Whimsical Wednesdays!

I am so late with my card so I am going to keep this post short!!

It's Wednesday so that means it's time for The Diedrich Dare. This week 7 year old Nicky gave us a fun sketch to work with. He did such a nice job drawing it. I used these adorable dogs from The Rusty Pickle Digis to make my card. Make sure you head over to The Diedrich Dare blog and upload your card to Mr Linky.

BIG NEWS!!!!!! For 2010 The Diedrich Dare blog will be sponsored every month. That means that we will be offering a prize every month!!!! Stop by next week to see who our first sponsor will be.

Don't forget to stop by the other Dare team members to see what they created this week!!

I hope you have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Whimsical Wednesdays!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are having a good week. I can't believe the holidays are right around the corner. I have a couple more things to buy then I am done!! My wonderful husband started wrapping today!! :-) We usually wait until the last minute to wrap so this is a nice change!

This week I made my card for The Diedrich Dare using The Greeting Farm's Xmas Sweeties. I love this stamp. Make sure you stop by the blog and upload your card with Mr Linky. This week the amazingly talented Randi Wall from our team is giving away a prize from Sweet Pea Stamps. Thanks Randi!!

Please stop by the rest of the team to see what they created!!

Cassie Larson
Darla Wilson
Debbie Lee
Heather Schlatter
Jacqueline Nordaune
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich (a.k.a.Mom ;)
Kris Palakiko
Randi Wall
Rebecca Ednie
Val Urtiaga

Christmas Caroling for The Diedrich Dare!

It's Whimsical Wednesday!!! This week 9 year old Madelynn gave us an inspiration challenge. She is really into Wizards of Waverly Place right now. She gave us a plate with Alex's picture on it to inspire us.

For my card, I used these adorable caroling penguins from The Rusty Pickle As soon as I saw them I knew I had to have them. My girls are having fun coloring and making the penguins into ornaments for our tree. Actually, I need to have them stop now. Penguins are starting to take over our tree!! LOL!!

Don't forget to go to The Rusty Pickle blog to see the exciting Copic giveaway!!!!

We are so excited to announce our newest members to The Diedrich Dare - Jacquie Nordaune and Valerie Uritiaga. We now have our group of lucky 13. That's a special number because Madelynn's birthday is on the 13th.

Please stop by the rest of the team blogs to see what they've created!!!! Make sure you upload your card to Mr Linky over at The Diedrich Dare blog.

The Diedrich Dare

Cassie Larson

Darla Wilson

Debbie Lee

Heather Schlatter

Jacquie Nordaune

Jacquie Peifer

Jessica Diedrich

Kris Palakiko

Randi Wall

Rebecca Ednie

Sandra Maclean

Valerie Uritiaga

Tuesday Mornings and A Set of 72 Copics!!

Today I am participating in the Tuesday Mornings Sketch Challenge. I had so much fun with this sketch. I'm definitely going to use it again. Make sure you head on over to their blog and link your creation to Mr. Linky. There is a prize from The Rusty Pickle Digis. They have some super cute images in their store. I used the Lantern from their Christmas digis for my card this week.

Please stop by the Design Team blogs to see their creations.

Tuesday Morning Sketches Design Team
Theresa
Tammy
Joni
Melissa
Dec Guest Designer - Chupa

The Rusty Pickle Design Team
Heather
Jennifer
Rachel
Nancy
Ali
Michelle

As if all that isn't exciting enough. The Rusty Pickle Digis is giving away a set of 72 Copic Ciao. Yes, you read that right. Here are the rules directly from their blog:

For every $10.00 you spend at the Rusty Pickle Digital Delights, you will be put in for this drawing. For a second chance to be in the drawing Please link this Blog candy back to your blogs. If someone posts here and links back to their blog then adds you on as a referral that's three entries

The Diedrich Dare

Hi!!

I will keep this short this week. I'm trying to finish getting up all my Christmas decorations!

I can't believe it's week 13 already for The Diedrich Dare. This week Nicky gave us a sketch that I found to be challenging. I really struggled with this one. I had no idea how to do it. So, this is what I came up with. I can't wait to look at the rest of the team's cards to see how far off I am. LOL!!

I used the stamp and sentiment from The Greeting Farm. If you want to play along head on over to The Diedrich Dare blog and upload your card with Mr. Linky.

We have some changes to our design team this week. Here is our new list.

