Back to school with HIMCR!

Hey, welcome back!

This is the second post to celebrate

Hiding In My Craft Room's

blog anniversary--

in other words, it is birthday time!!!

lol

This second challenge is:

HIMCR #16HIMCR02 - Back to School!

Many of the kiddies have gone back or

 are going to school in a very few short weeks, 

like my little gal. :)

The sponsor for this challenge

is:

2 Cute Ink!

The giveaway is 2 images from 

2 Cute Ink, winner's choice!

{{squeal!!!}}}

The DT were given some images

to work with.

Here is what I came up with:

Papers are from DCWV, and stickers are
from Simple Stories.
Turtle is colored with Prismacolors.

That is it for now.

Be sure to stop by later on 

for the last challenge of

our celebration.

Until then.

Be safe. Get crafty!

Thank you!

Happy Saturday!

I hope you are all doing great!

Well, everything is getting back to 'normal', 

it seems, with the holidays now behind us.

Kinda happy, kinda sad.

Oh well, right?

A new challenge is starting over on 

the Hiding In My Craft Room blog.

This week, it is, (brace yourselves!)

HIMCR #233 - Super Scraps Saturday!

Yay!

There is a new sponsor this week, too!

 Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More!

The giveaway is 3 images from Robyn's Fetish, 

winner's choice!!

There are some really cute images there!!

The Design Team were given a choice of 3 images to play with.

I chose the apple one, 

and this is what I created:

I used my Tim Holtz Distress Ink markers to color, 

and the papers are from Simple Stories Harvest lane

(an older collection!)

The heart is a word veneer, from stash, colored with

a Pitt artist marker.

The stamped sentiment is from Kelly Purkey Hey dude

stamp set, exclusive to Simon Says Stamp.

A very simple card, but I really like it!

Be sure to check out the other members

of the Design Team to see their creations.

You have until Friday to link up your creations!

Hope you can play!

Until next time, 

Be Safe. Get crafty!

Exciting week for moi!

Happy Friday!!

WOW! It's Friday---the week has zoomed past! Of course, it could be because I've been extremely busy! Much has happened this past week. Busy, busy, busy!

With what, you may ask? Well, my friends, we are in the final stage of purchasing our own home. So, with that, it includes meeting the house inspector, which was all good! :)

Which means we're moving soon! <<Fingers crossed!>>

Which means cleaning out stuff, purging things, and packing. Ugh! lol

So, there's that.

Then, there's also my other exciting news!

As many of you know, I love to play along in challenges. My favorite, or rather one of my favorite, is cropchocolate.com. My other favorite is an online Canadian scrapbook store, with great prices, good shipping prices, and a great group of gals, scrapbookersparadise.com. I've played with them a few times now, and won a couple of times. Well, Pam contacted me this past week, and asked me to be a guest designer!!!! WHAT??!! ME??!!

What do you think I did??! Yep! I said yes! (Then I hopped up and down like a rabbit in front of my family, who laughed---they probably think the momma has gone off the ledge!lol)

My first time as Guest Designer! Woohoo!!

So, Pam sent me my prompt--and I must admit, I was stumped! I had to choose my favorite tool, style, technique, etc. ACK!! lol

But I pulled it off, I think. I did a tribute to my dear companion whom we had to put down this past summer.

I used Jillibean sop papers, Simple Stories papers, letters from Echo Park, chipboard letters from Basic Grey, and a brad heart.

Then, because with all this cleaning I'm doing, I found a pack of papers that I had not used---*Gasp!*
And I then found a picture of my little girl from last summer, which I thought would be fitting for a certain paper from one of my favorite designers, Amy Tangerine. How could have I NOT used any of her papers?? Could it be because I have too much?? NAH! lol

I colored the flowers with my new watercolor pencils I bought myself last week. Those are fun!
I used Amy Tan's Sketchbook paper,camera die and brad,  Carta Bella True friends papers, October Afternoon 'Happy" card, and journal tags, Sunshine tag is from Echo Park. I pulled out my MM Slice machine to cut out the word 'beauty'.

I am pretty happy with my layouts--what an exiting week for me. I hope it only gets better!

So, that's it in a nutshell! Thanks you Pam, and Scrapbooker's Paradise for giving me a chance! I love playing along with your challenges!

Have a great week. Be safe. Get crafty!

Laura