BikesBluesBBQ 2010

To Fayetteville, Arkansas there is nothing quite like Bikes Blues & BBQ which happens every fall.

During the 2010 BBB we had special guests arrive... my Dad Jim's best friend from California Bob & his wife Judy, of course my step-mom Jan came as well.

We did get to do much riding, just from our house to Dickson Street, Bob's back was acting up so he drove the car & met us there.  We road the train from Dickson street down to where some of the alternate attractions were set up (helicopter rides, stunt riders, vendor booths, etc)

Products Used: All cardstock-Stampin Up; printed paper-CTMH; white puffy paint-Polymark; all die cuts using Cricut with Gypsy (various cartridges); ink-CTMH; alpha stamp set-Making Memories magnetic

Here's this week's color combo for you:

Sweet Stampin Challenge #40

For these pictures, I needed a two page layout so I took the sketch & mirrored it.

Here's my creation:

This one comes from a new find for me called Sweet Stampin Challenge #40
The Details:
Products Used: printed paper-Creative Memories, Grey paper-Making Memories, cardstock-CTMH White Daisy & Outdoor Denim; Cricut, Gypsy; misc snowflake brads (where the heck did I get those?!)

This is just one more in the No Paper Buying Challenge toward my 100 projects! For more information, please see my Aug. 1 blog post

More to Meet my Challenge

Today I got some more done toward the "No purchasing paper until I have 100 paper projects done" challenge I joined. You can find more info on it on my Aug. 1 blog post

This first sb layout is of yet another ice storm we got. Although not nearly as severe as the one the previous year, it still had us on pins waiting to see what it would produce:

The Details:
Overnight the ice turned into snow, so bright & early the next day both boys were excited to go play. My oldest had hit my youngest with a icey snowball in the face; so to show how sorry he way, he made one for my youngest to hit him with, then turned around and got his squarely in the back! It's as close to Brotherly Love as we get from those two:
The Details:
Products Used: Black Cardstock-CTMH; Metallic paper-Making Memories (from CropChocolate) used in my Cricut with the Gypsy and various cartridges; many different colors of Tattered Angels; small snowflakes & stars from Making Memories jars; silver pen & circle cutter from Creative Memories; Silver sticker alpha-?

Mojo Monday #145

Mojo Monday #145 Sketches

Of course I must take the non-squarish route....

Details:

Unfortunately the blues didn't match in the pictures, but to the naked eye they're really close.

Products used: solid cardstock-CTMH black & white daisy; printed cardstock-DCWV all dressed up; bling-CTMH; ribbon the robert stanley collection (Hobby Lobby); scallop circle-Cricut Gypsy Wanderings

Hello There - 3 Little Birdies

So I found a blog that had a card I wanted to lift @ Kathy's Waffle.... here's my lift:

And a close up for the details:

Products used: white cloud-Polymark dimensional fabric paint; dew drops; Ink-CTMH Indian Corn Blue; Stamp Set-CTMH Twitterpated; Cardstock for branch-CTMH in Chocolate; Cardstock for leaves-CTMH in Topiary & Sweet Leaf; Patterned paper for tree-Little Yellow Bicycle Lucky Me; Patterned papers for birds-SEI claire, SEI Jocelyn, ki enchanting; background cardstock-American Crafts I Do; Cricut Gypsy Wonderings for birds, branch & leaves

Gypsy!

My first items cut using the Gypsy!

And, of course, I had to dress them up for use on my page:
This Gypsy makes me wanna dance in a long flowy skirt! Now I'm off to put my carts on it, I know I know once you do that it's the only Gypsy they can go on... I think I'm good with that, so much less to haul to crops! WAHOO