Throwback Thursday over @ My Creative Time & some news

I have been without proper internet for about a week now!! I'm dying!!! I haven't been able to do any posts...

Some quick news, I will be doing a design team call to promote my sister's digital stamps (Kich Kind of Mind). I will have more news about that in the next week!! (as soon as I get proper internet!!)

On to Emma's challenge!!

Here is the recipe for this adorable card:

DCWV The Pet Stack

Martha Stewart ink

Ribbon from Walmart (by the yard)

Lots of Pun Stamp Set from Joy

Hope you like what you see.... and if you do.... please leave a quick comment!! You will make my day a lot happier!!!!!

Baby theme over at Emma's Throwback Thursday!!! and the winner!!

Hello all!!! I always get so excited with Emma's challenge!! So for this challenge she is using the New Arrival cartridge! I really like this cart!! So here is my take on the challenge! Hope you like!!! Don't forget that I LOVE comments!!! ;)

I used the following for this two-page layout: Recollection cardstock, Craft n Craftin for the patterned paper, the green is Eva from Basic Grey, New arrival cart, A la mode glitter glue, SEI chalk ink, and of course I had to use my new PKS cute face stamps!!

In the pictures you see me (pregnant 2008)! I had not scrapbooked any of this pictures!!!

My mom and my aunt playing the "draw a baby" game! and me and my BFF, Gaby!

I used Unibal white pen for the dots on title.

The pregnant mommy was cut at 7in! Butterflies at 2.25in and the gifts at 4in.

I hope you like what you see!!!!

The winner of one of my cards from my last post is: Tiffany!!! Please email me at Ilovebasicgrey@yahoo.com with your mailing info!!! You have one week from today!!!

I am becoming a cardaholic!!!!!!!

Well, I have to admit it.... I am a cardaholic!!! LOL I love making cards! My best friend will kill me for this!! I think part of this card obsession that I have right now is due to a recent arrival of my new Peachy Keen Stamps!!! I just love them!!!!!!!

So I made these four cards..... why..... good question! I will find someone to give them to!

Hey how about YOU!!!

Leave a comment and I will choose one person that will receive one card!!! I'll do the random dot org thing by Thursday! Hope you like them!!

One of the cards is for my sister Kich (don't forget about her awesome giveaway!) She began reading Twilight before I did and she got me hooked on it! We made a night out of the New Moon premier and this week is the premier of the third installment! We are so excited!!!!! I made this Team Jacob inspired card just to tell her how happy I am to have her as my lil sister and of course for helping me gain just one more addiction!!!

The paper for the Team Jacob inspired card I got from a scrapbook store in Ontario, CA. This card qualifies for Friends Having Fun and the Drunken Stampers blogs.

DDSB #13 For this cute ladybug card i used: Martha Stewart punch, Sakura white pen, PKS, and Joy's Pun Stamp Set.

FBC #8 For the dino card I used Basic grey paper for the patterned paper. I also used my PKS and Joy's Pun stamp set!

Last, but not least! This cute summer card was made using Martha Stewart stickers! I am so happy to have used some! I have bought too many to count and DON'T use them!!! Anyways, I used my cute face stamps from PKS and the sentiment stamp is from them too!

My entry for Pear Tree designs #6

Ok I had to add one more card!!!! One of the blogs I love to follow is Alex's You had me at Craft! As I was visiting her blog today I saw that she is a Paper Playtime Queen and got inspired by their challenge! So here it is!! Hope you like it!!!

I have to give a special thanks to Emma from My Creative Time. She is my inspiration!!! Her creativity makes me smile and makes me want to create cute things!!!!!!

THANK YOU EMMA!!!!!

Digital Stamp of you and my first PKS Challenge!!!

You cannot pass this one!!!!! Don't forget about my giveaway for a Digital Stamp of you!!! click here for that one!!!!!!~~~

Now, my sister Kich (the one who does the drawings/comics) has an AWESOME giveaway also!!!! You have a chance to win another digital stamp of you!!!!! Just become her follower and if you are my follower too, she will create a comic with your character in it!!!!! THIS IS FUN!!!!! So, check her blog out Kich Kind of Mind!!!

Here is a drawing of her character with all her nephews, nieces and son.

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PKS CHALLENGE

I created this card for the PKS challenge!!! My first entry over at their blog!!! I used Martha Stewart stickers and the sun is from Create a Critter. I used my brand new PKStamps!!!!! I LOVE them!!!!!! the sentiment is also PKS!!!

