Stampin' Up Saturday!

Can I just say that I'm so glad Maryanne G. tracked me down through the Stampin' Up website in March when I was sooo frustrated that I couldn't find a club nearby= If you ever need someone found, she's you gal! Surely a detective in her former life....

I've learned so much from Maryanne in just 3 short months, really enjoy my "Melon Mambo" stamp club, and am actually no longer intimated by the words "rubber stamp." Yesterday Maryanne had what I've found out is her annual "make and take" day and luncheon at her club for all her hostesses and club members and it was in a word fabulous! Twelve tables of make' n takes (7 regular cards, 2 sets of enclosure cards, 2 boxes and as scrapbook page), great lunch and, of course, chocolate! And we could bring a friend so hangin' out with my buddy Joanne made it even better!

Masculine cards: 1 sketch = 2 cards

I just love my Stampin' Up "Sentimental Journey" and "Puns from the Past" sets so my problem with this challenge was which stamps to use! I originally thought I'd only use the Sentimental Journey set for scrapbooking since we travel a lot but then I found this wonderful "If only I had wings...." sentiment stamp at the Enchanted Cottage on Wednesday so it's now a card set as well! Just about all of the stamps in "Puns from the Past" will make great guy/gender neutral cards.... I did a close up of the "If only..." card so the sentiment is more legible. Loved this challenge!

Sketch 20 - 3 Versions (and by Monday night!)

I loved this layout and had already practiced on some new 50 cent stamps with my Copics so did two versions of this card, one with the rainbow stamp and a "boy" or "gender neutral" Snoopy and a "girly" Snoopy card that I purposely didn't stamp with a sentiment because, after all, who doesn't like Snoopy on any occasion??? I will be using up some great paper scraps making 6 of each of these cards. I used a Stampin' Up "Sprinkles" stamp to add a little background to the rainbow sketch.

Sketch Challenge 20

Thanks, Cheryl, for a great sketch - so versatile. Already have some images colored with Copics I can use for this one.. I love to color with my Copics but it would have been so much simpler (and cheaper!) to buy a huge coloring book and a box of 64 Crayolas....

Caro challenge #1,000 .. or is it 1,001? Pictures on the Blog???

Okay, I know that I don't have my lightbulb on the brightest setting but how in blazes {no pun intended] do you insert pictures at different places in a post, i.e. if I wanted to put the picture of the challenge sketch first, write a bit and then put the picture of my card?? Any help would be wonderful :):)

Sketch Challenge 19!

Sheesh... when I was trying to think of a name of this blog, the "Scraps of Time" was intended to imply scraps of memories etc. preserved in time in my cards and scrapbook pages.. but lately I've spent too few "scraps" of time keeping this up and I'm going to to better.. and resolve to try to do all of the sketch and midweek challenges on StarsandStamps. I really enjoy the challenge of creating=now the challenge of making the time!

Okay, so this week's sketch I really love because it is so versatile. Since we have been talking more about "gender neutral" and masculine cards, I took the sketch and did the "thinking of you" card but also have another using the same Technique Tuesday stamp that I love that's a little less with the sketch but a little less monochromatic. Love the Bazzill olive cardstock in the sketch card but there's just not enough "oomph" in it~ (yeah, I know I forgot to add the sketch itself but... I don't know how to add another picture to this post w/out redoing it...)