Creative with Cards Blog Hop

April 15, 2018 by

Welcome to our Technique Blog Hop!  This month there are 12 of us highlighting our Picture My Life Cards. These cards can be found in sets and also as part of each of our paper packs. This blog hop is a great big circle so you can start wherever you want and continue through to see all the fabulous artwork.

If you are coming from TAMMY LUBICK’S BLOG, you are on the right track!

I decided to play around with the Watercolor Cards. I then used the Make it from Your Heart Volume 4 to create my cards.

This card I used the Making Waves Cardmaking Stamp and Thin Cuts.  I also used patter 17 as my design.

With this card I used the Stargazer paper pack, Stargazer Cardmaking stamp & thin cuts, Blue Burlap Ribbon, White and Sapphire cardstock. I used pattern 8 to make this card.

Thanks for stopping by!  Please continue onto MICHELLE JOHNS BLOG where you will find some additional artwork highlighting the awesome patterns Close to My Heart Offers!  Be sure to leave a comment and let me know what you thought and happy hopping!

Happy Crafting!

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Everything ABC Blog Hop ~ Letter P

July 30, 2016 by

Welcome to the Everything ABC’s Blog Hop!!!

ABC's Blog BadgeThis week we will be featuring the letter “P”.  This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment.  Whatever the crafter has chosen as their “P” element will be featured in their post.

If you have just hopped onto my blog, welcome!  If you just hopped here from LAUREN MOORE’S BLOG then you are in the right place.   The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way around.  If you get lost along the way, you can find the complete list of participating consultants at the bottom of this post.

I decided to use PICTURE My Life cards as my “P” as I have really enjoyed using them to create fast cards.  I also used my watercolor PENCILS to color the cute giraffe.  And for my base color I used a PEACH/PINK color which is actually the reverse side of the gold flower paper form Happy Times PAPER PACK.

Everything ABC -P ~ PML Cards ~ Peach ~CatScrapbooking.comSo the list of products used for this PROJECT are:

Now it is time to hop on over to WENDY KESSLER’S BLOG and see what she has created for you today.

Here is the full list of participants:

Catherine Nowak ~ You are here
Wendy Kessler 
Danielle Wagner
Darlys Recker 
Lauren Moore
Happy Crafting!

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Picture My Life Fun

July 15, 2016 by

Welcome to the Technique Blog Hop!13592158_10153748287452934_2697863643632157866_n

This month we are featuring Picture My Life cards (PML cards)!  PML cards are great for pocket scrapbooking, traditional scrapbooking and for making card.   If you just hopped onto my blog or arrived from DARLYS RECKER’S Blog then you are in the right place.  This blog hop is a great big circle so you can start wherever you want and continue through to see all the fabulous artwork.

I decided to works with the awesome new Watercolor PML cards.  These are great as they just look like a white card but they have a pattern or word that is on the card in a resist.  So when you apply watercolor you will be able to highlight the resisted part. Hear is the card I made with one of them.

Watercolor PML Cards ~ Fundamentals ~ Just for you ~ CatScrapbooking.com

Here is the list of procucts used:

Now hop on over to KIRSTEN JADE’S Blog and see what she has created for you today.  If you get lost along here is the full list of participants.

  1. Melissa Robinson
  2. Wendy Kessler
  3. Darlys Recker
  4. Catherine Nowak ~ You are here!
  5. Kirsten Jade
  6. Cathy Bufano
  7. Helen Gullett
  8. Danielle Wagner
  9. Janna Gray
  10. Tonya Whitehurst

Happy Crafting!

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CTMH Featured Product ~ PML Overlays

January 6, 2016 by

Hello and welcome to our CTMH Featured Products Blog Hop. This week our featured product is Picture My Life (PML) Overlays .

If you have just joined us you can start here and continue on, as this is a circular hop or if you get lost along the way you can start at the beginning with Scrapbooking with KIRSTEN JADE as she has the complete list. If you came here from KIRSTEN JADE’s Blog then you are in the right place. Now on to my project:PLM Overlays ~ Penelope ~ Artistry ~ CatScrapbooking.comHere is the list of supplies used to create this card:

Thank you for checking out my project. If you would like to purchase our featured product of the week or any additional supplies you can buy them HERE. If you enjoyed my project please comment below as we love feedback! Next on our blog hop is  CORINNA’S CRAFTS. Make sure to check out her amazing work featuring this same product.

See you on Wednesday January 20th as we will be featuring Puffies!

Happy Crafting!

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Boys Cards ~ Part 2

June 27, 2015 by

As I promised earlier this week here are two more boy themed cards I designed.  I really love using the Picture My Life cards to create cards.  It cuts down on the design time as you already have a great colorful 3×4 or 4×6 card and all you need to do is add a base and possibly some bling.