Emma's Thursday Throwback!!

Would you like to have your own personalized Digital Stamp? Visit my post "Digital Me!" for more info!!!

On to Emma's challenge!! I have to say I love Emma's challenges!!! Everything about them is fun!!!!! So, this time she challenged us to create a layout!! Well, I started as a scrapbook fanatic and I have abandoned it due to my new love for card-making!!! I was struggling on what to create and in a sudden burst of creativity this came to mind!

Can you tell I still need some photography classes?!?!?!?!

It's a 2 page layout dedicated to my boys! In case you don't know I have three boys and my little girl. It seems like whenever I do do a layout it's about Abby..... so this time it was my boys turn!!

Hope you like what you see!!!

A project for Joy's Life!

Please don't forget to view my post from Thursay, DIGITAL ME!! There is a great giveaway!!!

My god-daughter graduated from high school a few weeks back! Marlene is very special to me, not only am I her baptism godmother, but I am also her first communion godmother and her Quinceañera godmother too. If you don't know what a Quinceañera is, its sort of like a sweet 16.
I made the card for her using Joy's Pun Stamps "Hot Dog" and the heart with hearts around.

Here is the recipe for this adorable card:
Cricut Expression
Cricut Gypsy
Card and envelope cut using Just Because Cards
Card measures 4.5 x 6.75
Doggy cut using Create a Critter
Doggy measures 3.85
Martha Stewart punch
DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies Stack
Recollections Cardstock
Celebrate it ribbon
Color Box Chalk Ink (chestnut and hot pink)
Zig 2 way glue
Zots 3D dots
Stotch Double sided tape
Flowers and brads ?
A la Mode Black Glitter Glue
Basic Grey chipboard letter
Uniball white pen

Joy's Lots of Pun Stamp Set

SU ink pads donated by Kristy Schalk

I did not own the cartridges that had a graduating hat, so I did my own! Super easy!!

I inked the doggy and the pink DCWV paper. I used 3D dots for the doggy, rolled diploma and the flowers. For the inside of the card I used the Martha Stewart punch and more 3D flowers.

The envelope has the dotted lines all around it and another flower with a button this time.

Hope you like what you see!!!!

Digital Me!!! and a GREAT GIVEAWAY!

Hello my dear followers! A few weeks ago I mentioned that my sister loves to draw. Her name is Kich and she created a comic strip years ago. She has a rocker type style and her characters are based on friends and family. I love her characters and her stories! They are so funny!

I asked her to create a character based on me... and I present to you the digital version of me! This is Abby The Scrapaholic!!! LOL Feel free to right click and save my digital me!!!

If you have been following my blog, you know that I also love to bake! I invite you to visit my Scrapping Sweets blog if you haven't done so. With that in mind my wonderful sister created a comic about me baking! I love it!!! Here it is!

I really like her stories because they truly show how we are!!! My daughter would do that!!!!

As a thank you I created this card for her!

Onto the FUN part!!!!!!

How about a giveaway for reaching 125 followers?!?!?!?!?

Well, I thought it would be a fun giveaway to have a CUSTOM MADE DIGITAL STAMP OF YOU!!!!!

YES you!!!

This is what you have to do!

1. Make sure you are a follower here and on my sister's blog Kich Kind of mind

2. Leave a comment on this post about the comic my sister did about me and my baking.

Let your blog friends know about this and as soon as I reach the 125 mark I will do the giveaway!!!

Happy Blogging!!!

Two Page LadyBug Layout

Hello my dear followers! I have not posted in a bit but my hubby was home after 3 weeks and I did not touch my scrapbooking things at all! But I wanted to share a layout I created a few months back. This LO was scraplifted from a little scrapbook store that closed a few months back.

I loved it when I saw it and took a picture just in case I ever recreated it.
Well, in my many outings to Michaels I came across the same paper that was used for the LO on CLEARANCE!!! I got the stack for less than 7 dollars!! I cut everything from Cricut....... but I don't remember from which cart!!! I didn't have my Gypsy then!

Also for the past couple of days I have been self-teaching myself how to create sketches on Photoshop! I will share that with you guys in the next week. For now, here is a sneak peak at one of the sketches I have created!

I think I will have my first challenge!!! Also, how about a video on how to create your own sketches?!?!?!? Let me know with a comment on this link if that would be something you would like to see!!

My newest Cricut Cake!! and a giveaway!

