Summer Fun "Guest Designer" Wednesday

 Happy Wednesday!

Today is the twelfth week of my summer guest designer series. This week's guest designer is my super talented friend, Cristi! Her blog is called Scrappin 5 Little Cupcakes.

Hi Everyone, this is Cristi from Scrappin 5 Little Cupcakes. I am beyond thrilled and honored that Ruthie has asked me to be her guest designer today. I have been following Ruthie's blog for quite awhile and I am always inspired by everything she creates! I had the pleasure of meeting Ruthie in person a few months ago and she is so adorable and sweet, I loved hanging out with her!!  

For my Summer themed project I created a beach 12x12 Scrapbook layout. That is what summer is all about to me sun, sand and the breeze of the ocean!!! I really LOVE the ocean and sitting on the beach relaxing.

Details & Materials Used:

Paper - More Fish In The Sea by Cosmo Cricket, Recollections Card Stock & Neutral Card Stock by DCWV

Sand Castle cut at 3" - Create A Critter Cartridge

Crab cut at 1.75" - Create A Critter Cartridge

Star cut at 2.50" - Create A Critter Cartridge

Shell cut at 1.5" - Create A Critter Cartridge

Sand Dollar cut at 3.25" - Life's A Beach Cartridge

Buttons - Walmart

Gems - Joanns

My Pink Stamper Stamp Set "Punny-licious"

Peachy Keen Medium Critter Faces

Ink - Early Espresso By Stampin Up

Diamond Stickles

Sukura White Gel Pen

Adhesive - ATG, Pop Dots & Zig 2-Way

Thank you so much Ruthie for letting me share my craftiness!!

Big HUGS,

Cristi

Thanks so much Cristi! Isnt' her layout adorable!?!
Don't forget to leave Cristi some blog love!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Design Team Thursday #5 ~ Joy's Life

Happy Thursday!

Today is the 5nd Thursday of Joy's Life.com's, Design Team Thursday!

This is the card I made.

I made another card with the Lacey Labels cart, I just can't help myself! The shark was cut from the "Life's a Beach" cart.

The twine is from The Twinery. Have you seen their three new colors!?! I can't wait to get mine in the mail.

The sentiment's are from Joyslife.com's Father and Son Stamps and Mother and Daughter Stamps sets!

Have you seen the new stamp set that Joy just released!?!

Super cute, no? You can get yourself a set here.

Have you heard about the Popcorn, Pj's and Projects Ustream?

I hope that you will join us as we share some FUN and EASY paper crafting tutorials, LIVE all evening !!! Pop IN and OUT at your leisure AND you never know... there might be some fun GIVE AWAYS too !... wink, wink :)

I can't wait to tell you MORE of what we have planned! So stay tuned ! We are so EXCITED that we just might explode! :)

You can RSVP here!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful day!

Crazy 4 U!

Happy Monday!

It's going to be a great week! 

This Saturday Alex at You Had Me At Craft is hosting "It's My Party" blog hop!

In ADDITION to the HOP there will also be a BONUS LIVE USTREAM, the link will be provided at each stop on the hop, with Alex and 6 Crafty Blogger Friends. We will broadcast LIVE from her home on Saturday January 15th at 10:30am PST. Each blogger will share a short paper crafting tutorial and there might even be some surprise giveaways! I hope you are able to join us!

Now... on to today's card!

I have had this idea floating around in my head for awhile and finally last night I got a chance to make the card. 

The Paper is from the new K&Co KP Valentine paper stack and coordinating Coordinations paper. The octopus was cut from the Life's a Beach cart, at 3 1/2".

The sentiment on the inside of the card says "Crazy 4 u!".  I printed it on my computer/printer. The green polka dot ribbon was found in my stash.

The octopus's face is from the Peachy Keen stamp set, New Year Face Assortment.

Have you seen the three new sets of stamps that Peachy Keen just released?  Can you say SUPER CUTE! I have also seen a sneak peak of a few other new sets and all I can say is... OMGOSH! I cannot wait to get my hands on them! The new release blog hop will  be on Friday night, January 21st at 7pm (cst) and believe me, you do NOT want to miss it!

See you back here tomorrow! I will be sharing a super fun and easy project that I made (they were Christmas presents) with vinyl!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

I'd Love to Sea You!

Happy Thursday! You can see the weekend from here!

Today's bright and fun card was made with the Life's a Beach cart.

The card measure's 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". I used K and Company designer paper and the DCWV Summer Dreams card stock stack. The turtle was cut from the Life's a Beach cart at 3". The white 5/8" grosgrain ribbon is from Michael's and the sentiment stamp is from the Lots of Pun stamp set. I also used the corner rounder on the bottom two corners of the card.

The sentiment pieces on the inside of the card measure; 3 3/4" x 5, 3 1/4" x 4 1/2", and 2 3/4" x 4". 

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Happy Scrap'n!

Ruthie :)

1st Week of Summer Challenge

WooHoo! It's Saturday! I hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

So... this is my third challenge for this week. I decided to play along with Craft Junkie Too's, 1st week of summer challenge. This is what I came up with.

I just love this little pig from the Create a Critter cart! I decided to give her a floral sarong and a small pink flower for her ear. She even has a coordinating umbrella and beach chair...that's how us CA surfer girls roll. :)

The card measures 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I used Craft card stock from here.  The pattern papers are from the K and Company, Greenhouse stack and all the solid card stock is Bazzil. I cut the pig from the Create a Critter cart at 3 1/2". The flower was cut at 3 1/2" and it can be found on the page with the zebra. The flower is suppose to be an accent for the zebra, so if you keep your dial size at 3 1/2", it should cut in correct proportion for the pig too. Everything else was cut from the Life's a Beach cart. The umbrella was cut at 3" and the chair at 2". I added a small piece of white ribbon to the pigs sarong and a little coordinating ink for definition.

The paper on the inside of the card is also from the K and Company, Greenhouse stack. It was cut 3 3/4" x 5" and the white sentiment piece was cut 3 1/4" x 4 1/2". The flip flops were cut from the Life's a Beach cart at 1".

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Happy Scrap'n!

Ruthie :)

Surf'n Father's Day

I made this card last week for the My Pink Stamper Father's Day Card Challenge. I used the Life's a Beach cart and the Paisley cart. The Paper is form the DCWV Tahiti stack.

Happy Scrap'n!

Ruthie :)