Back to School!

Hi all. Well, it is back to school time here in Ohio. Every district has a different starting date around here, kind of weird I think. This week's challenge at Janet's Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog is "Back To School", interpret it how you see fit. I thought of mostly the "Back To", so I got out my stickers and went old school on this card. Nothing fancy, just some notebook paper looking card stock that I inked up, red cs for card and my Peanuts stickers. This is also my last card for the design team that I have worked with this summer. I am going to miss all the girls in the team and having a reason to get my butt in my scrap room, becuase I had something that was due! (like in school). LOL!! Thanks to Janet and all of the wonderful women that have came to my blog via Janet's Challenge Blog. Have a great week. Hugs, Leslie

Jungle Fever!

This week's challenge at Janet's Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog was to use a jungle animal. So, I used my DCWV Fun in the Sun paper and my Elephant and Zebra stamps from Stamps by Judith. I stamped the Elephant twice so I could give the Elephant head a little 3D going on. Hope you have a great week. Leslie

Janet's Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog weekly challenge

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This week on Janet's Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog, her challenge is Wedding or Anniversary. I went with the anniversary theme. My paper is my stash of cs and paper from DCWV. The stamp is of course from Sugar Nellies and I don't remember where I got the sentiment stamp from. I used a lot of glitter on my Sugar Nellie angel and inked up my CS with Tim Holtz ranger inks, giving it a bit of a distress look. Have a great week, Leslie

Creative Juices flowing....check!!

After browsing thru the Thursday challenges and found a really cute sketch at Lili of the Valley Thursday Challenge Blog . Then over at Cute Card Thursday
their challenge was to use Teal and Red, I love those colors together, even if you don't see them a lot. I used my K&Company Brenda Walton paper for this, except for the black is from S.E.I. Black Orchid. The ribbon is from Prima Nursery Tales Collection. I love their colors. The slide I got a while back at Lifetime Memories. I stamped my sentiment and heat embossed it with Tim Holtz embossing powder. I didn't really have a plan for this card, it really just flowed as I went. I love days like this!! I am back to my desk to create something else while I am in my groove!! Hugs!!

SUMMER!!

Hi friends, sorry I haven't been on here much lately. Summer is here and I am getting every bit of it that I can. I hate winter!! Besides, my son Bradley is 17, a senior in high school and this is the last summer I get with him before he is all "grown up" and leaves to join the military. I figure, I'll make the memories now and scrap them all with you this winter!! LOL!! I am working on a few LO's and I will post them soon. Hope you all are having a great summer!! TTYS, Leslie

August 2nd Corrosive Creations Weekly Challenge Blog!

Oh my gosh, I am such a nerd. Last night I posted my challenge for next weeks challenge. Hopefully no one but my good friend Karen saw it, who quickly alerted me to my mistake. Thank you sister. Don't want to give away the surprise for next week!! Anyhow, this week's at Janet's Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog, Janet has set a color challenge. My SD had such colorful senior pictures taken, it was easy for me to use them in this challenge. All of my paper for this LO is from my stash, no idea who any of it is from. The stamps I used as the frame and for the lips are from Fancy Pants. The frame is actually a lot smaller, I just kept restamping it until I got the length I wanted. The lips I stamped in versamark then heat embossed it with my red sparkly embossing powder. I also stepped out and tried something I never do, I even stamped right on the picture, but I like it, I am glad I stepped outside my comfort zone. (plus I had extras incase I didn't like it!! LOL!!). Have a great day, Leslie

Inspired by Corrosive Creations by Janet

Hi, hope you are all having a great day! Sorry for the late post! After looking at the funkadelic picture that Janet had posted this is what I came up with. Love the funky colors and had a lot of fun with my SD's picture. Hugs, Leslie

Sketch Challenge at Corrosive Creations By Janet

This week, Miss Janet at the incredibly fun Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog, has posted a sketch for this week's challenge. I used some paper from Gin X and I punched out the stars with an old punch I had. The "for you" is cut from my cricut as is the little oval. The adorable boy is from High Hopes Stamps. He reminds me of my son Andy when he was younger. Can't wait to visit your blogs and see what you all come up with. Hugs, Leslie

Normandy Beach

Another day in Bethany's trip to France. Here she was visiting the infamous beaches of D Day. She is at Normandy beach here. I found the quote from Winston Churchill, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." A very appropriate quote for the sacrifice made here I would say. Hope she likes this, hope you do too. :0)

School Daze

Well, it was a bit of a project, but here it is, this is the little book/photo album I made for my best friend's son. Well, she is my BFF from high school and we just found each other after 25 years!! On facebook. Love that thing....getting a little addicted though. And that won't do because it is taking away from crafting time!! LOL!! Her son is going in to Kindergarten next month, so when she comes here for a visit in two weeks, this is what I am giving her for her son. I hope she likes it. It has been 25 years, I am not sure if she likes the same things she did back then!! Yikes!! Well, I know she still loves me enough to pretend she likes it. :0)
I got this idea from the Book Club I am in, this is a Pine Cone Press book..I think it is the Sticker book.