Hello my followers! I invite you to come and visit my new blog! Just click here!! I made this cake for my nephew, Chris. He was baptized this past Saturday and I made the cake EGG FREE! and I used Paper Doll Dress Up!!

Found this site that is having an awesome giveaway!!! Click here!!!

Two challenge entries! and the WINNER!!!!!

Hello my dear followers! Before I go on about the new, let us remember that I have a giveaway from my last post! and the winner of 5 handmade cards is.......................................... ready???

LUV-TO-SCRAP~!!!!!! Please email me with your address by Monday!!!

Onto the new stuff!!!

This one page layout was made for two challenges. The first challenge is for Heartstring-designs Blog. They are introducing their new designing team!!! And my BFF, Gaby, is part their DT!! The challenge was to use red, white and blue colors.

The second challenge is for A Fairy Creative Place. They have a sketch to follow. I have a few changes but it follows the general ideas.

My Pretty little lady in red is my little girl. For this LO I used the following:

Martha Stewart Punch

Gypsy Font

Flower and bling from collection

Martha Stewart paper

SEI paper

Quick Cards for Teachers

Hola!! First of all I want to thank all my followers! It makes me really happy to see that number grow!!! and just because I want to say thank you, I am going to have a GIVEAWAY!!!!! YES you heard right! So make sure you:

1. Are a follower

2. Leave a comment under this post!

That simple!!! So what do you get???? 5 handmade cards from my collection!!!

Onto my cards! My sister-in-law came to me asking if I could make 4 quick cards for her kid's teachers. Of course, I said yes without thinking! I tried to put as much detail as possible (I did the cards in under 1 hour!) I will be honest... I did not keep track of everything I used! and if it's hard keeping track for one card imagine 4!!!!! Here they are:

Let me try and remember what I used!!

CARTS:

Create a Critter

Live Simply

Cherry Limeade

Printed paper is from Martha Stewart and Basic Grey

All my cardstock is Recollections

A la mode glitter

Bling is from Joann brand

All cards are A2

Hope you like what you see!!!

Don't forget I will have the drawing for the 5 cards on Thursday the 17th! Be part of it by being a follower and leaving a comment under this post!!!

:) Abby

New Cake and an exciting giveaway!!!

Hello all!!! I want to invite you to check out my new Cricut cake over at my new blog dedicated only to my cakes Scrapping Sweets! It was decorated using Pagoda. This is just a teaser:



Please become a follower if you like what you see!! and I live off all your comments!!

Also I have a very exciting giveaway in the works... My sister Crysol has started her blog... she likes scrapooking but her passion is drawing and painting! She created many years ago a comic called Kich and Bleus (it's copyrighted and all). It's too long for me to explain but if you visit her blog you will see how awesome her characters are. Her characters are based on familiar characters to her. Well, why am I ranting about this?? well, for my next candy giveaway I will post a card that I will be making with a character my sister created of me and the best part of this!!! YOU WILL GET TO WIN YOUR OWN PERSONALIZED CHARACTER AS A DIGITAL STAMP!!!! YES you heard right!!! Wait for this awesome candy in about a couple of weeks or less.
How this will work:
You will see the post here. You need to be a follower here and visit my sister's blog. You then need to become a follower of her blog and come back to me and leave a comment telling me you are a follower at my sister's blog. Confusing? Sorry, don't worry I will be more specific when the time comes!

Have a great weekend!!!!!

My Creative Time Thursday Throwback Challenge and the winner of my last post!!!

I just love My Creative Time!!! This is Emma's second Thursday Throwback and this time you had to create something using Stretch Your Imagination and the colors brown, red and blue. Now, I know we are quite far away from Winter but I saw the sled on the SYI cartridge and this came to mind.


As always the photographs do not show the true colors and do not show how truly popped out the images are.

I am so glad for the hide contour feature on our gypsies because of one little glitch with the penguin. On the handbook the little penguin comes with his beak just like I placed it on this card. But, when you cut the image, the lines that guide us where to put the beak are placed like if it was a mouth and it does not look cutesy.

Emma's challenge called for three colors: brown, red and blue. It could be any tones we wanted to use. I don't have too much red but the red bling helps the red pop out.


If you want the gypsy file please feel free to email me and I'll send it your way.

This is what I used:
Joann Winter Wonderland Stack
A la mode glitter
Create a Critter Cart
Stretch your Imagination cart
Zooballoo Cart
Bling from walmart

Hope you like what you see!

Oh before I forget! The winner of the two cards from my last post is LAURA!!! Please email me with your address so I can send them your way!!!!