Blog Hop to benefit Cystic Fibrosis

If you have arrived here from Jacquie's awesome blog then you are on the right track. If you started here or got lost along the way, feel free to go back and start at the Paper Pretties blogs. Today I am proud to be a blog hopper for an excellent cause. My friend Heather, owner of Paper Pretties has commissioned Joni Stringfield to design these awesome digital Easter babies. Heather is donating all the proceeds from the sale of these images (minus paypal fees) to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In case you are not familiar with Cystic fibrosis.....

Cystic fibrosis is a life-threatening genetic disease that causes mucus to build up and clog some of the organs in the body, particularly the lungs and pancreas. When mucus clogs the lungs, it can make breathing very difficult. The thick mucus also causes bacteria (or germs) to get stuck in the airways, which causes inflammation (or swelling) and infections that lead to lung damage. Mucus also can block the digestive tract and pancreas. The mucus stops digestive enzymes from getting to the intestines. The body needs these enzymes to break down food, which provides important nutrients to help people grow and stay healthy. People with cystic fibrosis often need to replace these enzymes with medicine they take with their meals and snacks, which helps them digest food and get proper nutrition.

For this hop, I made a layout using the Easter babies Easter basket and chicks. I adore these little chicks, notice the one at the top looking sideways at the title. I just thought he was too cute and had to use him. Here is my page:

For this page I used Paper Pretties digital Easter babies, DP Imaginisce, SU cardstock and punch, Martha Stewart punch, copic markers, glitter, Cricut, Sizzix Lollipop letters, chipboard, glitter dots, flowers, ribbon and Microsoft Word.

This was a very easy page to make, probably because I just came off of a crop weekend and I was still in Crop mode. What I like about digital stamps is that I have freedom. What do I mean, when I get a digital image I save it into a folder I made on my desktop. Then when I need it I open up the image in paint.net (free program that I use) size my image or flip it to get the mirror image. Flipping the image gives me the option of adding the image to the right or left side of my scrapbook page. It really gives me a freedom I never had before. Of course I also love that I can make the image as big or small as I want to fit the space I have on my layout.

Feel free to send me a note if you have any questions. Your next and final stop on this blog train is the amazingly talent Heather's blog. As always, thanks for stopping by!! Delia

Boy Scout Bake-off

Our reign has ended....this is the third year we entered our cake in the boyscout bake off. We won 1st place and scouts choice two years in a row. But last night we didn't win and that is OK. The fun part is brainstorming with my son and trying to make what is in his little head. This year the theme was toys and he wanted a beyblade stadium and beyblades. So we made them. I didn't care too much for how the cake (stadium) came out, it budged out as I was making it but Logan was happy and that is all the counts. I really wanted to get those beyblades spinning but there has been much talk about the parents taking these cakes too far so I settled for candy beneath the beyblades to make it look like it was spinning. Here are some of the photos.

People thought the beyblades were real which was unfortunate for us. I should have put a note that he beyblades could be eaten. Many found out that they were edible after the judging. The kids loved it and once they knew the beyblades were edible, they were gone in a flash. Some with shocked expressions. It was pretty cool, except for the fact that Logan was disappointed. Our reign has ended, 2 years in a row was good enough....but watch out cake makers, Logan is looking for the title again and his mom is right here to help him out.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Delia

Sophia card for two challenges

Here is a card I made for two challenges: Paper Pretties(any glitter) and Fussy and Fancy(paper piecing or embossing). For the Paper Pretties challenge I used the glitter dots and for the Fussy and Fancy challenge I paper pieced Sophia's dress.

This was a fun quick card because I really wanted to finish a layout. Will have to share it with you sometime soon. Here is my card:

For this card I used Paper Pretties Swing on by Sophia and Elegant Sentiments , CS, DP, Nestabilities, MS punch, Glitter dots, Rhinestones, copic marker and Got Prints flowers.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope everyone has a great week!!!

Delia

Paper Pretties challenge PWC139

This week's Paper Pretties challenge was a sketch challenge. Here is my card:
For my card I used the adorable Paper Pretties image Celebrate Sophia. I cut her out using the CM circle cutter. I used DP - not sure of the maker, SU cardstock, ribbon and Red Rhinestones.


Thanks for coming on by, have a great week!!

Delia

Autism card

This is my last entry for the crop out diabetes challenges. This challenge was posted by Clare and the challenge was to scrap a health issue that I care about. There are many causes I care about especially if children are involved. The hardest part of this challenge was chosing just one health issue. I finally decided to make a card to represented autism. I don't have stamps on autism so I went out and bought puzzle pieces and used the colors of autism.

I hope you like the card.

For this card I used SU cardstock, puzzle pieces from ACMoore, Butterfly and xoxo image from Paper pretties stamps, flower, storybook cricut for the green leaves, Rhinestone, ribbon, sentiment typed in Word using Cooldots font.

Thanks for looking,

Delia

Mom's layout

Today I have a one page layout. I completed this for two more of the Crop out diabetes challenges. This page was really easy to put together and I am really happy with it. Of course it looks so much better in real life. The first challenge was post by Amy and her challenge was to scrap about someone who inspires you and the second challenge was posted by Andrea and her challenge was to make a Monochromatic layout of someone living with diabetes. Of course I chose my mom, love you mom!!!

Here is the page:


I know the photo isn't the best, if I retake a better one tomorrow during the day, I will reload. For this layout I used Heidi Swapp invisible paper and inked it with SU tempting turquoise ink to bring out the design. I used SU cardstock, color me crazy flowers, rhinestones and ribbon from Joann's, Recollection"s bling, for the title I used cricut Storybook. Been using that one a lot lately...love it.

I plan on framing this and giving it to my mom for Mother's Day.

Thanks,
Delia

Sofia's notebook and candle

Hi all, yes I am back, like a said I made a few things in the two days I couldn't go to work or get out of the house. I guess the snow is good for something. Here are two items for the Crop out Diabetes. In case you don't know, Crop out Diabetes has a challenge going until midnight Feb 5th. It's for a great cause to learn more just click on the link above.

For this challenge I made a couple of altered items. The first was this little notebook for my 2 year old Sofia. When I finished the notebook, she looked at it and said"it Bootiful" it's was just too cute.


I used a notebook, DP from DCWV sweet stack, cricut Storybook for the letters, lace, faux fur, ribbon, paper flowers found in bridal section of Michael's, sharpie white marker and rhinestones.

The second altered item was this candle. I purposely made it gray and red to enter it into two challenges, one for Jessika and the other for Pam.

For this candle I used SU Baroque Motif, I inked the stamp with SU Going gray and stamped it on tissue paper and then transfered the image to the candle. I added red rhinestones and some ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by,

Delia