Sunshine Award

I was passed a sunshine award by Alison over at This Little Scrapper a while back and it just brightened my day! Thanks Alison!



These are the rules of the Sunshine Award:
1. Put the Sunshine Award on your blog and/or within your post.
2. Pass the award to 12 other bloggers.
3. Link the nominees within your post.
4. Let them know they received the award by leaving them a comment on their blog.
5. Share the love & link to the person from whom you received the award.

There are many talented bloggers out there and it is going to be hard to pick even 12! So here we go.

1. 365 Cards: This blog is very inspiring... even for people who mostly make scrapbook layouts!! Even though I don't normally make cards, this inspired me to try!

2. Creations by Christie: Christie's blog is an amazing place to visit!! She is sooo inspiring and I have learned so much from her blog.

3.
Katelyn's Craft Corner: Like me, Katelyn is also a young scrapper and she has an amazing Youtube channel. I've been so inspired even since I just learned of her blog and channel sometime last week!

4. My Happy Place: Rose has some lovely cards over at her blog. She sometimes works from sketches, and I often get ideas for my scrapbook pages from her cards. Some amazing work over this way!

5. My Scrappy Goodness: I love this blog so much because there is such a wide variety of styles in her layouts - kind of like me!! I am inspired by how some of her layouts are distressed with dulled colors, while still others are bright and clean!

6. Naked Heart Art Studio: This blog is AMAZING! There are at least 4 ATCs posted each and every day in a variety of styles; some are drawn, some are collaged, some are origami... so much inspiration to see here! I'm actually going to be starting out in their project to do an ATC every day... and I'll post my work here!

7. Pretty Paper Swirls: I love this blog... it has the some of the most beautiful distressed and vintage looking layouts I've ever seen! If you like to scrap this way, or even just look at them, be sure to check this one out!

8. Scrapper Forever!: This blog has mostly layouts with a few cards thrown into the mix. For the most part, the layouts are multi-photo, so if you're looking for a way to use up those photos, this blog is a good place to stop. Also though, there are some single photo pages if those are your specialty!

9. SRM Stickers: Jenyfur over at SRM Stickers has some nice layouts, but this blog is mostly cards... really cute ones!! I am often awestruck by the amazing cards over on this blog. Make sure to check it out; I'm sure you'll be inspired!

10. Pink Cricut: I adore this blog! The projects are soo cute, there are amazing videos posted every so often, and best of all, there are ideas for using the cricut! If you own or even have access to a cricut, this is an amazing blog!

11. {Paper Dreams}: Kelly at {Paper Dreams} has some really pretty cards posted! She makes mostly cards and a lot of times she posts supply lists - not quite a tutorial but close!! So if you see an effect in a card that you really like it's easy enough to find what it is!

12. Tutus&GlueDots: This blog has some REALLY pretty layouts... simply amazing! The colors in the layouts are perfect and the style is somehow unique. Check it out!

Thanks for looking!!

A Layout and A Card

I only have older projects to share with you guys today, but don't worry! Later, I'm going shopping at a local craft store to get everything I need to get started crafting again! I'm all out of adhesive, but yesterday I got totally desperate and used glue sticks to create a card. I'll share that with you later, after I fix it up with regular adhesive. But anyways, I'll share a layout and a card right now, even though they are pretty old.

First off, I apologize for the crappy cropping of the photos - I'm testing out a new editing program and I'm also trying to figure out a way to get my layouts straight when I photograph them. If you have any ideas or suggestions to fix this, please let me know in the comments section.

The first project I'm going to share today is a layout that I made a while back using pictures of me in all different stages of my life. In the first picture I'm probably about 2, the second about 4, and in the third I'm probably about 6. The fourth picture of course, is me at 13, my age now :) I used these colors because I thought that they were very striking together, and I knew that when I was little, my favorite color was pink (I'm waaay different now then I was then!! My favorite color now is blue - and I'm a little bit of a tomboy...) and I wanted this layout to have a certain sophistication to it... and look nice! I'm pretty sure that I used a sketch for this one, but I guess I couldn't be certain.


And now for the card. I like to make random cards every now and again even if it isn't even close to the event! For example, there was no birthday coming up when I made this card, I just felt like making a birthday card, so I did! The sentiment was a stamp and I used a regular office paper clip for the corner. I thought this card turned out pretty good!



Probably after I go shopping later, I'll post a picture and write about what I got. And then I'll get started scrapping. Immediately. I'm suffering from craft withdraw.

Fire Inspired

Today's challenge on the 365 card blog was to make a card that was inspired by fire. What I thought of when I heard 'fire' was the colors... red, orange, yellow and white. While I was searching through my stuff, I found an orange card base that I had cut into for a trim piece and I thought it would be perfect if I just added a white piece of card behind it. The strips were found in a box of paper strips... I cut them smaller and simply adhered them to my card. After the strips were on, I decided it should have a sentiment, whether it needed one or not. As I looked through my stamps, I found the Happy Birthday stamp and though it would be perfect! Hope you like it.

Tomorrow will be another card and maybe some sewn goodies!

P.S. The strips that look white are actually yellow!

~Jordan~

365 Card Challenge

I don't have a page or anything for you right now but I thought I would tell you that I have decided to start doing the cardmaking challenges over on the 365 card challenge blog. Each and every day, our hostess, Pam, will post some form of inspiration, whether it be an ad, a color combination, a recipe, or a sketch, and it is up to us to interpret this form of inspiration. I am going to be working on my card so I'll catch you later!

~Jordan~