The Diedrich Dare
Cassie Larson
Darla Wilson
Debbie Lee
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Kris Palakiko
Randi Wall
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra Maclean

The Diedrich Dare

It's Wednesday so that means it's time for The Diedrich Dare. This week 7 year old Jack gave us a fun sketch to use. What's even more exciting is Club Anya is sponsoring our challenge this week. Jack's Mom, Jessica, will pick a winner. The winner will choose an Anya or Ian stamp from The Greeting Farm's in stock inventory. Thank you Marie for such an awesome prize!! If you want to play along, upload your project to an online gallery and use keyword DDSC12.

I made this card for my husband to make him smile! I haven't talked about this but my husband was in a serious accident on 8/19/09. It's a long story but basically he was working on a pipe and touched the outside of a light fixture with his elbow and got shocked. Turns out someone wired the light fixture incorrectly. My husband received burns in his arm where the electricity entered his body. The power of the electricity threw him from a ladder down 2 flights of stairs. He blew out his ACL and Meniscus along with a lot of other things in his leg. He had 3 months of PT to strengthen the other things. On 11/19/09 he had surgery to reconstruct his ACL and Meniscus. He started running a fever of 102 Tuesday night so we have to bring him to the doctor this morning. It never ends!!

Shortly after the accident, my husband was upset that he had to cut his boating season short 2 months. Such a guy!! :-) I made this card for him to make him smile after his surgery (hopefully not depress him, LOL). I colored it similar to the color of our boat. I hand wrote the boat's name, Calypso, on it. The image is from Hanna Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a Healthy and Happy Thanksgiving!!

The DAREDEVILS
Darla Wilson
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Kim Ross
Lisa Hjulberg
Lisa Slusser
Randi Wall
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra McLean

Sneak Peaks Day 2

Today is DAY 2 of The Rusty Pickle sneak peaks. It has been so much fun being a part of this group. I am previewing a pair of baby shoes. As soon as I saw this one I knew I had to have it. It reminded me of my girls first pair of shoes. Sooooo cute!! I used MOJO Monday sketch for my card.

Please stop by the rest of the team. There are 3 different images being previewed today!!

Make sure you leave a comment on my blog as well as the other design team members. Also, start following The Rusty Pickle's Digital Delights Blog for your chance to win a prize. Wednesday night each design team member will pick TWO PEOPLE to win one of the stamps we are previewing.

There will be one GRAND PRIZE winner that will win the entire release PLUS 3 images of your choice from the store. The RUNNER UP will win the entire release.

In order to qualify for these amazing prizes, you need to:

- leave a comment on all design team members blogs all THREE days

- leave a comment on The Rusty Pickle blog all THREE days

- start following The Rusty Pickle Blog

The Design Team

Ali

Billie

Heather DT Coordinator

Jacquie

Jenn

Nancy

Rachel

Tracy

Good luck!! Please come back tomorrow for more sneak peaks. Thanks for stopping by!!

The Rusty Pickle Sneak Peaks Day 1

I am so excited to be a part of The Rusty Pickle Digis first big release. This is a first release for me too. I love all the digis they have. I am new to digis. They are so much easier to work with than I thought. The best part is that you get to pick the size you want your image to be. You have more options with them.

Today is DAY ONE of the big release. I get to preview an adorable bunny. It is so cute. I decided to make this in shades of purple. I popped up the bunny's stomach and feet. I don't know if you can see it in the picture.

Make sure you leave a comment on my blog as well as the other design team members. Also, start following The Rusty Pickle's Digital Delights Blog for your chance to win a prize. Wednesday night each design team member will pick TWO PEOPLE to win one of the stamps we are previewing.

There will be one GRAND PRIZE winner that will win the entire release PLUS 3 images of your choice from the store. The RUNNER UP will win the entire release. In order to qualify for these amazing prizes, you need to:
- leave a comment on all design team members blogs all THREE days
- leave a comment on The Rusty Pickle blog all THREE days
- start following The Rusty Pickle Blog

The Design Team
Ali
Billie
Heather DT Coordinator
Jacquie
Jenn
Nancy
Rachel
Tracy

Good luck!! Please come back tomorrow for more sneak peaks. Thanks for stopping by!!

