Ad This Weekly Challenge

Yep, its that time again! Another weekly Ad inspiration from the Ad This blog!
Here is this weeks ad

And here is my take. The twist this week is to use five different mediums in your LO. I used paint, ink, paper, fabric and wallpaper(the textured brown behind the photo mat)

Don’t forget to head on over to post your take for a chance at the Guest Designer spot next week!

Ad This DT!!!

Woohoo! I made the Summer DT for the Ad This blog!  So ladies, head on over and post your takes on the ads!
This week’s ad:

and the twist is to use three different fonts on your LO.

Here is my take:

Be sure to check us out every week for a new ad!

UP-Cycling

Have you heard of this… its taking old things and altering them so they can be used again!  Well, my favorite type of Up-cyling is altering my girls clothes.
Sierra and Ruby now officially wear the same size, but it doesn’t matter, because both of them put holes in their jeans like nobody’s business.  I just went through their winter clothes and basically none of the jeans are useable for Karis.  The jeans still fit the older two now – but they don’t want to wear jeans (and of course, we have tons), they want shorts and skirts for the summer, and they most likely won’t fit next fall. Besides, there are holes and it gets awfully cold here!
So here is my solution…
Ordinary pair of jeans with holes in the knees:

So you’re probably thinking, cut them off for shorts – duh!!!  But have you ever noticed that jeans fit tighter than shorts… and especially Ruby, whose thighs are more generous, its not comfortable to have just plain ole cutoffs.
And of course there are HOLES in the KNEES – so you can’t make them capris….
But you can make a skirt!!!!  I convinced Sierra to keep this long (she wanted a mini skirt) and I wanted to put a ruffle on the edge, but she wanted it to fray – so I didn’t finish the edge – this is one of her favorite skirts now.

But – these ‘bermuda’ shorts I think are adorable.  They are longer so you don’t have to worry about thunder thighs sticking out, but not quite capris.  And I think the ruffles make them just a tad bit longer and feel more stylish than ‘my mom cut off my jeans and is making me wear them this summer instead of buying me shorts!’  LOL!

I have a few more pairs of holey jeans – I can’t wait to play.  I’m going to make Ruby a skirt and put a ruffle on it, and of course, they each have a pair of plain cutoffs, but I need to use up my fabric scraps and I like to play!!
Speaking of scraps, I’m thinking of appliquéing some flowers, birds, and butterflies on some of the girls (and mine!) plain t-shirts… I’ll post pics if I like how it turns out.

Just some new LOs

Here are a few LOs I’ve done for challenges and contests and such that I can show now.
This one was for a Guest DT spot at Back Porch Memories.  I didn’t make it, but I still love the LO! The subject is pretty cute too!

This was for a telephone scraplift over at OSU.  I doodled all over, even the flowers that I then cut them out to embellish the doodles.

This I did using an ad from Ad This 
Another one done using an ad as inspiration from Ad This
Here is a scraplift challenge from BPM. Using the yummy May Scrap Attack Scrapbooking kit!

OOH! Look what blog I found!!

My favorite type of challenges are Ad challenges.  I love using the ads as inspiration, either as a sketch, taking the color combos, the patterns in the ad, and seeing the cool graphic designs!  So I was totally psyched when I found this blog!
Ad This! 
They post an ad every Monday and you have a week to get your LO linked for a chance to be a guest designer (and I think they occasionally give out prizes too!)
So here is my take on this weeks ad

And they are having a DT call, so of course I’m sending in some LOs for that too.  Be sure to check them out!

Back Porch Memories Spring Fling Crop!

I’ve been cropping for a week over at BPM for a chance to win a six months subscription to  Paula’s awesome kits!!!  Here are the challenges I completed.  You get your name in a drawing for each challenge – wish me luck!!!

Color Therapy – color in a stamped image

 
Better than Hallmark (black and white card with a pop of color)

Leftovers Challenge (use leftovers from projects you completed during the crop – LOs below)



I see through you – make a card using a transparency
   
Heat Embossing

Paper Flowers – make your own paper flowers
   
Recipe Challenge: page layout – any size, word title, flowers or stars – any type, pictures – any size, handwritten journaling

Feeling Edgy: use two or more techniques on the edges of your paper (die cut, distressed, inked)

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
 
Beautifully Rustic – I used cardboard with glitter, and inked up some bling

New Beginnings – scrap about something ‘new’ – think Maddie counts :D

Overkill Challenge – use lots of one type of embellishment

Font-tastic – use different types of fonts for your title

Ad Inspiration


Scraplift someone in the crop
 
WHEW!! That’s 28 entries – I so hope I win!!! I love BPM kits!!!

Happy Birthday Mom

My mom is currently up here visiting me, and helping with the girls while I try to rest and take care of the baby.  So this birthday card is for her…
but the flower technique is for Stacy :D ENJOY!

Accordion flowers: Decide what size flower you want.  I wanted a 3 inch flower, so I cut my paper strip to 3 inches wide.  Then I normally double the width to cut the length. So for my 3 inch flower, I start with a 3x6 inch piece of PAPER (not cardstock!)
Score every 1/4 inch and fold accordion style


Now find the center of your paper (mine will be at 1.5 inches) and staple, tie, wrap with wire, etc.  Find SOMETHING to make it look like this:
(I stapled the middle and then pushed the staple around the middle to make a ring)

Put sticky tape on both ends of the right side

Fold over and press flower together

Finish into a card!

Not scrappy stuff….

but here are two things I did this week:

I saw these cute hats on Etsy.com but honestly, I’m cheap… so I decided to make one myself – only took an hour or so!


  

And then I finally finished my diaper bag!  I used the Alexander Henry Kleo and Esprit Stripe fabric!  I TOTALLY LOVE IT!!!  And I’m happy with how my bag turned out for not using a pattern – LOL – I’m so lazy!  Two large pockets in the front, ties on the side, and there are 3 large pockets and a cellphone pocket on the inside.  Inside is the tan with the stripe pockets.  I’d take a picture but its already filled with diapers and junk!