Boy's cards ~ Later Sk8er ~ PML cards ~ catscrapbooking.comWith this card I used the Stripe Embossing folder Z 1960 on Outdoor Denim.  I backed the 3×4 Later Sk8r PML card Z1945 with Ruby. Then to add a little extra I used White Enamel Stars Z2010.  How simple is that??

Boy cards ~ Later Sk8er ~ PML Cards ~ catscrapbooking.comSo for this card I used a Later Sk8r 3×4 PML card and backed it with White Daisy cardstock  I then had a little extra Honeycomb Embossed Outdoor Denim from the first cards I made so I used that to break up the stripes from the Pear Fundamental paper. For the bling I used the Green and Blue Epoxy Bubbles Z1806.

Now I my next task in the near future it to design some boy and girl birthday cards.  I hope to get to those in the next week or so.

Happy Crafting!

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Boy Cards ~ part 1

June 23, 2015 by

I always feel I am running short on boy theme cards.  I really needed to sit down and crate a few as I have some cousins and nephews who I like to send cards to during the summer and while they are at camp.   I decided I would make my life easy and use the Picture My Life cards from Later Sk8r.  These worked perfectly and it to so little effort to design.  Here are the first two:

Boy cards ~ Later Sk8r ~ PML Cards ~ catscrapbooking.com

 

For this one I used the Adventure Fundamental Paper Pack for the base color and then used the Honeycomb Embossing folder with Outdoor Denim.  I matted the PML card on some White Daisy cardstock.  To add a little something extra I added three green epoxy bubbles. Boy Cards 3 ~ Later Sk8r ~ PML Cards ~ catscrapbooking.comWith this card, I used the Honeycomb Embossing folder with the Outdoor Denim, then took a sanding block and ran it over the top of the embossed cardstock.  I used the new Hello Summer  C1595 stamp set which I inked in Outdoor Denim on Ruby cardstock.  I also used Lagoon and Whisper cardstock.  To add a little more texture I used the Aqua dots and a bit of Liquid Glass on the white circles in the cup to look like moisture.

These cards came together so quickly and they look so fun.  I will share two more with you this week.

Happy Crafting!

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Christmas Cards using Picture My Life

December 18, 2014 by

I mentioned in a prior post that I decided to make all my Christmas cards.  Yes, I realize this is a large undertaking particularly since it means about 100 cards (this includes my husbands work cards too).   I had great intentions to start these earlier but you know how that goes with a three year old who gave up naps.  I wanted to make a variety of cards and I did use the wonderful Cut Above to help make a dent in the number of cards, but I still had quite a few more to make.  So I decided I would use the Picture My Life card particularly the Pear and Partridge and turn them into cards.   Now with the new option of ordering the PML cards A La Carte it make it even easier; you get 44 – 4″ × 6″ Cards (2 each of 22 designs) and 78 – 3″ × 4″ Cards (3 each of 26 designs) so you could make a ton of cards for only $14.95.

What makes using the PML cards so fabulous is most of the work is done for you, all I did was add some bling for the most part.  Check out the 18 cards I created (there are two of each design).

PML Holiday Cards ~ Pear & Partridge ~ catscrapbooking

 

Don’t you just love them and they were seriously so simple!  Cardstock, sequins, clear sparkles, pink glitter gems, bakers twine, shimmer trim, glitter paper and Bling Gems is all it took.  I highly recommend giving these a try as you will be amazed on how easily they come together.  You can check out all the PML kits right HERE.

Happy Crafting!

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Color Dare #122 ~ PML Card

December 12, 2014 by

Welcome to this weeks Color Challenge!  This week we are featuring Sorbet, Cranberry, Olive and New England Ivy for Color Dare #122.

Color Dare #122Well this year I decided I would make all of our Christmas Cards, which works out to be about 100 between our personal and my husbands work.  Well of course time gets away from you really fast and here I am 11 days into December and I have not finished making my cards.  I have done over half but I still have about 40 more to go.  Well I had seen some really wonderful cards designed with Picture My Life cards.  The few I have done really took no time and turned out super cute.  So I decided this may be my solution and to top it off the Pear and Partridge PML cards feature this weeks color dare colors!!!  I finally found a few free minutes today (I had to put on a movie for my son) I went down to my craft room and literally whipped this together.  I can not believe how quickly it came together and I love the way it turned out.

Color Dare #122 PML Card ~ catscrapbooking.com

 

Supplies used:

  • Pear & Partridge Picture My Life Cards Z2017
  • Cardstock ~ Olive, Champagne and New England Ivy
  • Ribbon ~ Red Chevron (retired)
  • Embellishments ~ Sparkles Clear Assortment Z1752
  • Colonial White Card Base X1410

Now it is your turn to play along with this weeks color challenge, you can link your project here.

Happy Crafting!

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