Southern Scraps

Sometimes the inspiration for projects comes from making a project or from my stash of supplies. When I made the flowers for my fall wreath, I thought these would look great made into a brooch. Also in the process of getting out some of the materials for my wreath, I came across some felt iron on appliques that were embellished with beads and stitches. Another aha! moment. I also have embroidery thread and seed beads in my stash, so I embellished my flowers on my brooch. I used other gold beads for the center of one flower and a vintage clip earring for the center of the other. I think this will look great on a cardigan. By the way- that cardigan came from a thrift shop for 25 cents!! I was excited about that find. Here's a quick little how to on the brooch: Cut flowers from coordinating felt with a die. Layer and glue them together. Embellish each flower. I sewed the beads on the petals and center of one. I glued the earring to the center of the other. (Remove earring b...

Here's a clean and simple card I made for several challenges. Clean and simple is not really my style, but sometimes it's nice to let all the fluff go. This is for the OCC clean and simple challenge . I used the sketch at CPS. The colors are for the LPS color challenge - bright pink, white, and black. I always like that combo. I've also used hearts so this will be linked to the A Spoonful of Sugar challenge. Paper: Cardstock Stamp: Studio G February set Tools: Cuttlebug swiss dots folder; Big Shot Accents: heart brads

Charisma Cardz is celebrating their birthday. There is lots of candy involved! Make sure you click the link to them. I made this card for their challenge. The layout uses Sketch Saturday's sketch . I also made this for the Bella challenge at Splitcoaststampers. Paper: K& Co. Stamp: Stamping Bella Giftabella Tools: Nestabilities; Copics (I forgot to keep up with these colors); Sizzix corners; Big Shot Accents: Brads, Prima flower, fibers

Don't you love getting Christmas cards in the mail? It's better than bills. I love this Sarah Kay image of Noel sending Christmas cards. The card I've made with her was made to fit in some challenges. I have a big project to work on so I have to limit the card making right now, and have combined several challenges into one. Somehow though, I just can't stay away. Stamp Something has a recipe challenge- 1 ribbon, 2 papers, 3 embellies. My three are die cuts, glitter dots, and Stickles. I love the shimmery snow underneath Noel's feet. The sketch is from the Sketch Saturday challenge and the bling is for All Sorts . Here is my card: Thanks for looking!

I just posted about how everyone is wanting Halloween projects this week. I'm back with one more for a couple more challenges. Simon Says wants Halloween and so does the Cuttlebug Be Inspired #52. I used the same colors again as required by The Pink Elephant . I used Jen's sketch from last week for the layout. The battery on my good camera was dead so I'm using the old one which does a horrible job with lighting, so the embossing is a little hard to see. Paper: Making Memories Stamps: Sentiment- MLYB; Witch- Dog Gone Stamps Tools: Nestabilities, Cuttlebug d'vine swirls folder; Big Shot; Marvy Markers

New to me, that is. Twice today I've played along with challenges that I've been wanting to but couldn't get around to. (See my earlier post.) This one was done for Victoria Case Stamp Challenge and three others that it fits. The VC challenge is for red- brown - orange. Those are so "fall" so it easily helped me fit in the OCC fall/autumn challenge . The VC image I chose fits the Digital Tuesday challenge for a kid theme . Lastly, I used Mercy's Tuesday sketch for the layout. A few deets: the image is colored with Prismacolor pencils. I ran the orange panel through my Big Shot with the cuttlebug argyle folder. Stamp: Digi stamp Victoria Case Paper: K& Co. Accents: Ribbon, circle clip

I took some "me time" today on the holiday to make some cards. These two are similar. I was having fun with this paper and my Sizzix machine so I just went with it and made two in the same theme. The first one is for Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. Stamp: Inkadinkado Paper: DCWV Christmas glitter stack; Bazzill cardstock Accents: Die cuts, brads, ribbon Tools: Sizzix big shot, dies; circle punch Next is a card that combines challenges. The layout is based on the sketch from Stamps and Smiles and I combined it with the Charisma Cardz challenge to use swirls and curls. Snowflakes make swirls, right? There are a couple of swirls on there too for added measure! Stamps: Inkadinkado Paper: DCWV Christmas Glitter stack Accents : Snowflake dies, stickles, ribbon Tools : Big Shot, Nestabilities

(frown) .... I've been sick and still busy with work and trying to catch up things at home, so I have not been able to stamp. But I did get to make this card that I'm sharing for the CPS sketch this week. There was no stamping involved at all. All of my supplies are from Little Yellow Bicycle except for the ghosts and rub on stitches. I cut the ghosts from some stiff glitter felt with my Big Shot and the ghosts 2 die. The rub-ons are by DCWV. Thanks for looking and have a great weekend. Maybe I'll be back later with something else to share.

