Category Archives: Splitcoast Challenges

Palm Sunday: Glory Be!

Posted on April 1, 2012 by loricraig| 5 Comments

It’s a beautiful Palm Sunday here in Missouri, and I have a fun CPS Sketch sample to share with you. Sketch 259 looks a little intimidating, at first, but, I flipped it and it came together very quickly. I did double duty with a Creative Scrap from Crafty Secrets to go vintage for the very first Crafty Friends Challenge hosted by Beate. Prizes with either challenge, so if you get inky this week, check them out.

I started the day off here, on my porch swing with a cup of coffee. It’s supposed to be in the low 90s today. Palm Sunday is special regardless the weather, but I’ll take it today with a smile and a heart of gratitude. Thank you, Lord.

P.S. I may live in Missouri, but I’m a Kansas girl, and our Jayhawks are still in it! March Madness extends to April! NO FOOLIN’ …. ROCK CHALK!

  • Main image: Creative Scraps – Crafty Secrets dusted with Smooch Glitz from Clearsnap
  • Ink: Clearsnap
  • Paper: Simple Stories & kraft cardstock
  • Accs: bling – Want2Scrap, colored with Copic Marker (YR18)

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Posted in Copics, CPS Sketches, Crafty Secrets, Splitcoast Challenges

Posted on October 14, 2011 by loricraig| 7 Comments

It’s time for a Taylored Expressions Sketch! This gave me the perfect reason to ink up Betty!

I was instantly smitten with Betty. When Wes and I were first married and living in Plainview, TX, we had some dear friends that we did a lot of fun things with. The wife loved to bake like crazy at Christmas, and the husband always said that ‘Betty’ (Crocker) was her alter-ego. Every Christmas since then, I think about Betty and those early married Christmases. She shared several treasured Christmas candy recipes that I still use during the holidays! Unfortunately, our friend ‘Betty’ passed away from a blood clot much too soon several years ago. So, this spunky little stamp really made me smile when I first saw it…reminding me of my friend.

Taylored Expressions is a proud sponsor of the Hope You Can Cling To card drive at Splitcoast this month, so my card is also representative of Lori McAree’s challenge to use the colors of hope: brown, green and yellow. There are many, many challenges to choose from and LOTS of prizes – like over $7500 worth of prizes FOLKS! – up for grabs including FIVE $50 prize packages from Taylored Expressions! You can play at your leisure between now and the 7th of November. I hope you’ll join us!

And now here are the regular sketch requirements:

Create a card using the above sketch as inspiration. You’re not required to use TE stamps to play, but there’s a bonus prize if you do! To be entered into the prize drawing you must upload your card to Splitcoaststampers using   keyword TESC148 by Thursday, October 27th. And here’s the prize that’s up for grabs:

1. Taylor will randomly select one person from all of the challenge uploads to receive a $10 gift certificate to the TE Store!

2. If you used predominantly TE Stamps on your project you’ll receive an extra $10 bonus for a total $20 gift certificate! (WHOOT! WHOOT!)

You can see other fabulous sketch-spiration samples by visiting:

We are headed to a Maple Leaf Festival with my brother’s family this weekend. Can’t wait to hug my sweet nieces and knucklebump my cute nephew. Love. love. love. spending time with my family.

Hope you enjoy some fall color and some special moments with those you love this weekend! Hugs!

  • Stamps: Betty – Taylored Expressions
  • Cardstock: Choice Cream & Jill-a-bean Soup
  • Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento
  • Accs: buttons, Copic Marker (R22, R24, R27, YG21, YG23, YG25, BG01, BG02, Y32, Y35, Y38, E00, E51)

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Posted in Copics, Splitcoast Challenges, Taylored Expressions

Swimming for Katie!

Posted on October 10, 2011 by loricraig| 6 Comments

I enjoy participating in many hops and challenges in our papercrafting community. It’s because stamping makes me happy. Today, however, I’m not happy, but humbled to be participating with over 125 designers as we band together to support one of our own…one of our fellow stampers who could be any one of us…A vivacious, funny, caring and crafty mother of 3 was dealt a crippling diagnosis of inoperable gastric cancer.  Today, I’m swimming for Katie Renz!

If you are not familiar with Katie’s story, it began just before Christmas last year. She was suddenly diagnosed with an inoperable cancer after a few tummy aches. Stage 4 gastric cancer. Her first post about the cancer is here. The idea of ‘Swimming for Katie” came from her recent post here, just 3 weeks ago.