MIA

I know I haven't posted much lately, but I have been working my tail off. Had a yard sale..yuck, hate those, but did make some money. Now am completely overhauling my Scrap Room. I can't stand it anymore, time for a make over. Will be posting again soon. Hugs, Leslie

Little boys and puppy dogs.

I have all sons, so this week's challenge at Janet's Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog was an easy one for me. I have 5 sons and we always have at least two dogs. Each of my boys have had special relationships with our dogs through the years. When one would die off, my sons would truly grieve. Boys are so special. I used this stamp from my High Hopes stamp collection. The paper is from Gin-X the flyby collection. I used my Prisma markers to color the two in. Hope you all have fun with this week's challenge. Hugs, Leslie

From an ATC to a Card....just like that!

Well, about an hour ago, I made an ATC using this cute chicke, then I got on Little Paper Shop blog and found a sketch that I really liked so I topped my ATC onto this card. I am now understanding the value of those little atc's. (finally). Then on Crafty Creations Challenge, their challenge was to use birds....check.....and...Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog wanted you to use gems and/or pearls....check!! I already know who I am sending this card to. Hugs, Leslie

Tilda and Friends....no people

This week at Tilda and Friends ATC Challenges, their challenge was "No People". I had lots of non people stamps to choose from but I have been dying to dip into the cool stash of stamped images my friend and Sister Deby sent to me. She is so sweet. I loved them all, but I chose the "Chicken In" stamp to go with my DCWV paper and little birds. I used my Prisma Water Color pencils to watercolor my chicken in. Then I went over the outline of the chicken with my sparkly yellow pen. On the text image, I "faux watercolored", I put Tim Holtz peeled paint green and broken china blue on my craft mat, added a bunch of water and smeared my paper through it. Turned out pretty cute. On the matting paper of the chicken, I used the backside of my background paper and then ran it through the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. Can't wait to use this on a card. Hugs, Leslie

Blog Candy WINNER!!

Random Integer GeneratorHere are your random numbers:164Timestamp: 2009-07-07 14:04:36 UTC

So...... that means the winner of ALL of my goodies would be......CALLIE! Congratulations!

Callie said... Great Candy!! So exciting! I'm a july birthday too, although mine isn't until the 25th! Happy Early Birthday though... off to meet the other requirements!!

Fun Summer Card

Wow, it is already 4th of July, well, almost the 5th of July now!! I hope all of you are having a fantastic summer so far. I made this card after hopping around to all of the challenge blogs and almost all of them have a Red, White and Blue theme. I used the Friday Sketch Blog's sketch for this card. I used my Colored Impressions Paper, my High Hopes stamp a few brads and my PrismaMarkers to color in. I also added a few 3-D items, as 3-D is all the rage right now. LOL! I popped up the boys' hand, the fishing rod and bobber and added some string onto the rod to cute it up a bit. Hope you all like it.
So, I am posting this card with...
Friday Sketchers 59, One Stop Craft Challenge (stars and stripes), Our Creative Corner and Everybody Art Challenge.

Summer Fun at Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog

Hi to all! This week Janet's challenge at Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog, is *Summer Fun*!! I love the summer, the colors, the heat, all the fun things there are to do with the kids. Love, love, love it! I created this "easel" type layout based on the Pine Cone Press Book, H2O Water Fun. The papers are all from Cosmo Cricket. They are all so much fun, lots of details and possibilities with each sheet. The sun and couple on the boat are cut out from the back of one of the papers I used in the background. This picture is of my 4 older children, Victoria and Brad accompanied Stephen and Andy on their very first roller coaster ride. It was such a great day for all of us. On the other side of the "easel" is a picture of my son Michael after he has been playing in the mud. He was born true boy, if there is dirt anywhere around, it is his job to find it! So he believes! Hope you like my creation and I can't wait to see what you all make for this challenge. Hugs, Leslie

I am missing my son..

