time around Sugar and Spice is doing an almost month-long challenge with a big Christmas giveaway on July 25th.  (Because it's a Christmas in July theme, of course!)  

Here is the project I came created for the challenge.  I am going to try and do as many projects as I can, so consider this Day One (not sure if I can do 25, but I'll try…)  

I altered a notepad in non-traditional colours and it looks super cute.  :)  

Process Video 

(YT:  makescrappygoodness)

Be sure to head on over to Sugar and Spice to join the challenge!  

Supplies Used:  (coming soon)

OneHappyCraftyChick's Clean & Simple Challenge

Hi, everyone!  Sherri here to share my card for Carol's CAS (Clean and Simple) card challenge.  She said that it should be able to fit into a regular envelope and be able to go through the machine…but I am not sure whether this qualifies for the simple and clean part…  Does it count if you do stamping, watercolouring and Magical Micas??  It wasn't that hard.  I guess it was simple then.  Okay, maybe yes!!  (Feel free to comment below.)

Here it is…

In honour of my American friends, here is a card just for you (cuz I couldn't care less…Canada Day is July 1st).

No haters.   I really do love my American friends!!

Carol is a rockin crafter who uploads daily and also vlogs her life.  Be sure to sub to her channel!

Oh, and don't forget to click on this link to be taken to the Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge, which is Patriotic and is open to Canadians and Americans, as well as anyone using their nation's colours!

Supplies:
PTI Friendship Jar Summer Fillers, Memento Lady Bug and Danube Blue, Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils, LSG Creme Brûlée Magical Mica Powder.

Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge #7 - Patriotic

''True Patriot Love''…a section taken from my national anthem, O Canada.  I have made my cards today for the new Sugar and Spice Patriotic Challenge with this in mind.  Only a few cards, simple and sweet, as an expression of my nation's love.

The first incorporates some maple brads, sent from my mom, as an emblem of the national flag, the Maple Leaf.  I added some odd gemstones and pearls to represent the Canadian peoples' uniqueness and sparkle.   And using an alphabet set, I individually stamped out the letter's of our anthem's name.  

The second card using a Mimi Inuit (eskimo is taboo) and seal pup.  I paired it with a cute Studio G stamp that reads 'this way to Canada' along with an arrow pointing north.  Call this a stereotype, perhaps what our less-educated neighbours to the north imagine (I have heard some crazy stuff first-hand!)  We do not live in igloos, nor do we have snow year-round - in fact, we have four distinct seasons.  So this Mimi, indeed, is a friend of mine…and my neighbour of the north.  She's watercoloured and layered on black along with some corrugated board.  

My third card mostly incorporates the colours of red and white.  I wanted to do something impartial. :)  It was a lot of fun stamping with hexagons.  I made the sentiment 'Happy Days' and tied on a piece of sheer ribbon.  

Since I took footage of the process making all three cards, I'll edit my video and upload to the makescrappygoodness channel and link here once done.  :)

I am so very curious to see what all the other participants are coming up with…it was so much fun thinking about cards to represent my home country!  It really makes me want to go home for a visit!!  Wish I could celebrate July 1st together with friends and family!  

Click here to be taken to the challenge post and see what others have created for this theme.  

Happy Canada Day!

(And Fourth of July too (^_~)!)

Sherri

Supplies:

Oh Canada - Cardstock (Simon Says, Other); Bling (Hero Arts Earth Mixed Accents, Kaiser Basics); Stamp (MFT Mini Banner Day Alphabet); Ink (Memento Tuxedo Black).

This Way to Canada - Cardstock (Simon Says, Other); Corrugated Board; Stamp (Mimi's Winter Friends, Studio G); Ink (Memento Tuxedo Black and Ladybug); Watercolour Pencils (Faber-Castell 130, 132, 154, 177, 179, 182, 187, 199, 219). 

Happy Days - Cardstock (Simon Says, Other); Stamp (PTI Happy Hexagons Mini Stamp Set); Ink (Memento Ladybug); Ribbon.   

   

Sugar & Spice Crafty Challenge #6

The theme is Sweet Treats!!  And how sweet it was making these two tags for the Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge.  Click here to be taken to the challenge entry.