This is my card created with the exclusive stamp designed by Becky Oehlers. It’s available as a clear stamp, digi and even SVG cut file. 100% of the profits from the sale of these items got to Katie’s fund to help her and her young family. In addition to the Keep Swimming Octopus, Marianne Walker and True = D Doodle Designs both donated digis that are for sale. Direct donations are also being accepted. Information central is HERE. This is a permanent page that will stay active at i {heart} papers with current info and the full list of 3 day hop participants, as well as a donation button.

Here are all the items available for sale.

And here (if you need any more encouragement) is a list of today’s hoppers with an ocean full of inspiration:

I’m loading this card to my Splitcoast gallery, and I’m going to keyword it for swimkatie and Lydia’s Pink Animal Hope You Can Cling To challenge. I’ll be back soon with more for Hope You Can Cling To!

Swimming for Katie ~

 

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Posted in Copics, Splitcoast Challenges

FUR-EVER!

Posted on October 9, 2011 by loricraig| 1 Comment

So we have been having some trouble with a few pesky racoons who like to party on our patio the last week or so. Hubby has been setting a large live trap to see if we can take care of the problem. (And, by take care of, I mean that we load the live trap, into the pickup and take the caught trouble makers to a state park about 10 miles away, and we release them unharmed.) This morning, I was running up to church early to drop something off and then coming home to get ready for our normal service an hour or so later. I found a great big kitty in our live trap – totally safe and snug, but definitely not sound… LOL. She was *hissing*.

I’m not normally a kitty cat girl, but after the wake up call this morning, this cute little number from The Greeting Farm was fun to color this afternoon. LOL. In fact, I’ve been having fun with The Greeting Farm all month. (Jess is featuring me today on TGF Blog – can you say intimidating!)  I am so appreciative that they asked me to join them as a guest designer this month!

I made this card for sewspendidstamper’s Hope You Can Cling To challenge at Splitcoast. Her challenge was awesome: H.O.P.E. (having only paper elements). Harder than you think these days with all of the pretty bling and buttons around. Girls, I didn’t even use my beloved linen twine or kraft paper!! Still super fun! I love these challenges because you have all month to work on them, and there are GREAT prizes up for grabs – seriously, like The Greeting Farm gift packages!

This card is a little bit smaller than my normal sized A2 card, and that is because I have these beautiful notecards and envelopes that are 3.5″ x 5.5″. I picked these up when I was in NYC with Jenn in August. I thought they would make super sweet (and quick) notes for my girls. I like to tuck notes into their lunchboxes from time to time. {loved} this find at Kate’s Paperie in SoHo.

I think I’ve rambled long enough for one day. I’ll be back tomorrow with something special… Have a beautiful Monday!

  • Stamps: Fur-ever – The Greeting Farm
  • Ink: Black Memento
  • Cardstock: Xpress-It Blending Card and Echo Park
  • Accs: scalloped die – MFT and grass die – The Cat’s Pajamas and Copic Marker: YR12, YR15, BG02, BG05, E00, E50, R00, C1 and C00

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Posted in Splitcoast Challenges, The Greeting Farm

Fabulous Birthday

Posted on October 9, 2011 by loricraig| 2 Comments

I received some happy mail yesterday, and I set straight to work on my CPS Sketch sample for the week. LOVE the October fall release from JustRite Stampers. The doilies, the sentiment and label are from 3 different sets (Grandma’s Doilies, Be Strong, and You Inspire Me), and I love them all!

Our CPS Sketch was sponsored this week, by my friends at Want2Scrap. I never have trouble working with their awesome accent and bling products. They worked so well with this sketch! I adore those nylon butterflies! Thank you to Michele and her team for providing us with such affordable pretties!

We had a beautiful weekend here. I enjoyed a laid back time with friends and my family. I’m not quite ready to hit the office in the morning, but with Hope You Can Cling To for breast cancer awareness in full swing at Splitcoast, I’ll be there bright and early! If you haven’t checked out Hope You Can Cling To yet, get a load of these awesome prizes from 32 amazing sponsors. Participation is simply stamping to support our friends at MD Anderson Cancer Center. It’s super easy. This card is another perfect fit for my challenge last week: BLING!

Have a beautiful Sunday! See you tomorrow!

  • Stamps: Grandma’s Doilies, Be Strong, and You Inspire Me – JustRite Stampers
  • Cardstock: Kraft & My Mind’s Eye
  • Ink: Mix’d Media Inks & Berrylicious Chalk – Clearsnap
  • Accs: Label Dies – MFT, Bling and Butterfly – Want2Scrap, detail embossing powder

 

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Posted in CPS Sketches, JustRite, Splitcoast Challenges

Hope You Can Cling To

Posted on October 1, 2011 by loricraig| 11 Comments

Finally, it’s the morning of October 1st, and at Splitcoast, that means we’re going to be focusing on breast cancer awareness all month long with our Hope You Can Cling To campaign to benefit cancer patients and their friends and families at the world renowned MD Anderson Cancer Center.