This layout I made to remember Justin. Not how he looked before he died, but how we all remember him. With a big smile on his face and goofy jokes from him always. I miss him so much, I can't believe it has almost been a year since he passed away. In some ways it feels like ages ago, as there have been very many LONG days grieving my son's death. Then in other ways it is still so new, the scars are still so fresh, it feels like I just buried him a couple of months ago. I must say, that I miss him as much now as ever. Time has not caught up with me yet to heal my heart. I don't believe you "heal" anyhow, you just learn to live with the pain and the emptiness. God bless you all, Leslie
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Papers from My Minds Eye
Charms and metal photo corner from Michael's
Brads from my stash

New Layout for Design Team Call

Hi friends. How are you all today? Hope you all enjoy your 4th of July. I wanted to thank all of you that served or are serving our great country. I am so proud that I served my 4 years in the USAF and I am even prouder of my sister, brothers and my father. My heart is swelling to know that my son, Brad has decided to enlist as well. He is going to be going to Officer Candidate Training. He will be the first officer in our family. Very proud. OK, well onto my layout. Over at Creative Scrappers Challenge Blog, they are having a Design Team Call and you had to post some of your favorite layouts and then create a layout based on their sketch. So, this is my take on Creative Scrappers sketch. This pic is of Michael, he was 1 1/2 years old here. I used the Core Inspirations paper I got from my Pine Cone Press kit club I belong to. I embossed the flowers and sun using my Lasting Impressions brass plates. Then I sanded the paper so it would bring the core color (blue) out even more. The scallops are punched from my Stampin Up punch and the dots under the scallops are from using my Ice Blue stickles. I really love this picture of Michael, and I hope Creative Scrappers really like my layout because I think it would be so much fun being on a Scrapbook Page Design Team. Love my cards, but me true loves are my scrapbook pages.Oooh, speaking of my card love, I am also entering this layout to Daring Card Makers Challenge Blog. Their challenge is blue and green should not be seen. Find a way to put blue and green together, and I have done it with ease here. Hugs to you all, Leslie

Corrosive Creations by Janet Weekly Challenge

This week at Corrosive Creations by Janet, the challenge is to make a card using your Nation's flag's colors. I am from the USA, so I use Red, White and Blue. This picture isn't very good though, because I have this Stampin Up Bird on there, I covered him with clear embossing powder. Then I used a leaf/flower fleurish stamp for behind the bird, I stamped it in versamark glitter and then added hollographic embossing powder to it. So it is really cute and really sparkly but it doesn't show up at all in the pictures. Anyhow, my stamps are from Stampin Up. I added some bling to the bottom to glitz it up some more. Hope you like it and can't wait to see the great creations you all come up with. Hugs friends!

Creative Scrappers Sketch #51

Here is my take on Sketch #51 at the Creative Scrappers Challenge Blog. I have been having so much fun finding these page challenges. I still am a card addict but at least I am getting some pages done. These are of course more pictures from France. The more pages I make for her the more I want to go. This paper is the Bohemia line from My Mind's Eye. I really love this line of paper, I have used it on almost every scrapbook I have ever made and I have managed to fit it in to quite a few cards. Love, love, love it. The ribbon is from my stash and the little stamp on the bottom is from my Stampin Up set Always. Just used heat and stick and added the glitter. I don't know, just felt like I needed a little something there. The sentiment doesn't really come in very well through the picture. It says Each Day is a Gift....Untie the Ribbon. The second page is a real tit tat of my stash. I added a lot of bling for another challenge. I love the flowers, love the colors. On the pamphlet, I used the ribbon from page one and secured it with a brown flower ribbon slide.
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Roses on Paper and Sketch and Stash

I made this card based on the sketch from Sketch and Stash Challenge Blog. I like Sketch and Stash, you are supposed to list anything you have new on your creation. Well, the newest part of this card is the flowers. I made them. I couldn't find any Primas I liked, so I cut these out with my Cricut using a TTF. I am also following the Roses on Paper Challenge. Their challenge was to use flowers and to combine their challenge with another challenge. Lots of fun. My paper is from an old card kit I had. I colored my Sarah Kay images in with my Prisma Markers. Kind of had some fun coloring in the boy overalls. I did a scribble look and filled it in with gray, giving it a corduroy look...well, kind of. lol. Hugs to all, Leslie

Corrosive Creations Challenge

Here is my card for Janet's Corrosive Creations challenge this week. Her challenge was to create a card with more than one fold. Such as a gate fold...you get the idea. So, I opted for this card. I don't remember what SCS calls it. I am sure that is where I got the idea from, I know I didn't come up with this on my own...LOL! Anyhow, I used my favorite color combo..pink and brown. I used a Gorjuss Girl image that my friend and sistah Anne sent me. My ribbon is from Michael's, and my metal sentiment, is just from my stash. I had problems making this silly card, took me forever before I got that darn circle right. But, thank goodness for my Cricut because that is what I finally used and of course it worked perfectly! Hope you all have a great week.