Using the Lawn Fawn Sweet Christmas stamp set, I made a super cute Holiday tag.

I decided to colour all of my gingerbread characters different shades of brown using E31, E33, and E37.  I added mini pearl accents from Recollections and Doodlebug.

I used the same markers to colour my gingerbread house.  I tried making a woodgrain look on my door and added a goosebump to the doorknob.  I traced the loops until the windowsill with my GellyRoll pen for the icing look.

Since I love adding gumdrops to the rooves of my houses, there was no choice but to add them to my tag.  A little bit of Distress Stickles gave them just the right amount of sugaring!

I lieu of a snowbank, the doily adds a nice handmade touch.  I had the lollipops coming down the hill with a  couple of candy canes criss-crossed.  I used some gold tinsel twine on the hole for a little bit of sparkle.

The second tag uses a Tiddly Inks stamp (not sure of the name).  I used my Faber-Castell watercolour pencils and a brush pen for the colouring.

I finished it off using diecut pieces from my diecut tin and a stamp from an MFT set (the 'have a sweet' is the same one  used on my first tag).  I added a single Seria accent for some sparkle.

Thanks for dropping by!  If you feel like a sweet tooth, head on over to the blog and join in on the scrappy fun!  :)

Sherri

Copics:  B00; C1; E31,33,37; R32; YG00,01,13.

Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge #5 - Mixed Patterns!

Hi, scrappers!  It's time for the challenge to start again.  This week's challenge was chosen by our design member, Mariko, who wanted us to try using different patterns together.  I thought this is a fun, potentially tricky, but really  not hard task…don't be deterred by it.  At first I was like, what am I gonna do.  During my time off, I have been doing a lot of pinning and I saw a few 12x12 LO sketches that would be great for using different patterns.  So today's project uses a sketch from PageMaps.  (That is totally okay to use your own sketch, don't forget.)  And although I like doing my own LOs…sometimes it's just fun/easy to try out someone's ideas and adapt them to your own.  Plus I kinda like to think that is what the sketch was created for…otherwise it would feel sad not being used.  Enough said…  here is the sketch:

And here is my LO.  I used all products from the Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine collection - paper, ephemera, and chipboard stickers.  I loved everything.

I turned the layout on its side and chose to add a sun where the circle is and include cluster of flowers with a nice die-cut sun.

In the rectangle opposite the photo, I also chose to add a sentiment square for my title, and layered a couple of border strips and added some hearts along with another flower.

Here is the main section.  You can see my use of different patterns together.

While I was creating this LO, I saw some pretty red flowers and I thought of a selfie I took this past winter that would be perfect.  

Here are some more pics:  

So, I was happy this challenge inspired me to do another layout!  I love how they both turned out!  

Be sure to swing on by Sugar and Spice and check out the other member's projects, challenge details, as well as entries!  Thanks so much for checking my post out!

Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge #4

 Yay, it's that time again for the Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge!!  Challenge #4 is themed ''April Showers Brings May Flowers''.  Please interpret that how you like.  You can check out some inspiration and the guidelines on the challenge post here.

Guess what??  Our challenge is sponsored this time around!!  And by none other than Butterfly Reflections Ink!

Vanessa has offered to send something that will totally go with this theme and something I want myself.  It's the new Hello Spring by Pink Paislee.  The winner of this challenge will receive a 6x6 paper pad, stamp set, and puffy stickers from the collection.  I hope this in motivation to get creative!

Here is my card for the challenge.  I am in love with it.  The papers come from Glitz Hello Friend and MME Honey Cake 6x6 paper pads.  Aren't the clouds in the background cool?  I used my MFT ALM The Rainbow Will Come Stamp along with Lawn Fawn Say Cheese for a great combination.  The sentiment comes from MFT The Great Outdoors, which has a lot of sentiments for rain, clouds, rainbows, and sunshine.  I used Memento Tuxedo Black ink for all my stamping, except the polaroid which is stamped in Memento Summer Sky.  

