this weeks' sketch challenge over at Scrapbook Challenges is amazing...like every other week. Each week Pamela inspires me even more - how do you think she comes up with all those sketches? Natural talent for sketching if you ask me! They are amazing and they are so helpful when you get stuck in a rut! great for trying new things and ideas and using all those odd photos. so head on over to Pamela's blog to see what the other design team members came up with. and don't forget to pop into scrapbook challenges to see loads more samples of members and take up a challenge or two.
visit www.scrapbookchallenges.ning.com

hanging stamped images from the top of my layout with some sewing...

replacing brads with pearls in a photo turn...

stamping just for fun...

supplies: Card stock Bazzill Basics. Patterned paper Prima. Stamps Tweety Jill & Tim Holtz. Lettering Fabscraps. Photo turns 7Gypsies. Other Thread, pearls and dimensional glaze.

join me at Scrapbook Den
for a fathers day card class on Saturday the 12th June and learn some cool ideas on how to dress up those old stickers. take ordinary things and make them extra-ordinary. contact Jeanette or Michelle to book your spot and spoil dad this fathers day with a stunning handmade card. also ask about their other amazing classes to celebrate dad throughout their extravaganza.

the challenge is up over at
Scrap and Stamp Saturday.
this week we had to use either felt flowers or any other flowers.
i added some paper flowers to my layout but also made little felt flower accents by just cutting felt into circles and sewing around the edges. they may not be real flowers but you get the idea..

the centres of the flowers are made using Claudene's sticky canvas by Ranger and colouring it using a gold acrylic paint dabber. cut the canvas into a small circle freehand and then place it onto a piece of felt and cut around the edges. sew around the edge of the felt using embroidery thread and then assemble your flower. real quick and easy but with loads of texture.

the butterflies are cut from Prima paper and finished off with some bling.

my stamped sentiment is from Crafty Secrets. some red sewing finishes off my layout.
thanks for looking, now head on over to scrap and stamp to see some other great ideas for using flowers. remember you can also win some great prizes by entering your layout into the challenge...but remember to use at least one stamped image on it.

supplies: patterned paper Prima. Flowers Making Memories, Enmarc & Prima. Card stock Core'dinations. Bingo Cards Tattered Angels. Other diamantes, buttons, thread, felt, canvas and paint dabbers.

my friend Olga Cardoso - a double lung transplant survivor is organizing a fundraiser for the Organ Donor Foundation in the form of a scrapbooking day in August.
it promises to be loads of fun with stunning products and completing an entire 12x12 album from start to finish! all funds will go directly into the ODF account and they are the only ones who will benefit financially...but we will benefit through the day by spending it with good friends doing what we love - scrapping of course. if you need more information about this worthy cause please contact us.

can't wait to get my hands on this baby...i believe i have some more cards published in it!
i love the take ten magazine. it really falls perfectly into my creative motto -
don't sweat the small stuff, make it quick and easy!
why...because our lives are so short and so hectic and before you know it -
you forgot to stop and smell the roses.
so if you are in need of some carding inspiration why not try and get your hands on a copy of the Take Ten magazine - it really is worth it!