I’m hosting a challenge called Bling Your Cling. I hope you can help us spread some cheer this month. Aside from positive message that you’ll share and the feel good that you’ll receive for participating, there are more than a few prizes involved. Just sayin’….

I’ll have lots of samples this month…too many fun and easy to complete challenges. Have a great Saturday!

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Speak the Truth…

Posted on August 27, 2011 by loricraig| 3 Comments

Saw this sentiment on Pinterest a few months ago. I was so happy to see it in Verve’s newest release, Words of Wisdom. Super easy Virtual Stamp Night challenge being hosted by yours truly today. Hope you can find a few minutes to stamps something!

My challenge is called ‘put your brand on that’ and it went live at high noon (eastern) … You can find the details in this forum. challenge keyword is AUG11VSNF.

I hope you can play along!

  • Stamps: Words of Wisdom – Verve Stamp Company
  • Cardstock: Kraft & Victoria by Echo Park
  • Ink: ColorBox Chalk
  • Accs: flowers, buttons and Rounded Scalloped Frame Die – Verve

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Posted in Splitcoast Challenges, Verve Stamps

Stitched Silhouette for VSN Event!

Posted on August 27, 2011 by loricraig| 1 Comment

Big ole stampin’ rodeo going on over at Splitcoaststampers this weekend… Virtual Stamp Night! Lots and lots of challenges and chatter to feed your creativity. Yee-haw!

I’m in Oklahoma City for a Copic certification, but I adore the rodeo theme for this set of challenges, and I had to make a card for this first challenge called, these boots are made for walking….

I love wearing cowboy boots…I always have. I got this pair last fall…they are a pretty chestnut brown.

At any rate…for this card, I used a beautiful new set from Taylored Expressions, Embrace Beauty. Silhouettes make for fast and easy stamping.  I stitched the main image to the Spellbinders Fleur-di-lis die and added some stitching to the background panel. The background papers are from the Victoria collection by Echo Park.

Hope you get a chance to craft this weekend. I’ll be home by noon tomorrow, and I’m going to sneak in a few hours of stamping. I’ll let you know if I come up with anything fun. Have a good one!

 

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Posted in Splitcoast Challenges, Taylored Expressions

Inchin’ By

Posted on June 27, 2011 by loricraig| 2 Comments

Things have been more than a little busy, taking some unexpected turns here and there all through the month of June, but the 30th is coming, and I’m going to make it! Then I say, bring on summer!

Here’s a fun little card that I made for one of my daughters last month during VSN (Virtual Stamp Night at Splitcoaststampers). I realized tonight that I never shared it here on my blog.  The challenge was to make a card with hidden treasure. When you open this one up, look at the upper right inset photo – that’s what pops out! Isn’t that fun? I love the HoneyPOP collection from Inky Antics.  It was surprisingly quick and easy…LOVE.

I’ve got some other things to share this week and lots going on behind the scenes. It’s been busy, but I didn’t say it hasn’t been fun. <big grin> See you soon!

  • Stamps: Caterpillar – HoneyPOP – Inky Antics
  • Cardstock: Echo Park & Kraft
  • Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento
  • Assc: glitter, Xyron X, ribbon, twine, glassy accents, HoneyPOP – Inky Antics and Copic Marker – YG11

 

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Posted in Copics, Inky Antics, Splitcoast Challenges

together we can do so much

Posted on June 14, 2011 by loricraig| 5 Comments

Here is a fun project I made for a VSN challenge last month. I had to use at least 3 elements that started with the letter ‘R’ ~ Roses, Rhinestones, Ribbon and Recycled paper – that’s 4! :) Love how this turned out.

I {heart} VSN challenges. There’s a scrapbooking event (VSBN) coming up this weekend with lots of fun in store. I need to get a few pages done. My girls love looking through scrapbooks. :) You can get the details here.

  • • Stamps: Unity KOM March 2011 – Unity Stamp Company
  • • Ink: Pink and French Roast – aMuse
  • • Cardstock: Stella Rose – My Mind’s Eye, Kraft, recycled page from an old botany book.
  • • Accs: Kaisercraft Rhinestones, Ribbon and Fleur de Lis Squares die – Spellbinders

 

 

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Posted in Splitcoast Challenges, Unity Stamp Company