I used my MFT Mini Monarch Border Die-namics and layered four die cuts to get this gorgeous texture here.  My banner comes from MFT First Place Ribbon Die-namics.  I added a pink button and twine from Queen & Co. 

I stamped my image on Neenah Solar White cardstock and coloured her face, hair, hands, pants, and umbrella pole using my copic markers.  I stamped the jacket and umbrella on paper from the Honey Cake pad.  I used my colics to shade.  Lastly I added some tiny pearls to her jacket buttons.

Be sure to swing visit the site to check out all the other projects from our design members, as well as see the entries!  Thanks for dropping by!

Supplies:  MFT ALM The Rainbow Will Come; MFT Mini Monarch Border; MFT The Great Outdoors; Lawn Fawn Say Cheese; Queen & Co. Twine; Prima Pearls; Glitz Hello Friend; MME Honey Cake; Copic Markers; The Sticky Store Foam Adhesive; Tombow Multi Glue; Button; MFT First Place Ribbon Die-namics.

Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge #3 - Pastel Eggs

It's time for another Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge.  For the third installment, the theme is Pastel Eggs.  We are asking you to use pastels.  Adding eggs is an option, but not necessary.  I, personally, couldn't wait to do something for Easter and definitely decided on using them.

I had went to Yuzawaya with the aim of picking up some styrofoam eggs.  And I was in luck.  Not only did they have what I was looking for, it was fairly inexpensive and there were a huge selection of them ranging from teeny tiny to massive, what would you do with that ones.  I recommend going here for anyone in Japan.  :) Plus you can use the members card and save.

There are so many ways to decorate Easter eggs.  Every year I do something different, with real eggs.  I was thinking of what I would do with my new fake ones and thought I would try out tissue paper and washi.  I even did a few glitter ones too.

Last fall, we went for a drive to Atami and I bought some snacks for my coworkers that came in these cute eggs carton type boxes.  To be honest, I bought them specifically for the packaging…but when you are a crafter, that is totally understandable.

So here is my altered egg carton box with tissue paper eggs.

I covered the packaging from my Pink Paislee tissue paper with Echo Park's Easter Lilies paper and scored it to place around the box.  I added a doily from Seria and a sticker from the Echo Park Happy Easter collection, to which I added a diecut circle and part of a banner from MFT that I inked using VersaMagic Pixie Dust.  I stamped 'happy easter' from PTI's Scrambled Eggs set in VersaMagic Pretty Petunia.  In my diecut stash, I had a pre-made flower (made using a cherry blossom punch from Daiso, a half-backed pearl and stickles).  I added the cherry blossom to the top and using some Twinery Buttercream to wrap around and tie.

Inside, I added some Echo Paper Easter Words paper to the top and popped up the basket and eggs from the sticker sheet.

I only had kraft straw, so I made my own straw by trimming thin pieces of pastel paper and then crimped it.  On top of that, I added my tissue paper eggs.

I made a video of how I made my eggs, so please take a look.

You could even fill the box with candy or other goodies.  I even found some crafty egg carton swap pics where they added ribbon etc.  Cool idea!


Here are the cards I made:

The chick one, front and inside -

The rabbit, front and inside (I show a process in my video) -

Please drop by the Sugar and Spice Crafty Challenge and check out the other projects from the rest of the girls, as well as the participants.  Thanks so much for dropping by!

Sherri

Supplies:  Pink Paislee Tissue Paper; Echo Park Happy Easter paper and stickers; PTI Scrambled Eggs Stamp Set and Die Collection; PTI Tiny Tags; Unity Stamp; VersaMagic Pixie Dust and Pretty Petunia; The Twinery Buttercream; Seria Doily; Daiso Punch; MFT Scalloped Banner Die-namics; Circle Die; EK Success 1'' and 3/4'' Punches; Carla Craft 7mm Punch, MME Enamel Dots.  

SSCC - Mint Chocolate - Oh So Sweet

It was the final day for the Mint Chocolate Challenge at Sugar and Spice, so I thought I'd take the chance to create something lovely.

Don't tell my bf I put these up… ;)

Aw well, this LO is just too lovely not to share.

Oh, and I shared all my products etc on my tshernjpan channel:

Thanks for dropping by!