Given the limited time I have, I often combine challenges. This one combines two: Whiff of Joy challenge and Friday Sketchers . This was my first time paper piecing with my stamps. I have done this with patterns before but not my stamps. I should do this more often. Here's a little tip for you. I didn't have any flowers to match, so I colored white ones with my markers. This is an easy way to always have matching or coordinating embellishments! Stamps: Whiff of Joy, Verve Paper : HOTP; Bazill; BasicGrey Sugared Accents : Flowers, pearls Tools : Sizzix die

What girl doesn't love a new Easter outfit, and even better, a new purse to match?! For the Verve Project parade , the requirement is to create "an egg-stra special" spring project or card. I created this cute little purse, which can be a card or treat holder. It would be easy to slip in a cello bag to hold a treat. Check out the project parade it you haven't. I just love looking at all the awesome projects the design team creates. Paper : Making Memories Chloe's Closet Stamp : Beautiful You- Verve Accents : Flowers 3 Sizzix die; Scribbles Swirls die; Making Memories Lemonade buttons and blossoms; brad

I created a card for an upcoming birthday using card sketch 84 at Sketches! { by Tamara} . The Timeless Tuesday challenge at the Flourishes blog was to use vellum. I die cut some of the flower layers from green vellum. When I first started scrapbooking and cardmaking, I thought I just HAD TO HAVE vellum, so I have plently and rarely use it anymore. I'm glad I ran across a challenge that encourages me to use it. Paper: Bazzill cardstock, Hot off the Press patterned paper Stamp : Inkadinkado Accents : Making Memories Blossoms and Buttons flower and button Tools: Martha Stewart lattice border punch, Sizzix Flower Layers #3, Cuttlebug funky circles die Thanks for visiting. If you came straight to this post, go to the top and check out some things from my stash I have for sale. I'll make you a great deal!

Last week's OCC challenge was to use an embellishment as inspiration. (I'm behind, I just got to this today). I took inspiration from the blue birdie ribbon. I embossed a panel with birds and swirls, used a bird stamp, and carried out a blue theme. I also used the sketch from Mojo Monday for this week as my layout. Paper : cardstock, patterned paper (unknown) Stamp : Inkadinkado , Heidi Grace (sentiment) Accents : ribbon, Michael's; button, Bazzill Tools : Cuttlebug birds and swirls embossing folder, Big Shot

I'm sharing a couple of cards I made for challenges this week. Before I do, let me remind you about the BLOG CANDY. Scroll down a few posts for a chance to win. This purple flowered card is for sketch #80 at sketches! by tamara. Paper : HOTP; Provo craft Stamp : Inkadinkado Accents : ric-rac; flowers, Making Memories; brads The next one is for Karen's Sweet Sunday sketch #3 . This is a fun little sketch that I can see myself going to over and over. All the papers are Basic Grey Urban Prairie. I even die cut the butterfly from that paper line. Paper : Basic Grey Urban Prairie Stamp: Studio G Accents : Rhinestones, Michael's Tools : Big Shot, Sizzix die

A couple in our church is having their 50th anniversary celebration tomorrow, so I used today's Sketch for You to Try to make a card for them. Here it is with a few quick details. Papers : Gold metallic (unknown); white cardstock Stamps : Heidi Grace Designs; Special Messages by Stampendous Tools : Nestabilities, Cuttlebug D'vine swirls folder, Sizzix texture plate flowers #3, embossing powder- Stampendous jeweled gold, Gold leafing pen, Victorian border scissors, stickers

I'm sharing some cards tonight that are doing double duty for challenges. First let me tell you about the wonderful blog candy at i{heart}2stamp . The wonderful part is that to enter you must take part in GIVING. You've got to send a card to the Dallas Baptist University that can be given to the students. Click on over and check this out. You have a chance to win another tart if you played with this week's sketch . Here is my take on the sketch: Cardstock : unknown Stamps : Inkadinkado, Studio G Accents : Buttons, Bazzill (from a few years back!) Tools : Nestabilities/ Big Shot/ Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls embossing folder This is the card I'm sending. I also made it to fit the OCC Color Challenge - two shades of blue and a neutral color. The next card is based on this week's sketch from Card Positioning Systems . It also fits the bill for the High Hopes Challenge to use embossing on your card. (Can you tell I finally got those embossing folders I ordered?) Stam...

I tried some new things this week on my 2sketches4you card. This is Kazan's sketch 17 Here is my card: I used my new cuttlebug embossing folder in my new Big Shot. I am so in love with this machine and these folders. And I have more embossing folders on the way to me! So you'll be seeing more cards with embossing from me in the future. The other new technique is the dahlia flower. It was new to me because I have never tried it. I wasn't happy with the whole flower once I was done (your folding needs to be pretty precise) so I made a bud out of three of the sections. You can see a tutorial for this technique HERE . A close up of the flower. Paper: Daisy Bucket Designs Stamp: Inkadinkado Tools: Cuttlebug D'vine swirls embossing folder , scallop punch