The Sugar Bowl Challenge

I love these Gorjuss girl stamps and this week at The Sugar Bowl, the prize is the entire Gorjuss Girl #3 Stamp set. So, I thought I would throw my name in the hat as well. I used my craft paper (part of the challenge) for the card, I used some old colored impressions polka dot paper and some heat embossed paper from DCWV paper pack. My flowers are from Prima and the fleurishes are so old I don't even remember where in the world I got them. I colored my image in with my Prisma markers and used my Tim Holtz ink for my fleurishes.

Sweet and Sassy!!

I was looking for a birthday card for a friend and realized I am cruising on fumes!! I don't have any good cards left in reserve, so I better get moving on some birthday cards to replenish my stash. I followed the sketch at Mojo Monday. I used the color scheme from The Pink Elephant Challenge Blog, Brown, White and Pink. Then I added the metal birthday sentiment for the Simon Says Challenge....make birthday cards! I had done paper piecing on this for the Whiff of Joy challenge, then I realized that I used my Sugar Nellie stamp, not one of my WOJ stamps!!! LOL!! Same thing with the ROP challenges!! Oh well, I love this Sweet and Sassy stamp!! Hugs to all, Leslie

Kings, Queens, Castles and things

Just working on my pages in between my cards. Trying to establish a balance. This is of my GD visiting le Chateau des Dames for her summer vacation in France. So very pretty. Used some paper in my stash and took the bling print on the paper and ran with that. Added glitter to letters I cut out using my Cricut and SCAL. I had the chipboard crown, just dolled it up with silver embossing powder, some rinestones and some stickles. On the second page I added rinestones all along the bottom to draw the eye over to the other pictures of the castle. Such beautiful architecture and attention to detail. I hope someday I can go there and see it for myself. I am submitting this layout to the Scrappers Block? Challenge Blog. If you haven't checked them out, you should. You still have the challenges, but it's more for pages and not just cards. Lots of fun and a great DT. Also I am entering my layouts on the How Much is Too Much? Challenge Blog. Their challenge was to use like 20 old things. Use it or Lose it was the title. Well, I more than used over 20 rhinestones. Those stones are actually from an old iron on think some Hannah Montana crap that was on clearance at Michael's, so I got it for like 25 cents. I have had it forever and today I actually got it out and was able to get them glued onto my page. The crown is from an old kit and the paper I used for the letters was scrap paper. Hope that qualifies me!!

Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog

Hi everyone!! I have been working on a scrapbook for my God daughter. She spent last summer in France. She did a fantastic job of organizing her pictures, keeping a little diary of her days events and keeping great tidbits that all of us scrappers love to use!! This layout was dedicated to her visit to The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. I used Janet's sketch from Corrosive Creations Challenge Blog as my inspiration to page one and then page two I just kind of filled in. There is one cool side note though. My husband is Thomas M. Pershing, he has a famous family member, Jack black Pershing, General of the Armies (John J. Pershing). We get a big kick out of it when we hear him mentioned on the tv show, M.A.S.H. Well, as I was going thru everything to layout the pictures and her map, what do I read, but a quote from General Pershing in the back. He was a direct reason this memorial was built...so I added his quote to the layout. Hope you all like it. I hope my God daughter likes it!!

This layout was made with paper I got from Lifetime Moments garage sale, and the backing papers I got from My Minds Eye. Also the little ATC in the bottom corner is from my sister, Janet!

Little pig, little pig, Let Me In!

This was such a fun card to make. I know a little girl that lives on a farm and her birthday is coming up, I think she will get a kick out of this. I was inspired to make this card from Roses On Paper Challenge Blog. Their color challenge was pink, green and yellow. So, I went a little pink piggy crazy. As I searched around I found that CupCake Craft Challenges had the same color combo, so, I get a double whammy without even trying. I used the little piggy from The Greeting Farm stamps, the paper is from DCWV, one of their spring pack. The sentiment is my own and the flower and ribbon are from my stash. Hope you all have a great day. Hugs, Leslie