Scraps From My Heart

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I just want to thank all my readers for making this such a fun and exciting year! I appreciate each one of you and your interest in my blogs. THANK YOU!! I wish all of you a fun, exciting, and safe holiday and a thrilling New Year! I can’t wait to see what happens next year - it’s going to be great!! Check out this funny video my daughter made! (For all the cat lovers out there…) http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/GcsZ9VwVQhkJZhsexYW8

Today it’s my turn to host the 3D Challenge on Paper Craft Planet .  We are thrilled to have Hope Stamps Eternal as our sponsor for this week, so not only can you make this quick and easy holiday planner — you can win a prize too!   This planner was really simple and quick to make.  I bought the organizer at Target, for $3.99.  The planner came with three tabs and really generous pockets.  The red binding was already there, so all I had to do was just recover the rest of the binder in a coordinating paper.  I covered the inside and outside with Cosmo Cricket’s Jolly by Golly patterned paper.  I printed “Christmas Planner,” using my word processing program, onto vanilla cardstock and then just cut the shape out with my Labels 9 Nestabilities.  Add some ribbon and label your tabs and you’re done! This week, I’m challenging you to make your own planner.  You can make one to hold birthday cards, as a calendar for next year, to organize your grocery shopping, or get your holidays under control.  Take a picture of your planner and tag your photo 3d40 (all lowercase) so that we can pull your project into our gallery. (If you’re new to Paper Craft Planet, here is an excellent tutorial on adding photos to the gallery!) Next Wednesday, we’ll pick one lucky, random, winner from our challenge players to win this generous prize!   Special thanks to this week’s sponsor: Join the 3D Challenge Group

Hey everyone! Today’s sketch challenge is pretty straight forward. We’re making a square chard this week with a center medallion that is NOT square. I used my sketch to create a stash of sympathy cards, but this sketch is versatile enough to use for birthdays or holidays or whatever. I can’t wait to see your “take” on this! Here is my card: The sentiment is an Eskimo saying that I saw on a stamp set somewhere (can’t remember). I used my computer to print several of them and then just cut it out with Nestabilities. The patterned paper is retired SU. I used a Versamark pen to highlight the debossed edge and to create a false mat near the edge. Truthfully, you can make this card in about 15 minutes. You have to like a quick card OK, to play along, create a card using this sketch. Tag it “sk121209″ so that I can find it for our gallery album. One lucky person will be selected to be featured as this week’s “Shooting Star” and get a special shout out in the gallery and in our weekly newsletter. I can’t wait to see what you make!!! Join the Sketch Challenge Group

This card made me laugh until I had to pee. Hilarious !

Welcome to Day Three of our 12 Days of Christmas campaign! For 12 days, the Super Novas will show you awesome and easy gift giving ideas, and you can play along and win prizes by participating in a scavenger hunt! Keep reading for a clue and chance to win! I had SO MUCH FUN with today’s project!!!!! When I found these adorable snowmen images on The Stamping Boutique’s website , I knew I had to use them for these dish towels! (My original idea was dinner napkins, but post-Thanksgiving, I couldn’t find them.) I love how they turned out and for less than $20, I have a custom gift that will be kept from year to year. To create these towels, I simply printed the images onto Avery iron-on transfer paper — I got mine at Target. If you can find the “stretchable” version, buy it — but any light fabric transfer paper works beautifully. I’ve successfully colored the images with Copics and pencils in the past, but today, I was having trouble, so I colored them on my computer. I’ve whipped up a video for you to see how to do this for yourself. The nice thing about digital coloring is that you color once and save it — and can print your finished image over and over again. I’m going to print these same snowmen onto inkjet shrink film tomorrow and make wine charms to go with the towels! Today’s scavenger hunt is sponsored by The Stamping Boutique ! You could win an GREAT prize if you can solve our clue… 12 Days of Christmas, that’s the game you must find a stamp by the same name. There are 12 snowmen, but we need just one, find today’s man and you will have won! Find a product on the The Stamping Boutique website that fits the clue and you could be our winner! Leave a comment here with your answer. We will pick a random winner for all the CORRECT entries on December 4th. Do you want to know what you’re playing for? Leave the correct entry and you could win a Martha Stewart “Punch Around the Page” set for the prize AND TSB store gift certificate for $25.00!!!! Don’t comment here — play along on Paper Craft Planet! Click here to enter to win! Check the Paper Craft Planet main page every day through December 12th to play along! (You can visit the http://www.papercraftplanet.com/profiles/blog/list for past projects!)