My First Easel Card

I had a nice week. I hope you did too. My 7 year old daughter and I went on a field trip for Brownies. We went to a museum for a sleepover. Friday night we got a tour of the museum, did craft projects, a scavenger hunt, played games and shopped. Then we were able to pick any space in the museum to sleep. Our entire troop stayed together so we could hang out. It was such a great bonding experience for us!!

Now it's time for The Diedrich Dare. Sweet little Madelynn challenged us to make an easel card this week. I now know why Jessica is so excited about them. I had fun making this!!

On my card I used a super cute snowman from The Rusty Pickle digi store. They have so many cute images!!!

Make sure you stop by the rest of the team to see what they created!!

Cassie Larson
Darla Wilson
Debbie Lee
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich (a.k.a.Mom ;)
Lisa Hjulberg
Lisa Slusser
Randi Wall
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra MacLean

I hope you have a wonderful week. Thanks for stopping by.

Exciting News!!!

I'm so excited!!!!! This week I was asked to be a Design Team member for The Rusty Pickle digital stamps. I quickly went to their site and fell in love with their digis. They are so cute. I wanted them all!

The first stamp I picked was a girl carrying cookies for Santa. This one was perfect for me. It made me think of my girls on Christmas Eve. They love leaving cookies and milk for Santa.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you check out the cute digis at The Rusty Pickle!!

It's a Whimsical Wednesday!

I had such a good week!! I feel like I got a lot accomplished around the house. That's always a good feeling. Also, my Mom and Dad surprised us and took the girls for the weekend. Yes, the entire weekend! We were so excited. My husband and I saw a movie together. We saw The Box. It was better than I expected. Then we went out to dinner. We went to a place that didn't serve macaroni and cheese or hot dogs! Of course we missed our little angels but it was nice to have to time to ourselves.

This week I made this card for two challenges. The first is for the Diedrich Dare. We were given an inspiration challenge by 7 year old Jack. He picked these pretty mugs to inspire us. The second challenge is for Club Anya. We were asked to make a card without using pattern paper. So, I was able to combine both. :-)

Here is a list of the other daredevils playing this week.

The Diedrich Dare
Cassie Larson
Darla Wilson
Debbie Lee
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Lisa Hjulberg
Lisa Slusser
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra Maclean

Mojo 111

Phew! I finally finished this. I think I have 30 mins to spare before I missed the deadline! I'm not sure I like the way the snowflake on the left looks but I'm happy I finished! I made this card for Mojo Monday 111.

One More Halloween Card!

This week, I made my card for The Diedrich Dare and Crazy 4 Challenges. Sweet Madelynn gave us a fun sketch to follow. Over at Crazy 4 Challenges they wanted us to make a Halloween card. So I was able to combine both.

I am posting my card late today. Yesterday I went to Football 101 at Soldier Field. I'm not a football fan, actually, I really don't like football. I'm not sure why I went!! LOL!! I'm so glad that I did. I had such a great time. I went with 2 of my good friends. We got a tour of the Chicago Bears locker room and we saw the field. It was so impressive. We got autographs of 7 Bears players. Sorry, I don't know who they were! Then we had a 2 hour question and answer session. For about 30 mins I wanted to lose my mind. They were talking about football plays. I had no idea what they were talking about. The rest of the time was so enjoyable. I'm so glad I went and am planning on going again next year.

So enough about me!! :-) Hope you enjoy my card!

Club Anya Mystery Monday

I was so excited when Jessica, my cousin/BFF (that's what we call eachother), asked me to make a card for the Club Anya Mystery Monday Challenge. I couldn't believe she asked me. It is such a great opportunity. The more I thought about it the more my nerves started to set it. I didn't know what I was so going to make. There are so many talented people that visit the Club Anya blog. I didn't want to embarrass myself. LOL!! Thankfully for me, I am happy with how it tuned out. I hope you enjoy it!

****PLEASE scroll down to see my Diedrich Dare post. *****

The super sweet Cassie, one of the daredevils on the Diedrich Dare team, posted this quiz on her blog. We were asked to post this on our blogs as a nice way to get to know eachother. I have to fill this out and I can only use one word to answer the questions, which I had trouble doing.

1. Where is your cell phone? next to me
2. Your hair? Straight (after my flat iron)
3. Your mother? LOVING
4. Your father? Crazy, LOL
5. Your favorite food? Chicken
6. Your dream last night? nightmare about my husband's accident
7. Your favorite drink? Coke (Miller Lite on weekends!!)
8. Your dream/goal? to buy a lakehouse
9. What room are you in? Family Room
10. Your hobby? Scrapbooking
11. Your fear? Elevators
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? in my lakehouse!
13. Where were you last night? religious ed
14. Something that you aren’t? good with maps
15. Muffins? Yuck
16. Wish list item? making more time for myself
17. Where did you grow up? Chicago
18. Last thing you did? Went to CVS to get milk
19. What are you wearing? t-shirt and pants
20. Your TV? 55" widescreen
21. Your pets? Sweet
22. Friends? Amazing
23. Your life? Fulfilling
24. Your mood? Happy!!!
25. Missing someone? Yes
26. Vehicle? Chrysler T&C
27. Something you’re not wearing? make up :-(
28. Your favorite store? Archiver's
29. Your favorite color? Purple
30. When was the last time you laughed? tonight
31. Last time you cried? August 19, 2009
32. Your best friend? always there for me
33. One place that I go to over and over? blogs
34. One person who emails me regularly? Jessica and Nicole (sorry, I know that's two)
35. Favorite place to eat? Olive Garden

Happy Halloween!

This weekend my family and I went to Boo at the Zoo at Brookfield Zoo. We live by one of the best zoos!! The four of us went and my Mom. We met some friends there too (I have pictures on Facebook). The kids were able to wear their costumes. They had a haunted hayride (my girls were too scared to ride it), costume parades, and a corn maze. It made us even more excited for Halloween.

Since we are so ready for the big day I decided to make a Halloween card. This week over at the Diedrich Dare (I am the featured stamper!!) Madelynn gave us a sketch to follow. I can't cut an oval on my Cuttlebug so I had to do a circle. I moved the sentiment to the left instead of the bottom right. I also made this card for the Club Anya Mystery Monday challenge. The challenge was to make a Halloween card.

So here is my card.

I'm on a roll!

This is my second card this week! I'm having so much fun. I decided I need to do more things for myself. I set up a space for all my stuff so now I don't have any excuses. I'm going to start making more time for myself! After I stamp or scrapbook I always feel so happy.

I'm submitting this card for two challenges. The first one is Crazy 4 Challenges. I love the sketches over there so I thought I would play along this week.

The second one was for Club Anya Mystery Monday challenge by Heather Schlatter. The challenge was to follow Heather's "recipe". It said to use a sketch, 1 DSP, at least 3 colors of cardstock (I used 3), use a pattern ribbon and make it sparkle. Well, I think I accomplished that!!

One Card Two Challenges!!

Happy Wednesday!

We had another busy week. Religious Ed, Brownies, cheer practices, game, cheer competition, birthday party, and a visit to Grandma's!

Last week Kaeli, my 9 year old daughter, (yikes I can't believe she is 9 already) cheered at her last football game for the season. This is always a sad time for her. She has to wait until summer to start cheering again. Emilie, my 7 year old, started hip hop classes. Kaeli will start next week. Activities are changing for my girls but it stays the same for me. I still get the "pleasure" of driving them around! I LOVE Wednesdays for two reasons. One because I get to participate in the challenge and two because this is the only day we don't have anything to do. YAYYYYY!!!!

This week I am participating in two challenges. The first is for the Diedrich Dare. Seven year old Jack gave us a map for inspiration. As soon as I saw it I knew I had to use the Matey set from the Greeting Farm again. We are welcoming a new team member, Randi Wall.

I am also submitting my card for Farm Fresh Fridays. The challenge was to make a card without any frills. No ribbons, flowers or lace. Nothing too girlie. Every week I look at the challenge and want to participate. Then I get too intimidated by the amazing talent out there. Well, I decided I'm just going to submit it. It can't hurt, right!?!?! My goal is to make two more cards this week for two other challenges.

The Diedrich Dare
Cassie Larson
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Lisa Hjulberg
Lisa Slusser
Randi Wall
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra Maclean

It's Wednesday! Time for The Diedrich Dare!

I love Wednesdays! I had such a crazy busy week. It felt good to sit down and do something for myself. I was able to get in some scrapbooking too. I completed two albums. I did an album for Easter 2009. I also did one for our family fishing trip (by family I mean my husband and girls. I really don't like to fish. I was only close enough to take pictures.) and our family reunion. I felt like I got a lot done considering my week!!

This week's challenge is by the super sweet Madelynn. This little 9 year old is so talented. I was excited to use the Cute Troop stamp set by The Greeting Farm. My cousin, Jessica, gave it to me for my birthday! I LOVE this set. My girls have been in Daisys/Brownies for about 3 years. I've been cookie Mom for 3 years for both troops and co-leader for about a year for my youngest troop. I will get a lot of use out of this set.

The Diedrich Dare
Cassie Larson
Darla Wilson
Debbie Lee
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Lisa Hjulberg
Lisa Slusser
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra Maclean

A Cute Little Frog

This week's Diedrich Dare challenge was by the talented 7 year old Nicky!! He loves frogs and wanted us to use one on our project. I didn't have a frog stamp so I cut a frog using my Cricut. I stamped the sentiment with Butterfly Wishes stamp set. I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch to make my card.

Make sure you visit the Diedrich Dare website for details on the prize Jessica is giving away!!

Jessica Diedrich
Jacquie Peifer
Darla Wilson
Heather Schlatter
Lisa Slusser
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra Maclean
Taylor Usry
Lisa Hjulberg

The Diedrich Dare with a little twist.

This week's sketch is from sweet little Jack. He did such a nice job creating it.

Every time I looked at the sketch I kept seeing a layout. So instead of making a card I decided to go with it and do the layout. I had some Halloween pictures from last year to scrap. I was so excited to use The Greeting Farm's Halloween set on this layout. My girls have colored so many of these cute stamps already. They were happy to see the stamps on their page. The beautiful girls on this page are my Emilie and Kaeli. :)

If you want to play along this week, use DDSC4 when you upload your card (or layout :-) ). Make sure you visit the The Diedrich Dare blog next week, Jessica is giving away a prize!!! Details coming soon! Can't wait to see what she has!!

The Diedrich Dare Team
Cassie Larson
Darla Wilson
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Lisa Slusser
Rebecca Ednie
Taylor Usry

Yayyy for Wednesdays!!

This sketch was fun for me! I was able to use one my stamps that I recently bought from The Greeting Farm the Matey set. It's so cute.

This week was a color challenge for The Diedrich Dare. I used the MOJO Monday sketch to make my card.

Darla Wilson
Debbie Lee
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Lisa Hjulberg
Lisa Slusser
Rebecca Ednie
Taylor Usry

HSM Layout

This weekend my daughter and I did some scrapbooking. It was fun to spend that time with her.


I am about a year behind in my scrapping! Which isn't too bad considering I don't scrap Christmas, birthdays, or vacations. I usually do digital books for those. I take too many pictures during these times. On the middle picture, my oldest in on the left and my youngest is the second one from the right. Here is my layout.

http://a-scrapaddicts-sketches.blogspot.com/

Whimsical Wednesdays!

Wednesday is my favorite day of the week now! I enjoy going into my craft room (my basement) and working on the challenge for the week. I really need to get more involved in other challenges. I have so much fun!!

This week I made my card for my daughter's 9th birthday which is on September 26th. She LOVES cheerleading. She would cheer everyday if she could!! This year she is cheering for the Cardinals. I made the Anya in the team colors.

I know this should be a simple task but I can't figure out how to make a circle card!! So, I had to make a square one. I will have to look at the other cards to see how to make one!!



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





The Diedrich Dare
Cassie Larson
Darla Wilson
Debbie Lee
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jessica Diedrich
Lisa Slusser
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra Maclean
Taylor Usry

DDSC1 - Whimsical Wednesdays

Yayyyyyyy it worked!!!! Here is my card for The Diedrich Dare.

Whimsical Wednesdays!

I am SO EXCITED to post my first card to my new blog. Hopefully, I can figure it out!!

I made this card for the new challenge blog.....The Diedrich Dare. The weekly challenge has been created by three talented kids - Madelynn, Jack and Nick!!! Little Ava will have a part in this before we know it!!

I guess this is harder than I thought. :-( Apparently, my file is too big for Blogger. I will have to figure out how to resize it later this afternoon. SORRY!!

Welcome to My Whole New World!!

Wow! I can't believe I just created a blog. Still not too sure what I'm doing. It will take some time for me to get used to it.

I've been looking at so many blogs for months now! I have been so impressed by the amazing talent out there. I have so much fun scrapping and stamping that I decided to jump into the blogging world.

Thanks for stopping by!!